Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1892 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1892.

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Lf.t every Republican see to it that to-night's demonstration ia made tho largest Indianapolis ever saw. No force hill! No uegro domination! New Fork Sun. No free trade! No -wild-cat banks! No one has yet responded to trio Journal's question: AVhat has William D. By nam dono for tho Seventh district? Never mind about uniform?. A Republican is just as cift'ectivo -without as With a uniform in this campaign. Therefore, turn out. The attempt of toe Democratic national convention to popularize wild-eat paper money does not iseem likely to prove successful. No force bill! No federal interference trita election,! New York Sun. No tariff f or, rovenuo only! No "yellow-dog" and "blue-pup" paper money! It is scarcely necessary to urgo tho Republican masses to take part in the demonstration to-night when one recalls the astonishing response at tho time of the Frye meeting. Of course. Mr. Bynum is a friend of tho workingman. That is to say, ho is a friend of Mr. Bynum. and he has worked very hard for ten years past to keep himself in Congress. The manliness, candor and ability of Mr. Henry are winning him the good will nf nnnnnis vf vnfava Ami OT-rt marked contrast to tho arrogance and demagogy of Mr. Bynum. One may get an idea of jho denso ignorance of a class of Democrats in this State from the fact that hast week local leaders insisted that no Bessemer steel U made in the United States. Mn. Cleveland, in his letter of acceptance, was very successful in dodging tho wild-cat currency plank in his party's platform. It remains to bo seen U he can dodge it at tho polls. Republican advices from all parts of the country indicate that general enthusiasm prevails all along tho line, and, what is better, that tho party is united and a vigorous and effective organization is being perfected. TnxNew Yoik Tribune remarks that Mr. Cleveland "is a great admirer of all the Jefferson 8 Thomas and Joe and the late Jefferson Davis." He never did anything to hurt the feelings of tho last-named individual except to send a substitute to tho war, and, being drafted, he could not well avoid that. New York papers assert that Secretary Shcerin, of tho Democratic national committee, started for Indianapolis on Friday with a bag of money for the tampaign, estimated at S 50,000. Those ,?ho have not been favored by the Tagt art-Coy committee should seek that Combination at once and demand boodle. Tun present election law provides that every person entitled to vote who a employed in any manufacturing, mini Dg, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or by any railroad corporation, diall be given four hours on election lay in which to vote. This section is mandatory and there is a penalty for its Violation. It is worth while to remark that while jvages havo been gradually declining in free-trade England, and its cotton industry is on tho evo of a general strike igainst a reduction of wages, wages in Sermany, with a recently-adopted protective tariff, advanced 41 per cent., between 1831 and 1SS8, for masons, joiners, iron-founders, etc. "We never meant it, wo never meant it," is what tho Democratic press ia screaming about tho wild-cat currency plank in their platform. Unfortunately for them they cannot say wo never said it, for the platform declares "We recommend that the prohibitory .ten-per-cent. tax on State bank issues bo repealed." If they did not mean what they said, what did they mean! The Republicans ot the city which has the great honor of being tho residence of tip President will bo sure to make known their appreciation of Hun. Whitclaw Reid, not only because ho is his associate on tho ticket, but because his services as minister to Franco liavo been of conspicuous value to tho country, and particularly to the agricultural West, and an honor to tho country. The first priuciplo of tho Republican Tarty is the right of free speech. Consequently anyone claiming to be a Rc-

publican who in any manner attempts todistarb a Democratic meeting forgets a cardinal principle of tho organization which was called into existence with the inspiring slogan, 'Tree soil, free speech, free men." The campaign in Indiana during tho next two weeks will be full of excitement. In it let no Republican interfere with the rights of free speech or interrupt a Democratic meeting. No matter wlt tho provocation, let every man marching under the Republican banner remember its first war cry and honor it. ' TH LATEST DEMCC2ATI0 SCHEME.

