Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 December 1893 — Page 4

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FRIDAJ, DECEMBER 22, 1893.

THE process by which the vast industrial machinery of the United States can again be put in motion is simplicity itself. All that is necessary is for Congress to strike out the enacting olause of the starvation wages bill.

WALTER F. HULBTT has been interviewed in Washington and makes the remarkable statement, for a Democrat, that he wants no office. He is of the opinion further that Congressman Brookshire will be renominated practically without opposition. Walter is an unsophisticated politician.

GBOVEB CLEVELAND'S toessage is defensive from beginning to end. He is getting out, but in a greatly battered •ondition. Stormy times may be expected in Congress. The Cleveland-Gresham-Blount-Spreckles conspiracy to restore the Queen will yet be given to the country. Willis' dispatches would shed a world of light.

THE Cleveland-Gresham-Blount combine labored under the delusion that all they had to do was to blow their "parmount" breath and the Provisional Government at Honolulu would topple over. They have discovered their mistake. Blount's lying report led the combine into deep water. They are now splashing about in tha amusing attempt to swim to shore.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND withholds the dispatches of Minister Willis to the State Department. Why Does Willis discredit the statements of Blount? Has Willis discovered that Blount has "misled" the Cleveland administration? Does Willis give hiB reasons why the Queen has not been restored At any rate why are these important dispatches withheld?

DAVID A. WELLS, who has had more to do in framing, the Wilson bill than any other man has this to say of an income tax: "It is a tax Involving such inquisitorial features as a condition ot efficiency that it should never be thought of under a free govorcment, except under the exigencies of war, and can •ever be equitably enforced in tlio United States except by arbitrary and despotic methods, which its people, if they .are to continue free, will never tolerate."

But where is the revenue to come from? The Wilson bill will create a deficiency of $75,000,000.

THE most scorching and scathing criticism of the President's Hawaiian message from any source is that of the Cincinnati Enquirer, the leading Democratic paper in the Middle West. The Enquirer expresses satisfaction that something has "prompted the President finally to bring the government of the ^United States out of its hiding place, and to take Congress, which was formerly a part of the Government, into hie eonfidence," and closes its long but readable editorial by Baying that the

President's policy in the "miserable business" "has not added to the reputation, either for wisdom or prudence, of the President or his Secretary of State."

THE missing links in the President's message and accompanying documennts are Minister Willis' letters of information from Honolulu. Why did the President suppress them?, The inference to be drawn is that Mr. Willis found the situation not at all as he expected, basing his information ou Blount's report and the President's instructions. The belief is that Willie flatly contradicts Blount and sustains the statements made by the representatives of the Provisional Government. In fact Mrs. Willis' private letters tofriendB in thiB country would indicate as much. It adds to the discredit of Mr. Cleveland in this attempt to withhold these important official documents. A letter of Mr. Thurston'B, the duly accredited Minister from the Provisional Government, and apart of the official [correspondence is also withheld by the President. The country and especially the two houses of Congress were entitled to all the correspondence in the State Department, and in suppressing these important letters the President plays the part of a ehystering attorney more than that of a statesman.

A TALE OF WOE.

President Cleveland in his

ineBSRge

to

Congress on Hawaiian affairs sheds no new light on the subject. It is mainly a rehash of Paramount Commissioner Blount's report and Secretary Greshatn's brief which have already been given to the country. Mr. Cleveland is particularly severe in his attacks on the action of ex-Minister Stevens and the Harrison administration for what he donounces as "extraordinary haste" in recognizing the Provisional Government of Hawaii and the formation of a treaty of annexation. Regardless of extraneous evidence to the contrary be stands by what Blount Bays and assumes that his statements are true. Acting upon theBe assumptions he makeB the humiliating confession that Minister Willis was sent to Honolulu with instructions to restore Queen Liliuokalani to the throne. Coupled with these instructions were conditions that the Queen neither in honor or safety to herself could accept. Why these conditions, is the question that will be asked. If such a great wrong had been committed by the Unit ed States why dictate to the Queen what she must do or what she must not do before the "wrong is righted." Mr. Cleveland assumes that the Queen could not have been overthrown by a handful of "aliens" without the assistance from the United States troops. This being true the question will naturally arise that after Blonnt had pulled

