Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 March 1894 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, MARCH 1(,1804.
Is there no one to stand up against free wool'?
THE trusts have no fault to find with the Democracy.
Roroii diamonds are free and sugar is taxed. Let the workingmati liowl for joy.
A HIGHKK price for sugar and a lower price for wheat is the meaning of tariff reform to the farmer.
MUNICIPAL elections seem to be held this year principally for the purpose of showing Republican gains.
THE natural and artificial gas plants of Lafayette have been sold to a New York syndicate for S840.000, cash.
THK sugar duty implies an additional 540,000,000 per year to the ordinary household expenses of the American people.
THE New York Herald has a change of heart and is now begging Congress to go home and leave the McKinley law alone.
DAN VOOKHEEB lias had nothing to do with the tariff bill except to promise when it will be reported and then break his promise.
THE grave and dignified Senators are not in a humor to be investigated on charges of speculating in sugar. Yesterday the resolution of Senator Peit'er was tabled by a vote of 33 to 27.
WHETIIEH to place a ticket in the field or not is the question that is now agitating the municipal Democracy. To find men who will make martyrs of themselves is the problem to solve.
SENATOR VOOHHEER now says that the tariff bill will not become a law before July or August, but Voorhees as a prophet is a downright failure, lie first prophesied that it would become a law the first of March.
A CAxninATE for public ollice on the grounds that there's many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip this week planted three 'acres of potatoes. In case he fails to feed at the public crib lie proposes to have a potato patch to fall back on.
THE springlike weather we are having now suggests outdoor sports and healthful exercise in the: open air. It brings to mind that the season for outdoor pastimes is now near at hand, and the votaries of baseball, bicycling and general athletics are happy indeed.
WHEN Gen. Sickles speaks upon the pension question he generally says .something. Speaking of Locliren the other day in reply to that gentleman's criticisms of the act of 1SOO, the bluff old General said that his law was bad and his manners were as bad as his law.
IT was during his first administration that president Cleveland wrote a message to Congress showing the alarming condition of '*a protective tariff piling up a dangerous surplus in the treasury.'1 11 would like mighty well to have a lot of '"the dangerous surplus" just now. It might prevent another issue of bonds, and enable the government to pay its debts when due.
OF the Myers voting machine the New York Tribune says wherever it was used in the elections on Tuesday it is reported to have worked well. It affords a scientific method of voting. Cheating by means of it is impossible, and one of its great advantages is that the vote is counted as soon as the voting is over. The voting machine is making its way into popular favor with good reason.
MRS. RORER, remembered by all the ladies who attended the World's Fair and listened to this bright woman lecture at the Woman's Building on cooking, is now in Cincinnati. In one of her lectures the other day she declared that Graham flour is most unhealthful because human beings cannot digest bran, and that it acts as irritant and soon causes catarrh. Thus another fad has been coffined.
THE Chicago Times, Democratic at all times and under all circumstances, says the Wilson bill has emerged from the Senate Committee on Finance in a battered and unrecognizable condition. All that was Democratic in it has been pounded out of recognizable form. It was not an object to be enthusiastic over when it went to the Committee, but upon reappearance it suggests nothing so much as a crazy quilt fabricated by an epileptic.
THE SKHSXIORAGE HILT,. The seigniorage bill which has passed the House and is now pending in the Senate with a fair prospect for its passage this week provides for the addition, as speedily as it can be printed and issued, of £55,150.80! in silver certificates to our already inJlated mass of paper money, which consists of $340.000.000 old greenbacks, §153,000.000 Treasury notes and S'JOT.OOO.OOO national bank notes and S338.000.000 silver certificates. The whole of this money, together with §55.000.000 in coined silver dollars, making in all SI,()'.)!),000.000, has to keep at par with gold by a stock of the metal in the Treasury of only SI00.000.000. and if but §55,150,081 in silver certificates, the least amount which the seigniorage bill proposes, is added to the mass it will exceed $1,150,000.000. Liberally interpreted, the bill allows ultimately the issue of §55,000,000 more of silver certificates, which would bring the total of what is substantially all paper money, to over §1,200,000,000. The first section of the bill commands the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be coined as fast as possible §55,.150,OS] out of the silver heretofore purchased with Treasury notes under the act of July 14, 18!)0, known as the Sherman act, and to use such coin or silver certificates thereon in the payment of public expenditures. Should this bill pass the Senate, as it probably will. President Cleveland will more than likely veto it. He it was who so strenulously urged the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act upon the ground that by constantly swelling the volume of currency deriving its value from public confidence in the redemption of it in gold on demand, it impaired that confidence and imperiled the maintenance of gold payments. This act proposes to do at one blow what the Sherman act would have required a year to accomplish. Secretary Carlisle is also pledged against it. When he got his §50,000,000 bonds taken a month ago by the New York banks one of the arguments he used was that selling these bonds would obviate this very coining of the seigniorage which the Bland bill now aims at. Spending three months to repeal the Sherman act and undoing all this work in ninety days is a sample of Democratic statesmanship.
