Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 305, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1902.

THE DAILY JOURNAL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1.

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C Rlggs House, Ebbltt . use, Fairfax Hotel. Willard Hotel. DENVER. COL. Louthain a Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. DAYTON, O.-J. V. WUkle, South Jefferson street. COLUMBUS. O. Viaduct News Stand, M4 High street The Hon. Grover Cleveland Is long on theories but very short on facts. Advice to every Republican: Get out your own vote and get it in early. lt every Republican do his duty next Tuesdsy as he did it in 1894, 1896, 1898 and 10, and all will be well. The only hope of the Democratic managers In Indiana is in the failure of Republicans to go to the polls. :t may as well be admitted that there is no probability of the Hon. Grover Cleveland becoming a convert to protection. o use a phrase originated by Mr. Cleveland, "It Is a condition that confronts us, not a theory " The condition is prosperity. If the American people really want a change from present conditions to those which prevailed prior to 1896 they know bow to get it. Republican railroad men and traveling mn who are entitled to vote in the city should make arrangements to be at home on election day. The Bryan Democrat cannot fail to see th3 prominence which Mr. Cleveland is assuming in the present campaign, while Mr. B yan is not mentioned. A vote for the Republican candidates for the Legislature in every district in the State is a uirect vote for Charles W. Fairbanks for United States senator. After Mr. Ensley made an itemized acc unt of his expenses incident to the print-try election, showing a total of 13,000, Why does the Sentinel state editorially that be expended 16.000? The Democratic managers, under the direction of ex-Mayor Tagfjart, are attempting to stampede Republicans in the last days of the campaign. Such tactics have faired in the past, and it is needless to add they will fail now. The coal commission has acted wisely In Visiting the mining region and investigating all the mining processes before proceeding to take evidence. This personal investigation of actual conditions will greatly ail its later deliberations. inasmuch as Mr. Cleveland has not alluded to the Cleveland-Carlisle project tor an issue of bank bills on the assets of st te and other banks, it seems that Mr. Dann might persuade himself that asset currency is not an issue. Tie Interstate-commerce Commission bas subpoenaed several Chicago railroad officials to testify In the Investigation of alleged rate discriminations. Investigations of such abuses are only made under a Republican administration. It is said that General Corbln, In bis annual report, wi'l recommend that the army canteen be re-established and that the Secretary of war will concur in the recommendation. The public would be glad to see the question settled and disposed of one way or the other. Mr. Cleveland seems to think his f reell ad e message of 1887 furnishes the best material for a campaign speech in 1902. He fcrgets that that message has been passed upon by the people in four presidential and twice as many congressional elections, and their verdict is one of almost uninterrupted condemnation. The calamity organ says that every union Cigar maker in this city has full employ -srent. That Is because he is protected against the cigars which could b made cheaper in Cuba and other countries, and biso because the wage earners of this State are earning wages which enable them to purchase cigars liberally. If there is a combination of local retail oal dealers to "freeze out" retail dealers not in the combination it is using illegal jflSthods and should be broken up. Fair a mptltion. no matter how fierce, is one thing, and combination in restraint of trade e against particular dealers ia quite an-c-.her. Such a combination would be illegal at common law, and the statute makes it clearly so. Many people charged upon the Hearst r pers. after the assassination of President McKinley, that their vile cartoons representing him as an imbecile helped to inspire euch men as the President's assassin With the desire to commit the crime. The Mew York Post, very independent, in a re-

cent Issue refers to It, now that Mr. Hearst Is a candidate for Congress, and recalls the outburst of public indignation at the Hearst papers at the time of Mr. McKlnley's assassination. Tdt the Democratic committee in this State is circulating a pamphlet of the Hearst cartoons.

