Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1901 — Page 4

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1901.

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' Emma CoMman would make a first- . class editorial writer for Mr. Hearst's papers. Candidate Maguire must have been very weary anl somewhat disgusted when ho finished his letter of acceptance. The Taggart-Maguire policy of borrowing" money to meet current exprn?es might work well mourn if pay lay never came. Mr. Masulrc does not profe?s to havo any ideas of his own regarding city government. To whatever Mr. TaRRart has done he jys "Mc. too." AVlth such a mayor as Dlaek. It is not 8urpri3ins that 'J') Italians in McKce?port toasted the Uuffalo assassin wit,h wassail, speeches and Jubilations.. ' "Me-Too" Masuire thinks with Mayor Tagzart that making temporary loans 4,is the buslncss-lik way.in which to manage the financial affairs of the city." It will bo very remarkable if evidence Is rot discovered showing that Czolgocz Is the tool of a conspiracy. Indeed, his latest expressions point to such a condition. Total expenses of the city government in 3 SO?, $i.S3,9S3; total expenses in lrtOO, $1,279,022. "I indorse the excellent administration of Mayor TaggarL" "Me-Too" Maguire. Every rolico judge knows the evil effects of dime novels on the plastic minds of children, but the influence of yellow Journals on the minds of grown-up cranks is still more potent for evil. Me-Too" . Maguire pledges himself to continue the Taggart policy of the last lour years, which has resulted in a great Increase of city expenditures and an empty treasury. Does he really think the people want that policy continued? "I therefore believe that a low tax levy, even though a temporary loan 13 occasionally necessary, is the business-like way. in which to manage the financial affairs of the city." Mayor Taggart. "Me, too.' Charles Maguire. Those who are watching political straws cannot fall to notice that Mr. Bryan is to speak before the Mayor Harrison League of Chicago, which confirms the report that Mr. Bryan will give his support to Harrison on th Bryan platform in 1&0I. A few weeks ago the country was admiring the tender devotion of President McKinley to his invalid wife who seemed to be at death's door; now it Is admiring her fortitude In the face of a murderous attack on her husband. So runs the world away. The death of Hon. Josiah Gwin removes from participation in political discussion a man cf refined intellect and strong convictions. Occasionally he was actuated by personal feeling1, but some time will elapse beforo a Democratic editor will be found that can take his place. A Philadelphia rewi-paner which claims to be respectable speaks of Emma Goldman as "the representative of the American right to free speech." and "there is no law in the United States against preaching the gospel cf anarchy." There Is the law of self-preservation which every government may enforce. The total amount paid out to railroad employes in the United States during the year ended June CO. IJijl. was IC77.-04.SU. against J4l5.50s,2t;i for 1SL3, an increase in five years of JlUl.r. Tor the one year from I? to IlWI the increase was Jö-l,iI0.913. Such figures as the.e are not calculated to bring the Republican party or policies into disfavor. The New York Journal, published by a roan of wealth, declared in the isue of June 1 that assassination had net only changed the history of the world, but had changed it for the better. Now that paper desires to have Czolgocz tried and executed the same day by which one of the Hearst papers would probably lose a patron. The responses which Mr. Bookwalter makes to Mayor Taggart's qiM stiuns show that the Ilepubllran candidate for mayor has thoroughly Informed himself respecting Mr. Taggart's administration, and that it J unsafe for the rmyor or his friend to provoke an Inquiry into the methods of the present administration. It is surprising that th or permitted himself to be 1mI Into the mltak of asking fpi;lon. touchin th weak spots in his administration, addrsted to a man fo w11 posted. Such communications how that the municipal campaign is proceeding along proper channels. Everybody who I. old enough remember? how, when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Funch, which h;d caricatured and vilified him In th" most outrageous manner. uddenly came out a hi defender and

eulogist. .The Ncv7 York Journal does the same now. No other paper has caricatured and vilified President McKinley as outrageously or has tried as hard to bring him into ridicule and contempt as has the New York Journal, but now that its teachings have brought forth their natural, fruit it lauds him to the skies and. demands that his would-be assassin have speedy trial and prompt punishment. "Only two explanations," it Fays, "are possible for such a crime as that which shocks human nature. First, insanitj-, murderous paranoia; second, insane egotism, a disease craving for notorict', which in its intensity amounts to mania." There is a third the persistently incendiary teachings of sensational newspaper?.

