Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1893 — Page 4

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©he democrat JT. BLAOKBVBir, Proprietor FRIDAY, I'EB. 2Jf., 1893 Rate, of S»b»cription. One Year, In advance 11 “ . Six Mentha ' Kn Four Montns All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 82.(X>. Office In Democrat Building, cast side of Second Street— ground floor Boom the County Fair! Exit Benjamin, enter Grover — March 4th. The Crinoline Craze is an allround steel. The County Fair. Second week in March. Every body interested come. Bring the old ’oman and the best pumkin to the County Fair this Fall. Get ready to organize a County Fair. Meeting to take place the second week in next month. Every body attend the meeting at the Court House next month for the organization of a County Fair. The wrangling now indulged in by our law-makers at the State Capital, shows up like a pawn-shop sign. Two Chattanooga policemen were recently held up by one man. He got the drop on them but that is all he did get. The confirmation, of Judge Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was no surprise to the people. North Dakota has elected a Democrat to the United States Senate in the person of W. N. Roach. On to Washington the Democratic procession moves. J. Sterling Mobton, the new Secretary of Agriculture, is the author of the first legislation for Arbor Day, now so generally observed throughout the country. An Ohio exchange says: It is now confidently predicted that James E. Campbell will be the next Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio. In the Indiana House of Representatives the farmer element seems to predom.nate. There are 41 farmers, and only one minister and one printer. Many of the Republican officials remind us of a criminal at the bar, pleading for mercy—they are praying that the great judge (Grover) will spare their officia « heads. Put a word encouraging the organizing of a County Fair upon a postal card and send it to the DemT ocrat and we’ll print it! Lose no time in putting yourself on the side of progress. How would it do to open up. rhe old recruiting office of the war times, for volunteers for the ranks beyond the grave? That would be I a great relief to some of the sore-5 heads of the country. Let the fanners, the business men, the mechanic and every body, of old Adams County wake up from their Rip Van Winekle sleep and help move the wheels of progress onward—by aiding in getting up a , model County Fair for the coming Fall. Now that a match has been at-1 ranged between Mitchel and Corbett | for a finish fight in a twenty-four | foot enclosure, we would suggest to the Mitchel party the propriety of having it occur directly underneath a sky-light, which will be the | only chance left for getting out of a severe drubbing. All other escapes having been closed up by Corbett’s manager, Brady. S’, i

If the Government will only pay interest on what it owes the old soldiers they will get more than they do now. Railroad property in Indiana that is worth one hundred dollars will be taxed just as much hereafter as real estate that is worth one hundred dollars. President Harrison, by the appointment of Judge Jackson, of Tennessee to the vacancy on the Supreme bench has brought a tirade of abuse upon himself by members of bis party. N»e million dollars is a good deal of money to spend in order that Congressmen may make themselves solid in their Districts. Yet that was the amount appropriated by the fifty-first Congress for public buildings in small towns. Now that February is about suppressed and the General Assembly of Indiana have not made any noteworthy showing for the month, we would respectfully suggest that half the blame be laid on the groundhog as neither a shadow or a showing has been made by either party. The G. A. K. Appropriation Bill having failed to pass favorably in the legislature of our State, we see no reason why the Council of Administration can not vote this honor to some other City and State where dissensions are unknown when the welfare of the soldier are at stake. Is it possible that Cleveland can not find a Democrat competent to administer the office of Secretary of State, and was obliged to choose a Republican.-Republican Exchange. It is also possible that Harrison appointed Jackson for about the same reason. How do you reckon on that? % National Committeeman James S. Clarkson says that When the Republican party gets out of “cold storage” next month, it will again assume its old-time activity, and once more become the party of the masses. Whan can the gentleman mean by comparing President Harrison to a “cold storage” wareroom? Those who read of the awful savagery at Paris, Texas, the torturing to death of the negro Smith, can scarce suppress a shudder. It is true, Smith’s crime was fiendishly brutal, and he fully deserved death; but the method of administering the punishment was hardly worthy of Fegee Islanders, let alone inhabitants of a civilized country like our own beloved America. In less than two weeks the Democratic administration will have charge at Washington and thenwell the fun will begin. But in •spite of protests, tears and entreaties prover Cleveland will first give his attention to matters affecting The whole people before beginning to take care of the “boys.” But the boyswill have their inning if they have the patience to wait The Texas Legislature two years ago made George Washington’s birthday a legal holiday, and furth•ermore designated it as Arbor Day, ••‘to l»e devoted to the planting and ■cultivation of forest, shade and •ornamental trees throughout the kState.*' I'he Governor has accordingly issued a proclamation, but he ■omits to mention that there is noth ing ii< the new. statutes requiring that cherry trees exclusively l»e planted on this day. A very considerable number of Those who have a large income from •conducting religious, services on "Sunday, oppose opening the World’s Fair on that day. This will shut out the laboring people who can not visit the Fair upon any other day of the week; it will also enable the ■4OOO saloons of Chicago to do a much better Sunday business, for Those who are shut up in shops and factories all week need a little recreation on Sunday, and if they find the gates of the World’* Fair closed against them, they will seek the waloons.

