Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1894 — Page 2

K 7' ' WTORI IS DOBS I If the Democrats of Indiana but Do Their Duty. The Republicans Arc Running From the Issues. Afraid to Dlucnns the Beal Questtong of the Day—The Hum of Factory Wheels Dr'.rnu the Shriek of the Calamity Howler—The People Alarmed by the Republican Threat to Repeal Wise Laws Placed on the Statute Books by 1 Democrats—Chairman Taggart Reviews the Situation. “Coming our way, sure!” This was the response made the other day by Hon. Thomas Taggart, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, to an inquiry as to the way things political were going in Indiana. “I am free to confess,” he continued, “that 60 or even 30 days ago the outlook was gloomy enough for the grand old Democracy of the state. Business was dull, the Republicans were jubilant and confident and Democrats seemed listless and uninterested. It did look then as if there was some reason for tlie boastful claims of our friends —the enqmy—that they would carry the state without much effort. “But that was some weeks ago. The situation has undergone a complete reversal. Instead of being doubtfid or despondent Democrats are now hopeful and confident. So complete has been the change that Inbwfeel absolutely certain that" we will carry the state by a substantial majority, and that Indiana will have as many Democratic congressmen in the next house as ire have in the present one. The legislature will be Democratic by a safe and sufficient majority, insuring the retention on the statute books of all those wise and beneficial laws which have been placed there by Democratic legislatures in the past. Reasons For Confidence. “There are a good many reasons for this changed aspect of affairs,” said Mr. Taggart in reply to further questions. “First and foremost among these may be placed the business revival which has followed so closely on the enactment of the new tariff law, and of which the evidences are to be seen on every hand. Early in the campaign the Republicans were charging all the hard times to the attitude of the Democrats on th" tariff question. Since then, however, the people have had time to think. They have come to a realization of the fact that the panic of last year and' the continuing depression were but the legitimate., climax of the system of legislation which the Republicans, so long intrenched in power in the national government, had fastened upon the people. ■ -“The people, too, are learning that freer trade, brought about be reforming ; the tariff laws, is doing.all that Democrats have claimed it would do in the past. • It is setting in motion the machinery of the factories, giving employment to tens and hundreds and thousands of people who had been idle under the system of protection, is cheapening the price of the necessaries of life and increasing the price of farm produce. It is putting commercial i travelers on the road again and filling I the stores of the merchants with customers. These things are rapidly answering the ‘calamity howling’of the Republicans and thus rendering useless their sole argument. “These facts serve to remind the people of -what a i-ft urn of th* Republican party to power in the. mu ional'government would mean. Ami th*- people don’t wish a return to Re publicanism andßepublican hard times. Then again the ptopie.'are reviewing the work ..•>!' congress and finding it good. They find in it fulfillment of the party pledges to conserve tlie people’sQnterests, to smash ■ the trusts aud nr. lopolies and to reduce the national expenditures, which had grown to such enormous proportions under Republican rule. They begin to realize that their only hope of good government lies in the retention of the De- ’ mocracy in power. These reflections are causing a ret firn to their party allegiance of all those who, through personal disappointments, had become disaffected or apajhetic. V The People Are Thinking. “Another thing which- is aiding the Democracy is the attitude of the Republican party on matters of state policy. Democratic legislatures have made a wonderful record in placing good laws on the statute books and in taking bad ones off. Tin- Republicans have very unwisely chosen merely to stand in op-' position to the Democracy’s attitude. They have pledged, themselves to repeal all the good Democratic legislation of the past aiid this threat has thoroughly alarmed the people. The masses are pleased with the labor laws, the election laws, the school book laws, the tax laws, the laws governing the charitable institutions of Indiana, and they are not ready to part with them. The aggressive declaration