Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 March 1901 — Page 2

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WEEKLY JOURNAL.

ESTAHLISIIKI) IX 1818. Suocessor to

The Rccord,

the People's Prut,

tha first paper in

Crawfordsville, established in 1831, and to

established in 1844.

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FRIDAY, MARC FT 1. 1901.

WK shall have to reluctantly admit that Terre Haute is in Indiana, but thon it is pretty close to the line and —oh, we!'. Hj' th Tarkington was born there.

THE lynching1 of uumented negro by a Terre Haute mob is not exactly calculated to set Indiana up on a pedestal for the admiring comment of iter sister states.

LOUISVILLE Times (Dem. Was it by accident or design that the newWest Virginia well, which is blowing off 50,000,000 feet of gas a day, "burning in an enormous torch that reaches 200 feet in the air and with a roar that can be heard for miles around,'' was christened "tho W. ,J. Bryan?"

PKTTIGKEVV wails because he cannot induce the minority in the senate to make a fight on the Cuban relations bill. Pettigrew's idea is that the minority should light everything the majority does, regardless of what it is. He is 6imply a noisy obstructionist and richly merited the spurning the people of Ins tate gave him at the late election 1 II RPONT MORGAN'Scareershould be light to the path an an inspiration to the heart of the ambitious American youth. Poor Morgan started in life with only ten millions of dollars, but with a dogged determination to go in and win. All young men similarly en (loved should pluck up courage and press onward and upward.

A WASHINGTON letter says "the executive departments here contain a very large sprinkling of men who were once in congress, but are glad to work as clerks at $1,200 or #1,400 a year, and even as low as $900.'' And then enjoy, in many instances, a larger income than they received before leaving home, or could command if they were to return home. Many constituencies send men duet, to congress solely to get rid of them.

IN the current number of Sucves* is found this paragraph: "The death of ex-Governor Mount, of Indiana, takes from tho world an exemplar of the men who succeed by looking on the bright side of things. In a private letter to the editor of Success, he wrote: 'My success 1 attribute largely to looking on the bright side of things, to seeing possibilities, and then hopefully bending every energy to their accomplishment.' On the sameoccasion he wrote: 'I have found that character counts for more than all else."'

THK JOURNAL publishes to-day the sad story of a young Illinois author whose novel was "wrecked" by the appearance of "Alice of Old Vincennes." for tho reason that the same historical facts were employed in both works. This is interesting but not conclusive. Mr. Thompson's novel was successful not because of the data used but because of the manner in which these data are handled. A good many people might hav6 been given the outline of Mr. Thompson's story for a start and still have fallen far short of producing a successful novel. There is one

glory

ol the sun, another glory of the moon, still another glory of the stars, and still another glory of a lantern.

THIS senate committee on Cuban relations by unanimously agreeing on an amendment to the army bill, which clearly defines our relations with Cuba, doubtless disposes of the need of an extra session. It is said the measure will unanimously pass the senate and be approved by the President. If the Cubans suppose they are to receive everything and grant nothing this amendment prepared by the senate committee on Cuban relations will undeceive thein. It defines the treaties the Cuban government may make with foreign powers forbids the contracting of excessive debts grants the United States the right of intervention in case of governmental failure or violation of the treaty between the United States and Spain renders binding all that has been done during the military occupancy by the United States requires proper sanitation leaves the title to the Isle of Pines, on the southern coast of Cuba, to be settled by future treaty provides for the sale or lease of naval and coaling stations to the United States, and proposes that these points shall be covered in a permanent treaty. From these term9 the Cubans will see that congress is getting down to practical bust •ess.

THEY USED_THE AX

Hoosier Hbuse of Representatives Lops Off Numerous Special Appropriation Measures.

BY THE JOURNAL COMPANY. ECONOMY NOW THE WATCHWORD

Russet Sscds Estimates That the Present

Stale Legista'ureWill Be One of the Most

Economical That Has Sat During the Past

Dpcadc-—Some Pertinent Comments Con

cerning Affairs at the State Capital.