GKOl.M) OF REI'l BLICAU COX FI dkm::. Republicans who are in the best position to know are not going about making predictions for publication. They did not do so two or four years ago; nevertheless they have substantial grounds for entire confidence that the Republican ticket will be elected. Any Republican who has examined the reports of the thirty-day poll, made on blanks sent to the Republican state committee, of which there are thousands, signed by the precinct committees, has good cause for confidence in a Republican success next Tuesday in Indiana. An examination of many of these reports, coming from every section of the State, justifies the Journal in sharing that confidence. They show that the local organization is active, and that a careful canvass has been made throughout the State. The result of this canvass Is that the Republicans will do as well as they did two years ago. To the inquiry, "Will any who voted the Republican ticket two years ago vote the Democratic ticket this year?" the general response la "Not any." The same report shows that candidates who are named may be cut a few votes. In scores of these reports the number of those who were Democrats two years ago, but who will vote with the Republicans this year, is given. A few of these reports have shown unfavorable local conditions which the committee has made an effort to overcome, but that number is very small. For several years the state committee has relied upon these reports, because the result has very generally sustained the statements of the local committees. Very naturally, the state committee has coni fldence in their reports this year, and upon such reports Its members are firm in the belief that the Republicans will carry Indiana with the average plurality of the last three elections. This opinion is based upon the assumption that Republicans all over the State will go to the polls. If it were entirely certain that every Republican voter would go to the polls there would be no doubt that the full expectations of the canvassers would be fully realized. There is always a doubt about this, because some voters do not realise the importance of making an effort to bring out every Republican voter in every precinct. The outcome is now with the individual Republican voter in the three thousand precincts. If he does his individual duty as in 1896, 1898 and 1900 Indiana will stand firm ia the Republican column. As the Republican voter has been doing his duty six years, it Is not possible that he will help to win a Democratic victory in 1902 by neglecting to vote. MARKING BALLOTS. In a county in an Eastern State where there was a sharp contest over the local offices, causing a great deal of voting outside the regular ticket, 8 per cent, of the voters disfranchised themselves by so marking their ballots that they were not counted. The errors were made in the attempt to vote split tickets. There Is reason to believe that the number of ballots rejected because of the marking is not less than four in each one hundred, and that hundreds of men vote for but one name on a ballot, thinking they are voting the whole straight ticket. In the last election several thousand voters in Indiana placed the X in the square at the left of the first section for President and imagined they had voted the entire ticket. In the hope of correcting some of these misapprehensions the following instructions are given: ft. Do not state what party ticket you propose to vote after entering the booth, as to do so will compel the officers to order you to leave without voting. 2. If you wish to vote a straight Republican ticket, place the X In the circle which surrounds the eagle, and nowhere else. If you should place the X in the circle and at the left of any name on the ballot your vote will be thrown out In the counting. S. If you think you must vote a mixed ticket you must put the X at the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote and not within the circle containing the party emblem. 4. Do not make any other mark on the ballot but the X, and that only in the party circle or in the square at the left of a candidate's name for whom you desire to vote. 5. Fold the ballots any way that will expose the initials of the precinct clerks, which makes the ballots legal. Hand the ballots to the inspector when you come out of the booth and pass out. 6. The scratching of a ballot, the putting of the least observable mark on it, will cause it to be thrown out. The man whose enthusiasm led him to attempt to draw the likeness of the late President McKinley on the Democratic side of the ballot disfranchised himself, as did the very funny voter who drew a rooster with a blue pencil on the face of the ballot after putting the X in the circle with the rooster. Lastly, to avoid errors of all kinds, make the X in the circle with the eagle. By so doing the voting will be done sensibly and safely. EX-PRESini:TIAL VITUPERATION. When a letter from ex-President CleveI land was read at a Tammany meeting in New York a few nights ago the chairman ! prefaced it with the remark that "one blast upon his bugle horn were worth a thousand I men." The blast has come, but it would puzzle anybody to discover its fetching quality. The ex-President s speech at Morristown, N. J., did not contain a new fact, idea, illustration or argument. It was simply a repetition of stereotyped denunciations of protection and eulogies of free trade which have been completely disproved by experience. It was a strong presentation of theories, but there was not a statement of fact nor a figure in It. Persons who are paying some attention to the present camlaign must have noticed one marked dlf- ! lir twi on Republic, an ami Democratic speeches; the former bristle with facts, figures and statistics showing the resulta of Republican policies and legislation, while the latter contain nothing but vehement denials, vituperative attacks and exploded theories. Mr. Cleveland never was a very able defender of free trade. He discussed the subject in all of his annual messages, advancing arguments that were threadbare when he was a boy and throwing no new light on any phase of it. Partly aa the re

