Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 September 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1S98.

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It. Hawley & Co., 1M vine street. t ni: ifii'iT.T.ff z1 t rerinsr. northwest corner of Third and Jefferson streets, and LouisvlHj Book Co., 336 Fourth avenue. BT. LOUIS Union News Company. Union Depot. "WASHINGTON, t. C Rtggs House, Ebbltt House, WlUarA's Hotel and the Washington News Exchange, Fourteenth street, between Penn. avenue and F street. "Let It be understood that no pepudiator of one farthing of our public debt can be trusted with a public-place." So spoke 'Peneral Grant. The sound-money Democratic organization seems to be as strong In the new (State of "Washington as In States in the . t XT . This country does not need cheap money teo much as It doe a market the home rnarKei mrougn proireuuu micisu ket through reciprocity. 1 ' Those who are familiar with the candidates on the Marion county Republican ticket, as now completed, cannot say that organized labor has not been most liberally Considered. ' Prince Bismarck favors protection and the gold standard for Germany, but he is rwilling the United States should try free trade and free silver If it wants to. Thanks, Prince. -- i Mr. Bryan is fond of saying that reforms never come from above and never work downward; yet his cheap-money reform proposes to work from one-hundred-cent dollars down to 50 cents. A government which Would stamp 50 cents' worth of silver for every one having ; silver bullion In quantities of $100 should be lenient with counterfeiters who put more or less silver in their coins. At the present time 612 of the township trustees are Republicans, and 374 are Democrats. Four years ago the Democrats had more than two to one. The township trustee Is the election judge in the precinct in which he resides. - The,' Sentinel has been "confidentially" inform! that a public speaker intended to ihnrro that it had aceeDted a bribe of $23,000 to support Bryan. This is doubtless a typographical error $25 was probably the sum the speaker intended to name. A Harrison county Popocrat justifies himself in voting the Democratic ticket for the last thirty years because during the war the Republicans suspended the writ of 'Corpus Christl." Harrison county Democracy is of the rock-ribbed kind. I. 1 ' While Mr. Bryan and his organ are constantly appealing to us to make ourselves Independent of Great Britain they parade In big type any expression of a foreigner which jan be twisted to mean an opinion In favor of the mine owners scheme. Major McKinley gave a new turn to an old idea when he said, in one of his speeches n Saturday, "The American people are not fooled but once on a subject." They were fooled on the tariff question in 1892, and they have not forgotten who fooled them. Rev. Dr. Pa.khurst. the New York reformer, is a Democrat, but he is not a Bryanite. "I hear," said the Doctor, "that Mr. Bryan quotes the Bible as an authority for free silver. He will find no warrant in the Bible for a man to pay back fifty-three cents where he gets a dollar." The Chicago Times-Herald will not say that President Ingalls in his speech in that city "eclipsed the splendid orations of Mr. Schurz and Mr. Cockran. but in argument, in force, in precision he rose to a very high level." Mr. Ingalls would be greeted by an Immense audience in this city. George Fred Williams is many times too small to play the part of the late General Butler in Massachusetts. The General resorted to sensationalism to carry out his plans, but Williams puts them up from pure delight of seeing his name In the headlines of the Boston papers. The farmers of the United States now produce scarcely one-third of the wool consumed by the people. They ought to produce all we consume, and under proper protection would do so, and every acre devoted to sheep husbandry would be an acre withdrawn from competition In other lines of agriculture, s The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, at the national convention at Cleveland, voted to increase the salary of the president of the organization. This teems to be a step in the right direction. The man who has the ability to conduct yjne of those large organizations can command .a good salary. Mere self-interest is not the highest motive of action in a republic, but when a majority of voters decide, each for himself, " that their interests will be promoted by voting for a certain party and candidate, that means the greatest good to the greatest number. That is what Republican success thl year will mean. The Plymouth Republican reports Mr. flilson as saying in his speeches in that county that there has not been a silver dollar coined in 1896. M". Kellisen ought to know better, and could if he desired to inform . bimself. There have been more BUndfeVd silver, dollars coined In 1SM than there were during the entire period from abe establishment of th; mint to 1873. They are being coined now at the rate of about .C;3cC0tt- month. Any peraoa who wants

silver dollars of 1S! can get bushels of them in exchange for other money at the Treasury Department." CROWDS XOT VOTES.

