Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1896 — Page 2

THE IDlAiNArUiiis JUiJRNAL, , TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1896.

tins cheaper all the time. When Mr. Bry

an was nominated It was worth between 52 and 53 cents, and if he keeps on going over the country I don t know now low in price it will go. (Laughter.) When Uncle Sam coined this he bought the bul lion of the owner, paid whatever it was worth: if he would buy it now ne would pay a little over 51 cents, but let us call it Z'i cents for that much silver; then the bullion was his own and he coined this uol lar for himself; then he laid it away in his treasury until he wanted to use It by pay ' Ing it to some one he owed. When he paid it out. he said, there is only 52 cents' worth of silver in thatdollar, but I will Dav it out to vou for loo cents, and guarantee by my law to keep it at a parity with gold, so that it shall never be worth less as money in the hands of my people. That is the gold standard, but that is not free coinage of silver. WHAT FREE COINAGE IS. Under free coinage of silver Mr. Teller, of Colorado, would bring fifty-two cents' worth of silver to the mint, have Uncle Sam coin it for him, and when it was coined he would take it away and not pay Uncle Sam for coining it not even thank him for it take it away and have it for his own, and when he would pay it out to some of his neighbors he would not guarantee to keep it at a parity with gold, Uncle Sam would never own it, never have ' anything to do with it, except to coin it for Mr. Teller and get no pay for it. Instead of calling it free coinage of silver you should call it getting silver coined without paying for it. Now we buy the silver and own ihe dollars and guarantee to keep them at a parity with gold. The silver dollar coined under free - coinage would have the government stamp, but that stamp will only certltv that it has 412'A grains of standard silver or 3714 grains of tine silver in it. The government would not agree to redeem it or to keep it at a parity with gold. It never belonged to the government, but was simply coined by it . for the owner of the bullion free of charge, and the bullion owner then took it away and had it for his own. The government would not have any reason for guaranteeing the free-coinage dollar, and could not If it would. Am 1 wrong, fellow-citizens, that the free-coinage dollar would only be worth what the bullion in it was worth? . . I will read you some free-silver authority . on this question. I always beg the pardon of my aud'ence when T read either from the Cincinnati Enquirer or the Indianapolis , Sentinel (laughter); I would not for the world have you believe that I am a regular reader of either, but I want to read this to show you that the Enquirer admits what I have said to be correct. A young man came to me in Bluff ton and said: "Mr. Henry, I would like to show vou what convinced me that I did not want to vote the Democratic ticket this fall; I have been a Democrat, but I want to show you what makes it clear to me that I don't want free coinage of silver," and he brought me that paper, which he had been carrying around in his pocket, stained with the sweat of honest toil. Now, in order that no Democrat or Populist may ; fear that I do not read it correctly, I'll tell him right where he can find it. It is In the supplement of the Cincinnati Enquirer, giving questions and answers regarding free coinage, which the Democrats "circulate as a campaign document; it is in No. 38 and is the second inquiry under No. 38. Remember that I am reading this simply because it shows that a free coinage dollar would be worth whatever the bullion In it was worth, and that the gov- " ernment would not stand good for it. Here It is: "Question 2 If we should have the 1 free and unlimited coinage of silver, what would the government stand good for? Would it be redeemable or would it be ." worth 100 cents?" Here is the answer of the Enquirer to the question: "Under the free and unlimited coinage of silver the government stands good for nothing. It guarantees no value. It simply places its stamp upon 'JTtVA grains of pure silver and says, 'this is a dollar.' It places its stamp upon 1-16 as many grains of pure gold and Bays, 'this Is a dollar." It does not buy either gold or silver. It simply certifies to the weight and fineness of the metal C'natined in the coins. They are then handed back to the persons who brought the bullion to the mints and the coined silver dollars purchase whatever they can in the market." Now, your street-corner fellows, take to your holes; get in, and do not dispute that point any further. (Laughter.) Under free coinage the government guarantees nothing. Go now. Don't let us see you any more. (Laughter.) It simply places its stamp upon 3711,4 grains of fine silver or 412 grains of standard silver and says "this is a dollar." Then it places its stamp upon one-sixteenth as many grains of gold and says "this is a dollar!" it rinr

v ,jioi ouy euner snver or gold, but simply

vci iu nits weiK'it anu nneness or the meiai in me coin, xnen it is handed back to the person who brought the bullion and It goes out to purchase whatever it can in he markets. Poor 52-cent dollar! (Laughter.) J am glad to read that, for whenever I find anything true In the Enquirer or Sentinel I like to read it. Now, that is iree coinage compared with what ia not free coinage. BRYAN'S INCONSISTENCY. Mr. Bryan says that if we will grant free coinage by law that the silver bullion will immediately rise to $1.29 per ounce. This would make it at a parity with gold at a ratio of IS to 1. That is what he said in the East, but out West he tells us that we will have cheaper dollars. But if silver goes up to $1.29 per ounce then we would not have cheaper dollars. They would be just as dear as gold. So you see that his statements are In conflict with each other and a little hard to harmonize. But Mr. Bryan is wrong. Free coinage never did and never will bring the intrinsic or market value of silver and goH.to a parity with each other where they are coined at a different ratio than - their market value. SunDose. however wa . admit that a man could bring $520 worth of ' snver ouuion ana nave it coined into one thousand silver dollars, and that as sn as he did it it was worth $1,000 in gold. If It is true that while it was only worth $520 before it was coined, yet when it was coined tr.d he took it away it was worth $1,000, then he has made $480 off of somebody, and that is you and your neighbors, me and my neighbors, who are compelled to take this money. But let me ask you a question. If it is true that Uncle Sam's stamp will make $520 worth of Mr. Teller's silver worth $1,000, ought not Uncle Sam to have the benefit of the $480 increased value? (Cries of "Yes! Yes!") Why should Mr. Teller have the profit? He simply brought the bullion to tho mint and carried the dollars away. Uncle Sam coined it for him and gets no pay for it. Would It not be fnore honest to let Uncle Sam pay him $520, what his silver bullion is worth, and when it is coined Uncle Sam would own the coined dollars, and, owning them himself, he would pay them out and guarantee their parity with gold. If there was any profit in it Uncle Sam,, who coined the money, would have that profit. But I have already shown that Mr. Bryan's proposition is not correct, and that under free coinage the silver dollar would be worth just what the bullion would be worth. The other day a man said to me a friend of mine a friend every day except on election day, and then he is not even a friend to himself. He said: "Now, Mr. Henry, when you make your speech do not say that free coinage of silver would be in the interest of the silver-mine owner and then follow it up by saying that the silver dollar under free coinage would be a fifty-two cent dollar." I said: "I will do it, John, and I will show you why. In the first place, free coinage of silver would make an unlimited outlet for people who had bullion. The proposition is unlimited free coinage; coin all the silver in the United States, in Mexico, all the silver the Japs could bring, all the Chinese, all Johnny Bull and everybody else. So a silver-mine owner would have an unlimited outlet for all he could mine. He could have It all coined, pay it out wlierever ho wanted to as money, and thus dispose of it. making a profit on every dollar coined, and you must remember that the mines have almost an unlimited supply, and, with a chance to dispose of all they can produce, they would increase the output of the mines." I propose to show you how cheaply it can be produced, and that it would give a big profit even at less than 63 cents for enough to make a dollar. COST OF PRODUCING SILVER. The farmer figures that he wants a small profit over what it costs to raise and feed a steer. He is content with a little margin for his wheat above what it costs to raise and market It; so we ordinarily count that every one should be content with a reasonable profit on any article above the cost of production. Now, let us see what silver can be produced for. In an address in the Mining Exchange, in Denver, Col., W. F. Kendrick. in 1804 or 1S95. said (and this was In the heart of the enemy's country, as Mr. Bryan would call It): "The mines which could be worked only at heavy loss twenty years ago can be worked at a profit to-day. My first experience In handling gold and silver ores was in 1874, as assayer and later as ore buyer. In those days smelting charges were $35 per ton and 20 per cent, discount for loss. Nothing but higher grade ores could then be handled. Freight charges were high, the mines at Alma. Fairpliy and Breckinridge paying from $15 to $25 per ton freight where today it is a nominal charge. At Alma, on ore carrying $100 per ton 20 per cent, for loss was at first deducted; $:i5 for smelting charges, $20 for freight and $5 for trussing and sampling, making $S0, leav

