Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 18U6.

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All communications Intended for publication in this paper muM, In oraer to receive attention, be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL Can be found at the following places: MEW YOKK-Windsor Hotel and Astor House. CHICAGO Palmer House and P. O. News Co., 217 Dearborn street. CINCINNATI J. It. Hawley & Co.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Deerlng. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and Louisville Book Co., 306 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. JtVASHINGTON, D. C Ulggs House, Ebbitt House, Willard's Hotel and the Washington i News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between ' Penn. avenue and F street. It now looks ail if Major McKinley would e elected. President six weeks from to-day. It was very appropriate that our freefellver Governor should present that sliver (Service to the Indiana. ., People have learned that the silver Issue Is a scheme of mine owners to make themselves millionaires, consequently the silver craze Is dying out. Mr. Bryan might get along with two Candidates for Vice President, but no man ever lived who could win bearing the burden of his speeches. Mr, Bryan, will have Immense crowds In IVew England If he goes there, as did Denis Kearney in 1877. Curiosity is as great there , elsewhere in the world. Mr. Bryan is getting a- good deal of advertising, and there is no telling how much it may help him in his law business after be retires to private life next November. ' If the silver mine barons are not putting Hp a couple of millions for the Popocratio campaign it is because the most reckless Df speculators have no hope of winning. Even Mr. Bryan has not entered Into a detailed explanation of the process by iwhlch coining the silver of a few mine owners vv'U start the factories all over the country. And now the Sentinel has been faked by the man who appeared to help it to prove that railroad men are coerced to vote the Bound-money ticket. Its man has not been In the employ of a railroad for four years. The only pretext which can be given for kicking Mr. Sewall off the Popocratlc ticket is that he demands gold payments for freight. But Senator Stewart, Governor Altgeld and other Popocratlc high priests ao inai. The New York Mercury, a morning dally published in the interest of the free-silver party, has suspended. Its owners had less money to drop in a hole than has young Mr. Hearst, proprietor of the other Bryan organ In that city. There seems to b a prevalent idea that If a man commits a crime when under the influence of intoxicating liquor he should be treated more leniently than otherwise. The law recognizes no such t t tuosnn tVint It assumes ,UllllUVJt U a.-Mw. - that no man becomes intoxicated in spite of himself. . It is rumored that certain Democrats who made vigorous sound-money speeches before the Chicago convention at a meeting In this city will undertake to refute them at an early day. Perhaps they will do as does candidate Thacher in New York, declare for sound money, but vote for Bryan for the sake of regularity. The fact that none of the sllverltes In business Senator Stewart, Governor Altgeld and candidate Sewall propose to receive the sliver dollars which they advocate in payment of notes, rents and freights is evidence that they do not believe in them under the free coinage of silver. If these men mistrust them, surely everybody else ahould. " The president of the Traveling Men's 'Association In New York, who told the World that a wide-awake traveling man, backed by his house, was worth more in politics this year than a half-dozen speechmakers, was very near the truth. If there are 400,000 of them, as the "World is told, and 80 per cent, of them are for sound money, they are sure to have a potential effect upon the election. Professor Gunton was discussing the currency question before a political club of women In New York the other day when one excited dame rose to inquire: "Don't you think that man Bryan lies, or is he densely ignorant?" To which the Professor diplomatically replied: "In my experience I have discovered that men can be foolish enough for all emergencies without lying." This seems to cover the case, but is a little aevere on Bryan, too. New Sweden, In Aroostook county, Maine, was settled exclusively by Swedes ; about twenty-flve years ago. At the election last week New Sweden gave the Republican ticket 125 votes and the Prohibition ticket 4, but not a vote to the Popocratlc candidate. In the West there are thousands of Swedes who are voters, particularly in Minnesota and Wisconsin. If they are in touch with the Maine colony they will determine the result in those Etatts. The Bryanltes are unfortunate in their scriptural allusions. Mr. Bryan's celebrated "crown of thorns" and "cross of gold" illustrations shocked and offended many reverent people. Now they are scattering a card on which is printed a travesty of the Lord's prayer labeled "MeKInley's prayer," and beginning, "Our father who art in England, Rothschilds bo thy name," and continuing in like blasphemous style. Such things can have no other effect than to disgust decent people "and to create a prejudice against the party permitting their circulation; but although they will

hurt and not help Mr. Bryan, his opponents will regret that his supporters descended to the use of such means of warfare.

