Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1893 — Page 4

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®he f enwrrat >. Mjtomrxjr. proprietor. FRIDAY,''MAY, 12,1893. ——gutuorlption. One Year, tn advance 11 *’ Six Month* ‘ roar Months All tubeorlptlona not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 12.00. Office in Democrat Building, east side of Second Street—ground floor Vote early for President, VicePresident, Treasurer, Secretary and Director for this Fall’s Fair officers! The Indianapolis Sentinel says that the towi elections held in Indiana last week show material democrat!* gams and demonstrates that the party is united, aggressive and active. Sbnd in name of your candidate for President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Director as early as possible to “The Democat Fair Committee,” Decatur, Ind. Polls close June 2, 1893. The first thing Columbus did after he touched land on this side was to kneel down and pray, but he didn’t make the Almighty a stump speech after the fashion of our professional, political prayer-orators. Several of our streets have undergone repairs during the past week, —noticeably among the number is that portion of Monroe street from the bridge up to Front street. The mud has been properly scraped up,—now for the stone. How about the express messenger who would not give up the company’s money when the Indian Territory bandits were persuading him with a revolver? Will he get his salary raised and’be sent to the “ World’s Fair as an exhibit?

The World’s Fair directors have buckled on their armor and gone forth to make war on the restauranters who are holding up the public in Chicago. They have already forced a reduction in the price of pie from $1 to 75 cents. The calling of an extra session ol Congress to assist in establishing a thoroughly Democratic policy ir the management of the Treasury would do much to restore confidence and Mr. Cleveland cannot too soot put’into effect'his declared intention es calling it.

“In the fourth-class post-offices,’’ says the New York Tribune, “Civil Service Reform is now progressing at the average rate of 110 a day.” The Tribune must acknowledge that Mr. Maxwell is doing pretty well for an amateur who has been suspected of Mugwumpery. W hen Mr. Carlisle gets help from Congress, it can be confidently expected that he will be able to brace himself for a successful struggle against ftarrison’s Wall street Treasury policy of treating the Sherman Silver Cedulas as if they were gold notes and as if silver were not fit to redeem them in. Representative Tav-lor, of tins State, has secured a position,.in the Government Printing office worth S9OO a year for Miss Lucy Simmons of Boonville. There are half of a J dozen Democratic votes in her fam-' ily none of whom have ever held mus office. We should say that they! deserve this modest recognition. ' . JteNSIONEKA who are dropped from, r i',j rollswill bear in mind that the order < imping them was issued by a Republican:administration some weeks before Pre-.denr ' develatid was inaugurated. Sentinel. 1 ■ It should also be borne.in mindj by the pensioners dropped and those* ; who are not dropped as well, that?J Cleveland and the Democrat*; party', are in absolute control of all u ie . 'j . departments of Government, and I I that if they do not make due haste< to undo this unjust ruling, the blame- . will be lodged upon their shoulders: | for allowing themselves to be caught* | in a Republican trap. ■»

The Fair is a settled fact. All we ask is for the several townships in the County to select suitable persons to act as officers. We have done our part in this matter; will our people do their part? Another ocean race is promised. It is hoped that the boilers of the competing steamers are in better condition than those of the ill fated “Naronic” are reputed to have been. The Democrat will publish from week to week, until June 2d the names of the two candidates who have the majority of votes for Directorship of the township in which they reside. The other officers will be published in the same way Comrade E. B. Walkup, of the Delphos Courant made this office a flying visit last Monday. No newspaper man of our acquaintance has the welfare of the federal soldier of the war of the rebellion nearer at heart than Ed B. Walkup. Our Street Commissioner will please not overlook Court Street when making his grand cleaningup rounds. Why allow this street to be converted into a feed-yard? Ciean her up, and •.'.•id the unhitching and feedint' of animals on this thoroughfare. Let our people, . And all other people i Os whatever state in -t-L ’ Be sure and be liare! With friends near and dear, , As Adams County is going To have a Fair this Fall. This is Official if it doesn't rhyme!

The quicker the extra session of Congress is called the better. In no other way can Secretary Carlisle be so well defended from the Wall street speculators and money dealers, who are determined to control the Treasury in spite of the Democratic d Immediately after reading the article in this week’s Democrat entitled, “The Fate,” let the reader cut it out and write thereon the name of whoever he would like to have serve in the capacity of President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and Director for this Fall’s Fair Meeting. There are Twelve Directors to be chosen, —and each and every Township in the County will be entitled to one Director in this Association. Send in your names for choice. The city ought to condemn, if possible, two of the rat traps which answer as passenger depots in this city. The Clover Leaf concern is a room about twelve feet square, in which men, women and children are compelled to mingle like emigrants. There are always smokers and tobacco chewers in the crowd, very often drunken men. A decent woman is apt to be insulted while in waiting. The agent does all he can to enforce orders', but his duties give him little time way from his duties.—Marion Chronicle. Decatur ought to take half of the above condemning responsibility, inasmuch as our passenger depot on the Clover Leaf is a twin to the one referred to above.

