Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 January 1897 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 18g?.

THK sooner we produce all our own sugar the better it will be for American farms and factories.

THK latest advices from the Argen tine Republic say that the surplus wheat crop of that country will be only thirteen million bushels. If ever the Argentine was a dangerous rival of the United States it is not so this year. With crop failure in nearly all the wheat raising countries of the world there promises to be a further advance in the price, all of which goes to show that the Bryan theory of wheat and silver is an absurdity on its face.

During the period of the uiviuicy tariff for protection our imports of foreign hay averaged 79,520 tons, •worth, 8690,465, a year. Under the

Gorman-Wilson bill the imports of hay averaged 242,891 tons, worth 82,028,453, a year. During 1896 the farmers of Canada have supplied the American hay markets to the extent of §2,075,017 more than the annual average of their sales under McKinley protection, their total capture of our market having been wortn S2,772,(182 to them in a single year.

ONE would think that in some of the States people would tire of "boss" rule, but in New York and Pennsylvania they seem to enjoy wearing the colors of such men as Piatt and Quay. Of course there are men in each of these States who chafe under the burdens they bear, but they are in the minority and are helpless. By and by there will be an uprising of the people and the ''bosses" will be hurled from power. The people generally admire leaders but they have a loathing for "bosses."

In California the gold production last year amounted to $13,863,281, the largest of any State in the Union. The wheat crop of the year amounted to 28,682,200 bushels, the orange yield was 2,500,000 boxes, the raisin crop 84,000,000 pounds, the prune crop 51,000,000 pounds. California has now 76.000 acres planted to oranges and 70,000 acres to prunes. It is the largest producer in the Union of gold, wine, honey, beet sugar, raisins, figs, olives, oranges, lemons, almonds and walnuts.

Crowds of Republican politicians are gathering at Indianapolis preliminary to the organization of the Legislature which takes place on Thursday of this week. The storm center of course is at the Denison where all the Senatorial aspirants have opened headquarters. The caucus to decide the Senatorship it is believed will be held on next Tuesday or Wednesday evening. TlieJWarricks who imagine they make Governors and Senators and Presidents are all on the ground, working like beavers, on the theory that members of the General Assembly are not unlike the floaters in a .popular election.

Ai.l the township trustees of the State are not rascals by a long way. It is related that one somewhere in the State recently was approached by the oily agent of a «map publisher, who wanted to put in a set of new fangled and high pi iced maps. Failing to impress the trustee by ordinary methods the agent then proposed that the trustee buy them, give his check for the full amount, and he (the agent) would rebate one-half. .The trustee said: "See here, my friend! There is now about 86,000 to the credit of the school fund. It is in amy possession, absolutely. No one else can cheek out a dollar of it, and if I want to steal all or any part of it I will not take in a partner. Good day."

DURING last year 43,000,000 pounds of Egyptian cotton were imported into the United States, and now the planters are demanding a tariff on the foreign product. They have learned that other soils-land climates are as well adapted to cotton-growing as those of the Southern States, and that the labor of Africa and-Asia is so much cheaper than that ofJAmeriea asito enable foreign growers to ship across 14,000 miles of ocean and undersell the American producer in gthe American market. The probabilities are that cotton will be placed on the dutiable list in the new tariff bill, in response to the demand of«thei men who have been the backbonelof the!} free trade sentiment in the United States

THK only important battles fought during the war in January, in which Indiana troops participated, were the battles of Mill Springs, Ky., Jan. 19, 1862, and Stone's River, Tenn., .Ian, 1 and 2, 1863. Mill Springs was recognized as the first real victory of the Union arms up to that date, and was considered of 6uch significance as to call forth a congratulatory

order from

the President. This victory gave Gen. George H. Thomas his first prominence. After several hours of desperate fighting the rebel troops were completely routed and driven from the field, leaving their Hags behind them. During the night they retreated, abandoning aii extensive supply of stores, all of their seriously wounled, one thousand head of mules, nearly two hundred wagons, two batteries of artillery, a large amount of ammunition and a number of small arms. Union killed, 39 wounded, 207, among whom was Colonel McCook. The Conferic*ates lost 192 killed, including General Zollicoffer, who was shot by Gen. Speed Fry, and over 200 wounded, missing and prisoners. The Tenth Indiana, Col. Iu. D. Manson, was the only Indiana regiment in the battle, except a squadron of Indiana 'cavalry. The battle of Stone's River opened Dec. 31, 1802. In this engagemont Indiana had about forty organizations in all arms of the service. It was one of the hardest fought battles of the war, although less has been written about it than many others of less magnitude and importance. Rosecrans lost.an aggregate of 13,249, while Bragg lost 10,200. Bragg's loss was the greater in killed and wounded, while Rosecrans' loss was greater in missing or captured. Bragg evacuated Murfreesboro, but Rosecrans' army was so disabled that it could not make an effective pursuit.

