Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1896 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT PUIILIHHF.I> WEKKI.Y. DEMOORATIO PRESS PUBLISHING 00. , . ~~ . " ( LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR. ( —■ 7 ( $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffieeat.DeCntur. Indiana 1 as kSefcoud-Class Mail Matter. I 1 THURSDAY, OCT. 29. 1 < - , STAMP THE BOOSTER SQUARE. ; z i —"Oz 3 —' i * f W Wax' ' I $ I**"’ I h 1 Stamp 'he rooster. t Go to the po i -<,c:t fl . Stamp the rooster and stamp him ...hard, It won’t hurt. ( To vote a straight ticket stamp ‘ the squire encircling the rooster. Next Saturday is flag day. Let , everybody show their patriotism. « Stamp the rooster, no difference ' where, so von fall within the square. ' The silver rally Saturday will be ' a hummer. Come and bring your families. Be careful in voting and see that i no mistakes are made, thus loosing J your vote. I i A long strong pull all together < and victory will be ours, But don’t J forget to vote. ’ Poll your precincts closely and ' then see that every one votes early t on election day. c , — ... 1 Vote the national and county i tickets straight and take no chances ( on losing vour vote. 1 & 1 Vote the democratic county ticket 1 straight and insure your vote for a ; free silver congressman. : j ■“< Every precinct committeeman ■ and party advocate should do their dutv well next Tuesday. You must , work. Herr Most now has another able ( champion of anarchy in the editor ; of the Journal. Hooper is growing ‘ Jealous. ~~—y —: —-q - • i Paul Hooper and the editor of , the Journal are a pair of walking ( anarchists which Adams county ( should be proud of. , R. K. Erwin received a letter . from National Committeeman Jones, ? urging united action and victory is , ours. Let the band play. If indications count for anything 1 a national victory will be given the ( democratic parly and ticket next week. Get ready to celebrate. Republican boodle, coercion, intimidation and repudiation can not win this election. The people will vote this year for themselves. Vote for Bryan electors, silver congressmen and legislators, the straight democratic county ticket and you will never live to regret it. Remember the big rally Saturday and come to town early, bring your families and hear some of the best oratorical talent the country produces. Have nothing to do with any proposition to vote the republican county ticket. It’s a scheme to get your vote for congressman and representatives. 5 Don’t be deceived by idle stories at this time. Allow no imposition or curious tales to confuse you. Many musbroon stories will be circulated. Guard your interests. Hon. Willjam Twibell is the way the name is printed. Surely no one else would be guilty of calling him Hon. Honors are light emblems indeed when such acalibir as that can wear them. .The Circular issued by Paul Hooper and his republican party contains nothing not already known and condemned by every respectful democrat in the county. Give his'' legislative scheme the cold heart. Take no stock in any wild goose stories. If they were just or true

it would be unnecessary to wait until this late day to begin their publicity. You can rest assured that the only object is to catch your vote. Don’t be fooled.

DO YOUR DUTY. This is the last issue of the Democrat before that important trans action of November 3-»-the election of a president and congress. Only four days more remain. Who can’t spend every minute of these four days, if need be, in helping to make our victory that much more unanimous. There is lots of hard work to do. Precincts meetings should not be overlooked, Abe poll carefully made out and discussed by at least six different workers, and last but most important, see that every vote polled gels to vote and does vote. It is no time to stand on ceremonies, or to allow personalities to interfere with the dutv you owe your party or yourself’. Make a long, strong and united pull now, and tight your personal differences in the back yard after Bryan is elected. It will be better appreciated Dy the public at large, and especially those who are earnest in their, desires to see victory grandly perched upon the banner of right. Every voter should deeply feel the responsibilities of the present political coniest. Il is a time when our personal welfare, public and private, is at stake, li is a time when we m.ust settle the question of paying debts in 100 or 2uo cent dollars. It is a time when we will either see a rise or a continuance in the already gradual decrease of the value of our farms and tne products they yearly produce. It is a time when labor will be liberated from tbe tyranny oi masters who enrich themelves by the slavery of human life. Against us are arrayed all the monopolies, trusts and combines that have been fostered and enriched andtheir power can not be easily estimated or realized. But our cause is a just one. It is a repetition of the Jackson presidential Campaign of 1832, which at that time marked a new epoch in American political history. Against Jackson were arrayed all the aristocracy and monied influences, which in their then mild form were as influential and important as tbe gigantic trusts of today. J hey called the dear old preserver of freedom and prosperity, an anarchist, a sower of seed of hatred and a dangerous element to the government. What is tbe position today? Bryan’s religious character is maligned, he and his party are classed as anarchists, traitors, debt shirkers, and rebels to their constitution and country. Th< y are held up before the bar of public opinion and condemned without a fair trial or the decency of an bondst conviction. They hide behind the silken robes that were purchased by legislative cprruption, and point with scorn and contempt at the masses of poor, whose life’s blood and subsistence they have sucked with a rvlisti. But the ides of November will mark a new era of peace and plenty for the honest toiler and producer of this country. We will bury them so deep that the stench of their corrupting elements and influences will be forgotten—it’s hard to forgive. But your aid is essential and necessary. Don,t be negligent of your duty at this moment. Let’s combine our efforts into a batallion that nothing, save the hand of God, can defeat; Do your duty.