THE CO.c;i! ATI LATOH Y STAKE. At the close of the sixth day since the President was assailed it can be said that he is on the high road to recovery.- There is no longer occasion for the anxiety of Saturday and Sunday. Doubt has given place to confidence, and now the progress is such that tho time for general congratulations has come. The change in sentiment Is very great. Those who read the bulletins turn away declaring to associates that the President will live. During the past three days each bulletin has contained more hopeful Indications than Its predecessor. With temperature and pulse little abovo normal, tho President has taken nourishment with relish and in increased quantities. He Is taking an interest in affairs. He has asked for the newspapers, for Mr. McKinley is one of the public men who believes in'newspapers: and knows what is in them. There are weary days of recovery before 1dm, but the spirit he has displayed shows that he has the courage and self-control necessary to carry him through. A watching people admires the high courage and perfect poise of the President, and is grateful that in facinjy death he has shown to the world that he is every inch the President fit to be at the head of a great nation. YELLOW ,JOl HVAI.ISM. Ender this caption the Indianapolis Sentinel yesterday said editorially that "The Journal has always been notorious for Its bigotry and maliciotis misrepresentation In dealing with Iemoeratic leaders and policies, but it has seldom given a more disgusting manifestation of this inability to tell thc plain truth about a political opponent than in the following notice printed yesterday morning." Then followed a press dispatch giving a telegram from Mr. William J. Bryan" to a Buffalo paper as follows: Free governments may be overthrown, but they cannot bo reformed by those who violate the commandment; "Thou shalt not kill." Ender a government like ours every wrong can be remedied by laws and the laws are In the hands of the people themselves. Anarchy can be neither excused nor tolerated here. The man who proposes to right a public wrong by taking the life of a human being makes himself an outlaw and cannot consistently appeal to the protection of the government which he repudiates. He invites a return to a state of barbarism in which each one must, at his own risk, defend his own rights and avenge his own wrongs. The punishment administered to a would-be assassin and to his coconspirators, if he has any, should be such as to warn all Inclined to anarchy that while this is an asylum for those who love libert3 it is an inhospitable place for those who raise their hand against a'd forms of government. The Journal's headlines to this dispatch were 'Bryan Has Reformed Utterances in Marked Contrast with Campaign Speeches." The Sentinel calls this "Yellow- Journalism," and says: "If the Journal's maliciously misleading headlines mean anything then they mean that Mr. Bryan has previously advocated the assassination of obnoxious rulers and championed the principle of anarchy before the people." The Journal has never said or Insinuated that Mr. Bryan has advocated assassination, but it has asserted, and now repeats the assertion, that the drift of all his arguments in the presidential campaigns of 1S06 and YjQO was to array class against class and to excite animosity against capital by tho adroit presentation of distorted views In such a way as to inflame weak minds to tho point of criminal acts. Mr. Bryan is not an Anarchist and would not knowingly advlso assassination, but he is a demagogue who has not hesitated to promulgate principles which, in their logical conclusion, tend to anarchism. He did this in both of his campaigns for the presidency, and he did it without any protest or warning against resort to violence. He sowed his seed broadcast without regard to where it might fall or whLt kind of fruit it might bring forth. He scarcely ever made a speech without an open or covert appeal to class prejudice. His doctrine was generally sugar-coated, but the kernel was there and invariably it meant class hatred. In a speech delivered Aug. 28, 1SW, he said: And you tell me that It is just to have a system of legislation that takes away from the parent the possibility of educating his children as he would, and that he is compensated for it by giving money undeserved Into the hands of those who by machination corner the money market and spend the money by buying foreign titles for their daughters? He was charging that Mr. McKinley W3S the candidate of a party that did that sort of thing, and that he knowingly approved it. This was calculated to make his hearers hate McKinley and wish him off the face of the earth. Again, speaking at Springfield, he said of American financiers: Assuming to be statesmen they disregard every law of trade, every law of economics, every law of nature and every law of God. There is not a law. human or divine, they respect because they think they are bigger than the government and greater than the Almighty. If a ruler-or government official violates every law, human or divine, what punishment Is too great for him?. Mr. Bryan did not say they ought to be put out of the way, but he loft his hearers to draw their own inferences. In a speech at Hornellsville, N. Y., speaking of Republican leaders, he said: Those men who have now become the great apostle, preaching In the Interest of the laboring men. my friends, these men who stand at the head of the gold crusade, are the men who have prevented the arbitration of difficulties between laborers and their employers. These are the men who, by the formation of great trusts, have stilled competition completely and driven the small competitors out of business, and then preyed upon society with no one to restrain them or make them afraid. He was addressing a mixed audience and left his hearers to draw their own conclusions as to what should be done to persons who "preyed upon society." At a farmers' picnic h said: "My friends, the Issue to-day is an Iscue between the idle holders of id money and the struggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the tax of the country. " At Fyraruso, N. Y., he told Iii hearers that "all the honors that are in th bands of the peoplo are bt -fore you if ou can h:ne it understood thnt the people and not the corporations and pvndlcates have a right to choose their officials." The?e and many similar utterances bad a distinct tendency to array class against clas without reference to consequences. This was i:u apparent that Har

per's Weekly of Oct. 2i, lStt, in a leading editorial said: Mr. Bryan belongs to an order cf men that Is at least as old as the art of writing, from St. Basil to Henrv George, from Louis Blanc. Isalle and" Karl Marx to Jules Goeisde. AVilliam Jennincs Bryan and Governor Altgeld, men of this kind have ben imagining human sorrows where there were no sorrows, human suffering where there have been prosperity and happiness. . Out of the Socialist movement, which has grown stronger or more noisy since its half-educated orators and writers njoy the freedom of the press and of speech, have come crude laws in some parts of this country which have resulted in the exclusion of capital from the States that have adopted them, and in consequence loss of population. In Europe there have come societies of Anarchists, bomb throwing, assassinations and finally the "International. ' which is endeavoring to teach the workingmen that their class everywhere ought to hf dearer to them than their country. At the basis of it all i the jealousy felt by 4Lr.. - . -

