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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
A GEORGIA MUNICIPAL ELECTION,

The Atlanta Constitution of recent date
gave long account of the municipal election
in Augusta, Ca, in which ex-JJnited States
Senator Walsh was successful as a reform
candidate, which is full of interest There
were three candidates for mayor, and the
aspirant who received the larger part of the
colored vote was said to be successful. as
the white vote was divided quite evenly
among the candidates. In Georgia there is
voting place for colored voters apart from
that at which the whites vote 1t appears
that these voting places for the negroes are
so few, compared with the number of vot-
ers, that not near all of those registered for
the precincts can vote, because of lack of
time. This being the case, the leaders had
their colored voters in hand all night near
the voting places, SO as to be first at the
polls in a solid force. The candidate whose
managers were able to get their men first
at the polls had it his own way until his
band, which was marched to the voting
place, had all voted. The negroes were kept
near the polls all night by barbecues, music
religious services and crap games. The
preacher would exhort one part of the crowd
which would sing hymns with fervor while
another portion was given over to shooting
craps. At four or five voting places the
Walsh men succeeded in massing their men
about the polls and in voting them first, to
the exclusion of all others. In another pre-
cinct the opposition, white and black
hanked the Walsh men during the night
and, being in larger numbers, drove them
away. In that precinct Mr. Walsh was bad
ly beaten.
This unfair capture of the voting places
contest. Money was used freely and open
ly. There being no secret ballot in Georgia,
and evidently no law for the punishment of
bribery, it was easy and safe to purchase
votes, white as well as colored. Represen-
tatives of all the candidates standing near
the polls could see how any man voted if
he wished to have it known. When the
vote OF a hired man was deposited the man
at the voting place gave him card marked
good for two days work. which meant
81. Net far distant from the voting place
an agent redeemed the card. The Constitu-
ton says that at one or two voting places
the representatives of candidates fourished
handsful of bills and openly bid for votes
or accepted the bids of those who had votes
to sell.
Because he received a large portion of the
colored vote Mr.. Walsh, the candidate of
municipal reform, received nearly as many
votes as both his competitors. The signifi-
cant feature of the contest was that when
the fight became hot and the outcome un-
certain. all of the candidates or their man.
ayers turned to the colored voters. Instead
of appealing to them as citizens who would
be benefited by good municipal government
and affording them facilities which would
enable all to vote, they simply gave them
to understand that all the interest they
could possibly have in an election is the
money they could get for their votes. For
this the white Democrats of Augusta are
responsible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

That way to the woods was taken along
the river and over the hill on an April day
when the sun shone and orchards we're IN
alone her theme. She sings The charms of
January, of the March frOsts, of midsum-
mer. or November morning. The time OF
Gus.
What matter that the truant sun
Slips southwark day by day,
And that. hardly, the winter waits
To hood the sky in gray
III find but deeper joy in this,
The autumn's pageantry;
And sumac boughs are brighter far
Than dark fcrebodings be-"
The charm of the Kankakee marshes esq
pecially appeals TO her, and no one has por-
spirit. THE Marshes 1.-THE Bayou" "The
Long Drift" Flood Time each sounds
the praise of that reedy wilderness: but
the tribute is more than mere recapitula-
ton of its beauties. Through her love for
the solitude she enters into the soul Of
things.
''And like the free reed-birds that fly
From those green tangles to the skv
Yet seek the bayou by and by,
So, on a nobler. higher quest
Ncw-1edging from its body nest
My eager soul scars up and sees
More of Gods gracious mysteries;
Wherefrom a larger love it learns
And then, with humble mein returns,
DiVinSS. more near, the perfect rest
OF Natures breast,
And so. touched tenderly through these,
Feels more of true humanities.
In addition to the nature poems are sew
eral of different character. The Feast CT
Palms" 1.-THE Exiles." Conscience" and
stately Christmas Chant Royal showing
that she is not limited to one line OF
thought The little book Is a genuine adj
dition to real literature. and will not fail
to give the author high rank among the
younger American poets The book IS dedl-
Gated to the memory of her father, John A.
Stein
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Although the nar1e of John Fox, jr., had
become known to the public through
number of striking short stories it was his
story, 1.-The KentucHians," published as a
magazine serial, that first attracted the
serious attention to him of that class OF
readers who are on the lookout for a new
note in fiction and are quick to recognize
originality and power. Mr.. Fox shows both
of these qualities in this dramatic tale of
Kentucky life. He has seized upon the two
contrasting and opposing elements among
the natives of the State-the mountaineers
and the people of the blue grass region
and out of the material has wrought
narrative as full of romance and tragedy
as If the setting were in the middle ages
instead of in the nineteenth century, and
the personages mailed knights in a tourna-
ment instead of rival members of state
legislature. Out Of the mountains comes
young giant who by sheer natural force of
mind and will has raised himself. unaided,
above the level of his family and associates.
He is loyal to his own, however, and his
only purpose in public life is to work for
their benefit. He comes into immediate
conflict on the legislative floor with a repre-
sentative of the blue grass aristocracy--a
man also with natural gifts and with the
additional advantage of fine ancestry. 1T
was the old fight-patrician against pie
beian, crude force against culture" Later
the mountaineer becomes the patrician's
rival in love. 1t would be unjust to the
author TO give even the outline OF the tale-
IT is enough to say that the characters are
we'll handled and that the story as a whole
conveys the impress of being a chapter out
of life-not the realism which consists y,
petty detail, but that which depicts the
forces of human nature as they exist in
every creature however modified by
environment or heredity The rather
abrupt ending of the story seems at first
reading fault, but since the conditions
made but one ending possible, it is perhaps
better that the underlying sadness of 1t
should not be too strongly dwelt upon.
1.-The Kentuclsians" is one of the most nota-
BILE novels of the season. Published by Har-
per & Brothers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
the Republican party
President Mckinley said in his inaugural
oddracc.

