The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-18
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indianapolis, Sept. I5.-Indiana il DEM
onsiFating the fact that the people make
The issues. To-day the trusts are furnish
ing the paramount issue and both polltl-
cal parties are sJampedlng 10 H.
Coz. Mount who had 10 arrange an
itinerary Of his own because he was
scarcely on speaking terms with Repub-
Aean State Chairman HernIy, VIII speak
at Peru next Wednesday. He has insist
Cd al! along that the people want TO hear
about trusts. The Republican managers
were aghast az the governor taking the
policy OF the campaign into his own
Aancs. but they did not dare attempt TO
head ann OF. The governor has a re-
msrkable hold on the people generally.
who DO not regard him as a great states
man, but idoHze him for his absolute
prooiiy and fearless independence. The
governor honestly believes he will coun-
teract some OF the injurious effect Of
bringing Hanpa into the State. He said,
In published interview. that Il was un-
wise TO have Hanna speak In Indiana.
HIS eandor caused a sensation, and 1t is
known that nos a few conservative Re
pu5licans indOrse his remarks. HIS stand
was all the more bold Inasmuch as Senator
Hanna came to Delphi at the urgent So
hcitaion of Congressman Lands, to
whom the governor is indebted for aid in
the past.
The governor was vexed because the
Trainers Of the Republican State platform
refused to put In a stronger plank on
trusts. For several years he has contend
ed that the trust issue must be met fairly
and squarely By the Republican party.
and that any temporizing with this dan
gerous question would result In the
party's unGolng.
Alarms The Republicans.
An object lesson on trusts has loomed
up In the State and is frightening Repub-
Iican Congressman In more than one dis
trict, particularly in the gas belt, where
workingmen in recent years have been
pouring IN by the thousands to work In
the glass, steel, tin-plate and other gigan-
Tic plants. Within the last month the
feeling against trusts has become acute
The trust controls most of the glass fac
tories where strikes have been on. Last
week over hundred Workmen at Muncie
bundled up their effects and went over
land 10 Independent plants in neighbor-
ing towns. Father Dhe, a priest, who
has engaged in glass manufacturing, at
the same time keeping up his parochial
duties, Is factor in this independent
movement, and many of the workmen
have gone 10 employ ment in his factory at
Montpelier. The loss Of so many work
men has emDittered the merchants and
others. Many of the smaller glass plants
have been absorbed by various trusts and
closed during the past few years.
In Northern Indiana the antitrust feel
ing is very strong. At Elkhart the peo-
pie remember the closing OF two starch
factories. which deprived the place Of
several hundred bread-winners and bread
buyers. .... a-.....
In commercial circles this same senti-
ment is beginning TO dominate the cam
paigD. While fl is an undoubted fact that
the sugar trusts methods have given
wholesale grocers a better chance TO
make profit on sugar than they did
when rates were slashed and the biggest
buyer had the business, yet the whole
salers resent the domination of the trust.
Customers are required TO make an afti-
6avit. if charged with cutting prices.
Amy system that is liable 10 make man
commit perjury Is grave menace to the
country Is the way one wholesale mer-
chant in this city put H. Profits have been
made so small, II is said. that there is
practically no money in the wholesale
grocery line in Indiana. To the Dingiey
law, OF course. the Democrats attribute
all these unhappy conditions Yet this is
not generally accepted, and II is a mOoted
belief as 10 whether the people OF the
State are ready 10 resentfully turn on the
Republicans for the conditions.
Gov. Mounts Theory.
Gov. Mounts theory Is that trusts must
be attacked, and the people assured that
the evil will be remedied. He does not
lay the blame for trusts at the doors Of
the Democrats, and he insists that II shall
not be laid at the door of the Republican
party. Ii is a situation. he contends.
which developed from no political party's
policy, but can be cured only by strong
measures adopted by a party which is
given 10 legislating toward progress, and
rot by a party which always has beer
vacillating and whose policy has been %
tear down without putting up something
better.
Roosevelt Ia bOthering the State COM
mittee little. He was 10 give three days
in October and the committee wanted 10
whirl him over the entire State. A con-
ference at Chicago failed 10 arrange the
tour satisfactorily. and IL is stin an open
matter as 10 stops 10 be made and time
Roosevelt was given spell of the hor-
rors by the Michigan trip, and does not
want 10 duplicate the hard work in In
diana