Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1897 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ItVEHV THUHSDAV MOKNIMI BV LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana i as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, OCT 21. The 29th day of this month 18 Arbor Dav. Cant your trees. The jury in the Luetgert murder case at Chicago, have as yet failed to agree. Charles A. Danna, the noted iournali't and proprietor of the New York Sun, ih dead. “Decaying garbage!” Think of the street commissioner asking any one to remove it He is too slow to rest well. Advertise your business. It is the only cure for business ills. A contract in the Democrat will touch the spot just right. And the silver issue, which has i been dead and buried since last fall, i came to life, being a very much j alive and healthy looking ghost. Another week of decency has prevailed, and again we feel grateful to those who officiate over the peace and dignity of our soon to be

lighted little citv. The city couldn’t stand a little opposition in the electric light business, so they put the offender out of business. It was the quickest if not the most legitimate. Well, well; here comes an announcement of rubbery ol the treasury, and McKinley not in office eight months, And they have been taking forty-cent dollar* at that.— j Sentinel. Congressman Henry has beet: ' interviewed by an Indianapolis i newspaper, and aniioutiued h’.o m-, tention of retiring from politics. Many republicans throughout the state think it a case of “sour grapes.” It is about time for Governor Mount to issue another proclamation upon the lawlessness of the Ripley county murder. If there is anything our governor likes to do, it is to parade in full dress before the public. Be it resolved, that the Journal give the public a few more manufactured leaders upon the rights of a council to maliciously destroy property. The effort was grand, noble, elevating and seemingly right up to da'e. Altho tl e next state convention is eight months off, candidates are springing up from every corner ot the Indiana globe. Adams county will present one of her noble sons, the virtues of whom the Democrat will applaud when the proper time c >mes. Postal savings banks are being somewhat profusely discussed in banking and business circles. From what little knowledge we have gained upon the subject we are free to admit that they would be an advantage at least in all the large cities of Uncle Sam’s domain. The finance committee of the common council has allowed another week to slip by without giving the public any information upon the indebtness of the city. That member of the committee who long ago promised such a report, surely hasn’t much ’fluence with the committee.

The next general assembly in Indiana will elect a successor to Senator Turpie. In anticipation of this important event political gossip has it that Senator Turpie will seek reelection, and that Claude Matthews, John W. Kern and John G. Shank- I lin will also try to gratify their am-. bition before the assembly who elect. In speaking of the garbage question and noting the fact that the esteemed Journal desires to make it a matter of personal allusion, we can safely say that the street commissioner can do valuable missionary work by digging out the stink at the Journal office. The patrons of that office should be given room to spit, without interference. Granting that a “city is supposed to have control of their streets and alleys,” they are also bound to respect the laws the same as any individual. Such silly defense of a council who committed a riotous act in the malicious destruction of property, will never appease the wrath of the public for such maladministration.

The ye low fever is still raging in the south at New Orleans. Yesterday there were fifty-two new cases reported, and sixdea hs. li seems an impossibility to check the shocking life destroyer. When the stale board of healih ’ desists from its absurd and cruel war against microbes, the state I board of education bobs up with something equal.y as ridiculous. Alexander Duinis’ works have been pronounced immoral and pernicious in the extreme. Do as does the state board of health, “bile” ’em. gentlemen, “bile” ’em.—Wabash Tribune. We kindly notify the Journal ed'tor to keep out of ye editor’s neighborhood for a week, for there is a woman as red headed as you make them and who will snatch any one bald headed who intimates that uncleanliness does or ever did prevail in that immediate vicinity. Not caring to see any member of our cherished profession wearing a disfigured facelet, we venture these few words of friendly warning. The Sunday Morning Tribune is a new paper at Huntington, with Loftin & Zimmerman as publishers. The first number was a pleasing illustration of mechanical and newspaper art, containing sixteen pages. I Huntington is large enough to support a paper of this kind, and no doubt will. Here is wishing the new publishers success, with the ; hope that they may fully realize the | extreme height of their ambition.

