Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1896 — Page 5

WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS. Ed. Democrat; —1 notice in the letter sent oi|t by Hooper and Aih drews that these gentlemen (excu-e the tertn) seem to be much worked up over what they term a criticism of the supreme and federal courts in the Chicago platform. Now, I will not accuse these gentlemen ot , willful misrepresentation for the reason that they are wholly ignorant of the history of former platforms, even of their own party. Now they seem to think that it is an outrage to question the decision of any court. If this is true, why is it that cases are appealed from state courts including the supreme court to the United States supreme court? I will not accuse these gentlemen of being lawyers, but m the course of hum in experience 1 suppose they know that such things ate done. But to return, let me dig up a little history which will no doubt startle these gentlemen. In 1800 there was a plank in the republic mi platform reading as follows: “We bnqnd the recent reopening of the African slave trade, under cover of our National Hag, aided by perversions of judicial power as a crime against humanity and a burning shame to our country and age.” This plank had reference to the dread Scott decision and was the great topic of discussion tn the campaign and no republican speaker or paper of any prominence failed to denounce it in unmeasured terms For the benefit of these two great apostles we will quqte from a speech of William M Dunn, one of the foremost republicans in Indiana at that time: “A decision which claims for slavery the highest ngh’s >of property, and that it can exist m our national territories in despite of the nation’s will, and in defiance of the will of the people inhabiting the territories—a decision which carried to its logical results, in fact, places slavery Under national pro tection in every state and territory of the union—a decision so inconsistent with the previous course of judicial authority, and I may say so startling to the national conscience, has united and compacted the elements of opposition to this administration.” Come,now, Messrs Hooper and Andrews, I challenge either of you to produce language of Mr. Bryan or any democratic speaker that compares with the above in severity. But this is not all. Perhaps these gentlemen do not know Mr. Dunn, so I will quote from another prominent republican of whom I suppose they have at least heard. It is from a speech delivered by Oliver P. Morton and printed in the Indianapolis Journal, June 13, 1860. Here it is: “The democracy has great new born zeal for decisions of the supreme court and will even endorse extra judicial ones, and is quite ready to guarantee any that may be made in the future. Well, it was always so. The same supreme court once decided the Alien and Sedition law constitutional. Mr. Jefferson said it was not, and beat down the supreme court and its decision, and was elected president. The same supreme court twice decided a United States bank c.mstitional, Gen. Jackson said it was not; the General put down the bank and its two decisions, and the democracy said Jefferson and Jackson were right, and repudiated the court. No sooner, however, does this same court give a practical opinion in favor of the pet principles of democracy, the nigger, thau the democracy cry out. “Great is the supreme court —when it decides all must bow.” Oh! say, gentlemen, don’t yon wish you hadn’t spoke? Go look up and see what Lincoln said in his inaugural address on this question. Great heavens! gentlemen; after such an array of criticisms against the supreme court by the party you represent, I mean the name only, be cause you do not represent the party of Lincoln at all. Gentlemen, you have succeeded in demonstrating yourselves shamelessly untruthful or pitifully ignorant of vour own party work. You should not try such large game as William J. Bryan. Be’ter by tar train your howitzer on the sparrows and tom-tits of the campaign, and not expose your ignorance and folly by attacking the chaaraeter of a great man whose personal integrity is certified by his political enemies to be above suspicion. The next time you send out “letters of instructions” post your self on your own party’s history and you will not have such ugly things as the above confronting you. A Reader. John T. France, J. F. Snow, Judge D. D; Heller, A. P. Beatty, and 11. K. Erwin will go to Fort Wayne and accompany the magnetic Bryan to this city the monn ing of October 22. The republicans are scared out of their wits, and Hanna has ordered another car load of corrupting boodle. We will liok ’em as they were never licked before.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, “The Boy Orator of the Platte,” And the Greatest American of the Age, will be in Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Morning, October Op WILL .AJFIXtX'VE; S3:IJS.