On Saturday Mr. Bryan was in Bath, Me., the home of Mr. Sewall. There was an immense ovation. Such crowds the shipbuilding city never saw, and, if the press agent tell the truth, the conservative people of one of the most conservative towns in New England were fairly beside themselves with Bryan enthusiasm. And yet Bath, the native place and residence of the capitalist and national banker who is the really favored by Mr. Bryan of his two running mates, would to-morrow vote as it did the second Monday of September. In other words, Bath would give a Republican majority three times greater than the Bryan vote. We are all alike, the East and the West. We run to see a novelty, and those who shout shout so loudly that all appear to be shouting. 'It will be different when they come to vote in the West, as it has been in Maine. Voting is business; running to see Bryan is a rare excitement which comes at long intervals. It came In 1800, when the really great Douglas toured the country, having a cause and reputation as a statesman. The opportunity came again in 1872, when Horace Greeley, one of the best-known men in the country, starred the land as the candidate of an alleged wing of the Republican and the whole Democratic party. People fell over each other in crowds to get a sight of him and to listen to his strange statements in high treble. Never were presidential candidates so beaten in electoral votes as were Douglas and Greeley, both of whom were , great men with a personal following. Crowds which became mobs headed the entrance of General Butler into Chicago when he went as candidate and delegate in 1884 to the convention when Mr. Cleveland was nominated. When election came, as the people's candidate, he was a poor third, even in Massachusetts, where he had been elected Governor two years earlier by the Democratic party. Denis Kearney, in 1878, w as greeted in the East by mcfct enthusiastic crowds, to whom he denounced the rich and urged the poor to rally to defend their rights, much as. Mr. Bryan is doing. The elections a few months later did not show any trace of the revolt which Kearney urged hundreds of thousands to make. So this year the American people who flock to hear Mr. Bryan will not be led to vote for him unless he does something better than to advocate war between employer and employe, between borrowers and lenders, and to take the risks of a general panic simply to put the silver miners trust in ccirtrol of the government. WHICH SHALL. BE CHOSEXf The Bryanites are demanding a restoration of the conditions of 1S72. What were those conditions? The average premium for gold during the year was 112.4. The average ot wages was $1.62, paid In dollars worth 87.6 cents, or less than $1.43. The country had a total stock of money of $737,000,000 worth 87.6 cents on the dollar. The rates of interest on all outstanding government bonds were 5 and 6 per cent., from 8 to 12 per cent, to the people on business paper and from 12 to 15 on mortgages. The wealth of the country in 1870 was $24,000,000,000, with an aggregate indebtedness of over 40 per cent, of that sum. A few over 2,000,000 men and women were employed In manufactures. The clothing which was purchased in 1870 for $1.39 could have been purchased in 1S92 for 82.4 cents. There was not a silver dollar in circulation, and only about eight millions of such dollars had been coined to that date. The McKinleyites point to the year 1S90 or 1S92 as the golden era of prosperity to which they would return. At that time gold, silver and paper were all at parity; the actual interest on government bonds ranged from 2 to 3 per cent, and from 5 to 7 per cent, to the people, with an average less than 8 per cent, on mortgages throughout the country. The total stock of money, Including that in the treasury, was in 1892 $1,8S4,000,000. The total wealth of the country was $65,000,000,000, with aggregate debts less than 30 per cent. In 1S90 4,700,000 people were employed in manufactures at wages averaging $4S3 a year in gold value. The average day's wages was the highest ever paid in the world, and the day's wages of 1890 would purchase nearly a third more than those of 1870. Which general prosperity for all the people is preferred that which is the desire of the silver mine owners and their followers and dupes or that which came to the country as the result of years of a Republican fiscal policy," and which it is the policy of the same party to restore? MORE TROUBLE FOR THE POPOCR ATS. There is more trouble for the Popocrats. The elements seem to have combined against them, and the stars in their course, even the negro minstrel stars, are fighting them. At least the local Popocrat organ says so. It was bad enough when . wicked correspondents conspired to make the organ print Munchausen stories concerning the growth of free-silver clubs. It was very discouraging when railroad men allowed themselves - be coerced by thousands Into Ljoining sound-money and McKinley clubs. But if the negro minstrels are going to fight Mr. Bryan his case is desperate. He is in the traveling show business himself, and ought not to be subjected to an attack in the rear while he is fighting the enemy in front. The local Popocrat organ yesterday said editorially: If Primrose and West's minstrels are not In the uav of Mark Hanna and the Republican managers th?y should instruct their end men to sandwich their humor with an occasional pleasant reference to Mr. Ervnn. Some of their "jokes" were positive insults to the national Democratic candidate and otrrers were pointless, but none the less insulting. End man Wilson referred to McKinley as one who was wanted because he could put money in the treasury. It is not supposed that minstrels are "up to date" on current politics, but such "jokes" cf the Wilson standard are positively poverty-stricken in their attempts at humor. One of the managers of the concern remarked to the Sentinel representative to wait and hear something pleasant about Mr. Bryan. It was then 9:10 d. m. and three references to the candidates had been made and all of them were miserably attenuated attempts at wit and humor and more or less Insulting to Democrats. Now. the JournafIs not an expert in what constitutes negro minstrel humor, and would not for a moment undertake to sit in judgment on their jokes, but on humanitarian grounds it would have no hesitation In saying that in dealing with politics they ousht to "sandwich their humor with an occasional pleasant reference to Mr. Bryan." Of course, it is the business of minstrels to make people applaud, and when they find that depreciating references to a candidate take better and elicit more applause than complimentary ones, they are very apt to give the people what they want. But something is due to professional courtesy, and they should remember that besides being- in the U-.eli!i show-

business himself Mr. Bryan is the under dog in the fight and entitled to some consideration at their hands on that account. It would not do them any harm to say something pleasant about him, and might help to lighten his weight of woe after the 3d of November. For instance, the end man might ask, "Why is Mr. Bryan like the proprietor of this great combination?" The answer would be, "Because he has a show." So far as Mr. Bryan is concerned this would be a complimentary reply, and yet its manifest absurdity would create a laugh, which is what the minstrels want. Or they might ask. "Why is Mr. Bryan like the Mississippi river?" the answer being "Because he flows on forever and is greatest at his mouth." This would be a pleasant reference to the most prominent feature-in Mr. Bryan's face and to the gift on which he most pr:de3 himself. The m'nstrels ought to try and work in a few pleasant little things of this kind to please the minority. It won't do to be too hard on the Boy Orator. ' SAMPLE SILVER LIES.

