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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30
CONVENTION OF JURISTS.
Annual Meeting of the American Bar
Association.

SARATOGA, n. Y, Aug. 29.--The opening
session CT the twenty-third annual meet
ing of the American Bar Association way
held here to-day. The presidents address
was delivered by ex-senator Charles +.
Henderson. of Omaha, Neb., communicate
ing the most noteworthy changes IN stat
ute law on points of general interest made
in several States and by Congress during
the preceding year.
AT the genera! session tonight a paper
was read by Richard NJ. venable. OF Bal
timore, on 1.-THE Growth of Law" Ed
ward Avery Hartman, of Chicago. read a
paper on ultra Wires Corporation Laws"
In the section of legal education this
afternoon the chief address was made by
Charles Noble Gregory, on 1.-The State of
Legal Education in the World" William
Draper Lewis. of the University of Penn
sylvania, spoke on The Proper Prepare
tons for the Study of Law In the Sec
tion of patent trademark and copyright
law the chairman's address was delivered
by Franklin Fish, of Boston. Reports
were submitted on federal courts by Rob-
ert s. Taylor. of Fort Wayne, Ind. and
on Patent Office practice by James Kay.
of Pittsburg, Pa.
William P. Breen was chosen as the In
diana member of the general council.
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Apathy.
To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal:

To the Editor of the indianapolis Journal:
The cry Of apathy is sure 10 be raised by
politicians about the middle of August in
each election year. The truth is that the
man who is not apathetic when the Their
momctcr is dancing about SIS degrees is 4
fool, and most men are not wholly bereft Of
reason. The chap who is after d good fat
office, of course, is meyer apathetic, but the
average citizen usually declines to whoop
it up in the interest of the patriotic office
seeker until signs OF frost begin 10 multi
ply. This is just as it should be and will
eventually bring about a much-needed,
practical reform in political methods. The
fact is that our political campaigns are al
together too lons-winded and everybody
becomes weary long before election day.
The present presidential campaign has been
in actual movement for fully six months,
and many county tickets ave been made
up for quite II long time. Floyd county.
for instance, is only about twenty miles
square. and two-thirds of the voters live in
New Albany. Yet both parties nominated
their county tickets so long ago that not
one voter in a hundred remembers who
were nominated. On the other hand, Eng
lish parliamentary elections. which corrc-
spond to our presidential elections. are
completed in less than sixty days. Abolish
conventions, nominate all candidates oil Pc
tition. not more than sixty days before
election. and apathy will disappear.
GEO. b. CARDWILL.
New AIbauv- Ind Aug 2S
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AN INFORMING ARTICLE.

The Noblesville Ledger has a Democratic
contemporary which imagines that even
in Hamilton county it can hold the Bryan
party by a number of false
regarding prices. Evidently the Ledger
thinks that systematic Justification may
in time deceive someone, SO 1T turns upon
the prevaricating Democrat and exposes
him. The Democrat says that it requires
80 per cent. more wheat to buy a stove
now than it did in 1896. The Ledger, on
going to the dealers, finds that the average
stove which cost s13 in 1896 costs SIG now,
and tina wheat was worth 60 cents in 1896
and is worth "a cents now so that it does
not take quite so much wheat now to buy
a stove as it did in 1896. The Democrat
next asserted that it takes twenty bushels
more of corn to buy a wagon than it did in
1896. The Ledger finds, by consulting the
dealers, that the wagon selling for $50 now
sold for $50 in 1896. while corn is worth
S61s cents in Noblesville now compared
with 20 cents on Aug. "a, 1896, which means
that Ii took 800 bushels of corn to buy
the same wagon that could be purchased
for $50 bushels at the present time. The
Democrat declared that it takes 40 per cent.
more grain to buy a plow now than it did
in 1896. The Ledger gives the name of a
firm that sells the same grade of plows
for the same money as in 1896. "It re-
quires twice as much corn to purchase a
coil of rope now as it did in 1885, says the
Democrat. The Ledger finds that the price
of rope is the same now as in 1896, while
corn is worth 161a cents a bushel more
now than then. Galvanized barbed wire
costs from 81 to $3.50 per hundred more
than in 1885," says the Democrat. Quoting
from the Noblesville dealers, the Ledger
finds that wire cost 81 rs per 100 pounds
in 1886 and is worth $3.50 now. The farmer
who took 100 bushels of oats to Mobiles
Vile in August, 1896, received $12, of which
he had 81 left after buying 400 pounds of
wire. Aug. "a he could have sold 100 BUSH
els of oats for 500, which would lave paid
for 400 pounds of wire and left him Sc.
The Ledger concludes its searching ar
ticle by a comparison OF the prices of the
articles named by it's contemporary, as
given by the Noblesville dealers. The cost
e
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Report of Committee submitted Last
Night and VIII BE Discussed
This Morning.
THREE SESSIONS YESTERDAY
POLITICAL DISCUSSION RENEWED In
THE MORNING.
Delegate Green Makes Charges
Against Bishop Walters-COnyen-
ton Will Close Tonight.

