Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 August 1894 — Page 4

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24 1894

THE Democrats should adopt the crow instead of the rooster as their emblem this year.

"IT was a choice between the devil and the deep sea," says Senator Mills, "and we took the deep sea." And there they are.

THE workingmen whose wages are reduced through the Democratic tariff bill will have a chance to reduce the Democratic vote next November.

GOVKKXOH MCKINT.EY, of Ohio, will make his first speech in Indiana at In dianapolis on September 25, at 1 o'clock p. m. It is intended to make this a State rally and Crawfordsville and Montgomery county should be there in force.

THE Gorman bill increases the duty on sugar of all grades 172.10 per cent, while it reduces the duty on decorated cliinaware 32 per cent. But then sugar is one of the "'luxuries," while decorated cliinaware is one of the "necessities."

ISN'T it about time for the Indianapolis Sentinel to reprint President Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson in black type, caps, in the first column of the fourth page, and mark it "tf?" The foreman will find it on the standing galley among some e. o. d. patent medicine advertisements.

SPEAKING of Congress and tariff reform, Colonel Watterson refers to "an army led by noodles and streaked with treason." But then the Art

THE speeches made by Democratic Congressmen during the pendency of the Wilson bill for campaign consumption are now utterly worthless for the purposes intended, as every reading man. woman and child in the country knows that not one of the statements made in them has been borne out by the subsequent action^ of Congress. The mails will now be loaded down with documents explaining the situation and recalling the old speeches

Tnii majority forOates over Kolb for Governor in Alabama is oiliciallv stated to be 25,700. Things are badly mixed down in that State. It is said that Gates had majorities in all the black counties, while Kolb had majorities in all the white, counties. From this statement it would appear that. Democrats themselves are in great danger of becoming the "negro party" and will soon be crying out. "What .shall we do to be saved from 'negro domination'?'

IIAIIMOXV now reigns among the Republicans of the Tenth District. They held their convention on Wednesday at Logansport and nominated Dr. Jetliro A. Hatch, of Newton county, on the eleventh ballot. His chief opponents were appointed as a committee of notification and white-winged peace roosted over the door of the convention hall. Ratifying speeches followed the nomination, chief .among which was that of C. B. Landis in which he pledged constant service to the party, and which evoked great enthusiasm.

THE Anjus-Ncwx innocently asserts that quotations from the President's letter to Chairman Wilson have no bearing on the present situation for the simple reason that the letter was written when the scheme of offsetting the loss of the Wilson bill by adding separate bills to the Senate was not dreamed of. Doesn't the Aryus-Ndrs know that Gorman is so proficient in the game of "how not to do it" that it was very easy for him to get rid of the popgun bills, without accepting responsibility for their passage or defeat. Senator Murphy's resolution gave them a speedy burial, with no flowers, of four in one little grave. The House knew this but as it was long on "party perfidy and party dishonor" and short on campaign material it was compelled to seek a soft place to light.

DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY. THE Democratic Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations is "cooking" up statements to show a record for economy made by the present Congress. The total appropriations for the session are set down as.5400,GC8,3(59, a reduction he claims of 828,835,989.70. This "saving" is almost wholly made up of the cut in the amount appropriated for pensions. The boasted "economy" of the Democratic Congress falls alone upon the old soldiers—the defenders of the country from 18(51 to 1805. Of the appropriations made by the last Congress for pensions the sum of 823,822,715.04 was withheld from them and covered back to the treasury last year. That was accomplished as is shown by a report made to the Senate by the Pension Bureau. This report shows that between March 4, 1893, when Harrison went out and Cleveland came in, and May 10, 1894, a period of about fourteen months, the pensions of 15,520 old soldiers and widows had been suspended. Of this number the Pension Office found that it had to reinstate at their former rates, 9.509, thus confessing the hasty and inconsiderate and unfeeling attack upon these deserving men. Nearly 2,000 of these reinstatements were made in Ohio in one day just before the election last fall. It is, however, gratifythat even an unfriendly Administration was forced to restore the 9,509 at the rates formerly allowed. But 3,014 were reduced from former rates, cutting them down to S and §8 per month, where they had been drawing 810 and 812 per month: many more were cut down to 82 and 81 a month where they had been drawing 84 and 88 per month: 2,171 were dropped altogether from the rolls, and 32(5 are still under suspension, pursued, undoubtedly, by the detectives of the Pension

