Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1894 — Page 4

She democrat jr. PLAOKKVkM, PfopfiMr. JRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1594. Rat*» of SttimtripHon. One Veer, in advance *1 50 Six Month* 75 four Montn* AO All Bubaeriptlons not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of (2.00. Office In Democrat Building, east Bideof Sec opd Street—ground floor JUDICIAL TICKET. Judge—2Bth Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. Prosecuting Attorney—2Bth Judicial Circuit, RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. ■ ; For Auditor. : Dem.: w. H. H. FRANC®. :Dem. • JOHN H . LENHART. <3 • • ,"”v; For Treasurer. • Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ; ; For Recorder. JDem.; HARVEY HARRUFF ; ; For Sheriff. PETER P. ABHBAUCHER. . Dein < S.C. CLARK. For Surveyor. • Dem.: W. E. FULK. ; ; For Commissioner—2nd Dist. •Dem.. CONRAD BRAKE. .. . ... For Commissioner—3rd Dist. ; Dem.• DAV ID ECKROTE. Democratic Congressional Convention. To the delegates of the Congressional Convention: Pursuant to an order of the Democratic Congressional Committee the several delegates to the Democratic Congressional Convention of the 11th District of Indiana are called to meet at the City of Decatur on Thursday, June 28, 1894, at 10 o’clock a. m., tor the purpose tof nominating a candidate for Congress of said District. The number of delegates each county is entitled to is as follows: Counties. Delegates. Adams 7 29 Blackford 13 Grant 36 Huntington 34 Jay 23 Miami ‘ 34 Wabash 24 Wells 27 Total 220 John A. W. Kintz, Chairman. John L. Strange, Secretary. It can hardly escape the observation of Senators' Hill, Gorman and Brice that the Populists no longer have a patent on the demapd for an income tax. Every Democratic convention that has met in the west and south thus far makes the same demand and for the same reason, that the wealthy classes should be compelled to bear something like ' their just burdens ol the expenses of the government. In a word, the * wealthy must help the masses to pay for the protection of the property of the millionaire class hereafter. That is what an income tax means when put into plain American language. OuR maii service seems to be somewhat demoralized. Papers from Fort Wayne to this post office are from one to three days late; ? while some of them from this office to Fort Wayne is the* same way. Tuesday we received the Monday Morning Times, and this is early, as. it generally gets here on Wednesday, when it should be here on Monday. A little more care on lhe part of some parties will greatly oblige the public. It is strange what ideas some people have of advertising. They will steal to get a newspaper to advertise them. They will lie without any cause for to see if they can’t get a newspaper to advertise them. There is nothing too low for them to stoop to if they can get the advertising they seek. They’ will swear falsely, steal and lie all for to get advertised. And ydt such men will ask people to believe them.

BECOMES A MORAL ISSUE. A politician’s knowledge of the game of politics is generally better than an outsider’s knowledge. His weakness is that, like other old and practiced experts, he exaggerates' the small points and does not allow ' enough for general principles. In Washington Republican poli tioians believe, and their Democratic colleagues do not deny, that the successful blackmail of a half dozen Coxeyite Democrats on the tariff bill has given the protectionists lots of fun and much advatange of the campaign. They overlook the moral sense of the nation. It is certain that nothing has ever so exposed the corruption of protective systems as the treatment of the Wilson bill. Senators who had hundreds of times announced the war tariff have come out this spring with the gilded collars of special interests about their necks. These men are debarred from hiding their servitude to mammon behind their protection platitudes. The country sees them selling the welfare of the great majority of tbeir constituents for the uses of a favored private enterprises. The contest has been a continual, unabashed dicker and trade, grab and claim, with Senators tne agents of the lobby. There are thousands of voters who have never pretended to “understand the tariff question.” The agitation has ben on economic lines. It has been full of figures and tables, of history and political economy. Every speech has been set off with quotations from Hamilton, Jefferson, Clay, Webster, Jackson and Calhoun. Voters have read and heard of Garfield’s free trade and Blaine’s contempt for the McKinley bill. But all that has been bound up with laws of exchange, exports and imports, of the commodities and wages of labor. Most of the voters had opinions and convictions, but the judgments were mental rather than moral. The reahty of the processes by u hich tariff schedules were made never has before penetrated to the