sult of his harping on the subject the Wilson-Gorman tariff act was passed which led to the overthrow of his party in 1894 and 1896. Yet he continues to butt his head against the same stone wall, and even quotes at considerable length from his message of 1887 to prove that he is right in 1Ü02. A statesman who has learned nothing and forgotten nothing in fifteen years so full of history as the last fifteen is wedded to his idols beyond hope of divorce. Aside from its empty theories and unsupported statements, the speech was chiefly remarkable for its vituperation. An exPresident who persists in substituting adjectives and epithets for argument must still maintain a semblance of dignity in his speech. His vituperation must be out of the ordinary. So in Mr. Cleveland's speech we find such expressions as "vicious, inequitable and illogical source of taxation;' "the arrogance and greediness of tariff beneficiaries;" "the bill was full of abominations;" "the promoters of tariff benefits were as unregenerate as ever, as arrogant as ever;" "the unyielding tenacity of high tariff rapacity and arrogance;" "the vicious and dangerous progeny born of tariff license and depravity," etc. The stilted language in which this vituperation is couched does not prevent it from being an attack on the motives of the advocates of protection and of all who are benefited by It, which includes the great body of the American people. A considerable part of the speech was given to deriding the idea that tariff revision should be Intrusted to the friends of the tariff, that is, to the friends of protection. Mr. Cleveland includes all such in the sweeping category of "those who seek to grow rich with government help at the expense of the people, with their aiders and abettors." He does not admit the possibility of any person believing as honestly in the theory of protection as he does in the theory of free trade, and he lumps all the friends of protection together as dishonest supporters of a policy "whose progressive greed and ruthlessness Is becoming more and more a menace to the welfare and happiness of our people." He even characterizes the claim of Republicans as "the hoaryheaded, bloated and malodorous old fraud and pretense that the tariff should be revised by Ita friends." One blast on such a bugle-horn as that ought to be worth more than a thousand votes for protection to American Industries and wages. WILD STATEMENTS VS. SOLID FACTS. In his speech at Milwaukee ex-Senator Vilas cited the Standard Oil Company and the United States Steel Corporation in support of his argument against trusts. The Standard OH Company was formed In 1882 and was, of course, In operation during both of Mr. Cleveland's administrations and while Mr. Vilas was in the Senate, yet neither Mr. Cleveland nor himself ever uttered a word against it. Whether it has worked good or harm to the people is an open question. It has made a great deal of money, but corporations cannot be prevented from making money any more than individuals or partnership firms can. Everybody knows that it has Improved the quality and cheapened the price of oil. As Secretary Root said In his speech In New

York: "The organizers of the Standard Oil Company have made a great deal of money. but the poorest Amet'can farmer is lighting his little house to-night at trifling cost more brilliantly than palaces were lighted a century ago." Of the United States Steel Corporation Mr. Vilas said: "Its own manufactures constitute three-fourths of American production in its line. It owns four hundred plants for manufacture, railroads and equipment, blast furnaces and apparently about threefourths of the iron mines of the United States." This is gross exaggeration. Mr. Vilas says the United States Steel Corporation controls three-fourths of American production In that line. The United States census report for 1900 says that all tht combinations of iron and steel industries control only 28 per cent, of the production In that line. There are other large combinations in ti e iron and steel business besides the Unites States Steel Corporation, and altogether they controlled in 1900 only 28 per cent, of the entire production yet Mr. Vilas says the United States Steel Corporation alone controlled three-fourths of the production. He also said a "it owns four hundred plants for manufacture," etc. The census report shows that there are forty combinations in iron and steel products, and that the whole number control 447 plants. Does anybody believe that only one out of these forty combinations controls 400 out of 447 plants? Mr. Vilas's statement refutes itself. It was not only misleading, but false. Secretary Root threw some light on the question when he said: The latest and greatest combination the United States Steel Corporation was supposed to be an overwhelming monopoly, but the statistics of the American Iron and Steel Association for last August show that already in the year 1901 independent companies produced over 57 per cent, of the iron ore of the country, over 57 per cent, of the total pig iron, over 40 per cent, of the bessemer steel rails, over 37 per cent, of the structural iron, over 49 per cent, of all rolled products. We forget the Cambria Steel Company, the Pennsylvania Steel Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company and the Republic Iron and Steel Company and scores of other great establishments of hundreds of mills and furnaces. Com petition is growing, new plants are being equipped. The Union Steel Company is building, the Crucible 8teel Company is building, the Lackawanna Steel Company is building at Buffalo, in our own State, a $30.000,100 plant. Are you going to ruin all such independent industries for the purpose of punishing trusts, or are you