Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1894 — Page 4

©he democrat «r. RLAOKnirHN, proprietor. FRIDA V. A UG. 17, 18»4. RatfH of Subscription, One Year, tn advance•* wl Six Months " 6 Four Montna r *' All aubacrlptiona not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of #2.00. Office in Democrat Bui bling, east stdeof See ond Street—ground floor CONUKENMONAL. Tl< KI T. For Congress, —11th District. HON. A. N. MARTIN. JUDICIAL TICKET. Judge—26th Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. Prosecuting Attorney—2Bth Judicial Circuit. RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. ;;■ For Auditor. :Dem.: W. H. H. FRANCE. . For Clerk. tDemc JOHN H. LENHART. ; For Treasurer. ;Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ; For Recorder. •Dam.: HARVEY HARRUFF ;••••••; For Sheriff. ; bem.: PETER P. ASH BAUCHER. ; For Coroner Dem.: S.C. CLARK. ;• For Surveyor. •°® m - W. E. FULK. ;: For Commissioner—2nd Dist. •Dem.: CONRAD BRAKE. p or Commissioner—3rd Dist. :Dem.’ DAVID ECKROTE. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE FROM NOW ON TO THE IST OF JANUARY, 1895, YOU CAN HAVE THE DEMOCRAT FOR FIFTY CENTS. REMEMBER THIS IS THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED IN ADAMS COUNTY. Democratic Senatorial and Repre»enl4<t ive Convention. The Senatorial and . Representative Convention for the conntie* of Adams; Blackford and Jay will be held at Hartford City, Ind., on Tuesday, August 21, 1894, for the purpose ol nominating a candidate for State Senator and two candi dates for Representatives for the aforesaid counties. THE STATE CONVENTION \ YESTERDAY. Yesterday .at Indianapolis was assembled the bone and sinew of Democracy of al) Hoosjerdom. Fully seventeen hundred delegates were present, and the convention was a loye least from start to close. Presi dent Cleveland’s administration also Governor Matthews’ administration were heartily endorsed by the con vention. Tariff protection of even kind was denounced as being a fraud and a robbery of the majority of the American people for the benefit ol the few. The state ticket nominated wa* as follows: Judges of the Supreme Court —George Reinhart,of Spencer, and Joseph S. Dailey, of Bluffton. Secretary of State—W. R. Myers, of Anderson. Auditor of State—Joseph T. Fanning, of Indianapolis. 'treasurer of State—Morgan Chandler, of Hancock county. Attorney Geieral—Francis M. Griffith.

Clerk of Supreme Court—C. A. Wellman, of Sullivan county. Superintendent o.f Public Ingtruction—Charles Thomas. State Statistician—JNathan U. Johnson, ot Anderson. State Geologist—A. S. Jordan, of Shelbyville. Corn selling at a higher price than wheat is an unusual spectacle. There is in the situation a lesson on supply and demand and the laws of parity in cereals, as in money metals, but the most significant of all indications growing out of the novelty is the rush to take bourhon whisky out of bond.

Did you evei bear a Republican explain why it was that wool dropped in price under the McKinley law, when it had a good stiff tariff on wool? Will some ot the calamity howlers tell why? After Congress adjourns the law officers of the Government can think aloud on the prospect of collecting the Pacific Rahro&d debt from the millionaires who appropriated tiie money. Street Commissioner Archbold has been kept quite busy this season in his business. Over two miles of street has been macada mized this year in Decatur, all ol which he has overseen. The Democrats have been tinkering with the tariff about as long a* the Republicans were when they passed the McKinley bill. Ii is to be hoped that when they do pass a bill it will not be a robbei like the McKinley law. A number of Monroe Street prop erty owners are talking of brick ing that thoroughfare from the St. Marys river to the G. R. & I. railroad. This idea should be encour aged, as then our main driveways to the railroad depots would present a very fine appearance. China offers to buy war ships We have none to sell, but one Car negte has a stock of armor plate on hand just suited for war contracts. It is as good as the shoes soled with pasteboard and the coffee made from beans, which were the basis of flourishing industries during the war. There could be no more favora - ble opportunity for re-establishing the free coinage of silver at the old ratio than is offered in the war be tween China and Japan. These nations use silver exclusively and they will be compelled to use a great deal of it. There will un doubtedly be an advance in the market price of silver bullion which will be largely increased the moment the United States rehabilitates it as money metal.

