Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 April 1896 — Page 10

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FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1896.

"NOBODY is for McKinley except the people."

THE Democratic deficit at Washing1' ton grows larger with age. The Democratic vote is growing smaller by the same process.

HENRY A. JOHNEON wears the laurels as the fastest talker in the House. He is now engaged in a contest to determiue who shall wear the laurels as the fastest runner in his district.

ONE of the best bills passed b.v Congress during the present session is the bill of Representative Overstreet providing for pension payment by draft, The bill has been approved by the President and is now a law.

POLITICAL forecasts point to William C. Whitney as the Democratic candidate for President. A "good western man" will not be in it. It will be impossible for Democrats to break away from their New York traditions.

WE are now engaged in a conflict between American labor and foreign labor between American civilization and foreign civilization between selfpreservation and destruction. The people are the jury—they must decide between them.

How is it that the Democratic papers are not making the country ring with the statistics of our imports of foreign woJl, and foreign woolen goods, during our first year's experience with free raw material? They prefer theories to plain, every day actual facts.

THE Chicago Inter Ocean aptly says: "We see and hear a good deal about this candidate and that 'boomed by fool friends,' but the fact remains that the biggest fool that booms any candidate is the fool that forgets there is to be an election after the nomination is made.

IF Indianapolis gets what she wants and what the Senate committee has recommended she will have a S2,000,000 postoflice building. No city in the country is moreftin need of such a building than the Hoosier capital. It is to beohoped that the bill will get through.

THE history of low tariff rates in this country has been one of panics and continuous hard times, while the 'history of-thigh tariff rates has been one of general prosperity and of abundant revenues to maintain the government. Has not the time come that we thould heed the lessens of our tariff history?

THE reports of the Agricultural Department show tliatj the number of borses in the Unitedi.States have declined within two years ifrom 16,206,802 to 15,124,057, while their value per head has fallenfrom ?01 to S42. Since 1893 the loss on the value of horses in this country amounts to §492,000,000.

CINCINNATI Comrnerciul-Oazetic: The finding of Pearl Bryan's head is not so much an object as the conviction of her murderers. The unfortunate girl's .head would be of no service to anyone .now. What once was. is now but a grinning skull, and silence has taken the place "of jests, of songs and flashes of merriment."

THERE is no doubt now of the rush toward McKinley. The New York Journal has made a poll of the States which shows that on the first ballot forty-three States and Territories will vote as follows: McKinley, 24 Reed, 4 Morton, 1 Cameron, 2 Allison, 1 uncertain, 7 divided, 2. In addition to the 6olid votes of the tabulated States, McKinley will get 6 votes from Alabama and 5 from Washington. Of the States marked uncertain, several will probably declare for McKinley.

EVIDENTLY the Republicans of Montgomery, Boone and Clinton counties have not heard of the suit to overthrow the apportionment of 1885, else they would not have held a convention and nominated two candidates for Senators—Indianapolis Journal.

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on the Supreme Court and learned when that tribunal would hand down its decision knocking this Senatorial district into a cocked hat it should have imparted that information. The Republicans of the three counties had no desire to wait until after the election before making their nominations.

BOSSES WHO CAJi'i1 BOSS. General H. V. Bojnton, the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commcrcial-Qazettc, discussing the growth of the McKinley sentiment of the country and the combine of the bosses against him, says:

The managers of the National Republican committee can beset down as actively against him. That shoul give him additional strength with the people. This, not because the candidate whom they may favor may not be a strong man, and one fitted for the position, but because t'je national committee transcends its powers whenever it attempts to actively emplpy the machinery intrusted to them in the*interest of any candidate. In acting for the party its duties are purely executive, not legislative. Upon the question of nomination it is neither an advisory board nor a dictatorship. The demand of the party upon this point should be, hands off!

In the same way party sentiment should stamp upon what has come to be known as a combine. Prominent members of the national committee are believed to be in that scheme. It is very far from a deep one, is easily comprehended, and the thought of it should excite universal indignation. It involves securing enough votes by the "bosses" which, when polled, will control the convention, and agreeing to throw them for the candidate who will come into the game and make a full and fair divide with his pals. Such a candidate ought to make the success of the party impossibie, and probably would.

What General Boynton's ideas are of the functions of a political committee are well expressed.

