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The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

senger tracks. II would become involved In
tedious and expensive lawsuits, the outcome
of which would be very doubtful. Then
there are the damages to property along the
tracks TO be elevated. They may not be
elevated. and they may be. In Chicago
those damages are heavy. and the city will
be compelled TO pay them. 1t was COM
promise making Chicago responsible for
such damages which made the railroad man.
ayers willing to elevate their passenger
tracks. 1t would have been better to have
come to some definite conclusion with the
roads, II possible. Some compromise might
have been agreed upon which would have
ended the present evils. Or II the elevation
OF the tracks is the only method of relief,
some measure might have been suggested
that would have been effective. But this
ordinance, IL taken seriously, means years
Of litigation with doubtful results, during
which period the conditions complained of
will grow worse
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

right man, the kind of man that should
be nominated for public Office. and he will
be the next mayor of Indianapolis.--Rich-
mond Item.
The time for State and national platforms
Is not very far off, and IS We have hereto
fore remarked an une1uivocal declaration in
favor of the present gold standard OF cur
monetary system will be good plank for
Indiana Republicans to adopt seasoned as
II Is by years of business experience. We
might we'll follow the example Of oGI true
Republicans of Iowa, and add our request
that Congress give the standard the validity
OF law and thus place tx beyond tine lower
or secretary of the treasury by simple
order to put The country on silver basis
-Brookville American.
Governor Mount has made no mistake in
naming Quincy E. Mcdowell, of this city,
for an officers commission in the volunteer
army service in the Philippines Mr.. Nc
Dowell has all the qualities of a first-class
soldier, rs level-headed and strict disciplin-
arian, yet man with kind heart who has
always been loved by the boys who served
under him while captain of Company f,
One-hundred-an -fifty-ninth Indiana Voun-
teers Captain Mcdowell is sure to make
a fine record In the Philippines and his
career will be watched with interest by the
people of Evansville.-Evansville Journal.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

control over trusts several colored men In
recent meeting urged such a change of the
Constitution as would enable the Congress
to enact laws by which the United States
should have authority to deal with class
OF murderers in the South known lynch
ers. Such measures would be no greater
violation of the rights of the States than
would the extension of federal authority
over corporations existing under char
ters granted by State legislatures. Several
Southern Governors have taken the same
view of the has Mr.. Bryan They
do 1t because they hold that the federal
government can better deal with trusts.
But what would Mr.. Bryan and these
Southern Governors say if Congress should
assume the authority to bring to trial in
federal courts those guilty of lynching ne
groes? There can be no doubt that better
results would come from such federal in
reference. The protection of life is the
first duty of government. The right to life
and fair trial when accused Of crime are
the highest human rights. Mr.. Bryan would
object to such law even If 1t could be
enacted; yet he is always talking about
putting the dollar before the man.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

The anti-admnistration papers which
have been publishing criticisms upon Gen.
eral Otis made by private soldiers and dis
charged teamsters returning from the Phil
ippines will be careful not to state that
General Miles, commander of the army,
says: General Otis is a fine officer. That
has been demonstrated by the splendid
morale of the army, it's health and it's eff
cheney in the field" On the same line is the
testimony of Capt A. NJ. Watson, of the
Twentieth Kansas Regiment, who came
home recently, disabled by shot through
the lungs. Asked as to his opinion of Gen.
eral Otis, he replied:
He Is a great man, great soldier, and
history will prove that he has conducted the
campaign in a highly satisfactory manner.
those Filipinos before you can whip them.
l do not believe that any general could do
better than General Otis Is doing. He is do
ing three mems work. and is doing 1T sue
cessfully, too More soldiers are needed in
the Philippines than are there now but with
lieve General Otis will be able to bring the
war to speedy close.
General Otiss military record, from the
time ne entered the Union army, in 1862, and
his excellent service in many trying posi-
tions, sustain General Miles's Endorsement
of him as "a fine officer 1t will be time
enough to criticise him when he has been
given an adequate army to operate with
and failed.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