Bureau. Leaving out the pension roll, the current expenses have been increased by the appropriation bills just passed. The bonded debt has been increased by 850,000,000, and the majority in Congress is entitled to no credit for aodisplay of "economy" in view of all the facts and especially in view of the fact that the end of the ytar will show a deficiency of §70,000,-

000.

IUX-NCWS

says Watterson is a "disgruntled old man and a disappointed office seeker." There's a good deal of method in Mr. Watterson's "disgruntlement."

THE Gorman tariff bill will be a great boon to the poor man. Imported velvets which cost §10 a yard under the McKinley law can be bought for $8 a yard under the Gorman law. The reduction is 20 per cent. The next velvet dress that the poor man buys for his wife will only cost $120 instead of §150, a saving of §30. How happy the working man ought to be to have the "necessaries of life" reduced.

IT IS almost incredible that the speech of Daniel Webster in reply to llayne, the greatest ever delivered in the Senate, was wholly impromptu yet we have the assurance of Mr. Webster himself that it was. In a speech delivered in New York, in 1831, he said:

Seeing the true grounds of the constitution thus attacked, I raised my voice in its favor, I must confess, with no preparation or previous intention. I can hardly say that I embarked in the contest from a sense of duty. It was an instantaneous impulse of inclination, not against duty 1 trust, but hardly waiting for its suggestions. I feel it to be a contest for the integrity of the constitution, and 1 was ready to enter into it, not thinking or caring personally how I might come out.

THE New York World, the leading Democratic paper of the United States, places the responsibility for the sugar scandal where it properly belongs, saying: "For this triumph of the sugar ring President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle must be held in a large measure responsible. The President's labored apology for a sugar tax in his letter to Mr. Wilson has been the chief stumbling block to a rejection or modification of the scandalous Senate schedule."

EACH day's delay in signing the tariff bill by President Cleveland is millions in the coffers of the Trusts of Whisky and Sugar—the one in taking it out of bond at 90 cents a gallon and placing it on 'the market with the 20 cents additional, the other in the importation of free sugar and eputting it on the market with 2 cents added to the price.

THE popgun bills seem to be as dead as the Wilson bill. Seventeen Democratic Senators were all that could be mustered to make a final stand for free sugar, free iron ore, free coal and free barbed wire. They have, however, served the Democratic purpose of acting, as Congressman Reed says, as air cushions for the Democratic majority in the House to fall on.

WHEN Congress adjourns Brother Brooksliire will lead in singing the closing hymn, as follows: "And are we yet alive?

And do we yet rebel? 'Tis wondrous, 'tis amazing grace, That we are out ot' hell.''

THE Argus-Ncivis says the GormanBrice bill is better than the McKinley bill, but the Louisville Courier-Journal says that is not what the Democratic platform demands, as it called for a tariff for revenue only.

CONGRESSMAN BKOOKSHIKE will soon be headed for home. When he is met at the depot by his admiring constituency the band will please use the soft notes in playing "His Trolley's Off the Wire."

THE tariff bill was passed on the 13tli of the month and 13 Democrats voted against it. It is doomed to a career of bad luck.

THE Democratic tariff will knock out the "20 pounds of sugar for a dollar."

