Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1892 — Page 2

6HOVERIB THE VfflH. Our Own Glorious Democracy Triumphant. Jr * TARIFF MBBERS ME SEVERELY REBUKED, A Significant Victory for the People Won by the People. THE PARTY OF JEFFERSON ONGE NOEE SUPREME. American Workingmen Will No Longer Bow to Protected Monopolists. CLASS LEGISLATION IS DOOMED TO EXTIRPATION. Traits of the Ominous Ante-Election Stillness Have Been Made Known. VERSATILE TIN-PLATE LIARS NOW OUT OF A JOB. Cleveland and Stevenson, Vindicators of the People’s Cause, Are the Nation’s Exalted. The Dreams of the Dawn of Democracy’s Day Have Been Realized.

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No more force bills. No perpetual war taxes. No more minority rule. No more blllion-doilarlsm. No more bumptious diplomacy. No everlusting tariff for monopolies only. No more bounties or subsidies to favored classes. We have won. Cleveland and Stevenson are victorious and Democracy, our own glorious Democracy, is triumphant. The people, the plain working people who reap but that which they have sown—and that only after the tax-gatherer has made his liberal deductions for the use of the tariff-fed millionaires —have again come into their own. For the second time in thirty-two years the Democratic party has triumphed over the allied forces of plutocracy and political corruption. Politically this country is ours. Let ' Democrats everywhere rejoice I It means much to have a Democratic Vice President ruling over the sessions of the United States Senate, but the victory is chiefly significant when considered with deference to the platform upon which it has been won. Never was the fundamental difference between the two great parties more clearly put in issue. “We denounce Republican protection as a fraud; the labor of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few,” declared the Democrats assembled in convention at Chicago. “We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the federal government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only—and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of government when honestly and economically administered.” The battle was fought and won ppon the issue of tariff for revenue only. The gauntlet was thrown down to McKinley, Carnegie, the champions of wealth, of vested “rights”—which are often vested wrongs. They responded by pouring money extorted from despoiled consumers and underpaid workmen into the Republican campaign fund. The three big safes hr* Chairman Carter's office were crammed to repletion. We of this State know something of how that gold flowed in slimy streams, —corrupting whatever it touched. We have seen the procession of so-called Indepefidcnt newspapers, with editors destitute equally of conscience, con- | ■ vlctions, and cash, sneak, shamefacedly, into the Republican ranks. Just for a handful of silver they left us; Just for a ribbon to wear in their coats. They have the silver, we the victory . fe-—lt has been satd that the campaign was dull, that there was a lack of . brass band enthusiasm and marching

club oratory. And the wiseacres have dolorously prophesied that this portended Democratic defeat. They know better now. The fact is that there never was a campaign in which was more thinking and less shouting. There was never a campaign in which the arts of the professional campaigner counted for so little. Notable factors these in the Democratic triumph, for the professional campaigner has been on the side of the heaviest money bags, while the men who did the thinking went to the polls with Democratic tickets in their hands. Magnitude of the Victory. Let us not underestimate the magnitude of the victory gained nor the extent of the obstacles surmounted. “Harrison’s administration,” said recently ah eminJyt man of his own political faith, “nas begn four years of political campaigning.” He has subordinated everything to his desire for a second term. His cabinet was shrewdly formed, so as to take out of the field some of his principal rivals in his own party. How he undermined and drove into private life the most able of all Republicans, James G. Blaine, is matter of notoriety. Blaine’s diplomacy was distorted to the President’s glorification. Blaine’s shrewd device for sugar-coating with reciprocity the unpalatable pill of McKinleyism was heralded by Harrison as his own. And when the Secretary of State withdrew from a position made a false one by the duplicity of the President the cry of “treachery” was raised by the Federal officeholders who were even then gathered like a body of paid retainers to vote for the renomination of their chief. Every executive department of the National Government has been employed for the personal ends of Harrison. The diplomatic- and consular service was filled with shrewd political managers from pivotal States, who, when the campaign opened, came home to do battle like a welldrilled army for their leader. The Treasury portfolio was given first to a possible 4ival and, upon his sudden death, to an Ohio politician whose time has been about equally divided between political work in Ohio and devising new forms of book-keeping to conceal the treas-