THE S33NAT01UAL, CONVENTION. The Republicans of the Senatorial district composed of the counties of Boone, Clinton and Montgomery met at Lebanon yesterday and named Samuel R. Artman, of Boone, and Robert Carriclr, of Clinton, as the two candidates for Senator to be elected next November, provided the Supreme Court does not upset the apportionment law of 1885, under which the election will be held. Of this, however, there is no assurance. }The case now pending may reach that tribunal before the election, but there is no way of judging when the court will hand down its opinion. The court may see that its opinion will leave the State in such a chaotic condition that it may deem it wise to withhold it until after the election. Such a step would be in accord with its action relative to the law of 1890, which was not ruled on until after the election of 1892.

The nominees for Senator are gentlemen who stand well with their fellowRepublicans at home. Mr. Artman is a young man in years, though old in party work. He is a lawyer by profession and by his own efforts has attained that degree of prominence as to command attention. As Chairman of the Republican central committee of Boone county for the last four years he has exhibited the true qualities of leadership, wise in executive council, and vigilant in action. His friends are enthusiastic and loyal in their support of his laudable ambition to represent this district in the Senate. Mr. Carrick, the nominee from Clinton, is an old time Republican. He is a farmer, but a man of affairs and of much practical intelligence. He tBkes a leading and active interest in the agricultural affairs of his county, and has experience in legislative matters, having served several terms in the lower house as the representative from his county. Being popular with all classes he will poll a large vote.

The district as it now stands is largely Republican, though when it was made by the Legislature of 18S5 it was intended to be Democratic. Each of the three counties previously had given Democratic pluralities and the district was counted among the Democratic certainties. However, it proved to be a great disappointment to Democratic calculations, as James A. Mount and I. N. Caster, the Republican candidates, were elected by pluralities of about GOO. In the present condition of political affairs and of Democratic demoralization the district is good for 1,000 plurality for the Lebanon nominees.

THE Commercial Club of Chicago on Saturday night discussed the very important question: "What, if anything, can be done to more thoroughly protect the morals of the youth?" Among the speakers was H. N. Higginbotham who took high grounds in" favor of restricting dangerous immigration and of education in righteousness. Among the latter he included good sanitation. Ue said:

You will'see that I am a firm bebeliever in preventive measures for doing away with social ills, rather than in thotc "cure-alls" which are the delight of so many l-eformers. To my notion, the sanitary engineer, who, by his planning and forethought, is able to create in an unhealth town such sanitary conditions as shall make it salubrious, is just as much deserving of the thanks and rewards of society as the doctors and nurses who minister to that town were it smitten with a plague caused by a lack of drainage or of pure water.

What ho says concerning drainage will apply to Crawfordsville. What this city needs is a good system of sewerage. It will not on]^ tend to good health, but a purer morality and a higher civilization.

REDUCE the tariff and laboi is the first to suffer. This has been practic ally demonstrated during the last two years.

THE SCHEME OF THIS BOSSES. There is no. doubt that the ten-per-cents in Indiana who are opposing the nomination of McKinley are in a deep laid scheme to prevent the solid vote of Indiana for the Ohioan at St. Louis. One of the plans iB to bring such pressure against General Harrison as to induce him to withdraw his letter taking himself out of the list of candi dates 'or the Presidential nomination. If he uonsents to do this a number cf the ex-President's friends will go to work in his behalf. It will be readily seen at a glance that there is no sincerity at the bottom of the scheme, and we very much mistake General Harrison if he lends himself to the deeplaid plot. The men who are manipulating it are Piatt, Quay and Clarksou, the men who originated the "favorite son" nonsense. It is well known that they have no love for Harrison. If they can use the sincere admirers of the ex-President to accomplish their ulterior designs they will have accomplished much. These national bosses are already parceling out the spoils from cabinet positions to postmasters, provided tliey can succeed in nominating a man whom they can use. The people favor McKinley because no man or set of men can twist him around their thumbs. The people favor him because he is a born leader and the ideal statesman of the young Republicans of the country. We believe that ninety per cent, of the Republicans in Indiana are in favor of McKinley, and this ninety per cent, cannot be swung back to Harrison. When his letter was made public they accepted it as the sincere utterance of an honest man. Until General Harrison shows some 6ign of playing battledoor and shuttlecock their faith will continue to abide. Should, however, General Harrison listen and heed the siren's song their admiration and loyalty would be transformed into positive opposition and distrust. Whatever may happen now, the people—the masses of the plain, common people— having centered their affections on William McKinley and they are not so fickle as to transfer them back and forth at the beck and nod of a lot of political tricksters. Harrison is not the man to be used as a dummy candidate to knock down McKinley.