Hooper’s galling letter still stinks. Vote for Bryan and retain your American freedom. Join the tidal wave that will usher Bryan into the white house and open an era of prosperity that will be gratifying to the many millions of poor and needy. General Harrison has even realized the dire calamity that is about to befall Indiana, and has emsented to make a. tour of the state, speaking from the rear of a palace piUlrnan car. His efforts are in vain this year. We hope while here he will read that part of his message to congress that appears elsewhere in this paper. When Win. McKinley at the the Park in Delphos in ’9l, he announced himself in favor of free coinage of silver, and in emphasiz ing his position, held up a silver dbllar as an object lesson, caving: “This money is good enough for youhtnd good enough for me. Why should it not be good enough for the bond holder?” Will he explain why he is today a gold bug, opposed to the working man and his money—silver?—Delphos Herald. No greater pleasure could befall us than to announce to our thousands of readers that William Jennings Bryan the leader of the common people, and candidate for president of these United Stotes, will personally address the people of Adams county, in this city, next Thursday morning. We presume that never before has a candidate for the highest office within thegift of the American people, favored this city and county with his presence. No honor is too great for one so brave and true. Our hospitable people will greet him with open hands and an open heart. They have learned not only to admire him but to love him. He will be here next Thursday morning at 8:15. The people of Adams county will have an opportunity to see the famous and feerless William Jennings Bryan. He conies from Ohio to Richmond next Wednesday morning making and address there of an hour, going from there to Cambridge City, Rushville, New Castle, Muncie, Anderson, Alexandria Fairmount, Marion, * Bluffton and Fort Wayne, speaking there at night. The next morning becomes over the Grandßapids to Decatur, cnanges to the Erie and goes to Huntington, Rochester, Peru, Delphi, Lafayette, Crawfordsville, Ladogo, Greencastle, Brazil and Terre Haute. He will reach this city about 8:15 in the morning and will perhaps be here for half an hour. Everybody in Adams county will want to see and hear this gallant American. Ample preparations will be made to take care of all who come* Goflb, when it reigns alone, is a cftiel tyrant and void of money. Its scarcity and the fact that it can not be subdivided into coins ot small denomination for circulation among the poor render it a convenient tool of the usurer and the oppressor. Wherever it holds exclusive sway the natural rights of man are held in low esteem. It is the money of tile covetous who are at war with the commandments (St God, and hence with the welfare of his children. Even its tender mercies are cruel. It is always scarce and inadequate to the wants of men, and when it shrinks in vojume it hides regardless of human suffering and its withdrawal is the signal for all other forms ot money to shrink away also. Our late war period furnished abundant proof of this, and at least two of the mournful decades which have elapsed since the return of peace furnish striking corroberation of this important truth.

HOW TO VOTE. Points That Every Voter Should Bear fn Mind. 1. Get your ballots of the polling clerk iu the election room. No other ballots are permitted to bo used. 2. Stamp within the large square containing the rooster and nowhere else. —i*'-- 1 —V j'w AL: 4 ■ vxwfk .Tv"' -) A > S Wss®k> The stamp must be placed within or on > the square or the ballot is void and cannot be counted. Do not stamp elsewhere on the ticket if yon stamp within the square at the ,rl the ticket. t 3. Do not inuiiliue your ballot, or mark it either by sm-iy. king a name off ' or wrdillif Ghe on, or way, : except by stamping on the square as be- i fore mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. ; 4. After stamping your ballots first i see that llufink from the stamp isthoroughlj’ dried; then fold them separately so that the face of them cannot be seen and so that’ the initial letters of the • names of the polling clerks on the backs : thereof can be seen. Then hand your | ballots to the inspector, the stamp to the | polling clerk and leave the room. 5. If yon are physically unable to I stamp yonr ballots, or cannot read English, so inform the polling clerks and tell them how you wish to vote and they will stamp your ballots ’ for you. But the voter and clerks must not permit any other perse u to hear or see how the ballots are stamped. 6. If you should accidentally or by mistake deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot return it to the poll clerks and get a new one. What becomes of our annual' product of silver? There is a foreign demand for all that we pro <luce. We export about forty million dollars coinage value per year, the rest is consumed in the arts at home. What do they do with it abroad? They use it in the arts and in coinage. A large part of it goes to Asia, which is called the great sink hole of silver. Within the past two years, tor example, England has coined about fifty million dollars of silver in rupies, which are sent to India and exchanged for wheat, cotton, <fec. She buys this silver of our silver miners at from sixty to seventy cents an ounce. When coined into rupies on the ratio of 15 to te, she .exchanges it tor wheat, &c., in India, on a basis ot $1.45 an ounce. This is the competition our wheat and cotton growers have to meet. It is no wonder that the low price ot silver will ruin American wheat and cotton industries, as predicted by English statesmen. All parties are agreed that bimetallism is, with free coinage, a good thing, the only difference being that the republican platform de mands that the present “existing gold standard” winch has wrought so much ruin shall be maintained until we can get foreign countries to consent to free coinage, while the other tnree platforms demand an American system of finance which shall not be dominated by the money lenders of the old world. In harmony with Blaine they believe it is our place to lead and thus “coerce” the others into following our example. As the cause of tree silver is the cause of humanity, the cause of liberty and justice, the enthralled millions of the world again look to us to 'break tyranny’s chain and “proclaim liberty throughout the land. ”■ bhall we listen to the voice of the torieism this campaign, or shall we line up with the parriots? In 1776 we threw off the political yoke. Let us have another declaration of independence. Falling prices means hard times—Bryan. Hard times means falling prices. —Journal. The single gold standard means hard times and falling prices. Vote for Bryan.