Editor Shanklin delivered a speech recently at Seymour, Ind. in which he said: Why, my countrymen, if all the silver "in the world were dumped at our doors and coined into dollars it would only incwaBe the per capita circulation of our 0,000,OW people one dollar. How many in this audience would be particularly burdened by an addition ot one dollar to their present capital? . Mr. Shanklin is evidently, anxious to do his share towards maintaining the reputa tion of the free-silveri tes for recklessness o statement. The Seymour Journal having disputed the statement, a Populist of that town who pinned his faith to Shanklin wrote to him for confirmation of it. The latter's reply was printed in the Populist organ at Seymour. He said: The last statistical information is that s;nce the demonetization of silver the world's product of that metal has been declining, and for the last two or three years reported it was only about seventy million. What 1 said was that if the entire supply of silver now being mined were dumped here it would only increase the volume of our currency a little more than one dollar annually. I have not the time to cite you the references, but this statement is absolutely reliable. If your Republican, friends can controvert it they should do so and furnish their authorities. Mr. Shanklin probably got his last "statistical information" from Professor "Coin" or candidate Bryan. It is about as nearly correct and "absolutely reliable" as most of their pretended statements of fact. Instead of the world's product of silver having decreased since the so-called demonetization of silver in 1873, it has largely increased. During the five years from 1S56 to 1870, inclusive, the world's production, as shown by a statement in the last report of the Director of the Mint, was 215,257,914 ounces; from 1871 to 1875 it was 316,585,069 ounces; from 1S76 to 1880 it was 393,878.009 ounces; from 1881 to 1885 it was 460,019,722 ounces; fron 1886 to 1890 it was 544,557,155 ounces, and during the four years from 1891 to 1894, inclusive, it was 624,167.289 ounces. These figures show a steady and great increase in the production of silver for the last thirty years. Mr; Shanklin's statement that for the last two or three years reported it was only about 70,000,000 ounces Is grossly incorrect. The statement that "if the entire supply of silver now being mined were dumped here it would increase the volume, of our currency a little more than one dollar annually" is equally wild. The coining value of the world's product of silver in 1894 was $216,892,200, and that of 1893 was $214,715,:i00, more than three dollars per capita for our population in each year. It' is by such grossly erroneous or willfully false statements as these that freesilverites of the "Coin" school are trying to fool the people into voting for Bryanism. The name of Hon. Charies L. Jewett is very familiar to Indiana Democrats by reason of his chairmanship of the State central committee during two campaigns. He has long been recognized as a man of ability and honor. When such a man denounces the action of his party and repudiates the fraudulent platform it has put forth, Ids reasons for doing so should command attention. Mr. Jewett's speech at Columbus Saturday night was a bugle call for all Democrats who place the honor and prosperity of the country above mere party fealty to vote for McKinley. The closing paragraph of his speech will bear rereading. He said: To my mind the future prosperity of this great Nation will be most surely reached by a system of sound money, a tariff sufficient to produce revenue adjusted m tne interest of our own citizens, and a vigorous foreign policy, which shall make reciprocal trade not only an advantage to us. but a necessity to all our neighbors upon the American continent and iimonff the Western seas. Such a policy will carry the flag and the commerce of our country around the world. All honor to the Republican party in that it now stands for all these things. It made great sacrifices to do so. It sacrificed the support of States rather than retain them at a price which it scorned to pay. Laying aside old quarrels forgetting old differences and coming with unbiased minds to a consideration of present emergencies, it must be admitted by candid men that, either from choice or through force of circumstances, the RepuDliean party to-day struggles for the best interests of the American people. Its platform is distinctly right upon the questions that are now agitating the public mind. Its candidates manfully accept that platform in all Its integrity and stand to-day for that which is most laudable In politics most conducive to the public peace, and the preservation of the public honor. At least I believe these things, and so believing, give to this party my vote and cheerful support. I do not overlook the tremendous price which every man pays who prefers h's country to his party, and who allows his patriotism to come between him and his former political associations. It rneans that he must abandon all hope of political preferment, anu forever lay his ambition upon the altar of his country. Those who are not willing to make such a sacrifice may follow their own course; I have chosen mine. Believing that so long as present conditions exist it is the duty of every patriotic man to support the Republican party and its candidates, I will do so cneerf ully and without the slightest regard to personal consequences. May you do likewise We will march to the music of the Union, and our high purpose shall be one country and one Hag, now and torever. The following appeared in our highly esteemed and much-persecuted contemporary, the Sentinel, yesterday, under the caption, "Arrest Him Promptly:" The following will explain Itself very P'l-OLUMBUS. Ind.. Sept. 26. Confidential.! send the Sentinel this messenger, who will inform it that the Sentinel will be charged to-night in a public speech with having not only been offered, but having received $25,000 to advocate Mr. Bryan's election." The Sentinel's answer: Indianapolis, Sept. 26. To the Herald, Columbus. Ind.: We have heard confidentially that the Sentinel will be charged to-night in a public speech with having been bribed by accept-in-an offer of $25,000 to advocate Mr. Bryants election. If this charge is made, arrest the speaker for libel immediately. This seems to point to another diabolical plot. The persons who have caused this incendiary rumor to be Started are doubtless the same ones who originated the reports concerning the Ri&ing Sun Freesilver Club. It is evidently the intention of these bad citizens to bring the free-silver organ, and Incidentally the cause it advocates. Into contempt. The idea that it could be bought with the paltry sum of $25,000 to advocate the election of any other than a Simon-pure Democrat of the Jcffersonian-Jackson

school Is preposterous and Insulting. If the libeler had said $250,000, his story might have got some credence, but $25,000 arrest him on the spot! This is the way the Vicksburg Post goes for the Popocrat platform and candidate: Mr. Bryan has many peculiar ideas of government, and among them may be included this fantastic notion of the basis upon which the federal judiciary should be placed,, He. has practiced elocution instead of law, and has studied Cicero's orations instead of "Story's Commentaries on the Federal Constitution." Mr. Bryan's conception of the American form of government is crude in the extreme. On the one hand he denies the power of the national government to pro