1 Sl-'l-'l-'iul CulTOSJIOJuU'lll-!'.

Indianapolis, l'eb. i_'7. Last. week the house jt out ii.s i\ and went alter t.lio bills carrying special approprint inns in very lively .shape. The I Columbus epileptic village bill was docapiialed one day and the next the Yineonues university bill went to its death with a rush. The .Mtmcie normal bill skurried to cover in [lit.' educational! committee and has not since shown I its head. The hope uf its promoters that it could lind shelter there tiRll I he stunn should blow over, but there has been no let-up in the clamor against it. and it will probably liud the ax in readiness whenever it comes out.

The storm carried down with it the! hill lor a house for the governor. This measure did not meet the ignominy of •leieat. but on the advice of Governor-j Durbin it. was withdrawn, though it! had successfully passed the committee and second reading in the house. It begins to look, indeed, as if. after the session is over, this will prove to be one of the most economical levislat tires that has sat during the past decade,

I he ways and means committee will I have its general appropriation bill ready for introduction in the house this week, ami while the members are I not. talking much about its provisions, if is declared to be an unusually ecouomical measure. Tho spoeiite approprialions are lew and far between and the amounts appropriated for maintenance of the various state institutions are said lo be as small as Is compatible with their proper conduct.

lioth Governor iMtrbin and Senator I'.airbanks have had much to do with The spirit of economy that has taken possession of the house. The governor is not desirous that his administration should be characterized by extravagant legislatures and the senator Is keenly alive to the fact that a ltepubliean legislature will be required Two years hen-e to return him to the senate. Hence both were anxious for a good record and the governor took advantage of his daily contact with members to impress on ihein the necessity of conservatism iu matters of expenditure, while the senator both through his political representatives! here and by means of interviews at long range, urgiul the same lino of con\nd the alacrity with which the house rook up the work of slaughteiing the appropriation propositions Showed that the advice was hardly needed. i.

I have hoard many people wondering why it is that tho senate is invariably more extravagant than the house. This year, as usual, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of the lieutenant governor to hold things down, it has boon comparatively easy to get "any old thing" in the way of an appropriation through tho senate. This is in the very nature of our government. The .same rule applies in T\ ashiugton, where tho senate appears to scan appropriation bills with the single view of increasing them. The senate is designed as the aristocratic element in our system of legislation, somewhat alter the model of the house of lords in the l'rirish parliament. Our ancestors some centuries ago realized the fact that, tho aristocratic branch of a legislative body was not a safe guic iu the matter of taxing the people and expending their money, and after many years of struggle and even of bloodshed, they firmly established the principle that all laws for raising revenue and making appropriations must originate in the popular branch of the legislative body. The one that carries the purse controls the household, and this was but another step of our forefathers toward popular control of government, —O—O—

The stiffest railroad lobby that has ever boon organized in Indiana has been operating during this session and mighty few people knew what Its main purpose was until it had got the Joss railroad bill through botli branches and before the governor. Then a little decisions developed the fact that the dovisions developed the fact that the railroad corporations simply had to have litis bill enacted into law or find themselves cut up into all the little jerkwater corporations into which they were divided 25 or 30 years ago. During all that time they have been leasing, selling, buying and consolidating until they have worked out the big systems that at present exist, with all their intricate issues of securities. When the Eel Iiiver case was decided by the supreme court something over a year ago, the railroad people made the most unpleasant discovery that tliey had been doing all these things without any authority in law that a railroad incorporated in Indiana was in all respects amenable to the Indiana courts, and that it had no right to claim federal protection as a non-resi-dent, no right to sell or lease to another railroad company or to consolidate with another company or remove Its principal office from the state. Whon all thl» became apparent to tha

