Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 20 May 1897 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, MAY 20. i Prosperity is coming but the , hog train doesn’t run on schedule time. 1 gTiLL the tariff is a tax which the consumer pays. We can lick the repnbs any time on tariff issues. , The sugar trust scandal still con- . tinues 3nd the coat tails of many , senators are somewhat subject to speculative censure. The Democrat’s circulation warrents any merchant in investing in advertising space. It is the only , way to make the mar» go. ( The Hon. S. E. Nicholson was in 1 town Saturday a few minutes. It ( is stated in newspaper circles that he is an avowed candidate for congress from his district. The Democrat Sports a bran ! new heading, made to order. It expressly suits the critical eye of ■ the office crank, and if it doesn’t meet your approbation just kick. Claude Matthews hasannounced 1 his candidacy for the United States 1 Senate. It would seem that his 1 nerve hasn’t subsided any since re- 1 tiring from the gubernatorial chair. Fort Wayne’s new court house ' will cost $479,336, that being the contract price. This is only part of 1 the total cost, as extras and other ‘ necessities will add at least $200,000 more. Cuban patriotism is at fire heat ‘ in the Stales Senate. Much gush is going to waste. It would ] he better to relieve the suffering Americans without so many grand j stand plays. Hon. Alfred A. Eugerton a former prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, died last Friday night, after an llluess of some length. , lb was a man of fine intellect and i brilliant thought. . Senator Turpie is recorded by the New York Journal as being opposed.to the sugar schedule and th*trust, and Senator Fairbanks is put down as “non-committal.” Fairbanks is true to republican princi pies. M. F. Rice is now a bonded officeholder and couneilmamc member of the city administration, having been appointed to represent the second ward in the place of Henry H. Hart, resigned. Mel will serve until the next city election, when he will be retired by a democrat. This asser tion is made without any malice aforethought. As the price of refined sugar is above that of the raw sugar, the differential is largely increased over that uvthe house, and probably is upward of a quarter of a cent per pound, aside from all the possibilities. According to the Chicago Tribune, “this schedule is almost word for word the same as the one originally suggested by the sugar trust. On sugars below 87 degrees test the rate is entirely ad valorem, and is fixed at 7o cents.” . _C Last week Mr. McKinley sent fta the members of the senate committee on foreign relations, and after laying before them official communications from Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee and other consuls, showing a horrible state of affairs in, Cuba, announced that he had made up hisijnind to send „an ..immediate message to congress recommending action for the relief of starving American citizens in Cuba, and incidentally for the aid of Cuba. Before the great rejoicing that followed this announcement had a chance to get fairly started, Mr. McKinley telephoned to the capitol that he had changed his mjnd and would defer the message until this week. Monday, howeyer, the message came, and advised the appropriation of $50,000 for the relief of American citizes. There is a few at home that could stand a small appropriation also.

The talk of senators on Senator Allen’s resolution asking Mr. Mo Kinley not to pardon Chapman, the broker who was sentenced to a mouth’s imprisonment tor refusing to tell the names ot senators who speculated m sugar stock, resulted in a change of program. The sugar trust, as well as its friends in the senate became thoroughly alarmed and decided tbat Chapman should serve his term in jail, hoping thereby to hush tne talk about a new sugar investigation in the senate The members of the sugar trust who are under the same sort of indict ment will trust to their money 7 and pull to escape jail by legal methods. Senator Dkbob of Kentucky, seems to be real grateful to Dr. Hunter for having given wav for him and then helped him to get elected to the senate; Knowing that Dr. Hunter’s contest for a seat in the house had nothing more substantial to stand upon than the partisanship of a majority ot the bouse. Mr. Deboe has secured the promise of a good appointment for Hunter from Mr. McKinley, and still further to show his gratitude, he worked the Kentucky contingent ot republican office-holders and would be-office-holders for contributions to the ex tent of #940 and invested