It is stated on apparently good authority that tho leaders of tho Democratic party in this Stato are discussing tho advisability of changing the method of choosing presidential electors, and that if tho electoral vote of tho Stato is given to Harrison and Reid the next Legislature, if Democratic, will .be urged to make the proposed change. Tho discussion has been started by the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court affirming the constitutionality of tho Miner law, in Michigan, and the proposition is to adopt the district method of choofeing electors in this Stato. Thero is no question as to tho right of the Legislature to tlx the manner of appointing orelectin presidential electors. Unfortunately tho Constitution of tho United States docs not prescribe tho method nor say that it shall bo uniform in all the States. This leaves tho door open for political juggling in the matter. Tho Miner law was passed in Michigan in'order to cnablo t hit Democrats to steal a few electoral votes which they could not obtain in any other way. If a similar law is passed in this State it will bo for the samo purpose. An unanswerable objection to tho district system of choosing electors is that it oilers a distinctand powerful inducement for gerrymandering the State. That inducement is already strong enough in the opportunity it oilers to manipulate and control the congressional delegation, but it would be infinitely stronger if it also furnished a means of controlling the Electoral Collego and capturing the presidency. It is to that object that tho eyes of the Democratic managers are now turning. If the electoral vote of Indiana shall bo cast this year for the Republican candidates, as the Journal firmly believes will be tho case, it will mean tjiat this is a Republican State. The Democrats have been asserting for years past that tho Republicans never carried the State except by bribery and fraud. Of course, thero is not a word of truth in this, but if the Republicans carry the State this 'year, under tho Australian ballot law, and with the Democrats 'in control of the political machinery in a large majority of the precincts in tho State, it will show that the State-is honestly and truly Republican. This is tho contingency that the Democratic leaders aro considering. If they cannot carry the Stato this year they know they cannot expect to carry it in any future presidential election under the present method of choosing electors. That being tho case, they are contemplating the adoption of a scheme by which they can still hold a few electoral votes. We have already said that the district system of choosing electors is a powerful inducement for gerrymandering. In this Stato the gerrymander itself is also an inducement for adopting tho system, for tho plan that is now being favorably discussed by tho Democratic leaders contemplates a Democratic Legislature. This they hope to get through the existing gerrymander, even if tlie Stato goes for Harrison and Reid. In other words, they are depending on the present gerrymander to enable them to carry the Legislature against a Republican majority, and enable them to adopt the district system, of choosing presidential electors whereby they may prevent tho State from being socurely anchored in tho Republican column. Thecheme is eminently characteristic of the Democratic party, and it furnishes an additional incentive why tho people should rise in their might and smnsh tho gerrymander. They have already suffered enough on account of it. The State debt, tho onerous interest account, tho burdensome tax law and many other iniquities of State government are due to the security which the Democratic party has felt behind tho gerrymander. Now it is proposed to utilize and extend it in tho adoption of a plan to revolutionize tho mode of choosing presidential electors. The way topreventthis is to elect a Republican Legislature. OTJR DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. The Usin. Whitelaw Reid and tho Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, who aro making a brief 6tay in the State, and who will speak in thfs city to-night, aro typical Americans. It would be hard to find two perepns who in their characters nnd careers aro moro representative of the best elements of American life and citizenship than theso two brilliant and distinguished men. To begin with, they aro good representatives of American versatility and aptitude for success. It is an American characteristic to be equal to every emorgency and' to succeed in whatever he puts his hand to. In other countries it is supposed to requiro a lifetime for a man to succeed iu one calling, nnd it is seldom that any person achieves distinction in more than one. Tho law, journalism, statesmanship, diplomacy, railroading, each