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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The Republican state ticket is made up of
men who enjoy the confidence of the people.
Men of all parties who know them will adj
nit that the Republican candidates, with
out exception, are amply qualified for the
offices for which they are named. No man
on the ticket needs to have an apology made
for him. If the ticket shall be elected the
people of Indiana will be sure of a capable
and honest administration of the state gov
eminent.
1t scarcely need be said that with the in
coming of the present state officers and the
Republican Legislature of 1895 a policy of
practical economy was inaugurated which,
while it has caused complaints by interested
parties, has saved to the state treasury
large amount of money When Republicans
came into power at the Statehouse the fee
system which had been perfected by Demo-
cratic Legislatures, was in full operation.
No one who knows will tell how much
money the late attorney general collected as
fees, but a state official who has examined
the books is of opinion that he was get
ting fees at the close of his term at the
rate of $4,000 year. The same authority
states that the last Democratic state aud
itor collected So. 600 in fees each year. The
fees which the law gave the secretary of
state at that time amounted to 5000, and
those of the clerk of the Supreme Court,
when he received the whole OF them, were
not less than $4,000 a year. Putting the
fees of the last named officer at 5000
year, four state officers were receiving $685.
O00 a year in fees. Except in the case of
the attorney general, who seems to have
taken an unexpected advantage of the laws,
the officers named simply took what the
laws gave them. BY the act of the Legis-
treasury, by which it is better off, since
that law went into force, by $15O0O0.
BY loose methods in administration the
officers of prisons and asylums were per-
mitted to anticipate the appropriations. ex-
pending, for example, part of the money
appropriated for 1891 during the year 1890.
This notorious violation of law had been
the state auditor and treasurer elected by
the Republicans in 1894. The lawless pro-
cedure had gone so far that when a new
warden took charge of the Southern Prison
he discovered that more than three-fourths
of the appropriation had been expended
when but six months of the fiscal year had
expired.
There should be apathy on the part
of the voters of Indiana when the issue of
sustaining economic and business methods
is involved in the election. Voters who de-
sire to continue the Republican policy of
business methods in the interest of the peo-
pie should not wait for committees to see
them, but should see that they have duty
to nerforn in the matter and attend to it
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
HONOLULU'S DEFENSES.
Gen. Merriam Thinks FIoating Forts,
Instead of Land Batteries, Necessary.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Son the next
steamer from Honolulu Major General Mer-
Ram expects a report from the United
States engineers regarding camp sites and
Notifications. 1t is said the report will he
more in the nature of a study than voicing
any conclusions. General Merriam when
asked about the matter. said: "Honolulu's
proper defense from an enemys fleet is a
very important and serious question. The
coral reefs forming the narrow harbor are
low. The site of the city is also low and
the city is close to the ocean, am not pre-
pared to say what can or cannot be done
in the way of land Notifications. The out
look is not promising. / am inclined to
think that the city must depend for most
of its protection from an enemys attack on
ships of the defense type In that case there
will be no necessity for large permanent
camp at Honolulu"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
THE BANK SOLVENT.
President of the Tradesmen's National
Makes Serious Charges.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-President James
McNaughton, of the Tradesmen's National
Bank, which suspended business yesterday.
made the statement to-day that the bank
is solvent National Bank Examiner w. II.
Kimball says he has discovered that loan
of 100000 of the banks money was made
quite recently to President McNaughton.
who gave as collateral a number Of Wool
Exchange shares In addition to this Elk
aminer Kimball says $500 was doled out
to two individuals, one member of the
Wool Exchs but whose names were not
given PREF McNaughton asserts that
fhe cIeari. use committees investiga-
fion into 4 eus of the Tradesmen's Ma
tionaI BaI IS a farce and deliberate
ATTEMPT Il row the bank down. About
s600 OOt of cash was found by the examiner
in the banks safes.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

yet informed its readers of the authorship
Of the capital new story when Knight
hood Was in Flower" Great papers, they
for Indiana news.-News.
Long before the publication of the above
named book the Journal knew the secret
of its authorship The information was i'm
parted in confidence. and. at the request of
the publishers, was not made public, they
regarding it, very properly. as a valuable
trade secret. which they had right to con-
troll The same request was presumably
made OF the other papers of the city, in
Guiding the News. The Journal, unlike it's
"Roby reform contemporary, has plenty
of news to print without engaging in dis
honorable acts to secure it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

