Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 15 April 1893 — Page 2

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SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1893.

THE latest order from Grover is that fourth- claBs poBtmaeterB are to be permitted to retain their offices for a full term of four years. Like all the orders that have emanated from the White House this one, too, will soon pass into "inoouous desuetude."

CLEVELAND'S order forbidding the publication of changes in postmasterBhip by Axman Maxwell was revoked yesterday. The order raised a storm of criticism from men in all parties and this is more than his thick skin could bear. The order has gone to meet the "nepotism," the "ex," the "editor," the "business men" and all the other virtuous manifestoes.

SAYS the Chicago Inter-Ocean: "Editor Gil Pierce, of Minneapolis, who took considerable time to get to Portugal to resign as Minister to that power, should by all means have his American newspaper |mail edited. The great stamp of ths Russian press censor would not more than suffice to cancel some of the things that Editor Dana, of New York, is saying about his Minnesota colleague."

THE following forcible and axiomatic paragraph, from a letter of Sir Edward Sullivan, will be read with much interest: "The tariff argument is the same in all countries. It is very simple. It is that 'employment is of more value than mere cheapness.' Employment means wages wages mean money .money means the power of buying. Want of employment means no wages, no money, no buying it means, in fact, 'going without.' Everything is cheap, comparatively, for the man who has money to buy nothing is cheap to the man who has no money with which to buy."

A YEAR ago Attorney General Green Smith Smith rendered an opinion that paid up stock in building associations was not taxable. An effort was made by him to induce the Legislature at its last session to enact a law making such stock taxable. The bill failed. Now the Attorney General promulgates an opinion which is more in the nature of legislation than a construction of law and debides that suoh stock is taxable. Green Smith is only consistent in being inconsistent.

THE new Pension Commissioner, Judge William Lockren, of Minnesota, has a good record both as a soldier and as a citizen. Those who know him best, his neighbors, without regard to party, all speak of him in the highest terms as a man of ability and integrity. He was unanimously endorsed by the RepubliLegislature of his State, and we take it that he is a man well fitted for the responsible and onerous duties of this important office. If he is not handicapped by his BuperiorB, who it is well known have no sympathy with the pension system, his administration will be satisfactory to those most interested.

THE Wabash Times, whose Democracy is beyond suspicion, which is of the infatuated kind, has the following to say of two of the most unprincipled men that the politics of this county hns ever produced. It says: "It is a well known fact in Indiana among the leading Democrats that Senator Yoorhees and Jason Brown care much less for the Democratic party, its principles, its history and the Cleveland ^administration than they do for the personal welfare of D. W. V. and J. B. B. Senator Voorhees has always represented the demagogue in politics to a greater extent than he has the statesman seeking good government."

THOSE who criticised President Hanison, says the New York Mail and Express, for the nomination of Judge Jackson as justice of the supreme court a nomination made at a time when the confirmation of a Republican would have been impossible, must now admit that Mr. Harrison knew his man. The chief allegation of stalwart Republicans against Judge Jackson was that he wes a State's rights Demociat. Yesterday he read his first decision as a Supreme Court Judge, and in it he demolished one of the most venerable of State's rights theories. He decided that a person extradited from one State to another can be tried in the latter for an offense other than the one for which his extradition was secured. This is the severest blow that independent State sovereignty has sustained in many a

day.