conscience of an honest people. The phrase “robber tariff” has been regarded as a rhetorical flourish rather than as a statement of fact. Theßepubhcanizers have changed an economic into a moral issue. Every voter sees now that protection is not only robbery in the aggregate, but is in detail the most nauseous corruption at the center of national legislation. He sees that a tariff bill is never founded upon wages, but always upon how much each lobbyist can get and whom he can influence to get it for him. Wheu the tariff gets to be a moral question it sheds light on many things. A public which- has wondered how certain men have got into public position and- have stayed there now comprehends how much it was worth to millionaire interests that these men should go to the Sehate or to Congress and stay there for tariff making emergencies. The public perceives that 'as long as the tariff is a matter of quadrennial barter and sale and involves millions to combines every time, there will be the pressure of bribery upon the conventions and legislatures which name those who have seats in Congress. It sees that a 1 gigantic scheme of mercenary operations is always working to control Congressional action—a gigantic network of immorality which must affect the whole course of .public life at Washington. Not until now has it been forced upon the voters most negligent of public arguments that the tariff is nothing but a system of selling the taxing power of the Government to all who are able to pay the price; that Senators .find Congressmen do the selling, and when most innocent receive the price in the shape of ca tn pai gn co nt ributio ns. Our Coxeyite Republicanizers have given Aldrich a few days for fun at Democratic expense. Democratic plans of reform have been j

confused and weakened. But it is more than possible that j a tariff for revenue only has won a moral support which makes it tar i stronger than before. Americans I are for clean government, and i' henceforth they are likely to yote -for takiug the tariff out of politics on the ground that protection contaminates everything it touches.— i St. Louis Republic. NATURAL BRIBERY. A tariff for revenue will put a stop to charges of wholesale bribery around Washington. Nothing else will. The tariff lobby ii the of all the other lobbies. A protective system without some form of bribery cannot be be conceived. Interests whose profits depend upon upon rises and falls in tariff schedules will put up money to elect a man to the House or Senate if they are sure of him and to defeat another man who is dangerous to their schemes. Frank Hurd was one of the first victims of the protection policy of killing off reform leaders. William R. Morrison was next. A mercenary still hunt nearly captured Carlisl’e seat. Protection is necessarily bribery. Nobody ever attempted to formulate an equitable system for imposing tariff duties. The question is always how much the protected interes can get in the general scramble. Protection is essentially a mercenary transaction all through. It was mercenary when sovereigns could grant trade monopolies to favored subjects and the royal hand was was held out for either payment in advance or part of the swag. There has been no change except as compelled by changes in forms of government. We can look for little more than scandalous charges and highly col ored rumors from the Senatorial investigation. It can be believed, however, that protected interests have been offering bribes during campaigns and committee hearings, ’lhey always have offered bribes and never stop until the protective i idea is killed. Bribery, petty and occasional, , will always exist. Systematic, or- ■ ganized, steady bribery is the die- ’ tinction of the protective system < alone. No other possible interest I can afiord so much for bribery as ! the protected interests. Where ' hundreds of millions are involved there is no trouble about spending a million or two to get the necessary votes. Other interests might employ lobbyists occasionally, but it is protection alone which must by the circumstances of its existence maintain a big lobby as an indespensabie adjunct of its business Government cannot be pure while protection lasts, It will be observed that the Democracy of the First Congressional District, true to Democratic traditions and practices, put the brand of its disapproval upon all organizations political or otherwise that in anyway interfere with the natural and constitutional right of every citizen to worship God according ~ to the dictates of his own conscience and to assume all of the duties of American citizenship no matter to what church he may belong or whether he belongs to any chtirch or not. In plain English the Dem-, ocracy of the First District throws down the gauntlet to the treasonable organization known as the American Protective Association, and to all societies or organizations or parties that seek to displace the wise pro Visions of the constitution of the United States and of every State in the Union by setting up their own narrow and proscriptive standards as the measure of American citizenship and its responsibilities—Evansville Courier, 26th.’ Tne United States Supreme Court has settled the tax Case of the Big Four Railroad against the State. I'he law is Constitutional. The railroad companies will have to pay their tax the same as an individual. « a f ' , ' ' ,r c £