mos- vino no not prosper of those wno no. All these movements, which began to gather strength in Europe with the French revolution, are in their essence war on capital and on government which protects and fosters both capital and labor. Mr. Bryan If of th,s movernnt. He may not know it, btit socialism, whose finest fruitage is anarchy and murder, is the philosophy of his candidacy and campaign. Beyond his feeble and ignorant presentation of his money heresy ipS the deep abyss of socialism, into which, consciously or unconsciously, he is inviting the American people to plunge. We leave Mr. Bryan to be judged by his record. His speeches in loth of his presidential campaigns tended directly to the growth of anarchistic ideas, but now that the fruitage has come he deprecates violence. To make his reform complete heshould rotract the expressions above quoted and scores of others of like import.- Yellow journalism is concealing the truth about Mr. Bryan, not in telling it. 3111. .MANURE'S LETTER. The letter of Candidate MaRiiire contains a few things that should be noticed. Ho praises tho Taggart administration and proposes to extend It. This he tan hardly do. He cannot increase the bonded debt of the city $790,000 if he shall be elected mayor, because Mr. Taggart has pushed the debt close to its constitutional limit. " Fmm ls:3 to VJfJO the Taggart administration increased the levy from 0) cents per $1"0 to 7.1 cents, and is running behind on the latter assessment. That Is, taxation on each $100 has been increased 21 2-3 per cent. There can be no doubt that if Mr. Maguire were mayor and should undertake to carry out the policy of Mr. Taggart, he would go on Increasing taxation untii the charter limit should be reached. The National Bureau of Statistics has never "proven" that Indianapolis is the most economically governed of the larger cities. Some comparisons were made which have been given that meaning, but the rate of taxation is what tells the story of the burden of cities, as the following figures, published once be fore, shows: Rate of taxation on $1'). ....$l.t:) .... 2.21 .... 4.7 .... i.:m .... 2.K0 .... i.sa .... 2. vi .... M Percentage of tax valuation to full alue. V) per cent. 1 pec cent. 20 per cent. per cent. 5S per cent. So per cent. 40 per cent. U)- per cent. j,fr cent. per cent. 1 per cent. 01 2-3 per cent. !0 per cent, tt 2-3 per cent. V) per cent. 1' per cent. City. Boston New York Chicago Cleveland ... Cincinnati .. Detroit Kansas City Louisville ... Milwaukee .. 2.31 New Orleans 2.!) Philadelphia 1.K.V Pittsburg 1.70 San Francisco St. Louis l.!5 Wilmington 1.4) Indianapolis 1.23 On the basis of the rate of taxation Indianapolis is not the most ecomonically administered city, since In most of the cities In the foregoing list the taxes for improving streets and constructing sewers are included. Under the system of improvement In vogue in Indianapolis the tax for the improvement of streets has often been so heavy that the assessment has beer, equal to the full value of the property, and scores of people have been compelled to give up homes partly paid for because they could not pay the tax. "When the bill declaring that in no case should the assessment for street improvements be more than 23 per cent, of the appraised value of the property was pending in the Legislature the Taggart Board of Works opposed the measure. Doubtless Mr. Maguire is among thesö who opposed such a restriction on the process of confiscation. The city credit has not. been assailed by Republican or Democrat, as everybody who cares to be accurate in his statements knows. It has been pushed close to tho constitutional limit. "When Mr. Taggart proposed a temporary loan that carried tho debt beyond the constitutional limit, the Council wisely waited to see what could be done without invalidating any portion of the loan asked for. Mr. Maguire repeats the old story to the effect that there would have be--a money enough if the Council had laid a tax on natural gas pipes, as proposed by the mayor. Yet Mr. Taggart had been four years In office before he recommended Ftich a tax. If the tax were a fair one, why did not the Taggart administration Impose it when the gas property had more value than it now has? It seems that Mr. Maguire might have been let off without indorsing in an emphatic manner the purchase of the lands for Riverside Park. He approves the purchase, of lands which will require hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a park, and several thousands annually to keep up. There are several other topics In this labored letter that might be criticised, but the one feature which surpasses all others in importance is the candidate's unqualified approval of Mr. Taggart's financial policy and a solemn pledge to continue it. Objectionable as are other features, taxpayers must regard the indorsement of and pledge to continue the mayor's financial policy as the most vicious. It is a policy which means that the city shall not, year by year, pay as it goes. It means that whenever bonds can be issued for keeping up departments of the public service. It shall be done, and it means that the voting and negotiating of temporary loans shall become an established feature of city administration. The result of such a policy will be a larger debt at the close of each succeeding fiscal year. It Is a policy which will compel all the employes of tho city to go unpaid, when the aggregate of the bonded and floating debt shall reach the constitutional limit, until money can lo collected. If a Council shall be elected in accord with this poli -y it may lead to the voting of temporary loans regardless of tho debt limit under the decision of a compliant city attorney. We have shut out the Chinaman because he is such a cheap worker and cheap liver that his presence in large numbers Is objectionable from nn economic point of view. Have we not at present quite as many of the ignorant and vicious of tl.fr lands as it is safe to shelter? Thousands of immigrants come to u ignorant and hostile to government because government has been to them an oppressor, taking about all and giving nothinw- in exchange. Just now we can absorb all the rough labor coming to us. but it will not always bo so. Why not begin with shutting out Immigrants Irom the most oLjcctlor.ablc toua-

