Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 August 1900 — Page 2

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WEEKLY JOURNAL

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Successor to The JlecortJ. tlie first paper in Crawfordsvillo, established in

18:il,

and

111e People'* Prctig, established in 1844.

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FRIDAY, AUGUST :tl, 1900.

HALK. the first man who lias ridden a hundred miles on a bicycle for so long a period as a year, has not only accom-! Den by, a lifo long Democrat plished what he meant, to do, but inci- denounces Bryan. dentally proved the truth of the assertion of the Sabbatarians that man must rest one day in seven. Mr. Hale did not ride on Sundays others who have attempted the riding of a daily century have ridden on Sundays and all have failed. One man who rode one huna a a dred miles for sixty-live successive'days,

died from the strain, another began on New Year's day and continued until midsummer and then was obliged to go into a hospital. Without considering the religious reasons against Sabbath work, it is evident that physical considerations

that mankind must

have one day's rest in every seven, and the fourth commandment must.be kept even by those who regard the giving of, the law as a myth.

HLUJVLIAMT DIPLOMACY. President McKinley may well be gratified with the Chinese situation, as it now stands, not only because Minister Conger, the other Americans and the foreigners in Pekin are safely in the hands of their friends, but because the results, as far as they have gone, are a

have held successful fairs each year since thai. time. No stockholder has ever had a dividend or any profit from the amount invested, neither have they expected any. The only desire of the stockholders is to be able always to make enough money to pay expenses and keep the. buildings in repair.

The association is making a very strong effort to make enough money to build a new amphitheater and new stalls, and the -litizens of our county should use every effort to assist them along this line by attending the fair as many days as possible. The fair has been algreat benefit in all kinds oi stock raising. It has brought about the result that we have better horses, better cattle and better sheep and hogs than any county in the state. hverv citizen should get behind the fair and push it along.

SENATOK THURSTON said: "1 am asm, and reminded one of a political filled with admiration, as every|Ameri- parade. To offset this, some one sang can must be, with the attitude of the out. 'Hurrah for Bryan.' He was abadministration in the handling of this solutely alone in his eff ort, however, Chinese question. It has been splendid. I and not a$persontopened his mouth. It "We have literally set the pace for the was a very suggestive incident and powers. The President's foreign policy many comments were made by the has been admirable. True to our origi- crowd upon the significance of it." lial purpose, we have pushed on to Pekin and rescued our minister and, "I drove nearly sixty miles through have been perfectly fair to the Chinese Montgomery and Tippecanoe counties without a thought of entering into a I Tuesday" .said Harry Naylor, "and I -war of conquest or of revenge." Of never saw the country look so prosperour probable future policy in China, ous and so well in every way. The Senator Thurston said: "I think this corn crop is something wonderful and government should co-operate as fully the ears are the largest I evew

possible with the powers in restor- We live in God's country right, here.'' ing order in the Chinese empire and in ^preventing its dismemberment. I am opposed to the dismemberment of the empire, though it is perhaps [a little premature to consider such a proposition at this time, I do not Know that such a thing is contemplated. But the restoration of law and order will he the first step. My heart goes out to Gen.

Chaffee and his splendid little force of American soldiers. They are true heroes,»as are those who so nobly and bravely stood off the attacks of the murderous Chinese on the legations. The pulse of every true American ought to beat the faster at the thought of American pluck and bravery so admirably exhibited. It is typical of the sturdy strength of American manhood.''

U'ltr. the Xctcs-'Rerkir kindly give its view of the

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complete vindication of his policy to-1 smiled^'and said: "Sam, you're a good ward the government of China a fellow and I'd like to vote for you. but policy which differs radically from that' you're not on my ticket." A few days

pursued by the European governments. How complete unprejudiced persons regard that vindication may be judged by the following editorial utterance of the independent Washington Post: "Our diplomatic efforts to avert an appalling tragedy unparalleled in the world's history»have been conducted with tactful skill, patient forbearance, and lofty methods that have challenged the admiration of Christendom. Dealing directly and frankly with the Chinese authorities, through Minister Wu and our consuls in the Orient, keeping cool and clear heads under most trying circumstances: unmoved by the outcries of the hysterical press. President.

McKinley and Secretary Hay have made a record in this unhappy affair of which the nation may well be proud. The wisdom of each succeeding step taken by the state department has been speedily established. All Europe has had its first news from Washington, from time to time, of developments in the important diplomatic negotiations preliminary to the rescue."

OUR COUNTY FAIR.