tect its mail service and to maintain ana preserve commerce between the States, while on the other hand he would arm the government with new. untried and autocratic powers for carrying out the schemes of the Populists, and would reconstruct the whole basis of the federal Judiciary in order to sustain such powers. With the national government owning all the railroads and telegraph lines, regulating the wages and relations -between employers and employes, with a subservient federal judiciary, from the Supreme Court judges down to circuit and district judges, ready to carry out by judicial decrees the will of the majority that elected them, instead of giving a fearless and independent interpretation and administration of the laws, there would be a system of tyranny, oppression, robbery and rottenness that has never been witnessed in the history of civilized governments. The platform makes all the demands, and Mr. Bryan has repeatedly said: "I indorse everything in the platform." The large body of intelligent men who find employment with the railroads, and who are now, as a matter of interest, organized to support a sound currency, must feel complimented by those orators and organs which are constantly asserting that secretly they belong to clubs In which they are pledged to vote for Mr. Bryan. There is not an efficient man in the employ of a railroad who does not know that he is at liberty tovote as he chooses, and that by so doing he does not put his employment in jeopardy. In view of the action of the great mass of the railroad men and of their entire freedom to vote as they choose, the constant reiteration of this insult to the manhood of thousands of the most intelligent wage-earners in the country comes very near being an outrage. The Liouisvlle Commercial publishes an interview with a resident of that city, a skilled mechanic, who has just returned from a stay of eleven months in Eng land, where he saw much of the working people. He says: " The people of England never were better off and never had more money than they have at the present time. I was in England eleven months this time, and 1 know that the mechanics and factory hands live well. Out of the entire number less than 3 per cent, are unemployed, and there is work for all who will work. Of course, our present tariff law has been a great advantage, to' England, but It Is evident the people there are not suffering from a gold standard. As they have had it for three-quarters of a century it is about time for the suffering to begin if it is inherent in that cause.i- - , The Hendricks' County Republican prints a letter received by a citizen of Danville from a friend who is postmaster at Cedar Rapids, Neb. Tho writer, says: I will give you some of my reasons for my belief that McKinley will carry Nebraska. Five out of six commercial travelers that come to this town assert that from traveling over the State they find MeKiniey's friends in the. lead. Personally I think I can say I am fairly well acquainted over the State, having been commander of the Indiana. Veteran Association of Nebraska for two years, and I find two out of every, three veterans in favor of Comrade McKimey. I find about two-thirds of th-? business men of towns and cities in favor " of McKinley and prosperity. 1 find in a. great many places a majority of farmers in favor of McKinley. I find that Republicans are at work to show that Mr. Bryan is advocating that which at its best t's but an experiment that may cost too much. So far as I know most of the straight Democrats will vote for McKinley. One of the stock statements of Mr. Bryan is that if this Nation of 70,000,000 people establishes the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 it wilt' at-once raise the price of silver to par, or from 65 cents to $1.29 an ounce. President Ingalls, in his Chicago speech, disposed of the Bryan assumption with a single fact from history. The Latin Union, 71,000,000 strong, composed of peoples using nearly, double the money now In use, at a time when the annual output of the mines was far less than the present yield, utterly failed to maintain the parity of gold and silver When the commercial value of the two metals was only 17 to 1. In view of such experience the Bryan reiteration is absurd.. One sentence in President M. E. Ingalls's speech at Chicago should cause workingmen to do some hard thinking. "For twentyfive years," he said, ' you have toiled and worked in order to get your wages advanced to where they are now, and, in one day, if this scheme succeeds on the 3d of November, you reduce your wages anywhere from 50 to 25 per cent." A workingman who votes for free silver votes to undo what h.s been accomplished by organized labor In twenty-five years. The story to the effect that Governor Matthews Ignored General Harrison at the ceremonies incident to the presentation of a silver service to the battleship Indiana, was not started by the friends of the latter, so that It did not seem incumbent on them to deny it. As the story is being repeated in many papers in the State, it is due to Governor Matthews to say that friends of General Harrison who were present declare there is no foundation for it. Doubtless, If he had time, Mr. Overstreet would be delighted to discuss with Mr. Woollen thfcir differences relative to the tariff. But, as Mr. Woollen's people would keep this issue in the background, he can oblige Mr. Cooper, who was around soon after his nomination with a joint-debate chip on his shoulder. A half-dozen bouts of ten minutes each between any bright man like Mr. Woollen and any very re markable candidate like Mr. Cooper would . . . . 1 1 i XI test tne capacity or any naii m me tuj. The Vlncennes Commercial publishes an interview with Cyrus A. Smith, a former resident of that city and for several years past connected with a firm of manufacturing chemists in the East that does business all over the world. Like all intelligent business men, Mr. Smith is strongly opposed to the free coinage of silver. As to its effect on manufacturing interests, he said: If Mr. Bryan is elected and attempts to carry out, in toto or in part, the platform a adopted at Chicago the manufacturer v ill simply be pushed to the wall. No other result can reasonably be conceived. It is. perhars, not generally known that all manufacturers (and I except none) do business on borrowed capital. At the end of a current year the manufacturers either divide the accrued profit among the stockholders, or by a majority vote of said stockholders. anply the profits toward extending their operations, increasing the number of employes, erecting new buildings, adding mor maehinerv and otherwise enlarging their plant. A'fter the policy for the ensuing year is Planned the banks are called upon to furnish funds at a small rate of interest for tho operations of the next year. Now note, if you please, the ularming condition a manufacturer must face if suddenly and unexpectedly the banks close down upon him and refuse to furnish funds, no matter If security presented represent ten to one. W find him with accumulated as

sets, represented by abundant . stock on hand, valuable assets of ail kinds, but no cash with which to further conduct opera tions or pay his laborers. Such is the de plcrable condition of hundreds of manufacturers throughout the country to-day, and all for lack of that confidence which shoula prevail, but which is now so prostrated by the many threats embodied in the. Chicago platform. Every line of business has been, and must continue to be, conducted upon what might be termed a co-operatiVe or mutual plan between consumer, retailer, jobber, manufacturer and national banks. One must depend upon and favor the other. Your local merchant can accommodate you with credit if he can be assured of similar favors from his jobber. The jobber can ac commodate the retailer if, in turn, he enjoys extended credit from the manufacturer, kind right here is where we strike the stone wall, unless unbounded cor.'idence exists, for the manufacturer cannot possibly carry his jobber unless the banks will accept the manufacturer's paper (which unfortunately is not the case under presem threatened debasement cf our currency.)

