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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Adjutant General Corbin, who stands very
high in military circles and whose services
during the war were of great value, fears
that the present clamor of the yellow press
and the gross Misrepresentation regarding
the conduct of the war and the treatment
of soldiers will demoralize the troops re-
tanned in service and make it difficult to
raise more He also thinks it will hurt us
abroad He says:
If this TRADE of abuse and defamation of
regulations continues it is question in my
mind whether it will not end in disorganiz,
ing the military forces of the country, and
perhaps prove an obstacle in raising an
other volunteer army If one should suddenly
enviable light before other nations by what
has been said and written of the army ana
its management. Our soldiers are liable to
be rated as babies and our executive officers
either imbecileS or as corrupt.
General Corbin is a soldier and regards
the matter in a purely military light. From
another point of view we might have dep
recated the lack of patriotism and national
pride that has overshadowed the splendid
heroism and grand results of a successful
war by complaints of personal hardships.
distorted and exaggerated for political eff
feet. But what he says is undoubtedly true.
The volunteer regiments not designated for
discharge are already more or less demon
allied by the camor of the yellow press,
and foreigners who a few weeks ago were
loud in their praise of our army are begin
ming to hedge. Accustomed to war and
knowing that war is hell'' they cannot UNI
derstand how a really military and heroic
people should so suddenly become a nation
of kickers, nor how government that re-
Gently displayed such tremendous energy in
the prosecution of war could be composed
of incompetents as the yellow papers and
Democratic editors are now asserting. Thus
the purveyors of falsehood and discomfort
are demoralizing our army at home and
humiliating the Nation abroad.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
REGIMENTAL LOSSES.

Many figures have been given and many
more could be found in official reports show
ing that the greatest mortality in Union
regiments by disease occurred during the
first three or six months of their enlistment.
This fact is established by the mortality in
regiments of short periods of service. The
following figures sustain this declaration:
Sixteen Indiana one-year regiments lost rs
men by disease and Ii killed-an average Of
over As men to each regiment of less than
1000 men.
Four Indiana siX-months regiments lost 3l5
men by disease ard from battle-an aver
age of nearly 70 men to regiment of less
than 900 men.
Twelve Illinois one-hundred-days regi-
mcnts lost 299 men by disease. or an average
of % to each regiment of less than 1000 men.
Thirteen Illinois one-year regiments lost
715 by disease and IL by battle. or an aver
age of nearly 81 men to each 1000.
Thirteen Kentucky one-year regiments
lost 90 by battle and S4S by disease-an aver
age of IS men to regiment
Forty-two one-hundred-days regiments
lost 4S men by battle and S62 by disease-an
average of over 20 men to each regiment of
less than 1000.
Eight Maine nine-months regiments lost
50 by battle and S57 by disease-an average
by disease of 107 to each regiment of scant
1900 men. Six Of these regiments lost an
average of 152 men by disease.
This list of short-time regiments, showing
the marked fatality by disease, could be eX-
tended to cover every State furnishing such
troops. The main cause of such fatality was
the change from civil to military life and
change of climate. Not a few deaths are
due to inconsistencies. In nearly every regi-
ment that disease had its victims, most Of
whom were discharged.
The records of regiments show that many
of them losing the largest numb er by battle
lost relatively smaller number by disease.
The following are the statistics OF few
regiments on this line:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

for 1850 This not only gives them the middle
of the road. but the right of way, as against
any future Populist convention and puts it
out of the power Of the Democratic party
to foist Mr.. Bryan or any other candidate
upon the Populist party and ticket. The
Journal has no sympathy with Populist
prir ciples or candidates, but it has far more
respect for them than 1t mas for men who
sail under false colors and who insist that
JeffeTsonian and Jacksonian Democracy are
Identical with modern Populism and Bryan
ism. Tie Populists who met at Cincinnati
had the courage to repudiate in advance
any alliance with the gang that captured
the party in 1896. I'VE will end the tricks
of the office seeker says their address,
by putting our national ticket in the field
at once" What kind of office-seekers in gen.
eral and what office-seeker in particular
are alluded to may be inferred from the
further statement that 'at the Chicago
convention in 1886, in a prearranged theat-
rical scene Of great uproar and enthusiasm,
the Democratic party moved to the front
as the devoted and lifelong champion of
that which it had always opposed" The
chief actor in the prearranged theatrical
scene at Chicago was the professional Of
lfce-seeker who is now anxiously awaiting
his discharge from the army in order that
he may make his temperance on the po-
litcal stage and resume his leadership of
the forces of discomfort The middle-of-
the-road Populists are to be congratulated
on having repudiated him and his party
and his trainers in advance. 1t is the be-
ginning Of a political retribution which will
continue to grow until it eliminates in 1900.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

