Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 April 1896 — Page 10

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FRIDAY, APRIL 24. 1896.

THE Missouri Democrats have declared in State convention in favor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Likewise Colorado.

BOTH Nebraska and North Dakota have been added to the McKinley column. It would be an egregious blunder for Indiana to fail to jump on the band wagon.

THE Ninth district will be represented in the State convention by 110 delegates, as follows: Fountain 13, Montgomery 20, Boone 17, Hamilton 20, Tipton 10, Clinton IS, Carroll 12.

HON. W. D. OWEN flatly contradicts the reports set afloat by the Indianapolis Sentinel that he 1b in the race for Governor. He declares that he is a candidate for Secretary of State and nothing else.

THOUGH instructed, New Jersey's four delegates-at-large are for McKinley. The entire vote of that State will be cast for the Ohio candidate notwithstanding it is sandwiched between two States with favorite sons.

THE "reaction" against McKiDley which the friends of the local favorites predicted to arrive ten or twelve days ago has not come. About 50 per cent of all the delegates who are being .chosen, seem to be for the Ohio man.

HON. GEORGE W. FARIS, of Terre Haute, was renominated for Congress by the Republican convention held at Martinsville yesterday. This is as it should be. Mr. Faris has not been noisy but he has been industrious in looking after his constituents.'

THE question is, whether to tie the hands of the many or to tie the hands of the few. Refusing to vote instructions is tieing the hands and hushing the voices of the masses, while to vote instructions is to tie the hands of the delegates and compel them to carry out the will of the people.

IN his speech at Chicago before the Marquette Club, on February 12, Wm. McKinley said: "The Republican party would as soon think of lowering the flag of our country as to contemplate! with patience or without protest and opposition any attempt to degrade or corrupt the medium of exchanges among the people. It can be relied upon in the future, as in "the past, to supply the country with the best money ever known, gold, silver and paper, good the world over."

THE Lincoln paper in the May McClure's will contain some very interesting unpublished letters and anecdotes, showing Lincoln's rare tact and sagacity as a political manager, even as a young man. It will also describe Lincoln's life in Washington as a member of Congress in 3 847-1849, and repm duce from the newspaper in which it was reported at the time an important but now unknown speech of Lincoln's made in New England 1848. A num ber of rare pictures will appear with the paper.

PERU Republican: The decision tne Supreme court on the term township trustee is as sharp a piece of political jugglery as was ever perpetrated. They decided that the trustee should have taken office the day after the election In 1894. In the meantime the law said the, old trustees should serve until Aug. 1, 1895. This gave the old trustees the election of the county superintendent in June, 1895 and by men whom the court declares had been out of office since November 1894. In the meantime the trustees elected in 1894 serve nine months less than their four years' term.

IT is. a cold day when McKinley does not gather in few more delegates. In every State in which a favorite son does not get the solid delegation the split always goes to McKinley. In New York there is Morton and Mc Kinley. In Pennsylvania there is Quay and McKinley. In New Hampshire there is Reed and McKinley. In Illinois there is Cullom and McKinley. In Iowa there is Allison and McKinley. Where McKinley does not stand first, he stands second. Where the others do not stand first, they do not appear at all. McKinley stands at the head with more than three times as many delegates as his closest competitor. Can this lead be checked? We think not.

THE TRUE SPIRIT OF ATHLETICS. CASPER W. WHITNEY, the able editor of the department of amateur sport for Harper's Weekly has some very high toned ideas about college athletics which it would be well to adopt here in Indiana, where for several years the stigma of professionalism has been uponjinter-collegiate contests. He says:

We must never cease to remember that the true end of amateur sport is not victory, but the thrill of honorably contending for it. Higher than sport, higher even than physical culture, are self-respect and honesty and courtesy to others, good manners and morals and that generous manliness which is the spirit of the amateur and the conscience of the sportsman. When the sports and recreations of amateurs become the business of professionals, then follow scandal, dishonesty, dissolution. When the spirit of gain, either by direct or indirect methods, is permitted entrance in our recreations, they lose their amateur significance and cease to be healthful.

This is why university athletic committees and college faculties generally should never relax their vigilance nor rest in their efforts until the highest ideal is establiehed and maintained. We want healthful rivalry and scientific competition, but above all we want the highest tone to rule in our athletic relations. We want vigorous, healthful sport and manly, honest athletes.

An amateur must be above suspicion. He should be neither out a dollar nor in oa dollar, directly or indirectly, through his participation in sport. He ought to resent as an insult to his manhood any proposition looking to the undermining of the ethics of sport. But as a large percentage of mankind is honest only for fear of the law, so a goodly number of those active in sport are amateurs from circumstances rather than by choice. That is why our college athletic committees and our Amateur Athletic Union should be every alert to inculcate the spirit and enforce the letter of the athletic law. The pity of it—that we must police our play grounds! The shame that the pettiness and sordidness of our struggles in life's work must enter into our play! And what is victory if it carry not with it the conviction of a fair battle honestly fought? Rather lose like a gentleman—ay, die like a gentleman on any field—than live and win like a cad by dishonest means. Self-respect is dearer than victory.