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ury deficit due to McKinley and the blllion-dollar Congress. The postoffice was givqn to John Wanamaker in exchange for a $400,000 campaign fund. For his assistant dlarkson, the most unscrupulous of practical politicians, was chosen, and the heads of Democratic postmasters ffell faster than a score of swift perfecting presses could have turned out copi es of the Republican platform with its hypocritical civil-service reform

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plank. The pension bureau under “Corporal” Tanner and, later, under Green B. Raum, who does by indirection and sneakingly what Tanner did with brazen effrontery, was a mere vote-making machine for Harrison. The Navy Department served its turn when jingoism was thought to be politically profitable, and the expensive and discreditable Chilian complications were political tribute paid to him. And if the army has not been employed to serve his personal ends and further the designs of his party It is not for lack of desire. Had not the execrable an infamous force bill been beaten there would have been soldiers at every doubtful polling-place under orders of Federal officials, whose very livelihood would have been dependent upon a Republican majority. There will be no more force bills now. What It Meaa«. What does it mean, then, Democrats, this victory we have won? That the doctrine that the many may be taxed for the benefit of the few is finally overthrown by the stroke of the people. That this nation rejects with abhorrence thetheory that bayonets at th© polls are essential to—or, indeed, not fatal to—a free expression of the people's will. That the extravagance of the Republican party during the brief period when it was in uncontrolled possession of both branch©s of the Government, has received a second veto. That Grover Cleveland’s sterling integrity and uncompromising devotion to duty have stood forth convincingly when contrasted with four years of self-seeking and partisan jugglery under Harrison. Finally that the voters of these United States have come to recognize the Republican party as the party of plutocracy, the party of privilege, the party which robs the poor to further enrich the wealthy, a party without principle or excuse for being, maintained for the profit and gloriflcation of an army of mercenaries, living on the record of its past and having no future. The statesman to whom Republitans point KtPUBLICAN COMMITTEE KOOM REMEMBER if HARRisoii I WHAT . , gets A THERE >S p ' majority ,N ,;T B Us ’ B e ELEtni L— '>< PWOw 'Z. f //7/7 fajtoocvntNnti '&S&SH'"' 1 J) K/ rirOlßrrrO »rl z .Arm unr I * wnvn l GONE OCT or BUSINESS. first and most proudly as their greatest character, once said in homely phrase: “You can fool all the people part of the time, and you can fool part of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.” Thirty-two years is not an eternity, but it was a long time for so shallow a body of pretenders as the Republicans to fool even a majority of the people.

It is a victory for Democracy won by Democrats. There was no taugwump aid this time. It was won upon the merits of the parties, not through adventitious circumstances. We were aided by no blatant Burchard, crippled by no lying Murchison. Democratic principles—the creed of Which declares- that every man shall enjoy the same rights and liberties as every other man—have triumphed. It has been a battle

against personal privilege and unconstitutional restriction from the very opening of the campaign. In Wisconsin and Illinois the citizens who held that they possessed an inalienable right to educate their children as they chose found a champion In the Democracy. In Kansas and lowa all who denied the power of other beings to regulate their diet turned to the Democracy for aid. All over the face of this broad and prosperous land the sturdy citizens who hold that none should be taxed save for his own benefit, and that the purity of the ballot could better be conserved by removing the temptation to protected millionaires to de-