ing $20 for the miner. To-day. $100 ore

from Alma can be ficrured as follows: Smelting charges. $8; freight, $5; discount ior joss. la. makine lis. tne miner receiv ing $S2." So vou see how Its production has been cheapened. In 1ST4 it cost $80 to get $100 worth of ore, leaving only $20 profit, while in 1S94 it only cost 118, leaving a pront ot jsz. So it is not hard to see why silver has gone down. Is there any trouble in discovering the reason? What now costs $1S to produce, in 18T4 cost $80. Ought silver not to go down in price under such circumstances? But let me read vou some more. Srhoen hof, in a chapter of his "Money and i'nees, devoted to silver ' production quotes frcm official reports as follows: "The value of the silver ore treated in California varied from $rj0 to $500 a ton. a great proportion yielding in the mill over i'w per ton. As a considerable proportion was produced at a east at otiIv S(5..".il a ton. it Is probable that the mean cost of ex traction exceeded that at the Eonin:a King, say $25 per ton. The Bonanza King mine obtained $179 of silver in value at a cost of $27.50. At the average price of $1 an ounce for the silver bullion represented by $179 the bullion in a standard silver dollar costs about 15 cents." Now, was I wrong when I told you that there was a profit, to the mine owner even- at 52 cents on the dolUir? Is there arty burliness man within the hearing of my voice that makes a profit like that? Can he sell for 52 cents what it costs but 15 or 20 cents to nroduee? There should be an enormous profit left the snver. mine owner it the value or the freecoinage dollar went down to 40 cents or lower, but how would we fare who were compelled to take it for a dollar? Rain and snow, heat and drought, affect the crops of the farmer, but nothing affects the mines. What is not mined simply lies there until it is taken out by the hand of man. So you see that the mine owner would profit by free coinage, because he could push the production of his mines to their very highest limit, have the bullion all coined and compel the people to take the coined dollars as monev. Mr. Teller and his little handful of associates and friends went out of the St. Louis convention. Why did not the representatives from the great agricultural and manufacturing States go out? Why did not Indiana. Minnesota, Ohio and New York? Nobody went out except those interested in silver mine production and their special friends and champions. The great bodv of American people could not be benefited by the free coinage of silver. Those who are interested have consorted with ambitious politicians following Mr. Bryan, hoping by the combination to place him in the White House. COINAGE HISTORY. We commenced coining money in 1792. Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and the other great statesmen of that period carefully considered the matter. They decided to try and secure bimetallism by the free coinage of both gold and silver, and they were of opinion that in order to secure it they must put just as much silver bullion in value in the silver dollar as gold in a gold dollar. They thought this was necessary In order to secure their concurrent circulation with free coinage of both metals. They evidently did not know as much as Mr. Bryan; they did not know that they could put one-half as much in value of bullion in the silver dollar as of gold in the gold dollar and have them circulate together as money. (Laughter.) These old fellows were not smart at all. They thought that If either ' dollar was worth more than the other as bullion it would go out of circulation. They inquired in London, France, Holland and in all the markets of the world how much silver it would take to buy an ounce of gold. After a careful inquiry they found it would take fifteen ounces of silver to buy an ounce ol gold. Then they said: "We wiil put in a silver dollar fifteen times as much silver as we put of gold in a gold dollar, so that they will be equal in intrinsic value when stamped by the government, and will stay in circulation side by side. (Applause.) They knew then what Mr. Bryan and his followers do not seem to know now that any coin, whether silver or gold, coined under free coinage is worth just what the bullion in it is worth and must go out in the marKets on Us own strength and buv just what it can. At the same time they maae tne spanisn dollar a legal tender. and the first result was that they had in circulation the new American silver dollars, which had more silver in them than the old and worn Spanish dollars. The American dollar was worth more to sell than to pay out as money, for any man who owed a debt could pay It In Spanish dollars and then take his American dol'ars and sell them for a little premium. So it followed that the American dollar went out of circulation and the Spanish dollar remained. Here appeared the unvarying rule that with two coins under free coinatco un equal in bullion value whichever one is worth more as bullion will be sold as bullion, and the cheaper one only will be used as money; so to-day, if we had free coinage at 16 to 1, the gold dollar would be worth twice as much as the silver dollar, and gold would go out of circulation and be sold at its bullion value and the silver dollar would alone remain in circulation as money, and we would come down at once to a silver basis silver monometallism. True bimetallism is not only providing Inlaw for free coinage of both metals, but so providing that they will both circulate at, money with the people. In 1S05 Thomas Jefferson, then President, found out that the American dollar was going out of circulation, and so he "committed a crime." He did not wait for Congress to pass a law, but had his Secretary of the Treasury write a letter to the Director of the Mint to strip rrn"pT- tK bWvov dollar. The Democrats say that Congress committed a crime in lss wnen uicy ui away with the law providing for free coinage of silver dollars, but Thomas Jefferson alone, in 1S06. said, "Stop coining the silver dollar." without any act of Congress, and not another one was coined for thirty years, except $1,000 in Andrew Jackson's administration. But this is a "crime" that you don't hear any Democrat or Populist talking about. They way they talk about the thing reminds me of an old friend of mine at Pendleton. He said: "My mind is about half gone and I can't understand it. If a man owes me a dollar I don't have anj trouble at all to remember it, but if I owe a man a dollar I can't think of it at all." (Laughter.) That is the way with these Bryan people. They can't think of any. thing that does not accord with their theories. OTHER THINGS THEY FOUND. But what else did our early statesmen find? They found that at the ratio of 15 to 1 after a few years the gold in a gold dollar was worth more than the silver in the silver dollar, and the gold went out cf circulation. The unvarying rule again made itself felt. The more valuable in its bullion or intrinsic value of the two coins under free coinage goes out of circulation, being worth more to sell than to pay as money. If any man owed me a dollar and had two dollars, one of which he could sell for $1.01, which would he pay me? The one he could not sell for any more than it would pass for as money, and the other one he would take and sell for $1.01. The law ot human selfishness controls. You may repeal the law of "supply and demand," my Popocratlc friends, as it i3 said you propose to do, but you cannot repeal the lav of human selfishness. It will remain the same forever. They found the gold in the gold coins worth a little more than the silver in the silver coins, and sold them as merchandise, paying only silver and paper as money. What did the statesmen of that day do? They changed the ratio. They did not say, as Bryan does, "We have fixed the coinage ratio and will maintain it, and the bullion or market' value will equalize itself with the coinage, ratios." They thought the coinage ratio under free coinage must conform to the market value of the bullion. What a pity Mr. Bryan had not lived in 1S34. What trouble he might have saved them if he is right. They changed, the coinage ratio in 1SJ4 and 183V, making it 16 to 1, instead of 15 to 1, and so it has since remained, so far as the silver dollar is concerned. But no sooner had they changed the ratio in order to equalize matters than they found they had changed It a little too much the other way. The law then undervalued the silver dollar, as It had before undervalue! the gold dollar, and the silver went out of circulation and the goid remained. Just see how that ru!e worked. Only the fraction of a cent difference was enough, and whichever one was worth the most left the' country and the cheaper remained as money; and yet Mr. Bryan says that, although it takes thirty-two ounces of silver to equal In value an ounce of gold, yet you may ccin them at 16 to 1 under free coinage and they will not only circulato together, but actually become cf the same bullion or market value at that ratio. The financial heresies of this man are wonderful. He is also an old-fashioned greenback inflationist. He wanted Congress to pass a law for the construction of the Nicaragua canal and set the printing presses to going and print $70.00O.0J0 of greenbacks to pay lor it; then, if that did not inflate the currency enough, he advised tho digging of a great canal from the lakM to the Atlantic ocean and to issue greenbacks to pay for It; and If that did not inflate the currency enough, he advised digging another great canal iu connect the great lakes with the Mississippi river and to issue greenbacks to pay for that. They call him "the Boy Orator of the Platte." but I don't think the American people want to experiment with that kind of a boy, having the financial theories he has. It reminds me of the old colored preacher down in Charleston during the

