Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 11 July 1896 — Page 8
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One of the features of this immense business. Commencing
MONDAY, JULY 6
We will inaugurate a Clearance Sale in every Department in our store, this sale to continue until every piece of
Spring and Hummer Groocls
Have been sold. To make the sale doubly interestin pie lines of stuff will also be reduced. You can depend finding a Bargain in almost every thing you buy.
L. S. AY EES & CO.,
INDIANAPOLIS. IND.
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Do You Know.
that we can sell you the best grade of Carpets and Straw Mattings less than any house in the city. Try us on your next visit
It's No Too Late
for you to come in and buy one of our large Willow Keekers for
I1.90
"^Vc would like to call your special attention to the
New Process Oil Stove.
"Which has taken he place of the Gasoline Stoves.
You Intend
To paint your house this year? If so call on us and get prices
Mahorney & Sons
Can't be made of poor materials. That holds good of things we wear, things we drink and things we eat. Can a soda water expert make a good drink ou of extracts? Can a good tailor mike a good suit of clothes out of poorjclot?h If you would have the best to eat buy good groceries.
S •Washington St., opposite Catholic Church. Telephone No. 213.
The best place in the city to get a nice turnout is at the lively stable of
W O. SMITH
East Market Street. Boarding and FeediDg horseB at the Lowest Prices.
PROBABLE PLATFORM.
HOW THE COMMITTEE IS LY TO REPORT.
Jiloft I'phehl.
LIKE-
Fiunnclsil I'iank Will He Vigorous—— I'ollry of Protection to Ho Denounced Krtlrrsil Hanks CIppospil—Income Tax
Chicago, July 9.—Here is the text of the platform as it will probably be sub mined to the convention:
We, the democrats of the United States in national convention assembled. do reafiirm our allegiance to thosr great essential principles of justice and liberty upon which our institutions arc founded and which the democratic party has maintained from Jefferson's time to our own—freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of conscience, the preservation of personal rights, the equality of all citizens before the law and the faithful obeervance of constitutional limitations..
Recognizing that the money question is paramount to all others at this time we invite attention to the fact that the federal constitution names silver and gold together as the money metals of the United States and that the first coinage law passed by congress under the constitution made the silver dollar the unit of value and admitted gold to free coinage at a ratio measured by the silver dollar unit.
We declare that the act of 1S73 demonetizing silver without the knowledge or approval of the American people has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people, a heavy increase in the burden of taxation and of all debts, public and private the enrichment of the moneylending classes at home and abroad paralysis of industry and impoverishment of the people.
We are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrious people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy founded upon British greed for gain and power and its general adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to LoMd5. It is not only unAmerican, but anFi-American, and it can be fastened upon tEe United States only by the stifling of that indomitable spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political independence in 1776 and won it in the war of the revolution. *-C|
Wf demand the restoration of the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the consent or aid of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract.
We are opposed to the policy and practice of surrendering to the holders of the obligations of the United States the option reserved by law to the government by redeeming such obligations in either silver coin or gold coin.
We are opposed to the issuing of in-terest-bearing bonds of the United States in times of peace and condemn the trafflakhs^ with banking syndicates which, in exchange for bends and at an 3aarmous profit to themselves, supply the federal treasury with gold to maintain the policy of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin and issue money, and President Jackson declared that this power could not be delegated to corporations or individuals. We therefore demand that the power to issue notes be taken from the banks and that all paper money shall be issued directly by the treasury department. I
We hold that tariff duties should be levied solely for purposes of revenue I and that taxation should be limited by the needs of the government, honestly and economically administered. We denounce as disturbing to business the republican threat to restore the McKinlev law, which has been twice condemned by the people in national elections, and which, enacted under the false plea of protection to home industrv, proved a prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies, enriched the few at the expense of the many, restricted trade and deprived the producers of the great American staples of access to their natural markets. Until the money question is settled we are opposed to any agitation for further changes in our tariff laws, except such as are necessary to make up the deficit in revenue caused by the adverse decision of the supreme court on the income tax.
