Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1896 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT K- ■■■'■>' . v •■ PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR. sl„>U PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered nt the I’ostofllee at DeeatnrTl ndianii as Second Class Mall .Matter. THURSDAY, SEPT. 17. OUR TICKET. Fort PRESIDENT WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN OF NEBRASKA FOR VICE-PRESIDENT ARTHUR SEWALL OF MAINE ■ n • ST ATE TICK LT. * Governor. . 11 I'.Sld'elj Lieutenant-Gov lohn C. Lawler Aupelate Judges-First district. Edwin Taylor; second dist.. F. E t.nvin; third Theodore Davis; fourth dist., Oalando. Lotz, fifth dist., G.E Ross. Secretary of StateS. M. Ralston Auditor of Si ate Joseph T. tanning Treasurer pf state Morgan ( handler Attorney-General , «J. G. McNutt Reporter Supreme Court... Henry Warrum Superintendent Sisite Statistician Downey For Congress JOHN R. BRUNT. For Joint Represent at ive -Jay. Adams and Blackford. JOHN I’. McGEATH. For Joint Representative-Jay and Adams. JOHN T. KELLEY. Tor Prosecuting Attorney DAVID E. SMITH. For Auditor. NOAH MANGOLD. For Treasurer. JONAS NEUENSCHWANDER. ' For Sheriff. PETER P. ASHBAUGHER. For Surveyor. <r WILLIAM E. FULK. For Coroner, DR. CHARLES S. CLARK. For Assessor. ELIAS CRIST, '• For Commissioner —First District, JOSEPH E. MANN, For Commissioner —Second District, SAMUEL DOAK. POLITICAL CALENDAR. Clark J. Lutz and David Eley at Berne, Friday evening, September 18. John F. Snow at Prane school house, Blue Creek township, Thursday evening, September 24. Friday evening, September 18, Dent school house, Root township, William H. Reed. Friday evening, September 18, Williams, John T. France. J. T. Kellev and J. F. Snow, one mile west of Henpeck, school district No. 6, Kirkland township, Thursday evening, September. 23. J. W. Younge of Fort Wayne, Indiana, at Decatur, Monday October, 5. When people talk to you about a fifty cent dollar, .agree then and there to buy all he can cart to you at that price. The delivery will be a long time ehming. - They call us a party of repudiation because. we want living prices tor our produce, and because we want the government to pay the interest on its bond* in silver, the same kind of money that pays, the laborer and producer of wealth. “As a result of toe war, corporation* have been enthroned and an era of corruption will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by playing on the prejudices of the people until ill wealth .is concentrated in a few hinds and- the re - public is destroyed. Before God I fear more for my country now than, when /n the midst oi war.”— Abraham Lincoln. . “I am For th® largest user of silver in th*; curre.ncv'bf the country. I would not dishonor, it. I would give-it credit and- honor with gold, I would make no discrimination I would, utilize both metals as money and discredit neither. I want .the double standard,”—McKinley ... in Congress, June 11, 1890 Ibe above would not read veiy well in McKinley’s speeches of the present day. He says he now wants the single standard and that standard : must be gold. Then' he says he would not dishonor silver; now he calls it fifty cent dollars, repudiation, &c. Then he said he would make no discrimination; now he • • wdiild discriminate by r; fa- jig fr«r ■■ ■ . •* f ’ i - o.‘i<l '*> .' OJ Consistency, where art thou?' ; '■ ■

■ - > -— == I McKinley’s Brazen Duplicity. I — The following is a verbatim extract from the address of * William McKinley jr., at the IJngoln day banquet, in Me- ■ mortal hidl, Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1891. “Din ing all of Grover Cleveland’s years at the head of the government he was dishonoring one of our precious metals ~ one of our ou n great product, discrediting silver and enhancing the price of gold. He endeavored even before his inauguration to oilice, lo stop the coinage of silver dollars, and afterwards and io the end of his administration, persistently used his power to that end. He was determined Io contract the circulating medium and demonetize dne of the coins of commerce, limit the volume of money among the people, make money scarce and therefore dear. He would have increased the value of money and diminished tlie value of everything oelge—money the master—everything else the servant. He was not thinking of the poor then. He had left their side. He was not standing forth in their defense. Cheap coals, cheap labor and dear money. The sponsor and promoter of these, professing to stand guard oyer the-welfare of the poor and lowly! Was there ever more inconsistency or reckless assumption. What has changed McKinley’s views on silver? 1,1111 ■on-imi H-rem wrwrWIJWWI—R