Talk about republican patriotism, the Journal dug up another hen’s nest last week. His honesty m local politics won’t apply to that expressed nationally; the idea being to catch them both going and coming. -.—. J. ' .

What are we coming to when republican candidates for that grand old temperance party —in a born—solicits votes and support from the. liquor traffic on tbe consideration that a .temperance law is to be, repealed. Great guns and little fishes, [f such means are in vogue to secure a member of the legislature, what wouldn’t they do to elect a president. Less than a year ago the Journal editor favored free coinage of silver, and according to his peewee calculations now, be then belonged to the “hosts of repudiation,” an “advocate of deceit and the champion of the doctrine of hatred and envy and strife,” a champion of calamity,-anarchy, and everything else that is unpatriotic, un-American and sacriligious. Yoii have improved Wonderfully in a year, and if Christ wants a private secretary, we will recommend you. It isn’t much trouble to figure out who is entitled to the most respect or confidence as a public cer, the democrats who made public and investigated those road rereipts, or Paul Hooper, republican prosecutor, who was ordered two months ago to bring suit to recover defaulted money, and has failed thus far to turn his hand. Instead he is twisting that report into suit, able campaign thunder, the purpose being to hodoo dettiocrats into voting a straight republican county ticket, thus securing? their yntn fnr congressman and representatives.

REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGNING. .The Adams county republicans hive began the distribution of their circular which tells you that every democratic official in office or elective, is a thief, natural born, and that salvation can only come by supporting the ticket nominated by the republicans. Every nominee on the democratic ticket is an honest and competent man. Their lives have been records which they are proud of, their families are proud of and their friends and neighbors are proud of. They will attend to the official duties incumbent upon them with competency and honesty. They deserve the trust that was given them by their several nominations, and no one need fear that that trust will be misplaced. The democratic party beleives in an honest government, judiciously administered. The muddle of road receipts in this county was discovered by democratic officers, investigated and exposed by democratic officers and will be ferreted out by democrats and the guilty made to pay the penalty of law. Had the party or its officers have desired to play’false to the trusts involved upon them, they could easily have done so. But they are not built that way. The very opening of the campaign didn’t deter them one moment from their duty. At the very first inkling of a decrepency they proceeded to investigate, and the’result of that investigation was madv public at tbe time, and is known by every one of our readers. By law tbe prosecuting attorney is the proper person to begin suit lor! a refunding of monies. Paul Hooper a republican, is the prosecutor. Over two months ago the commissioners ordered him to begin suit to recover Said money. Not a sign of any suit has been commenced yet. Who was the diligent officer? Was it the commissioners who without any delay, ordered an investigation, or the prosecutor who has allowed two months to pass by, without making any attempt whatever to proceed with the suit ordered. Instead of doing his duty, he has pointed his official position by taking all the evidence that was found by the investigating committee and using it for campaign purposes only. My, what a high tariff he must put on his official gearing, when betook the oath to protect the constitucton and state. All it is worth to him is to use it with hie mathematical science to elect, if possible, a republican to office. That's great. I’he republican party hasn’t a very rosy reputation for political honesty. The editor of this paper lived in a republican county a few years ago when forged gravel road orders was discovered to the amount of $7,260. The guilt was easily fastened upon an officer. Did they bring the thief to justice? No. His friendsquietly smoothed it over, and everything was lovely. Everybody is familiar with the rotton partitisan acts of Judge Woods in 1888, when the Dudley blocks of five conspiracy was unearthed. The federal grand jury were on the point of returning convicting indictments, when Judge Woods called the jurors before him and re-instructed them, striking out any criminalities unless the court could prove the notorious Dudley an accomplice. During the Grant administration a district attorney was about to prosecute one Babcock, an influential light in tbe adminis tration, for being interested in distilling and receiving revenue therefrom. Grant ordered that district attorney to annul those criminal proceedings or loose his fat appointive position. How different with the democrats, aim Coy a democrat, forged tally sheets at Indianapolis. He was tried by a jury eight of whom were democrats and sent to the penitentiary. In Daviess county a defaulting official was also sent to the penitentiary, and nine democrats presided at his trial. Thus you will note who of our political parties wants to be honest. The appeals sent out with the tale of woe mentioned asks that support be given to the straight republican ticket. The trick is to get your vote for congressman and legislative candidates. These names are on the county ticket and by voting their county ticket straight you will vote for a republican congressman and legislators. Don’t be hoodwinked.

