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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16
POOR REASONS FOR SUPPORTING
"

AS Mr.. Mckinley has been once elected
President over Mr.. Bryan by the largest
popular majority ever received by any
President except Grant, and by an en-
phatic majority in the Electoral College,
one may reasonably ask why that YER
dict should be reversed. The campaign of
1896 was one of the most earnest on both
sides of any ever made. There were more
speeches made and more literature dis
tributed on both sides than in any previous
campaign. The issues on both sides were
very thoroughly presented by the press,
though with far more cando and intelli-
gence on the Republican than on the Dem
ocratic side. The people were profoundly
stirred on the money question and many
thousands voted who are not in the habit
of doing so. This was especially true of
that class of business men who ordinarily
take little interest in politics, but who four
years ago voted almost solidly against Mr..
Bryan. 1t is estimated on good authority
that Mr.. Mckinley received the votes of
5O0,O 900 Democrats who voted against Mr..
Bryan on the money question or because
of his populistic views, while Palmer and
Buckner. the regular gold Democratic can
didates, received 13i, Gas votes. Here were
634, 600 Democrats who refused to vote for
Bryan. The total vote in 1896 was IA, 159, $40,
Of which Mr.. Mckinley received I'LL, COZ
Mr.. Bryan $500, O52. and the remainder were
for other candidates. McKinley's plurality
over Bryan in the popular vote was 6O2,-
557. Is there any good reason why any
person who voted against Mr.. Bryan four
years ago should vote for him now? A
few sound-money Democrats who did not
intention to do so this year, but a con-
siderably larger number have declared
that they will not. There is reason to
believe the latter represent a large ma
jority of those who refused to vote for
him four years ago.
The reason most frequently given by
such sound-money Democrats of 1896 as
have announced their intention of voting
for Mr.. Bryan this year is that since the
passage of the currency bill and the estab-
lishment of the gold STANDARD by law there
is no longer any danger from Is 10 /. Be
sides. as a prominent Democrat says, "It
is a w~ell-known fact that no financial
| legislation can be enacted with a Repub-
| lican Senate meaning no financial legis-
| lation of the Bryan kind. Those who as
sign this reason for voting for Mr.. Bryan
| this year do not claim. as nobody can
claim. that he is any sounder on the money
question than he was four years ago. but
that Republican legislation has made IL
impossible for him to carry his ideas into
effect. No self-respectins man ought to
be Influenced by such reasoning as that.
! Mr.. Bryan has repeatedly declared that
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16

The anti-imperialist New York Post has
been making a survey of the November
field. 1t says that the Atlantic slope and
the Pacific coast are almost eliminated
from the contest, declaring that nobody
of any political sense believes, as the stu
alton looks to-day, that Bryan has any
chance of carrying New York, Connecticut
or New Jersey" The States of the At
lantic slope and the Pacific coast are
Maine, New Hampshire, m Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Cali
fornia, Oregon, Washington, with 1f cleo
toral votes. The Post next comedies Ohio,
Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
with 95 votes, which, added to the 134,
makes the Mckinley electoral vote 229, or
five more than a majority, without enter
ing its doubtful field. In its doubt
full field are Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia, Indiana, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Kansas and Wyoming, hav-
ing 80 votes. In these States the Post con-
cedes that the Republican chances are the
best. Any doubts which the Post has OF
the Republicans carrying the list of doubt
full States as above given are offset by the
doubtful character of Nebraska, Utah and
kentucky.
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THE WORK IN CUBA.

