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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
ALLIED PEOPLES PARTY.
Its Platform a Bid for Extremists
and the Disseminated.

Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Peoples party has met in Louisville
and adjourned In the ruck there were some
new entries, but the leaders were the same
old reformers that have been party build
ing for many years and of whom we have
heard so much. The reformers are pro-
gressive at least They change the name of
their party with the same regularity that
a woman changes her Easter bonnet and in
lieu of all other parties we have now be-
fore us the Allied Peoples party
The platform is practically the same as
appeared at Ocala and Omaha, and con-
tains some features which appeared in the
Democratic platforms adopted at Chicago
and Kansas City. 1t is a bid for all the dis
contented, all the extremists. all the So
ciahsts and all those who are disturbed in
mind and wearied in spirit. That there are
many sincere men who believe that they
will find in this new departure the solution
OF all the mysteries and perpleXities of life
cannot be denied. There are good men in
all movements and there are selfish men
in all movements, and the selfish men take
the lead. In the great political parties the
leaders seek public honor and public of
fee with the attendant emoluments With
these new departures which must be looked
upon as mere side shows the leaders do
themselves political consequence and a
market value which will make them sought
by the leaders of other parties If they can
show TO the campaign managers of the
dominant parties that they have consid-
cradle force behind them and that they are
In position to deliver the goods" not
only will they be exploited and sent out
campaigning or given important positions
In campaign headquarters. but they will be
allowed liberal remuneration and money
to spend in the cause, which they take
good care not TO spend.
Under existing conditions sane man
who reflects will, for d moment, believe
that any third party composed of odds and
ends and rebellious fragments, and repre-
senting nothing but murmurings of discon-
tent and the VagarieS of politics, can hope
it's candidates to office. National campaigns
are fought out in the open, on the broad
arena, and those who retire to the cave of
Adullam cannot hope to inspire confidence
or attract many followers. Anything that
can be accomplished by these wOud-be re-
formers is possible of accomplishment only
through the Democratic party, which,
while not going to any radical extremities,
seeks to benefit the masses generally. and
this is the paramount principle of the new
organization.
The Democratic party is the real party of
reform, and all side issues. such as the one
organized in Louisville. means only
a splintering off from the Democratic mass.
While granting the rank and file of those
who assembled at Louisville the best of in
tentions and all sincerity, their wisdom
must be questioned in attempting TO do the
impossible with a handful of members
they can render the accomplishment of
much easily nOSSiblp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
one Of DoIIiver's stories.

New York Times.
Senator Dolliver. OF Iowa, tells this story
on himself. which is expected 10 illustrate
the difficulty a man OF small means finds
in getting along at the national capital. AS
a representative he found little trouble. but
when he became senator he found ne had
much more pretentious title 10 support. He
was invited 10 social functions. where he
found the requirements OF etiquette quite
severe.
ION one occasion" says Senator Dollver.
Il was invited TO attend a social function
given by high official ! went and had A
most delightful time, concluding that
Washington social life was not 4 thing TO
be in the least afraid OF. This conclusion
was reached by the way, just as ! was
taking leave OF the host.
"A llVeried servant approached me and
asked II my carriage vas waiting. and
whether il was a single or double convey
ance Out OF consideration for lean
pocketbOok had ordered cab rather than
a two-horse carriage AS ! was taking
leave OF few OF my friends outside the
door | had the pleasure OF hearing the
servant shouting TO the carriage drivers
Senator Delivers one-hoss hack. Sem
ator Delivers one-hoss hack
THE man then came 10 me. ano with his
head high I'm the air. announced. Your
hacks waitin'. Senator Dolliver.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
TEE UNITED STATES rs"
England at Last Has Recognized This
Important Fact.