“The enlargement of oiir currency by the silver bill undoubtedly gave an upward tendency to trade, and had a marked effect on prices; this natural and desired effect of the silver legislation was by many erroneously attributed to the tariff act.” If this is true, and increased prices were the “natural” effect of silver legislation, will you kindly explain why you said, at Cincinnati, on Oct. 7, 1896, “Congress can not fix the market value of silver or gold any more than it can fix the market value of wheat. ' There are laws of trade, and all the legislatures of the world can not annul them.” —Harrienn’e to CoDg’ , e fla , ,D“Pember 1890.

REPUBLICAN HYPOCRICY. They Issue h Circulnr that In False and Misleading. Its a Trick to ifH Your Vote for Congrextiinuii and Slate LeiglHlatoni.— Hooper in the Garb of a Patriot. As we mention elsewhere in this issue Paul Hooper is deputy prosecutor for this county and he is likewise the chairman and head of the republican party here. He has compiled a circular which is being spread broadcast over the county. The circular in question relates to the work ofan investigating committee that looked into some irregularities regarding road receipts, which were found altered. The circular is purported tp contain the actions of our officers regarding this illegal transaction, but for political purposes they garble it and put forth an untrue and an unjust impression. The democratic officers have not for a moment shirked the duty obligated upon them by their official positions. You can’t say that, much for Prosecutor Hooper. On the Sth day of September, 1596, the following commissioners record was made. Whereas, it has come to the knowledge of the board of commissioners of Adams countv', Indiana, that Daniel P. Bolds, Treasurer of the county of Adams and state of Indiana has now in his .hands certain funds belonging to road fund of the various townships of said county of Adams and state of Indiana amounting in the aggregate to $2,793.93 apportioned between and belonging to the said townships as follows, to-wit: Unionsl74 64 Root. 384 08 Preble 122 32 Kirkland, . • 178 12 Washington 324 96 Saint Marys 152 33 Blue Creek 215 60 Monroe 455 22 French 42 17 Hartford 132 85 Wabash. 415 57 Jefferson 195 04 Total ....$2 793 94 And whereas the said Daniel P. Bolds as said treasurer of said county has failed, refused and neglected to pay over to the proper trustees of said townships said vaiious sums, or any part thereof, and still refuses, fails and neglects to so pay over said various sums—severally or in tbe aggregate—therefore be it ordered, adjudged and decreed by said board of commissioners, that Frank H. Snyder, prosecuting attorney within and for the 26th judicial circuit, and who prosecutes the pleas of the state within and for the said county of Adams, be, and ne is hereby ordered to at once institute a suit ; n the proper court against said Daniel P. Bofts and the securities on his official bond as treasurer of said Adams county as provided by law for the recovery of said money J, H. lIOBROKE, Conrad brake, David Eckrote, County Commissioners. If the people who engineered that circular had panted to be honest about it they won kF have printed that record, and if Paul Hooper had wanted to be hones' he would have not only bad that commissioners record printed but he would have filed suit and turned his little finger in some manner toward bringing the matter into court. Instead of doing that he has used the whole transaction as a means of campaigning, with a view of electing perhaps a republican officer. He has pointed his official trust, disgraced himself and is trying to color the reputations of democratic candidates. The commissioners ordered him to bring suit at once. They called him before them while in session and not only gave him the order as printed above but talked to him aboutitand urged prompt and immediate action and a thorough and effective prosecution. Such is the glowing tale of official trust, placed upon a man who has treated that obligation with the basest mockery. He now issues this little misleading pamphlet, and asks the democrats and tax payers of the county, to vote the republican ticket that they may revolutionize the county offices. Better by far elect a democratic prosecutor and revolutionize the demagogical way he does business. It would' be better business and better politics. The whole business is a political scheme to snath your votes. Remember the names of congressriien and legislators are on tie county ticket. Don’t allow them to work you, or you will aid ic the election of a republican congressman • A bicycle . parade is named among the attractions for Saturday’s big democratic rally, The «f>nnty entire is invited to perticii pate. Bring in your wheels-