The statement of Secretary Root that
Cuba must be given independence at the
earliest possible date meets the dema-
gogic complaint that the President will not
keep the pledge of Congress in this respect.
The report that Governor General Wood
is now on his way TO see the President with
a view of calling a constitutional conven-
ton to frame an organic law for indie
pendent Cuba is further proof that the
pledge of the Republican Congress is not
only to be kept. but tina the consumma-
ton is to be pressed.
In the meantime the good work that has
been done In Cuba since Jan. 1. 1899. by the
Aside from the Nicely scandal there has
| been no evidence of ~irregularity. Charges
have been made. but evidence is wanting.
Doubtless the administration has not been
| ideal in some respects. but IL is safe TO say
the management of the affairs of Havana
and Santiago has been as efficient as that
of American cities. When these cities came
into control of the military authorities of
the United States they were pest holes. Ha-
vana is not yet a clean city, but its con-
| ditions have been improved so much that
| the change Is generally remarked. II was
predicted that the United States would be
| obliged TO keep a large army in Cuba to
| suppr ess the lawlessness that had grown
up IS the result of years OF misrule and
insurrection. There are now only about
| four thousand soldiers in Cuba. and the adj
ministration c~ontemplates the early with
! drawal Of some Of these. This would not
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The Hearts Highway.

Mary Wilkins, i'm this novel, has left her
familiar New England field and gone TO. the
Virginia of the seventeenth century. The
time is that just following Bacon's rebel
lion, and the chief actors are Mistress Mary
Cavendish and her sister and Harry Wing
field, a young man who is of good family,
but who bears the stigma of being a con-
Wet, for a reason not fully explained until
near the close. Nevertheless, he is so well
thought of by the grandmother and guar
dian of Mistress Mary that he is made her
tutor, and is, therefore,. much in her COM
pany. He is not received socially. how
ever, though nan of the neighboring
planters are personally friendly to him.
Mistress Mary, who is represented as a
charming but rather undisciplined, head
strong young person, is deeply I'm love with
him and he with her, but he hides his af-
lection because of the stain upon his name.
An incident of the story is the destruction
OF the tobacco crop in order to deprive the
King OF the excessive tax levied upon il.
The hero of the story, though in sympathy
with the movement, is present only 10 pro-
tect Mistress Mary, who has run away in
the night from her loyal grandmother's
house, In order to take part in the affair.
He is arrested by the militia, however, and
sentenced to be placed in the stocks. Feel
ing his shameful position keenly he hopes
that none of his friends will witness his
humiliation, but first comes Mistress Mary,
arrayed In queenly attire, who seats her
self beside him, puts her feet in the stocks
In line with his and gaZes placidly out at
the crowd of spectators. Then comes her
sister, her grandmother, several of the
neighbors, In fact, all the quality the
mob, instead of jeering, shouts and cheers
and comes and lets him loose, so that what
had promise to be a deathless shame
turns out to be a very different affair.
Meantime 1t has become known that the
crime for which he had suffered exile from
England was the supposed theft of a ring.
He had borne the blame rather than be-
tray Mary's sister, whom he supposed
guilty, though she was really innocent. The
mystery is cleared up about the time of
this affair in the stocks, leaving him free TO
marry Mistress Mary. Those who read this
story, having previously read Miss John
ston's ITO Have and to Hold" will newt
ably compare the two. the setting being
similar and the time not far apart. In each
the story is told by the hero in the first
person and in each he is governed by a
high sense of honor in all his acts, par
ticularly in his treatment of his ladylove.
Miss Wilkins's story lacks hat touch of
realism which belongs to Miss Johnston's
by reason of the latters thorough famil-
iarity with the country of which she writes
and her portrayals of natures phenomena,
a realism which also characterizes Miss
Wilkins's New England stories. ''The
whole, but it is in the nature of an expert
ment, and Miss Wilkins's admirers who
have learned to look to her for another
