Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1894 — Page 3

GROCERIES 11 CRnPFRIES ’ ' BremerKamp, VllUUlallllaU • • (SUCCESSORS TO DONOVAN A COFFEE.) This 1 established . JV > ; Everything business V .■ ,nthe,,ne house enjoys W_ X yy w • >««• •’»“•••’»'“ ' ••«•"■' - •‘WrrSbM 1&A1 fafer n,O " ,I ’ IM " to non. "Al ’ r ’““ tntnoon,. '°“ nd "” 1 mFlm’’ soap fob 351 of allfkinds such as Asparagus Tips, (Club House Brand) Extra French Peas, Deviled Crab, Kippered Herring, Lobsters, etc.’, etc., sold at ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. 25 pounds of Light Brown Sugar for si.oo Oaeb. Falci for "Buttor and with i • • Ea»t Side ot Second Street* D< cutur, Ind. Daniel Schlegel, DEALER IN LIGHTNING RODS, SPOUTING, ROOFING, AND Tinware of all Kinds. StaWlSw nil ■ Menfliig to lo ofc Front St., near Jefferson Street. Decatur, - - - Indiana.

SURROUNDED BY MYSTERY! A Great Mistake. A recent discovery Is that headache; diszlness, dullness, confusion of the mind, etc., are due to derangement of the nerve centers which supply the brain with nerve force; that indigestion, dyspepsia, neuralgia, wind imstomach, etc., arise from the derangement of the nerve centers supplying these organs with nerve fluid or force. This is likewise true of many diseases of the heart and lungs. The nerve system is like a telegraph system As will be seen by the accompanying

cut. The little white lines are the nerves which convey the nerve force from the nerve centers to every part of the body, Just as’the electric current is conveyed along the telegraph wires to every station, large or small. Ordinary physicians fall to regard this fact; Instead of treating the nervecenters for thecause of the disorders arising therefrom they treat the part affected. Franklin Mlles, M. D..LL. 8., the highly celebrated specialist and

student of nervous diseases, JMttf' author of many noted treatises on the latter subject, long since realized the truth of the first statement, and his Restorative Nervine is prepared on that principle. Its success tn curing all diseases arising from derangement of the nervous system is wonderful, as the thousands of unsolicited testimonials in possession of the company manufacturing the remedy amply prove. Dr. Miles’ Restorative Nervine is a reliable remedy for all nervous diseases, such as headache, nervous debility, prostration, sleeplessness, dizziness hysteria, sexual debility, St. Vitus dance, epilepsy, etc. It is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by the Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, 11 per bottle, six bottles for S 5, express prepaid. Restorative Nervine positively contains no opiates or dangerous drugs. Sold by all Druggists, ipmoCKl m 1 gq| 1 <a « \W rade MWnt w/ =5 } X T* ~ .-CLOTH ES WASH INC,) •> HilFdish washinc, - -•< Bll HOUSE cleaning, -i <1 VI HARDorSOFTWATERI) "5 FULL DIRECTIONS ON PKC.Jt

The Republican party is responsibli for George H. Pullman and the whole system which breeds such men. He votes its ticket, its laws nourish him, he contributes to its campaign fund and is its legitimate offspring. Such condi tions as jiervade at Pullman were unheard of before the long reign of Repub licanism. * Carnegie has lost favor with the Republican party, not because he sold rotten armorplate to the government, but because he has weakened in his suppor of protection. Iq was that vile system which madelhci Carnegies possible. R< H- licanism, likQjfcarnegie’s plates, is of “blowholes.” Democratic legislation killed Pinkertonism in Indiana. It also abolished “pluck-me” stores. It also provided the employes’ liability bill and other useful measures demanded by organized labor. These things will be remembered by laboring men when they go to the polls next fall. The Democratic law which makes the big corporations pay their just share of the tax burdens is distasteful to Repub licans. They would repeal it and remit the state back to the system formerly prevailing when the small fish were, caught while the big fish slipped through. Remember, that without the aid of the whole Republican membership the few Democratic traitors in the senate could not have obstructed tariff reform. The Republicans were the British, while the “masquerading Democrats” played the role of Benedict Arnold. What position are the Republicans going to take on the tariff question, any way? Will they demand the repeal of the new bill and insist on reopening the whole subject in congress? It is almost time they were announcing their inteii tions. Republicanism in the far west is for free silver. In the east it is for the sin gle gold standard. Anything to get votes. They promise the people what ever they want, provided, only in return that they will give them the offices The Democratic state platform enn merates the great teforms effected by the. party in the interest of labor and the people generally. The list is long and covers a series of measures of the high est importance. ■„ Tom Reed recently opened the Repub lican campaign in Maine with his jaw. If any one wants to know what little excuse the Republican party has for continuing in existence, he should read that speech. By virtueoT aD>mocratic ,law Pull man now has to pav for the privilege o’ running his eats through Indiana. In 1 other states he goes free, as he did here under Republican legislation. Thanks to the Democratic party Johnny Davenport and his jiiyrmillons will ho longer supervise elections. The states will regulate such affairs without federal ixily?ferepoe.

