Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1896 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL; TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1896

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All communications intended for publication in this paper mutt, in order to receive attention, be Strom i. allied by the name and aauress oi me writer. THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL. Cp.n be found at the following places: JCEW YOKK Windsor Motel and Astor House. CH1CAOO Palmer House and P. O. News Co., 217 larhiim nrrt - CINCINNATI J. It. Haw lev & Co.. 154 Vine street. LOUISVILLE 0. T. Deerlng. northwest corner rtf Third and Jefferson sir fts. and Louisville Book Co., 3j6 Fourth avenue. ST. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot. .Washington, d. c nigg House, Kbbitt Ileum;. WillairVs Hotel and the Woshinston New Ex-hanice. Fourteenth street, between l'enn. awnin an 1 F street. One week from to-day Wlllium McKinley will be electd President. It seems as if the real Democrats in In diana are set upon burying Bryanlsm and Matthewsisnl in. this State under a land slide. ' Pay no attention to sensational reports. There will be lots of them. Keep at the work within your reach, and victor.' is assured. The overripe egg seems to be the most powerful argument which the Popocrats can present during the last weeks of the campaign. The ' Sentinel sems not to have noticed that ex-Representative Cooper delivered a mighty interesting speech In this city Saturday night. Bluster is as worthless as fakes this late In the campaign. The current against Bry anlsm is gathering momentum as election day is approached.. It Is simply trifling with time which should be devoted to something useful to re-neat what the Sentinel says. The Senti nel has gone daft oh fakes. It is high time that instruction should be given in the stamping and folding of bal lots. Hundreds of men. can make them selves useful in giving such instruction. That letter of acceptance of Tom WatBon's, which the Populist committee seems to have lost or to refuse to make public, will have no interest u week from to-night. People are rapidly finding out these days that the free-silver movement was inspired by the silver mine owners' trust to double the-wealth of a small number of million- ' aires. ' ' The , Sentinel is wildly howling about trusts and syndicates, well knowing that it is advocating the interests of the rob bers' trust known as the sllver-mino clique. It is useless to lie Popocratlc defeat is In the air. The best men in the Demo cratic party are leaving the Popocratlc and Populistlc "combine" by scores in this State. .' ' The last session of the lodge of sorrow which the Popocratlc State committee held nvas over the speech of lion. George W. Cooper, for which there has been a large demand. Indiana's Interests are in common with those of Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and ICew York. It does not belong in a list of States headed by Arkansas and ended with South Carolina. The New York Herald's estimate for Indiana is 23,000 Republican plurality. It wa made early last week. The Republicans .nd sound-money advocates have won several thousand since that time. A circular signed by a large number of the advocates of single tax declares that single ta.vvrs are not for free and unlimited coinage or silver because that, heresy is no part of their tenets. Some ot them? favor free coinage, but a large part of them, do not. - . . The silliest fake of the canvass, as the Journal has remarked, is that to the effect that British factory workers have collected money for the McKinley campaign, but what can bo expected when Allen Clarke, fresh from the wilds of Arkansas, Is put in charge of the fake factory? The Journal cannot plagefull reliance in the postal card vote of Indiana of the Chicago Record because it shows that McKinley has two and a half votes to one for Bryan. It will bo a good-sized plurality, but the vote . will not bo in so large a ratio in favor of McKinley as those figures indicate. A careful canvass of New York shows that McKinley w4ll come to Harlem that is, to New York and Kings counties with 300.000 majority. New York city will be quite evenly divided, but Kings county will give a large Republican plurality. And yet the Sentinel was "faked" with a telegram that New York is sure for Bryan. Is it possible that the Bryanites in this city are so demoralized that they imagine that such lies a.s a German paper printed recently, to the effect that the employes of the Parry Company demanded payment In gold last pay day and becnuse they were Jiot fO paid tore the McKinley pictures out of thei- windows? - There should be a little sense exeretsed la lying. Gen. Jasper Packard returns from a three weeks' engagement in Kansas to assist in the work at hontf-, which his selection for Representative naturally requires. General Packard tays that the Republican outlook iu Karma has improved wonderfully since he, went there, mote than three weeks since, and that the Republican leaders are now sanguine that McKinley will receive the electoral vote of that State. Judge Offutt. of Greenfield, and Mr. William l.rfirtKHWff, of this city, were the last Democrat a, up to a late hour lust evening, to give out letters statin the reasons why

they cannot support the Popocratic ticket. The former la judge of the Eighteenth judicial district, and has always been a prominent Democrat in his county and in the State. Mr. Langstaff had taken part in the Bryan campaign, but has become convinced, lhat the only Democratic ticket is headed by Senator Pa!raer. Later mails probably contain letters of a similar Import, but these, with those which have preceded them, show that consistent and thoughtful Democrats are renouncing Bryanism in large numbers. And yet, in a speech at Paoli last week Governor Matthews called such Democrats very vile names and consigned them to a very disagreeable future.

