Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1894 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,V, 1894.

VOORHEES ELOQUENCE Our Daniel Lets Loose a Flood of Words at Terre Haute.

He Attempts to Cover Up Democracy's Shortcomings by Charging' All 3Iann cr of Things Against Republicans. LONG TALK ON THE TAEIFF In Which the Senator Says lie Stands on Cleveland's Platform. He Also Tells What Was Done for the Trusts and Southern Industries, but la an Indirect Way. CpVclal to the Indianapolis Journal. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 22,-Senator Voorhees delivered his long promised speech here to-night at the armory, which was well filled. The local Jackson Club made j an effort to have a street demonstration, but only 134 persons were In line. Democrats commented on the fact that every other man In line was a, public official federal. State, county or city who had been pressed into service. There was a notable absence of prominent local Democrats who ordinarily take part in these Voorheoa demonstrations. The most significant feature of the meeting was the fact that Congressman Brookshlre, of this district, who in past years has opposed Senator Vooorhees on the tariff and the irJver isjjues, as well as on federal appointments, was present after having been refused permission to make the opening Democratic speech in this district The Gazette, the Democratic paper here, printed Brookshlre's speech delivered in another part of the district and gave scant publicity to the Voorhees meeting. CoL. McLean, who was Deputy Commissioner of Pensions in Cleveland's first administration, was chairman of the meeting to-night and spoke briefly and in general terms of the issues. Senator Voorhees read his speech from printed slips and was unusually careful to "follow copy." The Senator began by informing his hearers that the Democratic party "has rever recognized any control of the people xcept their own, nor any master, except themselves." They could not be intimidated by secret and treasonable oathbound societies. Here the speaker discreetly refrained from mentioning the "Knights of the Golden Circle." The Senator then launched Into an arraignment of the Republican party, denouncing it as despollers of the people and of the public treasury, and charging it with all sorts of vicious legislation in the Interest of classes. He endeavored to show that the wicked Republicans were directly responsible for the mortgages on the farms of the country by enacting laws that compelled people to borrow money at hlght rates of interest. THE SHERMAN SILVER LAW. The Senator next took up the so-called Sherman silver-purchase law and said:" "I drew the bill which repealed It." While on this subject he repeated the stale Democratic falsehood to the effect that the Harrison administration had bankrupted the treasury. After recounting the work of Congress, and before taking up the tariff question, he said: "When I look out on the vast and difficult work to be done, the extensive reformations required before the government can again yield harvests of prosperity and happiness to the people, I am sometimes reminded of an old farm which ! for many years has been in bad hands and has ceased to be productive of wholesome crops. Its fields will be found breeding briars, brambles, poison vines, thistles, cockle burs, beggar lice, gympson weed3, dog fennel, smart grass, skunk cabbage and yellow-jackets nests. Old snags and ugly stumps also cumber such fields and hinder tne work of the plow and deetroy the patience of the plowman. When a farm in this condition has the good fortune to get a change of ownership and to pass into the hands of a skillful and hdnest farmer, you would hardly expect him to clean out all its noxious obstructions and put it In perfect order for com, wheat, oats, hay ,and clover in a single season. You would grant him at least two or three years , to overcome the evils with which his farm were afflicted before he took possession. The benefit of this illustration, and the same indulgence you would extend to the farmer in his work of agricultural reform, are all' I ask for the Democratic party in its present attitude. We have begun our work nobly and well; much has been done and yet much more remains for us to do before all the foul growth in the political fields for more than thirty years past can be entirely extirpated." Senator Voorhees devoted fully half of Jus speech to the repeal of the McKinley Jaw -and enactment of the H rice-Gorman trust protecting measure. "The repeal of the McKinley act." he said, "when all the circumstances and conditions are calmly considered, will be found to have been the most stupendous struggle against power end consolidated capital ever made before in American history. Protected millions without limit rallied to the defense of that infamous act as troops rally at the call of the bugle when a fortress or a cltldel is in danger. Never did the greatest gamWere in human events play for a bigger stake in actual money and in the power of money for future domination than the robber barons of protection and their henchmen, the leaders of the Republican party, in their fierce, undying opposition to the repeal of that colossal engine of fraud prepared for them four years ago for their enrichment and power, at the expense of every honest principle known to free government. The accursed spirit of avarice was aroused and alarmed as never before In American history'. The love of riches as an exclusive pursuit, is the strongest! as -well as the basest passion of the human soul, and danger of loss has more of terror in it to sordid avarice than an assault on life itself. "The whole doctrine of protection was at Stake in the movement for the repeal of the McICinley act, and I here proclaim that the backbone of the protective system is broken in thl3 country forever; that it may drag itself along in a crippled and lingering condition yet for a short time, but It is doomed to a speedy and total extinction. The passage of the McKinley act in was the culmination of that system by which taxes are