Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1903 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2Ä, 1903.

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The unseemly activity of one Polster in the direction of the affairs of the city administration continues unabatf d. Tho good -Jr. Keach is the person mainly responsible for the power of his "wicked partner." The all-powerful Parks, of New York, having been deserted by his bondsman, "Big Bill" De very, cocs back to the Tombs. Sins Sing has been yawning and yearning for Parks for some months, and it is to be hoped that he will Anally land there. To provide for the hungry Taggart crowd and the hungry Iloltzman crowd out of a single .limited list of city offices is taxing the ingenuity and the patience of the mayor to the last limit. It is even whispered that wire It not for his sacred love for reform the good man would almost wish tho election had not come his way. Even "Bill" Devcry, New York boss, has refused to have anything more to do with Walking Delegate Parks, having discovered that the latter is not true to his friends. The fact that he was not true to an )fliclal trust and v.as a professional grafter did ' not estrange "William, who is something of a grafter himself. Canada's talk about independence of the mother country or annexation to the United States because of the action of tho Alaskan Commission need not be taken seriously by anyone. The Kanucks will splutter and talk loud for a time, then accept the decision and go cn peaceably and quietly, with friendly relations all around, as before. The auditor of state does well to head off the effort of wild-cat Insurance companies to do business through the malls. The very able administration of this office since 1S9Ö, supplemented by intelligent legislation, has given Indiana an enviable name as a home of sound Insurance and its reputa tion In this respect is of high value to the general business interests of the State. When a check for EjO.OM is lying around loose and nobody knows who drew it, who signed it or where the money went, it 13 evident that somebody is doing some very tall lying. The more we learn about that shipbuilding trust the more we are of the opinion that the less the general public has to do with the manipulators of "high finance" the more money it will have in its pocket. A local newspaper commits the error of declaring that Folk is busy "sending Missouri boodlers to the penitentiary." Mr. Folk has shown most commendable energy and courage in getting some eighteen or twenty Democratic political boodlers Indicted and convicted, but not one has yet arrived at the penitentiary. Missouri has a Supreme Court composed of "Democrat's of the old school." and they have the power to block the way. There may be a lot of nice legal questions Involved in the mortgage deduction law, which has just teen argued before the Supreme Court of tiic United States, but whether the rresent law is constitutional or not the fact still remains that tho State has no moral right to tax property twice knowingly. The excuse for tho double taxation Involved in taxing both the real property and tiie mortgage; is tho fact that the mortgage so often escapes taxation. but the taxing officers surely should be able to find the mortgages reported for deduction by the mortgngeors. The Humane Society, If there Is a Humane Socitty In actual existence In Indianapolis, should kep itself more in evidence, advertise Itself now and then, do something to prove that it Is alive and ready for service. Overworked and decrepit horses on the streets are many, and the abuse of horse3 bybrutal drivers a common occurrence, but the uncertainty of the methods of procedure and of tho whereabouts of any officer especially authorized to act, deters observers from Interference. Homeless dogs, too, are Innumerable and constantly appeal to the sympathies of the tender-hearted. The S. P. C. A. is needed, and could find plenty of business If lt would look about. Again the railroads nrc making an effort to stop the wholesale stealing of coal from their yards, and have caused the arrest of a small negro lad. One of the worst points for this sort of thing in tho city is along the Belt road, between the L. E. & W. tracks and Martlndalo avenue. Just about the time tho .boy -was caught In another sart of tho. dty & crowd of crown people,

