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Ur THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SONG AND SENTIMENT mn crazed with in on corporate ft was managed under the spoils sys 1 SATURDAY OCTOBER 31 1908 for highest very has fi Is of he has what have the majority of quiet a cam civic righteousness to none ot its cunning a Prohibf best longer left any droW' OULKE prevents Week Week Cents Cents the for conviction There was the satis believed to have make mere their Investigation showed that Demo only received appointment that were given mainly for political constitutions federal and state with limitations on the powers of in has believe that Mr Bryan's promote distrust and sus naturally will "be for Taft Standard Oil or any other and line the the first three state and know but can he no other some name entirely Marion takes time and now is one of the reformation should near legal enact Denver plat in Mr Twoive Germans in Indianapolis there something differentiating prosecutor say that it would good deal to get any of the Marion Coun The daily average actual net circulation of THE STAR for the month of September was 77945 LACK WISDOM MR TROUBLE and that lead law OULKE TO THE NEWS: CAUSTIC QEN LETTER Cents Cents 4500250 4750 the ticket he Republican of Taft proper for a STAR BUILDING INDIANAPOLIS PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK STS THE LABOR ISSUES LEGALLY CONSIDERED to Mr George brewery ilM These men who have gone to the year after year voting for cnndl they knew their votes would not have been faithful most faithful have been pretty much set In their as far as voting was concerned How will the Civic League view the substitution of that noble patriot Adolph Seidensticker on the legislative ticket by the Indianapolis News after the league had turned him down on the liberty proposition? On and newspapers publication of President issues have beautiful at the creek figs Rockefeller believes as other men of the Pennsyl the late sugges cut wages hC one reason that John is going to vote for Taft is a Republican and has always This circumstance may after next Wednesday the of Indiana will resume the ot rea'ding matter Perhaps Rockefeller that he is voted the ticket at least have something to do with his course on this occasion Are nority enced this? If so Germans who agree with the majority of Indiana people to say about this put ting of them in a false light? Should not the German merchant man ufacturer and laborer make his position plain on this matter when it comes to him to cast his vote Nov Does the German really wish to set back for twenty years the effort to curb the brewery saloon? It is very much to be doubted Very likely the German man 1s like the other man on this point Very likely he will take the opportunity so to declare himself When Secretary Straus made a brief speech at one of the big Taft meetings in New York he referred to President Roosevelt as the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln whereat the crowd cheered madly Evidently the New York public is not greatly influenced bv the slurs systematically cast upon the Presi dent by the York press gal and liability any one contend that' such law as implied would be: constitutional? parties will control It the Demo lt has been Bryan Kern and the yellow Demo cratic press are hard put to it for ammu nition when they charge corrupt dealings with Rockefeller on the part of Mr Taft No votes will be made that way day every vote which is not for It Is against it and counted by the liquor league on Its side And how does thee enjoy being count ed by it as its helper? Then consider number of men who would be saved from be Ing laid to their final rest In drunkards' graves if there were local option In half or two thirds ot the stats and the great number of women who would be saved from being whipped and abused by toxicants A nation Is not born organized In a day and Chamberlin re ef The Star and the TELEPHONE CALLS Either Phone Private Exchange con nectlng all departments The Brooklyn Eagle calls attention to the fact that this Is week the week when campaign slanders and sensations are started with the hope that they day that It will be an awful shock Maurice Donnelly if the late Washington is not vindicated by a victory at the polls next week igle says also and very truly of this sort at this time are to react on the party that and are looked on with mls wise party managers The largo balloon labeled Urynn and Kern descend to the earth in vicinity of the popular vote next In a letter printed in another column on tills page strong indications are afforded that the pen of Mr William I) oulke has lost Thomas 1 Hisgen Independence League candidate for the presidency promises that he will not be a perpetual candidate or this much thanks One candidate ot that sort at large is enough If Mr Roosevelt takes out a game cost $250 before going to Afrjca it will give him the right to kill "two elephants two rhlnocerl ten hip popotami twenty one antelopes two buffaloes two earth hogs two earth wolves ten chevrotains two monkeys two marabou storks two ostriches two egrets and one chimpanzee" Sounds something like a list of the game that Noah bagged but Noah did not have to pay anything for his license making ol a mountain out of which you complain and It not be better applied to to me except for the fact more is no Under the Sherman anti trust act the courts will restrain an illegal conspiracy of capital against labor as quickly and upon the same ground that they will such a combination of labor against cap ital and the true and1 best interests of labor consists in maintaining this abso lute equality under the law The United States Supreme Court has so construed the Sherman act The first paragraph of the above plank implies that the right of wage earners to organize has been or is proposed to be abridged This Insinuation is false and must be so known by all acquainted With the law The above plank also falsely implies that labor organizations and their mem bers have been declared illegal as in re straint of trade This insinuation is predi cated in the case of Loewe versus Law ler decided ebruary 1908 by the United States Supreme Court and commonly known as the "Danbury Hat In this case the defendants were members of the United Hatters of North Amer ica a labor organization federated with the American ederation of Labor and were alleged to have con spired together and with many other