THE CASE OF JOHN GK BLAKE. Here, where John G. Blake has BO often visited and is so well known, especially among Christian workers, the story of hiB downfall is inexpressibly sad. It is hard to believe that his insanity has been caused by the inordinate use of strong drink. We prefer to accept the theory that insanity caused the use of intoxicants. The Indianapolis Journal,commenting on the sad case, voices the sentiment of all when it says:

Can it be possible that such a man, with such a record for purity and uprightness, with ti character formed and knit together by many years of Christian living, has deliberately committed moral suicide and sold his soul to the devil? We do not believe it. John G. Blake was not a whited sepulcher and a living lie. He was what he seemed upright, honest, pure, gentle and true. In his right mind he never was or could have become anything else. Insanity alone could have made him bad. Only the loss of his mind could have caused in him the loss of moral sense. Beyond a doubt, he was insane. Nor is it creditable that he was insane from drink. It is far more likely that insanity led him to drink than that drink made him insane. He has always been known as a very abstemious man, rarely taking even a single glass of light wine. It is not credible that he would at his time of life have deliberately formed the habit of drinking unless his mind had been unsettled and his moral sense obscured. Nothing in his nature, his character or his antecedents would justify such a belief. To believe that John G. Blake, in the possession of his right mind, did the things imputed to him is to believe that he was a moral monstrosity and one of the woret of men, inBtead of the gentle, loyal, amiable, Christian gentleman that everybody who knew him believed him to be. Human nature is not aB bad as that would imply. Mr. Blake became insane, and when his mind became unsettled his moral sense was deadened, and the sleeping devil in him, that is in every man, came to the front and asserted its mastery. He is dead, to the world, but let us be just to hiB memory, and let us not insult our common humanity by belie ring that he could have entered on a course of hypocrisy t'ncl vice without having first lost mental and moral control of himself.

THE selection of Hon. James T. Johnston as Department Commander for Indiana by the State Encampment, G. A. R., means a vigorous administration. Mr. Johnson is an enthusiastic Grand Army man and possesses ability, courage and perseverance, needful requisites for a successful officer. The remaining officers are worthy men, and in view of the fact that the National Encampment is to be held at Indianapolis this year, they will occupy proud positions in the capacity of

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veterans who will be here from every State in the Union. Crawfordsville was honored by the selection of Major L. A. Foote as one of the representatives to the National Encampment from the Eighth district. He was also made a member of the Council of Administration, both of which positions he will fill with credit to himself and to the Department. The session just closed was harmonious in its deliberations and was in all respects moBt successful.

No BooNEit is the gigantic cotton spinners' strike ended in Lancashire than another strike of similar proportion is on among the dock laborers in London. These outbreaks show the condition of the laboring classes to which free trade, if adopted, will reduce our own working people.

THE Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis News states that Con Cunningham is still a candidate for the Belfast consulate. Con may be counted on as a candidate until someone else has been appointed and he has been run over by a four horse team.

THE total product of beet sugar in the United States in 1891 was 12,00-1,838 pounds. In 1892, under Republican reciprocity and protection, the number of pounds of beet sugar produced was 27,083,322. These figures speak for themselves.

CALEB W. WEST, who has been appointed Governor of Utah, is an "ex," having served as Governor under Cleveland's former administration. The "ex" order' haB gone into "innocuous desuetue."

THE St. Louis Globe Democrat thinks that the office-seeker who stands the best chance ot success is the one whose recommendation does not bear the name of his Congressman.

THIS ought to be a good year for peaches. The usual preliminary to a plentiful yield of that fruit, namely, the announcement of the failnre of the peach crop, has arrived.

THE appointment of over 000 Democratic fourth class postmaster last week shows the method the administration intends to employ in putting down the "mad craze for spoils."

CORNELIUS W. CUNNINGHAM is still standing at the pie counter waiting for his turn to be served.

