The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-29
FOR CURRENCY REFORM
REPUBLICAN EDITORS CONGRATU-
LATE INDIANA CONGRESSMAN.
j. ID. Hogate Elected President-Pa-
pers on Various Topics Read Mt
Yesterdays Sessions.

| nual session in the Century cubroom at
the Denison. About fifty of the leading
| newspaper publishers of the State were
present, and the meeting was one of the;
best ever held by the association. Much of
the discussion of the day related to sub
| jects of advertising and Of legislation af-
| fGcting the publishers businesses, but mat
ters of wider interest were also considered.
and the monetary question. in particular,
| received prominent share of the attention
of tha association, nearly all of the speak
ers touching upon it to some extent
The feeling was so pronounced in favor of
a reform in the currency that a resolution
was introduced on the subject by George
| Allen, of the Terre Haute Express. This
resolution was strong one and was adopt
| ed unanimously. Copies of it will be sent
| to the President and to the Indiana men,
| bers of Congress. 1t was as follows:
Resolved, by the Republican Editorial
| Association of Indiana, That we congratu-
| late the Republicans of the Indiana. delega-
/ ton in Congress upon the firm and cour-
| ageouS stand they have taken in behalf of
| wise and conservative currency reform, and
| assure them of our earnest support in the
| effort to enact such legislation as will es-
| tablish once and for all the gold standard
| and reorganze our currency upon sound
1 and enduring basis. While not undertaking
| to indorse in detail the plan OF tha mon
/
| thought ought to be given it, yet we desire
| to ally ourselves with tha movement and
| commend the patriotic spirit displayed by
| the members of the monetary conference.
| I'VE congratulate the Republican party
| throughout the country and tho whole peo-
| pie of the Nation that we have a President
| in William Mckinley who has the courage
| of his convictions and has displayed on this
| monetary question leadership OF the high
| est order.
Among other resolutions adopted was the
l ind he will
notifications which the association desired.
The Loud bill is the measure now pending
| before Congress which proposes to place
| heavy restrictions on second-class mail mat
| ter, SO as to exclude from this class adver-
| Using sheets cheap novels and other printed
| matter that now burdens the mail and en-
| tails such a loss upon the government. The
| association desired the bill to be amended
| so that the editors will not be required to
do the work of postal clerks in asserting
| their paper mail, and also SO as to allow a
! limited number of sample copies to be sent
out into the county where the paper is pub
lished. The resolution embracing these
| ideas is to be sent to the Indiana delega-
| ton in Congress.
Another resolution adopted was one re-
| questing Senator Fairbanks to urge the APP
! pointment of Frank E. Everts, editor of the
Decatur Journal to the position of foreman
in the Government Printing Office at Wash
ington. The "Office and Sanctum,' of Lo-
gansport, was Endorsed by the association as
a publication worthy of support by the
/ newspaper publishers generally.
THE OFFICERS ELECTED.
The officers elected by the association
were as follows:
President-J. d. Hogate, Danville Repub-
| lican.
First Vice President-E. j. Marsh, Port
| land Commercial
Second Vice President F II. Nauer,
| North Vernon Banner laindealer.
Secretary-A. w. Howard, Owen County
| Journal.
Treasurer-George Allen, Terre Haute Elk
press.
Executive Committee. d. Hogate, A. w.
| Howard, w. II. Elliott of the New Castle
| Courier, M. w. Pershing of the Upton Adj
yocate and H. j. Martin of the Franklin
/ Republican.
The delegates chosen to the National Ed
| itorial Association meeting at Denver were
| A: G. Beeson, Winchester Journal; ]. T.
| Birch, Oxford Tribune; W. b. Campbell, An
derson Herald; w. II. Craig, Noblesville
Ledger; A. w. Tracy Hartford City Times;
p. o. Rose, Angola Magnet; w. B. Mad
| G. II. Hamilton, Thorntown Argus; NJ c.
| CARRIER, Madison Courier; Charles Lock-
wood, Peru Republican; John George, La
! fayette Call; j. A. Kautz, Kokomo Tribune;
| Harry Strohm, Kentland Enterprise, and K.
A. Remy, Seymour Republican.
! Inc morning session OF the ASSOCIATION
was taken up with. an extended discussion
| on home and foreign advertising. "A. w.
| Howard, of the Spencer Journal, spoke
the subject of home advertising and said
| that he made it an inducement to mer-
| chants to take out annual contracts and
charged a proper rate to those who only
! advertised occasionally. M. w. PerShng,
of the Upton Advocate, handled the SUBJ
| ject of foreign advertising in an able five
minute talk in which he declared the adj
vertising agencies to be like unto an oc-
topus which had fastened itself upon the
newspaper publishers. Said he:
advertising agencies have an easier
mark in the newspaper fraternity than the
wiley shark ever had with the poor down.
trodden farmer 1 The newspaper agencies
are so bold that they offer you $3.50 to So
an inch, gross. for advertising space, pay
able IN INK ink, printers supplies and. wood
it was charitable act and that they were
great benefactorS to the average newspaper
puplisher | have no remedy to Of
fer yet l will submit the following few
suggestions: First. establish a rate. com
patible with circulation and value as an
advertising medium; second, when rate is
established. maintain it; third impress the
agency with a certain degree of independ-
ence and business judgment: fourth ig-
more all trade propositions; fifth, read your
contracts before signing them; sixth. rely
on home advertising and deal sparingly
w.,n advertising agencies"
The IidiculOuSly cheap rates secured for
foreign advertising matter and the apparent
helpit ssness of the publisher in efforts to
obtain better prices were discussed at
I
which w. S. Montgomery. of the Green
field Republican, spoke on the subject
Increasing Circulation" and John George
of the Lafayette Call. on the subject Co.
operation Both We're well prepared papers
and received deep attention. The associa-
ton then adjourned until the afternoon,
when the programme largely consisted of
addresses on the monetary question.
MR.. ALLEN ON CURRENCY REFORM.
George Allen, of the Terre Haute Ex-
| press, was the first speaker, his topic be-
| ing THE Necessity of Currency Reform
He began by saying that there was no
stronger evidence of the demand for cur
rency reform than that afforded by the
meeting Of business men in this city this
week Continuing he said:
! "A distinguished advocate of free silver
| is to-day leading the Senate for the adop-
| ton of a declaration that our bonds are
| the government. Is this a threat that no
/ currency reform measure shall pass the
| Senate? That must be the warning and it
/ remains for the people to say whether they
| will surrender the position they gained in
! 1896. Surely the Republican party which
won all its great victories by the courage
/ of its convictions, is not now to surrender
| at the beheSt of those who were so sig
| nally defeated in the last presidential cam
/ paign In that year we all rejoiced after
| we had taken up the issue of a gold stand
! ard and saw the people coming with us
whose support perhaps we may not have
obtained on any other one issue.
1T may not be objectionable for me to
| say that the Terre Haute Express was one
| of the earliest, If not the first, of the Re-
| publican papers in the State to assert that
sound money. the gold standard must be