constitutes a separate nnd distinct career, and their lines do not often cross. In this country a man who has ability, tact and perseverance may achieve distinction in several fields. Both of our distinguished visitors to-day hav dono this. Mr. Reid had moro than a national reputation as a journalist . before ho entered active politics. Appointed minister to France, he began at once to grapple with difficult questions of international commerco and ended by proving himself tho equal of the best-trained diplomatists of Europe. Returning to accept the Republican nomination for Vice-president, he has shown in his public speeches that ho possesses the grasp of a statesman and the graces of an orator. -Turning from one career to another, apparently without previous prep

aration, hehas demonstrated the quality of American versatility by achieving success in all. Much the samo is trjie of Mr. Depew. Trained for tho law, which is supposed to be so jealous a mistress as to exclude all other training, he eoon developed such a tasto for public allairs as to indicate that politics was his true career. After achieving distinction at tho bar, honors in politics and fame on the lecture platform, ho began railroading, nnd has made a brilliant success of that. He is the best-known and most popular after-dinner speaker in tho country, a field, by the way,, in which Mr. Reid is a goodsecond,and as acampaign speaker ho has hardly an equal. They aro a pair of versatile Americans. Both men are self-made in tho sense that they oweathcir success in lifo mainly to their inherent qualities. For, sny what wo please, a main's success is much moro duo to what is in him than to adventitious circumstances. Thero is no other country in tho world where the lack of such aids will do so little to keep a man down or where their possession will do so little to keep him up as in the. United States. Asageneral rule, every man in this country finds his level, and it depends mainly on himself whether he keeps it or not. Messrs. Roid and Depow havo got along right well and are holding their own.. It would be hard to find two brainier men or two more deserving of the success they havo achieved. Theso two distinguished Americans will talk Republicanism to-night in two of tho largest halls in the city, aud for the benefit of the thousands who will not bo able to hear them tho Journal will report their speeches to-morr.ow.

OEE Or MR. EYNUM'S DUPES. Saturday night Mr. Henry spoke in a locality where Mr. Bynum has been tho chief political teacher during the past six years. Thero ho has proclaimed those heresies that he mistakes for statesmanship. It is no wonder, then, that ono of Mr. Henry's auditors should cry out: "It's competition, not protection, that increases wages." This is a remarkable declaration, but it is tho basis of Mr. By n urn's advocacy of free trade. And a very remarkable declaration it is; for it is nothing short of a declaration that the more labor that can be brought into competition in ono market, the better tho opportunity for advancing wages! That is, if there is a job for ten men In a factory at 82 per day, there will be a better prospect of getting 2.50 a dy if twenty men should ly'd for it, and a still better prospect of $2.75 if forty men should implore the managers to favor them. Is there any wage-earner in Indianapolis who dors not see that this proposition is absurd! One of tho purposes of labor organizations is to bring about an eight-hour system. Ono of the chief reasons forurging the system is that more men may be employed to the end that tho surplus of labor shall be absorbed and to prevent the competition which eomes when there are 10 per cent, more , workmen than there are places for working ten hours a day. If Mr. Bynum's disciple is correct, the wisest thing all labor associations can do is to urge labor to come to the cities whero they exist and work as many hours a day as they can induce any on to enmloy . them, to the end that there may, bo a competition for employment. With one-twentieth of the population of tho earth, the United States consumes over one-fifth of tho products cjf its varied industries outside of agriculture. The protective tariff has retained this market largely for tho products of tho United States. Tho wages in all theso industries aro double those paid , in Europe. To abolish tho wall of protection would let tho products of all European competitors into tho Amexican market. Will any ono who is not a free-trader of the Bynum variety .and those who have been deluded into the belief that ho is a statesman say that, the prices of goods and of labor will be advanced in this country when hundreds of ship-loads of tho goods made by the cheaper labor of Europe como to our shores where onn now comesT Competition, which makes cheapne6S