Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1897 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 19. There is nothing so bright as electric light. Just notice it some night. The tariff is a 'ax which the consumer pays, and the Dingley tariff doubles the dose. It would stem that Mr. Blackburn is interested in the Journal’s editorial writing. Well, well. The people of this city who are now paying twenty-five per cent, more taxes, would like to peruse an exhibit of the city’s finances. We think the proposition a good one. The council should produce. “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find,knock and it shall be opened unto you,” are scriptural phrases that seem to foreshadow the necessity of advertising for business. The Democrat as an advertiser has no equals. Try a contract. Give us light. There is no political sense or any other kind of sense in turning the town into darkness. Economy is a good thing; push it along by issuing a few more “stock company ” bonds and instructing Bro. Edwards to light up. The Journal has now concluded that an electric light plant owned and operated by the city—on the stock company plan—would be a good thing, even in the face of tbe probability of a future “incompeteni democratic administration.” Ob, thanks Frans. Hanna corruption was imminent in Ohio last week, at which time it was conclusively proven that Hanna money bought up the populist state convention. Tbe rotteness of the whole thing was exploded by a few of those who loved populism more than glittering Hanna gold. Tbe desperation of the republicans in Ohio is becoming apparent. We wish to inform the Journal that we emphatically insist on an “expose” of their contemptible allegations against th s paper and its manageme it. Lay the “documentary evidence’ bare before the public, something that should have been done when the dirty charge was made. The Journal should be the last newspaper on earth to conceal such a “good thing.” We advise ail who need overcoats or other similar wearing apparel, and have the money to buy it, to make their investments this fall. N°xt year you will pay more money for the same grade and kind of cloth, owing to excessive duties of the Dtngley tariff law. The addition you will have to pay is simply a tribute to the trusts and combinations, who run congress and own the president. Turn on the light. The town is overrun with tramps and robberies are being committed with frequent regularity. The darkness that prevails gives ample opportunity for house plundering, and it is only a question of time until “hold ups” on the streets will be as frequent and as regular as night itself. Tbe council’s sickening plea of economy should be wiped off the slate and an apology offered to the people for suffering them and their property to the evil designs of him who steals. Turn on the lights. H. E. Pingree the republican governor of Michigan, says of the Dingley tariff: “I regard the duty on lumber, hides and sugar as unrepublican, unpatriotic and unfair. The lumber now used goes mostly into small homes and farm houses and to a class already overtaxed. The laborer wears twice as many shoes as tbe millionaire and must contribute twice as much for the tax on hides. He must use as much sugar and pay as much toward the duty on sugar. It is grossly unfair to make the poor pay as much per capita as the rith toward the support of the government. Property and not the human stomachs should be reached. Property is protected by our laws and should pay tor its protection.”

ANNUAL CONFERENCE. THE AUGLAIZE DISTRICT UNITED BRETHRENS WILL MEET IN THIS CITY. AUGUST 26. qnnnn nnTUT. rjrniVUTJVVIPJ , VVV n - , V , 'O n - rLn - n .nJTTUTrLTLp I I * fl * Isl = • i I Byfli C BISHOP J W. HOTT. D. D. LL. D. 5 The necessary preparations are now being made for the proper entertainment of tbe many church dignities that will be present upon the occasion of the Annual Conference of the United Brethren Church, of this city. Pastor Shepherd invites the earnest co-operation of our cititizens in making this occasion a success. Among tbe visitors who will be present will be Bishop J. W. Hott, D. D. LL. D. Rev. Hott is a pulpit educator with few equals, having devoted twenty four years of his I'fe in the service of the church. He arose to his present position of prominence solely by his eloquence and earnestness in the cause in 1 which he is enlisted. He is now filling the third term as Bishop, ! and his appearance here will be enjoyed by all who know him.