SIMEON J. THOMPSON, State Statistician, has issued a statement concerning the increased vote in Indiana, of which much has been said throughout the country. This increased vote is supposed to be the basis of the resolution introduced in the Senate by Senator Allen for an investigation of alleged election frauds. The vote of the last November election was an increase of 74,437 over the vote of 1894. The census of 1890 gave the State 595,066 males of a voting age, and the recent vote shows an increase of 42,053. The State Statistician recalls that the enumeration of the voters, which the law requires the township trustees to make every six years, gave the State in 1895, 627,072, and increase for the five years of 32,009, or an average annual increase of 6,401. This enumeration by the trustees was made made one year and a half before the last election, so, adding the average increase to be expected for this time to that which the enumeration gives, there should be 41,607 increase since 1890, which is but 447 less than the election indicates. The Democratic newspapers have not taken up the matter of Senator Allen's resolution, because they understood very well, as doss everybody eise, that under the ballot law of this State snch a thing as padding the vote is impossible.

"No ONK," says Walter Wellman, in the Chicago Times-Herald, "who was the thick of the fight in Colorado last summer will ever be able to understand how bitter it all was. Now much of the intensity of feeling has passed, but then it was at white heat. At times it was brutal fighting, too. The silver committee called one day upon a merchant in a Colorado city. He had been suspected of friendliness to McKinley. "We are raising a fund for Bryan," said the leader of the delegation, "and we had thought you might want to subscribe something."

The merchant took the subscription book and found that other merchants in his class were putting down S50 "Yes, I will subscribe," said the, merchant. "I will give you $50. "No you don't, retorted the silver leader. "You are under suspicion as being a d—d gold bug and you will put up S150 or stand the consequences." "Certainly, certainly," said the merchant, who had good temper and a large bump of caution. "Did I say S50? I meant 8150. A hundred and fifty it is.']

CALVIN F. DARNELI., of Indianapolis, has invented a polling booth which he thinks will take the place of the present bunglesome blanket ballot and also answer the purpose of a voting machine. His invention, as described by the Indianapolis Ncivs, consists of a polling booth, within which is placed an election oflicer with tickets. The voter, standing on the outside, but concealed by curtains, presses a button and the ticket comes out to him. This is not a blanket ballot, but a single ticket—Democratic, Republican, Prohibition, or whatever he may desire. There will also be in the booth, near to the voter's hand, pasters, if he desires to vote a mixed ticket, and also rubber stamp, should that part of the voting apparatus be necessary. Having selected his ticket the voter comes out of the booth, presents it folded up to the election oflicer, and it is deposited in the ballot box. Meanwhile, neither the voter nor the man who has

given him the ticket have seen each other, and the secrecy of the ballot is fully maintained. The polling booth, when not in use, folds up into small compass. Lit claims that the simplic ity of his method will certainly commend itself to every voter, and to every man who has ever sat upon an election board: that there will be ifewer mistakes made by the voter, and fewer ballots will be thrown out by the election oilicers.

STATU Labor Commissioners throughout the country have been requested by United States Labor Commissioner Carroll I). Wright to prepare schedules showing the number of gas works, electric light plants aud water woiks in operation in their respective States, designating tho.se under municipal control aDd those managed by corporations, together with the prices of the product of such plants, in different locations. Commissioner Wright is anxious to show how far municipal ownership has gone in the control of gas, electric and water plants throughout the country as well as the prices charged for the product.

John Shkhman is opposed to a tariff commission. He believes a revision of the tariff on Republican lines will in time restore the prosperity that the conntry lost during thepastfouryears. "What we need-to do," he said to-day "is to revive our drooping industries and raise more revenue. One will logically follow the other. In due time and with continued Republican rule we shall gradually return to that prosperity which the country once enjoyed, and which was ruthlessly sacrificed for an incongruous sentiment founded on promises which have not been fulfilled, and which, in the nature of things ought not to have been expected."

K-i, UPPER CALIFORNIA. Charley Harshbarger and family are visiting in Illinois.

