Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1892 — Page 4

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Che JJenuMxert Jf, MiCIB tTJMT, Proprietor. \ FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1892. 'Dem.: Democratic Ticket. THE STATE. For Governor. •Detn.: CLAUDE MATTHEWS. : : of Vermillion. For LelutenantrGovernor, : Dom : MORTIMER NYE, : of Laporte. for Secretary of State, •Dem.' WILLIAM R MYERS, : ,: of Madison. :.'.•■••• For Auditor of State, ■Dem' J. O. HENDERSON, I : of Howard. .. ,v. For Secretary of State, •Dem: ALBERT GALL, ; ; of Marion. For Attorney General, ‘Dem . A. G. SMITH. : of Jennings. For Sunt, of Public Instruction, • •Dem: H. n. VORIES, ; ; of Johnson. For State Statistician, •Dem : WILLIAM A. PEELE. ; of Kandolph. ; For Reportc r Supreme Court, ■Dem : 8. R. MOON, ;; of Fulton. •Dem : JEPTHA D. NEW, ;; of Jennings. ; Judge Supreme Court. 3-1 district •Dem : JAMES McCABE, , t..: of Warren. Judge Supreme Court sth district, •Dem : T. E. HOWARD, :; es St. Joe. •; Judge of Appellate Court Ist district :Dem : G. L. REINHARD. ;. of Spencer. •; Judge of Appelate Court. 3d district, :Dem : FRANK GAVIN, ;; «of Decatur. Judgeof Appellate Court 3d district '.Dem THEODORE P. DAVIS, : of Hamilton. •»•••••* Judge ot Appellate Court, 4th district, :Dem : O. J. LOTZ. ;; of Delaware. •; Judgeof Appellate Court. sth district :Dem : GEORGE E. ROSS, :; of Cass. THE COUNTY ; - For Representative—Adams. Jay :Dem.: and Blackford. WILLIAM H. HARKINS. ; For Representative—Adams and Jay. .Dem.: RICHARD K. ERWIN. ; •»•••; For Prosecuting Atterney—2Bth •Dem.: Judicial Circuit : For Treasure, :Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. «..v- • •• For Sheriff. :Dem.: SAMUEL DOAK. •••••• 1 For Surveyor, :Dem.: JOHN W. TYNDALL. •■; For Coroner, :Dem,: OLIVER T. MAY. •; For Assessor, :Dem.: ANDREW J. PORTER. ■ *’ x ;; For Commissioner—First District. :Dem.: HENRY HOLBROKE. •; For Commissioner—Third District, :Dem.: SAMUEL FETTERS, The tin backet brigade from Brazil will not be found at the Minneapolis convention, only ping hats and kid-gloved gentlemen can ’ ■ go there. Twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars is the amount recommended by the late Republican governor of this state. Farmen, how would you hke it? The fight against Harrison for renomination is becoming bitter among those Republicans who realize that he is the wrong man for for the place he holds. The announcement of three new monopoly combinations this week shows that Republicanism is still active enough to merit the rebuke it will receive in November. A number of white men from Alabama will apply at Minneapolis, claiming to be “the regular Republican delegates.” But burnt cork is ■their only hope of establishing their regularity. If Carlisle, of Kentucky; should ever get into the White House they’d have to build an addition to the sideboard and stock it as it was equipped in the days of President Arthur. x..' i >-.• The Connecticut Democrats will go to Chicago strong for.Cleve- | , land. A little while ago Mr. Hill thought his boom would become infectious and epidemic, but he can see now that it is not even contagU ions. Every extra million this House cuts appropriations below the basis K. of the Billion Dollar Congress : means a Democrat returned to the ' ■■ ■ . - next House. And in this connecE tion it must be remembered that -,A‘. — - , • - ' f.. only the pour rule fails to work both ways.

