Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1894 — Page 4

®he democrat JT. BIAOKHVKN, Uroprte.'or. ItIDAr, A UG. 10. 1894. KatfH of fiubxeriptlnn. One Year, fn advanceH 6° Star MonthH , 76 Four Mootns 6*' All iubscrtptiong not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 81.00. Oftlcein Democrat Building, east aldeof Sec ond Street— ground foot CONURKSSIONAL TICKET. For Oongreafc,— L llth District. HON. A. N. MARTIN. JUDICIAL TICKET. Judge—2oth Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. Prosecuting Attorney—26th Judicial Circuit, RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. ;; For Auditor. :Dem.: W. H. H. FRANCE. # ; For Clerk. ;Dem.; JOHN H LENHART. ,; For Treasurer. '.Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ;; For Recorder. •Dem.: HARVEY HARRUFF ; For Sheriff. :bem.: peter p. ashbKucher. For Coroner Dem.: S.C. CLARK. • For Surveyor. :Hem.: W. E. FULK. -; For Commissioner—2nd Dist. •Dem.: CONRAD BRAKE. .. . ... For Commissioner—3rd Dist. ; Dem. ■ DAV ID ECKROTE. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE FROM NOW ON TO THE IST OF J ANU ARY, 1895, YOU CAN HAVE THI DEMOCRAT FOR FIFTY CENTS REMEMBER THIS IS THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED IN ADAMS COUNTY. Democratic Senatorial and Repreeentallve Convention, •_ *' ■'•’ „ • ’ > * The Senatorial and Representative Convention for the countie> of Adams, Blackford and Jay wil be held at Hartford City, Ind., oi Tuesday, August 21, 1894, for tin purpose of nominating a candidat' for State Senator and two candi dates for Representatives for th< aforesaid counties. The United States is operating 152 bankrupt railroads. Doesn’i this fact make government contro look plausible? The D emocratic workers are ii line tor the corning campaign. They were never more determined that now to win the November battle. If there is any backing down i will be by the Senate. The Iloirei stands by the WTlson bill and the President and the Democratic mass es of the country stand by thi House. Not a single Democrat in thn country who lias heretofore beei prominent as a worker ’in political campaigns can be named who ha* deserted the old battle scarfed Democratic flag. Not one. A tariff for revenue only )> what the Democratic party promised the people and this is whai Democracy intends to accomplish despite Mr. Gorman’s statement that party pledges are meaningless One year ago yesterday Congresmet in special session. While they have given the country some good legislation, there seems to be something wrong with some of them on the tariff question, and for the g ood the countiy had better adjourn. The Republican has always been under better discipline than the Democratic party. Such a thing as a half dozen recalcitrant Senators interposing their personal interests to defeat the carrying out of the •’ party pledges would be impossible with a Republican President and a Republican majority in both Houses . of Congress. When the party line is drawn Republicans may protest for a while, but ultimately they toe it without a murmur.

Accounts from Washington say that the President would veto the Gorman bill even if it should pass both Houses. Well, the country would emphatically endorse such action. Better no legislation at all thin the abominable measure that has been fixed up by the Sugar and Whisky Trusts and their agents in the Senate. We were shown a sample of flog-stone from the Grinton, (Ohio), stone quarry that is being favorably conisdered by a number of our Second Street property own ers as very suitable for side walk purposes. Those of our peo pie who wish to put down sidewalk of this material can see the sample at Yager Bros, drug store. Now that Second Street is improved, why not improve the alleys on the east and west r-ides thereof with the boulders taken up from this street. The property owners on whose property these bouldenare deposited, are complaining of the space they take up, and suggesl that they be used for the improve ment of these alleys. The City Council should take such actiom on this work as will warrant its completion this year. Mr. Hi ll will doubtless figure in the ceremonies that will follow a report of the conferees of the Senate. If there is a failure to agret he can say “I told you so,” while ii the Senate backs down he can remind them with many flourish* that he wanted them to d(\ that all the time. Mr. Hill knows that h> has proved an interesting study to the country and like all debutant* he is a little bit “stuck on himself’ to use a familiar rather than an elegant expression.

