Crawfordsville Daily Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 November 1894 — Page 2
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A. A. McCAIN. Treasurer.
THI USDAY, NOVEMBER S, 1894.
ISN'T Bent Snyder glad he signed that petition?
DKMOCRACY would not have been safe in a cyclone cellar on Tuesday last.
Goon Lord!" said Mr. Voorhees when he heard the the returns, and declined to speak further.
WOXDEU if Uresham is not sorry he left the Republican party and turned his back on his old soldier comrades'.'
XKVKH before did the Republican party stand so square and firm upon its feet, or exhibit such strength, visror and manhood.
THK Republicans will have one hundred majority in the next Congress and every Republicau there will be a firm advocate of McKinley protection.
MK. liitooKsuiKK. in his speech here, said it was clear that protection was doomed. What does he think now? He is not even the great grand son of a prophet.
THK entire Democratic membership of the Ways and Means Committee have been wiped out. Not a single member of that Committee will grace the Kifty-fourth Congress.
THK London papers all express great regret at the utter shipwreck of the Democratic party in the 1'nited States. Democracy closes factories in America and opens them in England. See?
THK -4r /ii.v News of yesterday consoled itself by saying that "the news may be better to-morrow. First reports are always exaggerations." The news is better to-day. Even Missouri has gone Republican.
THK Anjiis-Xacs says it is very evident that Democrats voted the Republican ticket. We "told you so" before the election, but you laughed and laughed. You would not believe that there were any dissatisfied Democrats.
DKI.AXA E. WILLIAMSON", who turned Democrat two years ago, in order to get oftice. is badly beaten for Joint Representative in Montgomery, l'utnam and Clay. The good Lord sometimes don't permit a man to succeed in schemes that are based on corruption and selfishness.
THK Slates of Ilill, Gorman, Smith. Mcl'herson and llrice taught them a lesson yesterday they will not soon forget. When the Democratic partyfrees itself of its traitors it will succeed again. They may defeat it but they can't kill it.—Aryws-Xcivs.
What about the State of Voorhees. llolman. Tom Taggart. Brookshire and Taylor Thompson? Who were the traitors in Indiana, in the Eighth district. and in Montgomery county?
WITH three organs in the county the Democracy lias been snowed under by nearly five hundred. Republicans could have succeeded just as well had there been twice the number. THE .IOUHNAI. took care of all them in good shape, and it lias no cause to feel otherwise than happy over the result and the part it contributed in bringing it about. THK JOCHXAI, was decidedly in it from the beginning to the close of the campaign.
AND Gorman's grand old State of Maryland has repudiated him too. Evidently the people did not forget the men who stood up and opposed Cleveland and tariff reform.—AiyusSvws.
And William L. Wilson's grand old State of West Virginia has repudiated him, too. Evidently the people did not. forget the men who stood up and approval. ilcfemleil and futujlit fur Cleveland and tariff reform. Four Republican Congressmen and a Republican Legislature in Chairman Wilson's State would indicate that the people are not much in love even with Grover and his policy.
WHAT DOKS IT MKAXf
The election of last Tuesday presents a problem for thinking men. The Democratic partyecame into full control of the government two years ago l-'or thirty years it had been out of of power, and had dune nothing but criticize the policy of the Republicans. They went out of power in 13i o. quarreling with each other, and came into power again in only to renew their old feuds. The people, in two short years, are disgusted with them, beyond anything ever before known in the history of the country. The party is riddled and scattered worse than a Kansas cyclone ever riddled and scattered a straw stack on the open prairie. What does it mean? Simply this, that the people have no confidence in the ability of the Demo cratic party to do anything for the good of the country. And the people have not only lost confidence in the ability of the Democratic leader to originate business methods, but also in the principles advocated by the party leaders. The attempts to inaugurate a policy in regard to the tariff, were as foolish as they were in harmonious, and at once developed the fact that the party has no principles of any kind. Scarcelj' a dozen of them can agree about the tariff or anything else. There is no unity in the Democratic party, and never was. "To the victors {belong the spoils," was the only thing upon which they could ever agree, and no party can stand very long on such a foundation as this for it will soon quarrel among themselves about a division of the spoils. The election of Tuesday was not only
an emphatic condemnation of Democratic methods, but a more 'Stinging condemnation of the doctrine of free trade. Of the immense number of Republicans elected to Congress, everyone is a staunch advocate of the principles embodied in the McKinley bill. The endorsement of the old doctrine of Protection is the most emphatic ever given to any party platform in the entire history of the country. No such majorities were ever given to the policy of suppressing the rebellion from 1SU1 to lSO.V It is as certain now as that the sun shines, that no National Convention will ever again organize a warfare against all the industries of the country. Protection that will protect, has come to stay. The Democratic party can never recover from such a crushing defeat.