A Bill has just past the Senate of our State compelling the Gravel Road Superintendent to report quarterly to the County Commissioners. This will be quite severe on the “Superintendent” when “reporting” on Washington township’s Gravel Roads. If the two-term idea were abandoned there would be fewer amature statesmen in Congress and much more true statesmanship. That chimerical scheme is very apt to perpetuate forestry in the backwoods. That was a very economical streak our Legislature embraced when they came within one vote of amending the election law so as to do away with the publication in the County papers of the sample ballots or tickets. The wise solons seem to forget their friends when a streak of retrenchment seizes them. We trust and feel that no intelligent Democrat will be disturbed by the harangues of Republican editors over the postoffice appointments that are to be made by the incoming administration. The remarks of some of these fellows justify the impression that in their cases nature erred in an effort to make men of material intended for the creation of jackasses. The tact of the recognition of Judge Gresham for Secretary of State, by Grover Cleveland, has precipitated a tremendous howl all along the line of the Republican press and pot-house politicians, and is the very best of evidence that Mr. Cleveland has made a wise and judicious selection in the person of Judge Gresham. Objection is made by a Republican paper to the selection ot Wilson S. Bissell, Cleveland’s former law partner, as a member of the Cabinet, on the ground that it is “an attempt to keep the good offices in the family,” and “is indelicate, to say the least.” Let us see, was it indelicate in President Harrison to place his partner, W. H. 11. Miller, in the office of Attorney General? Farmers, Mechanics, Merchants, Business men, Every body! Your assistance will be necessary for the organization of a County Fair. Are you ready to give this very important matter an early consideration? We must organize at once if we expect to be enrolled on the list of County Fairs and be in line with our neighbors. Now is the opportune time to commence. Again, we ask, are you ready? The Cullup Bill and the Erwin adjnendment thereto, have caused quite a hullabaloo in the newspaper arena during the past week. The Bill is too long to reproduce here. One of the purposes of the Bill is to provide more fully for action by the State Board with reference to allowing railroads to have an opportunity to be heard of after notice as to their taxation,by the Boaid, as well as to give the Board broader power over Railroad property. The entire press of the State demanded reasonably relief from the unjust and unfair Grubb’s libel law, but the members of the Committee to which it was referred in the Senate refused to report it, fearing no doubt, that the passage would deprive a certain class of pettyfogging lawyers in the State of a line of business, that, though it borders on the line of blackmail, is remunerative to those who indulge in such questionable practice. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the leading Republican paper of the Southwest, has the courage to look the situation squarely in the face, and to express its convictions without fear or reservation. It states the cause of the late political landslide in this terse language: This thing called McKinleyism — this advancing of duties on articles which have been on the dutible list from a third of a century to a century —has been condemned finally and eternally by the The verdict has been rendered twice, and after an interval of two years between the judgments. The first verdict may have been given hasti ly and without sufficient examination of evidence but the second was recorded after reasonable deliberation, and it is more pronounced and emphatic than the first. If the Republican party is to win any victories in the future, it must drop the McKinleyism immediately and permanently, and send all the imtn who cling to it to the rear.

