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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL.
Citizens of Seymour Will Go Ahead
with Their Election.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
SEYMOUR, Ind, July S-A citizens
meeting was held in Armory Hall last even
ing under the auspices of the Commercial
Club, at which the subject of the election
for the removal of the county seat from
Brownstown to Seymour was thoroughly
discussed. The board of county commission
ers have called the election Tor Tuesday
Aug. 3, and it is advertised in every
paper in the county This week But the
opinion of Attorney General Ketcham, pre-
pared at the request of Governor Mount is
to the effect that an election on this date
will be illegal Two years ago the petition
of the remoValists was formally dismissed
by the commissioners and the matter went
through the courts to compel them to act
on the petition. The attorneys state that
the commissioners had no right to act in
the matter again, after dismissing the petit
ton until it came back to them in
regular form from the court The call for
the Aug. 3 election was made two days be-
fore the mandamus was issued by the
court. This mandamus directs the commits
soners to call the election at their regular
meeting in September. In view of these
conditions the opinion of those present at
last nights meeting was that the election
called for Aug. 3 should be ignored since
its result, whatever it might be, would be
void, and that the friends of removal should
wait until an election is called legally be-
fore casting their votes.
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and put in nomination man who declares
for dollars which will purchase less for
partial reputation and other heresies-a
man for whom man who believes in
sound money and credit can vote. The fact
that Ex-Governor Boies, of Iowa, who sup
ported Mr.. Bryan a year ago, had declared
that there is nothing in the 16-to-1 issue
and proposes the use of both metals for
money on the basis of commercial value
may be accepted as an indication that
many thoughtful men who supported the
l6-to-1 heresy in 1896 will quietly conclude
that the Boies plan is the safest, and
will vote against keeping an issue alive
which disturbs business and will, if it is
pushed to the front in 1900, destroy all con-
fidence, as it did in 1896. With. the gradual
Improvement of business the advocates of
the fatal 16-to-1 heresy will find that they
have a failing cause.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
SILVER SYNDICATE SENATOR'S.

Now that the Senate has voted on the
tariff issue, and such senators as Teller
Pettigrew and Cannon have refused to sup
port the bill after denouncing it or voted
against it, the term silver Republican as
applied to certain senators is as meaning
less as white blackbird or conscientious
thief. The tariff bill is framed along Re
publican lines. Special effort has been made
to protect the industries of the silver
States. This is particularly true of the wool
schedules and the treatment of the lead
interests. The duty on hides was imposed
in the Senate in Difference to the wishes
of the senators of the newer States. In
spite of all this Senator Teller, in explain
ing his refusal to vote on the question, de-
nounced the bill as a caucus measure, and
the worst which could have been passed
1t matters little how these senators are
classified hereafter, so long as they are not
called Republicans of any variety. Those
of them who have at some time been Re
publcans-Teller, Stewart. Pettigrew, Can
non and two or three others-are in Con-
gress but for one purpose-to promote the
conspiracy of the silver-mne owners to
double the price of silver properties and the
legal-tender value of silver bullion. 1t is a
conspiracy which would at once lose the
country half of its money and force it to
silver monometallsm. Let it be repeated
with all possible emphasis that these men
have no other object in being in Congress.
To promote the conspiracy of the silver
mining combination they would assail every
other interest which can come before Con-
gress.
These remarks do not refer to the various
Southern States. While the most of them
are yet joined to the heresy of the silver
mine trust, they do not consider the free
and unlimited coinage of silver the
one object for which the American Con-
gress exists. They would not refuse to vote
money to keep the departments of the gov
eminent in running order or for the de-
Tense of harbors or the building of war
ships. They are not anxious to involve the
United States in war with Spain simply
that the disturbance may force the govern
ment to a silver basis. They do not hate
the rest of the country, and assail all other
interests or appeal to class and sectional
jealouses to promote the interests OF the
silver-mine trust, as do such bitter and
vindictive men as Teller, Stewart and Petit
grew. In future they should be known as
the representatives in the Senate of the
combination OF silver-mine owning million
aires. No interest in the country has so
many senators, because the siIver-mine
property is held by few men.
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THE WHIST CONGRESS.
The TnOphy Now Lies Between Al
bany, Boston and Toledo Teams.

