Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1890 — Page 4

She gemurrat g.., ...... - Jf. BIAOKBUBN, Proprietor. FRIDAY, OCT. 10.1890. ~ ;. Democratic Ticket. :«•••••: F O r Judge of the Supreme Court, :Dem.: 5; JOSEPH A. S. MITCHELL. For Secretary of State, ; t: CLAUDE MATTHEWS. ' ««•••■•• For Auditor of State, ;Dem.: ' :JOHN <•. HENDERSON. Ky: ;'■••••: For Treasurer ot State, : Dem.: : ' ALBERT GALL. For t t ovut ,. q eneral, & . ;Dem.: £ •: ALONZO G. SMITH, w :: For Clerk ot the Supreme Court, • :Deiu.:. : ANDREW W. SWEENEY. :: For-Superintendent of Public In- , :Dem,. struct ion, ; HERVEY 1). VO RIES. For Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, rj :Dein.: F. WILLIAM A. PEELE, JR, ; - •:: For State Geologist, P »:Dem.: SYLVESTER S. GORBY. :: - For Congress, 11th District, ;Dein.: . AUGUSTUS N. MARTIN, Os Wells County. :: For Senator. Adams. Blackford and ’.Dem.: Jay Counties. ; HARRY B.'SMITH. y or Representative, Adams, :Dem.: Blackford and Jav Counties, ;: JOHN BRANSTRE'ITER. ■» ;: For Joint Representsti. e Adams and :Dem.: .lav Counties, ; :• RICHARD K..ERWIN. ;■: For Prosecuting Attorney ith Judi;Dem.: cial Circuit. ;: GEORG ET. Wlll TA KER., :: For Auditor, :Dem.: - - ' ’: WILLIAM 11. H. FRANCE. ; : Clerk, ;Dem.: -.T' » f: < JOHN H. LENHART. I - ':": For Treasurer,• :Dem.: « PERRY ROBISON. For Recorder, : Dem.: 1.......: WILLIAM BAUGHMAN. For Sheriff, : Dem.: . , ;: MARK M. MeCONNELL. ; ■ • , For Surveyor, : Dem.: : t JOHN W. TYNDALL. For Coroner, ” :Dem.: t: OLIVER T. MAY. :: For Commissioner—First District, : Dem.: . ;: HENRY D. FUELLING. ' ::: For Commissioner—Second District, •Dem.: ■ :: CONRAD BRAKE. O How TO Vote. —The voter who votes a straight ticket has but to stamp the square at the head of the ticket. If it is intended to vote a mixed ticket, the voter will then stamp the square opposite the name of each candidate for whom he votes. Harrison, protection and high . taxes. Whew! How the Republicans give it to Ashcraft! The new election law is death on the Republican boodlers of the Dudley stripe. Even the boots and shoes with which the country kicks at tariff taxes, is taxed. The McKinley tariff bill should be classed with the Louisiana octopus. Both steal from the people. There is a tariff on coffins and ’ the cost of dying as well as of living has been increased by the new tariff bill. How do Christian parents who 1 take the Decatur Journal admire the Sunday school literature that the paper contained last week? The rotten Decatur Journal is a .« stench in respectable Republican households in Adams county. It’s nausea is giving many patrons the jim-jams,. October 6th was a black-letter day. The sixty percent McKinley highway robber tariff bill went into effect. The party who perpetrated the steal will, live to regret it. Stick a pin there. Hom. JohN W. Bookwalter, of Ohio, says Cleveland and Blaine will head the National tickets in 1892. If so, Blaine will run up agajnst a mascot and get' slightly - disfigured just as he did in ’B4. 1 he monopolist’s robber schedule « went into effect last Monday. An individual must now stand and deliver to the thieving tyrants whether he cares to. do so or not. The demand will be: Come, shell out! History repeats itself. Harrison like Hayes, will be cast overboard by the Republican party for a second term. The people want neither a president who has been counted . \ , i > in by fraud nblrone secured through blocks-of-five\metliodfe, longer than one terin? j ] Every tax payer in Adams county will find it to his interest,to vote the Democratic ticket this fall. Our candidates for county office especially commend themselves to the voters as being fully competent for the offices, trustworthy and in all desirable men. The Democratic bounty ticket should gain straight from top to bottom. j

