Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 February 1901 — Page 7
DOUBTFUL COMBINE
How a Democratic
Do Things.
DISREGARD FOR CONSTITUENTS!
The Fact that Democratic Members Were
Elected to Represent the People Seems
to Have Been Lost Sight 01 By Those
Gentlemen—Two Severe Jolts Which Came
to the Special Appropriations Combine!
Lrke Lightning Out of a Clear Sky—Rus-
sel Seeds Has Kfs Usual Intimate Refer-
ences to Affairs Legislative.
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The fact that they were elected to represent the people of their districts does not seem to weigh at all with the Democratic members. They represent merely the Democratic party, and, since the Republicans are in a majority and must assume all responsibility for legislation, they regard themselves as entirely at liberty to vote as they please and make all the money possible om of their votes. Unless 1 mistake the temper of the people of Indiana, this is a grave error. If bad legislation shall succeed in trotting through this legislature, imagine the people will examine the roll-calls with intelligent care, and place the responsibility on the members that have put the jobs through, whether they be Democrats or llepubieans. —O (I—
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Indianapolis. Feb. UO. 1 had occasion a week or two ago to speak of the ease with wliicti .•oiTUi or doubiful schemes obtained the support, of tho Democrats in ihe legislat lire. Duriug the p: si week there have been some striking demonstrations ol' this occurring the senate. The Columbus deal went through thai body with more Democratic votes than Republi
can. 1'he
incennes "claim" got
every one of tin A majority of the Republicans present voted auainst it. but a minority of tlic Republicans and alt the Democrats succeeded in putting it through. The Mtincie normal bill, designed to unload another state institution on the state for tax-payers to support, passed the senate Thursday. Fifteen Republicans voted for it and lii against it. II: got It Democratic votes—all but one.
The whole crowd of patriots putting in their time for the old tlag and big special appropriations wore thrown into consternation on Friday by a couple of very severe jolts, both of which came like flashes of lightning from a clear sky. The first was a ruling by the lieutenant, governor, which formed far and away the most dramatic incident of the session thus far. The Muncie normal bill had passed the senate the day before, against the better judgment of even many of the senators that voted for it. But long work by a remarkably strong lobby, headed by George F.
McOulloeh, and all kinds of trades and deals in every direction had pulled it through. A motion was made to reconsider, when Senator Mat son, to whom the suggestion had been made by the lieutenant governor, raised the point of order that, since the bill sought, to levy a tax of one1 mill for the support of the institution, it was a revenue measure, required by the constitution to originate in the housti, and unable to have any standing in the senate, unless coming as a measure passed by the house. The lieutenant governor ruled that the bill had never been before the senate and all action on it was void. Thus the long work and the heavy expense of the boomers of the proposition came to naught in a moment. The smash was such a discouraging event to them that it may be doubted if they will make much of an effort to do the work over again.
The second jolt came in the shape of an interview put forth by J. B. Kealing, who looks after the political business of Senator Fairbanks, laying down the law that the expenditures of the people's money must be held within reason. Mr. Fairbanks' re-election to the senate depends on the ability ol' the Republicans to carry the next legislature, and, more remotely, his presidential boom depends on the same event. Since all these tax-eating propositions loomed into prominence and began to get through the senate, his friends have been writing him alarming letters from Indianapolis, declaring that unless a halt were called the party might as well try to fly to the moon as to endeavor to carry the legislature in 1902. The effect is seen in Mr. Kealing's pronunciamento. It is evident that there In a heap of difference between Introduc-
a "jirafi.'
successfully.
