Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1880 — Page 6

TH E D EMOCRAT. BY K. BAY WILLIAMS. Terms: $1.50 a Year in Advance. DECATUR, INDIANA, Thursday, August 19, 1880. I 'S' ' I W J? ® LWR i H ISEsik <wnfields"ANCOCK; * ' DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President, <3EH. W. S. HANCOCK, of Pennsylvania. For Vice President, HOW Wil. 11. EAOLIMI. of Indiana. DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS. Monmouth, Root township. Monday evening. Aug. 23. Monroe Center. Tuesday evening. Aug. 24. Buckmaster’s School House, Jefferson township, Wednesday evening. Aug. 25. Buena Vista, Thursday evening, Aug. 26. Kimsey’s School House. Blue Creek township, Friday evening, Aug. 27. Deßolt School House, Washington township, Saturday evening, Aug. 28. By order of the Central Committee. —Gov. Hendricks spoke to thousands of people last Saturday at Fort Wayne. —Neilson, the noted actress, died in Paris last Saturday night. She had thousands of admirers all over the civilized world. —Republicans have given up all hopes of carrying the State of New York, and Indiana is solid for Landers in October. Where, then, is Garfield to get the necessary votes to elect him? Will he do as Hayes did, steal them from the American people? —There are but three men in Adams county who will vote for that bloated old bondholder and National banker, Jack Studabaker; and we believe that before election time arrives those three will see how they are being duped and will denounce Studabaker for his duplicity. He is simply working in the interest of Geo. Stf.ele, the Republican candidate, and many believe Steele is paying him for it. —Don't fail to read Powell’s tribute to Gen. Hancock, published on the first page of this issue of The Democrat; and after you have read it ask yourself if you ever read a prettier, or more deserving, or more truthful tribute to living man. In one paragraph Powell says of General Hancock : ‘•He believed that, when the southern chieftain surrendered his sword to the northern conquerer beneath the historic tree at Appomattox, the southern sun went down, and with its setting were buried the passion and pain of war—that the blue and the gray should clasp hands forever, and the northern sigh meet the southern sorrow above the same graves, garlanded with the same flowers, gathered by the same hands, consecrated by the same regrets I and bedewed with the same tears.'’ Reader, does not his course since the ' war warrant the eloquent Powell in paying the above tribute to Gen. Han- ) cock ? And how different the course of he who when the conflict was over ••sheathed his sword, and laid it upon the shrine of constitutional government,’’ than the course of James A. Garfield, who has occupied the intevening years in keeping alive sectional hatred and the issues of the war. Can any true American citizen hesitate as to which of those two men are best fitted to be President of all the people ? Vote for the man ‘-whose favor no spoils of of“fice can buy, whose voice no mocking •flattery can silence.’’

THE DEMOCKAYY. For weeks prior to last Saturday, Aug. 14th, the Democracy were apparently quiet and inactive. Following Hancocks nomination came spontaneous enthusiasm from ever quarter of this broad land. Democrats everywhere aroused to a true sense of their duty and reported ready for action. But we must confess a lull followed the enthusiasm. For a time it was discouragingly dull, and Republican papers were fast beginning to predict that something was wrong in the Democratic camp. They were at work themselves, but were unable to get up any enthusiasm. Their speeches were dull and uninteresting, as they consisted of nothing but “bloody-shirt” harangues, and those principly delivered by young squirts in the pay of congressional candidates: and. as before stated, it looked gloomy for a time. But last Saturday s work throughout the State of Indiana conclusively proves that we were only getting ready for the battle. Three hundred of the ablest orators in the land were proclaiming the cause of the gallant Union soldier and statesman, Gen. Hancock, at one time in this State. The campaign opened as it never did before, and from this time on the truths of Democracy and free speech, free press, free ballot and equal rights to all men will be heard from Maine to California, from the Gulf to the Northern lakes. Let every friend of the Constitution as it is, —the Union as it was. buckle on his armor and fall into line under the leadership of our gallant standard-bearer, General Hancock.