class of whites and half-breeds. The Min
neapols Tribune prints petition which
the Indians recently forwarded to Wash
ington, setting forth their grievances in
earnest and respectful language and ask
ing that searching investigation shall
be made of the manner in which the pine
lands of our reservation are being APP
praised and sold, also the manner in which
our tribal funds are being expended Dis
patches to the Tribune from the scene of
the trouble indicate that local sentiment is
with the Indians. who seem to have been
grossly imposed upon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Major General Miles spoke briefly at a
club dinner in New York a few nights ago
in response to toast to 1.-THE Army" He
said:
1t is the highest honor to me to have had
the honor of commanding brave heroic
men, and it is a glory in this Nation that
we have the physical force to carry our flag
wherever the people Of this country desire
it to go. 1t is glory to say that not one
inch of ground has been given to the enemy,
not once has our flag been lowered not one
officer soldier surrendered his flag or
rifle. From the start to the finish it has
been upward and onward, and the achieve
ments of the war have been as grand and
glorious as of any war of which there is
record in history Therefore, l think we
can all say that we have reason to be proud
of our government and of our Nation, and
Of our comrades, whether they be of the
navy or the army.
This is the talk of a soldier and patriot,
not of kicker as the yellow papers
have been representing General Miles. A
man who can see nothing in the results of
the recent war but few individual hard
ships and empty stomachs is not fit to be an
American.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

NEW YORK Oct. ga special to the
Tribune from Washington says: This is
good year to send American fruits, espe-
cially apples. to Germany. Europe's fruit
crop is anything but good, according to
Consul Monaghan, of Chemnitz. In a report
to the State Department. he says: IF our
merchants will not repeat the folly of for
mer years by sending fruit that decays
easily they can command these markets for
years against all efforts to dislodge them.
II Baldwins, greetings. russets and other
hardy winter apples are sent the results
will not remain doubtful. Other apples will
not pay for transportation. Had our apple
merchants made even half-hearted eff
fort to enter this market in 1886. they would
now be beset with orders. So serious Is the
situation here because of the dullness in
grain markets. and so decided is the down
ward tendency of profits in the empire
wheat production that farmers are turning
to fruit to exc out an existence. IL Ameri-
can fruits are properly selected, carefully
packed and rapidly transported there is no
reason why this permanent market may
not be opened all over Europe
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
War Correspondent stevens.

The war correspondent has always been
a rather prominent parsonage in the Egyp-
tian and Indian campaigns waged by Great
Britain. There are no organized press as
sociations in those regions, none at least
where the battles are fought, and all the
news must come to the home papers
through special writers who follow the
army. Not few men have made great rep
utations in this way, both through their
newspaper work and their daring, for it
takes courage and energy and a host of
other desirable and admirable qualities to
serve acceptably in this field. The energy,
too, must be that of comparative youth,
and so it happens that the names of the
correspondents who are with Kitchener in
the Sudan are not those who were with
Gordon, and whose names then became
known to the world. One of them, how
ever, is not a stranger to American read
ers. G.. w. Stevens. correspondent of the
London Mail, made a tour of the United
States during the McKinley-Bryan cam
paign and wrote US up" for his paper in
a series of letters afterwards published in
a volume called THE Land of the Dollar"
He is unlike most Englishmen in that he
has a keen and quick sense of humor, con-
sequently he did not take what he saw too
seriously nor did he profess to see more
than was on the surface. He was sometimes
witty at our expense, and the things that
he saw and described were not always of
the sort we are proud Of but he was always
in good temper, and when American readers
had seen themselves as he saw them they
had no room for resentment He has a pic
turesque style and remarkable descriptive
powers. and his letters from the Sudan
have been more illuminative than all the
routine dispatches written. Already one vol
ume of his letters. Egypt in 1885, has been
published and 1t is said that he telegraphed
to his publishers the concluding chapters
of a second volume, with Kitchener to
Khartum,'' describing the fall of Omdur-
man and the defeat of the Dervishes. The
work of own war correspondents has
held the attention of Americans for several
months, but cur war with Spain has also
inspired a keener interest in Kitchener's
campaign, and nowhere can a more vivid
account be found than in Steevens's letters,
numerous extracts from which have APP
peared at intervals in the Journal.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
RESERVATION THROWN OPEN.
Many Timber Claims I'm the Lake %
the Woods Country Taken.

