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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS.
Report of the Committee ON RcsoIu-
tiOns--Missourians at War.

WASHINGTON, Feb little most inn
portant matter that came before the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association at its
meeting this morning was the consideration
OF the report of the committee on resolu-
tons, OF which Ida Harper is chairman. A
preamble to the resolutions reaffrmed the
principles enunciated ut the Seneca Falls
meeting fifty years ago when the question
of woman suffrage was first launched, and
recountcd in detail the gains in the adj
vancement of women since then The reso-
lutions, which were adopted, demand for
women citizens equality with males in the
exercise of the elective franchise, ask for
sixteenth amendment to the Constitution to
bring this about, demand for mothers equal
custody and control OF their minor children,
and for wives and widows an equal use and
inheritance of property, and ask for women
representatives on boards Of education, pub
lie schools, etc. The report of the commit
tee on federal suffrage was read by Sarah
Clay Bennett, and that OF legislation by
Lille Deyereux Blake.
The afternoon session was devoted to
work conference IN which the questions
of ideal state associations, how to secure
thorough organization and how To raise
The Missouri State Equal Suffrage Asso-
citation is represented here by two factions.
one led by Mrs Ella Harrison and the other
by Mrs. Victoria Conkng Whitney, the
president of the State Equal Outrage Club.
The latter not being recognized by the ma
tional convention because OF the opposition
of the Harrison faction. Immediately made
an appeal to the convention. 1t was re-
ferred to an executive committee, which
held a session behind closed doors. admit
ting only two members from each state and
shutting out the Whitney delegation. Mrs.
Whitney, however. presented her claims IN
an eloquent speech and the Missouri dele
cation insisted that the proceedings OF the
committee should be made public, but all
reporters were excluded and II was agreed
that the proceedings should not be given 10
the press. An exciting time Is expected
when the report of the executive committee
Is submitted.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The Louisville Evening Post is a Demo-
cratic paper, but it does not belong to the
school of Democracy which would perpetu-
ate itself in power by legislative fraud and
practically DISTINGUISHING its opponents. 1t
opposes the so-called Goebel bill, now pend
ing in the Kentucky Legislature, which pro-
poses to place the entire political machinery
of the State permanently in Democratic con-
troll. 1t calls the measure 1.-The Kentucky
force BILL which, from a Southern point of
view, is about as odious an epithet as it
could use, and warns the Democratic party
that it cannot afford to enact such legisla-
ton. 1t says:
We desire to see the State rescued from
the Republican party, but that rescue must
come from the people, and not from a ma
chine independent of the people, so con-
structed as to be greater than the people
themselves The people of Ken
lucky, regardless of politics, refuse to be
driven by taskmaSterS in any direction. If
the Democrats cannot carry the State with
out the Goebel bill they cannot carry it
with that measure, or with anything like
it. There is no desire among the people of
this State to pattern their election machin-
cry after either the State of Tennessee or
Virginia. sIs
These are manly words, shut they are not
likely to be needed by the men who are
now running the Democratic party in Ken
lucky.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18
Senator Morgan Of AIabama, is reported

Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is reported
as saying in regard to the naval disaster:
l should like to see introduced in Congress
q joint resolution providing for the imme-
date construction OF two battle ships equal
in size and equipment to the Maine, and
costing not a dollar less than the Inflated
Maine cost. Action of that kind by us
would Indicate to the world that whenever
or wherever one of our tentacleS was cut
off, two would at once grow in its place.
Senator Morgan ranks as jingoist on
the Hawaiian and Cuban questions, but
there is this much method in his jingoism-
that it is for the United States first, last
and all the time. If that kind or jingoism
is fault, it is a pardonable one. Many
persons will be inclined to agree with the
Alabama senator in the suggestion quoted
above The best of all times for a nation
to assert its power and resourcefulness is
right on the heels of a great disaster. Not
that the loss of single battle ship or a
whole fleet of them should be a matter of
serious concern, but in the present condition
of our navy it involves a loss that should
be repaired as soon as practicable in order
to maintain our former rating as a naval
power. But we should not be content with
merely repairing the loss or re-establish-
ing our old rating. We should improve on
both, ana, if this is to be done at ALI the
sooner the better. A joint resolution pro-
viding for two new battle ships, each fully
equal in fighting capacity to the Maine,
would show the world that 1t takes some
thing more than the loss of $2,5OOOOO war
ship to retard the naval development of the
United States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The scheme of Senator Harris and others
was that the government should take up
the first mortgage bonds of the Kansas
Pacific Railway. which would call for $1,000
90. and then run the road under a
government receiver. The United States
would have $2OOoO,O0o invested in the
S9i miles of road running west from
Kansas City. The administration and
Its friends did not think that
policy a wise one and sold the govern
ment's claim for the principal of the bonds,
te.sos,O00 losing the interest. which amounts
10 as much more Thus the government
gets all but $s.5OO.OOo of its investment in
the Pacific Railroad. Three years ago it
was generally expected that the government
would lose half its investment, or over
se0SOOOOo.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

