Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1891 — Page 4

'(the democrat M I* *■# 1* ff N ( /'i , »»p»»i^i#;r, fe--- ruti»a y. mb. is. iHui. ~.\ *• ' PraxiiKiTox's air ship is said to be a f rand, having been invented -a long time ago, was thrown a*nie as useless. John Bbodie, of Porter county, has been chosen director lor the State prison north', to succeed the Hon. I .«evi Mock, of Wells countv. Ashcraft’* report of the stealing of Adams county officials is now doe and should be made public through his paper. Three months and over should suffice to make such a report. James Reiipath, the author and lecturer is dead, lie is the author of a number of books, and was at one time engaged in the newspaper business, but tailed to make a success of it. Hon. Ai.nf.ET (tali, entered upon his duties as treasurer of the state Monday. The people of Indiana became pretty well acquainted with Mr. Gall during the last campaign, lie has been one of Indianapolis’ business men for years. The three men in the Nanti coke mine were rescued after being in ; the mine five days. When found they were in an opening over one Os the supports of the mine, and seemed to not have suffered much from fasting as from thirst and their cramped condition. Has the books been opened? Yes. Ashcraft begun on them immediately after the election and his report is now about ready for publication. The people would like to know just how much each Democratic ex-trearurer has stolen from a Republican standpoint. Fnbosom yourself of this report. Our city will boom this summer, more than last suihmer in the way of building tenement houses. While the number last summer ran over the hundreds, this will more than double it, several have- commenced now, and by the time spring opens there will be a large number under way. Most of them are getting ready for gas whether it comes or not. The legislature has passed Representative Beasley’s bill to suppress .bucket shops. It provides heavy penalties including imprisonment tor running a bucket shop, and attaches a fine of from SIOO to SI,OOO for renting property to be so used. It is the most stringent law of the kind ever passed in the state, and was spproved by the House by an almost unanimouse vot. The ' Republican organ down street is at the time corking about the F. M. B. A. being a sideshow of the Democratic party, and goes into spasms over the possibility of Prof. Shippy, a member of that order, parting a third paper in this city. Becalm, my dear boy, the people have spoken in strong terms that monopoly and high protection to capitalists must go. . The opinion ot the Attorney-Gen-eral brought before the supreme court in the Behring sea matter arjd i mate disastrous disposal made by the supreme justices may cost Attorney-General Miller his office. The president is mortified and, although it is not positively stated, yet the opinion strongly prevails that the vacating of the at-torney-general’s office will probably redeem the cabinet. A /Till has been introduced in the Kaunas legislature, providing for the assessment of personal property at its value. Notes at their value as the same is fixed by the holder, and he is then prohibited I from collecting anymore than that amount. And further that all road lands shall be appraised at the same rate as the farms adjoining the fflil- . road land. intend to get after tbe money lenders, and the railroads; make them bear their share of the burden. What is the matter with bleeding Kansas that-she so unmercifully put her iron heel on the administr*^ , tion, she had given 82,000 major- 1 ' ity but two years ago. Has her sunflowers failed to bloom, or has she felt the weight of high protection «tnce the passage of the McKinley bill, and do they feel that they have all the high protection they can i stand, and are ready to do anything L that looks like relief to them from the high rate of interest they have jAlbeen paying on tbe plasters they | ; lbave on their farms.