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jptiblic, as it had been to tho railroad lawyers ever since llie Eel River decision, it did not require much acumen to understand why the roads were willing to support such an expensive lobby hero, why they were willing to pay some of the best lawyers and biggest politicians in the state big fees to stay hero, and why they just had to have the Joss bill put through. It legalizes all these acts and goes a good deal farther by giving foreign railroad corporations considerably enlarged powers, in the exercise of the right of eminent domain. It is expected that under its provisions some very large deals will bo carried through. The merger of tin Baltimore and Ohio .Southwestern with (ho Baltimore and Ohio will be completed, tho Lake Erie and Western will become an integral part of tho Lake Shore, the Vandalia will be incoi'poratod with the Pennsylvania. whoso owners already own its slock, and Hie Wabasa will buy in the

Ke! Itiver road, over which it now runs its trains on a lease. —o—

The Hon. Cyrus Davis of Greene, who staked his reputation on the investigation of Warden Hert of the JelVersoiiviilc Keforuiaiory. seems to have made a rather sorry fiasco of It. Until Saturday the thing ran along somewhat on the "chops and tomato sauce" order, and then .Mr. Davis put his star witness on the stand in the person of John Pate, the disobarged clerk of the institution. Pate's testimony was io tho effect that as bookkeeper of the institution he had shifted funds, using some of the fund appropriated for the shoe building for repairs on the warden's residence, and that certain expenses wore paid out of the library fund that did not belong there. The only serious charge he made was that Hert kept the l'uuds of the prison in the State Bank of Indiana and drew 4 per cent interest on them, a statement, readily disproven by the books of tho bank. It took the defense about two or three hours in rebuttal to demolish the testimony that had been brought iu during the two weeks the investigation had been in progress. Davis had an object in the investigation and one that will not be apt to gain him much sympathy in his failure, even among men of his own party. He and Hon are natives of the same town and tho latter's people still live there. His motive was that small vein of meanness so frequently found in human nature that makes some men want to pull down and humiliate such of their neighbors as have been more successful in life than they. And his methods have been entirely worthy of ids motive. Instead of making Hat charges, he put them in The form of interrogatories and offered them as a resolution, and in the examination of witnesses he has been busy interpolating in tho reports of the Democratic newspapers such of hia imaginings as did not come out in the .testimony.

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The easiest thing in the world to attack is the management of a big prison. it doais with criminals, and they do not have a good opinion of the management, as a general thing. It has scattered about many discharged employes, aching for a chance to "get even" on account of their discharge, When Hert took hold of the manage-j mont of what was then tho prison! sout h, he found it full of Democratic! politicians, and he found a tremendous! pressure from Republicans all over southern Indiana who expected him to use tho prison for spoils, just as all' the others before him had done. It I has taken time to reduce the institu-! tlou to business principles, but it has been clone, and in the uoing of it there I have beeu some sore spots left, of course. —o—o—

The Marion county members of the1 legislature are in something of a pickle. The state and county platforms have been declaring for pri-1 marv reform in response to the hot} demands of 1 lie Indianapolis business men. who have got a bit weary of con-' tributing tho campaign funds and liav-! iirer no voice ii\ making up the organization or determining nominations, Politics in tills city lias become a bus-1 iness at which a man must work pretty steadily if he wants to keep on the' inside and have any voice in party' management. The man who is busy with other things finds himself clear out of it, when the time comes around to nominate candidates, and on election day lie finds himself compelled to make a choice between two tickets, neither of which he had any influence in making. In the country, where every man participates in political affairs, this is not so, but it is distinctly the case in the city, where the prizes are so large as to be worth working for all the time. The business man thus shut out believes that it ic because there is ballot-box stuffing, snap judgment, illegal voting and every other kind of fraud at the primaries. And he Is largely right, for every kind of fraud that has ever been devised is carried on in the primaries of both parties here. The house took up and passed the bill drawn by a commission, but the senate has substituted the Joss bill, drawn by Senator Joss of this county It is being actively opposed by the mon who want primary reform and now there is much fear lest there may be no primary legislation at all, which would bo a rather sad event for the party organization in this county, since Republican business men, particularly those that contributed to the campaign fund last fall, have flatly declared that henceforth, unless they are given a fair show In the primaries, there will bo no contributions forthcoming at election time.