The Ligonier, Ind., Leader prints the following letter, written to a firm doing business at Cromwell. Noble county, by the Waite & Barnes Furniture Company, of Slurgis, Mich.: Gentlemen Agreeable to promise, we write you concerning lumber contract. We have decided that we cannot place any contracts of any kind under existing circumstances. This free-silver agitation has destroyed what little business the.Democrats. by their free-trade legislation, had left us, and It is not good business policj' to go further on uncertainties. Our factories here are all closed down, for the first time in the history of the town. I do nol know what your politics are, and my only excuse is my earnestness and sincerity In the matter. McKlnley's election by a big -majority-will restore confidence so sadly lacking, and if we have a Republican House and Senate, with protection and reciprocity, you will see a repetition of the good times that were experienced under the McKinley tariff law. BUBBLES IX THE AIR. A Perfect Geiitlemnn!'V Tommy Paw, can a man be a . perfect gentleman and refuse to pay his debts? Mr. Figg Not his poker debts. Politeness In Cheap. "Politeness is the cheapest thing there, is for its intrinsic value." "Yes. "That is the reason it is used. That is why people put 'I am your obedient servant' at the end of a letter, where it costs nothing, and don't put it at the end of a telegram." 5,v The Insolence of Wealth. "If you would spend a nickel for a cake of soap," said the sarcastic citizen, "it would be the best investment you could make." "Soap? Soap?" retorted Dismal Dawson, in bitter scorn. "W'y don't you ask me to blow me dough fer a grand pianner or some other kind of luxury? Every cent counts with me." Strictly Rasincss. "I shall need not less than $5,000 for costumes," said the star. "You don't get it," said the manager with the directness of his kind. i am going to spend three thousand on your dress, and I've got a genuine count who is willing to marry you for another thousand. There is your advertisement, and I save a thousand bones, see?" IXDIAXA' NEWSPAPER OPIXIOX. No nation has ever prospered by debasing its currency. Greensburg Standard. The silver men now say our present dollar is a 2W-cent dollar. There may be twenty units in ten yet. Knightstown Sun. The difference between two men is: Bryan is hunting the people, while the people are hunting' for McKinley. Plainfield Progress. That old, original and wise Democrat, Andrew Jackson, said: "Plant the factory near the farm." That's McKinleyism. Angola Magnet. The certainty of McKlnley's election is causing the business and industrial situations to wear a more cheering aspect. Muncie News. It is difficult to decide whether Senator Tillman or candidate Bryan is doing the most good for the cause of sound money. Muncie News. Leave the dollar as it is and give us the prosperity we had with that dollar under the administration of Benjamin Harrison. Delphi Journal. It is folly to argue with workmen who are out of employment that protection is of no value to them. They know better. Anderson Herald. The honest American citizen scorns with contempt the proposition to embrace a doctrine whose principal element is repudiation. Bloomfield News. The free-silver people have howled themselves out, and as noise is the only thing in the silver movement it is getting rather flat. Petersburg Press. What the country wants is not a larger use of silver, but a restoration of confidence, something that will start the wheels of business. Sullivan Union. Candidate Shively put his foot in it at Peru4, and every time he attempts to make an explanation he plunges still further into the mire. Lafayette Courier, j Free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 means prosperity for the mine owner and poverty for the toiling masses. Covington Republican. The larger the majority for McKinley is, the more certain the everlasting end of the free-silver talk. This is the year to end the craze once for ali. Liberty Herald. While our Democratic and Populist friends are demanding more money,, there seems to be an abundance cf it to wager that McKinley will be elected. Worthington times. It is the mills and not the mints that millions of workers want opened. Stop the wheels in the head and let the wheels in the machine shops go around. Knigntstown Banner. It is not "a government by injunction" that the followers of Bryan object to particularly. Any fcrm of law enforced is quite as distasteful to most of them. Law -renceburg Press. Level-headed Democrats are heartily sick of the exhibition Bryan Is making of himself. They do not doubt that he is a boy orator, and a very smaJl one at that. Kendallville Standard. For silly Impudence hear Bryan and other babes of 1860 and since, lecturing old soldiers about their duty to country, and about being independent of other nations. Kendallville Standard. Bryan says there is such a thing as money being too good. No money is too good to pay the workingman for his labor, the merchant for his goods and the farmer for his products. Elwood Call-Leader. A campaign which has to be bolstered up with forged editorials and letters prepared for the express purpose of deceiving voters, is not the sort that win win the presidential contest nex November. Steuben Republican, No .country ever made the progress, ever achieved the greatness or ever reached the degree of prosperity that this country attained during Republican supremacy. It is to this kind of management that we want to return. Marion Chronicle. Eight thousand railroad men marched shoulder to shoulder in a great Republican demonstration at Terre Haute, but out of that number there was not one who could be by any means induced to complain of "coercion." Lafayette Courier. The Democratic State committee should either call B. F. Shively, the Democratic candidate for Governor, down from the stump or provide him with a chaperon. Sir, Shively has shown himself incapable of self-gove.-nment. Wabash Tribune. The way to settle the money question: Restore the protective tariff, open the factories, put the men to work, then there will be a home market for farn.ers products, and money will circulate freely and we will have good times. Vevay Reveille, The old song of '92, "Give us the markets of the world." by repealing protection laws, we hear no more; it proved a ruinous deception to the people; but now the song is changed to. "Give us free silver and things will hum." Vineennes Commercial. Senator Gray, of Delaware, made a long speech in a few words, "An increase of prices is equivalent tt a decrease - of wa;es." Workingmen can look at this prop