London News.
Ought We to say 1.-THE United States is"
or the United States are?" Our regard
for grammar pulls US in one direction; our
desire 10 maintain the comfy Of nations
inclines us to the other side. II Is no use
for a few Of us 10 be pedantic In the face
of the officially expressed opinion and de-
termination Of the citizens OF the great
Republic. A committee OF the House OF
Representatives at Washington has recent
ly decided in favor of the singular number.
and for the future we shall have the high
est and most unimpeachable authority for
saying THE United States Is" Ii viii not
sound pretty, but then Americanisms oc-
casionaliy do 10 our effete and feudalized
ears seem little harsh. And the imposi-
ton Of our ideas upon our American cous-
ins is policy which was abandoned in the
year 17s2.
II IL had been attempted 10 write is in
stead Of are in the draft of the Constitu-
tion of the United States rather more than
hundred years ago that remarkable ana
venerable instrument might never have
been enacted at all. A controversy OF the
most embittered kind ragged in the early
days or American liberty round that very
question. The Republicans OF that time
(whose direct political descendants are. Gu
riously enough. the Democrats OF to-day
carefully maintained the idea OF a loose
union of sovereign States. i'm their hatred
OF Capitalization they never allowed the
idea or nation 10 be uppermost. and Y
was only minority OF their opponents, the
Federalists, who would have thought OF
employing the word is" The civil war,
coming after sixty years Of national devel-
opment. may be said TO have settled the
question against the trainers OF the Consti-
tuition.
1t is true that in that document there
still appears one phrase, the only one.
which perpetuates the ancient Republican
idea: Treason against the United States
shall consist in levyinG war against them,
or in adhering TO their enemies" But at
the present time. if the plural verb is used.
il is only used in speaking OF the States
as a group Of federated communities and
not as a Nation. A ruling 90 this effect
has. we believe. been made in the Supreme
Court. The whole controversy - a charac-
teristic product of the only thoroughly ar
tifcial policy in the world All other coun-
tries have plain and simple names where
of the memory of man runneth not 10 the
contrary" most of them without any GER
tain origin at ALL 10 say nothing OF etymol-
ogy, traceable through several great Ian
guages. But the United States lis" unique
in most ways-a fact which the world is
beginning to recognize.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER.
His Duties RigidIy Defined by Mis-
souri, Court.

Macon CMo.) Letter in ST Louis Republic.
An engineer on duty has no right TO adj
minister a well-merited rebuke to fool
hardy boys who happen to be standing
dangerously close to the train. This reas-
oning is approved by the Supreme Court of
Missouri i'm the action Of Livingston VS.. the
Wabash Railroad a Macon county case
the opinion having reached here to-day.
The reason for the drastic rule is that harm
might occur if an engineer. even for an in
slant suffered his eyes to be diverted from
straight ahead.
In this case Myrtle Livingston, a three
and-a-haIf-year-old girl, was run over and
killed by a nOrthbound train at defendant
station here March q. 1896. AS Engineer
William Ross, one of the Oldest and best
on the road, was pulling his train into the
Yards he was compelled TO sound the dan
ger whistle to warn some young men from
the track. The noise frightened the girl,
who ran diagOnally across the platform
and Jumped on the rails a few feet ahead
of the train As the engineer approa ched
the boys held to their dangerous position,
and he was compelled 10 put his air IN the
'emergency. me speed was checked from
twenty TO six miles an hour The young
men left the rails just the locomotive
reached them. and as the engineer passed
he turned his head toward them and said:
Its a wonder you fellows wouldn't get off
the track!' At almost the same instant
the little girl jumped on the track, and her
head was severed from the body.
The engineer never saw her at any time,
but when told of the accident got dow
and removed the little corpse from the rails
and carried il over 10 the mother. The jury
were instructed that If at the time he dis
covered the girl on the track. or could
have discovered her on the track. the en-
gineer could not have stopped the train.
they must find for the defendant The jury
so found and plaintiff the girls father.
appealed.
The Supreme Court, in reversing the case.
says il was a question for the jury 10 say
whether the engineer could not have
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
REvOLTERS PROMOTED.
New and Effective Movement in New
York Police Control.
Brooklyn Eagle.