THE Lafayette Courier calls atten. tion to the fact that "everywhere in New England the friends of Mr. Reed are insisting on instructions to delegates and that they are carrying out that policy in all conventions under their control. The rule is general, and the truth of it being self-evident, there can be no reasonable objection to similar action here in Indiana. The East has long sustained its prestige in national affairs because the people of that section are reputed to be clannish, and in the present contest for the Republican nomination for President it has been conceded on all hands from the beginning that Mr. Reed would have the solid support of New England, although the concession was entirely two generous, viewed in the light of subsequent events. The State of public feeling in Indiana at this juncture is peculiar and unprecedented. Four-fifths of the Republicans of this State are heartily in favor of the nomination of Major McKinley, and the mere fact that opposition to instructions has developed has served to arouse their suspicion and to make them even more earnest

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that their will shall be heard and recorded. It is their undisputed right to formally declare the course they desire delegates to pursue, and there is no argument forceful enough to make them believe otherwise. Failure on the part of the State convention to instruct would rightfully be regarded as having been prompted by cringing cowardice and it would also be hailed with intense delight by Piatt and other machine politicians as a victory of the bosses secured by cunning methods in opposition to the pronounced sentiment of the great majority of the people." ...

HON. CAROLL D. WRIGHT'S figures, showing that the average wages in 1890 were $445 a year, or, approximately, $1.45 a day, suggests a comparison with the wages formerly paid. A study of Professor McMaster's "History of the United States" shows that the workingmen of to-day fare much better than their fathers and grandfathers did. Ten representative trades paid in 1S40, an 'average of SI.31 per day, and in 1800 the same ten—excepting plumbers, who are not reported— paid only 80.5 cents a day. In 1784 unskilled labor commanded 25 cents a day, and that was twice as much as was paid for it ten years earlier. On the other hand, the necessaries of life have not increased in price proportionately to the advance in wages. While wages in 1890 were nearly double what they were in 1800, the price of beef had increased only from S to 14 cents a pound pork was at exactly the same price—21 cents a pound—and other leading articles advanced a fraction, while wheat flour declined from S9 a barrel in 1800 to 8? in 1840 and S6 in 1890. In the same time Bugar dropped from 16 cents a pound to 6, and tea from 95 cents a pound to 50, though coffee advanced from 27 cents a pound to 30. These figures seem to disprove the popular fallacy that the rich are growing richer and the voor poorer— unless, indeed, the American artisan is ranked with the former, a position which his brethren in other lands are very much inclined to accord him.

BRITISH INDUSTRIES REVIVING. "A late issue of the London Times," says the Philadelphia Press, "has a three column article on «'A Great Revival in a Great Industry,' after years of long gloom, which gives an account of the results of the Democratic tariff of 1894 in Bradford. The Times says the depression and gloom in the Bradford district culminated 'in the four years 1891-94, during which American protectionism found its fullest expression in the McKinley tariff.' At last the change came and the 2'imes says, 'no slight or grudging compensation was in store. Full measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, was the stallment of payment made by the world to Bradford last year for her long continued troubles and losses.' The Times continues: 'Roughly speaking, the Wilson tariff, which came into effective operation in the last month of 1894, in place of the strangling system of duties associated with the name of McKinley, reduced the custom house charges upon the principal products of the Bradford district imported into the States from 100 per cent, of their value to 50 per cent. This reduction enables the American merchants and wholesale dealers to replenish their stores at prices greatly lower than those which had ruled during the previous four years. Then the possibility of obtaining at'reasonable rates clothing, which, always highly valued, had become exceedingly scarce and dear, gave a great stimulus to the normal demand in the United States, so that the replenished wholesale stocks were rapidly cleared out and fresh supplies were urgently called for. Thus it came about that the value of worsted coatings imported from the Bradford district into the United States in the iirst five months of 1895 was more than double that of the like imports during the whole year, December, 1893, to November, 1894, and the value in dollars for the whole of 1895 as compared to the whole of 1894 (years* ending September 30) was §7,575,052 against 81,275,626, being an increase of all but 600 per cent.'"

THE politicians who are taking the lead in their opposition to instructions to the delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention are those who are opposed to McKinley's nomination. By defeating the resolutions of instruction they hope to weaken the man whom the people want. A good many well meaning and sincere McKinley men have been drawn into the cunningly devised trap, and seem to be unconscious of the ulterior objects of these men. To carry their ends they go so for as to trail the name of General Haarison through the dirty mire of their political schemes. On this point the Lafayette Call well says:

The men who are at the botton of this thing are not friends of General Harrison. They will never forgive him or forget. They simply want to use General Harrison's name to defeat McKinley—not because they prefer Harrison to McKinley, but because they want neither of them, but some other and they are simply making fools of the Indiana politicians in pretending to desire Harrison nominated To permit General Harrison's name to be dragged into that convention for any such use would be a great wrong to him. To lend themselves to it would be a sign of great mental weakness and lack of discernment on the part of the Indiana delegates. It would be very convenient for them, when pressed to co-operate in a programme which their judgment does not approve, to be able to say, "There are our instructions—how can we honorably disregard them?" The thing which is sought is to bring such pressure to bear at the convention as to stampede the Indiana delegates to Harrison—not to do Har rison any real good but to beat Mc Kinley.