"Ti±E property owners of a village cannot make a better paying investment than in the maintenance of a well-organized Improvement Society," writes John Gilmer Speed in April Ladies'1 Home Journal. "Through such a society the value of every piece of property in the village, and the neighborhood thereof, may be enhanced in value village life may be- made to take on new interests and new dignities stagnation may be kindled into an exhilarating activity. Let the people become interested iu a Village Improvement Society and they will soon begin to discuss plans rand policies with a gratifying alertness. They will discuss how best to secure a public library they will talk over the ways anil means of getting running water into the town they will argue over the le».t way of establishing a fire department: they will study drainage and fcduit.aiior): tbi will recognize the value of sirfcl iights when the moon is shining- ou uoother part of the world: and when they vote on these questions they will vote with entire iatelligence, and tlu-y will go away from the meetings tlreshed by what they have heard, and what they .have done, vi?

THE Senatorial Convention at Lebanon was as largely attended as the ordinary Congressional Convention in other years. Judging from this and the way other Republican conventions have been attended this year the Congressional Convention to be held in this city on the 7th of April will be the largest assemblage of Republicans which has ever honored Crawfordsville. It will test the city's hotel capacity to the utmost. Many of our citizens have friends living in the other counties, and they should make arrangements at once to open the doors of their houses and bid them welcome. The committee of arrangements appointed by the Mortor. Club should see that every visitor within our gates at that time shall be provided for.

THE Government of the United States is suffering from a deficiency of revenue. The people of the United States are suffering from an excess of imports from the furnaces, factories and shops of European industry, which deprive American labor of wages, American capital of employment and Americal agriculture of markets. That is Wilson-Gormanism. Under the last Republican tariff there was a different combination. Instead of a deficiency of revenue and an excessive volume of imports the revenue was sufficient for all purposes and American labor and capital enjoyed an industrial independency which has been partially surrendered to Europe. That was McKinleyism.

THE Ways and Means Committee has rendered a good service by giving the business men of the country a chance to testify in favor of the reciprocity policy, and thus to promote the interests of the Republican party in the approaching campaign.

WHO-would have thought throe years ago that a Democratic convention would ever be guilty of passing such a resolution as the following:

Resolved, That we congratulate our weighty chief executive, Grover Cleveland, upon his newly acquired reputation as a successful duck hunter, and that we greatly regret that he has not given more time to waging an unsparing- war upon the flocks of dangerous and threatening mallards, springtails and canvasbacks and less time to cooperating with foreign money lenders for increasing the bonded indebtedness °f an already overburdened people by additional issues of interest-bearing bonds payable only in gold.

The Democrats of Madison county, Misssouri, on last Saturday adopted the above resolution with a whoop.

THE current number of the New York Independent contains the following editorial paragraph which has a local interest:

Gen. Lew Wallace has been financially one of the most fortunate of American men of letters. He has built a fiat in Indianapolis costing $100,COO, and is now putting up an addition, to cost nearly as much. He owns a large business house also in that city, and 2,400 acres of farm lands in Illinois. He is now building, near his own home in Crawfordsville, a study, detached and fireproof, with a tower sixty feet high, and an artificial lake aroirnd it. which will cost 850,000, and into which he will put a library of some 10,00^.' books.

JOHN G. SHANKLIN, the Democratic king bee of Southern Indiana, has written a letter in which he says that the nomination for Governor has no attractions for him, and will therefore not be a candidate. There ate several other Democrats besides Mr. Shanklin who are not "attracted" by a gubernational nomination. He, however, says that the State convention must declare for free silver. Should this be done a good many of the faithful will be compelled to take to the woods.

AND now Europe and America are to be connected by telepone. What next?

A Kegular Snap.

The Crawfordsville people who own dogs are working a great scheme to avoid paying city tax on their pets. If they register these animals with the township trustee they are given a certificate and this certificate prevents the township assessor from listing the dogs for taxation. The city, as all know, buys the township assessor's report and makes up the city list. Thus no account of the dogs of those who register with the township trustee is obtained by the city and hence the dog6 are not taxed.

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