PUTIN BAY O., July s. - The Toledo
Whist Club team of four made the high
score in the second preliminary contest for
the A w l.. challenge trophy. which was
finished at l o'clock this morning The
scores of the first four teams in the A w.
L. contest are: Albany, 5S1 tricks Amer
lean of Boston $50; Toledo 577; Buffalo,
566 In this contest the two teams Of four
making the highest total trick score Will
play off In the finals. The race is already
narrowed down TO Albany, Boston and To-
iedo. To-day the contest for the Hamilton
Minneapolis and A. w. L. trophies con-
tinu'es, the result of which cannot yet even
be predicted. The weather is cool and de-
lightful and the congress is pronounced a
success. 1t will close late Saturday night
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Ireland Wins the Badge Emblem for
the Greatest PrOpOrtionate
Gain i'm Societies.
TWENTY THOUSAND PRESENT
WHEN INDIANAPOLIS WON THE CITY
PRIZE FROM CLEVELAND.
Ohio Wrests the State Banner from
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Clarlx's
Annual Address.

SAN FRANCISCO, July S.-The weather
was perfect and the Christian Endeavorers
have taken the town. Aside from the DEM
onstrations at rallies this afternoon in thir-
ty-two churches several open-air meetings
were held by the Endeavorers. During the
afternoon the Mechanics pavilion presents
ed a scene of constant activity, the arrival
and registration of delegates continuing
without intermission. More than twenty
thousand are now in the city and several
thousand more will be added to the num-
Der before the end of the week. The in
cident to-day attended with a wild demon
stration of enthusiasm was the presenta-
ton of the badge banner to the country
making the greatest proportionate gain in
number of societies during the last twelve
months which has been in possession of
Scotland during the past year. 1t won
by Ireland, and was presented in behalf Of
the United Society by Rev. Charles A.
Dickinson. of Boston.
The junior badge banner given for the
greatest proportionate increase in number
of societies during the last twelve months
was awarded to Spain. 1t was presented
by w. II. Vogler, OF Indianapolis. in neat
address. 1t had been in possession of
Mexico.
The badge banner for the greatest in
crease in number of societies during the
past year. which had been held by Eng
land, was retained ana presented to the
same country, the address being delivered
by Rev. w. j. Darby, OF Evansville, Ind.
The junior banner for the greatest in
crease in number OF societies, held by Penn
sylVania for three years, was WreSted from
the keystone State by Ohio, whose repre-
sentatiVeS were extremely enthusiastic
when the presentation was made by Rev.
J. T. Tyler, of Cleveland. Then a poem
The Army of Daybreak, by Rev. Ernest
Warburton Shurtleff. of Plymouth. was
read and favorably received.
President Mckinley this afternoon sent
message containing best wishes for sue
cess OF the convention.
The sessions of the Christian EndeaVor-
ers convention this evening, both at the
Mechanics pavilion and WOodward's pa
Vilion, were even more largely attended
than those held in the morning, and fully
twenty thousand people listened to the pro-
ceedings at the Mechanics pavilion, the
services being conducted by Rev. Robert F.
Coyle, of Oakland. The handsome banner
TO be presented to the local city union hav-
ing reported the best progress during the
past year, which had been in possession of
Cleveland, was awarded to Indianapolis.
The monster meeting in Woodwards pavil-
ion was presided over by Francis G. Clark,
president of the EndeaVorers. The banner
presented by Rev. Wilbur +. Crafts for the
best work accomplished during the past
year in defending the Lord day was
awarded to California
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
SENATOR PETTIGREW,s BLUFF.