Most of the Democrats who were inclined to go into the Populist ranks have returned to the old Democratic home where they be long. a They cannot be more exasperated than al! good Democrats are over the failure to carry out al I of the pledges of the Democratic ] arty but tney know that reform' move slowly and they know’ that the Courier would he among the first to abandon the Democratic party whenever it is convinced that the organization can no longer be made to reflect the popular will I'he uprising of the Democratic people of the country against Gorman, lb ice and Smith shows that the Democratic masses intend to resume control of the-jiarty machin ery and wield it for the advance men - , of tariff and currency reform in harmony with the wishes of the people. Stand fast brothers, by the old Democratic rfag Evansville Courier. ■ r— •rzzp' t Wn observe that the Board of State Tax Commissioners are re view Ling-the returns of the various banks of the State tO 'some purpose. They have found, for instance, some bank stocks whose, market, value is *l5O a share returned for taxation at only SBO a share, and the Board proposes to know the reason tor this flagrant neglect of duty by some of the county boards of review. The railroads having been beaten in the Supreme Court m their attempt to dodge taxation are also before the State Board pleading poverty and asking for a reduction of their respective assessments. But the State Board is not likely to grant the shameless request. The State tax law enacted for the purpose of relieving the general taxpayers bp compelling corporations to pay their full share of the burdens of government, and this is not a time for . a Democratic State Board to show any discrimination in favor of cor- , porations that have fought the law ever since its enactment and 1 through all of the courts of the * country. '. i

bet Siome.Acltonii be Taken. When the County Commissioner go into regular session next month would it not be a wholesome idea for them to then arrange for the sale of the old Fair Grounds? At present they are being used for a stock pasture; and the revenue derived therefrom from this source woulndn’t begin to pay taxes thereon from year to year if listed as taxable property. The people have all along desired that these grounds be sold and the money applied to buying new grounds for Count) Fair purposes. That something should be done in the matter be sides what is being done, all must admit, and it is to be hoped that due considerat on will be given the matter by our County guardians al their next regular session. IS IT TRUSTWORTHY? It must be gratiying to those Democrats who have gone over to the People’s party, if there are any, to notice the position occupied by the four Senators who are the avowed representatives of the par ty. Three of them, Messrs. Allen, Pfeffer and Kyle, were chosen upon (he distinct understanding that the\ were to carry out the views that have been expressed from time to time by the People’s party conven tions. The fourth one, Mr. Stew art, of Nevada, has occupied a seat in the Senate for many years and only declared himself a Populist after the unconditional repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, about a year ago. The People’s party is supposed to be composed of that element from each of the old parties who were impatient with the one because of the enactment by the party with which it has affiliated of legislation granting special privileges to a class, and the other because the par ty with which it has affiliated, after getting into power upon pledges that it would repeal that kind of legislation, has failed to do so. All of their platformsand public declarations have taken an advanced position not only in the matter of free coinage but also of Free Trade. Yet Messrs. Allen, Kyle, Pfeffer and Stewart have been hand and glove with the Democratic obstructionists and the Republican protectionists at every point in the contest now waged to reform the tariff. Messrs. Allen and Kyle have joined with the Louisiana Senators tn a demand

for protection for sugar because m their state the sugar beet has been introduced within the last few years and the experiment promises profitable results. Thus the Senatorfrom Dakota in the North and Louis iana in the South have joined hands to insist upon the protection of their special industries upon peri) of sacrificing all tariff legislation if their demands are not conceded. Better McKinleyism with its average of 64 per cent taxation, mostly upon the necessaries of life, than a reform measure tl/at does not protect the local interest of Louisana and Dakota. The accounts from Washington showing that lhe four Senators of the People’s party are in daily conference with the Louis iana Senators tells a story which ought to be sufficient warning to all Democrats to steer clear of thai new Hedged political organization. If its mission to aid the Republicans in continuing the burdens of taxation which for them long made the people mere tribute payers to the plutocracy we cannot believe that voters who have* been bred in the Democratic faith will be so deluded as to stray into the Populist camp. Democrats, look at the daily reports from Washington and notice the direction in which the Populist Senators are throwing their votes and influences! Is it probable that you will accomplish the purpose you have at yonr heart by following them?—Evansville Courier. What Do the Property Owners Say? Fourth street property owners have not very recently been heard from in the matter of putting down vitrified street brick on that thoroughfare. The Democrat would be pleased to note some fiction in this direction, inasmuch as it vas favorably talked of by several of the property owners a :ew weeks since.