The party is as much doomed forever, as Napolean was at Waterloo or Lee at Appomattox. It has no leader to rally its broken columns. Mr. Cleveland cannot do it, and Mr. Hill is as dead as Julius Cesar. There is no man in the party who has the power to rally it for the fight of lS'.tO. And if the party had a competent leader, he could not rally it on free trade lines. The party workers cannot again be driven up to the Protection fortress, only to fall before the ramparts. The slaughter has been too great to justify another assault. And what is the situation on the other side. When did any other party in the country contain three such matchless leaders as Harrison. McKinley and Reed? And when was a party ever before so thoroughly united and so harmonious in support of a great principle as we find the Republican party to-dav? With Protection as its watchword, and Harrison. McKinley and Reed to lead it, it will go into the canvass of lS'.Xi with an absolute certainty of success. The great victory of 1S'.)4 will but precede a greater victory in 1SU6, as Gettysburg was the forerunner of Appomattox. It is now assured, for the next generation. that the party which marches to an assault on the great industries of the country will march to certain disaster like unto that which overtook the free trade Democracy on Tuesday last.
THK llE.Sl'l.T AND CA.ISK. Every one will admit that if the original Wilson bill—which was an honest measure—had been passed with reasonable promptness, the Democratic partv would at least have made a decent fight for its life.—Iniiunmpulia -Vi'ir.v.
The At'M's entirely overlooks the very important fact that this tremendous cyclone had commenced, in wonderful fnry. before the Wilson bill had been framed by its author. It was not the failure to pass ine Wilson bill that made Ohio give McKinley a majority of S3,000 last year, or that Pennsylvania should elect Grow by 160,000. How will the .Ycirs, on its theory, account for this result? So. in every Northern State where there was an election last fall, the majorities against Democracy were overwhelming. The truth is, and all will concede it now. that it was the Democratic threat to make a systematic attack on all the industries of the country that has so completely swept the party out of existence. Mr. Wilson was the author of the ideal free trade bill, and yet he is as badly done up as any of the rest. How does the Setrx account for this? And then there is another consideration the iVcit's keeps out of view, and that is. that all the Republicans just now elected to Congress, were firm advocates of protection, and they were elected on a protection platform. The simple truth is, that the election demonstrates that the people are for protection and against free trade. They are opposed to a policy that builds up factories in England and closes thein in America.
Mountain, Diuppeftrlai.:
M. de Lapparent, the eminent professor of geology at the institute of Paris, In a paper read before the Scientific Catholic congress, expressed the opinion that all mountains will vanish off the face of the earth In course of time. He declared that, if the actual natural forces at work upon our globe retain their present intensity. In four and a half million years all inequalities of surface will be leveled. He instanced as a striking example the reduction of the Ardennes, which were once a chain of the Alps, but -which had already shrunk to their present dimensions at the outset of the tertiary epoch. The Alps, he said, exemplified the youth, the Pyrenees the maturity, and the mountains of Provence the declining years of mountain ranges, while the central plateau of France was typical of their death and dissolution. lie adduced other arguments in support of his thesis—namely, the leveling of the earth's surface in a given number of cycles—and paid an eloquent tribute to the labors of the geologists who read the records of life upon the earth before the advent of man.
