The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-25
PRESIDENTS VIEW or PoPULIsTs
AND FREE-sILyER REPUBLICANS.
Col. Garlic Warned of the Danger of
Thinking-Iiis Unhappy Experi-
ence with a Republican.

are few hundred honest Pops and Free
Silver Republicans who might fly the track
IL they knew that Colonel Bryan had
agreed with Dave Hill, Croker, Bourke
Cochran, Carl Schurz. Olney and other gold
standard Democrats and mugwumps TO let
up on free silver. but to most of them it
would make no difference. 1t isn't free
silver they are after so much as revenge
and punishment They left the Republican
party because the Republican party could
not find places for all Of them on the gov
eminent pay roll. AT least many of them
left for that reason, and the rest deserted
because they didn't like some of the Re-
publican bosses and leaders. There was no
principle involved in their disaffection and
disgruntlement any more than there was
when Deacon Jones left the church because
Sister Smith said he was an old psalm
singing hypocrite. The Pops and Silver
Republicans, so-called, have hitched on to
Bryan's cart and he can trail them along
behind through mud, dust. slop and slush
in any direction he pleases. They are not
in position to see which way he is going,
and they don't care a cuss, so he gets there.
1.-THE talk you hear from Republicans
about the way Colonel Bryan is fooling and
deceiving these people amounts to nothing,
and you couldn't make an impression on
one of them by telling him that Bryan
was hypocrite and a conscienceleSS dema-
gogue even if he believed 1t. They are
like the fellow who wanted to beat GER
tain candidate he didn't like because. he
said. he was stuck up friend expostu-
lated with him by telling him that the OPP
posing candidate was a drunkard and
consummate scoundrel. Why said he,
get
ROOM
lean you prove that?' he inquired.
"'Don't have to prove 1t. He admits it
himself, and his friends don't deny it.
well, i never knew that before. i am
glad you told me. / thought all the time
that he was a tolerabley decent man. but
If he is the kind of a man you say he Is. he
is the kind of man / want, for l want to
puke in the district
LAS 1 said, there are few hundred con-
scientious but mistaken Pops and Free
Silver Republicans who might fly the track
il they knew that Bryan was making a
horse of them, but we are in for greater
danger of losing level headed Democrats
that have always been with us, when they
discover Colonel Bryan'S insincerity on the
paramount issue"
GARIICS EXPERIENCE.
Colonel Garlic related an experience he
had with Republican a few days ago,
"'Tut, tut. Colonel" Immediately re-
sponded the president. when he said he
had been set to thinking. This is no time
for a member of this club to be thinking.
There is no objection to a moderate In
diligence in that pastime before the issues
are made up, but it is too late for thinking
now. Colonel Bryan and Ben Tillman
had done the thinking for the party when
the platform was adopted, and nothing re-
mains for us now but TO do the voting.
Thought has been the cause of many a
man losing his place in the front ranks of
Democracy. 1t took General Grant, John
A. Logan and thousands of other clever
men away from us years ago, and in 1896
we lost an army of the best men We had
because they got to thinking. Colonel
Carries admission practically takes him
out of this club, but the chair will not in
sist upon his going If his experience with
that Republican was of such nature as
to unavoidably provoke the undemocratic
act OF thinking in the midst of a campaign.
What was the experience that you began
to tell about, Colonel Garlic?"
well, it was simply this: had said
to him that the Democratic party had al
ways been better friend of labor than his
party had been, and L hadn't more than
got 1T out OF my mouth when he opened
on me with fuSillade of words that nearly
paralyzed me for the moment. 1 can't be-
gin TO repeat all he said but some things
remember. He asserted most vehemently
that a politician or a political party that
protested to be a better friend TO labor
than anybody else was Il liar, hypocrite
and an mpostor-deceitful, dishonest con-
temptible and indecent. These are only
a few of the epithets he used. l wish /
could remember the others, for they were
corkers. He said the Democratic party
got into power in 1893 on the pretense that
1t was the friend of labor and would i'm
mediately repeal the Mckinley tariff and
open up tho markets of the world, so that
labor could be employed day and night at
increased wages getting out stuff to be
shipped abroad. Said he, We got the re-
peal according 10 promise, with the usual
Democratic results when you fellows have
undertaken to reform something. Labor,
instead of being employed day and night
at better wages, was thrown out of EN-
sand men who had had steady work for
four years under the Harrison admins
tration We're dropped from the pay rolls
OF the mills and factories, and tens of thou
SANDS OF them became common tramps.
Hunger. starvation and misery was on
every hand L ventured to inquire of the
speaker, when he mentioned tramp, If II
wasn't a fact that the people in most of
the cities had provided large and commo-
dious souphouses for tramps"
NO. SIR he replied. Souphouses in
those days were looked upon by the tramp
as aristocratic affairs for the benefit of a
class. They were established for superior
people, such persons and their families as
were starving at home, and not for tramps
Inc tramp mao 10 hustle in the rural dis
tricts and depend on the slop barrel with
an occasional handout of stale bread, skip
pered cheese and fish bones. The line was
drawn against him at the souphouse'
DO You mean to say that the Demo-
cratic party is responsible for the creation
OF any class in this country? / inquired.
You heard what I said he replied.
Under this Democratic souphouse system
society slipped down two notches. Before
it came into vogue, society had naturally
divided into three classes-the upper, lower
and middle class. There never had been
enough lndigent poor, and destitute per-
sons, before that time, to make class, but
the introduction of tariff and other at
tempted reforms changed the conditions
ana supplied the existing demand for two
more classes-the tramp and the SOUP
house patron
when he got through" continued
Colonel Garlic, Il wondered If the vision OF
the souphouse appearing TO thousands of
workinSmen, who remember those terrible
times. would not deter them from voting
for Colonel Bryan. but l didn't say a
word"
THAT was proper said the president.
when souphouses and hard times are
mentioned by Republicans. don't say a
word. and avoid the possibility of our haV-
ing 10 meet paramount issue that we
didn't make ourselves
Let il be the rule of the club that we
Will not discuss a question that was not
and we VIII avoid n great. deal of disagree
able embarrassment w. S. H.
IN EVIDENCE or PROSPERITY.
Outpouring of Relief for Galveston
Proves Good Times.