History in all agescan be sought in vain to prove that the common people—the struggling masses—of any laud had ever declared for a goid standard. —W. J. Bryan. Bear in mijid that when our money ■ producing sections are bringing forth silver and gold to be turned into money, other sections will prosper and other interests will be employing men who will be able to buy more of the farmers’ products. The Journal also told last week how Harvey, the great silver apostle of Chicago, took 82,500 in gold out of a bank and put it into a safety deposit vault. This is the bulk and kind ot argument the republican press are using to uphold the gold and single standard. There is not a word of truth in it, but they use it just the same. All silver adherents should investigate anything of the kind before swallowing. A certain candidate on the republican county ticket stated on the streets of Decatur last week, that he was in favor of a double standard, that he wanted silver restored to the place itoccupied before 1873. When twitted about the matter he stated that the republican platform so declared. He evidently had readjthe republican platform of 1890 or 1892, and not that of 1896. Well, we can’t blame Imp very much,for he simply slopped over with the truth. He simply spoke his convictions. The Journal 'ast week devoted considerable of their campaign space in picturing the lawlessness of Arkansas about election time. The 70,000 majority there seemed to hurt real badly. He told of how the; lampooned the “nigger” and Yankee, they having w ded through buJykets of blood, and ’hen for fear ot death were compelled to vote the democratic ticket. The tragic de scription by the Journ 1 would lay to shame the manly effort*, of Diamond Dick. The prevailng truth, however, discloses the fact that Arkansas sjnee 1891 has voted under s the Australian voting system, whichis practically the same as that applied in this state. That discriminations were made in She Arkansas, election is untrue as well as the many peanut newspaper accounts to the contrary. On October 14, 181)1, when Secretary Foster under Hsrnson, ordered the su l ' -treasurer at B >ston to pay gold for greenbacks and “com” notes for redemption. Then is when the raid on the treasury began and has been kept up ever Since. Up • to that Mate only 834,000,000 in i gold had been drawn from* the Uni--I ted States 'rrejd-.ur.v sinFe January .*' “ ■ . I, 1879, r a Little more than voar. Between Jamurv -1, 1891, and .October 1, .1895, the t withdraw is of gold were 8351, r 000,0 |! 0. fti the Ijist eleven months j the withibj!b of gold amounted i to more ‘han- one hundred millions t additional. sJOre than this eupi. a was put,intp the treasury Dy rhe 1 last bond J^sut, and ’he reserve is 7 a. now as low .as it. was a year ag-, ? not counting twenty millions of - gold loaned by New York bankers 1 so as to bolster up the treasury and s prevent another bond issue before eUnpnn, And bo the gold grabbing I goes uu- under a gold standard ———------ ■ _—z—x

The goldbug press with their millions of corruption money, grow ; conscious s<'me times and allude to ; the vast suras of money contributed to the democratic campaign fund, by the silver mine owners. In one instance they talk of N. A. Clarke who owns a vast silver mine i-n Montana. This nune now turns out to be a copper mine with the Rothschflds as owners. They simply lied again. That’s ail. These two metals gold and silver, have traveled side by side from the beginning of time. The record of human history does not go back beyond it. They have varied, sometime one and then the other the higher; but they have gone on, gold the money of the rich, silver the money ot the poor; the one to measure acquired wealth, the other to measure the daily necessities of life.—From a speech by John Sherman in the U. S. Senate, April 10, 1876. “Silver is the money of the constitution as much as gold. The people will have silver for money and fight for it, and the contest will not end until it has its proper place in the money system in the country. The people are too intelligent to permit values to be measured by gold alone, the production which is relatively diminishing in the world. Tnis would make money dearer and property cheaper. Silver should be used a‘ well as gold, and the trouble will be that there is not too much of it, but too little.”—Senator Steve Elkins before the lepublican club June 19, 1894. You were right then Steve, and the fight is now on, but whgre are you in the fight? On the other side. “Every man who is opposed to the use of siver coin as a part of the legal currency of the country, I disagree with. Every Htan who is opposed to the actual legal use of both metals, I disagree with. 1 would endow the two metals with equality and make coinage free.”