CONCERNING the removal of Coates College and making it co-ordinate with Wabash the Terre Haute Ex/htss says:
There is talk outside of Terre Haute about moving Coates College to Crawfordsville, but none in Terre Haute, which contributed much money toward its establishment and support. It is to be hoped that residents of other cities will give due consideration to the validity of contracts. We imagine that an implied contract with a religious organization will be as binding as one in writing, that its word is as good as another's bond. The money contributed by Torre Haute citizens was given in response to a promise, spoken or implied, that Coates College was to be a permanent institution and not migratory. As we see it, it is the duty of the managers of the college, and of the religious organization back of them, to maintain and strengthen that institution in Terre Haute.
THE fact was long ago demonstrated that Green Smith is more of a bully than a gentleman. His prize ringmethods have won for him position which he used in a most outrageous and brazen way to fatten his pockets, and all at the public expense. The newspapers, not only of Indianapolis but of the entire State, have been unsparing in their criticisms of this corrupt bully's methods. To get even the great brawling six-footer selected the reporter of the Sun. physically a small man. and proceeded to redress the alleged wrongs that had been done him. If Smith had not been the coward that he is he would have taken a man of his size.
THE whole history of tariff legislation fails to show a bill which has caused so much dissatisfaction as the Wilson bill. The House passed it in the belief that the Senate would modify it. The Senate modifications are distasteful to the House. Criticisms and protests are pouring in from all parts of the country. One thing is true, and that is if every Congressman and Senator who are opposed to it should vote against it the majority would be proportionately as large as the popular vote in Pennsylvania.
IF the wool men had contributed 5250,000 to the Democratic campaign fund as did the sugar trust they would have been accorded a hearing before the Senate Finance committee, and their demands would h^ve been listened to. Not having made h. contribution the doors of the committee room were shut in their faces.
LOCHRKN, the Commissioner of Pensions, who is as full of orders as a dog is of disorders, has issued another placing all the suspended pensioners back on the rolls. Whether they will all be restored or whether it is pure buncombe remains to be seen.-
WILI/R. WOOD has been endorsed by Tippecanoe and Benton counties as the Republican candidate for Congress in the Ninth district. The race seems to have narrowed down to W. H. Hart, of Clinton, and Mr. Wood. The former seems to be very much in it.
WHY TIMES A1JK HAK1). TTon. Thomas B. Reed gives the reasons for hard times in a nutshell, A whole volume is ('(impressed the following few lines: "There is no way to put money in circulation except through wages paid. Issuing government bonds doesn't make circulation. The laborers must earn it and spend it, and that will make, it flush. The statisticians say the 20,000,000 laboring people in this country earn when they are at work from §30.000,000 to 840,000.000 a day. The Wilson tariff bill will cut these wages tfrom 10 to 25 per cent. The ten per cent, cut on §40.000.000 will be a loss of §4,000,000 a day to laboring men, or §1,200,000,000 in a year. A 25 per cent, cut in wages will take §3.000,000,000 out of circulation. One-third of our labor is idle now. The idleness is costing us probably §10,000,000 a day. I do not wonder that the times are hard and that money is tight. There is money enough in the banks. They are glutted, but labor isn't getting it. It will stay there till labor gets it out."'
MURAT HAI.STEAD reasons thus: The price of wheat is so low because there has been over-production. While it is selling at a cent a pound, it is not called for by Europe to the extent expected. Indian wheat is raised where harvest hands get 10 cent a day, and it costs 13 cents a bushel on the land, and 25 cents a bushel oil shipboard :and since the Suez Canal was opened the transportation of wheat from Bombay to Liverpool costs about 25 cents a bushel. The result is Indian wheat in England at 50 cents a bushel. Evidently, \vc need to improve our home markets. Do we need more farmers and greater areas of wheat cultivated, or diversified industries'.1 Farmers may presently ascertain that protective duties do not mean exclusively advantages for monopolists. The monopolists who build mills make markets, and if they get more than their share it is the fault of some one else.