the money in two diamond studed watches which were duly presented to Dr. Hunter and his wife. Now comes the Hon. John Wannaniaker, postmaster-general under Harrison’s administration, who has been heard from. At a meeting and banquet of the business men’s league in Philadelphia, he stated among other things, that “the country is not prosperous. Since the outset ot the last presidential campaign the party, press and political leaders, generally, fixed the November election of 1896 as the date of the beginning of good times. A full half of the year has expired since the will of the republican party was declared. Thus far but one ot the important issues of the campaign is nearing settlement, and hardly any noticeable improvement of the wretched times is manifest. The tides will soon 6et in strongly against the republican party unless the depression of business is altered. Idleness and want breed a bitter discontent which will never be overcome until there aie ample employ - ments.” Great things are claimed for the mutilated Dingley tariff, amended and- re-written by 7 the republican members of the senate finance committee until * its original frameicould hardly find traces of then handiwork, as great things were claimed for the Di'ngley tariff in its original form as a restorative of pros fieri ty and a remedy for all oui serious ills. It may be that there is some occult power in this tariff which will enable ns to lift ourselves out of the slough of industrial depression by our boot straps, start the cart, before the horse, build prosperity upon expectations, and pu* it in the power of manufacturers to prosper by starting up their mtl ! s even though there be no market for the products. But if there is not some such magic power in the Dingley tariff it'rnust fail as a restorative ot prosperity—it must fail to bring prosperity to our manufacturers, tor the mere staring up of mills will not make a demand for manufactured goods, and to increase the output of mill and factory, with the result of piling up the products in storehouses, cannot but lead to ruin and disaster and a thickening of the clouds of industrial stagnation. The grand army encampmen’ last week was a glittering success of coated patriotism. .Richmond did herself proud in her efforts to entertain the scarred veterans, and those who attended from this place are loud in their praise of the social entertainment accorded new officers of the encampment are Col. J. S. Dodge of Elkhart, department commanders John W. Tingle of Richmond,, senior vice commander; J. 1). White of La Fayette, junior vice commander; Rev. A. Murphy ot Greensbnrg, chaplain; F. W. Warlord, medical director. The council of administration is Benjamin Starr of Richmond, .Elder Cooper of Evansville, Nicholas Filbe.ck of Terre Haute, James H. Mitchell of LaFayettte, and Lee Martz of Bleffton. The delegates to the Buffalo, New York, encampment are: First district, Charles Minehart and Peter Kirk; , second, Uriah Poison; third, Lewis Firr; fourth, Daniel Ryan and Daniel Wilson; fifth, J. A. Barlow and . G. W. Miller; sixth, Benjamin St arr; -.seventh, W. D. Dunlap; eighth. Richard ScHoeple and William E Murray; ninth, W. P . Stephenson i and' A. R. Tucker; tenth, Ira F. Carpenter and Asbury S, McConnell; : eleventh, -Henry Gamble and Adam A. Kline;\welfth, Joseph and ■T. C. Gordon; thirteenth, Joseph 1 Turner and O. C. Gordon; delgate-at-large, Gen. Lew Wallace.

OPPOSITION TO CIVIL SERVICE LOCKWOOD SAYS A MAJORITY IN CONGRESS IS AGAINST IT. Heath’s Plan* For Showing the Postal Congress Through liiiliiiua — Petitions From llooslers For a Moro Stringent Immigration Law- —Pension Mutt.ors Kll- - Attention —Other Gossip Selected For Our Own People. From Our Special Correspondent. Washington, May It*. —There is an anti-civil service organization at Indianapolis which is known as the National Anti-Civil Service Reform league, which sooins to be holding nightly meetings at which the civil service reform idea never fails to got the worst of it, and the Indiana members of congress are kept well posted on the position of this organization bv frequent consignments of resolutions on the subject, one of which declares that civil service reform is “a thorn in tho side of the patriot and the flesh of the body politic.” Undoubtedly the Republican members of the Indiana delegation in congress are pretty much worried over tho influence which the lack of patronage is having on their party organization in Indiana, a state ‘which has always fared well at the pieoonnter, no matter which side was in power. There is a clear majority against the law as it stands in