A number of resident property owners along Fourth street are ii favor of improving that thorough fare by putting down vitrified brick, and last evening were in consultation with others of that street t< join m the enterprise. Ibe Democrat is pleased to know that oui people are exercising a very progressive spirit in this and othei public affairs, and hopes that tht ime is not far off when they anfl the City of Deca ur will reaj the labors thus invested. Judge Long, of the Supreme Bench of Michigan, has his pension case in the court again asking that i mandamus be issued compelling .he Secretary of the Interior to place him back on the rolls at s72‘ per month. We believe the Secretary done right and would like to see him bring them all to an equali ty. If $24 a month is enough for a vorking man who lost a leg, thei the same should be enough for s’ Judge who is a cripple of the same kind. Grant to all the same pay for the same disability. r * — Some of our young men who con gregate ground the door of the church when services is being held therein and talk, swear and smok< that, they can be heard to thi annoyance cf those inside, or smoke so the smoke will annoy those in-, side, will be called to account before long; then there will be weep - ing and swearing because their friends will not stay the docket for them. The church is a pleasant place to go to spend an hour or two and there is always room inside for those who want to get in to attend services. The duty on sugar should be specific instead of ad valorem, if there is to be any duty at a11... H the people are to be compelled to pay tribute to the trust they should at least be able to know precisely the amount of it. It the tax is made so much a pound they can compute the sum in dollars and cents that will be forced from them under the unauthorized promise which Messrs. Gorman, Brice and Smith made to the LouisianatSenators. They will then know how mucn goes to the government, how much to the planters, and how much these three ready reckoners have clubbed out of Congress m aid of their client, the Trust, under the uloak ot promise.

Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, in an interview with ex (Governor Alger of that Slate in which he urges him to become a candidate for the United States Senate, says: “Do you know what that means?” inquired Gov. Alger, “Lt means that it would be a quarter million dollars, and I have not the money to spend in that way.” The Governor does not take kindly to the scheme of a lot of boodle politicians, and Mayor Pingree also makes some very damaging disclosures as to the manner in which the Republican party in Michigan is conducted. This means a split in the forces of that State. Since Zack Chandler’s days a lot of boodlers have controlled the Republican party of that State and a revolt is anticipated at anytime. K . »T' At the Republican conference in Indianapolis on Monday and Tuesday the “leaders” of that plutocratic party were very , jubilant over the prospect. They based their hopes for a sweeping Repub lican victory on the claim that Democrats were deserting to the Populist ranks. Democrats who because of their disgust over the treason of a half a dozen so-called Democratic Senators have wavered in their loyalty to the Democratic party, should seriously ponder the boasts >f Republican leaders that their only hope to win in Indiana is based on the expectation that Democrats wilt desert the Democratic flag in this hour of party peril. Do they not see that the same old Republican game of “divide and conquer” is being played on the people? Stand fast. On Monday a Democratic convention was held in Frederick county, Maryland, at which the President’s position in sustaining the House of Representatives was cordially endorsed and Senator Gorman’s apostasy was roundly de•lounced. If the House stands firm there will be enough voles in the Senate to endorse the Wilson bill as it originally came to that body. This is the growing opinion in Washington and throughout the country. If Mr. Gorman votes igainst it he will not dare to return to his-own State, and as no other State wants him, where will he go? But Mr. Gorman would probably flicker too when the time came to vote. His conscience might not make a coward of him, but his personal interests would. What the Frederick county Democracy did Monday had been done in several other counties in Maryland previously. Gorman’s stock has hit bottom in his own State. If the Senate bill should be passed the Democracy would be in an attitude of apology throughout the campaign. This would mean probable defeat and the indefinite postponement of Tariff Reform. But with the President, the IJpuse of Representatives and all of the Democratic Senators except a beggarly handful on the right sidS’vtJie true purpose of Democracy would be vindicated and we .should have a campaign as enthusiastic and victorious as the one of two years ago. We would not have to apologize for the law because Democrats are not responsible for that. But We should be responsible if any bill passed to reform the McKinley bill and the measure offered by the Senate is in so many respects merely a modified form of the McKinley law that to pass it now after "so many months of discussion would be simply a burlesque. Far better no legislation at all than the Gorman monstrosity.

