Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1890 — Page 3

She genwtrat | ft, Hl> ICKHCKN, Proprietor. FKIDAY, OCT, 31,1390, li£;:i Democratic Ticket. Xi' ' ■ ® < ' Ml '»■ Aim u <»" ": For Judge of the Supremo Court, josrph a.B..\utchei,u i; "'' *: Secretary ut' State, . ; Item : ► VLAUOR MATTHRWS. ' Fur Auditor of State, UHuu JOHN (>. HKNURHSON. } Fur Treasurer of State, B v ALDKIITOAU., For Attorney flenvral, HKSn tDftUU? 7 ; ~.,,r ALONZO G. SMITH. * Clerk of the Supremo Court, ANDHKW W.SWKKNKV, ! . For Superintendent of Public In> [; Deni.. at root ion. [ J 5 7. ..: HKHVKY B, YARIKS. Fur ChioAjf the Bureau of Statistics. WILLIAM A. VRKI.KJIt. • ••: For State Geologist, , SYLYRSTKH S.BOBBY. ~ For Congress, Uth District, ;Dem.: AUGUSTUS N. MARTIN, or Wells County. Far Senator, Adams, Blackford and :: Fur Joint Representative, Adams, :Dem.: Blackford and Jav Counties, ; ; JOHN BHANSTBKTTRB. ■ ••••: For Joint RepiesentaU , v Adams and :Dem.: Jay Counties, HICHABD K. KRWIN. :Dem,. elal Circuit. GEORGET. WHITAKER. / ’■ For Auditor, ; Do id. ■ ■ :.. .. . WILLIAM H. H-FRANCE. ; For Clerk. *. Itaiu. '. f JOHN H< LENHART. : For Treasurer, '.Dem,: PERRY ROBISON. For Recorder, : Deme I; WILLIAM BAUGHMAN. For Sheriff, : Deiu.< > : MARK M. McCONNELL. - rl For Surveyor, : IMiiUs* i : JOHN W. TYNDALL. : For Coroner, ;Deme ; . ; • OLIVER T. MAY. , For Commissioner—First District. : Dem.: ; HENRY D. FUELLING. For Commissioner—Second District, ' Dome • :: CONRAD BRAKE. 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 oi each candidate for whom he votes, o Now for victory! Democrats get out th© full vote. Bury the robber tariff of sight. —l-JLJ. 11 ’ft Stamp your ticket close to the big Rooster and don’t make another mark on it. The certain classes ot Democrats to whom we referred as seeming to be ignorant are the Amish people. Ashcryf't in the Journal, Auy. 29th. The Republican party is pledget! to high taxation. The McKinley highway robbery proves it. Vote down the robbery. Vote the Dem- « ooratic ticket. Ashcraft said at Wabash “the Republican gain would be 200 in Adams county.” Democrats by your ballots next Tuesday prove to Athe people that he is a liar! the people of Adams county to elect men io office who ■■ever contribute to the revenue ot county? There are those kind men represented on the Republicr an ticket. f= * - | Democrats, remember the new election law is a measure adopted by your party. It was passed in the interest oi honest elections and no man who is honest need fear its provisions. Go to the polls next Tuesday and vote to continue the measure in this state. The consumer pays the tax—the McKinley tax —andr the protected manufacturers contribute a little of, the ill-gotten gam to perpetuate the Republican’s lease of power in the government. That’s the way ’tis done. You pat me upon the back and I’ll pat you. See? Private Gus Martin didn’t vote for the McKinley highway robbery. He opposed it with ail his might. He is the kind of a man for the people and a Democrat in this district don’t do his duty when he fails to work earnestly for his success. To him every Democrat owes his best endeavors. The man who casts his ballot for Republican principles votes more wealth into the coffers of protected industries. The time is at hand when the people should be looking at the questions of high tariff for protection and low tariff for revenue squarely in the face. One is benefftting the rich. The other iafor the ad/anoement of the masses. Wliich will you choose? I

Don’t scratch your ticket/ fellow Democrats. Vote it straight from top to bottom. L ' A Whig (Republican) In usurer was a .defaulter in Adams! county. This is intended to be read* by those 01 who want the “books opened.” , “Open the books.” Adamas county is carrying a little bill ajgainst the Decatur Journal plant J for. taxes when it was owned by’ Kirby & Andrews. I ■MMsJuBUUMWMmJw; - Ashcraft said at Wlabash “the Democratic vote in Adams county was to some extent deplorably ignorant.” Remember ibis, Demo-' crats, next Tuesday, u ■ J'' 1 111 ® 1 — Open the books! TBxpayers do you want to elect a map to the office of county commissioner whose property, every dollar of it, is in his wife’s name? Open tlse books. e ll , 1 ■=. The McKinley biW will kill the Republican party aid the Democrats of McKinley■ district will vote him out of a «>b in congress next Tuesday. Reap the prediction in your mind. | \ r Open the books! P. L. Andrews wants to represent the taxpayers in the legislature. P. L. ought to get square with Adams county before he asks the priwlege of voting away the people’s money in appropriations. Open the books. Open the books! George W. Gladden wants to be elected county commissioner by the taxpayers. As George isn’t a tax payer himself it is considered pretty cheeky to ask men who do pay taxes to elect him to office, lloweyer, such are the facts. Open the books. — -r-— '■ - \V hen AshcrAtt was boxed up on his “ignorant Democrats” speech at Wabash, he attempted