Miss Mary Fuller is visiting her uncle, George Fuller. School begins at Kentwood again Monday after a week's vacation.

Miss Gertie Miller visited at George Fuller's a few days of last week. Miss Irene Ritter visited her cousin, Miss Gertie Miller, ,last Wednesday.

Mrs. Lizzie Grubbs and family spent New Year's day with Wm. Taylor and family.

Miss Irene Ritter, of Waveland, spent the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Nannie Mooae.

Miss Gertie Miller treated her Sunday school class with candy and bananas last Sunday.

Irwin Miller and wife made a'Ohristmas dinner for their children. Twentyeight partook of the good things that had been prepared for them.

Fred Utterback will lead the prayer meeting next Wednesday night. Let the young people, especially, come out.

Hiatt Jackson and family spent Saturday night with Mrs. .lackson's parents, near Romney.

Saturday and Sunday at 11 o'clock and Sunday evening at 7 o'eloek is the regular meeting at Liberty. Everybody invited.

Sunday school at Liberty every Sunday at 3 o'clock p. m., except on the second Sunday in each month, when it is held at 10 a. m.

On New Year's eve a crowd of young folks gathered at the home of Thomas Quillen and reminded him of his 32d birthday. The supper consisted of oysters, peaches, cake and candy. Those present were: Misses Mary Fuller, Nila Hauk, Mattie Hauk, Maudie Grubbs, Milla Long, Gertie Miller, Mattie Groves, Ella Walker, Bertha Miller, Lena Biddle, Vinnie Dazey, Maud Shepherd, Ora Petro, Blonde Alexander, Gertrude Harlow, Minnie Cadwallader and Stella Hirst, and Messrs. Will Utterback, Fred Utterback, John Utterback, Bert and Roscoe Fuller, Charley and Otto Quillen, Jim and Charley Foley, Ora Rafferty, Mills Bratton, Charley and Chauncey Ditamore, Harve Sweeney, George and Nate Graves, Cap Utterback, Mark Bowers, Jesse and Walter Moore, Will Stanfield, Walter Johnson and Claud Fuller.

JAMESTOWN.

C. M. Young, of Danville, 111., was here Tuesday. J. P. Lowry was in Jamestown on business Saturday.

Miss Lillian Richardson, of Indianapolis, is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Chas. Camplin visited home folks here during the holidays.

There was a watch meeting at the K. of P. hall on New Year's eve. Miss Lou Cook, of Farmer City, Til., is visiting at the Phoenix Hotel.

Mrs. Mattie Sheridan, of Indianapolis, visited E. E. Camplin New Year's day.

E. E. Gassett and Miss Long were married at Danville, Ind., Dec. 30th, 1890.

E. L. Davis, of DePauw University, spent the holidaos with Edgar P. Hendricks.

Miss Willa Hubbell, teacher in the Lebanon schools, was here during the vacation.

Misses Scott and Kate and Messrs. C. D. and Al Orear attended a reception given at the home of Miss Dina Emmons, at North Salem, on New Year's night.

The following theatre party went to Indianapolis Saturday evening and returned on the midnight train: Misses ora and Ethel Jacks, Belle Conn and Allie Best, and Messrs. C. C. Covey Prof. Geary, Howard Roberts and William Semmerville.

Why Attempt to

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catarrh by the use of so-called blood remedies? That catarrh is not caused by blood troubles is self-evident, when you reflect that attacks are always due to sudden climatic changes or exposure, and occur most frequently during the winter and spring, though the blood is as pure then as in

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SENATORIAL UOSSIP.

RUSSELL SEEDS REVIEWS THE INCIDENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN

Early Settlement of tlic Problem Ex«

pectcMl In

.Legislative Caucus—Claim*

of Strength by the Various Candidates. House mid .Senate

Orpmi/ution

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Arranged Tonight—Township Trustues and Their Woes.

