Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1897 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Ge ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Bute red at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 4. Ano New York held an election. That prosperity, do you think it the real genuine article. Thanksgiving an designated by the pr s dent, Thursday, Nov. 25. Next year Indiana democrats ■will do it to them in the same manner as related Tuesday. There is no flies on the rooster. Any old time that that gay bird can’t resurrect her drooping spirits, it’s cold, dreadfully cold: Poor Hanna. Now will you be good. The court has decreed that the city shall not be dragged into the Edwards suit, thus winning the first heal for the plaintiff. A watchman at the various railroad crossings in the city at 1400 a year is not as protective, in the eyes I of four members of the city council, as two street arc electric lights at *9O a year. The Democrat accuses us of manufacturing leaders. Os course we do | But they are manufactured in the office and are the handiwork of the editor. who isn’t ashamed to acknowledge them. Come again.—Journal. If you are not ashamed, more’s the pity, for you ought to be. The Journal grumbles because some taxpayers kick about exces- j sive taxes. The aggravating thing I ♦ o them is that some of the poorer classes who really can’t afford to f pay excessive takes, kicks more than | richer and more heavier taxpayers, i It’s too bid. With a gain wherever an election was held last Tuesday it would 1 eeem that the “dead issue ot silver” was the liveliest corps in the political arena today. Mark Hanna ; prosperity is only a prosperity for | the trusts and monied combinations, and against the interests of the peo- j pie. It is a rank shame that the present city administration is blamed •with the entire indebtedness owing by the city. Deducting the .122,000 from the now total, will the Journal vleaae tell us how much they are willing to be blamed for. It has cot been the lea,t specific about these things. Henry George the tree silver exponent of the east, and candidate for mayor of Greater New York, last Saturday morning. The ► train of the campaign was too great. The deceased was the great expounder of the single tax doctrine, and was one of the most learned men in the country. The Democrat wih admit that $3,000 ®f water works indebtedness was paid off this year. That is $3 000 more than any past democratic administration ever did. Confession is good. Give us some more.—Journal. The increased tax rate will far more than pay the amounts ennumf rated. Oh, this is a great administration. “If the republican party raised the price of wheat, why did it lower the price of corn and cotton?” “Why do the republicans claim credit for the rise of wheat and neglect to claim credit tor a rise in tiugar, due to the fact that the sugar trust made the sugar schedule in the Dingley bill?”—W. J Bryan in Ohio campaign. Be it resolved, that the circuit court don’t take very well to our scheme to make the city liable for costs, »fcc., in the Edwards damage suit, therefore be it resolved, that we cbastisu the court in the same manner that we chastised Paul Hooper, for the truthful allegations he then made. It isn’t right for the court to be so crusty. Judge Heller veiy modestly declined to allow the defendants in the Edwards eleetric light suit, to admit the city as a defendant. To maintain such a ruling the court stated that no complaint had been made against the city, that she could not be guilty of any of the acts charged in the complaint and should not be so charged or admitted. The ruling will be relished by every taxpayer —with few exceptions —in the city. The reason they relish it will be because it is right. The officials who took the law in their own hands, should stand squarely on their own hen roost.

GLORIOUS VICTORY. The result of I'uesdax’s election* is sufficient to cause democratic j >y In Ohio Bushnell received ab, ggardly plurality < f perhaps 15.000 against 48,494 for M. K oley las year. The legislature is s ill u douht, the official count b-ing nee essary to foretell the result, al< bough the republicans will probably hav | from three to eight on joint ball t. Last year the legislature stood 118 republicans to 31 democrat*. It i* quite a tumble and signifies thn Hanna and the McKinley admini stra'.ion are not very popular a home. Van Wyck the Tammany I candidate in New York iaehctedj mayor by a plurality of 81,181, and Parker for judge of the court oi appeals by 80,000. Kentucky re deems herself by an overwhelming democratic majority as does also Virginia, while Nebraska increases i her vote of last year to 15,000 for i the fusion candidates. Colorado is safe for silver. Maryland is close but indications point to the success of the democrats, although this may not mean the return of A. C. Gorman to the senate, and we hope it won’t. Pennsylvania, lowa and Massachusetts are republican, although their majorities were nearlycut in two. Detroit elects a democratic mayor. It is a decided democratic victory and a rebuke to the administration now in power. It means that the cause of the people is being seriously considered and thaj free silver will triumph in 1900 The Hon. W. J. Bryan says of the result. “Taken as a whole, the returns are very encouraging. I think | I voice the sentiments of democrats, populists and silver republicans ■ when I say that