Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1894 — Page 8

®he gemorrat JT. BLACKB CBN, Proprietor. lEIDAY, OVT.S, 1894. Nugar Quotation*. Sept. 27, 1893. Sept. 27, 1894. Hard Sugars 6%(«'7, 5Ji Confectioners'A's%s @sst Boft’A” SJXt'MK Extra “C” sk('< 4>««4% Yellow “C” 4K(«>sk 4X(«W Dark Yellow 4&(a’4% 3H(<d4X —lndianapolis Journal. What’s the matter with the sugar? McKIYLEY ANSWERED. The Question Asked in Ills Bangor Speech Answered by th* Looms and Spindles or Our Textile Faetorles. THE QESTTIONS. Bettei in which particular? Whose factories will it set to •work? It will not increase the demand for labor at home. It will not start a new factory at home? THE ANSWERS. The following exhibit is a sample of the uniform replies to the above questions made by the industrial enterprises of the country. The following items relate wholly to the revival of business in the textile industry, as reported mainly by the Textile World, a trade publication. The Providence Worsted Mills, of Providence, R. 1., are now running to lull time, and have orders ahead for a period of two months. The woolen mills at Niantic, R. 1., is soon to be operated after a shut-down of several years. It has been leased for the manufacture of yarns. The Gregory W oolen Mill, Wickford, R. 1., which is now running on full time, is crowded with orders for new goods. The Stonewall Mills Company, Stonewall, Mass., is putting in new machinery. 'lhe Ruddy Thread Company, Worcester, Mass., will erect a 100 by 50 feet dye house, two stories, with boiler attached. Bliss, Taft & Co., of Norwich, jConn., woolen waste manufacturers, have arrangd to locate a branch office at Niagara Falls. • The new Dilling Cotton Mills, Kings Mountain, N. C., will be in operation in about two or three weeks. With about all other mills of this kind in the United States are running on full time since the new tarsff law went into effect. The bankruptcy of this country by the g. o. p. is a silent question with them, but they will hear the echo of'it this fall. The voter will ask them what became of the $300,000,000 that was actually on hand when Harrison took the reins of this government. This is the amount in round numbers that the g. o. p. received irom the Demo cratic party March the 4th, 1889, when they come into power. Four years later when i hey turned over the government they had squan dered all this amount and had a deficit on hand of $165,000,000 in round numbers, for which Sercretarv Postei* then beg to sell bonds that the credit of the country might be saved, but the party who had given-sixty-six millions of this surplus to the Wall Street sharks as. a premium on bonds would not allow “Calico Charley” to do so tor they were going out of power and felt .that the responsibility would have to be shouldered by some one else, and would make good campaign ammunition for them, and true it would, but our people have become a reading and thinking people and they read and tjjink for themselves, well rememberjng the num of promises lhe g. o. p. has heretofore made to them only to be broken. The Republicans are calculating to sweep everything before them this fall. They calculate that a number of the Democrats will stay away from the polls which will be in their favor. Then they will have all the Democratic A. P. A. to help them, while they say the organization is non-political, still they are sure they will all vote the Republican ticket.

DON’T MOVE NOW. Or You Will Aid the Republican* at the Election. It has grown to boa basic principle of the Republican faith that the Democrats cannot lie beaten in Indiana except by some sharp practice by trickery, fraud or corruption. And. Republicans have much reason for the faith that, is in them. Not in a generation have they carried Indiana without the use of boodle or without some chicanery. That’s why they so bitterly opposed the Australian ballot law and the antibribery laws. They didn’t want to forgo the advantage they possessed under the old law, when they could buy the floaters. They sigh when they think of the “good old times;” the times when, in 1880, Dorsey and Brady and Arthur “soaped” the-state with “crisp $2 bills” and of 1888 when Dudley organized his “blocks-of-five in charge of trusted men with the necessary funds” supplied by Wanamaker and Pullman. Though they announced in the early part of the campaign that they had a walkover in Indiana this fall, they evidently didn’t believe so; for the canvass hadn’t fairly opened before a scheme was hatched for the indirect purchase of voters. Word has been sent out to all of Dudley’s old lieutenants and the plan