Decatur Democrat, Volume 24, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1880 — Page 4

FHE DEMOCRAT. RY S. RAY WIULIAMFS Terms: $1.50 a Year in Advance. DECATUR, INDIANA, Thursday, Sept. 9, 1880. s . j ?I||WILUiM HBiCLIStU«j •• :7 v A? '®§Ssc> DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President, «F.V W. *. HANCOCK, of Pennsylvania. For Vice President, HON WTI 81. ENGLISH, of Indiana. DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS. At Harris’ school house, Monroe township, Wednesday evening, Sept. 1. At Berger school house, Kirkland township, Thursday evening, Sept. 2. At Baker school house. Wabash township, Friday evening. Sept. 3. At Election school house, French township, Saturday evening, Sept. 4. By order of the Central Committee. Senator Voorhees to be at Portland Sept. 521st. Senator P. W. Voorhees and Hon. Robt McLane, of Maryland, will address the citizens of Jay and surrounding counties on Sept. 21st. We had hoped that the Senator would be here some time during the campaign, but it seems he has appointments up to the eve of the October election, and in view of that fact it is quite probable that many of our citizens will avail themselves of the opportunity of hearing him at Portland. THE JOINT DISCUSSION. Last Friday evening the editor of this paper and several others of our towns people went to Fort Wayne to hear the joint discussion between the Democratic and Republican candidates for Governor, Hon. Frank Landers and Hon. A. G. Porter, and in no partisan spirit do we emphatically say that Mr. Porter was a badly used up man. We say this because it is a fact. The Ga zette's account of the discussion was unjust and unfair. It was a perversion of facts from beginning to end. t It says that Mr. Porter was interrupted during his opening speech, which is absolutely untrue, as no speaker was ever listened to with more marked attention than was this same speaker during his opening address. But no sooner had Mr. Landers proven Mr. Porter a willful and malicious liar, than some of the hot-heads began their interruption of the speaker. And no one knows this fact better than the Gazette man knows it. Mr. Landers used his antagonist completely up. as he proved him a liar nine different and distinct times, and dared him to deny it. And what was the result when Mr. Porter got up to reply? Vhy simply that on these important questions he was as mum as an oyster. And when requested and even defied by the Democrats to give an explanation of the points that Landers had made against him he very adroitly let them alone. On the silver question he almost swamped. His party friends trembled for him, as he got so mixed up and so at sea with the question that they knew the result must be a failure. And true it was. For he left it as abrupt as a machine poet winds up the last verse of a poem. He left it without making a single point in his favor. And finally, thinking he must make a point of some kind against the friend of labor, he charged that Mrs. Landers owned stock in a National bank. But no sooner had he made the charge.

disgusting and low as it was, than it was hurled back at him with such force that he slunked like a whipped cur and took it back right then and there. Then the Democrats made him acknowledge that he was worsted, after which he cross-fired with the roughs like a pot-house politician. The scene was so disgusting, and Porter was being handled so mercilessly by the crowd that Mr. Landers and other distinguished citizens left the stand, but not until Mr. Porter’s time was up. To use a vulgar expression, Frank Landers turned the kid-gloved Por ter inside out, and he so completely thumped him around that the Republicans were left to gather up a few greese spots and carry them to the hotel. Landers is far better posted on the issues of the day than is Porter. —On Tuesday, August 29th, Mr. James A. Garfield and Richard C. Parsons were observed in a room in the Kennard house, Cleveland, Ohio, by a reporter of the Press. Parsons was walking up and down the room in his shirt sleeves in a nervous and excited state of mind. Garfield’s face was red, and he appeared much excited. The Press says that various rumors are abroad as to the cause of the scene. The Press, which is very radical Republican, says there is no doubt but what they were talking about the DeGolyer paving contract, and that Garfield could well afford to be excited, as his connection with the notorious DeGolyer will probably cost him the highest office in the world. But there is no need of the people worrying or wondering about the matter as it was simply a couple of rogues quarrelling over the swag. It is of no consequence to the people.

—The Journal says that Mr. Bell, its candidate for county treasurer, is a very fair-minded man, and will make an excellent county treasurer. All of which is very false and very wrong in the Journal, as he is not a fair-minded man at all. He is as hot-head a radical as there is in the county. He is even now nursing his wrath to keep it warm in the vain hope that some day he may have the power to completely annihilate every man who has an idea contrary to his own. And as making an excellent county treasurer, the Journal should have a little regard for its candidate’s feelings, as he will come within about fourteen hundred votes of making no treasurer at all.