History repeats itself, and those who care
TO investigate the matter will find that it
is repeating itself in regard to the credit
of the United States In his inaugural adj
dress March 4, 1869 General Grant declared
that the public man who should advocate
the payment of the outstanding bonds in
other than gold would be driven from pub
lie life. The first act passed after General
Grant became President is known as the
public credit act. In his address General
Grant used the word gold for the reason
that it was the only coin used in paying in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The natural conservatism of the American
people as a whole was never more thorough
ly tested than it was in the Maine affair,
and never did a test result more salts
factorily. In the vast majority of instances
judgment has been withheld, and the peo-
pie have been calmly posting themselves
with all the particulars obtainable. While
there would be one universal cry for Venge-
ance and reparation should it be found that
the Spanish had a hand in the affair, yet
until such is known beyond peradventure
the better sense of the people will prevail
as it has prevailed ever since the episode.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Feb. 17.-Rioting
has been resumed in Lonoke county. A
mob has been at work for the past several
nights in Crooked Creek township. burning
and otherwise destroying property. Nearly
every schoolhouse in the township has been
burned and other public property destroyed.
The grand jury of Lonoke county, which
has just adjourned, says in its report: I'VE
have made especial efforts to investigate
and ferret out the depredations and out
RACES committed against some of the col
ored residents of the town of Lonolxe, but
regret to state that our efforts have been
without success and we are compelled to
refer these matters to the next grand
iurvO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Senator Morgan of Alabama, after see
Ing the new Bryan platform. remarked to
an interviewer that the national conven-
tien which nominated Cleveland put in its
adopted again; it favored the repeal of the
tax on state bank issues; with such a sys-
TEN now the money question would be
solved SO far as our internal financial policy
is concerned. This is high treason to
Organism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Death came out of the black nights deep
And sfeered for battle ships side;
But never man OF the sailor clan
Looked on the Deathman's ride.
The Kansan lad and the Hampshire boy,
And the boy from Tennessee.
With never fear that death was near.
Swung into eternity.
Nor flag nor shot, nor battle cry.
Nor strain Of the Nations air.
Broke into the gloom OF the sailors DOOM
Nor yet pIiestly prayer
There looks face from far-away hcme
with eye bent on the sea.
For the Hampshire Jack who'll not come back
Or the lad from Tennessee.
Not theirs was the glory Of battle:
No victory crowned the day,
But q Nation Weeps. that the dark sea kean.
Her dead beneath the bay
-st. Louis ReppAlc-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The cosmopolitan character of this city
Is not emphasized alone by the national
conventions and other outside organizations
which assemble here. 1t appears in the
resident population as wen. Such an or
ganization as that of the Southern IN
dianians. who have just held social re-
union shows from what varied sources the
capital Of the State has drawn its elements
Of growth and progress. Time was when
the river cities and towns were the gate
ways to the State and for great many
years they were centers of influence and
migration. as the adjoining counties subse-
auently became. The descendants of the
early settlers IN that section of the State do
weiI TO preserve its traditions by an organl-
cation which will preserve the touch, not
only among themselves but between the
heart Of the body polite and its members
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

A certain De LONE (Dupuy)
NOtoriety thought not to truy;
But he wrote some mean letters
Criticising his betters,
And we started him home on the fluy.

The Springfield (Mass) Republican says
that Lieut. Col. Isaac Arnold, U. S. A., has
been ordered to the command of the Spring
field armory in place Of Colonel Mordecai,
transferred to the Watervliet arsenal at
Troy, N. Y. Colonel Arnold then major.
was in command of the arsenal in this city
for about four years from 1879 From here
he was ordered to the command of the San
Antonio arsenal and subsequently to the
Fort Monroe arsenal in Virginia and the
Watervliet arsenal, where he has had
charge of extensive and important improve
ments and the manufacture of heavy guns.
He is a very competent officer, and is well
remembered by friends in this city.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The official disclaimer by the Spanish
government of the offensive expressions in
the DE LONE letter covers the whole ground
and will doubtless be accepted as closing
the incident.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

After emphasizing the entire lack of mill
tary leadership and of soldierly qualities in
SPANS Cuban armies, the reports from
Madrid of an eagerness on the part of the
Spaniards to engage in war with the United
States is a ridiculous exhibition.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Spanish honor is queer thing. A few
days ago De LONE, claiming great friend
ship for this government and on terms of
intimacy with it's officials, wrote letter
aapDIying scurrilous language to the Presi-
lent In the same letter he asked that an
BILE man might be sent by Spain to interest
THE United States in reciprocity simply as
a blind. Spanish honor must be of the same
quality as Falstaffs valor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18
Twice InsuIfed.