The population of Indiana as shown by the census report is 2,’ 189,030, an increase of 210,729 in ten years. Ashcraft is “doing himself up” in Decatur just as he did in Argos. The fellow it appears has a knack ot hanging himself wherever he goes. The election takes place in three weeks from next Tuesday. , They ought to be three very busy weeks with every Democrat in the county who is interested in the advancement of the principles of Democracy. Joseph D. Beery, the Farmer's Alliance man, nominated for representative m this district by the Republicans, declines to make a canvass for the office. He don’t care about running for the fun of the thing. The tariff duties on agricultural products as fixed by the McKinley bill is a farce and a fraud. It is simply a “blind” for the farmers and gotten up to retain their votes that they might be plundered the more effectually. fe Higher blankets, tinware, tools, crockery, cottons, clothing, shoes, etc. Whjt a blessing the McKinley tariff bill is, anyway, to the farmer and laboring man. The individual who is a good republican will still remain a great American martfr to political faith. The man who goes to the tailor to buy a suit of clothes or to the dry goods store to buy a carpet will wish from the bottom of his heart and from the depths of his pocket book that the foreigner really did pay the tax. He will find that the price of these articles are advancing by the duties of the McKinley tariff bill. The Republican party “fried the fat” out of the manufacturers in order to elect a Republican congress and President. The result was the McKinley highway robber tariff. Now it can be truthfully said the manufacturers are “frying the fat” out of the people to recompense them for tlieir contributions to the campaign fund. Some of the Republican stump orators x>f this city and. county will soon be telling the dear people that the “tariff is not a tax” —in other words that “tax is not tax,” etc. Most of them, however, will simply review the history of the g. o. p. from time immemorial and finish their say just.before reaching the tax question. , The farmer who wants low taxes has no use for a Democratic ticket this campaign.—Portland Commercial. O, thou inconsistency! The effect, the McKinley tariff bill is already having on the price of various commodities which are rapidly advanc ing, proves conclusively that “protection’ is the greatest humbug of the age andjobs the farmer upon every hand. The farmer who desires todceep the mortgages off his farm should look with suspicion on the policy of the Republican jiarty. The Republican farmer ought to be supremely happy, whether he is or not. To' the advantage of his having tin? congress and President on his side, there has been added for his especial benefit heavy duties on the products'of his farm that his party tells him will be a great blessing to him; and, together with the increased tariff rates on manufactured products he is compelled to buy, he should feel the greatest obligation to his party for these superb blessings that fall thick and fast upon his head. Even if it should so happen that they would tend toward placing a mortgage upon his little home, he must not murmur. The Republican party is doing it and it is all right. The Republican candidate for congress, Col. C. E. Briant, is now making a canvass in the district. He will not tell the tax-burdened )that he voted against a bill to reduce the fees and salaries of county officers; he will not tell those who favor free, unpurchased elections, that he dodged voting on the new election law and voted against the Lacy bill to prohibit the purchase of votes; he will not tell the young teacher seeking an education that he voted against an appropriation to rebuild the State normal school; he will not tell the farmers, if elected, he will vote with his party to increase the tariff taxes which have virtually / impoverished the f inner and enriched the eastern manufacturer. +— Huntington Democrat. ,1