There was not particle of foundation for
the report that Hon. G. A. II. Shideler
would be made superintendent Of the State
Reform School. If the reporter who gave
out the story had cared to be accurate
rather than sensational he could have con-
suited General McGinnis and learned that
his story was without any foundation in
fact. Mr.. W. C. Ball. one of the board of
trustees, and editor of the Terre Haute Ga
zette, devotes a half-column to denouncing
the story Mr.. Ball says:
The story is without foundation in fact.
At the last annual meeting of the board Su-
perintendent Charlton was reelected as sd
perintendent. No other name was men
unanimous. T. ]. Charlton has been super
lntendent Of the school for nearly twenty
stitutions of its kind in the country, 1T was
really created by him. He has been one Of
the pioneers and leaders in reform schooi
work in the United States. and the indlana
school has been regarded as one OF the most
efficiently and economically conducted lnstl-
tutions in the country. There has been no
thought of change in the superintendency
or consideration of the question.
There is entire harmony between the board
and the superintendent. A long contem-
plated change in the methods in which the
business of the board was conducted, In part
made necessary and suggested by a cnange
in the state law. applying to the school, was
made few months ago with the co-opera-
ton and assistance of the superintendent.
Friends and admirers of the Indiana Re
form School. and they are numbered by
thousands all over the State, can rest as
sured that the members of the board nave
no intention Of dispensing with the services
of the superintendent, who really created IL.
And they would regard ii as a calamity If
III health or advancing years, or some
place should ever cause him to tender his
resignation.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

The Baltimore Sun prints a letter from
Mr.. John w. Garrett, of that city, who is
now in the Philippines. though not as SOL
der. He is a member of the well-known
Garrett family. of Baltimore, and went out
as a member of an expedition sent by Johns
Hopkins University to study conditions in
the islands. He says:
ended by a sharp, energetic campaign. More
troops are needed. Atkinson's rawlings are
costing many lives. Somehow the insur-
gents are fully informed about his work and
are led TO persist in fighting. expecting Nc
Kinley's overthrow. They think the coun-
try is not back of the administration and
that their desire for plunder will soon be
given full sway. There is no question that
the mass OF the people In Manila and vicin-
ity is utterly averse to the war. Resistance
is being kept up by small band of self
seeking demagogues. IL is quite wrong to
waste sympathy upon them. as they are the
worst, in fact, the only, enemies the islands
have.
That the prosecution of the war has been
retarded by lack of troops there is no longer
any doubt. but this feature of the situation
will soon be remedied. When Mr.. Garrett
says "Atkinson's rawlings are costing many
lives" he corroborates other intelligent OBJ
servers in the Philippines. civil as well as
military. as to the effect Of the Aguinaldist
movement In this country.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25
GLAND OF COLOSSAL LIARS"
A Maya zine Writer'S View Of Alaska
and Its PeOple.

SEATTLE. Wash. Aug. 24.-"All men are
liars, everybody knows, but for cheerful,
innocent, stupendous, monumental. colossal
liars. the people Of Alaska take the cake.
1t seems to be all part of their country
that you soon become an enormous, masto-
donic liar. But the people are good, whole
souled, kind fellows withal. with hearts
big as their lies who will put on a new
bonnet and choker and come down to the
boat and bid you goodbye. even If you
haven't known them more than couple of
days. The scenery of that country IL Is
impossible to tell about, even with the aid
of the imaginations grown there. Even the
liars have to stop when trying to tell about
il, for they can't think big enough. IL
was going TO be banished i should like to
be banished TO Dawson"
This is the opinion Cy Warman, the
magazine writer, has of Alaska. He came
back o.. the Humboldt frcm the north.
where he went for pleasure. Such mar
velous scenery as passed us on our way
down and up the river defies the world 10
equal he continued. THE Dardanelles do
not touch II. Nothing on earth is any COM
dreamed Of. The whole trip was pano-
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

The name of General Merritt having been
announced as the officer who will be
sent to Manila, the Chicago Chronicle leads
on In declaring that he is not fit for the
responsibility. The man who always met
the approval of General Sheridan as a COM
mander of a division of cavalry in 1S64-65
Is something of a soldier. He also directed
the operations by which the city of Manila
was captured. The chief charge against
General Merritt. however, is that he was
reported as saying that General Alger was
the greatest secretary OF war the country
has ever known Such report was sent out
by the press agents in Detroit. but it was
not reported In the local papers. 1t has been
intimated that General Merritt never made
such a remark. The real objection to Gen.
Merritt is. probably. that he is a Democrat
and an expansionist-a combination the
Chronicle does not like. But there are plen-
ty of them
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

