Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1884 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, ISS4.

THE DAILY JOURNAL. BY JNO. C. NEW Jt SON. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1834. WITH EXTRA SHEET. The Extra Sheet. The markets, railway news, political appointments, and several matters of political interest, will be found in the extra sheet, this morning. What is the Democratic position on the tariff question? Is it for tlie Morrison hill or not? The New York World says “Blaine is in Ohio making votes for Cleveland.” And yet, strange as it may seem, the World is not happy. When a member of the United States Senate Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks voted to give the Northern Pacific Railway Company 47,000,000 acres of the public lands. Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, while a member of the House of Representatives, voted to give 47,000,000 acres of the public land to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company. General Neal Dow, of Maine, pronounces his alleged letter as to the Prohibition vote in that State, and Mr. Blaine’s statement connected therewith, “an unmitigated lie. ” Nearly 2,000,000 gallons of beer was imported last year. Under free trade this amount would have to be multiplied by ten. Do brewers want free trade in beer? Do prohibitionists? Mr. J. H. Reall, a Democrat, founder and secretary of the American Agricultural Association, and editor of the widely-circulated Agricultural Review, announces that he cannot support Cleveland. What do workingmen think of the Demo cratic doctrine, as interpreted by Mr. McDonald? He says the American people would not buy American articles of manufacture “if they were not forced to!" A lie as to Senator Edmunds, a lie as to James F. Joy, a forged letter from Neal Dow —these are samples of the campaign for reform and purity in polities waged by the Dem-ocratico-independent alliance. The New York Sun sees in the popular receptions tendered to both Blaine and Butler an indication of the public interest and belief in a tariff for the protection of American industry, which they both advocate against the Democratic doctrine of and tendency to free trade.

Do the friends of John McCullough imagine that anybody is deceived as to the cause of his physical and mental infirmities? Broken down as he is, he is an object of pity; but he has only himself to blame in allowing his appetite to sap the foundations of his manhood. In view of the fact that during the last past year manufactured articles to the value of $625,000,000 —articles that could have been, and should have been, made in the United States—were imported, Mr. McDonald’s declaration that Americans are “forced" to buy American-made goods does not have the force intended. Thf. New York Post’s latest libel on Mr. Blaine has been refuted by W. D. Lee, of New York city. Having started in to lie its way through, the Post will hardly let up for a little thing such as being exposed repeatedly, as has been done. The Post is thoroughly unprincipled, and has long since forfeited all claims to newspaper honor and decency. Wild the thoroughly disreputable New York Post have the manliness to publish the fact that its charge that James G. Blaine held stock in the Hocking Valley mines was false, and that Mr. Blaine’s denial was in accordance with the facts in the case? The Times, Herald, World and other Democratic papers were quick to reproduce the falsehood. Will they do Mr. Blaine justice? Hardly. Let us say just a few little words to the Sentinel: We will edit the Journal ourselves, without consulting the pleasure of the High Mightiness of the Democratic organ, and if it does not like it we know of no way to help it. Our opinion is that the Sentinel will have enough to do to attend to its own business, during the campaign and after. The bluster of the Sentinel is simply sill}’, and that is all. The bray of the ass in the lion's skin frightens nobody. Had the Indianapolis street railway been conducted in accordance with the charter, young Muhlman would now, undoubtedly, be alive. The charter provides that there shall be conductors on the cars, but a complacent City Council permits the company to violate this and all other provisions of the charter they please, at will. Not only this, hut the Council and the city officers permit the company to outrage the common decencies of life in the way the cars are conducted. There must be and there will he an end to this. Indianapolis is enough of a city to have respectable street-car accommodations. The Democrats are making a great howl about the giants of land to railways. Among the most sonorous of those who denounce this wastage of the public domain is the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees, present United States Senator, and candidate for re-election. By turning to page 2612, of the Congressional Globe, for the first session of the Thirtyeighth Congress, it will be found that his