Brooklyn Eagle.
Commissioner Partridge has carried out
the old Roosevelt theory in promoting five
of the patrolmen who made the excise
arrests on Sunday to be ''wardmen," or
detectives in plain clothes. The example
will not be lost in the other station houses
and it reveals the first weapon 10 the COM
missioner's hand If he chooses to wake
UP and push the fight against Deveryism in
the force. What would have happened TO
any patrolman who, five months ago, had
dared to arrest any man or woman who
was paying protection money is easy to
guess. In fact il did happen so often TO
men who made such arrests ignorantly
that the whole force was paralyzed. No
patrolman dared TO arrest any man unless
he knew how good the offenders pull
was. Commissioner Partridge's action
means that pulls which used to be strong
enough Go not hold and IL is a lesson that
the force needs If il is ever to be made
decent But patrolmen who expect to get
promotion by making arrests would be
wise 40 look out for other offenders than
those against the excise law. If the present
from the revolt in West Thifty-seventh
street, should become permanent IL would
be a boomerang for the administration
and the disposition to promote men who
brought il about would cool down. There
are plenty of more serious heterogeneous
against the law. and against good govern
ment well. than selling beer on Sunday.
Suppose ambitious patrolmen devote them
selves to arresting keepers of resorts whose
existence is violation of the law not only
on Sundays but on week days? Suppose
they should catch few burglars and
sneak thieves2 Those are the things which
the people as well as the commissioner
would applaud. Promotions secured by
promoting a dry Sunday are built on a
sandy fOundatiO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
WARsHIP'S PEACEFUL END.
Old Frigate Macedonian. Captured by
Decatur. Is a village Hotel.
New York Herald.


New York city's absorption of its SUD-
urbs has been fatal to the race of hard
she'll, brine-incrusted clam-diggers that has
for 800 years or more peopled the little dot
of sand in Long Island sound, one mile
long and half as wide known as City
island, which has recently been swallowed
up by the great metropolis. One by one
the hunters of the bivalve are being laid
away in the little cemetery overlooking the
quiet waters of the sound. Those who have
not yet succumbed 10 the hand Of time
are gradually drifting away, seeking other
fields, or are accepting the gold of asso-
clated capitalists who have within month
past selected the island a fruitful Held
Tor speculation, or see in II golden return
for investment
Only a few steps from the sandy shore
where the clam digger purSues his voca-
ton, and in the loneliest part Of the island,
stands the Macedonian Hotel When the
wreck of the famous British frigate and
prison ship Macedonian was bleaching her
hulk the shores of Harris island, di-
rectly across the water from City island,
a native conceived the idea of putting the
solid and age-protected timbers TO good use.
With boats and assistants he made many
trips 10 the old hulk, gathering the tim
berS and towing them to the beach in front
side the shore.
From the wreckage he erected what has
ever since been known as the Macedonian
Hotel and on its side are inscribed these
words, which tell the history Of the famous
old house:
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
A NAVAL SCHOOL.
story of Mr. Cramps Interview with
the Gar.

Philadelphia Press.
To a few friends at luncheon during the
visit of Prince Henry 10 Philadelphia Chas.
of Russia, father Of the present Car, when
he got his contract for the first Russian
battleship built at the cramp yards. He
was summoned TO meet the Car at a con-
ference of the most celebrated naval ex-
perts in Europe. Mr.. Cramp. unaccus-
toned 10 the ways of kings and courts. had
asked friend for hint two deport-
ment
at all depends" was the reply. ION the
manner in which the Gar receives YOU
Anything / tell you might be just the re-
verse Of what you should do under the cir
cumstances. Act just as you would in the
house of any American gentleman and you
will not go far wrong.
When Mr.. Cramp entered the audience
room the Car was standing surrounded
by a group of naval dignitaries. He re-
ceived the American shipbuilder cordially
and motioned him to a seat II Mr.. Cramp
had been a European he would have re-
NAMED standing while the Gar stood. Be
ing an American. he sat down. In a few
moments Alexander sat down beside him.
After a brief talk the Car suddenly asked:
''Mr. Cramp, i'm what school of naval ar
chitecture were you educated2"
The American shipbuilder was so much
startled by the question that he arose. The
Car arose also, his great form towering
hand on his chest the shipbuilder replied:
"Your Highness. / was educated in my
fathers shipyard He was educated In his
fathers shipyard. We founded school OF
naval architecture
There was profound silence amid the
group OF naval dgnitaries. Grasping Mr..
Cramps hand the Car said:
school that / am glad to have build ships
for nv navy ~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
Sympathy for Colorado.