style of fiction will be disposed TO hope
that she will return TO her original deld.
Doubleday, Page & Co., publishers.
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leader In the movement. What" ejacu-
late several. we shall be obliged TO COM
NIT suicide. There Is M other course open
for US. for II. on the announcement that
the forty men have been murdered. there
Is not the still more surprising statement
that the murderer OF each Is found dead
beside the slain, the effect will be COM
monplace, and every one will say IL Is a
cowardly plot 10 kill forty OF the best citi-
zens." This fine scheme Is carried out. riots
break out in the manufacturing centers
and anarchy Is threatened until Harvey
Trueman, the hero OF the story, quiets the
mobs by an eloquent appeal and is soon
afterwards elected President of the United
States by popular acclamation of forty
States" The story concludes: The curtain
falls on the tragedy OF life. The struggle
for mere existence that has retarded man
kind from creation is at an end. Man en-
ters into possession OF his God-given IN
heritance, equal opportunity. with a valiant
leader. and the fairest LAND I'm the world
in which to begin the building M OF a
republic that insures TO all men life. lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness" IL Is
needless to say the political tone of the
story is morbid. and IL panders 10 lawless-
ness and anarchy. Its author Is Francis
A. Adams. and IL is published by the In
dependence Publishing Company, Philadei-
phia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16
DEMOCRATIC ADVICE.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal is a
Democratic paper to which attaches the
popularity that it believes in being candid
with the people. 1t is probable that not an
other Bryan organ in the country enter
tains any such views. Misleading is the
vocation of the Bryan papers in this local
ity and of the Bryan leaders as we'll as the
papers. 1t is different with the Commercial
Appeal, consequently. in an article under
the caption, BE Candid with the People"
it says:
There seems to be a disposition in some
quarters to becloud the issues of this cam
paign, for what reason is not clear. This
Is all wrong. Democratic leaders should be
candid with the people and not try to mis-
lead them. Nothing was ever gained that
was worth having by subterfuge and in
direction. The people cannot be fooled,
and they will resent any attempt to fool
them. Those leaders who are going about
telling people that the silver issue is dead;
that it was put in the platform as a mere
matter of form, and that Imperialism Is the
leading issue. are unwise and disingenuous,
and unwise because disingenuous-
This utterance of a Democratic editor is
commended to Mr.. Kern and other Demo-
cratic orators who are now going about
making speeches in which the are entirely
silent regarding the silver declaration in
the party platform. 1t is commended to
them because 1t is not creditable to their
s~hrewdness for them TO go about Indiana
trying, by their silence, to make the people
believe that free coinage Of silver at the
ratio of 16 to l is not an issue. If Mr.. Kern
and his coterie are to make converts in
Indiana this year they must be won from
men who read the newspapers, and not by
the speeches they make. Every man in
indiana who reads a paper which gives a
faithful report of what transpires knows
that Mr.. Bryan devoted all his energies
plank put in the platform. instead of a
mere reafirmation of the Chicago declara-
ton in favor of silver. They know that on
Wednesday night, July 4, when he was in
| formed thai his plank would be rejected
by a close vote, he sent a declaration to
the Kansas City Times, which appeared as
a double-leaded editorial, to the effect tina
he would not accept the nomination unless
his plank should be put in the platform
There is not an intelligent newspaper
| reader in the country who does not know
this fact. Such being the case, what will
these men think when Mr.. Kern makes nc
| allusion to the plank of the platform which
Mr.. Bryan demanded as the price of his
| candidacy, or when he reads that Mr.. Morss
| says that silver is not an issue? He will
=
| Bryan is not candid and that one or the
other of them is trying to fool the voters
The people will resent being fooled-a fac
which the Democratic politician seems In
able to comprehend.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16
Nice Things Said.
Elkhart Review.