When Secretary Carlisle is asked to relieve the stringency of money on Wall street some of these days he will not do it, A half dozen times.in as many year the United States Treasury ua- -dumped oat millions of mour. r> to New i'c’.-k”! ■ Slop inci} - io : arra •.■ d ,i 11.-. y f I'li’ii.;: to t these banker.-., and j d ; it, too, s ' : TIIE . ■ . , \ ill exchij;;- • ' ; i£- v- . i meant a, . ... .. A tell the 'J■ ~ . , ■ f. greenbacks. 'i • , hat" the pinch is about. 'l.’lhj 'Frua^ary'"has" mor money available , gold than m any other form, but it Has very little money of an v kind. Nevertheless, an income al! abnormal incomes will scon convince our Plutocratic friends that they have no need to be alarmed about the conditions of Government credit. Before we will allow the public credit to suffer, we are ail patriotic enough to put any tax on millionaires that the occa«ibn<Aib» for.

j jhE FAIR! . The Fair project, which the Democrat has long and persistently advocated, has at last found support cuough from our people to stand on a solid foundation. This is gratifying to us; as it surely ought to be to tho many patrons of Fairs in Adams County. During the past ten days the Democrat has received quite a large number of letters from farmers and business men, —representing almost every township in the County—expressing their willingness to assist in pushing matters to an early commencement and satisfactory ending. The opinion expressed is that the old Fair Grounds be used for the present season, and that the fences, horse and stock stalls, floral hall, race track and buildings that are now in a dilapidated condition, be repaired and made as good as new. if not new altogether. That to give each and every township in the County a fair and equal opportunity to manage the affairs of this association, it is proposed that one Director be selected from each of the sev eral townships in the County for that purpose. In order to have officers to manage this Fall’s meeting it is proposed to ask the people of, Adams County to send in the names of men for the different offices to be filled. Fill out and send to the Fair Committee of the Democrat the following as your vote for officers for this Fall’s Fair:

For President Vice President Secretary. ... .\ ...<.... Treasurer Director• • Township Name of Voter Township ~ It is expected that those of our citizens who are interested—and we want every body to be interested, — in the organization of this association to not delay matters by waiting until tfreir next neighbor has expressed himself. Every body is en. titled to one vote. Noone disfranchised for having lost his vote last Nomember. What we want is a full vote and an early organization. Send in your tickets. Polls open day and night. JUDGE W. E. NIBLACK. Judge William E. Niblack, one of the conspicuous figures in the political history of Indiana, died at Indianapolis last Sunday afternoon, in his 71st year. He was born in Dubois county. Indiana, May 22, 1822. His father a Kentuckian, and his mother a Virginian, both came to Indiana before 1820. After the usual logschool house life of the youths of his day, young Niblack entered Indiana State University at 16 years of age, but was pecuniarily unable to take the full course. He studied law and began to practice at Mount Pleasant m 1845. In 1849 he was elected to the Legislature from Martin county. He was appointed circuit judge by Gov. Wright and in 1854 was elected to that office for six years. He served in the Thirty fi -J . Thirty-sixth, Thirty-ninth, 1 . Foi ■ -th, r Forty-second .':'.'l Forty-third congresses, always on important committees wayes ‘■ i d raaans and appropriations. He ■. as ■ -it large to the Derno- : • .'ational Convention of 1864 :- - . I o 1376 he was elected . Supreme Court of In- . /.'V, ;EA'. AND COTTON ARE LOW- — « •'n’o a ,i-: full of figures, and a , -r. utuency tjiat hates the truth, . F Kinley organ can jjiye odds to J Ananias and beat him all hollow. Commenting upon a recent article in 'The Republic, the New York j I't-i-- asserts that the foreign com ’ m<-rc« of the United States was j hardly eyer in so flourishing a con--1 dition ar it is under the McKinley I act, which the Press’ friends in the Fifty-first Congress,, passed for the avowed purpose of restricting foreign commerce." The Press backs uji th it, assertion with glittering generalities and statistical “aver-