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a car near Martlndale avenue. There Is a disposition to sympathize with this sort of thing, on the theory that people are stealing from a big corporation to keep 'themselves warm, but the cold fact is that veryconsiderable numbers of them make a regular business of robbing cars to sell the coal and the coal-consuming public pays for it in an Increased price of coal to cover tho heavy shortages. LIQUOR LAW ENFORCEMENT. Apparently there is one particular in hich the Iloltzman administration starts out very well. Indeed, and gives earnest of an improvement over the preceding Democratic administrations, namely. In the enforcement of the liquor laws and this is no small phase of city government. An excellent start was made in the promotion of Captain Kruger to the superintendence' of the police force. Kruger has the character and ability and the disposition to enforce the law if given a free hand. On Thursday he demonstrated thi3 with a general order delivered to the saloon keepers by patrolmen to close their places at 11 o'clock, In accordance with the law. The order was effective and at least all the downtown places were closed promptly at 11 and remained closed the rest of the night. This Is a good beginning and the promise is made that the wineroom must go absolutely. The Journal sincerely hopes this is true; that it is not merely a temporary spurt of law enforcement to keep the "reform element" from complaining too loudly of the new administration or to bring the brewery syndicate to terms. This is not a question of politics, but a deeper and more important question of the moral at mosphere of this community. The Journal is a Republican newspaper and Mr. Iloltz man is a Democrat, but in any earnest and persistent measures he may take for holding the liquor traffic within bounds, for wiping out winerooms where children are enticed to their ruin and abolishing the dives that are festering sources of crime, he and his police administration shall have the hearty support of this paper. There is no measuring the harm that is done by failure to enforce the law in this particular. "We have had In the Juvenile Court a number of examples of girls, mere children, induced by such monsters as Griswold and Metzler to become habitues of dives and engage In a life that is worse than death. But this Is not nearly all the story. In the neighborhood of every factory may be found a number of low doggeries that reap a harvest every pay day. In not a few of these gambling is carried on and in more of them low women congregate. YVorkingmen from the factories flock to these places and that one is lucky that gets out before spending his last dollar. It is not possible to abolish this class of saloons, but it Is possible to greatly lessen the evil they do in robbing workmen's families of their bread by compelling strict obedience to the law. The Journal realizes that there are difficulties in the way of a thorough enforcement of the liquor laws, but it also knows that it can be done with the competent police force inherited by Mayor Iloltzman, and again it expresses the hope that an earnest and persistent effort will be made to follow up the work. A TARIFF OBJECT LESSON. Despite all reasonable editorial surveil lance, occasionally a chunk of hard fact bearing on the tariff question will appear In the columns of the most carefully edited free-trade newspapers. A few days ago a special dispatch to the Indianapolis News from Alexandria, discussing the outlook of a large glass concern disbursing something over $6,000 per week in wages, contained this paragraph: The only thing that darkens the horizon of the Hint glass factory business, the Lippincott people say, is the invasion of the gas lamp chimney field by Germany, whose shops are turning out an inferior chimney, which is sold for less than the American chimney costs to make. This German chimney, it is asserted, is of lower quality than is thrown into the cullet pile from Indiana gas belt factories, but the German product Is said to be meeting with i a large sale in this country'. The tariff bars are down on this particular grade, and the American chimney manufacturers think of sending a petition to Congress to have the-weak place in the tariff law strengthened at the earliest opportunity. There may bo something in the point of the inferior quality of the German chimneys, and probably Is, but it does not by any means account for the whole difference in price In favor of the Germar article. The expense of manufacturing glass is very largely labor. First cost of the plant is heavv, and the cost of the right kind of fuel is a considerable factor, but .the cost of the raw material Is slight and the gTeat big factor is the labor cost. The difference In the cost of German and Amer ican labor is sufficient to permit the Ger man manufacturer to pay for transporta tion half way around the world, for the careful packing necessary, for three or four different handlings of the merchandise and for the heavy breakage, and still sell his glass chimneys at less than it costs the American manufacturer to make them. All of which means more work In Germany and less work in America, and, if applied to the whole business of manufacturing, would mean idleness here and activity there until American wages had come down and German wages gone up until they should strike a common level. The New York Evening Post "throws a fit" whenever it happens to think of the money that is being paid to pensioners of the civil war. An article calling attention In a complaining way to the sums dis burscd contains this paragraph: Indiana, with a smaller population than Masacnusetts, still draws twice as much In pensions. Ohio Is far ahead of New York, tanding at the head of the list with receipts cf ?15,0uü.CW. or one-ninth of the total. She has about one-eighteenth of the population. What has the present population to do with the subject? For that matter, what had the population of the sixties to do with the pensions of to-day? According to the census of 1S0O, Massachusetts had a population of 1,231,0G6 and sent to the war. 123,COC soldiers. Indiana, with a population at that time of l.SGO.Oil, sent 210.4D7 men to fight for tho Union, a percentage of 74.1 of the men of military age a greater percentage than Massachusetts or than any of the larger States. Naturally, Indiana veterans being In the majority without regard to the rest of tho population would draw a greater sum in pensions. New York, with a population of nearly four millions in 1S). furnished to the government 457.000 men; Ohio, with 2,300,000. furnished 317.000 a much larger percentage than New York. If more pension money Is paid to Ohio than New York it Is certainly not because New York .veteran are 'not asking-for their dues? prctably lt la beciusf,, la tho

drift of population to the West, many of these New York soldiers are now living in Ohio, while tho former State, and especially the city, has filled up with foreigners, the most of whom never heard of our civil war, but are profiting by its results Just the same In any case, New York need assume no virtue because of its comparatively small list of pensioners, and the Post would be wise to suppress its spasms over the general outlay. When she wants to drive a nail lovely woman is accustomed to take anything within reach as a substitute for a hammer a pair of scissors, a book, a knifehandle, a glass paper-weight, a stove-hook, the poker, a piece ot wood, anything that will "pound;" but the Indianapolis girl who used a revolver for that purpose is entitled to a prize mention. To be sure, the results were disastrous, but at least she proved her originality. ' An Indiana man who manufactures chewing gum is endeavoring to expiate his crime by establishing a library fund in his native town with a portion of the proceeds. But will the influence of books offset that of the gum? An afternoon paper alludes to Robert Gould Shaw, to whose memory an Indianapolis school was dedicated yesterday, as a "negro hero." Such is fame when the evening press takes a hand at it.