kdown

the

flag and had sent the troops off the Islands why the Provisional Government, "numbering from fifty to one hundred, mostly resident aliens" was not dispersed, and the "thirteen" composing the committee of safety were not arrested as rebels. If the revolution was participated in by nuch a small number of adventurers why is the provisional Government still a recognized power ?J16i It has maintained itself for nearly a year and Mr. Cleveland has discovered that it cannot be blown out. of existenoe with his "paramount breath." He closes his remarkable mes sage with the humiliating confession that his plans have been cheoked by "unfortunate |public misrepresentations of the situation, and the exaggerated statements of the sentiments of our people." By this he means to cast a doubt on the tiUitements of such men as Minister Thurston and ex Commissioner Carter whose testimony is but corroborative of the report of ex-Minister Stevens, and to rebuke the American press of both parties for criticizing his un American policy and his unpatriotic purpose to overthrow a struggling Republic and restore a rotten monarchy. Mr. Cleveland's only wise action thus far after having been smoked out is to unload the whole matter on Congress.

WILL RUIN MICHIGAN.

Hon. J. C. Burrows, a member of Con gross from Michigan, and a leader on the Republican Bide, thinks the tariff bill prepared by Chairman Wilson to be the worst ever introduced into Congress He thinks its free trade provisions for copper, iron, salt and lumber will ruin Michigan. Concerning the Wilson bill Mr. Burrows says:

Hie bill as a whole in its free trade features is more offensive than any measure of the kind ever presented to the American Congress. It is particularly severe upon the industries ol' Michigan, bordering as we do upon Canada. It was important that our agricultural products should receive that just protection which was secured in the McKinley bill, but under the .proposed measure many of these products are put on the free list while others are reduced to a purely revenue basis. For instance, there is peppermint' which now is protected br a duty of $1 per pound. It is reduced to 25 per cent, ad valorem. Butter 1b reduced from six to four cents per pound hay from $4 to $2 per ton honey twenty to ten cbnts jier gallon onions, forty to twenty cents per bushel potatoes, twenty-flvo to ten cents per bushel eggs on free list live animals virtually roduced to 20 per cent ad valorem all agricultural products are exposed to ruiuoas Canadian competition. The great industries are slaughtered without mercy. We are to have free copper ore, free iron ore, free salt and free lumber. There was but one more provision which could have been proposed in this bill to ir.ake our humiliation complete and that would have been to annex Michigan to Canada. 1 nm fglad, however, that "Balm of GDead" is to be put on the free list. We will need "Balm of Gilead" and we will need it cheap in the near future. 1 am glad that strychnine is on the free list. Judas went and hung himself but some modern Democrats will prefer strychnine when they come face to face with the results ot the betrayal of the Amorisan people."

HENRY WATTERSON in his lecture in Chicago a few nights ago, said that Lincoln was inspired by God with wis dom to put down the rebellion. If Mr. Watterson will look into history closely he will find that the Almighty has usually been on the Republican side. It is, however, mean in Watterson to attempt to rob Mr. Lincoln of the credit of do ing the great work he accomplished by attributing it to another agency. Lin coin was wise but it is probably true that ail human wisdom comes from God.

THE Government has run behind to the extent of $30,000,000 in the past six months. And thus the country is provided with an impressive object lesson as to the cost of Democratic rule.

COLFAX.

The grip has its term. We have a night watch. Park Doyle was in town this week. Hun. Will Cumback was here last week. H. L. Gery was in Jefferson Tuesday. R. A. Clark was in Indianapolis Friday.

E. L. Darby was in Frankfort Tuesday.

Lyda Morgan left Fridav for Kentucky. Bennie Carson is able to get around again.

Mark Dukes is thinking of going South.

The semiphore signal here is completed. F. W. Powers, of Lafayette, was here Tuesday.

Walter Dawson was in Frankfort last Monday. Charley Clark returned to Elwood Saturday.

Miss Claud'.e Andrews was in Frankfort Saturday. Will Timmons, of Manson, was in town Saturday.

Mrs. Wm. Timmons went to Frankfort Saurday evening. John Blacker attended a tral in Crawfordsville last week.

Lew Roudebueh took dinner with John Dodd, near Darlincton. Mrs. Joe May and Mrs. Manson Bewsey were in Lebanon Tuesday.

Protracted meeting was held this week at White ohurch, west of town. Parley Knott lights the lamps on the new semiphore signal, which are about forty in number.

The publio schools here will give "Longfellow's" entertainment in the near future.

