The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-07
THE SOUTH BEND FAKE.

THE SOtIh BEND FAME
The South Bend correspondent who sent
forth the report that Mr.. Bryan had called
upon Mr.. Shively and asked him to accept
the second place on his ticket, and that
Mr.. Shively had announced himself a can
didate for that position, can congratulate
himself on his wonderful success in the
field of yellow Journalism. The profess
sional yellow newspapers in New York.
which seem to proceed upon the plan of
printing nothing that is true if sufficient
forth a fake for months that has produced
the stir which this invention of the South
Bend amateur has caused. not only In In
diana. but in spots all over the country.
No doubt his success will enable him to
attain a frst-class situation with one of
the leading fake trusts of the country.
Very naturally. the report that Mr.. Shive-
ly had been anointed and proclaimed as
his associate on the Bryan ticket by Mr..
Bryan himself delighted the Populists and
other advocates of deprecated currencies.
for the reason that Mr.. Shively is more
Populist than Democrat. But. while it
pleased Mr.. Shively's friends. with what
sorrow the announcement must have sub
merged the heart of Wanderer Towne, just
Endorsed by the Michigan Democratic con-
~vention, the fantastic Sulzer, of Tammany,
the harlequin George Fred Williams, of
Massachusetts,. the antique Judge Tarvin.
of Kentucky, and other political freaks too
numerous to recall who have been writing
their names after that of Mr.. Bryan as
his running matei' What a stir the fake
caused in the minds of Democratic leader
ship in Indianal Mayor Taggart's cham
pions. who have been casting reflections
upon his characteristic sincerity by insist
ing upon his candidacy for Governor after
he has time and again declared that he
would not nave Il, FASTENED to bring him
forward as the man to take up the cast-off
mantle of Mr.. Shively as gubernatorial
candidate. Others remembers that Mr..
Ralston, of Lebanon. has said that he
would be a candidate if Mr.. Shively was
not in the field, so his name was mentioned,
forgetful of the fact that Mr.. Ralston has
CAPkC a Nito ACCAAil5 ~ w CACdt
Paper gossips remarked that Captain My
ers might be put forward by the conserva-
tive Democrats If he would tone down his
recent expressions against 16 to l and in
favor of expansion. The Hon. Frank b.
Burke. however, was the only man who
advertised himself in the newspapers as a
candidate in the event that Mr.. Shively
II to go on the Bryan ticket. Indiana Re-
publican representatives in Congress were
interviewed as to the probable effect of
the Shively candidacy and their opinions
were sent home regardless of the fact that
Mr.. Shively ran 1913 behind Mr.. Bryan in
Indiana in 1856 and 25,197 behind Governor
Mount, while President Mckinley led Mr..
Bryan 1852 votes. No Republican panic
was reported in any quarter on account of
the Shively candidacy. even by those who
evolve news without facts or occurrences.
Such was the situation when the State
and the country went to rest Saturday
night. But Sunday mornings papers an
nounced, upon the authority of Mr.. Bryan,
that he had not set apart Mr.. Shively as
to head the State ticket again. The Bryan
announcement must have removed the bit
terness in the hearts of thirty or forty per-
sons who are ambitious to ride behind Mr..
Bryan. caused by the work of the artis-
tic faker at South Bend. The Hon. Frank
b. Burke can congratulate himself thai he
did not put his candidacy in a more en-
phatic form, while those whose daily task
1t is to work up two columns of gossip hav-
ing some reference to politics have lost a
fertile topic.