President Harrison is making a tour ot the west this week and will stop over Sunday in Indianapolis. Last week’s Decatur Journal eclipsed all other efforts m vulgarity, blaek-guardism and general rotteness. As a street slum organ it takes first rank. j Ex-President Cleveland is coming west un a brief trip. The people are as anxious to see him its the west as they will be to vote for him for president in 1892. Editor Ashcraft's insignificance, extends beyond the limits of Decatur. Even the Republican papers of Portland refused to note his presence at the convention in that city week before last. ? The Louisiana lottery has been boomed for a great many years. Now let the thieving octopus be doomed. There will be more money in this part of the country with which to purchase the necessaries of life.' President Harrison signed the tariff bill Mnd then gave to Congressman Mason, of Chicago, the pen* with which he wrote his name. Mason will be throwing the nen away in disgust when he hears Ahe .cries for relief from this oppressive measure coming from the toiling millions all over the country. Now that the time has arrived for the Republicans to do a little missionary work for the party it. might be policy for the JonrimZeditor to go down to Berne and tell the Amish people “that their interests don’t extend beyond the limits of their farms” and endeavor to teach them how to vote. They are particularly anxious to have him make a speech there this fall and he ought to respond to the call. The senate put binding twine on the free list, but the house and the cordage trust insisted on its being taxed, and the conference committee reported a duty of three-fourths of a cent a pound and it passed in this shape. Os course this was not done In the interest of the binding trust which fried out so liberally for the election of Harrison and this republican congress. It is all for the good of the dear farmer. At least republican farmers ought to look at it this way. It is said that Vice-President Morton who claims to have only recently discovered that liquor was sold by the drink in his Washington hotel, has ordered the sale discontinued. It seems rather queer that the vice-president didn’t know anything about the prevalence of a saloon in his hotel when the papers everywhere were discussing it last winter when the building was first opened to the public. Now that the vice-president has quit the saloon business the temperance element in the Republican party will take him to its bosom again. .„ The New York JForZvZ of Saturday published a startling story of an attempt endorsed by Quay, the chairman of the Republican National committee, to rob the people of three states of their voice in the government of the nation by the wholesale colonization of negroes from other states in Indiana, West Virginia and Connecticut. The story is supported by the indisputable evidence of Quay’s autograph letters. Treasurer Huston, of Indiana, is also connected with the scheme. It is a startling revelation of the methods by which the managers of the Republican party are plotting to retain the power which they secured by the wholesale cor-, ruption of voters in 1888. The average rate of duty for the fiscal year 1889 on the goods which are dutiable under the McKinley bill was 41.34 per cent. The bill as it passed the house increased the average to 52.8 per cent., and the senate finance committee cut the average down less than one point, to 51.97 per cent. These averages under the revision are exclusive of an increase of five points effected by the administrative tariff bill which went into effect on the Ist of August. The actual average, therefore, when the bill went to conference committee was 55 or 56 per cent. Mr. Carlisle says that unless all his calculations are at fault the average under the conference bill as finally passed and the administrative bill will be 60 per cent. The highest average ever before recorded is 48.88 per cent., in 1830, under what is known as “tariff of abominations.” That was eleven points below the McKinley bill. ... rfL•. -.At i-. .

The financial outlook for the future is not golden. High tariff duties and higher prices for everything will work a great hardship to the masses. Mr. Harrison has started on a trip that will take him as far West as Kansas City. In all this long journey he wiR not see a single man who is not paying Mr. McKinley’s 60 per cent taxes. ■ . Hon. A. N» Mar Tin, candidate for Congress, has appointments in this county on October 15, 16, 17, and 30th. See list elsewhere. The Democracy should prepare to give him a royal welcome everywhere. The McKinley tariff bill does not open up a market for another bushel ot wheat, but it is a great thing for the farmers, nevertheless. It opens up an enormous market for cabbages for the manufacture of cigars. We heard it rumored a commissioner would be elected this fall.— (lcneva Herald. Two of them if you please, sir. If you care to know their names just keep in mind, Messrs. Fuelling and Brake. They are going to be the winners, and no mistake. It is real amusing to observe the Republicans trying to preach up the beauties of the McKinley tariff bill to the farmer when there isn’t a thing m it that will contribute to his financial prosperity, but on the other hand it has been framed for the identical purpose of robbing him. And the farmer will find it out, too, before a great while. The new tariff law doubles the duty on tin plate and in consequence sheet tin has already advanced in price ten per cent., although the increased tariff on tin does not go into effect until next February. Everything else that the law increases the tax upon has also advanced in price in anticipation of the date of the law taking effect. This being the case now, what may we expect in the way of advance prices next spring. And still the Republican papers insist that the foreigners pay the tariff. The trick didn’t work. A candidate who is a member of the Farmer’s Alliance could not get the endorsertfnt of the order when ' nominated for office by the Republican party. The effort of that party to slip in and secure the * farmer’s vote by nominating a man for office who belongs to the alliance is too transparent for any use. Consequently- the Republican scheme to boost Joseph D. Beery for representative has come down with a crash. Joe has been knocked clear out and one party contrivance laid bare. Hon. R. K. Erwin will be the next representative. ” * Tue annual report of the commissioner of pensions for th£ fiscal yeat ending June 30th, past and including the first quarter of the current fiscal year of the operations of his bureau, was submitted to the secretary of the interior on Monflay last. It shows that at the end of the fiscal year there were 537,944 pensioners borne upon the rolls. There were 66,347 original cla ms allowed during the year being 14, 716 more than were allowed in 1889. The amount of the first payment of these claims aggregated $32,478,841, Wing $11,036,492 more than in the previous fiscal year md $10,179,225 more than the first payment of. the fiscal year of 1888. The average annual value of each pension at the close of the year was $433.94. The Republican convention held at Portland on last Saturday week to nominate candidates for representatives for Adams, Jay and Blackford counties and also a senator and prosecuting attorney, must have been a very tame affair indeed judging from the report of the proceedings as published in the Republican papers of Portland. Neither paper gave the matter over twentyfive or thirty lines and that in as abbreviated a form as possible, as though the convention was not worthy of a good “send off.” Besides, the nominees were not praised nor the party implored to “whoop’er up” in their behalf. From an outside view it must have been the sickliest looking convention one would be permitted to see in a lifetime. Even neighbor Ashcraft kept quiet. This however is not stringe in view of his recent “remarks ’ at Wabash that have placed him in such, an embarrassing position be* fore the people of Adems county,