IT is now sixteen months since the Democratic party was restored to power in this country, and it is twelve months since Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated President, replacing Mr. Harrison. What has been done for the country? What lias been the result'.' Ask the proprietors of factories, ask the unemployed workingmen. and ask those who have work but are in receipt of reduced wages.
THE New York HcmM says editorially: "If an election were held now the Democrats would be swept from power by a tidal wave of popular indignation such as the country has not seen for twenty years." The llerahl can read the handwriting on the wall without the aid of a magnifying glass.
MACK.
Wake up. Linnsburg. AV. E. Baker is ditching. Rev. Weatherford is home this week. Win. Heck is some better at this writng.
Work'is scarce and hands are plenti-
ful. I. .1. Thompson will move to Kansas soon.
T. II. Hale is working for Curtis Edwards. Frank Kennedy is some better at this writing.
Miss Eflie McClure Sundayed at Win. Brown's. Wm. Myers is working for James Stewart.
The show Tuesday night was well attended. large camp of gypsies are camped near here.
A. and F. Myers are hauling ties for the Big 4. Where was the Tiger Valley scribe Sunday eve'.'
Bill Kise has sold his cotton plantation in Georgia. Geo. and James Durbin have left for parts unknown.
Geo. Hunt, who split his toe. is able to cripple around. Rice Kenneday wants to learn the wagon making trade.
Love Hunt will start a photograph gallery at this place. J. F. Linn has opened up his barber shop on Green street.
Frank Armstrong is hauling his lumber to Crawfordsville. Ed Linn has moved into the house vacated by Ollie Beck.
H. Finch has purchased Dr. Eddingfield's apotliacary shop. John McCarty visited friends at Crawfordsville Sunday.
There was a taffy pulling at H. J. Thompson's Tuesday night. George Hugelheim will start a blacksmith shop at Garfield, soon.
Theodore Johnson and family visited at John Hugelheim's Sunday. The Tiger Valley sky-rocket peddler has decided to stay with us.
M. Smail, of Crawfordsville, was in our town Wednesday selling pills. M. E. Edwards shipped several car loads of hogs and cattle this week.
W. E. Baker is also learning shorthand under Profs. Pitman and Moran. A. W. Linn will travel with the Cook & Whitby circus show this season.
Rev. Weatherford preached at the Christian church Saturday and Sunday.
W. C. Stewart, traveling agent for THE JOURNAL, gave us a call this week.
Mrs. A. J. Henderson, who has been visiting at Henry Hankins' has returned home.
J. B. Linn, John Templeton, Joe Durbin and T. A. Armstrong were at Crawfordsville Tuesday.
We don't see why some one don't go
We have no exhorbitant rent to pay
And sell at Bottom Figures
up and kill those Tiger Yalley foxes, coons and tramps and give the scribe a rest.
In answer to the Miceville scribe we will say that it is not as cheap to borrow THE JOI'KNA R, as to subscribe for it.
James Berry has purchased the''general merchandiee store of James Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been with us as a merchant for seventeen years and he leaves a host of friends.
Newton Vanscoyoc departed this life March lltli. Mr. Vanscoyoc was well-known to the people of Mace and vicinity and in his death they mark their loss. He was interred at Shiloli cemetery.
The literary and debating society will meet hereafter at the school house. The question for debate at our next meeting is. "Resolved, that we can gain more knowledge from than from geography." No mitted but members.
CLOKK'S OltOVE.
Tax paying is at hand. Farmers are sowing oatsEd Smith has purchased a new wagon.
Elijah Clore went to Crawfordsville Monday. Alba Parrish. of Yeddo, was here last week.
Rhoden I lam went to Crawfordsville Wednesday. spent Sunday with
Arthur Ham Rhoden Ham. Henry Tate, here last week.
of Waynetown. was
Miss Mattie A. Smith is visiting friends at Lebanon. Eston Musser marketed a fine lot of hogs here last week.
Mr. Wainscott, of Lebanon, has been visiting at Otis Fruits'. Eston Musser and Jim Brunei' spent Tuesday evening at R. Ham's.