The county fair should receive the support of all citizens in the county. Everyone who has anything to display should take it to the fair and assist in making it a great event. We have the best fair in the state of Indiana, and the finest fair grounds and it should be the pride of everybody. Our citizens do not fully appreciate what the fair is

to our county, tew people realize that i, .u ij-

we hold the worlds record for trotting

The fair association was organized in 1880 with the expenditure of a large amount of money in improving the grounds, track and buildings. They

Hon. Charles

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who now

SHORT STORIES.

Picked Up About the Streets and Covering a Wide Range of Subjects.

Chicago Tuesday: "I witnessed

Chicago Tuesday: "I witnessed a

striking incident yesterday in the big gtewart

parade -in Chicago by the veterans of

the G. A. R. I was standing in

front of the Auditorium watching the

when one of the state

was

A well known Republican of Wayne township tells a good story at the expense of B. T. Merrill. Some years ago the]»Republican was nominated for the office of'constable, and although having no hope of election in Wayne township nevertheless desired to make a goodly showing. Mr. Merrill had long been his-warm personal friend, so

he solicited his vote. Mr. Merrill

ticket."

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and will not vote at all."

races, a fact which has caused Crawv. 11 profanity and I do not believe that anv fordsville to be spoken of all over the woman ever wrote it unless at the dic-

"Miss Mattie Allnutt, who is accused

of attempting to blackmail David I Harshbarger," is a much abused woman" said attorney M. M. Bachelder last Tuesday. "The only evidence S against her is an alleged similarity between her writing and that of the blackmailing letter. As for myself I can't see that similarity. Miss Allnutt has always stood at the top in the community and is a woman worth over $3a,000 in her own name. She has no need of money and her past life is a refutation of this base charge against her. She is a church member and moves in the very best society. She is about the best dresser in the commun-

ity and is in ever? way a shining light,

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v. Ihe blackmailing letter Is full of foul

tation of a man. Miss Allnutt will be acquitted."

NICE clean old papers at THE

NAL office.

macje M(.

passing one of the

marchers took oil his hat and looking up at one of the hotel windows yelled, 'Hurrah for McKinley.' The cry was taken up by the crowd and the men in line and given with immense enthusi-

A party of gentlemen were

wlli|e sueh a froe

makeg same aQ]rijssion

Balking

about queer things the other evening, and in the party was Mace Townsley. "Talking about short stories," said Mace, ".you'ean seea white horse about any time that you look out in the street,

mjstake on the nioney question

This

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Sam J. Tilden's close friend Warren Swit/Jer, Omaha, Neb., gold Dem. leader.. ... I W. M. Stewart, Nevada, U. S. senator I L. C. Nead, Fresno. Cal., exmember legislature

saw.

but how many of you ever saw a white Edward Abend, Wheeling, W. colt? I never remember of seeing one Bryan elector in 1896.. and I have been on the lookout now for P- J- Grundlaeh, Belleville, 111.. Democratrc leader

several weeks. I don't understand where the white horses come from if there are no white colts." Not a man I in the crowd ever remembered of see-1 ing a white colt, either, and the next one that comes to town will be given an ovation. I '••••Y '.'-'•

Mexican war veteran S Geo. Hoadly, New Y'ork, N.Y., ex-governor of Ohio Lloyd Jackson, Baltimore,

Md., Bryan's manager, 189(1 Marion Butler. North Carolina. U. S. senator S J. E. Boyd, Nebraska, ex-gov-ernor S A. M. Stevenson.Denver, Col., chairman free silver com...

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ago Mr. Merrill met the Republican, 'populist, state senator S and evidently forgetful of the inci-

,lBas.

you're a good fellow and I'd like to vote for you, but you're not on my ticket." Mr. Merrill saw the point and sadly smiled.

returned from a visit in Virginia the other day." said Jacob Harsh bar-! get1, "and I found that the business men of that state are against Bryan. They are satisfied with McKinley prosperity and hope that the Republican party will win. Many of them are so

wedded to the past, however, that they chairman Pop. state com... will merolv stav away from the polls '^". Belleville, 111., judge circuit court

tay away

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opulist leader

THE CRAWFORDSVILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL.

SPEAKING OF CONVERTS.

Here Ate a Few Men Who Renounce Bryan For Patriotic Reasons.

-..The Chicago Tribune has compiled a list of names of some of the prominent men in various slates who voted for Bryan in 189(i, hut cannot find it in their hearts to repeat the act this time. With the names are given the reasons for their action.

Jones, Hutchinson, Kas.,

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dent referred to. asked his support Democratic alderman S in his race for treasurer. To his request] James Donivan. Lakin, Kas., I he received the following reply:

chairman Democratic com.. E. Wvman, Shelton, Neb., Populist member legislature James Lofty, Council Groves,

Kas., probate judge S W. E. Kibbe. Council Groves, Kas.. Populist leader J. M. Beck, Philadelphia, Pa., ex-U. S. district attorney., Lyman Henry, Ouray, Colo., chairman Populist com W. A. Peffer. Kansas, ex-Q.