MAKE THE VERDICT EMPHATIC. When the enemy is defeated and on the run is the time to pursue him. The way to make a victory complete is to turn it into a rout. The Bryanite-ro'pulist ticket is defeated in Indiana to-day, and an election to-morrow would undoubtedly show a large majority for McKinley and sound money. But nothing is done while anything remains to be done, and it is of the highest importance that the defeat of Bry an and Bryanlsm, of the Populists and Populism, should be complete and crushing. The snake should not be merely scotched. but killed. The verdict against fiat money and repudiation should be so emphatic that these ahd kindred heresies shall never dare to raise their heads again. The defeat of the advocates of debased currency and of national dishonesty should be so over whelming that no party .'.n the future would dare to advocate such doctrines or nomi nate such a candidate. The mere candi dacy of such a man as Bryan for the pres idency of the United States on such a plat form as that adopted at Chicago is humili ating to every American who loves his country and reveres the traditions that cluster around the presidential office. His election would probably mark the begin ning of the end of the Republic. His de feat by a small margin would be scarcely less deplorable, since it would encourage the enemies of sound money and of law and order to organize for a new fight. The battle should be fought to a finish now, and to that end the election of McKinley should be by an overwhelming majority of the popular and electoral vote. To the secur ing of this result the Reoublicans and sound-money men of Indiana should put forth every effort from now till the closing of the polls on election day. The fact that the Bryanites are defeated to-day should inspire Republicans to greater efforts than ever. Every vote added to McKinley's ma jority will add to the emphasis of the ver dict and the moral prestige of the State, Now is the time to "push things." A SHAMEFUL SLANDER. Last Friday when Governor Matthews spoke at Paoli a stenographer took portions of what he said, from which a reputable citizen sends the following as a verbatim report: Recently, before an audi me iveaun ana iasnion or nw Vrrir i tu a distinguished gentleman arose; as I said, it was a select audience composed of the wealth and fashion of New York city, as wen verseu in tne usages or Knp-iiH an. ciety as American, and this rfiat Kfiiueman, arrayed in low-cut vest and swaiiow-tan coat, that gentleman who had held the highest office in the irift of tho American people, arose before that audience, and. holding tin a silver riol In r. do. dared it to be a dirtv dollar, fit onlv fnr dirty work; a dirty dollar, and yet it bears trie stamp ot tne united states, over which General Harrison had been'asked to preside. A dirty dollar, and yet it pays labor the only wages to-day. General Harrison will yet live to regret that remark, as he has that one of his that a cheaD coat meant a cneap man. If Governor Matthews made the above statement he has, in the first places-shown himself a very contemptible demagogue. His allusion to evening dress, which he never , fails to wear on fitting occasions, with a view of creating a prejudice, is as disgusting a piece of demagogism as has been made use of in the campaign.' If G0vernor Matthews made the statement to the effect that General Harrison held up a sil ver dollar and said that It is a dirty dollar he Is guilty of deliberate falsehood and of slandering a citizen of the State of Indiana. General Harrison did not hold up a dollar of any kind. What he did say regarding a debased currency in the New York speech was this: My countrymen, I never spoke a false word to the laboring man in my life. I have never sought to reach his vote or in fluence by appeals to that part of his na ture that will pollute the intellect and the conscience. I have believed, and I believe to-day, that any system that maintains the prices of labor in this country, mat brings hope into the life of the laboring man. that enables htm to share in the pros perity of the country, is the' policy that should be our American policy. I have resisted in many campaigns this idea that a debased currency could nelp tne worKingmen. The first dirty errand that a dirty dollar does is to cheat the worklngman. The executive of a State who goes where he expects that his slanders and falsehoods regarding a prominent citizen will not get into the newspapers and utters them Is gulty of cowardice as well as slander. He is a disgrace to the State of Indiana. Every decent man in Indiana should turn his back upon an executive who is guilty of an offense against a citizen which involves the cowardice of the man who stabs another in the back and the most harmful slanders ahd untruths. THE SILVER PLUTOCRACY. Plutocrat is a word which, in the Bryan vocabulary, means robber. v hen he de sires to hit any one particularly hard, he calls him a plutocrat. Doubtless his bigoted followers picture the plutocrat with horns, cloven feet and an extensive caudal uppendage terminating In a harpoon. To hear Mr. Bryan speak of plutocrats one would assume that he was going about the country levying contributions on cities for the sole purpose of denouncing plutocrats. Whose cause is Mr. Bryan advocating? Nobody's if not that of the owners of the silver mines and of the mass of silver bullion in the world. And who are the silver mine owners? A lot of the richest men in the country, who have accumulated wealth more rapidly than have any other men who have wealth. As immense fortunes have been made out of silver mining as by railroad manipulation. Half a dozen men like the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers excepted, there arc more multi-millionaires in the mining industry, and particularly In silver mining, than in the East. According to the statement of the New York World, which gave the names and the millions owned, the. silver trust is the richest combination of a few men that can be found in the world. The seventythree producing silver mines, capitalized at over $W0,000,0i0. have already yielded profits to half that amount, and are owned by the smallest number of men who ever represented no great capital. The fortunes, two score, range from $10.UU0,ti00 to JW.imo.uuo. A few books and numerous magazine ar ticles have set forth the iniquities of the Standard Oil Trust. It is a grasping mo nopoly. It may not want the earth, but it Is bent on controlling the oil It contains. It has Ignored State laws, and, if the truth