levied on one class of people for the benefit of another clasi. and it was so shameless, arrogant and insolent In all its features, so revolutionary, unjust and oppressive in Its exactions on labor, nnd the fruits of labor, that it became at once a trumpet call to battle for its repeal, and for the final overthrow of the hideous principle of legislative piracy on which it was based. Popular resentment arose like a spontaneous flame against a measure so unrighteous, so subversive of the inherent rights of man. No enactment in American history has ever been more oilous to the American people than the McKinley law of tariff taxation. Not even the fugitive slave law of I5vj was held in greater abhorrence and detestation throughout the North than this measure of wickedness and extortion throughout the whole country. The provocation given by the McKinley enactment broke the patience of the American people, and in attacking and destroying the measure itself thy demand that the doctrine of its construction shall be wiped out and come buck to trouble them no more. OBJECT OF TARIFF REFORM. Tile great and primary object of tariff reform is the abolition of tariff, duties on the wants and necessaries of life, as far as' can be done with safety to the revenues for the support of the government. It follow?, therefore, that legislation which, from legitimate sources, supplies revenue and furnishes th treasury with unds for public use. without laying taxes on the wearing apparel of the plain people, or increasing the cost of the bods they sleep on, or of the Vnives and forks with which they eat, niut ikj hailed as wise statesmanship, genuine reform, and a rich benefaction to the 'l-i?K)ring clashes. In view oi this fact, universally conceded. I do not hesitate to declare that the bill which passed both houses of Congress and became a law on the 2Sth day of August, whatever its other merits or defects may be, will do more in the aggregate toward the Inevitable reduction of duties and consequently will make a longer stride in the direction of freedom in trade and commerce than any other measure ever enacted into law y tha American Congress. While repeal

ing the McKinley act we provided that at I

least thirty millions a year shouia be collected hereafter from people who have, good, net Incomes, rather than from peo-' pie who have nothing but their wants, and their labor with wh:ch to meet them. What is this but a transfer of taxation for the support of '.he government from the laboring poor to the - idle and comfortable rich? What is It but a relief from high protection and a direct and powerful blow to the whole protective system? "If all othor classes of men and women in the United States can submit to the laws of the country on the subject of taxation there is no reason to my mind why the owner of a net income of over $l,lwO a year should fail to obey. A man with a large fortune has more need of protection by law than his impoverished neighbor; hence, he owes more to the support and enforcement of the law. It is pure and simple equity that he should pay a tax on his realized wealth In return for the government care and protection against lawlessne'". which he incessantly claims and which is incessantly bestowed. Why should sue- a system be stigmatized as unAmerican, undemocratic? What is there in our system of government, or in the Democratic principles on which it is founded, that exempts the rich from contributing to its support according to their means? Those in poverty have done this, why not those who have a net surplus of wealth at the end of the year? Is justice un-American? Is equality before the law and in enjoyment of natural rights undemocratic? "The first Income tax known to history was of a higher origin 'than aught assigned to earth,' nor was It a featherweight enactment such as we now propose. For the support of his own government among the children of men in the beginning the Supreme Ruler of the universe tithed his whole people taxed them one-tenth of their entire possessions nor did statesmen and lawgivers of the school of Moes, Aaron ami Joshua, and of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, denounce its principles or threaten It with criminal violation. From that high and ancient day to the present time a tax on Incomes has been no novelty or mere experiment In the history of government. Such a tax has always been regarded as a measure of relief to the laboring classes, while at the same time Inflicting no injustice on those best able to pay it, and having the greatest interest in the stability of government and the supremacy of law. THE GIFT TO DISTILLERS. "But In the effort we made to break down tariff duties by supplying the government with revenue from other sources we did not stop with the Income tar. The increased taxation of whisky from 90 cents to a dollar and ten cents per gallon was a favorite measure with all except protectionists, the Whisky Trust and other holders of whisky who wanted to be let alone. Protectionists have never failed, no matter to which party they belong, to antagonize the collection of money for government support by means of our internal revenue system. They do not want taxes paid on incomes, on whisky, on beer, on tobacco, on playing cards and the like. Their system Is to raise all the revenue the government needs and to protect the manufacturing monopolies in plundering the people of illimitable millions besides, by blockading our ports against the trade of the world by shutting out competition from abroad, which would cheapen everything to the purchaser here by turning over our home markets to private, exclusive greed and by compelling consumers to pay, as the statistics show, for all articles necessary to life amongst laboring people, from 23 to 200 per cent, more than they are worth, and more than they could be bought for if trade was free. Hence, the doctrine of protection for the rich and oppression for the poor the Republican doctrine of protection which has been so justly denounced as a robbery and a fraud always shows its ravenous teeth at the mention of