Milwaukee Free Press.
The State of Colorado is in position to be
commiserated because of her senators. Her
man Patterson worked himself into a state
of mind on Thursday over the violation of
the rules Of war by the little Kansas gen
eral, Funston, in his capture of Aguinaldo
He says Funston, in entering Aguinal do's
camp he did. liable to death as a
spy Funston understood the chances he
was taking A soldier is liable to death any
minute. Funston went after Aguinaldo and
got him, and the people of the United
States are getting pretty sick and tired Of
the kind of cackle they are treated TO by
men of the Patterson stamp. Why doesn' I
Patterson introduce a resolution In the Sem
ate 10 investigate Funston for having cap
tured Aguinaldo at all? That would be an
effective way TO settle the question whether
he did right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09

The main room, used as bar. on the first
floor, is framed of the heaviest timbers
from the old ship. To many of them are
still fastened the old hooks to which the
sailors of the British fighting ship hung
their hammocks. An old cupboard from the
galley of the ship serves as a bar, and the
cabin used by the petty officers is used as
the place wherein mine host of the Mace
DOMAIN keeps his stock of ripe old liquor
for dispensation among his customers and
the clam diggers who work along the beach
in his neighbOrhoCd.
On the second floor is a music room"
that is none other than the main cabin or
the Macedonia. In removing the lumber
from the ship those who did the work took
pains to preserve each piece and place 1t
I'm it's proper place in the Macedonian Ho-
tel The old 1SX24-inch iron-barred windows
on the man-of-war were carefully pre-
served, and these now let in the light TO
the music room of this unique hotel
Timbers OF Britain's Vanquished warship
also form part of the northerly fence line
of the quaint village burying ground.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
MUNICIPAL BATHS.
Cities of the Country That Have All
the-Year lighthouses.

Engineering News.
Within the past few years a number of
municipalities in this country have estab-
lished all-the-year-round municipal bath
houses, while others have added to the
number of open bathing or swimming
places, which, for some years past have
been maintained during the summer
months Information collected for our
forthcoming Municipal Year Book shows
that thirty-six cities and towns with 1900
population and upward, by the United
States census of 1900, now have either all
the-year or summer public baths. These
places are as follows: Boston, Brookline,
Cambridge, Dedham, Holyoke, Newbury-
port, Quincy, Springfield, WATERFOWL, WOr-
cester, Mass; Providence. r. L.; Hartford.
Conn; Albany. Buffalo. New York. Roches-
ter, Syracuse, Troy, Utica, y. Y; Hoboken,
Newark. y. j.; Homestead, Philadelphia,
Pa; Wilmington. Del; Baltimore. Md. j;
Greenwood, s. c.; Newman, Savannah, Ga. !;
Cleveland, o.. Muskegon, Mich; Chicago,
ILL.,; Milwaukee. Wis; DeS Moines, Ia:
Crookston. ST. Paul Mimi; San Jose. Cal.
The thirty-siX places in question are dis
tributed over sixteen States, but Massa-
chusetts has ten and New York seven of
these cities and towns Most of the other
States are represented by one municipality
only. Outside of the States of Massachu-
sets and New York most of the public
baths are open only in the summer, and
that is true of some of the places in Massa-
chusetts. 1t is known that Newark, Chi
cago and st. Paul have all-the-year bath
houses.
In 1895 the Legislature of New York
passed an act which permits any munich
palities of that State to establish all-the-
year baths, and makes il compulsory for
cities of $1,000 inhabitants and over to do so.
Municipal baths, often combined with
public wash-houses or laundries, are be-
coming more and more common in Eng
land, and the signs of the times are that
they will rapidly gain popular favor In
this country. The laundry feature will,
naturally, gain ground much more slowly
than the baths. Thus far ii has not been
introduced i'm the United States further
than to make provision for washing the
personal clothing of the bathers. Drying
closets are also provided. so an unfortunate
man with no change of clothing may be
insured of clean underclothes to put on
| after his hath
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
The Root Army Bill.