persons to the plaintiff unknown and who were not parties to the suit to in force a boycott against the plaintiffs and their customers and to destroy the inter state business of the plaintiffs The case was decided on demurrer to the com plaint which in law admitted the facts alleged in the complaint to be true The facts alleged consisted of a series of libels intimidations repressions and ex tortions which would not be tolerated cjr defended In any civilized country The court holds the acts of these defendants under the facts alleged to be a conspir acy in restraint of trade under the Sher man act Not a word Is found in the de cision about labor organizations as such being Illegal as conspiracies in restraint of trade It is only the acts of the indi vidual defendants as set forth in the case that are condemned The acts if perpetrated by members of a church or a benevolent organization would have been likewise condemned and such decision would no more amount to a holding that the church or lodge was an Illegal or ganization than does the Danbury case hold that the labor organizations of which the defendants were members were illegal as in restraint ot trade The decision was rendered by Chief Justice uller a Democrat and was unanimous Mr Adolph Seldenstieker did not get the recommendation of the Civic League for his $1(1 or $15 but he has obtained the Indorsement of the Indianapolis News which is for Bryan and the breweries along with will the Tuesday evening am reliably in thls specific charge money largely con and combines was Kern Gives Up Indiana St Louis Globe Democrat Vice Presidential Candidate Kern is intimating that his state will go against him and Bryan as it did against both of them in other campaigns Kern Is laying the blame on Just as he and Bryan did before formed and make that $100000 of trlbuted by trusts brought into Indiana last Sunday and passed through the hands of the secretary of the State Board of exclaims Kern The men who would know about this fund if there were any such have all denied that it has any existence Even without their denial not many persons in their right mind would believe either Kern or Bryan on any such matter as this unless they were sup ported by strong corroborative evidence Kern was the Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana in 1900 and' 1904 and lost the state each time by a large majority Bryan lost it in 1896 and 1900 when running for President They are likely to lose it this year Kern sees this probability as shown by his cry ot "fraud" This is usually the cry of a beaten Democratic candidate for any thing Bryan and Kern howled before and the country paid no attention to them Nor will anybody pay any heed to them now except to say that it Is a confession of defeat on the part of each A much stronger man than Kern ever was Is running for Governor of Indiana on the Democratic ticket this year Mar shall will make a closer run tor Governor in the voting next Tuesday than Kern did In either of his canvasses It is possible that Marshall will carry the state but the chances of Watson hlsi Republican opponent who Is a much abler and better man are constantly improving While the Republicans all along have been placing Indiana in the doubtful list for this year they believe now that Taft will carry It Some of the Indiana Re publican chiefs sulked during most of the campaign but all of them are on the stump now and apparently are doing good work for Taft and also for Watson The prospects for both in that state are growing brighter and brighter On the night of the election a repetition of this parrot cry of will probably be heard from Bryan and from Kern but In the chorus ot rejoicing at the Repub lican victory not many persons Demo crats or Republicans will take any no tice of it ONLY A LACK ACILITIES Woman Home Companion Clara aunty took hot for a visit Niagara alls After viewing the great waterfall for some time and the little girl falling to make any remarks aunty tri to draw some expression from htr as to what she thought of the spectacle hlnnilv she said: ion you think the falls are and was nmnwil child nonchalant reply: yes pose so but I fink our at homo could do it if It had a management Ha insists under no obligations will be free point those who are capable and and who will be aiding their party the victors would get the spoils legitimately belong to A Ttlnrtrta liA ni 4 OI 4 1 4 ft a xie kciKi Vvl 41 1 LlicLL laU IlcxS been making his fight on his own money and would be free to first serve the state and then his party When he had thus served the state he would think the victors "had got the spoils and were en titled to What do you really think of a man who when driven into a corner thus emits these Delphic utterances? inally in a painful effort to reinstate himself Mr Marshall says he has "no in tention of interfering with anything to put the business of the state on business principles and to divorce as much aS possible the institutions from This Is the way Thomas Taggart used to talk when mayor They are now wholly divorced but if victors are to have the they can not be divorced much as or divorced at all In your better days you would not have thought of supporting a man for Governor who advocated this principle anv more than you would have supported Bryan for the presidency You once believed that that doctrine was immoral vicious and wicked and you ought at least to respect the opinions of those who still believe it Mr Chamberlin's Indorsement Any persons who have innocently given credit to the false and malicious repre sentations that have been made against Mr Harry Chamberlin in tills campaign will doubtless be rudely shocked at the complete destruction visited upon those misrepresentations by the numerously signed indorsement Mr celved in issue at the hands of leading trustworthy members of County bar Such men as these the judges and attorneys in this community do not put their names to tfons of this kind without consideration and a sense sonal and professional 'W THE INDI ANAPOLI STAR SATURDAY 81? 