A LATE SUGGESTION. The Popocratic managers should at once appoint a committee to inspect the fakes which are the main resource of the party organs and orators before they are al lowed to be used in. newspapers or else where. The trouble is that the fakemakers aro green and wild. They assume that the people of this country are densely ignorant and will accept as truth any fake which they can devise. The Sentinel has been so victimized by the irresponsible fake makers that no sane person can believe anything that it publishes. Even those who would be Democrats now go to others to ascertain if this or that story can be believed, and In most cases they learn that it cannot. The result is that the Sentinel is of no manner of use in the campaign There is the forgery known as the Lincoln letter, a fake hoary with years, which no fairly intelligent publisher of fakes could have made use of, however unscrupulous. There is the London Financial News fake, started ' by Mr. Bryan's Omaha organ a fake of no consequence, but which no person in the business of publishing fakes should have considered for a moment There is the fake taken from the antl-free-coinage speech of Mr. Blaine in 1S7S, so easily exposed, but which the renegade De troit Tribune yet publishes at the head of its editorial column in full-faced type. There is the Bryan fake In the form of the garbled message of Abraham Lincoln. These are simply sxmp'es of that character. There are others, such as the Ohio county Bryan Republican Club, with which the Sentinel was sold, and the constantly re published lists of names of Prohibitionists Greenbackers and such as Republican converts to Bryanism. The letter written to Robert C. Bell, of Fort Wayne, declaring that the Hanna campaign fund is $25,000,000 and that he can have some of it if he will abandon Bryan, signed by a name which is not In a New York business directory and dated at a street number In Wall street five hundred in excess of the real numbers that it contains, is another of the stupid fakes which make those who use them ob jects of derision. It is too late to undo the mischief which this absurd publication of fakes has inflicted, but Popocratic organs may yet be saved from no end of ridicule to the injury of Bryanism if it should be decreed that all fakes be sent to a discreet board of inspectors before publication, with power to revise or throw away. If such a board had been established directly after the nomination of Bryan much damage might have been prevented to the candidate, and organs would not now be regarded as candidates for the dunce block. CANDIDATE SEWALL'S PECULIARITIES. The Republicans In the East are having not a little merriment at fhe expense of the Popocrats over the circular which was sent out under date of Sept. 14, the day of the Maine election, by the American Merchant Marine Association. The first words at the head of the sheet, in capital letters, are, "Arthur Sewall, Bath, Me., President." The following extract indicates the character of the circular: Inclosed please And extracts from the Republican national platform, and Maior McKinley's letter accepting the presidential nomination, which have reference to the Republican policy of protection to American shipping in the tor'trn inclose a four-page circular containing extracts from utterances of eminent men on the shipping question. I also beg to inclose a statement, setting forth as explicitly and briefly as possible the entire shipping question, which you could use to advantage. The four-page circular is made up largely of extracts from the utterances of the late Mr. Blaine, the late Secretary Windom, ex-President Harrison and others, all stanch Republicans. The signature is Alex. R. Smith, secretary. The following extract from the circular, concerning the Popocratlc candidate for President, Mr. Bryan, Is even more interesting: In response to an inquiry addressed to the Democratic nominee for the presidency as to his attitude upon the shipping question, his reply was that he stood upon his public utterances, but reference to his record has so far failed to disclose any expression whatever on the part of that gentleman on the shipping question. He has, however, repeatedly and specitioaDv denounced protection in any form, and he has openly and persistently, until now, auvocated free trade, or the nearest possible approach to it; so that it seems fair to assume that neither he nor his party can be depended upon to protect American shipping in the foreign trade. it must delight the supporters of the Popocratic ticket all ovet the country o know that the name of their candidate for Vice President is at the head of a circular the concluding sentence of which is as follows: The Republican party and its candidate for the presidency stand for the restoration of protection to our ships. And Democracy, if it stands for anything in shipping, stands for more free trade, more national losses, and larger payments to foreign shipowners for doing the carrying that Americans can, and should, far better do for themselves. Republicanism means American prosoeritv: Democracv means foreign prosperity. Which shall American voters choose? While the alleged Democrat of free-trade tendencies Is astonished to learn that Arthur Sewall's name is at the head of the circular which contains the foregoing extracts, the fiat silverite who curses gold will be thrown into ecstasy when he reads the following copy of the agreement which Mr. Sewall, as a shipowner, exacts from all his customers: The party of the second part (Enplng & Russell) agrees to pay to the party of the tion of said timber dollars and rents, United States gold or its equiva lent,. - Treasurer St. John, of the Popocratlc committee, declared after reading the above that "he cannot understand Mr. Sewall's methods." Yet Mr. Sewall is simply doing the same thing which Senator Stewart, Governor Altgeld, "Coin" Harvey and other silveritcs do put gold in their contracts., ' NOT A FOLLOWER OF LINCOLN. It has been telegraphed over the country that Mr. Bryan and his associates occupied the pew in the Washington church in which Abraham Lincoln sat when President. The object of this professional poser is patent to all. He would have the country believe that he Is an admirer of Abraham Lincoln and would be In political company with him if he were living. No sensible person will be deceived by such a fraud. There Is nothing in common between Lincoln and Bryan. If Bryan had bv.en a voter when Lincoln was President he would have opposed him, as did his father. He would have gone up and down the country appealing to class prejudice to oppose the draft law because it was designed to compel the poor man to go into the army while the well-to-do could escape by paying $3C0. Abraham Lincoln, when he was a candidate for President, remained at his home.

