Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGMAM, Publisher. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. OUR TICKET. For Congress. ORLANDO J. LOTZ. For Representative HENRY KRICK. For Prosecuting Attorney DAVID E. SMITH. For Clerk Adams Circuit Court ELMER JOHNSON. For Treasurer JONAS NEVENSCHWANDER. 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. Hon. Charley Bartling, we will bet that sounds nice to Charley. That somewhat famous Jay county dredge case has been decided in favor of the remonstrators, a happy and just conclusion. The first Monday in September is Labor Day and Governor Mount has issued a proclamation for its observance. Advertising has made more business men rich than any other means. It will pay any one to try it. as we all want to lie rich. There is some talk about Judge Hackney going east to permanently reside. ’ In that event a vacancy would exist on the democratic state ticket, which would lie filled by the state central committee. Ohio democrats have held their state convention and nominated a state ticket. The Chicago platform was endorsed, an income tax favored and William J. Bryan loudly applauded for his patriotic conduct in both peace and war. Governor Mount has asked the secretary of war for the discharge of the one hundred and fifty-eighth, one hundred and fifthy-ninth and one hundred and sixtieth Indiana regiments. It is expected that the request will be granted. One week from next Monday the officers elect of our city, will assume the duties involved in their election. After that time it will be Mayor Beatty, Clerk Hower. Treasurer Archbold and Marshal Hart. We predict for them all an honorable career in public life. The mustering out of soldiers has began but up to this time the one hundred and sixtieth has not been included. It is thought that orders for its release will soon come. Since the opportunities for engaging in active service has passed, the desire to remain in camp has likewise relinquished itself. Decatur citilens should prepare to tendt r the brave soldiers a reception upon their return. The campaign in this state will soon open. The political horizon looks exceptionally bright while looking through the focus from a democratic point of view. The party finds its workers all enthusiattic and are only waiting for the time to come when they will roll up their sleeves and sail in. The party record in this state is one of honor, the candidates before the people tear unusual strength and in all, there is no complaint to register among the democrats. Mr. Alger has completely muddled the affairs of the department of which he was unfortunately appointed the responsible head. When he and his political appointees relinquish office, it will take experienced and competent men a long time to undo their mistakes and the sooner it is put out of their power to make many more the lighter will be the task, Gens. Miles and Merritt may be congratulated upon the fact that they are where they are. in spite of Mr. Alger's opposition.—Boston Transcript (rep). A physician writing from Chickamauga Park says that •'half the sickness and half the number of deaths of soldiers at that place since used as a general camping ground has lieen the result of carelessness and “criminal" neglect. If one-half the charges of that nature that have beeen during the brief period of the war are true, the next six months might be well spent by a general board of investigation in locating the guilty parties. If not true, the fact should be known, that all may be relieved of suspicion. —Huntington News-Democrat.

HON. CHARLEY BARTLING. Nominates Himself for the Legislature I nder a Pretext at I nionism. Charley Bartling's great mass meeting of a thousand people was attended bv thirteen of that number last Saturday. It fully demonstrated that Charley Bartling was ambitious, that he wants to go to the legislature and nothing short of being a member of that august body would fit the robustness of both his mind and body. He conceived the idea of calling together the common people of all parties and on the pretense of reforming the manner of transacting our public business lie would gratify his ambition to be a candidate for the state assembly. At a meeting where he was already the whole thing, failure could