Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 7 February 1896 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1896.

GERRYMANDERS in this State in the future wil be reduced to their minimum viciousness, for which the people will have cause for thankfulness.

THE deficit in the treasury for twen-ty-eight days in January is 85,219,866, for the fiscal year of 830,614,573, and for the Cleveland administration of $133,517,953.

THE tendancy seems to be in favor of the early selection of delegates to the St. Louis convention, which means that the Republicans are enthusiastic this year and anxious to begin the work of putting an end to Democratic rule.

SHOULD ethe Republican delegation from Indiana to the St. Louis Convention be called upon to transfer their votes from Benjamin Harrison they will go in a, body to William McKinley. There is a strong McKinley sentiment among the Republican masses.

IF the decision of the Supreme Court declaring the Democratic gerrymander of 1893 and the Republican so-called apportionment act of 1895 unconstitutional, will put an end to gerrymanders forever, much will have been gained in the cause of honest legislation.

THE Coliseum in Chicago has been selected as the place for holding the Democratic National Convention. The Coliseum is located on the grounds where Buffalo Bill with his Wild West show was during the World's Fair, ten miles from what is considered the heart of the city.

GBOVER CLEVELAND will go into history as the President who doubled the national debt hi four years. If the interest on his loans were added to the principal the national debt left by the Harrison administration would be almost doubled. Verily, this is a debtmaking administration.

CINCINNATI Comvierclal-Qazette: The insurance companies are still kicking and raising rates on account of the poor protection furnished by the fire departments, and say that they are losing money. There is a screw loose somewhere. The total loss by fire in the United States and Canada for the year 1895 was $27,000,000 less than the year 1894. Does that look like poor protection and a losing- jamc for the companies?

A CAMPAIGN badge manufacturer of Philadelphia says: "From present indications it seems to me that McKinley is the favorite with the great masses of the people. We are receiving orders from all over the country for McKinley buttons. There are at least four times as many orders for McKinley buttons as for any others." It is hardly necessary to say, however, that the button test will not be recognized by the friends of this other candidates.

SPEAKING of the change of law in Iowa in regard to "the age of consent," General Drake in his inaugural address said:

There seems to be no valid reason why the consent of a female minor should be legalized in the commission ef an act of moral turpitude that does not apply to business transactions. Woman's virtue, the most sacred element of hertrtature, the most precious jewel of her adornment, should not be weighed in petty scales, to the advantage of the libertine or the passions of the stronger sex. At least, not in Iowa, the State which stands, or should stand, in the van of Christian civiliza tion. From a careful consideration of the question, I am of the opinion that the age of consent should be raised to eighteen years.

AT the session of the Legislature of 1875 the Democratic majority at tempted to re-apportion the State. The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee. A Democratic majority of the committee reported that the Legislature had the constitutional power to pass a re-apportionment law at any time. Messrs. Forkner, of Henry county, and Kennedy, of Montgomery, prepared and submitted an elaborate minority report, in which they denied the power of the Legislature to reapportion the State at any other time than that prescribed in the constitution, to-wit: every six years. This minority report is now indorsed by the Supreme Court, which cites many of the authorities relied on by Messrs. Forkner and Kennedy, and follows out their line of argument.

A WHOLESOME DECISION. Fair men of all parties will heartily concur in the decision of the Supreme Court which declares in effect that all the legislative apportionment acts back to 1885 are null and void. The court probably would have held the act of 1885 unconstitutional also had it been attacked. The decision will have a wholesome effect on the practice of gerrymandering which has been in vogue for many years. Neither party has been free from the pernicious, vicious and dishonest business. Heretofore there has been a good deal of the pot calling the kettle black on the part of both political parties. The newspapers of the State, and especially the country press, have been made monkeys of by the politicians. The newspapers are generally partisan, and it has been their province to uphold and defend the actions of their respective political parties. In this respect THE JOURNAL does not hold itself entirely guiltless, except to say that when the bill of 1895 was pending it did denounce the action of the Legislature on the same grounds that the Supreme Court has now set the act aside. But it was like vice, we first endured, then pitied, then embraced. Wrong is wrong whether committed by Republicans or Democrats. It is no justification for Republicans to say that because Democrats disfranchised one-fourth of the voters of the State, they should in turn disfranchise oneeighth. The crime committed is one of degree but still a crime nevertheless. What the masses of the voters demand, regardless of party, is absolute fairness. This is guaranteed them by the constitution, and they should feel grateful that the present court, is not a "telegraph it to the boys" body.