—The vulgar blatherskite, Billy Williams, who is perambulating the country in the atitude of a Republican stump orator, recently bored a small crowd at Bluffton, after which he went and got drunk. We understand that had not some of the leading citizens exerted their influence against it the marshal would have locked him up in the calaboose. How is that for a party that has within its folds all the sobriety in the land ? —The other day while Hayes and Garfield were quartered in the Kennard house at Cleveland, Ohio, no person noticed them. There was no unusual stir about the house. Immediately across the street. Bank street, was a crowd of about one hundred who bad gathered around a drunken woman. Their coming had been advertised in all the daily papers of the city, but not a single extra copy was sold on the day of their arrival. But on the previous day the Press sold over six hundred extra copies in consequence of a full report of a base-ball game. And a few days prior to the one in question Hayes past through Cleveland en route for his home at Fremont. It was announced that he would pass through on a certain train, but when he arrived the only persons to greet him at the depot were two deputies from the Cleveland postoffice. But the cause of all this is plain. Hayes is only a nominal president. He is occupying an office that belongs to another. It was stolen from’ the people for him.

—The South Bend Herald has deposited S2OO in a bank of that town and offers it to any person or persons who can prove to the people that Garfield is an honest man. It has been on deposit for over two weeks and as yet no

; man has undertaken th* job. It can t be did. There is no danger of his losing the two hundred dollars. —‘‘Hancock” is a vulgar word. Ladies should not use it; neither should it be permitted to enter the White House.— Decatur Journal. The above is an editoral in the Decatur Journal of last week. We reluctantly reproduce it and trust our subscribers will not take offense thereat, as we simply give it a place in The Democrat to let the people of Adams county know what kind of a paper the Republican sheet of the county is. We do not hold Mr. Stanton, one of the proprietors of the Journal, responsible for the above, as we believe he has a mind too lofty and broad to indulge in anything so low, so contemptible, so mean. The responsibility must rest with the editor of that paper, Mr. Trout. We have no desire to comment on it. It needs none. It deserves none. It carries with it such immeasurable evidence of the littleness, of the narrowmindedness, of its author that it needs nothing further than a reproduction, so that the people of Adams county may know or have some kind of an idea as to how the profession of journalism is imposed upon. When a man is so narrowminded as to oppose another because of his name it is time for him to pass from the stage of action on this mundane sphere, and especially when he speaks of another’s name being vulgar, and more especially when he speaks of the name of Hancock as being a vulgar name. Friend and foe, think of it! The name of Hancock, a name that will live in the memory and hearts of men while the world stands ! The most conspicuous name that emblazons our Declaration of Independence, a Declaration that will finally enter, says Bancroft, in spirit and potential influence, into the intimate Structure of all governments. And yet, at this advanced age, in this en lightened time, and in a State where education can be obtained without money and without price, have we here in Adams county a man who assumes to be a journalist, publishing ’ a public print,—a print that goes into the office, the store, the work shop, and into the household where it comes before the eyes of the old and young, the educated and refined, —whose mind is so narrow, so contracted, as to actuate him in publishing to the world that one of the dearest names to living America is a vulgar name and should not be used by ladies. It is difficult to conceive of anything so little and contemptible, but it is just to say that the Republicans of Decatur are thoroughly disgusted with and ashamed of the editor of their paper.

—The wood-cut at the top of the Democratic national ticket resembles the advertisement of a patent medicine for making hair grow on the smoothest sac and after taking— Fort Wnyne Gazette. And the wood-cut at the top of the Republican national ticket resembles the photographs, as sent out from Pinkerton’s office, of horse thieves and counterfeiters. That phiz of Arthur’s will cost the Republican party a million votes. —There is no longer any doubt in the minds of the leaders as to who will be the next Governor of Indiana. Landers’ majority will not be far from fifteen thousand. —The Decatur Democrat says that Alexander Hamilton was a traitor : We next expect to hear from the same source that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat and that Jeff Davis was a Republican. — Decatur Journal. And we reiterate that to our republican form of government Alexander Hamilton was a traitor. He wanted a strong, or in other words, a centralized government, just such an one as your candidate ’ for President wants. He wanted to wipe out our republican institutions and render ineffective the voice of the people. And Jim Garfield holds dear the same damnable, traitorous, ideas. The Democratic candidate, General Hancock, says the Constitution, that precious document that in the affairs of government places the laborer and capitalist on the same footing, is inviolable. It is the supreme jaw bf the land. As to what

you may expect to hear we care nothing, as the expectations of one so narrowminded arc of little consequence to anybody. OKNEVA GDEANINftS. BY RUS-TI-CUB. Politics are waxing warm. The roads are getting desperate. They see the handwriting on the wall. Charley Platt says that the next Republican that offers to buy his vote, will find himself getting up about ten feet from where he last stood. The nonappearance of a speaker was quite a disappointment at Berne last Saturday. Erve Thompson has rented his farm and will move to town soon. Peaches sold on our streets last Saturday for 60 cents per bushel. Tullis has not recovered from his overdose of turkey. He still has trouble to suppress the gobble. Alex. Robinson’s little boy Frankey, jumped from the top of the fence a few days ago, and seriously injured himself. Jerry Cartwright says he wishes he had 1100 children and all boys. He would insure them all for Hancock.