not engulf his well laid plans. He met with twelve other reformers, the meeting being called to order after much ap-; prehension. John Case of St. Mary s , township, was called to preside, the | honor being accepted without any attempt to become eloquent. There' was some difficulty in securing a secretary who would prove equal to the rapidity and correctness of so mo- 1 mentous a gathering, but after a re- ■ fusal of Mike Ripley and AA illiam ' Campbell, the services of J. H. Stone were secured, and the business proceeded. Mr. Bartling then moved that the temporary chairman and secretary be made permanent. This move was thought advisable for fear the officers in their temporary state, might collapse and there would be no one left but Charley Bartling to rim the thing. It was here again moved by Charley Bartling that the chair appoint a committee of two from the populist party,two from the republican and two from the democratic party as a committee on resolutions. After more coaching by Bartling and four other gentleman who were put on sim- j ply to fill out the committee. During; their retirement a lusty stillness pre-; vailed that came near breaking up the ’ meeting. After they reported a sickning list of hairy chestnuts, a commit- i tee on nominations were named, and ■ they reported the following ticket, which was duly ratified: Representative Hon. Charley Bartling. 1 Prosecuting attorney- Paul G. Hooper. Clerk —John Lose. Treasurer- Henry Hite. Recorder I. N. Teeters. Surveyor C. Neuenschwander. Coroner Dr. J. AA . A'izard. The ticket was named without the consent or knowledge of any of the ! gentlemen named, unless it was the ■ head of the ticket. The balance of j them were ushered into public glory j liefore they knew it. Some of them does not take kindly to the mode, manner and party who thrust them so , suddenly into public prominence, as I will be seen below. Editor Democrat: Being unable to secure the services of Barney Kalvariski. in whom I had placed my political future. I take this manner to notify and inform those who took the liberty to place my name upon the new party ticket made last Saturday. that I refuse to accept any such nomination. As in the the past my support will be cast in behalf of the democratic county ticket nominated, which comprises good, honest and competent men, in whom I have the greatest faith. lam traveling no new political path and hope this will suffice to remove me from the list of braves. Yours truly, John Lose. Berne. Ind.. Aug. 22. 1898. Editor Democrat: AVhile under ordinary circumstances I might appreciate the kindness of my friends in wanting to clothe me with official honors. However, the deliberation of those assembled last Saturday were done without my consent or knowledge and I take the time this early to notify mv friends in Adams county, and especially those interested in placing me upon the ticket named, that I refuse to accept the nomination thus tendered. My democracy thns far has been untainted, and I think it unwise at this late day to mix myself up with such a conglomerated prize package. The democratic county ticket comprises good, honest men. and is plenty good enough for me, and should lie good enough for every other democrat in Adams county. C. Neuenschwander. Pleasant Mills. Ind.. Aug. 22.1898. Editor Democrat: I am informed that the mongrel convention which assembled at the court house Aug. 20th. nominated me for county coroner. Now they have not only used my name unauthorized, but endeavored to have me sail upon the left wing of the republican or populist party. No, I will not “daddy” the monstrosity, nor will I turn my back upon a candidate or class of candidates whom I supported at the primaries. I hope, at least, that my friends will find me in the future as they have in the past in the ranks of democracy. Yours truly, J. AV. A'izard, M. D. A serious charge comes from General Miles. It is that General Corbin and General Shafter ignore*] his warning of yellow fever at Santiago and suppressed his dispatches in order to shield themselves from censure. The charges are made openly and eannot be ignored by the government. Gradually the scandals of the war are cropping out. The Warsaw Union has been sold by Frank J. Zimmerman, who for i years has been its publisher.