going to help them in their competition by wise regulation and seeing to it. If need be, that the big concern is fair to the smaller ones? Note the difference. Mr. Vilas made a broad, unsupported false statement, while Secretary Root gave facts and figures. That illustrates the difference between the Republican and the Democratic way. FREE TRADE ASD INDUSTRIAL GROWTH INCOMPATIBLE. A well-known man in one of the financial institutions of this city, who Is an enterprising citizen, said last spring at the time ot the dedication of the soldiers' monument, that the raising of money to entertain conventions and to cause national bodies to meet here was money wasted. "What we need in Indianapolis is acres of factories, and all our energies should be devoted to inducing them to come here; that will give us a population which will make trade." Singularly enough, the citizen making that remark is aaid to be a free trader. As a well-informed business man, familiar with the past, he nor any other unprejudiced, thinking man could expect that a factory would be built In this city more than we have if there was a reasonable or half-reasonable fear that a tariff for revenue only would be enacted within three or four years. If the Indications pointed to a free-trade Congress two

years hence, with a free-trade President, the great manufacturing industries would at once begin to trim their sails for the storm. An honest tariff for revenue only means free trade in all the articles which are made largely in this country, since any duty on any article largely made in this country would be more or less protective. If there were no duty on glass and all the manufactures of iron scores in number in this state the manufacturers here would come in direct competition with those of Europe on the same level. In

the glass industry wages paid in Indiana i are more than double those paid in Belgium and Prance. All grades of workers in Iron in this country are paid from 50 to 75 per cent, more than is paid the same ; class of workers in Germany. Here the J free-trader will say that "the superiorlty of American machinery and the superiority of American mechanics and skilled workmen will enable us to compete with Europe without a duty." Professor Sumner, of Yale University, said to a committee of Congress that "free trade is based upon assumptions." It is an assumption, and a false one, that the United States is far superior to Europe in manufacturing machinery, since, as a matter of fact, Germany is well up with us and is making rapid progress. In workmen, with the technical education which Germany affords, there are no better in the world. Our advantage is that a liberally nourished people can perform more in a given time, but not enough, by any means, to make up for a difference of 40 to 60 per cent in wages. Even under the GormanWilson law, with free wool and a duty on woolen goods of not less than 25 per cent, ad valorem, a third of the woolen mills In New England were closed and a large part of the others ran short hours, with reduced wages. Great Britain, Germany and Prance came into a large trade lost by the American producer. In all these years there was not a woolen mill built in the East. If glass were put upon the free list, as it should be under a tariff for revenue only, not a factory could be run In Indiana unless the glass workers should give up about half their wages. There is no middle ground on this question, and now that it Is pushed to the front In this State by the Democratic leaders who have squelched Bryanism, it must be considered In this campaign. In order to carry out a theory, do the men who work for wages desire to go back to the days of 1894-1S96? If they do, they should vote the Democratic ticket. A dispatch says that when Mr. Cleveland closed his speech at Morrlstown and left the hall "his manner was so impressive that the crowd remained a long time, spellbound, looking at his retreating car riage before they remembered it was time to cheer." Mr. Jacob P. Dunn, Democratic candidate for Congress In this district, had a somewhat similar experience when he made the opening speech of his campaign. The Sentinel said: "When he closed the entire audience still remained In their seats." Are Democratic speakers resorting to hypnotism i The Peru Republican says that cards have been sent to that city giving the purported opinions of Representative Calderhead, of Kansas, hostile to labor unions. Mr. Calderhead's attention having been called to the matter, he has written a let ter to a friend In Peru, stating that he had never expressed such opinions as are attributed to him, but if he had what has it to do with the election in Indiana? Such performances are those of very little men. Every man in Indiana who is familiar with state affairs knows that they were never administered with greater fidelity and so absolutely upon business principles as they have been the past few years under Republican officers carrying out the requirements of Republican laws. Every voter who wishes to continue such administration should vote the entire Republican ticket next Tuesday. The anthracite coal commission will establish several precedents. To begin with, it is the first commission of the kind ever appointed, it is the first commission that has ever declined the proffer of a free train to travel In, and it is the first time a United States judge has ever gone down a coal shaft wearing overalls and a miner's cap. Ex-Mayor Taggart's dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer declaring that Democratic prospects in Indiana are bright for a Democratic victory is In nearly the same words as his prediction the Monday before the election of 1894, when the Republicans carried the State by 44,000 and three-fourths of the lower branch of the Legislature. One of the most remarkable movements of modern times Is the seml-rellgious and fanatical migration of the Russian Doukhobor sect in Canada. Thus far they seem to