free trade and fights to the death every step in that direction. "When it was discovered that the bill, which has recently become a law, the Senate bill if you choose to call it so, made provision for a reduction of over seventy millions a year duties on imports by placing a tax on incomes, and an increased tax on distilled spirits, which together will more than equal that amount, every clear-sighted protectionist from Maine to California knew its fatal meaning to his policy of rapine and injustice. The present able and very efficient Commissioner of Internal 'Revenue authorizes me to say that he will collect every dollar coming to the government under the increased whisky tax of $1.10 a gallon as certainly and as readily as he has heretofore collected the tax of 90 cents a gallon, and that It is a safe estimate, after the first year, that over one hundred and ten millions will be poured annually into the treasury from this tax alone, which touches not one of the necessities or natural wants of human existence. This is a stupendous fact, impossible to be overestimated. The income tax and the tax on distilled spirits have come to stay. They make lighter every burden of the laboring man's life; they enable the friends of tariff reform to secure in their bill, as it became a law, a reduction of taxes on all woolen goods, on, blankets, shawls, hats and on woolen clothing of all kinds of from 40 to over 100 per cent.; a reduction on iron ore, pig iron, bar iron, tin plate, tinware, chains, saws and on all the principal Implements and utensils needed by farmers of from 40 to 73 per cent- The truth is, and it cannot be too often stated, nor made too plain, that the internal revenue system of taxation embracing incomes, whisky and distilled spirits of all kinds, fermented liquors, tobacco In its various forms, playing cards and other like articles of wealth and luxury hereafter to be added, is the sure forerunner of the downfall of protection the John the Baptist of the gospel of commercial liberty. "As to the defects and shortcomings of the new law, which repealed the McKinley act and has gone into operation, time and its practical workings will discuss them with more wisdom for their future correction, and eradication than they can be discussed now in party heat and bad temper. It is well known that I would have gone further on some important points than we went in the bill in the Senate, and that I struggled hard to do so. I stand with Grover Cleveland on tariff reform, and with him I believe in the curative processes of future legislation. Absolute perfection does not belong to any work of human brains or human hands, and certainly was never achieved in man's first effort on any disputed subject. AVERAGE REDUCTIONS. "But let us see what has actually been done in the interest of taxpaying people. The average ad valorem rate of duty under the McKinley bill was 49.3S; the average rate proposed by the Mills bill. Indorsed by the national Democratic convention only six years ago. at St. Louis, was 42.78; the average rate of the Morrison bill, another Democratic measure, was 41.C3, while the average rate of duty under the new law, as it now stands, may be stated at 37 per cent, ad valorem. What have Republicans to say of this comparison with their odious law of four years ago. and what have Democrats also to say when they see that the present Democratic Congress. In spite of differences within, and incessant assault from without, has made a heavier average reduction in tariff duties than was ever before even proposed in American history? The average rate of the Wilson bill, as it passed the House and came to the Senate, was 35.52. while the average rate of the Senate bill, when I had the honor to report it on the 20th of March, was down to 31.13 the amendments afterward made increasing that low rate less than 3 per cent. A glance at the free list also discloses most important additions there. Cotton ties, whether of iron or steel, for the planters of the South, and binding twine for the farmers of the North and West, are now made free from all tariff taxation. Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reapers, agricultural drills, planters, mowers, horse rakes, cult'varors, threshing machines and cotton gins are all now free of duty under the new law, when imported from countries which have no duty on similar articles. Timber unmanufactured, timber, hewn and sawed, squared and sided, sawed boards, plank, pine clapboards, spruce clapboards, 1 ubs for wheels, lath, pickets and palings, shingles and staves of wood of all kinds are also in the free-trade column with all countries which impose no export duty on commerce of this kind. "Then comes the great and commanding article of wool, on which the peasant-born babe and the prince born to a throne are alike dependent for warmth, for life and for comfort. Woolen wearing arparel, as a necessity to the civilized races of the earth. Is akin o the necessity which people have for food, water, fire and shelter; it is, indeed, one of the necessities of life, without which death ensues. Every honest and intelligent effort, therefore, to cheapen the woolen clothing of the men, women and children of this country and of the world cannot fail to meet the approval of the people and secure the sanction and blessing of the Divine Master himself. Cheap raw materials for the manufacturer enables him to continue his work at fair profits even in the face of the heavy reduction of tariff duties which have been made on his manufactured products' of wool, Herein lies the gain of the consumer of woolen goods in raw wool beiug made free. Every woolen garment is made cheaper by wool being on the free list, because of the deep cut In tariff taxes on the manufactured article, which in all wise and just legislation must always inevitably follow frte trade In the raw material. The farmer who has a flock of sheep has been told in a sort of vehement outcry, a hysterical scream of pretended indignation, by thor-ough-paced professional protectionists, that be is to be greatly injured. xerhaj. ruined.