1908 XW' Ct Mr course that naturally occur to the fair minded Is that Mr Rockefeller will share ether business men the desire for election as President promises tion: If Mr business flection would I ense then he 1 he Idea that eat business enterprise would be for Bryan unless It had made some cornmf Hance with Taft and Roosevelt Is a ece of pretty far fetched partisanship ra stnetiv paper You compare me with the "lost of Browning or with I thank you for referring to the poems Perhaps I ought to thank you for think ing I was ever a leader I did not my self suppose it I can not reciprocate I do not think your journal is a leader but I think it ought still to be subject to some rules of moral conduct and one of the first of these is not to false witness against neighbor You have published the most atrocious falsehoods ot a President who has en forced the merit system more effectively than any of his predecessors Your Washington correspondent sends out to the world things that are not true al though the means of ascertaining their truth are at his doors So far as your criticisms ot me are con cerned they recall the attacks in earlier times made by the Indianapolis Sentinel which assailed our committee day after dav for months and years until when the editorial management of the Sentinel was changed 1 felt a little lonely when I missed its daily diatribes I am not conscious that any of our reputations suffered from these articles The News ioday Impresses me In the sama way It has better literary standards but even a more perverted moral sense and I shall be glad to undergo some months or years of your criticlsmsif I do what I conceive to be my duty As to your reference to "Ichabod" and the Leader" I Will say that I have always admired these poems I think I must be impressed with them more than you because I notice that last Saturday you quoted Daniel Webster as an author ity ith a reverence you could hardly have paid If you really believed "Ichabod It is a terrible poem to any one to whom it really applies' I hlnk it is applicable now but not to the person you intend for I feel that it does not He in your mouth to breathe the faintest criticism of any one who utters in good faith any thing he really believes And when you refer to a poem which begins Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick on his coat I ask whether these words do not apply more aptlv to a paper which voices the disappointed aspirations ot its chief pro prietor anil to those who serve him in the expression of his personal and po litical resentment: Te de fabula narra tor You do not quote me correctly In re gard to voting the straight ticket what I said was that I thought that this was a good vear to vote the national and state tickets straight I think so still I did not refer to local candidates In deed I told the reporter who took the In ter dew that I expected to vote against one or more in my own neighborhood But even if I had srtld What you caim does it not look as if your heroics Walk backward with averted gaze And hide the shame would have been a really startling illus tration ot tne of a mole bill if not would yourself tliar that with vou shame to hide? WILLIAM Richmond Ind can not be refuted before election The Eai stories i likely starts thfem giving with wild tales about a Republican fund" Bryan and Kern are circulating in their desperation belong to this class They fall to consider that they are con fessing the corrup bility of their fol lowers Prohibitionists for Watson It has been said that fully Half of the twenty thousand and more men who voted for the Prohibition candidate for Governor font years ago will in this elec tion vote for the Republican candidates for Governor and the Legislature Now this has been surprising to some people polls dates elect They wavs And yet those who are inclined to be surprised should remember that when these Prohibitionists voted for candidates they knew could not win they were really voting for a principle which t(jey believed and hoped would some time win And so It is not remarkable that they should now when they have an opportunity to strike tne common enemy a blow support Mr Watson and the legislative ticket writing from Carthage in Iqsue of The Star comes to the point in an argument with tionist who had insisted upon party loy alty despite the issues of the campaign when he savs: Docs not thee believe that If thee were tight inc with a bear rind It were try ing to grnpple thee into Its embrace (lust ns the saloons are trying to embrace nil of us) escape nr of conquering that could strike and break one of to strike a stump off to one thee could not break nil Its blow? i Whore local option stands to i 1 STAND 11 TO AV KITE Barcelona Gnzetla Mecllcn Handing before a high desk is the position for brain work especially writ ing Try It You will find tlrtt standing BiiiuiHuiuB me urtun anu siness TRAVEL RECORD New York World How many trips to Chicago has Chair man Hitchcock repeated One of the officials at the Grand Central Station tjave to ask me something easier bhan that I stopped counting after the twenty tifth We ve got orders not to start any train for Chicago unless sure lie on it I suppose you all know him by this suggested the reporter Know him? laughed the railroad man There isn't a man on the line that doesn know him All the porters and train hands call him Hank Even the engines pulf when they see him coming had to put a leather bottom in his parlor caair the other dav Sure he has the same chair He doesn't permit it to get cold I tell you he knows every bit oi bad track between here and Chicago and lie always rises before we lift a bump He has a card index of all the buhips One of the conductors tells a good story about him On the last rlp west Hitchcock was sure he saw himself on a tram speeding East He had to look up his schedule before he would be convinced that he was not coming instead of along protective lines and this ss his people to quit the carrying uecHuse nome protection nau re importation and go Into manufac which had been greatly increased Mr Independence In his In another column Mr William Dudley oulke exposes the hypocrisy and insincerity of the Indian apolis News in a truly beautiful and scientific manner In his own career Mr oulke has been a notable Illustration of what genuine independence In politics means Originally a Republican he found himself out of harmony with his party policies In the Blaine Cleveland eanaign and voted for the Democratic candidate In doing this he lost the position of in fluence he had occupied in his party and aroused the antagonism of Republican leaders for it was a time when party feeling ran high and a man who cast his ballot for the opposition was looked upon with much disapproval It was a step calling for courage and In his case meant sacrifice of favor and friendship but it was a taken because of