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IS THE DUTY ADDED TO PRICE? A controversey of national interest, bearing upon the question: "Is the duty added to the price?" appears in Ounton's Magazine for February, between Secretary North, of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, and Editor Gunton, Mr. North claims that the American price of wool under the McKinley tariff was higher than the foreign price, by the whole amount of the duty. Editor Gunton's proof is complete that if Mr. North's contention is correct, then the American (washed) wool of a given quality should have been from 20 to 22 cents a pound higher than the English wool, whereas the figures show that over the'whole period, 1881 to 1891, it only ranged 2.04 cents a pound higher. American scoured wool only averaged 7.6 cents a pound higher than the foreign of like quality, whereas if the whole duty was added to the price, it should have been 30 cents higher. The entire article is a valuable contribution to the permanent tariff literature of the period.

THE Republican party is forty years old. It was born on February 22,1856. On that day the first national gathering of Republicans which ever met took place at Pittsburg. True, it had State organizations, but the Pittsburg meeting was attended by representatives from twenty-four States. They framed a national organization for the party, and the National Committee then chosen called the Philadelphia convention of June 17, 1856, which nominated John C. Fremont for President. That which led to the formation of the party was the Ivansas-Ne-braska bill signed by President Pierce, May 30, 1854, opening the territories north of the Missouri compromise line of 30-30 to slaveiy. This forced the enemies of slavery extension of all parties into a combination which took tbe name of the Republican party. It will be remembered that Hon. Daniel Mace was the Representative in Congress from the othen Eighth district. He was elected as a Democrat, but he voted against the repeal of the Missouri compromise. This led him into tbe new organization. He was endorsed by the people and was re-elect-ed on what was called the People's ticket. The Republican party has had an eventful history. In constructive statesmanship it has a glorious record.

In this it has not been surpassed except by the party of Washington and Hamilton, which laid the foundation upon which the edifice of the government is built.

THE deficit for January amounts to 83,000,000 and over, for the fiscal year of 830,000,000, and for the Cleveland administration of S132,000,000. If an individual spends more than he earns, bis credit is not likely to be very good in the community where he resides. It is just so with the United States. It is living beyond its income. 'Ihe simplest, plainest citizen can understand this. We were troubled with no national deficit during tbe Harrison administration. The McKinley tariff produced a surplus every year of its normal operation.

SENATOR GORMAN thinks that the protection sentiment in Maryland has come to stay, and says there is but little hope for the Democratic party in that State in the future. He has told some of his friends that he will take no part in the National Democratic convention at Chicago, which is taken as an indication that he will begin to close up his political career.

THE EFFECT OF THE-DECISION. The effect- of the decision of the Supreme Court setting aside the legislative apportionment act of 1895 leaves the act of 1885 standing. The court declares the act of 1893 void. A former decision held that the acts of 1879 and 1891 were unconstitutional. If the act of 1885 is not attacked the election this year will be held under that apportionment. Chairman Gowdy is authority for the statement that no suit will be brought to set that act aside. While it is a Democratic measj ure, and was intended to make a Legislature largely one-sided, yet the first election held revealed the fact that the Democrats had made a miscalculation, as the Legislature was very close, and David Turpie was elected United States Senator by a very narrow margin. To cure this political mistake in 1891 they passed another bill. As has been stated this act was set aside by the Supreme Court, but the decision was not handed down until after the election. The Legislature of 1893, in the face of the court's opinion, re-enacted the law of 1891 with one or two minor changes. And now by the present decision the act of 1893 goes down with the act of 1895. This, therefore, leaves the law of 1885, the last act not touched by the court, in force. Under this apportionment Montgomery, Boone and Clinton were made one Senatorial district with two Senators. James A. Mount and I. N. Castor that year were elected to the Senate, contrary to Democratic expectations when the district was made. Montgomery had one Representative and one Joint Representative with Putnam and Clay. The Joint Representative district was largely Democratic which continued so until the last election, when the Republicans elected Thomas T. Moore by a handsome plurality. Under the recent decision the Republicans can easily elect a i. egislature with a majority in both branches. There are twenty-five hold-over Senators, nineteen of whom are Republicans. Of the twenty-five to be elected they will secure at least half giving them ten or a dozen majority in the Senate. The House'will probably be as largely Republican as the last House which was chosen under the most outrageous Democratic gerrymander ever foisted on the people. Upon the whole the effect of the decision will be that it will be more helpful to the Republicans than it will be to the Democrats.

