Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1897 — Page 4

SPECIAL SALE! OFLADIES’ AND GENT’S BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBER GOODS. Winter will catch you if we don't, but we hope to catch you first. We want to dress your feet. Now stick a pin right’here, so you don’t forget it. We can sell you the best footwear on earth for the least money. Now is the time to purchase. We will make it to your advantage to supply yourself and family with Boots, Shoes and Rubber Goods that you can rely on, and we give you a guarantee that they are as we represent them to be. THE BEST IN STYLE, THE BEST IN FIT, AND THE BEST IN WEAR. To do so we have made a Special Sale in our entire line of goods and have hammered prices down in reach of all. WE WILL CLOSE OUR ENTIRE LINE OF Ladies’ fine shoes for 12.50. $2.10. $1.85 and $1.35; g OUT SchOOl ShO6S. V SnagPr °° f Perfection ’ guaranteed to be strictly Snag Former prices, $3.50, $3.00, $2.50 and $1.75. ’ || Proof, $1.50. Ladies’Kang. Calf $1.35, former price $1.75 and $2.00- gg Your boys and girls can’t kick out of them. We are Single felt, the best, 50c. Ladies’ Oil Grain 75c and SI.OO, former price SI.OO, $1.35 § closing them out for 60c, 75c, 90c, SI.OO, $1.25 and $1.50, » Woon Socket Rubber Boots, with double leather insole’ We also have a few pairs of ladies’ fine shoes, sizes 2|, regular price 75c, 90c, SI.OO, $1.25. $1 50 and $2.00. guaranteed first quality, $2.40. Same make Snag 3 and 31, former price $2.50 and 12.75, now 65c. | We algo have a few pair of ’ children - 8 shoes wh ich we g Proof $2.75. Ladies’ Rubber Boots, first quality, Gents’ Box Calf, double sole in colors, former price $4.50 § $1.40, regu i ar price< and $4.00, now $3.25, $3.00 and $2.50. are closing out tor-sc. x/ q i i an i + , Gents’Enamel Coin Toe, former price $5.00, now $3.75. 1 Felt boots with first perfection guaranteed g Our Sandals and Overshoes, guaranteed to be first Gents’ Heavy Calf Shoe, calf lined, former price $3 50, not to crack or blister, regular price $2.00, now $1.90, xz quality and the best made at almost your own price, now $2.50. boys $l5O. So cheap that you can’t afford to be without them. In fact, we have placed our entire line of Boots, Shoes and Rubber Goods at Bargains that will please you. We were compelled to do this to make room for our spring goods, which will soon be coming in. You can’t afford to miss i Come in and look through our store and you will be convinced that prosperity has struck us with full force. WE CAN and WILL SAVE YOU MONEY, and you should appreciate our effort to do so. Should you doubt it give us a call and be convinced. HOLTTIOCISE & MOGGEY.

ADDRESS TO DEMOCRATS IS ISSUED BY CHAIRMAN MARTIN OF THE STATE COMMITTEE. He Review* the La*t National Cam. ! paltxn and Election and Touches 8 pon the Unkept Promises of the Re. I publican Party—An Appeal is Hade to Democrats for Strong and lulled Action. Chairman Parks M. Martin ofthe ; democratic state central committee has issued the following address to the democracy of Indiana: “A little more than a year ago the most remarkable presidential campaign in the history of the United States terminated in the success of the republican candidates. This was the first presidential campaign in a great many years in which the issues were squarely joined between the conso idated money power of the conn-1 try and of the people. On the one I hand were the euormons and practically inexhaustible resources of the moneyed interests of the United States and Europe, embracing rhe national banks, whose power , had been built up by federal legis- 1 tion, the great manufacturers, who had become strong and rich under more than three decades of extreme protection, the railway and other corporations, the various monopolies, trusts and combines of capital which had been built up by a long course of government favoritism and class legislation, the bondholders and money-lenders of two continents, the great army of speculators, jobbers and schemers of high and low degree who are interested in restoring a policy of lavish appropriations and reckless expenditure and all those who had reaped profits or hoped to do so through the prostitution of the functions of government to their service. From these sources of corruption fund was gathered a magnitude that, although a golden stream was poured into every debatable state and congressional district in the United States during the campaign, an enormous unexpended balance remained in the hands of the republican national committee after the e’ection. VENAL' NEWSPAPERS. •‘This gigantic combination of wealth and power was able to enlist u its service every venal newspaper in the United States, whatever its past political professions; every |