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while Mr. Bryan Is devoting his whole time to touring the country to make speeches. The platform upon which Mr. Bryan stands, and which he especially applauded in his letter cf acceptance, is a condemnation of the whole official life of Abraham Lincoln. In spite of the protest of Governors of States, Abraham Lincoln, as President of the United States, marched federal troops Into and across their borders. His letters to such Governors defending his action are a vindication of. the supremacy of the federal government. The opinion which Mr. Bryan expresses in his letter of acceptance would have prevented Mr. Lincoln from pursuing a. policy to save the Union. Abraham Lincoln was a respecter of . the courts and the laws, and as such he would have condemned the Chicago platform and the speeches of Its candidate. Then, can one imagine Abraham Lincoln denouncing any class of citizens, as Bryan has denounced those who are advocating sound money declaring them the same sort of foes as those who would invade the home by force, and to be treated in the same manner? Abraham Lincoln never tore sentences here and there out cf any man's speech to make him appear to advocate theories to which the author was opposed, as Bryan has one of the messages of Mr. Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln and William J. Bryan are the exponents of political ideas diametrically opposed and at war with each other. In political personnel, in political methods, in mental make-up and personal characteristics they are as wide apart as the poles. Lincoln was a patriot and statesman; Mr. Bryan, to use the term of a disgusted Democrat, is a blatherskite. When the Connecticut Democratic convention met, before the Chicago convention, it selected a delegation pledged to sound money and adopted the following resolution with the liveliest demonstration of approval: The honest payment of public debt3 and the public faith and credit require the gold standard of money. We are unalterably opposed to the free coinage of silver. To pay public debts in silver coin is repudiation. To pay private debts in the same coin Is to rob the wage earner. Last week the Connecticut Democratic convention to nominate State officers assembled, and a majority adopted the following resolution: We Indorse the platform adopted at Chicago. The growing industrial disasters and distressful poverty and idleness have been the ever-increasing result of the demonetization of silver in 1873. We therefore invite the united support of the electors in the effort to restore the coinage system which existed during the years of our national prosperity, and which is the coinage system recognized in our national Constitution. i Many of the delegates were the same as attended the earlier convention, and all of them represented the same constituencies. The same face-about was made by the New York Democratic convention. It is the same face-about that every Democrat in Indiana will make who spoke for sound money before the Chicago convention, but will now speak for Bryan. The speech of Representative Henry, which wa3 delivered in Anderson, is an admirable presentation of the issues of the campaign, because it Is practical, clear and easy to understand. At the same time -it is so logical a presentation that the only way a person can escape conviction is to avoid hearing or reading it. Mr. Henry makes It very clear why the Democratic party.

with its present views and policies, should not be retained in power. The hostility of the leaders "to protection and the effect of that hostility upon varied industries must be understood by every Intelligent man in the district which embraces so much of the gas belt. The people of that district are fortunate in having a candidate whom every voter who desires a clean and efficient representative in Congress can cheerfully support. The Interest of the voters in Maine in savings banks is given as one of the reasons for the burial of the free-silver ticket in that State, which, it is claimed, cannot affect the vote in Indiana and other States of the central West. In 1894 there were building and loan associations in all but six of the ninety-two counties in Indiana. In this county the net investment in the shares of such associations was $6,000,000 in 1SS4. Those six millions are owned by at least fifteen thousand people if the average investment is $400. The owners of thoso hundreds of dollars will be quite as likely to look out, when in the voting booths, that they do not so vote as to be paid in a depreciated currency as were the voters in Vermont and Maine. It is highly gratifying to know that the Populist gentlemen whose wicked Republican "friends" nefariously attempted to buy them up -virtuously resisted temptation and got very angry over the matter. Even if the wrath was a little slow three weeks or so after date it was better late than never, and proves their incorruptibility. Fitzstmmons has been arrested for agreeing to fight with Corbett. This is really unjust when the court must know that he didn't mean what he said. Is nobody but Bryan to be allowed to talk through his hat unmolested? The Washington Post young man who wrote up the Bryan meeting at the capital for his paper ought to be given a week off in which to rest his mind. That report was, without doubt, the greatest effort of his life. The Rev. Mr. Milburn has changed his mind about preaching politics from the pulpit 6ince.he dabbled in local affairs last year and advocated the election of the wrong man. Cause of the Bis Vote. Kansas City Journal. The surprise in Maine is explained on the ground that Democratic business men quiet ly voted the Republican ticket. The ss.me kind of surprises will be given in every State of the Union. Business men are almost solidly for sound money, and although for prudential reasons they are not doing much talking they will vote the sound-money ticket. The free-silver sentiment is noisy and assertive, and is smaller than it seems. These are facts which should be taken into account in all campaign estimates, but have not up to the present time been given their full weight. Harrison In Needed. Philadelphia Record (Dem.) Ex-President Harrison's decision to eret off the stump, in consequence of the pressure of his private interests, is doubtless based upon sufficient grounds, but that fact will not lessen the general feeling of regret that he cannot b drafted for another month's service. While the country abounds in excellent and convincing talk ers, few men can talk so clearly and instructively upon the money question as the ex-Pre?ident: and it is too soon to assume that talkers of this sort are no longer needed in Mr. Harrison s vicinity. Did He Say It Waif Detroit Tribune. The Hon. Russell Sage may be right in the nlnton that the way to save $1,000,000 is to wear three-dollar pants, but it does not follow that that is the best way to save the country. Trolley Mali Service for Philadelphia. Hcrper's Weekly. In mirsuance of the plan of quickening the mail service in Philadelphia, deter

mined upon by the pbstofSce some time ago, arrangements are now under way for the placing in service of fourteen trolley cars, especially built for the purpose and equipped with the necessary apparatus for sorting and arranging mail matter while In transit. Mail, for some time, has been conveyed between the substations and the central office by means of trolley cars on two of the lines, but the new system will inaugurate a change in the manner of exchanging and distributing letters, papers and parcels both to city addresses and to places out of town. The carriers who gather mail from the various boxe3 will bring together their collections at,. stated points, where the latter will-be', taken on board the trolley cars and assorted properly. Such mail as is intended for a distant point within the city will be transferred to the first mail car going In that direction which is met with, whife such matter as is to go out of town will be placed in pouches ready to be put immediately upon the railroad mail car. Electric apparatus for canceling stamps is a feature of the proposed plan.