name stands recorded in favor of the passage of the Northern Pacific railroad grant, which gave 47,000,000 acres of public land to that company. All of Mr. Voorhees’s Democratic colleagues are recorded against it—Messrs. John Law, James A. Cravens, H. W. Harrington, W. S. Holman, Joseph K. Edgarton and James F. McDowell. The next speech in which Mr. Voorhees sends up his voice in the wilderness over the extravagance of land grants, he should be confronted with this vote. BLAINE AND LOGAN'S VISIT. As will be seen by reference to our city columns, the Republican State central committee have made arrangements whereby Mr. Blaine will spend four days in Indiana—October 20, 21, 22 and 23, possibly spending Sunday, the 19th, in this city, and going out of the State to Danville, on the morning of the 24th. Gen. John A. Logan will spend three days in the State during the last week in October. The arrangements for these tours will be fixed by the committee and announced as soon as possible. Both these distinguished gentlemen will find what Hoosier welcome and enthusiasm are. Hang out your banners on the outward walls. Saturday next is the last day upon which a voter can move from one voting precinct to another without losing his light to vote. All changes of residence from and after Saturday next forfeit the right to vote. Republicans, everywhere throughout the State, take notice. AN ATTACK ON AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.

In his speech at Logansport, on Tuesday evening last, the Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, taking decided Democratic ground in favor of free trade, said: “It [the tariff] has made the American articles of manufacture so costly that they eaunot be sold in any other market than the home market. There is no people in the world that will buy them but the people of the United States, and they would not buy them if they were not forced to.” Passing over the patent and admitted fact that every article of manufacture, without exception, is from 25 to 75 per cent, cheaper now than in the good old Democratic days of free trade, let us call attention to the last clause quoted from Mr. McDonald's speech: “They [the people of the United States] would not buy them [American-made articles] if they were not forced to.” This is the Democratic idea pure and simple. The marked tendency of that party is toward legislation that shall enable that party to buy other than American manufactures. This was the purpose of the Morrison hill, and this is the intent of the Democratic platform, that declares that “taxation shall be for public purposes exclusively,”-a sneaking paraphlase of “a tariff for re venue-only." To please a coteiie of professors of political economy and professional theorists who couldn’t distinguish between pig-iron and slag, and in the hope of being elevated to power through their assistance, the Democratic party is emboldened to boldly proclaim its free-trade intentions. The Morrison bill for the reduction of wages, known as the bill to reduce the tariff by 20 per cent, all round, was in this direction. Under the tariff as it is, over $625,000,000 worth of goods that ought to have been made in America was imported into the country last year. There was 89,000,000 yards of woolen cloth imported last year. Mr. McDonald declares that not a yard of American cloth would have been bought had the people not been “forced to.” But for this “forcing,” Democrats would go to England for their boots and shoes; but for this “forcing,” they would go there for iron and steel; for tracechains, made by women who realize fifty cents a week working at the anvil; but for this “forcing," hats, caps, clothing and underwear would be made in England for the American market; but for this “forcing,” our crockery ware would be made in England, our glassware in Belgium and France, instead of at Pittsburg and New Albany; but for this “forcing,” our cotton goods would' be manufactured at Manchester instead of at Lowell and Atlanta; but for this “forcing,” the Democratic party would be enabled to give more employment to the workingmen of Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Staffordshire and Hull, and less to the workingmen of Pennsylvania and Indiana. The American mills that are now idle from one to three months in the year need not be opened one day in a twelvemonth. If, under the existing tariff, it pays to buy 89,000,000 yards of woolen goods in England, how much better it would be to buy all such goods there under free trade. The men in American woolen mills could then be finally discharged; those in the cotton factories and iron and steel mills would suffer the same fate; shoemakers and watch and clockmakers would be turned adrift, and the trade of England would grow brisk while that of the United States languished. Mr. McDonald does not want to buy American manufactures. Unlike the men who founded this Republic, Democrats are anxious to be allowed to buy abroad. In 1789, as has been shown in the Journal, it was different. The first act of the First Congress was a tariff act for the protection of American workingmen. It was drawn and indorsed by the men who had fought the revolution to a successful issue, and was signed by George Washington. Tlie men who indorsed that act probably had as good idea of its constitutionality as have the Democrats of to-day. Believing it a measure demanded for the good not only of workingmen, but of the entire people, and with no question as to its constitutionality, it was passed without serious opposition. The Republican doctrine of to-day is in porfect