address,
deficiency is inevitable as long as the
expenditures of the government exceed it's
receipts. 1t can only be met aby-loans or in
creased revenue. While a large annual sur
plus of revenue may invite waste or ex-
travagance, inadequate revenue creates dis
trust and undermines public and private
credit. Neither should be encouraged. Be
tween more loans and more revenue there
ought to be but one opinion. We should
have more revenue, and that without delay
hindrance or postpOnement.
This was true in MARCH, last. and it is
true now. 1t shows that the President real
lied then, as he must now this fatally
weak point in the government finances
namely, the insuficiency of the revenues to
meet expenditures. That is the first point
to be protected and strengthened. But the
President also said in his inaugural adj
dress:
The several forms of our paper money
offer, in my Judgment, constant embar-
rassment to the government in its efforts to
maintain safe balance in the treasury.
Therefore, l believe ii necessary to devise
a system which, without diminishing the
circulating medium or Offering a premium
for its contraction, will present remedy
for those arrangements which, temporary in
their nature, might we'll, in the years of
our prosperity, have been displaced by wiser
provisions With adequate revenue secured,
put not unClI tnen, we can enter on SuGh
changes in our fiscal laws as will. while
insuring safety and %Ofume to our money,
no longer impose upon the government the
necessity of maintaining so large a gold re-
serve, with it's attendant and inevitable
temptations to speculation.
This shows that in March last the Presi-
dent was of opinion that currency reform
should follow as soon as the receipts of the
government should equal its expenditures,
and no doubt he is still of that opinion. 1t
is probable he will take substantially this
position in his message to-day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

DR.. James NJ Buckley, editor OF the New
York Christian Advocate and widely known
as a writer and speaker, has written "A
History of Method sm'' which will command
wide attention in church circles. Dr.
Buckley is an acknowledged authority on
everything relating to Methodism, and this
work is an exhaustive history of the Meth
odist Church in this country. It's object is
to distinguish Methodism from other forms
of Protestant Christianity in the United
States and to portray the development and
Growth of the church on its own distinctive
lines. The first chapter traces in rapid re-
view the history of morals and religion In
England from the time of Henry VIII TO
the progenitorS of Wesley, and then wesley
himself comes to the front with the growth
of Methodism in England and its establish
ment and progress in America. very inter
esting are the chapters relating 10 METH ii-
odism and slavery, and describing the split
in the church at the General conference
held in New York in 1874 which Henry
Clay, writing at the time, held to be peril
Gus and alarming to the stability OF the
Union. 1t was undoubtedly the entering
wedge of the civil war: The direct cause
was the suspension of Bishop Andrew, OF
Georgia from the Office of bishop because
his wife was STAKEHOLDER. and he held
property In slaves, beQueathed to MIN Dy
will. On this the Southern delegates Sc
ceded and a few months later organized
the Methodist Church South. DR.. Buckley
tells the story impartially, and his clear
cut statement of the debates in the General
conference is a model in the way or striking kllg:
were prophetic of the war that came seven
teen Years later. This is only one feature OF
the work, which, as a Wnoie' embraces tn ne
and of it's various societies and enterprises,
religious, educational and philanthroPic It
makes two volumes or nberal size, ana Is CO.
piously illustrated New York: Harper q
RrotherS
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