There would have been no deficit In federal revenue during the last two years but for the annulment by the supreme court of the income tax law, placed on the statute books by a democratic congress. The obstruction of an income tax which the supreme court discovered in the constitution, after it had lain hidden for 100 years must he removed, to the end that accumulated wealth may be made to bear its just share of the burdens of the government. We,therefore, favor an amendment to the federal constitution that will permit the levy of an income tax.
We hold that the most efficient way of protecting American labor is to prevent the importation of foreign pauper labor to compete with it in the home market, and that the value of the home market to our American farmers and artisans is greatly reduced by a vicious monetary system which depresses the prices of their products below the cost of production and deprives them of the means of satisfying their needs.
We denounce the profligate waste of the money wrung from the people by oppressive taxation and the lavish appropriations by recent republican congresses, which have kept tax?s high,
while the labor that pays them is unemployed, and the products of the people's toil are depressed in price till they no longer repay the cost of production. We demand a return to that simplicity and economy which best befits a democratic government and a reduction in the number of useless offices, the salaries of which drain the substance of the people.
The absorption of wealth by the few, the consolidation of our leading railway systems and the formation of trusts and pools require a stricter control by the Federal government of those arteries of commerce. We demand the enlargement of the powers of the interstate commerce commission, and such restrictions and guarantees in the control of railroads as will protect the people from robbery and oppression.
Wre denounce arbiratry interference by Federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal judges, in contempt of the laws of the states and rights of citizens, become at once legislators, judges and executioners and we approve the bill passed at the last session of the United States senate, and now pending in the house of representatives, relative to contempts in Federal courts, and providing for trials by jury in certain cases of contempt.
No discrimination should be indulged in by the government of the United States in favor of any of its debtors. We approve of the refusal of the Fif-ty-third congress to pass the Pacific railroad funding bill, and denounce the effort of the present republican congress to enact a similar measure. "Recognising the just claims of deserving Union soldiers, we heartily indorse the rule of the present commissioner of pensions that no names shall be arbitrarily dropped from the pension roll, and the fact of enlistment and service should be deemed conclusive evidence against disease and disability before enlistment.
We favor the admission of the territories of New Mexico and Arizona into the union as states, and we favor the early admission of all the territories having the necessary population and resources to entitle them to statehood, and while they remain territories we itory, together with the Di.-trict of Columbia and Alaska, should be bona fide residents of the territory or the district in which their duties are to be performed. The democratic party believes in home rule, and that all public lands of the United States should be appropriated to the establishment of free homes for American citizens.
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hold that the officials appointed to ad minister the government of any terri
We recommend that the territory of
Alaska he granted a delegate to congress, and that the general land and
timber laws of h! States be extended to said territory. W7e extend our sympathy to the people of Cuba in their heroic struggle for liberty and independence.
We are opposed to life tenure in the public service. We favor appointments based upon merits, fixed terms of office, and such an administration of the civil service laws as will afford opportunities to all citizens of ascertained fitness.
We declare it to be ihe unwritten law of tlirs republic, established by custom and usage of one hundred years, and sanctioned by the examples of the greatest and wisest of those who founded and have maintained our government, that no man shall be eligible for a third term of the presidential office.
The federal government should care for and improve the Mississippi river and other great waterways of the republic so as to secure for the interior states easy and cheap transportation to tide water. When any waterway of the republic is of sufficient importance to demand aid of the government, such aid should be extended upon a definite plan of continuous work until permanent improvement is se:ured.
Confiding in the justice of our course and the necessity of its success at the polls, we submit the foregoing declaration of principles and purposes to the considerate judgment of the American people. We invite the support of ali citizens who approve them and who desire to have them made effective through legislation for the relief of the people and the restoration of tlis country's prosperity.
AMKRICAS ISIMETAI-LTC UNION.