The Indiana Legislature were so elated over the big fair at Chicago that they made a trip to the windy city in the coldest winter weather and charged their expenses to the taxpayers. We cannot explain why these great mon were in such hasle 4 to see the fair oi all fairs unless it was that farming is generally done in the summer time. Who will give the Democrat a correct sollution for the following question: What does our Government owe the soldier who served two years, (this being the average) in our late civil war; gold being worth <2.86? To explain our meaning we would say that the Government agreed to pay sixteen dollars per month which she never did as the soldier was paid in green-backs and gold was above par and was the standard. There will be a call for representatives from the different townships in the County to meet at the Court House, in this city, for the purpose of organizing our County Fair. It is to be hoped that no township in the County will be delinquent in a matter of so great importance to every body. The Commissioners will convene in regular session next month, and with them at the fore to give it a boost, there is every probability of a successful beginning and organization. Are you ready to organize? The pensioners of the late war will probably agree to wear a badge of distress on account of getting pensions, if the Congressmen who vote it and the fellows who uphold it will also wear a badge to denote who they are. All that the old boys ask now or did ask during the war is a fair chance at their enemies. They will take their chances on the results. Wouldn’t they make it hot for the ungrateful wretches who now enjoy the results of their sacrifices? Put on your badges if you want to on those conditions. One will be the badge of the hero, the other the mark of the ingrate. The bill compelling all drug stores and holders of Government license to take out State License, was killed m the House last week, and the druggists of the State are again breating easy, while less reputable holders of Government permits need not “speak easier.” The revenue that the ninety-two counties in the State of Indiana would pay to the School Fund if this bill had become a law, would have amounted to the snug little sum of <230,000. Taking our County as a basis, each County on an average would be permitted or entitled to draw out of this fund <2.500. Divide this among twelve townships and each townsnip would receive a little over <208; almost enough to defray the expenses of one term of school to the township each year. Gen. Beauregard, of Contederate fame, died at New Orleans, La., Feb. 20. He graduated from West Point in 1838, and was assigned to the Corps of Engineers. He resigned Feb. 20, 1861, joined the Confederates, and began the civil war by the bombardment of Fort Sumpter April 12, 1861. One noteworthy coincidence of his life was madb prominent by his death. Just thirty-two years after Gen. Beauregard resigned his position as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy and plunged into the uncertainties of the Civil War, he resigned himself to death, and plunged into the unknown beyond. To him the 20th of February was an unlucky date as it severed his connection with the Union and later on it was the day in which death severed his connection with earth. A “tariff for revenue only” involves the collection of customs dues for the purpose of maintaining the expenses of the government. No other principle, doctrine or policy is connected With it. The principle supporting this idea is that the government ha* no right in law or equity to establish a system of favors for any man or class of men which other citizens must pay, and that no bounties to indi vidual citizens shall be bestowed by the government. Whatever customs duties will, at the least inconvenience to all the people of the United States, afford a revenue to the general government is comtemplated by the policy of “a tariff for a revenue only.” This is the principle of the Democratic platform, and supporting this principle, is the broad and free belief that men

