Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 30 January 1891 — Page 4

©he gemvixat X. BLACKBUBJf, Proprietor. $ FRIDAY, JAN. .0, 1801. IN AEON. The Republicans have been placed in a bad b<f? by t*iie Democrats introducing a re-olution in the /General Assembly directing that the senators from the state of Indiana be insti tu ted to vote for the repeal . of th • McKinley bill amt for the dressed beef bill, and agains tie Force bill thus, placing the Republicans on record in each case compelling them t> vote in favor of the dressed beef bill, and against the resolution directing that they vote for the repeal of the McKinley bill and against the passage of the force bill. While some of them begged piteoiislynot to be compelled to Huis show their colors, tbcDemocrats were unrelenting and the resolution was passed by a strict parte vote except Fog’.iornKe.lley, of Dekalb county, voting witfithe Republicans aglmst the resolution. While such proceedings, so far as OUT Uni ted States Senators are concerned was an unnecessary proceeding, yet it placed tbc Republicans in a position that like the man in the corner, he either must light or run. And . feeling that they could not yet the fast sinking ship placed themselves on record in favor of B"that unjust measure, the robber of the poor. •> There are a class, of young men in our fair city, that of late have been making night hideous with their howling debaucheries on the streets, when all good people are seeking their fest. Young man you, hid better stop and think for a while before going further. Remetfibei* the cour.-e you are pniSu ing will lead you on so fast that when you want to call a halt you will feel that the time has passed, that the character and habits you have formed is something you cannot shake-off at your will, ami aS you to-dAy see men pass along the streets m a maudlin condition, while boys hoot at them, and men' laugh at their misfortune, 'recollect that but a few years more, and you will take their place, and will be in the same condition that you to-day see 'them. While you may laugh when advised by friends and think and may go so far as to say I am able to take myself. So they said, and thought when they were admonished by triends, they would say have no fear of me, I am able" to take care of myself. While an occasional one does, there is not one in a hundred that does, for the that they intend to stop off has passed and triends commence to forsake them. Then they find that the advice of motiief 4 and friends, it it had been flooded is hat would have placed them in position in life where they could enjoy themselves and be. a credit to their families and an honor to the city. A xuii.Euof Republican journals are worrying themselves over the unseating of Osborn, the party to whom the certificate of election had b sen issued to as elected representative of Tippecanoe county. While the committee to whom the. matter was referred, after duly investigating tlie matter found that-McHugh, the Democrat, had been regularly elected, and so reported m favor of the st of McHugh, which the senate done. But of course the Rtp lolicans set up a howl either for diverting the attention from the steals that they have indulged in, such a steal as that of 1876, when they stoley whole states, and with them the President of the United S ates. The stealing of Montana and all the Southern’ states during the carpet-bag rule and down to our own state when but a few years ago, when they attempted to steal the seat- which Senator Turpie how occupies, aiid did in this congressional district seat . fieorge W. Steele in the face of glaring frauds, and in the twelfth congressional district seat an alien, one whose only pretense to citizenship was that at one time two citizens saw him take an oath of that kind. To the Republican leaders it is no question of right or wrong but that he is a Republican, one in whom they’ can 5, rely for .party' service at all times, pothing to dark or unscrupulous for them to do so that it will meet their ends and subserve life party. Senator Ingai.i.s, of Kansas, has be -n repudiated by the i eople of th it State. Ju Ige Peffer^ as elected yesterday.