FUTURE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Those who hasten to the conclusion that the Republican party is broken up and will pever again appear in the field of American politics, are simply indulging in the harmless pastime of guessing, for they have no facte upon which to base such a judgment. It is true, in the last national campaign the party was badly defeated, apparently, but all things considered, the defeat is far from being a conclusive determination of the issues between the two leading parties. Protection has sustained many temporary defeats but notwithstanding these, protection has prevailed in our government from the beginning of Washington's firBt administration to the present hour, and not only IB this true, but from the beginning of the government, the tariff on foreign importations has had an upward tendency all the time. Whatever clamor there has been from time to time, in favor of free trade, has resulted in nothing practical in that direction. The idea of protection in some form and to some degree has been advocated by moBt of the leading men of the country and those who haye opposed it have been, not the substantial, thinking men of the country, but rather those who take up with policies that seem plauBible instead of those whose correctness has to be worked out by hard thinking. It is easy to adopt and follow the let alone theory, but it takes men of brains, and statesmen with broad and comprehensive views to design and provide affirmative policies for building up the [country and securing the prosperity of all its people. The idea that protection is fraudulent and unconstitutional, will never take hold on the minds of substantial people and if the settlement of the question between protection and free trade were left to those statesmen of our country who have been most distinguished for ability as practical law makers, the result would not be in the least doubt—protection would remain as firm as the constitution itself. It is only when the rabble and the unthinking are excited against the policy of protection that its continuance as the policy of the nation is jeopardized. Such being the case, there is little ground to believe that the policy of the country will ever be a permanent free trade policy. The good sense and sober judgment of thinking people will prevail in the end, and the doctrines of Washington, Jefferson, Clay, Jackson, Lincoln, Garfield and Harrison continue aB the practical doctrine of the country.

INDIANA AT THE 1'AIK.

The World's Fair Commissioner has compiled a list of Indiana exhibitors. There will be about seventy in the Forestry Building, thirty exhibitors of wool, twelve of honey, twenty in the department of machinery, sixteen in the Transportation Building, seventeen in horticultural, seventy-five in the manufacturers' department and seventy coal operators. Fourteen manufacturers will be represented in the liberal art department. The number of exhibitors of pouerv and clay work, not including brick and red tile, will be twelve. Seventy-five stone quarries will be represented. The agricultural exhibit will contain l,50il jars, showing every grain and seed grown in the State. These have been tarnished by 120 exhibitors.

The office of the commission i,t Indianapolis was closed permanently yesterday, and headquarters will hereafter be at the World's Fair grounds. The address of Commissioner Havens wii! be at the Indiana Building, Jackson Park.

IT IS no wonder that the nvn who live by politics complain that Mines are hard. A Washington special to iho New York Mail and Express shows that within the past four years the President's patronage has been reduced nearly one-half by the operations of the Civil Service law. Mr. Cleveland haB 15,000 fewer offices w.-thin his pift than he had during his first term. Nearly 43,000 of the 100,000 federal offices are now filled by competitive examinations under the civil service rules, so hateful to politicians. Every year the number of places that may be filled by merit instead of by influence increased under the provisions of the law, and, besides, the Presidents have lately adopted the habit of relieving themselves and serving the people by voluntarily making additions to the number of offices that must be filled according to the ruled of the Civil Service Commission. President Cleveland added 7,259 and President Harrison 8,690 such places. Civil Service reform has come to Btay and the politicians uiust recognize that fact.

THE Revieio thinks if Mr. BrooksLiie has any regard for his health and .peace of mind he will remain out of the district for the next six months to come. He should give the place hunters a rest and take one himself.

"CLEVELAND through his bull-head ideas" is the way the Review refers to Grover. All is not lovely in the Democratic camp.

LOOK INTO THE FUTURE.

By taking a long and careful look into the future we can save ourselves and those who come after us much trouble and expense. This is nowherfe truer than in the affairs of our city.

The council that passed the wa-er works ordiance looked into the future and saw there what nearly everyone sees now that it is best for the city to own its water works. Therefore they provided that in ten years the plant might be purchased by the council.

The six men who established our paid fire department, the fire alarm

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and the municipal electric plant all looked beyond their noses to the years to come when Crawfordsville shall have outgrown its Bwaddling clothes.

The present council is also looking into the future in a most commendable way. They realize that street improvements up to this time have been a farce and they now propone to build streets of bricks, to build them for the future. It will also occur to them in their wisdom that before this paving is actually done a system {of sewerage should be planned so that some future council will not have to undo a part of the paving in order to solve the sewer problem.