by the removal of all tariff duties from wool which may hereafter be Imported into this country. My answer to this false creed is ready and conclusive. In the first place, the history of tariff legislation in thU country shows most explicitly, and beyond the possibility of a denial, that a tariff on wool has never been, even temporarily, a benefit to the wool grower or the sheep raiser. "I might linger much longer on the extensive additions made by the new law to the free list. Articles embraced in eightyeight important paragraphs have been placed on that list, which means. In ach and every Instance, a square reduction of 10) per cent, trriff duty." On seven paragraphs of the low law an average reduction of tariff duties of between 73 to 100 per cent, has taken place; on eighty paragraphs a reduction of between 50 and 73 per'cent.; on 212 paragraphs a reduction of between 23 and 50 per cent.; 133 paragraphs a reduction to less than 23 per cent. These great reductions are more fully shown by statistical tables prepared by tariff experts, which are now being circulated and finding their way throughout the country." THE DUTY ON SUGAR. In defending the action of the Senate In levying a duty on sugar the Senator said: "There has never been a day since the foundation of this government when sugar was free from tariff duties of some sort, but It was never before made the Instrument of a tax so mean and thoroughly undemocratic as the bounty tax which we have just repealed, and it never will be again. In the celebrated Walker tariff, of glorious Democratic memory, all sugars were made dutiable at 30 per cent. ad valorem, which, owing to the higher price of sugar then than 'now, amounted to twice the rate of duty which has been imposed In the new law. It Is conceded, however, by all parties that the duty paid on imported sugar goes more entirely into the treasury, as public revenue, than any other duty known to the whole system of tariff taxation. The people, therefore, have the satisfaction of knowing that the revenue raised from sugar does not have to be raised again from taxes on their woolen clothing, their bedding, their carpets and on every other necessary article of life end comfort. The people know, in paying the duty on sugar for the support of the government, that they get their money back, and more. In the consequent reduction of tariff taxes on other articles of even greater prime necessity to their existence. I pray and hope for the day and hour of free sugar, but until that time comes the people can better afford to pay a moderate duty Into the treasury which lightens their burdens in every other direction than to pay increasing millions of bounty Into the pockets of private individuals for no other purpose, and with no other result in view than to make a few people rich at the expense of everybody else." In closing his talk on the tariff Mr. Voorhees said: "If there are federations of labor for the purpose of securing honest pay and fair treatment, so there are also federations of wealth for the purpose of fixing and controlling the wages of labor, and of governing legislation of the country besides. What the American laborer most needs Is not the abomination of tariff protection, the bloody reign of McKinleylsm, but a strong and carefully prepared enactment in "the body of our laws giving legal security in the courts, and before boards of arbitration, . to honorable, law-abiding labor of all kinds in its dealings with selfish, grasping and intolerant capital. Such an enactment; of justice and equality is In the near future if the Democratic party continues to hold the power of legislation. When It comes peace and prosperity will prevail in all the habitations of honest industry from one ocean to the other." The Senator was In good voice in spite of his recent severe Illness, and while the speech lacked the fire which has heretofore marked his public utterances, it was, nevertheless, freely applauded. Senator Voorhees Is billed for twenty-five speeches in Indiana during the campaign, and expresses the belief that he is strong enough to undergo the arduous task. THREE LIVES FOE ONE