THE DEADLY PARALLEL.

There is not a section or a line in the entire bill that will open a market for another bushel of wheat or another barrel ot p o r k.—Secretary Blame to Mr. Fry.

The Republicans of OhFo warmly commend the McKinley tariff bill as passed by the house of representatives as a wise measure.— Ohio Republican Platform.

The Boston Record (Republican) says of the new' tariff law: “An unpopular feature, here in New England, will be the increased duty on fiax and linen thread. This means an extra expense for every shoe that is bought and no corresponding benefit. It hurts New England, especially, for the supposed benefit to the fiax growers in Dakota, but as their fiax cannot be used in making first class shoe thread, it means simply an extra tax on our shoe industries; Our Congressmen should have attended Jo that.” — It is evident the Republicans are plotting to capture the Indiana legislature. In this district they have nominated farmer candidates in order to secure the Farmer’s Alliance vote. This scheme is too bold to deceive anybody with half an eye. At the late convention at Portland all the candidates of the Republican party nominated for the legislature are Farmer’s Alliance men. The Democrats should keep on the alert. The Republicans are after the legislature and if they get it, it will be because the Democrats are found napping. The new tariff law’increases taxes on necessities and lowers them on luxuries. The tax on raw sugar is made free, how’&ver, for the benefit of the refining trust, w’ho will buy the raw article cheaper hereafter but keep up the price on the refined sugars, and the Louisiana planters are given a bounty on their raw sugar to recompense them. Therefore the people will not only pay the same old price for refined sugars but the Louisiana bounty besides. The trust bond and stocks haye advanced materially because their dividends under the new law will be larger. If the republican party desired to kill the trust .and lower the price of refined sugar for the good of consumers, it should have made refined sugar free as well as the raw material. The trust would have gone under but the individual refineries would have continued right along in business at a fair profit. An exchange thinks the varied complications of the new election law in this state yrill make it very difficult for voters to understand. On this matter we beg leave to differ. We don’t believe there is a voter in this county who will not fully understand how to cast his ballot at the November election if he takes time to give the subject a few minutes study. In fact it is considered the easiest method known and any person can learn it who cares to do so. If the voter, after having read or been told how to prepare his ballot, does not fully understand how to proceed, he will receive assistance from the election board, so that no person need fear making any mistake. It is the duty, however, of every voter to post himself on this new method and the Democrat in order to assist its readers who vote 4n this county, as much as possible, we send out a supplement this week giving detailed particulars. Read it carefully. Hon. John L. Griffiths, Republican candidate for Reporter of the Supreme court, will address the faithful in the court room this evening. Now that the McKinley tariff bill is in full force and effect, the Democrat suggests that the speaker show the farmers where the bill which fixes high dtities on agricultural products, benefits the farmers in the sale of their farm produce, in view of the fact that they do not come in competition in this country with the agricultural products of other lands. In other words, when there is no wheat brought to this country in what way will a tariff duty of twenty-five cents a bushel benefit the home producer; or, if we have no imports of hay where will the farmer be benehtted if there should be a duty on hay of S4O per ton instead ot $4? The dear farmer would like an explanation of these questions and we hope the honorable gentleman will not forget to impart the information.

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