WILL HAVE TO DISCiORBE. HHllroud Corporations are Clas«e<l Wllli Ordinary Tax-Payer». The Supreme Court last week declared it constitutional for Railroad Companies to pay taxtos tbe same as ordinary tax-payers. A railroad tax law waK created and passed by the General Assembly of 1881, to make railroads and other corporations pay taxes on a valuation equal to that paid on other properly. A State Board of Tax Commissioners was created who made it their duty to increase the value of railroad property. Many <>t the railroads refused to pay this tax. Tbe railroads doing business in Adams county, who infused to contribute tbeir assessed amount were the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Clover Leaf Roads, —the C. &E. having paid without protest. The Supreme Court held that the assessment of railroad property by a State Board of Tax Commissioners is open to no constitutional objection. By this decision the tax receipts of Adairs county will be increased considerable. Taxes for three years are due under tbe law. We herewith give the amount due as follows: Grand Rapids & Indiana R. R. Delinquent. Root tp 11,626 91 Washington tp 1,117 34 Decatur 348 89 Monroe tp 1,736 28 Berne 427 03 Wabash 507 28 Geneva 343 85 Total 16,107 58 Toledo, St. L. & K. C..R. R. Delinquent. St. Marys tp I 482 68 Washingtontp i.-•• •'•■ 43172 Decatur..- 260 60 Ki rk land tp . . 472 62 Total f1',653 62 THE MARKETS TO-DAY. (Corrected daily for The Democrat.) . It has been an unusually quiet day in the wheat markets all along the line. Opening prices were lower under the influence of foreign markets, which present discouraging features. The fact is dealers are reasoning, tbe world produced more wheat last year than was required for consumption. In October next that may be written as the history of the world’s crop of 1894. Wheat No. X. .- I 48 Corn No. 2 40 Oats No. 2 32 Rye 40 Clover 4 00 Timothy 1 35 Flax ..- 90 Butter 10 Eggs 9 Lard 9 Potatoes 100 Hains 10 Shoulders 8 Bacon 8 Wool 9 to 14 Cattle 3 00 to 350 Hogs 4 00 to 5 00 Sheep 300 to 4 0 Lambs 3 00 to 4 00 STARTLED BY A BISHOP. Address Before the Maryland Episcopal Convention Quite Sen«stl<HMU. Baltimore May 81.—Tho most startling and sensational bishop’s address delivered for many years was given at the opening of the Maryland Episcopal convention at Emmanuel church yesterday by Bishop Paret. It spoke of pastors who were a “scandal and offense to their brethren.” It said those who had broken over the church ritual had “perjured themselves before God.” It was lamented that some should always be "carping at cannon and rubrics.” The bishop : said he could not understand the conduct of those who were “always burning with a desire toitreak over the laws of the church.” He said he was grieved to find in some instances the counsel of the bishop was “openly rejected.” He intimated that certain pastors were anar- j chists and said that breaking over the 1 law of the church the way some had done was “nothing but anarchy.” It is well known that these references : xVere directed Rev. Dr. Paine and the clergy of Mount Calvary church, whose ritualistic practices and estab]ish--1 ment of a confessional box and the use of incense before the altar has been the occasion of the bishop’s refusal to enter the church to administer the right of confirmation. It is probable the convention will take some action in the matter. Dr. Paine was present and heard the address, but said nothing. QUEER CASE OF SHOOTING. Fanner Injured While In Bed and a Young Man Found Dying In a Field. Watseca, Ills., May 81.—Stokes Hellings, an unmarried farmer living dlone about seven miles southeast of this city, was shot while in bed yesterday and probably fatally injured. In this condition he arose and managed to reach the house of his nearest neighbor, a half mile distant. Hellings saw the man who committed the deed, but did not recognize him. After the neighborhood had been aroused, search was made for some clew to the assassin, when a young man named John Zumwalt was found unconscious in an outfield across the road, his head covered with his coat and his throat cut. The case is very mys- ■ terions. Hellings had no enemies and ; little wealth. Whether Zumwalt shot I Hellings and then attempted suicide is not known. Batch Blackburn, Orgie. his sister, Lover Miller ahd Robt Chamberlain went to Portland to-day on a visit to thejr relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton.

