Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1897 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT KVEKY THCHBDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. PUBLISHER. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT 23. Business is booming—for the sugar trust and a few other trusts that fatten upon congressional legislation known by name as the Dingley law. The Hon. R. S. Tavlor of Fort Wayne, has made affidavit to the effect that he wants to be the next United States Senator from Indiana. It will not be out place to here state that Senator Turpie may want some consultation as to the ursurpation of his office Berne’s new postmaster is Jeff Lehman, the appointment having been made the first of the week. The appointment of Mr. Lehman is no doubt pleasing to all interested in the continuance of good mail service at that place. Retiring Postmaster Michaud has served the public there faithfully and well, and retires with the well wishes of everybody. Ex-oecketary Hoke Smith passed through Washington a day or two ago, and he was fairly bubling over with satisfaction at the bright prospects ahead of the united democratic party, which always wins. He thinks the success of the democrats in Greater New York is almost certain, and that it will start a wave of party harmony that will result in the election of a democratic house next year and of a democratic president in 1900. The Logansport Pharos puts it very aptly in this: “When Armour andUudahayraise the price of meats, that is a corner on meats; when the sugar trust raises the price of sugar, that is a corner on sugar; when the coal operators combine and riise the price of coal, that is a corner on coal. All the above are legitimate. But when a lot of coal miners get together and form a corner on labor and say we want wages enough to live, then that is a not and the militia is called out.”

THERE ARE OTHERS. Ehinger Sc /Weyers, Exclusive Merchant Tailors. Have made a CUT in their fall and winter line of PIECE goods that will astonish you. Suits from §12.50 to §19.50, that formerly sold at §18.50 to §28.00. Pants from §3.50 to §6.00, Just about one-half what they are worth. Remember, we are exclusive Merchant Tailors, and do not dabble in any other business. We guarantee satisfaction in every respect, as we employ nothing, but the best workmen and seamstress. All we ask of you is to step into our store and see for yourself, as every piece of goods is marked in plain figures. Do not fail to see us, as we will save you money and give you better satisfaction than you can get elsewhere. Yours truly, EHINGER & MEYERS, The Leading and Exclusive Tailors.

Boss Platt is using all his wiles to get Mr. McKinley to take sides against >he candidacy of Seth Low for mayor of Greater New York, and he .« very sly about it, too. He is trying to convince Mr McKinley, and has almost succeeded, that if he doesn’t help to kill the aspirations of Low, he will have him to tight as a catididade for the presidential nomination at the next repub ican national convention. At last a man has been found who has been willing to acknowledge having had a hand in the putting of Section 22 in’o the tariff bill, while that measure was in conference. It is Senator Elkins of West Virginia, who says that the discriminating duties prescribed are intended to shut out freight now brought into the United States by the Canadian Pacific Railroad. But it will also shut out much stuff brought by other transportation lines, both by ra'l and «■<■» Jubilee Lipton, who has made 150,000,000 in the grocery business iu twenty years, and who has just departed from our shores after a tour of the United States, attributes his success to printers ink, employed in the advertising columns of the newspapers, it is his opinion that one might as well undertake to run a store in a tunnel as try to do business without appealing to the public through the press. This is the opinion of the world’s most successful business men.— Boston Herald. In order to soothe those who may have the Klondike fever and are debating the important subject in their minds, we reproduce a little advice given by Joaquin Miller, the great newspaper writer, who is now at Dawson City, the seat of war in the gold region. He says that those who care to come can come, yet, the honest farmer, as a rule, will get more money and with less work by s’lcking to his farm than by com ing here. So will almost anyone who is established in some good pursuit at home. Let all rememler that we heard only of the 100 tor tunate miners, while nothing at all is said of the thousand and one failures. Now that the council have compelled Electrician Edwards to remove all street lights, they should : continue in their course of brotherly love and compel him to quit what I little commercial business he may do. The people’s contempt would ; not increase in the least.