tries unless they are skilled workmen? Are we not burdening ourselves with too much of the poverty. Ignorance and vlclousncss of Europe? Why should we carry the burdens which bad governments in Europe create by oppressing their people? If they remain at home, better conditions may be enforced, but here they tend-to debase the common labor of the country. If the Hearst papers should cease to print their hideous cartoons representing the President as the tool of the trusts which are trampling down the people and otherwise presenting him as a hideous monster, their circulation will fall off. The v.icious taste these publications have created will not be satisfied with anything but very "hot stuff." There Is a fine field for the exercise of Jersey justice against the Paterson Anarchists. It is the worst group in the country. J. Cordon Coogler, who died in Columbia, S. C. the other day, thought he was a poet, and was happy in the thought. He wrote and published verses and sent them over the country, and they afforded much entertainment to the recipients, many etlitors amusing themselves and their readers with "reviews" of a mock serious sort, for tho verses were not poetry In the eyes of cultivated readers. Hut if Coogler ever realized that he was a subject of ridicule lie never betrayed the fact, but continued to Issue new editions and send them to the editors as before. Now he is dead, and Mr. S. E. Kier, of the Chicago Ilecordllerald, offers this graceful and kindly tribute to bis memory: I turn to lay a poor wild flower On gentle Cnogler's breast; He came to servo his little hoar And pass on with the rest; He doubtless heard the world deride, But sang on sweetly satisfied To know he sang his best.

There lies his little broken lyre. We bear his song no more! Ah. Coogler, may the sacred fire Be thine upon That Shore The tiro that burned in Shelley's breastThat you may sing there with the best Of all who sang before! THE JESTERS. . Inn nml Out. Washington Star. "Why has he po" many outstanding obligations?" said cne New York saloon keeper. "Because," answered th other, "he neglected to stand in with the police." Helles. MnMMAgc. Detroit Free Tress. "Mrs. Joner, was that trained nurse I sent you helpful?" '"Oh, yes. doctor: Mr. Jones gets rr.ad at. her so often that his circulation 13 improving rightalong." Silly Mr. G. Yonkers Statesman. Mrs. Gotham Don't you think tho?p raised in tho Fuhurba are apt to be more- tender than those raised In the city? Mr. Gotham Oh, I don't know; that chicken we had for dinner was raided in the suburbs, dear. An Ancient Clientnnt. Ohio SUate Journal. Little Ham Are you Kolng to take two of everything into the ark, papa? Noah Yes. Little Ham But I only have one gran'maw. Noah (sternly) See here, my on, that mother-.1 n-law joke has been a chestnut for 700 years. A Broad Hint. Life. "Papa has forbidden you to come to the house. He says you are a dangerous man." "Dangerous? What can he mean?" "He says you are that kind of man who will har.g around a girl all her life and never marry her." Histrionic AlilIHy. Puck. Manager It's a wonder Hoadsley didn't give you an engagement In his company. He thinks you're a good actor. .Actor Does he? Manager Yes; he says you can ask for a big salary as if you expected to get it. NO INDICTMENTS RETURNED. . Grand Jury I Still In vent Igat Iuk Seventh National Rank Affairs. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. The announcement that indictments had been handed up to Judge Eacombe in the United States District Court by the grand jury which has been investigating the affairs of the Seventh National Bank, created some interest in the financial district this afternoon' and led to the report that officers of the wrecked bank had been indicted. The grand jury handed, up the indictments at noon and Judge Lacombe said that he would Issue bench warrants for the persons indicted. Assistant District Attorney Baldwin declined to say who had been indicted. Later in the day he absolutely denied that warrants had been issued for any officer of the Seventh National Bank, and added that the grand jury had not yet finished its deliberations in the matter. It was also reported, that the reorganization of the Seventh National Bank had finally reached a stage where they were about complete. It is said that the reorganisation committee, together with William Nciso . Cromwell, special counsel of the bank, will start for Washington soon to submit the plans of reorganization to Controller Dawes for his sanction and to complete final arrangements for the resumption of business. CONCATENATED H00-H00S. Tliey Ho Degree Work und Decline to Pay a Secretary's Sulnry. NORFOLK, Va., Sent. 11. The entire session of the National Hoo-Hoo Concatenation here to-day was devoted to a discussion of the ciuestioa whether or not the scrivenoter (secretary and treasurer) of the order should devote his entire time to the work of the office. This would require a salary being paid him. A hot fight for and against the proposition resulted in a majority vote against it. At the Osirian cloister on Tuesday night the following members of the Hoo-Hoo wore raised to membership In the higher order: W. H. Norris, Houston; K. Moore, (talveston; II. L. Barto, Chattanooga; 11. M. Rawlins. Mobile; W. (J. Fellows, Birmingham; C. Turner, Chattanooga; E. S. Boggtss. Clarksburg, Y. Va.; C. E. Davis, Evansvillc, Ind.; A. E. Keyser, Chattanooga. The concatenation will adjourn to-morrow with public ceremonies at the Academy of Music, in which tho old snarks will bo "omblamed ;;v.id crematt I," according? lo the ritual of the order. WEST VIRGINIA COAL. It Product ion Expected lo Be Conftolidnteil ly Syndicate. ROANOKE. Va., Sept. 11. West Virginia Is on the ovo of a big coal deal. Some time ago the Initial movement was made by the purchase of 'all the coal operations or. Kanawha river. It is said J. P. Morgan was behind it and that the drafts for the pun -base money bore his signature. Hardly had that deal been consummated before it was announced that the Flat Top field had been purchased by the same or allied interests for Jd.'l..". To-day all the New river territory Is asog. Messrs. Chilton. McCorkle and Chilton, representing New York capitalists, for the past week havo Ixm n qui i 1 y at work, and it is now said there 1- not a coal operation on Newliver on wbleh there is not a twenty-day option of purchase. Whether or not the purchase will be made probably will be definitely settled tn-mor-rov.. as at that time present options will expire, and it will require a deposit of 520,Ooo to renew them.