in goods, is only another name for that competition which makes cheap labor. The protective tariff keeps out the products of tho cheaperlabor of Europe. Does any candid man believe that tho competition of the products of that half-paid with tho products of the full-paid labor of this country will advance wages here! Again, tho United States cannot consume over 8,000,000 tons of pig-iron and 3,000,000 tons of steel in a year. Will it tend to increaso tho volume of employment in tho industries depending upon pitr-iron and steel in the United States if half of this iron and steel, now made nt home, is made in England, Ielr gium and Germany! m When half tho mills are shut down, will the competition between those who have employment and thoso who aro idle tend tn incrcaso wages! None but a dupe of tho Bynum heresies will so contend. Competition under the samo conditions fora market is serious enough, but a competition with tho whole world for tho world's markets is so terrible that it led John Rnskin to say: Thonsh England is deafened with spinning wheel, ner people have no clotbrs; thoaph she in Mack with the digging of fnrl, they die of cuM, anithougb ehe baa sold hor soul for grain, they die of hunger. The Sentinel Is troubling itself a great deal about Mr. Reid'a relations with Typographical Union, No. 0, of New York, and organized labor generally. There is no' difficulty between union No. 6 and Mr. Reid not a particle. Whatever difference existed between them' were settled months ago to their mutual satisfaction. But what about "General" Stevensqn! What hns tho Sentinel to say. of his fight against a miners' union in tho coal mining company of which ho is president! What explanation has it to make for his present attitude of hostility to organized coal miners? And more, what explanation has the Sentinel to make to the IndianapoiisTypogrnphical Union because candidates on tho Democratic State ticket refused to listen to its representatives' in regard to the selection of a superintendent of printing .and vio

lated tho law by appointing a henchman to the place who knew nothing about the duties of tbo position! In conclusion, what right has the Sentinel to say anything about tho relations of other newspaper publishers to typographical uniqns so long as ono-third of the ihatter it uses costs the proprietors not over one-tenth as much as it would if it was put in typo by Indianapolis printers! Go to.

The Democratic organs aro sending out stories to the effect that veterans havo been receiving bad treatment from the administration in Washington. One of these appeared in tho New York Times a few days ago, and has called out tho following refutation from A. F. Dinsmore, acting commander of the Department of tho Potomac: In yesterday's New York Times ia an article couaistintf of quotations from statement! made by Past Commander George U. Loqd, of Post No. 84, of Brooklyn, of the National Veteran Tariff iieforra Leapne, No. i0 Fifth avenue. He mentions among the ontraees that were perpetrated by tbo Republican D&rty nnder President Harrison that of a one-legged soldier, Henry F. Wilkins, employed in the General Land Office lor twenty-five years, wbo was removed, and all ot the appeals of the veterans in Washington to have the veteran reinstated have been ignored by Secretary of the Interior Noble, this is a lie without the slightest foundation on which to build it. Comrade Wilkins is still employed in the General Land Olfice. and was never discharged or. removed. And through the mfiuencoof the Grand Array of this department he was promoted to a clerkship at 11.400 a year bv Secretary Noblo on a recommendation of the Commissioner of the General Land OfUce. If Comrade Lond'e other instances of outrages are no nearer the truth than this statement relative to Comrade Wilkins he havnot made oat a very good case in the support of his change of base politically. The Kerr Thread Company, of Fall River, Mass., moved to this country from Paisley, Scotland, to get the bonefit of tho protective tariff. The proprietors still run a thread-mill in Scotland. A letter is published from Mr. R. C. Kerr, vice-president and treasurer of ' the company, in which ho says tho wages they pay in the Fall River mill are more than double those paid for the same work in Paisley. He adds: It is the tariff, and the tariff only, that enables ns to pay the wages we do in Fail Hiver, and should the same be taken off thread and cotton yarns we would have. to do one of two things we wojiM either have to arrange with onr operatives here to pay them at the same rate of wages as we pay in Paisley or we would be compelled to close our mills in Fall River till such a time as the American operatives could see their war to accept the truly-named pauper wages of Earope. . The city