Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 29 October 1896 — Page 5

|HFree silver is dead —“in it.” in not all right on |Kction day. Vote ’er straight. ■The democratic ticket comes first M the ballot. Stamp the rooster. HBBe sure you vole ami be careful you vote. The rooster is a bird this year. lose your vote by folio wrepublican advices to vote the |H)ublicau county ticket. ■ Vote for Bryan ami your own ■terests. It’s time to quit voting ■r your banker, corporation,law |H)r and those kind people. campaign schemes varied ami many. Be sure you IHite and be careful that you stamp rooster, it will do the scralchI ■ Vote no republican county tickbecause when you do, you vote a republican candidate for conThe free silver is what we ■ant. H What liannavrais there are in ■wn advice the stamping of the democratic emblem, but ■lemHelves will stamp the eagle Much deception. ■ The Democrat may be a little Hite next week again, but we will Hive you the result of the election, He it good, bad or indifferent. Our Booster is already Hopping. ■ ——— 5 ■ Bribery is a somewhat dangerHus thing to attempt, where money ■s offered, whether accepted or not, ■ tine of S3OO can be imposed upon ■he one offering the money. ■ Funds of corruption are being Hnloaded in Adams county. Don’t ■How anything to keep you from Boting for Bryan, a free silver conHjressman, free silver legislators and ■he straight democratic ticket. ■ Every siiverite must work for ■he interest of the cause he agitates. ■Vith lots of hard work we will be Bible to roll up a Bryan majority in ■Adams county that wdl be astonishing as to its magnitude. Do your ■duty. ■ Imagine Paul Hooper having a ■heart that fairly bursts with love ■for the farmers of Adams county, ■on local politics, when he don’t loan ■a cent of money unless it is payable ■in gold. His heart is about the size ■of a pea—spell it any way to suit ■you. ■> Tomorrow, (Friday) we will have ■with us an ex-president. Every- ■ body should acknowledge the honor, ■regardless of politics. While we ■say this we haven’t concluded that ■ either Dr. Devilbiss, the Journal ■ editor or any school boy in town ■ could equnl Mr. Bryan as an orator. ■ They could do nearly as well permlaps, but not quite. ■ We have been informed by letter land personal advices that State I Committeeman McCollough of Mun I cie, was in the city Tuesday night, I and deposited $750 with local reI publicans, the money to be used in I stirring up disaffection with the I democrats with their county ticket. ■ls they were successful it would I mean the loss of many votes for I Brunt for congress. The whole ■ scheme is to get democrats to vote I a'“mixed” ticket, which if not voted I correctly would be thrown out, or I get them to vote a straight county I ticket, which would include a vote for the republican candidates for congress. Don’t be caught. Vote the democratic ticket straight. Every candidate thereon is honest, honorable and competent. The republican candidate for joint representative for Adams, Jay and Blackford counties was electioneering and boasting his candidacy in ihis city last Saturday. He made the rounds of the saloons and promised there taat should he 'lie elected he would use his influence toward repealing the Nicholson temperance law, a measure that is not very popular with the liquor traffic. He reported that every liquor dealer in Portland had promised him support, upon this ground alone. He is making a campaign solely upon this issue, and expects the temperance people to support him m order that they may Vgbter draw the lines of law, and then expects the saloons to vote for him that he may legislate for them. It is nothing but a rotton scheme. "A United States senator is to be elected by the next general assembly. McKeen and Fairbanks both corporation lawyers with barrels of money at their disposal, want to represent this state in the United

States senate. It is their money that is causing this statesman to pat a dealer in liquor on the back and wink at the promoters of temperance at the same time. Have ■' nothing to do with them or their platter. Vote for McGeath and Kelley, who wi’l not greet you with a lie on their lips. Look out for all tempting baits and fish stones. Don’t allow them to hoodwink you for they will do it if they oan.

ANARCHISTIC! ARE YOU A “DEAD BEAT” OR A “DEBT SHIRKER?” < The Following Letter Is Being Issued from the Republican County Committee Rooms Office of the Rkpvblbcan Central COMtniTTEE OF ADAMS County, Indiana.