HER BOTH PARTIES" Indiana When Republican and When ' Democratic. Ho* the Former Debauched and Misgoverned the State—Summary of the Reform* AcconipUahed by the Democ- I racy—Who Would Go Back to the Old SyntemT Indiana Republicanism is essentially retrogressive. It has for years stood in I the way of necessary reforms and now | announces that if given power it will i repeal the legislation that has been en- . acted by the Democracy. This being the case, it is well to refresh the memory as to the old method and learn what it is that the Republican party would bring us back to. Rotten Electoral Sy*to in. Up to 1890 Indiana liad one of the worst election laws [that ever was devised. It made fraud easy and invited every device to cheat the voter out of his | honest expression of opinion, i While os- i tensibly a secret ballot it was in effect just the opposite. The party managers I and workers l?ad little difficulty in ascertaining how every mln voted. I Vote buying was facilitated by the I methods prevailing and intimidation I or espionage wore made easy by lack of safeguards and secrecy. i Under this vicious law the Republicans • found it easy to practice those arts which * enabled it often towin victories where the honest majority was clearly against j them. In a struggle of this kind that i party had a great advantage. Its long I supremacy iu state and nation and con- I sequent control of vast sums of money, I its “pull” on the trusts and corporate : wealth made its- resources practically . unlimited. The party opposing it had j to contend against immense odds. ' Every Indianiau, will remember the I campaign of 18807 Dorsey, the Arkansas carpetbagger, was imported and placed in full charge, his only capital being an abundant supply of money and a total lack of conscience. How this vassal plied his nefarious game and the ; consequent debauchery of the state with j his crisp ten-dollar bills is too well j known to be repeated. The same game j was repeated on a larger .scale in with only a change of generals andaWn enlargement of “commissary supplies.” I Dudley and his “blocks-of-five”, proved 1 the last feather that broke the camel’s back. The whole state was disgusted with the shameless exhibition of that year and a cry went up from river to lake for a decent law that would abolish Dudleyism and rescue the state from its debasing influences. Democracy to the Rescue. Fortunately for the peopkvthe legislature of 1889 proved to be Democratic and one Os its first moves was to introduce a ballot law framed upon the Australian system. The Republicans quickly recognized that this was an attack upon their “vested rights” of debauching the suffrage and that if enacted would destroy their supremacy. They dreaded nothing so much as an honest ballot law and the whole tribe of Dudleys, Dorseys : and Micneners were indignahtly ar- , rayed against the proposed reform. ! After a bitter contest, with the Democ- I racy arrayed solidly on one side ; and the Republicans with practical unanimity on the other, the measure became a law. It was first tested in the fall of 1890 and the election that year was a revelation to the people of the state. For the first time in its history the state had an election that was absolutely fair and honest. Vote-buying was rendered impossible. Absolute secrecy and safety was secured to the voter. The ticket-handlers and hustlers, heretofore inseparable adjuncts of Indiana elections, will no more be seen. The crowds around the polls, through which in former years the citizen was compelled to press his way, had disappeared. All was quiet and peaceable. There was no pulling and hauling, there was no independent solicitation, above all, there was no mysterious transfer of money around the corners. Such in brief was what was done for Indiana in the important matter of reforming , the electoral system. As to School Books. Another crying evil in Indiana for yeart had been the manipulation of school books by sundry formed rings and class corporations. Frequent changes of school books, which were effected by scheming and collusion, the monopoly enjoyed by favored firms and many other abuses long worked great hardships upon the patrons of schools The expense constituted an immense tax all the more difficult to be borne because of the fact that it was known to be for the benefit of rings and people who en joyed political ‘ ‘pulls. ’ ’ This abuse also, after a long and doubtful struggle, was finally swept away by a Democratic legislature. A law was passed carefully regulating the whole business, fixing prices and insuring improvments. Books purchased are good until used up and are not subject to sudden and capricious changes. Parents moving from one part of the stare to another find the same books available every when'. Above all the prevention of extortion by regulation of prices has proved a great saving. It would be difficult to estimate the pecuniary benefits conferred upoi school patrons of Indiana by this timely and wholesome, law. It is solely the work of the Democratic party, as the reform was fought by the Republic:’.u party at every stage. Robbery by Unequal Taxation. But the greatest of all reforms for the people of Indiana was the nassace of. the new tax law in 1891. Before that the trap was laid to catch thff small game while the large always managed to break through. The assessing was loose, haphazard and unfair. Ti-os" least able to pay were generally mulct ci to the fuP extent, while the powerful corporation, the favored millioi' iir. „ and money lord either escaped entirely or pttid only a fraction of his past dues. The evils- were groin and universal and long and ‘ loud were the demands for relief. At length it came and now Indiana has the fairest and most equitably administered tax law of any state in the union. All are ■< > i Mnmnettihiaß iw. >iiliifc*,^l i