THE MUDDLE.

The politicians of both parties are all at sea, and much speculation is being indulged in regarding the effect of the Supreme Court's apportionment law decision. As the case now stands the last apportionment that has not been attacked, and which is the law until the Supreme Court riddles it, is that made by the Legislature of 1885. If this law is attacked there can be no doubt of the result. It, too, will go by the boards, as it is equally as obnoxious as either of the laws of 1879, 1891, 1893 or 1895. If the Republicans attack the law of 1885 the Democrats propose to attack the law of 1873. And so it will go, clear back to the first apportionment under the constitution which was made in 1855. In the meantime the question arises concerning the legal status of the hold-over Senators elected under the law of 1893. The leaders of both parties are construing the decision to mean what seems to be an advantage to their respective parties. On this point«the Indianapolis News with much force says:

Senators and Representatives are constitutional officers their terms are fixed by the constitution. The manner and mode of their election is incidental, not fundamental. The law uuder which they were chosen was not questioned at the time ot their election. They are our Senators and Represenatives until their constitutional terms expire. That is the view that was taken in Michigan in a precisely similar situation. That is the view taken here with the Legislature of 1893, which was elected under the apportionment of 1891, and which did not meet until three weeks after the law under which it was elected had been pronounced to be invalid.

It has been suggested by the Democrats that the Governor petition the Supreme Court to decide definitely and unequivocally the question of the status of the hold-over Senators. As matters stand now they are in a muddle. The patriotic way out is for the leaders of both parties to get together and agree to accept the Democratic gerrymander of 1885, and not raise the question of the titles of the hold-over Senators. The Democrats would have an advantage in the law, while tbe Re publicans would have the advantage in the hold-overs. Both parties would then start in the race nearly on an equal footing. If, however, the hot heads of both parties insist on their respective claimB then there appears on the horizon a war cloud, and we may witness a reenactment of the scenes of 1887 when Green Smith stole the Lieutenant Governorship of the State.

IN its rejoicings over the election of John K. Gowdy as Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, the New Castle Courier exhibits a lack of generosity, which if it represents the victors, is neither creditable nor politic. Those who championed the

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cause of Mr. Nebeker have no disposition to be resentful. They are willing to drop the matter and let bygones be bygones, but they are not in a humor to have their defeat rubbed in. So far as the "methods" of Mr. Nebeker are concerned they are not unlike the "methods" of Mr. Gowdy. They had similar plans of battle, and up to midnight of the day previous to the election the result of the contest hung in the balance. That result depended upon the decision of one man. When that decision was made the die was cast, and Nebeker lost and Gowdy won. The talk of the Courier about the "masses vs. the machine" is nothing but the veriest rot, and the Courier knows it. The masses who were in favor of Mr. Nebeker are as much entitled to stand up and be counted as are the masses who favored Mr. Gowdy. The masses of those districts who voted for Mr. Nebeker are not to be ignored in this summary manner.

COMMENTING editorially on the passage of the free silver amendment to the bond bill by the Senate last Saturday the Cincinnati Commercial-QazetLe says:

Tbe spectacle the Senate has presented the last live weeks is shameful. The Republican party has never yielded to the free coinage eraze. It has believed in maintaining all forms of currency, gold, silver, greenbacks and silver certificates, at a parity. But whenever this question has come up, it has repudiated the free silver policy. It has done so because it knows that free silver coinage meant, and was intended to mean, silver monometallism A silver basis would mean separation from civilization. When the country is willing to Mexicanize itself, to put itself on the plane of China, India, Japan, it will be time enough to talk about free silver coinage. Not till then.

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Sunday was ground hog day and when the festive earth pig stuck his head out he saw no shadow—in fact, saw nothing but mud and rain. According to the tradition, therefore, the winter is over.

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The young men of Crawfordsville have organized a Republican drum corps and will try to have the crack drum corps of the State if possible. The names of the young men will be published later on.

Death of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Newhartl. Mrs. Elizabeth A. Newhard, aged 72 years, died Saturday afternoon at the residence of J. M. Lee on Court street. The fine*al occurred ffuaday afternoon at Mt. Zion, services being conducted by Rev. Mr. Zuclr.

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