WAGES IN SILVER COUNTRIES. Some of our gold bug contemporaries are taking satisfaction from an interview in a recent number of The Sentinel in which the great prosperity of Mexico was discussed, and also the low price of labor was mentioned in connection with the fact that only rich Mexicans rode bicycles. Thev overlook the fact that labor in all countries is paid nearly in proportion to its product, and that Mexican later is about as poor labor as can be found. : In Arizona and New Mexico Mexicans ' are paid only a fraction of what white , laborers are paid, but they are paid for all the work they accomplish. And this comparison of wages is not to be restricted to silver standard countries. If you take gold standard Spain, or Italy or Egypt you will find that the laborers there do not make more than in Mexico, and do not have as steady employment. The fact was admitted by James G. Blaine long ago that American later was paid less than any foreign labor in proportion to its product, and that contrast has been increased in the last few years. A notable evidence of it is found in the increase of our exports to Japan which until a short time ago was a silver standard country, and which now is practically on a silver standard and has very low wage rates. _ The value of experts from the 1 nited States to Japan during 1897 increased 55 per cent, over the previous year, while those of Great Britain increased only 5 per cent. A report to the assistant secretary to the English legation at Tokio. japan, on the foreign , trade of Japan for the year 1897. a I copy of which just received at the , Philadelphia commercial museum, and made public by it. discusses the i inroads of the United States in the Japanese trade in relation to Japanese manufactures and also in relation to I to the manufactures of Great Britain I and among other things says of it: In the first place it would seem that the period of prosperity experienced in the states until about 1893 or 1894 , ended with a considerable overproduc- i tion in every branch of manufacture. The depression which ensued brought | about an era of economy and stimula- ! ted the development of labor-saving : machinery and appliances of every j description, and by their adoption the American maker has been able to meet not only the lower prices offered to I him by his own countrymen, but in many cases to create a demand abroad by selling his surplus at cost price and thus freeing the home markets from any excess. Here is the secret of this ability of I America not only to undersell Great Britain but also to undersell Japan in its own market, "economy." and the development of labor-saving machine- i ry and appliances." The chief form of economy has been the reduction of . wages, and this, with labor-saving machinery, makes the labor cost of our goods less than those with which they i compete in Japan. In other words, our working people, receive less money in proportion to what they produce than do the laborers of Japan, and j this is true of all the goods we export to any foreign country that come in competition with their goods. Sentinel. Additional Locals. Misses Fannie DeA'ilbiss and Ethel King spent Sunday at Alexandria. AA'e have the finest line of hammocks in the city. Holthouse, Callow & Co. Miss Dollie Christen is enjoving a i weeks recreation at Oden. Michigan, i About fifty Blufftonites witnessed ' the ballon ascension at Steele's Park : last Sunday. Rev. G. AV. Pearce will preach at Pleasant Mills, next Sunday afternoon at 3£lo. Mrs. AVilliam Harris, of Conneaut, Ohio, is the guest ■ f her sister. Mrs. . S. D. Beavers. Rev. Nicholson, author of the fa mous anti-saloon laws was in town on j business Tuesday afternoon. Buy one of those Electric Bug Exterminators for destroying all kinds iof insects. Holthouse, Callow & Co. Misses Bertha Steele and Mabel Siegel went to Bluffton last Saturday to be the guests of Mrs. H. H. Kover. Thomas Touhey of Chicago, and Otto Cook of Fort Wayne, visited friends in this city the first of the week. Dr. Miller, will again be at Dr. Boyer's office Tuesday Sept. 6th. eyes - carefully examined for glasses, one ’ day only. 24-2 Henry Siegel and wife and Miss Bertha AA'atson. of Portland, were the i guests of J. D. Steele and wife last tSunday. Ellis, son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gates of Monroe township, died and I was buried in the cemetery at Berne Monday. John S. Peterson and family returnI ed home Monday evening from Rome I City, where they have been during the past three weeks. The lecture to-night at the Presbyterian church promises to be theevent of the institute week. Prof. Morgan has a great reputation. Old settlers are requested to bring along all the old relics which they can find when they attend the old settlers picnic next Thursday. Holthouse. Callow A Co. are headquarters for everything in the line of paints and oils. Rock bottom prices and goods guaranteed. D.‘ French Quinn and R. K. Allison and children left Tuesday morning for Oden. Michigan where they will spend about ten days in fishing and otherwise enjoying themselves.