While the numerous railway horrors, col
lapsng bridges, ETC., over the length and
breadth of our land are always sad affairs.
yet the practical public should not and does
not lose sight of the plain, common-sense
side of such things, and there are a great
many persons with sufficient GOODNESS to
stop and figure it out that there is always
some one whose negligence, carelessness Or
incompetence is directly responsible for the
thing that makes the cold chills run up and
down the public's spinal column. The in
vestigations OF such affairs cannot be begun
too quickly after the event. and the guilty
cannot be prosecuted too vigorously or pun
ished too severely.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

hundred men fell out during march and
some of them died, the fact would have
been reported. AS a matter of fact, the
first death IN the One-hundred-an sixty
first was reported a few days ago. and it
was the result of accident. If fifty men had
been overcome by the heat, there would be
more than ten men on the sick list. Neither
can this man know that from twelve to
fourteen men die in camp every day. He is
simply dissatisfied, homesick man who is
lying. As long as there are soldiers such
men will be among them, but at this stage
Of affairs such men are not entitled to
particle of credence
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

II the decision of the French Cabinet
council to revise the Dreyfus case means,
as seems likely, reopening and new trial
of the case it is a remarkable concession
on the part of the government. 1t may
not mean a fair trial for Captain Dreyfus.
but it is remarkable that the government,
after having so long and stubbornly refused
20 reopen the case, should finally consent
20 do SO. There must have been a great
change in popular feeling and perhaps i'm
action, but the government is so strongly
committed to the theory of Dreyfus's guilt
that it will be hard for him to get fair
trial.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
Roosevelt to the Rough Riders.

4 TOIH RtIOII OF 6Deecn
There is one text in the Bible that is
particularly applicable to the moment. II
says Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked
believe in kicking as a general thing. but
men who go into the army must expect all
manner OF hardships and privations.
"A martyr came to my tent yesterday and
said. Colonel we haven't a bit of milk to-
day l replied oh, you poor thing!' The
smile.
But, bows, don't forget there were others
who were just as brave as you. Let us give
due credit to those boys in blue who Were
at Tampa, Chickamauga, Chattanooga and
other camps. They were as brave as the
ones whose lot it was to get into battle
Death has visited them, death as honorable
as though 1t had been OH a battlefield. Let
them share the honors with us"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The prevailing idea among the Cuban
leaders. Including Generals Gomez and Car
cia. is said to be peculiar one. They feel
States but they want to experiment with
independence. They want the United States
70 recognize what they call the republic of
Cuba at once. and then. IL 1. proves to be
a failure, the Cubans themselves will pc
tition to be annexed to the United States.
The objection to this programme is that
there is no republic of Cuba to recognize
and no organized government to enforce
law or preserve order. At present the re-
EponsibiIity of government in Cuba is on
the United States and VIII be until some
local government is organized that can be
recognized
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The machinery for raising funds for the
Lafayette monument to be erected at the
Paris exposition in 1900 is so far perfected
that it will be officially announced in a few
days. In addition to the managers, already
announced, the Governors of all the States
and all the state superintendent of public
instruction will be asked to act as vice
presidents of the monument commission.
The superintendent will be asked to COM
municate with local school authorities and
set apart Oct. 10 as Lafayette day to be
fittingy observed in the schools, with the
gift of a few cents from each pupil. Arch
bishop Ireland has agreed to do for Catholic
parochial schools what the state superin-
tendents will be asked to Go for the public
schools. In this way it is hoped to raise
without much trouble and with little ex-
pense a fund sufficient to erect a monument
that will commemorate a notable character
and event and strengthen the friendly rela-
tions between the United States and France
President Mckinley has given the project
his hearty approval and promised to do all
in his power to make it a success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
Bryan "Wants Out"

Col. William Jennings Bryans eager de-
sire to resign from the army and re-enter
politics amuses the War Department. Ii
was only few short weeks ago that his
He was accommodated with all possible
dispatch, but now it appears that he has nc
stomach for garrison duty and does not
even want to wait until permanent peace is
declared. He wants to get right out, and ii
his regiment, the Third Nebraska, is not
Immediately mustered out, he threatens To
resign in order to plunge into the campaign
War Department cynics smile when they
hear it stated that Colonel Bryan is de-
trouble with him is that he has never been
out of politics. and that his enlistment in
the army was strictly political.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

the rainy season should be over had not
the situation at Santiago rendered the cap
ture of that city necessary. Without MAX
ing any claims General Miles sets forth
the part he took during the last days of
the siege and the surrender of Santiago.
He makes no claims. but simply states
facts. He makes no charges. but puts him
self where he cannot be misunderstood. 1t
would have been better if General Miles
had been permitted to exercise more ex-
tended authority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