It is about tune for the tin plate liar to commence telling about the tin in this country and the vast factories ready to manufacture tin plate. While we have a few, they will make people believe that the country is full of them. The cattle barons in the new Republican state of Wyoming have called in Federal Marshals to enforce state laws for branding cattle. “State rights” amount to very little when they are pitted against the interests of barons of any sort. The Brooklyn Eagle thinks the hunt for the “Western man” has become hopeless. Why, bless you, there is no hunt and no need for it. If the Chicago convention does not call on Mr. Cleveland, it 1 can find the Western man in five minutes without hunting at all. The taxes in Union, Root and Preble townships, are not any higher this year than heretofore, with the exception of a few prices. The question with some of them is, did the trustees of their respective townships make their levies too low, or was their property assessed at a fair cash value heretofore as it is now. The Methodist Conference is sound in its condemnation of government aid to religious education; but it ought to have gone on and condemned the attempt of politicians to regulate religious education. Whether the attempt is to help or to hinder, we must resist all attempts at the interference of state with church or church with state. To the unprejudiced, dispassionate judgment, what a supremely ridiculous spectacles this government makes of itself on the tariff and trust question. It builds a tariff which enables parties to control production and regulate prices; then it puts on a’masque and passes an anti-trust law’ to combat the legitimate results of its tariff legislation. This is the Raked truth in a nut-shell. Senator Hawley says “there have been no scandals in the Harrison administration.” It takes a horrible stench to reach a thoroughIjL.acclimated Republican nose. The Dudley disgrace, the Wanamaker disregard of law and manipulation of testimony, Quay, Raum and Milholland are like boquets of roses to a veteran like Happily all the people, not even all the people of his party, have their sensibilities so blunted. It must be rather exciting living in Kansas. Late on Fridav afternoon three tornadoes organized themselves near Wichita and started out on their work of destruction. One of them struck Augusta, completely demolishing fifteen houses, and then passed on to Tpwanda, leveling every house in town that had just been rebuilt since the last cyclone which occurred m March and literally wiped out the place. The other two tornadoes have not been heard from. A The good people of Fairmount, Grant county, have driven the party out of town that wanted to open a saloon in their burg. They remind one of a Methodist conference when they resolve that the use of whiskey and tobacco is morally wrong and they will do anything in their power to put it dow-n, but the i first election that comes on they will vote for the worst drunkard that breathed, the only qualification necessary is to be a good Republican, one that will serve the party right or wrong, that is the case with our friends in Fairmount. r I —■ Cleveland may not win the nomination, he may be defeated if nominated, but he won a beautiful doll in a contest at the Dominican fair in Saratoga. Blame, Harrison,; blower and Hill were the other candidates. The result of the vote needn’t disturb the anti-Cleveland i people. President Harrison’s young sters and the babies of Blaine’s: family have grown beyond the doll i era. XV e do <?not know whether - there are any buds of- infancy in , Flower’s family or not, but he j

doesn’t count, anyhotf. As for Hill, he doesn’t need dolls any more than Croesus Flower needs dollars. The question of taxation is one thaj, concerns every one. While the amount collected may be small, yet if more than is necessary for the purpose for which It is intended, then it is wrong, it is money taken from the pockets of the people by legal measure which is but little or no better than stealing, when taken for the benefit for corporations or individuals, aside from the legal channel for whioh money should be collected from the people and put into the pockets of those who never attempt to earn anything only in that way. The robber tariff is continually doing such, by taking from all for the benefit of a few. Among the glorious achievements of the Republican party in days past Gov. McKinley mentions the “Pacific roads built with the aid of government subsidy.” Inasmuch as these roads defiantly refuse to pay the immense debt they owe the government and neglect to even keep up the interest of their bonds, and inasmuch as they have laid themselves liable to the charge of buying legislation in their behalf, of appropriating uneafned lands, of driving out honest settlers and of trying to crush the life out of farmers and shippers along- their lines, it is quite proper that this harmonious element should be introduced into Gov. McKinley’s “key-note.” Blocks-of-Five-Dudley had himself re-rated during Corporal Tanner’s administration of the Pension Bureau, and it transpired in the investigation last Thursday that it was a fraudulent transaction. Dr. Ingraham, a medical referee, was put upon the stand as an expert, and told to examine the case. He testified that there was no evidence whatever that a medical examination had been had before Dudley’s claim had been re-rated, although the law and rules