has been told, is guilty of wicked devices to suppress competitors. Still, with all its greed and unfairness, it has given the people of the United States and a large part of the world a cheap and first-class oil for illumination and fueL Once or twice it has manipulated the- price at the expense of the consumers, but even that limited exercise of power cannot in any way count

against the benefits which it has conferred. It has not sought to debase the currency. nor has its greed led it to conspire against the general interests of the people. Yet the few rich men in the Standard Oil Trust are regarded with anything but favor by the people. On the other hand, the Silver Mine Trust has set up to force the "United States to double its wealth by stamping 50 cents' worth of its product one dollar. Regard less of the welfare of the whole country, it Insists upon forcing this Nation to a silver basis, -which will rob more than twelve millions of people who have put a little money into savings banks, loan association shares, life insurance policies and benevo lent orders, amounting to seven or eight billion dollars, and deprive this money of half its purchase power. This greedy trust has captured the United .States Senate, and through that agency has "held up" the country until its demand for the privilege of wholesale robbery is granted. Every man in this trust is a plutocrat, and a. plutocrat of the most odious charac ter. And William J. Bryan is its presiden tial candidate. PROTEST AGAINST ALTGELDISM. The injection of Altgeldism into the cam paign has turned the public attention to topics which have touched the latent spirit of nationality and patriotism. A genera tion has come to manhood since the late war for the Union which has been taught that the federal authority Is supreme in every State so far as the enforcement of federal laws is involved.. A generation is passing away which settled this dispute be tween the Nation and the State on the battlefield. The declaration of the Chicago convention to tho effect that t'.e President of the United States cannot enter a State to enforce federal laws has attracted much attention, and now that Mr. Bryan has said that he Indorses it and Governor Altgeld has emphasized the heresy by his speeches, the national sentiment of the country is aroused to repudiate it. The spirit of nationality is not dormant; it Is deep in the hearts of the American people. North and South, East and West, it Is believed In. It is as strong a sentiment to-day in the hearts of the Buckners and the Longstreets as in those of the ex-Union soldiers. Men may differ widely regarding all political and economical policies, but the intelli gence of the country is united and strong in favor of the supremacy of the national authority. They believe that the federal laws are supreme and that the President of the United States should not ask permis sion of any local authority to enforce them. This sentiment is so deep and strong in the hearts of many men of the generation of the war that they will go to the polls to affirm the principle for which they fought. Yet these men might, if Altgeld had not assailed federal supremacy, have voted dif ferently. The growing sentiment of nation ality in this country, regardless of parties, aa a principle to which appeal may be made, is the most hopeful indication of the times. The sectionalism of Tillman and many of the silverites has aroused the indigna tion of all patriotic, people. They Want none of it. There are no States to which any man of national views can apply the term "enemy country." It may suit the purpose of the silver mine owners to cul tivate the spirit of sectionalism with its jealousies and its distrusts, but the spirit of intelligent patriotism in every section repudiates, it. More and more those frater nal ties which Lincoln predicted would bind us together as one people will be strengthened. The deep and pervasive patriotism of the country will not tolerate the appeals which the Bryan committee is making to em ployes because they engender strifes which divide and weaken. The charge of coercion which has been made has already called forth the most sweeping denunciation of anything that savors of the crime of interference with free suffrage. Out of these charges and the Indignant repudiation of thorn, such as General Harrison, President Ingalls and scores of large employers of labor have made, much good will come, not the least of which is that the mass of intelligent wage earners will look upon the Bryans and the Joneses hereafter as reckless demagogues . who will go any length in infamy to win office. ABUSE OK FRANKING PRIVILEGE. The franking privilege is one by which United States Senators and Representatives are permitted to send certain classes of matter through the mails free of postage, the name of the sender being written across the envelope in lieu of the usual stnmps. The law expressly confines this privilege, so far as printed matter is concerned, to public documents printed by order of Congress. It Is well known that the spirit of this law has been abused In sending out free for campaign purposes tons of Con gressional Records and other political mat ter, the measure being originally Intended to relieve Congressmen from, the expense Incident to the necessary communication with their constituents. So long as the matter franked Is really confined to public documents there is no technical violation of the law, however, and it is left to the in dividual conscience as to how far the legal right can be stretched. Conscience does not appear to enter into the question so far as Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, is concerned. A gentleman of this city has received, under Senator Faulkner's frank, a copy of the Pittsburg Post, mailed at the place of publication. Written across the margin Is the legend: "This paper is strictly in favor of free silver; let your friends see it." So far as the Journal is aware the Pittsburg Post is not printed by order of Congress and cannot therefore be classed as a public document. Mr. Faulk ner has no more right to send it free of postage than has any private citizen. More over, letter postage is properly due on the paper owing to the writing on the margin. It seems likely that the West Virginia free-silver Senator ha no individual knowledge of this particular paper, but that he has kindly supplied the Bryan literary bureau at Pittsburg with all the franked envelopes they may find it convenient to use and that they inclose such printed mat ter therein as seems llkeiy to be most ef fective. It is not surprising that they wish to make It known to the public that a freePllver newspaper Is really published here uiid there in tho country, nor is it to be won dered at that they consider a newspaper of even moderate ability more influential than Mr. Faulkner's speeches tn the Congres- j slonal Record: nevertheless, the West Viri glnia gentleman should call a halt tn such