By the way, what is the reason i the protection crowd does not call attention to beauties of tbe Dingley law as shown in the price of sugar. A year ago you could buy twenty- I two pounds of granulated sugar for one dollar. Now you get but sixteen pounds, a difference of six I pounds which go to swell still | larger the profits of the sugar trust. I TheDingley law is wonderfully kind ' to the sugar trust, and for that mat-1 ter all other trusts, but that fact makes it harder tor the people who ; bqy friist controlled articles, —Mun cip Hypald, The street committee of the C uncil should take a good sized : look at the improvements at the I crossing of Second and Jackson streets, and then go behind the barn and kick themselves and the street commissioner. Instead of putting in a curbing that is safe and reliable, and then bricking the walk to it, they do the work with old cull I lumber that looks worse than ar y I ben bouse we ever saw. The city has no right to demand property owners to build brick walks and then complete their part of them in the manner related. Such baby woik is disgracefulDecatur bankers are this week attending a national convention of bankers at Indianapolis. The Democrat is proud to proclaim that the banks of this city are institutions of great merit. While they do a con servative business, yet they don’t hide their money under a half bushel and refuse meritorious busiI ness projects room to swell themI selves. Neither do they demand a mortgage on your lives to protect them from imaginary loss. They are business men of the strictest sense of the word and don’t have to swallow a camel in order to see through tbe eye of a needle. Decatur bankers are all right. Will the Democrat point out a method of building such improvements in any city without going into debt? Did it expect to build on wind? Does it not know that the present council not only built them but is helping to pay for them? Is it aware that it has already paid off 42b 000 ot the waterworks indebtedness? Does it not know that it refunded at a lower rate of interest 420 000 of indebtedness descended to it from a former democratic administra tion for which only the magnitient city hall on Monroe street is visible?— Journal.

The Journal don’t like to hear it said that future and perhaps democratic administrations will have to provide means for the payment of the vast debt that will fall to their lot, as a legacy of succeeding the present “business administration” now in charge of affairs in this city. The Journal blows around about the present council paying 120,000 of the waterworks indebtedness. Tbe amount is exagerated $5,000 after counting m the $9,500 subscribed as stock in the Decatur Water Works Company. Since then $2,500 waspaid in 1896, and $3,000 this year. At this rate it will take twenty-five years to pay it out. The belittling of former administrations is also in keeping with the Journal’s methods of feeding taffy to the present powers that be In addition to the city hall we have to thank former councils for one of the best systems of sewerage that blesses Indiana towns. But these an<l other improvements are infants to the waterworks and electric light, when you look through the Journal’s one eyed microscope.