of Brooklyn has just dedicated a memorial to the Kings county soldiers in tho war of the rebellion. It is in tho form of a triumphal arch, and cost $250,000. Tho total width of the structure is eighty feet, height seventyone feet, and width of archway thirtyseven feet. The sculpture and ornamentation around tho main structure aro in strict keeping with the central idea, and it is hardly necessary to ay that there is no intrusion of Mexican war dates or any other extraneous matter to mar the artistic symmetry of the design. One of our Republican Stato exchanges informs its readers that "the law against betting is" very strict nnd that any person betting or holding stakes is liable to be challenged and prevented from voting." This is a mistake. The Journal does not wish to encourage anybody in betting, but tho penalty does not include the loss of the right to vote. Betting on elections stands on a par with betting on races, and the penalty is fiuo and imprisonment. No one who bets on an election can serve on an election board, but his right to vote is not affected. In its anxiety to defend Cleveland's pension record the Philadelphia Times resorts to falsehood. It says President Harrison, during the three years of his term, has not signed half as many private pension bills as did Cleveland. Tho acts are these: Mr. Cloveland, while President, signed 1,240 private peneion bills and vetoed 524. President Harrison has signed 1,576 and has vetoed none. Democratic papers will do well to say as little as possible about their candidate and pensions. P the Editor ot tti IndianapolU Journal: What admlnUtratiou has built Uie greatest number of warships and spent the most or coasvt defenses that of Arthur, Cleveland or Ilarriaoul x. 1 Tho first bill appropriating money for modern ' shlQS was passed dnring the last session of the Forty-sixth Congress, after Garfield's uleotion, by tho inaistanco of tho Republican Senate. The next Congress made liberal appropriations, being Republican, and the Republican Senate favored the largest appropriations for ships and defenses during Mr. Cleveland's administration. Arthur only got nnder way when Mr. Cleveland came in. He did little for two years, but much later. The present administration has expended more money and launehed a larger number of ships than any of its predecessors. The test should bo rather the record of the two parties in Congress regarding a new navy and coast defenses. Tho Republicans have favored a new navy for years, and have voted for all measures to create one and give adequate coast defeuses. To the Alitor of the Iwdwiiaoolis Journal Will I have the right to go home to vote I have never oast a vole, ana have not registered. Am out of tho county whero my parents live, but have not been out ol the estate. UBscitrrF.u. Being a single man your residence is where you are working, unless your employment is distinctly temporary. If you have been in tho township sixty days, and in the precinct thirty days before the election, yon are entitted to vote without registering. To tlie EMTor of the Trullanapoll.i Journal: A young man twentr-ouo years old lait May left home the middle ot, eptemlHT to attend college in another comity of .the State. Has he loat' his right toote at the next electlou! Ueadlr. No. Having left home for temporary purposes, with the intention of returning, his legal residence is still with his parents. To tho TM'.tor ot tiio inmanaootiii Journal: What la the salary and emoluments of a member or Coujfreaa! v. s. n. Salary, f".0C0: postage and stationery, 512 , mileage, L0 cents a mile one vjay by tuoat direct route. No other perquisites. . rOLlTiCAh NULL AND COMMENT. Senator Gorman, tho Democratic political boss of Maryland, says: "1 never participated in so peculiar a campaign. It seems to be impossible to awaken aoy enthusrasm." Ten years and six months ago. when Wayne MaeVeagh bad road himaolf oat of the Republican party' (April, '82). the New YoikSuu said; ".Mr. MacVeagh has left the

Republican party. It was easier for him to do this than it will be for him to obtain adxnissiou into any other." A Boston paper unkindly calls the attention of President Eliot, of Harvard, to tho fact that under the protective system the wages in Cambridge have increased during the past decade per cent. Thkre is a considerable number of Russian voters in Jerry Simpson's district, and Jerry is having trouble with them on account of his vote ajainat the appropriation to furnish relief to their famine-stricken countrymen last winter. The: Boston Journal remarks that "Gen." Adlai E. Stevensoa is reported as having made more speeches in this campaign than any other orator, yet the assiduity with which the Massachusetts Democrstic committee keeps him out ot this titrate is remarkable. Mu. Enwix Einstein, the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, is a native of Ohio, a successful manufacturer and a large holder of real estate. The most noteworthy fectabout the career of Mr. Thomas F. Gilroy, joint candidate of Tammany and the uingwumns. is that for twenty-eight consecutive yearshohas made his living out of politics. Tin: Boston-Herald thinks it is improper for Robert Lincoln to make campaign speeches and will ba "very much surprised'' if he violates the "unwritten law" forbidding members of the diplomatio service from mingling in politics to this extent. 