It is given out that Governors will have
nothing to say about the further selection
Of regiments to be mustered out. Gradual
reductions will be made until the army
is said to be of opinion that 10000 men will
J be required for Cuba, $500 for the Philip
pines and 1900 for Porto Rice The army
will be reduced to four corps and concen-
trated at Jacksonville. Middletown. Pa,
Admission, Ala, and Lexington, KY.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The National Association of ex-Prisoners
~of the Late War, at the meeting in Cincin-
natl on Tuesday, put themselves on record
against the representations of the yellow
newspapers regarding the losses of the war
and approved the general policy of the
president. The association truthfully de-
ciares that the losses have been less by dis
ease than during the first months of the
civil war
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Yesterday afternoon two battalons of the
Third Missouri, en- route to Kansas City,
were detained at the Union Station. They
were from one of the camps designated as
''pestholes" Those who believe the fctions
regarding emaciated regiments must have
been surprised when these men took their
muskets and slung their knapsacks for
march up town. Instead of emaciated,
half-starved, disease-stricken men, the
dupes of the yellow and sick soldier issue
papers must have been surprised to see
as stalwart and as solGierly body OF men
as ever appeared II the streets of this city.
The men were in good form. despite the
long ride in the cars; their equipments were
in excellent condition-in short, 1t was a
vigorous body of drilled men who would be
a godsend to an army needing reinforce
ments in the field. If there is any linger-
ing suspicion in the mind of any candid per-
son that the troops in the camps are broken
down or starved. the Third Missouris ap-
peGrance must have dispelled it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
Impossible to Sell People Like sheep.
Sir Charles Dixie, in North American Re-

view.
1t seems to me impossible for the United
States to hand back to such a colonial rule
as that of Spain populations who have been
emancipated from that rule by the action
of the great Republic, or by the chances of
war ! 1t seems to me almost as impossible
for the United States TO sell people like
sheep. and to be party to arrangements
which. for example, would hand over the
Philippines TO another power against the
wish of their inhabitants. 1t is probable
that the inhabitants of the Philippines
would prefer the rule of the United States,
or United States protectorate. TO British
or German rule, and. further, the handing
over of the Philippines TO any other country
general war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The volunteer regiment which has lost
heaviest is the Ninth Massachusetts. which
behaved so handsomely at Santiago. 1t has
lost ffty-four men by disease in four
months. This regiment mustered 1926 men
and, officers. This means a loss of four men
IN each one hundred by disease.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

DIR. w. Gilman Thompson, visiting physi-
ecian at the Presbyterian and Bellevue hos
pitfalls in New York, finds a number of SOL
diers in those hospitals who were sent away
from camp on furlough in the incipient
stages of typhoid fever This evil DR..
Thompson fixes upon the physicians in the
camp hospitals and declares that it is a
disgrace which must be felt keenly by the
nntire medical profession.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

In yesterdays Journal was report of the
Observation-Disclosures showing that it
had four men in hospital and five con-
fined to quarters. This statement by
regular correspondent is followed by a let
ter written by man who volunteered in
the Richmond company. 1t is the dolorous
story of homesiclx man. and very natur-
ally full Of falsehood. II. for instance. two
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Tho ITsfds Division Hospital at Chicka-
maugs, ,Ss one most criticised, has been
closed. Since June 10 it has received 2,4s2
patients, OF whom thirty-three have died. 1t
has had go cases of typhoid, and twenty
eight of the thirty-two deaths were due
to that disease. The official figures refute
the shocking stories which have been told
OF that hospital.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

In Europe when a war is fought to a
successful conclusion the press of the vic
Aorious country does not attack the gov
eminent and represent the army as com
posed of weaklings and mutineers. But,
then, Europe has no yellow papers and fake
correspondents
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Poor Alice had to give UP her bicycle
riding. She just could not learn"
And why not?"
She was used TO driving a horse that
she kept jerking at the handle bars all the
time as if they were pair of reins."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Location had much to do with the NOR
tally of regiments by disease, those regi-
ments serving in the Gulf States losing
heavily. 1t seems that the troops constant
ly in the presence of the enemy, with oc-
casional fight, lost less by disease than those
regiments doing guard duty. The occupa-
ton was a tonic.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

1t will be noted that the news of the
Anglo-German alliance all comes from an
unofficial source. The Anglo German agree
ment would have been to disagree had Ger
many taken a few more Offensive steps in
the Philippines matter
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The spectacle of Spain asking of the
United States the privilege of sending a
few small gunboats to the Philippines and
the United States declining to grant the
request indicates beyond doubt the dawn
ing of a new world power.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Wiokwire-I don't exactly like the idea of
calling one of the new ships of war THE
American Girl"
Yabsley-What is the matter with it?
Wickwire-It sounds too tame. THE
Hired Girl would give much better idea
of destruction and desolation.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

II Captain Clark, of the battle ship Ore
gon. is a modest man he may be embar-
raised by the attentions that will be show
cred on him in Cincinnati. But he will
have to get used to that sort of thing.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
weII-Enrned Respect.

