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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
STATE PRESS OPINION.

Taggart's effort TO conduct a beer CAM
paign I'm our capital city ought to end in
electing Observation-Disclosures Standard.
They may come along palming themselves
off as anti-imperialists, but they will be
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
Thomas Taggart has awakened to the fact
he has a very serious proposition before
him in the shape of Charles A. B~ookwalter.
And the prospect of getting over that propo-
sition is very remote.-Anderson Herald.
Three years ago Democratic organs and
speakers howled because. as they claimed.
everything was too low. Now they howl
because everything has advanced. and, as
they say, Is too high. A hard set of fell
lows TO please. indeed.-Corydon Repub-
licaD.
The demoralized Democracy fears TO face
the old cheap money cry which has proved
so disastrous. They are sounding the coun-
try on the question of an issue on anti-eX-
pansion and are meeting with poor encour-
geTent The trust question cannot be cor
Goshen Times.
The surest indication We have seen that
Indianapolis people begin TO believe In
Charles A. Bookwalter's election Is the fact
hat the News of that city, which has
acknowledges that his competitor for 'the
mayoralty has some admirable qualities
Fort Wayne News.
However men may differ on the trust
problem and the ways to deal with 1t. there
seems TO be a unsnimity of opinion on ore
point. Men that have given the question
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

Mayor Taggart's reply to ex-Mayor Den
ny's letter Is characteristic and weak. He
lodges all the essential points involved and
makes the controversy n purely personal
matter. The public Is not concerned In the
personal relations between the two gentle
men. but II is concerned in the public ques-
ions raised by their correspondence. Mr..
Taggart's assertion that he has not men,
toned Mr.. Denny's name in any speech he
has made is a bubble. He referred TO Mr..
Denny's administration 80 pointedly that
every person present. including the report
ers of two newspapers. knew whom he
meant. Having done this. 1t Is cowardly to
try to escape the effect OF his utterances by
insisting that he did not mention Mr.. Denny
by name.
Diminishing the personal aspect of the
case, the public will notice that Mr.. Tag
CART makes no attempt to answer or weaken
the force Of the facts stated by Mr.. Denny.
and which completely demolish the claims
which Mr.. Taggart has been making for his
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

thought agree that the speculative features
of trusts should be prohibited. II is not
right that a corporation should have the
right 10 issue stock without limitation, the
same having nothing back of It other than
Its value for speculative purposes-Muncie
Times.
The county and township reform law is
all right, Notwithstanding the bitter con-
demnation of it that emanates from county
officers. Tn law may need some amend
ment, but IL breathes the correct spirit. The
people favor IL because IL gives them a bet
ter insight and oversight of public expendi,
lures. III honestly and sincerely enforced
1t will work a saving 10 the people and
give a more satisfactory government.-Mid-
dletown News.
1t may be that temperance orators Will
have to modify their ideas of the great adj
vancement in temperance since the days of
their fathers. We doubt whether the fathers
of the present generation at Indianapolis
made more shameful exhibits of intemper-
ance than are now being shown In the
mayoralty campaign in that city. II the
of campaigning it viii not require an age
TO pass before the question arises whether
they are fit for self-government.-Lagrange
Standard.
When Mayor Taggart was told that en-
ployes Of the city of Indianapolis had been
assessed for money to pay his campaign
expenses in violation of law he said that
all the contributions had been voluntary"
and that IF any man feels that he cannot
AFFORD to spare the money II he will come
to me and say as much l will see TO it that
the money is refunded OF course no man
will go to him. 1t Is his duty to find men
who have paid money they cannot spare.
They will not go 10 him because they want
TO protect them selves, whereas 1t is his duty
to protect them without them asking for the
protection.-Terre Haute Tribune.
The indications are that Mr.. Taggart has
run once too often and that this battle will
be his Waterloo. He is not a public speaker.
therefore has no eioquence to attract; nor
is he a statesman who can devise good laws
and intelligeptly execute them He is a man
OF some property, interested In certain insti-
tutions and has splendid personal charms.
which include a continuous smile and hearty
handshake, but all these are possessed by
his Republican opponent, Hon. Charles A.
who Is a splendid all around
man, at home with all classes, as well ac-
quainted as Taggart, and Bookwalter's ex-
cellent business record is an assurance that
If elected indianapolis will have a model
mayor.-Madison Courier.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
THE LESSON OF THE STATE FAIR.