to crawl out of th© by claiming to have had reference to the Amish people. When he made the latter statement he knew he was lying—just as he did last week in reference to his delinquenVtaxes. . .. Q _ The eertara classes of Democrats to whom we referred as seeming to be ignorant of every purpose in life excepting fWir immediate home interests arc the Amish people who will probably not go wild this fall bn accouffilof A. N. ffflfftin. TW is a .legitimate statement and the Democrats will find it true after the election;—. {shcraft in Decatur Journal, &ptefnb<r 12th. “Open the books.” About March 1, 1889, Ashcraft took charge of the Decatur Journal. On the 15th of that month he published the following slur on the Democratic party and now has the cheek to ask Democrats to support candidates on the Republican county ticket: “Jeff Davis no longer enjoys the distinction of being the only living Democratic ©x-president. There’s two of them now”—meaning Cleveland and Jeff Davis. WUMMaamUUUUMMMUHSaMUauaaM • ' : — The farmers of the country are dissatisfied. That is the reason why they are organizing for selfprotection. They realize that they pay high prices lor their manufactured products and get low prices tor that which they sell. They know there’s something wrong in our governmental system. Let them cast their ballot on the side of tariff reform and soon their’grievances will be heard m the halls of legislation. High tariff is crushing the life out of the nation. Col. Briant seeks to obtain the Democratic farmer vote by representing that he is one of their number The truth is his connection with farming interests extends just as far as that of any other man who pwns a big farm and employs men to operate it. Col. Briant is not a farmer in the true sense of the term, but he is an extensive manufacturer and to that business does be devote almost his exclusive attention. The man who thinks he is voting for a typical farmer when he casts his ballot for Briant, is deceived. Jn trying to assist Ashcraft out of his Wabash scrape, the Portland Republican claims he should have said that “the Democrats of Adams county don’t care much about politics and that the new election law will keep many of them away from the polls.” The point is this:. Almost three months prior to the election the Republicans counted on reducing our majority in this county by reason of Democrats staying at home. But Ashcraft had to tell it. Now the Democrats will all be out to vote in order to prove the falsity of Ashcraft’* assertion.

The Democratic party represents the popular cause—the cause of the people. It should win all along the line nt xt Tuesday. Vote against that iniquitous measure of the Republican party, the McKinley bill, by casting an itaisoratchfcu ballot for the entire Democratic state and county ticket. Don’t allow Republican falsehoods to sway your purpose at the last moment. Cast aside prejudice of every kind and vote for your own interests, by affiliating with the Democracy. Open the books! Henry Fuelling is a taxpayer of the county. Not a dollar of his property is in his wife’s name to avoid the payment of obligations made at other places. Open the books! Ashcraft, chairman of the Republican central committee, had no thought of the Amish people when he talked about the ignorant Democrats of Adams county at Wabash. He simply intended to east a slur upon the Democratic party. Democrats, the Decatur Journal editor asserts that 100 or 200 of you will remain away from the polls—he infers on account ot ignorance. Duty to party requires that you resent the proffered insult to your intelligence by going to the polls and voting the straight Democratic ticket. The following tariff averages from 1821 to 1890 will give an idea ot the tax levied under former tariff laws and under the McKinley tariff: Per Cent. From ISSI to 182t>.34,80 Front 18«7 to 1845: 35.40 From 1840 to 1850 24.40 From 1857 to 1801. rijb From 1802 to 1801 35.41 From 1805 to 1883 43.48 From 1884 to 1800 45.50 From 1800 toabout 60.00 — ... sat Democrats of Adams county, when you go to the polls next Tuesday to vote bear in mmd the remarks made by Ashcraft, chairman of the Republican central committee and editor of the Journal, made at Wabash and published in this paper verbatim from the Wabash Plain Dealer. They show the intelligence he places upon the Democratic party. The Democrat who votes for any or all of the candidates on the Republican county or state ticket next simply, by that act, endorses the insult of Ashcraft, chairman of the Republican central committee, cast into the teeth of the Democrats of Adams county, when he referred to them as being “deplorably ignorant.” No patriotic Democrat iff the county will swallow that abuse. Not one! Allow no man or set of men to frighten or intimidate you from exercising the rightist* suffrage. The latest scheme of the Republicans is in attempting to intimidate the German vote in this county. It is dangerous business for them to do so but when defeat is almost perched upon their banners, they will take desperate chances. Not a single voter should stay at home. Not one. Democrats, be vigilant! We did say, however, that certain localities in Adams county contain classes of citizens who seem to be ignorant of almost every purpose in life excepting the promotion of their own interests and those interests do not extend beyond the limits of their farms.