The New York Tribune notices the return
to that city, after an extended trip through
the South and West, of DR.. Richard J..
Gatling. inventor of the machine gun which
bears his name, and adds: THE inventor
has, after years of work upon death-dealing
instruments. suddenly turned from weapons
of warfare to peaceful farming machinery.
At the age of eighty-one he is still agile and
active" DR.. Gatling invented several farm
implements before he invented his famous
gun. Among these were a machine for
drilling wheat one for breaking hemp and
a steam plough. The latter was invented
in 1857, while DR.. Gatling was resident
of this city, where he also invented and pat
ented his revolving battery gun in 1861. That
so absorbed his attention that he neglected
his inventions in the agricultural line, which
might otherwise have proved very profit
able. The first company for the manufac-
ture of the Gatling gun was formed in this
city.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25
POOR CARE OF LIBERTY STATUE.
Weak Lighting and Neglected
Grounds-COmplaint Of Visitors.
New York Evening Post


The grounds about the statue OF Liberty.
on Bedloe's island, are in sorry conditlon,
the grass left TO grow wild, the steps ana
outstanding apProacnes i, WeaIner-wSoan NOT ,hr,st
of the early Dutch settlers is conspicuous
in the mode of lighting the big stairway
and the entire place at this city's snow
time of the year, when more people go 10
it than at any other, wears an aspect the
reverse of creditable. The one boat that
carries visitors to the Island dlsgorges De-
tween seventy and eighty persons every
hour of every week day in the summer ana
on Sundays the number carried on each
trip mounts well up into the hundreds.
These visitors are nearly all out-of-town
people, sight-seers who determined before
they left home that trip TO the great
statue out In the harbor was one Of the
things not to be missed on their New YORK
visit. Some of them buy 0-cent efiigies or
the statue in glass and metal on the boat
ing the island search the ground over for
a bit of the granite the base Is made or.
or some other souvenir of the place to take
away with them
I'm a good climber when there's light to
see by" said a middle-aged woman yester-
day, as her tourist party paused on the
third landing, in the ascent TO the statue.
but my, those weak little lanterns! They
would hardly give light in a pantry closet.
down on the floor at that. You girls can
feel your way UP further, If you want TO.
but IN go here by the door and walt for
YOU"
why, those little hand-lanterns on the
landings are no better than a farmer uses
to light the way to his cow she'd. said a
man who had tried Intellectually 10 induce
his wife to make the ascent Il don't be-
lieve they burn ten cents worth OF coal
oil here week. They have only got lights
on every other landging.
And the lanterns don't smell pleasant,
said his wife, with housekeepers obser-
walton. ''The glass shades haven't been
washed or the wlcks trimmed In a month
of Sundays"
1t is said that the use Of the statue
as a sight-seers Mecca and as a money
making enterprise, is leased by the govern
ment to three OF New Yorks citizens, who
conduct the matter as suits them best. per-
haps with but natural regard for their
selfish interests. Ii is a limited schedule
that is run by the boat and occasionally
a visitor Of an observing turn OF mind Is
heard TO remark that he can go all the way
to Coney island and back I'm a fine big boat
for what IL costs 10 make the short trip
to the Liberty statue in an out-of-date.
dingy old tub that looks risky. and Is
cramped in accommodation.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25
MIR. BRYAN NOT A DEMOCRAT.