BOOKWALTER

REPLIES

MAYOR TAGGART'S LIST OF QUESTIONS AO STt.MRLEVtt BLOCK. The Ilcpnhlicnn Candidate Answer ill Interrocntorie in o Incertain Wny. THEY ARE TAKEN UP SERIATIM QUESTIONS ANI1 ANSWERS FORM A CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT. An I'nfortunnte Admission Mnde by Former Controller AVoolIen InterestlnK Rending. Shortly after the publication of Charles A. Bookwalter's letter accepting the Republican nomination for mayor, an afternoon paper published an interview with Mayor Taggart, in which he declined to discuss Mr. Bookwalter's letter, but stated that he would like to ask some questions of the Republican nominee, and when "he had answered them frankly, he (Taggart) might then discuss the letter of acceptance." These questions had evidently been prepared at the expense of considerable time and thought and were expected to cause Mr. Bookwalter considerable difficulty and embarrassment. Unfortunately Mr. Taggart underestimated the knowledge which Mr. Bookwalter has of the manner in which city affairs have been conducted under Democratic administrations, and unwittingly let the bars down to his political opponent. The following are the questions submitted by Mayor Taggart and the answers which Mr. Bookwalter prepared with the evident desire of being perfectly frank: "Hon. Thomas Taggart, Indianapolis, Ind. Dear Sir: In the hope that you might frankly express your opinion of my letter, I shall endeavor to frankly answer the interrogatories which you propounded to me on Sept. 3. Before proceeding to do so, however, I wish to assure you that I appreciate the fact that for the first time in your political career you have been forced into public print in defense of a public record which you will certainly admit has been open to some criticism, even though you have heretofore personally attempted to Ignore such criticism." Mr. Bookrvnlter'H Answer. 1. Is not Mr. Bookwalter's statement false, that public franchises were granted to personal anel political friends without competition? If it If true, please state what franchises were so granted. Will he mention, any franchise that was not approved by the Republican Council?" I ask you, Mr. Taggart, in answer to this questioii, have you forgotten the contract known as the Stuckmeyer waste paper box contract, which was granted ostensibly to Mr. Stuckmeyer upon terms which secured to the city a less sum than two other propositions that were then pending before your Board of Public Works; and did you r.ot know when this franchise was granted that it was generally understood that It was owned and controlled, not by Mr. Stuckmeyer, but by a gentleman who has stood much closer to you In two or three municipal campaigns than any other citizen of Indianapolis? Have you forgotten, Mr. Taggart, the heating contract let without competition to a corporation composed of your personal and political friends, although other responsible parties were ready to submit propositions securing to the city better returns than those embodied in this contract? Have you forgotten your attempt to let a lighting contract for the streets of the city of Indianapolis two years before the expiration of the present contract to a corporation composed of your personal and political friends, and upon specifications so palpably unfair that a righteous court was compelled to exercise its power to restrain you and your Board of Public Works from committing this outrage upon the people of the city of Indianapolis; and did you not persist In this effort until public opinion and the fear of its effect upon your political fortunes compelled you to desist? You must, as a fair man. admit that it Is begging the question to ask what franchises were not approved by the Council. The city charter confers the power of initiatory upon the mayor and the Board of Public Works, and no franchise can be voted for by the Council without having first received the affirmative action of such officers. USE OF NATURAL GAS. "2. Would Mr. Bookwalter be in favor of an ordinance requiring the gas companies to receive pay from gas consumers only for the amount of gas used, under the present manner of supplying gas, and Is he willing to assist in the passage of an ordinance protecting the consumers of natural gas against gas companies, which collect pay for gas not used or delivered?" Frankly, Mr. Taggart, do you not think the people of Indianapolis are. intelligent enough to see through your attempted jugglery of this gas question? Are you any more sincere in this position now than you were on tho subject of seventy-five-cent illuminating gas? If elected, I shall favor any and all legislation required to protect the consumers of natural gas In their legitimate rights as against the demands of the companies. Is it not a trifle unfortunate that Mr. Maguire, your candidate, wholly overlooked this question in his letter? GAS MAINS TAX. "3. Is Mr. Bookwalter in favor of taxing the natural gas mains, a right which is conferred upon the city under its contract with the gas companies, but which the present Republican Council has refused to enforce?" In answer to this question I would suggest that you read my letter of acceptance. In this connection, let me inquire, Mr. Taggart, if you are honest now in favoring such legislation; if you had in mind at the time you fixed the fifty-nine-cent levy that such tax was necessary, please tell the people of Indianapolis why you did not use the same Council which you used to fix that levy to pass the ordinance fixing such tax? The Council was Democratic, and you controlled it. Whs It good busines to establish a levy which you knew would be inadequate to the needs of the city, without at the same time enacting the necessary legislation which would provide the additional revenue rendered necessary by the decreased levy? In passing. Mr. Taggart. let me ask why did Mr. Maguire, your candidate for mayor, forget to mention this question in his letter of acceptance? ELEVATED TRACKS. M. Mr. Bookwalter says-ho is in favor of elevated tracks, and if that is not possible, then some other means of relief should bo speedily found. In case Mr. Bookwalter finds that track elevation is not possible, without sjKcial legislation and amendment to the city charter, will he please state what mode of relief ho would favor?'' In answer to this question, I would say that should the courts hold the ordinance w hich you have passed and for the sake of argument we will admit that you passed it in good faith, although ii requires a violent stretch of the imagination to do i-o should the courts hold this ordinance to be invalid. 1 asstire the people .if Indianapolis that it will require less time lor me to reach a satisfactory agreement with the railroad companies and the people affected by such crossings, by which arement the dangers thereof can be lessened, than It has required you to determine t Invalidity of your own ordinance. Should such ordinance be held valid It speaks for itself. REMOVAL OF HOSPITAL. "5. Mr. Bookwalter favors the removal of the hospital for the treatment of contagious diseases from within the city limits. Would he please be kind enough to