— Ashcraft in the Decatur Journal Auyust 22ntl, iny his ~Wabash speech. The paper is on file at this office. What do you think of the insult, Democrats of Adams county? f If. the slumbering vengeance of the masses could be aroused to the appreciation of this crowning iniquity, the robber McKinley tariff, the party of force and plunder would see the end of the most dangerous combination that has menaced this government, next Tuesday. You who are contributing to the hoarded wealth of the protected barons and tariff robbers, consult your best interests by opposing their aggressive measures the ballot box. Throttle monopoly! The greatest congressional struggle of the campaign McKinley’s district and the whole country is looking on with a feeling of anxiety. The victory whatever it may be will be a significant one as it will most assuredly outline the future policy of the government m regard to tariff taxation. If McKiffley is beaten, and he snrely will be, it not only means his personal defeat but the early destruction of the vicious tariff robbery that is stamped with his name. McKinley’s bill is the signal of hi* defeat aUSWA

AsHdRAFf said at Wabash “the Bourbons were afraid of the new system us voting.” Democrats, resent the insult at the polls next TuesdayThe watchwords of Democracy until the close of next Tuesday’s battle should be vigilance and thorough organization. This and this alone will cause victory to perch upon our banners. Owing to the intricacies of the new election law it is altogether that the Democrats will lose from 100 to 200 votes on account of Democrats remaining away from the polls.— Ashcraft in Decatur Journal, Auyust 22. • • The man who never pays a cent of tax in Adams county on real estate or personal property wants you to,vote him into an office in which he will be privileged to handle the money of who do pay taxes. His name is Georg© W. Gladden. d Briant recommends that those who go out among the people to preach republican doctrine should go with their “pockets well loaded.” This is in harmony with Dudley’s “blocks-oi-five methods.” Farmers, you who have listened to the tale ©f Briant’s purity and goodness of heart, how do you admire it? ii e— The man who is called upon to pay increased prices for the necessaries of life should think of it when he comes to oast his ballot next Tuesday. The only way to throttle the tariff robbery is to vote the Democratic ticked. Vote for men whom you know will not support. iniquitous thieving measures in congress. ——-— ■— gi The Democrats have been in power in Adams county since 1845 and not one penny has been lost to the county through the defalcation of a Democratic official. The only loss the county ever sustained was that occasioned by a Whig treasurer beating the tax-payers out of a little over three thousand dollars which they had to replace. Let those who are crying “open the books” bear that fact in mind. The Republicans are now trying to counteract the bad influences of the McKinley bill in shaping political matters in this state. They see the popular tide that has set in in opposition to the bill from all classes of people and in order to check the tide many* manufacturers are slight ly advancing the wages of their employes just before the election. This is a blind and the man who can’t see it is surely a dolt. Just remember the fact that two years ago some of the largest manufacturers of; the country reduced wages twenty per cent immediately after Harrison’s election. Don’t be deceived. Vote for lower taxation. If Democratic merchants want to charge ,y ou more loir goods “because of the McKinley tariff bill,” just go to a Republican merchant and you will find he is selling goods as cheap if not cheaper than before.— A>mn» fottrual. Our Republican contemporary must have a poor opinion of the intelligence of its readers or else it wilfully misrepresents facts. There isn’t a merchant in the land who has enough business ability to sell peanuts but what knows the McKinley bill has increased the duty on many lines of manufactured goods and tbat when he purchases a new supply he will pay the increased duty, which in turn, he charges to the consumer. Letters from wholesale dealers, published in another column, verify this state ment. The obnoxious tariff catches everybody—Republicans and Democrats alike. The McKinley bill is from beginning to end an exclusively party scheme, deliberately, inflexibly and irresistibly forced upon the country by a disciplined and terrorized congressional majority, at the behests of wealthy industrialists who, in consideration of this service rendered, have contributed funds and influence for carrying the elections in the interest of the party now in ascendency, or more correctly, of certain party leaders. It will stand upon the statute books as the grossest and most corrupt exercise ot legislative power ever perpetrated in the history of the country, and as the signal monument oi a point of departure at which wealth and corrupt politics joined hand in alliance for defeating public opinion in the government of the nation.— New York Commereial Dußetin (nonporriMm.) 1