■mi num THE SALARY QUESTION. The feesand salary of the different officers of the state, county and 1 township being a matter for this 1 General Assembly to consider, and j one that the Dem wratic partypledged itself to in their platform . of principles by its last convention, ■ and being demanded by the farmers i and labor organizations, will cause oar law- makers to think, when the > lime comes for them to be placed on ' record before their constituents, the < demands so far of the diffei- ■ ent localities apart that' they will - find some trouble in getting a j bill that will come somewhere near 1 suiting all. In some localities ; the farmer and ktboriugnian ; feels that an officer should not be . paid any more than they can or do earn in a 'year, while others . feel that they should be paid salaries. ranging from a small pittance to . almost enormous salaries, so when the solons ? come to fix a lee or , ( -alary lor the future pay of the >er Mints- of the people they w ill firn: an elephant on their , hands: ami . then tne question of time to begin being another point to consider. ’1 he < timers who are now in oilice and -those duly elected at the- last election do, and will feel that the new lee and salary- law should not be made applicable to them at least ' during the term for which they are serving or ar* about to enter upon, but that on the contrary their fees : and salary should be continued as i they now are during the term of such incumbent or any duly elected officer prior to the passage of such bill, and instead of fixing a certain | date lor it to go into effect, that the ■ same be at the expiration of the : lime for w hich all the officers elected |in 1.890,.are to serve. While .that ’ is fair so far as the officers elect are concerned it will, cause some confusion in the collection of the fees of some officers will be serving under one law, while another set will ■ be under a different section of the j j law. . A I ' ’ >77AIA‘ POINTY. j Attorney-General Miller, at the ■request of Secretary Windom, has I rendered an opinion as to whether i „ 1 the tariff act of October 1, Duo,I authorizes the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to issue the licenses therein provided for prior to April 1, 1861, and to pay io manufaeturi ers the bounty on sugar produced between March 31st and July 1, > - . 1801. After a lull discussion of ’ the question the Attorney General 'says that the sugar produced between March 31 st and July Ist entitled to bounty' under the act is sugar of domestic manufacture and that the only sugar of domestic manufacture produced between the , dates given is maple sugar. To pay , a bounty on maple sugar and not on other sugars, he holds, was not . the intention of congress, for to do iso would be. paying a bounty foT i fifteen years on maple sugar and a i j bounty for fourteen years on all I other sugars- which are not produced in the spring, but which i . mature in the summer and fall. “It • I s.rnyis clear," concluded the Attoi-i ney-Geuerai “that it was not intend- I i ed mat bounties should be demand-1 able on sugar produced prior to-the Ist of July next." . | : THE PENNS YL\ A NIA .1 L ,| A/JAV/k The Pennsylvania Farmers’ Alliance completed its deliberations in ' .felrie, January 15, and adjourned for ■ , a year. The Alliance refused admission to the Southern Alliance members on j ' the ground that the Southern Al ! liahce was a political organization.! The resolutions adopted were par- i tlcularly strong upon equalization ■ of taxation: demanded an issue of currency at the rate per capita; ' | opposed grants of lands except to H actual settlers; favored the prohibition of trusts, option and futures, ! the ballot reform, compulsory’ education between the ages of seven : and 15, the abolition of county superintendents of schools and annual institutes, and the enactment of the ’ i Conger lard bill. ■p National Lecturer Ashby reportci 800 Alliance schools in Ohio. The New York State Alliance in resolutions antagonized the iiquer traffic. ’ Gov, Hovey has proven himself tp be about the rankest demagogue in the state. ,VVe regret to announce ; that the Governor’s only Democratic ' adniirer lives in Adams county, I but this regret is tinged with consola-' lion arising from the fact .that the admirer s ands lower in thg estimation of the people who know him i than’Mr. Hovey. , • j

X. A , . ■ . I - • WIIA T FARMERS IPM NT. I The New York State Farmers’ League at Utica adopted the following declaration, which was made public January 15. We demand that our State and National governments shall take ac lion regarding the following tnatters: First, that all property, real, personal, and corporate, shall be equally taxed; second, that no public ofti cer accept passes from railroads or other corporations; third, that the dealing in futures in agricultural products be prevented: fourth, that the sale of adulterated food products be prohibited unless so branded; fifth, to secure the nationalization of the canals, arid make the deepening of tlie Hudson Rivera national expense, and until such time make no further appropriation .for the canals, save such as may’ be. necessary to keep the<i in good repair: six’ll, to secure the publication of a uniform system of school text books under direction of the State, in order th.il they may be furnished at a minimum of cost; seventh, to secure such protection to State lands in the Adirondack forest as will prevent further destruction by lumber pirates and others, thus insuring a supply of water sufficient to meet the demands of our waterways, without expending millions m purchase of lands held by speculators and sportsmen to establish a State park; eighth, that an estimate of the cost of