The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-27
HEARST SPENDING MO
MONEY
DETERMINED BRYAN WILL HAVE NO
SECOND "FROsT" HERE.
Planning to Invade Indianapolis with
Democratic Host of shout
ers Next Week.


the stage of progress which enables them
| to make intelligent observations and esti-
| mates. The results are more encouraging
to the Republicans than to the Democrats.
There has been no landslide either way.
but the drift appears to be towards the
Republicans. There is more to appeal
to young men in the Republican plat
form and in what the Republican party
claims to stand for than there is on thu
other side. Hence the tendency described.
The canvass and inquiry which has becI
going on with great steadfastnsss for me:
than two months brings to light more than
one significant fact for generalization.
full to the philosophic student OF politics
and to the practical campaigner. Time was
when 1t was recognized political tru-
ism that the masses Of Democratic voters
would deposit their ballots unQuestioning
| ly for the nominees of their conventions.
regardless Of what they stood for and re-
| CARELESS of the personality Of the men. The
Republican party prided itself on the in
| dependence and intelligence of it's men,
| bers. Each voter in theory was accorded
| the broadcast personal liberty. and 1t was
| the fashion for them to avail themselves OF
! the personal right to scratch candidates of
| a convention who were not entirely salts
| factory.
| The position of the opposing voting
| armies Is changed. The independent voters
| are now found among the Democrats, es-
| pecially among those between the ages of
| twenty-one and thirty-five, while the fixed
element is Republican. This is traceable
directly to the mobilization of the veterans
Of the civil war into distinctive factor in
our social and political fabric. The sons
and grandsons of the veterans OF the war
constitute a mass of voters who are almost
| immovable in allegiance to the Republican
party. 1t requires great resolution and
strong individuality for young men who are
brought UP in association with or have d.
rect connection with families OF veterans TO
| cut loose from the Republican party. The
| Democratic youth of the country, having
no such tangible alliances and such
strong family reasons for clinging to a
| faith in which they have been educated.
| is displaying greater independence of
| thought and action.
1t is therefore much easier for the Re
publicans to locate the new voters hav
| ing natural Affiliations with that party than
| 1t is for the Democratic canvassers to &C
quire like definite information concerning
| the young men of natural Democratic ten
denotes. 1t thus transpires that while Re-
| publican headquarters are being furnished
| a line Of valuable facts with regard 10 the
young vote. the Democrat estimates are
| grounded on reports having in them an
unsafe percentage of conjecture and spec
ulatfon IT cannot be learned that the
appeal to the young men to take up with
| the Democratic party on the antitrust
plank of the Kansas City platform has
made much of an impression. The argu-
ment has not thus far been sufficiently
| fortified by facts to seize convincngly upon
| the intelligence, and as those who he
reached by prejudice were convinced in adj
vance. no special advantage seems TO have
attended Democratic antitrust efforts be-
yond drawing their voters a little more
closely together. That feature of the cam
paign was not taken up early enough or
| forced strong enough with arguments and
| facts which would appeal TO the personal
interests of young men. Possibly the anti
trust slogan would have been ineffective
anyway this year. In the presence of over
whelming and general prosperity people do
not take alarm quickly or easily over the
presentation of danger ahead.
Urless indications are at fault, the ma
tional gathering of Democratic Clubs at
Indianapolis next week will be a success
in point Of numbers. Machinery has been
put in operation to insure an importing of
the faithful on that occasion in order TO
inspire Indiana Democrats to heroic work
1t is also desired to wipe out the memory
OF the frost that greeted Mr.. Bryan when
he went TO Indianapolis few weeks ago
to respond to the formal notification of his
nomination. There is small danger that
he will have anything to complain of this
volume of enthusiasm. Ample provision
has been made against any such calamity.
Editor Hearst, who is the president of the
Democratic Clubs. has spared expense
planned on an elaborate scale.
On a tip from headquarters stop will be
put to Democratic talk and newspaper
garrulity on the subject of "a solid Catho-
lie vote for Bryan" solid Catholic vote
or a solid any other kind OF a vote is o
good thing. unless IL should chance to be
exploited to a point that arouses danger
Gus antagonisms. Such seems to have been
the case in this instance, and the unpleas-
ant discovery has been made at the Bryan
Headquarters here that overadyertisement
OF he Aforementioned solid to
has inspired A. p. A. prejudices in quarters
were opposition is not sought. This being
the case, word has passed along to stop
parading the attitude of the masses OF
Catholics toward the two rival candidates
Bryan and his managers have troubles
enough without doing anything to stimu-
late or arouse 'apaism, which Is prone
10 flame up dangerously on provocation.
Great things are expected a result of
the visit of MI. Olney. He is due for
speech under the auspices of the IroquoIs
Club some time next month, and his ad-
dress is relied on TO bring into line great
numbers Of stalwarts who broke away
the sound-money issue. At heart the Iro-
quois Club, a body, is rankly dsloyal
TO Bryan, and not one member of the or
ganiZation in ten expects to see him elected
Least of all do they look for Illinois to go
Democratic, but they are determined to use
the Olney incident as means OF reinstat-
ing the club in favor with the party and
making a showing which will be useful I'm
the future. The real purpose of the club
In bringing Olney to Chicago is TO launch
a presidential boom for the eminent New
England lawyer. His letter of Sept. is
looked on by Western Democrats as the
"Olney platform for 1904. His forthcom-
ing address is certain TO be an elaboration
of that letter. especial stress being placed
on the chapter relating to the dangerous
development of American commercialism
at home and abroad-that part OF his letter
ir which appears the phrase that "the flag
figures as a sort of commercial asset" IL
may be recalled In this Connection that Mr.
Olney neglected TO inclose the words com
mercial asset in quotation marks, they
having been adopted without credit from
the interview with Cecil Rhodes after his
release from Kimberly. In that interview
Mr. Rhodes, in delivering his views on the
achievements of the English army in South
Africa, used the phrase, I'VE will preserve
the finest commercial asset In the world
the British flag" IL was doubtless a case
of unconscious assimilation.
w. q. NICHOLAS.