give us an Idea of where; he thinks it can be located?" In answer to this question, I will say that when I reach this bridge I will cross it. It Is not incumbent upon me at this time to find a location for this hospital, but when lhat duty does devolve upon me, it shall be removed to some location outside of the city limits where it will not be a menace to the health of a large portion of the taxpayers of Indianapolis; and. In addition, let me assure you that the land necessary for such purpose hall be purchased at no more than Its market value. DIVERSION OF 'FENDS. "C. Will Mr. Bookwalter plo.to state what money raised from tho sale of bonds, or otherwise, was used for any purpose other than that for which It was appropriated? In case ho had a surplus in the treasury, that was not needed for Immediate use. would ho prefer to no the surplus, which he had a b gal right to do, or would he prefer to borrow from outside scurcc3 and pay Interest on the same?" In answer to this question, I will ask you. Mr. Taggart, if you did not use the money borrowed for bridge purposed to pay current expenses; and by such use if you did not lead the people of Indianapolis to be'ieve that you had a balance in the city treasury at the time you adopted the recent levy, when, as a matter of fact, a deficit actually existed; did you not continue to use this money and deny that you were doing so until the refusal of the Republican Council to vote further bonds for fire department and City Hospital 'purposes in the spring of l'"o compelled you to confess that euch funds had been so used anil to ask for temporary loans to make pood this bridge monev. and then- and nt until then, did you claim that U was a legitimate exercise of the rights of the city government to make use of such specially borrowed funds? In reference to -my management of a surplus, 1 would most respectfully suggest that In view of the condition in which you will leave tho rlty treasury at the close of your term of office, my time can be more profitably spent in studying some manner of handling- a deficit. You do not mean to say to the people of Indianapolis, do you, thi't you at any time had a surplus In the city treasury after the first day ot September, IS't'.i. except for about forty-eight hours after the first day of December and Juno of each year, when the taxes were made available in a settlement with the city treasurer? PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. "7. Mr. Bookwalter says be is in favor of the continuation of public improvements, and that the people that pay for them should have a voice In determining their kind and character. Does he mop.n by 'voice' that a majority petitioning for a certain kind of improvement shnll have the kind of improvement they desire? If not, what does he mean by 'a voice in determining the matter?" In answer to this question, I would say that should I be elected, the people of Indianapolis will bo spared the disgraceful scenes connected with the letting of the paving contracts on North Meridian and North West streets, matters which are still fresh in the minds of every student of city affairs. USE OF PUBLIC MONEY. "8. Mr. Bookwalter says that public money has boon extravagantly and recklessly used. Will he please state where a a dollar of public money has been misappropriated or wrongfully used?" In answer to this question, Mr. Taggart, I would ask if you remember the time when you spent thousands oT dollars of the "people's money, just prior to a city election, scraping the channel of rogue's run, and then allowing the dirt taken therefrom to lie upon the bank and to be washed back into the channel at the first rain? Have you failed to observe the pay rolls of the street commissioner's department just prior to the city elections of 1M7 and ls:9 and the general elections of ISM, POS and when thousands of dollars more were squandered in useless work upon unimproved-streets, work undertaken for no other purpose than to hold in line wavering voters who could not be reached in any other way? Do you have any recollection of how a $2.! contagious disease l'und was spent in 1VJ7 in two weeks? Why, if the money was not wrongfully used, did you refuse to allow the horde that fed on this amount to draw pay at the health office, but had them paid outside of the city offices? Was it not for fear of the newspapers? FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT. "9. Mr. Bookwalter charges that the financial management of the city has been extravagant and reckless, and 1 would ask him whether Indianapolis does not rank as the twentv-first city in the United States, and if the report of the United States Bureau of Labor at Washington, for September,. 1!m""0, does not show that its per capita cost of government is the lowest of any of the thirty leading cities of the United States?" In answer to this question, Mr. Taggart, I would ask if you do not know that the figures upon which the report of the Bureau of Labor were based included, in so far as other cities of the same class as Indianapolis are concerned, a large proportion of