completing the State capitol be obtained, to the end that the taxpayers may determine whether it will not lie economy to abandon the same and build one more in keeping with the demands of the people; ninth, that while our present system of road-making is n>»t productive of the best results, 1 . we believe tiiat any scheme to spend millions of the people’s money on the, high ways should be postponed till an improvement in the financial I condition of our country will warrant such expenditure: tenth, that national legislation, be deferred in reference to the irrigation of the Western aril lands at public expense until the consumptive demands of the people shall require a productive area: eleventh, to secure such financial legislation . as willmeet the-requirements of the agricultural and business interest of the country, also all persons who don’t in good fAith intend to become its citizens. We furthermore demand retrenchment and reform in National, State and local expenditures, to the end that •legislation in these stringent times shall provide for the passage of such laws as will relieve an overburdened and ridden people. For fourteen years ex-Postmaster General Dickinson has been working to solidify, strengthen, and expand the Democratic party of Michigan, and on the Ist of January he had the pleasure of seeing a Democratic administration from garret to cellar take possession of i the Michigan capitol. Governor j Luce.-however, remained as chief i executive until noon, when Governor ! Ed.win B. Winans and Lieutenant ! Governor Strong dropped into the executive office together. Clerk Hopkins, of the supreme court, was sent for, and the two took the oath of office. There were no trimmings or furbelows—all was Jeffersonian simplicity. Not half a dozen people were in ’the room when the oath was administered, ami very few in the big brown stone building knew that the new’ governor had arrived. ! A.tter Governor Winans had qualli tied ex-Governor Luce congratulated i his successor and formally turned i over the office to him. For thirty- ! six years the Republicans held cottrol of the state capitol. In 185 4 Governor Bingham was elected, and since that day the elections have been but a series of Republican victories. In 1882 there was a slight break when the Democrats and XiixmilrjaJmnf combined and elected and lost the rest of the state ticket, but the Governor's office occupies but a small corner in the big building Now governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney-general, land com inissibiier, supreme court, and both houses of the legislature, all are Democratic. An effort will be made in the , House this week to tack onto the i Erwin bill, which limits the jurisI diction of grand juries to- felonies, ■ an amendment abolishing the entire grand jury system. Il will surprise spine people when they see how many members will support such a j measure.

-•■ - j I A PLAN TO DIVIDE MICHIGAN'S ELI.C r IORAL VOTE. • . c? ■* In addition to strengthening and extending the State election law with the purpose in view of throwing additional safeguards around the ballot, the present Michigan Stale Legislature will consider a bill introduced by Representative Joint iliner, of Detroit, which provides that the Presiiieutial electors corresponding with the congressmen shall be elected, not on a , general ticket, but by congressional districts, and the two at large on the general, ticket. Michigan is entitled to thirteen votes in the electoral college. 1 here has never been a time when the Democrats could not carry from two to eight congressional districts in this stale, while under the pre.sent system of choosing electors the vote of the state has always been plumped solidly in favor oi the Republican candidate by a rotis mg majority. '1 he state as a whole would give a Republican majority, but the presvote failed to represent the majority of the communities that composed the state. In 188:3, for instance, the Democrats elected seven of the eleven congressmen, but the Republicans carried the /date by a narrow margin. Tnp four Patrons of Industry senators, who hold the balance of power itrdhe Michigan beuate, on Janu- ■ ary 14th revolted from their Democratic allies by voting with the Republicans against a resolution to investigate the claims of a Democratic contestant of the seat of • Senator Morse, of Alpena. Should the Patrons of Industry men com • tinue their present independent ; stand it will seriously endanger the . plans of the majority for rearrangI ing the congressional and legislative i districts of the state. The senate ! consists of fourteen Republican's, fourteen straight Democrats and . four Patrons of Industry, who have heretofore acted with the Democrats, i The last named are in a position to • command almost any concession • they may wish in the way of farmer . legislation if they persist in their t newly-evinced determination to ffock i by themselves; [- ; ’ ■ The Indian war seems to be , practically ended, the government - troops have them completely sur--5 rounded, so that firing between the pickets is frequently indulged in, but . there is no danger of a general en- > gagement, and every day some of [ them are coming in and surrendert ing to the government their arms. ; At one time last week over five hun- . di ed surrendered with all their arms and in a few days more they will i all do the same, unless a few of . them conclude that they can do . better by staying away from. the . government and seeking homes in [• Canada, and an occasional one will hide in the wilds of that country . for the purpose of stealing. The t question will be how shall the gov- ' eminent dispose of/ them after they ■ hive them again. Will they again t ike them as wards