That Is a most excellent entertainment being given at Tomlinson Hall by the ladies of the Day Nursery Association, and it is In a very worthy cause. It is to be hoped it will draw a liberal patronage. THE HUMORISTS. Renlly n Serious Matter. New York Weekly. Actor Hurry or we'll miss the train. Actress I can't find my diamonds or my purse. "Oh, well, never mind." "Yes, but the purse had $10 In it" The Way of It. Chicago Post. "Why is it that woman so often leads man to make a fool of himself?" "She doesn't. The man who makes a fool of himself over a woman would do it, anyway, but Eho happens to furnish the edslest excuse for lt." How He Worked It. Although the boy ne'er learned to spell, His future wasn't wrecked; He simply used quotation marks j And wrote in dialect. Washington Star. Not All Hard. Philadelphia Press. "I tell you, the price of anthracite these days makes lt come hard to the coal buyer." "Yes, but lt doesn't make it come hard to the coal cellar. Sometimes it's mixed with bituminous." Obliging Girl. Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Planebuddy My husband wanted me to have my picture taken, but I told him I didn't have a dress nice enough for that purpose. Mrs. Nay bor And is he going to buy you one? Mrs. Planebuddy Oh, no, but the servant girl yverheard me and she offered to lend me one of lers. The Cook Came Back. New York Tribune. The father had ordered the fatted calf to be killed. "His prodigal son has returned!" exclaimed the neighbors. "No!" he shouted, "it's better still! The cook has come back and says she will give us another week's trial!" With a beaming face, he received their Joyful congratulations. Time to Stop. Philadelphia Telegraph. Johnnie had been out in the backyard playing with his ball and suddenly came in and sat down to read. His father looked up and, seeing that he had his Sunday-school" book In his hand. thought it was time to question him. "What did you do with the ball?" "It went over the fence into Mr. Brown's yard." "Did you go after it?" "No, papa." Why not?" "Because lt went through the window." POINTS FROM COUNTY PAPEES. Altruistic Farmers. Cannelton Enquirer. Farmers are very busy sowing wheat so that city folks can have something to eat. Trying to Scare Us. Dale Reporter. The unusual migration of birds toward the South and the fact that corn husks are thick and tight on the ear are indications of a hard winter, so say the oldest inhabitants. An Election Echo. Connersville News. The fellows who call themselves Republicans and who at the same time contributed to the defeat of the Republican ticket, at Indianapolis, will find sooner or later that they are in bad odor with the Republicans of the State. The Devil Wnlt for Them. Oxford Tribune. Newspaper men are accustomed to the harshest criticism coming from those who sponge the use of the paper off the editor or their neighbor. The devil lays up a big lump of brimstone every time they do It and patiently waits his time. Profitable Trees. Orleans Progress Examiner. Six white oak aud three poplar trees brought the handsome sum of tC50 last week. They were the property of Budd Cornwall, and Is probably the largest price ever paid for nlue trees in this county. One poplar butt log twelve feet long was estimated at l.StO feet. A Fortune in Prospect. Covington Friend. George Hunt, south of Fountain, has a curiosity on his place In the shape of a calf which was born three weeks ago with only two legs, the forelegs being entirely absent. He is raising it on a bottle and It seems to be getting along all right. If he can only teach it to walk on its hind legs he will make a fortune out of it. Tomatoes a Good Crop. Covington Friend. R. B. Moudy has hauled to the factory the last of his tomato crop, about fourteen tons off two acres, which is equivalent to JS4, or $12 per acre. What can a farmer raise that will bring him as much money and as quick returns. This season has not been a fair test to beginners. A. Correll will have at least 1,500 bushels from five acres. This Is equal to 5270, or $C4 per acre. Who says tomatoes doa't pay? Tronble Anions Editors. Cannelton Enquirer. The editors of the Tell City and . Troy papers are indulging in incendiary remarks bordering on lynchings because of their Inability to agree on a game of baseball. The Troy man wants to die a hero to hi3 cause and says he will be lynched if .he goes to Tell City because of what he said about the Tell City club. The editor of the News Is coaxing him to come up . under the assurance that his. hide shall be protected. Golly, but we're glad we ain't In on this.. Our nerves wouldn't stand for seeing au editor mobbed. The most we care to have to do with this will be to accept a piece of the rope with which tha job la doue

as a souvenir. Oh, boys, forget it. Don't I take Innocent blood. Take pop and a pret- j

