Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1898 — Page 2

Hr - - ..._. —.- " ' q gl pg R 11 DOTY’S ANNOUNCEMENT. j || h _______ 3 i ■I. . H B IT is with a feeling of great satisfaction and confidence that we issue tnis our g g I message, to the people of Adams county. After months of hard wort g 8 have succeeded in convincing the people that we are a resptmsilxe M lri g fe oring Establishment. That we have been successful m our . th ss gfe readily admit, were we to tell you of the vast number oi suits we have H past eight months. We have had a series of low prices never befoie known in the g fi history of first-class merchant tailoring. There is one thing we wish to impress g O on you, and that is that we don't want your money unless you are perfectly satis- < fife tied. This has and will be our motto. We have all the new styles of cloth mclud- <<« ing the new Gun Club Checks, Smooth Surface Cassimeres, Double Yarn .ocotch || fi| Plaids, Imported Clay W orsteds, Blue and Black Surges, French Thibets and hun- g U| dreds of other styles that we cannot mention in this space. Our work is as good g as the best, and our prices lower than any. Bring this advertisement with you. § K Ask to be shown the goods, we would like to prove that we are selling at less than M any other store, is the system followed here. Work as good as the best. Prices |1 as low as the lowest. |' B | C. E. DOTY, THE TAILOR. j O 7 mi ® 4 doors west Old Adams County Bank. DECATUR, IND. S i B ft s - —... ===■ I ®

MANLEYS MESSAGE The ProsiJent Do2r.es 12s Position on tiie Spanish Situation. is cprsszD to rz3co::iTiCN S»iys the War in Cuba Must Cease. A*’<« Concr»*HH For Full Power to Terminate Hostilities—He I* Pre- ! pare I to Kxecnte the Obligation* Imposed on Him. Washington, April 12.—When Presidcnt Xcll.alej’o message was received the galleries of both houses were crowdel. In the senate the presiding officer ' v timed the vi»„o.s to keep qiiet. As- , lor the readintr of the message it was * 1 ’ferrvd to iuu committee on foreign re- . Inions. The president says he does not think it wordd be wise or prudent for . the United S-.ii.es at this lime to rteog-; uize the belligerency or the independence of the so-called Cuban Republic, b.U say the war must stop and as'.:s congress to empower him to take such 1 measures as will secure full and fl: al temiinatisn of hostilities and to use the naval and military forces ot the United S.ates insecure su u a c nd lion. rm: MESSAGE. Full Text of the President** Cuban Document. Washington, April 12 —The president yesterday sent the following message to congress: •'To the Congress of the Un’ted Stat“s: “Obedient to that precept of the consitution. which demands the president to give from time to time to the congress information of the state of the Union,

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and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient, it becomes my duty now to address your body with regard to the grave crisis that has arisen in the relations of the United States to Spain, by reason of the warfare that for more than three years has raged in the neighboring island of Cuba. Ido so because of the intimate connection of the Cnban question wnu the stale of our own union, and the grave relation, tho course wmcu it is now incumbent upon the nation to adopt, must needs bear to the traditional policy of our government, if it is to accord with the precepts laid down by the founders of the republic and religiously observed by succeeding admmistratious to the present day. “The policy of devastation and concentration mingnrated by Captain Genera. vVeyler or Occ. 21, 1896, in the pivVi..ce ol - .-ar del Rio, was extended to emfr'"e 'll of the islands to which the paw r of tho S a:ish army was able to reach bv occupation or by military operations. ll»e pea-autry, including a.l dwelling in the open agricultural interior, wire driven into the garrison towns or is dated places held by the troops. “By th? time the present administration look office, a year ago, reconcentra-tiou—eo-ca’le.l—had been made effective over the better part of the four central and western provinces, Santa Clara, Matanzas, Hat ana and Pmar del Rio. The agricultural population, to the estimated number oi 3J0.000 or more, was herded within the towns and their immediate vicinage, deprived of the means of support, remleied destitute of shelter, left poorly clad and exposed to tho most un.-anitary conditions. “As the scatcity of food increased with the devas,ati;in of the depopulated areas of production, destitution and want became misery and starvation. Month by mouth the death-rate in-