S. state senator I Paul Vandervoort. Omaha,

L. H. Thompson. Norton, Kas., prominent lawyer....

Jacob Stern, Erie. N Y,, surrogate of Erie county Fred Dahler, Pana, 111., president Altgeld club in 1890 C.H.Hopkins,Renville. Minn., leading farmer and Populist "Jack" Hale, Tilford, S. D., large wool grower Gen. Rosser, Salt Lake City.

Utah, life long Democrat... Rev. P.F. Jones, Marion,Kas., minister and Populist J.W. Farrell, Weir City,Kas., captain Spanish war Henry Kellar, Sault Center,

Minn., state senator Orson King, Randolph, Kas., mayor of the city

The list does not include the names of Gold Democrats of LStKi, who voted for either Palmer and Buekner or McKinley direct, but is that of converts to Republicanism. It includes two United States senators and two ex-United States senators, two ex-members of congress, two ex-governors, one of them being Boyd, of Nebraska, the only Democratic governor Bryan's state ever had, and the long list of members of legislatures, prominent lawyers and leading business men. The reasons given for their change of faith are either a conviction that free silver has been proven to be a mistake, that expansion is the only patriotic policy, and that McKinley has brought prosperity to the country. Some of these converts ascribe one of the reasons, some two, and some all three.

The significant feature of the list is the fact that these conversions from Bryanism to Republicanism are more prominent in states like Kansas, Nebraska' and Colorado than anywhere else. In Kansas and Nebraska many of the former Populists and Democrats, like Senator Pfeffer of the first named state and exGovernor Boyd of the latter, come out frankly and acknowledge that the administration of President McKinley has proven that the 10 to 1 free silver argument was a mistake, and they are willing to acknowledge their error. They also deS clare that they have no confidence in anti-imperialistic arguments now being

j3rvaDi and regard expansion as the only patriotic policy. Senator

Nevada, and ex-Senator Mantle, of Montana, take the same ground,

silver Republican as Secretary of State 1 vice, of Colorado,

regarding what he now acknowledges to have been a

in 18i«i.

G. C. Conn, Elkhart, Irid., ex congressman G. A. Koerner. Belleville, 111., leading German Democrat.. W. A. l'axton, Omaha. Neb.. svholesale merchant Edward Riley, Omaha. Neb.. wholesale merchant Wm. Wappich, Omaha. Neb., prominent lawyer W. M. Bushman, Omaha.Neb.. warehouse owner. George Tilden, Omaha, Neb., leading physician. Dr. G. L. Miller, Omaha, Neb.,

J. M. Large, Athens, 111., exmember legislature William Bourner, Vandalia, 111., farmer...

G. Van Hoordeck, Carlyle, 111.. ex-U. S. diat. attorney.. James Rice, Denver, Colo., ex-secretary of state S E. E Anderson, New York

City, cotton broker Lee Mantle, Butte, Montana, ex-U. S. senator J. C. Carleton, Bedford, Ind.,

showing in the western states which four years ago cast their electoral

forJBryan and Sewall is the best evidence of the correctness of the claim of Vice-Chairman Payne, of the Republican National Committee, that Bryan will: not get any of the former Republican .states the other side of the Missouri river which he carried in

In the same connection is printed a list of the better known newspapers which supported Bryan four ye'ars ago, but will not do so this time. Present- prosperity and opposi-

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Behrig, Burlingame,

John Kas., ex-Populist represen'e C.W. Mains, Jewell Co., Kas., I

Populist probate judge. ... W. S. Robinson, Marceline, Mo., Democrat for 70 years. S A. S. Wilderman, St. Clair county, 111., circuit judge .. M. B. Nicholson, Council

Grove,Kan., judge dis court

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Jersey City,

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I tion to free silver. He is opposed to free silver.

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Of the free silver plank in the I platform. McKinley's administration has brought prosperity.

Present Democratic party is Populistic. Business has improved since 1 1890. .5 :^v

He believes in expansion. I Bryanism is not Democracy.

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Bryan's position on expansion is wrong. McKinley promises the better I I administration. I Democrats at Kansas City were cowardly on silver.

McKinley has given good ad-' ministration. He cannot swallow the Kansas City platform. He is in favor of expansion.

Bryan has disrupted the Democratic party. "Imperialism" is a bugaboo, and he dislikes lb to 1. Free silver has proved to be a mistake. Democrats cannot assume re"j sponsibility for Bryan.

Bryan would degrade the American flag. /McKinley has promoted soldiers from the ranks.