The attendance upon the state fair this
week was by far much larger than in any
previous year. 1t is doubtful If so many
people living outside the city have been in
town in a single day since the National
-Encampment of the Grand Army in 1893.
The attendance was so much larger than
expected that the keepers of hotels were
taken by surprise. There was nothing re-
markable in the programme TO call out ar
unusual attendance. The first two lays the
temperature was rather low for comfort,
but as a whole the weather was propitious.
Neither the programme nor the weather
called out the great crowds Of people. They
were ready for a holiday because Indiana
has seen two prosperous years. All the
people = farmers. wage earners generally
and those who trafic-have been hard at
work fo- months. and from that work find
themselves with money in their pockets as
they have rarely had before. To them,
with full employment. good prices and
large sales, the future is bright-why not
take a little time for leisure, and why not
take wives and children along? So they
come, not so much to visit the fair as TO
enjoy a season Of general recreation.
Most Of them are Woodworking people
when at home. and they experienced de-
lights In the day or days of recreation
which the habitual idler can never know.
Besides being a contented crowd Of people,
1t was a well-dressed one. This year about
every man and boy seemed to nave a Sun
day suit, while the women who came on
the trains had the latest styles and all the
attractive features which the years fash
ions present. They were self-respecting
and intelligent crowds of people. An in
toxicated person could scarcely be found If
one had been looking for that sort of short
coming. Attention is called TO this be-
cause it would have been otherwise thirty
or forty years ago. 1t is not that men
do not drink intoxicants. but the proportion
| Of the whole that do not has increased with
the passing years, and the number of those
who do who make public spectacles OF
themselves is so small as to be of no ac-
count on such occasions. Sobriety arising
from that self-respect which comes largely
from the higher intelligence of a benefcent
public-school system is the characteristic
of the better class of people, such as at
tend state fairs.
All these indications of progress. of the
enjoyment Of more of the material COM
forts and luxuries which civilization creates,
and of broader intelligence. go to prove that
the croakings of demagogic or reforming
pessimists are unworthy of notice. The
rich are growing richer. but those who arr
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poorer. Nor are the people degeneratine
because they turn away from the opinions
Of a few well-meaning precept-makers. The
people of Indiana, as elsewhere. are at
tanning higher and higher planes in al
that constitutes the best civilization. a
least, such Is the conclusion of those whC
take note Of passing events and compare
period with period.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Cornelius Vanderbilt was, above all
things. methodical. He would, every six
months. make a careful list of important
things to be accomplished in the next half
year, hang Ii over his private desk and
check off the items day by day.
Among the minister's sons who have
amounted to something are Senator Haw-
ley. Richard Watson Glider. Henry James,
George Bancroft, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
Presidents Cleveland and Arthur, Vice Pres
ident Morton, half a dozen senators and for
ty representatives.
From 1884 TO 1895 women have taken out
1905 patents. Women have invented many
important things. The woman who began
by inventing a corset is now inventing res
ervoirs and dams. Another woman has In
vented q lock with 1900 combinations and a
letter box now in daily use for houses.
A well-preserved Roman camp has been
discovered on the right bank of the Narenta.
in Herzegovina. A section $50 feet long by
20 feet wide has been traced. Part of the
walls, gates and towers are still standing,
and many. utensils and weapons have been
dug up. 1t Is believed that the camp was
erected in the time of Nero.
Edward III. r. Green, the son of Hetty
Green. will soon return to his home in
Texas. where he is chairman of the Repub-
lican state central committee. He denied
the report that he Intended living in the
East to take charge of his mothers affairs,
but acknCw ledged that he had agreed to
give them more attention in the future.
Emperor William confines his newspaper
reading to press clippings specially prepared
for him and pasted onto gilt-edged foolscap
paper. If he has any comment to make on
any Of the articles he reads he jots them
down on the wide border. such as "Unsinn.,'
Fine 9 "sehr schoen gasagt!, and
the semi-official comments and communica-
tions in the North German Gazette.
A young girl was painfully burned in a
gasoline explosion near Minneapolis the
other day. and the Messenger concludes its
account with this sehectidn: Probably
every fifth pew in heaven contains some
coal oil route. and saints who can't play
their harps on account OF burned fingers
are quite numerous. Every once in a while
St. Peter shifts and says, as the great white
gate opens: There's another one of those
gasoline souls coming"
Mr.. Ruskin was taking a morning walk
not long ago near Brentwood. when he saw
a woman seated on a campstool making a
sketch of the house, and with a courteous
grace which is intensely his own he adj
dressed her. inquiring her reason for choos.
ing the house in question for her subject
1T is the house OF the famous John Rus
k Rnski Tn ). i sSe Wss a asked' NO h indee eG' W she
replied. IF / had ], would have deemed II
one of the greatest privileges of my life"
Then, madam, II you care to follow me,
will show him to YOU" In a twinkling the
stool and easel were packed up. and the
artist eagerly followed the guide. To heI
surprise and qualification. ne led her up &c
low. which she readily did. On marched the
stranger into the drawing room; then, plac.
ing his back TO the fireplace, a familiar at.
his companions: Now, what do you think
of Ruskin?'
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