Minority In the
Legislature Has Been Able to
This "graft combination" has complete control of the senate, to the great chagrin of the lieutenant governor. who had hoped to be able to hold lar that body down to a line of honest legislation ill the interest of the people. Hut it seems easily possible to get "any old tiling" through that body, if only there by lobby enough and money enough behind it. Thc-ie is ground to hope for better things in the house. When the Columbus ago Senator Fairbanks tried to get th
bill came up there, the clause locating the institution dolinitely was taken out of it, and it will now go forward on its merits. Whether other doubtful "combine" measures will meet their fate there remains to be seen. If even a small minority of Republicans vote for them there will be enough Democratic votes to -arrj them through.
anil getting it through
The fedenil .-ippniuimems
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that always occurs.- '1 olijeHinu that 1 liavr organized liy Thoinn lieutenant ii'uvi'i'iKir ol has raised the cry Marsh's anpeini meni moil soldier Khould 1
delorniinseem to of the
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give satisfa'.'tion to tin1 ina
parly. CM' coir.'se oilier disappointed, nuti lliai
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applicants are is something ie only general heard is that
I lanna, once the state, who'i against. .Judge that" tho comreeoyni/eil in auent. Mr.
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appointing a pension Mann:: lias been eral "kicker" tv« (it oflice. For some years 1' federal olli'-e. after retiring lieutenant governorship. ami for attorney general, ami \va it alien: ankle deep when ii
the convention. Ho and a few others here in Indianapolis have conceived tho strange notion that they were about the only soldiers there were on the I'nion side during the Civil war. and whenever anybody else is appointed to o'liee. no matter how lon.tr or how bravely he may have served in the I'nion armies, "tlie... common soldier has been ignored." ns'a (Hit* proposition not included in rhe
17 I icmocrat ic votes. senatorial adjustment is can: vast aii'oiini of agitation in tin: borhood of the White House, years ago Ceneral Harrison wa a member of the Mississippi
tug a neighMany made
River
ever before. If the president lias r?ad half the stnll' that lias been sent to him on this proposition, he has not had rime for anything else for a couple Of weeks. —O—O—
A good story appeared in one of the local papers last week as to how I'.evoridge secured the vote of Representative Scott of Lawrence county. It seems that J. M. Mcintosh, who called on Scott in his behalf, discovered that he had written a book and persuaded him to send a copy to Revcridge. The latter wrote him such a complimentary letter on if that he won Scott's vote. It wan by a somewhat similar ability as a letter writer that the junior senator won the heart of John C. Wiugate, who managed hi senatorial campaign so successfully.
Iti 18!in an occasion came up when 1 wanted an interview with a plaiu citizen on the question of monetary legislation. I ran across Wiugate at one of the hotels, talkerl with him a while and prepared an interview. "This may be all right," said Joliu. when I showed him the copy, "but it isn't what I said.'' "I know." I replied, "but it's what you ought to have said." and then 1 argued the matter with him, assuring hint that he would be making no mistake in declaring for such legislation as was there outlined. He let It go with some misgivings, but when I met hm a couple of weeks later he was in high good humor. His interview had been favorably commented on in several papers, but best of all, he had received a remarkably complimentary letter from Albert .T. Heveridge, whom he knew as a distinguished young lawyer and brilliant orator. I read the letter, and it was such an u:ie as only Roveridge could write. The next time 1 met him I told him his letter had tickled Wiugate beyond measure. lie smiled wisely and said nothing, bur a week later I met Wingate again and he had received another letter from Roveridge. Albert had boon reading that interview over again, holding it dead next to his heart and continually finding
beauties and wonders of thought and wisdom therein. Tho rest has passed into history. It was but a couple of months later, when Roveridge turned up as a candidate for senator and! Wingato. who had won a great repu-1 tat ion as the manager of Mount's suecessful campaign, was at his right hand, managing things with all his vigor and good luck. o—
Mrs. Carrie Nation's "Joint smashing" crusade has found an echo in Indiana in a bill drawn by Rev. T. A. Goodwin and introduced by Senator Barlow. It .specifies as illegal all efforts to sell liquor from booths, boats, wagons, etc., and saloons where lottery tickets are sold or other gambling schemes are carried on, and declares them nuisances to be abated by the officers of the law. But it provides that in case of their failure to do so, any person may go in and clean them out, without being held for damages, —o—o—
The Indianapolis people have made such a light for the preservation of St. Clair park and the blind asylum that it seems probable that the asylum will stay where it is and that the governor's mansion, if one Is decided on, will go elsewhere.