earthquake there. Down at Charleston, S. C. an old colored brother became very much frightened when the earth trembled and shook, and he commenced praying to be saved from the earthquake. The house shook and rattled and finally down came the chimney through the ceiling, which frightened him very much and he prayed all the more earnestly: "O God ccme down, come down and save us; come right now; come in person; don't send your Son, for it's no time to fool with boys." (Laughter.) Fellow-citizens. I don't know what you think, but I don't think the American people have any time to fool with such boys as Mr. Bryan. THE CRIME OF '53. After the change in the ratio of coinage to 16 to 1 in the years 1&34 and 1837 silver went out of circulation. At that time there was just as much silver in two half dollars, four quarters or ten dimes as there was in a silver dollar, and the small coin as well as the silver dollar went out of circulation because they were worth more to sell than to pay out as money. Now, If there is any old gentleman who can remember back of 1S53 he will remember when silver change all went out of circulation, when merchants wrote out little due bills and used them for change. They also cut dollars up into quarters when they could get hold of thorn for change, and used postage stamps. The small silver would not stay in circulation any more than the silver dollars. The legislators of that day were unfortunate in not having Mr. Bryan with them to tell them what to do, if he is right. They did not know any better; so in lbo3 they changed the law, and from that time on only put 384 grains of standard silver to the dollar in the halves and quarters and dimes instead of 412 as theretofore. This they did to reduce their value and secure their circulation as money. They aiso stopped the free coinage of those coins and required the government to buy bullion and coin this small change on its own account, and limited it to $5 as a legal tender. Another crime never heard of from the Populist friends the crime of 1853. Do you know who brought in that bill? Cyrus L. Dunham, one of the brightest lights of Indiana. He was chairman of the committee on coinage. He said it was necessary in order to have the silver in circulation. It had gone out of circulation because more valuable to sell than to use as money. That law made the small silver coin subsidiary to gold and was another step recognizing the gold standard. Who voted for it, my Democratic friends? Thomas A. Hendricks, the old-time leader of the Indiana Democracy, voted for it. People did not think it a crime. After that we had plenty of silver change up until it went out of circulation again during the war. The law, however, still provided for free coinage of silver dollars. Our Populist friends tell us that free coinage of silver made lots of silver money. Now, if this is true some one ought to know it. I will ask here what I have asked all over this district: How many men, Republicans, Democrats, Populists, here to-night can say that they ever saw an American silver dollar in actual circulation within a period of five years before the war? Cros3 your hearts and tell me the honest truth. Speak up. What's the matter? So none of ycu ever did? No. and I have found no on-3 in this district who did. Then, there must