both houses of congress, but in view of the position of President McKinley it is rather a delicate question to handle. “If changes aro to be made in the operation of the law,” says one Indiana congressman, “it does not rest with congress to take the initiative. President McKinley has it within his power to revoke any or all of the orders extending the classified service, and if he does not do so it will be manifestly discourteous on the part of congress to pass a measure calculated to bring about the same result.” An Indiana departmental official, who is considered close to the president, declares that he will not veto a “reasonable law” looking to the “loosening up” for which the politicians are clamoring since they have discovered that even a cabinet official has but one office to dispose of, that being his own private secretary. It is said that a great deal of pressure is being brought to bear on the president by departmental official looking to changes in the rules, and in the personnel of the civil service commission, but what this will all result in remains to be seeu. Meanwhile there is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth, and incidentally a little sharpening of knives back in the precincts. ■—**# — “General” Heath is planning a number of excursions for members of the postal congress nowyn session in Washington. When tlie members of the congress go west it is expected that the invitation of the Indianapolis Commercial club for an inspection of the thriving Hoosier capital will be accepted. It is not probable that Mr. Heath will permit the distinguished guests of the nation to leave Indiana without visiting the gas belt, and they may be asked to drop off and see a live gas well, perhaps at Muncie, where the present first assistant . postmaster general got his start in life as a printer’s devil in the office of the Muneie Times. , —*** — Indianians have a faculty of getting ahead in the, theatrical as well as the political world. The leading ladies in the two most popular opera companies which have visited the national capital during the present season have been In* (liana girls. Miss Grace Golden of New Harmony is the prima donna of the Castle Square Opera company, nowholding the hoards at the Lafayette, and is a popular favorite. Miss Golden is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Golden, who have finished the season with the “The Limited Mail.” Her brother, Will Golden, a graduate of the State University, and now living in New York, is a successful pkiyright, When the New York Herald five years ago offered a prize of SI,OOO for the best 1-act play submitted in competition, this talented young Hoosier carried off the honors and the money. The historic village of New Harmony is, by the way, the home of more stage people than any other place of its size in the country, perhaps owing to the fact that it has the oldest dramatis club in the west, the Thespian society dating its origin back to the days of the Owen community early in the 20’s. Miss Grace Owen, a descendant of the famous Owen of New Harmony, appeared in Washington a few weeks ago with Digby Bell in “The Hoosier Doctor. ” This play is not, as might be expected, one of the kind in which the characters look like the Hoosiers of Edward Eggleston or talk like those of James Whitcomb Riley. The scene is laid in the suburbs of Indianapolis and the only touch of real Hoosier life, as easterners imagine it, is {the raid of a mob of whitceaps, an occurrence which is, of course, quite common in the suburbs of Indianapolis. During the holidays when the Bostonians visited Washington, the central figures of this famous opera company were Jessie Bartlett Davis, whose home is in Lake comity and whb' i 'Still has her summer residence there, and Miss Grace Quive of North Manchester, who has since become' Mrs. Charles Van Studiford of St. Louis. —»V— Hon. W. H. McLean, who was deputy commissioner of pensions under the first Cleveland administration, and later a member of the Indiana senate from Vigo county, is for the present engaged in the practice of law in this city. Colonel McLean has a home of his own in Washington which he purchased while deputy commissioner. Though he forsook his former party affiliations during the last campaign and accompanied the party of generals on their trip through Indiana, he is not an aspirant for appointment at tlie hands of the present administration. Senator is classified as one of tho Terro Haute “Big Five,” two members of Which, Senator Yoorhees and Colonel Tom Nelson, have died during the past year, Colonel Meliean, Colonel Thompson and Hon. W.

