The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-17
And Are Preparing to Explain Defeat
by Charging Republican EN-
plOyers with Coercion.
LUDICR0US ADDRESS ISSUED
BY THE DREADFUL JONES AND THE
UBIQUITOUS HEARST.
An Appeal for Fair Election, but
Nothing Said About Disfran-
chisement I'm the south.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
CHICAGO, Oct. 16.-What Republicans re-
gard as an extraordinary address was is
sued from Democratic national headquar-
tiers here to-day. 1t Is signed by ]. K.
Jones, OF cotton-bale trust notoriety, and
w. r. Hearst. the ubiquitous journalist,
who recently attended the meeting of clubs
at Indianapolis, according to his own news
paper. while he was In reality hundreds
Of miles away. Jones is chairman of the
Democratic national committee and Hearst
is president of the National Association Of
Democratic Clubs. Hearst Is supposed to
have signed the address in Chicago this
afternoon. but the dispatches say he was
in New York assisting the Ice trust mag
mates in entertaining w. ]. Bryan. The
circular address issued by the two eminent
Democrats reads:
ITO the Democratic CIubs-In the free
exercise of the right of suffrage lies the
safety OF the Republic. Every patriot,
every honest man, is interested in preserv-
ing this right at all hazards. VIII you,
therefore,, every man or you, please rep ort
promptly TO US every instance coming ID
your knowledge of any attempt 20 coerce
or intimidate any voter, by any employer.
corporation, and whether attempted by
threat, by the pretense of orders received
conditioned on the election OF Mckinley.
or otherwise. Every such offender de-
serves, like Cain, to be a fugitive and a
vagabond' on the face of the eartn and
the public ought to know who they are"
Republicans laugh at the appeal and say
IL is ridiculous in the face of facts. For
Democrats to speak OF free exercise of
suffrage Is hypocrisy. In view of Goebelism
in Kentucky and Acknowledgement OF the
negro in many of the Southern States.
Every election law enacted by Republicans
has been in favor OF a free ballot and a
fair count, whereas wherever Democracy
has had full swing the election laws have
been framed with the object of keeping
that party in power by trampling on the
rights of Republicans. Four years ago
Mr.. Bryan proclaimed constantly from the
stump that Republican employers were
coercing their employees. and the anu cry
Is being raised in this campaign. bet Re-
publican managers say workingmen need
no coercion TO vote for a continuation OF
the prosperity they nave ~,njoye.l under
McKinley's administration. Il anv coercion
Is being done. Republicans say. it is bryan
who is the offender. and who. like CAIN
deserves TO be a fugitive and a v~agaboni
on the face of the EARTH Intimidation is
akin to coercion. and Bryan is doing his
best to scare voters into voting for him
self. The cry of Imperialism as:1 militar-
ism Is intended to coerce tinid people into
supporting the Popocratic ticket. So also
Is the constant reiteration OF the ludicrous
warning: IF you don't watch out the
trust will get you" This cry. like others,
Is meant to frighten. Mr.. Bryan, how
ever. evidently is not alarmed at the trust
bogy himself, for Republicans say he was
entertained at New York to-day by Mr..
Croker, OF the ice trust. w. f. Hearst. OF
the silver trust. and other Democrats who
are Interested in great corporations; while
his meeting at Madison-square Garden
was presided over by L. NJ. Shepard. chief
counsel OF the sugar trust. The address is
sued to-day Is regarded as fresh evidence
that Mr. .Bryants cause Is hopeless. When
ever the Democratic party reads the hand
writing OF defeat on the political wall II
always cries fraud.