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bauch it rather than by hedging In the polls with Federal bayonets, saw leaders whom they might trust in Cleveland and Stevenson. The first time the Republicans attained power in this Republic they held control of ’the' Government for twenty-four years. When next they returned to office four years of constant scandal; squandering and spoliation was enough to cause the people to rise in their might and turn the rascals out. Grover Cleveland is victorious. Democracy is triumphant, and the nation is redeemed. Noble Democrats! Glorious Democracy! Victorious Cleveland! WHY HE VOTED DEMOCRATIC. I was one of them "fool fanners," yea, I'll own it like a man: There was plenty of ns fashioned on the same peculiar plan: And I’ve lived ont here in my State more than five and twenty years; A-growln’ poorer and poorer, as it certainly appears. I seldom read the papers—l work too hard for that— And never knew why I got lean while other men got fat; I didn’t fool with politics, I had too much to do, But I always voted as I shot, and as they told mo to. oThe day before election, just imagine my distress, When I ketched mv wife a-readin’—now, whatever would yon guess?— A free trade publication, and to make it worse she said She’d read it regular each night before she went to bed. And do you know that wife of mine just faced me up and down That farmers slave to make a few monopolists in town. I always try to get aronnd these warm domestic spats; But when I praised protection she laughed and answered, "Rats.” I bristled up; it kindled all the sentiments of strife To think that this free trade stuff should be corruptin’ of mv wife; I quit her then and there, before her argument was through, As every good protectionist makes It a rule to do. < « That night we had a campfire, snd our Congressman was there: We gave him “John Brown’s Body” when he went to take the chair. I wore my old blue uniform, to spite the Democrats. Bnt all the time I wondered what my Mary meant by "Rats." Our Congressman was eloquent; he made a stirrin’ speech: I could almost see the battle’s smoke and hear the bullets screech; And when he bade ns vote as we had shot at Malvern Hill, We rose with one accord and cried, with one acclaim, "We willl" 0 We sang the good old war songs and we ate a a mass o’ beans, And we passed the evenin’ pleasantly, recallin’ bloody scenes; And we took the straight-out tickets and we pinned ’em on our hats. But all the time I wondered what my Mary meant by "Bats!" When I reached homo I noticed that my Mary wore a smile. Which seemed to me as indicatin’ storms ahead of bile; To head her off I said. “Yon call me early, mother, dear, For to-morrow will be the liveliest day free trade will have this year.” “ Next mornin’, just at sun-up, as I woke and* rubbed mv eyes, A-wonderin’ what she meant by “Bhts,” I saw, to my surprise, My clothes and hat and shoes, all ranged in —order on the floor, Ana bearin’ each a card I’d swear I never saw before. f My flannel shirt displayed this sign. “Taxed 95 per cent." My trousers, “Taxed 100’—so this is what "Rats" meant: My vest said, "Taxed 100,” and my shoes, "Taxed 25;” My coat and hat “200," with "Protection makes us thrive." I went to fill the basin, and I noticed as I came “Taxed 45 per cent.” Great Scotti the towel said tne same. — The soap was marked at "20.* As I dropped it on the floor I chanced to sec a scuttle full of coal chalked “24." I passed into the kitchen, and it gives me pain

to state That my wife had on a woolen drees stamped "only 6S;“ , And in shooing out a guinea hen she made a little dive Which showed a pair of stockings with a card marked "35.'

The baby in his little bed was lying fast asleep; I always held the little chap as most uncommon cheap; But when I saw them cards on blanket, pillow, crib and sheet. I felt a Inmp rise in my throat, I knew that I was beat. No matter where I went I struck them pesky little signs, The stoves, the plates, the knives, the forks, window sash and blinds, The scissors, needles, thread, all bore that terrible per cent.; Blgosh, I didn’t dare to ask what card was on the rent. — That was the shortest meal I ever ate in all my