These SBme men would use General Harrison as they used poor Blaine at Minneapolis. Then it was anybody to beat Harrison. Now it is anybody to beat McKinley.

THE Kentucky Republicans have in structed the delegates-at-large to St. Louis to vote for the nomination of Governor Bradley for President, but in the event his name is withdrawn then they are directed lo cast their votes for Wm. McKinley the great friend of protection, so long as his name is before the convention. With the districts that have already in structed this will give Bradley 16 and McKinley 10 of the Kentucky votes oh the first ballot. Should a second bal lot be reached McKinley will have all of the 26 votes. The situation in Ken tucky certainly is very satisfactory for the Ohio candidate.

THE Indiana Republican State Con vention will beheld inTomlinson Hall, Indianapolis, on Thursday, May 7, 1S9C). The convention will be composed of 1,415 delegates, and on account of the large number of candidates seeking places on the ticket, the convention promises to be one of the most interesting events of the kind 'ever held in the State. Arrangements have been made with all railroads in

Indiana for a special rate of one first class fare fOr the round trip. Tickets will be sold May 5 and 0, good only on day of sale, and good returning until and including May 0.

NEARLY every Republican convention has been held, East, West,-. North or South, either declares for McKinley

outright, or after voting for Reed^ Morton, Allison, Quay, or Bradley, to vote for the Ohio man. When the Republicans of the United States are determined to go solidly for McKinley after the "favorite sons" are out of the way, what is the use of talking about beating him with Harrison or a dark horse?

EASTERN Democrats have about made up their minds that there will be two Democratic parties after the Chicago convention. President Cler.e and and those who think like him on the money question are now only hoping against hope that a free silver platform will not be adopted at Chicago. They are perfectly well aware that the chances are in favor of the triumph of the silver Democrats, and they are preparing to act accordingly. It is said that as a result of their plans the Cleveland men will, in the event of the capture of the national convention, bolt, organize another convention and nominate another ticket. f'~

A more satisfactory set of delegates was never selected than the set chosen last Saturday. All the candidates so far as we have heard have expressed themselves as being well pleased and each one expresses the belief that he has the best of the deal, or at least is satisfied that he will receive fair treatment. Of course there will be disappointments, but the defeated candidate who mixes his disappointment with philosophy at the ratio of 16 to 1— 16 of philosophy and 1 of disappointment—will maintain his own parity and the good will of his friends and neighbors.

HOLMES is not only a phenomenal murderer but a phenomenal liar. A large number of the murders which he claims to have committed have proven to be false.

The Republicans of Scott.

To the Editor of the Journal. The Republicans of Scott township convened at Center school house Saturday and the following named persons were selected as .delegates to the county convention:

Precinct 1—Samuel A. Ivelsey, Lewis M. Browning, A. F. Kelsey alternates, J. C. Hampton, J. R. Burgess, J. .S Douglass.

Precinct 2—D. B. Harrison, John Wasson, Elton Armstrong alternates, Geo. Elliott, Charles Reed, Charles Welch.

The attendance at this convention was the largest since back in the sixties. The enthusiasm is at a good working pitch and harmony seems to be the pass-word. The Republicans of Scott will give a good account of their stewardship this fall. There were two present who cast their first vote for William H. Harrison, eight for Abraham Lincoln, and if nominated all for that typical American, Wm. McKinley. Give us good men for a county ticket, James A. Mount for Governor, William McKinley for President, and the industries of our nation will take a new lease of life. The fires will be rekin died in the deserted furnaces, we will hear the hum of factories, and the men who work on half time and half wages will stand in the front ranks with remunerative wages our home markets will be restored and the farmer's produce will not be freighted thousands of miles to find a market, or lie in the bins for the want of a home market. Put idle men to work and they will eat more, wear more, and therefore create a demand at home for our produce at the cost of production. The present administration has turned the search lights on and they are seeing the demoralizing effect of even a smack of free trade.

The people of this country have had free wool over their eyes as long as they are going to stand it, and on the 3d of next November they will rise up in their might and cast off the shackles that have bound them down to adversity, and they will laugh at all pretexts that we are on the eve of returning prosperity, it makes no difference what party succeeds in next November. "Drowning men grasp at straws," and a burnt child is afraid of fire, and this nation has been woefully burnt by the fires of Democracy, and we as a nation have got the proper balm and it is Republicanism, Protection and Reciprocity. Then the white dove of prosperity will wing its way from ocean to ocean, and from gulf to lake proclaiming the glad news of prosperity and well fed and well clothed people and therefore happy homes. H. H. SWINDLER.

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