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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
DEMOCRATIC FIGHT IN OHIO.

The inch-by-inch fight now in progress for
the Democratic nomination for Governor
of Ohio has very deep significance to the
either of the contestants has any chance of
election, but because the result is apt to
show whether or not the Democratic party
can be brought back to sane ground or
whether it is to permanently remain polit-
ical organization fittingly represented by
as the ''yellows."
On the one side is Tom l.. Johnson whose
fads and demagogic eccentricities are well
known to the public throughout the coun-
try. On the other is John l.. Zimmerman
man unknown outside his own State, but
a very fair representative of the old school
Democrat, though still comparatively
young man. He is not SO rich a man as
is Johnson. but he has ample means and
very rich connections. He is a lawyer of
ability. a shrewd investor and a very sane,
substantial sort of citizen, blest with no
particular brilliance of either thought or
speech. but with very large fund of COM
mon sense. supplemented with broad in
formation and experience. He is diametri-
eally opposed to all that is socialistic in
the last two Democratic platforms and to
the various isms represented by Johnson
and Bryan, including free-silverism.
Where party forms an irresponsible
minority, as does the Democratic party in
Ohio, it is much more likely to go wander
ing off after crazy leaders and untried
theories than when it is charged with the
responsibility of government. The Ohio
Democracy, like that of Massachusetts,, was
wheeled into line for populistic principles
with comparative ease. but it has a history
and a certain pride in the record of some
OF the Democratic statesmen it has pro-
| duced in the past, and. as the fight goes
| forward. it does not look as if Zimmerman
and his friends had undertaken an impos
! sible task In their effort to bring it back
| to saner things.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Jack London, a writer OF reputation. now
famous through his Call Of the Wild.
contributes a humorous love story 10 Les
lies Monthly for September.
Harpers Weekly for Aug. % publishes an
appreciative tribute TO the genius OF Phil
May the eminent English illustrator.
whose recent death Is serious loss. TO
British art
The novel in Ainslee's for September Is
1.-THE Blue Moon" by Lucia and Esther
Chamberlain. Other wel-known contrib
utors are Gertrude Atherton. Poultney
Bigelow. T.. Nesbit. Joseph &. Lincoln. j.
j. Bell. Charles Batteli LOOMS. Harold
MacGrath. Bliss Carman, Julien Gordon
and Oscar King Davis.
Good, Housekeeping for September con-
tains a paper by Jane Adams of Hull
House. Chicago. i'm which she discusses the
servant problem Mrs Russell Sage eN-
presses her feelings concerning women and
tobacco smoke. Mrs Julia Ward Howe Ii
also a contributor. There Is great va
riety of practical information bearing Oh
domestic topics
Country Life In America is to have a
double sized country home numbcl for
october. TO dead With the most attractive
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Out of kishime6.