by the Republicans of their intention to repeal these laws has aroused the people and has to, improve Demo- ■ w cratic prospwfe. “We are getting convincing proof of the improved Democratic prospects every day. Where a few weeks ago we were uiigble to,. draw crowds : to our • meetings we now having difficulty in findiiig enough .to meet the demands or sufficient hall room to accommodate the crowds which turn out to hear them. Everywhere the interest of Democrats is aroused to a high pitch, the ranks are closing up and we are presenting a united, solid front to the enemy. “Again I may say that victory is within our grasp. All we need now is conscientious, painstaking work all along the line and we will sweep the state next month. The Republicans are on the defensive now; they have sneaked away from every issue presented; have refused to meet them on the stump qr through the press, and .are only hoping to win the day by the aid of the taxdodging corporations, and the apathy of Democrats. They understand thoroughly that they are in the minority in Indiana and that if the Democrats •’ .turn out at the polls they are hopelessly beaten. The Democracy has the victory won if it will only take advantage of the situation. . f

With INDIANA ORATORS. Pithy, Pgrtinent Point. Muds by Demonrntio Speakers. If there is anything it this world that is settled forever it is that a high protective tariff for the purposes of protecting classes can never again prevail in America. —Charles L. Jewett. In all the great traits of character, in all the elements of manhood of the world’s famous people, our president is the greatest exponent of manhood in the world today.—John Gil Shanklin. If you will take the statutes of our state and canvass them as I have done yon will find that every law in existence today upon the subject of labor was en-, acted by Democratic legislatures.— George W. Cooper. I have that confidence in the intelligence and justice of our people, that they will again confide the destiny of their state into the hands of a party that has been the party of progress and reform in Indiana and that, has proven it caivbe trusted.—Claude Matthews. There is a useful and delightful destiny connected with the Democracy. The good angel of destiny has saved our party through a hundred years. Our party has been saved that the masses of our people may prosper, and that the cause of the common people may triumph.—E. V. Brookshire. The Republican party in power is a pestilence. In Harrison’s administration there was one long, ceaseless riot in the expenditure of the people’s money. The treasury was looted and a “billiondollar congress.” under the leadership of Thomas B. Reed, saddled upon a taxburdened land obligations which constituted a monumental infamy.—W. R. Myers. While the continued and enlarged use of silver as a money metal is demanded by every true bimetallist, it is in the interest of tariff reform and freer trade with all the commercial nations of the world that we should have a dollar, in substance and in fact, first will be accepted as such by all with whom we trade. Any other policy would be suicidal, and the bimetallist only cuts his throat with a silver knife. —State,Senator R. F. Stuart. When the Pinkerton detectives, two years ago, invaded Pennsylvania under i the employment of Carnegie & Frick to suppress the demands of labor and shocked rhe conscience of the nation with their bloody deeds the workingmen of Indiana rejoiced that by reason of ' Democratic legislation the importation 1 of foreign assassins to crush out their demands in their state was made impossible, The danger had been foreseen and long before forestalled. —Senator Kern. It somehow turns out this year that the men whom our Populist friends have nominated for congress in this state are .men wjip have ‘all their lives held office, or all their lives have wanted to hold office, by the favor of one or the other of the old parties, and their fierce , denunciation of their former friends is : t tinted by the suspicion that these candidates might still be under political bondage had the supnly of offices or ' promises held out.—Congressman McNagny. Thus during the four years of the Harrison administration the diminution of .the public revenues reached the figure of $58,09t;00Q. And here we have a ; comparison which, teaches a lesson: An j increase of the revenues under a Democratic administration- of $50,000,000 and a decrease under the of j the Republican party of $58,000,000. > Here is a showing of expenditures during the four years of Republican admin- j i-tration under Mr. Harrison: The first • year, 3,000,000-;'' the. second year, | -■ .55,000,000; .the third year. $345,000'.