CROOKSTON, Mimi. Oct. 5.--To-day S67.-
900 acres of land on the Red Lake reserva-
ton were thrown open to settlement under
the Nelson act. which requires five years
residence and payment of $1.25 an acre at
the end of that period. A line was started
yesterday afternoon at the land Office door
and most of the filers stayed in line all
night. There was no grand rush, however
as on previous occasions. The land Is nearly
all in the Lake Of the Woods county and is
heavily timbered. A large number OF claim
ants took possession to-day and began lm-
provements. intending 10 lle within the
ninety days allowed.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The New York Times, an independent
Democratic paper supporting the Demo-
cratic ticket, calls attention to the fact that
five Statesmen York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut Pennsylvania and Maryland-have
rejected the Chicago platform, but such
facts are lost upon the little men debating
the party organization in Indiana What
are eighty-four electoral votes, fifty-four of
which the Democrats have always had when
they have elected President, compared
with Colorado and few silver-producing
states in an election?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

thorized to employ an additional letter
carrier. to take effect Dec l.
The following Indianians employed in the
Postoffice Department have been promoted:
Miss Lillian Stoner. from $1.000 TO 81 200 j.
w. Brown, 81 900 to s.. 200: J. w. Randall.
$500 TO $1,000; Iona s. Liebehardt. $i.400 to
81 SEQ.
Rural free delivery has been tablished in
connection with the postofilce at Parker,
Randolph county. Indiana. and an allowance
SUFFICIENT to employ one carrier has been
made by the Postoff1ce Department. As
result of this increase of delivery facilities
at Parker ii is probable that the postoftices
at Withlow, Nef and Goodview will be dis
continued
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
American.

1t is fair to assume that Gen. Joseph
Wheeler is better judge of the manage
ment of affairs at Santiago than the three
talented gentlemen who have criticised it in
the magazines. STILL it may be that grad
uate of West Point and a conspicuously
able officer in the Confederate army, is ig-
norant of campaigns, while these CORE
spondents, who never saw a battle until
they were at Santiago, possess the genius
of Napoleon, and that experience counts for
nothing with them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
of the baneful effects of Algerism.

The American Tin-plate Company in Ell
wood employed 500 people in 1894, 1000 in
1896 and 1880 in 1893 If David Turpie's
speeches and votes could have awaited, not
a man would have been employed making
tin plates in Indiana. If Indiana should
elect a Legislature that will return Mr..
Turpie to the Senate, it may be assumed
that its voters would prefer that the State
should not be- one of the leaders in this in
duStrv
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

''Why do you take two copies Of the
Bugle?"
1T is such confoundedly poor paper that
one has to have two copies to get any news
out of it,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The Spaniards had immense advantage
over us during the war in smokeless pow
der. and our peace commissioners at Paris
should remember that Spanish diplomacy
seeks to accomplish results in the same
invisible way.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The proposition to exchange Republican
Tor Democratic Congress pending the set
Element of the important foreign questions
recalls the remark of Abraham Lincoln
that it is no time to swap horses while
crossing a stream. Neither is it a good
time to exchange horses for jackasses.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

WAsHINGTON. Oct 5.--Regarding the
suspension of the Tradesmens National
Bank of New York city acting Controller
Murray to-day said: THE embarrassment
of the bank seems TO arise from a recent
investment of some 100000 In stock of and
loans 10 the Wool Exchange and New York
wool warehouse, the former of which has
lately suspended operations
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Perhaps it would be ungenerous to sus-
pect the Democratic party of a deliberate
purpose to play into the hands of the Span
tards by attacking the government and mis-
representing the condition of the army, but
that is just what they are doing
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

No doubt it would be very gratifying to
Spain if the Democracy. through the No
vember elections should obtain majority
in the next Congress. Spanish statesmen
would construe it as a reputation of the
Mckinley administration, and it would
stiffen up the Spanish peace commissioners
wonderfully
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The cackling of the News over the new
Indiana novel, when Knighthood Was in
Flower" is SO like its familiar boastings
over its own performances as to lead to
the suspicion that it is under the delusion
that member of Its staff wrote it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The story that Agoncillo is going to Paris
bodies ill for that young gentleman, and
Aguinaldo had better take an affectionate
farewell of the giddy young heather before
he joins the dizzy whirl of Partisan life. 1t
is ali level-headed representative of the
Oldest civilizations can do to keep strictly
straight in that town, and the effect a
Filipino ''fuzzy-wuzzy'' from Deweyville
might be very bad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Thousands of men who had no employ
ment in 1896 and could not have contributed
a cent to the silver campaign fund could
respond to the appeal of Coin" Harvey
now for contribution of a dollar a month
TO promote a cause that would paralyze
business and industry should it win. They
will not contribute unless they are weary
of emplovment
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Senator David Turpie is an issue in this
campaign. The Democrats in this county
have made him the issue, and yet since he
has been in the Senate he has voted for ev-
cry measure which has tended to destroy
confidence and paralyze the industries of
the country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The Cubans in and about Santiago must
be very ignorant and welded to mediaeval
ism if they are not favorably impressed by
the great improvements made in the physi-
cal condition and local government of the
city under American rule.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Five concerns in Indiana which employed
$40 hands the year after the passage of the
tariff bill for which Mr.. Turpie voted. en-
ployed 2,255 hands a year after the passage
of the Dingley bill, which Mr. Turpie
fought. and the defeat of the silver-coinage
measures which he has always supported.
The man who has thus been the relentless
Zoe of the States prosperity should not be
returned to the Senate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