and furnish them • with food and clothing,■' and place them under the charge ot some scheming agent who will rob them L of all the government furnishes , them with, or can they be put in i schools and learned to farm and be- ; come somewhat civilized? Is it worth the attempt. Theymust be . cared for in some way, and while it i may be hard for some of the bucks that never have dene any work to - commence, it will be the only safeguard the government cap have to . i make them earn their own living by farming and raising stock, com pell [ them to work and while they are thus engaged we are sure of their . not being in any devilment. And as they are getting to be small in number they can be controlled for a > while with but little expense, and if they can be forced to work until they come to know what it is, the only ; way for them to get a living, then [ can you depend upon them, but not until then, for their indolent habits , have been so long cherished by them that it will require time, patience and hard work to bring the h buck down, but some system like the prisons have will in time either make them work or send,them where ! all good Indians go. Ol li neighboring city of «Fort Wayne boasts ot a man worth four ' teen millions, being’bne of the rich- '! est men in the state, and but very i few in the west that can boast of any man worth that. Judge Cheney being the possessor of iarge interests in New York City, Defiance, Ohio, Logansport, Ind., and his home city, I Fort Wayne. ’

RIPE FOR TEE SfCEEE. Senator Chandler said a few days ago that if the Republic m party tailed to bring the force bill to a ’ vote and pass it the party might as well disband. The other day, -after eight Republican Senators La 1 joined the Democrats in displacing the force .bill, Senator Hoar, dazed and -dejected, walked out of the Senate chamber. A triend who met and questioned him as he desended the steps received this solemn and emphatic reply: “It means the death of the Republican party." * Both of these statesmen may hav< spoken more than they meant. 1 lie one may have been seeking to alarm Ins fellow Senators and drive them to support the bill with the lash of party exigency. The other may have been merely giving vent to his spleen and disappointment. But both might have fortified their statements by sound reasons. The Republican party is inherently a short-lived partv, because it was * -a not founded upon any ueep and abiding principle ot government, but was created for a single and specific purpose. It had no fixed principles and no other rule of conduct except to adapt the means to the end. With whatever virtues and humane purposes it may have had in the beginning were sown thick the seeds of vices which grew and flourished after its virtues had departed. The abolition of slavery i may have been in itself a laudable object; but slaves were held in .the South, and slavery was protected by the constitution. Therefore the founders of the Republican party were accustomed to denounce Southeren men as fiends whom it was a virtue to hate and a good deed to destroy, while the Consti- j tution was reviled as a league with death and a covenant with hell. The war and ’ the reconstruction period intensified this hatred of the South- and gave® excuse for yet greater liberties with the Constitir lion. Such was the school in which the Republican party was nurtured. With the extinction of slavery and ■ the lading of all issues growing out of it, there is left of the Republican party nothing but the hatred ot the South and contempt for the Constitution which were a necessity of the conditions which brought it into life. Take away its “mission” ' with respect to the negro and you take away the prop which sustains its life. It is thus left without any fixed principles of government to ■ maintain and defend or by which to - govern its conduct and shape its -. policy. > The rebellion within its own ranks i appears to have taken away its last prop. It cannot legislate for the ' special benefit of the negro, even ■ when it is in power. In the same i way the Republicans revolragainst I protection will soon deprive it of even the support of the monopolists, ■ for the latter will find no profit in ■ bargaining with a party which can not deliver thejgoods. Take it all in all, it appears to us l ! that the Republican party is ripe ■ ' for the sickle. It lags superfluous on the stage. It has fought its fight i I and finished its course. All ’the >! good that was in it, if there was . I ever any, has been consumed by its own malevolent passions. That . grand passion, that sublime fury, ■ that impetuous trampling down of . constitutional barriers in the cause . of humanity, has degenerated into • mean malignity of senile imbecility; ■ which nourishes its hate after it has forgotten the cause. Slavery is dead, the South is in the Union and tiie Constitution is over all; but the ’ Republican party is still cursing slavery, fighting the South and vioi lating the Constitution. There is absolutely no single reason why it • should get off the earth.— N'</iThe strike of the Chicago »fe Erie is al an end. On last Saturday the men went to work again after some accessions were ma le by both sides. The men agreeing that Scott should be discharge d by his consent if the company would take all the old employes back at once and give them the same places they had occupied, with the same wages and that in the future no man who belonged to the men who went,out should be held responsible for any acts done at this time, Scott being the only man to be discharged. The men went to work and all is moving ; along as though nothing had happened. The treasurer of Orange county, Mr. Field, has a shor age of 701.74. He is a Republican.