—James A Garfield in House ot Representatives. v KBMKMaMMMNMMBIMaMCaM It is not a matter ot politics to be considered this year. If you are a farmer and can’t sell the products of your labor an<t toil, for a sufficient amount to cover your actual needs and those of your family, then it matters little to you what party predominates. If, however, one of those parties promise to increase the volume of circula’ing money, the result of which will mean better prices for what you raise and produce." This country has-been under a single gold standard for a long number of years, during which time the farm products have gradually . decreased until now scarcely suffi•; cient can bo realized to pay for the. labor on same. A’ continuation aiorig this same line/ means utter ruin and poverty for every one engaged in ii. I' moans that in a few more years nearly every acre of i soil will 1X bwne f by corporations. WhcriAbut time arrivcH peace, plentv yfd h'>np'ineKS to the.multitudes will be known no more. Political independence must be asserted now or the evil hour will be upon us, and our rights and privileges thwarted, file..addition of silver as one of our measuring-, standards of money, will bring the needed money to make prosperity. We all need the stimulant. A vote for

THOSE ROAD RECEIPTS. The township trustees, ora rtapjor portion of them, met the commissioners while that body was in session Monday, and demanded the money that was due their township road fund, as was shown by the investigating committee’s report, which was published iu the Democrat, two weeks ago. They neither had the money, a voucher tor it, ror .an order or warrant of any kind wiih which to demand it. The commissioners authorized Auditor I Brandybeny to issue orders on the treasurer for the amounts shown to be due, and with these, each die trustees each made their personal demands on the treasurer for theit ' payment. They were each met with a refusal of payment, on the grounds that the road fund, upon i which the warrants were drawn, was : exhausted and paid out, and that no I funds were at his demand to pay ; them. This brings the matter into court. The law seems plain that it is the duty of the attorney general of the state or the prosecuting attorney of the county —who is by virtue,of the office an officer of the state to look after the same. The attorney general will be in the city today, and the whole matter will be laid before him and his opinion and advice sought as to the proper way and manner to proceed. Many of these road receipts now in dispute, were raised and some issued for amounts in excess of wbat they should have been. In one sense of the word this makes a shortage, and suit will be instituted against Treasurer Bolds, to makegood this shortage. He has refused to make it good now on the ground that he had paid it once. His liability in this regard is just a matter of law, and will be fully tested in the courts. It is safe to predict too, that this suit will throw light enough upon the matter to show who is guilty of the criminalties of raising those road receipts. The people of Adams county can fest assured that whoever perpetrated the criminal assault will pay dearly for it. The democrats the state over have the reputation of showing no partiality to any offense of law, be it civil or criminal. In this case the commissioner acted with promptness, and upon their just knowledge of any irregularities, they appointed a committee to investigate the matter, and that the -bommitte made a thorough examination, all of which was made a matter <-f record, and can be seen at the auditor’s office by any taxpayer In Adams couii'.y, and 'shbuid it have been the commissioner’s or committees’s duty to have proceeded with a suit to .recover the money, it would have been done immediately after the report• was made public. Some criticisms have been cast on the committee for not directly implicating some one in their report. This, however would have been an impossibility and s -mething over which the committee had no jurisdiction whatever. It is the duty of a court to determine the guilt or innocence of any person, and that is what will be done in this case A grand jury investigation will l|>e necessary, and we hoptr. they will leave no stone unturned that wHI throw any light on such an important matter. Il I ■■■■■■ I ■■ ■ I ■■■ Maine at its state election Mon day, elected a republican governor by a large plurality, but it means nothing so far as having any bearing on the national election in November. The vote was badly split up, they having both a gold and silver party .candidate. The silver republicans in the state voted th,.e republican state ticket, but in Novenib'er you may register 4 them for Bryan. Besides; this, the i gold elements in that part of the country are largely in the majority, and we expect nothing from them. The higher the plurality in Maine, the more determined will be the common people in the west and south to elect Bryan and the cause of silver. President-elect Bryan was greeted daily by at least 200,000 people during his trip through the south. Still the gold bug press . . <l,,z fTTze i" dyte/y.