is already in operation. It is a very simple but very insidious scheme and is being worked “on the dead quiet” wherever possible. The purchase of voters this year is to be merely a purchase to make Democrats lose their votes and is more in the nature of a confidence game than anything else. It doesn’t deal so much with the floaters as with honest but unsuspecting Democrats, who would never think of® selling out knowingly. The election law requires that a voter shall reside six months in the state, 60 days in the township and 30 days in the precinct in which he votes. ‘ Taking advantage of the provisions of the law the Republicans in the past 30 days have been busily engaged in the attempt to induce Democrats to change their residence from one township to another. This work has so far been chiefly confined to the country, districts, but from now on work will mostly be done in the cities and towns, where it is necessary only to change .from one precinct to another, often merely across a street, in order to lose a vote. All sorts of inducements are offered Democrats to move. Low rents, permanent work and other considerations are given and before they realize it many Democrats voluntarily disfranchise themselves. The scheme is an adroit one and is likely to prove highly successful if not headed off. Democratic papers and Democratic committeemen should put the public on guard. Every voter’s attention should be called to the fact that if he moves from one precinct to another after Oct. she will lose his vote. He should steadfastly refuse to listen to any argument favoring removal after that date, for it is nothing more than a scheme to prevent Democrats from voting. TO ELECT BEN HARRISON. Republican Plan to Forestall the Result In 1896. 4 While the Republicans are “not saying a word” about 1890 this fall there is every reason to believe that they regard the fight of this year as more likely to determine the presidential result than that of two years hence. In fact they are laying the ropes to that end. The rtational Republican committee, while apparently remaining quiescent in the present campaign, is in reality directing every detail. It is nofpaying. much attention to the election of state tickets but. is looking after the congressional delegations from every stat#. The idea is that in 1896 no candidate is likely to, have a majority in the electoral college’and that the election of president and vice-president will be thrown in to the house.

Orders have been sent out to the Indiana committee that at least seven representatives of the next house must be Republicans—a majority of the delegation. In both Indiana and Illinois the Republicans will make a tremenddfis effort to elect a majority of the representatives to congress. The Republicans are certain of electing a majority of representatives in 15 states, viz: Maine, Oregon and Vermont i already elected), New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, lowa and Washington. They have a strong pull in New Jersey. If the Republicans should carry the majority of the members of Connecticut, New York, Indiana, Illinois and New Jersey thfey would need four more states to give them a clear field in the house if the election of president is to be decided there. They would have Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Idaho, California, Nevada and several others to draw upon, and theyUiguTe that they can easily capture the four necessary states. ’ In view of these things the importance to Indiana Democrats of voting for their congressmen cannot be overstated. By voting for a Republican or Populist candidate for congresSßjhn this fall they are directly voting to put Ben Harrison back in the white house in 1897. The presidential fight is now on and Democrats in Indiana should not lose sight of that fact for a moment. _ - —— - : r Bear It In Mind. Just bear in mind as you go along that the payment of $379,000 of Indiana state bonds maturing April 1 makes a total reduction of state debt since last April of $710,000, an annual in terest saving of $21,300. And this must be set down to the credit of the present Democratic state'administration, and that, too, notwithstanding the fact that the levy for state purposes has been reduced. —Angola Herald; s ’* A Raise In Wage*. , Every reduction in the price of what any omThas to buy is an increase in the wages of the buyer. By the repeal of Major McKinley’s monstrosity the prices of hundreds of necessities of life are reduced. And every such reduction is a raise in the wages and earnings of every man, woman and child in the land.— Terre Haute Gazette.