| orator who was willing to sell his 1 eloquence to monopoly for a price; : every huckstering politician- every expert in election fraud; every trained manipulator of boodle throughout the republic. Against this sinister combination the hisi ioric democratic party went to the country with a candidate for the i presidency whose purity of character, breath of patriotism, power of ’ eloquence and devotion to the interests of the people marked him i as their natural leader in a contest with the hosts of monopoly, and with a declaration of principles which stirred the public conscience as it had not been stirred for generations. The democratic party relied solely upon the merit of its standard-bearer and the justice of its cause. It fought the campaign through with an empty treasury and a crippled press and with many of its state and local organizations honeycombed with treachery. A i more heroic political battle against | overwhelming odds has never been I waged in this or any other country and the six million and a half of the popular votes and the 176 e ectoral votes expressed a great moral victory the magnitude of which is I becoming more apparent every day. “The principles for which the i democratic par y contended in 1896 were then strong enough to have carried the country overwhelmingly if the agencies of c >ercion and corruption c uld have been eliminated from the contest. These principles have been growing stronger day’ by day and there is no question that they are accepted > now by a great majority of the American people. The republican ’ party returned to power last March under pledges to re establish the equilibrium between national revenue and expenditure, to devise a safe and staple monetary system, > and to restore prosperity to the ■ masses of the people- Neither of these pledges have been kept. THE TARIFF MEASURE. ’ “The first important official act of President McKinley was to convene congre-s in extraordinary session for the purpose of enacting a tariff law, the ostensible objects of which were to produce a revival I I of business throughout the country i and to provide sufficient revenue to carry on the government, but whose real purpose was to enable the ’ trusts to reimburse themselves for the contributions to the corruption fund of 1896 by legalized spoliation of the people. This iniquitous law |is acomplishing its real purpose

The sugar trust, the beef trust, and i all the other great combinations I which were allowed to dictate its . terms are already realizing enormous profits from its operation. In order to swell the ill-gott< n gains of these predatory combinations, the public revenues have been sacrificed and the cost of living has been increased to the people. The public debt statement issued Dec. 11 shows that the excess of the ex-; penditures over receipts during | the first five months of the present , fiscal year was 846,101,494, an average ot over 89,000,000 per! month or at the rate of about 8110, I 000,000 per year. “This appalling deficit measures | the complete failure of the Dingley law as a revenue producerand will compel congress at an ear'y date either to authorize another bond issue or to levy additional taxes or to reduce expenditures. Republican administrations never reduce ex penditures. So that after nine months of republican rule the country finds itself face to face with new taxes or another issue of bonds, or both. There has been n > marked increase in the numb-r of workingmen employed and no general advanceof wages to compensate for the augmented cost of living, and the Dingley bill already stands coudemnel before the country as the most flagrant and oppressive abuse of the taxing power of the government which has ever been perpetrated. commission’s failure. “The failure ot the commission sent to Europe by President McKinley to secure an agreement with England, France and Germany for international bimetallism forces the republican party to grapple with the greatest problem which has ever confronted it. One of three policies must be adopted: (1) The single gold standard must be defiantly established, or (2) bimetallism at the old ratio must be re stored by independent national action, or (3) the present illogical, chaotic, dangerous and utterly inadequate currency system must be perpetua’ed. Tne adoption of the first alternative involving the change of all the outstanding inter-est-bearing securities of the government from coin of gold obliga tions, the virtual retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes and the concession of practically absolute c mtrol of the circulating medium to the national banks is urged upon congress bv the administration. The execution of this pro-

gram would be a colossal crime against the people, and while it would rivit the chains of financial slavery upon them and enormously swell the tribute they are now com pelled to the money power, it would cause such a wave of popular indignation as would sweep the republican organization out of existence The second policy to which the democratic party stands pledged, and which presents the only practicable solution of the currency question, will not, of course, be considered by the party in .power. The only alternative, therefore, to the adoption of the administration program is the do nothing policy, which would involve a confession of utter impotence on the part of the republican party and would render its overthrow at the next general election as certain, if not as comp ete, as if the policy just proclaimed by President McKinley were to be carried out. inspiration for democrats. “The polical situation is full of inspiration and encouragement to democrats everywhere and at the same time it suggests to them unceasing vigilance. The republican pariy has not only failed to solve the currency question; it has not only failed to restore prosperity to the people; it has not only failed to negotiate an agreement for international bimetallism, but it has in other ways violated its pledges to the country. Its attitude with relation to Cuba is contrary to the explicit promise of the St. Louis platform and is in the least degree undemoctatic, unrepublican, unpatriotic and un-American The voice of humanity, the natural sym pathy which every true American feels for a neighboring people struggling to throw off the yoke of sav age despotism, and every consideration of enlightened self-interest demand the recognition of Cuban independence, a step which the administration for some mysterious reason refuses to take. The utter bad faith which the administration has shown as to the enforcement of of the civil service law, a measure placed upon the statute books by the republican party, invites and will receive the reprobation of the country. Whatever differences of opinion may exist as to this law, all good citizens will agree that so long as it is a law it shorld be faithfullyand impartially enforced. Its pervasion by the appointees of President McKinley to the service of partisan greed is a distinct vio