No more thoughtful article has appeared
regarding the policy of the acquisition of
the Philippines than that in the Cincinnati
gests the advantages attending acquisition
and against them sets the possible disad-
vantasss ard burdensome obligations. 1t
caacrlides that the question is one involving
sp.o vast consequences that it must not be
disposed of by an appeal to patriotic senti-
ment 1t is very grave problem which
the peace commission has to consider and
determine, since it involves our relations
with the inhabitants of twelve hundred
islands thousands of miles away and our
relations with other nations in the future
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

the new foreign policy begun by the ac-
QUESTION Of territory should be continued in
settled beyond the possibility of abrupt
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Two of the men named by Chairman
Jones. of the Democratic national commit
tee, as members of his ways and means
committee. have not yet declared that they
are Democrats-Teller and Allen
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
A BETTER PIan.

Peddler-Here is a little device which will
keep you from losing your lead pencils.
Watts-Ive found a better scheme than
that. 1 have quit lending them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

On the basis of trustworthy information
regarding the principal wheat crops of the
world for 1898. statisticians estimate that
It will be a record-breaking one. Nearly
every wheat-producing country will show
a large increase over any previous crop,
and only a few of the minor countries any
falling off, The worlds crop for the year
is estimated at 2.27O. 100000 bushels. which
would be an increase of 1886, 100000 bushels
over last year. These figures might sug
gest a great surplus, but as the reserve
supply Is unusually low and the popula-
ton Of the world is increasing at the rate
OF 100000 year, there is not much proba-
bility Of material decline in the price.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
A Question of One Letter.

II don't know" soliloquized the poet, as
he read one of his earliest attempts,
whether l did that in fit of temporary
insanity, or OF temporary inanity."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Dispatches say that Chaplain Mcintyre is
still on the witness stand" The difficulty
has been that the stiffness did not begin
long enough before he went on the witness
stand
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
General Notes.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.--To-days state
ment of the condition of the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $500, 4l55Sl;
gold reserve $243.0S .921
The postmaster at Lafayette has been au-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

During the whole civil war the attitude
of the Democratic party as an organization
was one Of encouragement to the enemies
OF the government. 1t is the same to-day
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Before the civil war the Democratic party
favored the acquisition of Cuba in order to
extend the area of slavery. 1t was not OPP
posed to expansion then.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
three Negroes who Did Not Vote.

HARMONY GROVE, Ga, Oct 5.-Two
negroes were killed outright and third
fatally wounded at political meeting last
night at Miller's court ground, in this coun-
ty Speeches were made and the debate
finally degenerated into free fight. Knives
and pistols were used with the result told
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

The statement OF Gen. Fighting joe
Wheeler that General Shafter did all he
could for the comfort of his men at San
tiagO is another blow for the calamitYites.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

Questioner: The value of the annual ex-
ports Of the Philippine islands is about sS2.-
O00000, of which. in 1897. s4,3S3.oO0 was re-
ceived by the United States. Indirectly the
United States receives larger part than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
BUBBLES IN THE AIR.
A Raptd Eater.

There were eleven of us in the family"
II could have guessed as much, from the
way you eat.'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHTCAGO-Paimer House. p o. News Co., 217
Dearborn street, Great Northern Hotel and
Grand Pacific Hotel.
CINcINNATI-J. r. HawIey & Co., 154 Vine
street.
LOUISVILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets and Louisville
Book Co., 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, 1898-10-06
A London correspondent of a New York

A London correspondent OF New YORK
paper writes:
The approaching homecoming of many
hundred sick soldiers from the Sudan has
revealed grave defects in the military hos
at the present moment all these hospitals
are already overcrowded, and the only way
in which room can be made for the poor fell
lows now returning from the East is by
driving out an equal number of men long
before they are honestly, cured.
More evidence for Democratic conventions
af 4h1 lar,of,,l oeeoot.- of Albanian,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06

the figures indicate as much of the mer-
the figures indicate, as much of the mer-
shipped to this country.