MURDER AVENGED RY A MOD OP 300 ARKANSANS. Three Negroes Hnnjjed to a Telegraph Pole nnil Their Bodies Riddled vrlth Shot. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 22. The breath of life had scarcely left the body of their victim when a mob of three hundred enraged citizens of McGehee, Ark., secured Luke Washington, Richard Washington and Henry Crobyson, the three negroes who murdered H. C. Patton, at McGehee, yesterday morning and strung them up to telegraph poles, and their limp and lifeless bodies, perforated with buckshot, are now dangling in the air near the scene of the crime. The three negroes yesterday morning burst into the store of Mr. H. C. Patton, a prominent merchant, at McGehee, and, after beating him Into insensibility with clubs, dragged him to the rear of his store, where the knife was brought into use to make their' work doubly sure, 'and their unconscious victim's throat was cut from ear to ear. The negroes then rifled the store of a small amount of money and what goods they could carry away and fled to Pine Bluff, where they were captured last night. They were taken back to McGehee to-day and at the coroner's "Inquest broke down and confessed their crime, relating every detail of the deed. The negro population of Desha county outnumbers the whites five to one. All day excitement ran high in McGehee, and it was almost certain that a3 soon as darkness had settled over the little town,- little time would be lost in avenging Patton's murder. The negroes of McGehee took a leading part in the proceedings, and passed word around among the white people to await patiently the result of the coroner's inquest, promising that as soon as all doubt of the prisoners guilt had been removed they, the colored people, would take the case in their own hands and satisfy the public demand for revenge After the conclusion of the coroner's inquest the sheriff made preparation to hasten his prisoners to jail, and, s subsequent events proved, the mob prepared to hasten them to the grave. About 7:30 p. m., as the sheriff was starting to the jail at Arkansas City with his prisoners he was met by a mob of three hundred, composed of whites and blacks, who overpowered the officers and quickly fetrung the prisoners up. Hundreds of guns were then leveled at the writhing forms, and the murder of H. C. Patton was ayenged. GENERAL EZETA FKEE, But Colonel Cienfueffos Must Return to San Salvador and Be Tried. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22. Three of the four San Salvador refugees who were brought here on the United States steamer Pennington, and were arrested by the federal authorities, at the solicitation of the government of San Salvador, are now free. They are Gen. Antonio Ezeta, Gen. Leon Balanoso and Capt. Maj. Florencio Bustamente. The fourth. Colonel Clenfuegos, was sent back to f?an Salvador to answer for the crimes charged against him. Such is the purport of the decision rendered by United States District Judge Morrow. The main offense charged against Onfuegos Is the murder of a nun named Amaya. Ezeta is very bitter towards the San Salvadorians and has outlined a campaign against them, which he will embark upon as soon as possible. He will go first to Washington, where he will work In behalf of Cienfuogo, and then will join his brother Carlos in Paris. Then he will go to Mexico, meet his fellow-refugees, Colloche. Bustamente and Balamoso and organize an army for the Invasion of San Salvador. Cnptntn Goodwin Exonerated. VANCOUVER. Wash., Sept. 22. Capt. W. C. Goodwin, Company G. Fourteenth Infantry, who was recently court-martialed on a charge of drunkenness, has been acquitted on every peclflcatlon, and has been restored to his command. - . .