Hungary'* Thousandth Vear. The Hungarians are making preparations on a grand scale for a millennial exhibition, and the government at Prague has addressed a prayer to Emperor Francis Joseph, at Vienna, that lie might lend them all the historic relics in his possession which may have any connection with Hungarian history. The emperor has granted the request, and relics valued at two million florins will shortly be forwarded 1o Prague.
Montgomery Couulf Vot«.
Owing to several serious errors in the tabular form, we are compelled to omit it to-day. Owen has 4o!i majority: Faris, 483 Kennedy, 571: White on:'.: Johnson, 252: Davis.. e-15 Wynekoop, .*"), Rarcus, 484.
Oil" pays to trade at the Big Store
ltiscnoK's novelty dress goods are the talk of the town. Have you seen them?
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FHKNCII Novelty Dress Stuffs made in France is the kind Bischof sells.
A WIFE'S liiGHTS.
Why John Weston Was Forced to Raspect Thom.
"I wish you would let me have the money, John," pleaded the wife, trying to control her voice. "I tell you no, 1 cannot spare It besides she does not need a white dress. If women had their way every cent a man could earn would be spent on finery and foolishness. If Grace is not •content to wear something she has to' this trumpery picnic, let her stay at home »nd I'm not sure but that would be best anyway." "But, John, she really needs a new dress I've turned aud remade everything that I could possibly use. If you have not the money to spare let me get it at Graham's, and you can pay it when you eome home." "I won't have it now don't you go to getting it after I ain gone. Wait, I'll fix it. Grace!" he called to a young girl In the yard, "mind, you are not to go to the picnic at all. Do you hear what I say?" "Yes| but, oh, papal I am to take part in the exercises, and 1 promised." "It don't matter what you promised. I say you shall not go, and that ends itI'll see if I'm to be beggared for a woman's whims. Remember," he said, turning to his wife, "I said she should not go, and I expect to be obeyed." "You shall be," she answered quietly. "I've never taught her to disobey you, and I shall not begin now." "Better not," he returned, roughly, and walked away.
A one-story log house, ugly and uninviting save for the blossoming flowers about it, rose before her, aud from its low door a slender girl of fourteen oame with wet eyes and flushed face, saying, pitifully: "Is it not too cruel, mamma? How can I bear it?" "Try to bear it bravely, darling. Mamma will help you." And with her arms around her weeping daughter Alice Weston sat down upou the lower doorstone and thought.
Seventeen years before she, pretty Alice Lewis, had married John Weston. Her mother was dead, and her father had gone to northern Now York with them and purchased two hundred a?res of rich but unimproved land. It had been quite cheap—the entire cost only one thousand dollars, but it had taken another thousand to stock it and to build the little house and barn. Mr. Lewis and John agreed very well and Alice had been contented. Three years later Baby Grace came, and, Grandpa Lewis holding the wee one in his arms, said: "Thank heaven. Alice, you and baby will always have a "norae. whatever happens. When I am gone teach the little one to love my memory."
The log-house and barn had been very well for a start when they were just beginning, but as years passed a thriving little town sprang up near, and a railroad wound its serpent-like track across one corner of the farm.
They had prospered, too. in other ways had little sickness and good harvests, and every year John had gone to to deposit the yearly profits. The barn had long ago given way to a better, more commodious structure and Alice had often pleaded for a new house, but John was adamant and scoffed at the idea. So Alice yielded, though feeling his injustice, for all labor-saving implements for farm use had been freely purchased, and help for himself was never wanting, but since Baby Grace was three months old she had never had a stroke of help in the house.
John's parsimoniousness was growing upon him. lie seemed to have sunk all other considerations, and bent all his energies to making money. It was difficult even to get him to provide suitably for the table. If the provisions were out or their wardrobes needed replenishing Alice was made to feel that she was personally responsible for the matter, and the family felt his displeasure for days over every trifling expenditure.