R. McKeen being tho survivors. Oolonol McLean is, to quote his own expression, as “lively ns a cricket,” and h oks forward to many years of active lifo. —**# — Miss Clara Barton, the head of the Red C ross society, who may be asked to go to Cuba as an agent of relief to suffering Americans in Havivnu, says that the project to establish the hoadquartors of the Red Cross society on the farm near. Bedford, beqnathed to the society by a generous Indiana farmer, has boon abandoned, for the present at least. Tlie bequest has not yet become a source of revenue to the society and has so far proved to bo an expensive gift to the intended beneficiary. The building in which tin' general headquarters are to bo located is approaching completion at Glen Echo, near Washington. —*** — Petitions aro circulating in the manufacturing towns of Indiana, and a number have been received by memliors of congress, asking for the passage of a stringent immigration law on tho grounds that tho increased competion resulting from foreign immigration renders tho maintenauctrof a satisfactory wage scale impossible. It is claimed that until recent years the tide of foreign immigration spent itself on the new lands of the west, but now that these have been occupied iu large part the congestion of foreign laborers in the cities of the eastern and central states is having a demoralizing effect on the industrial situation. Undoubtedly immigr.° “on legislation will attract the attention of congress early in the next session, and as chairman of the senate committee on immigration Senator Fairbanks is likely to be prominent in the framing of tho measure. On this committee Mr. Fairbanks succeeds Senator Lodge, one of tho most prominent figures in the senate, and the appointment of the new senator to this important post by the Republican caucus is considered a mark of signal favor. Mr. Fairbanks has not given public expression to his opinion on the matter of immigration legislation, but it is said he will favor a law something similar to the McCall measure which was vetoed by President Cleveland iu the concluding days of the last session. —*** — One of the growing members of the Indiana delegation in Congress in Hon. Jesse Overstreet of Indianapolis, who represents Marion and Johnson counties. When Mr. Overstreet appeared in Washington two years ago he was regarded as one of the numerous political casualties of the preceding campaign. But even during the first session he gained standing as one of the quiet, working members who bring about legislation in congress, while oratorical members waste their energy in the spellbinding business. The house of representatives is, like tlie senate, in large part simply a group of coimnittees, or “little legislatures,” as Senator Hoar calls them, aud hero the real work of legislation is done and laws are made and unmade not by grace of oratory but by business ability and If ‘push. ’ ’ One of the best measures passed by the last house was that originated by Mr. Overstreet providing for the payment of pensions by the means of checks. The result of this has been not only to reduce largely the arpount of work requited to transact the business of the various pension agencies, but to benefit, the pensioners themselves by-paying them ,u their own homes, rather than * away from their homes, where in some cases there were strong inducements to spend the money which should go to the support of their families. -***- Just now there is a good deal to discou'rage Mr. Overstreet in the outlook for the bill passed by the senate the other day appropriating $1,500,090 for a new public building at Indianapolis. The measure was pushed through the senate by Senator Turpie, and now Indianapolis fs of* course'looking to Mr. Overstreet to get the measure through the house. Mr. Overstreet failed in this at the last session, for Speaker Reed stood squarely in the way of such appropriations at a time when finances were at so low an ebb. Os course there is no prospect of the bill in question passing the house at the present session, for no committees will be appointed until December, aud consequently no such legislation can be enacted. But Mr. Overstreet is not particularly hopeful of the passage of the measure even at the next session. The revenue producing capacity of tho new tariff law will not, belays, have been fully demonstrated, ainUpending a full knowledge of its effect he thinks that the same influendfes will be operating against the passage of appropriations for new enterprises as prevented the consideration of the Indianapolis bill Last session. The need of the new structure is generally recognized, for t}je public building at the state capital is an antebellum affair which is entirely inadequate, many of the offices being scattered through other buildings. But it is not probable that Indianapolis will have a new building begun for two or thr< e years yet at least in spite of Mr. Overstreet’s efforts in that direction. —#*■» — Next .to Kansas, which is said to contain one-eighth of all the survivors of the Union army, Indiana is the greatest pension state in the Union. Just now pension matters are engaging the attention of members of congress to an unusual degree and tho department is clogged with business. Commissioner Evans is considering the advisability of forbidding the refiling of claims immediately after their rejection, by which many pension claims are kept constantly before the department, resulting in delay -ITT of claims which have never received attention. Democratic members of the local medical examining boards are being rapidly supplanted by Republicans ou the recommendation of the Republican congressmen and Senator Fairbanks, even iu the 22 towns in which the boards are within the classified service. It is generally an easy matter to find ox-soldiers who have previously been members of these boards, and in such cases the law permits reinstatements. The doctoirs seem to regard these places as very desirable, and in most counties the oontests for appointment have been spirited. Georgi|! B. Lockwood.

«in and Cool. al suits for the warm weathSummer weight worsteds up without lining. They >k just as neat and dressy as the hot and uncomfortable kind. They’re called skeleton suits, probably because wearing one is just like sitting around in your hones. Then there’s the washable LINEN CRASH, about as sensible a thing as a man can buy; light, cool, clean lexpensive. Or we can sell thin coat and vest of Alsilk or brilliantine. All of things here to help a hrough the hot days. Pete Hroltholise Sc Co., Men’s Outfitters.