MANY Republican papers are continually twitting Democrats because they have not called an extra Bession to reorganize the robber tarifF. At present the Democracy have a more important duty to perform for the people. The Republican treasury wreckers have left Bhe finances in such a lamentable condition that it requires extraordinary care to save the country from bankruptcy. When Congress meets, the robber tariff will be taken care of, and a tariff for revenue adopted that will save many dollars to the public.—Review.

In view of the fact that the last Congress, which was Democratic, passed appropriation bills which in the aggregate exceeded a billion dollars, the talk about "Republican treasury wreckerB" is exceedingly flimsy. The Republican administration used the surplus in paying 8296,000,000 of the public debt. It was honestly applied. The Review must give a better reason than the above why the Democrats fail to smash the "robber tariff."

ONCE upon a time, sayB the Terre Haute Express, John Bull had to pay 815,000,000 to this country for Alabama damages. Sharp lawyers hustled around to find claimants to make commissions from. They found the claimants, got together testimony, made the claimant swear to it, collected the money and drew the commission. That was Risley's business. Sometimes the man who carried the brains of the Risley office found the manufactured claimants reluctant to swear to the testimony he supplies but in the end they did, for it was a shame to allow all that money( to go to waste.

THE Board of Public Works of Indianapolis has submitted the terms of a Dew franchise to the Citizens' Street Railway Company. The principal items of the new franchise are that it shall run thirty years and six tickets are to be sold for 25 cants. The first five years the company is to pay into the city treasury 2| per cent, of its gross receipts, the second five years 5 per cent, the third five years 6 per cent., and thereafter 7 per cent. The charter also contains a forfeiture clause and requires a bond of 8100,000.

THE tr ek of dispensing with the services of superfluous clerks at the beginning of an administration on the plea of economy, only to appoint a still larger number at a later date, is one that been worn threadbare, but that is just exactly what the Cleveland Administration is now doing. If the Cabinat officers are simple enough to think they can puil the wool over the eyes of the people by such dishonest methods they are greatly mistuken. There are too many newspapers ready to expose the trickery.

REPKESENTATIVE TALBEET, of South Carolina, said in violent tones: "I have not come here to crawl upon my belly to you, Mr. Postmaster General, or to Mr. Cleveland, for crumbs of office. I came here to assert my rights as a representative and intend to do it. I have no apology to make either to you or to Mr. Ceveland or to anyone else." Is there blood on the moon?

A SIIILOH Battle Field Association has been organized by the survivors on both sides of that famouB engagement. The object of the Association is to secure and preserve the battle-field as a National Park, like Gettysburg ana Chicamaugs. Gen. Lew Wallace, who commanded a division in that battle, is one of the vicepresidents.

THE Lebanon Daily Reporter has discarded the patent inside miscellany and has begun the daily dispatch service of the American Press Association. Both sides are now printed at home and the paper is greatly improved.

BIS AFFIDAVIT.

It Ml Hake People Believe His Wonderful Story.

Subscribed to by One of Kew York's

Most Prominent Justices.

Here in the W hole Matter Exactly as It Happened.

That he consulted the local physicians without successful result that he took quantities of medicine with no benefit whatever that physicians told him his disease was incurable and he had come to the same conclusion himself and had made up his mind to go to a hcspital and await death.

That just about this time he learned about Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, which he began to use. That this remedy entirely relieved and cured him, healed and dried up his sores, enabled him to sleep soundly and comfortably, and restored him to his ordinary vigor and vitality, in short, made a sound and well man of him so that he was fully able to work at his occupation, and has done so since that time.

That he attributes his recovery to Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy,it resLored him when everybody and

Mil. LUCIEN liODU.

everything else had failed and he had been given over to go to the hospital and die.

Mr. Piodd makes this statement voluntarily and cheerfully out of sincere gratitude for what tiie remedy has wrought for him. LUCIEN ltonD.