ATTENTION. DEMOCRATS! The township committee, selected by the central committee, are requested to meet at the court house on Friday evening. Aug 20. Let not one fail to be there. Business of the utmost importance is on hands for consideration, and it is important that there be a full attendance. Democrats, we have been sleeping here in Adams, and now it is high time j something was done. The enemy are ever on the alert, and what wc now need is action. We have let several weeks of cam--1 paign go by. and we have not even an i organization. If the same report was to come from i every county in the State where on earth would we be in October? But now for work. Let not an idle moment pass by. Come to the auditor's office to-mor-j row night. SATI KDA Y'S ME ETINGS. A creditable crowd assembled at the i court-house last Saturday afternoon to listened to the speeches of Messrs. Martin and Hillegass. The speechjes were well received, and it can be truthfully said that the campaign open- ; ed successfully in Adams county. In the evening the court room was comfortably filled by town’s people who attentively listened to speeches from Studabaker, Kain, Baker and Bobo. The ball was fairly set a-roling, and from now on the campaign will be full of life and vigor. —The Lime City Ac.?cs, published at ' Huntington and in the interest of Jack Studabaker, the so-called Greenback candidate for congress and an enemy to labor, is authorized to say that he. Jack, i is not a bondholder and a National banker. Now, then, all we have to say in reply to the above is that he was a I National banker, remained one until he became independently rich off the very ■ men whom he is now begging to vote ] for him, and owns more bonds to-day i than any other man in the 11th conj gressional district. Friends, the aboye is true. Jack Studabaker is the heaviest bondholder in the district today. And yet the old blatherskite is perambulating the district begging Democrats to vote for him in order that Mr. Steele, the Republican candidate, may be elected. —How any intelligent man can vote for a man with such an unsavory record as has Jim Garfield is somethin" O i hard to understand.

-—The Republican press of the country say we are slinging mud at its rebel candidate for the Presidency. It says we are abusive in our remarks; that we do not treat its candidate fairly; that he is entitled to the respect of his political enemies. But let us sail out into the sea of perjured villains where Garfield has been cruising for so many years and see if we can find one little wave of evidence that will warrant the Republican press in charging us with slinging mud at its candidate. We say he is guilty of bribery and perjury. We do not put it too strong when we say that. We go down the slimy banks of bribery and down into the blackened waters of perjury and there we find no source from its foul, blackened waters to pump the sparkling waters of honesty and integrity in behalf of James A. Garfield. He has befouled the pure sparkling waters of God with his perjured heart. Tn the presence of his Maker he sw’ore to a lie. He knew at the time he was swearing to a lie. How do we know he did ? Why the books tell us he did. His own party, his own party papers tell us he did. We speak of him as the books speak of him. We do him no injustice or wrong when we say he swore to a lie, for the books say he did. He is tainted with more sin than any public man we know of. How do we know r it ? Why the New York Times, the leading Republican paper in America, tells us so. Then are we slinging mud when we speak from authority ? The people, and especially the Democratic party, are wholly irresponsible for the unfortunate nomination of Garfield at the Chicago convention, but they will be responsible for his deserved defeat in November. —The Fort Wayne Gazette, and all such traitorous sheets, are enemies to this Union. They should be wiped out of existence and the publishers made to swear allegiance to the Constitution. They want to sever this Union by making one section solid against the other. They are the most dangerous rebels to our form of government, as they want to destroy it both in spirit and in fact. They want to wipe out our state lines and destroy our institutions of liberty. Their candidate for President, the acknowledged corrupt Garfield, is a rebel to this Union. He wants to teardown the institutions we inherit from liberty-lov-ing patriots. He despises a free ballot,, and the rights of the people to select their own officers. He would to-day, if within his power, drive every Democratic State out of the Union and make the remaining ones subservient to the dictates of an Emperor ensconced in the White House with a crown upon his head. But he and his pernicious doctrine of centralization will be so overwhelmingly snowed under in November that the perpetuity of the Union will be assured for many years to come, and rebels like Garfield and the Fort Wayne Gazette will be harmless. The Union will live in spite of them.