- > i offhand the last year, $373,000,000. The I -arplus during the first year of the Har- I ri-ou adinini-tration f-11 to $37,000,000; 'he third year to $17,050,000. and the i>t year to s2,ooo,ooo.—Congressman Bynum. SAVED TO PARENTS. A Vast Reduction In the Cost of School Books. The most substantial reform enacted I by the Democratic legislature of Indiana | is the new school book law which broke ; the power of the. American school book [ trust and placed the books used in the I common schools of the state at a figure > that is reasonable and just. The fol- j lowing is* a Comparative statement of the cost of books under the reign of the I book trust with that of the new school i book law. It speaks for itself: ■WKW. OLD. ' First Reader .....$ Ju $ 2*) , ■■rcond Reader 15 -30 Till nF Reader 25 45 F ejrth header 3tl 60 : . Fifth Reader 40 -75 E > nientarv Arithmetic., 35 to I t emplate Aritnmetie 45 80 i .Eii mentary G ography 30 75 1 Complete Geography; 75 14') Si-illimr Books . 10 20 Primary Physiologies... 30 75 Intermediate Grammar..... 20 4'l t' mple.te Grammar. 4') 80 Crjited States lii-fi>ry............. 65 1.25 ; History Repeats Itaelf. History repeats itself.. After one°or | two encounters with ex-Govcrnbr Gray, j when both were holding joint political discussions, Major Galkins found it convenient to fail in h< alth. Mr. Gwen succumbed after one engagement with his Democratic opp<»nent, Mr. Myers. Merely a coincidence, of course. —■ Fort ! Wayne Journal. Just Getting a Taste. The Democratic boom is fairly- on and 'will sweep the ponntry in November,. This may be thought an optimistic view now, but it will be verified. The people are just getting a taste of free, trade and the prosperity Which is already' following. Revolutions never go backward. —Frankfort Crescent. i . i Examination of Havemeyer. “Which do you regard as most favor- * able to the sugar trust, the McKinley ' law or the senate bill?” ’ “I‘regard the McKinley law much ’ better for the sugar trust, of course.” Not a Homestead Tariff. 5 We hear of no bloody massacres like I that of Homestead as a result of the . new tariff law. —Evansville Courier. — - One Saving. |T In the cost of woolen goods alone the f Democrats save the people $141,000,000. —Huntington Democrat. — MObif . . ' ' -

••foil Can Scarcely G»-:-I I Rm \I fej WHAT A vJaBIETY OF '’BARGAIN S WE ABE OFFEBING IN OUB Mii-Siioer Clearance Sale 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 you how many - goods you &*in buv with a •• DON’T FOBGET THE PLACE, SPRANG & TRUE. 11 '■ '■ : 'z-’ ■ . - " V BUGGIES. _ at 7 g S H H E & I | RAILING. | | S’ feL . /WAGONS. \ 1 <- . • - . -awM,

“DEMOCRATIC TIMES.” Republicans * Apywilled by the Business Revival. Their Organ Refuses Longer to Print tlie News. Hut NeverthfileM the Boom In Manufacturing Industrie. Goes Merrily | Along — Thousand, of Workingmen Once More Employed — Dnan.werable Argument. For the Calamity Shrlekera to Meet—Republican Testimony Prove, the Return of Prosperity. w “Democratic times” has become a phrase which Republicans no longer delight to use. In fact they don’t like to hear anything about “Democratic times” these days. “Democratic times” are right at hand and they are just what everybody wants — prosperous . times. When the Indiana Republicans opened ■ their campaign . they couldn’t talk long enough or loud enough about the disasters that would follow on the enactment of the tariff law. But a Democratic tariff law was enacted and immediately business began to revive in all quarters. The revival was not a spasmodic movement, either, but has continued until trade in every line may now be said to be booming. For weeks, in fact ever since the passage of the new tariff bill, the Indianapolis Journal has on every Monday morning been refuting calamity statements of its editorial columns by publishing a department of industrial news treating of the business situation in In- ; dianapolis and vicinity. This depart- . ment has been carefully prepared but I evidently has not passed beneath the supervision of the political editor. Week in and week out this department has told of reviving trade, of factories start- I ing up, of extensions being made in every line of business. This depart- • ' ment has been to the party managers | what the traditional red rag is to the j sanguinary bull. They have labored with the management of Tlie Journal to suppress the department or “cook” the I news so that it would give a semblance of truth to the calamity howling of the orators and organs. The managers have protested and