Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 February 1894 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1894.

TIIK increase of the public debt dur ing January was 57,8 30.0(54, which signifies that Democratic rule cost the country over §250,000 a day for that period.

Ax income tax may help -make good the deficiency in the federal coffers, but what is to make good the deficiency in wage earners' pockets caused by the Wilson bill? mm.

THE receipts have fallen short of the expenditures since July 1 to the extent of nearly §45,000.000, which is enough to beat the Democratic party badly in 1894, and still worse in 1896.

A WRITER on the fashions of all ages remarks that the day of extremes in forms of dress has passed. This gentleman has never tried to walk past a couple of ladies promenading the streets in big sleeves.

CHICAGO Timet (Dem.): Henry Watterson says that President Cleveland "is good company when you know him urell, plays a fair game of poker, takes his whisky straight and temperately, and all that." From which it would appear that Mr. Cleveland spoiled a good drummer to make a bad President.

THE Democratic scheme to rush the Wilson bill through the Senate Finance Committee without much consideration will be strongly opposed by the Republican members of that body. They will insist on hearings being granted to the representatives of the interests affected, and will demand a careful examination of the measures in all its schedules. /,

JOHN L. SHIELDS the Prohibition candidate for Congress in this district at the last election, was invited to return to the Democratic fold in Sullivan county. He declines in a spicy card, in the course of which he says: "I have yet to hear the first Democrat get right down on the Democratic platform and defend it. I defy any man to undertake to prove that a tariff is wrong for protective purposes but •rlyht as a revenue measure. As well say that our State and local taxes should be levied on the clothing we wear, the food we eat and the tools we use, as that our federal taxes should be.

Mr. Shields is opposed to a tariff either for protection or for revenue. In this he is consistent with himself and shows up in a most logical way the inconsistency of the tariff-for-revenue-only Democrats.

COLONEL ROBERT G. INGKRKOLL, in an interview in the Chicago News, dishes up the President in this good-naturedlv crushing fashion:

A little while he was the Mugwump god—the one perfect being in the political world—and the rank and file of the Democratic party was nearly agreed with the Mugwumps. Since the 4th of March last Mr. Cleveland has constantly made mistakes. Month after month the mercury of his reputation has fallen. One by one the worshippers arose from their knees and looked with wondering eyes upon the idol. One by one the friends grew cold, and one by one the enemies grew hot. During all the time Cleveland grew obstinate, lofty and pharisaical.

Toothing ever was or ever will be more absurd than his position regarding the restoration of the Queen of the Sandwich Islands. This was enough ,to make the dead laugh. So his fight with the leaders of his party is far away from the line of political sense.

His defeat in the Sandwich Islands, "the failure of the Hornblower appointment and the prospective defeat of

Peckham have deprived Cleveland of his halo. The robes of the divine have dropped from his shoulders, and he is just an ordinary human blunderer.

IN all the tariff talk during the two months that Congress has been in ses' sion nothing has been said more striking and containing a fuller measure of truth than was voiced in the peroration of Mr. Reed in his speech on the closing day of the debate in the House on the Wilson bill. These sentiments will command the assent of every patriotic American:

We know, my friends, that before this tribunal we all of us plead in vain Why we fail, let those answer who read the touching words of Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural, and remember that he pleaded in vain with these men and their predecessors. Where he failed, we cannot expect to succeed. Hut though we fail here to-day, like our great leader of other days in the larger field, before the mightier tribunal, which will finally and forever decide this question, we shall be more than conquerers for this great nation, shaking off as it has once before, the influence of a lower civilization, will go on to fulfill its high destiny until over the South, as well as over the North, shall be spread the full measure of that amazing prosperity which is the wonder of the world.