LABOR LEGISLATION. Apropos the labor disturbances it is not amiss io attract attention to the legislation the Democracy of Indiana has secured. It will be well for Democrats to cut this out and carry it with them to refute Republican argument (?) during the coming campaign. It passed a law making it unlawful for corporations, etc., to import a lien or foreign labor under eon tract into this Slate. Il passed a law that when the property of any firm or corporation is seized by creditors or goes into the hands of an assignee or receiver that debts to the amount of SSO for labor shall be a preferred claim and paid first if assets are sufficient; if not then pro-rata. It passed a law giving all persons who perform labor in grading, bridges, etc., or performing any la bor of any kind in the construction of any railroad, or anyone furnishing any material for such purpose, alien on such railroad for the labor performed or material, etc., furnished. It passed the eight-hour labor law, and the law against any corporation, etc., contracting, or in any way paying their employes with merchandise, food, groceries or supplies or operating what is com monly known as “pluck me-stores,” and compelling them to pay their laborers in lawful money. It passed the new election law by which every laboring man can go in secret and cast his ballot without in any way being intimidated by any boss dr corporation. There never was a law passed that means more to the laboring man than this election law. It passed the new schoolbook law. The schoolbook monopoly for years had lhe people of our State by the throat and compelled them to pay two prices for schoolbooks, but after a hard struggle it was driven from the State and now the poor man can furnish his children—the pride of his life—with books for half the prices that were extorted by the monopoly.

It amended the mechanic’s lien law, by which all persons performing labor or furnish material for any house, mill, manufactory, etc., should have a hen for his wages, and it made the wages of all laborers employed in any mill or factory a lien on all the machinery, tools, stock of material on hand, etc., and if the firm is in failing circumstan ces such claim shall be, a preferred debt, whether notice is filed or not. It passed a law making it a penal offense for any corporation, etc. 5 to prevent or attempt to prevent anydischarged employe from obtaining employment, what is commonly called blacklisting its discharged employes. It passed a law regulating the weighing of coal, providing for the safety of employes and ventilation of coal mines, and it passed the law requiring every corporation, etc., engaged in mining or manufacturing iron, steel, lumber, staves, headnjg, barrels, brick, tile, agricultural im plements or any articles of merchan disc, etc., to pay their hands at least once in every two weeks in lawful money of the United States. It passed the new tax law of Indiana by which nearly one hundred million dollars worth of railroad property of the State was placed on the tax duplicate that had not been paying taxes before. Un der the operation of this law the railroads, sleeping car companies, telephone companies,’ telegraph companies, insurance companies and banks doing business in this State are compelled to pay their share of taxes, something they h ad escaped before this law was passed. Itpassed a law to pro tect employes in their right to belong to labor organizations and making it a misdemeanor to prevent employes from forming any lawful labor organization or to discharge an employe because/ of his connection with any lawful labor organization. It passed a law prohibiting the Pinkertons from looming into the State and acting as deputy sheriffs.

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Not Yet Pant praying For. Everything else having been tr'ed in vain upon the situation in the City ot Washington, it might prove good practical polities to try the efficacy of prayer. It has been known to succeed in a more despe’ate crisis. When the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was hopelessly deadlocked between the Federate and the Nationals Benjamin Franklin moved for prayers. It was the first proposal before the convention for many days on which nearly everybody could agree. The superheated orator was suppressed, the chaplain was called in, and refreshed by the outpourings of the spirit, the patriotic delegates pulled the convention over the troublesome shoal that had threatened to bar all progress. The deadlock in Washington is bad, is not so far “past praying for” as Fatetaff represented his victims on Gad’s-Hill to be. Let the conferees of rhe two houses put ice in their hats, let them even go in swimming, and they are all well cooled let a joint prayer meeting of the two houses pi eced e the House caucus. In the unaccustomed atmosphere of Christian charity thus introduced, the wranglers might see as molehills many of the obstacles to agreement that now seem as mountains. The whole, country is praying for relief. Why should not Senators and representatives pray for agree merit ? Perhaps some of thsm have

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forgotten how to bray since they west to Washington. If so, it is high time they were learning again. At any rate, the nervous shock of hearing a devout prayer from eloquent and fervent lips would probably not prove fatal to more than a very simll percentage of them.—St. Louis "Republic. ALL FOR A WESTERN MAN. Maryland will have no Presidential candidate in 1896. New Jersey ■ Democrats are not entering any- ' body for the prize. New York, of course, is out of it. New England has no claims. Senatorial conservatives have i pushed the Democratic nomination of 1896 westward. Instead of a struggle for a Western man, all we have ahead is a polite compliance on our part with a request from the Democratic masses of the Northi east. ‘ They will ask us to furnish ■ them with a tariff-reformer whom t they can trust. We can present the man. The West had all along expected „the , the nomination and had a number ( of stalwart Democrats ready. Since . the East has taken up the cry of a . Western man or bust, we can devote ourselves to choosing our candidate. Has the ordinance run out which > proclaimed Court Street the proper for Street Fakirs to ply their business? If not the party who has been holding down the corner of Madison and Second streets for the past few days, should be steered thereto.