6pecial Correspondence., INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 6—It is not un­

likely that before another of theso letters goes into print the senatorial question, which has boon the hone of contention in the Republican party for a little over two years, will liave been definitely settled by the caucus. As I noted last week, there has been on foot a strong movement to hold the caucus tomorrow night instead of letting the contest go on until a week from next Monday, the night before the election, which has beer, the usual time- for holding the caucus. The friends of General Lew Wallace have expressed a strong preferenco that the caucus bo held at the usual tiiue. General Wallace came into the contest very late and his friends naturally desire more time to become acquainted witli the members and to properly present his claim, but if the members are already pledged to various candidates, as is claimed, it is not unlikely that the argument- that the sooner it is settled the better may prevail. Each house will hold a separate caucus this evening to determine upon its own organization, and at these caucuses a joint conference committee will be appointed which will set the time for holding the joint caucus. The managers of both Messrs. Fairbanks and McKecn have publicly declared that they will let the matter take care of itself and not eudeavor to influence it, "but," added one of these gentlemen, "the thing is so thoroughly set tied now that I don't believe any of the members care about postponing action." "A i»

The friends of Mr. Fairbanks claim with a great deal of confidence that he has sufficient votes in the caucus to nominate. It requires 43 votes, and they claim that they have over 50 sure and will probably havo 00. The friends of Mr. McKeen, on the other hand, claim that they have

iSS

votes for their

candidate, with enough votes for other candidates to necessitate several ballots. The friends of General Wallace are not stating the number of votes they expect, but base their hope of success upon the fame and standing of their candidate. When Hiram Crow nice withdrew from the contest last week the friends of Mr. Fairbanks felt aud declared that this made it certain that their favorite would be nominated on the first ballot. The entrance of Mr. Crownlee into the race had taken from the Fairbanks column live or six votes, and the return of these votes they believed settled the matter. Neither the supporters of McKeen nor those of Wallace. however, have slackened their efforts in the least. While Judge Taylor of Fore Wayne has not made an active canvass, ho has been in earnest about it and his friends have pressed his claims in a dignified way. "A

The history of the senatorial contest has been interesting in the extreme and there have been very few events in the Republican history of Indiana during the last two years in which it has not entered in a greater or less degree. Mr. Fairbanks first developed senatorial aspirations in 1S91, when he was spoken of for the complimentary vote of the Republican minority. However, Governor Hovey went after this same honor and secured it. In the organization of the party in January, 1S!2, Mr. Fairbanks took a hand, but a very slight one. He was very influential in the legislative nominations of that year aud wa.s given the complimentary vote when Turpie was elected in 189:$, with no opposition. The nucleus of the large personal following he has acquired in the state lay iu the active young Republicans who were iu that legislature. After the adjournment of the body these members held a little caucus and determined to capture the party organization the following winter, a matter that seemed comparatively easy, inasmuch as tho party had been defeated iu 1892. It was thought that Mr. dowdy, who was chairman of the committee, would resign, aud he had expressed some intention in that directiou, but before the time came around for the January reorganization he made terms with the supporters of Fairbanks audjwas re-elected. The legislature elected that year was a Fairbanks body and had there been any senator to elect he would unquestionably havo been elected. Shortly after the election of 1894 the friends of W. R. McKeen launched him as a senatorial candidate, and then began a straggle that has lasted over two years. It appeared first in the reorganization of the party in January of 189(5. The opposition to Gowdy for re-election did not start on senatorial lines, but it was not long until the followers of McKeen were lined up on the Nebcker side, and most but not all of the Fairbanks following was for Gowdy. When Gowdy won it was accounted a victory for FWrbanks. This question bobbed up in the contest in the committee over the apportionment litigation it came to the front again in the state convention, when a fortuitous set of circumstances gave McKeen's followers an opportunity to very nearly defeat Fairbanks for dele-gate-at-largc, aud it bobbed up again at St. Louis when Colonel Thompson and Senator Early entered a protest against the selection of Fairbanks ar temporary chairman. But it wa.- wage with most activity, of course, in the contests throughout the state for legislative nominations. Whether this lining up of factions succeeded in defeating any of the Republican nominees is a question, but it certainly caused a num

Der or tnem to run behind their ticket. There was one phase of it, however, that doubtless helped to defeat at least four or five Republican candidates for tho legislature and a few candidates for county office.

After being thus waged with great activity for a couple of years, the contest seemed to lose all its fierceness after the election, subsiding into a very tame aud friendly struggle. The narrow escape the party had from losing the house seomed to have frightened the followers of both candidates into an idea that nothing was to be gained by making an intense fight. Then the entrance of threo or four other caudidates into tho list also served to modify the situation, for where there is a possibility of no nomination on the first, ballot men have to bo friendly with their opponents if they expect to gain anvthing on the second.

