Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 16 October 1896 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1G, 1896.
THK KKPUBLTCAN TICKET.
National,
Tor President,
WILLIAM M'KINLEV, Of Ohio. For Vice President. O AHHETT A. HO
IiARX.
Of New Jersey.
Stat:».
For Governor,
JAMES A. MOUNT. For Lieutenant Governor, W. S. HAGGAKD.
For Secretary of Stale, W. D. OWEN. For Auditor of Slate,
A. C. DAILY.
For Treasurer of State, F. J. SOUOLZ. For Attorney-General,
W. A. KETCH AM.
For Reporter Supreme Court, CHARLES 1\ KEMY. For Superintendent Public Instruction.
D. M. GEETING. For Statistician. S.J.THOMPSON.
For Appellate Judge, First District, WOOD FIN D. ROBINSON. Forjudge Appellate Court, Second District,
WILLIAM J. HKNLEY.
For Judge Appellate Court, Third District, JAMES IJ. BLACK. For Judge Appellate Court. Fourth District,
D. W. COM STOCK.
For Judge Appellate Court, Sixth District, U. Z. WU.EY.
1-lelrict.
For Congress.
CHARLES B. LANDIS. For Senators ROBERT CAIl.'.iOK. .. SAMUEL Ii. AIiT.MAN. For Joint Rep: voentative.
JOHN M. K:?LLAK.
County.
For Judtfe of the Circuit Court, MELVILLE W. BKUNER. For Prosecuting Attorney,
DUMOliT KENNEDY. For Representative, EDWARD T. McCKISA.
For Clerk,
RANKIN C. WALKUP. For Treasurer, WILLIAM JOHNSON. 't For Recorder.
WILLIAM U. WKHSTKR. For Sheriff, R. C. HARPER.
For Coroner.
PAUL.I. BARCUS.' For Surveyor, HARVEY E.:WYNEICOOP.
For Assessor,
HENRY M. B1LL1NGSLEY. For Commissioner, 2d District, HENRY W. HARDING. For Commissioner, 3d District,
ALBERT T. HORNUAKER.
WASTED, HU.SIXKSS.
What do people mean who cry for more money? Sir Dudley North answered this in 3091 when he said: "Money is not their want., hut a price for their corn and cattle which they would sell, but cannot." And it is ju:-' as true to day. More money will not enable the farmer to sell his corn and cattle and wheat and hogs unless other people had something they are willing to exchange. It is not more money that the country wants, but more business among the people. They want some of the business that they had during the years of the Harrison administration, when the money in stock was no greater than it is now. The trouble is that the business was destroyed by an attack on the industries of the country by unfriendly tariff legislation, which closed up our mills and factories, threw thousands of men out of employment, and took from unemployed laborers the power to buy, in some cases, even the necessaries of life. The result was a decreased demand, aud prices suffered correspondingly, not from a lack of currency, but a lack of work. This unhappy state of affairs has been intensified by a threat to change our standard of value. 3' the proposition to make a half dollar a wnole dollar, 1'he result is that the men who have money prefer to keep it. and few men care to take the risk of borrowing money, even when their credit makes this possible. Something more, than a supply of money is needed to induce men to take the risk of even ordinary commercial transactions.
AUK there any wage-earners in Craw^jrdsville who are complaining because of the increased purchasing power of a dollar? Are tney worrying over the fact that their dollar will buy more loaves of bread, more beefsteak, more colfee and more clothing than it did before the "crime of 1873?"
AT THE COURT HOUSE.
(Court Adjourned.
Court has taken a recess until next Monday when ii will probably adjourn until the beginning of next term. There has been little litigation of importance and promises to be less in the November term.
Marriage
Isaac 1\ Maker and Minnie C. Hi lies. George VV. Oliver and Dora E. King. Walter Huletand Maud H. Cowan. George \V. Oliver and Dora E. King. Isaac F. Marker and Minnie C. Ilimes. Samuel M. Sperry and Alice Greenway.
New Suits.
George W. Warbritton vs. Eliza Warbntton. Divorce. Frank Lindley vs. Charles A. Eoseboom. On note.