Handle republican election schemes with gloves, now adays. They want to stir you up on county politics and then get your vote for a republican congressman. Election inspectors and judges want to perform well the duty they are selected for. The republican boards may try the bulldoze act and refuse to count the fusion ticket as one. The law is plain. They will have it to do. Republican candidates for the legislature now cater to the temperance and liquor traffic elements at one and the same time. For brazen effrontery and treacherous intentions to the people, the likes were never before quite so pronounced. It is not for the interest of eitner of these elements that that candidate seeks to be their servant. Republican heelers Jhave giyen up any possibility of McKinley carrying Indiana, and now throwing their forces upon the legislative markets, ami hope through force and other means to have a majority. Schemes of all kinds are afloat. Keep your weather eye open, and explode them whenever they bob "PImagine the people who are distributing those false and malicious circulars crying about thefts of county funds and all that kind of thing. Every one of them don’t pay enough taxes to make your eyes water. It is a scheme to get your vote, nothing else. It is little they care about the honesty of the matter. i i 11 '. The populist state committees are urging all populists to vote tbe 'democratic ticket straight. This address of advice is issued on account of the proposed unlawful attempts, that are already being urged by the republicans to not count tbe votes of the fusion ticket as one. The g. o. p. is hanging on to the last ray of hope, like a drowning man grasps a straw. Keep both eyes open. Herr Most the foremost anarchist in America, Bob Ingersol the foremost destroyer of Christianity, and Willie Pollard Breckenridge the destroyer of American womanhood are advocating the gold standard and the election of McKinley. Surely the law and morality side of the question has not been neglecte.. by Mark Hanna. The democratic party of Kentucky repudiated Breckenridge when he attempted, two years ago to get back to congress by their suffrages, and now this party of high moral ideas has nominated him for congress and expects to elect him. Os course the moment he left the democratic party and joined the republican parly his robes became spotless. Nit. Word has come to us from a rereliable source that the republicans intend to put into circulation a grist of false circulars, which will contain a fairy story pertaining to tbe management of the county affairs as well as national. We want to warn every reader of the Democrat to be on his guard for such an outbreak. The intention is to begin the circulation of this feast just tbe day election. It’s an old gag. Give them the cold shoulder and beleive nothing you know is not absolutely correct. The g. o. p. are desperate and will resort to any means to make a point. 1 his year they have made a campaign upon nothing but false means and intimidation. It is a vote for McKinley they a r e after. Have nothing to do with it. The boodle is getting into circulation. Private rooms were secured at the Bifrt last Saturday, at whmh time the faithful filed in and met in consultation some nigh moguls who have promised big returns from this quarter of Indiana. Some of the little politicians were disappoidted with the double saw buck accorded them for their portion of the heavy political hauling which they promised to deliver in full. We presume, though, that where no effective kick was registered, that the amount was proportionately elevated, and promises added that they never expect to deliver. It is authoritiveiy reputed that $500,000 has been distributed to the county committees in the state, which amount is expected to save them from certain Waterloo and defeat. It has reached a point where it requires all the ingenuity of man to save the wreck, and as they have money to burn, they will, use their tempting bait to influence voters. Os course they won’t try to buy you outright, like Jo Mann buys cattle, but they will hide behind the mantels of law and bring to bear other influences which will tend to place voters under obligations of One sort or another. They are a desparate party in a desperate struggle for life. It will pay every demo crat to be on his guard. Accept nothing from them and make no promises, no matter how tnval, for von don’t know what concocting scheme is behind it. Do your duly.