POLITICAL CALENDAR. Oct. 14, Preble, A. N. Martin and C. M. France. Ot. 28, Buena Vista, C. M. France and L. C. Devoss. Oct. 28, Bollinger school Monroe township, Dau Erwin and D. E. Smith. 0ct.29, Longen Forger school house French township, Dora Erwin and A. P. Beatty. Oct. 23, C< ylon, D. E. Smith, and S. A. M. Butcher. Oct. 15, Erwin school house, Union township, Dan Erwin and C. M. France. Pct. 20, Schnepps school house, Union township, C. J. Lutz and L. C. Devoss. Oct. 28, Knih« school house, Union t->wn-hip, R. K. Erwin and J. ' T. France. i Nov. 2, Aber school house, Root , township, A. P. Beatty and J. T. France. i Oct. 22, Gerkey school house, Root township, W. H. Reed (in German) Dora Erwin. Oct. 15, Peterson, W. H. Reed and Jacob Butcher. i Oct. 21, Honduras. Dan Erwin ; and J. T. France. Oct. 15, Cowan school house, St. Marys township, L. C. Devoss and Frank Mann.. Oct. 15, GenevaD. E. Smith .and 1 C. J- Lutz. Oct. 29, Rivare, R. K. Erwin and J. T. France. Oct. 30, Kinsey school house, Blue Creek township, K. K. Erwin and Frank Mann. Nov. 2, Egypt school house, L. C. Devoss and Dora Erwin. Will H. Reed, Peterson, October 14, at 7:30. October 17, Dirkson school house, Preble township, John T. France and W. H. Reed (in German.) Saturday evening, October 24, D E. Smith at Hisey school house, Jefferson township. Thursday, Oct. 15, Hon. J. R. Brunt at Steele, Blue Creek township, at 2p. in., and at Linn Grove at 7:30 p. m. Oct. 17, Dirkson school house, Dan Erwin and John T. France. Oct. 24, Freidheim, John T. France and J. T. Kelley. Oct. 21, New Corydon, A. N. Martin and J. T. Kelley. Oct. 22, Steele, A. N. Martin and Jacob Butcher. Oct. 23, Berne, A. N. Martin and J. T. Kelley. Oct. 2.0., Booher’s school house, Jefferson township, J. T. France and R. K. Erwin. Decatur, Oct. 16, Court House, Hon. Hugh Daugherty of Bluffton. Oct. 23, Pleasant Mills, R. K. , Erwin and J. T. France. ■ Oct. 14, Wells Co., John R. Brunt and John T. France. Oct. 22, in the evening, J. F. Snow, and J. P. McGrath of Hartford City, will speak in the Travil school house, Wabash township. Oct. 27, Nicholas Cornet and J. T. France, afternoon. J. F. Snow, evening at Berne. Oct. 24, J. T. Frafiee in afternoon and HughJDaugbei'ty in the evening ■ at Geneva. Joux G. Shani.iN was in town 1 Monday night-and Tuesday foie- ’ noon, going from here to Bjutlton, > where he addressed' the people there Tuesday afternoon. We 1 have it from reliable sources that Mr. Shanklin will, in all probabil--1 ity be a candidate for United States senator, providing the next legislature is democratic. \\ e will not 1 be meally mouthed about saying ’ that Mr. Shanklin should be thus honored. Xo better or truer patriot could be selected to represent this [ vast commonwealth in the I nited States senate. The idea of Bryan carrying Ohio i won’t seem so preposterous when s the vote is figured out to you after November 3. * 1 ft

Ad ims count , demociats i.Jimd to give the biggest political <l monstration of the campaign in this city on Saturday, October 31 A 1 ist of committees appear elsew h (sffe, who are delegated to look after the necessary arrangements, to make it the success it deserves. The list of speakers will be announced later, and you may fix yoursfclves for some national talent, who will discuss the issues. It will b»- the most elaborate event of the kind, that has ever took place in this city.