the fight will be I continued with even more earnestness until the gold monopoly ibroken and the money trust is over , thrown. The fusion forces increase j their percentage in Nebraska and | probably their actual majority. The name of William J. Bryan : stands out before the American people with more prominence than ever. His stirring arguments favoring a money cf the constitution ha* bten planted in the minds of the people, and the results from Tuesday’s election fully shows that he i* the star actor upon the political stage. He is a man of the people. The sugar trust has received a black eye in the Krupp case a' Columbus, Onio. Krupp was prose-: outed hy the Ohio toed comm’ssioi - er on the charge of selling Holland sugar said to have been colored by ultramarine. It was commonly believed that the prosecution was inspired by the sugar trust. Krupp was acquitted. Our officials hav> not yet gone to the length of fighting the trust’s battles, but they ae not fighting the poeple’s battle against the trusts. Our anti-trust law exists only as a literary product.—Sentinel. The city council thinks pretty highly of human lite. They bavt agreed among themselves to releive the railroad companies from keeping watchmen at any of the dangerous street crossings, providing the said railroad companies contract with them for two electric lights at a sum total per year of S9O. The lights are a necessity but a watch man is a greater necessity to insur* safety to those compelled to travel those places at night It would seem that the council thinks mor< of the electric light than they do of the people residing in the remote parts of the city. Thu »object of postal savingbanks are being discussed bv main financiers of the country. At the recent meeting of the bankers a*so ciation, Mortimer Levering of Lafayette, said: “ I’he government i* in a position to mamge this thins through its present postoffice system, and will scarcely increase the expenses of that department, while it will enhance the accumulated wealth of the people throughou’ the United States. It was thought that building and loan associations would care for the savings of the masses, but people have become suspicious of them. It is wed known that lawyers in Indiana are making as much as SIO,OOO a vear out of these institutions, and offices are making much money out cf them. We all know that trust companies are not organized as eleemosynary institutions. We want a system of savings banks that are for the poor people. What greater pride could a man have than to think himself a depositor of the I United States.”

OfflONS. ——— Van Wyck Elected the First Mayor of Greater New York. STATE PROBABLY REPUBLICAN. Indications That Wallace Is Elected Chief Justice of Appeals. BOTH PARTIES CLAIM OHIO. Hamilton County Fusionists Elect Their Entire Ticket. THE RESULT IN OTHER STATES. Rogrr Wolcott Wins the Governorship of Massachusetts by a Reduced Majority. Fusionists Carry Nebraska by a Large Vote—Democrats Claim Maryland, but the Returns are Meager—lndications That Democracy Was Successful In Kentucky—News From Kansas, lowa and Other States Very Slow. New York, Nov. 3. —Tammany’s victory in the first municipal election in Greater New York is a sweeping one. The only question remaining to be settled is the one of the plurality by which the entire ticket, headed by Robert A. Van Wyck, has carried the gigantic municipality. It can scarcely be less than 50,000 and may be larger than that. Van Wyck has polled a vote which falls possibly 40.000 under the combined votes of General Tracy (Rep.) and Seth Low (Citizens’ Union). The latter was successlul to the extent of polling an esgregate vote in excess of the 140,000 pledges implied by the signatures of the petition upon which he became the candidate of an independent movement, which at the outset offered to join hands with the Re- I publican party organization in a concerted effort to exclude Tammany from I power in the greater city to come into I being on Jan. 1, 1898, with a population the second in magnitude of the great cities of the world. The offer was declined cn the ground that in such a movement the Republican organization would participate only coincidently with the other party to the compact, and the Citizens’ Union, on the other hand, refused to recall its nomination of Mr. Low in order that the form of selecting a candidate might be carried out conjointly with the Republican organization. The vote cast was not far either way from 500,000. The indications are that Van Wyck received 210,000; Low, 145,000; Tracy, 100,000, and George, 15,000. The aggregate is swelled by a few thousand votes cast for Gleason (Ind. Dem.), Saniel (Socialist) and Wardwell (Pro.) The legislative branch of the city government is Tammany Democratic. It is ! a double headed body, one branch being I the municipal council, consisting of the ; president aud 28 members, and the other the board of aldermen, comprising 60 members. The vote of Van Wyck in New York county is approximately the same as was cast for Bryan in 1896, which was 135,624. General Tracy (Rep.) polled approximately 55.000, against McKinley’s vote of 156,359 in New York county, while Low (Citizens’ Union) polled approximately 77.000 aud George (Jefferson Dem.) 12,000. In Kings county, which includes the city of Brooklyn, the Bryan vote was 76,882, while Van Wyck’s is almost the same. Against McKinley’s vote of 109,135, General Tracy polled