zvi. . .. I INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. The Democrats of Ohio hdpe to defeat Mark Hanna at the polls. Your Ohio Democrat is always long on hope. Anderson Bul letin. Indianapolis worked herself up into the an .i ,f ?llef that she was a real bad city, but belief the truth is Indianapolis Isn't nearly as bad a place as she would like to have the country folk believe. Muncie Times. Mayor Knotts threatens to use Tillman tactics on a Hammond editor. The mayor might find out to his sorrow that there is a vast difference between a South Carolina Jury and one composed of Hoosiers. South Bend Tribune. We have scriptural assurance that the dark places of the earth shall be made light, Could this have refprrod tn tho Invasion of I Breathitt county. Kentucky, by the Salvatlnn Armv irH nf Vw Vnrk ritv hv TViwIp' enlLuteTrihuM Dowie. Terre Haute Tribune. The pretense of independence is often a cloak for contemplated treachery. Men who clothe themselves with a holier-than-thou garment will bear watching. The Lord hates a "Hopper," and people of convictions have no use for him. Huntington Herald. With a record-breaking crop of buckwheat and shingle factories producing the usual output of sawdust, there is happy prospect that the people of the United States have no cause for feeling alarmed about an inadequate supply of breakfast foods material. Lafayette Courier. Mr. William C. Whitney announces that he Is going tou withdraw his running horses I from the Enelish turf, declaring that there . - . . . is nut muuu fcyuri in naving noreea ruu when one cannot see them. We are glad to note Mr. hitneys conclusion to spend his "v'"" J -- v. " I zette. The declarations of President Roosevelt and ex-President Cleveland that we must depend for honest government upon the people themselves, and that lt behooves the latter, therefore, o keep their standards high, should be taken to heart by every good citizen. These declarations emanate from high sources and are predicated upon eternal truth. South Bend Times. Charles M. Schwab, the much-talked-of multi-millionaire, Is charged with wrecking the United States Shipbuilding Company and causing the loss of millions of dollars to Innocent holders of the company's stock. Charley Is the bright young lad whom Mr. Carnegie took under his wing a few years ago to make a man of. He got him made all right, butjf the stories are true about this wrecking business he must have taken a post-graduate course and come out of the academy with the diploma of a confounded rascal. Lafayette Journal. VOTING MACHINES. The ten voting machines used at the recent Indianapolis election gave the most cdhiplete satisfaction and it is now the intention of the Marlon County Commissioners to provide machines for the entire county In time for use at the national election next year. It Is estimated that it will cost in the neighborhood of $S0,0C0 to provide a sufficient number of machines for that county. Conuersville Times. There is no economy in holding off the adoption of voting machines in Allen county. As a matter of fact, to delay is to lose money. Upon the mere point of economy alone voting machines are to be commended. In three or four general elec tions they will enable a saving In the cost of polling to pay for themselves. Other advantages, which are admirable, are so much gain. Fort Wayne Sentinel. At the municipal election in Indianapolis ten voting machines were used In ten differ ent precincts. The working of the ma chines was perfection Itself, only less "splitting" was done there than elsewhere. The result of the voting ia these ten precincts was announced in twenty minutes after the closing of the polls. The success attending the use of these voting machines has aroused a strong sentiment throughout the State in favor of the adoption of the machine process. South Bend Times. The voting machines used in the Indianapolis election last week proved themselves worthy of confidence. Within a very short time after the polls were closed the result was knovn in the ten precincts where they vrp iisori. while lt was manv nours Derore the counting was done under the old plan. It surely will not be long until the whole State Is supplied witn voting macnines. Their use will cut out a lot of vote buying. destroy all possibility of manipulating re turns by changing talley sheets and insure quick knowledge of the result of an election. The day of tho voting machine nas come. Every county should have them. Rockville Republican. THE DRIFT OF POLITICS. An avowed candidate for the Republican congressional nomination in the Twelfth district has appeared in the person of Or ville Carver, of Angola, Steuben county. Mr. Carver is a prominent business man, being one of the proprietors of the Steuben County Bank and a stockholder in several of Angola's manufacturing concerns. He is a veteran of the civil war, his Republic anism is unquestioned and he is altogether the kind of man, his friends claim, to defeat Representative "Jim" Robinson, who will in all probability be renominated by the Twelfth district Democrats. The formal announcement of Mr. Carver's candidacy will doubtless serve for a time at least to divert attention from the con test now on In the Twelfth for the Republican district chairmanship and recall to me pat ly uiivcis nidi uic uwuiti buuuiu go ltepublican next year. A Republican member of Congress should have been elected there last year. The Republican state ticket carried the district, and but for the ability of Representative Robinson to run considerably over a thousand votes ahead of his ticket, an ability that has never been satisractoritly explained, a Democrat would not take his seat in the House from the Twelfth Indiana district on the yth of next month. Mr. Carver has been tried as a candidate and found not wanting, as in 18SS he was elected state senator from the district com posed of Steuben and Lagrange counties, serving In the Senate with the late Gov ernor Mount, who became one of his warm personal friends. He was also a delegate ersonai irivnub. lie was aiso a delegate o the Chicago convention that nominated Jeneral Harrison for the presidency. For t Ge a number of years Mr. Carver was post master or Angola. XXX In announcing Mr. Carver's candidacy the Steuben Republican says of him and of the situation in the district: "For nearly fifty years Steuben county has been the banner Republican county of northern Indiaua. No other county, In proportion to population, has given such larga and uniform majorities for the Republican ticket, congressional, state and national. During the dark days of the rebellion and in the war with Spain no county in the State or Nation, in proportion to population, sent more or braver soldiers to the front than did gallant Steuben. Yet during the entire history of the county Steuben has never before presented a candidate for congressional honors, but has always been content to furnish the Republican majorities which gave hope of victory to the party which the county has so loyally upheld. Under these circumstances it is with confidence that Steuben county will this year present to the district convention the name of one of our most worthy citizens and ask that he be given an opportunity to lead the party to viciory in me cuiumg uurt-baiouai cam paign. "Hon. Orville Carver Is, in the fullest sense of the term, a representative American citizen. Descended directly from the Carver who landed on Plymouth Rock nearly three centuries ago. Orville Carver proved the stuff of which he Is made by being among the first to respond to the call of President Lincoln for men to defend the Nation's life. Too zealous and eager to await an opportunity to Join a regiment In his own State, he enlisted in the Fourth Michigan Infantry, and did a soldier's full duty ia every battle of the Army of the Potomac, from Bull's Run to Appomattox. "The record of his regiment and the bloody fields cn which it struggled to uphold the Hag, from Gettysburg to the Con federate capital, are now inscribed on the pages of the Nation's history. "At the close ot the war Mr. Carver returned to Angola, where he at once engaged In business, and from that time to the present he has been iutlraately associated with the prosperity and enterprise of this community. In business he has been successful. Honesty and fair dealing have characterized fci3 tracctic. In tU fciJ