THE CRAWFORDSYILLE WEEKLY JOURNAL

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Shirts.

Over two hundred dozens, nearly 2,500 men's shirts go into this offering at less prices than we ever know them to be sold for.

Men's colored percale madras bosom shirts with good heavy quality muslin body, many with separate culls, and not a shirt but was 75c and $1. Some are slightly soiled, but the price is only Shirts of about the same description as above, but better patterns, and ah clean and perfect, worth 75c and $1.00, at Over four hundred shirts with colored bosoms, "white bodies, principally that were made to sell at$l, are offered at... Wilson Bros.' "Bimetallic'' and "Monarch"' shirts in percale and madras, long and short bosoms, worth $1, at A good assortment of Wilson Bros,' regular $1.50 shirts, all sizes to start with and most designs you'll want, at

Collars and Cuffs.

Barker brand best 4-ply all linen collars in many styles, that were 25c. are two for 25c. or Barker 3-ply linen in nine late styles, and some sizes in desirable styles of the

Holmes and Ide brand, all 15c grades, also some odds and ends in E. & W. 25c collars, and a large assortment in all shapes and sizes in a good 3-ply linen faced collar. Choice of lot •"0 dozen more of those "seconds" in collars that we sold so many of one day last summer, regular 15 and 20c grades, at... Linen cuffs that were 25c, at per pair

Neckwear.

Night Robes.

\P Domet flannel night robes in plain colors, 3Q figures and stripes, full sizes, were 50c y** Men's domet flannel night robes in plain colors, figures, stripes and plaids that EZ~ were $1, are

Remnants of Colored and Dress Goods.

Suitable for children's dresses, ladies' shirt waists and ladies' skirts, heavy and light weights, at H, and the original bolt prices.

Also a few suit patterns in black for one-third the former price. All-wool black pebble cheviots worth $1 yd., at. .... ....: 75c

Hosiery.

Infants' wool hose worth 15c for In rants' cashmere hose, silk heels and toes, worth 25c. Children's extra heavy fleece lined hose for Children's 25c fleece lined hose for. Ladies' and children's good tleecc lined hose for

For the Benefit of Men.x

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man interested in personal neatness and genteel dressing should be thankful for the fact that we sell men's furnishings. It not only gives all an opportunity to get the best lines for selection but places them within the reach of many more by low prices who have been accustomed to buying less meritorious articles, because they could not afiord the best. It also oifers the men the opportunity our lady patrccs have always enjoyed, of buying occasionally goods for their use at one^fourth to two'thirds their regular value. Just such an opportunity is now ready for you. Several recent purchases of good, desirable goods for men's wear, at ridiculously low prices, together with our well formed determination to carry nothing over from one season to another: that some price will sell, offers an opportunity for wonderful bargains as this list proves. The selling will be rapid, to judge by the response to the Gilbert £. Gregg sale last sum/ mer, when we sold almost the entire offering the first few days, but additional salespec pie have been supplied for this department and we will give you our best attention no matter how many come.

25c

35c

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15c

It's not often you are offered neckwear, including the latest styles in silks and shapes at half price, but that's what you get here.

800 ties of the regular 50c quality, in best designs in silks and including the medium narrow four-in-hand now so popular, as well as the always staple puff teck and imperial shapes at Tecks, puffs imperials, four-in-hands and ascots that were 75c, $1, $1.25, $1.50 and $1.75, are choice Bows and strings that were 25c are

25c

50c 15c

Our large line of men's and boys' sweaters in stripes and plain colors at twenty per cent, discount. $1 goods 80c, $1.50 goods $1.20, etc.

Suspenders.