proceedings,, even though It be late in the campaign. It is not so late but that he

may be called to account for his unlawful use of the frank, when an explanation will be embarrassing. MARCHING IV SOLID RANKS. A prominent Democrat remarked, after the election of 1894, that it was the transfer of fifteen or twenty thousand veterans who had before that time voted the Democratic ticket which defeated the Indiana Democracy two years ago. Probably he was more than half right. He is not an observing man who has not noted the fact that the veterans are more solidly and enthusiastically for Major Mc Kinley this year than they were two years ago. They are very much in earnest. In the first place, most of them are satisfied that passing to a silver basis will depreciate the value of the pittances many of them receive as pensions. Even those of them who may not be entirely persuaded of the robbery which free silver coinage in volves do not wish to take any risks, Therefore, they will vote for McKinley. i. rue, mt. isryan nas stigmatized sucn a care for their own interests on the part of veterans as mercenary,, but they are not taking much stock in the traveling agent of the silver mine trust; It strikes them that there Is no patriotism in voting to have 1140,000,000 of pensions to 900,000 poor people paid in half rather than in full dollars. At any rate, they are dead in earnest to pre vent such a policy. And it makes no dif ference whether their support of McKinley is called "saving the country at so much per save," they are against the silver coin age iniquity. Beyond that, they are for government in and by the United States. They are opposed to secession or sectionalism. To them the stars and stripes is the emblem of a national authority that is supreme. The Con stitution which they fought to preserve is, in their judgment, better, than anything which the Altgelds, the.'Tillmans and the Bryans can suggest. The veterans are for law and order, and ' for old-fashioned pa triotism. In Indiana and elsewhere they will vote almost solidly for McKinley. That if Itself quite makes Indiana Republican this year. Second Lieutenant Joseph R. Binns, of the Second Infantry, U S. A., has found it necessary to tender his resignation because of his belief that a, collision between the people and the United States army will follow the election, in, which case he cannot conscientiously serve v against the former. Lieutenant Binns. has, it is said, written a long letter netting forth the grounds for his belief, but the telegraphic reports have for some reason omitted to give the document m full. In the absence of official information the public is left to infer that Mr. Binns, 'haying viewed from afar the Covington assault on Secretary Carlisle and similar "uprisings' of the freesilver people in various pirts of the country, is led to the conclusion that the entire Bryan party will arise after its defeat and rotten egg the succe'sfut ' majority; that the army will be called on to quell the war, and may get a share of the eggs itself. Or, the conclusion may be drawn that young Mr. Binns (it must be that he is young, for surely no mature army man could be so great an ass) has been terrified by the waving of Governor Altgeld's red flag, that lie sees anarchy loom hprr.ld?y before him along with the election -jaCiiMcKinley, and that he wishes to secu'reasafe place up a tree as soon as possible. It will be well for the authorities to accept young Mr. Binns's resignation promptly and let him go. He is not needed In the army. Let him retire at once to' private life where ho will have no trouble in finding a safe re treat. For there will be no egg throwing or other violent demonstrations by the Bryan people when McKinley Is elected. On the contrary, the lawless element in that party, encouraged now to lawlesa.aets by the Chi cago platform and its upholders, will sneak back to the ways of quietness and peace the day Its defeat is kiicWn. Mr. Binns will not get hurt in the army or out. but certainly the army has no further use for him. He will henceforth he classed among its has-beens. 1. Our sliver money is t a discount In Canada. 2. Individuals nave tne ngni i" deposit gold in the mints of Great Britain for free coinage, but as there.-is so much delay the custom is for the owners of gold to deposit with the Bank of England and receive a fraction less of coin or notes therefor than it will make when coined. 3. The ratio of the valup, of gold to sliver back as far as 1296, nearly 200 years before tho discovery of America, is not given in any books accessible to the Journal. From 1492 to 1520 the ratio of value was 1 to 10. 4. When Great Britain adopted the single standard of gold Its coinage was Daseu upon tho market value. '.5. An ounce of line gold is worth $20.67. ' - RUBBLES IN THE AIR. Discontent. 'Oh, dear!" sighed the lady seal, looking out from the tank at the crowd, now l wish I could be a woman and wear one or those lovely linen waists, instead of this fur!" ' ' l Never Wholly, Free. Jibway's wife seems to have him pretty well under control." ' 'Yes- the only time Jibway is not under the Influence of his wife is when he is un der the influence of liquor. All Figured Out. Watts Let's walk along until a car over takes us. potts No. Let's walk the other way un til a car meets us. We. will eaten it sooner; we win go uowu wu j""1 m""-, and we get more ride for our money. A Sueceass. Minnie When that odioutf masher tried to smile at me 1 just, looked daggers at him. Mamie Was it a success? Minnie I think so. I heard him whisper to the other odious wretch who was with him that he was "stuck on that girl's looks." INDIANA NEWSPAPER OPINION. Writh the election of McKinley our country will take a long step forward. Goshen Times. The best way to deal with a panic is to vote It to death in advance. Portland Commercial. ' These are hard times, "now, but these times will le mild as compared to the times if Bryan is elected. Lynn Tribune. First give men a chance to earn money, and then, second, give them honest dollars in payment for their labor. Odon Journal. Tho "plain, common people" of this countrv are all right and they Intend to pay strict attention to business on election day. Fairmount News. Deserted by the active brains of the country, the Popocratlc nominee is do!n? the campaign work himself,- and boarding 'round. Albany Journal. There are two ways of reducing wages, one by paying a - less number of dollars, the other by pay!;u- a dollar of less value. Mount Vernon Republican. It each farmer, lefore he votes, take his little day book and compare the prices he got for hogs, horses, sheep, corn, wheat, hay. wool, butter and eggs under a Republican administration and the McKinley bill