long and active business career no charge of dishonesty or peculations has ever been

made against him by. any one. The soul or honor, his word Is his bond, and no man la this part of the State Is better fitted to represent the loyal, patriotic citizens of the Twelfth district in Congress than Mr. car ver. "The only times the Republicans have carried this district and elected their candidate for Congress have been when they have placed a soldier at the head of their ticket, and with the old veterans of the ! sixties dropping out of the ranks so rapidly, lt appenrs very plaln t0 tne Republican that ! every dictate of wisdom and political policy demands that a veteran of the war of the ' rebellion be nominated by the Republicans I In the coming campaign, and that with i Hon. Orville Carver for our candidate we ! can and will sweep the district by such a majority as to make it hereafter perma- I nently Republican at congressional elections." XXX With the appearance of another candl- . . A. ., , . ', date for the Democratic congressional t - nomination In the Third district. Smith Askren, a farmer of Moberly, Harrison . . . Af county, the seats of all four .Democratic j

members or Congress from Indiana are . rerused to quit, ana insisted tnai nia uethreatened. Representative Griffith, of the ! panded be conceded. Fortunately at this 1iirttir fnurt strrtnpd In With an ln-

r ourin, nas nau a aozen prospective can- ; umaics mm, juers, oi me cjecunu, j

m pruuiiuij oo ueieaieu. emier ior mo . be ludicrous If it were not so ominous, connomination, or by the Republican candi- ' sjder the probable development along this date when lt comes to the election; the une within the next few years and then Republicans of the Twelfth are prepar- ; telj mo S j)olitIcs, the management of the ing to retire Robinson, if his own party j house, the problem of engrossing imdoes not anticipate that event, and now J portance "

Ul H1C 1I111U, 13 IclLCU KJll lilt: ilUJW- . ious bench. Askren, who has announced ! his candidacy against Zenor and declared i that he can even take Harrison county 1 from the Corydon man, is. a hold-over j ,c of F,oyd and Harrlson C0Unties. He did not take an especially conspicuous part in the proceedings of the Senate last winter, and modestly introduced but four bills, two f ,,1,11, iMm laws. W. K C?nx. nf D b , county is a prospective candidate al and tween Askren and Cox the nomination mn v hp wrpstPd from .pnnr. The slogan of both Askren and Cox is, "Twenty-six years of official life is enough for any one man." XXX , L. Ert Slack, of Franklin, one of the prospective candidates against Representa tive Griffith, was here yesterday on legal business. He says he expects to enter the lists against the Vevay man, and his formal announcement may be expected be"It is a case of now or never with me." he said. "I am a comparatively young man and do not want to devote the best 5 years of my life too largely to politics. I t.X"!? "rrt1"1.1"1.1" uui 11. iiuiiiuiu.it:u uiu eiecieu, suuuiu iLSti. .1 but one renominatlon. Two terms are all I want. "Mr. Griffith can be defeated next year. I believe. Link Dixon, of North Vernon, or Joe Shea, of Seymour, will be a candidate against him I'm sure both will not enter the fight and Joe Cravens, of Madi son, may get Into the race. The sentiment and encouragement that brings out all these candidates should be sufficient to guarantee that one of the lot can beat Griffith." Mr. Slack says that the Republicans of the Fourth are apparently stirred up at present over the district chairmanship, with two candidates in sight, William E. Springer, of Elizabethtown, and A. A. Tripp, of North Vernon. XXX A Dearborn county Democrat, who would not consent to be quoted, in discussing the coming fight against Representative Griffith expressed the conviction that Griffith will be renominated with ease. "As long as Dearborn county stands by Griffith he cannot be defeated," he said, "and there Is no likelihood that the county will desert him next year." XXX Senator Beveridge has received the itin erary for the tour of Ohio, which he will make next week for the Republican State ticket and Senator Hanna. In a letter from Chairman Dick, he is notified that eight speeches have been arranged for him, and he Is also invited to remain in Ohio and close the campaign at Toledo Monday night. .Nov. 2. The senator will decline this Invi tation. XXX Charles R. Unthank, of Richmond, Ij in tho race for chairman of the Sixth district to stay. It had been rumored that ho would, withdraw In the near. futurev. but while In the city in company with J. Bennett Gordon, editor of the Richmond Item, .air. untnanK declared his intention of see ing the finish of the fight. "I can't underftanl whv. nould drop out, .when I am v...vj, he said. With Gordon he called at Senator Beverldge's office and had a conference with the senator. XXX D. J. Terhune,' of Linton, one of the Democratic members of the board of managers of the Indiana Reformatory, Is in the city. He says the Reformatory will close the fiscal year next week with its appropria tion exhausted, but with no deficit the first time for several years. Superintendent Whlttaker, of the Reformatory, will be in the city over Sunday. XXX Governor Durbln and Senator Fairbanks left yesterday for Chicago, whence they will go to Indiana Harbor to-day to par ticipate In the ceremonies attendant upon tne Degmning or tne construction of the great canal that is expected to work wonders in the industrial Interests of that sec tion. XXX Henry B. Sherman, of Westport, whose oratory was one of the features of the sesslon of the House last winter, was in the city to consult friends concerning his candidacy for renominatlon. "I shall be a candidate," he announced, "and I am now preparing a letter to the Republicans of Decatur county, stating the platform on which I ask renominatlon. My platform declares for the re-election of Senator Beveridge, free text-books for the public schools and better road laws, among other i mmgS "Yes, I shall probably have opposition " he continued. "It is understood that Noah T. Rogers, of Greonsburg, will be a candidate against me." Mr. Sherman relates a rather peculiar experience he had when he first considered becoming a candidate to succeed himself. "About four months ago a man came to me and in a roundabout way told me that he had learned in a roundabout way that a certain man would like to have a letter from me stating Just where I'd stand on a certain question If I was re-elected. He said the letter was wanted just so the man could feel assured about me and that it would be put away in a safe where no one would ever see lt. i told him that I would him my word and tnat ,f d wasn.t good my Eigned statement wouldn't be " , umn 1 be.' Mr. Sherman refused to reveal the identity of the "certain man" or the nature of the "certain question." XXX Mr. Sherman expressed the opinion that Charles R. Unthank will be elected chairman of the Republican organization In the Sixth district. "Unthank will be elected because the Republicans of the district are for Senator Beveridge and they want a member of the State committee from the Sixth who will do what Senator Beveridge wants him to do. I believe that next year is Eeveridge's year and that he is entitled to the same consideration in the organiation of the State committee that Senator Fairbanks received last year. It is no more than right," XXX Senator J. G. Powell, of Logansport, was In the city on business and called at the Statehouse. Speaking of Eleventh district Republican affairs he admitted that the situation is exceedingly complicated, so complicated. In fact," he said, "that I wouldn't venture a guess as to the outcome." XXX W. C. Ball, the editor of the Terre Haute Gazette, who was here to attend the funeral of Samuel E. Morss, believes there is a question of far greater importance than any political Issue confronting the people of the United States. "Politics?", he repeated, when the usual question was put to him. "Aren't there questions that overshadow politics at present? It strikes me we shouldn't.be quarreling over the fur nishing of the house and its management , until we have all turned In together to put out the fire that threatens to destroy the .house. It is more important that the house be preserved than that Democrats or Republicans manage lt, for if the question of first importance is not looked after we may find ourselves without the house. ' "There can be no doubt about the danger from fire." added Mr. Ball, continuing the metaphor, and then he gave a concrete example of what ha regards as the enparcllslrd tsd unj-rU2t:3 ltt3 to xrtizS