be Inspired by a very high motive of some kind, but the movement can only end In failure and distress. THE HUMORISTS. A Man of Family. Detroit Free Prees. "Are you a man of family, sir?" "Heavens, yes! My third son-in-law moves in to-day." Prepared. Richmond Dispatch. "So the doctor says there is no hope for Gruffman ?" "So he told me." "Do you think his wife Is prepared for the worst?" "I should say so; why. she's lived with him for more than twenty years." Formal Announcement. Philadelphia Press. "Mr. Backlott asked me." said the reporter of the Suburban Chronicle, "to put In this notice: 'The engagement is announced of Miss Bridget O'Callahan to Mr. Blugore Backlotz.' "Nonsense." exclaimed the editor, "Mr. Backlots Is already married." "You don't understand. He wants everybody to know that he has engaged a cook. Miss O'Callahan is it." Not i p to Date. Brooklyn Eale. "Hia novel was a failure, I understand." "Of course, it tvat." "Why. of course?" "(h. he was so terribly behind the time." "In what way''" "M'hy. he called his heroine Elixabfth. and everyone knows that's entirely out of date. We are now tn the Dorothy cycle of literature, and 1 have an idea that Josephine is coming next." Hard to Believe. Washington Smr "Well, I never!" exclaimed Mrs. Bllggins. What's the matter?" asked her husband, in a startled tone, as he turned around from bl having glass. "The idea of a grown man like you standing

thre for live minutes at a time admiring yourself." "I'm not admiring myself. My feelings are those of astonishment, not admiration. I can't realize that I'm tin- same person who years ago was called precious pet' and held on people's knees and kissed by the neighbors. It's an awful thought.-' Life Preserver. Judge. "There seems to be considerable excitement in your town to-day." said the visitor. "Yes," answered the native. "Several o' the fellers is present in' a life-savin' medal to Henry Piller." "What sort of a hero is Piller? Did he rescue some one from a burning building, stop a runaway or drag a drowning person from the raging waves?" ' Nope; nothin' like that. You see, our town has been local option for nigh onto a year, an' Filler runs the only drug store we have." NO CHECK 10 BUSINESS

LEGITIMATE TRADE PAYS 0 ATTENTION TO THE CAMPAIGN. Iron, Steel, Footwear nnd the Textiles Bradstreet on Trade Condition The Week's Hunk Clearings. NEW YORK. Oct. 31 R. O. Dun & Co.'b Weekly Review to-morrow will say: Speculation waits on politics, but general business is not disturbed by the abproaching election. New labor controversies have been promptly settled by advancing wages, and the gradual improvement in the supply of coal has reduced prices and restored activity in manufacturing. Complaints are increasing as to the tardy movement of freight, miles of cars being stalled by the lack of motive power, and many roads refuse to accept further shipments until the blockades are relieved. Lower temperature has stimulated retail sales of seasonable merchandise, but frost comes too late to seriously injure agricultural products. Liberal consumption sustains quotations in most lines, domestic demands being supplemented by large exports. Operating expenses of the railways have increased in many cases to such a degree that net earnings are somewhat curtailed, but gross earnings for October thus far exceed last year's by 4.7 per cent., and those of 1900 by 13.5 per cent. Undue significance is attached to the announcement that the Frick Company will not advance next year's price for coke above $3. Although this is in line with other conservative efforts of leading interests to prevent inflated prices, the probable influence on the outside market will not be great, as the bulk of the output will go to the various plants of the United States Steel Corporation. Meanwhile sales are being made at $16 in extreme cases and the scarcity has about closed blast furnaces. The future course of the iron and steel Industry will be largely influenced by the fuel shortage, much business being permanently lest to home producers and prices in some departments already show the effect of disorganized conditions. Railway needs have not diminished, numerous large orders constantly appealing, while the pressure for locomotives is causing large premiums to be offered. Structural shapes for bridge and shipbuilding are next in point of urgent demand. Agreement on the tin plate wage scale may secure a lot of business that now goes ont of the country, and some reduction in prices is expected. Wire nails are also cheaper, but as a rule quotations are well maintained. New England shoe manufacturers are receiving additional orders at fully sustained quotations, and many shops are assured of occupation well Into January. Supplementary orders for winter goods have decreased, indicating that wants will be supplied when shipments are made, and producers are pushing deliveries In order to take inventories. leather is in better demand, with prices firmer. More interest has been shown in Chicago packer hides at recently reduced prices, but the average of all grades is again lower. Conditions at the cotton mills are healthy, a scarcity of goods being general, while there is no disposition to force transactions. It is eatly for supplementary buying of spring woolen goods and fall trade is finished, so that these divisions of market are naturally quiet. Raw wool is very firm at the leading Western markets, which are shipping freely to the mills. Failures for the week numbered 233 in the United States, against 191 last year, and 22 in Canada, compared with 21 a year ago. Confidence for the Future. NEW YORK. Oct. 31. Bradstreefs tomorrow will gay: Confidence in the outlook for next year's business is a notable feature in the trade situation. The volume of orders booked for next spring's delivery is large for this season of the year and Is explained partly by the exceptionally good business done on fall and winter account and the large crop