Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 7 April 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVEBY THURSDAY MOUSING BY LEW a. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. |1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice nt Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, APRIL 7. OUR TICKET. For Representative HENRY KRICK. For Prosecuting Attorney DAVID E. SMITH. For Clerk Adame Circuit Court ELMER JOHNSON, For Treasurer JONAS NEUENSCHWANDER. For Sheriff DANIEL N. ERWIN. For Recorder. THOMAS M. GALLOGLY. For Surveyor WILLIAM E. FULK, For Commissioner—First District JOSEPH E. MANN. For Commissioner —Second District FREDERICK REPPERT. For Coroner, DR. CHARLES S. CLARK. — CITY TICKET. For Mayor AMOS P. BEATTY. For Clerk DAL M. HOWER. For Treasurer WILLIAM J. ARCHBOLD. For Marshal HARVEY HART. For C- nncilman—First Waid, WILLARD B. SUTTLES. For Councilman—Second Ward GEORGE M. HA EFLING. GEORGE CHRONISTER, for Councilman—Third Ward ELIJAH MANN. The close tolatlofi between the republican candidate for mayor and the Old Adams County Bank and .between the bank and the financial interests of the city are such that comment is unnecessary. Stamp the rooster. The finance committee of the council should now glorify themselves with a report. The one member who promised such a report should not lag since the administration push so beautifully defeated his ambition to be the mayorality candidate. Stamp the rooster. The God and morality campaign cry of four years ago will lx* a hollow mockery this year. As one good republican said to us recently, the policy of Mayor Quinn has been a wide open free for all one, never equalled since the palmy days of Mayor Dent. Stamp the rooster.

The democratic councilmanic candidatesagreenot to employa street commissioner who has a family of boysthat number more than ten. They also are unnimous in their belief that Such an officer should not use petty favoritism in the performance of his duty in cleaning and repairing the streets and crossings. Stamp the rooster. The council have anticipated and spent tljeir July distribution and a few thousand on their next January draw. With a waterworks bond of §2,500 with interest due in July besides theeurrent expensesit will surely take some long figuring to pull through. This is a business administration with avengence. Stamp the rooster. The organization of the silver club took place at the court house last Thursday evening according to previous announcement. John H. Baker was largely instrumental in the club organization and was accorded the honor of being chosen president. The other officers were A. Van Camp vicepresident. Charles N. Christen secretary, John H. Heller assistant secretary, and H. A. Fristoe treasurer. Committees were appointed to draft by laws and rules of order to report at a meeting to be held one week from tonight. The club starts out with a memliership of 200 and will be a permanent organization.

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The city administration took time ’ by the forelock and rebuked them- > selves Ix'fore the people had a chance j to show their hand. They concealed I not their joy in the defeat of Councilman Teeple for mayor, thus showing their appreciation of the downfall of a member of their own administration. The people will do a better job in May. Stamp the rooster. Few papers in the country, while coinmending the patriotism of the South, are expressing a surprise at its ardor and enthusiasm. They had looked for a lukewarmness among the people of the South if trouble arose Ix>tween this country and a foreign foe. But this only displayed a dense ignorance of the temper and feeling of the southern people. The North is not the whole thing in patriotism or any other respect, and Uncle Sam lives as much down this way as he does up there. Nashville American. The republican city’ ticket does not embrace unusual strength, especially when they have to face a united democracy whose majority reaches theclose proximity of 250. The head of the ticket possesses qualities that are admired by every one brought into contact with him, but that admiration does not reach the extent of voting for him in preference to their own party nominee, when that nominee is qualified in every way to fill the office in a dignified and honorable manner. The balance of the ticket adds no particular strength and will be beaten in May by a majority that will lx> democratic in reality. Stamp the rooster.