creased in an alarming ratio. By March, 1897. according to conservative estimates from official Spanish sources, the mortality among the recoiiceutrados from starvation and the diseases thereto incident exceeded 50 per centum of their total number. ******** “Realizing this, it appeared to be my duty, in a spirit of true friendliness, no less to Spain tiian to the Cubans, who have so much to lose by the prolongation of the struggle, to bring about an immediate termination of the war. To this end, I submitted, on the 27 ult., as a result of much representation and correspondence, through the United States minister at Madrid, propositions to the Spanish government looking to an armistice until Oct. 1, for the negotiation of peace, with the good offices of the president. “In addition, I asked the immediate revocation of the order of roconcentration, so as to permit the people to return to their farms and the needy to be relieved with provisions and supplies from the United States, co-operating with the Spanish authorities, so as to afford full relief. "The reply of the Spanish cabinet was received on the night of the 31st ultimo. It offers as the means to bring about peace in Cuba to confide the preparation thereof to the insular parliament, inasmuch as the concurrence of that body would be necessary to reach a final result, it being, however, understood that the powers reserved by the constitution to the central government are not lessened or diminished. As the Cuban parliament does not meet iflitil May 4, next, the Spanish government would not object, for its part, to accept at once a suspension ot hostilities, if asked for by the insurgents from the general-in-chief, to whom it would pertain in such case, to determine the duration and conditions of the armistice. “I said in my message of December last: ‘lt is to be seriously considered whether the Cuban insurrection possesses beyond dispute the attributes of statehood which alone can demand the recognition of belligerency in its favor.’ The same requirement must certainly be no less seriously considered when the graver issue of recognizing independence is in question, for no less positive test can be applied to the greater act than to the lesser; while on the other hand, the influence and consequences ot the struggle upm the internal policy of the recognizing state, which form important factors where the recognition of belligerency is concerned, are secondary, if not rightly oliminable factors, when the real question is whether the community claiming recognition is or is not independent beyond peradventure. “Nor from the standpoint of experience do I think it would be wise or prudent for this government to recognize at the present time the independence of the so-called re-Cuban republic. Snch recognition is not necessary in order to enable the United States to in-

tervene and pacify the island. To Commit this country now to the recognition of any particular government in Cuba might subject us to embarrassing conditions of international obligations toward the organization so recognized. ******* * “The grounds for such intervention may be briefly summarized as follows: 1. In the cause of humanity and to put an end to the barbarities, bloodshed, starvation and horrible miseries now ex isting there, and which the parties to the conflict are either unable or unwilling to stop or mitigate. It is no answer to say this is all in another country, belonging to another nation, and, is therefore, none of our business. It is especially our duty, for it is right at our door. 2. We owe it to our citizens in Cuba to afford them that protection for life and property which no government there can or will afford, and to that end to terminate the conditions that deprive them of legal protection. 3. The right to intervene may be justified by the very serious injury to the commerce, trade and business of our people and by the wanton destruction of property and devastation of the island; 4. and which is of the most importance, the present condition of affairs in Cuba is a constant menace to our peace and entails upon this government enormous expense. With such a conflict waged for years in an island so near us, and with which oilr people have such trade and business relations; when the lives and liberty of our citizens are in constant danger and their property destroyed and themselves ruined; where our trading vessels are liable to seizure an I are seized at our very door by warships of a foreign nation; the expeditions of filibustering that we are powerless to repress altogether, and the irritating questions and entanglements thus arising—all these and others that I need not mention, with the resulting strained relations, are a constant menace to our peace and compel us to keep on a semi-war footing with a nation with which we are at peace. “The elements of danger and disorder already pointed out have been strikingly illustrated by a tragic event, which has deeply and justly moved the American people. I have already transmitted to congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor ot Havana during the night of the loth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our naw reposing in the fancied security of'a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death; grief and want have been brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation The naval court of inquiry, which, it is needless to say, commanding the unqualified confidence of the government was unanimous in its conclusion that the destruction of the Maine was caused by.an exterior explosiou-that of a submarine min-. It did not assume to place tho responsibility. That remains to be fixed. In any event, the destruction of the Maine, by whatever exterior cause is patent and impressive proof of a state