should be allowed to buy and sell where they please, without let or hindrance, circumscribed only by the revenue basis of tax imposition. The Democratic belief is further supported by the affirmation that no other nation is so favored with the wealth oi nature, in Aoil, climate and mines, to become the world's work shop, to command the trade ot the eartli by earning it, not by restricting it, by inviting commercial intercourse, not by i j ding it. In this belief is grounded ihd Democratic faith, as old a* creation, that man is a free agent, and save for the purposes of government, and the good of society, govern ment has no right to restrict, regulate or tax him This is Democracy, such Democracy as any man worthy the name of a free American citizen ought to be proud to claim as his by heritage, to be transmitted in honor ot freedom to posterity. This is what “a tariff for revenue only” means, carried to its logical conclusion. The Decatur Journal in last week’s issue in replying to one of our articles while attempting to make a “long right arm swing” in a John L. Sullivan style flew wild of the mark. It tried to leave the impression without saying so that Clevelands administration neglected the payment of Government bonds and allowed them to draw interest after maturity, while money ot the Treasury was placed m the hands' of “pet banks” without interest. The Journal says that the Harrison Administration took this money out of these banks and paid the government debts, saving the interest thereon. The Journal was never wilder. We did not know that it was laboring under a hallucination. No! we did not know that it was surrounded by a mist of impenetrable chaotic ideas, or we would have had the Immortal J. N. while here to grant that inestimable paper a favor by “lifting the veil” and allow it to see as clearly as the ordinary school-boy can see. — - ■ — - Sympathy for Working People. Col. Conn, of Elkhait, truly says that there must be more charity, more genuine sympathy and a greater love for mankind displayed in our treatment of working people befqre any correct*solution of the labor question ckn ever be reached. The continual centralization of cap-, ital to control both labor and the prices of products combined with a constant grinding down of wages have made labor organizations necessary, and have brought labor and capital in direct conflict with each other. Unorganized labor would be entirely at the mercy ot capital were it not for labor organizations, and it is also through the power of organized labor that the present standard of wages is maintained. But the best results of organized labor is making itself manifest in legislation which will eventually do away with strikes and make peace between labor and capital. A better code of laws and courts of arbitration to deal with labor difference will in time take the place of our present ruder and uncivilized methods of adjusting labor disputes. And it the public will have more charity for working people and will remember that they are fighting for home and all that is dear to human File, it will only hasten the day when strikes will be a thing of the past, but will also assist in maintaining the present standard of wages. The “Squealers” of the pensions paid the soldier are either “ingrates or ignoramuses.” The mouey comes from a tariff which every body pays; and if any American citizen —of whatever political fa th—fa- . vors the repealing of the pension laws, he m ist certainly belong to one of the above classes. There is no belter way of keeping “hard limes” away from all sections of the country than by pensioning the soldier. There is no putting this pension money on interest by the soldier who receives it, as the necessary wants of life compel them to put it in circulation as soon as received. Only the money-lenders of the country, whose millions of dJI lars are stored away and rusting, are the main squealers who object to pensions, in order that a still higher rate rtf interest may be ex acted from the borrower. Jerusalem was never infested with a more selfish lot of money-lenders than are to be found in this country op posing the pensioning of the soldier.

f,HOWUNCSuCCESX FAIRBANK'S SANTA CLAUS SOAP I Owes its REPUTATION ano SUCCESS TO ITS OWN MERITS. IT IS PURE, UNADULTERATED.ANDFOR RAPID Cleansing Rower has noequal. IT IS INVALUABLE IN KITCHEN & LAUNDRY. Sold by all grocers. NKFAIRBANK&COCHICAGO. FOR Dry Goods, Notions, Groceries, Glass Queensware 4 5, 10 and 25 cent Counter Goods, go to Sprang* & True’s. You can see one at Yager’s Furniture store. They are sole agents for this county. V. 13. SIJMCOOJK.EI. THE MONROE ST. DRUGGIST, mA ■„ Keeps a full line of Drugs, Patent Medicines, Fancy Articles, Tobaeoes, Cigars, Ac. Prescriptions carefully compounded. Sole agent for Silverware and Jewelrv of all kinds. Call and see Van ON MONROE ST., DECATUR. XNFX>. THE.'. DEMOCRAT FOR FINE /. JOB • PRINTING,