It was genuine independence in for him but faction of supporting what he be the soundest political principles and the best candidate Since then Mr oulke has continued to vote according to his convictions These did not permit him to support Bryan in 189G and 1900 or Parker In 1904 or Bryan this year Whether he voted the Re publican ticket straight at the elections mentioned including Legislature The Star does not whichever was the case there doubt that he had reasons good and suffi cient to himself and the courage to an nounce his position frankly He did not quibble nor squirm nor lie nor evade nor refuse openly to declare his position This year he believes that the can didates on the Republican ticket from presidential electors down through state and county and legislature represent the best principles and policies He believes that the election of Bryan and Marshall would be a calamity to Nation and state and says so with forcible reasons for his belief He supports his candidates with all the energy and zeal that he would manifest if he were a straight party man a perfectly proper and natural pro cedure for any one with honest convic tions But because he does not do a fence balancing act because he does not criticise and sneer at at least a part of the Republican ticket because he re morsely punctures the Democratic bubble because in short Mr oulke does not agree with It therefore says the News which has never known the meaning of therefore he has ceased to be independent To those who look on it is to laugh Mr oulke but he speaks for himself Read the letter Reform Governors Next to the impulse toward decency id 1 honesty which Theodore Roosevelt las imparted to our public life perhaps the most remarkable phenomenon in our pibllc life today is the rise to prominence eta group of reform Governors of North ern states Such men as Johnson Minnesota olk of Missouri Hoch of Kansas Hanly of Indiana Hughes of New York La ollette of YVisconsln Harris of Ohk) have cut out a new of executive policy In response to nroused state of public opinion on great moral Issues of the hour It is a significant fact that in at least fourstates of the Union the moral issue Is the dominant feature of the campaign This applies in New Yrork Ohio Indiana and Illinois in each of which the Demo cratic" party has returned to its tradi tional view of while the decent citizens of all parties a re flocking to the Republican standard It is i unfortunate that moral issues should become party issues for we have the right to expect that both put their decent elements in is especially unfortunate for cratic party In Indiana that taken possession of bv the liquor and gambling elements and that its oppor tunity to put forward a man for another reform Governor has been frustrated by the submission of Mr Thomas Mar shall a man of fine attainments and es timable qualities to the undesirable forces with which the Democratic palgn has become identified election as best for investment and produc The Indianapolis News was then sup porting our criticisms against that im moral doctrine the victors belong the I venture still to believe that we were correct in our opposition to it In the next election the people thought so too for nothing had a greater influence in the overthrow of the Democratic party than the report made in part by one of your present editors and which your paper commended indeed you have ever since that time claimed to oppose the spoils system A better era has dawned upon our benevolent institutions and their non partisan character has been established by a law which although inadequate and subject to evasion has up to this time rescued them from the detestable practices which we unearthed Mr Marshall Democratic candidate for Governor has repeatedly announced in his campaign that he is a believer in the doctrine the victors belong the1 He has the appointment of the boards of our benevolent institutions If he believes what he says ha believes he ought to do what he can to have the spoils system restored and even without legislation he can so manipulate the boards of managers in this state as to secure a removal of that detectable sys tem Rockefeller foi Taft The Indianapolis News is making a great to do about its discovery that John Rockefeller favors the election of Taft Me do not know Mr mind matter but grant that he is Taft then what? Why then according to the News Inference as to why Rockefeller is aft Is because some corrupt arrange ment has been made between Standard on one hand and Taft and Roosevelt on the Other hand Therefore all honest men should vote for Bryan We have no hesitation in pronouncing tnis a dishonest conclusion malicious as is absurd In the first place no intel ligent person believes that either Roose velt or Taft would be a party to such a corrupt agreement In the second place the explanation will man with that that THE HOMING When my wayward boy camo back rom h1 reckless roaming With his plumage ruth and wrack Lika a spent bird homing irst I and then I smiled Then we clung together He was still my child my child Love was still a tether i Ne'er a word reproach I said Asked not what had kept him Only when he lay in bed Then (In mine) 1 wept him Wept the wounds upon him Those long years bequeathing Thrice that night his threshold sought Watchful of his breathing Listening times afraid Lest he be some Thanking God whose mercy made Me to be his mother Sabin in Metropolitan Magazine and the government a reformation Is not accomplished in one season it and has to be done step by step the time for Indiana to make broadest steps In temperance that it has ever made and if we lect to make use of it the temperance cause will be thrown back twenty five years The Apostle James stated that knoweth to do good and doeth It not to him it is The earnestness of the plea the whole souled desire of the advocate to have the men of hie party strike when they an opportunity for the first time to their votes count for more than a expression of sentiment now when votes will reap for them a harvest is certainly appealing No it is not surprising that these men earnest in their desire to down 'the brew ery and the saloon should at this time seize upon an opportunity to cast their lot with the Republicans or they know as thousands of Democrats in Indiana who do not care to clasp hands with the brewers bartenders and barflies In a common cause know that the time has arrived when party lines should fade away before