Minnie-That odious Chollie insulted me
twice in five minutes.
Mamie-Oh, do tell me about it!
First, he tried to kiss me. Then he said
it was all q mistake
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The tone of the American press regarding
the responsibility of the sinking of the war
ship Maine has been so conservative that
spaniards cannot have a pretext for their
reported wrath because of some expressions
OF opinion affecting their honor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The views expressed by Fighting Bob"
Evans, of the navy, go far to strengthen
the theory that the destruction of the Maine
was caused from the outside, but when he
surmises that the fatal torpedo was aimed
ct the Spanish war ship Alphonso XII and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

If two or three leading Popocratic papers
cial column, day after day, showing a sup
ply of money in excess-of demand, it is pos
ssble they might limit the publication of the
editorial bowling about the scarcity of
money to every other issue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

II spontaneous fires in coal bunkers are
as common an occurrence as naval authors
ties aver, the government should offer a
reward for the discovery of a preventive
Given the fact and it's rationale, science
ought to be able to provide a remedy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

One yellow journal in New York has
stolen march on its rival by offering a
reward of $4,000 for the discovery of the
parties who put the torpedo under the war
ship Maine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18
One Thinr Worse.

She-What can there be worse than think
ing one is loved and finding too late that
one is not.
He-Er-well- thinking that one is in love
and finding out otherwise too late. for in
stanca-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The talk Of enlisting to fight Spain which
the incidents of the loss of the battle ship
Maine has melted is very inconsiderate.
Any war with Spain must be chiefly one
of the seas. Very few troops could be made
use Of Even if we should conclude upon the
conquest Of Cuba, a limited number of
regiments added to the regular army would
be sufficient, since whatever force the in
surgents have could be added to ours
While there has been no end of bushwhack-
ing in Cuba there has been no collision
which could be dignifed as battle. If the
insurgents should now attack some portion
of the wornout army of Spain with some
thing of sodierly vigor, they would help
their cause very much. Whenever the
United States concludes to take hand in
the affair it should not be with purpose
to give the Cubans Independence, but to
remove from our neighborhood the meddle-
some power of Spain, which has long been
a damage to our commerce and now is the
cause of large expenditure. 1t is very
doubtful, if Cuba should fall into the hands
of the so-called leaders of the revolution,
if they would be able to give the island
the peace and security essential to it's in
dustrial development. 1t is now very evil
dent that Spanish authority in Cuba is go
ing to pieces. Another hot season is ap-
preaching; Spain can send few if any more
troops; the autonomists in Cuba are bent on
peace regardless Of Spanish interests, and
the Spanish Ministry is beset by the hostile
Weyler influences and an unreasoning popu-
lace. With these agencies at work adverse
to Spain, it may not be necessary to en-
list, after a few weeks, unless we should
get into war without reference to Cuba,
and then few troops would be needed I'M
less we should undertake the conquest of
Spain.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

1t must be because Kentucky has the
cheapest Legislature ever known in that
State that it is prepared to legislate to pre-
vent a further fall of prices
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Preparing in peace for time of war has
been so expensive to the powers of Europe
that they might afford to take a chance
without preparation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

BY the retirement of Mr.. Fortune from
the presidency of the Commercial Club the
organization loses the services of one of
its most intelligent supporters and the city
of an untiring worker Mr.. Fortune is a
hard man to succeed in that position, but
the club has made a good selection in Mr..
d. M. Parry, and should try and make
his administration as fruitful of good re-
suits as was that of his predecessor.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18
BUBBLES IN. THE AIR.


Teacher-What did the rich man say to
Lazarus in Abraham's bosom?
Tommy-Oh. you're not so warm!
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Some one VINO has taken the pains to
read the three Bryanite jeremiads notes
that the old ratio of 1G to is not mentioned
Is that the dodge?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO--Palmer House, 2. o. News Co., III
Dearborn street. and Great Northern Hotel.
cINCINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co., 154 Vine
street
LOU1SvILLE-C. I. Deering, northwest corner
OF Third and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book c., 256 Fourth avenue
ST. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. d. c.-Riggs House, Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Though the French are u voluble people
yet the court stenographers in that country
enjoy greater snap than perhaps any
other stenographers on earth. There are
frequent intervals OF half an hour in which
all they have to write is prolonged sensa-
fior1
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