Appucation iorLUuor License. Notice is hereby glv< n to the citizens of the town of Geneva. Indiana, that the undersigned Jacob Waginiller anil Isaac Hllty. male inhabitants of the state of Indiana, over the ago of twenty-one years, moral men. n->t Inthe habit of becoming intoxicated, will make application to the Board of Commissioners of Adams county, Indiana, at their next regular session commencing on the first Monday of March, 18H3, for a license to retail spirituous, vinous, inalt and other intoxicating liquors In less quantities than a quart at a limo. with the privilege of allowing the same tn be drank on the oremisos whereon said liquors are to l>e sold and drank, are situated in the lown of Geneva, In Adams county, Indiana, Is as follows, to-wit: Commencing twenty-two 122] feet east of the northwest oornerof In-lot number one hundred and seventeen [ll7l, in the town of Geneva, running thence east twenty-two [22] feet: thence south one hundred and thirty-two [lß2] feet; thence west twentv-two [22] Wfrt: thence north one hundred and thirty-two [W3] feet to t|ie place of beginning, being the coater part of said in-lot No. IK. in David Studebaker's addition to the town of Buffalo (now Geneva) in Adams county, Indiana. JacobWaomii.lbh, I * n ..i|™ n ts Isaac Hii.ty, 4(M • '• f' ■ ■ • Notice of Petition to Sell Real Estate. Probate Cause, No 578. Thomas E. Vorhees, | Administrator of the J In the Adams Circuit estate of I of Adams County, Simon w. Vorhees, )■ Ind., April term, vs. I isfe. Wilmlna Burdgeet al J To Wilmlna Burdge, James F. Kelley, I’at- ' rll.k 0. Kelley, Rosa J. Itav, Mnry F. Herlzog, Simon R Kel'ey, Lattrena A. Kelley and Ernest Vorhees. You arc severally hereby notified that t e above named petitioner ns adminla'ralor of the estate aforesaid, has tiled in the circuit court of Adams county, Indiana, a petition, making you defendants thereto, and praying therein for an order and decree of sola court, authorising the sale of certain real estate l>elonglng to the estate of mid decedent, and in said petition described, to make asset* for the payment of the debts and llnbilll li s of mid eat late; and that said petition, so filed and pend* Ing, is set for hearing in raid court, at thp court house In Decatur, Indiana, on the first iudlpialday of the April term 1893, of said oonrt, the same being the loth day of April, IBWI. Witness tihe Clerk pnd real of said court, this 16th day of February. IBWI. John H. I,WNit hit, Clerk. By W. p. Miller, Deputy. , Erwin & Mann, At'y's. ’ ' 48-4 f ; — - ■ . - Application forJJquor License. To the citizens of Preble, and Preble township. in Adams oonnt.v, Indiana. Notice is hereby given tliat the undersigned will make application to the Board of Commissioner, of Adams county, Indiana at tKteir next regular session. March term, 1893. fora license to sell spirituous, malt, and vinous liquors In leas quantities than n quart at a time, for a term .of one year at my place of business’Busted on In lot number one II), in August Bley's first addition to the town of Preble. In snid Adams county. Indiana. witness my bund and seal this the Ist day of February, A. p. IHM. 454 fjEVFKLOPgRNSTIgN.

LOUIS D. VANDERVERE, One of the beet known (fulness men in Chicago, . representative of the great Bradstreet Co. HEADACHE, SLEEPLESSNESS, MERVOUS PROSTRATION. Dr. HOtt Medteal Ca., JElkJtart, lad. Gentlemen: I take pleasure In informing yon of the very beneficial results which have followed the use of Da. Mitts- RceroiuTive Nte«ini in the case of myself ana wife. For a year I was subject to a distressing pain at the base of the brain and npper portion of the spinal cord. I as ■ m lost flesh and was greatly I J D KT [j troubled with sleeplessness. VVllhiU Your Nervine was highly sooommended to me. My case had been so obstinate that I had no confidence in the efficacy of any medicine. Yet as a last resort I consented to give It a trial. Much to my surprise, I experienced marked benefit; my sleeplessness disappeared: my headache was removed; my spirltsand general KETHOUSANDS t aaiNto twintv eouNoa. du TMie ocounetp the best of result*. Loots D. Vanpzbvxxz. PGUP ON A POSITIVE QUARANTEg, I RY DR. MILES’ PILLS, 50 DOSES 25 CTF. 1 Sleeniessness cured by Dr. Milas’ Nervine. Appllcitiwi tor Liquor License To the citizens of the town of Borno, Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that I. Eugene Aeschllmann. will make application to the Board of Commissioners of Adams conntv. Indiana, nt their regular session in March, ISffi. for a license to sell spirituous, vinous and malt liquors In less quantities than a qiTart at a time, at inv place of business In and at the building situated on the following described promises, in the town of Demo. Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: ' Commencing twenty ,20) fret, west of the northwest corner of lot number two<«>. tn t he town of Berne. Adams county. Indiana: thence running south one hundred and thirtytwo il®) feet; thence west tw» ntv-four (24) nnr,h one hundred and thirty, two (.32) feet; thence east twenty-four(24)feet to the place of beginning. 4S-4 Euoixi AxBCHLtMAXN, Applicant, .