life, And, as I left the table. In remarkin’ to my wife That I was goin’ to the polls, she helped me with my coat, And said, * I reckon, John, I needn't tell you how to vote.” I walked down to the votin' place; it looked like every yard. Was full of farmin' implements which bore a little card. And seemed to say, from plow to spade, from thresher down to ax. “Good mornin*, John, and don't forglt the tariff is a tax." I voted straight—oh, yes, no doubt of that; I straight, But not exactly in the way expected of my State, And I showed the boys the little cards provided by my wife; That night our Congressman took formal leave of public life. I was one of them "fool farmers” durin’ five and twenty years, Bnt I learned a little common sense, as doubtless now appears; You can run and tell McKinley—and—say—don’t forget to state /-0LI. , ' That we've voted, all ns farmers, and we’ve voted darned near straight. ' —Exchange. Fobty years ago the party of high taxes was swept out of existence by the demand of the people for a relief from excessive taxation. The lesson of 1852 has been repeated. The Republican party has passed iftto history as the last relic of that barbarism which taxes the people and proi claims that it Is enriching them. Cleveland’s campaign; Dignity, Decency, Delicacy.-’—”’ Harrison’s hustle: Rabble, _ • Riot, Ruction. The Republican managers used i every endeavor to get out Corporal Tanner, ex-Penslon Commissioner, to i whoop up the soldier vote, but he ■ steadfastly refused to whoop. ’ General Sickles will have tho felicity of listening officially to Mr. Cleveland’s second Inaugural.

p " _ _ _ | CLEVELAND GETS IT. Elected President of the United States. ELECTORAL VOTE 276. NEW YORK GIVES GROVER 42,000 PLURALITY. INDIANA DEMOCRATIC. THE OFFICIAL COUNT MAY BE NECESSARY IN OHIO. lowa Solid for Harrison—lllinois Breaks Its Mooring—How the Election Has Gone —ln the Fifty-third Congress the House Stands 911 Democratic, 198 Republican and 0 Popullte; the Senate 44, 30 and 3, Respectively. Verdict of the Voters. Grover Cleveland has been elected President of the United State*. He has carried New York, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, by large ma|< rides, and at the time this is written the Democrats also claim Ohio and California, though it is probable that the official count may place these States, particularly Ohio, in the Republican column. Cleveland’s vote in the electoral college, without Ohio, is 276. Electoral Vote. The total electoral vote of the States is distributed, according to the press reports, in the following manner: Har- Cleve- Wea--Bt»te. risen, land. ver. Alabama .. U Arkanea5......vr........ 8 California 9 Colorado .. 4 Connecticut 8 Delaware 8 Florida. 4 .. Georgia 18 Idaho .. Z Illinois 24 Indiana w lowa 13 ■■ .. Kansas .. .. 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana ' 8 .. Maine 0 Maryland 8 Massachusetts 15 Michigan 0 3.. Minnesota. 9 ■■ .. Mississippi o Missonrt IT .. Nontana. 3 Nebraska. 8 Nevada. ... 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 10 New York 38 North Car01ina......; .. .. 