of the office required it. The allowance was made upon Dudley’s individual statement, backed by a sketch prepared by himself, showing the amputation of his right leg several inches below the knee joint. Under the law, a pension of $36 is granted for the loss of the leg above the knee joint, but in this case that amount was allowed upon the recommendation of one of the examiners, who indorsed the papers with the statement that the amputation was ‘pretty near the joint.” The papers in the case were remarkable in that they bore none of the usual office stamps of receipt. An inclosed slip indicated that the case had been called up and made special by the Commissioner’s private •secretary. A comparison of dates showed that Dudley’s claim was filed May 18, 1889, and railroaded through the office in- four days while many deserving and impoverished pensioners have had equally good claims slumbering in the files for more than four years. a newfieTd FOR FAME. An experiment will be undertaken on Wednesday which will be watched with general interest. One hundred bicycle riders will be distributed at equi points from New York to Chicago and a military message will be sent the entire distance by relay bicycle riders. No matter what the condition of the weather may be, the first rider will leave Chicago promptly at two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon. He will carry a pouch contaiping a message from Major-General Miles to Major-General Howard, the former in military command at Chicago and the latter at New York. There is a fair prospect for muddy roads aid stormy weather, judging from fbe meteoological conditions- that have prevailed through that stretch of country for the last ten days, but this will only make the test the more severe and thus add to its practical importance. General Miles believes the result will show that a good bicycle rider can accomplish cross-country rates of speed that would not be within the possibilities of horsemanship. Bicycle riding has heretofore been considered an agreeable pasttime more than anything else, although bicycles are much used in ihe larger citiesthe quick delivery of messages. But if General Miles’theory is vindicated by the severe test which will begin on Wednesday, the bicycle rider will no longer be looked upon as a cheap ornament of the street or road, but will acquire much dignity* by becoming a valuable adjunct to military operation*,

the Tariff. Amid the inquiry and education which are going on all the time on the tariff question, we have seen no clearer illustration of its first principles than the following from a little pamphlet, by George Brickett, of Lynn, Mass. Read it, cut it out, learn it: -•» If you think it is wise to protect an industry that you are not directly interested in, I make this proposition to you: Tax yourself only one cent a year, and I will open a new American industry, agreeing to employ 1,200 native American laborers at wages of SSOO a year, or I will give them $450 a year and allow them 365 days holidays. You are following me as arithmetician. In round numbers there are sixty million people to be taxed. pDeqent from each amounts to#Boo.ooo 1,2*0 laborers, nt Moo each, would take of this amount 540,000 Leaving for me. I 80,000 In the new industry, 1,900 laborea« are are employed at good wages and very light work. Sixty thousand dollars is a fair renumeration for my severe mental strain. Twelve hundred and one of our population—pure, native American—are engaged in a business profitable to them and the other 59,098,789 are losers of only one cent each. This business I will continue, and I will further agree not to reduce the wages of my help, to employ only natives, and not to import laborers from Hungary, Poland or Italy to compete with them. There will be no “shut down,” no strikes, and in ten years I agree to have a free library, gym - nasium and hospital for my help. I further agree to find politicians who will point to this new industry as one that has grown up entirely under the beneficent workings of protection. I will refer to this industry myself as depending absolutely upon the glorious American idea of protection.— Indianapolis News. NEGRO VIOLENCE TO WHITE WOMEN. The worst trait developed by negroes since their liberation is illustrated in a manner in Frederick Douglass himself, who is now protesting against the brutal methods by which its brutal manifestations are resented. It is the desire ot the negro male to possess a white woman. Very rarely in proportion to the total number of negroes is there any open manifestion of this desire. As a rule negroes treat white women as superior beings, with the utmost possible respect and deference, and this no more to be forgotten in any consideration of the subject than it it is to be assumed that the rule is not violated. The same motive that moved Douglass in his choice of a woman moves the uneducated and brutal negro to make violent Assaults on white women. As long as we do not know how to deal with grave crimes except by capital punishment, the punishment in every such case as this ought to be death. An outrage on a woman is more deserving of death than the murder of a man. When the civil order is analyzed, when the reasons for legal homicides are sought out, it is seen that the basis, on whioh they rest is the family relation; the defense of women, since women are by nature least capable of defending themselves, and since all orderly