BRIANT’S PARTISANSHIP. * Hl» Opinion of the Democratic Party as Expressed in ISBS. The following article copied from the Huntington Democrat of November 1, 1888, when Col. C. E. Briant, the present Republican candidate for Congress, was making his canvass f*r the legislature should be read by every Democratic voter in the district. Mr. Briant is now asking to vote for him and send him to Congress. Why should they vote tor a man who in 1888 vilified and slandered them? Mr. Briant is just as bitter a republican now as he was in 1888. His opinion of Democrats has not changed since that time and the opinion expressed by him thin, which we give below, is his opinion now. This article is as follows: BRIANT BURCHARDIZING. STATEMENTS WHICH ME. BRIANT IS CHARGED WITH HAVING MADE. State of Indiana, 1 ss: Huntington Co., Ind. J We, Joseph W. Bonewitx, Aden A. Wiley, Victor A. Schultz, Mattie Stewart, Clara Stewart, Mollie Stewart, Samuel Ellet, Aden Ellet, B. T. Merriman, being duly sworn on oath say that we were at a political meeting held in the old school house in the town of Kelso. State of Indiana, on Tuesday night, the 23rd, day of October, iSSS, and that we heard Col. C. E. Briant use the following language or words to that effect: “Ninety percent of the manufacturers, drunkards and all persons engaged in the whisky traffic belong to the Democratic party.” “Ninety percent ol other manufacturers, and business men belong to the Republican party.” L A. Bonewitz, [ls] Aden A. Wiley, [ls.| Victor A. Schvltz, [ls] Mattie Stewart, [ls.] Lizzie Stewart, [ls.] Ella Stewart,. [ls.] Mollie Stewart, [ls.] Samvel JSllett, [ls.] = - Aden [ls.] B. T. Merriman. [ls.] Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of October, 1888. Z. T. Dv ng an, Notary Public. In addition to the above Mr. Job C. Stout, the well-known resident of Lancaster township, in conversation with a .Democrat reporter told him that he was present at the meeting above referred to and that the remarks of Col. Briant, were as near as the reportecujould judge, in sub stance the same as quoted above. He also statedlhat he met Mr. Briant the next day and remonstrated with him for making the statement and that Mr. Briant said he would back it up with fifty dollars. This is sworn evidence which has never been refuted and, if necessary, other affidavits can be furnished. When the “genial Colonel” asks you to vote for him, ask him his opinion of Democrats—then vote for A. N. Martin, a Democrat, the friend of the farmer, the laborer and the mechanic and a man who votes as he talks. The Republicans tell us that their party has fulfilled its promises and that the vexed tariff question has been settled. But we will perceive m the advanced price and in the wretchedly inferior quality of goods offered for sale the first effect oi unjust laws and the natural result of class rule. Henceforth the Ibt of the poor man is to be harder. Let him mark well the fact. The tariff oi 60 per cent is intended to oppress him, and oppress him it wiil. He cannot escape if he would. It will assail him m front and in the rear. It will clip his dollar. It will absorb his earnings. It will find him wherever there is a human mouth to feed or a body to clothe. It will be with him at his work, at his table, in his bed, despoiling him always. It will filch from his pockets his hard earned wages. In sickness and in death it will levy toll upon him. It has corrupted the people. Henceforth it will spoilate them. The laborer owes a duty to his family and to himself to oppose the further encroachments of monopoly and class legislation by voting for and supporting Democratic principles. Throttle the robber tariff! There can be no question but lhat the Republican congress has legislated solely in the interest of capital and greed. It has raised the tariff upon countless articles of prune necessity until it is almost prohibitory. The tariff fortified monopolists will reap the benefit and the consumer, delivered helplessly into the hand© of the robber horde, will suffer the consequences. The proper thing for the people to do is to free themselves from the clutches of giant monopoly that controls Republican legislation. Vote for lower taxation. Vote in the interests of your individual self. You can do this by voting the Democrat ticket. Me. Mechanic—ask your wife how the McKinley bill effects her purse. Every man can learn a tariff lesson right at home.

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