Decatur, Indiana, Sept. 7, 1890. Dear Sir:—Will you help us a little duririg this campaign? While it is true that our chances ot victory, now look very Haltering, yet the battle is never won, until the last shot is tired. To be again defeated means a financial crisis such as the world never saw before. It means ruin and disaster to all business interest that have survived the free trade policy of the last few years. And it may mean more than that. Il may mean revolution, it may mean civil war. It may mean the wrecking and ruining of this, the greatest government under the sun. I am not a calamity howler, but I want to say to you, that a party, that in its platform censures and condemns the supreme and federal courts of the United States; a party led by such leaders as Tillman and Altgeld—that openly avows itself the • enemy of competency, prosperity and commercial thrift; that seeks to array the west against the east; that seek to array class against, class; that appeals to the debt shirker, the anarchist, and the dead beat, is to say the least a dangerous party to put at the helm of this government. The “free silver” trap has been set. It has been devised and invented with all the ingenuity of the arch fiend. Its purposes are to detract the public mind from the ruin and misrule of the free trade policy of the present administration. A few Republicans have been mislead by this. We want a list of their names in your neighborhood. They are known as “Free Silver Repub- . And there are some Democrats honest enough not to be mislead by this will-o’-the-wisp, and are known as “Sound money Democrats.” We want a list of those in your neighborhood. Two blanks tor these names are sent herewith. Now, please do this work for us, in the interest of Republicanism, humanity, and prosperity. This letter is sent only to leading Republican citizens, not because we are unable to get information from our committeeman in your precinct, but we want to make the canvas thorrQugh in every road district, so that no one shall be overlooked. In filling in the blanks, use your best Judgment, and class a voter the way be talks. Fill out the blanks as soon as your work is completed and return to this office in the envelope sent herewith. Be complete and thorough as possible. Thanking you in advance for this favor and hoping to be able to reciprocate at some future time, we remain, Yours Truly, Paul G. Hooper, — •Chairman. P. L. Andrews, Secretary. The question to be decided at the polls next Tuesday is not one between men, but distinctly one of principle. The republican party asks to fasten upon the American people a foreign monetary policy. It therefore resolves itself down to this question, Are you for America in this fight or for Great Britain? No party ever in the past declared for a gold standard, and Congressman Hardy a republican from this state, said in the house on Feb. 8, 1896, that the republican party never would. In this he was seconded by many of his brethren. Yet in less than six months after the republican party met in convention and declared that the present gold standard must be maintained unless foreign nations will help us hut go and give us free coinage. Wha f a humiliation to American independence. Our correspondents are being somewhat slighted this week, owing to the large anuiunt of campaign matter, whic«Bb feel it our duty as a democratism give space and room. The election will soon be a thing of the past, aud then weekly letters from all parts of the county will be given the attention they deserve. Beware of all attempts at illegal voting. Allow no one to vote who has not a legal right to. A fair ballot and an honest count is what we ask for a Bryan victory that will be so pronounced, that you won’t be able to find a champion of republicanism for a week.

5 Questions sos Harrison.

No I. Sir—ln your speech at Cincinnati, Oct. 1, yon said that by free coinage “the men already rich by the good fortune of having come into the ownership of rich mines will be made plutocrats out of sight.” Your are now preparing another speech, or speeches, for delivery in Indiana. If you are honest in this opinion, and are not trying to deceive your fellow-citizens, will you explain how free coinage can enrich the mine-owners unless it greatly increases the value of silver as measured by gold? No. 2. Sir—ln your message to congress of Dec. 1, 1890, you said: “The enlargement of our currency by the silver bill undoubtedly gave an upward tendency to trade, and had a marked effect on prices; but 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 cannot fix the market value of wheat. There are laws of trade, and all the legislatures in the world cannot annul them.” No. 3. JSir—ln 1892 you called an international monetary conference, and in'your letter of instructions to our delegates, dated Nov. 10, 1892, you said, through your Secretary of State: “The main purpose which this government seeks to accomplish by this conference is to BRING ABOUT A STABLE RELATION BETWEEN GOLD AND SILVER.* It is the opinion of the president, and, as he believes, of the people of the United States, with singular unanimity, that a full use of silver as coined metal at a ratio to gold to be fixed by an agreement between the creat commercial nations of the world, would very highly promote the prosperity of the people of all the countries of all the world. For this reason your chief and most important duty will be to secure, if possible, an agreement among the chief commer cial countries of the world looking to international bimetallism—that is, the unlimited coinage of gold and silver into money of full debt-paying power AT A FIXED RATIO IN COINAGE common to all the agreeing powers ” If your Secretary of State did not misrepresent you in this, and you were NOT TRYING TO IMPOSE ON FOREIGN NATIONS INVITED TO THAT CONFER-