unionism is being carried, especially In the large centers. "In Chicago, a short ' time ago, a Janitor applied for a position in an apartment house," he said. "He was employed, worked a few weeks and then decided there were objectionable features about his work. Instead of Quitting the Job at once he went

to the agent and made demands. The agent refused to meet them. Then he went io nis union and the union made the demands on the acent. baeklne them with threats. The agent stood by his first position and the Janitors' union called on the teamsters union, an organization that has Chicago by tne throat, and this union immediately clared that not only should the ngent be left without a Janitor, but there should be no fuel, ice. or supplies of any kind dellvered to that particular apartment house until the agent acceded to the demands oi the Janitor. The union stationed its pickets about the building to enforce its orders Then it went a step further, finding that I this atrent controlled thlrtv or forty other ;P2.m?nt f nKUse JPS. :t2 fn?hnin other clared that the occupants of those otner buildlnes should be subiected to the same , outrages unless the agent yiejded. .,A"US ine in"en.' r "Ju , T DUUUingS Were IO De meraiiy inaruuiivv ziiuply because one Janitor did not like his job. jUnctIon that put an end, temporarily at least, to the situation, which would reany XXX VL ' route inspector, is at the Claypool. . . m . I 1 b hb I II I Mh Kl - CLAY COUNTY SUIT INVOLVING AL LEGED DA3IAGE BY A LEVEE. Michigan Cltr 3Ian Wants $25,000 for au Arm Deputy Fish Commissioner Sues for Ills Fees. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Oct, 23. The case of Samuel Royer vs. the Lewis Township Improvement Company for damages the plaintiff alleres he sustained by volumes of water " flowing over his land as the result of con structing a levee In the Eel river bottoms. was given to the Jury to-day and a ver dict Is exDected to-morrow. The case is of unusual Interest to farmers residing in Lewis township, which is affected by the levee and It Is quite possible that if Royer wins many more suits for damages will be brought. The improvement company is in corporated and is composed of a number of v. r . j it i Royer's land was benefited by the levee Qnrt thnt as a result of Its construction r "Jr..- Ti hnpfttPd hv the levee many acres of valuable land have been redeemed and made tillable that heretofore were inundated tne greater pari 01 me year. Deputy Sues for Ills "ees. SDecial to the Indianapolis Journal. LAFAYETTE, Ind... Oct, 23. Thomas D. Smith, deputy fish commissioner, whose district is in Tippecanoe county, brought suit in tho Circuit Court here to-day against the Board of County Commission ers asking the court to order the payment of his fees for the destruction of . nets illegally set In the various streams of the county. The board rejectea ms ciaims, M..ninr rv toin nnrt now no fines for iUJIUUauub s-"vo which includes attorneys tees, une complaint sets rortn tnat tne piamuix aestroyed dip and seine nets to the number Ul Hill Ijr. ' , min Thp outcome oi tne case is awaited with interest, and the suit is really one to test tne leganxy 01 a nsu csloner's demands on the county for pay for nets destroyed. Wants $25,000 for an Arm. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. Oct. 23. A suit

for damages in the sum of $23,000 has been j steadily upward. In many cases it has exi tn Rnnprior Court of this citv in ceeded the rise in cost of living. The gen-