Mrs. Amelia Cameran and daughter! of Philadelphia, are the guests of J. B. Miller and family. Mrs. Cameran is a cousin of Mrs. Miller. Miss Martha Bender, who has been the guest of her brother. William Bender, at Lima. Ohio, for several weeks, returned home last Monday. Prof. Floyd Brittson. who has been rusticating in and about Petoskey, Michigan, arrived home Monday evening and reports an excellent time. For Sale, fifty bushels of Rudy Seed Wheat. It’is the best wheat for seeding there is. as was fully demonstrated this last season. Motts Miller. 22-4 For Sale—Fence machines for the weaving of farm and lawn fence. It is the best and cheapest fence in the market. Address Harry Karr Monroe Ind. ’ 21m6 At the Baptist church Sunday next the discourses by Rev. G. W . Pearce, will be: Morning "Weak Hands and Feeble Knees.” Evening,“Whatthink ye of Christ?" You are invited to attend the Old Settler's reunion next Thursday, to be held in Christianer’s grove a half mile west of this city. Refreshments on the ground. The races which were to have occurred here n =xt month were but a myth. Proper arrangements for a successful fair in Decatur seem very difficult to make. Milt Rice and family are enjoying the cool breezes of Lake Michigan, this week, they having been among the excursionists who left for Petosky Tuesday morning. Marriage licenses have been granted Alvin E. Aspy and Mattie J. Kidwell. Cary D. Evans and Bertha Pease,John Draperand Lillie O. Baxter, Fred Meyers and Della Engle. City Clerk-elect Hower has already secured a deputy. The young lady made her appearence at the Hower residence Tuesday morning. Every ! one getting along nicely. While Jacob Bender and family were away from home last Sunday, some one broke into the house and stole a revolver and several small articles. A key to the door was also taken. Unciaimed letters at the postoffice are for Mr. H. G. Pierce. Mr. F. Ehinger. Miss Lizzie Crauston. Mrs. Lon Brown. Mr. L. Howard Browne. Mr. John Reed. Mr. Joe Largent, Mr. John Grimn. On Monday. August 29. those inter; ■ ested in the Mt. Pleasant cemetery will meet there for the purpose of cleaning it of all weeds and cither obstructions. Every one will please bear the date in mind and be there. A train load of soldiers from the far western states passed through here Tuesday noon bound for Santiago 1 where it is said they will relieve the I soldiers now doing duty there. Among the troops were several colori ed companies. Miss Della Engle and Mr. Fred Myers were married last Sunday at the home of Moses Foreman, east of the city. Both are well known voung people of Adams county, and have a host of friends who wish them many happy years. C. L. Ayers of Marion, was a business caller in the city last Tuesday. i Clarence represents the State Mutual Life Insurance Company of Worcester. Massachusetts which, by the way. is I one of the best companies doing business in the west. I Another month has rolled around and Niekum's perpetual glim has not Iteen given that public trial. The long green comes without intermission. Six tvpewriters are kept busy answering letters and receipt of money. What a beautiful crop of suckers we j have in America.—Logansport Chron- | icle.

Hot Sale of Fall Hats 1898. We are sole agents for the I Itra bashionable Howard Stiff and Soft Hals; price 53.00. Equal in style and quality to any $5.00 hat in America. We also handle the Royal Stiff Hat in all colors. The most popular hat in this country. See our windoAV Saturday for the best SI.OO hats in the city. Holthouse, Schulte & Falk. p s __We are selling all summer goods at cost and less than cost.

THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK, DECATUR INDIANA. July 14.1898. RESOURCES, • LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, - -5202.938.89 Capital, - - - 8100.000.00 Overdrafts. - - 3,490.40 i Surplus, - - 7,500.00 U. S. Bonds and premiums 27.500.00 Undivided profits, - 871.93 Real estate and furniture, 6.588.79 Circulation, - . 22,500.00 Cash and Exchange, - 76.171.06 Deposits, - - 185,817.21 5316,689.14 8316,689.14 DIRECTORS. OFFICERS. P. W. Smith, J. B. Holthouse, P. W. Smith, J. a. Holthouse, J. D. Hale. J. H. Hobrock, President, Vice-President. D. Sprang, C. A. Dugan, C. A. D' t gan, E X. Ehinger. H R. Moltz, Cashier Ass’t Cashier. A general banking business transacted. Foreign drafts sold. Interest paid on certificates left six or twelve months.