osition on all sides and find no argument in it for free-silver and cheap-sliver dollars. Terre Haute Express. The poll of Henry county shows over 200 out-and-out sound-money Democrats. They will not all vote for Palmer and Bucknvr, for some of them have put patriotic duty above desire to save the organization from ruin and wili vote straight for McKinley and Hobart. New Castie Courier. The Republican party of Warren county has the best organization to-day it has ever had. No brass band has been used In the work, but the whole committee has labored to bring about the organization. The fruit will be shown in November. West Lebanoii Gazette. The free coinage of silver would give a chance for speculation in money, which all speculators will profit by and no one will be profited more than the Englishmen, who have so large an interest in the geld and silver mines of the United Stales. Just remember that. Winamac Republican. The silverites who think silver and wheat go hand in hand and have their ups and downs together, have had their simple notion rudely shocked by the events of the past ten days. Wheat has advanced 10 cents a bushel, and while it has-been going up. silver has gone down about 3 cents an ounce. Kokomo Tribune. One of our most prosperous farmers sold 100 bushels of oats last week, for which he received $90 in gold. He got the very best of money, but the price was the very lowest. He should have received not less than $200 for his oats. He would have received It and did receive it under a protective tariff law. Tipton Advocate. No Bryan orator who has visited Huntington so far has dared to attempt an explanation why, if 16 to 1 is a good thing, 8 to 1 Is not better; why. if free and unlimited coinage of silver at one-half Its commercial value is going to makes times better, coinage of the same metal at onefourth its value will not make them twice as good. Huntington Herald. Free coinage, as advocated by Bryan and his followers, has for its object the carrying out of the trade and commerce of a single country the United States on a money basis that none of the other great commercial nations will adont or tolerate, and which, if adopted by :he"United States, would practically exclude her from the roll

oi gieat commercial nat'ons. M.t. Vernon Sun. POLITICAL SHOTS. Yale students have the reputation of guying all fake shows. Philadelphia North American. "The price of wheat is going up, and everybody is glad except the silver men. Boston Transcript. If Miss Democracy selects another mate in New York, will John Boyd Scratcher? Chicago Dispatch. Governor Altgeld is making speeches for silver, but his lease contracts still call for gold. New York Press. Davy Hill is still acting-like a man who expects someone to go to bat for him in the ninth inning. Washington Post. The hole left in the Republican party by the retirement of Jesse Grant has been Plugged with a cigarette. San Francisco Chronicle. McKinley does not have to run after the people. He is the kind of man they have been looking for more than three years. Syracuse Standard. David Bunko Hill says that he is trying to save the party in New York. Did David ever read the story of the blind Samson and the Phillistines' temple? Philadelphia Press. Mr. Sewall's remark that the cloud In Maine is no bigger than a man's hand may be supplemented with u suggestion of Mr. Watson that the hand has got a wart on it. Boston Herald. The geysers in Yellowstone Park are abating, and in less than sfx weeks the Popocratic campaigners will cease to vex the autumn atmosphere with their great spouts of blather. Philadelphia Record. Political Verslcles. (With Apologies to Riley.) When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. And we've heard the sjieechifyln' of the whole tree-silver floek, When Bryan's .train in homeward bound and ., Allgeld is at rest. When Tillman sheaths his pitchfork and Jones has done his best; It's then will come the votin' and the people have their say. As they crowd into the votin' booths that great election day; And you'll never hear the crowin' of the Democratic cock. When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. N. S. Selby in Princeton Clarion. A FEW WORDS TO WORKERS. Reusonn Why Workingmen Should Vote Against 1'ree Silver. Gentlemen Why should we vote to scale down the wages of 23,500,000 workers over $7,000,000,000, besides the earnings of clerks, mail carriers, .officers, preachers and teachers of our land? "To enable us to pay off our Immense and crushing national debt, to cancel the bonds and stop the bondholders' interest, enslaving our people to the money power," we are told. That is entirely unnecessary. Four-fifths of it is already paid, and no one wronged or injured. Avenues of employment multiplied, wages improved, and were paid in money equally as good as gold in purchasing power ?Jring the time of the paying process. The coinage securing such grand good results can complete the job and restore our lost prosperity. We need no new device with which to do it. We are not favorably impressed with experiments. Four years ago free trade was to bless our country and emancipate our people, and it cursed both. Free coinage, now, is to relievo'us from all trouble; but our faith Is small. "The