"•~nnrirfirrrMrainKi»,i wn.iiri'rr --T Tins is the time of year when •4 . ■ j our people should arrange with the t oiiy council lor the Street improve-> merits, and not do as wt* uid last; year, wait until summer and then j commence and not have anything done for winter. There is not a street in the city but what should be graded and HtonCti this and next season. While two more streets are now ready there should be at least two more ready by the first of April. Take Adams and Jefferson streets and they can be stoned by the last of August, it the petitions are presented at • once so that the council can be preparing to receive the bids for the work and getting j everything in shape for the contractor to commence work at an early date. While all the streets need the work, and but a portion of them can be done at the present time, take two streets east and west and two north and south and they should be done 4his season, the two east and west heretofore named and Third and Fifth streets north and south so that it will give us good streets to the railroads? and to get to the While the cost of constructing the same is not very heavy on any one, and the time given under the present law is such that anyone can pay and not feel it like under the former law when all had to be paid in six months. Now the payments are extended to a period of ten years, making the payments light so that anyone can meet them, thus enhancing the value of property more than double the cost ot the improvement, and with such work in the city the farmers will soon see the necessity of such work, and will soon be ready to take hold of the matter, and-in a tew years we will have grand roads extending to all parts of the county thus improving our city and the country. —g— — From the present appearances it looks as though by the meeting,of the next congress of the United States that there will be some legislation for the people', as the House will be Democratic, and by that enough of the Republican senators will feel that it is necessary that the people havfiffifeome legislation in their favor of all in favor of the of this country, as hsWseen the . case with the party in pjfer in the present session. WhiflK: failed in some of its attempts to force obnoxious laws upon the people, it was only by reason of the determined opposition of the party of the people aided by a few senators of the party of frauds and spoils, who being wise enough to foresee the cloud that has been gathering over their party, and that partly bursted in November, 1890, is now so threatening that it looks as though in 1892 it will sweep the entire Republican party off of the face of the earth, and like its godparent will sink into oblivion, so that m a few years we will be</»nable to find a man who will acknowledge that he eyer belonged to such a party. V, " In the reduction proposed by the legislature of the fees and salaries of officers, some of the solons seem to think that the office of county school superintendent is an office created for the purpose of giving some one a job. While it may like all others be abused, yet it is one that should be maintained and kept up to the very highest standno man and grudgingly salary, but a salary that will command the very best talent the different counties afford, that the van of civilization and the boast of American independence may be always at the front. Our state is second to none in its schools, then why do anything that may retard the progress we have made. While we believe in giving alia fair compenwe think it would be better to reduce &}fne of the othef 1 officers a small amount ss4 add the same to the superintendent of ,c.Qimty schools. i A suMHE# of the Republican journals have been bowling themselves hoarse about Senator Brice,, of Ohio, first that he his seat in the United States Senate’ &u 4 imping that the people did not believe the#) they now declare that he is not a Ohio but of New York, because be is doing business in New York City, but the# maintain a silence that is painful so far as Quay and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, are concerned. What a pair that the Republican papers are ashamed to even mention their names. .

STATE STEAL IX (I j " Speaker Page- called the representatives t<> order on January 28, j and 20 minutes latter Mr. Greene, jof Norwich, the leader ot the Republican side, presented the majority report, and it vvai read by the clerk. Although there are 163 towns in the state the committee of investigation, took testimony orally and by affidavits from 20 or 25 towns. They examined no ballots, but as a result of their investigation found i that in the whole state 1,289 general ballots had been rejected, of which 458 were “double’’ ballots, which, i in the opinion of the committee, was i not legal; that in many towns (not specified) the number of votes for state officers counted and returned by the counters and “moderators” exceed the number of votes cast in these respective towifs. These were the premises from which were drawn the following conclusions:That there was no election of governor, lieutenant-governor, tr&qjisurer or secretary, because no one had received a majority of the whole number of votes lawfully cast; but that “the returns and the evidence explanatory and called for by questions suggested on the face of said returns to which the committee has had access, indicate that Nicholas Staub lias received a majority 'of the whole number of votes cast for controller.” This was followed by a resolution which practically continues the present deadlock, aSd which reads as follows: Resolved, by this House: Section 1. That the facts reported by the House select committee on canvass of votes are