Willie S. Ham and Jim Brunei'are getting to be quite famous physicians. Miss Belle McMastersand Etta Krout were the guests of Louie Ham Sunday.
W. S. Ham and Eston Musser attended the ciphering match at "Frog Chapel" Wednesday night.
Bud .M ck"onzie moved into the properly of James Swearingen. on the I'errysville road, last week.
Rev. Brady will till his regular appointment at the Alamo Christian church Saturday and Sunday.
The exhibition at Bowers1 school house last week was a success—75 pieces on the program. The music was furnished by Messrs. I lam and Bruner. of this place.
There will be an "Old Fashioned Spelling .Match" at the Alamo Presbyterian church oil next Monday evening. March 19. Everybody cordially invited. Admission onlv 10 cents.
IIKAVKN'S GALTDKN. 1'atton's sale was well at-
Elmer
tended. Otis Thompson horses.
has g'one to trading
Rev. Fred Bass is better at this writing. A wedding in the near future. Look out, Bill.
W. 11. Tomlinson and wife visited at home Sunday. Mike Carroll says there is nothing like the bluffs.
Fletcher is around giving instructions to his neighbors. Albert Walters is tiring on Nos. 5 and 0 passenger trains now.
John Layne and Jacob Angle are cutting wood this week, John M. Layne will move into the Mr. Flemming house next week.
We understand that Elmer Patton has engaged a bandbox for his Ilatt. Mr. Lofland has employed his son, Milt, and Alvin Clark for counsul on the Fleming ditch.
There were two persons that were disappointed in the will of Mrs. Wilhite, for the letter that they longed for never came.
MICEVILLE.
Wheat looks fine. Times are getting better. Sugar making is nearly over. Farmers are plowing for corn. Ethel Remley is able to be out again. Ask A. W. Johnson if he likes pie. Frank Shuey has quit eating lean meat.
Harry Morris is sowing oats on the Wilson farm. Huzza Olinger will trade short legged Billy off soon.
John Pogue has erected a fine shed for his machinery. Wm. Morris has not been verv well since Sunday night.
Fred Martin says he will take care of the smiles this summer. Omer Morris shot at a crane a few days ago and broke its leg.
Daisy Morris is improving fine bookkeeping under Prof. Fry. Alice Remley is staying at Crawfordsville taking lessons in china painting.
Crazy Conner and Hen Hinkle should be very careful about racing on Sun day.
Boys who lay rails in the road of a Sunday night should be made to pay a fine.
In Spite of All Competition
WE 5TILL CONTINUE TO DO THE BUSINESS IN
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Spring Wash Goods
Who isn't glad to see the new Wash Goods Come in, with their delicate colorings. tonings and suggestions of warm, sunny days. How the heart crave" for them after the days of dark dress stutl's and the like. We have some particularly choice
Demities, Organdies, Swivel Silks, Ginghams, Lace Stripes, Black Embroidered Lawns French Ginghams, French Satteens, All Wool French and Domestic Challies. Also a host of American Cotton
Fabrics from xo to 20 cents a yard.
Samples Sent On Application.
Pettis Dry Goods Co.
There are five boys in Yankee-town who lie in a fence corner and eavesdrop.
The Mace debating society will fall through with if they call it to members only.
We wonder who sent a special item to for THE Jornx.vi.last week concerning the tramp.
Hal Williams and Bina Hutehings feel very bad since their people have moved away. llaary Ward is waiting 011 Miss Minnie Armstrong, who was so badly hurt a few days ago.
The Mace scribe asked who the Miceville scribe was and faid that they had mice to give him. Thank you, when can you have them in shape to eat?
There is a young lad in our vicinity very handsome, about five feet four inches tall, curly jet black hair, never got the bounce in his life, has a fine horse and buggy, smokes and chews, and is a jack of all trades. Ilis name is Emmet Bill Omar Morris.
GAHFIELD.
A1 Smith was in Crawfordsville Monday. A. B. Smith was the first to start a plow.
Our store is doing a good business under the good management of Mr. Conrad.
Ora Boyland will start a blacksmith shop here soon. Success to him. Jim Hallam has gone to Kansas on a land trade.
Bill Cashner will go on the road for a Chicago firm this summer. Bill will make a good salesman for he can tell all he knows and a little more in a case of emergency.