Those who. attended the meeting OF the
National Afro-American Council last night
with the expectation of witnessing a clash
between two political factions over the
adoption of resolutions were disappointed.
A rumor was current in the afternoon that
the Republicans intended at the night ses-
sion to introduce resolutions indorsing the
administration of President Mckinley. and
that the Democrats who were cognizant of
the move intended to submit a minority
report d~cnouncing the foreign and domestic
policies of the administration and indorsing
the candidacy of Bryan. 1t was anticipated
that the introduction Of both reports would
be accompanied by a lively discussion, and
as q consequence the Senate chamber was
crowded 20 its doors with an audience
eager for the fray. 1t was expected that
the committee on resolutions would report
the first thing after the session convened
and that the remainder of the evening
would be devoid to discussion, but when
the chairman had raped for order with his
gavel the announced that 1t was
not ready with its report. anc IT was not
until late in the evening that T. Thomas
Fortune, of New York. the chairman or
the committee on resolutions, appeared
WIFI Tic ACKNOWLEDGEMENT tia AN
had completed its labors.
When Mr.. Fortune began reading, the
audience, which had been very turbulent
at times, became very quiet and listened
eagerly to every word that he uttered.
When he had concluded some looked re-
lieved, others astonished and some were
evidently disappointed. From first to last
the resolutions were devoted TO the equal
suffrage rights of the Afro-American peo-
pie. the denunciation of an immoral and
| unprecedented construction of the four
teenth amendment of the Constitution in
the States of Mississippi. South Carolina,
| louisiana and North Carolina, and an
urgent appeal to the Afro-Americans to
stand by their suffrage rights. There was
not one word of political significance in
| the resolutions. The committee on resolu-
tions is composed of the following MEM
| bers: T. Thomas Fortune, New York;
George H. White, North Carolina; F. L.
| cGhee, Minnesota; j. w. Lyons, Georgia;
r. R.. Wright, Georgia, and twenty-seven
others.
The present meeting of the council will
come to a close with the banquet to be
given this evening at Tomlinson Hall.
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R

