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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

II is a source Of comfort to the calami-
tyites that the wheat will be a failure in
Indiana this year.-Noblesville Ledger.
Ex-President Cleveland is out in a word
of advice to the Democrats. Don't be Pop
ulists," Is the tenor Of his admonition.
Huntington Herald
1t is a rare day in Kentucky that a new
man is not found who Is supposed to be
implicated in the Goebel murder. Cover
nor Taylor Is the last victim. -Noblesville
Ledger
platform Is the breath of Jefferson" Shades
If he had such a breath as
Herald.
The Democrats of Kentucky hope to
carry the next election il they can keep
all the alleged assassins of Goebel in Jail
until after the election day.-Evansville
Journal.
Bryan is to be brought into Indiana to
make more speeches in the 1900 campaign.
There's no discomfort I'm this news to In
diana Republicans. Where Bryan talks his
vote is smallest.-Lafayette Courier.
Jerome Herf has announced himself as
an aspirant for the Democratic nomina-
ton for State treasurer. We be-
lieve this. Is the first time that Mr.. Hertz
has peCH dllllOQliCcu w q a ihN ih~
the last experimentation Chronicle.
Rev. c. NJ. Sheldon. of the Jesus news
paper folly, is not following 'in His steps
when he writes novels. He never dealt in
fiction. Let your yea be yea, and your nay,
nay for whatsoever" etc. Mr.. Sheldon has
not been Observation-Disclosures Review.
Mr.. Hoar would no. give the Philippines
into Spanish hands. Therein he differs with
his pedestaled hero. A~guinaido. who sought,
after the ratification Of the treaty with
Spain. to encourage Spaniards TO join him
in gaining supremacy in the islands.-Mar-
rion News.
The Democrats are hopefully nursing the
labor strikes that come along, but 1t is
better that workme should be striking for
higher wages than that they should be
shut out with none. TIL former never and
the latter always occurs in a Democratic
administration.-Muncie News.
The present fish law of Indiana is the
worst on record. Its originator and sup
porters must have acted without knowledge
and without consideration. One among the
first duties of the next Legislature should
be to repeal or radically amend the pres
ent law. AS 1t now stands no law at al
would be far preferable.-New Castle
Press.
Primroses were worn and displayed In
England last Thursday in honor of Disraeli
who spoke OF a hated rival as "a sophisti
| cal rhetorician inebriated by the exuber
ance of his own verbosity." AS he did no.
know OF William j. Bryan at the time. HI
: applied the Quip to Gladstone. Though
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
THE PARTY OF SUCCESSFUL
FINANCE.

If the Republicans in Congress carry out
the idea now under consideration of ma
terially reducing the war revenues it will
be the browning act in a series of financial
measures which ought greatly to
strengthen the party with the people. If
done 1t will be a repetition of a record
never made but once before, and that also
by the Republican party. The war Of the
rebellion was scarcely closed and the arm
les disbanded before the Republican party
began to cut off war taxes and at the same
time reduce the war debt. This was the
beginning of a financial policy which, COW
ering a long period and keeping constantly
in view the maintenance of the public cred
IL, was destined to prove Of incalculable ben
eft to the country. both in establishing cor
rect principles of finance and supplying the
conditions of general prosperity. The sue
cessive steps by which the national debt
was reduced and refunded. specie pay
ments resumed the various forms of our
currency maintained at par and the public
credit constantly strengthened. all in the
face of Democratic opposition, form a
HAPPIER in the record of the Republican
party to which 1t can always point with
pride.
From present indications this brilliant
record will receive additional luster from
the acts of the present Congress and ad-
ministration. The passage of the currency
bill and establishment of the gold standard
would alone entitle the Republicans to the
gratitude of all who desire the prosperity
and welfare of the country. There can be
ing public confidence, giving stability to
currency and increasing materially it's vol
ume, has added a new and powerful e.e-
ment to those which are making the clos
ing years of the century the most prosper
Gus in the history Of the country. The peo-
pie have but just begun to feel the bene-
fetal results of this legislation. In addi-
ton to this, a part of the bonded debt has
been paid off, another large part of it has
been refunded at a lower rate of interest
thar was ever heard Of before, and now 1t
is proposed to make a large reduction I'm
war revenues by repeating taxes which ii
is believed, in view of the prevalent and in
creasing prosperity of the country, are no
longer needed. Even without a reduction
of taxes the financial record of the pres
ent Congress and administration is such
as to popular approval, but If
the plan of tax reduction is carried out no
amount of gong-beating or sand-throwing
can divert public attention from the
record.
There Is this fundamental difference be-
tween the Republican and the Democratic
parties: The former may sometimes make
mistakes, but the net result of its acts and
policies is always in favor of progress and
prosperity. The Democratic party, by acct
dent or good fortune, may sometimes get
on the right side of a question, but it never
utilities an opportunity to do anything
beneficial. and its acts and policies always
make against progress n prosperity. II
is no more fit to be intrusted with the
management of national finances than q
professional burglar is with the combina
ton of a bank safe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
A HORROR OF WAR.
Demoralixing influence of the Big,
Long-Distance Shells.