Time has proven the truth of the following: To undertake to do business of the world on a single gold basis of measurement and equivalentes means loss, bankruptcy, poverty, suffering and dispair. Debts will.grew larger, and taxes become more onerous. The farmer will receive small prices for his crops; pabor will be forced down, down, down, and there will be a long senes of strikes.—Chicago L'ribune. “The recent egsisiation looking to the restoration of the bimetallic standard of our currency, and the consequent enhancement of the value of silver, has undoubtedly had much to do with the recent advance in the price of cereals. The same cause has advanced the price of wheat in Russia and India, and in the same degree reduced their power of competition. English gold was formerly exchanged for cheap silver, and wheat purchased with the cheap metal was sold in Great Britain for gold. Much of this advantage is lost by the appeciation of silver in these countries. It is therefore reasonable to expect much hicher prices for wheat than have been received in recent years.”— Secretary of Agriculture Rusk of Harrison’s cabinet, Report of 1890, page 8. This is exactly the situation under a gold standard, England .buys our silver bullion cheap and with it buys wheat in Russia and India. The great moralist (?) Ingersoll who is now making speeches for tne gold standard, has about as good a record on the money question as he has on the religious question, at least one is about as consistent as the other. Here is what he said in his lecture on “farming”’ in Illinois as produced from the Illinois State Register: “For my part, I do not ask any interference on the part of the government, . except to undo what it has done. Ido not ask that .money be made out of nothing. I do not ask for the prosperity born pf paper. But Ido ask for the re“monetization of silver. Silver was demonetized by fraud. It was an imposition upon every solvent man: a fraud upon every honest debtor in the United States It assassinated labor. It was done in the interest of avarice and greed, and should be undone by honest men. The farmer should vote only for such men as are willing to guard and advance the interests of labor.” Don’t worry, Bobby, the farmers are going to take your advice tor once.

enoe, will vou kindly explain why you said in tour speech at Cincinnati, on. Oct. 7, 1896: “Well, my friends, there are Minie things that human power can’t do. The individual can’t do it. Nations cannot do it. and one of these things is to llx the market value of anything. Congress cannot fix the market value of silver and gold any more than it can fix the market value of Wheat. There are laws of trade, and ah THE LEGISLATURES IN THE WORLD CANNOT ANNUL THEM?’’ No. 4. Sir—ln your message to congress Dec. 6, 1892, speaking of your international money congress, then in session, you said: ‘lf any temporary check or delay intervenes I believe that very soon commercial condition will compel the now reluctant governments to unite with us iii this movement to secure the enlargement of the volume of coined money needed for the transaction of the business of the world.” If, as you , now seem to maintain, the commercial conditions of this country could be re- ! medied by gold monometallism and another McKinley tariff, will you kindly i state what are the commercial condi-. tions that would force other countries to abandon gold monometallism and adopt free coinage by international No. 5. Sir —In his opinion in the income tax case, Mr. Justice Brown, whom you appointed to the supreme court, said: “As it implies a declaration that every income tax must be laid according to the rule of apportionment, the decision involves nothing less than a surrender of the taxing power to the moneyed class * * * 1 hope it may not prove the first step toward the submergence of the liberties of the people in a sordid despotism of wealth As I cannot es»j Cape the conviction that the decision of the court in this great case is fraught with immeasurable danger to the future of the country, and that it approaches the proportions of a natioual calamity, 1 feel it my duty to enter my protest against it.” In your speech at Cincinnati on Oct. 7,1896, you said: “It is not wise that the just and fair prerogatives of the president or the just and fair jurisdiction of the federal courts should be assailed and brought into contempt before the American people. We cannot afford to have this thing done.” Will you kindly explain by what oversight you appointed so plain-spoken a ' man as Justice Brown to this high ioffice?”