Entering the house, she went slowly up the ladder that led to the loft, and taking a small book from an old red chest, on which were her father's initials in large brass-headed nails, she examined its contents. It was an old book, and Alice well remembered when John had first brought it home, after depositing two hundred dollars In the bank at B——. There was much to his credit: very little had been drawn out, and her examination showed her there was ten thousand five hundred dollars to his order.
Taking a blank chock from the chest, Alice filled it for $5,500, payable to herself, dated it and signed her husband's name as nearly like his own signature as possible.
Each autumn John went to New York with his own and his neighbors' produce, remaining- there two to four weeks. Thither he had gone to-day, and would remain at least a month so Alice had a clear Held for her operations. She examined her purse, but found less than a dollar there but she supplemented it by selling eggs at the village, and obtained money enough to go to She had not been there for years, and at first felt timid at bong alone in a large city but each moiment gave her confidence, and when she presented the check at the bank she was as cool and dignified as a veteran.
John had an uncle in the city, and to him she applied for identification. Knowing nothing of the circumstances, he of course identified her, but was thoroughly astonished when once out of the bank to learn the real state of affairs. He was, however, a just man, and not only did he approve of her course, but gave her valuable assistance in her project, and no doubt saved her much loss.
Nearly five weeks elapsed before John Weston returned, but to his astonished eyes Aladdin's palace seemed before him.
A neat, two-story frame building, on which the paint was scarcely dry, stood where the log house had been. The yard, always level, had been olearcd of rubbish, and inclosed in a neat fence.
Hastily striding up the gravel walk, he entered the sitting room where his wife, daughter and uncle awaited him. In the kitchen beyond, a young girl flitted about, getting supper. To the left, the open folding doors showed a prettily furnished parlor in which a handsome organ was conspicuous. The sitting-room was less expensively furnished, but a sewing machine and several easy chairs gave an air of home comfort, as delightful as it was novel.
Just what John Weston would have said had his wife been alone it is impossible say. But being in some-
fehat wholesome awe of his uncle, wlio I was a bachelor and wealthy, he only inquired "What in the devil does all this tomfoolery mean, Alice?" "Simply that I have reinvested my half of the bank stock," she replied, quietly. "You don't mean to ,say that you have dared to touch that money In the bank," he roared. "It's mine, every cent of it. I will not have it touched. You could not get it without me, and if anyone," darting an augry look at his uncle, "has been fool enough to lend you money on the strength of It, I'll see them hanged before I'll pay it."
For ten minutes ho raged like a wild animal then Alice spoke quietly yet in a tone that •aimed even his anger. "Stop, John now you must listen to me. Seventeen yeirs ago, when we were married, you had less than one hundred dollars. My father bought this place, slocked it aud furnished money for improvements. When he died I allowed you to do exactly as you pleased with everything. You have bought and sold to suit yourself. Your stock have been well sheltered, while your family have lived in a hovel. A nything to aid you in outdoor labor has been freely purchased, and at the Bame time simple necessities of life have been denied us. But this is a thing of the past Henceforth matters will rest on a moro equitable basis, and we will live in accordance with our means. "There was ten thousand five hundred dollars in the bank at I drew five thousand five hundred dollars of it. You have over five hundred from this year's sale of produce, and the remaining five thousand dollars I lay no laim to. Thus we start even. I work quite as hard as yourself, yet I ask no division of given receipts. You «an go on just as you have and no one will question your management, but one-half of all the net proceeds must be deposited to my order." "You don't mean to say that you have squandered five thousand dollars since I have gone?" he exclaimed, angrily. "1 have squandered nothing. I have properly expendod some twenty-five hundred. The house cost two thousand dollars, the furniture about five hundred more. The other three thousand
I have intact." "And you have got the money and spent it?" "I have got it and have spent a portion of it." "You signed my name to the order?" "I did." "And if I refuse to let the matter rest so, and have you arrested for forgery?"