Likely to Trim the Cmniiiilcn Over to the Democratic Committee. Washington, July 9.—The headquarters of the American Bimetallic Union in this city are practically deserted, with Secretary Warner and all the other officers in Chicago awaiting the outcome there. The officials of the union have not decided what they will do after the Chicago convention. If that convention nominates a silver man they say that their work for the present is one, or they hope it may be done. They say they would probably not keep their offices open if the populists and all the other political parties indorse the Chicago nominee. The matter of conducting the fight would be left to the national committee of the democratic party. It would no longer be necessary to keep headquarters open in the various cities. It will not be decided, however, whether the union will shut down business until after the silver convention at St. Louis.
Murder In First Degree.
Akron, 0., July 9.—The jury in the case against Romulus Cotell, charged W(th the murder of AJrin N. Stone, his and Ira F. Stillson, March 29 last, ijlty of murder in the first degree. The 'Of murder in theflrstdegree. The was out four hours,although only ballot was taken.
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Hxgnest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest U.S.Gov't Report
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BLACK CREEK.
William Douglass will have the finest crop of watermelons in the county.
Daniel Morris has a few more jugs of maple moliissi.-s left. First come, first served.
Democratic farmers should take no political paper but one advocating free silver. A gold bug democrat is worse than a republican.
Two young Yountsville yeomen came over here last Saturday evening, and took two of our fair lasses to Crawfordsville via. pedestrian line. Afts-r viewing the fire works, they treated their girls to ice cream and pop corn until they had squandered the enormous sum of 121.i cents apiece. The distant sounds of thumler soon warned them that a storm was brewing and they had best make'.tracks for the creek. Instead of hiring a horse and buggy these penurious pups walked the girls home, a distance of nearly four miles, through the storm, stopping now and then to yank them out of mud holes. When they arrived at their destination, they were weary, wet and muddy. The boys on the creek say it is an outrage to have such '"cheap skates" coming here to see our damsels. Such stinginess is phenominal! It was never known before in the annals of courtship.
KIRKPATRICK-
The corn crop looks well.
The general health is good.
Everybody is complaining of low prices'forjgrain.
Frank Grear, of Harrisonburg, Va., returned to his old home this week.
Wheat that has been threshed averaged about 5 and bushels per acre.
Farmers are busy putting up hay and the crop is somewhat better than it was last year.
The oats crop never looked better, and some fields, it is thought, will make
50 or 60 usnels
Per
acre
A large crowd from here attended the dedication of the Soldiers' Home at Lifayette on last Saturday. I The oldest son of JJohn, R. Graham, I while riding a young colt on last Sunday was thrown off and sustained a broken arm.
The old fashioned chintz bugs are destroying thejeorn crop in the vicinity of Beeville, Tippecanoe county, and are working southward.
Powder
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A traveling man of'considerable noto-, ii Aftei In© arrival of William Jflrkfinn riety gives us the following bit of news
for the benefitjfof the world at large:1
Clark'B Hill for Jbeauty.lKirkpatrick for
pride, Linden|for sensations. New Richmond for beer.
ELM 1GR0VE-
John Clahan isjconvalescent.
Grandma Coulter is on the sick list.
A. J. Stone andj Samuel Coutler went to Crawfordsville'Saturday. Samuel CoulterJ shipped a bunch of hogs to Indianapolis last Wednesday.
Morrison Lauthers and Harvey Coulter started to'Chicugo Saturday evening.
Mont Williams is home. He is working on the railroad and got two of bis fingers mashed.
Mrs. Lida Guntle, Mrs. Lily Clements and Miss |Clara Clements were the guests of Mrs.J John Everson, Friday.
Rachel, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Asa|Corn, died last Saturday and was buried J|Saturday afternoon in Myer's cemetery.
Mrs. Lon Everson, of Crawfordsville, died of congestion of the stomach last Friday mornine at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George Hills, on Green street. Deceased was the oldost daughter of^Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lay mon. She gwas a member of the Christian church for twenty-iivo years and was a loving wife and mother. Rev. Creighton preached the funeral sermon. Burial at Masonic'cemetery, She leaves a husband, two sons and two daughters besides a host of friends to mourn her sudden death.