The Ladies' Home Journal opens with the
first of a series of papers giving the his
tory of the White House for the hundred
years of its existence. A good many people
enjoy Samantha Aliens" humorous
stories, and a series of them lately begun
tells the adventures of herself and Josiah
while on a visiting tour among relatives.
A considerable part of this issue of the
magazine is given up to q consideration of
the coming fashions.
Leading articles in the American Monthly
Review of Reviews for September are: "A
Character Sketch of King Humbert," "Can
China Be Saved?" Missions in China
"Japan's Present Attitude Toward China"
Pressing Needs Of the Philippines
America and the Reconstruction of
China" THE National Prohibition Party
late Coils p. Huntington. There is also
the usual summary of the news of the
month and review of current literature.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine opens with
the first Of a series OF papers on the South
African Beers. by Olive Schreiner. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that she gives
them a good character and the English a
poor one, go far as their relations to each
other are concerned. In order to have both
sides of the story il is worth while to read
what she says. Considerable space is taken
up by an article on China and the Pow
ers," by o Brisben Walker, and one on
what China Really Is" by John Brewster
Dane. Other topics considered are: "Por-
trait Painting, and Some Early English
Painters. Buffalo and Her Pan-American
Exposition" THE Human Eye and How TO
Care For It." and ''The Work of F. G.
Atwood, the Great -Cartoonist." There is
also a good proportion OF fiction.
Lippincott's Magazine for September has.
for its complete novel. an entertaining
story of English life. by Thomas Cobb.
There are short stories by c. T. Brady.
Cy Warman and r. V. Risley. In the
great battles series. by the late Stephen
Crane. is a description of the battle of Lut-
zen. The contribution of special note is a
Paper for Parents" by Henry s. Pan
coast, in which he treats of young Amer
lea at the Gates OF Literature, and the
difficulty many young people find in OPEN
ing these gates. owing to their unneces-
sarily limited vocabulary. TIE schoolboy,"
he says, gains a knowledge [. language
from his labors over Latin, Greek or
French, but his appreciation OF literature
must be gained chiefly or wholly from 4
study of the great writer's Of his mother
tongue. These English classics. at least. ne
should be able 10 read uninpeded. not as an
alien, dictionary in hand and the Common
tator perched like Black Care upon his
shoulders, but as the heir to a mighty
kingdom who comes into his own" This
poverty of vocabulary Is but an indication
of the spiritual or intellectual poverty OF
the child's surroundings. and IL is this
feature OF the matter which directly con-
Germs parents. 1t is a thoughtful paper.
The Atlantic Monthly offers. from time 10
time. some extremely clever papers on edu-
c~ational topics One in the September issue.
by James Champ,in Fernald. is entitled
THE Child" Probably" he says. there
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

1t appears that Controller Johnson is
having a wearisome struggle with the ex-
penditures of the city in the hope of cut
ting down the estimates of the several
exceeding 20 cents will pay put. 1t is re-
ported that after cutting $4,000 from the
park estimates and 500, 600 from the esti-
mates of the Board of Safety for new
fire houses and equipment, and other
smaller cuts, a-ggregating altogether s4sl,-
coo, he finds tina there is $S4S, 900 to be met
by taxation, while a 7O-cent levy will yield
but $4,000. The estimates of the Park
Board are probably made upon the as
enough money TO make attractive the lands
which were purchased at high prices by the
mayor of his political friends. Doubtless
the board sees no other way than TO make
something out of that scandalous land
purchase instead of leaving it the unsightly
territory 1t is. Then. the estimate for the
Improvement OF the fire department is left
out. Notwithstanding the mayor has de-
clared that the necessity for Improvement
is most urgent-so urgent, indeed. that he
asked for an issue of bonds 10 build new
fire houses and for their equipment. Has
that necessity ceased? Again. is provision
made in the estimates for raising money to
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

the opinion OF the managers of the Bryan
canvass. could only be accomplished by
the nomination Of Stevenson as the Popu-
iistic candidate for Vice President so that
the fusion might be complete. Mr.. Bryan
himself wanted the nomination OF Steven
son made. and Ia Difference TO his wishes
If for no other reasons the thing ought TO
be done. The statement that Mr.. Bryan
desired the nomination of Stevenson settled
1t. and 1t was carried by a large majority.
Populists desire above everything else is
the election OF Bryan should not be for
gotten.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

One of the Anti-imperialist reformers Of
whose influence much was expected is Rev.
Y; but he regrets the action of the antis
in this city because he considers Mr.. Bryan
IAN eloquent political agitator, without a
shred of executive experience, who has
constantly employed his vigorous powers
in the advocacy of the most persistent po-
litical heresies. while his reiterated politi-
cal predictions made in his campaign Of
1896 are now a laughing stock"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