RUSSEL M. SEEDS.
CHERRY GROVE
I Bill Rogers is clearing and grubbing a patch for Miehuel Woods. ,Jetl Hughes and Frank Nolan are cutting wood on Mike Murphy's place,
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•ontething of a gensince he got out held a
TOIU the then ran only in enuie to
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commission. There is but one civilian member of this commission, the others being army engineers and experts, ami the work requires that he be a lawyer of high attainments. When Harrison retired Judge Robert S. Taylor succeeded him, and has since remained for I'd years. Tints the place has conic to be regarded as belonging to Indiana, though there is no partictirea: ou why it should. Taylor's work has been such that when Cleveland proposed to remove him a violent protest went: up from every state along the river and from all commercial organizations that are interested in the navigation of the Mississippi, and Cleveland listened. Four years
place for .1. ]!. Kealing for services rendered, but, the same protest went up and he failed. Now the effort is renewed and likewise the protest, though both the effort and the protest are much more strenuous
THB ORAWFORDSVILLE WKKKLY JOURNAL.
Fletcher Davidson has secured the services of .Charley Lyons for this summer. .lames Lyons will make his home with Tommy Carroll this year, .limtny is a worker.
Michael Woods, from Mt. Pleasant, visited liis aunt, Mrs, Wm, Carney, at. the (Irove.
Belmont Thompson is out again and is slowly recovering troin a serious spell of sickness.
Miss Maggie Carroll spent a very pleasant afternoon on last Thursday at Mrs. John No.airs.
On List Sunday afternoon Mr. and rs. John S, Campbell visited Robert: Campbell at Sodom.
Michael Carroll, of the Grove, sold to I Corbi.n, of Crawtordsville. quite a nun:ber of trees. Ho got an exceptionally good price for the same.
The Cherry .rove elevator company is getting lots of corn just now. They are paying thirty five cents per bushel and Clerk Long is giving good weight,
It is currently reported at the Grove that Tommy Carroll is on the eve of surrendering single blessedness. Well we congratulate the young lady as Tom is a grand young fellow.
Mrs. John Campbell is going to beat the old settlers around the grove in raising chickens this year, as she is going to commence setting hons the latter part of this month.
Charley Lyons and Elmer Pulliam have cut about seventy-five cords of wood on Tommy Carroll's placc. Charley is trying to retrieve his little fortune losts in the courts of Crawtordsville lately.
John Campbell is cutting and putting up about 200 cords of wood on Mrs. Dr. Wm. Weber's farm. Mr. Campbell is the tenant on the farm this year. If the elements and health don't go against. John there will be quite a change in the looks of this farm by next spring.
Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Sallie Henderson visited at Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carroll's last Wednesday. There were also present Mrs. Dr. Wm. C. Weber Mrs. William Carney. Mrs. Jno. Campbell, of the Grove. Mrs. Cole, of Round Hill. They were all there to inspect, the new and elaborate furnishings of the Carroll residence.
LAPLAND
•'.d Hampton has a new telephone, ames Shrader helped Fred Kincaid
thau cut wood last week.
Straughan Davis, of the city, was in Lapland last Saturday. H. C. Armstrong's sale was well attended on last Wednesday.
Fred Kincaid will move to tho James Yancleave farm the lirst of March. John II. Burgess had a spell of cramp colic last week but is able to be with us again.
Quite a number from here attended the sale of George Himes' the first of the week.
Aunt Fannie Vancleave is on the sick list with Dr. liitbo, of KuSsellville, attending her.
The teachers of Scott township held their monthly institute at Lapland school house last Saturday.