MAKING ROOM FOR Spring and Summer 18S1! hi order to make room for new, w<- are pushing out the old. If you need anything in' the Clothing and furnishing Line! ' ■ ' ' ■ ' . ■ .■., . ■''; .' ■ ' - Come in ami S-ee wna 1 we ■•in do for you. We have some bargains f<>r you. Wo have already purchased our .: SPRING GOODS:. ■ •• - I ■•'•.- W Inch will begin to arrive daily. , We hive bought them as. low as any tun? beiore and some of them lower. - i As I have purchased my brother's interest in the Clothing business ami with the knowledge and long together a with renewed effort and application, 1 hope to merit the patronage and confidence that the public so generously awarded the old firm. Yours Respectfully. hte Holthouse, the One-Price Clothier. After Holiday Bargains! We are offering immense Bargains in all lines of Wool Dress Goods, Underwear, Wool Hosiery, Mittens, Fascinators, &c., and all Winter Goods. A few prices will give you some idea of our reductions: s

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e;. * ' ■. ' ’ -■_.- And ail other Goods at proportionately low prices. And you all certainly know we are the cheapest place in the city for GTIOCERIES. We still hold on to the great truth that CASH always secures you the lowest possible prices, and that you can’t get something for nothing. We givg no prizes, but we do give you sixteen ounces to the pound, thirty-six inches to the yard and §I.OO worth for a dollar. Try us. Sjpmng & True, Decatur, Ik<« HOFFMAN & GOTTSCHALK Keep a full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils, Groceries, Lamps, Tobaccos, Cigars, and a general stock of Merchandise. Prescriptions carefully compounded. LINN GROVE, IND. i _ ' — —' — : —• 4R& At Magley, keeps a large stock of Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, and in fact everything kept in a general | store. Buys all kinds of Country Produce iy| m f° r w hich t * ie highest market price is paid. nRANGe blossom . a POMITIVKCIRK FOR U ALL FEMALE DISEASES. ORMUZ nc TUC CYMOTOMQ. A tired, languid feeling, low spirited and despondent. uUITIL Ur I il£ wiinrlUnld. with no apparent, cause. Headache, pains in the back., pains across the lower part or bowels. Great soreness in region of o.aries, bladder difficulty. frequent urinations, leucorrhwa, constipation of bowels, and with all these symptoms a terrible nervous feeling is experienced by the patient. THE ORANGE BLOSSOM TREATMENT removes all these by a thorough processor absorption. Internal remedies will never remove female weakness. There must be remedies applied right to the parts, and then there is permanent relief obtained. Every Xiady O»xx Treat Herself. O. B. PILK REMEDY. I n.OO for One Month's Treatment. | O. B. STOMACH POWDERS. O. B. CATARRH CURE. I -prepared by- I O. B. KIDNEY CONES. ,J. A. JUcGILL, M. D., «£ CO,, 4 Panorama Place, Chicago, 111, For sale byHolthouse & Blackburn, Druggisst Decatur, Ind. When you waht anything in the line of Furniture call at the GENEVA.:. FURNITURE :.STORE. N, BrandLytoerry, Frop’r.

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