Ml!. CLEVEIAXD'S COUIiSE. The Jicricw of ilcrictrs, in its Progress of the World, has this to say oil the constitutional aspect of President Cleveland's course in the Hawaiian matter:

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations has been carefully investigating the whole course of our recen diplomatic relations with the Islands, and its report will be a matter of unusual interest. The Senate's prerogatives have been so contemptuously ignored by the Administration that it would be strange if that body should fail to assert itself to the extent of condemning much that has been done. There are marked indications of a growing breach between the White House and a large contingent of the Democrats in both Houses of Congress: and the President can hardly expect that his practical assumption of the war power without consulting Congress, and in the face of no emergency or provocation of any kind, can be passed over without some very disagreeable debating in both houses. Mr. Cleveland still persists in declaring that it was the dusty of the United States to restore Liliuokalani. But why, then, has he never pursued the one obvious, lawful course that was open to him? He should have sent an explicit message to Congress, declaring his opinion and asking for authority to proceed with the restoration. The favorable vote of Congress would have set the war power in motion, and the President, with the aid of the ships in Honolulu harbor, would have set up the monarchy without delay and without striking a blow. Why lias he failed to pursue that one lawful course? There has come no answer. Congress owes it to the future of the constitutional government in this country to seek some kind of an answer to that question.—a question far more important, for the American people than the future of Hawaii.

THE McCreary resolutions are an invitation to the House of Representatives to share the ignominy which the President has brought upon himself by his infamous attempt to overthrow the Provisional Government of Hawaii. The first resolution is an attack upon Minister Stevens and the Provisional Government, and is astonishing in its impudent falsity. It assumes to be true assertions which the records of the American Legation at Honolulu, the testimony of naval officers of the United States and the evidence of a multitute of other witnesses of the best reputation have proven to be false. It makes a wholly unprovoked and unjust attack upon the character of a foreign and friendly government, recognized by every civilized country, including the United States a government whose form and constitution the American Congress has no more right to criticise than it has to criticise the constitution of France, or Germany or England.

THE Social Economist for February has an unanswerable article on the unconstitutionality in the United States of a "revenue only" tariff. No tariff can be truly said to be "for revenue only" unless it produces only revenue, without affecting any domestic industry either to protect it or to destroy it. The Social Economist shows that this in the United States is impossible, without so amending the federal constitution as to vest in Congress the power to lay an internal tax on every product on which an import duty is laid, sufficient to offset the duty or to prohibit tke domestic product althgether, as

England does with tobacco. It is not sufficient to tax the process by which the article is produced. The article itself must be taxed. A tariff for revenue only is so peculiarly an En glisli idea that our federal constitu tion would have to be amended before it could be carried out. We would have to begin be importing the English constitution itself.

CHICAGO Inter-Ocean-. Speaker Crisp has ruled that any reference to "cuekoos"' is unparliamentary in the House. Since this description of the blind followers of the President originated in the Senate of the United States, and with a distinguished Southern Demo" crat as the author, it becomes simply a question between Democrats and the Southern men as to what is parliamentary language and what is not. The Speaker, is however, having great difficulty in protecting the administration from unpleasant criticism, and it is not surprising that he should be driven to making fine distinctions as to parliamentary language.

THE Clay county Enterprise reads Congressman Brookshire the riot act in good style when it says:

The cowardly Brookshire had not backbone^ or manhood sufficient to present the petitions from this county against the passage of the Wilson bill His boss in the White House told him not to present it and -he obeyed the or der. The laboring people of this district have no rights that he is bound to respect, but they will see to it that his place is filled by a different kind of man next year.

Mr. Brookshire will be very apt to hear from the working men of Clay county next fall in a way that he will despise.

THE Wilson tariff bill will accomplish two things, viz: break down industries which have been established and grandly developed by Republican protection, and create a deficiency so large that it makes it necessary to issue bonds.

ASK your grocer for Silver Leaf flour and take no other.

ANY style cabinets SI per Mrs. Willis & Son's.

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NOT A CUCKOO.

Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, a Democratic member of Congress from New York, is not a cuckoo by any means. When the McCreary resolutions approving the President's Hawaiian policy of infamy were before the House for consideration General Sickles raised his oice against them, and his was the only Democratic speech made protesting against their adoption. Among other things he said he did not believe that one Administration was a court of appeals or a court of review for the acts of a previous Administration, lie should look forward with regret to a possible review five years hence of the acts of Cleveland and Blount as he now saw with surprise and regret an attempt to review the acts of President Harrison and Minister Stevens, both of whom are now out of office. The present government of Hawaii was recognized by the United States as a legitimate government. The Hawaiian monarchy was dead it had outlived its time and had become repugnant to the dominant class in the Islands. The monarchy would have fallen anyway, in spite of the American Minister it fell because it was too weak to stand, and that it did not fall on account of the landing of American marines, was shown by the fact that it had not been able to raise itself to power again after the troops had withdrawn. He closed his remarks with the prophecy that no matter what might be the action of the House it could not change the degree of destiny, that sooner or later the Hawaiian Islands would become a part of the United States. Notwithstanding the protest of General Sickles the resolutions passed by a bare majority. There were several Democrats who could not endorse the resolutions, but they were less brave than General Sickles and dodged. Those who voted for the resolutions meekly swallowed their convictions. They realized that the resolutions were a stultifying declaration in that they condemn interference in Hawaiian affairs and praise what they condemn. Could there be servility any lower?