500 pairs men's 25c and 35c suspenders in medium and dark colors, leather or silk lisle ends, good quality heavy webbing, choice per pair 50c suspenders with ribbon and elastic shoulder straps, in large variety of designs, leather ends, at............ .. ,.... Men's 10c suspenders at

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35c 10c

Clearing Out Prices on Ladies' and Children's Hosiery and Underwear. Cost is no object when it comes to clearing our stock of odds and ends or when the season is advanced. So here's an opportunity for bargains:

Black

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%THE BIG STORE,

Louis Biscl-iof.

Handkerchiefs.

Men's plain white hemstitched or corded hem handkerchiefs worth 20 and 25c, stylish fancy colored borders and solid colored handkerchiefs with hand embroidered corners, all 25c goods, Men's linen finish handkerchiefs with white or colored corded borders, for... Men's white or yellow handkerchiefs with red printed figure

Half Hose.

Men's cotton half hose, blue and black ground, with polka dots, the 15c kind... Men's fancy cotton half hose in stripes, polka dots and plain shades that were 25c, are Men's 50c cotton and lisle half hose in plain shades, stripes and figures Men's heavy yarn half hose that were 25c are 3 pairs for 50c, or Men's wool half hose in tan, natural and black, 50c kinds at 37ic, 25c kind Men's fancy cassimere half hose that were 50c, 62j4o and 75c, are 40c, 50c and

Underwear.

Men's silk fleece lined underwear, three shades, cream, brown and mottled, that are worth $1, are offered at Black underwear, cotton fleece lined and brown cotton with scarlet wool fleece lining, that were 75c, are Men's plain white or white and blue stripe fleece lined underwear, worth 50c Odd sizes and stripes in 50c. fleece lined shirts and drawers at Tan cotton underwear with white cotton fleece back, worth 35c at Men's cotton drawers, grey mottled, that were 25c, are Men's Jersey ribbed union suits

Jersey ribbed all wool underwear in fancy shades, worth 81.50, at Jersey ribbed and plain all wool underwear in blue, tan, etc., worth $2 to $2.50

Mufflers.

Large size, soft, square mufflers, polka dot, plaids, stripes, etc, mostly grey shades, that were 35c and 25c. are Oxford and square mufllers in fancy designs and colors, SI kinds 70c, 75c kinds, 55c, and 50c kinds.

Gloves.

Men's $1.00 silk lined kid gloves in reds and browns, $1 fleece lined kid in red, browns, tan and black with self color back stitching, $1 fleece lined Mocha in brown,grey and tan and Astrachan back kid palm gloves, fleece lined, in dark and light brown shades tTiat were $1.00. choice of lot Fleece lined Astrachan back, kid palm gloves, brown shades, worth 75c, at.. Astrachan gloves with Mocha palms, C? fleece lined, worth $1.50, at W Angora golf gloves, black with purple stripe, best made, were $1, at. Men's fur gauntlet driving gloves, superior kid palms, fleece lined, were O f\f\ $3, at UU Men's fur gauntlet driving gloves, fleece lined, buckskin palms, worth $2.00 at $1.50, and kid palms worth $1.50, at Fierce lined gloves and mittens and onefinger buckskin driving mittens, worth TA $1.00, at UC

Underwear.

Twenty per cent Discount on all Winter Underwear. We commence our annual sale so eagerly watched for—a time when wise buyers lay In a supply of Underwear for future use, if they can find the sizes they require, as the prices are never so low at the opening of the season. 20 per cent. A bona fide discount sale on all winter Underwear such as Oneita, Melba, Elliott, "Pitwell" and other well known makes of Underwear.

Some SpecialsChildren's Underwear worth 00c, 75c, 85c, for 50c Ladies' garments, small sizes, worth 75c, $1, for 50c Ladies' 50c vests in small sizes, for 25c

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Ladles' wool hose for iOc Ladies' wool uml heavy fleece lined hose worth 25c, pair 19c

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