compelled to pay in proportion to their 1 holdings. Favoritism has been abolished and tax dodging made exceedingly difficult, if not impossible. Whnt RepiiblicanlNm Teaches. It is difficult to conceive, but it is , nevertheless true, that one of the great political parties of Indiana has pledged itself, if restored to power, to repeal or change all of the beneficial legislation ftobvc enumerated. The Republicans give the people to understand that the Australian ballot law is not good for , their health. They yearn for the reI turn of the Dudleys and the Dorseys. , They sigh for the “good old days” when j vote buying was a fine art and a “vested I right” of Republicanism. They look ( mournfully at the Democratic law i which ruined this Republican industry I and insists that steps shall be taken to 1 “protect” it again. The same party l wants the old loose tax system and the ■ ring schoolbook system. In fact, they ■ want to chrry the state back a decade or two to the days when cheating at elections was easy, when tax dodging wax in full vogue and when favored cliques controlled school supplies. For j all th-se ami other abuses the RepubI lican party mourns, like Rachel for her children. and refuses to be comforted' ; because they 1 are not. If they get back into power, they say, there shall be a general sm,idling of reform laws and ah undoing of all the good things that Deni' ..-racy has dbne 'for the state in the ! last 10 v -.ir>. * I Some IP publican papers are complaining that tin? new bill makes such radical i reductions m the tariff that prices on ' most artieie will be reduced below what American manufacturers can afford to : make them for. Other Republican papers are gloating over the alleged Demo- [ cratie failure, to accomplish any substan- ; tial tariff reduction. These assertions ! are inconsistent. Which one do the ReI publican leaders propose to adopt in ■ making their campaign attacks on the ' new tariff'.■'—Omaha World-Herald. All the panics of the last 35 years have [ occurred under a high protective tariff, if not because, thereof. Yet the Rcpnblicin- would have us believe that it was < "the threat of free trade” that made the • country wilt nnd wither. Common sense I teaches that it is what has happened and ; not what is going to happen that causes financial depression either to individuals or nations.' - What -o r bad national laws are on the books up to the presenfr-congress ar< j due solely to the Republican party. The ', last year wa . the first in over 35 that i. tihe Democrats had the power topas.< i federal statute. Panics and hard times Lmlways come from what has been done ' and not what may be done in future. I The lase disaster was purely a Repub- ■ lican product. Benjamin Harrison threatens to go over into West Virginia and help his friend Steve Elkins down Chairman Wilson in the congressional race. Benny will have his hands full at home, ami when matters warm up a little will find that he can spare no time from Indiana if he hopes to keep his party in a respectable minority. The Republican party* for a year past has been, a veritable calamity howler. It tried to make the country believe a visitation had been sent upon it because it was choked loose from the offices. It welcomed hard times and blue ruiii in" hopes that' such conditions might enable it to get back under cover with- • out merit, repentance or reform of past ! sins. Since the Democrats gave Indiana a I decent ballot law one never hears any : more of Dorsey, Dudley & Co., who used 1 to be the most prominent adjuncts of Republican campaigns. Like Othello, their occupation is gone, and with them has gone the two-dollar-bill device and the “blocks-of-five” system, which ran for years under Republican patents. Republican platforms this year are all things to all men and everything to everybody. They promise one thing in the west and another in the east, promise both things at once in some sections, and are ready to grant the people whatever they want provided only they give the promisers the offices. The Republican party has no existence in the south and but a very precarious one in the extreme west. Soon it will have to rely exclusively upon Pennsylvania and Vermont for its claim of being a national party. It never was a national party, but purely sectional I from its birth. The Republicans are not carrying Indiana as mu»h as they were a few weeks ago. As the shades of autumn approach their chances grow slimmer and slimmer and by election time they will discover that the "great revolt against Democracy” we have heard so much about has not materialized. Republicanism was thrown out of power ip ’93 for a long list of political sins. Now, without any signs of repentance and certainly without any improvement in morals, it asks to be restored. It will take much more than two years of exile to purify a party which had 30 years to learn its wickedness. The Republicans are pledged to repeal the present s*ate tax law if given power They want to return to the old system which let the big corporations escape and placed the burden on the rest of the people. Republicanism is nothing if not a friend and copartner with trusts. The Republican party hiik lost two senators without the formality of elec ti >ns. Sengtors Stewart and .Jones of Nevada have left their old party in disgust on account of its hostility to silver It this thing keeps up there will not be enough of the old party to swear by or at . What can organized labor ask of any party than has been done for it by tin Democracy in Indiana All the labor laws now on the statute books were ] .iced there by the Democrats. Not a reform of thiq .kind, can be credited to the Republicans. All Knownofbing parties spring from and go back to RepuWit’anuem—T-hepretw iut A.'P. A. is a spawhi oi tlie same parent. No Speh snakes as this are ever hatched fi mi Democratic eggs. Th., pari}’ has > \ r been the champ.on of religious — - Republicanism in Indiana has done imtb.ißg im* years except oppo--..' everything proposed by the Democrats-. Not a single one of the great reforms aceom plished by Democrncy but was fought at every step by a solid Republican party.