ALL SAFE IN NEW YORK. Elements That Will Woric for McKinley and Sound 3Ioney. Letter in Philadelphia Press. There need be no fear about the result of New York State, even if organized labor does make an alliance with the regular Democracy. The alliance will be composed of these elements: On the one side, those workingmen who are easily led by the professional labor agitator and the walking delegate; on the other, by. the professional politicians, by the "lower strata of Tammany Hall," and by those Democrats who would follow their party anywhere so lonsr as they could solace themselves with the notion that they were wholly regular. Opposed to this alliance is 90 per cent, of the business interests of the State, meaning by business interests those who are engaged in trade, commerce or manufacture. Then. too. there is the great body of Republicans which, so far as can be learned, is as steadfast to-day as was the case in 1S94, when the party elected Morton Governor by 150.000 plurality. In addition to these there are to be counted thousands of Democrats who will either supDort McKinley or who will refrain from voting. The Republicans here have at last recognized that the only remaining field for campaign work in New York city and Brooklyn Is in those places where workingmen can be gathered to hear addresses. The managers do not expect to persuade any workingman who has resentment in his heart and who is disposed to vote for Bryan because Bryan's election would result in chaos and revolution. No argument, not even one which appealed powerfully to self-interest, would avail with these men. But there are many thousands cf artisans, skilled mechanics, intelligent men who receive wages or salaries, who are both ready and anxious to listen, and from this week until the end of the campaign opportunities will be given to them in every district in this city and Brooklyn. No one believes- that a majority of those who receive wages are creatures of unreasoning impulses and the slaves of unworthy passion. A test was made in one of the upper districts of this city." a district which had elected Colonel Fellow3 to Congress by 8.000 majority, and wh'ch, upon his resigna'tion to accept the office of district attorney, was called upon to elect a successor Republicans named Mr. Quiirg, and the canvas3 in that district was almost wholly devoted to appeals to workingmen. The Democratic nominee had the favor pf some of the walking delegates and the labor agitators, and it was predicted that he would be elected because of this: support. Yet he was defeated, and defeated by the vote of intelligent workingmen The Impression to-day is that John C. Sheehan and Senator Murphy are counting as recklessly upon the support which the reguiar "-moeracy Is to receive from the labor organizations as they are upon the results which the regular Democracy will meet with by reason of its support of Bryan and his platform. Senator Hill says that the regular Democracy of New lork State is preparing to cut its throat. DEPEW SEVER SAID IT. That He About "Fifty Men" Who Could Pnralyzo the Coantry, New York Sun. Scarcely a week goes by that several Popocratic papers in the South and West do not print what purports to be an interview with the Hon. Chauncev M. Depew, in whioh he is quoted as saying: 'There are fifty men in New York who Can in tWentV-four houra stnn .n-orv whnnl on all railroads, close every door of all our manufactories, lock every switch of all the telegraph lines, and shut down every coal and iron mine in the United States. They can do fo because they control the money which the country produces." Mr. Depew laughed when a recently published version of this interview was shown to him yesterday. "Has that turned up again?" he aked. "I've been kept busy denying that for a long time. It appeared first in an Iowa paper, and was afterward made the text of a socialistic lecture by a professor in a Nebraska college. Since then it has been going the rounds. "I never made any such remark. It has done duty on several hundred occasions, and is always brought out when a lie is needed to buttress a bad cause or to give point to a dull speech. No fifty men, nor live thousand men. in their individual and business capacities, could bring about the disastrous conditions which at present afflict the country. A few Representatives in Congress can, however, easily produce infinitely worse results. But they are acting for seventy millions of people, and their errors must be taken as the mistakes of over half the population, until the sober sense of the country substitutes statesmen for cranks. "A favorite fallacy of lecturers who have never been identified with business Is ascribing to successful business men purposes which would demonstrate them to be fools. Granting that it was in the power of any number of the most enterprising and brainy men in 'the country to cause panics, general bankruptcy, and suspension of industries, they would be the last, individually or in combination, to further such disasters. Every man in the United States, owes his fortune, whether it be great or small, entirely to our' prosperous development, general and local. To the extent that our business men had the sagacity to foresee and the industry and courage to grasp the Inevitable opportunities in sight for farsighted men, they have made fortune, competence, or successful business. All such men have' their earnings, their business reputation, and the future of their children staked upon our continuing growth and prosperity. These men. as a c!ass. are the first to feel the results cf any industrial revolution, and proportionately are the largest sufferers. They are therefore, if for no higher reason and . most of them are actuated by higher reasons for selfish reasons always to be found favoring and laboring for whatever will promote and expand our industrial interests." Refused to He "Written Vp." Critic Lounger. A great many people noted with surprise the small amount of biographical matter printed about "Gail Hamilton'' at the time of her death. As a fact, very few newspapers had any extended obituary on fiie, and it was difficult to obtain the necessary material. The reason for this can be explained by an extract from a hitherto unpublished letter of Miss Dodge, written by her to a Boston acquaintance when the latter, infulfilling his duties as newspaper correspondent, wrote to her for a brief history of her life. These were her words in reply: "In declining to furnish you with material for a sketch of my life for publication, I act not from caprice, but on1 unvarying principle. Every person has a' right to his own privacy. What he himself puts before the public in book or periodical belongs to the public, which has full right to read, reject, criticise. But his personality belongs to himself. To violate this law of private right is an outrage. I deprecate no severity of literary criticism. I resent, and so far as possible, repel interference with private right. There are many persons, p .rhaps, who feel differently. If any such choose to be biographized during life, their taste may be questioned, but the biographer is guitless. I object to it utterly." The Bible and the Bicycle. Harper's "Weekly. It has been left to a Washington clergyman to extract biblical likeness and religious teaching from the bicycle. Takfr.g the significant text. 'T have used similitudes." the minister said he believed, were the Savior on earth now. He wouid illustrate his parables and sermons from the wheel. He described . the difficulties of mastering the bicycle, and compared the discouragements or trie'ndvles and the frequent dismounts of the beginner to those who seek to lead a Christian life. The rules which govern a bicycler, said the minister, were adaptable to the follower cf Christ as the former rides erect and with speed, so the latter should live erect and "move with some degree of spiritual rapidity." He advised the bicycler and the Christian to "keep your lights burning, that you may see the true way. and that others to whom you may be an Injury may avoid you. The Seasick Test. San Francisco Post. , Many people have a genuine curiosity to know if they would be seasick in case they should take an ocean voyage. An easy way to put the matter to a test is to stand before the ordinary bureau mir

ror that turns In its frame, and let someone move it slowly and slightly at first, and gradually growing faster, while you look fixedly at your own reflection. If you feel no effect whatever from it the chances are that you can stand an ordinary sea voyage without any qualm. AMERICAN I IK HO IN SOUTH AFRICA.