Mattie Stonebraker vs. Elias S. Stonebraker. Complaint. George W. Moore vs. C. & S. E. R. R. Co. Appeal.
Laura 1?. Cory vs. Alpheus Cory and Manerva Cory. Change venue from Boone county.
In the matter of Lowell S. Daniels, John A. Dodd, petitioner. Petition to commit to reform school.
CIKCUIT COUKT.
Britton vs. Britton. Suit involving title of real estate. Trial by court to be a special finding of facts.
Charles C. Srnelcer et al. vs. Isaac Clements. Judgment on accounts secured by chattel laortgage in favor of Charles C. Smelcer, Thieme & Wagner Brewing Co., Vaughan & Casey and Charles O. McFarland. Property ordered sold. 15. F. Billing.-- et al vs. Phneby Vanarraer et al. Partition. Final report filed and approved and 8554.49 paid over to H. M. Perry, administrator.
Lavona E. Jackson vs. Jacob A Jackson. Divorce refused by court. E. L. Vancleave vs. commissioners of Fountain county. Plaintiff moves' for judgment on jury's special finding
THAT CROSS OF GOI.D. "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns: you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."—WII.I.IAM JKNXIMSS BKVAX.
Never before, in all the political contests in this country, has an aspirant for office made use of language which so shocked the religious sentiment of Christian people, of every sect ar creed, as the few words quoted above from the speech delivered by Mr. Bryan before the convention at Chi cago, and they turn with repugnai.ee from such an exhibition of bad taste, if not blasphemy, on the part of this tri'.ler, who, for orstorical effect, drag's into his harangues the most sacred words of Holy Writ. Well is he answered by Mr. Marion J. Verdery, a representative member of the Southern Colony in New York, in an interview recently published in the N. Y. "Timc-v' in which he says:—
No, indeed pne.ro«u with its pot--onous prongs shall pierce the suffering head of labor, but instead, that some head shall by this free, silver policy ie made to burn and sweat beneath the scorching sun of long days, aud receive as a reward a spurious coin whose face value belies its real value in the scale of the money changer. No, 'you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.' Neither was the victitil of Calvary's stupendous tragedy so crucified, but He was cruelly betrayed for thirty picccn nf silver, and the metal still smells of t.rcacherv."
We are still a Christian Nation rud cannot tolerate an afTrout to sacred things by even a Presidential Candidate!
KLAIi DAY.
The Republican State Central Committee has designated Saturday, October 2-1. as "Flag or Patriotic Day." One or'more meetings will be held in each county on that day, and the speeches and programme will be made patriotic in every feature. The American llag is to be glorified and the loyalty and patriotism of the American people demonstrated. The socialistic aud anarchistic declarations of tiie Chi cago platform area menace to Republican institutions, and one day devoted to patriotic exercises will prove an inspiration to the people and will tend to bring to their minds more vividly the danger of encouraging a policy so un-American as that which the Popocrats are proposing- to introduce in the event they are successful in -this election.
TIIK great question now is, will we longer bear the ills of the gold standard, or Uy to those we know not of'.'
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of facts. Samuel G. Irwin vs. James M. Martin and Sarah E. Martin. On account. Dismissed at plaintiff's cost.
Henry Warren vs. J. K. P- Thompson and George Bell. Foreclosure. Dismissed at plaintiff's cost.
Mary Medrick et al vs. Dora C. YVasson et al. Partition. S. R. Fisher, J. N. Fullenweider aud Harvey Wynekoop appointed commissioners to partition real estate.
Sedora Wasson vs. estate of H. H. Hedrick. Claim. Plaintiff allowed .$100.
Doch Waddle vs. Robert Davis and James Vaucleave. Appeal. Court finds for defendants.
Jacob Wingert vs. Oled Guntle et al. Complaint. Finding for plaintiff. J. R. Ross et al. vs. J. M. Swearingcn and flettie Swearingen. Complaint. Dismissed.
Iteal Kntnte Trauefem.