Robert Blacker, Milt Waugh and Mrs. Ed Young went from here to California this week.

Messrs. V. F. Julian, Robert Blacker, Will Herben, Jerry Conners and Joe Utz were in Frankfort Saturday.

Invitations are out announcing a basket supper to be Riven at the I. O. O. F. hall on the evening of Deo. 30.

The basket supper which was to have been at Manson, Saturday night, was postponed on account of the weather.

The sohool teachers of Perrv township, together with those of others, went to Manson, Saturday, and had a joint institute.

T. C. Hollo way, who is attending college at Bloomington, came home this week to spend the holidays with his parents, east of town.

There was gre-vt excitement here on hearing that Dr. Baker, of Lafayette, bad been killed by a Big Four train. Dr. Baker was well known by many of this town.

Two or three of the boye here are in the habit of getting full of bad liquor on "Sunday. They will hollow, swear and use awful language on the streets while there are many men and women passing by. The question has been asked: Where dt) these boys get their whisky on Sunday If they don't get it at the restaurant or dry goods store, where do they get it.

At a certain man's residence in Oldtown there occurred quite an accident last week. As he was sitting around the warm, blazing fire an explosion occurred, tearing the stove to pioces and scattering it over the room. Upon investigation he concluded that a hole had been made in one of the sticks of wood, filled full of powder and a plug projected. There is no doubt but what it was, as he borrowed it from another man's wood pile.

JUADOGA.

Wm. Barnard and family were here Wednesday. Mr. Longneoker, of Roachdale, was here Tuesday.

Mrs. Eli Cochran and son, of Raccoon, were here Wednesday. Dr. Hunt has moved his office back into town in the Centennial building,

Mrs. Mattie Pritchardland Miss Thane Martin visited their sisters near Lebanon over Sunday.

We have a tall, slim man in Scott township whose name is Wm. Johnson, and we down here think he would make a good treasurer for old Montgomery.

Christmas trade is dull. Another building and loan man is here. Mrs. Wal Tapp is visiting at Waveland. Prank Gill this week shipped a car of lasts.

Harlow, of the Review, has spent several days in town. Mrs. I. N, Miller is very low and is not expected to live

The postofflce will soon be removed to the new building. T. C. Bell started Tuesday to join his wife in North Carolina.

W. F. Epperson made a business trip to Cincinnati on Tuesday. The heading factory has again resumed work in all departments.

The boys who have been working Chicago are expected home Saturday. Dr. J. G. Heighway left Wednesday to spend Christmas at his old home.

Mrs. Edgar Ashby arjived last Saturday and will spend Christmas at her father's!. A Christmas entertainment will be given at the Opera House on Saturday night by all of the Sunday schools.

M. B. Anderson and Andy Daugherty left Wednesday lor Florida, where they expect to spend the Winter.

Dissolution of Partnerahlpi Notice is hereby given that the partnership heretofore existing between William A. Colman and William C. Murphy under the firm name and style of Coleman & Murphy in the merchant tailoring business in the city of Crawfordsville, Ind., has this day been dissolved by mutual consent, said Colman assuming all the liabilities of the late firm and taking all the assets thereof. Mr. Colman will continue business at the old stand.

WILLIAM A. COLMAN. WILLIAM C. MURPHY.

Dec. 7, 1893 dlt-w-50 6t

Better Come and See Us. Strictly One-Price.

STRIXGTO WN.

S. M. Freeman is quite ill. Hogs are worth from $4.70 to $4.90. Hannibal Finch will learn telegraphy. Geo. Smith was in Linnsburg Monday, Patsy Calham was in Ladoga Saturday. James Williams visited his father Thursday.

Northcutt says the grip is a hard case to cure. H. C. Finch's warning about dancing is a hustler.

Walter Hunt has a high-water buggy to sell cheap. There will be a debate at this place Friday night.

James Dike's new house ia the finest in the township. Walter Hunt broke bread at Tom Melson's Sunday.

Walter Hunt and Esba Armstrong traded horses Friday. R. Evans traded for some sheep of A. Linn, Monday.

The oyster suppar at Mace Saturday night was a failure. A. Linn shipped a car load of hogs to Indianapolis Friday.

Thomas Wright says he dreams about TnK JOUKNAL every night. Edward McCarty and Ward Walkup traded horses Wednesday.

Wm. Peck, Miss Iva Durbin, Sam Connor and Sam Freeman are sick, Andie Fearless has laid asids his buggy and now runs the little red wagon.