FREE SILVER RALLY! SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, AT DECATUR. FULL PARTICULARS NEXT WEEK. . ■> . ' __ , ■ ■ r"- L - ‘ - * • T The Work of Preparation, for the Coining Event, is Assigned To the Following Committees.

committee on speakers: J. F. Snow, N. Blackburn and J. T.' France. COMMITTEE ON ADVERTISING: L G. Ellingham, Noah Mangold. H.' L. Conter, Ora France, Andrew Weltley I and Sam Doak. DELEGATION MARSHALS. Michael Miller, marshal in chief: George H. Kelley, L 11. Boknecht. Martin Miller. James Foreman, C. E. Stuckey. David Mauler. George W. McKean. D. Shallev, B. F Kizer. Harvey Hart, Ed Teinie. M. Briner. Jr.. Peter Kinney and Abe Boch. COMMITTEE-ON BANNERS AND MOTTOES: John King, Jr , L. C. Corbin. 11. C Cross. John Spuller. F. McConnell. H. D. Linemfcr,«»A. D. Welker, John McKean, Jeremiah Archbold, E W. France. A. J. Porter, C. W. Hocker. W. W. Briggs. Jonas Neuenschwander. Ed Huffman, William Brice. Albert Butler. Sam Soldner, F. M. Gallogley, W. E. Fulk. D. D.jaoffee and Abe Debolt. A’OM.MirfEE ON DECORATIONS; H. M. Romberg, H. A. Fristoe. A. Holthouse, Jacob Wagmiller, Horace Mathewson. J. W. Hair, John Lose, Clint Patterson, P. P. Ashbaucher, George A. Kintz, W. V. Buckmaster.

IN'yiQ! , ■ ■■■■m.jii , : ni m j i .urn o’ A. HOLTHOUSE. THE WAY TO BUY FOOTWEAR IS TO THEM RIGHT. ... . . THE RIGHT WAY IS TO ■>V<J'BUY THEM AT HOLT- ->>' HOUSE'SHOE STORE. OUR FALL AND WINTER STOCK IS NOW IN THE STORE. IT CONSISTS OF ALL THE LATEST t STYLES AND SOLID LEATHER GOODS. WE BEAT ’EM ALL ON PRICES. SEE US BEFORE BUYING. A FEW BARGAINS IN THE OLD STOCK THAT WILL BE SOLD IRRE- • , ; SPECTIVE OF PRICE OR COST. COME QUICK. ? . - ... ■ -A.. HOLTHOUSE.

(MKFlEl.ll FOR BRI AN. Grand Rtdids. Miff),. October !(>,— I . I’.—The following letter is pnjtlislu d livre, this morning. * The writer is a brother to the late president, James A. Garfield: •Jamestown. Mich . 0ct.,"9 “E C Watkins. Chairman Union Silver S ate I’miral Committee, Grand Hapids. Mich.: “Dear Sic; I am d' .m.c'rmally opi p tsed to allowing England or Eu- ! ropean power or any other power to |be consu.ted j>r to dictate in any way I our financial policy. Iml in favor of ail the gold and silver proin this IC'imtrv beirur used k| m)|. a-i money l and treated alike at rqe mints. lam lin favor of capital, trit am opposed to I having capitalists hoard i heir money in a rational batik or invest it in govern-m‘-rit bonds. I want ci: ita! put where i it w ill do work i “I was ; rood to be a Republican when Republican princ’pcL were voiced ' b - Abraham Lincoln. President Grant, Julfn A Logan and .James A. Garfield, but I rm opposed to having the prioci--1 pies of the Republican party voiced by the bonker-bondbo’ders of Lombard and Wall streets, through, their agent, Maik Hanna. “I am an American, hence I am opposed to consulting any other power m our American policy, e-pecially. in finances. •TtiOS. GARFIELD.” Extensive preparations are being n ade t’oi the big rally in this city, Saturday, October 31. National speakers will be present to address the people.

' Jerry Coffee, Christ Boknecbt, Charles Ernst, J. W. P;ace, John Yager, Curley i Rademacher, John Colchin. A. E. Huff- ■ man, E. B. Lenhart, Lane King, D P. Bolds, Elias Christ. Dr 8. C Clark, and iJ. J Moran. I KECETION COMMITTEE: M. M. McGriff. Philip Schug, C. W. F. Battling. Jacob Butcher, George W. Martz, Clark Brothers. C. M. France, J. D. Winans. Henry Blakey. J. W. Myers. Henry Zwick, Wilbert Climer, Henry Dirkson. William Shoumaker, .Sam Simison. J H. Lenhart, D D. Heller. Dave E. Smith, Henry Larikenau. David Steele. George Haeiling. J. W. Vizard. W. IL Reed. Jacob Wechter. George H. Martz, David E’ey, Christ Ashbaucher, David Eck» rote, S. W. Hale, IL H. Bremerkamp, Conrad Brake, L. L Dunbar, A. P. Beatty. J. E. Mann, Peter Bryan. R.. K. Erwin. Rudolph Schug, Fred Xeaderhouser. William Blackurn. J. H. Beatty, Henry Stetler, James H. Knave! and Henry Durr - V, ... " Committee on torch lights will be announced later. J. F. Snow, Chairman County Central Committee J. T. France. Chairman Executive Committee