Ladysmith Correspondence London Tele-
graph.
There is something devilish in the crack
and scream and explosion which follow the
firing of one of the big Creusot guns. When
the gun is fired the shell gets a long way
ahead of the sound. so. that at short ranges
the projectile would hit before one heard
the report. But in It's long flight of more
than five miles across the valley the big
shell gets tired, so to speak. and goes a bit
slower. A little more han half way across
IL has slowed down so much that the sound
of the report. jogging along at it's steady.
unvarying thousand or so feet per second.
overtakes ii, and the report and the shell
travel together for another mile.
Then the shell finds ii cannot keep up the
pace, and the report goes on ahead in its
proper place. and so we poor wretches.
quaking behind a rock and wondering IL II
is big enough to shield us. from the splin-
tiers, hear first a terrific crash, as IL the
heavens were splitting; an instant after a
faint whistle, which grows louder with
fearful rapidity, until IL becomes a scream
that fills the whole atmosphere and sets
every kloof and valley "soughing' with the
volume of sound; then. when you think
the hideous thing is about TO fall at your
side, 1t flies over your head with a Shrek
that makes the bravest crouch closer to
the earth, and with a shock that seems TO
shake the very foundation of the eternal
hills the 100 pounds OF steel and gunpowder.
travelling nearly a thousand feet pei sec
ond, buries itself in the earth. tears up the
red soil in tons, and expends the last par
ticle of its mighty energy in hurting whiz-
zing of rock and stone and
humming, buzzing splinters of jagged steel
hundreds of yards away from the yawning
gap dug by the explosion.
There is no man living who can remain
unmoved in the vicinity of an exploding
heavy shell such as | a tried TO de-
scribe. Shrapnel shell, with it's wicked.
cruel shrek, is one of the most disagreea-
bic of all wars horrid sounds; but for real
nerve-shaking. demoralizing effect IL is as
nothing compared TO the noise and explo-
sion of a big shell. Strangely enough, the
Boer heavy guns have caused comparative
ly little loss Of life. On only one occasion
did they succeed in hitting many men. That
was the sad evening when the six-inch gun
on Bulwan killed four and wounded seven
of the Liverpools with three shells. The
poor fellows were taken by surprise as
they cooked their evening meal on a stony
slope. where they had no shelter, and elev-
en- of them were stricken down before they
got under cover. On the other hand the
Light Horse have had hundreds Of similar
shells come into their camp without any
fatality, because they are camped on sand.
into which the shells bury themselves and
explode harmlessly.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
THE TURKISH WAY.
Reasonable Methods by Which Con
cessiOns May BE Secured.

w. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record.
The Rev. DR.. Jessup, perhaps the most
prominent of the missionaries in Turkey.
related a story which he said was Irecentsy
told about the cafes to illustrate the pc
culiar character of the people. A caliph of
one of the interior provinces had a son who
fell in love with the ~daughte of a farmer,
and the caliph sent his grand vizier to ar
range for a marriage He carried hand
some presents to the father and the girl
and presented the desire of his master with
great humility and profuse compliments.
The farmer ordered him out of his house
and treated him in a most insulting man.
ner. The caliph, thinkin that the grand
vizier might have shown a lack Of tact or
have given offense in some way, sent the
general commanding his army, with apollo
gies and more presents and a renewal of
the marriage offer, but the farmer received
only heaped upon him offensive epithets,
In which the Turkish language Is richer
than any other, but actually offered him
personal violence. The caliph and his son
were mortified over the failure OF their
matrimonial negotiations, when an old and
very wise friend offered 70 try his luck as
an emissary. He carried no presents and
offered no compliments. but, when he came
upon the farmer, began to curse him and to
call him all the vile names he could think
of. He picked up clods of earth and stones
and threw them at him, beat him over the
head with his riding whip, pulled his hair,
shook him by the collar and spat In his
face.
What are you doing all this for?" ex-
claimed the astonished farmer. why
should a stranger abuse me thus? What
have 1 ever done to tnee?"
You will not give your daughter in mar
riage to the son of my friend. the ~caliph.'
II have never refused to do so.'' said the
farmer, humbly; but nobody ever ap
preached me about it in a reasonable man.
ner."
DR.. Jessup said that if the United States
government would approach the Sultan in
a reasonable manner, with a feet of
battleships, and act as If it intended TO
protect the American missionaries in Tur-
key, neither they nor the native Christians
would have further trouble.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Washington Post.