ages.” which in the Convenient way to make figures lie. The Press’ assertion that both our exports and imports are unusually large is contradicted by the best authorities. A recent Treasury circular shows that our exports of breadstuff*, meat and dairy products during the nine months ending March Ist were nearly 1100,000,000 less than our exports of the same articles in the corresponding nine months of the year before. Include cotton and the shrinkage shown would be much greater. And yet prominent Wall street bankers, who are certainly well informed about foreign exchange, are saying that the “balance of trade” is in “our favor.” This means neither less than that, shrunk as the Treasury figures show our exports to be, our imports are still smaller. What is more, the imports that do come consist very largely of costly articles of luxury lightly taxed for the use of the beneficiaries of the tariff, while cheaper articles of universal use and necessity, which the victims of the tariff want, are shut out by prohibitory schedules. If the McKinley tariff had had the effect of stimulating a healthy foreign trade, both in exports and imports, the Press as the organ of the protectionists would be clamorous for its repeal. From the protectionist’s stand point, a protective policy would be midsummer idiocy if its effect were to promote the exchange of products between American farmers and foreign manufacturers. The sole aim of the protectionists is to shut Americans out of foreign markets and compel everybody tn this country, as nearly as may be, to buy their wares from monopolies created by act of Congress m Mr. Blaine’s'“nine industrial States.” This effect the McKinley act is having. And as foreigners cannot buy from us unless we buy from them, our exportable surplus of wheat, meats and cotton goes beg-' guig a market. That is one reason why the prices of wheat and cotton arc distressingly low. ,

Closing the Columbian Exposition on Sunday makes the men responsible for and accessories to many crimes. The finical gentlemen who have opposed and are yet opthe opening of the World’s Fair on Sunday wonld probably feel deeply hurt and would no doubt consider themselves wantonly slandered should it be said of them that they were “cappers” for gambling dens, “barkers” for side shows and “fake” exhibitions, solicitors of patronage for saloons of the very worst sort and panderers to the lowest grade of the most fallen of humankind. Yet in practice and effect these degraded vocations were plied last Sunday by the persons who insist that the World’s Eair gates be closed on Sunday. More than one hundred thousand people went to Jackson Park Sunday with the good and praisworthy intention of visiting the great show and admiring its wonders. But they were barred. These people will go somewhere every Sunday during the Fair. The ginmill keeper, the dance house proprietor and the mistress of the bagnio are to-day in full accord with the gentlemen of the American Sabbath union on the question of Sunday closing of the Fair. At this time a brief history of the famous liberty bell will be found interesting. The liberty bell was cast in London in 1752 by order of the Pennsylvania Assembly for use in their State House. The bell reached Philadelphia the following year, but it cracked without any apparent ressbn when it was* rung to test the sound, and it was nesessary to have it, recast. This was done by Philadelphia workmen, and in June, 175-3, it was again hung in the belfry of the State House. On July 4, 1776, when the Continental Congress declared the colonies independent of Great Britain the bell was rung for two hours, so the story goes, by the old bellman, who was so filled with enthusiasm and excitement that he could not stop. It was taken down when the Birtish threatened Philadelphia in 1777 and removed to Betlehem, Pennsylvania, but was returned to the State House in 1778, and a new steeple was built for it. A few years afterward it cracked under the stroke of the hammer, and although an attempt has been made to restoring its sound by sawing the crack wider it has been unsuccessful. During the Wotld’s Fair in New Orleans in

1885 the bell was sent there for exhibition. It loft Philadelphia uary 24, in the charge of three custodians appointed by tho Mayor of tho city, who did not leave it day or night until it was returned in Jnnc of the same year. The train carrying the bell was preceded by a pilot engine. The following words are inscribed around it: “By order of the Assembly of the Province of Peunnylvania, for the State House in the city of Philadelphia, 1762,” and undeineath, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof—Levitxxv. 10.” Its weight is about 2,0n0 pounds. INMATES OF SOLDIER’S HOMES CANNOT VOTE. In the Circuit Court at Grand Rapids, MichlgamJast week. Judge Grove held that the five Inmates of the Soldier’s Home were objects of charity and not legal residents of that voting precinct and could net legally participate in elections. He directed the jury to acquit the three election inspectors who refused to accept the votes of the inmates in the last election.—Special Teleegram. The above ruling of Judge Grove may hold good in neighborhoods where party lines are decidedly on the “haw” side, but it doesn’t appear that constitutional rights and priviledges are taken into consideration. To disfranchise a voter because he is an inmate of a Soldiers Home, would set a precedent heretofore unknown. MEMORIAL DAY. Memorial Day will be fittingly observed in Decatur, as usual. Sam Henry Post No. 63, has appointed the fallowing comrades to look after the graves of departed comrades and will comprise the decorating committee: Mann Cemetery—Henry Dohrman. Reynolds—VV. P. Mallonee. Monmouth—L. W. Lewton. Lutheran Church, Preble Township—Charles Conrad. Alpha—David Murphy. Union Chapel—R. A. Drummond. North Salem—B. Kline. Pleasant Mil’s—A. J. Tecpie. Mt. Tabor—J. M. Archbold. Beery—Daniel Kittson, 8. Shady. Smith Chapel—Wm. Hendricks. Ray Cemetery—J. M. Blossom.