Hooper and the Journal call all silver agitators “champions of repudiation and anarchy,” and then have the galling nerve to solicit their votes for dhe republican county ticket which includes the. candidates tor congress and the legislature. Berne had a big rally Tuesday afternoon and evening which was attended by the largest crowd of people ever there. It was a demonstration to a finish, every one being interested in giving Bryan and the cause of silver an ovation that didn’t seem to be dying out very rapidly. Nicholas Cornet addressed them in German and J. F. Snow in English. It was a gala day for the silver agitators. Secretary’ Windom in his report in 1890 said: “In my last report I presented for consideration of con gress, a plan foir the utilization of the silver product of the United States. The measure proposed is this: To purchase, at the hiafkef price, the silver bullion product of our mines and smelters, and to issue in payment legal tender notes, redeemable in a quantity of silver bullion equivalent in vahte at the date ot presentation to the face of the notes, at the option of the government, or in silver dollars at the option of the holder. This measure was suggested with a view to promote the joint use of gold and silver as money, to increase she volume of paper currency bv the annual addition of ouf silver product to provide a home market tor the American product of silyer, and by so doing enhance the value of that metal, until a point were reached where we could with safety open our mints to the free coinage of both metals at a fixed ratio.” Say! gold bug; what think you of legislating valve into silver bullion after reading Wtndom’s report? He said you could, and proposed a measure that would raise its value until it reached gold and then he proposed to open the mints to free coinage. Windom was Harrison’s secretary of the treasury. This bill as suggested was passed by the house, the bill was amended by the senate by substitm, ting a free coinage measure. What! a free coinage bill passed by the senate during Harrison’s administration? Yes, it wasn’t repudiation then, as a result of a conference between the house and senate the “Sherman act” resulted as a compromise. Vote for tree coinage. It was good then. It is good now.

A CNMPAIUN OF C'aitVE. Mark Hanna has never hesitated for a moment in resorting to any methods of fraud, intimidation or corrupt ioi ; . but we were hardly prepared to believe I that he would dare to commit ft criiee to gave the “honor of the nation.” The republican national committee has decided to assess all the financial institutions of New England, one-eigi n of one per cent ot their capital stock ws a campaign fund to be used in the .mid- 1 die western states. This will include! all national and savings banks, ail, mutual knd stock insurance companies and all companies handling trust funds. These assessments will yield an enormous corruption fund; the share m • Connecticut alone being over *1 QUO 009. The same scheme is being practiced in the middle states The nine nation al banks of Newark, N.J, by votes of their boards of directors have agreed to contribute one thousand dollars each to this slush fund, the money to be taken from the assets of these institutions Os course money raised two weeks , before the close of the campaign can be intended for no other purpose than the corruption of voters. This of itseii would make the transaction black enough, even if these officers of banks and insurance companies had b-* asked to contribute from their o' private fortunes. But th s is not t: <• scheme. These men are assessed thi> amount on the assets of the bank ot insurence company, including the deposits of savings banks The assets cr capital stockk ot banks and insurance companies do not .belong to the officers or directors of these corporations. They hold these funds in trust for the stockholders or policy holders. The deposits in savings binks are trust funds and the directors have no right to assess workingmen,and widow* and orphans whose money they hold in trust, for any purpose whatever. We must, do these holders of trust funds the justice to state that some of them have flatly refused to contribute and regard the scheme in its true character. This high-handed use of trust funds is a crime that ought to land all parties concerned within the walls of some well regulated penitentiary. Webster defines embezzlement as “The act of fraudulently appropriating i the property of another.” If this is not embezzlement, what is it? And these are the men who set themselves up as the defenders of the nation’s honor. They are so very anxious to save the “honor of the nation” that they propose to the guardians of trust funds to rob widows and orphans that they may get money to crush “dishonesty” by bribing voters—Evamville Courier.

THE CRISIS UPON US. t f Samuel Whelpley. A. M.. principal of ’ the Newark acadamy, New Jersey, in a ! compend of history from the earHW times, written between the years Isis and 182-5, in an article on “Government,” at its c’ose made use of these j words: “Our eoverhment is no less singular as to Its nature, than as to its origin. In all human concerns, theory and prahtice.are o f ten found to differ, j Power and influence can never long be ! separated from wealth. Many gave arguments in theory, have professed to [ confer honor and office according to merit. No theory has been more * specious than ours. But. in this country ( the honors and offices will be controlled i by a chain of influence? whose last link ' will be made fast by a golden staple. Who's so blind that he will have the 6 efrontery to deny that Mr. Whelpley i was far-seeing and a true logical prophet, and the crisis he looked forward ( to is upon us, and we are witnesses to-! i day of the completion of the last link | i in the chain of the damning influence ■ ] of pompered; ill gotten wealth, which ! . is about our necks now, only waiting, < hoping by dire deception of the people, 1 to make the last link of the chain fast ' by that golden ’staple (the single gold , standard) forged at St. Louis last June i by the republican party. Arouse people of our republic, as it ina\ be your last chance to peacefully , free your necks trom that galling chain and prevent the last link being made fast by that golden staple which the money conspirators of Europe and i America hope to accomplish the 3rd day of November by the election of Me- j Kinley and’fastep you down forever. Give your whole strength and fail not ■ of your vote to that gallant and true champion and noble standard bearer of of the hosts of the people, William,!. Bryan, against the money speculators who are robbing you, and by his elec lion redeem our glorious republic. From the associated press reports ‘ we find the following allusion to farmers of our country: “In a speech last night, Police Conunis siojier Roosevelt is quoted assaying: “Mr. Bryan and his adherents have appealed to the basest set m the land, the farmers. It they are uot so, then why do they belieVe thatne can make one dollar out, of 50 cents.! He tells them that it can be brought labout by a free royalty, the right to burn and plunder without the inter ference of the police. ‘ - j VANDEKCOOK.” [

~ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ Danrocratic Ttekfit. Tor Presidential Large. JOHN B. STOLL, PARDA D. DRAIN. District.Elector*. B FIRST DISTRICT, J JAMES W. HENSON. j """8 HKCOMn DISTRICT. I dkm| ELISHA A. RIGGINS. ""'1 THIRD OmTHTCT, d«m[ GEORGE B. McINTYR®. 1 | FOURTH DISTRI'’-. D£ll TOWNSEND COl'JJi B FIFTH D’RTBirT, DELANO E. WILLIAMSON. E sixth district. GEORGE W. PIGMAN. ’ SEVENTH DISTRICT, dem MAURICE DONNELLY. EIGHTH DISTRICT. dem BARTLETT H. CAMPBELL. NINTH DISTRICT. DBM WILLIAM C. SMITH. aww. DISTRICT, DBM JAMES W. PIERCE. aFLFVEVH DISTRICT, . I MEIIEDITH K. KIDO. B TWELFTH DISTRICT, FRANK B. VAN AUKEN. STBItTFUm nISTR-CT, JOHN S. BENDER, . BFor Governor, * BENJAMIN F. SHIVELY. For Lieutenant-Governor. dem| JOHN C. LAWLER. B For Secretary of State, SAMUEL M. RALSTON. EFor Auditor of State, JOSEPH I. FANNING. BFot Treasurer of State, MORGANCHANDLER.BFor Attorney-General, 9 JOHN G. McNUTT. j ■—* For Reporter Suprenae Court, |dem| HENRY WARRUM. For Superintendent Public In- — struetioa, — ■ „ IdeJ WILLIAM B. SINCLAIR. oFor State Statistician, OMAR H. DOWNEY. j ’ 1 For Ju'lse Appellate Court, FIRST DISTRICT, EDWIN TAYLOR. SECOND DISTRICT, FRANK E. GAVIN. THIRD DISTRICT, l- vi i THEODORE P. DAVIS. : ? ' FOURTH-DISTRICT, ORLANDO J. LOTZ. D B FIFTH DISTBICT. GEORGE E.ROSS.INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. If you want to vote a STRAIGiU DEMOCRATIC TICKET, stamp within the big square containing the ROOSTER at the top of the ticket, aud stamp nowhere else. — OWW ! ‘ I

Remember: 1. You must get-your ballots of ths polling dorks in the election room. 2. If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp within the large square at the head of the ticket containing the device of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket you must not stamp the large square containing the device of your party, but you must stamp the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on whatever list of candidates it may be. If the large square at the head of the ticket is stamped, and the ballot is stamped at ans other place, it is void and cannot be counted, unless there be no candidate for some office in ’ the list printed under such stamped device. in which case he may indicate his choice for such office by stamping the square to the left ®f the name of any candidate for such office on any other

list. The stamp must be placed within or on'lhe square or the ballot is void and cannot be counted. 3. Do not mutilate your ballot-, or mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on, or in any way, except by the stamping on the square or squares, as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. 4. After stamping yotil’ ballots, and before leaving the booth, 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, “ftnd leave the room. 5. If you are physically unable to' stamp your ballots, or can not read English, so inform the polling clerks and bell them how you vjsh to vote and they will stamp your ballots for you. Bat the voter and clerks should not permit any other person to hear or see how the bftllots are stamped, and it is a penal offense to declare that you can not read English or cannot mark your ballot, if, in fact, you can. 8. If vou should accidentally or by mistake deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot. 1 7. You,,must not accept a ballot from any person oufside of the election roots/ Any ballot outside is fraudulent, and it is tr penitentiary offense to have such a ballot in yout possession whether yon attempt to vote it or not. 8. You must not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with members of the election board and the poll cler ks. 9. You must not put any mark of a«y kind on your ballot except with the