lation not only of the pledges of his party, but also his personal pledges to the country. At present the law is enforced only when a democrat can thereby be deprived of official preferment and it is evaded or violated as often as a republican can be thereby retained in or provided with a public position. A party which deliberately violates every day a law of the United States is dangerous to our peace and safety and approaches very nearly to the state of lawlessness and anarchy sometimes charged upon its opponents. a bankruptcy law. “The only measure of general importance which the republican leaders now promise the country is the enactment of a bankruptcy law —a law presumably which will enable creditors to enforce into bankruptcy debtors whose inability to pay is due to republican tariff and currency systems—a fitting sequel to the protective law enacted last summer. The issues to be passed upon by the country at the congressional elections of 1898 are thesame which were presented in 1895, accentuated and emphasized by the record of the republican party since its return to power. Let the democracy of Indiana rally their forces, close up their ranks, and march shoulder to shoulder in the contest for the principles of Jefferson and Jackson and Bryan. Men who formerly acted with the democratic party, but who in 1896 withheld their support, are in every voting precinct iu the state, back in the ranks. They are disgusted with the record and politics of the repuplican administration and are ready andanxious to follow once more the good old flag of democracy. We welcome them back. With united and determined efforts the state can be handsomely redeemed next year, the election of a democratic United States senator assured and a largely increased representation in the popular branch of congress returned. The democratic state committee appeals to and invites every citizen of Indanai whatever his last political affiliations, who believes in these principles to co operate earnestly from this time until the polls close next November in the endeavor to secure their triumph. “The district conventions for the selection of members of the state central committees will be held in the various congressional districts on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 1898. The members of the new committee then

'chosen will meet at Indianapolis on Tuesday, Jan. IS, for organization. Parks M. Martin, Chairman Democratic State Committee. S. L. Wallace, Secretary. How io Prevent Pneumonia. At this time of year a cold is very easily contracted, and if let to run its course without the aid of some reliable cough medicine is liable to result in that dread disease, pneumonia. We know of no better remady to cure a cough or cold than Chamberlaia’a Cough Remedy. We have used it quite extensively and it has always given entire satisfaction.—Oolagab, Ind. I’er. Chief. This is the only remedy that is known to be a certain preventive of pneumonia. Among the many thousands who have used it tor colds and la grippe we have never yet learned ot a single case having resulted in pneumonia, Persons who have weak lungs or have reason to fear an attack of pneumonia, should keep the remedy at hand. The 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by Smith <fc Callow. d Desirable representative wanted in this county for the Acetylene Gas Machine; finest light known for city or country residences, churches, stores and schools; brilliancy for excelling electric light or city gas at one-half cost; absolutely safe; easily operated; unusual opportunity Address for terms and full information The Craig Reynolds Foundry Co., Dayton, Ohio. “I Was Weak, Nervous »" d Ku “ Down.i’ I want to testify to the good Brown s Cure has done me, I was weak, nenous and run down in vitality when commenced taking it; it has done ever) thing for me and I am now a new be ing. A number of my friends also speak with gratitude of.,tbe good your medicine has done them—it is indeed a grand remedy. Yours gratefully. Mrs. L. V. Craig. 907 Mass. Ave., Indianapolis. Ind. Such is the testimony of thousan s concerning Brown’s Cuif, a I erfec Family Medicine, the bes reme* I known for the liver, Sidneys an bowels, a positive cure for dyspeP 3 '* and all bowel troubles, sicK headache, nervousness, constipation and los 0 sleep. If you suffer, try this gre' remedy and find health and happi ne _ S"ild by Page Blackburn. I’ rice ‘ ’ cents. Yi-Ki cures corns and warts15c. _