be some mistake about free coinage making lots of money in circulation. Silver was worth a little more to sell and went out of circulation, and to-day if we had free coin age of go'd and silver gold would go out or circulation because it would be worth more than silver and we would drop down to silver standard at once, and our paper money, being also redeemable In silver, would be worth only as much as the silver. During the war we had greenbacks, and erold and silver both went out of circulation because greenbacks could be paid as money and gold and silver were both worth more to sell than as money, and neither of them remained in circulation. But you say to me. What makes the sil ver dollar now as good as gold? A man m Wells county came into a store holding up a silver dollar, and said: "13 this dollar redeemable? Has it a redeemer?" I said: "No. my friend: it has no redeemer, but it has a savior." (Laughter.) Uncle Sam saves it. He says: "I pay it out for 100 cents, and when I do I will keep It right up there at a parity with gold, and whatever is necessary to keep it there, that will I do." Uncle Sam's word is good, because his word is the word of the people. We want gold as the standard, because it is the best standard. It is the most precious of aU the metals, indestructible and un changing. It is the highest standard, and we keep all of our money up to that standard. Even a litt'e girl or boy always says as good as go;d. lou never hard anyone say "as good as silver." They talk about silver being the poor man's money. Does a poor man want a dollar that is not as good as a rich man's? When we issue a silver dollar we make it as good as gold, becav.se Uncle Sam is back of it and saves it from depreciation. THE "CRIME" OF '73. Ye come up to the close of the war, when we were proposing to redeem the greenback. Why? The greenback was a war necessity. It went over the battlefields, through the swamps and into prison pens of the South, with the boys in blue as they carried the stars and stripes to victory. (Loud cheering.) We were to keep a promise and make that dollar as good as gold. The Democrats, some of them, said we could not and would not, but we did do it, with John Sherman at the head of the Treasury Department. The first thing was to revise the coinage laws, and in 1870 the Director of the Mint brought in a revision of the coinage laws so as to make one uniform law. This bill was pending in Congress from April, 1870, to February, 1873, two years and ten months. The Populists call it the "crime of '73," and they had nearly worn themselves out, but these Bryan Democrats have taken up the cry after them, and their speeches on the subject sound like an echo of the Populist speeches. They say we took one-half cf the people's money away from them. I have just shown you by the testimony of old men that there was no silver in circulation, so we did not take any from the people. The law did not and could not take away what was not in existence. Neither did it affect any that had been coined. It simply did not provide for coining any more in the future. They sav this law was passed "surreptitiously." Now I would not accuse my fellow-citizens of not knowing anything about it, for it was pending in Congress for two years and ten months, and it never did have any provision in it for the coinage of standard silver dollars. They sa&- that the provision for their coinage was dropped out of the bill on third reading, but it could not have been dropped out, for it was never in it. Mr. Hooper, from the coinage committee in the House, at ens time favored putting in the bill a provision for coining 384-grain dollars instead of 412'i-grain, making it just equal to two half dollars under the law of 1853, and here ia what he said about it: "Section 16 re-enacts the provisions of the existing laws defining the silver coins and their weights, respectively, except in relation to the silver dollar, which is reduced In weight from 41214 to 384 grains, thus making it a subsidiary coin in harmony with the silver coins of les3 denomnation, to secure its concurrent circulation with them. The silver dollar of 412 grains, by reason of its bullion or intrinsic value being greater than its nominal value, long since ceased to be a coin of circulation, and is melted by manufacturers of silverware. It does not circulatee now in commercial transactions with any country, and the convenience of these manufacturers in this respect can be better met by supplying small stamped bars of the same standard, avoiding the useless expense of coining the dollar for that purpose." Now, during all of these two years and ten months, nobody ever suggested putting in the standard silver dollar; nobody ever suggested "free coinage of silver." Why didn't they? I want to show you why. At that time, in 1S73. silver was still high in price; not until 1875 did it begin to go down to any considerable extent. In 1875, on account of increased production of silver and the fact that many European nations had stopped the coinage of silver, it commenced going down, but in 1874, a year after the coinage law of 1873 was passed, many of the men who now cry out loud for the free coinage of silver were in favor of a gold standard, and I want to read you what some of them said in Congress in 1874. VIEWS OF JONES AND STEWART. Everybody knows that Senators Stewart and Jones, of Colorado, are strong silver advocates. If I were to read you what they said without telling you who they were you would think it was some gold men. Here is what they said In 1874. This is what Senator Jones said, April 1, 1S74: "Does this Congress mean now to leave entirely out of view and discard forever a standard of value? And what but gold could be that standard? What other thing on earth possesses the requisite qualities ? Gold is the articulation of commerce. It is the most potent agent of civilization. It is gold that has lifted the nations from barbarism. It is the common denominator of values. It makes possible the classification of labor and interchange of commodities. Gold hu3 intervened in bargains made between men since the dawn of civilisation, and it has never failed to faithfully fulfil its part as the universal agent and servant of mankind." That pounds like he was In favcr of a gold standard, doesn't it? This la what he said on June II, 1S74: " I am opposed to any proposition, como In whatever form it may, t.'iat attempts to override what God himself has made for money. I believe that the Booner we

ccme down to a purely gold standard the better it will be for the country." Where can you find a stronger advocate of the gold standard? Here is what Senator Stewart said, June 12, 1874. Laboring men, listen while I read: "Sir, the laboring man and the producer is entitled to have his product and his labor measured by the same standard of the world that measures your national debt. Give him such a standard. Give him money as you require from him. You require it from the producer. You require from the laboring man gold to pay the interest on your national debt, which is right, which cannot be avoided if you mean to save the national honor:-but then give him the same money with-fckfl to pay that debt. The question will never be settled until you determine the simple question whether the laboring man is entitled to have a gold