ILL- 1 L-J - U is an established fact that all jlteople desire to do that which PAYS them best. It is natural for us to wish "j~Q make what money we have 1 DI IV the most. Not only Quantity but QualDUi ity are things AT which we must look. Best values for n I least money make Quick Sales and TH F Small Profits. Yet it moves the Goods. J L That is why it pays to buy Dry Goods at the BOSTON They have what you want. 1 _ STORE. It will pay you to see WASH GOODS THIS WEEK. i. o. o. f. Block. KUEBLER & MOLTZ.

Erie Lines. Schedule In effect Nev. 12.1893. Trains Lea ve Decatur as Follows: TRAINS WEST. No.fi, Vestibule Limited, daily for 1 p M Chicago f ..*o r. m No. 3, Pacific Express, dally for t , .or a m Chicago I " No. 1, Express, daily for Chicago I 10:45 A. M No.Jll. Local, dally, except Sun-1 10;30 A M THAI NS EAST. No. 8, Vestibule Limited, daily for -.Mp m New York and Boston f *' No. 2, Express, dally for New o-OR P M York No. 12. Express, daily for New M York I.WA. m. No. 30. Local, daily except Sun- > day $-10:80 A. M. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping oars to Columbus. Circlevlll, Chillicatbe, Waverly, Portsmouth, Irontor, and Kenova, via Colum bus Hocking Valley & Toledo and Norfolk A Western Lines. J. W. DeLong, Arent. W G. T. P A. Huntington. Grand RajHds I Indiana Railroad. Trains run on Central Standard Time, 28 minutes slower than Columbus or former time. , 1 Took effect May 27, 1881. GOING NORTH. STATIONS. No. 1 No. 8 No. 5 No. 7 r: Cincinnati.. Ive •“;••• Richmond 7 3fipm 1106 am Winchester.... 8 34.. 12nt) Portland 914.. 1242 am Decatur 10 12 .. 147 Ft.Wayne...arr 10 66 .. 236 ’. .. ■■■■■•■• •• “ ...Ive Jfifipm 806 am Kendallville ♦<* »«.. Borne City 4« 9 28.. Wolcottville 428 9 31 .. Valentine 440 LaGrange 4 49 " Sturgis 6 17 1021 .. Vicksburg 612 1114.. Kalamazoo, arr 6 40 1145 .. •• ..Ive 646 pm 7 20.. 6 45am 1210 pm Gr. Hapids..arr 725.. 9 15.. 7 25.. 200 •• •• ..ive 740 D., G.H.AM.cr 7 55 Howard City — 9 Oft Big Rapids WOO Reed City. 10 85 Cadillac arr . 1145 ... .ive 11 50 Traverse City 160 pm Knlkaska 155.. ........ Pe oskej 3 55 Mackinac City 515.. ■■ GOING SOUTH. STATIONS. No. 2 No. 6 No. 4 No. 8 Mackinac City 740 am Petoskey . 915 Kalkaska 112)., Traverse City... 11 05 .. Cadillac .. ..air 105 pm ■■ ....ive 125 Recd City 2 35 ; Big Rapids 8 Oo Howard City 350 D..G.H.4M.cr .... 5 00 Gr. Rapids .arr 5 15 “ “ ..ive or.Oam 1140 pm 215 pm Kalamazoo.arr 833 13otttn 4 00. •• .. ive 838 405 .. Vicksburg 9 04.. 4 30.. Sturgis 9 50 5 24,.. j Lima 10 10 5 37 .. r .... 1022 5 50 .. Valentino 10 31 6 on .. Wolcottville... 10 42 .. 8 13.. i Horne City 11 47 61« .. I Kendallville... 11 03 686 .. Ft. Wayne..arr 12 15 7 50 .. “ “ ..Ive 1235 pm 5 45am Decatur 1 25 ti 30 Portland 2 1 4 730 Winchester.... 249 809 Richmond 3 45 915prn Cincinnati.. ... r...’ ' Trains 2 and 4 C run daily between Grand Rapids and Cincinnati. C, L. LOCKWOOD, Gen. Pass. Agent JEFF. BRYSON Agent, Decatur Ind

Prices DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, at the Bargain Counter at Henry Winties’. wfitf When in need of smoking or chewing tobacco call on Milt Byers, Second St., sign of “Big Injun,” 3tf MAOMSV-SIMONSON. Last evening at 7:30 at the home of the bride on the South side, William H. Maglev, our genial county clerk, and Miss Mary Simonson, daughter of Mrs. Anna M. Theil, were united in marriage bv Bev. Sears, of Ft. Wayne. The Mail congratulates Mr Magley upon winning so estimable a bride |nd wishes theui both unlimited prosperity and happiness through life.—Columbia City Weekly Mail. The above may inform the “bright” editor of the Decatur Journal of the cause of Miss Simonson relinquishing her position as clerk in the State Pension office, which is being filled by Miss Ella Spencer, sister of State Pension Agent Spencer. . ■ > ■. -‘a 1 -'; a- . 1 • ’ • • a-/ ' ?