I he McKinley Prosperity. President Kinley’s prcsperitt is being loudly ai nounced in all the administration newspapers, but >' does not come. The effort is being made to have each man in the com munity believe that prospemy ha- ! struck everybody else but him. Bui upon comparing notes each man finds that his neighbor is just as far i from the great wave of prosperity ias be is himself. Mark Hanna is ' prospering; so is J. P Morgan; so are the dealers in Union Pacific, i who are shortly to tie made a present by the administration of nearly twenty million dollars. The federal < ffice-holders are prosperous; the highly protected manufacturers arc | prosperous; the coal trusts and all : tne other trusts are prosperous, and especially the sugar trust. They : are fifteen niilli ms of dollars more prosperous than they were before the new tariff on sugar was made i certain. The railroads which carry i grain have had an increase of buslines*, owing to the large crops of wheat which the administration | caused to grow, and because the I blasting of the wheat crops tn other ! countries by order of that administration. There are some buying and i selling of food and clothing for immediate use. People do have to eat something and have to cover their nakedness. However limited this trade is, it is trade, and it gees to the retail merchants. They cannot sell goods even m driblets wiihout buying some new goods to replenish their stock. And so they buy of the jobbers, and the jobbers of the wholesalers and importers, fn short, bard as the times are, compelling people to live from hand to j mouth, as the saying goes, there is all tbe time some business being done. These limited business move ment are heralded each week by the great financial organs as evidence of tbe return of prosperity. It is true our people are not perishing from famine, although there is probably more want thorughout the coun'ry than has been known since the panic of 1803, ordered by Cbvelantj and Carlisle and neatly executed by the bankers. It would be tn order now for the heralds and shouteis ot prosperity to inform the country why the administra'toti has cut down the price of wheat 10 per cent, and why the New York stock market has so suddenly collapsed. Laborers who are out of work would like to know how soon they can be employed. Those who are at work are, of course, anx ions to know how fOiti their wages will be increated. The tariff act was passed expressly for the benefit of American workingmen. We know that is so, because that was what Mark Hanna said during the campaign. The new duties are now in force. The prices of protected goods have gone up, and the workingmen have a right to know how soon this increase is going into their pockets, according to the promises made by the republican leaders before the election. The long and short of this business is that we are no nearer prosperity than we were two years ago. The only benefits which have come to our people since the election of McKinley were the result of the ! disasters to wheat crops in foreign lands by what tbe law calls a “visitation of God.” The foregoing i statements are true, and are perI feetly well known by Mark Hanna and his kind to be true. The times will never be any better so long as the trusts control trade and the usurers control our money system.—Enquirer.

In defending the riotous acts of the council in destroying tbe business and ptope rty ot Mr. Edwards, the Journal says that “delay would have made the city liable for damages.” We deny this, for had the council used every legitimate means at their command, how could they be liable tor damages. It is no fundamental principle of law to hold one liable after an exertion ot all honorable means to comply with an agreement. Not only this, but perhaps in a pinch, tbe new city poles would not necessarily have been placed m the very spot where the Edwards poles stood. It is simply a case of having it in for Edwards, and their official skirts were used to hide and protect them from odium. According to private letters received from those who move in diplomatic circles in London, Mr McKinley became very much afraid about the time tbe governor of the Bank of England made that silver bluff, that his own bluff, the international bimetallic commission, was being seriously taken by the British government, and caused it to be unofficially intimated to Lord Salisbury that this government had no real desire that any steps should be taken that were likely to lead to international bimetallism, as it was slowly but surely paving the way to make the single gold standard permanent in the United States.

Republicans rejoice over the i discovery of gold in the Kiomlyke, |and talk about the vast benefit 'he increase in current yof from ten t" ! fifteen million dollars a year will produce. These astute logicians fail to recognize the fact that tn making these statements they ait mit in full the contentions of bl metallists. If, tn a small degree, prosperity is brought about by the insignificant increase in the supply of money, would not the benefit be proportionately enlarged by the restoration of some five billion dollars’ worth of silver to its just estate as standard money? The progress of the Ohio campaign has been closely followed by the special correspondent of the | Chronicle in that state. His reports give intelligence that is mu-h more trustworthy than the dispatches i sent by the agents of the partisan republican press. It is an old-fash-ioned Ohio campaign in an off year. | The republicans are divided into factions, between which intense hostility prevails. Senator Foraker is realiv the most brilliant republican i leader that Ohio has seen in two J decades. He is a forcible political manager, a speaker ot great power I and tbe vigor of bis purposes never j weakens. The knife up the sleeve ; has been the favorite weapon of Ohio republicans for more than a generation. For the best part of j forty years there has been one republican and one democratic enator i from Ohio. This was not an accident. It was because the republican senator in office preferred a democratic colleague to a republican colleague, with whom he would have been compelled to share influence and patronage. Especially John Sherman always wanted to be sole republican representative ot Ohio in the senate. Out of this condition of affairs grew the practice of knifing republican candidates Foraker has been knifed over and over again by the Sherman and McKinley factions. He has well learned the practices of his enemies, It be does not fully repay this year a large portion of his debts of ingrati*ude and treachery no faith is to be placed in the signs of the times. Other portents indicate a democratic victory in Ob’o this year. The hope ot such a result is inspired equally by the evidences of democratic harmony and of republican disruption.—Chicago Chronicle.