Washington Post.
There is no danger of the Filipinos COM
peting with American labor" said Mr..
Charles Shaw. of New York. 81 have been
to the Philippines. / discovered very early
that the Filipino was a man of leisure. I
really do not think he would work IL he
had an opportunity. He has no use for
factories. He likes 10 lie in the shade. IL
there is any work TO be done. ii is a hard
job to find the man TO perform IL. The
Filipino will be content to see others work.
but there Is no danger of his doing enough
himself to hurt the working man OF this
country"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Many of the stories of gossips and
sensational journalism regarding the Re-
publican convention and those who would
participate in 1t have proved to be idle and
absurd. In certain things in which the
sensational correspondents and reporters
attributed to Senator Fairbanks they saw
his hostility. TO Mr.. Griffiths. As those
statements were the creations of their
overworked imaginations their assumption
fails. Every candidate for Governor
knows that in this contest both senators
stand aloof. Then. Mr.. Hanly was to
make a sp~ell-binding speech TO stampede
the convention and carry off the nominal
ton for Governor. Mr.. Hanly did not
make that kind of a speech-so another brood
of absurd surmises perishes. Watch out for
Lands. or he will stampede the convention
and get the nomination for Governor" IL
was said. Is 1t not about time that this
silly gable about stampeding conventions
be silenced? A Republican State conven-
ton was never stampeded. The men who
attend as delegates have minds of their
own, and for that reason cannot be swep,
of their feet by any mans skyrocketins
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
FOOtnOtes.

For impetus, talk with young men; for road
wisdom, talk with old men.
Conversation is the difficult art of letting other
people answer what we say to them.
II a married man has to pet a cat. his wife
belongs to too many clubs.
Charity is that tolerant feeling we have for
other peoples foibles when they don't affect US.
II commentator is the salt of life, criticism is
the pepper
Nearly all clever women take after their
fathers. and then they turn around and abuse
men.
The only genuine grandfather's clock was
brought out from New England packed full of
dried apples.
All cynics are hasty generalizers; because they
find one humbug they announce that the whole
world is populated by humbugs.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
An Anthracite Obituary.

He lived in a mining region
And worked in a colliery deep;
One day he went daft,
Sent himself down the shaft
These ines mark the place of his sleep:
"It was only a drop In the bucket,
But he fell nine hundred feet;
And a worse smashed nan
Than Dan McCaCn
Would sure be a sight to meet"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

hemisphere and the beginning of American
civil government in the last of her posses
to display, and they particularly desire
that Governor Aliens arrival n in
auguration should be accompanied by a
demonstration commensurate with the inn
the nation of which they have become a
part. The ceremonies should fit the oc-
casion, and there need be no fear that ,iey
will be overdone.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
Hoar'. False Position.

Detroit Journal.
Senator Hoar is always TO be listened
to with respect, but his elaborate speech IL
the Senate is a collection. largely. OF hind.
sight wisdom OF a kind in possession OF
all who have followed events in the islands
since the conquest of Manila. and who see
the errors made. He chooses 10 ignore all
the difficulties, and 10 regard Aguinaldc
in the light of a martyr to liberty. Against
such a position facts make no Roadway.
To argue against the senator, therefore
is suggestive of the fruitlessness of test.
ing a work of fiction by the principles Of
higher mathematics.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Nebraska State Journal.

Nebraska State Journal.
What has become of the good womer
who set out early in the season TO pro-
mote the cause of woman suffrage i'm Ne
braska? A State that pops as this has
done of late years ought to put up with
anything Colorado can stand. In tina
State woman is mans political equal, q
not his superior, but all the same thu
wicked men continue to get all the publs
offices that are worth holding.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

II the present Sultan of Turkey is a nan
of honest Instincts and liberal ideas it is
strange hat no European power nor per-
son connected with any European govern
ment has found IT out.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Tip" I'm New York Press.
The manufacturers of playing cards
which have. instead of the familiar faces
of kings, queens, ETC., the likenesses OF our
heroes and statesmen. sent out samples
which made Admiral Dewey the king of
diamonds. These, IL is said, will now be
recalled. Politics is bitter in the West.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

1 looked at the homes dismantled.
At the furniture out in the yard,
At the porches all covered
With ushion and rugs;
And o, it was terribly hard
To keep pack the tears of sorrow
And the lump that arose in my throat,
For I knew very we'll that tomorrow
1 would be in the self-same boat.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
Habitual Error.