with the prices he can get for those same

products now. Greenfield Republican. The practical unanimity of railway em ployes in the fight for sound money gives the silver papers a fit every time they think aoout it. w asmngton Gazette. Indiana Republicans never had a better State ticket, and they should see to it that it does not fall behind the national ticket at the election. Richmond Patiadium. Mr. Bryan continues to know more things that are not true and to advocate more things that cannot be done than any statesman on earth. Richmond Item. The Democratic rooster must have hung Its head in shame when those Kentuckians hatched the conspiracy to throw stale eggs at Secretary Carlisle. Terre Haute Trib une. The farmers and laborers and railroaders know what good times and sound money mean, and they will not be fooled by the free-silver twaddle. Fowler Republican Is it worth while to plunge the country into a panic, which Mr. Bryan has said would follow the free coinage of sliver, sim ply to make a tew sliver mine owners mul ti-millionaires? Oakland City Enterprise. If Bryan had been nominated by the Populists upon the same platform he stands on now. how many Democratic votes would he have received? Simply calling himself a .Democrat does not make him such. Noblesville Ledger. The triumphant election of McKinley end Hobart is a matter of no doubt. The only thing is to make the majority so great that the issue of depreciated money, anarchy and revolution will be squelched for all time. Rising Sun Recorder. It is not cheap money the farmers need to make prices good, but a restored home market almost ruined by the present panic brought on and prolonged by a threat of cheap money. Cheap money is the disease, not tne remedy. iticnnwna item. The man that has oeen decoyed away from the real causes of the present deplor able condition of the country by the free coinage of silver heresy mji live to regret his vote for Bryan as ne regrets his vote for Cleveland tour years ago. Tiptoa Advocate. Bryan says that he is glad that Chauncey Depew is not going to vote for him, be cause if he is elected President Depew will not be coming to vashlngton to tell him what to do. But how about Altgeld and Tillman.' Are they better adylsers .' Connersville News. The government puts 100 cents' worth of gold In a gold dollar. Why men should it not put 100 cents' worth of silver in a sil ver dollar? This is a question' that has been repeatedly asked of Bryan and he has never answered it and he never can. Knlghtstown Banner. The worklngman who thinks that the dol lar in which he paid his wages is "too good" should try and figure out how we win stand if his dollar becomes worth half as much as now and he Is compelled to perform the same amount of labor to get the aouar. Aiuncie 'limes. , The revolutionists at Chicago sowed the wind, and it looks like the harvest of whirl wind was ready to reap. When the great est men of the Nation are denied the right ot rree and untrammeied speech, It is time lor an tne honest men of the countrv to stand together, regardless of former partv ties. Evansville Tribune. Although the greater part of the excite ment in this campaign is about the money questions yet the most objectionable feat ures of the Chicago platform are the attacks upon the Supreme Court and the fed eral civil service, and the avowed opposi tion to tne enrorcement of federal laws by the federal executive. Martinsville F.epubJames A. Mount is making a remarkable campaign. He is greeted everywhere he goes by immense crowds and he never fails to please and instruct them. He is not onlv popular with the farmers, but with man or an vocations or lire. He is makine- vntoo every day, not only for himself but the wnoie JttepuDiican ticket. Seymour Republican. on uiaiur, or a political tninker, ne has not struck a new spark or thrown out a fresh fine thought since his first speech at New lork. As he SOokft her tha -ar.A made monotonous by constant repetition in Xrf " ,rtTort feU x'l n tne r like thb tick of the old clock which ruiws i, J. . . " - . --WfJ-M,!., HO two woras enoiessiy. Terre Haute Fxpi The great savior of his country, William jenntngs Jtiryan, lost his sweet temper wnne in Indiana. His genial and comprehensive smile disanueared from thai- h ful 'lce and the frown of disappointment ww i ui nate iook its place. He reviled General W'allace, lied about his opponents and made a spectacle of himself sciirittiij. iL.jM.uari rteview. A WORLD STRUGGLE. In these last days of the campaign, amid the march of processions, the blare of bands, "the thunder of the captains and the shouting," we are prone to forget, often as we have been reminded of it, what tremendous consequences may hinge upon the result of the approaching election. Necessary as it is to enlist the interest of those who can be reached in no other way, there is inevitably something of the grotesqueness of a Chinose 2elib-ition in this universal din, so that we have to pull ourselves tcgether occasionally to keep from being distracted into forgetfulness of the worldwide influence of the decision we are called upon to make. Back of the most important and most stubbornly fought issues of the campaign lies the more vital Issue, whether government shall be by popular caprice or by the approved judgment and experience of mankind. In every country.where government has progressed beyond simple tyranny, this same struggle is going on in some form. Anarchists are inveighing against all authority; Socialists, against the industrial conclusions of experience: radicals of manifold shades of dissent from established political principles are everywhere striving fot the substitution of their own theories for the only safe plan of government, namely, that which has the sanction of reason and history. The Democratic party has suddenly been pushed from Its conservative moorings of a half century Into a mad current of political experiments. Bryanlsm means something worse than free silver, worse than resistance to federal authority, corruption of the Supreme Court or debasement of the civil service, bad as these are. It means that a formidable party in the United States, if Intrusted with the power, proposes to govern the