OF one thing Americans may already feel
assured. namely, that. hereafter, in foreign
harbors whether r the Atlantic, the Med
iterranean or the Pacific. when they see
the stars and stripes unrolled, 1t Will be
saluted by the stranger with respect in
siled by dread, and will he felt by them
selves like the grasp of hand not only
friendly. but mighty. stretched out from
their native land.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

General Miles yesterday gave a statement
e his connection with the movement to
capture Cuba He opposed the demand for
an attack On Havana and would not have
seat an expedition TO any part Of Cuba until
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The Vermont Republicans seem to have
been content with casting two and half
Aimes as many votes as did the Democrats
ION Tuesday, instead of the usual three to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

The administration should be held respon-
leible for the fifty-four deaths in New York
last week from the heat and for deaths
from the same cause in other cities. making
the total about one hundred
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Whsn it shall be generally understood
that insurgents in Cuba must work for I'd
Nious. as required by General Lawton, Uncle
cams rule in the island will be unpopular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Mrs. Watts-At least you will have to ad-
NIT that the lecture had the merit of brew
ity.
Watts-Yes, but it was short at the wrong
end. Why didn't ne begin an hour sooner =?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.


The Sweet Young Thing-I wonder II you
ever felt the pangs Of love?
The Savage Bachelor-I had deep and
abiding love for green apples when 1 was
a small boy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

(, So long as insurgents in Cuba are going
about armed the war is not over
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.

EHICAGO-Palmer House. p. o. News Co., PIT
Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and
Grand Pacific Hotel
CINCINNATI. r. Hawley & Co. l54 Vine
street.
LQUISvILLE-C. T. Deering, northwest corner
Of Third and jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co., 256 Fourth avenue.
BIT LoUIs-Union News Company, Union Depot
WASHINGTON. d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wizards Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Boston Herald.
If New York had woman's suffrage the
chances are that ticket would be Theodore
Roosevelt and Helen Gould.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08

Technical information for municipal off,
Gals is one of the things most needed in
the cities of the United States, and the
action of the City Council last night in re-
solving to utilize the facilities of the Mu-
nicipal Engineering Company is TO be COM
mended as d step in advance. This COM
pany possesses the best facilities for an
swering questions and furnishing accurate
information concerning paving, sewerage,
water supply, street lighting, parks, gar
bage disposal. street cleaning, etc, and
the fees charged are merely nominal when
compared with the sums that would be de-
manded for similar information if supplied
by special arrangement. This method Of
obtaining information concerning affairs Of
municipalities is likely TO become popular
wherever its merits are made known.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
TO Veterans in Parade at Cincinnati.

To Veterans in Parade at Cincinnati.
Fresh youth to the face not alone gives
grace:
There's beauty that's hard and seamy;
There's beauty in eyes full of boyish sur
prise.
There's a glory in eyes grown dreamy.
To-day as 1 look on the open book
Of a history's page blood-written.
AS l see them go with footsteps slow,
Their locks by the years frost-bitten,
There is more to me than the flesh eyes see;
There's a sound that the flesh ear misses;
IT'S the face of a boy full of radiant JOY,
That the sweet September kisses.
What the flesh eyes see means a dirge to
me;
What the souls eyes see slogan
Where the flesh eyes fall soon will come a
pail,
And 1 think of Grant and Logan.
And all who are blest with their long, sweet
rest;
Where the souls eyes fall, stern duty
Confronts the youth with blaze of truth
That lends him a heros beauty
Fresh youth to the face not alone gives
grace:
There's a beauty that's hard and seamy;
There's a beauty of eyes full of boyish sur
prise
But there's glory in eyes grown dreamy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
EFFECTS OF FREE COINAGE.

Happily these questions are not a mere
cropping in the dark. Reason and experience
alike demonstrate with certainty what the
effects of such changes must be. 1t is not
a matter of conjectural prophecy that the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver at Is TO
l would overturn the gold standard and sub
stitute the silver standard in the United
States; 1t is a matter of as absolute GER