Is not In all educational literature a more
mischicvous phrase than the child For
merry VIC had children-actual entities.
real beings. Now we ave psychology and
an abstraction the child He is not Z real
being. The Lord never made him. He has
not been created, but excogitated. Children
have endless variety. The child has no
variety except such as marks the different
psychological secTs that have Eaaaufac-
tured him." Then follows an outline Of the
theories that various psychologists have
Incorporated into "the child" and an anus
ing picture of the astonishing creature pro-
duced. THE training of real children" the
writer says ''calls out all the most various
resources of parent or teacher, and Is q
wonderfully uplifting and developing pro-
cess for one who accepts it rightly. But. the
study of the child as an abstraction, can
be done with a cold heart on unvaryiIg
maxlms, amid which the theorists soul is
continually contracting till you can hear
the dr.: bones rattle-pedagogy, pedagogics,
pedagogical. psychology. psychological,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS mass.' It is an arti-
Gle all teachers ought 20 read.
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hard: you are right" from all parts Of the
.cora.
PLAN OF BoycoTTING PROPOSED.
The report q. the legislative committee
recommended tina: colored people In States
which nave discriminating laws refuse 10
ride upon railroads or engage 81 any other
:orm OF diversion IN which they are sub
:ccts OF discrimination. This boycotting
plan seemed 10 meet the approval OF the
bod-.
President Walters sought 70 end the dis
cussion OF the legislative report. which Was
growing decidedly warm. by referring the
report back to the committee. and proceed
ing with reading a list OF names OF promi-
nent men whom he had invited to address
the council. When he reached the name
OF Senator Pritchard (Republican), OF
North Carolina, Representative White said
he would strongly object 20 the council
being addressed by a man who had said he
would favor Withholding public office from
negroes when they were I'm tie majority.
Some OF the delegates questioned the truth
Pritchard and a lively scene was in prog
ress for some time. Jesse Lawson. OF
Washington, told the chairman that he
had no right 10 invite Senator Pritchard.
you might hurt yourself" During the talk
about Senator Pritchard the speakers plat
form was surrounded by gestulating.
bodybuilding delegates. Some said Sem
ator Pritchard should be asked IL he said
what Representative White attributed TO
him and. X he did. TO refuse him the
privilege of addressing the-esancil. Ii is
understood that the senator is on his way
10 Indianapolis, and the decision OF the
council oil the question Is. therefore.
awaited with interest. The discussion was
ended by the carrying of a motion TO ad-
1ourn, and 1t was not resumed in the after
noon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

The New York Nation, which is trying
to support Mr.. Bryan because of its anti
imperialistic notions, cannot come TO the
point of indorsing him. 1t praised his In
dianapolis speech. but refers to his Grown
of thorns and cross of gold' as not be-
ing the index of a sincere man. The Ma
ton finds in the opening of his Indian
apolis speech an adcaptandum appeal more
guarded than the one four years ago. but
none the less IN appeal which causes one
to doubt Mr.. Bryan's sincerity. And this
from a friendi
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

General Jackson was an expansionist. In
a letter to a friend, under date of Feb. II,
1s4s. he said: .'on such subjects 1 thought
never to cede any land or boundary. but
always to add to it by honorable treaty,
thus extending the area of the Republic"
Jackson was not the kind of Democrat to
favor the ratification of a treaty acquiring
down the flag.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

Some person in this city has imposed
the New York World by sending it
the Sentinels creation OF a Republican
canvas showing the State Democratic by
1s.eo- The story is based upon the
Sentinel's falsehood of a Republican cam
vass- Let the dispatch makers once get the
idea that the World and other New York
papers viii pay for such stuff, and they
Will be carrying Indiana by 100. 900 a month
-houra
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

The announcement that the Russian gov
eminent has placed an order with a Chi
cago firm for 5000. O0e pounds of live cattle,
delivered at San Francisco, is construed
by some as indicating that Russia expects
a long war in China. More likely, it means
simply that Russia is looking to this coun-
try for present supplies. Six million pounds
means about 1000 cattle.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

The Kansas City Star finds consolation
for the census report regarding the popula-
tion of that city in the fact that there is,
at the mouth of the Kaw, a city OF 2l5, 00J
people-lS.15 2 on the Missouri side and 5l.-
as on the Kansas side and IL adds that
"for all commercial and social uses, and for
the purposes OF jubilation, this great ag-
g~regation OF souls may be regarded as one
community" Evidently it may 'for the
purpose OF jubilation."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