England has had no serious war since the
Crimean war, which enGed in 1856 That
war at the beginning developed very serious
defects In the organization Of the British
army. especially in the transportation and
army correspondent of the London Times
exposed them In a series Of scathing letters
which brought about reform. If war with
the Transvaal comes it may develop a SIM
flar state OF deficient organization and un-
preparedness. England is less likely to be
caught mapping now than she was forty
Of the kind.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

send some of his officers TO confer with
General Otis. TIL request has been grant,
ed. but 1t is not expected that Aguinaldo's
Representatives will do more than talk. 1t
10 conjectured hat he hopes that his pre-
tending to be for peace will cause the adj
ministration TO hold back achievements.
II that is the case. II is a vain hope. Ag-
uinaldo has had an offer Of autonomy with
American sovereignty. He will get nothing
better. and II he fights to the end he will
not get that.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
A COMMERCIAL INVASION.
Can the American Engine Gust the
Britfshs
- n.;1, Mail
London Daily Mail.

In the Engineering Magazine for Septem-
her Mr.. Charles Rous-Marten returns 10
the subject OF American locomotives on blit-
ish RAILWAYS. and produces opinions OF au-
thorities on their design and probable per-
Torrance.
hecause the Midland & Great Northern
Railway directors had to send 10 American
locomotive builders orders for good engines
which British firm were unable 10 turh
ont within a given time. Those orders are
being duly executed.
Mr.. Johnson. the mechanical engineer-in-
chief Of the Midland line, informed Mr..
Rons-Narten that $50 soon as all the
American engines should be erected they
would be placed on regular duty In COM
parison with a like number or British-ouiit
engines of appr Ultimately equal power, and,
after a lengthehsd period of test, the results
would be fairly and tmgartially compared"
Obviously this test will be OF absorbing
interest for both American and British en-
gine-builders. The new position so created
was stated to the writer OF the Article oy
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

A law Of Indiana as old as the State au-
thorizes a constable. II necessary. TO call
upon any number of citizens TO assist him
in the discharge of his duty. and the PEN
atty for refusing such assistance is a fine
of not less than s. nor more than 500. This
old law was invoked at Charlottesville a
few days ago against two able-bodied loaf
crs. who not only refused TO assist a con-
stable in making an arrest when called upon
after the contest in which he was engaged.
The lcafers had their fun then, but the
next day they were brought before a justice
of the peace, who imposed a heavy fine and,
in default of payment, sent one of them
TO jail. old laws sometimes disclose a good
deal of vitality when violated
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