How Burnham Prevented a Wlioleaie Massacre of Whites in Bnluvrnyo. London Cable to New York Sun. Mr. F. R. Burnham. the famous American scout who killed Mlimo, the native god of the Matabele. who incited the recent rebellion in Rhodesia, sailed for New York on Wednesday after spending a few days in London. -Mr. Burnham furnishes an interesting account of the Inception of that uprising and the startling plot for the massacre of all the whites in Buluwayo, which, fortunately, failed. He says: "The nation was ripe for rebellion, as we now know, and it was Mlimo who laid the plans for the overthrow of the white man. It was by his instructions that all the murders were committed. On a certain day every servant was to kill his master in Buluwayo and throughout the country. It was a well-planned thing, in which the black soldiers, who were themselves Mataeble, but served the government as police, were to revolt also. "The plot failed only because of the ac tion of a few hot-headed men in the t'i.abosl and Insezl districts, who precipitated things by acting prematurely and against Mlimo's order. The plot was got up to secretly that what occurred was a surprise We thought the Kaffirs realized that they were under better government than Lobengula's. So all, including the government officials, could not believe there was a plot to murder every man, woman and child in the country. "I believe if we could have got at Mlimo at the start of the row we might have crushed the rebellion at once. As it was, the Impis had fought so long and had committed so many murders that they felt there was nothing for them to do but to fight on. even although they found that what Mlimo told them was untrue. "One thing this priest guaranteed was to turn the bullets of the white men into water and that the natives should reign supreme at Buluwayo again. King Lobengula was to appear again in the government house of Mr, Rhodes, which had been built on the site of Lobenula's palace. For that reason the government house, although it was in the hands of the Kaffirs when Buluwayo was closely invested, was not fired upon or destroyed." Burnham is the hero of seven campaigns in Africa, and is probably the best known scout in Africa. He is one of the three survivors of the party of thirty-eight picked men who, under Major Wilson, advanced across the Shangani river in pursuit of Lobengula in December, 1893. The main body, under Major Forbes, was on the other side of the river, and when the patrol party found themselves surrounded by thousands of Lobengula's warriors Burnham and two others volunteered to make a dash through the enemy in the hope of reaching Forbes and telling him the situation. Although volley after volley was fired upon them, they forced their way through the bush, reached the river, and crossed it with difficulty, only to find that Forbes himself was sorely pressed. The river, meanwhile, had risen so rapidlv that it could not be crossed, and Wilson and his men were left to make the famous la-n stand, when all perished while they sang "God Save the Queen." SHRINKAGE IN WAGES. Decline oi 40 Per Cent, from the McKinley to the Present TarlfT. New York Tribune. Wilbur F. Wakeman, the general secretary of the American Protective Tariff League, has been conducting an investigation as to the difference In the condition of labor and wages in 1S92 and in 1S96, taking the month of July in each year for the purpose of comparison, because in July, 1SP2. the McKinley tariff had been In operation about two years, and in July, 1S9S. the Wilson-Gorman tariff had b9en In operation almost two years. Up to tha close of last week h- had received upward of 550 reports from employers in thirty-six different States who. in July. 1S92. afforded occupation for 114,231 hands, whereas the same concerns could only employ 7S.700 hands in July of this year. The amount of wages paid in Julv. 192, to the 114.231 hands aggregated $3,927,200. But the pay rolls for last July, after two years of the Democratic free-trade tariff, aggregated only J2.4C9.712. The monthly average rate of wages has declined from $34.50 to $31. amons: those who are at work. The number of idle hands, in about 550 establishments, was 35.531. The monthly loss of earnings to the wage earners was $1,457.4SS. The decrease In employment has exceeded' 30 oer cent. The decrease in wages earned has been 40 per cent. "There can be no claim that the comparison made is unfair," said Mr. Wakeman yesterday, "and the comparison shows the results of the Democratic free-trade tarifr. after two years' operation, as compared with the McKinley protective tariff two years after its enactment. Mr. Bryan, the free-trade candidate, doubtless will be glad to learn thus early the evil that he has accomplished for American labor by his advocacy of, and by his vote for. the Gorman tariff. He worked exceedinglv hard to secure the enactment of the original Wilson bili. which would have been far more disastrous." Cliioa ko'.i Tax Assessments. Harper's Weekly. The movement to abolish township organization in Cook county has at last aken definite shape, and It is settled that the question will be voted upon at the November election. To secure this test of public opinion it was necessary that onefifth of the legal voters of the county should petition the Board of Commissioners, and such a petition, with over 50.000 signatures, has Just been handed in. The question has, in accordance with the law. been ordered to be printed upon the official ballot and there can be little doubt that enough votes will be cast for the proposition to insure its acceptance. There are thirtv-three townships in the countv. of which number nine are wholly or pertly Included within the limits of Chicago. Of course, nearly all of the population and wealth of the county are found within the nine city townships. What a farce the ancient institution of the town meeting has become in one of these city townships may easily be imagined. The evil3 of this antiquated system are chiefly felt in the matter of taxation, and thirty-three independent assessors competing with each other for popular favor have brought things to such a pass that the property of the county is now officially valued at about one-fifteenth of what it is worth. There are also great inequalities in the assessment, and, as usually happens in such cases, the corporations and other large owners of real estate are not as heavily burdened as the humble artisan who owns nothing but hia bouse and lot. The assessment of personal property under this system has become a mere travesty. According to the returns, no diamonds are owned in gome of the towns, no watches cr no cows in others. The contemplated reform will at least result in something like uniformity of assessment, besides substituting a single set of officers for the numerous local bodies that now execute the law. There is naturally much opposition to the reform from these small office-holders, but public sentiment is so strongly in its favor" that the protests of a few noliticians are not likely to block a movement so obviously in the direction of economy and good government. 