country of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln according to every wild-cat scheme of finance, every whim of passion and prejudice, every reckless experiment in government, that promises present party success. If a President and Congress can be. elected, pledged to a policy that utterly ignores the most unquestioned axioms of political science, what popular frenzy may not claim the support of a party with such a record? The somber truth is, Bryanism rr.tans a long departure from the established principles that hav hitherto controlled the policy of enlightened nations, not onlv their financial policy, but the fnndumtntal doctrine that all government, to be successful and progressive, must defer to the collective wisdom and experience of rrsmkind. We must bury this false notion of substi tuting craze for statesmanship under a mountain of ballots on the Ud of November, or it will rise to plague the generation again and again. Universal suffrage would be counted a failure, the world over, if we failed to show tnat our people can be trusted to govern in accord with the plain teachings of history uiid political science. J. Q. DON N ELL. Float the Flag. New York Advertiser. Don't wait till he Z)t to buy your "Old Glory" -for flag-day. Get it now and clv it a little practice meanwhile at waving in good style, for the best nation on the face of the earth U deserving of the best that is m every patriot ano in every Hag. The Great Repeater. Chicago Inter Ocean. Mr. Bryan is the greatest "repeater" of the century- An exchange insists that he "repeated himself twenty-one times hi oi'i: day." If he could vote as he talks he would le elected. The Rooter Fowl Deed. Philadelphia Press. - - Shying eggs at Secretary Carlisle was undoubtedly a fowl proceeding. Covington free-silver "roosters" were responsible for it-

HOW TO CAST YOUR VOTE

RILES AND REGULATIONS t NDER WHICH BALLOTING IS DONE. Provisions of the Law with Which Every Voter Should Be Ktt'mlllar in Order to Avoid Mintages. Experience in the elections held In this State under the Australian ballot law has demonstrated that at each election many thousand ballots are thrown out and not counted, by reason of the Ignorance or carelessness of the voters in not observing the provisions of the law and because their ballots are stamped in such a manner as to render them void. In this way thousands of voters are practically disfranchised at every election. To avoid this every voter should, before voting, familiarize himself with the few and simple provisions of the election law. Lvery voter, on entering the election room, will be furnished with two ballots. one printed on red paper and one on white paper. The red ballot contains the names of all the candidates for State officers, which Includes th presidential electors. whose names appear first upon each ticket on the ballot, Immediately under the large square inclosing the device of each party, a no wnue oanot contains the names of the congressional, legislative and county candidates. The several names of the canu.uaies oi earn party are printed upon this ballot, immediately beneath the large square Inclosing the device of the party. The poll clerks furnish these ballots to the voter, apd also a stamp. It is then the duty of the voter to go into one of the booths and there stamp each of the bal lots in such manner us to indicate for. whom he desires to vote. If he desires to vote a straight ticket that is, if he desires to vote for all the candidates of any par tyhe should stamp upon the large square inclosing the device at the head of the list of candidates of such party, and stamp no other place. If he does not desire to vote a straight ticket, then he must not stamp the large square Inclosing the device. but must stamp upon the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom he desires to vote. After stamping his ballots he must, be fore leaving the booth, fold each ballot so that the face of it cannot be seen and In such a way as to show the initials of the poll clerks, which are written on the upper right-hand corner on the back of each ballot. He should then return the stamp to the poll clerk and present his ballots to the Inspector, who deposits the red ballot in the red ballot box and the white one in the white ballot box. Care should bo taken by tho voter before leaving the booth to carefully fold his ballots in the manner required by the law, for if ho fails to do this and brings his ballot out of the booth in such a way that the stamp upon it can be seen, he forfeits his right to vote. and ho must destroy the ballot in the pres enco of the board and leave the room without voting. The stamp must be upon the square; that is, It must be within or touch the square. If it is not within or does not touch the square, the ballot is void, and will not be counted. If the ballot is mutilated or torn or marked by either scratching a name out or writing one in, or marked In any other way, except by stamping the square or squares, tne oanot is void, and will not be counted. If the voter Is physically unable to stamn nis ballots, or cannot read the English language, he should inform the election board, and it is then the duty of the poll ing clerks to take his ballots and, in his presence and in the presence of each other stamp them for him so as to Indicate the way in which he desires to vote. If tho voter should accidentally or bv mistake deface, mutilate or spoil his ballot, or stamp it wrong, he should return it to the poll clerk and receive a new bal lot. The large square inclosing tho picture of the eagle is the device of the Republican party. Therefore, If you want to vote for McKinley and the Republican candidates, stamp upon the large square inclosing the eagle. Stamp but once, and stamp no other place on the ticket. M'KINLEY'S DOCTRINE. (Concluded from First Pajje.) that laid the foundation nf nnr ertlarxiii puimuai iauric. r or more tnan a hundred and twenty years it has stood the shock of battle from without and from within and Is stronger and more patriotic to-day than it has ever been as will be seen by Its vote a wees rrom to-morrow. i r.niui cheers.) New Jersey has the distinction of neing one m tnose glorious thirteen orisrinal oiaies. one not oniy nas tne distinction of niembersnip in that original lamilv. but she Is full of historic memories and sacred historic events leading un to our national independence. T am glad to meet you members of this old and historic company, twenty-eight years old and bearing the honored namu of J? rennghuysen, one of the most illustrious. not only In the annals of vour State, but