yields of the year, and also by the good position of the winter wheat crop as cold weather approaches. The absence of killing frosts at the South has allowed of the maturity of a considerable top crop of cotton. This has helped the trade situation there while acting as a brake on the tendency of the price of that staple to advance. The demand for wheat has been active on milling account, the Pacific coast being reported buying at Northwestern markets. Flour, though demand is reported less satisfactory, Is higher on the week. Cotton goods are unchanged and quite steady. Distribution and the outlook in the dry goods trade generally is very good. The great rush of fall buying at the West is now over, but orders are good, although colder weather would benefit retail trade materially. A feature is the confidence with which buyers take hold of holiday goods and give orders for spring delivery. Collections are as a whole good, but hesitation is still noted at some Southwestern markets. The winter wheat crop is all in and most of it is up and growing finely. Southern trade advices are that the fine open fall favors the making of a good top crop of cotton. Frosts as yet Ijave been light. At the East retail trade needs steady cold weather to stimulate demand, but jobbing business feels the effect of the lifting of the coal embargo. Wheat (including flour) exports for the week ended Oct. 30 aggregate 6,867,620 bu. against 7.0W.417 last week, 6.672.SSS in this week last year and 3.612.421 in 1900. Wheat exports since July 1 aggregated 91.428.937 bu. against 106.728.939 last season and 63.847.564 In 1900. Corn exports aggregated 153,209 bu. against M. .",! last week. t l.v last year and 3,920.110 in 1900. For the fiscal year corn exports are 1.7W.035 bu. against i6,7ü9,290 last season and 7,380,452 In 1900 WEEK'S RANK CLEARINGS. Indianapolis Total 1 1 ,MS.24. a Gain of 24. Per t ent. NEW YORK. Oct 31. -The following table, compiled by Bradstreet. shows the bank clearings at the principal cities for the week ended Oct. 30. with the percentage of increase and decreate as compared with the corresponding wenk last year: Inc. DeC New York 11.401.974.481 4.7 Chicago 161,72.1S5 2.9 Boston 120,901. 416 j'i Philadelphia l'j.l43..:Ä .... 6 8t. Louis 47.188.415 14.8 .. Pittsburg 41.219.111 i.o .... Baltimore 22.2.31 4.8 . Han Francisco 28.090.J0 5. Cincinnati .173.6.V Kansas nty MUM 12.0 .... Cleveland 14.218.218 12.4 .. Minneapolis 18.250.76 .... 21 New Ox leans 13.670.C4O 4.1 .... Detroit .406.619 .... 21. 0 Louisville .278.063 7.5 .... Indianajolia 11.538.264 24. .... Providence .788.700 1.5 Omaha 7.022.462 3.3 Milwaukee 6,808.525 48.1 Buffalo 5.625.86 .... 7.1 St. Paul .1.708 13.1 .... Peoria .0.00 10.4 .... Toledo 3.U4.0S8 57. .... Evansvlll 1,07.044 24.9 ..... Sprlngneld. Ill 595.72 19.0 .... BloomlnKton. Ill 288.56 .0 .... Jacksonville. Ill 11.2 5.2 .... Columbus. O 8.213.1 M l .... Decatur. Ill T38.439 Totals, United States t2.192.TM.508 4.4 7777 Outside New York 790,782,027 8.9 .... Not included In totals because containing other items than clearings.

DANGER IN DEMOCRACY

SENATOR BEVERIDGE DRAWS A LESSON FROM CLEVELAND'S SPEECH. Great Gathering of Republican at Colunibu Hears the Senator Spenk of Trusts and the Tariff. RIVAL WASHINGTON MEETINGS JIDGE (HANKY GETS THE CROWD: MIERS IS DISAPPOINTED. Question of Corrupt Practices In PutnamAllen Democrats Divided and Nearly HopelessOther Politics. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. COL-VMBCS, Ind., Oct. 31.-The Republican campaign closed here to-night, in so far as oratory is concerned, with a speech at the City Hall by Senator Albert J. Beveridge. The auditorium, which seats 1,200 people, was jammed almost to suffocation by enthusiastic admirers of Indiana's junior senator. The senator was to have arrived at 7:30 o'clock and arrangements had been made by the local committee to m. et him at the station at that time with a band and reception committee of 300 citizens from all over the county, but through a disagreeable blunder on the part of the routing clerk of the state central committee the senator arrived at 5 o'clock and consequently was not accorded the reception he would have received otherwise. The hall had been tastefully decorated for the occasion. Life-sized portraits of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt and Senators Fairbanks and Beveridsge adorned the stage and a profuse display of the national colors completed the scheme of decoration. The senator's entrance was the signal for a spontaneous outburst of applause, the warmth of which noticeably affected the senator. Senator W. W. Lambert presided over the meeting and introduced the speaker, who paid high tributes to Hugh Miller, Republican candidate for representative, and to Marshall E. Newhouse, of Decatur county, candidate for Joint senator. He urged their election for the double reason of their Individual fitness for legislators and for the reason that a United States senator will be elected by the next Legislature. He declared that Senator Fairbanks's successor would be Senator Fairbanks. The senator's speech was largely directed to the trust question, which he handled in a most convincing manner, and frequent and hearty applause greeted his telling points. The senator touched on the points elaborated in ex-President Cleveland's Morrlstown speech, in which connection he spoke as follows: "We have all read the speech of ex-President Cleveland. We all admire Bome of the qualities of character and mind of that strong and extraordinary man, but the best man is most wrong when he becomes possessed of a single idea to the exclusion of other Ideas. Monomania destroys perspective and proportion. Does any man think that it will be good for him to have the protective principle destroyed? For it is not a scientific revision for which the opposition asks; it is the protective principle with which they are at war. Tariff revision the Republican party will give. Tariff