Kishineff, the Russian chamber of hor-
rors, gave the lie to Christian civilization II
the Cars dominion. w. c. Stiles, Prot
estant clergyman, writes under the title
above an eloquent and stirring protest
against the Easter massacre of 1895, and
sets forth wildly what should be the rela-
tons between Jews and real Christians
who love humanity and fair play. He COM
pares the Russian Jew with the Jew OF
the New York Ghetto and reviews the SUBJ
ject of Jewish immigration 10 America
No instance of inhumanity I'm recent years
has raised such fervid condemnation as
the Kishineff horror. so the author may be
pardoned if he expresses with all the
yehemence and intolerance in his
power his indignation at the Rus
sian government. BY succession or
periodic and explanatory sentences he en-
phasizes the injustice of race persecution
and impresses the reader with the enor-
nifty of the crime. One recalls Gorkys
paragraph on the anti-Semitic movement
being the most disgraceful of all OF Rus
sia's recent dark deeds: People who re-
gard themselves as Christians, who claim
to believe i'm Gods mercy and sympathy.
these people on the day consecrated TO the
resurrection of their God from the dead
occupy the time in numbering children and
aged people, ravishing the women, and
marrying the men of the race which gave
them Christ" The book is a forceful ex-
preston of condemnation G. w. DiIling-
ham Company, New York.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Because farmers wives all know some
thing about cooking and something about
butter-making. it does not follow that they
the contrary, there is a belief among those
who should be well informed on the SUBJ
ject that there is great need of education
in both these directions. 1t is asserted by
them that too many of these women, on
whom so much depends, do not cook meats
we'll, that they use too much lard in their
cookery, that they do not make good bread,
and do not serve vegetables in palatable
way. The tale of shortcomings in these
culinary particulars is indeed woeful one.
country butter" is the exception rather
than the rule. If these statements are
true the free schools of cookery and but
ter-making to be conducted at the State
fair should serve a good purpose. With
the great variety and profusion of food
at the command of Indiana housewives,
their tables should be models for the world
and should promote health and strength in
stead of dyspepsia. Women should well
come and encourage these schools. Dur
ing the Chicago worlds fair Illinois wom-
themselves provided teacher who. in
a room in the Woman's building, gave in
structions every day on the making OF
dishes from corn and corn products. For
months she taught each day the methods
of making two dishes, and, it was said,
never repeated her programme. 1t may be
supposed, therefore, that even Illinois
women who. naturally, already knew a good
deal about the possibilities of corn, learned
something from her that they had not
known before. 1t is the in cookery as in
every other profession that even the ex-
pert may always learn.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