A smile curled her lip for a moment. "Then in such an event, which 1 do not anticipate, I should be forced to have you arrested for attempted fraud, and let the farm to a tenant who will justly divide the profits."
The last was certainly a master stroke, for he made no reply, and the girl announcing supper, the subject was not renewed.
In the evening, however, when John and his uncle went to the burn, John asked him if he had set the thing going. "Not at all," he returned, "though I do not blame Alice. Look at your fine lot of personal property, besides money in the bank, and it has all come through her. Now let me advise you. Accept the situation gracefully Alice has counted the cost oarefully, aud she will never yield her position. And yet, John, you have brought it upon yourself. If you had treated her a little more justly she would never have attempted this." "No, by Jove! I did not think she had so much grit I've lived with her seventeen years, aud I never heard her scold until to-night." "Rather mild scolding that, I think." "Well, a pretty thorough overhauling, then," John said, with a faint attempt at a laugh. "But, really," he added, "ihis places me In a bad fix. I have bought the Allston estate, and there are oil wells on it that make it a big bargain. I was to give ten thousand for the place, including tools and stock. This thing knocks my calculation endwise, for, as this place really belongs to Alice, I cannot mortgage it, and if the sale is not completed by Monday the whole thing falls through." "You intended taking a deed of this place yourself?" "Of course," he answered, readily, then had the grace to color as he caught the twinkle in his uncle's eye. "Yon have said nothing to Alice about it?" "No to tell the truth, I did not consider It was any of her affairs. I never looked at things just as I have to-night, and I did not think she would dare assert her rights. In fact, I think I had forgotten she had any." "She haB dared, however, and I honor her for it Now, John, I'll tell you what I'll do. If you and Alice will take a joint deed of the Allston place I'll lend her the two thousand dollars required and she can pay me when convenient. But it must ho a joint deed, understand." •Alice was delighted with the arrangement, and though surprised at finding such smooth sailing felt duly grateful to John's uncle for his timely aid, and found no future difficulty in maintaining the Btand she had taken.
As for John, he had always entertained an exalted opinion of John Weston, but from that night ho entertained a wholesome respect for John Weston's wife.—Chicago Journal.
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And so it is of what w» said at the beginning of the season about our Dress Goods. We made some strong assertions about our line of novelty fabrics being superior to anything ever shown in this city, but we meant every word of it, we were honest in our belief. The way the ladies answered our appeals tor attention, and the liberal patronage accorded us furnish the proof that we did not overdraw the facts.
Dress Goods
Describe the new dress goods! Florists are not botanists. The Labratory, the Library, the IViicroscope, the solemn Professor, the absorbed student—combine these for the science of flowers. To the dogs with science when a conservatory or parterre, bequet or flower-filled vase touches your sense of the beautiful. Dreary advertising belongs not here. Dull descriptions and mechanical tabulations fait utterly. What then? The long drawn shelves, the well laden counters are full of rich stufls for your inspection. Come see them. We tell you sub-rosa that the vast lots of dress stuffs, masquaraded as French that France never saw.
Our French Dress Goods Were Hade in France.
"Those Crazy French!" And yet the wild faocy of the Frank holds s*ay by divine right in the imperial court of Dress textiles. He shirrs (Jrepons as he does eggs and adds a stripe. He takes hair and wool from Vicuna, Cashmere Goat, Silesian Sheep silk from the worm, colors from the vegetable and mineral world ad-libitum, mixes thoughts of them in his crazy head and out come these designs. Woven boullibaise, salads in cloth, poems in wool. Ycu wculd sing praise to his lunacy. Describe the curly cuts, waves, wavelets, eccentrics of all sorts? Bah! To attempt it is to prove one's incapacity. No, they must be seen. Our people are here to show them. And you're welcome to enjoy equally whether you do or do not want to own them.
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Lous Our line of Mackintoshes ive struck a popular chord and
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127-129 East Main Street.
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