The Harrfßon Ho nd loue. The Hon. Cl aries Foster was one of the orators at the recent repub hcan demonstration in Ohio, and made the bold statem< nt that as secretary of the treasury in President Harrison’s cabinet, he had not arranged to issue bonds to avert national bankruptcy. Unfortunately Mr. Foster’s record does not bear out hts statement as the following letter instructing the chief of the Bureau of engraving to prepare plates for a bond issue proves. I’reasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington, D., C. Feb. 20, 1893. The chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Sir —You are hereby authorized and directed to prepare designs for the 3 per cent, bonds provided in a senate amendment to the sundry civil bill now pending. The denominations which should first receive attention are lOOsaud I,ooos of the coupon bond*, 100 s, I,ooos and 10,000 s of the registered bonds. This authority is given in advance of the enactment iu view of pressing contingencies, and you are directed to hasten the preparation of the designs and plates in every possible manner. I enclose a memorandum for your guidance in piepariug the script for the body of the bond. Respectfully yours, Charles Foster, Secretary. This was written two weeks before the HarrUon administration went out, leaving Mr. Cleveland an empty treasury with the only alternative to take up and continue the bond issues for which Secretary Foster had made preparations And it is also a tact worthy of remembrance in this connection that with the Dingley deficit creating tariff in operation the McKinley adminis tration is saved from bankruptcy only by the money stored in the treasury as the result of the Cleveland bond issues. These three bond issues netted the government $182,000,000 gold. The treasury balance on the 11th inst., aside from the #100,000,000 gold reserve was $117,260,981. But for the Cleveland bond issues, therefore, the clear balance in the treeasnry would be wiped out and it would be short of funds to the extent of $65,000,000, compared with the situation as it now stands. The republicans are touching the Cleveland bond issues very tenderly just now. But for them, with the great deficits impending because of the Dingley tariff Failure as a revenue measure,

We are Now Ready FOR FALL AND WINTER. We have placed in stock a Good Quality of Goods and Will Sell Them at the Low Price. Recollect there is No Tariff on Them yet this fall. We have Underwear to sell at 50c a suit, GOOD, and Suits and Overcoats we have the best in the country for the price. For Merchant Tailoring we have the best facilities in the city. Will make suits to order for sls, sl6, sl7, $lB, sl9, S2O, $22, $23, $24, $25, and full dress for S3O. Recollect we put in good material and first-class work for the lowest to the highest price. Come in and see us. ours to Please. P. rtolthobsG # Go. REMEMBER. WE DO AS WE SAY.

President McKinley would be in the bond issue business or send the government paper to protect —Fort Wayne Journal. The Hon. Hugh Daugherty of Bluffton, a free silver banker and a man of high prominence in the state, gave bis opinion as to the future of silver. He said that he did not affiliate much with bankers in general since taking his stand in behalf of silver. “The bankers look upon me as hardly respectable since then,” said he. “The bankers, it is true, made their influence fe tin behalf of the money power last fall and they did it by operating on the fears of business men. They made the business men believe that if free silver won the bankers conld not give them credit and they would be crushed. “Their influence was telt, and 1 believe that they will make it felt again, but the real

truth is this country is coming to bimetallism, and it is coming to it in a short time. As soon as the business men learn that there is no truth in the representations of the bankers and that free coinage will bring its financial prosperity to them as well as to everybody else in the general stimulous of trade the hold of the bankers is gone. What is needed is a campaign of education, but let us not go to the farmers to educate them. They are right on the question now and don’t need education. I say make the bankers take their medicine. A change in our financial system along the lines of free silver reform is b n und to come and when it comes this country will be the most happy and prosperous on the globe.” The silver question is not one merely for today, tomorrow or tor this year, but it concerns our people for all time. If it be true, as the goldites so loudly claim, that we now have “prosperity,” then the people are certainly in a position to study the conditions which surround them. Now is the time of all others. If any student of the subject has set found a single valid argument tn favor of the gold standard, we have never seen or heard of it. The gold men talk sneeriugly about 16 to 1, but they fail to tell us how the gold standard has benefitted the country or how it possibly can.

ALWAYS FRESH Fruits received every doy, which permits us to deliver them to our custom | ers fresh. We make it a I point to alwajs keep the best of everything in this line Bread, Cakes other Novelties Our baker is doing some very tine baking, making it useless for you to spend your time around a hot stove this s weltering weather. Boarding, Meals and Lunches We are prepared to furnish meals by the day or week and also a room. Lunches | at all hours. Everything We keep the best of everything in the eating line. If you djubt it. try us. IL A FRISTOE Proprietor. People’s Restaurant. MORTGAGE LOANS Money Loaned on Favorable Terms LOW BATE OF INTEREST Frivelege of Partial Payments. Abstracts of Title Carefiillv Prepared F. M. SCHIRMEYER, Cor. 2d and Madison Sts. DECATI K, IND.