WRECKED AND BURNED Fearf/il Railroad Casualties In Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Georgia. SEVERAL PERSONS KILLED. Wisconsin Central’s Limited Overturned I at a Small Station by a Defective Switch. Cars Consumed by Fire—The Other a Freight Smash up—Harrowing Scenes. Dead and liQured. Marshfield, Wis., May 81.—Six dead and more than that number dreadfully injured ie the result of the St. Paul lim- ' ited on the Wisconsin Central striking a defective switch yesterday at Mannville, a little station east of here. The engine and cars were piled into a shapeless mass to be soon consumed by a sheet of flame which almost directly enveloped them. The scene was sickening, the groans and pitiful cries of the entrapped passengers appalling the stoutest hearts. The dead and injured are: James Hubbard, engineer, of Stevens Point. i George Beariiardt, fireman, Stevens Point. John Bigelow, head brakeman, Stevens Point. W. B. RUSSELL, civil engineer, Stevens Point. Mrs. John Wagner, Butte, Mont Oliver Bosley, newsboy. Injured: Henry Klieber, internal and external wounds, probably fatal. Charles Weinburn, traveling man from Chippewa Falls, badly bruised. Fred Jack of Bessemer, Mich., badly bruised. Henry Chester. Marshfield, legs and spine badly injured. O. W. Bozely, news agent Stevens Point, internally injured. Arthur Turmica, Chicago, head cut and otherwise Injured; will recover. Dr. Weitzel, Glinden, hurt internally. Fannie Burtle, Springdale, Ills., hand badly cut. William Ryan, Sturgeon Bay, ribs broken and head cut. E. A. Twitchell, attorney-at-law, Minneapolis, head cut. Rescuing the Dead and Injured. Those who escaped, they scarcely knew how, at once busied themselves in rescuing those pinioned beneath the wreck, some 15 or 16 passengers having to be taken out in a more or less injured condition. The train was reasonably well filled and the escape was a narrow one for all those who came out alive. The injured and dead were brought here by another train and the depot transformed into a hospital. Os the injured Mr. Chester of this place is the, only one in danger. After proper attention the sufferers were removed to places where better attention could be given. When the body of Head Brakeman Bigelow was taken out it had on the arm a lantern and in one hand a watch. W. B. Russell, who was killed, was an employe of the chief engineer and . had been up the road on business for the company. He was a young man employed as road man and came here from England. Scene of the Wreck. Mannville, the scene of the accident, was once a lively sawmill town, but of late years has gradually sunk to nothing, until now all that remains is a tew i scattered buildings. During the forest fires last fall the depot burned, and about all there is left to mark the place is a heap of burned ruins and a number of sidetracks. The accident occurred at the first switch, where a supposed broken bar caused a switch to open sufficiently to derail the train. The train ran on the rods for some distance and toppled over, the engine and tender go- — x ing into the ditch and the cars piling on top of each other. All were soon set on fire from the stoves. From out of this tangled mass men and women who were lucky enough not to be pinned down crawled, many making wonderful escapes. The bodies of Russell and Jud Bigelow, who were caught in the timber, were not recovered for some hours and were burned to a crisp. As near as can be ascertained about 50 passengers were on the train. Ed Ellsworth is at Geneva to-day. ——— - ALL BRANDS OF FLOUR down to GO cents per sack at r Donovan & , Bremerkamp’s. ’ . J