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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1900
Page
4
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William Pudley Foulke, a leading Republican advocate, lashed out at Mayor Thomas Taggart during a speech on Saturday. He argued Taggart protected saloon interests by police partiality, tying Lieber and Durbin to monopolistic ventures tied to Fairbanks, while warning that Foulke’s own accusations could rebound like a boomerang.
Indianapolis lost the effort to secure the firemen's national headquarters and faces a potential $50,000 yearly loss for years. Local firemen campaigned hard with prominent supporters, but the Commercial Club committee balked without clear reason, a decision seen as a mystery arising from club politics.
The Sun notes delays in the track elevation case tied to John W. Kern and Indianapolis politics. It suggests postponement could affect the railroad vote and donations, with comments on Mayor Taggart, Populists in the Democratic Party, and broader national labor strikes influencing the political climate.
The writer argues Mr. Bryan is a demagogue who alienates voters. In Chicago he mocked gold Democrats with a forgiving line and a proscribed prodigal calf joke. The piece labels him disorganizing, incapable of leadership, and calls for muzzling him.
An evening paper reports a Bryanite group seeking to identify employers who coerce workers to vote the Republican ticket and boycott them. The Journal condemns the tactic as an insult to employers and notes local Republican employers are accused. It criticizes factory formed political clubs initiated by employers and warns of coercion and despicable actions, supported by visible evidence.
The piece lauds a successful fall carnival and daily additions of attractions backed by merchants and manufacturers. It criticizes Indianapolis for inaction and warns of overexpensive conventions while urging straightforward political accountability from Bryan and noting Kruger’s high lecture fee. It ends with remarks on imperialism memories of Lincoln and Jackson and mentions a track elevation suit delayed to 1901 or later.
The clippings mock cautionary notes on救 aid for Galveston sufferers and election nerves while praising Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a cure-all. Mentions Grover Cleveland, Arbitral boards, and a local liquor and bottle shop Schuiler’s at 210 N Meridian.
Lew Wallace Jr. argues a 1899 Griggs letter gave immunity to manufacturers and mining trusts, undermining the Sherman Act, encouraging lawbreaking, and helping sustain interstate restraint of trade. The piece contends Griggs violated his oath, comparing the promise to the Sulu treaty and urging enforcement against all monopolies.
In Yonkers on September 18, John J. Froderick, long tied to politics and previously without a nomination, is slated for election as alderman by both Democrats and Republicans to cure his illness. Doctors attribute his decline to emotional distress. no opposition candidate is expected as both parties unite.
The sketch presents a narrator describing a hunter's tired state from a previous day of hunting. A plan unfolds to wake him with a whistle like quail piping. A theater press agent confronts Isaac Has kett who clarifies he is not the editor of the Podunk Times.
The scene depicts a wry exchange about the Boers with royal irony and a jester’s quip. A black crepe and palace rejoicing mark a death, while a neighbor mentions Gertie Bawn as the weather shifts, ending with a stray image of a network shirt waist.
A blend of dialogue and verse contrasts political satire with autumnal imagery. The Raggedy Man debates McKinley while the housewife questions prosperity. The piece shifts to a poem about autumn and a New York public notice criticizing conductors who wet tickets and touch money with saliva, noting sanitary concerns and a tuberculosis risk.
The Minneapolis Times argues a massive labor conflict harms McKinley and supports miners demands. It condemns peonage at mines and praises workers for seeking company store abolition, independent doctors, and cash wages. The Philadelphia Times notes coal companies fund Hanna to boost dinner rail support.
A nineteenth century advertisement promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims soothing effects, gum softening, pain relief, cures wind colic and diarrhoea, and lists a price of twenty five cents per bottle.
The Grand stock company opened with Sapho a crowd but not a crush of last season. Lotta Linthicum debuts as Fanny LeGrand while John Flood’s Jean Gaussin appears stiff. Uncle Nathaniel and Hanlon's Superba draw praise as does Empire theater burlesque. Texas flood relief to receive proceeds midweek earnings.
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