in the annals of the Nation as well: a name that is synonymous with protection to our Industries and to our national honor; a name that is synonymous with honest finance, good currency and public and pri vate morality, i am glad to welcome you. my reilow-citizens irom the State and home of my distinguished associate on the national ticket, that splendid typical rep resentative American, that honest citizen, that incorruptible statesman. Garret A, Hobart. (Loud and prolonged cheers.) No ordinary event could have broug'ht you a thousand miles to the city of Canton; no ordinary political contest could have as sembled on this lawn thousands and tens of thousands of men and women from evtry quarter of this country. It is only because in the public mind there exists a belief that we are confronted with a great public peril and because we mean by our votes to shun and avoid It. This is the meaning of It -all. We have experienced only calamity by following false teachers. , . We do not propose to experience another and even greater calamity by following the same teachers. (Loud cheers.) We have already withstood the experience of partial free trade, a policyi the result of which your eloquent spokesman nas so ntly described, a policy tnat has brought idleness to our workingmen and extinguished the fires in many furnaces. This has been your experience lor ihe past three and a half years, it is proposed now to add to that, as though we had not suffered ejiough, that fatal heresy that somehow or another people can get rich by debasing our currency. They have reduced wages, reduced employment and now they want to redui the vulue. of tho money in which they are paid. So that we are. suffering in both directions. "What we want in tne United States Is a stable tariff law that will raise enough money to pay all the current expenses of the government: that will obviate the necessity o borrowing and lay up a surplus to wipe out the existing debt. In IM&j the government paid off its entire debt. Jt was $S5.0:X,000 in lx'4 and the people believed It never could be paid otf. lt was reduced to $45.0oO.OUoo after 1X12 and by pursuing a protective policy for thirty-five years every dollar was paid. By pursuing tho same policy from lslto lsJt3 we paid off more than two billions of dollars and if our prosperity had not been interrupted and the Republican policy not .abandoned we would have wiped it all off by to-day. (Loud cheers.) "Now what we want to do is to get back to that good American, patriotic, protective policy that Htands for the American people and American development against all the world besides. Then we want to pursue a sound financial system and have every dollar In this country as sound as the government itself and as unquestioned in its integrity as the flag that waves above us. We want public honor kept Inviolate. We want to teach and practice reverence, for public law. respect for our incorruptible Judiciary: love of our fre. Institutions, love for our flag and zeal for public and private honor. let that bo the shield of exalted American citizenship. (lxud cheers.) 'I am glad to meet you hero this morning. I remember years ago to have been In your Stat and city. Twenty years ago I spoke In the city of Trenton. I was then a young man and we were battling then as now, for honest money, for an honest dollar and a protective tariff. Then, later on I spoke in the chief city of New Jersey, your home city, the city of Newark. This was four years ago. i was' the guest of hu u-llllant company the Frellnghuysen

Lancers. You were my escort whHe I waa in your city and you will rememir that I appealed to you to stand for a protectivesystem, and I told you that the abandonment of it meant business revolution and paralysis. But we had to try It and we have tried it. Now what have von irot bv

it? Cries of 'Nothing.') And how do you like it? (Cries of 'Not at ail.j "Now this year Democrats and Itenubllcans are united together, not as partisans, but as patriots. ' for the voice of partisanship Is hushed In the grand t-norus tor patriotism that vibrates rrom one end of l he country to th other. Democrats and Re publicans alike trtand for national honor, for the sunremaay of law and order ami for the prosperity and glery of the great American Republic. (Cheers.) 1 thank you and bid you good morning." WHY BRYANITES AHE SCARED. Employe and Employer Are Ihli Year Marvhitttr Under One Banner. Major McKinley responded to engineer George Menish, of North Judson, lnd., who spoke on behalf of the employes of tint Erie railroad system, u.s follows: "Mr. Menish and my Feilow-cltlzens I greet you with the slncerest cordiality to my city and home. It is a special tiuiioi, and to the great cause which I have been, designated to represent, to receive thli large body of employes of the Erie railroad system, extending from New York to Chicago. I am glad to note among your number your wives and families. The wom en of this country are quite as much interested in the rightful settlement of political questions a.- the men. They are quite as much Interested in good times, good laws, good morals and unsullied patriotism as the men of the country art?: and it has been a pleasure to me to note that in all the months of this exciting and interesting campaign the wometi ot the I United States have manifested a deep and Mvi"'. nt,miru n - to-day numbering sands, from half a dozen Stafes of the 1 I . , . I C ....... . . .. 1 4' ... . ,. morrow you will perform tho supreme and most sacred duty of American citizenship. There is one glory of wh.cn we can boiurn., and no other nation can. and that Is that ours is a government of the people and of all the people, and not a part of the people. The vote of one man. no matter what may be his occupation, ho matter what may be his surroundings, whether they be humble, or whether they be exalted, count just as much on that supreme day as th vote of any other man. It is our proud boast, too. that every man owns his own vote. It is his priceless privilege which no man or combination has a right to assail or question. 