Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1890 — Page 4

®he democrat Jr. JWaOJU VRlf, Proprietor. FRIDAY, SEPT. 19.1590. T~ Democratic Ticket. :: For Judge of the Supreme Court, :Dem.: • ! JOSEPH A. S. MITCHELL. For Secretary of State, :Dem.: :: CLAUDE MATTHEWS. 5" For Auditor of State. :Dem.: : : JOHN O. HENDERSON. For Treasurer of State, :Dem.: 5 ALBERT GALL. For Attorney General, :Dem.: * ALONZO G. SMITH, 5: For Clerk of the Supreme Court, :Dem.: ANDREW W. SWEENEY, f '■ ;•: For Superintendent of Public IniDem.. Rtructlon, ♦- ; * HERVEY D. VORIES. s' :: For Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, ;Dem.: WILLIAM A. PEELE, JR, - For State Geologist, B. :Dem.: | SYLVESTER 8. GORBY. ;: For Congress, 11th District, ■F :Dem.: AUGUSTUS N. MARTIN, Os Wells County. p y or Senator, A dams, Blackford and : Dem.: Jay Counties, ;: HARRY B. SMITH. :: For Joint Representative, Adams, . . :Dem.: Blackford and .lav Counties, JOHN BRANSTRE'fTER. x ;•: For Joint Representative Adams and :Dem.: Jay Counties, ; RICHARD K. ERWIN. ;: For Prosecuting Attorney 3th Judi;Dem.: cial Circuit. ;; GEORGE T. WHITAKER. ;: For Auditor, : Dem.: ;: WILLIAM H. 11. FRANCE. ;: For Clerk, : Dem.: ;: JOHN H. LENHART. For Treasurer, :Dem.: ;: PERRY ROBISON. :: For Recorder, :Dem.: ;: WILLIAM BAUGHMAN. ;••••••: For Sheriff, :D«m.. : : mark m. mcconnell. ;..... a.- For surveyor, :Detr>- : •: •TO’ w. TYNDALL. '' '■ r F<<r Coroner, ; Deni.: OLIVEht. MAY. :: . For Com mission©--— First District, -.Dem.: ; :: HENRY D. Fl ELLING. :: For Commissioner -Second District, •Dem.: . : : CONRAD BRaKE. How to Vote.—The voter who votes a straight ticket has but to stamp Isquare at the head of the ticket. If it is intended to vote a mixed ticket, the voter will then stamp the square opposite the nameof ci c h candidate tor whom be votes. - —— Poor Harrison. The f an party of his own state in deserting him! The Vfhitiey county in-j >rt. -Jon is still in the “soup.” If the Re- * publica.’? party ciarasi' to rescue # him they will please look tor him It might be well for President Harrison to keep his left weather eye on Reed. If reports are true Reed will be attempting to get Harrison’s job in 1893. It must be humiliating for the Republican bosses in this county to notice Ashcraft making scores of Democratic votes by his injudicious newspaper attacks on the citizens of his own county. The Republican state convention declared in favor of opening our markets more freely to the products of.other countries. That is a free / trade idea broad and simple and gives their protection “chestnut” a very black eye. The western farmers have placed . binder twine on the free list in the Senate tariff bill. The western farmer discovers that the Republican party has been giving him the “razzlexlazzle” about long enough and he begins to kick. _■ . ML • The present Congress has already created 1,161 liew offices at a salary of 11,235,400 a year and is not yet «done. The spoils system, as gener. ously and vigorously applied by Harrison, is so good a thing that it inevitably leads to an increase of the spoils. • Czar Reed received a congratulatory telegram last week from the Republican state convention while Harrison received only a passing notice. This most assuredly led Reed to believe that he was a bigger man in Harrison’s own state than the President himself. The Republican state convention * failed to give “blocks-of-five” Dudley a certificate of good moral character and praise him for bis eminent services to the party. The ingratitude of the leaders is painfully apparent It almost amounts to a k confession of guilt on their part. Now that the Maine racket is over, let us next hear from Pen ns y I ▼ania— especially from Matt Quay, * the chairman of the Republican 3 National committee, who is charged by his own party with gross frauds -And branded as a “criminal” by a ' Republican congressman on the floor of the House.