An incident of social life in Indiana this
summer is the remarkable number of fam
lily reunions that have taken place or are
being planned for. At some of these gath
erings hundreds of relatives near and re-
mote are present, many coming from dis
tant parts of the country. Such assem-
blages are a good indication and are to be
encouraged. They not only put kinfolk in
touch and thus keep alive a commendable
family pride, with desire to do nothing
to lower the traditional standards, but
their records-there is always official
historian in such organizations-make val
liable contribution to local annals. These
modest little records will come to have a
greater value than the writers know, and
should be preserved with care.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The title of this unusual novel is Curl
ously inappropriate and misleading In itself
the title suggests a light, humorous story,
and the cover of the book, with pictur,
of pigs running through conventional
clover leaves, does much to strengthen the
erroneous impression that a book-buyer
would be sure to receive upon picking up
the volume for the first time One will
search in vain for humor or sunshine in
this story by Frank Dandy" as Mrs
Julia Frankau, the successful English
novelist, prefers to call herself. pigs in
Glover" is a sombre story of Illicit love-
treachery, ingratitude. unhappiness The
title has reference to the noveau richie of
London, who are seeking to get into Eng
lands highest society. and to intermarry
with the old; blue.blood families, but the
story itself deals, for the most part. with
the trouble that foreshadowed the Boer
WARMTH the rough, uncultured men who
had made great fortunes in South Africa
and their influence over the politics Of Eng
land.
The ingrattude of Louis Althaus to the
man who adopted, reared and supported
him. giving s. him ever everything In the world
misery and weakness of Joan de Groat
the wife of Dutchman in Africa and
later the mistress of Louis-this Is the
theme OF the story. 1t Is wonderfully
strong book; the author. always plain
spoken concerning some things that are
usually left TO the imagination by writer's
of fiction, leads her reader through the
gloomy pages with a steady, relentless
hand-guiding them onward, as IL were to
the bitter. inevitably tragic ending 1t Is
not book to be treated lightly; il is the
work of a powerful writer although one
cannot help but feel that Mrs. Frankau
has gone out of her way TO unearth some
of the mseries of life.
The book has evidently been hastily pre-
pared for the market by the publishers,
for il contains numerous Typographical err
rors that are irritating, to say the least.
One of the most glaring of these mistakes
occurs where a character of the story is
made TO say. "Codlin's the friend-not
short, quoting, of course, from Dickens s
"Old Curiosity Shop" The 80 i'm the
proper name OF Short is not capitalized.
leading one 10 suspect that the proof
reader, in the constant reading of the new
books, ha.s neglected TO make the acquaint-
ancc of the old ones The j. II. Lippincott
Company, Philadelphia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Did You ever notice that when a name
hitherto unfamiliar is brought to your no.
tice in some way the same name is sure to
come to your attention Immediately in other
directions? There is Cantrell, for instance.
the notorious negro whose gift for varie-
gated fiction has supplied the local yellow
lowest sensations. Probably few persons
hereabouts had ever known or heard of
any one of the name before, but here in
the days dispatches is mention of an
Evangelist Cantrell over at an Illinois
Chautauqua who is doing his best to i'm
prove the world. Poor man, he has his
hands full with the mere effort to redeem
the name.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The fact that a white woman could be
Iured or carried to a negro dive and there
held captive and drugged and assaulted to
her death by crowd OF vicious blacks
sounds more like some weird tale of crime
in Chinese city than actual occurrence
in modern Indianapolis. 1T is horrible be-
yond words, and calls for not only the Sc
verest punishment of the fends implicated.
but for the stamping out of this and SINH
lar dives. which are fostering breeding
places for the most unspeakable varieties
of crime
Such a crime would be impossible if the
laws regulating the sale of liquor were
properly enforced. If no man were per-
mitted to conduct place for the sale of
liquor except the actual holder of the IL
| cense, as the law requires, and IL no license
were granted, except TO responsible men
able to prove themselves of good moral
character, the law further requires. the
| existence of such a foul hole of iniquity
would be impossible. And why is it toll
Grated? For the dirty, blood-stained money
that finds its way to the pockets of rich
men OF large influence from the sale of
beer and whisky, Nobody has any sympa-
thy with the keepers of such dives. Nobody
but the keepers themselves and the vicious,
degraded habitues of such places would
| dare for a moment to openly defend their
existence, and their influence alone would
amount to nothing. The only cause for
their liberation is the general purpose of
the promotion of the business of the whole
sale liquor dealers and breweries.
Can the community afford to permit the
promotion of this business at such terrible
cost to it's fair name as has been demon
strated in the recent wineroom and
now again in this horrible tragedy? One
occasionally reads of such depths of de-
| pravity in the slums of London or New
York or some other great center of pop
ulation where the dregs of humanity con-
gregate in numbers, but that such things
can happen in the comparatively small city
of Indianapolis, famous as the home of a
clean. orderly and thrifty population, seems
almost inconceivable. Does anybody inn
population, evidently 80 saturated with con-
| tempt for law that it dares to commit crime
| thus boldly, would hesitate to apply the
torch and indulge in riot on the slightest
| provocation? This element must be con-
trolled by the strong arm of the law, and
that right quickly, if life or property is to
be made at all safe in this community.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
Making Sunday-SchOol Speeches.

Columbus Qnd) Republican.
Congressman Griffith is advertised to
speak in number of Sunday school pic
mics throughout the Fourth district. The
congressman's great interest in the sue
cess of the Sunday school work is really
touching and does him great credit. And
And the next thing we know Mccormack
and Cravens and Shea and Dixon will all
be making Sunday school speeches. Talk
about the country going to the dogs. That
is for the pessimist But the great cause
of the Sunday school and of moral teach
ing and of religion will never go backward
as long as we have Democratic candidates
for Congress to hold up the banner. The
man who would imagine that the interest
of the Democratic party of personal or
political success is held in the hearts of
any of these men above the interests of
the Sunday school ought to hear them
speak In order to be undeceiyed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

of Mr.. Pulitzer's proposed school for jour-
nalists" and his tribute to the editor of the
World as man who knows what journal
istic standards should be- would have more
weight if the public could forget, as Mr..
Cleveland has evidently done, that the
World was the first paper to show the ex-
treme possibilities of yellow journalism. 1t
is limited by some cynical person that in
founding his school Mr. Pulitzer was prob
ably moved by remorse.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