—lt would be hard to find a more

contemptible Republican sheet than is the Fort Wayne Daily News. It descends to the slough of degradation for argument, and attempts to cast reflections upon the characters of men pure and noble. It tries to make political capital for James A. Garfield by reflecting upon the characters of some of General Hancock’s relatives. Had the News known from what an ungodly family its own candidate, Garfield sprung it would have remained quiet on such subjects. Now the truth is that few men are surrounded by worse relatives than is Jim Garfield. His relatives are composed of rascals, gamblers, saloon keepers, thieves, penitentiary convicts, brothel pimps and adulterers. One of his cousins is now serving a ten years’ sentence in our own penitentiary at Michigan City for burglary and would-be murder. The fact is James A. Garfield belongs to the lowest of low families, and it would be a pity to see such a man elevated to the office of President, for the whole gang of thieves and pimps would then become servants in the employ of the government. Garfield is the only really corrupt rascal and perjurer ever nomina-1 ted by any party for President.

—The Cleveland Press, a radical Republican paper, is forced to look matters squarly in the face and for once tell the truth. The Press is not one of these bellyaching milk and water sheets; it don’t copy and follow, but on the contrary it originates and leads. Here is what it says in its issue of Monday. We commend it to the blat-ant-mouthed squirts who are presuming to make Republican speeches in Adams county:

“The original Garfield boom which followed immediately after his nomination at Chicago lasted but a few days. The Hancock boom after his nominai tion at Cincinnati swelled and rolled over the country backward and forward for several weeks, and then there came a general lull. The Republicans were the first to break the quiet, save the ripple caused by the publication of Hancock’s letter to Sherman, by their putting their candidate on the road between his home and New York. This now is pretty generally conceded’ to have been a mistake. In the meantime however, the democracy seemed to have gone to sleep. They were unusually quiet from Maine to California and from Minnesota to Florida. The papers over the country began to predict the sure defeat of the party on account of its unaccountable inactivity. However, last Saturday the sleeping organization sprang up with a bound in Indiana, which proved it to have been only napping, and that with one eye open. From one end to the other of the Hoosier state, the principles of the democracy were sounded from stump and platform by the ablest orators of the nation. The party seems to have been aroused to a man. and from all accounts there had been much silent work being done, while the republicans thought their foe sleeping. Many supposed republicans joined in the general arousal, and this morning the hopes of the democracy throughout the union are buoyant. These are the tactics which elected Samuel J. Tilden by a majority of nearly quarter of a million on the popular vote, and by 57 majority on the electoral vote as the ballots were deposited in the ballot boxes. It may Hot mean Gen. Hancock’s election, but it certainly is the serving of a notice on the republican party that the shrewdest manager in American politics is managing Gen. Hancock’s campaign. Barnum is at the head of the democratic national committe, but Tilden is at the helm of the party ship. Jfavell is not a match for him. Jewell should at once be aided by the able men of his party. Conkling, Cameron, and Foster should be pressed into active service at once. There is no time to be lost. Indiana democratic in October and Garfield is as good as defeated. —The Lime City News says that Snider, editor of the defunct Adams County Union, betrayed the Greenback party and made his paper stalwart Republican, all of which is true enough; but tell Snider that and he’ll wade through seven columns of murdered English to prove to the Lagrange chaps that he is not so bad as he appears. —Those who know him best say that Jack Studabaker is immeasurably hoggish in his dealings with farmers. He invariably takes the odd cent, and if reminded of it he argues that to the dealer belongs the odds. —The expenses of Weaver, the Greenback candidate for President, are. it is said, paid by the Republican National Committee. I —The Democrats are now in the field, and they have come to stay. —DeGolyer’s swing around the circle disgusted his friends. EDITOItIAI. BRIEFS. Gen. Grant is at Denver, Col. The Apaches are troublesome. The coal miners around Corning, Ohio, have been on a strike. Eureka, Nevada, was visited Tuesday morning by a $1,000,000 fire. A fire at Glendale, Ohio, Tuesday last destroyed $15,000 worth of property. The m hoc signo vinces fellows are doing I Chicago. There were 20,000 in Tuesday’s I procession. The actress, Neilson, will be laid to eternal rest in Brompton cemetery, London. Peace to her ashes. Senator Conkling will address the Republican mossbacks and rebels of Fort Wayne in a few days. The report on Tuesday to the effect that ' a Republican rough of Kentucky had shot and killed Proctor Knott is happily not true. Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn was renominat- . ed for congress by acclamation on Tuesday last by the Democrats of the Lexington, Ky.,Jdistrict.