The motion of Senator Pettigrew to have
the address of the premier of Japan on
the money question printed in the Con-
gressonal Record must be regarded as one
of the Senator's desperate and reckless
bluffs. AS the Journal showed a few days
since, the address in question is a clear
argument against an irTedeemable paper
and fiuctuating cheap coin money. That
any silver senator should desire to pretend
to give publicity to such a paper is evil
dence of an intent to give the public to
understand that it does not trouble the
16-to-1 advocates Probably Mr.. Pettigrew
knows that few more people will read the
address when printed in the Congressional
Record than if it were not. Very naturally,
the silver-mine senator predicts that the
change to gold basis by Japan means
ruin, and he repeats the stale assertion
that it increases the pinch of gold" when,
as a matter of fact, the output of the gold
mines the first six months of 1897 must be
several millions in excess of all the gold
that Japan will require during the next
five or six years.
OF course, Mr.. Pettigrew remarked that
the change was in the interest of the credi-
tor class. He had to say that, not because
it is true. but because it is one of the set
phrases of the silver-trust advocate in and
out of Congress. He does not, because he
cannot, present a fact to sustain his asser-
ton. Whatever obligations Japan or Jap
anese merchants have in other countries
are due in gold, while silver has been the
money used in domestic traffic.
In the aggregate the greatest creditor in
every country in the world where wages
are paid is the wage Garner. All other
obligations are limited compared with the
large amounts which are paid to labor once
a week and once a month In few coun-
tries have wages been lower than in Japan.
Strange as it may seem, during the last
few years Japanese employers have been
compelled to deal with many strikes be-
cause of the insufficfency of wages. From
time to time wages were advanced, but
being paid in silver, the wage Garner re-
ceived less wages, when measured by what
they could purchase, than he did twenty
years ago. This is because silver has been
constantly depreciating in Japan In pur-
chasing power, it BENZ the money stand
ard. While wages did .ot rise, the neces-
saries of life advanced from % to 40 per
cent. Thus, while wages were nominally
the same, the loss of the purchase power of
the depreciating silver money worked a
constant decline in the value of wages,
causing dissatisfaction and strikes. The
change to a gold basis and silver coinage
on the commercial value of the two metals
will change all that. Gold will be the meas
ure of values in wages, and the % or 50
cents day paid in silver will become %
or so cents in gold value. The adoption Of
the gold standard in Japan means the ad-
vance of wages. AS those who work for
wages are the greatest creditors, Mr.. Pet
tigrew was right for once, when he said
that the adoption of the gold standard in
Japan was in the interest of the creditor
class.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
THE CONFERENCE SESSION:
Members of the Two Committees
Agreeing Rapidly on Items.


WASHINGTON, July S-The first meet
ing of the conferees of the Senate and
House on the tariff bill began at 2:40 p. m.
to-day in the room of the Senate commit
tee on finance. The meeting was attended
by both the Republicans and the Democrats
constituting the committee from each of
the houses. The clerks of the Senate COM
mittee on finance and the House committee
on ways and means were also present.
The meeting was a formal one. The Demo-
cratic members of the conference remained
less than ten minutes. They withdrew upon
the lntimation of the Republicans that they
desired an opportunity to reconcile their
differences before consulting with the Dem
ocrats. 1t was recalled that this privilege
had been conceded TO the party in power in
1890 and in 1894 and the Democrats Gid not
demur to the proposition. With the de-
parture of the Democrats the Republicans
representing the Senate and the House en-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
RuIes on Pension Cnses.

WASHINGTON, July S.--Many pension
cases are affected by the following rulings
which have just been made by Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Webster Davis:
In the claim of Francis Frank of Company
H, Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, the de-
partment holds that claimant who has at
deemed entitled to at least the minimum
rate of pension unless the evidence dis
closes an unusual vigor and ability for the
performance of manual labor in one of that
age.
In the case of Edward Moore of the
Fourteenth Independent Battery, Ohio
Light Artillery, this policy is laid down.
When it shall be shown that the pension
er's right to have the pension inure wholly
to his benefit, is being abridged or for
and that the appointing court will not adj
minister relief, then the commissioner of
fuse payment to the guardian and if need
be to pay the pensioner himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

per in the country to suggest Joint effort
by the labor commissions of the coal-min-
In an editorial article on the 5th inst. it
urged the labor commission of this State
ito open communication Immediately with
the labor commissioners of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Illinois with a view of arbitrating
the present controversy" The labor COM
mission of this State was the first to move
in the matter and, even If the attempt is
not successful, it will be a good precedent.
Hereafter no labor trouble affecting large
business interests should be permitted to
continue any length of time without an eff
fort at arbitration by DISTINGUISHED parties.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