swers itself at once. The great majority
of men and women in almost any circle
OF society are respectable and honest. III
the respectable and honest people of all
social circles were tc turn their backs on
every man that is corrupt or profits from
wrong with the same unanimity that they
do on every woman that falls should
at once see such a clearing of the moral
atmosphere as has not been dreamed Of
The desire for money and the social pres
tige that can be got with money by the
wise are among the most potent causes of
misgovernment we have. The small town
gets it's good government not through any
paper forms, but because everybody knows
everybody else and the town officer knows
full well that malfeasance on his part
would mean social ostracism. Why is the
daughter kept pure of heart by the mother.
while the boy is permitted to run loose?
Because the mother knows full well that
girl and means nothing Of the kind for the
boy.
Aside from actual physical force to the
point of imprisonment, wounding or death
-on which all government must rest its
last analysis-the most potent influence in
the hands of human society is the social
force. the ability to infiict social punish
ment. Down in the bottom of the heart of
every rational and woman is the
yearning for the respect and fellowship OF
others, and the fear of losing it has been
in all ages a strong leash on the vicious
passions of humanity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Vincennes UndD Sun.
The grand old Wabash had beautiful
appearance this morning. The water is get
ting low and what small crafts are here
hunt the deeper places. With the air still
there was not ripple on the water. Look
ing down the stream, far as the eye
could see, the clear space on each bank left
by the receding water, could be plainly seen,
and at the bend, several miles down the
stream and banks covered with a dark
green continuous foliage seems TO end alb
ruptly. Up the river. the hills on the back
ground present d picture as beautiful as
Strangers coming to our town say we have
as beautiful river scenery presented
anywhere and those who could have seen ii
this morning would have been compelled
TO agree with them
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

When President Hadley, of Yale, sug-
gested social ostracism as a cure for the
trust evil he was laughed at a good deal,
largely because the sound common sense of
the American people had already reached
the conclusion that the proper procedure
was to regulate large corporations by law,
not destroy them. But Professor HadIey
thus called attention TO the social force as
probably the most potent force a COM
munity or a nation has at its disposal for
the cure OF wrongs difficult TO reach
through the criminal code 1t is one that
might be applied with advantage by every
city in its efforts to get honest government
In social matters We are quite apt to fol-
low along lines of least resistance. If
Smith is an agreeable fellow and has money
to spend i'm catering to our pleasure. we
out inquiring too closely how he got his
money. And when he is blessed with a nice
wife and charming daughters, we forget all
about the fact that some corrupt franchise
deal or other questionable transaction or
business Is the basis of the family fortune.
They have a handsome house, luxuriously
furnished; they have good pictures or good
books: they entertain lavishIy Others rec
ognize them socially. Why should We deny
ourselves the entertainment and pleasure
they offer? And thus Smith and his fam
lily discover that the wrong has opened the
gates OF social intercourse to them. in
stead OF barring the way.
Would they care much If they were shut
out? Would IL be much punishment for
them to ostracise them? The question an
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Laird & Lee. Chicago, have prepared q
condensed school and library edition OF
webster's new Standard Dictionary. The
volume has 75s pages. is of convenient size
to handle and contains vocabulary SUM-
cienrly large TO meet ordinary require
ments. The type IL exceptionally clear. the
definitions concise and the pronuncid ton
made plain. In addition IL contains a list
OF foreign phrases, tables of weights and
measures a list of Authorizations. etc. There
are also numerous illustrations number
of plates teing in color. A feature OF spe-
ciai interest is map Of the United States
defining the boundaries Of the louisiana
purchase. The price of the school edition
is 81 80.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Schmidt, who had made the more or less
jocuiar intimation that the proceeds of the
festivities were to 60 to the preachers own
pocket. Mr.. Schmidt might possibly have
been excused on the ground that in Mis-
graft everywhere, but the man of God
could not see it that way. and when they
were pulled apart his accuser was found
to DE seriously injured. But the lawn fete
was voted by everyone to have been by
of the season."
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The Under Dog.