From first to last the course of the Administration has been as contemptuous toward Congress as it has been treacherous toward Hawaii. The plot for the destruction of a recognized and friendly government will go down to all time as the most shameful episode in the foreign diplomacy of the United States and the passage of the McCreary resolutions will not wipe out the stigma of usurpation, dishonor and deceit.

INDIANA has some laws which her citizens must respect, though the heavens fall with a crash on the earth below. On in particular is that pertaining to raffling. This quasi-gam-bling scheme has been freely indulged in by the residents of Crawfordsville to provide relief for the unemployed. It became a craze to which men and women of all sorts and conditions fell willing victims. Everything from mittens to mowers, teals to turkeys and crash towels to crazy quilts was put up and drawn. The matter was laid before the grand jury and three hundred indictments were returned against 180 of Crawfordsville's philanthropic citizens. Loyalty to American institutions and respect for the statute book are virtues which should not be killed in a patriotic breast. But there are occasions when one's respect for some laws may be chloroformed without danger to the perpetuation of our institutions.—Chicago Herald.

A lie can travel a league while truth is putting on her boots. In the first place our grand jury did not return three hundred indictments, there being but 181. The citizens of Crawfordsville engaged in no gambling oi* quasi-gambling scheme to provide relief for the unemployed, consequently there was not a single indictment returned against any of her philanthropic citizens and all the talk about "a craze to which men and women of all sorts and conditions are willing victims" is fiction without any semblance of truth.

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III15EUNIA.

Get ready for sugar-making. Geo. Wert and family visited .lohn Thompson on Sunday.

Mrs. Geo. Wilcox was the guest of Mrs. James Gilkey on Sunday. Agnus Wykle is growing worse daily. She is not expected to live long.

Robert Stubbins and wife spent the day Tuesday with their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. .Joseph Stubbins.

Marion Watson was called to New Market on .Sunday ou accounc of the prolonged sickness of Aunt Mary Wilhite. He returned home Tuesday.

Arthur Smith ventured too near the water on the creek on Saturday, and tumbled in the cold icy water and standing up on tip-toe called out "h-e-l-p."

Rev. Hale and wife, of Crawfordsville. visited Jackson McCormick and wife on Sunday. Mr, Hale preached in the Alamo Presbyterian church on Sunday morning.

Rev. Geo. Grubbs preached at Bunker Hill on Sunday evening, where he will preach again in three weeks. He will preach here at ilibernia one week from next Sunday.

WALNUT GHOVE.

Samuel Hicks and Wm. Gray visited Clay Reeves Sunday. Bessie Edge was the guest of Alta Hester one night last week.

Samuel Hicks visited at Mrs. Mary Reeves' the last of the week. Miss Laura Browning was the guest of Clay Reeves and wife last Sunday

George Jones and wife were the guests of Mrs. Mary Reeves one day last week.

Christmas is Over And Trade is Dull

Better Come and See Us. Strictly One-Price.

Robert Reeves attended singing school at Swamp College one night last week.

Miss Anna Landis was -the guest of Misses Emma and Mollie Browning last Sunday.

Bart Grider and wife and Miss Anna Reeves visited at F. Doyel's the first of the week.

The 27th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Carry Hicks was celebrated last Saturday and 41 persons partook of an elegant dinner. All enjoyed themselves and wished her many more birthdays.

WESLEY. IttIS':"

Jack Ferrell lost a horse last week. W. D. Heath is on the jury this week. Putting up ice is the order of the day.

Frank Remley has been trading horses again. H. P. Simins, of Waynetown, was in this vicinity Sunday.

Joel Stout has been buying some fine hogs of M. Ilerzog. John Remley has been laid up with his back for a few days.