11 North Dakota 3 Ohio , 23 Oregon . 4 .. .. Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 BouthCaroltna 9 South Dakota 4 Tennessee 12 .. Texas .. 15 .. Vermont 4 Virginia 12 Washington 4 West Virgtna 6 .. Wisconsin .. 13 Wyoming 8 Total * ~..1*s 276 23 Necessary for election. 238. Party Strength In Congress. The complexion of the House of Representatives will be materially changed, all three parties having made important gains and losses. The returns of Con-1 gressional districts, while not absolutely | complete, are sufficiently fall to indicate that the Democrate will have a large majority in the House, but probably not as large as in the present one, which is divided among the parties as follows: Democrats, 235; Republicans. 88; Alliance, 9; total, 332. The next House will contain 354 members, of whom the Democrats will have, as now appears, 1 217, the Republicans lzß, aud the popu-1 lists 9. I The political divisions by States are follows: States. Rep. Dem. Peo. Alabama . » Arkansas 6 California 16.. Colorado . • ■ 2 Connecticut 1 3 Delaware 1 .. Florida 2 Georgia. 11 Idaho 1 Illinois » 13 Indiana 3 10 lowa W 1 Kansas 3 .1 4 Kentucky 1 10 .. Louisiana .. 6 .. Maine 4 .. .. Maryland 8 Massachusetts 10 3 Michigan .. 14 1 Minnesota 0 1.. Mississippi 7 Missouri. 2 13 .. Montana 1 Nebraska. 4 11 Nevada 1 New Hampshire 11 New Jersey 8 6.. New York 13 21 North Carolina 18.. North Dakota 1 Ohto 10 1 Oregon 2 Pennsylvania 20 10 Rhode Island . .. South Carolina 7 South Dakota..... tf. 2 Tennessee 2 8.. Texas 13 Vermont ..... 2 Virginia 10 •< Washington 2 West Virginia 2 2 Wisconsin 4 6.. Wyoming..... 1 Total 12* 217 9 ” The Senate, which is now controlled by the Republicans, Will pass into the hands of the Democrats next March. The present political complexion is: Republican!', 47; Democrats, 39; Independents, 2; total, 88. The new Senate will consist of: Republicans, 39; Democrats, 44; Populists, 5. When this table is compiled, there is yet some uncertainty as to the result on Legisla ure in some of the States, principally as between Republicans and Populists, but there is little doubt that the above division will be substantially maintained, in which case the Populists will hold the balance of power if they choose to exercise it. The Republicans will lose one member from Illinois, one from Nebraska, one from Nevada, one from New York, and one from Wisconsin. La»t Words of Famous Men. Ido not sleep. I wish to meet death awake.—Maria Theresa. Let me hear those notes so long my solace and delight.—Mozart. To die for liberty is a pleasure and not a pain,—Marco Bozzaris. We are as near heaven by sea as by land.—Sir Humphrey Gilbert. I resign my soul to God; my daughter to my country.—Jefferson. Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.—Christopher Columbus. I would not change my joy for the empire of the world.—Philip Sidney. Farewell, Livla, and ever remember our Long union,—Augustus Oeesar. j Remorse! Remorse! Write itl Write it! Larger! Larger!—John Randolph. We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke ieof the company. (.ulnsborough. I