Subscribed and sworn before me this 15th day of January, A. D. 1893, and I certify thealliantto be a credible and reliable person whoso statements may b« accepted with confidence and implicitly relied upon, having known him personally for tne last twenty-five years and that. I have no interest, direct or indirect, immediate or remote in this matter. HON. WFLLIAM H. TEFFT.

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Notary Public in and for said County and

State,residing at White-

I hall, where this deposition wae taken and I executed.

Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy is purely vegetable and is sold by drnggistB for $1.00. As is proven by the wonderful cure of Mr. Rodd, it is the very best spring medicine possible to take for the blood, nerves, liver, kidneys, etc. It is the discovery and prescription of Dr. Greene, of 35 W. 14th Street, New York, the most successful specialist in curing nervous and chronic diseases. The doctor can bo consulted free, personally or by letter.

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Joel Block,

Washington St., Crawfordsville, Ind.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, as Executor of the lust will and testiinent of Mrs. Hannah McClamrock, deceased, I will soli at public auction on Tuesday, the 25th day of April, 1893, at the late residence of said deceased, six miles nort.l invest of Crawfordsville, all of her personal property, consisting iu part ot the followiug-articles, lo-wlt: Horses, hogs, milk cows, sheep, household and kitchen furniture, and corn, nay and oats, one new buggy and harness, and various other articles.

TEHMS :—A credit of nine months will b(given on all sums oVer S.'I.OO. the purchaser giving his note with approved security waiving all relief from valuation laws.

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Slate of New York, County of Washington. Lucien Rodd of Whitehall, N. Y., being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that some years ago he suffered very greatly with insomnia, nervous prostration and his body was covered with sons causing him great pain and annoyance. That his head was BO covered with sores that he was hardly able to comb or even brush his hair, so great was the pain it occasioned.

WILLIAM U. iMcCLAMROCK,

April 1,1S93, 5-w Executor,

Estate of Thomas Ward, Sr., deceased. OTICE OF LETTERS TESTAMENTARY

Notice is hereby givon that the undersigned has duly qualified and given bond as executor of the last will audi estimeutofThomasWard,

Sr.

late of Montgomery county, State of Indiana, deceased, and that letters testamentary on said estate have been duly granted to liim.

Said estate Is supposed to bo solvent. THOMAS WILfCINS,

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Dated April 4, 1893 Executor.

Estate of Hannah McClamrook, deceased. NOTICE OF LETTERS TESTAMENTARY.

Notice Is herebv given that the undersigned has duly qualified and fivec bond as Executor of the last will and testament of Hannah McClamrook late of Montgomery county, State of Indiana, deceased, and that Letters Testamentary on said estate have been dulv granted to me.

Said estate is supposed to be solvent, WILLIAM B. MCCLAM ROCK. Executor. Dated March 31st, 189:5.

J. J. DARTER,

REAL ESTATE & LOAN AGENT

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118 West Main St.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Hster,

aving secured the services of Win. Web late of the firm of Johnson & Webster, abstractors of title, am prepared to furnish on short nobice, full and complete abstracts of title to all lands in Montgomery county, Indiana, at reasonable prices. Deeds and mortgages carefully executed. Call at the Rocorder's otlice. oct5yl THOS. T. MUNHALL. Recorder.

MONEY to LOAN.

At and per cent for 5 years on Improved Farms in Indiana. We gra#t you the privilege of paying this money back to us in dribs of §100, or more, at anv interest I ayment.

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CRAWFORDSVILLE. INDIANA, lenders his scrvlee to the public. Motto good work and moderate urices." M. D.

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Office 10:H£ Main st reet.

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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Crawfordsville, Inr.

Money to Loan.

Houses and Lots for Sale also Dwellings^ Rent.

Abstracts ot Title ami Deeds and Mortgages Carefully Prepared.

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