the demands of conscience thee would stand a better chance of bear if thee Ha legsthan side because logs at one THE RELIGIOUS ISSUE Chicago Inter Ocean arious persons write to the Inter Ocean on the assumption that Mr re ligious creed is a proper subject of politl eai discussion These persons contend that the church faith of a candidate offers a proper ground on which to determine his fitness for the presidency The Inter Ocean can but deplore this apparent tendency to make any re ligious creed a test of his fitness for pub lic office It is a test which the Constitu tion and laws and the whole spirit of American institutions simply ignore An American religious opinons are strictly his own business They neither qualify nor disqualify him for public of fice So they do not tend to subvert pub lic order and the universal standards of morality they are oi no public concern Never but once in the whole history of the United States has there been an or ganized effort to apply religious tests to public men or to make religious opinions rhe ground of political decisions That was sixty years ago The result was disastrous Those who endeavored to set up such tests were swept Into political oblivion by the common sense of the A merican people Therefore the Inter Ocean absolutely declines to yield to any solicitations to discuss the religious opinions of Mr Taft He is a good man That is enough recommenda consclentious of their per responsibillty What they say is that Mr Chamberlin is a minded well equipped worthy and In particular he has the and to in prosecution of all classes of and further: Mr Chamberlin was opposed for the nomi nation by mon uf ability and high standing In the legal profession He won the nomina tion in a fair open fight in which every Republican voter in the county had an equal voice with every other This should entitle him to the support of all Republicans pro vided he Is honest and capable No one can truthfully say that he does not fill both of these requisites Ho will ably and fearlessly conduct the people's business In the criminal courts of this county and will do so without asking the taxpayers to con tribute the public funds toward employing assistant counsel to perform the services re quired by law of the We undertake to worry Mr Hooton a considerable number ty bar after a study of his remarkable and humiliating record as public prose cutor to give him an indorsement any where approaching this remarkable testi monial to Mr Chamberlin But as in the case of the anti injunc tion plank above discussed If this plank contemplates a law which shall authorize and make legal and innocent such acts against the now legal rights of person and property as W6be alleged in the Dan bury hat case the proposed law to be constitutional must be general and ex tend equal immunities to employers and allow them to combine and conspire to boycott not only their own employes but wage earners generally Plainly In this condition the state of the wage earner would be worse than the first In Niagara ire Insurance Company vs Cornell 110 ed 823 an antl consnirncy statute of Nebraska was held unconstitu tional because it exempted associations of laboring men from its operation Mr Bryan should be deemed to know of this decision i In conclusion of the whole matter therefore the proposals of tho labor planks of the Democratic platform whensubjected to practical tests are either unconstitutional frauds which are inca pable ot execution or If the constitution al objections be met by general legisla tion along the lines Implied it would re sult In letting down trie bars to unre strained conspiracy on the part of capital against labor The nest Interests lies in the equal application of our anti conflniracy laws to both capital and labor Under such laws both Interests not 'only have equal protection but the Government in the interests of the public welfare is warranted In intervening in industrial mspuies as in tne case vnnia cnal strike and in tion of tho railroads to Connersville Ind A BY? SIMPSON LOWE JiBefore the campaign concludes I wish to examine a few of its Incidents argu rrientfl nnd nlnims In an Article which Will be the last ot a series ot fifteen which I have contributed to The Star since the Denver convention solely for the purpose it possible of giving support to the un derlylng principles ot present politics the i maintenance of which will in my view give stability to government and greatly aid the people in al! their commercial and business affairs The candidates too' should not be overlooked for they are eminently and conspicuously the expo nents of the principles for which their re tj spectlve parties have stood This how ever Is more true of Mr Taft than of Mr Bryan Mr Bryan has been defeated twice and not only he but with him his party 1 sometimes question the exact ness of the statements we often hear made of Mr Bryan by which he is ac cused of being changeable His party has been defeated on free silver initiative and referendum popular election of fed ft eral Judges anti imperialism sudden and sweeping changes in the tariff schedules it opposition to Increase of navy and on the specific claims made four years ago that: the Preside! was warlike and a danger ous trouble maker to have in the high of si flee of President of the United States of whom Mr Bryan said In 1894 that he would rather down to eternal oblivion than vote for Theodore Some I of these things contended for have been defeated once some twice and others thrice and it could hardly be expected of Mr Bryan that he would remain firm in i his adherence to things the people have said they did not want nor approve In this view there Is abundant reason for various changes of mind that Mr Bryan is alleged to have had Al more potential and primary criticism against Mr Bryan would be he being the leader of what is now called the Democratic party and the writer of its platform has not been more fortunate and even more judicious In the selection of proposed re forms to lay before the people It was wise In Mr Bryan after the people had defeated free silver twice to quit writing it in his platforms and it would have been wiser still If he had quit saying that if the same conditions existing in 1896 should reeur he would again be tor floe sliver This is not reassuring and fur nlshes no passport to the presidency Since Mr platform contains no reference to the election of federal judges by the people it jvould have been well