•: Yon Can Scarcely tea-:- — rm — ~ — RIW ~ MR i UiOw i ■S -Xr? Rm iJbM M\ W Bn / |fX i/yi J lAw WHAT A VARIETY OF BARGAINS WE ABE OFFERING IN OUB MH-Sraer Clcmitc Sals I Goods are so Cheap and the Special Low Price we are giving now almost gives them away. But we must do some business whether we make any profit or not Goods must go at some Price YOU SAY “Sprang & True are most always busy.” Very true. We believe in pushing trade by giving Low Prices. Come in with the Cash and we will surprise you how many goods you can buv with a • DON’T FOBGET THE PEACE, SPRANG & TRUE. ' 1 ■■ — ' —' - ’ ' ~ \ BUGGIES. JR j I . s I-4KINGfc»I H . B r & 'I | RAILING. § I ? / WAGONS. \ Z— -

“DEMOCRATIC TIMES." Republican Testimony That They Are Here at Last. Business Reviving and Factories Resuming Everywhere. The Cincinnati Commercial Gaiett. and Indtauapoli* Journal, Though Both Harrluon Organs, Are Forced to Admit That Their Calamity Howls Are Absolutely Baseless—The Busiest Time in the History of Many of the Indiana Factories—The Revival Extends to All Part* of the Country—Fact* From the Record. A controlling interest in the Cincinnati Commercial-Oazetto was recently purchased by Steve Elkins in order that the paper might be used to boom Ben Harrison for president in 1896. That paper, however, is very much of a newspaper, and in spite of the calamity howling of its editorial columns permits its news columns to bear truthful testimony to the magnitude of the business revival under the operations of the new Democratic tariff law. In its Sunday issue The Commercial-Gazette under the heading: SIGNS OF THE TIMES. MILLS AND FACTORIES THAT HAVE BEEN IDLE ARE RESUMING ALL ALONG THE LINE, has these items: The Union ironworks at Erie, Pa., have resumed operations after a long idleness. The Gadsden (Ala.) carworks have resumed after a long period of idleness. Employment is given to several hundred men, Work has been resumed at the Pittsburg locomotiveworks, plant having been shut down for several weeks. All the old employes were returned to their places, at the old scale of wages. The large papermills at Valley Falls, R. 1., which have been for a long time idle, are to be converted into factories for "the manufacture of cotton wraps. Employment will be given to several hundred men. The Gaffney (S. C.) cottonmills are adding new machinery. Twelve thousand spindles and 300 looms wall be operated day and night, requiring several hundred operatives. The extensive silkmiljs at Carlisle, Pa., which have suspended work during the past eight, months are now running full time, with an increased force of men. Within two months over 9,000 men have resumed work in the mills, factories and workshops at Wheeling, W. Va., Martin’s Ferry and Bellaire, O, The major portion of these men are now receiving steady work for the first time in 14 months and aai air of prosperity is plainly visible. The largest leatherboard factory in the state will be put in operation at Townsend Harbor, Mass., about Oct. 1, giving employment to 1,000 men. From 15,000 to 20,000 workmen have lieen given steady employment at Braddock, Pa., during the past five weeks. The Youngstown (O?) Iron and Steel Roofing company is a new concern, which now has under construction a number of large buildings suitable for the manufacture of metal roofing, siding and ceiling. When completed, employment will be given to several hundred men. The Standard Wheel company, manufacturers of wagou and carriage wheels, expect to start up their several factories in Indiana by Oct. 1. Except the Terre Haute works, these plants have been idle for nearly two years. The puddling mills of the Old Dominion iron and steel works of Richmond, Va., have been put in operation and a large portion of the plant is now at work. The City Manufacturing company, New Bedford, Mass., started on Monday morning at the old scale of wages. This means that 350 of the operatives out on a strike were given employment, as the milltomploys-thisrnumber. ■ r--'. The citizens of New Lisbon, 0., have raised $52,000 of the $60,000 required to secure the location of a large tinplate manufactory, and the remaining portion is expected to be obtained shortly'. The concern, when completed, will give employment to several hundred workmen. Work has been resumed in every department of the New Haven Clock conipany’s works at New Haven, Conn., giving employment to 500 persons. The Spring Valley (Ills.) miners returned to work last Monday, after being idle nearly four months. Rents and coal will be reduced in proportion to the reduction that the men suffer under the Columbus scale. • The American Manufacturing company of Brooklyn announces that while bagging is now free of duty it will continue to pay the old scale of wages to its employes. The Morton tinplate works at Cambridge, 0., will be in operation by Dec. 15, giving employment to several hundred men. Conditions continue to improve at Nashville. During the week several factories put on extra men and it can now be safely said that there are no skilled workmen idle in Nashville. Pope, the bicycle man, is erecting a $750,000 plant for rolling steel tubing at Hartford, Conn. It will employ 2,000 men. IN INDIANA. Republican Testimony Regardi»g<the Industrial Boom. AT ELWOOD. The same issues.of the CommercialGazette contains also ample evidence of the industrial boom which has come to Indiana since the enactment of the Democratic tariff law. From the Com-mercial-Gazette’s Indiana dispatches the following points are taken: The labor and manufacturing outlook in Elwood is getting brighter every dav, and the busy hum of industry ib rapidly filling every house in the city with thrifty workingmen, who do much, toward filling the very air with prosperity. Elwood is putting down several miles of street paving. Moison &Weiskoppf s bottle works resumed with 200 hands. _ _