COUNTY RE-UNION. Quite a number of the old soldiers in the county are taking of holding a County Re union some time this Fall. Time is fast thinning our ranks, and a meeting of this kind where no particular regiment is re-uning, but where all come together as one to renew friendships of by gone days would be hailed with delight by us all. Who will set the day for such a meet in g- ' u

Against slander there is no defense. It starts with a word—with a nod —with a shrug—with a look —a smile. It is a pestilence walking into darkness, spreading contagion far and wide which the wary traveller cannot avoid; it is the heart searching dagger of the dark assassin; it is the poisoned arrow whose wounds are incurable; it is the mortal sting of the deadly adder; murder its employment, innocence its prey and ruin its sport. The man who breaks into my dwelling, or meets me on the public road and robs me of my property, does me inury. He stops me on the way to wealth, strips me of my hard earned savings, involves me in difficulty, and brings my family to penury and want. But he does me an injury that can be repaired. Industry and economy may again bring me intd* circumstances of ease and influence. The man, who comingjat the midnight hour, fires my dwelling, does me an injury—he burns mp roof, my pillow, my raiment, my very shelter from the storm and temptest; but he does mean injury that can be repaired. The storm may indeed beat upon me, and chilling olasts assail me, but charity will receive me into her dwelling, will give me food to eat and raiment to put on; will timely assit me, raising a now roof over the ashes of the old, and I shall again sit by my own fireside and taste the sweets of friendship and of home. But the man who circulates false reports concerning my character, who exposes every act of my life which may be presented to my disadvantage, who goes first to this, then to that individual, tells them he is under tender of ray repu tation, enjoins upon the strictest secrecy and then fills their ears with hearsays and rumors, and what is worsp, leaves them to dwell upon the hints and suggestions of his busy imagination—the man who thus “filches from me my good name” does me an injury which neither industry, nor charity, nor time itself can repair.—Fraternal News. -

SHALL THE SUGAR TRUST RULE? The struggle in Congress has st last narrowed down to the single question, “Shall Democracy or the Sugar Trust govern this country?” All thought is concentrated upon the one shameful fact that the agents and attorneys of this great conspiracy of greed have been permitted to walk into the Senate of the United States and dictate a pro vision of law that enables them to levy tribute upon all the people, and that they now insolently notify Congress and the country that they must submit to this dictation or be denied the privilege of making any laws at all for the reduction of. taxes. The popular demand now is that this insolence shall be rebuked, this arrogant demand resisted. The rest may be easily managed. If the differential duty on refined sugar is stricken out—a duty imposed at the dictation of the Sugar Trust and for its benefit alone—the bill can be got . out of conference in a few hours in a shape which, though not satisfactory to the hopes of the people, would at least be acceptable as a beginning of tariff reform and tax reduction. It is not a question of schedules, but of masters. It is not a quesiion of how much or how little the people shall pay, but of whether the people, through their representatives or the Sugar Trust,, by their attorneys in the Senate, shall make the laws, levy the taxes and receive the revenues. It is an issue that must be fought out at whatever cost. Upon its determination rests the issue whether the long struggle of the people for tax reduction shall end hereafter in a satisfactory readjustment of burdens or in a surrender ot the legislative function to such monopolies as may choose to seize upon it.— Evansville Courier. Overalls at 25 cents per pair. This is no humbug. Call on Ike and he will show you just what he advertises. stf