McKinley is a better man than Bryan ever can be. The Kansas City platform is unAmerican on expansion, Democrats carry elections by unlawful means. He approves of honest money and expansion. Free silver party is simply a Democratic annex. McKinley's administration has brought prosperity,

Republicans are right on money I question., He is in favor of holding the Philippines. Bryan represents too many political parties. He will not fuse with the Democrats. McKinley has made a good President. Bryanism is like rainbow chasI ing-

Is opposed to free silver and favors expansion. Four years have shown the ReI publicans were right.

Bryan's cry of anti-imperialism ~l is treason. 3 He is in favor of expansion.

The Republican party was proven right in 1896. 3 Events have shown free silver to be a mistake. 3 He is what Bryan calls an "imperialist."

BECAUSE

He favors expansion and opposes free silver. The gold standard has proven to be right. McKinley's administration has I helped farmers.

The Republican party is now the only patriotic ooe. 3 McKinley is right on the Philippine question. 3 Democrats cannot consistently I fuse with Populists. 3 Is an expansionist and sound I money man. 3 Cannot support Bryan under present conditions. 3 Convinced McKinley is right 1 on the money question. 3 Has had enough of anti-patri-otic utterances. 3 Anti-expansion argument is I thiner than cheese cloth.

BECAUSE

Democracy no longer has definite policy. 3 The present attitude of Demo cratic party is not patriotic.

You Can Raise Good Wheat

IF YOU USE A....

September 8

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20 Per Cent. tJ? /IS

Superior Fertiliser

They have no equal. We also have the Richmond Champion Drills.

W. S. Stratton, Denver, Colo., large mine owner T. W. Wood, Antelope, Ivan.. ex-Confederate soldier G. D. Perkins, Minneapolis,

Minn., St. Anthony veteran Timothy Coakley, Boston. Mass., lawyer,free silver man P. J. Hamble. Valley Falls,

Kan., chair. Populist com.. W. A. Choquill, Humboldt, I Kan., Populist leader W. E. English, Indianapolis,

Ind., ex-congressman S J. J. Frey, Topeka, Kan., ex- I manager Santa Fe road. ... J. H. Thomas,Annapolis, Md., exJcollector of the port 1 G. W.Warder, St. Louis, Mo.,

Bryan orator in 1896 F. L. Horton, Clifton. Kan., mayor of the city

& Discount Sale. St

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Fall and Winter Goods /is

Which are arriving daily are included, especla ly OVERCOATS. You can well afford to borrow the money and buy your Overcoats during this saie.

We Want Vour Trade.

Warner&Peck

One Price Clothiers. Hatters and Furnishers.

Turnbul! and Old Hickory Wagons are the Best for the Money]

We are agents for the Sandwich & Porter Hay Press.

..GOULD, OLIVER & MARTIN.

120-122 South Washington Street.

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stories and sin "rs—the old familiar hymns as well as the popular songs—it is always ready. See that Mr. Edison's signature is on every machine. Catalogues of afi dealers, or NATIONAL PHONOGRAPH CO., 135 Fifth Ave., New York.

BECAUSE

:5 Here is the list of the newspapers which have changed heart: Denver (Colo.) Times. Worcester (Mass.) Post. Denver (Colo.) Republican. Manchester (N. H.) Union. Wellston (O.) Sentinel. Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. Beloit (Wis.) Daily News. Richmond (Va.) Tim:.?. Louisville (Ky.) Post. Galveston (Texas) Olobi'.. Louisville (Ky.) Dispatch. Raleigh (N. C.) Observer. New Haven (Conn.) Register. Burlington (la.) Gazette. Hartford (Conn Times. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. Detroit (Mich.) Free-Press. Charleston (S. C.) Evening Post.

To these can be added such former Democratic papers as refused to support Bryan in 18(Ki, but have still adhered to the Democratic party. The best| known of them are: Boston (Mass.) Herald. Brooklyn, N. Y.) Eagle. Baltimore (Md.) Neios. New York Tirrits.

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McKinley's administration has brought prosperity to country!

Bryan's course has encouragedj Aguinaldo in rebellion.

BECAUSE

He has grown tired of Bryan^ ism. Does not wish to see Americanl 1 flag hauled down. 3 He is convinced now free silver was a fake.

The Republican is the party oi] progress.

He is an expansionist a,nd| honest-money man. Republican party runs countryl on correct business principles.! 3 He is strictly opposed to 16| to 1.

Bryan, if elected, couldn't man-| age his discordant fusion party.I

McKinley's administration lias| produced prosperity.

Pittsburg (Pa.,1 Leads r. Pittsburg (Pa.) Dispatch. -Philadelphia (Pa.) Times.

Philadelphia (Pa.) Record.