In 1896. when Hon. William ]. Bryan ran
for President as the candidate Of the Demo-
cratic and Populist parties. a large number
Of Democrats refused to support him on the
ground that he was not a Democrat. AS he
is working hard to secure a denomination
it Is worth while to ask whether he is any
more of Democrat or any better Demo-
crat now than he was In 1896. The main
reason why self-respecting Democrats re-
fused to support him in 1896 was because Of
the heresies in the Chicago platform and
because he was the willing candidate of the
Populists as we'll as of the free-silver wing
Of the Democratic party. The Chicago plat
form of 1896 was more Populistic than
Democratic, and the platform of the Pop
ulist convention, which also nominated him.
was. of course, thoroughly so. The Nation
al Democratic convention that met in this
city Sept. 2, 1896. denounced the Chicago
platform as follows: 1.-The declarations OF
the Chicago convention attack individual
freedom, the right of private contract, the
independence of the judiciary, and the au-
thority Of the President to enforce federal
increase the price of silver by legislation to
the debasement of our money standard,
and threaten the unlimited issue of paper
money by the government" Now, in all the
speeches that Mr.. Bryan has made this year
he has reaffirmed his devotion to the Chi
cago platform, with all its heresies. "The
Chicago platform" he said at Des Moines,
in y1o
syllable" Every State convention that has
met this year, where he has had controlling
influence, has reaffirmed the Chicago plat
form, whose heresies were denounced by the
National Democratic convention, 'in order"
as 1t said, that Democrats throughout the
Union may unite their patriotic efforts to
avert disaster from their country and ruin
from their party" Yet Mr.. Bryan is NOV
ing heaven and earth to make that the plat
form of the party next year and himself the
candidate. And he is still trying to march
under the Populist as well as the Demo-
cratic banner. In his own State few days
ago he addressed Democratic convention
Populist conv- ntion and a free-silver
Republican convention. all in one day. and
practically dictated the platforms Of all
three.
The truth is Mr.. Bryan is more Of a Pop
ulist than he is Democrat. He is plat
form speaker for revenue only. Democrat
for Office only. and Populist for Bryan
only The fact that he was the nominee
of the regular wing Of the Democratic
party in 1896 did not make him Democrat
any more than the nomination Of Horace
Greeley in 1872 made a Democrat Of him.
The most that can be said of Mr.. Bryan
is that he is a Bryanite and that Bryanism
is a connecting link between free-silver
Democracy and Populism. The reasons why
self-respecting Democrats should not sup
port him are stronger now than they were
in 1896.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25
ENCROACHMENTS UFON THE RIGHTS
OF STATES.

Mr.. Bryan, In his platform In Nebraska,
takes the position that trusts must be dealt
with by the federal government: Congress
must pass more effective laws, and II these
laws conflict with the Constitution it should
be so amended as 10 enable Congress to
pass laws authorizing 1t to assume powers
which have been reserved TO the States.
If Mr.. Bryan had made such a declaration
a few years ago he would have been criti-
cised for advocating a policy which takes
from the States rights guaranteed them by
the Constitution. To put the trusts under
control of federal law would deprive the
States of the power they now have over the
corporations which form trusts. To many
this will seem unwise. 1t would be better to
leave with States the power to deprive cor
porations Of their charters. In the event that
they entered into combinations TO interfere
with production.
While Mr.. Bryan u advocating federal
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25
THE STATE PRESS.

When you cannot loan the public school
funds times are pretty prosperous. In think
ing OF this you never want to get away from
the fact that a Republican administration n
Of affairs restored business confidence and
brought prosperity. Anderson Herald.
William Jennings Bryan renounced his al
legiance to free silver and has since re-
nounced his renunciation. Until he re-
nounces his remuneration of hfs previous re-
remuneration the friends of the fossil issue
of Is to / will be happy.-Richmond Fail
ladium.
Charles A. Bookwalter was nominated last
Saturday by the Republicans of Indianap-
oils for mayor. He is young man of abil-
ity, and 1t is generally conceded that If
Mayor Taggart is a candidate for re-elec-
ton Mr.. Bookwalter will defeat him.-Cam-
bridge City Tribune.
The Indianapolis Republicans have nomi-
mated Hon. Charles A. Bookwalter for
mayor. Mr.. Bookwalter Is young gentle
man who has come to the front rapidly.
He is stirring Republican. and has been
capital city the past two years The Tribune
knows Mr.. Bookwalter well and hopes he
may be triumphantly elected.-kokomo
Tribune.
1t is bad politics for any party to attempt
to defend or cover up wrong. Party ties
are not strong enough TO hold the voters
private business the employe Is under the
constant scrutiny and investigation of his
employer. He should be so in public busi-
ness II II were So defalcations and emteZ-
elements would be less frequent.-Cam-
bridge City Tribune.
The announcement Of Bryan that he is
unalterably opposed to abandoning the
cause of Is to l. and the action of the state
convention of Nebraska Tuesday in sup
porting him in his declaration. should con-
vince all sound-money Democrats that a
victory for Bryan means victory for
cheap money and its disastrous results. A
vote for Bryan in 1900 Is as much TO be
avoided as 3. vote for him In lS96.-Rich-
mond Item.
From the way the Sentinel is venting its
displeasure at Bookwalter's nomination by
the Republicans for mayor of indianapolis.
one is forced to conclude. IL no other evil
dence was obtainabie. that he Is a strong
candidate But one does not have to go to
the enemy to Ind out Bookwalter's qualffi-
cations He Ii known as q strong and up-
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