dollar if he earns it. or whether you are gring to cheat him with something else." That's what we think now. The question will never be settled until it is settled that the laboring man who earns a dollar shall receive It in gold or its equivalent, and not be cheated with something else. In 1S76 silver had still been going down. "Give vis free coinage." they said. We compromised with them and passed a law requiring the government to buy $2,000,000 worth of silver every month. They said if we would do that silver would come up to a parity with gold at the ratio of sixteen to one, but it did not: it kept on going down in price. In 1S90 they came again and asked for free coinage. We compromised with them again and passed a law requiring the government to purchase 4. 500.000 ounces every month to be coined into dollars. They said if we would do that silver would come up to a parity with gold at the ratio of sixteen to one, but it did not. They were mistaken then, Is'nt it probable that they are mistaken now? Very probable indeed. Under these two laws we have coined over 423,000,00.) silver dollars, every "dollar of which is as good as a dollar in gold in the hands of the people. That is the kind of money we make when Uncle Sam coins it on his own account. We had only coined, under free coinasre in eightycne years, from 1792 to 1S73. $8,031,238. Free coinage gave us less than $9,000,000 in eighty-one years. Without free coinage we got $433,000,000 in nineten years. EFFECT OF FREE COINAGE. What would be the effect If we would go to the free coinage of silver? Gold would immediately go out of circulation. Our paper money which is now held up to the gold standard would immediately drop to the value of silver. With no gold, our silver and our paper maney would be worth dollar for dollar only what the bullion in a silver dollar was worth, thus decreasing their purchasing power about one-half. This would mean a great contraction of the currency, which could not be relieved even with cheap dollars until the mints could coin the silver dollars. In the meantime ruin and disaster would necessarily come to the business and industrial interests of the whole country. What would the silver dollar be worth? No one can tell for it would vary as the price of sliver varied. Here is what the Minister of Finance of Mexico says about the effect of free coin age in that country. 1 want to read it to you because it teaches a new kind of protection a protection bv free coinage of sil ver. Here it is: "What is the effect upon wages of the depreciating silver standard?" the Minuter was asked. He replied: "They have not increased perceptibly. The same is true of Japan, where wages are very low. For this reason Japan and Mexico will In a few years be able to compete successfully with England and the United States because of the silver standard and low wages." Are we coming to that kind of protection? Are we to pass a law by which manufacturers are to be protected by keeping down the price of labor? That is not the oldfashioned, William McKinley, Republican kind of protection. (Cheers.) The Republican protection protects the manufacturer and at the same 'time protects the laboring man, so that he shall receive better wages than in any other country under the sun. (Applause.) Listen again. The Minister was asked: "What 13 tho ruling rate of wages for agricultural laborers in Mexico?" And he replied: "Twenty-five cents a day." Do you want that kind of protection and that kind of wages, to enable manufacturers to cornpete with foreigners. (Cries of "No!" "No!") No: give us the old-fashioned kind that will bring back prosperity to all the people. .1 ;ant to show you how free coinage of silver would affect two classes of people, r.-hc cannot fix the price on what they have to sell the laboring man and the farmer. The farmer cannot put a ticket on his hogs or his cattle, his wheat or his corn, showing what he willvsell them for when he goes to market. He must take just what, he can get for them in the open market. Neither can he keep over this year's crop till next,, year; - he. must sell it rcw for whatever -it will bring. So the laboring man must sell his labor, day by day and week by week; to-day's work he cannot keep oved until to-morrow: he must sell it to-day and take whatever he can ,get, or lose it forever. Ho cannot save this tor s work over until next week, nor one year's work over until another year. If you could do that you would have about three years saved now. (Applause.) Nor can you fix the price on your labor: you rray increase it by unired effort, but all the time it will be regulated by the demand for labor. Then these two classes, the farmer and the laboring man. will be most injured by a depreciated and fluctuating currency. Do you want a fluctuating dollar, worth a little more to-day and less to-morrow? That is what you would get under free coinage of silver. Let us see how it fluctuates in value. In 1876 silver was at one time wor.'.h 99 cents and at another time in the same year 79 cents, a difference of 20 cents. In '78 it changed from 93 csnts to 83 cents, ten cents variation. In '87, from 91 to 82 cents; in 1886. from 79 to 71 cents; in 180, from 92 to 74 cents; in 1S92, from 74 to 64 cents; in 18S3, from 65 to 51 cents. This shows a variation of from 8 to 20 cents in a single year. What is the effect? The factory man, when he starts the factory, says: "I know what silver in worth now, but I don't know what It will be worth when I get pay for what I make, so I must figure down prices of labor in order to make myself safe on the possible fluctuation of our silver currency," and he cuts down wages 8 to 20 per cent., and the workingman must take it or the factory will not start. The laboring man loses this amount on his WEges. Then go to the store and the merchant says, "When I bought thede goods and put them on mv shelf I knew what silver money was worth, but I do not know what it will be worth when I get pay for my goods, so I must put up prices in order to make good a loss of 20 per cent. lie does it. and you lose 20 per cent, on your labor and 20 per cent, again when you go to buy. In the same way the farmer wiil lose when he sells his grain, and lose again when he goeB to the merchant to buy what he needs. No: what the laboring man of Anderson wants and is entitled to is an "hone.st day's work and an honest dollar in pay for it." (Applause.) BLAINE'S ATTITUDE. Our Democratic friends have been quoting garbled extracts from Blaine, but I want to read you what that grand old man said about the wrong of free coinage when the silver in a silver dollar was worth C2 cents. "The question before Congress," said he, "sharply defined in the pending House bill. is,, whether it is now safe and expedient to offer free coinage to tho silver dollar of 412Va grains, with the mints of the Latin Union closed and Germany not permitting sili-er to be coined as money. At current rates of silver, the free coinage of the dollar containing 4il'i,2 grains, worth in gold about 1-2 cents, gives an Illegitimate profit to the owner of the' bullion, enabling him to take i2 cents' worth of it to the mint and get it stamped as coin and force his neighbor to take it for a full dollar. This is an undue, an unfair advantage which the government has no right to give to the owner of the silver bullion, and which defrauds the man who is forced to take the dollar. It assuredly follows that if we give free coinage to this dollar of inferior value, and put it in circulation, we do so at the expense of our better coinage in gold, and unless we expect the uniform and invariable experience of other nations to be in some mysterious manner suspended for our peculiar benefit, we will inevitably lose our gold coin. It will flow from us with the certainty and with the force of the tides. What gain, therefore,' should we make, for the circulating medium, if, on opening the gates for silver to flow in, we open a still wider gate for gold to flow out? If I were to venture upon a dictum upon the silver question I should declare that until Europe remonitizes silver we cannot afford to coin a dollar as low as 412l2 grains. If we coin too low a dollar before general remonetization our' gold will leave us. If we coin too high a dollar before general remonetization our silver will leave us. It is only an equated value before and after general remonetization that will preserve both gold and silver to us." That was when the dollar was worth 02 cents. If it would give an illegitimate profit then what would fifty-two-cent silver do? They said they would pay off the public debt faster than we did. Let me read you what they did to decrease the debt. We had been payinsr it 01T quite rapidly. The last four years before we turned over the overnment to them we paid ?-'ji.oi,b0t. Now, since they have been in. they have I not paid any. but have increased the public debt $2o2.000,00C. How long do you think It would take them to pay the public debt that way? (Laughter and cheers.) Mr. Cleveland Mtid he did not need any more money In tile treasury; that he had a surplus; but on the first, day of June last. It he had deducted what he had borrowed during his administration, he lacked over $23,000,000 of having anj at J1- It remind.

me of an old man who said he would get out of debt if he had to borrow money to pay his debts. The American people do not believe in that. They beiieve in a tariff law that will raise enough revenue to pav the expenses of the government and leave a surplus over to nay on the public debt.