Don,t fail to come to the pole raising at Geneva on Saturday, which will take place at 10 o’clock A. M. Speaking at 10 o’clock P. M. Quite a croud met at Berne last Saturday, and raised a pole 110 feet high, under the auspices of the gallant democracy of that place. Don’t you forget that the boys of Berne and vicinity, are rallying to the cause of one of the most gallant, true and noble patriots since the days of Jackson. Joe. Bullenbaugh bought Cartwright’s goods, and will fill up with a new stock of everything in the grocery line, which he will sell at rock bed prices. Some of the Genevaites attended the Church dedication, two and a half miles South of Skeels’ cross roads last Sunday. And some, the camp meeting at Portland. Quite a number of cases of sickness are in town, and among them are a couple of the children of C. K. Thompson, who are dangerously sick. The “loil” leagues met last Saturday evening at the school house, where speeches were made by three of the most noted orators of the organization. Mike. McGriff has been quite sick, but not from an overdose of turkey, as was the case with Robinson and Tullis. It was for the want of a small dose. Quite a croud assembled at the depot last Saturday morning, tq see the two candidates for Governor, as they were to pass through on the train that morning. When the train stopped the old yeoman Franklin Landers came out among the boys and gave them all a hearty shake. Not so with the aristocratic Albert G. Porter, the Repub lican candidate, and after being called for would not even show himself. There is not enough people in Geneva who part their, hair in the middle for Mr. Porter. It shows conclusively that he belongs to the monied aristocracy and not to the farming and laboring class of people. If he won’t notice you when a candidate what in the d—l will he do when he is not. A cull’d gem’men of Portland, and a brudder of the stalwarts, was in town on Saturday, flinging his pocket-book around and offered te bet $50.00 that the kid-gloved Porter would be elected, expecting to bluff some one, but when Alex. Robinson put up the $50.00 and told the Republican hireling to cover it he failed to come to time. Died.—Sept. Ist. 1880, of cholera infantum. Mary Zilpha, infant daughter of G. W. and Celista Donart. Aged 9 months and 20 days. Its remains were taken to Willshire, Ohio, for interment. Mr. and Mrs. D. wishes us to say through The Democrat, that the neighbors and friends have their heartfelt gratitude for their kindness during the illness of little Zilphia. The Hancock and English club met Sept. 6, 1880, and made the fpllowing arrangements for the speaking and pole raising Saturday next. On motion. Abe. Harrod. Jerrv Cartwright • 0 7 J. Cook and Mm. Shoemaker, were appointed as a committee to get the

pole. On motion, Wm. Briggs and D. C. Carpenter were appoint as a committee on splicing, and Alex. Robinson pre pairing the bands for the splice. It was further ordered that the altitude of the pole should be 150 feet. N. P. Heaston and A. B. Tullis, were appointed the Marshals of the day. J. D. Hale, I. Hook and C. K. Thompson, were appointed a committee on reception. On suggestion, the chairman appointed J. W. Kelley, G. W. Byran, Isaac Heinberger, Wm. Briggs, John Goff, Oscar. Lyons, Wm. Wiley, Anson Roll and Wm. Moore, as a committee to prepare the grove for the speaking. Mike McGriff, George Kelley and Jim. Riggs,’are the committee on the “hole. I. Hook, President. J. P. Higgs, Secretary. Notice of Settlement. All parties knowing themselves indebted to Mr. Burns are hereby notified that settlement must be made immediately. M. Burns. Decatur Ind., Sept. 9, 1880. 4w. TAKE NOTICE. All persons are hereby warned to not haul from, or in any manner cut or destroy any timber on my land, situated near J. D. Hoffman’s, in Kirkland township, Adams county, ind. 3ws. S. S. Bottenfield. Look I Look!! Look!!! All persons knowing themselves indebted to me, either by note or bookaccount, are hereby notified to call and settle the same immediately. I am going to close up business here and must have a settlement. I. Strass, The Clothier. Decatur, Aug 26, ’BO. ts.

4 PPOINTMENTOF EXECUTOR. A Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed Executor with the Will annexed of the estate of Eli Berry? late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. SAMUEL D. BEAVERS. Sept 9th, 1880. Executor. U xi HISKEY & SPANGLER UNDERTAKERS Opposite Adams County Bank, Call the attention of the public generally to a large and comblete line of BURIAL CASKETS AND COFFINS. A And to the fact that f hey are using the . it. ANTI-SEPTIC FLUID, For Embalming, Mummifying, Disinfecting and Purfuming the flesh of the dead, and of Preserving the Features in a natural state. A fine line of SHROUDS Are also kept on hand. In addition to their undertaking establishment they have the largest and most complete stock of FHITIIBE Ever offered to the people of Adams County. Dot t purchase one dollar’s worth of Furniture before examining their stock and prices. HISKEY & SPANCLERDecatur. Ind., Sept. 9, ’SO ly.