the cost of permanent improvements and repair of streets, and the construction of other public works, which charges in this city are levied directly against the abutting property owners, and as a result of this condition an apparent low per capita cost of government is shown in Indianapolis; and has not the major portion of the expense of repairing and improving the streets been paid by the companies laying such roadways under their time guaranty to the city, and thus did not enter into the estimate of the expense of management of city affairs? Do not the other cities include in their estimates tho cost of workhouses and penal institutions, water works maintenance, schools and other Items which are not included in the estimate for the city of Indianapolis? APPROPRIATION OF MONEY. "10. Mr. Bookwalter charges that the city has been extravagant in expenditures. Will he point to a dollar that has been expended, except in pursuance of appropriations for such expenditures made by the Republican Common Council?" In answer to this question, I would ask you if it is not a fact that all appropriations are made by the Council in a lump sum and are expended by your boards without the necessity of reporting to any other body, and are not such appropriations, when once made, absolutely under their control, and beyond the power of the Council to regulate? DEFAULTING OF BONDS. "11. Was it due to ignorance, or willful desire to misrepresent, that Mr. Bookwalter said .that '.im of bonds of this city were defaulted'." Does he know that no bonds of the city, at any time, under any administration, were ever defaulted, and that the city could never have enjoyed the splendid credit it now has if such a thing had taken place?" It was a trine unfortunate for you, Mr. Taggart, that on the day following the propounding of this question Mr. Woollen, controller under Mr. Sullivan, admitted, through the columns of. the Indianapolis Sentinel, that there had been a default, but apologized for it on the ground that it was merely a technical default. Let me quote from the report of Mr. Woollen, submitted to tho Common Council a short time after this transaction, ami then answer me, if you can. as to whether or not such condition constituted a de-fault of city obligations" If such default was not made, why were the taxpayers penalized to the extent ef one-half of 1 per cent, in order that the financial honor and credit of the city might bo protected? Why was this bonus paid to the New York Lite Insurance Company unless it was to induce them to stand between the city and Its unpaid creditors? I quote you from Mr. Woollen's communication: "On the -ytih day of May last K'3) the city controller awarded to Coffin & Stanton. ef New York. ?!;'jl.o of the city's 41- per cent, thirty-year refunding bonds at par; they having made I hi- highest offer for Hum of any of the hid Urs. i bey d-po.- d with the Merchants' National Bank, f thi city, to the credit of the ity. &5I for which the bank i-ud to the tlty h r certificate of deposit. In regular form, payable to the order of the city treasurer, i I.V iepo.it was made to insure the taking of the bonds by Coffin ,v Stanton, and thamount was to forfeit to the city in case they failed t d- so. They did fail, and when the city treasurer : res n ted said certificate to th Merchants' Natior.al Bank and demanded payment thereof, payment was refuwd on the mund that. Cofi'm .v Slrnton had noticed them nm to pay said certificate to the ci;. on account of tl. fa Mi; re of Conin Stanton to take j.. ! ,f tb" city n funding bonds awarded to tfieni l.u-t May. vhiih was to be taken and paid for n tl - tirst day of July last, the city was unable to pay at maturity ..-o'.i.o of her 7-o bond-, due July 1, lv.:. I ha e the phaure cf informing the Council that I have made arrangements with the New York Life Insurance Company to cash and hold until the first of July next all of tlif -i' bond, which the owner did not choose to hold. The company 1. to receive 7 3-W interest on tho amount of her oatlay ttho sam rate of Interest the bonds have hitherto drawn;, and E:e -Uty ua, tüw

right to pay them ofT at any time nfter th first of January r.ext. by cMr.f: thirty days", notice and paying one-half of 1 yrr cent, for the privilege." Permit me. Mr. Tacsart. to nuk yre.i pr. question, wi.irh I believe is warranted by the fact that oii have i ubrr.ittcd to mo the eleven question win !i I h:ve answered. Are you tunnirc Mr. M-esiire on your own record; er is Mr. Maguire running himself on your record? Having row answe red o;.r q'je? tlor..", Mr. Taggart. I wish. to say to you in chision that, from this time until ti.e day of the election the isue 1 shall strive t present to the people of Indianapolis i your management of public affairs. Realizingthat this subject comprehensive enough to engross my time. I mo:-t klr. !!y and respectfully suggest to y.u that farther questions shall receive only such treatment as is possible to offer to any other political argument. CHARLES A. BOOKWALTER. Indianapolis. Sojd. 11. AT THE 0. P. MORTON CLUB