1 ho Herald may get ready to ba surprised, for Mr. Lincoln, who has as much respect for unwritten law as any other mnn. is billed for two or three speeches in Indiana, and is at the service of tho national committee if it wants hirn in Mew York. Mu. Edward McPiir.RsoN.secretaTy of the Republican congressional campaign committee, has direct charge ot this branch of the canvass, and ho has expressed the belief that the present enormous Democratic majority 'will be wiped out in the Fiftythird Congress. Large gaiuS are expected in the East, especially in Massachusetts, and there will also bo accessions from New Hampshire and Connecticut. In the We?t the seats lost in tho landslide of lbw.K) will be regained. There has been a new apportionment iu Ohio, which has done away with thediszracoful gerrymander by which the Democrats elected fourteen Congressmen out of twenty-oue in a State giving a Republican majority of twenty-one thousand. In thobonrti no decided increaso iu Republican representation is expected. Conditions thero are all against the party, but thero will be slight gains. HOW IT WILL lit: DONE. A year of grace, A raiu'Kiw chase, A brief campaign, and then ' A vote, a rout, A mighty shout. And lour moro years of Bee. Kansas City Journal. SICKLES AND CLEVELAND. I called rtpon friend Cleveland, And I took hlin by the flipper. Baid I, "Old ioy, 1 wish you joy. Our can ho i looking chipper:" Of course, f did not mean the cause t For t hut had graveled him In which he fouunt with both his jaws While I was pruned a limb. New Yrrk Recorder.

BUBBLES IX' THE AliL Snrrm Ixt-iue. The idea of the wife of such a creature as he calling him liirdlel" ; . Well, why not! He can swear like a parrot, at least." The Brute! Mrs. Lueliforth Aud to think how I used to rray for you Mr,. Jaggs Lushforta Well, you Anally got me, dihio-din'tchewl " ' There Muitt llm. "She cohfesses to some twenty odd years, I believe." . . "Of course there are an equal number of even ones included." So Tender Hearted. Young Mr. FItts I wish you would 6top waiting at the yindow for me every evening. Mrs. Fitts Why, dearl Are the neighbors laughing: at met . Young Mr. Fitts No; but I do so hate to see you in pane. , . An Unlucky Name. Tollce Justice What is your name, prisoner! Culrnt Columbus Day, your honor. "Fur 4 "Columbus Day, 6ir." "I guejs wo can put you away until the 21st of next October." THE bTATE PRESS. President Harrison is a President for the people rather than for the politician. This is one of the strongest recommendations a President could possibly have. Oreensburg Review. Wiii:n you como to think about it, all this great evidence of prosperity that we are celebrating came to us under the master minds of the Republican party. Evaniville Journal. Siiin-plaster currency raay bo good enough for the framers of the Deinooratio nationnl platform, hut not for tho sovereigns of Posey county, if they know themselves. Mount Vernon Sun. Tiik democratic banking system that existed before the war cost the country more than any otber one evil except slavery, and the proposition to restore it is an innit tn tha nnnnlur intol li irence. .Dci'ntnr - - m ' lnnrnal Tiif.kk has never been a time in the history of tlie United States when factories and artisans of all classes were more crowded with work than at the present. According to the theory of the "outs'' this is all wrong. Anderson Times. Tiik prospects for a grand Republican victory next month are increasing every day. The party is right and on the side of the people, and the voters will at the polls triumphantly indorse the policy which has bought so muoh happiness and prosperity. Fort Wayne Gazette. Nine -Indiana Democrats out of ten are protectionists, but insist that free trade is not their party policy, notwithstanding the fact that the South, which controls their party, is solid for free trade, ana notwithstanding the fact that their national platform declares tor it Logansport Journal. Madison county has too many factories and too bright a future for her citizens to Jeopardize by assisting to send Wm. liynun back to Congress, The risk in returning him is greater at this time than in past yearn, irom the fact that his party has never before