Two United States ships, the San
Francisco and the Raleigh. are now steam
ing under orders to Tangier, and there is a
possibility of interesting news from there
before long. The vessels go there to en-
force demand on the Morocco government
for the arrest and punishment of one of its
subjects who committed a brutal assault
on an American citizen, and they may be
authorized to demand an indemnity. The
event is not likely to prove important, but
If the Morocco government should assume
an insolent attitude, as those half-civilized
powers are apt to do, 1t may become neces-
sary for the ships to clear their decks for
action. 1t would compel respect for the
flag if a couple of United States war ships
should show their teeth in the Mediter-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
LORD BERESFORD'S" TROUBLES
The Notorious Fraud Sidney Las
ceIles, IA again Fugitive.

ATLANTA, Ga. July S-Sidney Lascelles
alias Lord Beresford, a shrewd swindler
known throughout the country who was
recently pardoned out of the State Peniten-
tiary and Immediately established himself
in business at Fitzgerald the Grand Army
colony in south Georgia, is again a de-
faulter and fugitive from justice. Lascelles
ingratiated himself with the people of Fitz-
gerald and quickly BECAME one of its most
popular citizens, marrying the daughter of
the wealthiest man in town. Last Friday
he left for Savannah and has not been seen
since. Warrants have been issued for his
arrest for cheating and SWindling. His
peculations from citizens of Fitzgerald and
nonresident wholesale houses amount to
about SO GEO.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

WASHINGTON, July S.-The secretary of
war. bya general order, has modified the
rules regulating the examination of army
officers for promotion III the interest of
time saving and practicability. The new
rules are contained in general orders No. A.
and on these being applied yesterday the
time consumed in the examination Of an
officer was just one hour and fifty minutes
instead of the eighteen days usually re-
quired. The greatest saving is effected by
the substitution of an oral examination for
the laborious written examination hereto
ranlIirad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

One of the speakers at the international
gold mining convention at Denver said: Il
have been mining in Colorado for twenty
years; have spent $15OOOO in it, and can
pledge my honor that l have never had a
dollar of 1t back" The roars of laughter
that followed this statement indicated that
many of those present had had much the
same experience. The speaker added: Il
am not in the least discouraged however,
for am row convinced that I made a mis-
take by digging for silver instead of for
gold" He is on the right track now.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
Merriam sent to vancouver

WASHINGTON, July 8.-General H. c.
Merriam, formerly colonel of the Seventh
Infantry, qualified in his new rank at Fort
Logan, Colorado to-day, and orders were
issued from the War Department here as
signing him to command the Department
of the Columbia, with headquarters at
Vancouver, Wash. Colonel r. NJ. Anderson,
Fourteenth Infantry, has been in temper
airy command of the department since Cen
eral Otis's transfer.
The Senate committee on military affairs
to-day decided on an adverse report on
the promotion of Lieut. Col. Henry f.
Noyes, of the Second Cavalry, nominated
by the President to be, colonel The charge
made against Colonel Noyes is that of
failing to meet his financial obligations.
The Senate to-day confirmed the following
nominations Hiram c. Truesdale, of Ari-
IONA, to be chief justice, and the following
named to be associate justices of the Su-
preme Court of Arizona: f. R. Davis, E.
NJ. Doane r. E. Sloan. Francis B. Loomis,
of Ohio, to be minister to Venezuela w.
W. Rockhill, of the District of Columbia,
to be minister to Greece. Postma ters-Il-
linoiS: H. M. Weber, at Eldorado; Indiana,
l. w Dale at MITCHELL
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