From studio, Jail, cafe, Pullman sleeper.
from sea and land, F. Hopkinson Smith has
taken the stories which Charles Scribner' s
Sons publish under the title, THE Under
Dog" On two continents the man Of three
fold fame-lighthouse builder, artist, author
has made good use of his remarkable pow
ers of observation. The themes of the
stories are harmonious, each telling the
story of some human under dog, some one
fighting a battle against forces stronger
than his puny powers. All are clever, read
able and marked by the virile style of the
author Of Caleb West and tom Grogan,'
but the most appealing characteristic of all
is the broad sympathy for the under dog
of human experience. Most of the stories
have been published in magazines, but.
brought together under their significant
title, they are far more valuable than as
bits of magazine work.
Three, under the caption mo Respecter
of Persons''-"The Crime of Samanthy
North Bud Tilden, Mail Thief and
ELEVEN Months and Ten Days." are a pow
erful arraignment Of the federal law that
hunts the mountaineers like beasts because
they cannot understand why they have not
Pictures of old men and young mothers
with babes at their breasts, dragged from
the hill country to grimy, filthy prisons
there to lie for months before even getting
a trial, bound hand and foot in their ig-
norance of the ways of courts, are power
fully painted. Motives very unusual to
those commonly ascribed to moonshiners are
made themes of these three tales. While
Mr.. Smiths view of the rights of the mat
ter may not be the wisest and best it is
certainly the heart view, and he tells his
stories with appealing sympathy.
The remainder, of which plain Fin-Pa.
per Hanger" "Cap'n Bob of the Acreamer'
Long JIM and 'Muffles-The Bar-Keep
are, perhaps, the best, are tales of odd
characters picked up and analysed during
vacation months.
All the tales are Of the misjudged men
misunderstood, chilled by neglect ham
pered by misfortune by their own mental
or physical defects. They will be made a
part of the forthcoming Beacon edition un.
der their title, 1.-The Under Dog
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

Every one is much interested in the out
come of the international yacht race, but
out in this inland region technicalities re-
lating to the positions of the spinnaker
boom, the jib topsail. the balloon jib, the
spinnaker pole, the jib topsail stay are mat
tiers that most inlanders skip in their read
ing and regard unimportant. What they
are after is results-which. so far, are sat-
isfactory
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.

Can be found at the following places:
NEW YORK-Astor House.
CHICAGO-Palmer House. Auditorium Annex
Hotel. Dearborn Station News stand.
cINcINNATI-J. r. Hawley & Co.. Arcade.
Grand Hotel
LOCISyILLE--C T. Deering northwest corner
Of Third ana jefferson streets, and Buefeld
Bros. AZ West Market street.
1T. LoUfS--U Union News Company. Union Depot.
WASHINGTON. ID. C.-Riggs House, EbbItt
House, Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel:
DENVER. CoI-Louthain & Jackson. Fifteenth
and Lawrence streets, and A. Smith, 1851
Champa street
DAYTON. OIL. v. wilkie. 80 South jefferson
street.
COLUMBUS. o.-viaduct News Stand, $50 High
street.
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Youth at the Head of the Steel Trust.

Leslie NOHtHly september.
There are two very striking facts about
the recent selection of William f. Corey
to be nominally assistant to the president,
but actually the head of the United States
Steel Corporation. One is that at the age
of thirty-seven he becomes the directing
power of the biggest corporation in the
world. The other is that aside from his
chief consideration that led to his appoint
ment apparently was the belief that he
would prove q safe and conservative man
in the position. We think of conservatism
as associated naturally with gray hairs and
dignity, but the man who sits at the pres
ident's desk in the offices of the steel cor
blue-eyed and ruddy-cheeked individual
who looks more youthful even than his
years would indicate and who puts on no
more airs than he did when superintendent
of a single department in one of the Car
negie mills.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-24

The prosecution of boodIers is not the
only phase Of the strenuous life INDUCED
in by the. great State Of Missouri few
evenings ago the Rev. Jeff Denny. Of
Georgia City. gave lawn fete for the bene-
&c Of the church, and. as an unannounced
number on the programme OF entertain
|pent. fell into fstfcuns with one Frank