been so pronoanced on the tarirt question. Pendleton Republican. Democrat Orator (to woolen manufacturer) You need free wool so you can get it cheap and prosper. Democrat Orator (to sheep-raiser) Free wool will enlarge the market and the price of wool will rise. CleveJaud (to farraer)-My way will give you a foreign market and yon can sell all yon raise at a higher price. . Cleveland (to workingman) My plan will cheapen Decennaries, and you enn got your ilour and corn and pork a great deal cheaper. New Albany Tribune. A Farmer Tnlha. EontTi Ilend TrUmn". "1 was a farnienn this connty in 18"0, and havo been a farmer ever since," said nn old trentlenian to uTribnne representative, "and looking ut my interests, aud not the interests of any political party, I will vote the Kepublican ticket." -Why!" "We.ll, this is why: From 1850, and all through free-trade times. I got such small priced for farm products that I had hard work to come out even at the end of the year. I1. utter, egts, potatoes, everything was cheap, and it wat 'slave tradV alt the time, and but little money. South lleiid had three or four email fMCtonen. but they did not enirIov tuurh help, and the men were out of work so much of the tune that they raised their own garden truck, kept from twenty-live to uuy coicm'u.", ami inrougn lorceoi circum

stances managed to almost live off a quarter acre lot. After a Republican tariif had been finally established in the United States, iron got so cheap that times grew better. You can always set it down as a fact that iren has more to do with the prosperity of this country than any other ono thing. It goes into plows, wagons, reapers and harrows almost everything the farmer and everybody else uses. Cheap iron made all these things cheaper, and thero was a demand lor them. The farmer, who felt it would bo folly to run In debt Sl for a wagon and made the old one do, were not afraid to go in del. t when the price of wagons dropped to 1100, and it was the same with agricultural implements. Factories had to have more help and run longer hours. Workingmen had less time to look after tneir gardens, hens and cows. It paid them better to work in the shops and buy their produce. Tho demand for produce increased and prices for it advanced. That was a sort of reciprocity between the fanners and workingmen, and whife for man? jears there was not a directly protected factory in Joath liend, all ot them were in ' directly interested, and they grow to mammoth proportions, and with them the city grew, and right here was made a great market for farm produce." A llle-lg nn the l.epubltcan Ticket. SheltiyTllIe Repntdlea The joint Representative convention at Indianapolis yesterday, ou the first ballot, nominated John Blessing, of this city. Mr. Blessing needs no introduction to the people of Shelby county. He has been actively identified with the business interests of the county for thirty years; Is a conservative, long-headed, safe, prudent business man a man whom it would be on honor to have as. a Representative in the Stato Legislature a man who would work for the interests of tho people and not in a way to further any political aspiration of his own.

Afraid or Their riatform. Wabash Tlaln Dojiler. The Democrats of tho country who bavo national bank stock are hot, taking murh interest in the campaign this year. The success of tbo Democratic party means the repeal of the tax on State bank circulation, the enactment of laws providing for the establishment of State hanks of issue, and the downfall of the national banking system, with which the interests of .thousands of Democratic 8tockhoidersareindis8olubly involved. WOULD HAVE AN END OFWAB Prominent Friends Meet Toward tha Furtheracceof Peace Ainon Nations. Largs Gathering at Roberts Tark Church Xotatle Addrts) by Dr. Benjamin Trueblood Progress of Arb.traticn. Roberts Park Church was crowded last night, on the occasion of tho public address under auspices of the Friends' Peace Society, which is now in session in this city. The speaker was Benjanvn Trueblood, D. D., of Boston, formerly president of Pe nn College, Iowa. He is now engaged wholly in the work of the peace association. : Richard H. Thomas, president of the association, was not able to be present to preside, owing to illness, .and Dr. Van Anda took charge of the meeting. Prayei was otlercd by Daniel Hill, of Itichmond, editor of a publication devoted to peace, and the choir rendered its usual service. Dr. Trueblood's work required him to ' vial K a mLI A 1 .... 