LEA VES I'IIE G. O. P. Ex-Governor Cameron, of Virginia, ii out in a letter in which he renounces his allegiance to the Republican He details at length his reasons for doing «o, a few of which are herewith presented: - ♦. The ex-governor says that the Lean party has become sectional, and is now trying to keep in power by reviving the passions of the war. He denounces the party for the failure to pass the Blair educational bill; condemns the lodge bill, which he says is regarded by one section as a blunder, and by the other as a crime: says the President has done nothing south of Mason and Dixon’s line since his inauguration except to recognize with 'reluctance that any such a country exists, and says his appointments in the South havt been of men without capacity or influence He concludes: “But one thing rqinains, in my judgment, tor us to do—for men who recognize a higher duty than that which can be expressed by a party name —and that is, to free ourselves from all part and lot with a party which has no faith too sacred for violation, and recognizes no pledge as too solemn to tie broken. I can not lend myself to the oppression of my people, and if there is no political organization which meets the full measure of our approval we can at least leave that violates our every idea of right and sentiment. Not presuming to set up for any other man or set of men a standard of duty, and willing to concede to every one else that freedom of thought and action I have always claimed for myself, my resolve founded on a desire to be true to myself and my country, is to refuse all sympathy or co-operation with the Republican party in the crusade against this section which it now espouses and under the leadership to which it submits. Officers of the state democratic and republican committees held a conference at Indianapolis Saturday and agreed upon the following joint committee upon information concerning the new election law: Democrats, Hon. James McCabe, Judge Niblack and J. P. Dunn; republicans, Col. J. B. Black, A. C. Harris and R. O. Hawkins. Messrs. McCabe and Black, are members, by appointment of the Governor, of the State Board of Election Commissoners. The joint committee met Wednesday night and prepared instructions to voters and the various officers provided by the terms of the new election law. When these instructions are agreed upon they will be signed by the members of the committee and by the chairman of the two state committees, and made public to the people of the state. e 11 . ".'iL When in his thoughtful moments the Republican farmer after carefully noting the policy and drift of his party on the tariff question comes to the conclusion that after all “tariff is a tax.” lie sees that’ protection chiefly the trusts raahuWtlir'rs' in which no interest: that the high ?HLd republican statesmen have been giving the agriculturalists the “razzle-dazzle.” Then he swears he’ll never vote with the g. o. again but when the election ■ comes off he goes to the polls and quietly slips in a ticket for protection. Thus the Republican farmer is always open to conviction and ever ready to pay the highest price for what he buys and n&eive the lowest for that which he sells. The Indianapolis Eews an ultra Republican newspaper, rips the Republican platform up the back in great shape. Among other things the JVefcs says that “it indicates a poverty of resources,. a paucity of living issues, for which, indeed, the platform makers are not responsible, but the shifty and redundant expression, the bald disjointed chat that occupies itself with so much that is irrevalent indicates that courage has oozed out and faint harted bluster is the chief resort. Even the indorsement of a republican administration, it says, headed by an Indianian is almost ghastly in its joy-” o . The resolutions adopted by the republicans at Huntington about Hon. A. N. Martin being an enemy to the soldiers is worse than bosh, nays the Portland Sun. The soldier* throughout the district will answer thi* at the polls on the 4tb of November next. There is not a member in congress who has been more attentive to the interests of the soldier than Mr. Martin, and they know his worth. Their confiidence in him is unshaken, and no set of resolutions can change their minds. Ashcraft, the Journal “hoo-doo,” stands m the same attitude toward his party in this county as President Harrison stands toward the Republican party of the state. Both are despised by the party and both are sure to be cast overboard at the first opportunity from the tact that they are entirely to insignificant for the positions they seek to fill. The World’s Fair at Chicago will be held on the lake front and at Jackson park. The cite has been permantly agreeed upon after , month* of wrangling.