Every man who believes in honest ■ and open and above board dealing • between nations as well as between individals, can appreciate the feeling of the man who. after listening to a lot of round about rot about how we could make the Spaniard open hostilities without our declaring war against them, got excited and said: “They blew up our war ship; they murdered our sailors. That is why we want to punish them." That is just exactly the truth. Incidentally we shall be glad to free Cuba and to relieve the sufferings on the unfortunate island, but the word that is mirrored upon the average American heart is neither sympathy nor humanitarianism, but revenge; for the treacherous assassination or sauuio and thc blowing up of our battleship. Senator Turpie has again won fame and will be cherished by the eld sob diers regardless of their past party affiliations. When the apprttpriation bill was Ix'fore the committee in the house and senate, they were waited on by a committee of soldiers and asked to amend the original bill providing j that in the reduction of the force of , employes of that department, that all! persons who have lieen honorably disehargeed from the military or naval forces of the United States, shall have the preference of retention. Senator Cullum, that very much talked about republican soldier lover, refused to champion such a cause, and it w’ould have failed had not Senator Turpie came to the rescue and took the matter up in open session of the senate, and succeeded in having it passed. Senator Turpie has always lx»friended the soldier while he never shed chroeodile tears in telling about it during campaigns, when he was before the people. This is simply another sample of republican hipocracy toward the soldier element. Whereas, during the progress of the trial of the case of Joseph H. Voglewede vs the City of Decatur, Indiana, tried liefore the Hon. D. D. Heller on the 19th day of July, 1897, one Paul G. Hixijx-r a reputed attorney of the city of Decatur, and chairman of the republican county central committee, so far forgot his professional courtesy and dignity as to delve in the mire of dishonest charges and viturperation by charging that ever since the present council of the city had been in office, they had taken every illegal means possible to defraud the taxpayers by illegal and unjust taxation,! hereby imputing and charging dishonesty upon this council. Resolutions of condemnation, passed by council. July 2(1. 1897.

The above is reproduced now simply to show that if such a rank partisan as Mr. Hooper denounced the methods of the present administration, what can they expect from honest political thinking people. While Hooper was honestly engaged in repudiating the public acts of those officials they defended themselves by placing upon record this ridiculous resolution. If they had Ixxm lilieled the courts would have defended their character and given them a money consideration for the pains of having it done. The plot thickens. Stamp the rooster.

THE MESSAGE Did Not Go To Congress Yesterday as Promised by The President. The Cause Assigned is Danger of Americans on the Island. But the Real Cause is Fresh Hopes of Peace from Madrid. Swift as a cannon’s Hash changed the Cuban situation yesterday. L Itimately it became know that not only would there be uo message to-day. but no message this week, and that it was a possibility that the message written and approved might never go to congress at all. The first reason for the delay was that the administration had received advices from General Lee, at Havana, indicating that all Americans could not be gotten off the island yesterday, and that they would be in grave peril if the message preceded their departure. The second reason, perhaps equally as potent, was that the Spanish government had decided to reopen the case, closed so far as this government was concerned by the refusal of Spain to make a.satisfactory response to the representation made by the United States last week, and in order to avert impending war, had decided to make concessions heretofore refused. What will be the final outcome, it is too early to say, but the aspect of affairs certainly is considerably more pacific, sufficient to renew the hope of the president that a solution of the Cuban question, satisfactory to the American people, will be achieved without bloodshed. It is expected that a declaration of armistice will be issued by the queen regent. This armistice, it is expected, will lead to the ultimate independence of Cuba from Spanish rule. The powers of Europe, materially and moral, it is known, have brought to bear all their influence on Spain, and still an 1 actively at work to bring peace out of the gathering war clouds. All the capitals of Emopehavebeenincommunication to this en 1. and the improved condition of affairs was reflected i throughout all public quarters late in the day. It was manifested at the white house, among the cabinet uffi cers. and at the embassies and legations including t'’" Snanish 'elation. I At the latter ontabfishment. Senor 1 Polo Bernabe said that while he could not disclose any of the information reaching him of an official character, that the strain of a few hours ago was materially relieved and that the prospects for peace looked much brighter. While the message was awaited there came a hurried summons of the leaders of the senate and house to the white house, and they were there informed that the message was to be withheld upon information received from Consul General Lee. The reasons he gave were deemed entirely satisfactory by all. As to the proposed armistice by Spain, while some are hopeful, the general feeling was that the conditions in Cuba and the sentiment in this country in favor of Cuban independence, made overtures on this line too late.