77, V. :.u Ä rv,f rut 1which Fred Smith, of East Chicago, is tho plaintiff and the Inland Steel Company and Tndbna Bridge Company, of Hammond. are the defendants. It Is alleged that the plaintiff, while employed in the defendant companies' plant, suffered an injury that resulted in loss of his left arm, the accident being "due to the criminal carelessness of employes of the defendants" in operating n traveling crane along a beam about which Smith had placed his arm while performing work under the direction of a foreman in tne employ or aeienaants. Wounded Sinn Sues Assailant. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. ELWOOD, Ind., Oct. 23. As an outgrowth of the shooting affray which occurred on the streets here three weeks ago, William Jorskouw, who was shot through the right hand by Claude Wessclraan, filed suit demanding damages in the sum of $2,500 from the man who shot him, alleging that he has been and will continue to be incapacitated for work as a result of his injuries, and that the shooting was ; without provocation. Wesselman and his father own considerable property here. Suit io Reeover Realty. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WABASH, Ind., Oct. 23. Suit was brought In the Wabash Circuit Court to-day by the trustees of the shoe works addition to Wabash against the Wabash Shoe Company, whose factory burned several years ago, to recover possession of the realty deeded to the company on condition that the company establish its plant there. After the fire the corporation abandoned the business, but is not yet in liquidation, and it is asked that the land, which has since remained Idle, shall revert to the former owners. City Demands an AcconnMnR. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NEW CASTLE, Ind., Oct. 23. The town has filed suit against M. A, Talbott & Co., sewer contractors, for an accounting. The cause of this suit Is the difference In the estimates of the cost of the twenty-five or thirty miles of sewer put in this city last summer. The contractors figure the cost at something over Sl'J.OOO and ti.e town officials make lt $60,000. The difference of $33,0" is more than the people are willing to pay. Damage Judgment Compromised. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LAPORTE, Ind., Oct. 23. The Singer Manufacturing Company, of South Bend, against which Charles Schmeltzreld secured a verdict for $2,000 on a suit for $10,000 In the Laporte Circuit Court for permanent Injuries received while the plaintiff was employed by the defendant, has compromised the Judgment for $1.S0Q. The company today gave notice of the dismissal of the appeal to'the State Appellate CourL Sues Union Traetlon Company. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. TIPTON. Ind., Oct. 23. Samuel Harting, residing In the western part of the city, has filed suit against the Indiana Union Traction Company in the Tipton Circuit Court for $300 damages. He alleges that the company, without his knowledge and in the night laid Its track across his lot, cut down his shade trees' and damaged his sidewalk. He sets forth in another paragraph in his complaint that the cars, running at night, disturb his sleep. X A Suicide's Library Sold. PHILADELPHIA, Oct, 23. One of the most remarkable libraries In existence -has been put up at auction here. It was collected by Howard T. Goodwin, confidential clerk of a banking firm, who committed suicide when confronted with evidence of a shortage amounting to $1,000.000. Goodwin's hobby was book-collecting, and to gratify this desire he Is said to have speculated with money not his. It is estimated that he spent over $100.000 on his library, and the books offered Include some of the most beautiful specimens of the printer's art and the finest fiets of nearly all the great authors. The bidding' was remarkably slow, howctct, end t.J vclu:r2 trennt C3,a