accord with.that of the fathers of the Republic. The Democratic party is hostile to American labor. Ex-Senator McDonald, more ingenuous than his fellows, blurts out the truth: Democrats “would not buy American articles of manufacture unless forced to!” The campaign of fraud and forgery on the part of the Democratic party ar.d their “reform” allies is under full headway. A cable special from London, published in the Journal of yesterday, convicts Henry Ward Beecher of a lie in reporting an alleged interview with James F. Joy, of Michigan. One of the trump cards the Democrats played in Ohio was the publication of a supposed letter from General Neal Dow, of Maine, in which he is represented to say that — “The Republican party in Maine stood shoulder to shoulder with the Prohibitionists in the fight for a prohibitory constitutional amendment; also, that Blaine gave his valuable assistance, and assured Dow that, he [Blaine] refrained from voting at the request of prominent Ohio Republicans on account of the bigoted Germans.” This having been called to the attention of General Dow, he writes the following card to the Portland Press: “This is an unmitigated ITe. There is no truth in it whatever. I have never had one word with Mr. Blaine on the matter. I never said to anybody that the Republican party stood hand and shoulder with us in the fight, as they did not, many Republicans voting against us, and a great many Democrats with us. ” Slander, libel, lying, fraud, forgery. These are the familiar and congenial weapons of the Democratic party and the independent “reformers. ”

There is a striking contrast between the spirit of the forty-three men of Falmouth, who, in 1769, seven years before the revolution began, handed together and mutually pledged themselves not to buy any goods of British make, and that of the Democratic party of to-.day. which, according to Joseph E. McDonald, would net buy goods of American manufacture “if they were not forced to.” The men of Falmouth were of the patriots who precipitated and who fought tlie revolution, the war that delivered American labor from the thraldom of British domination and oppression. We need more of that same spirit of true Americanism now. The American workingman should be kept above the need of competing with the pauper labor of Europe. This was the sentiment in 1769, in 1776, and in 1789, when the First Congress passed the first protective tariff act. An assistant Democrat writes from Indianapolis to the New York Post that the recent Schurz meeting has had the effect of frightening the Blaine newspapers into silence, and that they have since refrained from a use of the epithets, “Pharisee,” “mugwump,” “pink-tea statesmen,” etc., when alluding to the independents. Bless their dear little hearts, it isn’t fear which prompts this silence; it is love, pure and simple. When it was discovered at the Schurz meeting what a cute kindergarten the Indianapolis independent party is, no man having the feelings of a father could afterward find it in his heart to cast contumely upon them. When the little dears grow up and become old enough to vote it will be time enough to call them names. A natural consideration for the weakness of babes forbids such treatment now. The Cincinnati Enquirer, summing up the political situation, says: “Our chances of success are good; but if the forty thousand Prohibitionists of Ohio stand for principle, the Republicans are lost.” The Democrats know who their allies are, whether the third-party temperance men will acknowledge it or not. There are many, very many sincere thirdparty Prohibitionists; but we believe they are doing their principle a great injury by making themselves the assistants to the Democratic party to put into power an organization openly and defiantly hostile to any sort of restriction upon the liquor traffic. The Democrats understand that the third-paity Prohibitionists are working in their interests; Democratic success is the natural result of their action. Col. Isaac P. Gray comes to the front with a lot of inconsequential statements and affidavits as to what he was after he removed from New Madison, Ohio, to Indiana. Col. Gray is proving himself _ a shameless evader in this matter. The charge is that he was a member of a Know-nothing lodge in New Madison, 0., and that charge is supported by affidavits, one of which is from his brother-in-law. Colonel Gray attempts to meet this by showing that he was not a Know-nothing when he was in Indiana, after the organization had practically gone to pieces. This lying by implication will add to the contempt felt for this “Colonel” Gray. The New York Times has progressed far enough in its campaign for “reform” to say of*Mr. Blaine: “An examination of his public career shows him to be weak-kneed, shallow, irresolute, cunning and cowardly. In his private career every new disclosure deepens the impression that he is a disgusting sneak and falsifier." The Times has reached about as low a depth of dishonor as that prince of Pharisees, Harper's Weekly, the “journal of civilization." Both of them are fit companions for the Eatanswill Gazette. The New York World is swelling its $1 corruption fund at the expense of children. Two little boys, aged nine and eleven, have been induced to give up a dollar with which they intended to buy a sled, on the plea that “Mr. Blaine would not go to his poor mother’s funeral.” It wouid be far more honorable to steal the money outright iustead of perpe-