SPICED AND PICKLED — ARE THE INDIANA NEWS ITEMS IN THIS COLUMN. .— - * J r i’Ajffjrj Frash Intelligence Irom "vary Fnrt •* ths State-Nothing of Internet to Onr Boadere Left Out. Minor State Heme. Richmond hat a now brush and broom M manufacturing eetebllihmunt. William Dhering, aged 50, was found l| dead in bod at Warsaw, from heart disease. «» Fihk destroyed tho Howland Block at Lapel. Loss, #3,000; Insurance, #IOO, on the stock. Joel Da vidson,a woll-to-do Richmond farmer, has gone crazy from campaign excitement Charles Ghaves. a young man of Corydon Junction, was run over and killed by s train. Thk Peru Electric Manufacturing Company, capital stock #IOO,OOO, has been Incorporated. Jacob Noels convict In the Michigan City penitentiary, has fallen heir to an estate valued at#o,ooo. Jesse Cummings, son of Ellon Cummings of Torre Haute, a railroader tn lowa, was killed by tho cars Joel Davidson, a citizen of Wayne County, Is reported to have been driven Insane by political excitement William Koksmkyeh, young farmer near Evansville, committed suicide by shooting himself with a shotgun. The Moore’s Hill railway station looks as If it had passed through a cyclone, owing to a storm of rocks by hoodlums Dutch Smith, of Muncie, had one of his hands smashed off while coupling cars on tho L. E. & W. railway at Tipton. Garland E. Rose, an old citizen and one of the leading dry goods merchants of South Bond, died as a result of brain 1 roubles George Beck, a Councilman of Huntington, had a Roman candle in his pocket when it was touched off and seriously burned his leg. Eliza Ellkitt, 14 years old, was struck by an Ohio and Mississippi train at Now Albany and died an hour later. The girl was very desf. Jackson Horner, of Moore’s Hill, while intoxicated, took his wife buggyriding with another man's horse, and got a sentence of two years in the penitentiary. The Southern Furniture Company's office, storehouse and manufacturing plant in Evansville were totally destroyed by fire. Loss 925,000; partly insured. The combination of Indiana gas companies, organized to fight the piping of natural gas to Chicago, will make no new moves until tho decision of the Supreme Court in the injuctiou case now ponding.' A man named Johnson was killed in Mine Na 3, belonglug to the Brazil Block Coal Company at Coalsville. He had recently gone to that place from Clay City to work in tne mine. He was instantly killed by falling slate. Mn. John Rinehart, a young man aged 18, while out hunting, near Seymour, was accidentally shot and instantly killed. He is the son of one of Seymour’s prominent citizens and was a young man well-liked by everybody. Billy Larkin, an Anderson man, swallowed a tiny turtle It. a glass of beer the other night, just to show off. Then, like the whale that couldn’t stomach Jonah, he threw up his job The turtle is well, but Billy is indisposed. A large fox-terrier dog of Nell Coleman created a panic at Elkhart by going mad. The animal ran wildly about the streets, bit eleven persons, several seriously, and also attacked a number of dogs. It was finally shot by Dr. Turner. Mrs. Mary Morris, a helpless paralytic, aged 67. was burned to death near Kokomo, during the temporary absence of the family. A sparK from the pipe she was smoking Ignited her clothing,and being powerless to help herself, she perished in the flames. Coroner Dribcoll of Muncie, has decided that William Moffett of Yorktown, who died a week ago. met his death from natural causes. A few days since Miss Ida Mann of Indianapolis, to whom Moffett was affianced, went to Muncie as she suspected he met his death in an unnatural way. Near Batesville, while bunting William Sheor, aged 19, got on a stump and in pulling the gun up, the hammer caught, exploding tho charge. The ball took effect in the groin and passed out near the spinal column. The young man lingered in great agony a few hours, when death relieved him. A gas well on the Storms farm, six miles west of Montpelier, that has been supplying that vicinity, commenced flowing oil the other day, and in a short time the patrons of the lino were bothered with oil so much they were obliged to turn off all lights and fires, and could gather a pail of oil at any of the jets or burners in a short time. The 'Schools at Dundee were using gas from this line, and the teachers dismissed tho students because they could not control the oil that was flowing into tho house Cov. Chase has extended executive clemency to the following convicts: Daniel West, colored, of Grant Coiinty, a "lifer,” who fought with a rival named McMath, while his friend Casey slipped up in the rear and killed McMath with a blow over the head, was the first on the list. Gov. Hendricks pardoned Casey years ago; Charles Pfeiffer of Huntington county, was convicted in 1888 of manslaughter for killing W. G. Morse, his former employer, because Morse prevented him from getting work elsewhere, and also because he believed Morse slandered his wife, was also pardoned: Curlie L. Arbuckle, a bigamist, of Kokomo, dying of consumption, and brakeman Wm. F. Roberts and Joseph E. Brown, of the Pennsylvania Hues, convicted of stealing a pair of shoes from the company, completed the list Joseph Wambaugh, proprietor of the Brighton Beach road-house. Indianapolis, was shot while hunting near New Philadelphia. Wambaugh received a load of shot from the gun of trapshooter Cook, which was intended for a bird. The wound is notserlous. Levi Rogebs, an old citizen, while standing on the depot platform at Pendleton, was struck in the breast with a package of Indianapolis papers thrown from a fast mail. He was knocked from the platform abd picked up unconscious. Internal injuries are feared, as Indicated by hemorrhage. His recovery is very doubtful. The house of John Lowry, near Idaville, was burned, the roof falling in on the sleeping family. Gracle, a 7-year-old daughter, was burned to death and Mr. Lowry himself and another daughter badly Injured. Tho remains of t'ue dead girl when recovered were horribly blackened. All the personal effects of the family, including money savings, were destroyed, leaving them entirely destitute. — A terrific riatural-gas explosion occurred near Kjikomo. on the Chicago plpe-ilna Seven men wore frightfully burned, two of whom, Charles Newell and Arthur Mpon, will die. in removing a plug from the mains the escaping gw ignited, causing the explosion.