Persistent advertising is the 1 best and only mean® of reaching the buying public. The Democrat covers all quarters of ihe Adams j county globe. Try a contract on one of its many newsy pages. The Democrat has disclaimed all intention of reflecting on tbe honest) of auv city official. That’s well — Journal. We not only disclaim anv inten tions, but disclaim any nflections. But that’s right Frank, “jolly” the council. The tariff bill was passed quicker than any like measure that congress ever undertook. And yet tbe democacy tells us we are no>. fulfilling our promises.—Journal. Certainly. All that was done was to ask the trusts and campaign boodlers what they wanted and then gave it to them without a murmur. Tom Reed then adjourned congress and prosperity is here. It’s glorious. For once in its life the Indianapolis Journal, the state organ of republicanism in Indiana, is right. It says: “Toe advance in the price of wheat is not a result of the recent tariff legislation. * * * The real cause of the advance that is now going on is the short wheat crops of other countries. Scarcely a country in Europe has a full crop, while, unless it is Russia, none of the countries which have furnished the wheat deficit countries of Europe have any wheat to export. India has a famine, and may be regarded as out of the list of competitors for two crops at least. Argentina, which has furnished a large surplus the past five or six years, is obliged to purchase this year. Practically we have the outside market to ourselves. It is this tact which has caused the advance of prices and for which a further advance is expected. That is, the price has to be obedient to the inexorable law of supply and demand.” Tbe Journal should be equally as liberal. Unlike the electric light question, Bro. Evarts has had time to stadv it. Boss Hanna’s man, Dick, may be relieved of the management of the Hanna campaign in Ohio. He has got himself the ill will of the republican magnates tor having bungled his work in bribing certain Ohio populists. Instead of using cash, he was thoughtless enough to have used checks and these disagreeable proofs of bribery have gotten into the wrong hands. The magnates aforesaid expected Dick to arrange for tbe nomination of a straight populist state ticket in Ohio, and for other populist assistance to the republican state and legislative tickets, especially the latter, but they didn’t expect him to do it so clumsily as to be caught at it. As no explanation has been or can be put forward by Dick that will satisfy an intelligent and unprejudiced mind that he has not been engaged in wholesale bribery, it is believed that Boss Hanna will seek to escape responsibility Tor the bribery by pretending to rebuke Dick by taking tbe management of the campaign oat of his bands. Dick’s bribery has greatly strengthened democratic hopes there.

The Lord Almighty is responsible for the large wheat yield tn this ; country, and the wheat famine in South America and European coun-: Ties. The prosperity coming from this fact will be short lived, but nevertheless relished by our farmers who have a bountiful supply of this much needed cereal. In a yawp about prosperity a local newspaper includes as an evidence that good times have arried, the fact that the price of beef has gone up Why did it not take the new tariff and show by it how the prices of all commodities have j increased or are about to? I’he cost of clothing is to advance. So is the cost of shoes and of all the; necessaries of life. The price of coal is higher already. But so long as there ha« been no corresponding | increase of wages how are we to know that prosperity has come? If the republican press wishes to show that better times have really arrived let a page or more be devoted to the enumeration of the mills and other establishments which have increased the wages of their employes. That is the true index of i prosperity. There should be no in-i crease in the cost ot living until there is an increase in the wages of men to pay tor it. When the new tariff or any other cause has raised the wages of the workingmen all oyer the country in proportion to the increased cost of lite the Chronical will gladly join the chorus and devote as many pages as are necessary to setting the fact before the people.—Chicago Chronicle. The Democrat has made repeated attacks on the council for proposine the erection of an electric light plant that would give better service at less cost and furnish incandescent lights for our residences snd stores. If to light i the city by private contract is preferable to the city owning its own plant it should present proof of it. It is the most economical the people of Decatur i prefer to own their own plant—Journal, i As usual, the Journal misrepresents ns. No where nor at any time has the Democrat made attacks on the council for building or owning an electric light plant. However, we did ‘-kick” about them railroading an ordinance through in one night, without the knowledge of any one outside of the council members and the “stock company.” Such public tran-actions are trifling in the extreme, with the power aflotted them. This is a matter of public importance, and one in which the taxpayers are all interested. We also “kicked” about their contempt for the people now, in annulling the present contract, and leaving our people stumble through darkness, upon the sickening plea of economy. We also “kicked” about the unbusiness like treatment accorded Mr. Edwards, the present contractor. Without any notification weatever, they politely informed him that they bad no further use for him or bis lights, thereby totally destroying his business, and leaving him with thousands of dollars invested in machinery and fixtures, that now are almost totally valuless. The Journal not caring to discuss these issues are hedging, by trying to impress the council that we maliciously, wilfully and knowingly attacked them. That’s great.