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The Maine election is full of demonstrations that the east is solidly against the west. Every voter in November should remember this fact and register himseelf accordingly. The conspiracy of the bolting gold bug democrats m this state was immediately upon by; Governor Matthew®, much to the latter’s credit. The entire so called national democratic McKinley wing will work as (hard to d< ft&t Bryan as any republican organization in the country. The masses of people, especially .the poorer classes, should all disengage themselves from the classic party of republican goldbugism. Some mighty interesting .silver meetings have been held during the ’ past week. Saturday night four meetings yvere held and glowing accounts are reported from each one ■ of them. At Pleasant Mills Judge ' J. R. Bobo and A. P. Beatty talked to a crowd numbering several hun- ' dreds, and while it ’is the republican stronghold of Adams, the meetl mg was chuck full of enthusiasm for silver. Judge Bobo made one of his vigorous speeches being fol--1 lowed by Mr. Be-atty. Dr. Vizzard presided at the meeting. At Beuna ' Vista David E. Smith, candidate for prosecutor in the twenty-Mxth ’ district, held an out door meeting, ' which was attended by nearly a 1 thousand Bryan enthusiasts. Dave spoke for two hours, and every 1 person »present gave evident ex- ’ pressions of approval and satisfaction. Richard K. Erwin filled an appointment at Geneva and was ‘ greeted with another outpouring of ’ people, seldom seen at a political meeting. John T. Kelley spoke in ’ Jefferson township and he also ’ spoke to a larger number of his old friends and neighbors. The meet- ’ ings were all largely attended and the enthusiasm displayed was unpar i alelled. This is the pleasing and ) gratifying manner in which the silj ver craze—so dedicated by the gold i bugs—is dying out. It is gratifying indeed. Let it die some more.

J. n. 8080, i Attorney a.t Law DECATUR, INDIANA. At a meeting of the democratic state central committee last Thursday, Sterling R. Holt resigned as ; chairman and the Hon.' Parks M. ' Martin of Owen county, was appointed to fill the vacancy. The ‘ new chairman is a gentleman of ! ability, a pMititian of note, and a . ! silver follower in the strongest 1 sense of the word. Before he had i been in office two hours he issued > an address to the democrats of the I state as well as others interested in ‘ the cause a* issue. He appointed ■ Governor Matthews, Mayor Taggart, Allen W. Clark, J. E. Lamb and James Murdock as a campaign committee, and business will begin M right at the committee headquarters. This change is timely and we expect and predict one of the most i progressive campaigns Indiana has witnessed for many years. Large quantities of campaign literature is now being sentout and organization where needed is being made. Everything looks bright and glowing, and the biggest kind of a democratic > C? o victory is predicted. Every derooI crat in Adams county should roll un his sleeves and work from now L until election day for a Bryan victory. Let’s he up and doing. ’ rMrs, W.V. T. Miller of Portland, 1 who is State Chancelor of the Daughters of America, is visiting . Mrs.’J. N. Fnstoe, who is assistant r" - 1 ■ State Chancelor of the lodge. Barney Kalverisky went to 1 Fort Wayne Wednesday, to begone ' over Thursday, that day being the Jewish Fast Day. He will fast 1 twenty-four hours. Barney says I 1 he has not missed observing this I day since he was eleven years old. This week seems to be a hard one ' % I on the pool rooms. John Harting closed the doors of his pool and I card room over Knapke’s saloon and today John Brown closed his place on the corner of 1 Monroe and Third streets. We - don’t know whether the cause , hard times or the W. C. T. U. ■ ", . ,