George Browning has put in a telephone. He :.s now ready to talk to anybody that wants to talk to him. 1 A1 Martin is hauling his hay to mar ket this week and getting a good round price for it. Those prosperous times. I Miss Anna Landis has been making quite a visit with relatives in Boone county and in Crawfordsville and had a tine time.
James Hester has moved to his
NUMB* THIRTEE W.
(juite an amount of ice wa' taken I from Hamilton's pond this week.
Go Carts
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The numerous sales held here are well attended and 'things sell at a good
price. Many of our people are complaining from the prevailing malady, but there new
are
"one seriously sick.
Walter Fulwider went to Dakota this week. He has a land claim there and will remain indefinitely.
Joe Duncan moved to his farm near Center. M. F. Buxton, of, Wingate, moved to hi» farm this week.
IT
new
home on the Wm. Davis farm at Lap-' land. The entire family like their new home very well.
The young man that lives west of New Market that drives the gray horse now stops of Sunday evenings at the brick in Lapland.
Wm. Davis has moved to the city but his smiling face be seen here in Lapland more than in the city. He says this is home as he was born on the old farm and has spent the most of his life here.
William Davis and J. R. Burgess put up a couple of new Greencastle telephones last week. The G'-epneasile 'phone is giving entire satisfaction. They have about thirty live 'phones running into New Market at the present time and all of them are giving good satisfaction.
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M. F. Buxton. D. C. Moore and J. D.
Mrs. Sarah Graves, having sold her homo to Thomas Doren, bought the Copeland farm. She will occupy it as soon as Mr. Pitman can give possession.
And now it has come to pass that the ancient Wingate scribe in his days of "the sear and yellow leaf" has bloomed out into an editor. Seated in his big editorial chair with a huge pair of shears at hand, and a
Thomas were road viewers in the south-1 Misses May Clark and Charity Brown east part of the county last week. spent Saturday in the city. Mrs. Irvin, of Newtown, will soon move to her new home,the Bottenburg place lr. Copeland, who occupies it, will probably move to New Richmond.
liUg C. 11 \J i. OUVUfl O ilULIU CaUvl A" *t
paste pot large enough to make asplen-
did summer resort for the whole roach family, he is monarch of all he surveys a real live editor. His first issue, the Wingate News, made its first appearance "to fill a long felt want" Saturday afternoon. May the specks of the ancient scribe-editor never grow dim nor his paste pot dry up.
ENERGY all gone? Headache? Stomach out of order? Simply a case of torpid liver. Burdock Blood Bitters will make anew man or woman of you.
Wo give a special invitation to those wanting a Go Cart, to call and see our new line. Wo will
50 lbs. Sleepy Eye, no better Flour ................ $1 10
25 lbs. Sleepy Eye ^5 50 lbs. Pride Peoria 1.05 25 lbs. Pride Peoria 55 50 lbs. John's Best 1 00
liave tho largest line of Go Carts that
was ever in Crawfordsvillo, and at all
prices.
Gasoline Stoves, Hot Plates, Ovens
25 lbs. John's Best ^5 50 lbs. OK Flour 100
Our now lino of Gasoline Stoves
and Hot 1'lateB have arrived and
25 lbs. O Flour 50 50 Lbs. Princess 25 lbs. Princess 1 bbl. Princess 3.75
are the nicest and beet we over had.
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This space belongs to D. H. Baldwin & Company....
Pianos and Organs Keep your eye on it for something good.
(). F. I buiUes, Mi/r. 113 S.Washington St.
11', South (f'reen Street.
Travis Brown
Buy and sell Real Estate Insure Property. Loilu per ceat-.'Money.
Procure Pensions, Ktc
110 South Green Street.
NEW MARKET.
P. C. Iiampton is on the sick list. Walter Vancleave has lung fever. Dave Byrket talks of moving Texas.
Lewis Havercamp is nursing Walter Yancleave. Bert Warbritton is the proud father of a bouncing baby boy.