II appears that little interest is taken in
he discussion Of the bankruptcy bin in the
House. This is probably due to the fact
that many members know nothing about
lhis important subject because they take no
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

Of the silver variety who dared not vote
against the bill gave Ut half a vote by
lodging. Less than six months after its
passage all the Bryan factions tacitly APP
prove the measure as one which should not
be fought. And so, for the first time in
nearly thirty years, the Republican policy
Of protection has no organized opposition.
For the first time in thirty years Demo-
cratic platforms viii not, unless the or
ders of the Bryan combination are ignored
declare against a protective tariff Until
1896 the tariff of the robber barons was the
first and loudest specification in the gem
eral indictment of the Republican party.
At the end of thirty years the Democratic
party practically admits that during this
period, a generation, its leaders have been
wrong in the tariff controversy.
The free and unlimited coinage of silver
at the ratio of 16 to l, it may be remarked
is something of a free or freer-trade propo-
sition. If gold dollar, after the passage of
such law, should buy two silver dollars
as is now the case in Mexico, and the two
dollars would pay the same duties as two
gold dollars now do free-silver coinage
would result in a practical reduction of
our present tariff duties one-half # the
gold dollar should purchase one and half
silver dollars, duties would be reduced SO 1-3
per cent If the price Of silver should APP
preciate so that a gold dollar would pur-
chase one and a quarter silver dollars, du-
ties would be reduced 20 per cent This
would be infinitely more damaging to Amer
lean industries than the Gorman-Wilson
law was. 1t may be that this is the reason
that those former fambuoyant free-traders
of the Bryan stripe are now silent regard
ing protection. In the greater deluge they
see that the cheaper dollar for paying du-
ties will swamp American Industries.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18


July /. 1897. Feb. 1. 1898.
Paper money s....$, 051 326, $50 81, O52 PSI, ASP
Silver dollars. in
creased by paper. S5,Ss1,133 100000
subsidiary silver =. 75,43S,SS4 1868, ll6
Gold .............. 697, 223,362 52,3l6, TAG
Totals -. ....s 81 9O7, 569, 729 1880 6S7, 3l4
Thus it appears that the net increase of
the money of the country in the seven
months was $50, 267, 4O5. but the increase of
the money of the world, gold, was $5j,O9S,1A.
The greenbacks remain the same, but treas
ury notes We're reduced from STA, SET $50 in
July to $105,531 $50 Feb ]. This means that
the government is gradually retiring the
treasury notes. On the other hand, silver
certificates increased from $S5S 1886 96S July
to 1878, 575, $40 Feb. l. National bank notes
outstanding July ] were 1921, AL $50, and
$226, 529, 2l6 Feb. l. The per capita of money
Feb. l, 1885, 1854, against $26.15 July
l, 1897. The per capita of gold Feb. 1,
was $101s, against 1886 July /, while
the per capita of silver and silver certif-
Gates was $7.17 in February and 500 in
July There is as much gold money in the
country now as there was greenbacks, bank
and other paper money in 1878. And yet the
silverites are bowling about contraction.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-18

The money in the country at the begin
ming of the present fiscal year July l, 1897,
and at the end of the first seven months of
that year. Feb. l. 1898, was as follows:
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Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-03-29
NothInrIn It.

N -.
Tho following squib is going the
rounds Of the State press: sGa g.
The ELKo INDEPENDENT an
nounces that the tiqe imposed by
Judge Hawles. In the United States
district court on residents OF Eiko
county for removing lot ot rotten
lumber from the abandoned Fort
.Halleck barracks will be contributed
by the residents Of Elko." '....'f
With all due Difference to the press
Of the State, we. wish to announce
that the INDEPENDE t has made nc
such statements as are contained in
the above. What we did say was
this: That the INDEPENDENT would
join in movement y: the citizens to
raise the fines of these men and
would contribute of it's means to that
end So far no movement has been
made that we kr ow of to raise their
fines. Que of the parties in a con-
versatlon with the editor Of the INDE-
PENDENT last Sunday expressed him
self as well satisfied with the result
Of the case. lie had nothing but
kind words for Judge Hawley and all
concerned in the prosecution.
The other statement that these men
were prosecuted for removing rotten
iumb Der from the Fort Halleck reser-
walton is not i'll harmony with the
INDEPENDENTS information. The
buildings in some instances were
completely Quilted and their value
almost destroyed. These are the
facts and it is an injustice to the
United States authorities to claim
that these men were prosecuted for
simply taking rotten lumber. They
did wrong and were punished for it
and nothing can be gained by cast.
ing slurs Oh the men whose duty il
was to prosecute them.