Decatur has more street Fakers and confidence men come to her city during the year, than any other city of her proportions m the State. Whether our people are more easily “bamboozled” into buying anything and every thing that these itinerent sharpers offer for sale, deponent sayeth not. They are all'Massed as “sure thing people,” and whoever of our people imagines he is going to get a bargain when dealing with them, makes a mistake. Our City authorities should cease licensing these people to operate their business on our street corners. We say bar them altogether; but if they must be tolerated, let the price of the license to do business be of such an amount, that home people who get “smeared” from them will have recourse on our city treasury, by a decrease in their taxes. It is stated that Illinois will put ten thousand Grand Army men into the National column, which, on the Tuesday of Encampment week, will march through the streets of Indianapolis. The officers of the Department of Illinois really promised .to put twenty thousand' 7 men into that notable column. They have divided the State into districts, and each official is at work to stimulate the Poets to show what the Grand Army of Illinois can do. Indiana’s membership is not so large as that of Illinois, but the Grand Army leaders in this State should see to it that the line of the Hooser State shall be as long as that of Us larger neighbor. Ohio will send a column of thousands, so that the three great soldier States of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio may be counted on for fifty thousand men in the line of march, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1893.

W 1 neat Makes so every-day con, ;- f of an old-time luxury. Pure and .'u.esome, Prepared with scrupulous care. Highest award at all Pure Food Expositions. Each package makes two large pies. Avokt Imitations—and Insist on having the NONE SUCH brand. MERRELL & SOULE, Syracuse, N.Y.

L ..a,--.- „ Tho Glorious San of the Amnsement Firmament I Shedding Its Effulgence and Benign Influence Over the Whole Universe! SELLS BROTHERS’ n mohi of all that •• tm no uwaaawi WORTH SEE | NC | N THE MA.GUNrir’xoiaTsrT — 3-RING CIRCUS! Royal Roman Hippodrome, Huge Elevated Stages, Five-Continent Menagerie, African Aquarium, Australian Bird Show, Arabian Caravan, Spectacular Pageants, and TRANS-PACIFIC WILD BEAST EXHIBIT! XRTXXjXj EXHIBIT A.T Dfitt, Mi, May t I' Fl y H IU ' N RM®*.’'’ ;.*X * ' • 71. W< ■ j Il mZT W 1 It is the Largest Traveling Show on Earth! IT HIS THE Mir PAIR OF IMS BEHEMOTHS! Spoken or in the Songs of Job. They are the rarest, costliest and most interesting animals ever captiveWHAT OTHER SHOW CAN APPROACH IT IN CHARACTER, IN SIZE. IN MERIT, IN MANAGEMENT, IN MORALITY, IN EVERY WORTHY FEATURE? * SMIr 1 ,3 10-000 ■aMFOk Ul Jgivbn (L_s h™ Sa

‘Are mighty in being SELLS BROS’ always fair to the I TTt Jpublic and generous to rivals. They are the creators of the show that bears their name, have per--sonally managed it continuously for twenty-two years, and have, the proud distinction of introducing more legitimate character and into the show business than was ever known before. They do not borrow the castoff plumes of dead men to masquerade in. They do net travel under dead men’s names. , >

O to Bi! film mi M| WHO CM UKE THE HIST iiiJiJii*-' fiUESS? The pair of Hippopotami, which have formed the central figure in our Menagerie; are now op their farewell American tour, and Sells Brothers have decided ; to givei away Ten Thousand Dollars to the ones who make the nearest guesses of their combined weight. 000 to the one guessing nearest to their actual combined weight! . p 3,000 to the one making the Second Best Guess! ~ $3,0Q0 to the one making the Third Beat Guess! This offer is bpien td all patrons of SELLS BROTHERS’SHOW during the Worlds Fair season. A box will be placed in front of the Hippopotami cage* and every visitor Will be supplied with a card upon which the person making a guess writes hls Or her name and post-offlee address and the weight guessed At,the close of the season the prizes wjll be awarded. We promise to faithfully carry out this proposition. SELLS BROTHERS. ■ ■ ■ ■ » ■ - — - —, „ Be in town early and secure good places where you can see the MIGHTIEST, RICHEST, LONGEST AND MOST NOVEL PARADE ° , EVER SEEN IN ANT CITT tN THE WORLD! TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY AT USUAL PRICES t“ 1 • s • s .... -. ■ And although it is worth ten times as much it costs no more than to see an ordinary Show. X

««■ ■ * nikAMil Are alive and will SELLS BROS be ft t their respec- ' '■■■' Itive posts to welcome their millions of friends who honor them with a visit this year. You can rely on seeing just what is promised Others have, copied our advertisements and stolen our title, but our Show is too big, too great, too magnificent, too well known, to be successfully imitated. You will not regret your visit to Sells Brothers Shows and its pleasant memories will endure for years.