found to be true. Sec. 2. That a copy of the report of the committee and of this resolution shall be immediately transmitted to the senate. Sec. 3. That if the senate shall decide to investigate the said elec tion to the extent called for by the said Hotchkiss resolution, this House will join in laid investigation to the furthest extent to which the senate will consent. Sec. 4. That the houses will take no action delatory of the result of the late election for state officers till the senate shall have taken action in the matter of an examination of all the returns of presiding officers, including those made under section 240 of the Revised Statutes of 1888, by a joint select Committee on canvass ot votes. The Hotchkiss resolution referred to in the second section is for the opening of ballot boxes, the examination of ballots and the obtaining of other evidence outside of the returns. It has not yet been passed. Representative Hotchkiss immediately handed up the minority report. This, after detailing the number of votes cast for each candidate, says that the returns made to the Secretary of State was a true state ment of the votes legally cast and counted, that the returns had been made by legally constituted officers and that the ballots rejected were # legally and properly rejected and the returns as made were in every particular genuine. Although the minority members protested that returns tvere legal and proper,' and that it was the duty of the General Assembly to declare the persons elected as indicated thereon, the majority of the committee proceeded to hear extrinsic evidence for the purpose of changing the returns and making a declaration of a different number of votes cast than evidenced by the lists and returns. In these proceedings the minority refused to participate. “Nevertheless,” concludes the report, “the majority of the committee did then proceed to hear and receive the opinions of the various witnesses regarding ballots found in ballot boxes which, never became votes by reason of the decisions of moderators, under the law that they were illegal ballots or illegally east and various other hearsay, improper 4nd illegal evidence regarding the same; and npQh such hearsay, improper and illegal evidence proceedings have, by their report to tb/s House, attempted to substitute for the ,CQi/Bt/Uftiooal ; regular and legal returns and fair furbished by the officials of this state, certain other results and conclusions lor the purpose of creating doubt and confusion as to the results of the ypteg cast at said electors’ meetings for the officer* aforesaid, and for the purpose of declaring no person has received a majority of. all the votes east for pne or more of said officers; all of which the undert signed believe to be in subversion ••- ‘ •

tiiinirri-r-iTr mianm of law and the rights of the nvijor- \ 1 ity of the electors of this stale and : of the candidates fi»r said offices.” r I he minority members therefore i recommended the passage of the senate resolutions declaring the election of Morris as governor, Al» ; sop as lieutenant-governor, Phelan i as secretary, Sanger as treasurer and Staub as comptroller. Mr. Hotchkiss spoke in support. 1 of the minority report, aud was followed by the young leader»of the Republicans. Mr. Root, tbe Deracratic member from from Waterbury, characterized the report as an apology for a report, “or rather,” said he, “an apology for making no report at all.” The Republicans of the Hosjse were endeavoring to execute law ex-post facto. Mr. Judson, of- Hartford, made an appeal for principle, not men. Mr. Greene moved that both reports be printed in the journal, and it being then nearly 6 o’clock, the House adjourned. Last Friday week the members of the committee were given the chance to expunge that portion of the report relating to the returns in Hartford which had been interpolated without authority after the text ot the document had been placed in the hands of the House. The evidence was clear from the text furnished the House at the outset that the charge of fraud in the Hartford returns was an after-thought. It »was packed into the report at least twenty-four hours after the completion of the committee’s researches. This interpolation will bring the whole work of the investigating committee into disrepute throughout the state. It is the most unaccountable blunder that the Republican conspirators in the legislature could have made. Governor Bulkeley, who made the discovery of the alleged fraud, involving 227 more votes than should have been returned, would be convpeiied to''bear' the public efisgust that will be felt, when the exposure is made, but for the fact that the investigating com* mittee claimed the honor of the/ discovery during the debate Friday, when the Democratic leaders were rasping them in a, merciless way in the discussion. The Democrats are in possession of all the facts relating to the discovery of the fraud. Without going into elaborate details, it may be said that Bnlkeley blundered most unpardonably in his reckoning. The returns from the moderators in. the voting districts in that city, showing 9,716 votes, have no connection whatever with the state ticket. They are the votes that were polled for Representatives, and the Governor based his figures on the wrong record. The total number of general > tickets voted in Hartford was 9,888. The total vote returned to the secretary of state for Governor was 9,874, showing a possible discrepancy of only 14 votes. In point of tact, not even this discrepancy exists, for the name of the Republican candidate for Governor was scratched from a number of general tickets. t The committee’s work in regard to the town of Chatham and