List of deeds recorded in Montgomery county, Ind., and ready for delivery. Furnished by T. T. Munliall, Recorder and abstractor: Unrbara Manners to & E
Manners. 8554 acres (Jlarp tp $ 3,400 Mary Col lilies to GeoD Kiddle, pt lots in city 2,000 Geo 1) Riddle to W & Gilkey. pt 2 lots in city 2,000 Elijah Mount to & Bronaugh, 4u acres Ulark tp 1,800
Hronauph to Elijah and Mount, lot in New Ross 500 Louise Miller to Chapter No 4l Ii A M. lot in city 400 N Klannigan toE Dawson, 20 acres
Onion tp 800 Alex Henderson to Florence Straub, 5 acres Wayne tp 165 John Stump to Hamilton, 69 acres Union tp 1,000
E Thompson to Honecker et ux, lot in Harllnjrton 125 Sarah Elliott to A S & RE Hurt, lot in
Ladogo 70 Florence McCormick et al to JM Gyley, 40 acres Union tp 1,600 Isaiah Vaucleave to Alex Bowers, 2% acres Brown tp 275
O Love 0 W"1 IJonbe, lot In Sliatinundaie 190 .1 ii Cowan to Mary A Moore et al, 40 acres Wayne tp 1,900 W Gott to John I. Powell, 3 lots In
New Ross 1,000 A Grltlin, adm'r, to Harvey, lot in city 1,000 Fred Hoover to Sarah Green, lot in city 250 Wm tlurrounhs to Dooley, 80 acres
Union tp 5,000 1! Dooley to Wm Burroughs. 1 acre Union tp and lot in city. 1,500
20 transfers, consideration.. ..$24,975
THE Review of Rcvicivu for October contains its admirable record of the Presidential campaign. In the July, August and September numbers the Republican, Democratic, and Populist conventions were reviewed, together with the careers of tne nominees. In the October number the movement of the "sound-money" Democrats, culminating in the Indianapolis convention, receives similar attention. No other publication in the country offers in a single number such a wealth of political portraiture, or so wide a range of cartoon illustrations. Every noteworthy phase of the canvass is fully and impartially presented. Material is gathered from every source and carefully digested.
Fouu years ago Candidate Bryan and all of his followers claimed that all this government lacked of absolute perfection was traceable, to our proteethe iwiff pol.fsy. Thus th»»y ir.a.de gilded promises for better times than the people were then enjoying although they were gliding along on the topmost wave of prosperity. "And be these jtijjjrling- liemls no more be iieved, Thai palter with us in a double sense: V, That keep the word of promUe to the ear, Aud break it to the hope."
TUB money of a country is the life blood of its commerce, and if thai is of the best and purest, the commerce I o' li.at jo t'ii.ry will bo n^althr, bur, if it is not of tlie, best and is impure, it will act like impure blood in our own bodies.
EVKN the trees are wearing golden badges.
Twico In tho supreme Court. 1,007. rower vs. Nellis. Montgomery C. Revetsed. Ross, J. 1, When the only pleadings tiled was the complaint aud the answer to the same, which on a former appeal was held to be a counter claim, and a reply to the counter claim, /held, that no issue was formed on the complaint, but only on the counter claim. V'Si' 2. The one having the burden upon the issue is entitled to the open and close.
Came Humbly to Time
It was whispered around town yesterday that those bicyclers wl,o so far forgot common decency and the rules regulating the holding of property inviolate from the marauding of others, had gone to the Cochran neighborhood and humbly asked forgiveness for what had been done. Beyond reasonable doubt these people will think twice before they again go seeking for buttermilk in other folk's caves.
Chief Clerk Carter, of State Hoard of Election "ommissioners, said Wi doesday morning that the printing of the ballots will begin to-nightat7 o'clock. The Republicans will be represented at the State Printer's office by Charles A. Bookwalter and the Democrats by Will King. Mr. Carter has selected 3S assistants, watchers, etc., to take care of the ballots. They Rre equally divided between the parties. The presses will be kept running day and night untill 1,500,000 ballots are printed, transported to the State House and tied in packages for each county Clerk. The men receive .s:i a day.
A Tribute to IreiUe Wttldnn.