approximately 35,000, while Low’s vote is approximately 65,000. In these two counties the straight Republican vote shows a falling off of nearly 175,000, or in excess of the total vote for Seth Low, while the Tammany vote equals, if it does not slightly exceed, that cast for Bryan. The estimated vote of Greater New York for mayor is as follows: Van Wyck, 233,752; Low, 146,821; Tracy, 100,998; George, 20,386. Van Wyck’s plurality, 86,921. NEW YORK. Vote on Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals. New York, Nov. 3. —Estimates on the basis of returns from 35 counties out of 57 in the state (outside of Greater New York) indicate a plurality of 38,144 for Wallace (Rep.) The same counties in 1895 gave Palmer a plurality of 84,148 for secretary of state and last year gave Black a plurality of 104,030 for governor. The plurality of Parker (Dem.), candidate for judge of court of appeals in the state, is estimated at 75,000. Republican Mayor. Oswego, N. Y., Nov., 3.—John Higgins (Rep.) is elected mayor by 125 majority in a vote of 5.000. MARYLAND. Returns Meaner and Nothing of an Official Character Received. i Baltimore, Nov. 3.—Returns from the state are meager and unofficial in character. Nothing but estimates have been received, but these indicate that ; the Democrats may possibly have a majority on joint ballot in the assembly, which will insure the re-election of Senator Gorman. The Republicans have elected their entire municipal ticket in this city and will control both branches of the city council. They have also carried all three of the Baltimore legislative districts and the seat in the United States senate, now filled by Arthur P. GorI man, hangs in the balance, so that a few ■ vote' may turn the scale. Based on re-

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turns at hand the Republicans have 57 legislators aud the Democrats 60. The Republicans have nine holdover senators aud the Democrats three. os. .0. Both Parties Claim the legislature, but Do Not Give Figures. Columbus, Nov. 3. —The Democratic state committee claimed the election of its state ticket by from 8,000 to 10,000 plurality and a majority of the legislature on joint ballot for United States senator. No figures were given on the 36 state senators and 109 representatives, but it was claimed that the Republican loss of 14 members of the legislature in Hamilton county insured Democratic control of the legislature. The Democrats also claimed the 12 members of the legislature from Cuyahoga county, which includes Cleveland, the home of Senator Hanna. At Republican state headquarters at this hour they are more confident of having a majority in the legislature than of a decisive plurality on the state ticket. They claim 18 of the 36 senators sure, with 15 Democrats and three doubtful. They also claim a majority of the 109 representatives, but no definite ftgnres are given on either the coup, .les ftr representatives or the senatorial districts. This county (Franklin) gave McKinley a plurality of 2,200 last year. It gives the Democratic state ticket this year a plurality of 1,000 and elects the entire Democratic ticket, the only close vote being for sheriff. Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Nov. 3. —The following are the complete returns from all the precincts of Hamilton county to the board of elections: Bushnell (Rep.) governor, 41,121; Chapman (Dem.), 39,611. Bushnell’s plurality, 1,511. On the legislative ticket Cohen (fusionist) received 41,395 votes. Harris, the highest Republican on the senatorial ticket, received 39,448 votes. Cohen’s majority, 1,947. The other fusionist candidates on the legislative ticket ran very nearly up to Cohen’s majority. Candidates on the fusionist county ticket had majorities of from 2,000 to upward of 3,000. Cleveland. Cleveland, Nov. 3.—Senator Hanna claims a majority of the legislature on joint ballot. Ohio Points. Portsmouth—This city gives Bushnell, 1,820: Chapman, 1,385. Same in 1596 gave McKinley, 2,220; Bryan, 1,307. Fostoria — Very small vote polled, Bushnell receiving 978; Chapman, 735. McKinley received 1,209; Bryan, 869. Marietta —Washington county elects entire Republican ticket. Will give Bushnell 800, senator 700, representative 500. Canton — This city gives Bushnell, 3,421; Chapman, 3,114; Holiday 99; Coxey, 46; Dexter, 8; Watkins, 128; Richardson, 6. Bushnell’s plurality. Akron—This place has probably gone Democratic by 100. a Democratic gain of 400 over last year. This indicates a Democratic victory in the county. Wooster—City complete Bushnell, 687; Chapman, 707; Republican loss, 72; Democratic loss, 49; Coxey, 10; Holliday, 43. Tiffin—Vote light. Rain all day. Chapman carried the county by 1,200. Democratic loss of 100. Democratic candidates for senator and representatives run ahead of ticket. Chillicothe—Bushnell carries Ross county by 800 majority, a gain of 200. Luts for state senator and Arbense for the legislature, run a little ahead of the ticket. Massillon—The city and Perry township (10 precincts) give Bushnell, 1,520Chapman, 1,413; Holliday, 23; Coxey, 38Dexter, 4; Watkins, 105; Lewis 1. Same gave McKinley, 1,803 Bryan, 1,678. Fremont—Twelve out of 24 precincts in Sandusky county indicates a Democratic majority of 1,200, a gain of 10X. Six hundred and forty precincts outside of Hamilton and Cuyahoga counties: McKinley, 118,349; Bryan, 107(Continued on page Six )

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