FIXING TIIE RESPONSIBILITY. The attempt of the Argu.s-Ncics to fasten the responsibility upon the Republicans for the failure of the Democrats to pass an acceptable tariff bill will prove a wretched failure. It isn't the business of Republicans to assist Democrats out of the tariff mire. They were opposed to all the bills that were before the House and Senate, and at no time did 'tliey vote with the Gorman combine or any other Democratic combine. The Gorman-Brice bill passed the Senate with 43 votes in its favor. These 43 votes consisted of 41 Democrats and two Populists. One Democrat,—Hill—and all the Republicans voted against it. It passed the House with the vote of 180 Democrats and Populists. All the Bepublicans and thirteen Democrats voted against it. The responsibility for the passage of the Gorman bill, therefore, rests entirely with the Democrats. The Ar-jus-Ncws would do well to follow the advice of Senator Mills. "I have not risen," he said, in opening the speech, "either to attack or defend the bill which has recently passed Congress and is now awaiting the signature of the President. I think, perhaps, the least we say about the measure the better it will be. It is the most remarkable measure that has ever found itself upon the pages of the statute books of any country. It is a phenomenon in political science: and especially is it so when we consider that this is a popular Government and that legislation in a popular Government is the crystallization of the public will. I make bold to say here to-day that the bill does not reflect the sentiment of one thousand people of the United States." The least the Aruus-Ncws can say about the measure the better it will be, to use the language of the Texan Senator.

THE New York Tribune pithily says: If we correctly understand the opinion of leading Democratic journals, the Gorman tariff is not the work of conscientious tariff reformers, but a cowardly and contemptible makeshift devised by an Ohio "railway wrecker," a Troy brewer, a New Jersey sweatleather manufacturer and a Maryland trickster financially interested in coalcarrying railroads and their fingers are smeared with the dripping of the sugar trust. If the Democratic press tell the truth, it makes out a tremendous case for an executive veto. The President will be as blind and as sordid as his copardeners if he signs the Gorman bill.

THE Senate Finance Committee reported the House-free sugar bill back with an amendment providing for a duty of 40 per cent, straight on siigar. It will thus be seen that the Democratic Senators not in the Gorman combine are not favorable to free sugar. It was never intended that any of the popgun bills should become laws. Their purpose was to delude suckers like the Arijus-Ncws which are to be found in shoals all over the country.

THE Republican Congressional Committee will during the campaign, send out 1,000,000 copies of President Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson, half of that number having already been been mailed. It is the same letter in which the President denounced the tariff bill now about to become a law as a bill of "party perfidy and party dishonor."

THE Mt. Vernon (Ky.) Signal, says that at a Breckenridge barbecue in Bourbon county they had "five shorthorn beeves, forty Southdown sheep, 400 chickens, and 138 basketsoof the best things thee good fanners' wives could prepare.'- The Seventh Kentucky district should be the tramps' paradise.

WHISK and sugar make a nice toddy, but at present it is very nauseating to many Democratic stomachs.

avingatj:.

Joseph Galey has a new well. Ora Evans has sold his wheel. Miss Lola Clark is at Indianapolis, a Edna Curtis supports a new bicycle. Peter White will move to Lafayette. The depot platform has been repaired. O Aaron Gilkey saw the sights at Marion.

F. Cotrell was at Toloney, 111., Monday. Bert Markle lias returned to Lafayette.

Webb, Gilkey & Co. have a car load of salt. "Cock" Robbins is now a poultry buyer.

James Spaulding has again moved to our town. Mrs. R. N. Cording has been visiting at Attica.

Tom Sims is building an addition to his house. M. M. Buxton will move to his farm again this fall.

Mrs. Ella Wade, of Marion, is here visiting frienns. George White and wife of Vincennes, are visiting here.

Miss Fannie Blacker has returned from Lafayette. R. E.Monroe has rented a farm south of Crawfordsville.

A. S. Hart offers anthracite coal at SO per ton. See him. J. A. Gilbert has erected a neat and attractive sign here.

Say girls, have you noticed Charlie Renner's mustache?

There is talk that we are to have another barber shop. Evans & Bowman made another trip to the Shades Sunday.

Mrs. Lida Berry will go to California the first of September. *Mrs. Wm. Thomas is visiting her parents at Frankfort.

Mrs. Amanda Templeton has returned home from Illinois. Miss Jennie Francis, of Darlington, was here Wednesday.

John E. Potter talks of trading- for a farm south of Crawfordsville. George Smith and Wash Bodkin did business at Fowler Wednesday.

There will be services at the Pleasant Hill Christian church Sunday. T. .T. Mattigan, roadmaster of the Clover Leaf, was here Thursday.