Efknart Review.
The Indianapolis Journal edits a good
share of a good many rural papers. These
papers clip the editorial paragraphs of the
Journal without stint or credit. OF course
the papers are all the better for their
readers. but it would be more honorable
if the credit were placed where IL belongs.
The indianapolis Journal is from all points
of view the best paper published I'm the
West. 1t is able. II is conservative, IL is
clean, it is honest. Ii is not given to sem
sation, il is reasonable In all matters and
Ii gives the news from the world in such
form that II is easily grasped and yet is
comprehensive. The Journal, like all good
newspapers, has its own opinion. often
strongly expressed, but 1t is an opinion
which If carried out I'm policy would do
no wrong, and even If not always the
sentiment of its party or a large portion
of it's constituency II is honest and never
harmful. From a literary standpoint II is
the peer of any, and IL spells less white
paper with senseless reports and unneces-
sary departments than any paper In the
West. Indianapolis ought to esteem the
distinction II has of being the city that has
the ideal morning paper. As a party paper
1t Is a safe guide. and the Republicans OF
Indiana never lost anything by following
the leadership OF the Journal In it's adj
vocacy Of principles a policies.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16

If Judge Robinson, of Spencer, who was
a gold Democrat in 1886. is to make more
Bryan speeches, the managers Of the
Bryan party will do we'll to censor them.
At Vincennes, where he participated In the
Bryan ratification meeting. the judge de-
nounced is 10 l in round terms and de-
Tended the action of the gold Democrats in
1896 in helping to save the country from the
have been disastrous in 1896 IL cannot be
less so now, and no amount of chatter
about the ~bugaboo of Imperialism can
make 1t less an evil than 1t has been. II
will be necessary to call Judge Robinson
down.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16

A distinctive feature of recent political
campaigns Is the presentation OF political
arguments I'm the form OF fiction or alle-
CORY. The feature has merit. as many peo-
pie will absorb facts and arguments in
that way who Will not read speeches. n
contribution of this kind TO Republican
campaign literature is a book entitled The
Jury Trial of 1900 In the Court of Public
Opinion The author. G. II. Mclaughlin.
has adopted the machinery OF a jury trial
or the case OF Bryan VS.. Mckinley for
discussing and determining the three lead
ing issues of the campaign-trusts. the
money question and Imperialism. Judge
levelhead is the presiding judge and Col.
Agitate and General Good are the opp0s-
ing lawyers. the first representing Bryan
and the latter Mckinley. The jury consists
OF Messrs. Granger. Miller, Mason. Car
penter. Woodman. Rich. Poorman. Road
man, Miner. Blackman, Reasoner and
Trademan. More than fifty witnesses are
called, examined and cr-oss-examined. in-
Guiding several senators and representa-
tives, k officers of the army and
navy, members Of the Philippine commits
sion, prominent business men. labor lead
ers, etc. In many cases the statements
of witnesses are verified by extracts from
official reports. The opposing counsel make
their arguments. the Judge charges the
jury, and they take the case. his concluding
words being: II will not dismiss you for
the present, and will convene you here ON
the sixth day of November next TO hear
your verdict. and may heaven guide you 10
right conclusions In this manner the
three leading issues of the campaign ara
presented in a fair, candid and effective
manner. the conclusions. based or facts.
figures and history. being clearly I'm favor
of the Mckinley administration. II Is an
ingenious book and would make an excel
lent Republican campaign document. IL 10
published by Laird g. Lee, Chicago
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This is a sensational story without being
yellow and a story of many mysteries
which are all cleared up. Dorothy NARROW.
the heroine. is introduced at the beginning
of the story as Bessie Merton. she having
taken an assumed name i'm order TO get rid
of a record which some disreputable rela-
tives have made and TO begin life anew as
a governess. On the way TO take her situa-
tion, she has a singular experience and adj
venture in a railway station. resulting in
an accidental exchange of travelling bags
and in other occurrences on which the flu
ture course of her life and of the story
hinges. This involves a trial Of wits be-
tween her and an accomplished ~scoundrel.
in which her pure and loyal nature proves
too much for his bold villainy. and. after
saving a dear friend from marrying him.
the heroine, who has now achieved some
fame as a newspaper worker. takes back
her real name and is married to the man
she loves. The story has plot and action
enough to make IL interesting. and pos
sesses the merits of having nc purpose but
entertainment and of rewarding virtue and
Furnishing vice. IL is written by A. w.
Marchmont, and published by Rand. Nc
Nally & Co., Chicago.
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The ransgrcssor

A subtitle TO this story d~esignates IL as
"A political novel of the twentieth cent
ury.' Its scene is laid I'm the United States
about the middle of the second decade of
the twentieth century. and IL shifts from
the mining districts of Pennsylvania TO
various other points. The purpose OF the
story is TO illustrate the evils OF 'the
money power" and especially OF trusts and
how they were or are TO be got rid of.
This. according TO the author. is accom-
plished by forty members of a COMMITTEES
of the Independence party solemnly bind
ing themselves each one to XIII a trust
magnate and then. by way OF emphasiz-
ing his sincerity and patriotism, to XIII
himself. I'VE shall each have to kill our
man. and then commit suicide" says the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16