When our hearts are sad, when the morning breeze in the branches of the trees sing only funeral dirges, when the morning sun comes only to increase the darkness about us we naturally seek solace somewhere. In giving public expression to my pent up sorrow, I have hoped in two directions, First, that I might induce some tear to mingle with mine—some heart to share the burden that mine might be lighter. Second, that I might say some word that would encourage some stricken heart—that some life might be brighter. Freddie Waldon was as dear to me as it was possible for the ties of nature to make one dear to another. Ue was dear to me not only because of the relationship but because of the endearment peculiar to his own nature. From his infancy he was as nearly a model of perfectuess as it was possible to find incarnate in human flesh. Never did he say a word, or do an act, that in any way disturbed the feelings of his parents or those with whom he mingled. He was light hearted and kind with a smile for everyone. His intellectual ability was far above the average. With the proper care and training, which he would doubtless have received, he might have stood, so to speak, among the tall cedars of Lebanon. But alas, death ends all, and yet not' all. The darkest cloud may have a silver lining to this dark picture there is a brighter side. Freddie was not indifferent to the heavenly message. God had said, "Seek first the kingdom of heaven and its righteousness." This he did at the early age of thirteen, when he gave his heart to Jesus and by faith inherited that righteousness which endures forever. In the midst of our sorrows we forget that God deals with us—with reference |to eteinity, not to time. God who sees the end from the beginning knows best. When we see things aright we will humble bow to the behest of the king of kings and kiss the rod that smote us, saying all the while, "Thy will be done, not mine."
Freddie dear, farewell. Your footsteps are heard no more, lint your feet immortalized
Now walk the golden shore.
Freddie dear, farewell, A few lleet hours to wait. Then look for grandma
At tlie pearly gate.
Doiii Good Iu Nebraska.
The speech of Hon. Charles L. .Jewett, renouncing the Democratic party, is not only in demand all over Indiana but is being called for even as far as Nebraska as the following letter explains:
LINCOLN. Xeb. Oct. 8, IS'.xi —Tin DAILY JOURNAL, Crawfordsviile, Ind Gentlemen:—Enclosed find twe.uty-tive cents in stamps for which please send me one-half dozen copies of your Oct. 3rd munbpr containing the address of tbu truly Honorable L. -Itwelt You people of ludiurra cannot feel, too proud of such a staunch and patriotic man as his speech shows him to be. Through the kindness of Mr. Jas. Heaton, formerly a resident of your city, I had tiie pleasure1of reading this speech in your JOURNAL and want these copies for the purpose of doing some of my friends good.
MILLIONS OF BALLOTS NICHOLSON LAW STANDS.
lUqulreil to Supply H10 Voter* of Indiana Supreme Court RefnuBii to Grant a KeTliuir Printing Under Way. I hearing.
Yours truiy, 15 Cr.AIIKSO.W Pub. Poultry News.
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Rockville licinililicitu: Wm. 11 Nye, long a familiar figure at Rockville, died after long illness, Sunday night, Oct. 11, aged 71 years, 7 months and 20 days. For several years he has been in declining health, having sustained a stroke of paralysis which for months has confined hnn to his house. He was born in Massachusetts Feb. 21, 1825 At the aire of 4 years he moved with his parents to New York at 11 he came to Ohio living at Llartsgrove, and iu it*54. he, came to Rockville, where he has since resided. In j«fi(S he married Margaret J. McEwen. Two sons Marshall and William, were born to them ami survive him. Mr. Nye's profession was that of a lawyer, but of late years he has engaged in railroad contractIM(T. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at the residence. Rev. J. I'. Roth officiating.
I*m(h of tloliii Morris.
Near New Ross Wednesday, John Morris, an aged and respected citizen, died after a lingering illness. Mr. Morris came to this county at an early day, he oeing at the time of his death SO years old. For some time he had resided at the home of his daughter, rs. William Skaggs, and here the end of his long life came. He was buried to-day.
Special to the Journal. INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 15.—TheSupreme Court has declined to graat a rehearing in the famous Nicholson law cases and the statute will stand unless repealed by another Legislature.
REPUBLICAN SPEAKING.
'I lie Campaign Irenes to lie PUcusRed By Kmimmt Speakers in Dttfcrfiit *r Parts of tho County.