II. C. Remley attended church at Waynetown Sunday night. The party at Marion Bennett's Tuesday night was well attended.

Huston W7illiams and sister, Lizzie, visited Ambrose Remley Sunday. Lewis Wood is hauling brick and will soon begin building his house.

Preaching at Wesley Sunday morning and at Waynetown Sunday evening.

Miss Kittie Smith was the guest of Miss Grace Remley last Wednesday night.

J. C. Freeman sold some fine two-year-old steers to Mr. McClure, of Waynetown.

Rev. Baker filled his regular appointment at Union Chapel last Saturday and Sunday.

The many friends of James Parker gave him a surprise dinner on Wednesday of this week.

William Remley, Ambrose Remley and Henry Walter have been putting up ice this week.

We are told that Charles Williams has been exercising himself in the Mace neighborhood,

Fred Remley has made a change in his business affairs. He used to go north but now he goes south.

Thomas Stout has purchased a quarter of an acre of ground of William Remley to build his barn on.

F. S. Remley came home from Lafayette Friday on a short visit and returned to his school Monday.

Mr. Robinson, of near Crawfordsville, has been moving on the old Garret Harlow farm this week.

The school of this place is progressing nicely and it is to be hoped that we will get the same teacher another term.

We read in the Black Creek letter last week that Mr. Seno Cope and Miss Lilly Stines were married. We extend our congratulations,

The log haulers have been housed up while it lias been so nice to haul and now are hauling. We think it would be the right thing for the superintendent of the gravel road to stop them.

The two enemies of this place have come together and divided the soap by one moving out and the other moving in. Frank Remley and Alvin Stout were assembled together Wednesday night making a dog kennel for the play of Halhazard.

YOUNTSVILLE.

Cyrus Fink has a new girl. J. W. Works was in town Sunday. W. Q. -O'Neall sold a fine horse Brook Thomas.

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Enoch Lawton has been visiting" home folks here this week. Geo. Hall -and neighbors have been putting up a large lot of ice.

Some of the Yountsville folks spent Sunday with Sant Nutt, of Longview. Miss Maggie Smith entertained a party of young folks at a taffy pulling.

The hall committee has purchased 07 chairs from the Odd Fellows' hall at Crawfordsville.

John Orth has sold his saw nmill to Eli Rutan, of Balhinch, who took possession this week.

Several of our boys were entertained at euchre at the home of A. T. Thornp son, of Crawfordsuille, last Saturday night.

The name of Win. Johnson, of Scott township, for treasurer and Dumont Kennedy, of Crawfordsville, for prose cutor sounds all right in Ripley.

J. M. Troutman has sold one of hi*: houses to Wm. Conner who has moved it to his own place. Mr. Troutman has moved his barn to where the old house stood.

The following quartette was organ ized Monday night with George Shank lin as musical instructor, styling themselves "Nightingales": Lulu Munns banjo Grace Work, guitar Eva Love mandolin Stella Hopping, guitar They will be open for engagements about March 1.

SHANNONDAXIE.

Joe Miller was in Lebanon Tuesday. Eliza Horn is suffering from pleurisy. Mary and Nannie Knox have lung fever.

OUR LOW PRICES ON

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fak:e Toel.

Philip Johnson is still lingering with his dreadful disease. Frank Horn and Chas. Hopper went to Darlington Sunday.

The school at this place will give an entertainment Feb. 10. Joe Miller has purchased a fine driving horse for the small sum of $00.

A. T. Vancleave has sold out and will go in the livery business at Waynetown.

George Luse, of Crawfordsville, was here Tuesday and photographed the I. O. O. F. lodge.

Tramps are quite numerous in this vicinity and they are bold enough to walk in without knocking.

There is quite an interesting revival being held at Center Grove, conducted by Rev. Aikers. Twelve additions.

Firm Davis, of Crawfordsville, wis seen in this community Wednesday, much to the delight of Topsy and Kittie.

MACE.

Our saw-mill is again running. Our town has six secret societias. Ora Armstrong is working for Hunt.

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Uncle John Lockridge thinks of purchasing the parsonage. The Ancient Order of Button met at the hall on Wednesday night.

The literary society will hold forth at the old M. E. church hereafter. An I. O. G. T. lodge will be organized here, and not I. O. O. F. as stated last week,

Morton Edwards shipped several car loads of stock to ^Indianapolis this week.