In a recent interview with President Nc
Kinley Cardinal Gibbons is said to have
assured the President that. as the highest
representative of the Catholic Church in the
make regarding the treatment of Catholics
IN the Philippines and that he was salts
ned the reports Of alleged Dissertation of
church property by American soldiers were
not true. Investigation by the War Depart
ment shows they are not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

Transaction like those IN the wheat pits
at Chicago on Thursday are not business or
trading. but a variety of gambling. Not a
dollar is added to the wealth OF the country
by them and no employment is given labor.
BY sales Of wheat that will never exist one
man bets that ii will reach such a price.
1t does not. so he must pay to those who
bet that 1t would not reach that figure the
difference between the price he bet and that
which the other spectators sold at. Not q
dollar Is added to the wealth of the country.
Such betting. or trading. as IL Is called. in
stocks which a no real value is liable to
start a panic when the business OF the coun-
try Is en- a sound basis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

the Great Northern Railway. 1T means"
he said. that henceforth American builders
viii be IN the field as competitors with
British builders for the supply of such en-
cannot build"
1T is virtually proved" Mr.. Rous-Marten
adds. that, in certain cases, at an. rate,
American builders can supply locomotives
much more quickly and somewhat more
cheaply than British makers hitherto have
done. If experience should further prove
that the American-built locomotives are for
all practical purposes as good as the Brit
isi-buiit engines . . : il is certainly TO be
expected that the British railway companies
viii prefer the makers who supply an equal
ly useful engine. and do so more speedily
and cheapiy."
i have been examining them" said Mr..
Ivatt. and ! cannot frd any important
part that ought lot. with fair usage, 10 last
as long. or nearly so. as those of our "
engines
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

Members OF Congress and others in differ
emit parts Of the country are receiving a
circular stating that a meeting will soon
be called OF those favoring the nomination
Of General Nelson A. Miles for President.
The circular is dated Somerville. Mass. and
n signed by Levi F.. Cook. chairman Of
the temporary committee" Nobody knows
whom or what Mr.. Cook represents, and
h presumption is that he has organized
himself into a Miles party.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

The Shelbyville Republican prints by
soldier in the Philippines, to his father in
Shelbyville. After some interesting pas
sages relative to military operations and
descriptive of his surroundings at the front,
the writer says:
We occasionally receive a batch of Amer
lean newspapers, the contents of which We
devour with rapacious ardency. We are
much surprised to note the large sentiment
against the annexation of these islands to
the United States. not to say indignant at
the rabid and scurrilous language used by
these nasty birds, who seem to take a de-
us as a horde Of m~ercenaries. and slim
ulated by no other impulse than the SIS per
month paid us by Uncle Sam and a diabol-
lcal desire TO murder, plumber and rape
these innocent people. 1t is we'll enough
these ~utterances are made fifteen thousand
miles away. for If they were made within
the hearing OF many OF these SO-caled mer-
cenaries, II is safe to predict they would
iced their carcasses to sea-
gulls and scavenger crows before ] could
much surprised to note the drift of the
Democratic party and its intention TO insert
an anti-expansion plank in its next ma
uonal platform. AS a Democrat. you Will
perhaps think my judgment is crude per-
tanning to this matter, but it seems to me
IL had better have a milestone tied about its
neck than this plank in its platform, for
1t is sure to doom it TO defeat.
Stay-at-home Democrats who are trying
to undermine the cause for which our SOL
diers are fighting in the Philippines would
better note these expressions from a mem
Der of the party at the front.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

n VIII pain those excellent persons who
have announced that they believe they can
induce Mr.. Bryan 10 drop Is to 1. to know
hat be IS I'm Nebraska declaring that the
silver question can never be settled until
the free coinage of that metal at HIS ratio
shall be adopted. Many Republicans have
been hoping that Mr.. Bryan could be in
duced TO drop the silver issue because II Is
dead, and thus admit that his contention
VIII cease. II may be that. after the Me-
brsska election. Mr.. Bryan VIII yield to the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
deal of vitality when violated.