KT JUKE 80818— We need more room for our Fall and Winter Clothing and Overcaats. We offer the following inducements to close out our entire stock of summer clothing and furnishing goods: During this month we will give you 20 per cent Reduction on all summer clothing, hats and furnishings. This is without a doubt the greatest inducement a buysr may look for, as it includes some of the choicest novelties of the season. In Our Tailoring Department you will find all the latest productions for fall and winter, 1897. We employ only the best skilled workmen, and can therefore give better results in fit and workmanship. we guarantee every garment that leaves our shop. Respectfully, P. H-olthoUse # Go.

Judge Lawrence ot Bellefontaine, Ohio, in an exhaustive newspaper article firmly declares that the new tariff law is by far the worse for the wool growers than any tariff law ever enacted. When it is known that Judge Lawrence is an expensive wool grower, having devoted sixty years to the flockmasters and during which time has studied political economy as related to their interests, his opinions will have great weight. At the present ’ime he is president of the National Wool Growers’ Association. He also served in congress for ten years and is an ardent republican, in brief he save that the new tariff does not fulfill the republican j pledge. It is due to truth and can-1 dor to say this. The wool manufacturing, and especially the carpet manufacturers, influence was 8“ great in congress that the new law i will soon fail to give wool growers needed protection, especially in view of the prospective decline in the world’s price of goods. When the world’s flocks shall be replenished, and in view of the conditions then to exist, and the great decline in the world’s prices since the act of 186“ and the act of 1893, and since the McKinley act of 1890, I must say the new tariff act of August 24, 1897, will be less protective and more ruinous to the American wool industry than any wool tariff we ever bad. The wool growers are cheated in the new tariff. The pledge of ‘‘the most ample protection for wool has not been fulfilled.” A dispatch to a Cincinnati paper gave Mr. Griffith’s majority as 876. The exact figures as returned to the secretary ot state gives Mr. Griffith a majority over Mr. Lee of 978. But the brilliancy ot the victory does not altogether consist of this 978 majority. The republican papers forget to tell their readers that the populist candidate received 778 votes in the district. These populists voted for Mr. Holman last year, as they had no candidate of their own, and on the financial question, which was the prominent issue in 1896, the populists were perfectly satisfied with Mr. Holman’s position. And the truth is that the rank and file would have been .perfectly satisfied with Mr. Griffith this year, but there are several leaders who “are on the make” and they bob up every campaign for the money there may be in it. Adding the 778 votes cast for Browder to Mr. Griffith’s vote and we have a majority ot 1756. This shows the real anti-republican strength in the district as illustrated in the last contest. The figures at the election of 1896 and 1894 will be found interesting. They are as follows: 1896. Democratic .23,667 Republican 22,930 \ All Others 3.5 j 1894 Democratic 21 405 Republican 21.683 Populist 1 ' 517 In 1892 the democratic majority was over 2,000, but in that year the whole country had become nauseated with McKinleyism, Ben Harnsonism and republicanism in general. Mr. , Griffith not only increased bis vote 153 over Mr. Holman’s, but did it, notwithstanding the desertion of the populists who had supported Mr. Holman last year. It was a brilliant victory and the republican newspaper press know it—lndian- , apo he Sentinel.

THEY ARE HERE. Our new Fall stock of Piece Goods has arrived, and we have the Nobbiest line in the city. We guarantee a fit, at prices to suit the times. Leave your order for a suit NOW. We make repairing a Specialty. Ehinger & Meyers, MERCHANT TAILORS. First door west of Bowers’ hardware store. JAMES K. NIBUCIC THE. GROCER. Can supply you with all kinds of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and the prices can t b discounted any place at any time. Goods ae livered promptly to all parts of the city. Call and see us and permit us to place y° upon our list of regular customers. James K, Niblick. Donovan & Bremerkamps Old Stand.