of things in Cuba that is intolerable. That condition is thus shown to be such that the Spanisn government cannot assure safety and security to a vessel of the America > navy in the harbor of Havana on a mission of peace, and rightfully there. ******* * “The long trial has proved that the object for which Spain has waged the war cannot be attained. The fire of insurrection may flame or may smoulder with varying seasons, but it has not been, and it is plain that it can not be, extinguished by present methods. The only hope of relief and repose from a condition which can no longer be endured is tho enforced pacification of Cuba. In the name of humanity, in the name of civilization, in behalf of endangered American interests, which gives us the right aud the duty to speak and to act, the war in Cuba must stop. “In view of these facts and of these considerations, I ask congress to authorize aud empower the president to take measures to secure full and final termination of hostilities between the government of Spain aud the peoule of Cuba, aud to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government capable cf maintaining order aud observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquility and the security of its citizens as well as our own, and to use the military aud naval forces of the United States as may be necessary for these purposes. “And in the interest of humanity and to aid in preserving the lives of the starving people of the island, I recommend that the distribution of food aud supplies be continued and that an appropriation be made out of the pub.io treasury to supplement the chantv of our citizens. The issue is now with the congress. It is a solemn responsibility. I have exhausted every effort to relieve the intolerable condition of affairs which is a J.i Onr dlxjrs - Prepa red to execute every obligation imposed upon me by the constitution and the law, I await your action. J "William McKinley.” Forty Thousand Orphans. Constantinople, April 11.—The Armenian patriarch has sent to the Turkish relief committee a list of 40 churches wholly or partly destroyed during the recent massacres in Anatolia. He' fixes the number of orphans whose parents were killed at 40,000. Attempted to Steal a Klde. Arcadia, Ind., April 12. - Charles Henry, 19 years old of Tipton, in attempting to steal a ride here, fell under the wheels of a Lake Erie aud Western freight train and was instantly killed. Quickly Recruit*!. Uwreuceburg, Ind., April 11.—Captain George Wtst, a veteran ot the civil war, opened an enlistment office Lert Saturday and in just three hours had 72 men enlisted for an artillery company.

Legal Advertising. OF EXECUTOR. Notice i« hereby given, that has been appointed Executor of (h • esuteof John Christen Sr., late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent Joh n Christen, Jr.. Executor. March 28. 18D8. GF ADMINISTRATOR. Notice is hereby given that the undcreigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of Milly Syphers. late of Adam county, deceased. The estate is probably wi« voat, William H. Niblick. Administrator. March 24. 189 S. 33 PRECINCTS. Keßolved. That the Clerk be Instructed to cause the following notice to be published the Decatur Journal and Decatur Democra for the next three succeeding publications oi each of said papers to wit: NOTICE TO CITY VOTERS. Notice is hereby given that nn error occurred in the division of the City ot Decatur io voting precincts, therefore the electron to held on the first Tuesday in Mav. )<•**'• w ’* held according to the old precinct lines viz. Precinct “A,” first ward, at the barn oi • L. DeVilbiss, precinct same ward, at w office of the Decatur Stive Works ward at A. R. Belt s barn. Third wardi at Romberg’s barn. Albert p b 4.3 city t-Ai - ■JQ OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The slate of Indiana, county of Adams. In the Adams circuit court. Anri. IS*Florence Sprague ) Stephen Sprague ' Divorce. It appearing from affidavit ' L* (t---entitled cause, that Stephen . Iya ■ ~, aliove named defendant, is a non-ie. the State ot Indiana. , „„ihe«ail Notice is therefore hereby peir Stephen Sprague, that th' IdS before the Honorab'e Judge of A May circuit court on the tweuty-ni»t uaj jun . ISSB. the same being the ffiirty--- y Isl dical day of the next regular term fI p. be hoiden at the court house in tn'* ‘ j even tt> catur. commencing on Monday, tn . day ot April A. D. IS*. wl the answer or demur to said „ ( j j D bls same will be heard and detenu absence. .[ o f sarf Witness, my name, and the yy a J 0 ( court hereto affixed, this twentj-eightn March, 1888 ot ci.rrK JOHN H. LENHART. IW By E. BtniT LESHAHT. 0 P ' jj France A Merryman. AttorneysOTICE TO TEACHERS. Notice is hereby given that oiuntf public examination of teachers [ U dianasuperintendent's office in Dei ; M ,n ' on the last Saturday of each in no( wr r script made in other counties ' Clin ye»» ceived. Applicants must be ye jjeside* of age before they will t>e ,of cliu<4 > tho statutory branches and sc atn***! don. applicants will be requie yjiecn oll list based on s leeted lit'ratut made by the state board of edu««"" The examination in t* ,e . B SS, t L en eral CU ‘*S£X (“Plato the Teacher.’) and the gfor tb book (-reaching the six months beginning "‘’J 1 t( ,wnsliil 1, .",, e amination will be based on „,, ae insi liu tute work for this year,covering at each examination. November —Outline one. Ik'cember —Outline two. January—OutPne three. February—Outline four. March—Outline five. n April—Outline six. f be r The work in reading will not any particular textbook. » tion begins promptly- trffiv B y IK 7o t, un ß t5 A S^ WBdC “-