These Bryan Democrats and Fopu lsts say that we cannot kep ud me gold reserve Well, my answer is this: If you think you can't do it just turn it over to us; we know how. When John Sherman was going to commence the resumption of specie payments he sold only $90,000,000 in bonds to get gold; yet, by the time he wanted to commence the goia naa oeen cuiis into the Treasury by the regular channels of th custom house and Internal Revenue Department until it was Increased to over $135,000,000 by Jan.. 1, 1S79, and. under Republican rule, it was never less. At one time, in lhOO. the gold reserve went up to over S321.0fi0.000. and even on June 20. 1S93, three months after Cleveland entered the White House, there was still $lS8,C00,fiO in the treasury. But for the deficiency -n tho revenue and the fear of results from Democratic legislation there would have hern nr trnnlV'e ahout the JTOld reserve. Congress at its last session endeavored to help the situation and passed a bill ia the lower house to increase the revenues in order that we might have enough to met the demands of the government without borrowing, but when this bill got to the Senate the silver Senators stood up ana said: "You cannot do this, but you must give us free coinage of silver," thus offering a menace to the prosperity of the United States, and now there remains but one rem-?dv, and that is to sweep all these silver forces out of existence, politically, and place William McKinley In the White House and the Republican party in full power m the Nation. (Applause.) DEMOCRATIC PROMISES. When they elected Grover Cleveland they told us that a tariff for revenue only would bring prosperity. We did not belive them then, and we certainly do not believe them now. Adversity has come instead of prosperity, but now they come around with a new remedy. You know how these patentmedicine men do: they have a medicine -hat will cure anything, from consumption down to horse colic, and our Democratic friends are like them. Four years ago it was tariff for revenue, but now they have changed the sign; they have taken a white wash brush and rubbed out the old sign and now it reads "Free coinatre for silver.' but it is the same old patent-medicine wagon. They fooled the people In 1892. but we will not give them a chance to do it again. (Applause.) Who was not satisfied in 181?2? The merchant was prosperous, the farmer was getting fair prices for. the products of his farm, and every laboring man had a 30b at good wages. W e did not have free coinage of silver, and we do not need it now. Since then we have stepped down from prosperity to adversity. It is not the want of tree coinage 01 silver, but too much rule of Democracy. But a few words about the candidates I have told vou some thinsrs about Mr Bryan. He voted for free wool; he said the farmer was not entitled to tariff protec tion on his wool. He voted for the Wilson bill, and helped to carry William L. Wilson around over the House, rejoicing over the passage of the bill, and in 1894 he and his people went before the country and said that if we had the original Wilson bill without the Senate amendments, we would have just what was neeoed. Now, thy keep quiet about the Wilson bill and tariff for revenue, but say that we need free coinage 01 silver. We do not want to experiment with anv such financiers as William J. Bryan, the "Boy Orator of the Platte." The Republican party did not make any nomination. Away back, two years ago, and from then till now there came up from all over the land, from every farm, from every workshop, from every forge, from every bench, from every home and fireside tne cry, "Ulve uss William McKinley for President." The Republican party when it met a. ht. iouis just recorded the nomination which the people had made. What had he done? He had served his country long and In many capacities. In 1861 he shouldered his gun and marched to the front and helped save the Nation: he served the people of his State a3 Governor and many times in congress. When Benjamin Harrison, our beloved Hoosier citizen, who eave us the betst administration the country ever naa. was president or the United States William McKinley sat at the head of the ways and means committee in the House of Representatives. When he went to write a tariff law he did not close the door and say, "I will write a tariff law for revenue only." but he said that he would write a tarirf law that would, while bringing in ample revenue, give full protection to all of the industries and labor of the United htates against unjust foreign competition. So he sent out word to the farmer and said: "Come and tell me how much tariff you need on the products of the farm to protect you from the importation of foreign proaucts. He said to the manufacturer: "Come and tell me how much tariff you need on the products of the factory to protect you against the cheap products of Europe." He said to the laboring organizations: "Come and tell me how much tariff you need on the products of vour la bor to protect you against the cheap labor 01 r.urope. Ano wnen ne naa heard them all he wrote a law in the interest of the American workmen, manufacturers and farmers, and they loved it so well that they gave it his name and called it the McKinley law. It has made his name loved all over this land and hated in foreign lands, and that is the reason th people of the United States nominated William McKinley for President, and that is the reason they will elect him the 3d day of November. KATE FIELD'S HEIR. Brlce's Social Secretary, 'Tom" Beafy, Is Her Lesrutee. Washington Letterin Boston Transcript. Mrs. Francis hasbeen house-hunting the past week, and every particularly handsome house in town has been rumored to be the place selected for the residence of the new Secretary. So much has been determined upon. The house will be palatial in extent, for Mrs. Francis says she has never lived in any other sort, and It must be near the White House, as becomes the home of a man officially near the President. Jenkins lias even gone so far as to hint with authority Jenkins never so much as hints but with authority that Mrs. Francis means to take the wind out of the sails of the Brlces in society this winter. This will be very expensive, indeed, and unless the estate, lately fallen to him. causes Mr. T. Sanford Beaty to resign his ofnee in the Brice household, I do not hesitate to inform Jenkins this will also be impossible. Mr. T. Sanford Beaty, familiarly known among the Inner fringe of Washington's 150 as "Miss Betty," might be vulgarly called Mrs. Brice's social secretary. No one, however, thinks of speaking thus rudely of the young man, whose salary is the only vulgarity of office that attches to him. The purely aesthetic nature of his duties gives a lofty character to his office, which removes him entirely from anything resembling the disagreeable lot of a breadwinner. Ui:s most laborious task ia eating at all the superb and very select dinners the Brices give during the season. For the rest it is a thinking part entirely. He conceives all the originalities Mrs. Brice has introduced at Washington muslcales with a De Reszke or Calve to sing, at. $1,500 a song, novelties of that sort and degree of expensiveness. He thinks out color schemes for luncheons and thinks to inform the French maids of the ladies of the color he determines upon, that the gowns of Mrs. Brice and her daughters may, upon all occasions, preserve the harmony of the occasion. He thinks out new figures for the German and sometimes he thinks the design for the dinner cards. Nothing, however, approaching the hard routine of work of pleasure falls 'to his lot to do, and he is provided with two secretaries, who keep the visiting lists of the house for him and perform all similar manual labor. Whether without T. Sanford Beaty's brain the Brice millions could hold their own against Mrs. Francis in Washington. I do not presume to say. but with Mr. Beaty's brain I doubt if Mrs. Brice has anything to fear from Mrs. Francis. To be sure, as I said, Mrs. Francis has hope in the estate that has unexpectedly befallen Mr. Beaty. In the lately discovered will of Kate Field this young man is named as residuary legatee. He inherits Miss Field's real estate as well as her furniture, trunks, pictures and boxes, which contain all her papers and manuscripts, and he is named by Miss Field as her literary executor. Whether under the burden of all this he will be able to continue his thinking part in the Brices' social glory it is impossible to state now. as Mr. Beaty Is in Europe and has not yet been heard from on the subject. His mission to Europe is understood to be a very delicate one Indeed, that is the only kind cf mission he would undertake. It is, according to some, to dispose of the attachment and attractions which a certain very, very handsome young Englishman lately in the diplomatic service in this country possesses for Miss Kate Brice. Others say that so impossible to remove are both the attachment and the attractions of this fascinating but untitled Englishman Mr. Beaty expects to arrange with the Queen for a tltie for him. whereupon Mr. Beaty will proceed to Paris o buy Miss Brice's troueseau. No one in Washington quite understands why Kate Field should have so aosiantially remembered Mr. Beaty ;n her last wil! and testament. Had Ruth A-ihmore died and bequeathed him her real c'-tate and ideas it would apDear the natural ct of a kindred spirit departing from a s ne in which its twin is left to labor. But virile, vituperative Kate Field! still. be grew gentler in her last days, and In the devotion to the cause of American crt. which was among her latest enthusli-sms. it is, after all, not strange that she .-should seek to encourage the existence of T. flnford Beaty.