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WATER WORKS. At an informal meeting of the Council last evening at the law office of Mann & Beatty they met Mr. Kerlin and received his proposition upon the Water Works plant - Mr. Kerlin had a plan of the City showing where pipes were to be extended. The circuit included the entire city. Mr. Kerlin proposed to put in the plant and furnish first class pumps, boilers and 500,000 gallon reservoir; everything complete for $43,000. The City to rent the plant from him as proposed in City Attorney Mann’s resoultion and pay him $4,000 annually. At that rent the plant would become the property of the city in about 17 years. The Council is now considering whether they can make the annual payment, and if so, Water Works are assured. A Comniittee took the plans and went over the city this morning tor the purpose of ascertaining just what could be left out without interfering with the general eflieiency of • the system. Action no^doubt, will be taken at the regular session of the Council to-night. The Council concluded they could pay as high an annual payment as ‘53,500, but are uncertain about $4,000. The extra SSOO will be but a slight matter in a City of 4,000 inhabitants and the Council should agree to the payment. Let us have Water W orks. - WE ’IAY ALSO BE IN IT. War between China and Japan seems to be inevitable and European authorities are prophesying that it will be a long and bitter struggle. If this prophecy should prove true we may be at the be ginning of a contest that will involve all of the European powers and perhaps the United States be fore it is concluded. The commercial nations are eager for the advantage in both China and and have already established international relations with them that will be effected by a long war. Besides, the general stagnation of industry in Europe and this country has resulted in enforced idleness to thousands upon thousands of people who would hail war as an opportunity for employment. Men who are out of work and hungry do not care much for danger. The great interest that is shown in the war in every part of Europe is an indica tn n that the public mind would not be shocked by the certainty that western powers would be drawn into the fray. Even the United States is suspected of having intentions in the way of acquiring territory in the far east. W hether this be true hr not this country would not be insensible to the great advantage that both China and Japan would be as a market for our various products and in the event of a complete opening up of these two rich countries to the commerce of the world the United States would probaly insist upon having their share of the profits.

1 WATER WORKS ASSURED. The City Council at their meet- * ing la«t night disposed of the Water Works question in a manner that warrants us in saying that we will have Water Works in Decatur before the snow flies. Messrs. Buhler, T»eple and Vail are a committee to investigate into the reasonableness of the price now asked, and report their investigation in two weeks from last night. The plant v hich they will investigate will be the one calling tor an expenditure of $43,000. Heed Them Not, They Can’t Help It. A number of the republican papers still continue to howl about the hard times and charge the same , to the Democratic party. They seem to forget that Ex Secretary Foster wanted to sell bonds to tide the government over the hard times and that Hanrison the 2nd would not allow him to sell bonds-—a bankrupt government was the result. They had squandered SIOO.000,000, the surplus that had been turned over to them, but four years , before. The panic was brought on us by the wrong doing of the republican party while in power, and the effects of it are still upon us. Barbarous Warfare Promised. If the war that has been declared | between China and Japan continues, the world will probably be shocked by brutalities that will astound even the experienced soldiers of every civilized nation. It the reports of the sinking of the Chin-. ] ese transport that bore the English flag are true in the essential par- | ticulars, the Japanese acted at vari- | ance with all the rules of modern 1 warfare, even with the appliances 1 of the latest nature at hand. When I the combatants the fight on I shore, in which some of the Chinese I will use primitive weapons against | the swords and rifles of the Japs, | there will be cruelties beyond be- 1 lief. It begins to look as if the 1 fighting nations are going about | this war on the no qnarter-giverUor- j taken notion. Before the issue has | been settled the world will have its 1 eyes open to the possibilities of 1 modern weapons in the hands of 1 semibarbarous peoples. THEY VOTE AN APPROPRIA-| TION, Bluffton held an election venter- | day. The question at stake was to | see if an appropriation of $40,000 | could be raised for the C., U. C. & | C. R. R. Great excitement and ' much bitter talk was indulged in, 1 but the appropriation was carried | by a majority of nearly three bun- j dred votes. The Populists of Adams County I will hold a Convention in the town 1 of Monroe on Saturday, August 1 18th. The Democrat makes men- I tion of this fact as a matter of news, I having failed to see any notice of 1 the same in the Populist organ! published at Bluffton.' J "T - I-' ,1 x'—■