Interesting Advices Brought by the Steamer Sikh. THAT KOW SHING DISASTER. Japanese Commander Say* the Boat Wai Sailing Under False Colors and Carrying Chinene Troop*—Great Inducement* Offered American* and European* to Amht tlie Flowery Kingdom. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 10. — The Northern Pacific liner Sikh from Yokohama brings interesting advices of the war in the orient. The reason given by the commander of the Japanese warship Naniwa Kan when asked why he fired upon the Kow Shing, seeing she was flying the British flag, is now given for the first time and is certainly pt>rtinent. “Because she was sailing under false colors, was carrying Chinese troops and had been sold to the Chinese government and fullv paid for,” Notwithstanding this explanation, the same paper wlijch gives if publicity announces the sum of .$750,000 has been agreed to by the Japanese government as reparation for the sinking of Captain Galworthy’s vessel and to those dependent upon Europeans lost with her. Keenly Alert For Contraband Article*. Both China and Japan are at pr it keenly alert for articles contraband of war and to this the delay in the arrival of the Sikh is attributable. The government has declined to consider rice as contraband of war, but both belligerents claim it to be such and use every endeavor to intercept rice carrying ves-e 1 ,,. The Sikh was delayed at Shanghai by a Chinese gunboat, which made an effort to gain possession of the rice portion of her cargo. The British consul objected ■ and the merchandise was allowed te proceed. It is almost -impossible to get reliable war news anywhere in the east, even .r Shanghai. This trip the steamer pa-■< i very close to the Foo Chow forts and saw the Chinese garrison drawn up i : line. They were all attired in. flowinJ’ sack gowns of gaudy color and had o.t tliree cornered silk hats ami ma ■ i curious spectacle. These forte arc in charge of an Englishman, the son < f i naval officer, and are said to be cxc ■ diiigly si rung. China Hurrying Troops to Corea. . One of the. ,80-ton guns brarst sod. time ago, killing several men. 1/ generally understood this occurr, i through ignorance in handling it, Cl . is how hurrying an army of faimdi ' of thousands of men through i north i n China to Corea, but as they are subsisting on the products of th< country, through which they ana most of it is mountainous, it is hard to Bay with what success they will meet. ? Most of the men enlisted and drafted into the Chinese -army are coolies of the low order. The Chinese have beTa offering great inducements to Europeans ami Americans to enter their service and have secured many. Outrages Committed on Japanese. On the other hand, the Japanese‘have ' Ho outsiders in any branch of the service. On the way over on the last trip to the orient the Sikh passed through a fleejt of 20 Japanese ships. They were divided into four divisions, with five ships in each division. They were well handled. At the smaller Chinese ports all manner of outrages have been committed on resident Japanese, and in some places Portuguese have been robbed. At Tien Tsin the child of the Japanese consul was abducted, and when he took his leave to return to his country his legs and arms were tied and he was carried to the wharf with a bamboo stick through his arms. IN. DEATH VALLEY. Surveyors Compelled to Use Lizards For Food. San Francisco, Sept. 10. —Special Agent H. B. Martin of the United States land office, Washington, has returned from Death valley, after four and onehalf months’ absence. He went there to do some surveying and for information regarding claims of private, citizens to a portion of the country. Mr. Martin and his party examined the country for 60 or 70 miles to the south of Tule canon. Sandstorms prevailed almost daily and the heat was intense. Part of the time they could get no water, ajitl they had to bring it a long distance on pack horses. “Our main stock of meat was bacon,” said Agent Martin. “We could not get a particle that was fresh, so we ate the big lizards of the desert, which the digger Indians eat, and are knoxVn as chawallahs, and they tasted a good deal like frogs. All of our potatoes rotted as soon as we got in the desert, and we had no vegetables of any kind. The only thing that helped us out was canned fruit. The ordeal was so severe that each man lost some 15 pr 20 pounds in weight and all grew weak. Before I would go into it again I think I would resign. It was a trip to try tJie nerves, and I will never forget it. I never want to traverse that section again.” Smithboro Rioters Acquitted. Greenville, Ills., Sept. 10.—“ The trial of the celebrated riot aiid murder case, which occurred at Smithboro last Christmas eve, in which Williani Sandifer met his death, has been finished in the Crcnit court. The jury, after being out eight hours, brought in a verdict of not guilty, as to the defendants, VV liiiani Ray, Robert Widdowfield and Japies Wilburn, they having been charged with the crime. l — Actor Curtis Sued. St. EourC Sept. 10.—The scenery belonging to tffie “Sam i of Posen” company. which is pkiyiug in this city, has been att i.- : : I b,< lleurv T. Dale, a witness in the famous trial at San Jraucisoo in which M. B. Curtis was charged with the murder •!' Policeman Grant. He alleges that Curtis still owes him SSO for hisMervices in that ease. Curris dentes this aud charges Dale with“wlmao nmd.