Bosse opera house, Sept. 6. Miss Anna Vitz, of Indianapolis, | spent yesterday with friends here, returning home this morning. Misses Mary Myers and Bessie Schrock are the guests of the former's ! sister, Mrs. Anna Harding, at Fort Wayne this week. Miss Bertha Sellemeyer is at Fort Wayne, today, where she is attending the German Reformed Sunday school i convention now in session in that city. The Old Settlers' of Adams county will hold their fourth annual picnic in Christianer’s Grove, one-half mile west of Decatur, on Thursday, Sept. 1. 1898. Come with your baskets well filled and enjoy the day. Plenty of good music and speaking. For Sale —Thirty-two acres of good land located one half mile east of Preble. Here is a bargain as the land is among the best in Adams county. Good timber land. Frederick Koleeway, Freidheim, Ind. I Prof. LeeN. Dailey, a student of the Oberlein Conservatory of Music, has just returned from his work at Sugar Grove, Penn. Prof. Dailey has charge of the music in the Sugar Grove Seminary and Conservatory and teaches piano and vocal music. The sorrel ponev owned by John Peterson became frightened Tuesday morning and ran away. It came tearing down through Second street at a terrible rate and succeeded in completely demolishing the phaeton to which it was hitched. No one was hurt however. This week is institute week and the city is filled with voung ladies and gentlemen who are anxious to obtain new ideas to impart into the heads of the young Americans the coming winter. The attendance at the institute is probably the largest this year that it has ever been. The 157th regiment of Indiana have been ordered to report at Indianapolis for the purpose of being mustered out lof the service. Colonel Studabaker, : of South Bend, has command of the regiment and on account of the large number of sick among the boys he recommended that they be discharged. Attorney Jake Butcher of Geneva, ' was in town Tuesday, and among other things he told us of how he paralized the community there by tendering his wife a surprise party last Saturday evening, and how he arranged the bill of fare and had ice cream and . all that sort of stuff on tap. It was a ■ rousing success with about sixty participants. Will Kuebler writes home from New York, where he has l>een on business for several days, that he witnessed the great naval parade last . Saturday in which many of the greatI est battleships of the U. S. navy took . part. He says it was the grandest ■ sight he had ever witnessed. He saw - Sampson, Schley and many other great naval heroes.

Governor Mount’s friends, regardlesi of party, are still deploring the injuries he received in his collision with Judge Showalter. The Governor had sidetracked his train, which was hauling the constitution, the legislature, the supreme court, the 3-cent streetcar fare law and the attorney general when Showalter’s injunction locomotive struck him. head-on with terrific force, since when the governor, the constitution, the legislature, the 3-cent fare law and the at: orney general have been sc intermixed and intertwisted that ail who have viewed the wreckage have declared the collision was altogether tbs most disastrous that ever occurred, since such judicial mosquitoes as Showaltet wore boots. If the “true cash value” of proper'? is not on honest basis for assessment as provided bv the Democratic tax law, the lawyers who wag their jaws in the interest of tax dodging sharks before the tax commissioners, should tell them what is an honest basis. Governor Mount, after full investigation, approved the Republican antitrust law. and has failed to execute it, because it is totally valueless. If so, why did he not veto it instead of giving it his approval. If Emperor William of Germany wants to pick a quarrel with Locle Sam, now is the right time for him tc begin. We have got through with Spain, and another European job could be finished before Cnristraas. Senator Fairbanks, in his convention speech, advocated the tariff policy of the Dingley law, which confiscates the property of the poor in the interest of the rich. Before the war with Spain we were getting on nicely with a standing army of 25,000 men, ana now we are to have a standing army of 100,000 men 1 costs money to keep up such an esta lishment, but to raise it all that i’ re * quired is to lick and stick revenue stamps. Major McKinley hints that Whitela’ Reed will be made secretary of statebecause he married a fortune bigenoug to enable him to get up swell enter .am meuts in Washington, and make a perb ass of himself, as he did in P» rl Senator Fairbanks, who goes to Canada on some sort of a government picnic, could, if required, tell the < * ua ans the profitable limit of wind au water to be injected into their r.u roa stocks and bonds. Having acquired the lands, 2,000 miles west of our nrof coast, what becomes of the - 0 doctrine?’ 1 . The administration ought to inf» r ® the people, approximately, te | leprosy has been annexed to the States by the Hawaiian treaty- .