Wilton is even worse than the fiasco in Hartford. The report is a willful and premeditated misrepresentation of the vote for state offices in these towns. The report emphasizes the position of the committee by figures and tabulation that the returns from Chatham and Wilton are fraudulent to the extent of 250 votes on the general ticket. The town of Chatham is singled out as an example of Democratic dishonor, the vote for governor returned from that town exceeding the total number of official envelopes by 120. The town is divided into two voting precincts, the state return being made by the moderator of the first district. The moderator’s figures on the state vote the two districts are unimpeachable. The investigating committee knew this to be a fact, otherwise its intelligence is of so low a grade that it will be publicly discredited hereafter. The Chatham case, in a nutshell, is that the moderator of thedown neglected to add the number envelopes used m Jthe second precinct to the number used in his oyn ypep be made out the final return. In the town of Wilton the copii#itten',B report is designed to show tbut the moderator threw opt over wo votes for tfi,e state ticket. The only votes thrown out in Wilton were on the ticket for representa tive,and the house has already seated the Republican contestant from that town. By an error in making the return, tfye yojte§ discarded for representative were uegigne# to tpp general ticket- The committee •• -- ' - *

knew Ibis to be a fact, as it has already been discussed and explained in the secretary of state's office. No public exposure ot tbe committee’s misrepresentations, however, has yet been made. The facts are now given lor the first time. Wbat standing tbe committee can maintain before the public hereafter, in view of its dishonest and malignant efforts to stigmatize the voters of the state with crime and fraud at the polls, it is now .impossible to foreshadow. Its work has been shamefui from the beginning, but no one supposed that it would fall | into gross mathematical blunders j similar to the one in Hartford. The most ignorant moderators in the state c'ould not have dope worse.— Xatimwl Detiwcrat. \ WHITE - 1XI) U LA CK. : From some cause there is a generally accepted belief that the African has greater fecundity than the Caucasian race, but the census figtires of the United States for a century fail to confirm such a notion. They are as follows: Percentage of Percentage of increase of increase of colored, pop- white popt ulatiouat ulatiouat each census, each ceusus. •IHW..' 35 1810 .37 ■;« lisso 28 84 1830 31 84 1840 S 3 35 1850 27 37 18H0 .-...22 37 1870 .v. 10 24 1880. v 34 20 1890Lestimateci]. , 13 20 The above table shows that the white population has been growing with greater rapidity than the colored population, and this is true regardless of the white immigration., Superintendent Porter’s bulletin of October 31, 1890, discredited the apparently large increase of the colored population in 1880 by denying the accuracy of the census of 1870 in the negro States. His bulletin also showed an unusually large increase of immigration, the total for the 10 years ended in 1890, having the total growth. The negro will remain with us, and will increase in numbers; but when considered in relation to tbe whole population the percentage of the negro will be a constantly diminishing quantity. Since the first census the proportion of the colored population to the whole population has been decreasing, as will be seen by the following table: Percentage o‘ the colored population in total population. 1790 .....19 1800 19 1810 > ...19 1820 18 1830 ......18 1840 17 1850 10 1800.... : ...14 1870 a .^l3 1880 ...Cl3 1890 estimated! ."7.' 12 This record, covering more than a century of growth and embracing four generations, should effectually I quiet the alarms of those who see a bogie every time the negro question is discussed. At the beginning ot the present centuary one-fifth of the total population was colored. Today the negro numbers less than one in eight. During the last decade there was an increase of 11 whites for every additional negro. What great measure will the second session ol the Fifty-first Congress leave for the people to know jthat we had such a session, and while the people are demanding and, expecting that something will be done to help the country out of its present condition. Congress will adjourn in a few days more and it is hardly probable that the President will call an extra session, fearing the same results as in the session just closing, when all the time was taken up in an attempt to over-ride the Constitution ot the United States for the phrpose of maintaining the Republican party in power. The only measure that they can boast of is of the first sesson—the McKinley bill, and then while they were rejoicing over it the people took a look at it in 1890 aud will again in 1892 when they will get another chance at it through the ballot box, and the Fifty-first Congress will close with but little legislation for the benefit of the people. The legislature is after the fellows who have been dodging the assessor in listing their personal property for taxation. A bill has been introduced requiring the assessor to carry a stamp with hifi/ to be usec| to stamp notes, bonds, tnijs of exchange, etc., and rendering then/ uncollectubJe unless stamped und Jisted for taxation. Jt is pot all likely that this bill will pass) but something else will pass making it a very difficult matter lor a man to evade the listing of all his personal property. Men should pay. taxes according to their wealth and the law carmoUbe too stript. ’ 7

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