same party promises, with less probability of performing than before. Perhaps we desire both metals in our currency, and, therefore, favor free coinage; but that we have now, with limited coinage of silver ($456,000,000 of gold and $430,000,000 of sliver or its representatives), which we never had with free coinage. We are asked to have silver placed on an equality with gold, and, therefore, should vote for free coinage of silver. But two unequal things cannot be made equal merely by giving equal opportunities. It is said "the scarcity of money oppresses the people; we have plenty ot sliver in our mountains: let us mine and coin and have abundance." But we have now fifty times more silver dollars, in eighteen years of limited coinage, than we had in eighty-four years of free. Why change our policy and drive our best coin from circulation? But suppose it did not do so, and silver is mined and coined by the millions, would the people be relieved? Who would have and ovn these coined millions? Not the government; not the people; only the already rich mine owners. And how would we or the government get them without paying for them? Wny should we vote to make the miners 50 cents' worth of product a dollar at our expense? Why his product and not the farmer's and manufacturer's? We need no radical change in our money system, the base of all our business transactions. No shifting of prices and disturbing of all values. With the present our greatest improvements. our untqualed financial success, our unprecedented people's prosperity have been achieved. Why should we vote for another, oft tried, and always found wanti ;? ONE OF THE WORKERS. Indianapolis. Sept. 26 , A Political Miatnke. Richmond Item. Jchn W. Kern and Green Smith, the two Democratic leaders who gave the best possible reasons for opposing free coinage of niiver last May, have quit kicking, thrown up their hands and demurely walked back into the Popocratic camp. They use a great many words to explain the consistency of their course, but the simple truth is, they think more cf their parry machine than they do of their honest convictions. They haven't the courage to submit to temporary unpopularity in order to be recognized as really great hereafter, liut they have made a mistake, even from the standpoint of political expt-diency. By their half-hearted course tht-y will lose the confidence and earnest support of both the Democratic factions, and when the time comes to distribute party honors they will probably, be ignored all around. Bryan' Talismans. St., Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan boasts of the number of rabbits' feet h has received from all parts of the country. If he isn't very careful his rabbits' feet will outnumber hi vote

on the 3d of November. Australia is a great country for rabbits, but under ihe Australian ballot law neither the rabbits nor their feet are allowed to vi.te.

CHAXGES IX THE SEX TE. Terms of Twcnty-Xine Members Expire on Mnrch I Xct. Philadelphia Inquirer. In the excitement over the presidential election it has escaped general notice that the elections this fall will have an Important bearing on the poll Men I composition of the Senate after March 4. There are twenty-nine Senators whose terms expire on that date, while ri vnrnnev frnm Dela ware is to be filled. The outgoing Senators are ns follows: Allison. Ia.. R. Blanchard. It., I). Utah. P.: Call. Fla Blickburn. Ky.. D. : Brice. O.. D. ; Brown. IX: Cameron. Pa., R.; l-nibois, Idaho. P ilfnir..r TV JI Tl Gibson, Md.. D. : Hunshrough. N. D.'. It.: Hill. N. Y., D.; Irby. S. C, I).: Jones.. Arlc. D.; Jones. New. P.: Kvle, S. D.. P.: .Mitchell. Ore.. R.; Morrill, Vt.. R. : Palmer. 111. Peffer. Kan.. P. ; Perkins. Cal.. R. ; Piatt. Conn.. R.: Pritchard. N. C. R. ; Pugh. Ala.. D. ; Squire. Wash.. R. : Teller. ol. P.; Vest. Mo., D. : Vilas. Wis.. D. ; oorhees. Ind.. D. : vacancy. Del. There are ton Republicans, thirteen Dem--cr,s-Populists or Independents, Including all third party men. and one vacancy. Already Foraker. Rep., has been chosen to succeed Price, Pern,; Wellington. Rep., to succeed Gibson. Deb. Arainst sitting Republicans the only seeming good chances for opposition success is in successors to Hansbrough and Pritchard. but it is believed that all will be re-elected. Of Democratic Senators those likelv to be huc$?,;?eiL by Publicans are: "Blackburn. Hill, Palmer, Vilas and quite probnblv Vest and Voorhees. Of third party men Brown will bo succeeded by a free-sllverlte. Dubois may be succeeded bv a Democrat or Populist, Jones by himself. Kyle by a Republican. Peffer by a Republican and Teller by himself, and the vacancy in De!awnr is likely to be rilled by a Democrat if Republican differences are not healed. The congressional directory gives the political make-up of the Senate as follows: Republicans. 46; Democrats. 39; Third Party, 4; vacancy, 190. But this is not strictly correct. Of the so-called Republicans, Jones, of Nevada: Dubois, Brown, of I tali; Teller. Mantle. Stewart and Pettigrew j-.re Bryan free-silver men and have openly left the Republican party. This makes the Republican strength reallv "W. To the next Senate already two Republicans have been elected, making 41. The Republicans must hold their own nnd gain five more to control the Senate. There in little doubt that Republicans will" win . In New ork and Wisconsin. Apparently tho chances are excellent in South Dakota, Illinois and in Kentucky, whore there are vacancies to he rilled in the Legislature moat likely to make it Republican: In addition. Republicans hope to carry Kansas, Indiana and Missouri. Republicans carried thoxw Mates at tl'e last election, though the Populists had independent tickets. It Is believed the sound-money Democrats will more than offset Republican defections If these States are all carried the Republicans will have 49 and can afford to lose three in other contests and still control the Senate tTnorf f,n one or