have omitted the popular election of sena tors also Mr location in Nebraska a new state at a time when dry season un developed farms poor people and slow progress furnished a prolific soil in which if to sow the seeds of discontent and in which populism with all its short cuts with rapid transit methods to tho opu lence which Populists believed would re suit as the full fruition of their unde veloped theories was an unfortunate" cir cumstance for him in a political way though perhaps it has aided him in other ways Populism flourished all around Mr Bryan at the very time when his notions 4 of statesmanship were being developed A and his ambitions to be an office holder a were taking root With populism holdings the balance of power without which Mr Bryan could not hope to hold office at that time it is small wonder that a man of Mr versatility coupled with a vaulting ambition should espouse the doctrines of populism and try to give new Takes lime It would be well for every voter of Ma rlon County who expects to scratch his ticket on election day to take the trouble now that machines are being exhibited in all parts of the county to practice scratching in advance and for the fur ther reason that he will be allowed but a minute to vote on election day jsln many of the voting precincts there are 800 tO 900 or even 1060 voters and it is therefore manifest that all could not vote in case each man should insist upon taking his full minute as the law allows The polls will be open for 720 minutes and the rman who is interested in the more Important offices to be voted for and still wants to scratch in some other instances should bear in mind when doing so that he must work Rapidly unless by his slow even though he stay under the minute limit he may rob his neighbor of an opportunity to vote at all ror example If one man who is anx ious for the election of Mr Taft should take his whole minute in an effort to scratch i some other part of may be robbing some other an opportunity to vote It is certainly right and toter to scratch: And he ma if he in slsts upon it take his full minute But nevertheless it tfehooves him as a fair man and it may bo a promotion of tho interests of the candidates in whose elec tion he is most vitally interested to vote as rapidly as possible 4" Another thing whiph: should be borne In mind by those whose business affairs will permit Is that they should vote be tween: 8 In the morning nnd 4 clock in tho afternoon The polls will to open of course from 6 o'clock until clock: the greatest rush is usually totween the first two hours of theimorn ng' and the last two hours of thenfter ion when a large number ot men who 'A You saj' of me that "in a demagogic and pettifogging manner I took this phrase used in a 'semi jocular de tached from its connection and the cir cumstances under which it was uttered and then proceed to erect a mountain of improbability and absurdity out of a minute I say nothing of the criticism of "demagogic by a paper which is doing what it can to elect Bryan but common English words mean something Will you please give me any cumicuiiuii in wi ii ivi Marana used this phrase in which it did not mean wiiat it said? It is true Mr Marshall said at Peru Oct 26 that in his first speech he had declared himself in favor of bipartisan management but this in the hands ot a spoilsman means the corruptest sort of management He insists that a man to ap honest "Thus which STANDARD OIL'S EXPANSION John Rockefeller in Work None ot us ever dreamed of the mag nitude of what proved to be the later ex pansion We did our work as we met It looking forward to what we could see in tlie distance and keeping well up to our opportunities but laying our foundations firmly As I have said capital was most difficult to secure and it was not easy to Interest conservative men in this ad venturous business Men of property were afraid of it though in rare cases capitalists were induced to unite with us to a limited extent If they bought our stock at all they took a little of it now and then as an experiment and we were painfully conscious that they often de clined to buy new stock with many beautiful expressions of appreciation The enterprise being so new and novel on account of the fearfulness of certain holders in reference to Its success we frequently had to take stock to keep it from going begging but we had such con fidence in the fundamental value of the concern that we were willing to assume this risk There are alwaj's a few men In an undertaking of this kind who would risk all on their judgment of the final result and if the enterprise had failed these would have been classed as visionary adventurers and perhaps with good reason The 60000 men who are at work con stantly in the service of the company are kept busy year in and year out The past year has been a time of great contraction but the Standard has gone on with Its plans unchecked and the new works and buildings have not been delayed on ac count of lack of capital or fear of bad times It pays Its workmen well it cares for them when sick and pensions them when old It has never had any important strikes and if there is any better function of business management than giving profitable work to employes year after year what the German man from the other citizens of Indiana? Some Germans are brewers and they make tho point or the charge that the mon ot German descent in this city and state are as a body Identified with them (the brewers) in defense of what is now known as the brewery sa loon in Indiana cities and towns We do not believe the point is based on truth If the bud saloon pushed into neighborhoods where not desired and operated so illegally and disagreeably has become an offense in the estimation of any township of Indiana we hardly think it is a thing on which the quiet law abiding man which the German cer tainly is will differ radically from elements of our citizenship Yet officers of German societies in the of liberty are plainly rushing to the trout for the brewers these active opes merely a ml of the Germans who are Influ by brewery stockholders to do Our bristle the legislative departments deprive of life liberty or property without due proc ess of law abridgments of the privileges and Immunities of citizens or the equal protection of the law If the latter In terpretation be put on this anti injunc tion plank of the platform the panacea proposed is a fraud and delusion and must have been so intended by its