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CONFERENCE ADJOURNS METHODISTS BRIXC IT OLD II OVADA It V QUESTION AGAIX. Bishop Merrill and Cabinet Inaltle to Report Ifew Appointments Before Last Xltfht. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 21. This closing day of the Indiana Conference has been very busy. C. E. Asbury led the morning prayer service and both Bishops Merrill and Bowman were in their usual places. J E. Gilbert was continued in his present national Sunday school work. J. "W. Vigus, presented the interests of the Bible cause. The board of stewards reported the dis tribution of $10,400 among the conference claimants, a slight increase over the amount of last year for the same cause. S. O. Dorsey was made effective. C. E Hargrraves, J. S. Jencks and H. Hedden were placed in the supernumerary relation to the conference. E. P. F. Wells, James Gillespie and W. H. Burton were granted superannuated relation at their own re quest. No place asked to entertain the confer ence next year and the presiding elders appointed a committee to look after all matters pertaining1 to the question. This Is the first time such a provision has had to be made with reference to conference en tertainment. Resolutions were adopted by the confer ence with reference to the departure of Wr. R. Ilalstead and H. A. Buchtel to other conferences. Tho vote on eligibility to the General Conference resulted 138 to 47 in favor of It. On two equal representation it Btood 143 to 33 in favor of It. A lively discussion took place when the report of the committee on education came up, with reference to the distribution of the money collected for education. The re port said the funds should be equally dl vlded between DePauw University and r.ioore s tun uonege. tiere tne ueoate ire quently brought out remarks about "South east Conference," and old Indiana Confer ence and the boundary question thus dis turbed was called "peanut" politics by Dr. Talbott. The "line" question dies hard, it appears. Ihe membership in this conference Is 86.&u; probationers, 3,;)2j; deaths, 1,085; value ot churches, 5l,7J0,52o: value of parsonages, $197,523: raised for missions. . $19,754. a de crease of $1,973; total scholars In Sunday scnuois, oi.ii.5. The bishop and cabinet were not readv to read the appointments until the night session, which lasted from 7:30 o'clock until nearly 10 o'clock. After the completion of all business Bishop Merrill read the appointments as follows: Bloomington District T. H. Willis siding elder. Bedford. J. A. Ward; Bedford circuit, W. H. Wylie; Bloomneld, L. S. Knotts. Bioomington: College-avenue. J. H. Doddridge; Eighth-street. L. M. Orle-s-by. Borden, P. L. Priest: Campbellsburg, W. S. McMichael; Ellettsville, VV. S. McAllister; Freedom, J. L. Huddleston; French Lick. J. E. Sidebottom; Hardinsburg, E. L. Butler; Ilarodsburg, J. T. O'Haver; ITeltonvllle, T. K. Willis; Kossuth, E. T. Gerkin; Linton, F. A. Lester; Lyons, C. II. Pinnock; Mitchell, A. L. Bennett; Orangeville, F. W. Davis: Orleans. S. L. Welker: Owensburg, Wilford Ellis; Paoli, Zach. Selby; t-airicKsourg. j. f. finely; Salem. J. W. waiter; snoais, a. im. n;irod; Solsberry, E. E. Urner: Spencer, W. M. Zaring; Tunnelton. A. G. Benham and E. C. Jordan: Worthington. J. H. Carnes. Connersville District C. E. Edwards. presiding elder. Abington, C. A. Ward, Arngton, W. F. Smith: Brookville. E. II. Wood; Brookville circuit, J. M. Wines; Carthage, W. N. Fletcher; College Corner, George Cochran; Connersville, V. W. Tevi; Everton. W. O. Wycoff; Fairfield. J. T. Scull; G'.enwood. D. T. Hedges: Liberty, A. R. Beach; Laurel, Byram Carter; Maplewood, Jesse Miller; Metamora, J. L. Brown; Milford, W. R. Plummer; Milroy, A. N. Marlatt and C. C. Bonnel; Milton, H. Harris; Morristown. E. P. Jewett; Mt. Curmel, T. J. Anthony: Rushville, C. W. Tinsley; St. Paul. D. II. Wynegar: Waldron, John Clouds. East Indianapolis District Acton. J. L. Sims; Brightwood, W. W. Reynolds; Castleton. J. P. Maupln: Falrland. F. A. Guthrie; Flat Rock, C. V. Hester; Franklin. G. M. Smith, Freetown, II. H. Sheldon; Greenwood. F. M. Westhafer. Indianapolis Barth-place. D. W. Noble: Central-avenue, C. C. Lasby and F. D. D. John; East Park, E. L. Wlmmer; Edwin Bay, K. .13. Rawls; Fletcher-piace, Robert Roberts; Furnace-place, J. F. O'Neal: Grace, II. N. King; Hall-place, James A. Sargent; Hyde fark, Rob Zaring; Lincolnavenae, S. W. Troyer; Roberts Park. T. I. Coultas; Woodside, Merltt Machlan: IrvIngton, T. G. Cocks; Lawrence and Bethel. W. G. Proctor; Mapleton. T. W. Northcott; New Bellesville, C. E. Spicer (suppiy; rvew raiestine, 11. u. f razer; Nineveh, H. D. Sterrett; Ramelton, T. D. Hall (supply.) Shelby ville: First Church, J. R. T. Latbron: West-street, R. 11. Moore. South Bethany. J. P. Masson; Southport, D. A. Robertson; Whiteland, J. T. Jones. Evansville District Blue Grass. S. S. Penrod; Boonv'.lle, R. R. Bryan: Boonvllle circuit, J. D. Kiper (supply); Center, Joseph Rawiins. Evansville: Ingle-Ftreet, Samuel Reld; Kingsl y, H. J. Black: Simpsen and Ridge. F. A. Steele; Trlnliv, J. W. Turner. Fort Branch: J. D. Jeffrey; Francisco, Isaac Turner; Howell, W. S. Grim: Lynnvi'.le. George A. Winn: Mount Vernon, J. H. Ketcham; Mount Vernon circuit. Grant Fergv.-.?on (one to be supplied); Newburg. S. O. Dorsey; New Harmony. J. W. Milam; New Harmony cir cuit. C. L. Martin; Oakland City. II. S. Headen; Otwel), W. P. Wallis: Owensville, H. JL Godbev; Patoka. T. W. Wlnbeler; IVtersburg, W. S. Kader: Poseyville. J. W. Culmer; Princeton. G. D. Wolf: Selvin, J. B. Johnson; Stewartsvitle, J. K. Hugo (supply); YanKeetown, v. v rut man. J. W. Bain, (Juir Mission. lxuisiaiia. J. T. Bean, left without an appointment to attend school. JelTerKonville District E. A. Campbell. presiding e'der. Brownstown, J. N. Thompson; coiummis, u. uuriiss; (Jolumbus circuit. J. W. Allen; Crothersvllie. O. S. Hennin.Ker: Edinburg, G. W. Cohagen; EiiJtabethtown, W. J. Stewart; Hartsville, B. W. Cooper; Henryville, U. G. Abbott: Holman. J. K. Crelghton; Hone. J. 1). Current; Jeffersonville circuit, T. G. I3eharrel; Port Fulton, L. N. Jones; Wall-street. Charles Tinsley: Ivent, W. C. Crawford; Lexington. J. S. Campbell (supply); Paris, J. T. Edwards; Scottsburg. C. l'j. r.ieuu; tievtnour. j. ai. tiaxier; rseymour circuit. T. J. Tcne (supp y): Tavlorsville, W. B. Grimes: Utlca, Daniel Ryan; Vernon. E. M. Chambers. C. W. Woods, chaplain Indiana State