1 1 ioi v kuu uiu i vi ail iaow nuiuujoft ma ct uoio gate to tho atinual convention of the international Society of Peace. He utilized the opportunityeto investigate the war systems of Europe, and their eflect upon tho social, national and spiritual life of the continental nations. Treating first of the visible evidences of warlike temperament pervading the nations, he described to the congregation, in an interesting way, the nature of the weapons of war. He said the rifle balls are made of a - mixture of three metals, and can be thrown one and two-thirds mile with fttffif t fatal tn Iifi. F.VAn thmn thnuoh ww mwmtm v w w A f v t m -w mtmm v W V f M W M M they struck against an iron wall, they could We used again, so little erlect would the ' shock of contact have. But these bullet! are not made, he said, to kill people nearly two miles on, out to inn nve or six in line at a time. While in Paris he visited the Y. M. C. A., at the secretary's request, and addressed the members on the subject of peace. The secretary had declared he stood nrm for peace, bnt, when on a visit a few weeks later, he found the secretary had been conscripted, and was about to leave for three years in the. Held, which is requ red of each male citizen. "Oh," Dr.,Trueblood, had said to the secretary, a Christian man, as be verily believes, "you do not seem to be wearing garments of peace." "No," replied the secretary, "but the best way to preserve peace is to prepare for war." And then the young soldier, at the speaker's request, described how to use the fourbladed bayonet. "That bayonet." said tbe secretary, now a soldier, "makes ervery wound as good as death by the slight twist we are taught to give it as it enters the flesh. The wound will not suppurate." Dr. Trueblood then showed the power of the Krupp long-range guns, which aro of fatal use in bombarding cities, which cannot be defended against them. The lirst bomb thrown into Paris m the Franco-German war killed seven little girls in a boarding-schooL "And the blood of those girls," said the speaker, "seems to cry out still for vengeance, and fans the French hatred against the Germans." The speaker then argued that if this vengeful spirit is wrong, then war is wrong, for war causes such horrible, incidents. The torpedo boat was also adverted to. When thesa were first introduced, said Dr. Trueblood, tho bishops and church leaders said they were diabolical and must put an end to war by their awful destrnctiveness. But wars still raze If it is right to kill one it is right to kill, by thousands or millions. Dr. Trueblood instanced the war debts as another feature of evil in tho trail of war. Europe, he says, owes 8 X 000, 000.000 spent to carry on armies aad wars. It is a debt unrighteously saddled on generations of centuries bonce. If these shall say. "This money was borrowed through no volition of ours aud in no way lor our good'' aud should repudiate the debt the ethics of such repudiation, said the speaker, would bo a very delicate question. Ho next discussed the couscriptive system. It had sprung first in cue couutry and then others in evlf defense until now only. England, of all the western old world, has no conacriptive system. In France only the son of a widowed mother is exempt. Priests and preachers used to be exempt, but there were so many becoming priests or preachers to escape military service that even these are now required 10 servo in the armies three years. This system, aid tho speaker, derauges the TDuaiuest iHe of tbe youth, who, at eighteen years, must leave for tho camp. It makes, perhaps, an idler of hm, and. perhaps, ruins him with tbo vices of the barracks. The two great vices are intoxication and the social evil. Theso are sapping f he life forces of the soldier and deteriorating the race. Dr. Trueblood drew an interesting lesson from the American military system, which could organize an army superior to any in Europe of tho same stzo, and be conqueror in conflict. The reason lies in the ntrong muscles, accustomed to labor, to the educated mind, the treat moral courage, which would. not participate in war for conquest. The chief oDjectiou. in the speaker's opinion, to war is its deadly influence against the spread of thetosuel. Tho conseriptivo system and the war spirit of Europe is driving out the spirit ol Cbnotianity. It is to repel such detnictiv forces that tho great peace movement wan begun in Europe. Tho international convention at Berne had ttJ delegates, representing eleven nations. Tbe next convention was voted to be held at Chieawo, The peace-loving people of Europe. aid Dr. Trueblood, are eager to se frre and peaceful America, whose standing army of tweu-ty-tive thousand for sixty-live millions of people is so mueh a marvel to them. In Etiropf. said the Doctor, tbe jeace organizations are spreading. An interparliamentary conference for peace ban been held, with seventeen 'parliament repreeiited. He asked, in conclusion, that tbe churches of America help to welcome the viitors next yenr and do ail to spread tho gospel of peace throughout the world.