revision is a perpetual and unending necessity. Why? Because conditions change, and as conditions change the tariff on this or that or the other article needs modification to meet these new conditions. But the fatal fallacy of the opposition is that they do not propose to revise schedules; they propose the death of a principle. They propose the destruction of the entire protective tariff. "Not a single new argument is advanced in favor of this except the argument that the tariff causes trusts. But that argument Is answered by Its very statement. The moment it was suggested the people said: 'The tariff does not cause trusts, because there are trusts in England, which has no tariff. The greatest trusts In this country are those upon whose product there is no tariff. And if the tariff does not cause trusts, the destruction of protection will not destroy trusts nor injure them save as it injures the Industry of the whole country.' These are plain and simple and oft-repeated illustrations. They have never been answered by the opposition, and till the opposition does answer them you have a right to demand of the opposition to point out how the tariff creates trusts. You have a right to demand of the opposition some reason why we should overthrow our present tariff, under which our prosperity is almost beyond comprehension, and return to the Wilson tariff, under which prosperity did not exist. "Return to the Wilson tariff! No, but to a tariff as much worse than the Wilson tariff as the Wilson tariff is worse than a Dlngley tariff; for a new and violent and revolutionary element is in control of the Democratic organization to-day. What can you expect from that element? Let any man ask himself this question: Is it safe for me to risk the finances, the tariff, the foreign policy of this government in the hands of the men whose voices would be dominant and controlling in the councils of twentieth century Democracy?" The meeting was unquestionably the best had here during the campaign, and both in point of attendance and Interest manifested far eclipsed the closing of the Democratic campaign last night, when Col. C. C. Watson spoke at the City Hall to less than 200 Democrats. The Republicans in Bartholomew county are in fine shape, conditions having steadily improved as the, campaign advanced, while the Democrats i have as steadily lost ground. This county ! normally polls about 2k Democratic mai jority, although a Democrat high in auj tliorlty claims their poll shows near 300 Democratic, but demoralizing influences i within their own ranks have been at work I and the chances are about even that they will lose the county. a CHANE Y GOT THE CROWD. Miers Fulled to Prove n Dinning Card In Dalvess County Seat. Special to thr Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON. Ind.. Oct. 31. The rival meeting? held last night by the partisans of tht- K' lHihliran and Democratic candidates for Congress attracu-d much attention in this city. The friends of Representative Miers had secured the only brass band and made a great effort to attract a crowd, but the audience that greeted Miers and Cy Davis, who had been brought to the city to pacify, if pc-saible, the anti-Miers Democrats, and who was unadvised that he was to be a star attraction in a rival meeting, was leas than one-half as large as the friends of Miers expected. Indeed, it is said the small meeting was very disheartening to the congressman. At the People's Theater, a hall that accommodates over one thousand, a magnificent audience gr tSd Judgf Chaney. Not a seat was vacant, and the voters stood around the walls and in the doorway for two hours listening and applauding. It was the greatest meeting ever given a Republican candidate for Congress and was fired to the wildest enthusiasm by a martial band and the happy remark? of the Republican candidate. A few words were spoken at the close of the meeting by Lieutenant Governor Gilbert and W. H. Sanders, of Marion, and the meeting closed with shouting and handshaking. During the noon hour nearly four hundred BL & O. S. W. shop employes gathered around a flat car and listened to a catchy -p. ch by Judge Chaney, and they ChSJCHWl him hrartily. In the afternoon nearly every old soldier in Washington met at the G. A R. hall and Invited Judge 'haney to address them. This unloosedfor meeting was especially pleasing and the judge responded with a most earnest and telling speech. Several Democrats were In the soldiers' meeting and they pledged support to the Republican candidate and expressed contempt for Judge Miers's pension-baiting tactics. In an interview with Cyrus E. Davis, the Democratic leader of the House at the last session of the Legislature, who attempted to wrest the nomination to Congress from Mr. Miers, the Journal correspondent called his attention to the charge that Miers's

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Some of the Especially Interesting Featur of To-Morrow1! Issue. AT THE RKSCl'K MISSIONWide Scope of the Good Work that is Being Done There. THE SATURDAY MARKET Indlsnap- lis Hucksters Have a Busy Day. whf h Really Begins on Friday. THRILLING RAILROAD RIDE An Indianapolis Man Tells of an Exciting Daslj through Miles of Burning Forests. . TALKS ON LIVE TOPICS Stories of the Day Picked Up by Reporters on Their Rounds. CHARMS Or IDAHO Former Indisnlan Enthusiastic Over His New Home WALL-STREET GOSSIPA Specla? Correspondent Reviews Commercial rSvents of the Week. NAVAL COVSTRUCTION How Budders of Our Men-of-war Get Their Spbclal Training. JEWISH DRAMA BY GORKI The RuAeian Tramp Writer is Now Studying Society with a Play in View. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL HONOR It is Somewhat Lax. Yet Foreign Houses Have Really Lost but Little In the Mikado's Country. e ONE OF THE FLOCK Original Story by Algernon Gisslng STRANGE STORIES 'himpantees and Cannibals, by Sir R, H. Johnston, K. C. B. GEORGE ADEThe Modern Fable of the Taxpayer's Friend Who Ran to an Empty Grt ndstand and Finished Outside the Morey. ENGLISH LABOR EXPERTS The Merely Commission of British Trade Unionists Who Will Study American MeMods. Sports, theaters, social events, literary matters, etc , are well covered, and there Is, In additl n, a variety of readable miscellany. withdrawal last spring was a part of an agreement made at Miers's suggestion to Davis, in wNch the field was to be left free to Davis in consideration of $500. Davis was asked o make a statement. He said in part that he did not bellve it necessary to reiterate what he had said in an interview published last spring. "I always aim to tell the truth." said he, "and I 1 vrm nothing to "etract, nor do I believe I am called on t' reiterate what I have said, which has ben widely published." e ALLE COINTV DEMOCRACY. It Is Very Badly Demoralised and Is liuost Hopeless. Special to the Indianapoll Journal. FORT WAYNE. Ind.. Oct. Sl.-The close of the campaign comes with the Democrats of this county thoroughly demoralised and looking for defeat. The evening Democratic organ, the Sentinel, has refused to say a word for any one on the county ticket, and last night strongly advised the people to disregard party lines and vote fot the best men. Taken in connection with an editorial indorsement the Republican nominees at the beginning of the campaign, the paper has thrown the local ring into despair. Stephen B. Fleming, state s"nator, has taken matters out of the hands of Democratic Chairman Scherer, of he county committee, and has raised all the money that is needed, according to Bis own statement, for all purposes from this time on. He tried to hire all the liverv rigs In town on election '.ay, but the Re-iublicans have supplied themselves. The bitterest contests are within the Democratic party, hundreds being in revolt against the practices of the ring. The ! -tion of the '-vhole Republican county ti k' t need not si rprise any one, owing to the fact that the Socialists, who draw largely from the Democrats, are conceded to be likely to poll over 1.200 votes. The current is strongly Against the ring candidates nnd many Democrats are predicting the elect i(!i of at least Owen N. Heaton for supeior judge and Jac ob Funk for treasurer over the ring nominees. Judge Aiken, who denounced Schulte, the ring nominee f..r treasurer p lor to the county convent'on, did not succeed in defeating him. Both are on the ticket and each is knifing the other. Aiken filled the minds of his following v Ith the charge "that Schulte is thoroughly unfit for the Office, and they have taken him at his WOltL They started In aga'nst Schulte an now Schulte's crowd sv that they Intend both shall falrif their man does. Never in the history of the local Democracy has It been so shattered. This condition helps to make probable or at bast very posslbi? the election of C. C. Gilhama to Congress JAY COrXTY CAMPAIGN. Very- llitt-r Contest Leaves the Republicans Hopeful of uceess. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. PORTLAND, Ind., Oct. 31 The county campaign, oarticularly with the last few weeks, has been a hot one. Charges and counter charges have been made, but when it came to a showdown the Democrats have refused to acquiesce in any investigation of the county books, although repeatedly challenged to do so, the challenges being backed "by a bank deposit of $500. A sharp little is on between John A. M. Adair and 'Simeon K. Bell for representative from J-iy county. Adair Is the Kighth district's Democratic committeeman and Bell is ex-county commissioner. Both are well posted on political affairs. The rest of the ticke t is being as warmly content d for. Many re of the opinion that the result will be: as it has been in the past so close that 1 he official count will be necessary to determine who has been elected. These are the ultra-conservative, and among the rank and file of the Repubii ans there is no 1oubt as to the outcome. One of th:- best-attended meetings of the campaign was held last night in the main shop of thf Creamery Package Manufacturing Conjpany, it being addressed by Theodore S'iockney, of I'nion City. The big room had been swept, provided with seating ac ommodations by laying long planks acr-iss upturned butter tubs and was lighted with electricity. Mr. Shod n y was introduced by David T. Taylor. I HtLICAHl GATHER HOPE From Democratic Disaffection nnd Methods Im Vls;o County. Special to tra- Indsnapstts Journal. TERRE HAIJTE. lk1 Od 31-The local campaign i- gf-tttupdpery lively in the last we, k of tie ( onlusv and eveiy days increase In interest is favorable to the Republicans. The fear of a short vote and a Republican loss greater than that of the Democrats Is disappearing. Nothing has done so much to awaken interest as the discovery that the county offices, and especially the courts, are desired by the lammany grafH Organisation, which alr aJy has compbfte control of the city government. The anonymous and secretly-circulated pamphlet Attacking the two Republican Judges wh are candidates for re-election has had a remarkable reactionary eff, 1 The furth-- fact that the "position candidates are- not repudiating this method of campaigniiifc in their behalf has Jold against them, as has also the silence of ths Democratic paper in regard to them. t g SPKK II BY IMOX B. HI T. Great ( rtiml Hears the Secretary of State at Hldaevllle. Special to tie Indianapolis Journal. RIDGEVMLLE. Ind.. Oct. Sl.-Cnlon B, Hunt, secretary of stste. spoke on the political issuos at Schilling's Hall, last night, to a good-sed and appreciative audience. Mr. Hunt H'gan by showing that the Democratic party was a debt-making party' and the Republicans a debt -paying party, glvIlls; uir in .is iiu niuirii w i'iw,r inn aapsertions, and made an tarnest appeal to Democrats; and Republicans alike to stand by Governor Durbln In his effort to .wlps out the 8tate debt. He then took up the trust question, and showed that those who now make the most