The article of the Ledger is both instruc-
tive and timely. 1t corrects prevailing mis-
apprehension regarding prices and sweeps
away many charges about the effect of
trusts upon prices. but If the editor i'm
AGNES that he has silenced his contem-
porary he is mistaken. In two or three
weeks his Democratic friend will reprint
the same set OF stupid faIsehoods. 1t is
his business, and he must follow il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

The Springfield Mass.) Republican and
oaher Aguinaldo organs are declaring that
Captain English was a Republican in 1896.
Strange. then, that Mayor Taggart should
have appointed him a Democratic member
of the Park Board, that the marshal of the
Bryan notification procession should nave
named him as assistant marshal, and that
the Democrats in this district should nave
desired to nominate him for Congress in
1903
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

Boss Croker did not permit Mr.. Coler to
have a delegate in Kings county, where he
lives. Mr.. Coler. as controller, has been
independent and has amused himself by
criticising the boss. He has also given out
the impression that he is much better than
the mass of Democrats in New York city.
To be such does not make him a truly good
person, but to claim it is enough to stir up
the resentment of amman
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pay OF the temporary loans which the
mayor is getting in n hand-io-mouth man.
ner? The truth is Mayor Taggart has In
creased the expenditures of the city 70
to so to the limit Of the levy.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

Those who have supposed thai the sale
CT public lands had nearly ceased will be
surprised TO learn on the authority of the
forthcoming report OF the commissioner of
OF the Office during last year were between
sl.25o.0Oo and $1,5OO.OOO more tha in any
previous year. the returns from the sale of
public lands amounting to almost 5000. 900.
the number of acres disposed OF being
about u. 100000
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

At the meeting Of the Populist national
committee General Weaver. OF Iowa, was
spokesman for those who favored the SUBJ
stitution OF Stevenson for Towne for Vice
President He said the main hope of the
Populists this year was TO elect Mr.. Bryan
President. 1t made but little difference. he
said. who was Vice President: TIE one
thing the Populists wanted was the election
- Bryan. and that. In his opinion. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30
Better WHIT.

San Francisco Post.
Bryan's Indiana majority is placed at
25. 900 by Democratic Committeeman Martin.
of that State. However. 1t viii be well
TO await the actual returns before giving
Mr.. Martins figures possible undue con-
sideration. 1t would be well TO also remem-
Der that Indiana gave Mckinley over 1900
plurality four years ago. and that there is
no apparent reason this year why she
should change that verdict
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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can be- found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House and Fifth-avenue
CHICAGO-PaImer House. p. o. News Co.. 21I
Dearborn street.
CINcINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. 1A Vine
street
lOUISVILLE-C. T. Deering. northwest corner
OF Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville
Book Co. go Fourth avenue
5T. LoUIs-Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Riggs House. Ebbitt
House and Wiliards Hotel.
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A Trouble in Proportion.

Aunt Minerva, how do you feel about this
shirt-waist-man business"
well. to one refreshing. tidy man we are
going to see eleven rumpled, untidy monstrosi-
ties"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

The report from the New York markets
that general business has quadrupled with
IN the last two weeks will not be hailed
with joy by those who are assailing the
general prosperity of the country.
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Patriotic Superstition.

THAT candidate backed out and wouldn't ac-
cept his notification"
What allied him? i'
He said he wouldn't imperil his country's
destiny by becoming President on the thirteenth
ticket in the field"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

; The Sentinel's story about the showing
OF the Republican canvass in this State,
as told by the New York World, is being
used by Republican papers in the East as a
Republican apathy-destroyer. Thus are the
lying devices of the wicked turned to the
advantage of the righteous.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-30

Harper's Weekly expresses the hope that
the literature of the Anti-imperialist con-
y~ention. lately held in this city, shall not
tall into the hands of the young. "for any
thing more essentially immoral and un-
days of the copperheads during the late
civil war;
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Easy Enough.

How did the forecast man explain this I'M
precedented torridness?
He says those sun spots are melting off the
sun and are dropping on TO the earth"