not mm; mf.etin; of son ii Mim HE PI IJI.1CANS. AddrcKc Made hy ( harlcn A. flookvnllor. Imr-lo N. Klllott nnd Other 4'nndidittc. A rousing Republican meeting was he'd last night at tho O. P. Morton Club, corner Shelby htreet and Cottage avenue. Despite the rainy weather the roomy club looms were packed with enthusiastic South Sid citizens, who were anxious to bear and encourage tho Republican nominees, who spoke to them eluring the evening. Charles A. Bookwalter, Republican nominee for mayor, who was the principal speaker of the evening, took advantage oS tho occasion to reply to the questions which were propounded to him some time ago by Mayor Taggart, and which are set out In full In another part of this Issue of the Journal. At the close of his address Mr. Bookwalter referred to the lax methods employed by the present administration in suppressing the unlawful attacks made by the Bungaloos upon the colored people of this city. "I am at a loss," said Mr. Bookwalter, "to understand why these outrages against society at large and the colored citizens of this city in particular 'have been allowed to continue. But this I promise that in the event of my election I shall not only conduct a clean, business-like administration, but will see to It that every citizen In this city, regardless of his color. Is protected in the rights to which he is entitled under the law, and in the event that the man whom 1 shall appoint as chief of police fails to do his duty In this respect, he shill be removed instantly." In conclusion Mr. Bookwalter said: "I feel confident that tho Republican ticket will be elected in Oetober. This time wo will have 1!'5 Republican inspectors to guard our interests. If we are defeated It must be by the ballots that are placed in the boxes before H p. m. on the day of tho election, for under the circumstances our Democratic friends cannot hope to again do the work between the hours of h and 11 1. m." Charles N Elliott, candidate for city clerk, made a brief speech, in which bo assured his hearers that if he were elected the Republican party would have no cause to blush for his administration of affairs. "The fees of the office shall be diligently collected." said Mr. Elliott, "and l will promise you that no one shall be allowed to stay a fine who is pot entirely responsible. There will be no necessity under my administration for a legal investigation by the attorney general." Judge 11. Clay Allen, of tha Circuit Court, Fpoko of Mr. Bookwalter's fitness for the otlk-o which he sought to fill. Ho advised those present that it was much more to their interests to make the proper selection of a man to preside over tho affairs of the city of Indianapolis than the choosing of a man for President of tho United States for the reason that their financial interests were more directly concerned. Speeches were also made by George Stebol. J. B. Hopkins, ward candidate for Councilman, and others. Addressed n Nonn Meeting. Charles A. Bookwalter addressed about fifty workmen yesterday at noon at the fiats which are being constructed on Capitol I avenu?, near Twelfth street. Speaking particular!' to the colored men among his auditors, Mr. Bookwalter said: "I want to that I will appoint a police force which will seo that every man will respect the rights of every other man, no matter what the color of his skin." The noon meetings may be held generally in order to reach the laboring class who have no other time to listen to the candidates. Rev. It. V. Hunter's Speech. An erroneous Impression concerning Rev. It. V. Hunter's address before the Prohibition League' last Monday night has gone abroad. The central Idea of Mr. Hunter's talk was that the dominating issue should be the moral rather than the financial tide of the city's life. While he alluded to no candidate specifically he urge-d tht voters should cast their ballots only for uch men having a good chance to le elected as had pledged themselves to uphold the law. Candidate for State Office. Titus E. Kinzie, of South Bend, an Instructor in the blind asylum of this city, has announced his candidacy for the nomination as superintendent of public Instruction at the next Republican State convention. FALL FLOWER SHOW, The Ilorticnltnrnl Hull Programme at (he Slate Fair. One of the largest halls on the fair ground will next week bo occupied by exhibits of fruits and flowers. The llowtf show will open at roon Tuesday, when the judges will begin tying on prize ribbons, and during the week of the state fair a number ef special displays will be given. In the regular displays awards will b made for palms, ferns and blooming plants. The first "fioral day" will !o Wednesday afternoon, when prize will be given lor baskets of flowers, cut roses, cut bloon? and for the best collection of dahlias. Ths second floral day will occur Thursday, beginning at 1) a. m. For the best arrangement of flowers an award of JV will bs paid, the second will reetive J:T und the U.ird $15. The fair management thinks these awards will stimulate- Interest nmorjf flower growers. The best collection of cut gladieii will receive P.", the second M and the .tnird .". Similar prize are to be awarded on Thursday for the best bouquets. The amateur flower growers wid have a contest for ribbons on two days of the fair. They will exhibit plants on Wodnedav. Including foliage plants and climbing and trailing vlne. The cut-flower show Iv the amateurs will be ha id Thursday afternoon, wh'ii hixte n awards wiil be" made to winners. .1. S. C. Wnlkcr Complain to Police. J. S. C. Walker, of t'i South Illinois street, reported to the police t-terday that he had bcri swindled out of $23 by a man who ,ave his name as Edward Murray, of Urb ma. 111. Several woks ago Walker's fourter n-v ear-old sn Arthur left .lome and falling into bad eo-i:pa:i. was arI -t .1 at Uiban.i and el 14 ro I with tfn tblt of a 'o?eyfe. Aug. ."a the man claiming to Ih- Muiray (alhd at hia place with his wife arid childroa n;:d r pn s.'.itM that )ic hibituallv vMud the jil to have heart-to-heart talks" with criminals with the i le.t of Inducing thetn to forsake tloir e ;! w.v ?. He clainud M b. well acquainted v.ilh the authorities at Urbana and that the ci- cou'd be s-ttled by the oayment of ;3 to tho (.ttp.tr of the stolen whe. Mr. Walker i:ave op the ?o anj kept the man a:"l his family over nlr-.t. A his soa falb-. 1 to reach home the follow in,; Saturday he wrote to I'rbana. and rns advised that the man was ifodubted! one known there as Edward ' uu. win whs nn Impostor nd had tvrved time lor UvItJtuUiu milieu