complained and threatened. But still the news in the industrial department of The Journal has continued to herald the return of prosperity. At last, however, the state central committee has triumphed; the news in- , stincts of The Journal management has i given way to the political desires of the I proprietors and the industrial depart- | ment of The Journal, which has been one of its leading and best features for j many yeare, fails tn trppear this wwk. I It is also to be obseiwed that Repnb- | lican papers all over the state, presumably by the direction of the state pentral committee, are giving no prominence whatever to anncmictnients of resnmp- I tions of factories and other evidences of t the restoration of business activity. The action of the Indianapolis Journal i in suppressing this valuable department' the paper is the best evidence possiLle that Indiana has at last fallen on “Democratic times;” and “Democratic times” means prosperous times—means Democratic victory in November. REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. Manufacturing In.titution. Running: tn Their Full Capacity. But the fact that -Republican papers in Indiana refuse to print, news of the revival of business doesn’t prevent the revival from going right ahead, just the ■ same, and a few Republican papers are ‘ honest enough to tell their readers so. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette in its Sunday issue has the following items of interest in connection with the resumption of business: In General. The Chattanooga plow works will enlarge its plant and double its force of 250 men. The Globe woolen mills, Utica, N. Y., resumed with 30 more hands than for- ’ merly. Mill operatives are looking forward to an advance in wages at the North Adams Manufacturing company, whose mill is at Bray ton ville, Mass., and which manufactures high grade woolens. A reduction of 10 per cent was made last March. The manufacturers of Chicago are gradually employing more men and are slowlv getting back into the condition in which they were prior to the hard times. It is certain works will be built at Hiawatha, Kan. The Pennsylvania steel works, Steelton, resumed with a full forSe in all departments. A new bicycle factory of large proportions is soon to be erected kt Weatherly, Pa., and when completed employment will be given to several hundred men. The Cleveland Twist Drill company, Cleveland, 0., is now running full capacity and 10 hours a day, with an increased force of men. Pullman is to have another formidable competitor in the Goodwin Car Manufacturing company, which has just been incorporated at Des Moines, la., with a|i authorized capital stock of - $2,000,000. Employment will be given to 3,000 men. The silk industrial awakening is being strongly felt in Allentown, Pa., where the Adelaide mills, employing more than 1,000 hands, has restored the old rate of wages, which were reduced last winter. Another silk mill is in course of erection. The Barbour threadmill has recently resumed operations with several hundred hands and increased wages. The Montour Steel and Iron company of Danville, Pa., is still.running all departments of its works to the fullest capacity The foundry, machine and blacksmith shops are busily engaged working full time. The Lima (O.) Steel Casting company opened its new works on Oct. 1 and gave employment to about 60 men. The Lakeside nailmill, Hammond, Ind., started up last Monday on full time. , The 25 potteries in East Liverpool, O; , ■ are all being operated with greater’ activity than at any time probably in their jiistory. z —

The Altna Standard iron and steel works, at Bridgeport, contemplates erecting an additional galvanizing works. The Wheeling (W. Va.) Pottery company is turning out more ware than anv time in its history, and the Warwick pottery, at the same city, is away behind with its orders. September was the best month of the year with the West Virginia glassworks at Martin’s Ferry. In Indiana. Greentown, near Kokomo, has two neAv factories in operation —a pressedbrick works and a tableglass factory, the latter employing 200 hands. All Kokomo factories are busy, and there are no idle men in town. The Mcßeth lanipchimney works at Elwood has put on its night force, now running day and night. There is no thought of a cut in wages. At the McLoy factory, Elwood, lampchimneys are being turned out at a rate never before equaled in the history of the factory. The Elwood steam forge works has started up with 300 hands. The Elwood windowglass works has started with a full force. The iron works and radiator plants at Elwood report increased activity. The Diamond