The Clover ueaf. B T., St. L. &KC.R. R. In effect Jan 3, iw EAST. Passenger 5:36 a. m Express 6:56 n m Mail 12:05 pm. Local 2:ospm. WEST. Passenger 4:32a. m Express S:33a.m Siaii . 12:05pm Local 10:15i m E A. Whinrey,Aeent. |S| Erie Lines / H Bfll nA X'- ' - ■KI j| |/ 27. 1897. B Trains leave Decaturu follows: WEST. ■ No. 5, vestibule limited, daily for i Chicago i 12:33 p.m No. 3, Pacific express, daily fori Chicago I l:48a.o No. 1, express, daily except Suu-I dav for Chicago I 10:43 a. m No. 31.'local, dally except Sun-1 ■ day I 10:10 a n> No 13. Wells Fargo Limited Express, daily except Monday.- 6 la p. m. and day after legal holiday 1 EAST ■ No. 8. vestibule limited, dally for i . New York and Boston I <:»' No. 2. express, dally except sun-', day for New York ■■ I 2:01 p.m No. 12. express, daily for New I York 1 1:30 a. m R No. 30. local, daily except sun-' M Through coaches and-o . -pm-’ car* I Nr’ York and Boston T rains 1 and 2 stop at all stat" i - ' « E. Division. ■ .-« Train No. 12 carries the .jd. sleepmu ■ to Columbus. Circleville. Clo i t m 'ave - ly. Portsmouth. Ironton, and ly :. 'a. ■ M Columbus, Hocking Valley & I"" 1 ' 1 - and M Norf< ’ lk%WeSlernlin A.D2Los.;.A«n: B The G. R. & I- B (Effect June 20.1897.) TRAINS NORTH. •No. 3. +No. 5. •No- 1 ' ■■ Richmond 11 05 a m 9.05 pm -WgPJ* K Parry 11:1k s : w H Chester o 5-20 " Fountain City. 11:27 .. Johnson 11:37 u M Snow Hiil M •• Woods 11:50 ... 553 ‘ Winchester.... 12:00 9:T»P 0:03" Wdglvine/.'.’’ B I Briant 12:5» “ Geneva i.o« - : og •• geylon 7;ii •• M Berne i’is .. 7 33 H Monroe I:*- 7-34 " DECATUR I:*s “ H- 01 P m i ;to - ■ Monmouth 1:58 “ - ;50 •• Williams 2:01 u •• Hoagland 2:06 * Fort*Wayne.... 2:35 “ H:«P“ S:S " ■ •Daily, except Sunday. +Daily. ■ TRAINS SOUTH ■ •No. 2. ♦No. 4. ■ , - ~MI i m 5:45 a m Fort Wayne.... 12:3a p m -50 am M Adams... 8:13 “ K Hoagland 1:00 t< S;M Williams UOa ( M Monmouth 1:13 ..... 6:30 ‘ Q 1 DECATUR 110 “ 8:42 ' ■ I Monroe 1:32 6 ; 54 I Berne 1:33 7:01 u I Geneva l:->3 „ 7:12 ! Briant 2:00 7.pi Portland2:l4 “ " 7:® •' K Collett 2:** u 4.0- •• 7;50 m Ridgeville... . 2:35 4 ” 7:59 Stone tt 8. 44 •• 8:09 ‘ Winchester,... 2:50 5 : 22 M Woods 8:25 M Snow inil „ .. 8:32 Lynn 3:06 g;3B Johnson 3:11 ** g ; 49 Fountain City. 3:20 9:01 Chester 9:o s M &ond /. /.-. 3:40 “ Jlep. B | Daily. tDaily ex. Sunday. ■. j ♦Satut day from Mackinac 1 1 J H¥S , )S , ■ C.L L ICKWOOD. Gen. Pas As’enL^— ■ DECATUR directors I c :> p oWo. 1 NATIONAL I srRPU'k B »5,000. oFFI cER S ‘ B BANK. ssSgJ A general banking ae d. B transacted. p ore ’s“ g. Interest given on time p