A London paper publishes an interview
with Chauncey NJ. Depew, in which he says
that Organism is only another name for
discomfort with existing conditions, and
that unless we have better times Organism
will probably win in 1900. ''If we get the
promised legislation" says Mr. Depew,
land then have good times, Organism is
dead; if we do not then there will be such
an increase of uneasiness and discomfort as
to sweep the country for Mr.. Bryan's or
some other experiment with financial and
industrial theories Probably that is a
fair statement of the case, but it should be
added that all the indications point strong
ly to the coming of better times and the
decline of Organism. A party that is or
ganized ON discomfort and calamity cannot
make any Roadway against good crops and
good times.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

The sound-money Democratic convention
held in Iowa on Wednesday shows that
there has been no change of opinion on the
part of the Democrats in that State who
opposed the cheap-money heresies of Bry-
anism a year ago A convention of two
hundred delegates represents an element
which Will have its effect election day.
Such a convention proves that there has
been no falling off in interest upon the
of imitation and cheap dollars have met
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
A DOUBLE SUICIDE.
Bodies of Horace Johnson and DRuGh-
ter Found in the Lake.

CLEVELAND, July 8.-The bodies of
Horace ]. Johnson and his daughter Effie,
who were the occupants of the boat which
was found empty off Lakewood last Mon
day. were discovered this morning float
ing near the beach at Lakewood dashed to-
gether. The anchor rope was fastened Sc
curely about the body of the man. 1t was
which was a thirty-pound stone, was at
the end of the rope, and it served to hold
the bodies at the bottom of the lake 1T is
evident that it was the purpose of the
father to drown his daughter and himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
The President,s VACATION.
Il to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July 8.-The President is
making preparations for a vacation of fifty
or sixty days, beginning early in August.
His plans have not yet been fully matured,
but the itinerary is said to include trip
to the Pacific coast and to Yellowstone
Park He wishes to avoid demonstrations
as much as possible and will endeavor to
ton. He is very much in need of a Vaca-
ton from the onslaughts of office seekers
and from public attention. He has gone
deal has begun to tell on him very visiby.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

The defiant attitude of Turkey in regard
to Thessaly is reported as giving some Of
the powers much concern. The trouble is
than no one can tell, by what several Eu-
ropean rulers say, just what they mean
There has been a feeling all along that if
Russia should tell the Sultan in earnest
that he must get out of Thessaly he would
waste no time in doing When, there
fore, it is said that Russia is greatly an
noyed by the conduct of the Sultan most
people do not know what to think about it.
1t is not altogether impossible that the
Sultan may conclude that he is in a po-
sition to defy even Russia, so long as he
can sell the bonds of the Turkish gov
eminent. 1t is possible, also, that the
Christian world, as it is called, has been
deceiving itself about the power behind the
Sultan in the adherents of the Mosem re-
ligiOn. Meanwhile, the Turk in Thessaly
has resumed his traditional savagery after a
period of enforced propriety by sacking
villages, burning houses and driving the
helpless inhabitants into the mountains.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09

WASHINGTON, July S.-The Senate COM
mittee on commerce to-day, after eXhaus-
tive inquiry into the charges against John
Goodnow nominated as consul general to
Shanghai, and b H. Warner, jr., nomi-
mated as consul to Leips4c, agreed 70 report
with favorable recommendations. There
was no division in the committee on the
Warner nomination. Senator Berry voted
against Goodnow. The committee also de-
cided upon a favorable report in the case
of F. II. Heustis. nominated for col
lector of the Puget sound district in Wash
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-09
General Notes.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, July S.-The following
Indianians were promoted to-day in the
Pension Office: w. ]. Alstrum, of Indian
apolis, from 81, 200 to 81, AGO. oliver c. Terry,
of Indianapolis, from $1,000 to $1,000; j. 7.
Wilson of Corydon, 81 400 to $1,000; William
w Wolson, of Rensselaer,, from $1,000 to
81 400.
Charles Stivers editor of the Liberty
Herald is in the city in his own interests
for a government appointment
Senator Fairbanks will make it his spe-
cial business during the time the tariff bill
is in conference to look particularly after
the interests of the tobacco people, whose
cause he has been so earnestly espouSlng
for the past several weeks.