e Erie Lines Schedule in effect June 27, 1897. Trains leave Decatur as follows: WEST. No. 5, vestibule limited, dally for I Chicago f 12:23 p. m No. 3, Pacific express, daily for i Chicago i 1:48 a. m No. 1, express, daily except Sun- I day for Chicago f 10:43 a. m No. 31. local, daily except Sun- I day I 10:10 a. m No 13. Wells Fargo Limited Ex-) press, daily except Monday > 6:15 p. m. aud day after legal holiday ) EAST No. 8. vestibule limited, dally for i New York and Boston f 7:57 No. 2, express, daily except Sun- ( day for New York f 2:01 p. m No. 12. express, daily for New i York f 1:30 a. m No. 30. local, daily except Sun- 1 dav f 10:10 a. m Through coaches and sleeping cars to New York and Boston , T rains 1 and 2stop at all stations on the E. Division. Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus. Circleville. Chillicothe. Waverly. Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova, via Columbus, Hocking Valley & Toledo, and Norfolk % Western lines I W. DeLong. Agent

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Htg Who stands iq I his own light I Mt Holds ever in his pocket ■ a poverty stricken purse. I We don't mean to say that you’ll grow rich R or poor by buying or not buying your Over- I coats and Suits this fall from us. We do sav R and say it with as much emphasis as print- V ers ink can put into it, that you are doing R your-elf an injustice, that you are actually R standing in your own light by refusing to B see whether we can or can not do better by R you on the Overcoat and Suit question than R the others. We’ll refer you to a few prices: B A fine brow Kersey Overcoat, with velvet collar. R serge lining, well made through- ■' out, at - - - - - wDiuU I A fine black Kersey Overcoat, silk velvet collar. ■ farmers satin lining, sewed through-H, out with silk, at - - - uOiUu B Black and brown Kersey silk velvet collar, fine ■ Italian lining, Skinner’s sleeve lining, guar- B anteed to wear two seasons, —this is the ■ BEST Overcoat in the land for the ■ money, only - SIO.OO ■ You will miss it if you don’t see our winter ■ Vnderwear and Shirts.. ■ Yours to please, B Pete Hoithouse &Co B Leading Clothiers and Furnishers. K For Bargains I The FAIR. I Stone Building, Decatur. Ind. B Cheapest place to Trade. B We will offer special inducements in Ladies' and Megs V UNDERWEAR. B We shall place on sale this week 25 dozen Men's heavy B fleeced lined Underwear, regular price $1.50 a suit: this ■ week’s price 89 cents a suit. B 50 dozen Ladies’ heavy ribbed, fleeced lined Vests and B Pants, at 45 cents a suit. B Children's Underwear from 15 cents a suit up. B We will also place on sale 100 dozen Children’s extra B heavy ribbed Hose, double legs, at the low price, 10c pair. H Big Bargains in Ladies’, Men’s and Children’s Gloves B and Mitts, Corsets, Handkerchiefs and all kinds Notions. ■ SPECIAL.—We have about 3 dozen Kid Gloves in all B shades, size 6 only, to close at 50c pair; former price $l.O ■ Barlt pays to trade at B THE FAIR- I HOUSE. I WM BOSSE. Owner and Manager. ■ The Holden Comedy Company I Will open Bosse’s new opera house B Monday Evening November 8 I Do not miss the opening performance in th E new and beautiful play house. B JAMES K. Nltt THE. GROCER. I Can supply you with all kinds of Staple B and Fancy Groceries, and the prices can tbe ■ discounted any place at any time. Goods de ■ livered promptly to all parts of the city. ■ Call and see us and permit us to place y° ■ upon our list of regular customers. B James K, Niblick. I Donovan & Bremerkamp’s Old Stand. I