Only yesterday a cruel bit of history was sprung upon Judge layior by some of his opponents in the race, or rather by some of their followers. It was recalled that when Morion was a candidate for the senate, in 1872, Judge Taylor was a member of the state senate and bolted the caucus, declining to vote for Morton. This is a good while ago, of course, but tho storv was told with great particularity, and while it is probably not taking from Taylor any votes that he had, it is possibly having some effect in keeping from him others. 5# is a

There was a little cessation of the crowd and bustle- about the Denison House lobby from New Year's day uutil Monday, but Monday morning the crowd arrived in force and there has been an enormous amount of greeting, handshaking, whispering and pulling and hawling of various sorts during tho past threo days. There seems little doubt that at tonight's caucus of the house H. G. Pettit of Wabash will be nominated for speaker, but the question of who will be made clerk, assistant clerk and doorkeeper is not so easy to predict. A number of aspirants for each of these places havo sprung up and the struggle has been good natured but lively. With tho smaller body (the senate) it is a bit easier to guess on the results, and at this writing it looks as though the slate would be as follows:

Secretary—Charles li. Lane of Marion county, or Harry Strohm of Kentland.

Assistant Secretary—W._ S. Enues of Gibson county. Doorkeeper—G. W. Fawcett of Orange county.

There have been, of course, a large number of very worthy Republicans asking for minor places as deputy clerks, journal clerks, assistant doorkeepers, etc. There seem to be about 10 applicants for every position and it. is not unlikely that the precedent set two years ago of dividing time may be followed in somo instances. This desire to hold small offices is one of the most inexplicable things in life. Here are dozens of good men who are willing to let go of good steady positions to come here and hold down a little job in the legislature for a couple of months, with the almost certain prospect that after it is over they will be out of employment for months to come. °A it J*

The township trustees' association will hold its annual meeting next week, and then we may expect some tales of woe about the law requiring them to publish detailed statements of their expenditures. Tho recent developments as to methods of conducting township business have not been of such a nature as to convince the people and the legislature that less publicity about these things is necessary. The publication of the statements has uncovered a large number of cases of fraudulent purchases and liiis given the taxpayers of more than one township a clew as to how they were being robbed by rascally agents and weak trustees. A much more serious question than this, however, now confronts the trustees. Then is a good deal of a demand that the legislature take up the subject and make a thorough reform in the methods of transacting township business. The president of the United States is no such autocrat in his office as is tho township trustee of Indiana in his. He expends the funds of the township aud is accountable to nobody but the general public which elected him, and the general public does not as a usual thing audit his accounts. Nobody has yet suggested a plan of reform, but there is a demand that the trustee be brought under the control of the county commissioners or some higher an thority, whose business it would be to in a measure limit his expenditures aud havo a general supervision of his work. Under the present conditions the office gives the widest latitude to irresponsible or corrupt men who may succeed in capturing it. Of course, tho groat majority of the trustees are men who wa. to do what is right, but bitUr experience has shown that too large a percentage of them are men who are anxious to line their own pockets at tho expense of the taxpayers.

"The push" will be here in all its glory next Friday, when the mass convention, called upon the resolution of "Cadi" Buskirk, will be held in the Grand operahouso. The leaders displayed unexpected good sense in selecting the smallest operahouse the city, instead of Tomlinson hall, for the gathering, because if it happens to turn cold they can gather in off the street enough people who want to get warm to make a fair showing in the cozy little playhouse, but if they had taken it to Tomlinson hall the crowd would have looked lost. Au effort was made to get Bryan to address tho convention, but his prices area bit steep these days and they failed to connect. They went after Joe Blackburn of Kentucky, but he was also too busy and they will content themselves with speeches from Shively, Shankliu and Green Smith. ,Matthews will presido. Only such Democrats as supported Bryan in tho late unpleasantness are invited to participate, aud we shall doubtless hear a heup of blathering about "the money power," the awful schemes of "Wall street" and other things too numerous to mention.

Russell M. Seeds.

WOMAN'S STRUGGLE.

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Many in the stores and shops, and tens of thousands are on the never-ceas« ing treadmill earning their daily food.

All are subject to the same physical laws all suffer alike from the same physical disturbances there is

serious derangement in the womb. Lydia E. Pinkham's "Vegetable Compound" is th« unfailing cure for this trouble. It strengthens the proper muscles, and displacement with all its horrors will no more crush you.

Backache, dizziness, fainting, "bear-ing-down," disordered stomach, moodiness, dislike of friends and society—all symptoms of the one cause—will ba quickly dispelled, and you will again be free.

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