The McCoy lampohimney plant is rur ning at full capacity in all department! The canning factories are ip fu operation. / The Elwood hoop factory has n sinned. At the Elwood iron works the plant » running night and day and is constant!) adding nio#e machinery and puttingbf more men. The business is increasin' rapidly and the men employed ther earn good wages nnd lire prosperous The Holland radiator works, owned b the same company, are 60 days behinl in their orders, while the works are ruij ning at their fullest capacity. J The Diamond Platejflass factory* I just at the present turning out some t the largest and finest glans ever tume out in the United States. There ha been no disposition shown to reduce th wages of employee and it is believed n reduction will be mode. The factor is running at nearly full capacity, fu time. AT ALEXANDRIA. The trouble at the Lippincott Alexat dria glass factory has been adjusted an a full foroe of men resumed work yet terday. The preliminary arrangements for re sumption of work at the DePauw Plate glass works at Alexandria are makin; and in a few more days 400 men will g to work in this plant alone. The Alexandria Windowglass com pany has already begun operations. The DePauw plant resumed yester day and 300 men began to make glass. • The Kelly Ax Maifufacturing com pany is having a great rush of work an is increasing its payroll daily. All th smaller Alexandria factories nreruunin full time and business is on the increast The city is putting in a £60,000 water works plant. AT ORESTES. At Orestes 150 new residences are t be built at once and be ready for oocr pancy by Nov. 20. Factories are all ii Operation. AT ANDERSON. Mattier’s tinplate plant is surely sc cured. It will employ 800 men. The Anderson Iron and Bolt work will build a plant at onoe. The tota number of men that will be furnishei employment by new concerns by th first of the year will reach the 1,20 mark. This will, by July, be increase! to 1,800. The resumption of the Victor Gias works Wednesday and the action of th< North Anderton in putting factories and 2 into operation Saturday and th announcement that the Union would re snme Monday has had its effect in mann factoring circles, and things are begin ning to show a decided improvement. The Buckeye Manufacturing com pany’s plant will be put in operation th first -of the month, employing 800 m> chinists. The Butler Flintglass company is en larging its plant from a 7 to an 8-mil concern. The force of 150 workmei will be increased in proportion. There has been a decided improvemen in the labor conditions within the pasi two weeks. But few men we now loaf ing and they could, with proper exet tion, get employment. The American Wire Nail works, whicl moved here five years ago from Coving ton, Ky., and is now employing 700 men is being enlarged by the addition of a 6 by 100 feet galvanizing room. Work begins Monday on the buildim for the new tinplate mill, the new shove factory and the Riverview Agricultural works. All of these plants are to bedi partial operation bv the first of the vearf AT KOKOMO. The industrial situation in Kokomi continues.to be encouraging. The Bit works is operating at abou two-thirds capacity, and a fairly gooi prospect of full resumption soon. Ford & Donnelly, founders and boiler makers, have added another line. Thej are now manufacturing tinplate ma chinery, and supplying new mills a Anderson, Atlanta, Montpelier am other tinplate factories starting up They are also shipping goods to Pitts burg. The canning factories are in th ( height of the tomato packing season and 1,200 employes work day and night The Union Febroid mills, the pape mills and pulp mills continue to rui steadily. The American Strawboard mill, dowi for a year, will resume as soon as tin river rises sufficiently to give then water. The Kokomo Enameling works the largest in the Uhited States, is opcr ating full force, and with enoouraginj orders. The plateglass factory, since increas ing the force at the Elwood branch, ha; ceased Sunday operations, but continue: to run night and day. The close down of our factories las winter and spring cost the country sls, 000 in “aid to poor,” the idle working men having no recourse but to appeal t< the authorities for support of their fam ilies. The indications are more favora ble for the approaching winter. MORE REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. The Indianapolis Journal’* Review Make -a Great Showing. The Monday Journal of Indianapoli in its weekly review of the business sit nation has these items: A. A. Barnes, proprietor of the Udel woodenware works, has 195 persons em ployed, the largest number sinde th works were established. The Dugdale can manufactory is stil running to its full capacity, and this i to be its best business year since estal lished. The Jenney electric motor people ar now workifig more men than at an: previous time, and are behind in thei orders. E. Rauh & Son, manufacturers of fei tilizers, are pushing their business lx yond that of any former year. A larg per cent of their product is exported. Lumber dealers and planingmill me report their business as some better, bu by no means what it should be. Esp< cially in the wholesale business is th dullness felt. The Cleveland Wire Fence compan is arranging to put in a number moi braiding machines, increasing thei capacity to two tons a day. This flri has recently received orders for wii from Canada. The Atlas engine works are rit pushed, although doing a fair busine and have 850 men at work. Brown i Ketcham have 260 men on their paj rolls, as many as they have employed a any time in the last 18 months. Hetl 1 erton & Berner are more busy than a any time in some months in getting on iron structural work. I