A TERRIBLE FIZZLE

Indiana Democrats Absolutely Refused to Turn Out. The Bfeeest Meeting: Yesterday Outside of Terro Haute Had Less Thau 300 People Present. HUGE FIASCO IN TI11S CITY Jason Brown and J olin Lamb Refuse to Talk to Only 100. Only Five Besides the Band in the Hall at Cambridge City At Kokomo They Denounce Voorhees. The Democratic party In Indiana received a smiting rebuke from river to lake yesterday. The day had been extensively advertised all over the State as "Democratic day" and the State committee of the party spent hundreds of dollars in booming the meetings which were to be held in all of the large cities. , Never, perhaps, in the history of a political party in any State was there such an ignominious collapse. It was truly pitiful to see one of the great political parties of the State so completely turned down by the people. There was not the semblance of a respectably sized audience anywhere except at Terre Haute, and in many instances the speakers refused to leave their hotels for the halls where they were billed to speak because the crowd was so slim. Congressman Jason B. Brown and John E. Lamb, of Terre Haute, whom the committee relies on as two of Its strongest attractions in a campaign way, came to Indianapolis to address a meeting to be held at Masonic Hall. Indianapolis and Terre Haute were to have the big meetings of the day. The leasing of Tomllnson Hall was first contemplated by the county committee, to which body the local arrangements were delegated, but the committee afterwards wisely concluded that the vacuum in that hall would be too appalling, even In so disastrous a Democratic year. Masonic Hall, with a seating capacity only in the hundreds, was engaged and a brass band was hired to stimulate whatever enthusiasm could be drawn on from the old standbys. The audience was largely confined to the band and Chairman Holtzman, of the county committee up to 7:30 o'clock, but by S o'clock a hundred or more people, certainly not more than O, were scattered about the hall. Lamb and Brown were over at the Grand Hotel waiting till the managers saw what sized crowd was gathering. So great was the fizzle that it was deemed bad policy to unveil the statesmen before such a mere handful. Chairman Holtzman pranced about very nervously for awhile, held whispered conferences with his lieutenants, and then solemnly announced that, owing to a mistake on the part of the State committee, Messrs. Lamb and Brown had failed to make connections, or something of that sort. The register at the Grand Hotel blushed if registers blush. The crowd was not onofourtn as large as the crowd at any of the North Side Republican ward meetings on Friday. After a painful wait, Mr. Holtzman announced that Mr. Terhune, o this city, would talk on the Democratic tariff bill, and other topics dear to few hearts. Mr. Terhune saw that his remarks were having about as much effect as If they were hurled against a stone wall, so he withdrew after a few minutes. At S;30 ' clock the band was informed that it had furnished sufliclent music, and It withdrew. Before 9 o'clock the lights were out in the hall. So dismal a failure was discouraging even to the chairman, who could not conceal his vexation. ' Messrs. Lamb and Brown, who "failed to make connections," remained about the Grand Hotel during the evening, and left the city before midnight. The story from Cambridge City is even more pathetic. Francis M. Griffith, of Vevay, the Democratic candidate for Attorney-general, had an experience not unlike that of Messrs. Brown and Lamb, only more so. He was billed for a great speech at Cambridge City, as the dispatches elsewhere in the Journal show. A' brass band was employed to help him out, but even sweet music could not draw the people into the hall. Just five Democrats followed the band and the local committee in the hall that was appointed to receive Mr. Griffith. Griffith was given a "tip" as to the size of the audience and declined to divide his eloquence into five parts. The chairman of the meeting falsely announced, as at Indianapolis, that the speaker of the evening had failed to arrive. He said that Mr. Griffith missed his train. Mr. Griffith's name, hdwever, was on a Cambridge City hotel register and it was learned he quietly slipped out of town by the next train and spent the night here in Indianapoiis. In fact, a Journal reporter found him at the Grand Hotel last night on his arrival from Cambridge City. "I did not talk there to-night," he said, "but spoke at Greensburg yesterday afternoon. The meeting at Cambridge City was not of a demonstrative nature, as I understand. I went over as I understood a committee was to be organlzeJ." "HELLS OP AXARCHV," Voorhees and Tiirple Denounced hy Kokomo Democrats. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KOKOMO, Ind., Sept. 22.-The Howard county Democrats held a small but sensational convention to-day. Ex-Mayor and exCounty Auditor W. S. Armstrong declined the nomination for Representative and declared he could no longer be classed as a Democrat. He denounced Voorhees and Turpie, declaring they were as corrupt as the, "hells of anarchy in Chicago." Ke also denounced Cleveland. Ex-Judge Pollard followed with a fiery speech. In which he tore the masks off the party leaders, declaring them Republicans In disguise. A perfect uproar of applause followed. County Chairman J. C. Herron threw up his office and T. C. McReynolds was chosen to fill his place. The following county ticket was then nominated: Representative, W. A. Quick: clerk. John E. Duncan; treasurer, George Smith; auditor, A. R. Armstrong; sheriff, Eli Michaels; recorder, James E. Waters; surveyor. J. C. Ogle; coroner. E. K. Ascher; commissioners. Ambrose Wilson and D. E. Murphy. A movement to indorse the Populist ticket failed. WORST FIZZLE OF ALL. Only Five People to Hear Candidate Griffith nnd He Sneaked Home. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. CAMBRIDGE CITY, Ind.. Sept. 22. The Democratic meeting scheduled for this evening was a decided failure. For a week or more posters have been placed conspicuously about the city hearalding the appearance of Francis M. Griffith, of Vevay, the Democratic candidate for Attorney-general, to appear and open the campaign. After a. concert by the band and hard work by the principals, the electric lights in the City Hall were turned on to an empty house, not five persons outside of the committee responding, anil the speaker was obliged to return to his home. It was then reported that he failed to reach here, but an examination of the hotel register shows that he took supper in the city and left for Cincinnati via Indianapolis. Hon. William McKinley will pays through here Monday evening and he will be accorded a rousing reception. liuooKsiiiitirs meetim;. The Congressman Cnlls on I he Party fo St nnd Firm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal CR AW FORDS VI LLE, Ind., Sept. 22. Hon. E. V. Brookshlre opened the Democratic campaign here this afternoon at Music Hall. James Wright Introduced the epeaker, who talked for an hour and fifteen minutes. He commenced by saying that the people could depend on the ac-. curacy of his statements, and that Cleveland had a greater hold on the people of

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this country than any other man ever had, and consequently was the greatest man In the country. .He stated that the Harrison administration used up juh.uuu.wv surplus left In the treasury by Cleveland, and left a deficit of $30,000,000. The great depression since the last election of Cleveland, he said, was the result of Republican legislation during thirty years. He said that the Democratic Houses of Congress since the war had appropriated $300,000,000 more for pensions than the Republican Houses. Cleveland could not stem the tide of disaster and Congress was laying a basis for better times. He announced that he agreed with Cleveland in hl3 demand for free rawi materials, and he bitterly denounced the Democratic Senators who did not agree with Cleveland, comparing them to Uudas, who betrayed Christ. He dwelt on the prosperous times in freetrade England, and 6aid the American laborer was the poorest paid when his wages were comparea to his product, 1. e., that he received but $347 for producing J1.8S0 in goods, while in England $250 was paid to $700 worth in products. In substance Brookshlre claimed that by free raw material the manufacturers of this country could command the commerce of the world. As to free coal he said that it could not affect the product of this country because all foreign coal comes from eastern Canada and western British Columbia, and that Nova Scotia coal was so poor In quality that it had been said a man could sit on a lump of It In hades and never be singed by tire. The cause of 47-cent wheat, he said, was the McKinley law that caused countries needing wheat to retaliate on America for the high tariff and buying wheat in other countries, thus leaving a surplus in our country. He said he had voted for coinage of silver because he thought the majority of the people of this district favored It, yet Cleveland had vetoed the bill because he considered a panic no time to attempt to revive the financial basis of the country, and Brookshite said he now believed Cleveland was right. He said that free sugar was defeated by the traitor Democratic Senators, yet he thought the new tariff saved millions to the toiling masses. He closed by making a personal appeal for the Democrat to rally to hl3 support, as In all his acts he had never made any discrimination on account of politics, religion, color nor rich or poor. I FROSTV FOR COOPER. Just Sixty Democrat Heard Illm at the Ga llelt Town of Elnood. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind.. Sept. 22. Democrats opened the campaign In this city this afternoon. Congressman George W. Cooper speaking to a small crowd In the opera house. The meeting came near being a total failure as life-Ions: Democrats would not go to hear the speaker and, by actual count, the number scattered over the opera house to listen to the Democratic apologist was 180. Of this number, fully fifty were Republicans and as many more Populists, with a score of women and children, leavIns about sixty questionable Democrats to hear him. The attempt to get up a demonstration was a total failure, as the procession that escorted the speaker to the opera house was composed only of a drum corps wearing long dusters and white hats. Serenly-ClRht Democrat) Present. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Sept. 22. The Democrats of Henry county were called to meet In mass convention at the courthouse this afternoon to nominate a county ticket and hear a ppeech by Hon. Joseph E. Bell, of Indianapolis. At 2 o'clock, the appointed hour, there were eight Democrats in the room. The crowd finally increased to ninety-nine, seventy-one of whom were voters, and twenty-one of the number Republicans, The following slate had been previously prepared and was ratified by the convention: Representative. Frank P. Ice; prosecuting attorney, James I. Shelton: clerk, D. Jack Miller; auditor, George B. Morris; treasurer. John S. Barr: recorder. Edmund Dare; sheriff. Elmore D. Cooper; coroner, J. It. Unthank; commissioners, Charles W. Mouch and Joan J. Wilkinson. The resolutions Indorsed President Cleveland, the late lamented Congress. Governor Matthews, and especially lauded Green Smith for the abje and successful manner in which he had conducted the Attorney-general's office. Mr. Bell told the people that wages were reduced SO per cent, under protection from what they had been under the Walker tariff: charge! the Republican party with all of the political and financial disasters of the past three decades, and wound up by predicting Democratic defeat In Indiana In November. 'm 150 at the Bleetlnir. ' Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ORLEANS, Ind.. Sept. 22.-Deraocrats opened the campaign in this county to-day