James Day moved into the Stone-bi-aker property on Main street Monday.
Emmons Douglas has bought property in Crawfordsville and will move there in the near future.
The valentine social at J. W. Vancleave's Thursday night was well at tended There were about fifty ate supper and all spent an enjoyable evening.
Lost—Between the Baptist church at this place and the home of Miss Mamie Simpson, a gold chain bracelet. The linder will please return to the above
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Friday being Bedford Gentry's twen-ty-fourth birthday, his friends planned for him a surprise which proved a grand success. The evening was spent in music and games. Those present were Misses May Clark, Mayme Simpson, May Wert, Kate Hampton, Cora Simpson, Amelia Hampton,and Messrs. Ard Buser, Roy Wert, Milliard Johnson, Odes Hankins, Karie Easley, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Long. All left at a late hour wishing their friend many appy returns of the evening.
Flour—A Good Time to Buy.
All Groceries Strictly Cash.
BARNHILL, HORNADAY & PICKETT.
119-121 EASX MAIN SX.
Aj.u'work?a.
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A. A. Swope, M. D. Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE—Joel Block. S. Wash. St. Residence—Home 'Phone 664 Office 618. Calls answered promptly day or night.
G. S. McCLUER, Attorney at Law.
Real Estate for sale or rent.
Positively Guarantee
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SRIIH
We have just received a car load of high grade patent flour from Oklahoma that is guaranteed to be fine. The brand is called
Princess.
Look at the Price:
25 lbs $ .48 95 3.75
50 lbs 1 bbl Can you beat the price.
Protect Yout Eyes!
DR. J. ES, STIINE, Eye Specialist.
Chronic Diseases Specialty..•
juu sutfurer from weak or diseased oye.s? Is your sight impaired oi failing? Do your eyes smart, burn or itch when raiding or doing any near Are you troubled with inllamcl or granulated lids? Such oondiI r,ions are caused by errors of refraction. Don't be deluded by the idea that na'ure will cure this, or that it will soon pass away. Delays and cxcuses avail nothing. The diseaso grows while you hesitate.
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Come and have your Eyes Examined. Office 201% E. Main Street.
HOURS—8 to 12 I to 5.
End of the Season.
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PROPERLY FITTED.
penminontly correct such conditions with-
I a out operations or the use of prisms, which are always uaugerous. A large per cent, of all so-called diseases of the nervous •fystem are caused by excessive straiu upon the nerves of the eye, which, boing intimately connected with all parts of the body by the sympathetic nerves, may ^ause diseased conditions to exist, and such ills as headache, constipation, piles, indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous debility and prostration, female weakness, painful and protracted menstruation, or even lits or insanity be the natural consequence. I REMOVE THE CAUSE by correcting these errors, and absolutely guarantee to give satisfaction in every case undertaken.
Consultation Free
Dr, Bull's Cough
Cures a. Cough or Cold at once. C^TTHm Conquers Croup, Whooping-Cough, V'TI MM Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Grippe and mm Consumption. Mothers praiso it. Doctors prescribe it. Quick, sure results. Get. only Dr. Bull's! Price, 25 cents. Or. Bull's Pill* curc Constipation. I'ifty pills, 10 cts. Trial box, 5 cts.
Wo arc now at tho end of the regular selling season. We have gathered together ends of lots of SUITS. OVERCOATS and TROUSEitS and propose to close them out at such attractive prices as will give an opportunity to people with the slenderest purses to own the best clothing that it is possible to produce.
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We Call Your Attention
especially to the fact that while there is no complete line of sizes in any one pattern, there is a perfect assortment of sizes at each price, so that every man, no mattor what his size or proportion, can be properly fitted, iiven among the best .ithere is always a lirst choice, therefore •the oarly comcrs are apt to get the best pickings.
TANNENBAUM BROS.