Lots of money is afloat but when you vote its contaminating influence can’t follow you to the election booth., Paul Hooper loans money on paper that contains the gold clause, and then cries cold briney tears over the way our taxpayers are being fleeced, Tbe deep affection has a string to it, in the election of a republican congressman. Don’t permit his hatchet faced scheme to lose yourvote. Vote for Bryan. “The hosts of repudiation prostrate themselves at bis (Bryan’s) feet.”— Journal. This is argument in favor of the gold standard. It is as good as the Journal hg>s used this year, only he never before brazenly called his friends and neighbors such endearing names as “hosts of repudiation.” But we live and learn. Geneva tore up the earth last Saturday with a big Bryan and free silver demonstration. The Hon. R. C. Bell of Fort Wayne, Hugh Daugherty of Bluffton, and R. K. Erwin of this city were the speakers. The former spoke in the afternoon. The evening meeting was a rip hummer. Everything down there is unanimous for free silver.

Let no democrat be deceived by voting for that Hanuacrat PalmerBuckner ticket. There are a few so-called democrats who from self interest are marauding in the garb of democracy in trying to induce you to vote for this ticket. The fact is they do not intend to vote that ticket at all, and are only using you a&a cats paw to rake the chestnuts out of the fire. They will not shoot in the air, but will vote where they think it will count tbe most. The moneyed class have a common interest in upholding a gold standard and it is to be expected that they will vote to retain it. There is but one course left open for the poor man and the man who is in debt. Vote for more money with which to pay debts. Less than one year ago the Journal advocated the free coinage of silver, but in writing up Mr. Bryan’s mammoth • meeting here last Thursday, it said, “The audacity of man and the strange definition of Christianity and patriotism be teaches has drawn vast crowds of curious and credulous to hear such political economy as none other leader of our land has ever dared to breathe.” To be plain, our erring brother of the Journal has lied, and lied willfully,knowingly and maliciously. Mr. Bryan’s personal or religious character compares with any one’s and he is teaching now what the republican party teached all its life, and what the Journal editor beleived and taught upto less than one yearago. They were treacherous ennunciations about one of our countrymen who has been honored with the nomination for the highest office within the gift of the people. Such peanut politics lacks any resemblance of dignity, something Bro. Evarts was very earnest about early in the campaign. But then if it pleases him, it don’t hurt any one. He is perfectly harmless. “Hon. William Twibell, republican candidate for state legislature, Montpelier, Indiana,” is afac-simile of a card presented to many voters in this city by the owner of the name, He is doing some mighty queer business too. He has entered into a .written agreement ojr contract whereby he agrees, if elected to not only vote but to use his influence toward the repeal, of the Nicholson law, a temperance measure that Was born by the last republican legislature in Indiana. We are not talking through our hat rim, but know whereof we speak in making the assertion that the agreement is written and is evidence in black and white. Think of it. Can you imagine anything more bcazen. A republican agreeing to repeal a republican measure, especially when that measure favors temperance legislation, a hobby the republican party has worked off on the people for many years. He reports here that he has succeeded in fooling the-saloon men in Portland, and that he expects to do the same thing here, is evidenced Y>y the open and high-handed manner in which he offers to sell himself for the promise of votes and influence. A person who woili use such illegal means to aid his election,-.would sell his vote in the legislative halls for fifteen cents any time. He would use that same vote and influence towards the repeal of the Australian ballot law, the law taxing railroads and other corporations their just proportions, the mechanic’s lien law, and the many other just laws that are the pride of the state. It is a shame and disgrace when men of such little regard of manhood, are permitted to be a candidate for so important a position as the one named. Don’t allow him to hoodwink you with any soft soap of this kind.