Wm. Swank will be janitor at the school building again next winter. A. W. Chilcote has repainted his buggy. It's a glossy black. See it.

Peter Kennedy's child died Saturday and was buried Sunday at Oakland. Next Thursday will occur the annual old settlers' picnic at Mehany's Grove.

Mrs. Ella Reed, of Forest, was the guest of Mrs. J. T. Sims over Sunday. Rev. Trotter and wife of Darlington, attended the Alexander-Beedle nuptials.

Mrs. Dan Curtis and son Edna will go to Colorado Tuesday on an extended visit.

Joseph Bottenberg had 20 acres of wheat threshed that yielded 33 bushels per acre.

Chilcote & Thomas,manufacturers of the Union Roof Paint, have secured their trade mark.

J. W. Whitehead had the largest oats yield in this vicinity, averaging bushels per acre.

George Westfall took a dose of carbolic acid some time ago that came near being a sad experience.

A. L. Kittle has refitted his drug store with* a new line of bottles. The interior of his room is now attractive.

Married, at the residence of Jasper Beedle Wednesday at high noon, Dock Alexander and Miss Josie Templeton.

Wingate supports eight small boys that make it a business to be at the depot and get on all trains. We have been requested to advise you that its no credit to you, and if it is practiced in the future the name of each of you will appear in these columns. The Clover Leaf is in the hands of a receiver, and they have adopted the rule of Hoke Smith, pay no pensions.

HOKSE SHOW JOTTINGS.

J. C. Wingate will blow the bugle. J. A. Long has withdrawn. T. A. Templeton will fill his place.

Tom Gott will haul five tons of A. S. Hart's coal behind "old Jack" maybe. A1 Long and E. M. Morrow will talk politics [who will g-et the nomination.]

George White, of Vincennes,wants to know why he can't be in the foot race. The bicycle race has busted. Ora Evans has sold his wheel.

The colt show will take place tomorrow. John Booe says he will not take the premium this year,

The new town band will furnish music. "Fatty" Wilhite and "Tuck" Wainscott will be in the wheelbarrow race.

Peter Kross will have two mules in the race. Peter says old gray's a winner.

Billie Henry, .T. A. Long and Henry Shultz will be in the fat man's race, with Aaron Gilkey as judge.

A. W. Chilcote says Bill Henry will kick the bucket! See.

I'OTATO CKKKK.

We had a glorious rain Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. Neal are visiting friends in this vicinity.

Rev. Neal and wife spent Monday night at Henry Cook's. Flora and Clara Corris spent Sunday with Miss Ella Maguire.

Joo Rice and Earl Peterson are painting. Girls look out. Aunt Lucy Cook attended old settlers' meeting at Darlington.

Bob Dikes and wife sjient Sunday with Mrs. Hinton, near Linden. Only seventeen took dinner with S. K. Blue and wife Sunday, the 12tli.

T. W. Irons and wife, of Crawfordsville, attended the picnic Saturday. Sam Otterman and wife, of Illinois, spent Friday with S. K. Blue and wife.

Frank Groves, wife and mother Sundaved with Trevonion Kozierand wife. Miss Kate lio/.ier. of Darlington, was the guest of Mrs. Ola Delashmit Sunday.

A. Lanum and family, of Frankfort, attended the picnic at Potato Creek Saturday.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Maguire and little daughter. Fairy, spent last week at Indianapolis.

Jim Otterman and wife of Clark's Hill, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Blue Sunday.

Some of our farmers and their wives attended old settlers' meeting at Darlington Tuesday.

Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hulvey and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kashner were at Clark's Hill Sunday.

The Sunday school picnic at Potato Creek was largely attended by Darlington, Linden, Fairview and Salem schools. The singing of the little children of Darlington and Linden deserves the highest compliment. The speakers were Revs. Shanklin, Neal and Shuey.

E. E. CiiAMiiEKs has opened up a first class tailor shop in W. H. Thompson's barber shop. Work guaranteed. Call and get prices before looking elsewhere. S-17-w4t

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