A prominent business man of st. Paul.
Mimi, who was in this city on Saturday,
had witnessed the waste of natural gas at
some points in the State. THAT gas would
be of immense value at st Paul or Mime
apoiis" he said. with US the fuel ques-
tion is very important one. and the lack
OF cheap fuel is almost an insuperable
obstacle TO the establishment of manufac-
tories. Yet here find your people are lit
orally wasting an incalcuable amount of
the cheapest fuel in the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Some members of Congress are opposed
to trying to do anything in the way of cur
rency reform because Of the alleged impos-
sibility of getting anything through the
Senate. This is a wrong view. The House
should dc its duty without regard to the
Senate, and If the latter declines 10 do any
thing the country will know where to To-
cate the responsibility and apply remedy.
Suppose the President should ignore the
currency question or make no recommends
tion on the subject In his message, for the
same reason? He would be very severely
criticised and justly 50. The Republican
patty expects Republican President and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The further Improvement of our rivers and
harbors can well afford to wait unsil the
revenues of the government shall cover its
expenditures. This is particularly true of
the rivers, some of which that claim arpro-
priations are only navigable in very wet
season and then only for mud-turtle steam
boats. The able congressman who wants to
sat down upon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Papers in. the larger cities are not speak
Ing in complimentary terms of the Bureau
Of American Republics, or, rather of it's
methods. They recall the receptions given
at much cost to South American visitors
taken over this country, and to its recent
advertising projects. One of them remarks
that If we are to get trade in South Amer
lea we must send men to canvass for it. as
II Is done at home.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

An exchange proposes that the money col
lected by the proposed postal savings banks
should be used in the construction of public
buildings in the cities where it shall be de-
posted. 1t would take a long time to OBJ
tain the amount necessary for that purpose
in any one city where public building is
really needed. Besides. the United States
is paying the interest on as much debt as is
desira HE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
Same Here.

The Tourist-Politics is purer here than it
is back home. We are afflicted with an cpl
demic of thieves in high places.
Rubberneck BfIl-Same here, pardner.
We got dozen er so of 'em hangin'
purity high right this minute. Jist step
round the corner an you can see the tree.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

House of Representatives to take the right
position on this question. and if the Senate
does not do so the Republican party will
not be responsible. The House should not
hide behind the Senate nor shirk its duty
because of the supposed attitude of the
other branch of Congress-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
THE isTA1E PRESS.

The Germans demand a coaling station in
China because they want to make it bot for
the Chinese.-Terre Haute Mail.
The silver party has given away its secret
in saying 1t is to win in 1900. This gives the
public ample training time for knocking 1t
out.-Lafay tie Courier.
1t is very gratifying to see the people of
the gas belt even at this late hour rising
in force and adopting measures to prevent
the reckless waste of natural gas. There
has been exhibited in this matter species
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

In view of the aldermanic nominations
and the uproarious proceedings of the DEM
ocratic convention in Boston, the Herald.
which has done much to encourage that
party sorrowfully remarks that 1.-The Demo-
cratic party of Boston must reform itself"
form II
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Postmaster General Gary has received a
long letter from Maryland woman, asking
for an appointment for a friend of hers on
the ground that last fall he expended for
the Republican cause 5000 which he had laid
aside for the purpose Of buying a tombstone
in memory of his children. Now, not being
able to get the tombstone he wants an Of
flee. At present the odious civil-service law
bars the way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The Journal understands that the Ohio
OH Company. which is the chief offender in
the waste of natural gas in this State, is
really the Standard Oil Company by an
other name. The greedy and constituencies
methods of this gigantic corporation are
well known, and it should give fresh i'm
petus to the movement for the preservation
of the gas to know that the Standard Com
pany is the beneficiary of the waste.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