Army and Navy Journal.
AS the result OF careful investigation we
are able 10 announce that at the present
time the Senate committee military
affairs is opposed to the bill as II was in
troduced and. unless ii is pressed by the
secretary of war the chances are that il
will never be reported by the committee
Senator Hawley chairman OF the commit
zee. is particularly opposed to the measure
and does not hesitate TO say so. According
20 our information, obtained from the War
Department il is still the secretary's in
tention TO advocate the bill and strenuous
measures will be taken 10 overcome the
impression left upon the committee by the
statements of General Miles
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09
POSTAGE STAMP POSSIBILITIES.
Novel Suggestion of Putting Out the
Portrait of Woman.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore sun.
The proposition before the Postoffice De
partment to further perpetuate the memory
of some woman distinguished in American
history is, to say the least, novel. But aside
from the bare suggestion of thus honoring
some gathered to her fathers a
wide field is opened to give these postage
stickers an educational and a news value.
1t is true Americans of the twentieth CEN
fury are prone to forget the women of
more than d century al go who played con-
spicuous part in American history, either
through their own exertions or through
sheer force of official standing. Hence to
give Martha Washington. or Betsy Ross,
or other women who did their share i'm one
way or another to help make this great
Republic possible, a place on the postage
stamp is a poetic and a patriotic sugges-
ton. But, as has been stated. vast field
of al educa tiOnal character also is opened
TO the Postofiice Department. For example,
a steel-plate likeness of Mary Ellen Lease
on a stamp OF the denomination OF cents
would be appropriate 10 carry legal docu-
ments through the mail Another carrying
an engraving of Miss Susan b. Anthony
would be found in demand when the bien-
NAL avalanche of petitions in favor of
woman suffrage tumbles in on Congress.
The sale of these latter probably would be
more or less sporadic but even such de-
mand might strike fair average with the
sale of other "woman-head stamps in the
course Of a few years.
Then. taking up the news value of such
stamps. there ought TO be little trouble in
flashing a portrait of the woman Of the
hour before the letter reader. Barring
those conspicuous in court proceedings
there Is a sufficient number OF these indi-
viduals 10 provide a new issue of stamps
each month. If not oftener. Besides, the
Postoffice Department might be made the
official referee when newspaper artists dis
agree. In the event of a scarcity OF sub
jects this idea is susceptible of further de-
velopment A well-engraved picture of the
latest creation of the Paris mOdiste, or of
the very newest hat worn by Miss Alice
Roosevelt doubtless would command an
immediate and heavy sale. Altogether, the
proposition before the Postoffce Depart
ment opens almost illimtable possibilities
and might make letter writing even more
popular.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-09

A timorous person urged another to see
the Journal and call it off from advocat-
ing the gas meter lest it's advocacy of the
meter injure the ticket Fear not; the
Journal has advocated the meter system
since it discovered the beginning of gas
failure years ago. If Taggartism had not
made the meter a question in municipal
politics years ago. and mayors, city coun-
ellis and other agencies had pushed the
adoption of the meter and forced the gas
companies to the propositions they now
make, there would be an abundance of
fuel gas for years to come Now, with
bored mixtures, there is none when most is
wanted. If the intelligent welfare of the
people had controlled instead of cheap
demagogy, gas consumption would not
have got into municipal politics. The Jour-
nal has never approved of political action
against gas meters. and has never pro-
fessed to do so. 1t has and always will
reserve the right to discuss economic ques-
tions affecting the citys interests outside
of politics. and having nothing to do
with politics. AS to hurting the ticket
injury cannot come from a discussion of
the meter proposition with the readers of
this paper. The ways ths PARTIES and tick
cts are injured are b. nominations and
appointments, lax and devious methods Of
administration. failure to enforce the
laws and manage all public affairs upon
business methods. Republicansm is strong
in Indiana because Republican administra-
ton has been along sound lines and leg
islation toward better things.