To Farmers and Horsemen. Having established myself in the Blacksmithing and shoeing Business in Decatnr, I would respectfully ask all those in need of work of any kind in my line to give me aeall. 1 will Warrant my Work as good as any, and at frites as Keasiiable. Shop in Ellsworth A Co’s. Imilding, east side of Second Street, Decatur, Ind. C. W SCHIEFER, DR. C. V. CONNELL, Votorinai’y Surgeon, and XJJEKTTXIS'I’. Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College and Toronto Veterinary Dental School. Treats all diseases of tile domesticated All calls promptly attended dayor night. Surgery and Dentistry specialty.- Office in Odd Fellows Block Decaraj. ' 2-* X D. HALE, DEALER IN-— Grain ■, Oil, Seeds, Coal, Wool Eitne, Salt, Fertilizers, Elevators on too Chics jo & Erie and Clover Leaf railroad 05ice and Retail store southeast Corner of Second and Jefferson streets. i PAWiTASS OLLOITED I' ~ _ I A CARD. 'I [ 1 J. S. BOWERS, headquar- j ; I ters for the Hercules Blasting ■ Stump Powder, Caps and * Fuses. Foufidation, Rock of I the best quality always on i hand. Hercules Powder being cheap, clear your fields of I stumps. J. S. Bowers & Co., | leaders in all classes of Goods. The County Fair affords an excellent opportunity for the pick-pocket to get your watch. If you would be proof against his skill, be sure that the bow (or ring) is a This wonderful bow is now fitted to the Jas. Boss Filled Watch Cases, which are made of two plates of gold soldered to a plate of composition metal. Look equally as well.as solid gold cases, and cost about half as much. Guaranteed to wear 20 years. Always this trade mark, None genuine without it. Wfj Sold only through watch dealers. A watch case which makes a handsome charm ss.it tree on request. Key stone Watch Case Co., PHILADELPHIA. For sale by D. M. Hensley and Jacob Clos X-Son our jewelers THE best investment in real estate is to keep build* ings well painted. Paint protects the house and saves repairs. You sometimes want to sell —many a good house has remained unsold for want of paint. The rule should be, though, “the best paint or none.” That means Strictly Pure V White Lead You cannot afford to use cheap paints. Tobe sure of getting Strict* ly Pure White Lead, look at the brand ; any of these are safe: “ Anchor,” “Southern,” “Eckstein,” “Red Seal “Kentucky,” “ Collier.” For Colors. —National Lead Pure White Lead Tinting Colors. These colors are ®el<l in •one-pound cans, each can being sufficient to tint 25 iwinds ot Strictly Pure White Lead tlie-desiraf shade; th e y we “ no sense ready-mixed p tints, tat. a combinattoij. of perfectly nufe colors ia the iiaudiest form » tint Strict!/Pure White Lead. . , A sjrxxt many thousand dollars > nnvs been saved property-owners by having our book on paintiiw ap I color-card.-, SCud-us « postal cars and get both free. NATIONAL IP \D CO., New York. . Cincinnati Brauch\ > \ Seventh aud Eteeiuau Avenue, Cincinnati. .... I Wbi, iHi-tak-