This book would be more appropriately
named "A Eulogy of Odd-fellowship," for
that is what it is. THE Jericho Road" is
the title of some verses at the beginning
of the book, based on the familiar Incl
dent of the good Samaritan. The rest OF
the volume treats of the objects and pur-
poses of Odd Fellowship. the Bible I'm Odd
Fellowship, and other phases OF the order,
including brief essays on moral topics. The
book carries the following dedication:
Worthy and gentle brothers: 1 dedicate
this little book to thee, sincerely hoping
tina it will afford you much pleasure and
be the means of melting you to greater
effort I'm behalf of our beloved order. May
thy years be many and their seasons all
golden autumrs, rich In purple clusters and
garnered delights" This shows good feel
ing, but rather a promiscuous minglsng or
pronouns. The book Is written by w. Bion
Adkins and printed for the author On the
Hollenbeck Press, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-16

The complete title of this work is His
torical Memoirs of Alexander i and the
Court of Russia" and IL relates to an in
teresting period of Russian history The
author, Madame La Comtesse De Choisent-
Coulter, a Polish lady. was an intimate
friend OF Alexander and had exceptional
opportunities of knowing the inside history
of many things. The memoirs contain new
details concerning the assassination or
Paul i: the conduct OF Alexander during
and after the conspiracy which gave him
the empire; what took place during tho
campaign of 1872; the attitude CT the Con-
gress ,of Vienna when IL learned that ,n the
month of March, 1915. Napoleon had es-
capped from the island of Elba and returned
10 France; and concerning the tragic death
OF Alexander. The book is recognized as
an authority by students OF Russian life
and history, and Is now for the first time
translated into English. Ii is translated
by Mary Il. Patterson. Chicago: A. G. Nc
Clurg & Co.
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le to 1 is as much an issue as ever. and
If he were elected President he could find
many way of pushing it TO the front. 1t
is a poor argument in favor of voting for
a man for President that his political OPP
ponents have rendered 1t impossible for
him to carry into effect views which con-
stitute his sole claim TO leadership and
popularity.
Another reason given by some who voted
against Mr.. Bryan four years ago for vot-
ing for him now is his honesty and SINGER
ity. Admitting for the sake of argument
not follow that he is a safe man for Presi-
dent. Honesty and sincerity are only viz
tues in the support of right principles and
policies. The Chicago platform is as full
of political heresies as an egg is of meat.
In a speech at Omaha on the 10Th of
August last Mr.. Bryan said: 9Th Chi
cago platform is sound in every plank,
every line, every syllable" That kind of
honesty and sincerity in the stubborn adj
herence to wrong and dangerous principles
is anything but admirable.
An Eastern Democrat says: zone rea-
son why 1 did not vote for Bryan in 1896
was because 1 knew so little of him as a
man. Since then / have studied him and
now think he is one of the greatest men
America has produced since the days of
Lincoln" 1t would be interesting TO know
what evidence CT craftsmanship Mr.. Bryan
has given since 1896. During the fall of
1897 and '9S he visited a great many county
fairs, making speeches for pay and divid-
ing gate money, so that he now pays taxes
on more personal property than any other
man in Lincoln, but that is no proof of
craftsmanship. The truth is Mr.. Bryan
has never given the slightest evidence of
craftsmanship, executive ability or prac-
teal knowledge of affairs. His reputation
rests on his oratory and the persistence
and FEASIBILITY with which he advocates
erroneous and dangerous doctrines. If
these constitute craftsmanship he is a
statesman, otherwise not. Instead Of bet
ter deserving support than he did in 1896
he should be beaten by a much larger ma
l jority.
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Senate Lindsay, of Kentucky. did not
talk politics during his recent visit to this
city, but there is reason to believe he is
still opposed to Bryan and 16-to-l as he
was four years ago. Just before leaving
Washington he told the correspondent of
the Brooklyn Eagle that despite the effort
of the Kansas City platform makers to
cover up the silver declaration by bringing
anti-imperialism to the front, the adoption
of the 16-to-1 plank would result in making
free silver a leading issue of the cam
paign." The senator's address before the
Bar Association here shows he believes
that the United States government. like
any other, may exercise imperial powers
whenever il becomes necessary.