author But again this plank does not limit the prohibition ot injunctions arising out of industrial disputes to cases in which the laborer is the defendant If the existing anti conspiracy laws under which the secondary boycott is made illegal be so changed as to make such conspiracies legal and innocent what would be the result in a contest be tween capital and labor? What would prevent employers from organizing to re press and suppress all demands of labor? Could not the National Association already hinted to have this very purpose in view and its individual members confederate and conspire to gether to shut down their factories and suppress interstate commerce until labor and its organizations should accede to its demands? In a free fight wherein neither labor nor capital could be restrained by law where each party is a law untohlm self and might alone makes right is it not probable that labor would fare much worse than under the existing laws ac cording equal protection to each against the unwarranted and illegal combinations of the other? In any event the net result of such law as is implied in this anti injunction plank would be revolution and Industrial chaos But if this anti injunction plank implies a law applicable only to cases in which the wage earner is defendant then such proposal is unconstitutional for Yant of equality If a conspiracy in restraint of trade be made legal if committed by wage earners then the same conspiracy must be legalized if committed by em ployers they must be allowed to combine to stop production and limit wages Hence in any view that the anti injunc tion plank of the Democratic platform may be viewed it is either a delusion or a substantial menace to labor Vtftl can not vote at any other time are casting tUeir ballots Let us repeat that the man who de sires to scratch should now take ad vantage of the opportunities that are of fered him In the various parts ot town to I learn the voting machine It is the part of a good citizen with a proper regard for the rights of others to do so for scratching on the machine simple after a man understands the machine is by no means easy when attended by tho feeling of the voter that he must not make a mistake and tho consciousness of re sponsibility and of haste which tends as we all know to confuse the faculties and interfere with prompt manual action even by those who are familiar with tho working of machinery Entered aa aecond claee matter Jan 18 1908 at the postoffice st Indianapolis Ind under the Act ot Conrress of March 3 1879 The Indianapolis Sentinel ounded 1823 The Indianapolis Journal ounded 1823 Tho Indianapolis Star ounded 1803 TERMS SUBSCRIPTION Single Dally Sunday Bv Carrier Dally onlyTen Cents per Dally and Sunday ifteen Cents per Bv Dally only one month 50 Dally and Sunday one month' 70 Dally only one year Sunday only one year Dally and Sunday one year Cost of foreign postage should be added to above rates No additional postage required for Porto Rico Isle ot Pines Cuba Canal Zone (Panama) Mexico Hawaii Samoan Islands Alaska Guam Philippine Archlpel Bga Republic of Panama and United States Postal Agency Shanghai China BY BROADDUS 1 The labor proposals of the national Dempcratlc platform have not been ex amined In this campaign with a view to their practicability it enacted Into legis lation as closely as have the proposals for bank guarantee and the 25 to 50 per cent and free trade limitations production The two recent letters Roosevelt on the labor aroused Interest In these Issues and every laboring man should read them They prove conclusively that Judge Taff now Is and always has been the true and practical friend of labor and not merely a demagogic panderer for its vote But the ultimate and practical question which I have not seen discussed is this: Can the Democratic labor proposals be enacted Into constitutional law and if so would such law be beneficial to organized labor or highly detrimental and bring in Its train industrial chaos? The actual proposals are: 1 "Injunctions should not 1 be Is sued in any case in which injunctions would not issue if no industrial dispute was This proposal is like a triple sign which reads in three different ways from as many different points of view rom one viewpoint it falsely implies that under the present practice injunc tions may be issued in cases in which they would not be except for an industrial dis pute (strike) involved Such is not now the law The legal ground for an injunction In all cases Is the threatened or existing and continuing 'invasion and destruction of personal and property rights under the law and constitution the facts constitut ing which must be specifically alleged in the complaint Where the above basis exists injunctions will issue whether an industrial dispute exists or not or whether the defendant be art employer or organization of employer or a laborer or organization of laborers rom another viewpoint the above pro posal Implies that legislation should be had which would prohibit an injunction in any case in which an industrial dispute was involved It does not say so but it? was intended to be so understood that is that a law should be passed providing that such acts and conduct as now con stitute conspiracy against trade or destruction of property or deprivation of personal liberty either at common' law or under the Sherman act and the stat utes of the several states which copy it Shall henceforth be legal and innocent and the basis of no liability civil or criminal will above The appended communication Is an open letter addressed by Mr William Dudley oulke cf Richmond to the Indi anapolis News It speaks for Itself: To the Editor othe Indianapolis News: Dear BIr It is now a number of years since I served with one of the members of your editorial staff upon a special com mittee of Indiana Civil Service Re form Association which examined the condition of the Central Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis The act by which the hospital was operated was political ana it tern Our crats places reasons that legislative Influence was courted by giving patronage to Demo cratic senators and we named half a score of such senators' who had relatives and friends thus appointed The traffic in place was reduced to a system and became a public scandal The men ap pointed were unfit" and grossly incompe tent They were active political workers and on the day of the Democratic con vention the hospital was deserted by its