The most notable book in preparation for many years is the 'Personal Recollections of Sixteen Presidents," by CoL Richard W. Thompson. He is the only living man who could have written it, having known personally every President of the United States but the first two Washington and John Adams and also many leaders of the American Revolution, among them being Lafayette. He knew

at Paoll. They were addressed by Hon. Cyrus E. Davis, who was recently dej i v ,..'"S.u:td! :enors by rireiz. the present incumbent. Mr. Davis is generally t j.i. .'-.-i.koj. p it lO-l'v. ficimfi'pJ by an audience of less than 150, In tht county beat, on Democratic day, too, his tongue seemed paralyzed. Ills main point of attack wad on the Infamous "McKinley makeshift," as he termed It. He boasted of the great things dane for the laboring, man, and gave as his only reason for such a statement that the Democratic 'Congress and Senate had passed a . law and it had been signed by a Democratic President, making the first Monday in September Labor day and a national holiday. He let State issues and. the pension . question severely alone, never once referring to them. He declared for free silver coinage unlimited. It was the tamest speech heard in this county In years, and to-night the Democrats re disgusted with their maiden effort. "Grassmirner" Bynum opened th campaign at West Baden to-night. "Snide Affair nt Illaffton. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLiUFFTON, Ind., Sept. 22. The opening of the Democratic campaign In this place to-day was a dismal failure, so far as numbers were concerned. This stronghold of Democracy has been worked by their leaders for six weeks, and a great effort was made to have an immense gathering. As a poor reward for all their efforts about three hundred men. women and children assembled in the opera house this afternoon to listen to Judge Zollars, of Fort Wayne, and Congressman Martla. of this place. Chairman Sturgis made a few apologies In introducing Zollars, who continued the apology throughout his address. He endeavored to throw the responsibility on the Republican party for the passage of the Sugar Trust bill, and pleaded with the Democrats to stand firm this fall. Congressman Martin followed him, talking in the BarfTe strain. This evening J. Hindman, of Hartford City, and Mr. Martin addressed a small audience, but little Interest was Ehown. Hard to Find .Candidates. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE. Ind., Sept." 21-The Delaware county Democrats met at the Walnut-street Opera House to-day, and, with a brass band, mustered up forces 'enough to nom inate the following ticket:. Representative, L. J. Hickman; prosecuting attorney, W. H. Hickman; sheriff, Evan Weir; clerk, T. J. Williams; auditor, David Kflgore; treasurer, Isaac Humphrey; .recorder, :A. C. Gray; surveyor. Victor Silverburg; coroner, O. H. Searcy; commissioners, George N. Parkinson and Elisha Rartlett. Before the ticket was completed a dozen men refused the nominations, and In some instances it was necessary to place men on the tickPt not r resent. Hon. It. C. Bell, of Fort Wayne, addressed the meeting. The ticket wid b defeated by-3,0XJ majority in November. Mfera Spoke to .- Than M., Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Sept. 22. -The Democracy of Blackford opened the campaign here to-day. Secretary of Statt Myers, of Indianapolis, was the speaker and his audience numbered less than two hundred. It was a - tame affair and the leaders are discouraged. To-night the Refmblicans gathered at th coirt roon and lstened to George H. Stitch, of Chicago, who replied to the Democratic $,viher. The enthurtaim of the audience wss in marked contrast to the apathy exhibited, at the Myers meeting. nynnm'n Meeting? Almost FlKxle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BLOOMIN'GTON. Ind.. Fept. 2 Co?vgressman Bynum attempted to enthuse the Democracy of Monroe county to-day, but extensive advertising gathered only a very small crowd in the courthouse. Mr. Bynum was sent here by Congressman Cooper to assist him in his cause, but the meetin;r was almost a failure. Mr. Bynum spout for more ihn an hour largely on th tariff and. In defense of the administration, making a partisan appeal, calculating t draw party lines. Very few country people were prsent. : jPI fly-Two by Aetnnl Count. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind.. Sept. 22. There were .fifty-two people, by actu.il count.' who gathered in the opera house this afternoon to i.'sten to D. W. McKee, of Connersville, who wis supposed to open the Democratic campaign In Grant county. Even the half hundred faithful were not able to remain through the meeting, and the hackneyej talk of the orator of the afternoon waa (Continued on Second lutf. "