Loaves have their time to fnll, And flowers to wither at the south wind's breath, And stars to set—but all, Thou hast all seas-ons for thine own, O, Death!
LADOGA.
Miss Carrie Parker is visiting in Crawfordsville. Miss Lon Friend (visited hor brother Theo. laBt week.
Several from here attended the picnic at North Salem Sunday. Miss Grace Shelley, of Lafayette, is visiting MrB. John Snyder.
Eight ladies of Lebanon visited Mrs. Wiltshire, of this place Tuesday.
Miss Cox, ofCrawtordsville, has been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Carter, of this place.
Thomas Wiltshire and son expect to make their home in Ohio in a few weeks.
Mrs. Nell Arnold, Case and Osborne went to visit MrB. Maggie Osborne, near Jamestown, Wednesday.
A bicycle meet is to occur the 25th of this month at thip place. Prizes are to be given and a large crowd is expected-
John Heavenridge, who has been clerking at Maiden, Mo., came home a few week's ago on acccunt of eicknpss. lie now has typhoid fever.
Mr. Johnson and daughter, Miss Grace, and Mr. Clark attended church at this place Sunday night. Mr. Clark addressed the young people at tho Baptist church.
DARLINGTON.
Corn is looking fino so is the oats.
Tom Clark, the tailor, was here Wednesday.
The saw mill bus" been shut down this week for remairs.
The farmers are busy threshing wheat and making hay.
See Ira Booher it Son if you want harness and buggies cheap.
Eld. Kelley will preach Saturday and Sunday at the Christian church.
Miss Fitsgerald, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Bertha Booher for several day? past.
W'heat is selling in this market from 33 to 00 cents and a great deal of it iB poor stuff.
Trade is dull and just when it will get better is a hard question for the oldest merchant to answer,
The new blacksmith shop of Charles Williams and the business room of Sam Graham are ready for the plasterers.
Iwo of Darlington's young men are boarding with Sheriff Davis and breaking stone to the tune of $29 apiece for getting smart,
ou can hear them talking gold and silver from morning until night and the most of the people think silver men will be the winner next fall.
Rev. Black, of the Presbyterian church, will deliver his farewell sermon next Sunday night and then will leave Dnrlinutoi) andj'take up his work at another point. We regret. very much: to lose Brother Black, ilis stay with us has been very.pleasant.
John White, telegrapher bas accepted a position with the Western Uhion at Indianapolis
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bought one of the Frankfort gates of which he writes as follows: WEST LEBANON, IND., JULY 7, 1S9G. Culver & Cooporr—
Dear Sir:—I arrived here yesterday, (July G,) at noon, got my gate set up, and showed it to-day, and sold two gates and have ^several other sales started which 1 will close in a day or tow, and two men are figuring to buy territory, and will close this week or next, sure. Please have five gates sent to West Lebanon so, I 'can get them by Monday next if possible. I have agreed to furnish the^gates by the middle of next week.
I willJjuet say to any man that isgoing to buy territory, to buy right away, because people kuow at a glance that the gate will go, and so will territory. I would like to hear from you soon,
W ILI.IAM JACKSON.
A Mad Woman.
The other evening at the club a man steppedjon a ladies train. She was mad! She r. anted to slap his jaws. Some people don't care for such a little matter as that. Wejknow of some of the finest trains in the west that men, women and children step on every day and the owners smile and invite more to do likewise.
These are the fast trains on the Vandalia line and carry people so quickly, smoothly and safely to their destinations that it is a delight to ride on them.
They are long trains too, running from St. Louis to Mackinaw City, carrying through cars each way. South 1:34 p. m., arrive at St. Louis 7 p. '. North, 2:37*p. m., arrive at Mackinaw city 8 next morning. Try thom.
J. C. HUTCHINSON, Agent.
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