trating this contemptible confidence game. The boys in question, if they live, will yet learn to despise the authors of the methods pursued in this campaign, in the hopeless attempt to defeat James G. Blaine and to elect a man who dishonors the mother of his son. Posterity will not be blind to the nature of the offense of Grover Cleveland against Maria Halpin aud her unhappy boy. The following paragraph is from the Buffalo Courier, the “home organ” of Cleveland, Democratic nominee for President: “The Buffalo Courier has long been an advocate of tariff reform; it belives that the Democratic national platform, fairly interpreted, means such a reform; and it has no sympathy with those Democratic journals or politicians who affect to think that their party is as much in favor of protection as the Republican party.” Mr. McDonald—again let us ask—what is the Democratic position upon the tariff, that question which, you said in 1880, the Democrats would boldly take hold of? Here we have Hon. William S. Holman going over Indiana talking a tariff for protection and Mr. W. D. Bynum talking for free trade. Both are candidates for Congress, which body has to deal with this question. What is the Democratic position? The New York Evening Post said last month that a statement from President Woolsey, favorable to Mr. Blaine, “would be worth more votes to Blaine than Steve Elkins and the largest kind of a campaign fund will be able to secure.” Since that time the venerable publicist has written a letter in favor of Mr. Blaine, whereupon the Post now denounces the Republican managers “for invading the ex-president’s well-won repose to ‘extract a written opinion from him of Blaine’s qualifications.”’ This is “independent” “reform” journalism, the kind that published the Green B. Rnum forged letters and afterward declined" to give Mr. Raum the benefit of the denial.

Another lie about Mr. Blaine is as to his ownership of an interest in a coal company in the Hocking valley, Ohio, where the milling troubles recently occurred. The following correspondence explains itself: Chicago, 111., Oct. I.—Walter Craft -vice-presi-dent. Crtiimbus, O.: Chicago Times this morning publishes article on Hocking valley matters. Claims Mr. Blaine is one of the originators and stockholders in your company. May 1 deny this? Answer. ,S. E. Bliss. The following answer was received: Columbus, 0., Oct. I.—S. E. Bliss, Chicago: You can say that Mr. Blaine has not now and never did have one dollar interest, direct or indirect, in the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company. Walter Crafts, Vice-president. Mr. Crafts is the second vice-president of the company, and its active manager. The Louisville Commercial saw fit to taka the Indianapolis Journal to task for the statements made in Sunday's issue relative to the manner of the death of Harry Clay, grandson of the Commoner. Yesterday the Commercial said: “Henry Clay was killed in a saloon, while on a spree." That is just what the Journal said; and wa said, further, that for a man to say that such a death affected him more than did the death of his own father, or mother, or children, was not creditable, and was, in fact, disgusting “rot." We still think so. The national Democratic campaign committee is said to be in a state of disgust with the penurious spirit manifested by their independent allies, of whom they had hoped so much. They, the independents, express a desire to- have Cleveland elected, but “take it out in talk," and when- asked for contributions of money signify a belief that, with the lofty views they entertain in regard to reform, they should not be called upon to defray any of the campaign expenses. As yet, they have not protested against the use of fuuds contributed by Democrats. “Cheap and nasty" is evidently the independent motto. In 1880 Mr. McDonald complained that the tariff question had been “sprung” on the Democrats, hut that in 1884 they would teach the people by assuming a bold position on the subject. Will Mr. McDonald be kind enough to tell us what the Democratic position is? We seek in vain for an elucidation of it in the letters either of Grover Cleveland or of Thomas A. Hendricks. One of the members of the committee on resolutions of the Democratic national convention says the plank in the platform was specially prepared so as “te hit if it was a deer and miss if it was a calf." This is a startling indictment of RepuHcan misrule and corruption, which the people cannot fail to heed. The frauds were committed by Republicans under Republican rule. The thieves were shielded by Republicans, and they escaped through Republican influence. —New York Herald. This as to the reports on the star-route frauds. The foreman of the jury which failed to convict was a Democrat, Mr. William Dixon, now a member of the Democratic national committee. He may visit the Indiana capital, he says, later on. Not this year. Mr. Blaine’s business in Indianapolis is not as urgent, apparently, as it was earlier in the campaign. He prefers to write letters to “Dear Phelps” instead of answering questions in court. —New York World. Mr. Blaine will visit Indianapolis in due time. Never fear; he will bo here also when the infamous libel case is called. After the 4th of March next you may find him in the White House, at Washington. Mr. O. O. Stealey, Washington correspondent of the Courier-Journal, says he thinks Indiana will go Democratic. Because Mr. Stealoy was a member of the State Democratic committoe in 1880, and “knows ludiana thoroughly," ill-informed Cleveland organs hastily assumo that this opinion is a settler. It will be rotnern-