4. Suggestion Detroit Free Press. "There, sir," said the free-silver orator, "are arguments that you can't get over." "I ain't got the time ter try," said Elihu Geehaw thoughtfully. "I've got cider ter make an' cows ter milk, an' I'm jes' rushed ter death." "Well, you might as well make up your mind to it. The free silver dollar is bound to come." the confident promoter went on. "Tt's only a question of a year at most, till we're working overtime coining 'em at all the mints." "That's what I've heard." Mr. Geehaw answered without much enthusiasm. "But I've put in so much time trying tor see how we're going' ter keep them dollars from gittin' so common thet folks won't want 'em thet I re'ly hate ter git drawed Inter conversation on the subjeck. But cz long ez ye're so dead sure they're comin'. I don't reckon they's any use o' me havin' opinions, anyhow. Hev they drawed up the patterns yit?" "No, They haven't adopted any designs. For my part, I don't see why the style that we are used to isn't entirely satisfactory." "Wal, I dunno." "What changes would you suggest?" "I ain't got no fault ter find weth the likeness of the Goddess of Liberty nor weth that of the American eagle. But it do?s seem ter me it 'ud be a good idee ter use bigger letters when it comes ter puttin on the "In God We Trust.' " Qnestlon for Bryanltrit. New York World (Dem.) Can free coinage double the price of the farmer's products without increasing the cost of the worklngman's living? Will not paying the farmer's debts with half dollars cheat the creditor whose 10(!-cent dollars were loaned to him? Ill Parnose. Boston Transcript. Still Mr. Bryan persists in hi intention to visit Maine towards the cloae of this month. He wants to see the ruins.

BEES0N FOR M'KINLEY

SUM M IT V I LLE DEMOCRAT GIVES HIS REASON FOR CONVERSION. Progress of Campaign in Indiana All in One Direction, and that Toward Republican Victory. To the EMitor of the Indianapolis Journal: I noticed an article in your valuable paper this morning to the effect that I meant to support Major McKinley for the presidency this coming election and throughout the campaign instead of William J. Bryan. And, in justice to myself and for the benefit of my acquaintances throughout the State, I would say that my motives in so doing are purely patriotic; that my patriotism and the love of my country and her Institutions are more to me than my partisanship. The innovations proposed by the Populistic convention at Chicago, in my judgment, are too many and too great. They are the seed, if placed into law, that would jeopardize the safety cf our government. Our forefathers proposed that the provisions in our Constitution should be the guiding star of our future destinies. While it is true that that same instrument provides how changes In its provisions may be wrought, I am not at all certain that the deficiencies exist in that noble structure of human ingenuity that are set forth by the gentlemen in convention at Chicago. I do not think our liberties could receive a severer blow than, to make our courts of last resort subservient to an enraged populace. I am unalterably opposed to the monetary doctrines set forth in their platform. I think the system of unlimited coinage of silver would extend the panic that we are now experiencing for an indefinite period; that distrust and ruin would prevail; that many of our worthy business men would be forced into bankruptcy. And for what? That a few silver barons in the Rocky Mountains should have a bolsteredup and inflated market for their silver ore. And tho other class that would profit are those that would hoard the gold and sell it when it had reached a goodly premium. Gold coinage would cease; for who would be so foolish to have a dollar made of a metal worth one hundred cents when he could buy the metal for 50 cents that would make a piece of money that would pass as a dollar? The cheaper money would drive out the dearer, as it has always done, and we would pass to silver monometallism. Instead of having a greater volume of circulating medium, we would have infinitely less, for we now have about $600,000,000 of gold that would go to a premium and, consequently, out of circulation; and, as I have already stated, any further coinage of that metal would instantly stop. I believe, with an international agreerifcnt, wherein all the great powers would assist in sustaining. the value of silver, that we could have an unlimited coinage of the two metals at about the ratio prescribed by that most extraordinary assemblages at Chicago. And I believe we can have an unlimited coinage of the two metals within ourselves if we should adopt the correct ratio, which would be probably 1 to 28, for such a demand for silver in this country would make the product worth some more than at present. But to do this we would be obliged to recoin all the silver money we have, at a vast expense to the government, and who would stand the loss in the recoinage on the new basis? And, hesides, there is the inconvenience to the person who would be so lucky (or unlucky) as to get the new dollar, for the size of it would be something like that of a saucer. Nor would this suit those Rocky Mountain fellows, for they are bent upon dishonesty. They want a market for their product, and they want that market very bad. They want the use of the government mints until they can coin the Rocky Mountains into big, shiny silver daddy dollars, without expense or inconvenience 1o themselves. Yes, you may count upon me and Indiana for McKinley. WM. S. BEESON. Summitville, Ind., Sept. 21. NEWTON COUNTY RALLY. Mr. Monnt Was 111, Lut Grifllth and Hno-jgard Made Speeches. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. KENTLAND, Ind.. Sept. 21. The first Republican rally for Newton county was held at this place to-day and over five thousand people were present. Delegations from ail parts of the county were here, and by 10 o'clock the streets were crowded with brass bands, martial bands, marching clubs, ladies' campaign clubs and a score or more of glee clubs. Hon. James A. Mount was billed to speak in the afternoon, but owing to illness his place was filled by Colonel William Haggard, of Lafavette. who entertained the immense crowd in Court Park. His speech was logical and his presentation of the money question convincing. He was followed by Hon. John L. Griffiths, of Indianapolis, who made a stirring address. His wit and eloquence fairly captured the multitude, and every point was received with an outbreak of applause. At the close of his speech he was fairlv carried from the rostrum by the enthusiastic crowd, and. under a constant fire of requests, consented to speak in the evening, at which time the Hon. Charles S. Remy vas also billed. Both men made strong talks and the city was wild with Republican enthusiasm. Sonnd-Money Sentiment Growlnsr. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Sept. 21. WJthin the past two weeks a very preceptibi change has come over the political situation In Allen county. It is a change which augurs well for the success of tho sound-money ticket. Many Ft. Wayne people have spent the summer across the sea, and all of the Democrats among them have returned Republicans and are now working for the election of McKinley and Republican Congressman Leighty. Among these is A. E. C. Becker, a praminent German and drygoods merchant, who ys the foreign factories and mills are working day and night making' goods for American consumption. The owners praise Bryan and curse "old McKinley," as he is called over there. They are writing to their friends and relatives in this country to support the fre-e-silvcr ticket, for the election of McKinley means a loss of business to German manufacturers. Another is Frank Fee, a successful lumber dealer. He has always been a reliable Democrat, never known to have changed his ppots, and he writes that as soon as he reaches home he will take off his coat for McKinley and sound money. Ho saw enough in England to teach him that duty to his country told him to work for Republican success. Others are Louis Fox, owner of the Fox Baking Company, and John Mohr, cashier Hamilton National Bank. There is also great dissatisfaction among the German Democrats. At least 75 per cent, will vote for sound money. They openly declare they will not support Robinson, the free-silver congressional candidate, but will vote for Leiffhty. because he stands for sound money. Leighty has also made many friends by the stand he took in supporting Mr. Cleveland when he vetoed the river and harbor bill, and in the contested election cases he took the side of justice, whether the -contestant were Democrat or Republican, and voteci tp seat the Democrats where it was clearly shown they were entitled to the seat. John S. Duncan Cnnght the Crowd. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 21. Hon. John S. Duncan, of Indianapolis, addressed, perhaps, 7,000 people at th? rolling-mill annex to-night. The reception a.ecorder the speaker was very enthusiastic. On his arrival he was driven to R. L. Keith's residence for supper, after which the Uniformed McKinley Guards and Brazil band escorted him, to the annex. The uarade was over a quarter of a mile long. Many farmers came to town during tne day and were the first to occupy seats, near the speaker's stand. Mr. Duncan made t speech which took well with the crowd, hia points being frequently cheered. Lncliy Chendle Wasn't There. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ZIONSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 21. Had Joseph B. Cheadle been In Zlonsville this afternoon he might have been threatened with heart failure. About ten days ago he made a free-silver speech here and his reception was S' chilly it caused much comment. The soldiers,, who had heard that he had promised to lead them into the freesilver Democratic camp, gave him the marble hesrt," one of the most prominent informing him that net a single one of the sixty-three Republican membera of the post would vote for hira. This afternoon

Charles B. Land is. Republican candidate for Congress, spoke in the hall at the para. The members of the Grand Army met at their post room and, headed by the band, escorted Mr. Landis to the hall. Other Republicans fell in line and the procession was the largest seen here in a political campaign in recent years. The greatest enthusiasm was displayed. Every day there is unmistakable evidence In this district that the Democrats propose to teach their own party manipulators a lesson In the matter of taking up with renegades. It is freely predicted that Cheadle will lose from five to twenty Democratic votes la every township in the district. Henry V. Johnson at Nevr Palestine. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GREENFIELD. Ind.. Sept. 21.-Congress-rr.an Henry LT. Johnson opened his campaign In Hancock county to-day at New Palestine to an audience of over 700. Th stand was decorated with golden rod, flags and lithographs of Harrison, McKinley and Hobart. Music was furnished by the Bed Men's Band, of this city, and the Carrollton Drum Corps. Mr. Johnson made a two hours' speech chock full of arguments and facts that carried Conviction with them. Sugar Creek township will show a large gain for sound money. Many successful German farmers, who do not want to see the money of America Mexicnnlzed and debts paid with CO-cent dollars, live in that part of the county. The Democratic committeeman of New Palestine precinct has come out for McKinlev and has MeKinlcy's picture in his window, and there irt other converts.