This is the way the resolutions adopted by the republican state convention run: We indorse the administration of Benjamin Harmon, etc., etc., cordial!v indorse the ad ministration of GeV. Alvin P. Hovey, etc., etc. We heartily indorse .the action of the republicans in congress under the brilliant aid fearless leadership of Thomas B. Feed, etc.„ etc. So while the convention gave Harrison only a plain indorsement, it gave Hovey a indorsement and Reed and his associates a “hearty” indorsement. This was pretty rough on Harrison. But the fact that the president of the convention, Col. Richard W. Thompson did not once mention Harrison ot make the most distant allusion to him, and that from the calling of the convention to order to the declaration of its adjournment Harrison was not mentioned or referred to in any way by any of the participants was a good deal rougher on him. We believe this is the first time in the history of the country that a president of the United States has been so utterly ignored in a convention of his own party, held in his own state.—lndianapolis Sentinel. The Journal appears to be considerably interested in the county superinteridency question just at this time and its columns have been filled with abuse of individuals whom it imagines are candidates for that office. This is in fact not at all surprising. The Journal has no higher in politics than to attempt to destroy the political interests of supposed candidates for any office by assailing character in the most debasing and cowardly manner. But this policy will avail the Journal nothing. If it continues to pursue a hostile spirit toward any 1 individual, it will be the means of establishing his worth as a claimant for the place and tend toward his election whether h# is a candidate or not. The Journal should realize by this time, that silence is golden when Republican interests are not in jeopardy.

The Republicans threw out quite a bait so they thought to the Catholic and Lutheran voters of the state when they inserted iq their state platform that they were opposed to any interference with the rights now conceded to cfeLizens maintaining private or parochial schools, Jbut th|TougW inadvertency tb«y counteraclted any good results that might have been attained through that art fice, by declaring in favor of free text books. The platformmakers should have known that school text books, if made free, would have to be paid for by those vc/y individuals whose votes they wanted and who, by the way, would have no occasion whatever to use the books. The Election in Maine developed two important facts, if nothing more. It showed that the Republicans have not abandoned their old of using “boodle” in closely elections and also that Blaine 'continues to be the great guiding of the party, despite the fact tjhat Harrison draws pay Tor b'eini president and seeks to t rack the" party whip by virtue of his high position. The result in Maine is facie evidence of the truth,/of this assertion. Blame and Ree,/d rule the roost. - The Democrat will undertake to expldin very minutely the new system of voting as required by the present election law, between now and the November election, so that every elector who reads the paper may be fully informed as to what his duties are when he comes to cast his ballot. In view of this special feature of the paper, every voter in the county should cuL*e up and subscribe it he is not already taking the Democrat. We din’t say that “the Democratic vote there is to some extent deplorably ignorant,” but we did say, however, “that there are certain classes of citizens who seem to be ignorant ot every purpose in life except the promotion of their owp ipterests and those interests do rjot extend beyond the limits of their fayms.”—W. E. Ashcraft. If this latter assertion dbn’t signify substantially what the former assertion does, will the Journal take the pains to point out the difference in their meaning? If there are two hundred ignorant voters in Adams county according to the Wabash. Plain Dealer's report or Ashcraft’s speech or “those whose interests don't extend beyond the limits of their farms,” as stated in a recent issue of the Decatur Journal, will the editor please name them out that the public may know them.

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In trying to of hjsdiLemnu. tain classes of Democrats tiff we referred as seeming to bt ignorant of every purpose in life except ing their immediate home ii terests are the Amish people.” Thi statement is contradicted by the editor of the Portland Republica who declares Ashcraft said “that many Democrats [not Amish people] there do not care anything about politics and on that account the new elect ion law will keep many away from the polls.” The Re}, blican man declares he heard his r< marks. Now it is evident that somebody has shamefully lied about this matter and there is no other belief prevalent but that the Wabash Plain Dealer told the plain truth when' it made the first published re} >rt of Ashcraft’s speech in which he is quoted as saying that, “The Demo-cratic-vote there is to some extent deplorably ignorant and the Bourbons are afraid of the new ystem of voting.” So far Ashcraft has. utterly tailed to extricate himself from his embarrassing posjticm. In fact it is evident he is in a b< x. And now they say that Senator Matt Quay is preparing to mswer his Republican accusers who have denounced him as an embezzler and a thief. He thinks that while a Matt may be walked on, the floor must not be wiped up with it. In case he gets to ta)[king he might possibly say something that would act like a bombshell in the Republican ranks, and for that reason his friends should prevail upon his still. So long as a man keeps quite he is not likely to get himself and his party in the soup. Ashcraft has suddenly dropped onto this fact, but too late to keep him from going overboard. , Barring the claims of James G. Blaine, Czar Reed is by odds the biggest man in the Republican party to-day. Notwithstanding Reed has his eye on the presidency since his re-election io congress by the use of a barrel of boodle, he will never come any nearer reaching the position than Editor Ashcraft w II in big desire for the Decatur post-office. Both a»e in babi* talking too much when away from b<W.e snd that is what will do them up in the end. i

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