Public meetings will be held in this county at which the political issues will be discussed from a Republican point of view at the following times and places:
HON. CIIAItl.KS 1! LANDIS,
Republican candidate for Congress, will speak as follows: Waynetown, Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 2 p. m.
Wingate, Wednesday, Oct. 2S, 7:30 p. m. Alamo, Thursday, Oct. 29, at 2 p. m.
Crawfordsviile, Thursday, Oct. 2!), at 7:30 p. in. HON. 1: AKT.MAN,
Republican candidate for Senator for the counties of Boone, Clinton aud Montgomery, will speak as follows:
New Ross, Friday, October 10, at 7 p. m. HON. ALlilCKT .1. IIHVEUIDGE Will speak at
Crawfordsviile, Saturday, October 17, at 7:30 o'clock p. m. HON. SlIKLHY M. CULL.OM,
United States Senator from Illinois, will speak at Crawfordsviile, Saturday, Oct. 17.
HON. SI. I). WHITK
Will speak at Hillsboro, Thursday. Oct. 22, at 7:30 p. m.
HON. J. KliANK HANLEY
Will speak at Ladoga, Friday, October 23, at 2 o'clock p. m.
A. 15. ANDERSON
Will speak at Linden, Friday, Oct. l»i, 7 p. m. Wingate, Thursday, Oct. 22, 7 p. m.
New Ross, Saturday, Oct. 2-1, 7 p. in. Ladoga, Friday, Oct. 30, 7 p. 11 Waveland, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2 p. m. .IOHN C. WING ATI') Will speak at the court house in Crawfordsviile on Monday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p. m.
A. W. .IOH.NSON
Will address the McKinley Club at Mace, Tuesday evening, Oct. 20. HON. HOHEKT (illAHASI,
Of Noblesville, will speak at Crawfordsviile, Friday,Oct. 23,at 7:30 P- m-
OKN. .1. O. n. PITKIN
Of New York, will speak at Crawfordsviile, Wednesday,Oct. 28. at 7:30 p. m.
W. T. WHITTINC.TON,
Will speak at: YTountsville, Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7 o'clock p. tn.
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Lebanon Patriot.: Eld. J. A. Johnston recently made a speech at Dover and assured his Democratic friends that down at Ladoga fourteen soldiers had espoused the cause of free silver One Robert L. Evans was present and knowing that the Elder was not in good standing with soldiers in this county, wondered how he knew so much about the veterans in the vicinity of Ladoga, and to see if there was not some mistake iu regard to the matter, he wrote to his old friend, A. M. Scott, for further information 011 the subject, and Mr. Scott answer is given in full beiou
LADOGA. Ind. Sept. 15, LHUO —Robert L. Evans, Esq., I'liornuown, Ind.— Dear Sir:—Your favor of the 14th iust. received and contents noted. Replying will say, I have lived here the past thirty years aud I think I know every old soldier here and if there is one who has heretofore been voting the Republican ticket and who is now going to vote for liryau, I do not know where to find him, and I don't think the Reverend Johnstou could discover him with a search light. If he will come to Ladoga and find fourteen old liepublican soldiers who are going t.o vote for Bryan, I will pay lriin a reward of four dollars each for them and he can make more money that way than he can preaching or making free silver speeches. You cau mark it down in your hat that the old Republican soldiers of Ladoga are all right, for McKinley and Mount, and 1 could give you the names of several Democratic old soldiers here who will vote for McKinley also. Mr. Johnston's little fairy tale about Ladoga is only another one of the little, but vtrv transparent jokes the Popocrats are trying to paltn olf on the pec^ e. whom they imagine they can f-,ol Bud Johnson, if he. is making that kind of breaks, had better do like tlKshoe maker of old. "Stick to his la-t."
Respectfully you rs, A. M. SCOTT.
Wow] lu Ho lint to Lowest ISidtlfr. According to the new order of things wood for public schools will be furnished by the lowest responsible bidder. All persons who desire to furnish wood for the Dext school year can have a chance by calling on the township Trustee and secure a blank for that purpose. Bids will be received until January 1, 1S!)7, after which the school director will look over the bids and make a report to the Trustees. Persons who receive the contract can cut the wood this winter and deliver it during next August. The school officers will reserve the right to reject any or all bids.
