The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-18
INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES.

going to return an old-time Republican
majority next month. Keep a movin'.-
Lafayette Call.
Mr.. Bryan's announcement that he has
not decided upon his Cabinet may indicate
that he does not regard all those States
now being carried for. him by Jones and
Creelman as his for keeps.-Evansville
Journal.
Mr.. Bryan evidently did not know that
the copyright OF his book, '"The First Bat
tie" makes him a monopolist. Neither did
he seem to know when he struck Anderson
that amendments to the national Consti-
tuition nullify everything to the contrary in
State constitutions. a man who knows
little of ordinary law has no business to
ask for the presidency.-Anderson Herald.
For three consecutive times Mr.. Cleve-
land was the nominee of the Democratic
party for the presidency: yet the Bryan
ties declare that he was not a Democrat.
Mr.. Bryan is the nominee of the Populists
and Free-silver Republicans; yet. accord
ing to his friends, he must be accepted
as a simon-puree democrat. This is the
same sort of logic Mr.. Bryan utilities in his
speeches.-Madison Courier.
Not every man who is labelled a McKin-
ley voter of 1896 by the Bryanite press can
safely be set down as such. 1t is only safe
to remember that fully one-half the slush
put forth in the columns of that press
during the past few weeks is falsehood
pure and simple, and the same character
istics will be certain to predominant for
the next three weeks. Read cum grano
salis.-Vincennes Commercial.
Job says "Oh that mine adversary had
written a book" President Mckinley has
one great advantage over Job. After Gov
ernor Roosevelt's speech at Indianapolis,
In which he quoted freely from Bryan's
prophecies in his book and showed how
every one had failed of fulhllment. one
could the more easily see why Job longed
for just such an opportunity to down his
adversary--Columbus Republican.
Bryan will make a fine ghost dancer
when he gets through soaring the peo-
pie with a fort near every large city to
watch labor. 1t spoils his theory that
there are no forts in the great industrial
State of Ohio in which Hanna lives and
none in Indlana whose gas belt is a hive
of industry. 1t is difficult to say whether
gibbering idiocy or reckless deyiltry.
-Terre Haute Express.
One of the transparencies carried in the
Democratic street parade in indianapolis
last week, read: Bounce the Banks and
Burn the Bonds" This is the Bryanistic
idea, stripped of its sugar coating and
ornamental verbiage. In his cemaGogicaI
~Earangues, Bryan treats banks as trusts;
and as he insists upon the suppression of
Gil oNctS ~ nov lndt DdlhS must EO.
too. For cheap political buncombe--the
kind that tickles the fancy of anarchists
Bryan heads the procession.-Angola Mag
net.
Colonel Bryan said Wednesday that he
volunteered the day war was declared and
resigned the day the peace protocol was
signed, but he failed to mention that he
was not commissioned until the war was
half over and that it was the business of
his superior officers to know when his serv-
ices were no longer needed, not his
business. His course as a soldier is a
luminous exposition of his ideas of mill
tary administration, and proves him to be
supremacy unfit to act as communicating
chief of the best army on earth.-Muncie
News.
Bryan is sure to be felt. one way or an
other. wherever he goes. Last week he
spoke in Louisville, and on the morning
following his speech, Editor Stewart. of
the Dispatch, came out and openly de-
nounced the great William j. b. OF course.
the position assumed by Mr.. Stewart did
not set well with the stockholders of the
Dispatch, but he politely informed them
that If his ideas didn't suit them his
resignation was ready for them to take
under consideration. Mr.. Stewart de-
clared he could no longer follow the teach
ingS OF characterization ENQUIRER