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jjANK STATEMENT. Report of the condition of the Adams County Bank, at Decatur, Indiana, at the close of business July 31, 1880: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ... $119,21/ 20 U. S. bonds 15,451 26 Due from banks 71,414 56 Banking house 6,808 40 Real estate 2,143 6$ Furniture and fixtures 2,363 92 Expenses and taxes 3,026 88 Interest paid ”43 0* Stamps 533 08 Cash on hand . . ... 10,725 07 $232,426 54 LIABILITIES. Capital 8 50,000 00 Surplus 17,000 00 Discount 6,343 74 Exchange 367 72 Rent. . . 132 85 Profits undivided 389 37 Individual deposits 157,591 18 Due to banks 601 68 $232,426 54 State of Indiana, county of Adams, Ss. 1, W. H. Niblick, Cashier of the Adams County Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. H. NIBLICK, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of August, 1880. JOHN P. QUINN, Notary Public Adams Co , Ind. Aug. 19, 1880. SALE OF DITCH. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been notified in writing, by Jacob N Rian, a land owner and person interested in the so-called Tester Ditch, situated in Jefferson township, Adams county, that the following named person, to-wit: Henrv Derkes, has failed to procure the excavation or construction of such part of said ditch as was apportioned to him by the viewers appointed according to law, in the manner and time specified in the report made by said viewers. I shall, therefore, in pursuance of Section 12 of the Ditch Law, approved March 9, 1875, on Friday the 17th day of September, 1880, atJ2 o’clock, P. M., at the Court House door in Decatur, let to the lowest and best responsible bidder, the excavation and construction of so much of the said Tester ditch as is described below, to-wit: From Station 0 to Station 18. being 1800 lineal feei apportioned by said viewers to Henry Derkes. Said work to be done strictly in accordance with the specifications attached to the report of the viewers, filed in ihe Audjtort • ffice, Adams count), Ind Bidders will be required to file a bond, with good and sufficient security payable to the above mentioned Henry Derkes for the faithful performance of said work within the time specified at the day of the letting G. CHRISTEN. Auditor Adams County, Auditor’s Office, Adams County, Indiana. Aug. 17, 1880. TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Adams county, Ss. In the Adams Circuit Court, September term, 1880. Charles Brock vs. John Philips, Margaret Reiter, Levi Reiter, Tacy Philips, John Hindman, ; William Hindman, ' Mary Griffith, Griffith, her husband, whose Christian name is to the Complaint to plaintiff unknown Quiet title. Ruth Jackson, No. 1398. John Jackson, Ann Hindman, Martha Cunningham, Theodore Cunningham, Albert F. Philips, Charles H. Philips, William R. Philips, Mary C. Philips, Joseph Clayton, Mary Clayton, and Lucinda Clayton. It appearing from affidavit, filed in theabove entitled cause, that John Philips, Margaret Reiter, Levi Reiter, TaCy Philips, John Hindman. William Hindman, Mary Griffith, Griffith, her husband, whose Christian name is to the plaintiff unknown, Ruth Jackson, John Jackson, Ann Hindman, Martha Cunningham, and Theodore Cunningham, of the above named defendants, are non-residents of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said John Philips, Margaret Reiter, Levi Reiter, lacy Philips, John Hindman: William Hindman, Mary Griffith, Griffith, her husband, whose Christian name is to the plaintiff unknown, Ruth Jackson, John Jackson, Ann Hindman, Martha Cunningham, and Theodore Cunningham that they be and appear before the Hon. Judge of the Adams circuit court on the 13th day of the next regular term thereof, the same being Monday, October 11, 1880, to be holden at the court house in the town of Decatur, commencing on Monday, the 27th day of September, A. D. 1880, and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. II itness my name and the seal of said court hereto affixed, this 16th day of August A. D. 1880. N. BLACKBURN, Clerk. Aug. 19, 1880. Studabaker & Quinn, att’ys.