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REPORT OP THE STANDING Cl'RRENCY COMMITTEE ADOPTED. Legislation Alonjr the Lines Recom mended nt New Orleans to He Urged on Coagrrmi. EFFECTS OF THE GOLD I2TFL0W v UV4U 'w" 1 DDH ESS BY ELLIS II.- ROBERTS. UNITED STATES TREASURER. 2pnee occupied by Our Stock of Cold and Its Weight Election of Officers. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. S3.-The twentyninin annual convention of the American Bankers' Association ended to-dav with . ,,.. trie installation of newly chosen officers and the Presentation to the retlrin g prcsident. H. Caldwell Hardy, of a beauti: tiful sil ver punch bowl. The selection of a city for the convention of 1901 will be made by tho executive committee early next year. Invitations were received from At lantic City, N. J and New York city. J. B. Finlay, president of the Fifth Na tional Bank of Pittsburg, read a paper on the "Education of Bank Clerks." in which he described the bureau of education and the American institution of bank clerks. Mr. Finlay urged a closer affiliation of the American Association and Institute, and he recommended the appointment of fno trustees who will hold yearly examinations and issue bank clcriis' certificates. A report was presented from the execu tive council on a report made by the committee on uniform currency, read earlier in the session. The council, through Cor nelius Pugsley, said: "There is no doubt that our system can be improved, but I do not believe it will be revolutionized. It Is essential that Its volume should riso and fall with the varying tides of business and commerce. He presented this resolution: "Resolved, That the report of the currency committee appointed under resolution passed at the last annual convention of the American Bankers' Association, held at New Orleans, be adopted, and that tho nrpi npnr nr i ni a ?i ccnri arinn nnn nt o committee of three for the purpose of urging legislation along the lines recommended in this report." A substitute resolution was offered that the currency committee be continued, that its report be referred back and that it act with similar committees from the various States to follow all proposed legislation introduced in Congress affecting the present banking laws and to take such action as they may deem best. The substitute was overwhelmingly defeated and the resolution of the executive council adopted. ROBERTS'S ApDRESS. Ellis II. Roberts, treasurer of the United States, was greeted with enthusiastic applause when he was introduced to deliver a speech on "The effects of the inflow of goid," and he was even more heartily appiaU(jcd when he concluded. A vote of 1 I . Vi -i n l a -oo alen UcfIMn rt V. "'- j-b appreciation 01 tne convention, aiany ot tne statistics presented by Mr. Roberts 1 I .V, T V, rt,,"v wwev his address, he said: "Advance in wages follows Increase in rnst of ,.vlno, Tn rpppnt VflflrR lt hns roma fast and strong. Large railway companies anl other corporations, have nddtd 13 per' cent, at one step to wages" paid, to meet the recognized advance in cost ot living". The drift has been downward in wages from lb'JZ to 1S9&; since lt has been eral average may safely be stated at from 13 t0 rc. cenU Persons . with fixed Incomes are burdened with the heavcr cost or living wunout any on sei. as they have the benefit of a fall in prices of commodities when that occurs. "When wages go up the purchasing power of those who earn them rises ia equal measure. This process affects prices of commodities, and adds always to the consumption which again gives Impetus to production and trade. "No one can deny that the golden Inflow contributes to the currency a share growing more rapidly than the total circulation, all at parity; that it lifts prices and wages, incites activity in industry and trade, and pushes enterprise forward, while it also tempts to undue Inflation of commercial and stock-Jobbing credit. "How do these influences bear upon our world relations? First of all, our surpassing wealth in gold has placed our national credit on a plane above that of all other countries, and never btforo held by that of any government. British consols bearing 22 per tent. Interest, long the foremost type of credit, have recently sold below fc7, while consols of the United States bearing only 2 per cent, range from 1QS to 110, and the loan of 1923 commands 136. This American Republic alone among nations always in time of peace reduces its debt and after a war makes rapid payment of the - cost. Oniy unbridled folly, not conceivable, can shake this solid structure. "Obviously the supremacy of our national credit ndds to tho strength of the Republic In commercial credit, general esteem and international influence in all tho world. We fear no evil from exports of gold, for we can well spare more than Europe can pay for in American obligations, in merchandising or In any form of tecuritles. "The productiveness of our people Justifies this rank. In manufactures! the American people are far and away beyond rivalry. Again our thirteen bilMon dollars of annual product Great Britain shows 54,2'3.0,0.), France ??X,("0.0). Germany $3.?.57.CO0,Wu, and Austria-Hungary. $1.3.000,000. These four gr.at nations turn out in manufactures, $12.11G.0i),(i'K) a year, or a billion dollars less than this country does alone. "The scale of living In the United States Is such that we consume a great deal of what we make. We spend moro than the same number of people anywhere on earth. Our agriculture help3 to feed Europe. Indeed many of Its inhabitants would starv without our grains ami meats. How much of the products of the farm shall be exported depends on the crops In all lands and on the purchasing power of our foreign customers. DUE TO SKILL AND ENERGY. "But we Invade the old world with our manufactures by reason of the skill and energy of American labor and the methods devised. by American genius. We run electric roads beside the Pyramids; we furnish harvesters for Russia; we build bridges in the Soudan and In Burmah; send locomotives to farthest Manchuria, help Germany to load coal, sell shoes to Austria, scatter sewing machines everywhere", and our watches keep time on the Danube, the Nile and the Orinoco. Our high wages have not checked our invasion of the markets of Europe and Asia. Increasing home consumption affects to some degree the exports ef our merchandise, for we ship only what our own people do not use, but the more we make the more we shall sell. "The exports of our manufactures for the eight months ending with last August were $J78.519.S72. and 22.4 per cent, of our total exports; for the like period of th

preceding year they were $J73.r42.PtC and 31.73 per cent, of all. In the fiscal year 1?03 they were $40S.1$7,2C? and 29.3j per cent, of all. while in li02 they were $103.641.421 nnd 23.77 per cent, of the total exports. Mr. Chamberlain at Glasgow. Oct. 6. declared British exports ot manufactured articles fell from 116,000,00) in IS72 to 73.OOOiX) in 1102. "Upon the marvelous golden inflow, American mechanism move's In triumph. Our agriculture 1 still dominant in our wheat and meats and fruit and cotton. The remarkable growth Is in our manufactures, now constituting: nearly a third of . our exports, and rock-ribbed ar our material and financial conditions. Predictions ran prudently be based upon them. But the minds of men are a shoreless and. chart less sea. and no tn can tell when or why pallid fear may brool horribly upon its waves. - The nerves of ths multitu'Jo tro a tzzl electric cysttm r