employes The men who furnished sup plies were prominent politicians of that party The result was careless and unbusi nesslike methods pervaded the entire or ganization as well as favoritism corrup tion inefficiency and constantly recurring cases of neglect toward the helpless In mates Discharges were made to make room for political manipulators More than four flfths of the employes were changed during three yours Contracts were reeking with corruption Butter which could be bought at 6 cents a pound was furnished at 25 then butterlne was substituted A' corrupt contractor got the contracts at his own price although oth ers were ready to furnish supplies at less than half the lowest blds offered The reports of dally sustenance showed food unfit to eat The attendants struck and teased the patients and were guilty of cruelties so great that a number died Drunkenness and notorious Immorality prevailed and our report showed that the fault lay In that abominable system bv which the welfare of the inmates was subordinated to supposed political ad vantage We agreed that no improvement could be looked for while this continued Thft Affirinnrv nf th A ArturtM wouia not oe improved ny merit along ths lines of the form 4 i Mr Bryan has also had questionable reasons for his conduct in connection with tariff legislation He has stood for radical changes and for reducing the tariffs re gardlessof protection unless in an in cidentalsway which has sometimes been suggested in Democratic platforms The wisdom of this was questioned by a greater statesman than Mr Bryan Mr state was engaged the ocean carrying trade and not in manufacturing but Congress against his will put up the tarins forced trade duced turing and made more profitable by protective tariffs In accordance with the interests of his constituency Mr YVebster then be came a protectionist and opposed going back to free trade On account of pro tection they had Sold their ships and built factories and then Mr Webster opposed the enactment of st law that would force them to sell their factories Changes are bad on business and Mr Bryan is wrong to Insist on Changes that will unsettle matters for a long time and after such long time will be no better for the coun try than well adjusted tariff laws which the aims to try to keep upon the statute books The final and most important thing is that it would be a practical impossibility for Mr Bryan to give us as prosperous a country for the next lour years ns Mr? Taft could very name is sug gestlve of uncertainty unsettled condi tions and lack of confidence in business''' rnni1 1 i inns wliilt rrn In wknt moit nped now Look vhero you will thorn is nothing Oh the entire political 7 it horizon that promises more certainty and" stability of business Interests titan the election nf Mr Taft to earrv out the publican policies Which have proven their v1 efficiency times without number commend Mr Taft to the people end ask I for him their su Ugo on election day Bedfotd IuA Stranger than all was Mr Bryan's will ingness to defile himself with the unpatri otic of Mr Debs Tho time has been since society took upon Itself the rights and duties of self government with the coincidental and essential right to punish the offenders that those against whom the laws were enforced were not accustomed to decry just laws and stigmatize those who put them into execution Mr Debs was no exception to this In 1894 he showed himself to be the arch enemy of organized society and the prime sinner against the legal and In cldental rights and powers of the Gov ernment He instigated a strike and when It got beyond labor's control ha winked at mob law and Instigated which were done in bold defiance of gov ernmental powers moved by the defiant spirit of Tlilmanlsm and Altgeldlsm to trample laws under foot and for this he was enjoined so that lawlessness might be abated through the action of the fed eral courts whose action was sustained by the Supreme Court of the United States but he disobeyed this Injunction and was sent to jail for contempt of court since which time he has been denouncing government by Injunction and to get the support of Mr Debs and his followers the Socialists Mr Bryan has been willing to i follow Mr Debs Into the wildest denun elation of the injunctive powers of the court for such characterized the Bryan platform of 1896 when the Injunction plank was strong enough to enlist the support of Mr Debs now It is changed ana ivir Deos no longer nictates tne junction plank the honor falling to Compere Mr Gompers Is much weaker on lunations than Mr Debs He never been sent to jail for contempt for obeying injunctions and he is more tea sonable and less radical than Mr Debs but since Mr Debs and the Socialists 4 have withdrawn from Mr Bryan It Is no wonder that common cause has been made between Mr Bryan and Mr Gom pers who as many believe Is pressing i tho matter of a Department of Labor upon Congress in Older that he Mr Gom pers may be appointed by Mr Bryan If tJieu iuca lu puaiuuik jil inti uuuiuei is fitting therefore that Mr Gompers should be allowed the privilege of formu lating the injunctions plank for the Dem ooratic platform This he has done In a large measure and he professes to be satisfied with the Denver platform After all then the injunctions plank Is not Democratic but results from Mr reaching out to gather tn all the malcon tents he can to his support When Mr 0 Bryan seeks socialistic support he makes ins plank strong to suit the 'malcontent nature of Mr Debs but when he only: seeks to Invoke the aid of Mr Gompers: and his followers he makes a milder plat form Labor never did have the against injunctions that Mr Debs and hie followers had That feeling was too bit ter and ill founded for labor Gompers Is nearer right but he is wrong His Den ver plank is insipid meaningless and worthless vitality to decaying Democratic doctrines by a fusion of the two and by making i himself the acceptable candidate of the two parties rise to office bv their corn blned strength In this way Mr Bryan "V't deemed it consistent with good politics If not with true statesmanship to accept free silver initiative and referendum and tho like The same reasons would have induced Mr Bryan to have ac cepted greenbaekism had that exponent of flatism been as prevalent in the nineties as It was in the seventies Wonder if Mr Kern has any evidence of that $100000 he tnlils about so much? 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