Several from this place attended the box supper at Greenwood Thursday night. Chas. Minnich's children quit school Friday on account o' the whooping cough.

A Christmas tree will be at this place at the Wright block, 108 Washington avenue. Friday evening at Hunt's school, 1% miles south of Mace, all were prepared for a most, enjoyable time. All had declamations and several were present. One of the finest speeches ever made was by Thomas Wright.

Aunt Katie Hall, aged 82, died Saturday at her home, miles north or Ladoga. Sha leaves a husband and six children to mouru her loss She was well known and loved by all who knew her. The funeral occurred Monday at 11 o'clock, interment at Myers'cemetery.

LIXVEN.

Subscriptions to Tnu JOURNAL are taken by J. S. Bennett. John Wilson returned from D'rankfort .the fore part of the weelr.

Miss Anna Wilson had business in Crawfordsville on last Saturday. The inside work is being done on the Dunfele & Kelly brick building.

Mrs. K8. G. Perkins had business in Crawfordsville on last, Monday. Doctor Henry Shotts reported his school as all O. K. in school district No. 2.

Bill and BertDunkle will more into their new brick store room in a few days. Mrs. Charles Fraley returned home from Crawfordsville last Saturday evening.

The agents for the papers are bu«y hunting UD subscribers now that the new year is near.

The Cawley pond is now drained and the ducks will have to go further to find a pond of water.

O. D. Thomas will put in a new glass front in his old store room as soou as Dunkle gets out.

At 7:30 last Tuesday morning there were two sun dogs and the thermometer marked 16 degrees above zero.

Charles Patten, deputy sheriff from Crawfordsville, was in our place on last Monday on his business looking for men.

Fred Thomas, the Clover Leaf pump repairer, was here on Monday and tightened up the pumping engine for the pumper here.

Mit Rush and sister came down from the Star city on last Monday to go to his grandmother, Mrs. Israel Patton,,who is at the point of death.

The Odd Fellows are talking of having a public installation in Dunkle & Shelby's hall on the night of the 3rd of January, and a supper in Shelby's room under the hall.

The stickers are busy of late sticking hogs and all kinds of butcher stuff. But Thomas Wilkins is one of the champions raising hogs and cattle and don't forget it.

Anyone wanting a woman to do any kind of housework might do well to see or write to J. S. Bennett, as he knows of two that want work. Enclose a stamp for a reply it you write.

We hate to hear of Jack Tyers breaking into jail. I wonder if he has forgotten the time he was first made a good templar. He had better stuck to his lodge and kept out of jail.

The shed over the mill has been rebuilt and is ready for the shingles. Newt Staley is doing lots of work around there and he will find it different to being behind the post office.

A new man has moved into Grandma Halstead's house and will run a butcher shop in the south end of town, and we hope meat will come down so the poor can have a mess every day.

The township trustee, vpith the help of the county superintendent, should renumber the school districts in Madison township, commencing at the northeast earner of the township with No. 1.

The I. O. O. F. nominated their officers on Wednesday night for the next term and they will be installed the first Wednesday night in Janiary. It is undecided whether it will be public or not at present.

John Garvey has sold his farm on the gravel road south of the Linden stock farm of J. L. Globen and has bought out Charles Swich and Swich will move onto the Ed Dill farm that Eran Shelby improved.

DARLIXGTOX.

W. M. Reeves attended 'Squire Armstrong's court one day last week. Dr. W. J. Owsley and Enoch Thompson and family were in Crawfordsville Tuesday last.

Dr. J. A. Berryman and J. E. Cave attended the funeral of Dr. Joseph Baker at Stockwell last Wedsesday.

The East Main street church folks will hold a fair on next Saturday evening for the benefit of the bunday school.

KILLED IT A D!

That is what Jake Joel, the Olothier, did to high prices.. He pays no rent and having bought his goods of factories that were on the verge of breaking, he can undersell and does undersell all competition. That is at panic prices nobody else can touch. A dollar will buy as much as two dollars would buy a year ago. Prove it by calling.

Jak:e Joel

On Christmas night the South Christian and Presbyterian churcbes will unite and have an old fashioned Christmas tree.

W. B. Mount has bought the interest of A. C. Nobes in the firm of Nobes & Mount and will conduct the business hereafter.

Temperance meeting at the M. E. church each Monday night. Everybody invited, as the question is now presented in a new torm.