Prospector's story Of Suffering.
DULUTH, Mimi. Aug. 2A-John c. Nor
rison. an Alaskan prospector from Duluth,
reported dead in the Kotzebue country.
has written home telling OF the suffering
of those who have been at Cape Memo.
July "a. from Anvil City, on Cape Memo.
Mr.. Morrison wrote over one hundred min
ers and prospectors must have perished in
the Kotzebue district last winter. Six OF
the party he was with died and the re-
m3inder came very near dying. His entire
a relief expedition rescued them. Speaking
OF experiences with scuryy, Mr.. Morrison
says: our arms and legs swelled terribly,
turned black, our teeth became so loose
you could easily pull them out Ny limbs
are all drawn up, but / am doing we'll and
can now walk a short distance without
crutches. We left our winter quarters in
the arctic regions on June and were stuck
IN the ice till July II. We are now on Cape
There is no gold in the kotzebue country.
Those lying transportation companies sue
ceeded in getting over one thousand poor
fellows there last summer. When came
out there were eight hundred men on the
peach waiting for a revenue cutter 10 come
along and take them home, as all were
strapped. There is lots OF gold at Cape
Nome, washed up out of the ocean in the
shape of nuggets, but don't know whether
i get well. Wages here are s. per day with
board. Anvil City, from where / am writing,
is only a month old, but has about two
hundred tents, houses and stores. Board Is
S a day and bed one night costs 81 Beer
is 30 cents a glass"
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

II the mine owner sells his silver to the
United States government for SO or GO cents
an ounce the market price, does the gov
ernment coin 1t and send it out to the people
for one dollar? If SO, who gets the benefit
OF it, and where does the Al cents go?
-E. NJ. NJ.
The United States is not purchasing silver
bullion now. If 1t were doing so it would
pay the market price and coin 4121s grains
Of silver-one-tenth alloy-into a dollar,
when 1t is worth but As cents. The United
States would get the benefit of the differ
ence between the bullion value and the le-
gal-tender value of the dollar II the United
States should go into the business of COIN
ing 10 cents worth of silver bullion into dol
lars extensively, such dollars would soon
shrink in purchase power to about the bull
lion value of the coin. Such dollars would
be worth their face value to pay debts, be-
cause they are legal tender, but in no
other transactions would they be. The rea-
son that the present standard silver dollar
is as good as gold dollar is that the issue
Is limited and the limited number is treated
the same gold in the United States, as
all dues to the United States can be paid in
silver certificates and silver dollars are an
unlimited legal tender. In reality, the
standard silver dollar is token money. kept
at par with gold by being attached to 1t.
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

General Otis wires that an agreement has
been entered into with the Sultan whereby
the sovereignty Of the United States over
the entire Jolo archipelago is recognized
'sits flag to fly on land and sea-" Thus has
been accomplished a peaceable settlement
of what threatened serious trouble. The
agreement with the Sultan will probably re-
vive the protests OF the anti-expansionists
against what they call the absurdity OF the
United States making treaties with its own
subjects, but II they will look in the gov
ernment archives they will find scores of
treaties made with different Indian tribes
The Indianapolis journal., 1899-08-25

Those who have come to understand the
methods Of the Taggart government must
know that the ordinance passed by his
Council meant nothing. AS one OF the anti
machine leaders In New York said Of body
found drowned which was not that OF Nor
gan. 1T Is good enough Morgan until
after election" The eleventh-hour ordi-
nance for elevated tracks is good enough
elevated track until after election. 1t isn't
half an elevated track measure. II 1t were
the traffic which most interrupts the
crossing Of them by carriages-freight
trains Even II the city should undertake
- compel the railroads to elevate the pas