Shortly after the conclusion Of the war
with Spain the little village of Three Oaks,
in Michigan. was enterprising enough to OBJ
tain from the War Department, in COMPETE
ton with Chicago, i couple of cannon cap
tured at Manila. Now a dispatch from
Montpelier, VT, says a prominent citizen OF
Three Oaks has arrived there Ito make ar
engagements for Admiral Dewey's visit to
Three Oaks at the unwilling of the Manila
cannon There seems TO be reason to fear
that Three Oaks is taking itself too seri-
OuslY-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

administration These claims are In effect
that he has spent a great deal more money
than the last Republican administration did.
That Is true. He has spent all the money
that has come into his hands as mayor from
largely increased tax values and revenues
and from various issues OF bonds to the
amount of several hundred thousand dol
lars. Mayor Taggart claims credit for his
administration for having raised and spent
this money. Mr.. Denny points out that he
could not have issued bonds had not the
city's constitutional debt limit been reduced
by the payment of 500, 900 of Belt Railroad
bonds, and that. as a matter of fact, the
Taggart administration has run In debt for
the park bonds, the new station house and
other like improvements, for which 1T is
claiming credit. Issuing bonds, creating
Indebtedness and spending money are easy
and delightful operations in the eyes of Mr..
Tasgart, but they present a different aspect
10 the people when settlement day comes.
When Mr.. Taggart compared his admins
tration with the last Republican admins
tration he had probably forgotten that the
latter Gid not increase the city debt one
dollar, while he has increased 1t several
hrn ired thousands. and hat the last Re-
publican administration reduced the city's
annual interest account $39,0o0 while he has
largely increased 1t. These are some of the
points raised by ex-Mayor Denny's letter,
which Mr.. Taggart lodges with the disin-
genuous reply that II have not mentioned
your nam IN any speech I have made"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
HeartIess Man.

IL hear that Maude has applied for a d.
vorce on account of her husbands profan-
ity."
That is the very reason. He would per-
sist in swearing blue streaks. and everybody
knows blue makes Maude look like a bad
case of jaundice."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Adroit Analogy.

Sir said the large and muscular actor,
''you spoke of me as a misfit."
ALLOW me to assure you." said the dra-
matte critic. that 1 meant you were too
great for the company you are in"
And the actor. being Of the kind that pro-
nounces it actor" with the last syllable
carefully enunciated, believed him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Liquid Air ~ q Medicine.
London Engineering.

Liquid air presents surprising possibilities
as a medicine. A Russian physician has al
ready begun to experiment with IL. He
placed q dog In a room with the temperature
lowered to 100 degrees below zero: After
ten hours the dog was taken out alive and
with an enormous appetite. The physician
tried the test on himself. After ten hours
confinement in an atmosphere OF still, dry
cold, his system was intensely stimulated
So much combustion had been required TO
keep warm that an intense appetite was
created. The process was continued on the
man and dog and both grew steadily Tat
ing north ern climate.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

anti-expansionists. but in his own State the
fusion is based upon the silver issue. II
fusion should be beaten in November, even
Mr.. Bryan may be convinced that 1s to ]
Is a dead issue.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23

The prize fighters have formed a trust and
will hereafter be in a position to dictate
terms. through their managers. Pessimistic
alarmists. who had prophesied that the very
air we breathe would some time be con-
trolled bv a combination think they see in
this move the beginning of the prognosti-
Gated end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-23
Christian Advocate.

The death Of Mr.. Ingersoll brings to the
surface an immense amount of most fool
ish talk about theology and religion In
theology everybody assumes 10 De an ex-
pert. The results are fantastic to a high
degree. A certain student recently wrote
to a college president that he felt the need
of more theology; in fact" he said, Il ind
1 need a good eel of theology" And therein
is q parable.