1 want the people of thia country this year, as in all the ears of mo past, each for himself and family, to cast his ballot so as to subserve his own high"Why. there is almost a panic among some people or tnis country because employes and employers are marching under'"5 the same flag; as though there wua somt thing un-American alout a fraternity between the men who employ labor and the 1i KiMt tViiiir fkm-vlnar W Y t li t ls tia nrilnn anywhere that should be stronger than the. union between labor and capital. The one cannot get on without the other, and labor. thank God, is at the foundation of all the wealth and prosperity beneath our flag. Capital won't run a railroad without protit any more than a conductor will rim his. train without pay. Capital will no mo work without profit than an engineer will run his engine without pay. What we want in this country is a res toration of that confidence that will give to capital profit, have it make liberal Investments and employ labor at liberal American wages. Whatever policy will do that should be the policy of the Amerlcnu people for all time to come. Will a policy, do that that will encourage the foreign workshop against the home workshop? (Cries of 'No! No! Never!') No, l answer; forever no. There is just one thing will do it. and that is to protect every Industry In this country from ruinous competition from abroad and give our producers this splen did home market and our wage earners this magnificent wage center. Then we want to onen un. bv reciprocity provisions, a for eign market for our surplus products of agriculture and nanufacture, and when we nave done tnatiwe nave put every man to work in this country; and when every man Is at work every home' and family in the land is happy. When every factory and I nian is at work in this country the railroads have plenty to do. but when they are idlo and silent the railroads have little to do. 'The men standing around and about me to-day know better than 1 can tell them how much they have suffered from a policy that has stricken down enterprise and itidustry and transmitted our work beyond the seas to be done beneath another Hag. You know how much you suffer and you know that whenever a train is taken off ' your road one less engineer i required and fewer brakemen and switchmen arV ; required. In a word, every time a railroad company lays off a train It lays off a crow, . and what does that mean? It means idleness. What does that mean? It means suffering. My fellow-citizens, we want to vote, if we believe in the policy, we want to vpl to restore industry. e want further to have it understood by all mankind that thin is nor. a nation or repudiators; that we believe In paying our debts In cool, honest dollars, not oniy our public debts, but our private ones, too: not only paying one. body-' of our people in good money, but all cdasses of the people in the same money and all of it unquestioned and undepreciating for ever. This is the kind or money we have to-day gold, silver and paper, all alike equal and all worth 100 cents to the dollar everywhere; and that's what we propose to Continue. "There Is no man who thinks for a mo.rr.ent that will not releot the suggestion that you can enrich anybody by debasing the dollar, or that you can make anybody under the mm better off by coining a piece of metal that is worth only .52 cents everywhere in the world, and then try to fool one another by calling it a dollar. If thorn Is anything In this world that ought to b unquestioned and above suspicion It is the money of the country. We want no false weights; we wai.t no false balances; w want no false measures of value to cheat the unwary, and let me tell you that those who suffer most from a poor currency are always and inevitably the men who toll. . mere inot a man in this audience who was drawing wages prior to 1SU0 that does not remember that he was always paid lit the poorest dollar that would pass current, and when he got it at night it mav havo been good, but before morning came the. bank was broken and the money lost. We nave had no sucn experience in the lajt thirty years, for every dollar In this country is good, as good as the government and as untarnished as our nag: every dollar represents 100 cents, and good not onlv among our own people, but wherever trade goea. in every part and market place In the world. (A voice: 'Who made it?') It was made by the Republican party. But let me say, while it was made by the Republican party, the administration of Grover Cleveland has maintained it all good. every dollar us good as gold. "Then, my feilow-cltlzens. another Ihlnkr we want In thiH country. AVc want public peace and tranquillity; und we. ; want lo teach a respect for law; reverence for our free institutions, the grandest and the best beneath the sun.' I tell you. I sometimes think we don't know how priceless theso free institutions are. I sometimes think wo don't appreciate what they are worth. Think of a government of seventy millions or people, ail or uiem equal, equal In responsibility, opportunity and posslbllit v. But some of you say: 'I have not had a good luck as I ought to have had; I have been unfortunate: I have not risen as I hoped I might. Possibly that's true; tho world Is full of disappointments: but be. cause you have not succeeded as well as you would like to have succeeded, you want your boys and girM vl.o come after you to succeed, and I therefore bid von maintain unimpaired these splendid institu tions. "And now. my fellow-citizens, bavin? said this, and thanking vou for the lonar journey you have made to come here to testiry your devotion to Republican principles, and knowing a 1 do that no las of people like a straight track better than the railroad people, 1 am certuln you will, one week from to-morrow, take thr? straight track to public honor and national prosperity." FLOUHHS OF PATHIOTISM Are B loom I Over the Garden Wall of Polities Thia Year. Major McKinley upoke briefly to the Rail way iUen s isonparusan ounu-money Ltague of New England in tho library of his residence, saying: "Mr. Robertson and My Feilow-cltlzens I iim delUhted to have you pay me this visit. 1 appieciate that while you are few in number you represent quite us larste a constituency as any or tho larger . delegations that have honored me with visits. It is errPi-clally gratifying to know that In a measure tnl: Is n. gr-at nonpartisan cam paign, as in title oi your organization Indicates. This i.s a year when the llres of patriotism are burning wt our hesrts and the flowers of patrlotiwrn are blooming over tn garden wans or pontics. I am glad. Indeed, to meet you all. and 1 value mor than I can tell vou vour good wishes and assurances of support. We have-much at stake this ye;r In the soundness of our currency and the Integrity of the Nation, and I value highly the support and assistance of th railroad men of the United States. 1 greet the representative of New England and give them hearty wel- (( mi-. ( Three cheers were then-given for the Major.) ... Cariosity. ' - . Flttsburg Chronicle-Telegrapli. A general desire i felt to see an unexpurgated copy of Tom Watflon'a UUtr.