HIcKIINLBI PKOSPEUITV. “Here’s a pretty howdy do!” says .T. B. Cheadle, late democratic candidate for congress in the tenth district. “hix months after the ‘advance agent of prosperity’ waH employed by the people of these United States to furnish ail unlimited invoice of his goods, consisting of chimney smoke (the factory kind,) flying spindles, busy mills and mines employed labor, in- t creased wages, and in fact anything you want ('f you don’s see it ask tor it.) I see in every paper almost that I pick up unmistakable evidence that hard times is still knocking at the door. Here is one day’s record of the great wave of prosperity that has inundated the country: Four thousand men locked out by the lU.nois Steel company at Chicago, a reduction of 50 cents a ton on the puddling rate by the A. ML Myers &> Co. rolling mill at Pittsburg; a reduction of wages in the window glass factory at Gas City; big reduction ot men and wages on two of the great trunk line railroads; coal and iron ore miners forced to accept starvation wages; idle men everywhere; bursting banks, failing business firms, mortgaged farmers giving up their homesteads and joining the vast army of the unemployed. This is but a partial record of one day under the ‘existing gold standard’ and its unparalleled prospertiy producing qualities. This doesn t seem to alarm the goldbugs, however, who calmly tell us to wait and see bow differeu it will be after a whije. They say you can’t expect to set a hen in the morning and have fried chicken for dinner. No, you can’t expect to set a hen on cracked eggs and have any chickens at all. The trouble is to keep the old prosperity hen on long enough at a time to hatch anything. In the meantime a long suffering and patient people are wondering how much longer they will have to wait for those good times so freely and certainly promised when the old hen was set on the golden eggs last November, it the late spring elections are any criterion, I take it that they have only to wait until they have an opportunity to reverse their decision and set a good old motherly hen that will stay on the nest and hatch out good times. That will be a bimetallic hen.’’ — Lagrange Democrat. The New York democrats talk of ‘,reorganization,” but there is no reorganization necessary. The democratic party is organized, its organization is based on a principle so righteous that defeat,, instead of demoralizing the party, has strengthened it.

TELEPHONE DECISION. The Electrical Review, of New York, an authority on such subjects, in its issue of Wednesday last, devotes its attention to the recent decision ot the United States supreme court on the Berliner telephone patent, and makes the case clear to the public. Among other things it says: The decision was announced by Justice Brewer, He went straight to the heart of the matter, and in most emphatic and unmistakable language, declared that the government had made no case, arid that the Berli/ier patent should not be canceled. The w'ritten opinion is quite lengthy, and deals with the 'Various pqints brought forward by the government in its attack upon the patent, the patent officials and the Bell Telephone company’s attorney, in detail and with great clearness and force. The contention that Berliner’s patent of 1891 is covered by his patent of 1880 was disposed of with the statements that the question is not open for consideration in this case, because this objections is a defense which is open to every individual charged by the patentee with fringement.s. whether the proceedings against him be an action at law r or a suit in equity. The philanthropic idea that the government should cancel a patent whenever it is liable to prolong a monopoly, was disposed of with equal promptness and emphasis. Justice Brewer says the telephone invented by Bell is now free to the public and everybody may use it. The court holds that a government has a right to cancel a patent when it has a proprietary or pecuniary Interest in the result, and when it is necessary to enable it to discharge its obligation to the public; but, in this instance, it is apparent that one of the purposes of ’ the suit was the striking down of the Berliner patent in order to give value to otbers;that private competitors of the Bell company are seeking to injure a rival, not for the public good, but for the promotion of their personal interests The decision of the court of appeals was affirmed; Justice Harlan dissented, but delivered no opinion. Justices Gray and Brown took no part in the case. Tub township trustees will meet at the auditor’s office on the first Monday in June, the same being June 7, for the purpose of electing i a successor to County Superintendent J, candidates seeking election to tbis office are A. W. Guliok of St. Mary’s township, i C. A. Christen of Geneva, J. F. . Snow, Irvin Brandyberry and Dore . Erwin of this citv. All are com- , petent and well enlightened in ■ school work and the trustees will ■ make no mistake in selecting one ot them.