The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-02

power or all wealth.
Indiana is a debt-paying State, not only
as corporate power, but In an individual
sense also The progress of prosperity l.
clearly demonstrated By the records o.
mortgage indebtedness and the payment
thereof Consideration Of figures bearing
upon this subject is interesting and in
structive. In 1888. during the Cleveland
administration. the mortgage releases in
Indiana number 2Z,2l4. representing
total of S12,9S4.962. In 1884, the releases were
o, &c., amounting 10 SIS, 029, 40l. In 1895 the
releases were 3f,16s amounting to S22,25s.-
705. In 1886, the last national campaign
year. with tinge of fear of prospective
Organism pervading the political atmoS
phere, the number of mortgage releases
dropped 10 $3.50, and the amount to S2l.
101 $40. The Republican party then came
into power, and the business was resumed
at the old stand. In 1897 the number OF
mortgages released was lass, aggregat-
ing So, PA, a-34 In 1895 the releases num-
bered 49.fS1. and the valuation amounted
to $34. 152. 4S7 This is a proof conclusive of
the marked betterment of conditions. and
the influence of the Republican party in
bringing them about is so palpable that IL
does not admit of controversy,
1T must be accepted as granted that
every thoughtful Republican prefers exist
ing conditions TO another experience with
a Democratic administration. Our party is
not infallible. 1t Is occasionally betrayed
by unworthy men who have achieved pre-
ferment in place-seeking, but il is a party
with conscience and with firm deter
mination that guilty man shall so I'M
punished. Now and then some of our good
friends permit memory to lapse, and they
are almost persuaded to say that one
party is almost good the other. And
then the leaders OF Democracy are sure 20
do something to cause Republican blood
TO run quicker and the pulses to again beat
time TO the grand old music of the Union.
That element of the whilom Democratic
party that became inoculated with the
virus of Organism cannot stand in the
sunlight of truth or the searchlght of rea-
unworthiness.
WHAT is IMPERIALISM?
Although much is being said and printed
by the Popocratic brethren concerning i'm
perialism, the alarmists dscreetly avoid
going into details in explanation of the
meaning of the term, for the very good
reason, no doubt that it is absolutely
meaningless. No man who is in his right
mind and who is capable of doing his own
thinking is disposed to regard the i'm
perialistic bugaboo in any other light than
political absurdity. trumped up by dis
credited partisans to be use as a cam
paign scarecrow. Neither the Republican
party nor the Mckinley administration Is
responsible for any policy or action that
tends to show the slightest disposition to
WAIVER for an instant from the fundamental
principles which underlie the establishment
OF "a government of the people, for the
people and by the people
"On the contrary, what has Bryans
party done and what is il now seeking to
cring about? The infamous Goebel election
law in Kentucky, deliberately devised by
constituencies freebooters TO rob the peo-
pie of their sovereign rights, had the in
dorsement and support of the popocratic
presidential candidate. Events have dem
onstrated the fact that that law was so
unjust, malicious and monstrous that a
Goebel Democrat who usurped the office of
Governor recently assembled the Legisla-
ture in extraordinary session for the spe-
cine purpose OF repeating measure so
VIGOROUSLY Ubiquitous that no honest man
cared to further defend Ii. This action on
the part of the putative Governor of Ken
lucky was not voluntary. He was moved by
the doubtful virtue of political necessity
in the hope of removing some of the Stig-
ma from his party and saving himself from
the righteous condemnation he will GER
tainly receive at the hands of the people
at the polls next Tuesday. The Goebel law
was lcng step toward the destruction of
had the support of this same Mr.. Bryan
who assumes TO be the special guardian of
civil rights. BY virtue of the loyalty of
the black men of North Carolina TO the
principles of the only party that ever be-
triended that race, that State was, a
fair vote and fair count. Republican by
a large majority. But Democracy has
tablished government by mi
nority without the consent of the
governed. This is another long step toward
Imperialism, but Mr.. Bryan nor any of his
champions have the courage or the manli-
ness to either denounce or defend one of
the most fragrant outrages ever perpe-
trated upon a free people, if we except
Senator Tillman, of pitchfork fame, who
boldly declared himself in the vigorous lam
guase which follows, to-wit: We took the
boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed
of it With that system-fOrce, tissue bal
lots. etc.-we got tired ourselves. SO we
called a constitutional convention, and we
eliminated. /
PEOPLE whom we could under the four
teenth and fifteenth amendments
ANOTHER PATERNAL PHASE.
1.-The criticism is frequently made that the
influence of federal officeholders is so pow
erful in many communities that it is en-
abled to decide political results. 1t must
be admitted that there is some cause for
these protests. There are hundreds of thou
sands of men on the government pay rolls
They are TO be found everywhere, and nat
urally, they are active and influential. In
this connection 1T is well to bear I'm mind
the fact that, I'm accepting the Populist
nomination for the Presidency Mr.. Bryan
pledged himself to a platform containing
declaration in favor OF government owner
ship ana control of the railroads and tele-
graphs of the United States. If that propo-
sition were TO be consummated 1t would
add TO the already enormous civil list
Ilacehoiders to the number of a million and
q half. Such a combination of forces would
result in Capitalization of power that
might make itself almost, If not quite all
powerful in deciding conventions and cleo
tons. Mr.. Bryan apparently overlooks the
fact that this kind of paternalism tends
TO imperialism, but he discreetly avoids
discussing the Issue, preferrirg TO preach
the gospel of discomfort, to encourage diff
ferences between employers and employees
and resort 70 every means known to the
crafty political demagogue to court favor
with those to whom he addresses his high
sounding Sophistries. He has deliberately
turned his back on is to 1, and in all things
he has been SO vacillatirg and so obviously
Insincere that it would be an objectionable
reflection on the intelligence of the people
to for a moment imagine that they will
ever consent 10 his election as President
when William Jennings Bryan made a
spectacular visit to Indianapolis for the
purpose of delivering himself of a speech
of acceptance of the nomination conferred
upon him by the Popocratic convention at
Kansas City he seemed to have overlooked
the fact that his position was somewhat
anomalous in the respect that his TRADE
against so-called Imperialism and miitar-
ism was in strange contrast with the his
tory and traditions of his surroundings
He spoke vehemently in opposition to the
kind of oppressive militarism he had con-
ceived in his fevered fancy, delivering him
self from a stand erected in Military Park
a tract of land reserved In perpetuity by
the trainers of our State Constitution In
going to that park and returning therefrom
he passed through the shadow of the mon
ument costing more than half a million
dollars, erected by a grateful and unbe-
diers, living and dead. Almost within a
stone throw of the platform where he was
imprecating against militarism and a gov
eminent without the consent of the gov