two other States whore the Republicans have chances to win. though not very promising ones. It I hoped that at least some of the disaffected Republicans from the far West will vote for a new tariff bill on account of the wool industry. Thus there is a fairly good chance that straight-out Republicans wiil control the next Senate, with the alternaw'e ofn increased third party membership, which will hold the balance of power. CAX SEE XO CONTEST. Xew Yorkers Io ot Believe Bryan Has Any Chance at All. Nov Yrk Speral in Chicago Post. The lower part of Manhattan Island ia betting that the Bryan movement will go into a state of utter collanse in the very near future. " The lowr part of Manhattan island, be it understood, represents more wealth to the square inch than any . other territory of like dimensions in the United States. It is heie that 90 per cent, of the great corporate interests of the United States center and here is located the financial heart, it might be said, of the Na- ' tion. The clientage represented by the great insurance companies, trust companies banking institutions and railroad and industrial companies embraces probably five million people directly. The men who have the . direction of these vast interests have been educated to believe that they led and represented the best intelligence on the matter of conservative and patriotic government, and being a unit in this campaign on the side of sound money, they cannot conceive that there is more than one side to the Issue or that any great number of men enough, i at least, to approach a majority could bo ' so insane as to destre to embark the conntry upon a sea of dangerous financial experimentation at a time when the people are struggling for their lives and when the crying? need is for stability as a first step toward the restoration of confidence. They cannot believe that any of the States of tht great middle West, with their immense wealth and resources, are in any real danger of slipping into the free-silver column, and they look upon all statements tending that way as indicative of fright and poor judgment. Within the circle of their own immediate surroundings talk and sentiment is all one way. Their correspondence and their various agencies of information strengthen their belief in their own opinions, and reports of the existence of a great multitude entertaining opposite views are to them absurd and unreal. They have seen the utter failure of Mr. Bryan to m;ik the least impression on the East and the indifference with which he Is regarded in this section of the country, from which they conclude that it must be the same everywhere and that the Teports of the enormous cr.wd that have met him in his Western tours and the enthusiasm he has created must be eithr greatly exaggerated or else purely imaginary. Call it misinformation, ignorance or conclusions arrived at from exparte statements, or what you will, the fact remains that in New York the view is very generally held that the free-silver campaign is on it last legs and that when election day rolls around Palmer and Buckner wi!l divide ronors with Bryan and Sewall at the polls. Those who entertain this brtitf Higue that the free-silver candidate will bo so hopelessly in the rear that true Democrats will, during the last days of the campaign, rally around the administration's standard mid give their support to the administration ticket and platform as announced at Indianapolis. Out in Chicago, where the impression prevails that there is really a fUht on, this description of the complacency of New Yorkers may arouse a smile, but here the situation is precisely as I have represented. Shively'sj I tin ii It to Jews. Emil G. Hirsch, in Reform Advocate. There may not be very many Jewish voters in Indiana: but it is a very poor policy for the Popocratic candidate for Governor to designate them as "hook-nosed Shylocks" simply because he thinks them adherents of the gold standard. UUllngsgata is not argument. As a rule, its use in political debate betrays a weak and losing cause. The appeal to class prejudice, to sectionalism, to greed and passion, which has characterized most of the utterances of many famous pleaders for the "restoration of silver," will be remembered by the future historians as the saddest of all the many snd phenomena of this year's campaign. None who lova this country and its institutions -but musv deplore this spirit nnd will resent it at th'i ballot-box. To the Popocratic candMat's for the governorship of Indiana belongs the honor of having enlarged the scope of this damnable spirit, by draggini? Into the controversy the demons of religious bias. "Hook-nosed Shylocks." "agents of Rothschild." etc.. are some of the choicest bits of rhetoric to keep company with the "crown of thorns" and "the cross of gold." Will the American people toiorat this woeful degeneration of partisan zeal? We know it will not. "Simple, Common Sense. Springfield Republican. Ex-President Harrison furnishes a New York paper the opinion that tne country does not want a new tariff, but only a revision of the present one. If properly Interpreted, his view is impie common sense. I--ev Lawyers for Bryan. Boston Herald. The New York bar seems to be pretty so id for McKinley. It is a queer kind of a lawyer who doesn't stand up straight for the honor and independence of the Judiciary, whatever his politics. Silver-Gray Asses. Philadelphia Press. ftef Joh'i Sherman's lucid statement concerning the alleged "trlme of '7T' tha Popocrat who continues to harp on the subject simply parades himself as a silvergray ass. Tom Watson's Prayer. Philadelphia Press. Professor Swift ha discovered two new comet Tom Watson is (.raying that they both may collide with this earth somewhere in the immediate vicinity of Bath. Me. Her Gun Spiked. Washington Star. , England la not in a position to Indulge In her customary sneer at our political system. 1 minute ia infinitely won taau oratory.