society and all morality depend on their being defended against violence. Under every law of every country from the lowest savagery to the highest civilization, the males of a family may lawfully put to death anyone who is offering violence to their female dependents. It is against this universal law of human nature that the negro brute hurls himself to his own certain destruction. If he had a thousand lives, the forfeit of all of them would be no atonement for his crime and no satisfaction of justice. COWARDICE IN THE SEN; ate. The McKinley bill imposed a tax of sl4 a ton on binding twine. The bill the Democrats of the House passed on Monday is for Hundred Per Cent reduction. It provides that hereafter binder twine shall be admitted free of duty. What does the Republican Senate propose to do about it? Such bills as this for free binding twine and that already passed by the House for abohtition of the Prohibitive Specific duties oUs,woolens mean something, *nd the attempt of the Republican party to ignore them by pigeonholing in the Senate cannot succeed Such obstruction will have to be answered for in the campaign si&uarely and

fully as if the reform bills had been put to vote and every Republican vote had been recorded against them. Yet it is said, on trustworthy authority, that the Republican ma* jority in the Senate will endeavoi to prevent their consideration in that body. This is due to the cowardice of Republican Senators from the West who, knowing that these bills represent the interests and support the rights of their constituents, are afraid to vote either for them or against them. Since the death of Senator Plumb the Republican farmers of the West have no Republican representative in the Senate. Men like Allison are governed by the New England corporations. If they can suppress the House reform bills, they will certainly do it. But the attempt will fail. They may attempt to shirk responsibility in the Senate, but they will have to answer outside the Senate. Every rqform bill the House passes is so much accomplished for ridding the Senate of the cowardly incapables who have submitted to corporation dictation through their whole term of service. Since the Democrats took the aggressive on the tariff the Republican party has lost four Senators in the West, and that is only a beginning. The House is doing good work, and it will certainly tell. The cowardice of the Senate Republicans only makes this result more certain. Push the issue on the Senate. The peoplfr will do the rest. BLOCKS~ OF 'FIVE AND MAILED HAND. From time to time a Republican organ here and there asserts that the party has abandoned the Force bill. This means only that the parly would prefer to secure control of Congress and of the Presidency again before taking up the subject. There is nothing singular or novel about that. In the campaign of 1888 Republicans carefully refrained from advocating Federal Returning Boards and “Mailed Hand” control of elections. Had they been charged with intending to Introduce the Lodge Force bill in the event of their success, there is small doubt that they would have denied it vigorously. They kept their intection of attempting to fasten the Returning Board system on the country a profound secret, and it was only after they had installed themselves, as they thought, securely, that they introduced the Force bill and declared for the Mailed Hand to support the Blocks of Five. Naturally enough they would like to repeat this operation in 1892. But how can they hope to succeed in “Making a sneak” for their Force bill policy when they propose to renominate Benjamin Harrison, who, more fully than any other man in the country, stands for the Blocks-of-Five system, suplemented by the Rettfrning Board system? It is impossible for them to escape the record Harrison has made or to evade an open discussion of the issues forced by the Radical faction he represents, He. is the Blocks of-Five candidate; the Force bill candidate; the Prohibitive tariff candidate; the Subsidy candidate; the candidate of the Mailed band, of the feudalism of plutocratic corporations. And every issue he be openly met and decided. If he can be re-elected with a Radical House to support him it will mean that a majority of < the electoral college and of the Congressional districts demand the Force bill, and ths Force bill will pass accordingly. It could not mean anything else, unless in renominating him, the Republican party should condemn his messages and repudiate his demands for Federal Returning Boards and a more radical reconstruction policy than that which ended with the frauds of 1876. Instead of repudiating in renominating him, the Republican party will indorse his every act, and on the recored he will be defeated at the polls.' Deserving Praise. We desirp to say to our citizens, that for years we have been selling Dr. King’s New Discovery, for consumption, Dr. King's New L>ife Pills, Bucklen’s Salve and Electric Bitters, and have never handled remedies that sell as well, or that have given such universal satisfaction. We do not hesitate to guarantee them every time, and we stand ready to refund the purchase price, if satisfactory’ results do not follow their use. The remedies have wontheir great popularity purely onlheir merits. A. R. Piaaca, Druggist. $75 tO $250 wo“nJ I To‘?S. n PewM JOHNSON 4 00., 28th and Main St.. Klch. UIOD4, Viu o*o ■ . -

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