Our school children were kept still long enough on Tuesday to have their pictures taken.

We think if the New Ross cat society would make this place a visit we could furnish them the cats.

The S. of V. theatrical company met to rehearse at McClnre's hall on Mon day and Tuesday nights.

David Durbin has found a small satchel containing some woman's wearing apparel, which can be seen at C. G. Brigg's.

There were nine letters from Walnut township in THE JOURNAL last week, and we think about as many more did not get to write.

There will be a pie-supper and valentine entertainment at the old church on Feb. 13, given by the G.A.R. for the benefit of the relief fund. All are cordially invited to spend the evening with the old Boys in Blue and hear some funny stories about camp and field as dispatched over the grape vine line.

ORTH.

Tom Davis is very low at this writing. Dave Davis, of Illinois, is visiting his father here.

Charles Bratton moved to his farm in Boone county Wednesday. Jesse Decker and sister, of Darlington, visited at T. R. Peterman's Sun day.

Mrs. John Coons, of Lebanon, visited relatives here the latter part of last week.

Mrs. Christie, who has been visiting her father in Danville, has returned home.

The person who borrowed Uncle Dad Crawford's fine set of harness last week, has failed to return them.

Mr. Vancleave has rented the farm he had contracted of Wm. Farlow to Emet Henderson and will move to Waynetown where he will engage in the livery business.

Bert Vancleave, the well known violinist, came very near getting robbed by tramps Wednesday in broad daylight. He was almost obliged to show

Except at Our Store.

YOU CAN'T AFFORD

To lose this opportunity to buy a first-class

Watch, Clock, Diamond, Piece of Jewelry or Silverware.

The well known stock of L. W. Otto must be turned into cash. To do this every article in the store will be offered at prices so low they are sure to go. Don't delay, but come early and get the pick, as all must go.

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J. B. Linn was in Crawfordsville on Tuesday. Rev. Weatherford is again seen on our streets.

James Armstrong is moving the Anque hall. C. C. Peterman has built a now wagon shed.

H. M. Freeman was at Crawfordsville on Tuesday. Preaching at the M. E. Sunday, Feb. 18.

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his barber

Mell Edwards will sell shop to H. Clawson. David Durbin and family have returned fromOtterbein.

Wednesday night was the regular meeting of the S. of V. Elmer Linn has purchased an interest in the Brown estate,

South of Court House, Main Street

DUflONT KENNEDY, Assignee.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE.

SAM D. SYMMES will bo a candidate for the nomination of Trustee of Union Township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

WILLIAM A. RICE, of North Union, will be a oandid ate for Trustee of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

HENUYH.TALBOTwill.be a candidate for Trustee of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

CITY CLERK.

ISAAC NEWTON MILLER will be a candidate for City Clerk, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

ROBERT T. RAMSAY will be a candidate for City Clerk subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

GAYLORD S. MCCLUHE will bo a candidate for Cltv Clerk subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

CHARLES M. SCOTT will be a candidate fo" City Clerk subject to the decision of the Re publican nominating'convention.

ROBERT G. LARSH will bo a cxnili ate for City Clerk, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.

JOSEPH D. TRACY will be a candidate for City Clerk, subject to the ecision of the Republican convention.

PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.

DUMONT KENNEDY will be a candidate for osocuting Attorney for the 22d Judicial Clrnit, composed of Montgomery county, subje't to the decision of the Republican convention.

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his nerve and skill as alight weight pugilist. This vicinity was left in wonder Tuesday morning by several two horse rigs and one four horse team passing through, all possessing large horses with roached mane and tails. They seemingly had come along distance.

BALHINCH. this neighborhood looks

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fine. There is talk of another store in this neighborhood.

Richard D. Harwood has been having some cord wood cut. Manning Davis has been very sick with grip but is some better.

Tom Harwood and wife have been visiting in this vicinity during the past week.

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Stephen Hall, our school teacher, has gone to Kentucky and we have another teacher in his place.«

Rev. R. M. Zook could not be here last Sunday as he couldn't leave his revival meetings at Otterbein. He is doing a great work there. He has had seventy-two ascessions tc the church up this time.

You will always have good bread if you use Silver Leaf flour.