Plateglass plant at Elwood is working fullhanded. The new glass factory, to employ 150 hands, Ut Windfall, is completed. • At Alexandria the Depauw glassworks started Monday with 300 hands. The glass strikers in the Lippincott works, Alexandria, gained their point. Every windowglass plant in Anderson is in operation today for the first time in the past nine months. The wiremaking record at the American wire nail works of Anderson was broken last week. During the six days’ run of 24 hours each 925 tons of finished wire were turned out. The plant is in full operation, and has 700 men on the payroll. Ground is being cleared this week and excavations made for the new Wright shovel works in North Anderson and ; the Riverview Agricultural works in Irondale. i Three hundred pressers at Ball Bros. ’ fruit jar factories at Muncie resumed work Thursday, but hot at a reduction of wages. They have been idle several ! months, and the firm several times announced that they could not resume at last year’s wages, but they did. On last Monday morning the Indiana I Iron coihpany started all departments of the big mill, and now this company has over 700 names on the payroll. This is the concern that moved from Lancaster, 0., to Muncie. JUST TO THE SOLDIERS. Tlie Grand Army <iazetto Praixei the AdminUtratlon. This administration, and Judge Lochren’s bureau especially, has done every- > thing for the veterans that honor and [ justice demanded or could ask. If it set i aside some unworthy pensioners, it gave I the-best of reasons for so doing. These reasons were not hearsay but official {.government records showing that the I grossest favoritism in rating and rerat-. I ing hall been practiced by the Tanners, Raums, Squires and others, and the action taken in those cases should have I been approved by the Grand Army encampments, nbt condemned, as showing I “hostility to Union veterans.” Wc confidently predict that the ad--1 ministration of the pension bureau under Comrade Lochren will stand forth , in history as one of the wisest and fairest and most just; that it will never be I smirched as were those two that preceded it, and that so long as such official action is coiitinned at Washington it will be deemed an honor to bb on the pension roll of the Union.—Grand Army THE FIRST A. P. A. He Was Benedict Arnold of Unsavory Memory. ! When General Benedict Arnold, lured I by British offers, sought to betray into the hands of the enemy the important strategic point which he commanded, and fled to their lines, he addressed a proclamation to the officers and soldiers of the continental army in which ho holds up to reprobation the conduct of the body governing the republic, saying: And should the parent nation (England) cease her exertions to deliver you what security remains to you, even for the enjoyment of the consolations of that religion for which your fathers braved the ocean, the heathen and the wilderness? Do you know that the eye which guides this pen lately saw your mean and profligate congress at mass for the soul of a Roman Catholic in purgatory and participating in the rites of a church against whose antiChristian corruptions your pious ancestors would have witnessed with their blood? — Benedict Arnold, Oct. 20, 1780. TAXING GREENBACKS. What the Failure 8o to Do Has Cost Indiana. By reason of the Republican law exempting greenbacks and other sorts of money frouj taxation, to say nothing of the cumulative method of greenback taxdodging, the state of Indiana alone ; has lost, since the laws went into effect, the enormous sum of $6,630,000 1 in taxes. And this enormous steal was upheld and sanctioned by Republican administrations, and would have continued if the Democrats had not got complete control of the government, and especially if Congressman Cooper had not secured its . repeal by his persistent efforts. The repeal of this law will save on an average $221,000 in l|F gitimate taxes annually. — Columbus Herald. DO NOT MOVE, If You Do You Will Probably Loge Your Vote. Democrats should make it a point not to change their place of residence until after election- day. The election law of Indiana requires that a voter must have resided previous to the election day six months in the state, 60 days in the township and 80 days in the precinct in which he is to vote. It will, therefore, be apparent that if a man has changed his place of residence from one township to another since Sept. 5 he has lost his vote, and that if he changes his residence after Oct. 5 he will also lose his vote. Democrats should therefore make it a point not to change their place of residence till after election day.