st. Paul Pioneer.
The enlightened Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal speaks of the trolley car as having
had its origin in San Francisco. where
steep inclines made some such contrivance
Indispensable" Our contemporary has
COMPOUNDED the trolley with the cable car
just as IL h~abitually c~onfounds patriotism
with Goebelite Democracy. The cable car
originated In Frisco; the first trolley line
was operated in Richmond, Va.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Just now the people who keep scrap
books are quoting from a speech which
Senator Hoar delivered in Plymouth, Mass,
n 1895. in which. in speaking of the tree
planted by the first American settlers. he
said: "Its boughs hang over the Pacific;
and I'm time-in good time-it will send its
roots beneath the waves and receive un-
der it's vast canopy the islands OF the sea-
Isn't this the time-the good time?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

It will be noticed that Senator Chandler.
OF New Hampshire, who did not vote for
the currency bill, is not one of the dele
gates at large from hat State TO the Re
publican national convention. but a gold
Democrat is one of the big four.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Denver Times.
Somebody. named Withstand. who is the
secretary of an anti-imperialistic league.
somewhere, presumably Boston, has wired
Senator Hoar a good cheer message. aver
ring: IF the Republican party rejects this
tremendous appeal IL is doomed" This Is
the memorable logic of Withstand. who
ought to go slow with his dooms or some
OF them will miss connection and he will
be a discredited doomster.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

speech. The making of the platform by
home Republicans proves the utter falsity
of those Washington dispatches declaring
that Senator Hanna approved the platform
which would be adopted except that he
desired to have the ship subsidy bill in
dorsed. There never has been a platform
adopted by a State convention concerning
which so many Republicans at home freely
spoke their opinions.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

The fact that the Charlottesville wool
market has opened with prices 4 cents a
pound higher than a year ago may be taken
as a safe indication that the Democrats
will not pull any wool over the eyes of
MONTGOMERY county farmers this year.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

A critic remarks that it is time TO stop
and consider the situation when Senator
Hoar assails the Republican party. Yes:
but let those who take Senator Hoar as a
guide follow him to his conclusion. which
IS that he will vote for Mckinley rather
than Rrvan
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

In past years the Republicans of Indiana,
building up Republican majorities in the
new States of the West and Northwest.
Judging from the attendance at the con-
vention they are staying at home now
and growing up with the country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

New York Mail and Express.

The Indiana movement to preserve the
grave of Nancy Hanks and dedicate a
number of acres surrounding IL as a park
reflects infinite credit upon the common
wealth and the association that has in
spired the undertaking. Next TO the
mother of Washington. the country is in
debted TO the noble woman who, I'm cir
cumstances of poverty and rude civiliza-
ton, gave Abraham Lincoln to the world
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
Call for q Resurrection.

Boston Journal.
Let the Democratic party come out OF
the graveyard!' shrilly cries the Galveston
News (Dem) But what a queer appear
ance II would present If II were to accept
the invitation and what an odd assortment
Of battered and discredited issues and
platforms Ii would bring with IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

So many small national banks have been
organized the past few months that nearly
every small town will have a money
power Of Its own for the calamityites to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

From present indications he would not
be a rash prophet who should predict that
Indiana will begin the twentieth century
with a Republican Governor and state Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Mr.. Bryan's present managers, in their
touching disregard for the past. remind
one OF the chorus which arose at the
saloon fire when the fremen turned the
hose upon the blazing bar: PLAY on the
slate,- Play on the slater
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

The Journal has on several occasions ex-
pressed the opinion that Congress might
assist the proposed exposition in St. Louis
% mark the one-hundredth anniversary
IF the Louisiana purchase. The exposition
aot only marks a great event. but as an
enterprise it has much more TO commend
I than had expositions for which Congress
las made appropriations.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Figures talk, and there is not a taxpayer
In Indiana who will not realize that he is
benefited by the reduction of the state
debt and the annual interest account I'M
der the present Republican administration.
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Boston Herald.

Boston Herald.
The truly loyal Republicans of Vermont
indorse Mckinley and Dewey and Proctor.
both sides of the Porto Rico question and
the procession OF the equinoxes. If you
don't seen what you want up I'm Vermont,
all you have got to do is to resolve for IL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

Ex-senator Quay should not be angry
with any Republican who voted against
him, since a few years ago he was paired
against an aspirant for the Senate whose
claisns Were the same as his.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

The editorial of the New York Herald in
:avor OF President McKinley's reelection
. timely and strong. Its keynote is Don't
I says in effect that the honor ard welfare
If the country depend on the success of a
party that insures freedom from all forms
u anarchical f~oolishness. whether IL be
Populism. free silverism or socialism"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26

The spectacle of Ex-Governor David B.
Hill ~denouncing bossism would be touching
II Mr.. Hill himself had not been the most
boss a State ever had until he
was outclassed by Richard Croker.