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thr.n is 1 o the 7& Sworn Chemist in uda 'est Prison South and member Wall-street quarterly conference. Jeffersonville. Moore's Hill District E. L. Dolph. presiding elder: Aurora, F. S. Tincher; Batrsville. J. N. Jerman; Butlervllle, J. L. Shroyer; Canaan. Frank Wolf (supply); Cross Plains (to be supplied); Dlllsborough, W. C. Watkins; Guilford. H. C. Pelsor. GreensTmrg: Centenary. W. P. Barnhlll; First Church. J. W. Duncan. Hartford, J. W. Cordrey; Lawrenceburg. G. H. Murphy; Madison. L. D. Moore; Madison circuit. E. E. McDuffee; Moore's Hill, John Machlan; North Madison. R. Scott Hydej Osgood. G. C. Clouds;. Patriot. J. L. Perry; Rising Sun, B. F. Jtawlins; Versailles, A. M. Lowden: Vevay, R. A. Kemp; Westport, H. M. Elwyn; Wilmington, A. W. Stout. J. H. Martin, president: C..W. Iewls and Monroe Vayhlnger, professor in Moore' Hill College and members Moore's Hill quarterly conference. C. L. Bovard. superintendent English Mission. New Mexico. New Albany District J. E. Steele, presiding elder. Birdseye, to be supplied; Cannelton. B. A. May; coryaon. w. v union; Elizabeth, J. H. Furry; English, A. J. Patrick; Fredericksburg, W. A. Wyninger; Gentrvvllle, John E. Coffin; Grandvlew, H. C. Ashcraft; Greenville. A. J. Shake; HuntIn gburg, J. E. Fisher; Laneoville. F. C. Raft; Leavenworth, John Reyer; Marengo L. D. Youngblood; Mauckport, J. H. Stram; McKendress and Embury. C. W. Dobson. New Albany Jennie DePauw Memorial, John Phillips; Main-street. J. C. Washington. Rockport. J. H. Ford: Rockport circuit, J. M. Nash: Rome, Lawrence Jeffery; Troy, R. W. Fish. Vincennes District M. S. Heavenrldge, presiding elder. Alfordsville, G. S. Racy; Blcknell, H. H. Allen; Brucevllle, James Hixon; Carlisle, W. A. Fox; Decker, F. F. Ogle; Farmersburg. A. N. Couchman; Glendale, J. N. Blue: Graysville, M. S. Taylor; Hymera, J. D. Crane; Loogootee, W. N. Ganther; Lyonton. , John Rngel; Newbury, P. S. Llsman; New Lebanon. L. B. Johnson; Odon, S. F. Anderson; Plalnvtlle, N. F. Denny; Pleasantvllle, D. W. Denny; Pralrieton, J. B. Smith; Sullivan. W. H. Grim; Vincennes. A. R. Vest; Washington, C. E. Asbury; Washington circuit, W. D. Woods; Wheatland, T. B. Couchman. I H. Murlln, president of Baker University and member of the Vincennes Quarterly Conference. West Indianapolis District H. A. Talbott, presiding elder. Belleville, W. C. McKendree; Bowling Green, V. D. Vancleave; Brooklyn, W. F. F. Smith; Center Point, G. F. McNaughton; Clay City, J. C. Boone; Cloverdale, W. A. Edgln; Cory, S. M. Heaton; Gosport. Elmer St. Clair. GreenIndiana polls Blackford street, C. W. Crooke: Broadway, L. F. Dimmltt; California-street. W. S. Blddle; Madlson-avenu W. M. Whltsett; Meridian-street. C. N. Sims; Wesley Chapel, W. C. Botkln; Martinsville. M. B. Hyde; Mooresvllle, W. T. Davis; Morgantown. J. L. Cooper; Putnamville, J. S. Stout; Qulncy, John S. Ward; Waverly, C. W. Maupln. West Indianapolis BUrPt Church. J. Wesley Maxwell; Trinity. J. W. J. Collins; West Newton, E. O. Thomas. John Poucher, Edwin Post, professors In DePauw University; Ij. G. Duvall, professor In Ohio Weslyan University; members Locust-street Quarterly Conference J. S. Jenckes, secretary American University and member of Meridian-street Quarterly Conference. Weal ey an Methodists. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FAIRMOUNT. Ind., Sept. 21. The fortyeighth annual conference of the Wesleyan Methodists of Indiana, which has been In session at this place for a week, adjourned last night. The ministers say this has been the best session In point of attendance for several years. The business was all transacted Saturday and the Sabbath was devoted entirely to devotional services. Rev. A. W. Hall, conventional agent, preached in the morning, and Miss Mary Travis, who soon leaves for Africa as a missionary, gave a farewell talk in the afternoon. The following officers were elected: Eber Teter, president; J. J. Coleman, secretary; Aaron Worth, W. J. Seekins. A. Teter and J. W. Zlke, convential hoard of trustees: Eber Teter and W. L. Northarn, evangelists; J. W. Brown, missionary su- , perintendent; J. W. Brown and Miss Mary Travis go to Africa as missionaries. Following are the appointments: Albion, Luther Folger; Amboy, Rev. O'Brien; Bryant. Jacob Hester; Boxley. W. J. Seekins; Crums. Rev. Mow; Plymouth Mission. Robert Jeffery: Fairmount. J. F. Pressnall; Fairview, C. A. Bilheimer; Fountain City, Miss Mattle North; Hartford City, T. J. Pierce; Hamlet. Rev. Mow; Roseburg and Ilodson mission. B. F. Hines; Kirklin, Belle and Estella McCIure; Jirwill. L. Tice; Lewis Creek, D. F. Gordon; Liberty. C. S. Smith; Ligonler. G. H. Babcock; Mount Etna, W. L. Fall: New Castle, A. Worth; Plymouth, E. H. Kennedy; Peru, L. H. Carter: Pleasant Grove, J. J. Coleman: Paulding Mission, A. L. Blake; Salamonla, W. G. Moon: Noblesvljle, J. O. Baker; Sheridan, G. W. Zlke; Strawtown, to be supplied: Thorntown. Estella McCIure; Westfield. F. P. Baker; Fowler. G. Reber. S. Bloomer to have the liberty to preach anywhere In the State in co-operation with other ministers. riulntleld Yearly Meeting. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PLAINFIELD. Ind., Sept. 21. At the I o'clock meeting this morning after a thort practical talk by Rev. Harriet Green, of London, England, Rev. rieth I'ecs conducted a testimony service that was Inspiration to all. The condition of the church was considered at the 10 o'clock huslnc-ss stsicn. This was followed by an earnest discus-Mon ol matters pertaining to the growth and un!t of the Friends' Church by Rfv. Robert Douglas, of Ohio: Rev. lf.-uriet Green, of England; Rev. Amos Ktnworthy, of Knlghtstown; Rev. Rufus P. Kin;r. of North Carolina; Rev. John Griftin. of MooresvlUe: liev. Esther T. Fmshxrd. cf Kokcmo. and others. fae. statistics are as follows: Meet'ngs, 112; members. 15.091: families. 3,"- - M n. numbers who attend Friends rnee; rgs. l.:". ministers. 195; meeting without minister. 23; meetings havlig payors. fcS; average as?e of deceased. V.; families that real Bibi iaiiy witn tviin. i.:.j: families that do not,,l,."l'h ufrrs f t ob.ico, 1.723; males. 1.5CT; females. 101: cultivators. 2): sellers, 67; ministers reeouk'd the ;.!st yn 10. Tho report or tne nominating -ommittes on evangelistic work was read. The afternoon war devoted largely to fort m r.Ms:cn wiin; To-morrow mornimr win le an :nipof'ant session, when "Temp-Ma nee," "Indian Affairs" and ether matters vill be considered. Sunshine from Cucumbers. Springfield Republican. Nothing can cool the spirits of those sllverites. Senators Teller and Dubois never saw things look brighter, and Mr. Bryan only smlies the broader when asked about the news from Maine. We have heard much about "extracting sunshine i'ora cucumbers" and that Is the buslnea, evidently, they are now engaged la.

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