The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-16

winter. We have plenty of money In the
treasury, but there isn't enough OF 1t. We
can get no help from the trusts, because
We do not propose to help the trusts so
we are compelled to lie TO the people and
then rely on them for funds / may be
putting the majority a little low, but L
am confident that il will not reach 10000,
and would be willing TO compromise on
80, 1000"
The President-Do you think IL would
be possible TO revive the issue OF 16 to 1,
Imperialism or any other defunct issue in
time TO do any good before the election,
Colonies?
Great heavens, no, The impression has
got out among the people. widespread. that
we haven't got a man in the party who is
taking an active part in this campaign
who can be trusted with any responsibility
of government as far as you can throw a
polled Angus bull by the horns. They are
afraid Of Bryan, and they look upon Croker
and Hearst as a pair of menaces TO de-
,cepcy and dangerous to every interest OF
the community. Think of an administra-
ton dominated by the Chicago American
and the San Francisco Calamiter. A little
lower in the list we have Cotton Bale
Jones of Arkansas, Altgeld Of Illinois and
such men as these running the government
HI would be a paradise compared with
what this government would be- -
How about Carl Schurz and Bourke
Cockran?' asked Major Biff.
They don't count. Cochran and Schurz
are engaged for one-night stands in our
NdJiOndl OOileQy OF EfTOTS lOr the sea-
son only. Next year they will be play
ing Rip Van Wrinkle. or the man that was
horned by the Texas steer. No, sir; there
Is nothing on earth that car save Bryan
Democracy from deserved and ignominious
defeat and utter humiliation next month.
True Democracy, the Democracy OF our
fathers. of Tilden. Voorhees,, Vallandig-
ham, Cleveland, Holman and
three or four others, whose names cannot
cal! TO mind at this instant, will survive
the crash, and come out of the wreck vim
dicated, with flying banners inscribed, We
told you so. now won't you be good" :,
Colonel Snort paints a gloomy picture"
said General Muckle, but every cloud
has a silver lining"
Don't mention silver to met replied Col.
Snort. 1T was silver at the ratio OF 10
TO / without the consent of any other ma
ton on earth that brought on this trouble;
besides, no cloud was ever lined with sill
yer, anyway, and the people who have
thought they detected silver Up behind a
cloud were looking through a smoked glass
made for that purpose, and they were the
same kin of people that now imagine
they see a dollar worth of value in forty
cents worth of metal. Give the poets
plenty of license: let them work their
metaphors and im%aginatiOns for all they
are worth; let them sing of the golden
fields, and of the Knights of the Golden
circle, but let no member of the Hickory
Elm Club spring the silver question on
me in a figure of speech. or otherwise.
while 1 am talking sound sense on this
floor"
Before the club adjourns." said the
president, ST want to call attention to a
statement that L saw I'm one of our organ
the other day TO the effect that the rail-
roads centerfng at Indianapolis had landed
several thousand people in that city to see
Roosevelt, free of charge. / am devilish
afraid that the statement was a mistake,
even If 1t had been true, which 1T was not,
as l am Informed by all the agents along
the various lines that sold tickets. In any
event, 1t was a blunder, for the impression
Is already prevalent that the farmers,
manufacturers, merchants and every other
business interest In the country is opposed
to Bryan And now IL the railroads are
helping the Republicans TO swell their rail-
lies, his goose is cooked, for we can't elect
him with only the assistance of the ward
bummers and other disreputable and law
less elements in the cities. 1 shall there
fore ask the committee on the general out
look to wait on John p. Altgeld and urge
him to keep his people in line as the last
hope. If Mr.. Bryan should lose any con-
siderable number Of Anarchists. who are
now supporting him in good faith. it would
not only prove a terrible defeat, but 1t
would be a reflection upon Altgeld's politi-
cal infuence-with the mob, and make
government by injunction the settled
policy of the Nation for seven or eight
hundred years to come w. S. FL.