There can't be too much said about great men, but Garfield and Crawfordsville each have one of the aforesaid men, or rather boys, who we think have been somewhat slighted. They have gained a world wide reputation for their great work, but the best of us will make mistakes sometimes and it fell to their lot the other day to make one grand mistake. They were out of cigars and of course like the rest of us out of money, too, so they robbed a poor old setting hen of her eggs and took them to the store and traded them for cigars. Now we hope the community will pardon the boys for this rash act for they have promised to never do so again, so we will leave the matter with you. For particulars in this case inquire of Taylor Morrison and Bill Flannigan.
IMPERIAL PLOWS are better than ever and lower prices. Sold only by H. R. Tinsley & Co.
JAKE JOEL
Big Bargains In Jewelry.
L. W. OTTO Jewelry
will be sold at big bargains. There are still a great many reliable goods left and those wishing bargains should not fail to avail themselves of this opportunity.
DUMONT KENNEDY,
ASSIGNEE.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
County Nominating Convention Saturday, June 2.
Township Convention to Select Delegates, Saturday, May It),
COUNCILMAN—Hd Ward.
WILLIAM A. VANARSDALL is a candidate for Councilman from the Second Ward to fill the unexpired term of A. L. Tomlinson, subject to the decision of the KepuMlcan convention when one is called.
COUNTY TREASURER.
RICHARD M. BIBLE is a candidate for Treasurer of Montgomery count y, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held on Saturdnj, June 2.
WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Scott township, will be a candidate for Treasurer of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Rcpublican convention.
JAMES O. MCCORMICK, of Brown township, will be a candidate for Treasurer of Montgomery count", subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
JOHN B. RICE, of Union township, will lie a candidate for Treasurer of Montgomery cou nty, subject, to the decision of the Republican convention. d&w
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
DUMONT KENNEDY will be a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the 22d Judicial Circuit, composed of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention
FINLKY P. MOUNT will be a candidate for Prosecuting Attorney for the 22d Judicial Circuit, composed of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of tne Republican convention.
WILLIAM M. REEVES will be a candidate lotProsecuting Attorney for the 22nd Judicial Circuit composed of Montgomery county,subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
SHERIFF.
CHARLES K. DAVIS is a candidate for renoinination l'or Sheriff of Montgomery county,* subject to the decision ol tlie Republican convention.
AUDITOR.
JAMES A. MCCLUHE, of Dnion township, will be a candidate tor Auditor of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention, to be held on Saturday, uue 2.
BRANSON B. RCSK, of Madison towuehip, will be a candidate for Auditor of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention, to be held on Saturday, June 2.
GEORGE W. WASSON. of Dnion township,will be a candidate for Auditor of Montgomery--count. subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be be held on Saturday, June 2.
WILLAM M. WHITE, of Union township, will be a candidate for Auditor of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
TO I* NSHIP TR USTEE.
WILLIAM BROMLEY IS a candidate for Ti UPtee of Union Township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held June 2.
DANIEL H. GILKEY will be a candidate for Trustee of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
WILLIAM A. RICE, of North Union, will be a candidate forTrustee of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
SAM D. SYMMES will be a candidate for the nomination of Trustee of Union Township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
CAPT.H H. TALBOT will be a candidate for Trusted of Union township, subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
EPHRIAM E. VANSCOYOC will be a candidate for trustee of Union township subject to the decision of the Republican convention.
REPRESENT ATI VE.
CAPT. HARMON M. BILLINGS, of Wayne township, will be a candidate for Representative to the State Legislature, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to ba held on Saturday, Jnne 2.
CAPT. EDWARD T. MCCREA, of Coal Creek township, will a candidate for Representative to tne State Legislature from Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held on Saturday, June 2.
SURVEYOR.
HERMAN MCCLUKR will be a candidate for Surveyor of' Mpntgomery county, subject to decls.on of Republican convention.
WILLIAM F. SHARPK will be a candidate for Surveyor of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held on Saturday, June 2.
COMMISSIONER.
JOHN L. DAVIS will be a candidate for Com mlssloner of the Second or middle district of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held on June 2.
WILLIAM M. DARTER, of Union township, will be a candidate for Commissioner of tbe Second or middle distriot of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention to be held Saturday, June 2.
HENRY W. HARDING, of Union township, will be a candidate for Commissioner of the Seoond or middle district of Montgomery county, subject to the decision of the Republican convention, to be held on Saturday, June 2.