WAGES VERSUS SIXTEEN TO ONE.
The Silver Standard an Imposition Upoo Wage Earners. No. 4 of "Present Problems," published at 1 cent each at 57 Park placo, New York city, is unquestionably the best pamphlet on tho wage question for general distribution during the present ctiuipaign. It is unanswerable. No intelligent workingman cau read it and continue to believe that free coinago will raise his wages. Ho will bo sure that if free coinage gives us cheap money, as the farmers expect, it will certainly reduce his actual wages. A wage earner may vote for Bryan after reading this pamphlet, but it will bo for other reasons than any expected benefit to wages.
Mr. Warner studies the effect of cheap money experiments in Japan, China, India, Chile, British Honduras, Mexico ai:d in this country, and in every case he finds unmistakablo evidenco that cheap silver and paper moneys have lowered wages. Wherever money has been depreciating in value prices have been rising, while wages liavo changed not at all or have risen less rapidly than priccs. As a result the wage earner is constantly losing ground, though I10 may not know wliy he has to work harder to keep himself and family. Consequently tho manufacturers and other employers of labor in silver standard countries are benefited by a depreciating currency. They find in silver money the slickest possiblo scheme of reducing wages without the consent or knowledge of their employees.
In Mexico, where tho workingmen aro such chumps that they do not know when tho value of their dollars is declining, the big employers can keep the country 011 the silver standard, but even in such backward countries as Chile and British Honduras tho wage earners could not be imposed upon forever by silver and other cheap money. No class of citizens rejoiced moro than the wage earners when these countries, a shovt time ago, stopped "monkeying" with silver and adopted tho standard of tho civilized world—gold.
Mr. Warner quotes numerous admissions from silverite authorities as to the cffect of cheap money 011 wages. He concludes that "if our wage earners believe they are getting too high wages, and that this country is suffering in consequence, all they have to do is to take lower wages. If they prefer a roundabout way, they can favor fre. coinage of silver, and they will get their wages cut down half without any further trouhlo 011 their part. There has never yet been mado a law to put into any laboring man's pocket a single dollar that he did not earn. He, of all men, therefore, has tho best right to insist that tliero shall bo 110 lavpassed that will raise the prico of what ho has to buy, and thus take from liim any portion of what ho has earned."
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If the parity of the two metals cannot be maintained, a silver basis would be inevitable.
Legislation cannot make a fixed standard of value between two metals where their production is not also fixed by legislation.
Gold coin is the measure of value adopted by the leading nations of tho world 111 hich all obligations aro finally redeemable.
In order maintain the ratio .of 1(5 to 1, 11! ounces of silver must be equal to 1 ounce gold in value.
Whenever a silver dollar cannot bo made exebaugahlo with a gold dollar, depreciation and repudiation will begin.
More silv lias been forced into tho currency by fit'tyfold .since 1873 than there was fc.r !S0 years prior to that date.4
The commercial ratio of actual value nt which gold and silver can lie exchanged is at present iil ounces of silver to 1 of gold.
Hound money and sound morals are synonymous terms. To pay a dollar's debt with a dollar worth !M) cents is repudiation to the extent of 1 cent.
Mexican dollars liavo a larger amount, of silver than dollars of the United States, yet an American silver dollar, backed by a gold standard, can buy two Mexican dollars.
If it were possible for the United States to maintain tho parity of silver with gold for ten years, tho increased profits of the silver mine owners would amount to more than theontiro national debt.
Contracts are often made payable in gold. Why are 110110 made payablo in silver? Simply because neither partyprefers silver. There is no law against such contracts, but silver is generally considered an unstable measure of values and therefore unfitted for this purpose.
Cheap Money Means Dour Goods. Cheap money means dear goods. Try as they may, tho silveritcs cannot dodge this simple fact. The free coinage agitation would quickly die out if the advocates of tho silver standard wero honest enough to admit that their scheme would double the cost of everything the. •55,000,000 American consumers buy. Yet this is merely another form of tho silverife assertion that free coinago would raise prices twice as high as they are now.