From this distance it looks very much as
If the striking English engineers were show
ing more stubbornness than wisdom. Besides
losing time and wages they are Gripping
their employers and driving trade out of
England that it win take years to recover.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The self-gratuIation with which Great
Britain recently reviewed the heroism and
invincible courage of the Sikhs and the
Ghurkas in her Majestys 5. service is chang
ing to uneasiness for fear the aforesaid ma
tive soldiers will come to realize their own
Importance and go into the fighting bust
ness on their own hook. -,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Al a dinner few nights ago Of the ma
tives of Illinois living in Boston speaker
said: illinois has had two Tanners--of one
all the great State is proud; of the other
- If that be treason, make the most of
it." The company caught the allusion to
Governor Tanner and roared.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The Ohio asylum superintendent who had
an inmate put into a padded cell because
he was found reading "oomic supplement"
and laughing may have acted hastily, but
the public will see ample excuse for his ac-
ton. If the man hadnt been laughing his
terrible mental condition might never have
been suspected.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

In considering whether the Republican
as viii commit it to the maintenance of the
gold standard Republican congressman
should remember that Mr.. Mckinley would
have been defeated but for the votes of
sound-Inoney. gold-standard Democrats.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Spain resents the suggestion of foreign
aid or relief for the starving people of Cuba,
and AYERS that she can and will take care of
her own. Thus she tries to discount the re-
suits of Spanish barbarism by an exhibition
of Spanish pride.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

In a volume of 164 pages, Professor George
Harris. of Andover Theological Seminary,
has tried. by history and experience. the
theories Of those who. whether they call
themselves socialists or not, which set
forth human equality the aim and the
end Of human progress, to find them bases
less and misleading. Men may have equal
political rights. may be equal before the
law and possess a certain equality a.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The proverbial last, straw, to disarrange
the vertebrae of the spinal column of the
Luetgert camel, is the refusal of the ex-
perts to give any further representations of
the animal that spokegto Baalam. Abso-
lutely no more sensation in it. Woe is Chi
Cof
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

A Kansas woman is bound to establish
her right to do something that men take as
'an unpleasant duty. She declares she will
sit on jury, even if the case has to be
taken to the highest tribunal in the land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
CoIoniaI Homesteads.

The history Of English civilization in the
United States shows that it's first shoot, set
at jamestown, Va, in 1907, followed the
course of the James, once called the Powha-
tan river, to the head of navigation at Rich
mond very rapidly, considering the difficult
circumstances oe the times. AS is generally
the case in new settlements, the tide of pop-
ulation followed a water course. The result
was the establishment at a very early day
of many colonial hor1es and immortal man
sions in Virginia along that river. Other
local causes led to the establishment or
similar homes in other colonies, as Massa-
chusetts. New York. etc, many or when
became historic by reason of their owners
and of events connected with them. In TIME
they became centers and distributing points
of colonial hospitality. culture and aoclal
influence Some OF these houses and their
owners. occupants and influence are de-
scrbed in a work by Marion Hariands en-
titled Some Colonial Homesteads and their
Stories" The author says in her preface
that the materials for the work were col
lected during visits, paid by myself to those
historical shrines." One can believe this,
for the reader gets that impression from
the narrative which describes nearly score
of these old colonial homes in different parts
of the country in a way that makes enc
feel acquainted with them and with, the
people who once occupied them. The work
abounds with personal anecdote and Is a
valuable contribution to early colonial bis
tory Ii is freely illustrated and published
in handsome style by G. p. Putnams Sons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
The CheerfuI Idiot.

Zone" said the Cheerful Idiot, before any
one else could start conversation, zone is
Booth-Tucker, and the other is tooth
bucker. though don't know what the an
swer is. Perhaps my young friend, the
dental student, may be able to elucidate."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The term 'lak" is used as a measure of
money in India. The term lack is used
in connection with the finances of civilized
nations to degree that is at times intense
lV embarrassing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
And Then.

He-Oh. I'm a sleeper from away back,
as it were. fall asleep the minute my head
touches the pillow, and don't know a thing
until wake.
She-And them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

The immigration problem is one of the
questions of pressing Importance, but few
of the interviewed congressman seem to
have it in mind
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

A man has been sent to Jail for thirty
days for cheating at a primary in Massa-
chusetts. where primaries are protected by
almost the same laws as the regular cleo
zion
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

Be it known, that if there be any ma
tional convention that Indianapolis did not
have last year, the year before or this year,
she will have it next year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06

BY the time Spain gets ready to relieve
the Cuban reconcentrados most of them will
be past all relief.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-06
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
1t All Depends.

81 like a man who is not afraid to say
what he thinks. Don't your
why, no; not particularly. don't think
a big man is any more likable than little
one