Glass Plant to lie Hebnllt. - Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 21.-The Pennsylvania Glass Company held a meeting In this city to-day and decided to rebuild tha big Meridian flint-glass works, which were destroyed by fire Saturday night. There was insurance of $41,000 on the plant, and the pots were not injured by the fire. The rebuilding will begin as soon as the insurance can be adjusted. The company has many orders booked for campaign novelties, and as these must be got out at once they will push the reconstruction of tlm blowing house as fast as possible. It In thought that they will be able to put the blowers to work in twenty days. Temporary finishing departments will bo made so the product can be shipped. The company has several flattering offers from Eastern towns for the location of the plant, but will remain here. Watson's Rally nt AVIlklnson. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . WILKINSON, Ind., Sept. 21. This afternoon was a red-letter day ' for this town and vicinity. At noon a delegation came in headed by the Eden Cornet Band. Later on a bicycle delegation came from Pendleton and o large delegation from Knightstown and with it J. O- Addison's cornet band and a McKinley club on bicycles, led by a drum corps; also delegations from Warrington. Eden. Markleville, Shelby, Kennard. Greensboro, Willow Branch and Maxwell were present. About 2 o'clock the crowd assembled at the railroad park, near the depot. Hon. James E. Watson, of Rushville, wks introduced and spoke to an audience of fully 1.000 people. Elder D. H. Gary, of New Castle, Introduced Mr. Watson and presided at the meeting. Elnood Jews Indignant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD. Ind.. Sept. 21. The Jews of this city are greatly incensed over the utterances of candidate Shively. for Governor, on the Democratic ticket. Henry Jordon, one of the most conservative Jews of this city, stated to-day in an interview that the utterance of Shively would cost him at least two-thirds of the entire Jewish Democrat vote, of the State arrd that not one of the conservative Jewish business men could support a man who would stoop te making personal attacks on the race. Other Jews who were interviewed expressed similar opinions and it is learned that there is not one of that race in this city who will support Bryan or Shively at the coming election. Spooner ut Van Dnreni Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MARION. Ind., Sept. 21. Samuel H. Spooner, of Indianapolis, was 'the speaker at one of the largest meetings of the present campaign in this county to-day. He spoke at Van Buren, a small town in the oil regions twelve miles from this city. There were nearly two thousand people to hear him, nearly all of whom were farmers. Next Thursday Albert J. Beverldge. of Indianapolis, will speak in this city, and the meeting will be the occasion of one of the largest rallies ever held in Grant county. After the meeting a special train will leave for Canton to visit McKinley. C. C. Lyons at Liherty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LIBERTY, Ind., Sept. 21. The opera house here was crowded to the doors Saturday evening to listen to the former Democrat from Fuirmount, C. C. Lyons, make a telling speech in behalf of McKinley and sound money. An alarm of fir outside , disturbed the audience once, but few loft. Many Democrats were present. The Rushville McKinley Quartet and the Liberty McKinley Glee Club enlivened the meeting with songs. Hon. Thomas D. Evans pre sided and made an introductory speech. The audience gave three cheers for McKinley before leaving. Majority of D mi Wards for McKinley. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 21. L. S. Aldridge, George Widcner and a dozen or more well-known Dunkards of this county, who have noticed the claims made by Popocrats that all of the Dunkards In the Nation would vote for Bryan, called on newspapers in this city to-day and made a denial. They say that some will vote for Bryan, but the majority are for McKinley. They say that the church has nothing whatever to do with their voting, and, as men of other churches, they win vote for their favorites. McKinley Wheelmen's Club. Speclr.l to the Indianapolis Journal. MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 21. The McKinley and Hobart Wheelmen's Club of Muncie was organised to-night with 111 charter members, and the following officers were elected: President. A. E. Lyman; vice president. F. It. Benton; secretary, Albert Sheeler; treasurer. L. L. Case; captain, F. L. Wachtell. Hon. Charles L. Henry was present and addressed the new club briefly. To-morrow night the club will escort John B. Cockrum to the courthouse, where he will make a speech. Chairman Pierce Resian". Special to the Indianapolis Journal. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Sept. 21. Thomas M. Pierce, chairman of the Republican county central committee, tent in his resignation to the committee at their meeting Saturday sfternoon. Mr. Pierce has been in noor health for seveml weeks and was unable to continue in a vigorous campaign. Mayor A. F. Tinsley was named as his successor and the choice of the committee meets with the hearty approval of all the party throughout the county. Indiana Campaign Notes. Hon. James Dodge, of Elkhart, made a Republican tour of Fountain county last week, speaking at Yeddo and Veedersburg. A McKinley club w; a organized at Clayton Saturday night and consists of over one hundred members. The meeting was addressed by E. G. Hogate, of Danville, candidate for Joint Senator. The West-side McKinley Club was organized last night at 505 West Washington street, with one hundred members. The officers are: President, Charles Milam, vice president. Harry Bryant: secretary, I E. Jones; captain, W. Blalsdell; lieutenant, Thomas Simpson. Charles W. Fairbanks addressed th largest and most enthusiastic meeting at Mlddletown Saturday night. Preceded by a band the McKinley Club marched to th home of Mr. George A. LaMghUn. whosa guest Mr. Fairbanks was. nit-t racorted him to the operahou.se. The torchlight parade was a big success and the meeting was a triumph. The Irondile Glee Club furnished music. The Atlanta Republican Club met at th Atlanta tin-plate factory Saturday night and was addressed on the money question by E. T. Steckel. agent for the L. E. fc W. Railroad Company at that place. It was Mr. Steckel's first political speech and his logical sound-money argument were well received. T. J. Bishop, of Arcadia, also made a speech. Musli was furnished by the Atlanta Tin-plate Band, the Arcadia Drum Corps and the Arcadia Glee Club. An Earl's Brother In Trouble. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Sept. 21.-The PostDispatch this afternoon says that Dr. 11. W. Dunraven, whd states that he la a member of Parliament and brother of th Earl of Dunraven. ended a carousal last night in the central police stfition. whera he was taken after being badly beaten up in a house of questionable repute, in which he had a fracas with the tnmutt'K. iff was bailt'd out and appeared In the Police Court long enousrh this morning to have hij case continued until Sept. 21.