In connection with the war possibilty the provision of funds has already received some consideration. There is serious talk of a duty of 10 cents a pound on tea and 4 cents a pound on coffee. The importations of tea during the fiscal year 1897 were 112,907.508 pounds, and a duty of 10 cents would yield a revenue of §11,000.000. The imports of coffee were 724,550,530 pounds, and a duty of 4 cents per pound would afford a revenue of about $29,000,000. It is also quite probable that a tax of from SI to S 2 a barrel would be imposed on beer, which would bring in over §30,000,000, and suggestions have been made of taxes on spices, licenses and other source of revenues. Nolxxly seems to have proposed an income tax, which would lx? the simplest mode of raising from thirty to fifty millions, and which would locate the burden of war where it would be least felt. In such a situation it is possible that the demands of patriotism might wobble Justice Shirss around to the constitutional side of the problem, or possibly he might be induced to resign and make room for a jurist who thinks it is constitutional to tax wealth. Sentinel. Venc-eance is at hand. There is to be no more dilly-dallying with lying Spanish diplomats. Uncle Sam is going to take Spain across his knee ' and give it a thrashing it has so long deserved at our hands, and the cowardly and dastardly massacre of our sailors and the destruction of our battleship is to lie avenged. Even Mr. McKinley is now convinced that Spain has been playing him diplomatically for no other purpose than to gain time. Mr. McKinley acknowledged his failure to secure the independence of Cuba by diplomacy, and now it is the turn of congress, which this week will either declare war against Spain or adopt legislation that will be equivalent to a declaration of war. A last frantic attempt is being made by the bond-holding element to muzzle congress. but there is no possibility of its succeeding. Congress knows that the end of the patience of the people 'of the country who place national | honor and patriotism aliove the stock ■ ticker of Wall street has been reached and that the time of action is at hand, and it will act; and its action will mean war, which thc country is now in a position to fight to a victorious end in short order, if it only has Spain to contend with, and is determined to win regardless of what it has to contend with.

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NOMINATIONS .HADE. French Quinn of the Old Adams County Bank Heads the Ticket. The republicans held their convention in the court room last F riday evening and completed their nominations lor city offices. Chairman Neptune of the county central committee, called the meeting to order, after which Lee Walters was called to preside, and Editor Kenyon was chosen secretary. Without wasting any time the convention proceeded to the nomination of candidates for mayor, at which point Major R. B. Allison secured *he attention of the I chair and placed before the convention the name of French Quinn, Following this announcement there was a silence that was longer than usual between breaths. The suppression finally moved Dell Locke to suggest that’the nominations for mayor , close, and that they proceed to elect Mr. Quinn by acclamation. The motion was seconded, put by the chair and carried, after which the form of R. S. Peterson appeared in the distance, and raised the point of order that another candidate was in hiding thereabouts and that while he himself was for Quinn yet he was bound to respect the rights of others, and that fair play should bo extended clear down the line. The chair insisted that the motion was in accordance with parlimentary rules, that it was in order and carried. Finally Mr. Peterson twisted them out of thc entanglement, and Jake Sparr placed in nomination Judson W. Teeple, and a vote was ordered, which resulted in eighty-nine votes for Quinn and sixtysix for Teeple, leaving a majority in favor of the former of twenty-three. The above vote showed a total of 155, which is the number of republicans which participated in the amusement. Teeple moved that the nomination of Quinn be made unanimous which was followed by wild applause from the Quinn followers. After order was restored Shaffer Peterson moved that the chair appoint a committee of ten and to submit to them the advisability of naming a full ticket. The motion was sat down upon when John Peterson moved to pro ceed to nominate candidates in regular order. When the nominations foi clerk were called, R. S. Petersoi placed in nomination the name of the present clerk Albert Brittison, who positively refused to thus permit himself to lie slaughtered and his name was withdrawn. R. S. Peterson again came to the rescue by nominating Lee Walters who was also compelled to undergo the humiliation of kicking out of the traces, and after his withdrawal C. E. Neptune placed the name of A. C. Gregory in nomination, who was accorded the honor without further ceremony. Shaffer Peterson nominated Charles F. True for treas urer, and the administration friends were again made ridiculous by withdrawing his name. John Woyer was also nominated and withdrawn, and the responsibility given Charles K. Bell, on a moiion by C. E, Neptune. Harry Cordua and John Williams were- nominated for marshal, the result of the vote being seventy-six for Cordua and thirty-one for Williams. This closed the business and an adjournment was taken. While it is not appreciated yet the wise counsel of R. S. Peterson kept the convention level headed. And now* President McKinley says his message will not lie for the indeponcleace of Cuba, but only armed intervention. His reason for this is the absence of a government in that country, and this argument falls of its own weight. A revolutionary partv that has successfully resisted the Spanish nation for more than three years and maintained excellent military disci ! phne under the most trying'circumstances, certainly can be ‘trusted with the civil government of the country they love so well. Shame on such a policy in a county where for a century freedom. liberty and hoi esty has been our Ixjast.

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