W. C. Stewart, as agent for THE JOOKXAI., was awarded the contract for the printing of the blanks, books, etc., of the Home B. & L. Association over a company at Indianapolis.

Perry Berryman and family were here over Sunday visiting home folks. Mrs. Berryman and children will remain until after Christmas.

Thanks to THE JOUBNAL company, as through their kindness we are now studying the character of James G. Blaine and one Petroleum V. Nasby.

Ed Mount, of New Ross, moved his household effects from that place to this, last Tuesday, and will take service with his brother in the hardware business.

Cox & Lewis have a host of men and boys carrying goods across the street to their new room this week and will be in shape for their customers by Saturday.

Andrew Booher has bought the stock of cigars and tobacco owned by Ed Booher and is now in lull possession. Ed will now devote his full time to coal oil and gasoline.

The Methodists next Monday night will illustrate to the children at their church a real Santa Claus emerging from an old fashioned fireplace, reindeer and all loaded with gifts.

Just why an old soldier will leave the Home and tramp this cold weather on the charity ol strangers, and we be compelled to bouse and feed them as we have to do about twice a week, is more than we can comprehend.

On last Sunday night Prof. Sims delivered at this place his lecture on the little red school house and anti-Catholicism. For over two hours he held his audience spellbound by his logical reasoning, flights of oratory and deep sarcasm. Although his subject was new to most of his hearsrs yet he convinced all that the time for action has arrived and we must be up and doing.

LAPLAXD.

Mrs. Lon Day visited here on Tuesday. Health very good, the grip not being here. Dr. Dudley Young was here last Friday. Some farmers put up their Winter's meat this week.

The little folks here had a party Saturday night. Lon Day and family visited in Boone county last week.

Thomas Mills was with John Smith last Wednesday night. James Brush went to VVhitesville last Fridav night on business.

G. W. James was at the sohool house one day last week on'business. Taylor Mills is here again after an absence of near three months,

Wm. Davis killed hogs on Tuesday. One hog ha to be shot six times. The trustee was called to the school house last week on business.

Some of o»r young folks attended ehurch at Raccoon last Sunday night. The young people here had a social party at James Brush's on Saturday night.

Eli Coffman, of this locality, was called home last week by the death of his mother. Wilson Haas and son Billy, of Indianapolis, took dinner with Wm Davis Tuesday.

Miss Ella Brush and Miss Emma Browning visited Miss Maud James last Sunday. Mrs. Belle Burgess and Anna Welch called upon Jessie Smith on lastWednesday evening.

Aunt Nancy Johnson and Mrs. Frank Carter visited at Henry Johnson's, at Pawnee, last Tuesday.

Uncle Tommy Harrel says if you have a little mule to sell, take it to Dave Thompson, as be probably buy.

Mrs. Mid Hicks, Mrs. Mary Hicks, Mrs. Belle Brush, Mrs. Alice Hicks and Laura Browning visited Mrs. Fanny Frame last week.

Mrs. Hester, the mother of Sam Hester, died last Friday at Van Sidener's. The funeral was preached on Sunday morning. Interment at LaFollette's graveyard, near Parkersburg.

The Ladoga Leader made a mistake last week in regard to the children and the teacher at our school house. School was taken up every day of the trouble, but the school at present is moving along very smooth so every thing the Leader says don't go here at Lapland.

Mr. Finch hit the nail on the head in regard to dancing, and the same can be said in regard to playing cards. No man ever bets on the first game of cards he plays,but the more he plays the better he gets so he goes on from bad enough to worse, till some of them fills a felon's grave.

YAMTSEH.1ANG.

Frank Siebold killed hogs Wednesday. F. M. Siebold delivered bis hogs yesterday.

J. H. Stewart visited Crawfordsville Wednesday. Sherman Hall called on John Yance Wednesday

Mrs. Fannie Stewart has been sick for several days. The Francis Bros, are cutting wood for Frank Siebold.

Miss Mayme Shepherd will spend the holidays at home. Mrs. J. F. Buchanan has been quite sick for a few days.

Mrs. Oliver Beck has been quite poorly for several weeks. The Friends will hold a series of meetings at Flat Creek during the holidays.

Mort Stewart and J. C. Francis attended the K. of F. lodge at Shannondale last Wednesday night.

ANY style cabinets Mrs. Willis & Son's.

South of Court House, Main Street.

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