Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1898 — Page 6

THE SUITE PUTFORNIS For Purposes of Comparison the Declarations of the Republican and Democratic State Platforms on the Various Issues of the Campaign Are Herewith Given In Parallel Columns, Arranged by Topics: DEMOCRATIC. REPUBLICAN. THE WAR.

We, the Democracy of Indiana, in convention assembled, now, as always, loyal to our country and our flag, affirm that the cause for which the United States is engaged in war with Spain is just and righteous. We recall with pride the early espousal and united and persistent support of this cause by the senators and representatives of the Democratic party in congress. We congratulate the country upon the universal patriotic upns.ng which has swept away the last vestige of sectionalism, and revealed us to the world as a united people. We rejoice in the heroic deeds of Dewey, Bagley, Hobson, and their brave comrades, which have added new luster to the American name. We demand, now, as heretofore, the most vigorous prosecution of the war until it shall have ended in vindication of the national honor, the absolute relinquishment by Spain of possession or control of any part of the western hemisphere, and the formal acknowledgment by that kingdom of the independence of the Cuban republic. We favor the prompt recognition by the United States of such independence as a war measure, and as an act of justice to a brave people, struggling for freedom. We urge the immediate increase of the volunteer forces of our army and navy to any extent necessary to assure speedy and decisive results, and the appropriation of all the funds requisite for the adequate equipment and support, and for the comfort of our gallant soldiers and sailors in armed conflict against the public enemy. The supreme duty of the hour is to relieve the perishing victims of Spanish cruelty and secure the complete triumph of the national arms. I When this shall have been accomplished the justice and wisdom of the American people may be safely trusted to deal ■with all questions which may grow out < of existing complications, in such away as best to promote the objects for which i this republic was founded.

We favor such a permanent strengthening of the navy of the United States and such improvements of our system of coast defenses as shall assure adequate protection of the country against foreign aggression.

The Democratic party of Indiana. We hold in undying honor the solnow, as in the past, advocates liberal diers and sailors whose valor saved the pensions as well to the disabled sur- life of the nation, and those who were vivors of the Union army in the civil but recently called to arms in vindicawar, and their widows and orphans, as tion of their country’s honor and the to the victims in the present couflict, i cause of human liberty. Just and liband those who may be dependent upon eral pensions to all deserving soldiers them. We honor alike the valor of are a sacred debt of the nation, and the those who suffered for the flag in the widows and orphans of those who are gigantic contest of 1861-65, and of those ' dead are entitled to the care of a generwho have now gone forth to do battle I ous and grateful people, in the cause of liberty and humanity. .

THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

We are in favor of the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by this government, when its feasibility shall have been determined; but we are opposed to a loan of the national credit to any private corporation for that purpose.

We reaffirm and emphasize the platform adopted by the national Democratic convention of 1896 at Chicago. We are in favor of the tree and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the existing ratio of 16 to 1, without the aid or consent of any other nation. We are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard, and we specially protest against the declared purpose of the present Republican secretary of the treasury of applying that policy more thoroughly. We believe that the practice of the treasury in paying treasury notes in gold only, in violation of law, and in surrendering the option of the government, reserved by the statute, to pay iu gold or silver, is chiefly responsible for the great money depression now, and for so long a period, existing in this country, is destructive of business enterprise. dangerous to the public credit and the prosperity of the people, and a serious menace to the national honor.

THE INHERITANCE AND INCOME TAXES.

We insist that the wealth of the country should bear its just share of the public burdens. For that reason we approve the inheritance tax recently adopted through tbe efforts of the Democrats in congress and we favor the principle and policy of an income tax. The demonitization of silver and the judicial denial of the power to tax incomes have materially impaired our resources for war purposes. We favor the reimposition of an income tax, so that the question of its validity may be reviewed by the supreme court.

the tariff.

We earnestly reassert the Democratic doctrine that all tariff taxes shall be laid for revenue as their sole object aud purpose, and we do at this time especially denounce and condemn the high prohibitory rates of the present Republican tariff, commonly called the Dingley bill, under the operation of Which trusts aud combinations have

While we sincerely deplore the necessity of war, we believe the president and congress acted wisely in demanding the complete withdrawal of Spanish sovereignty over the island of Cui a and in proceeding to enforce the demand with the military and naval power of the government. And now that our army and navy, through their splendid achievements, have blessed our nation with triumphs not excelled in the world’s history, rendering many names illustrious and immortal, and adding prestige and glory, limited only by civilization, to our great republic, the occasion is one of supreme gratitude to the great ruler of nations. We extend to the brave men on land and sea who have gone forth to battle for the glory of our flag and the cause of human liberty our deepest sympathy on account of the sacrifices they have made and the hardships they are called upon to endure, and our warmest praise for their unconquerable valor. We honor, congratulate and applaud our country’s heroes who have once more proved the matchless intelligence, devotion and courage of American manhood. They have Droved to the world that the United States is a nation, one and indivisible, without sections and without classes, whose purpose is “to deal justly, love mercy and walk humbly before God.” We commend Mr. McKinley’s conservative and patriotic course in earnestly hoping and negotiating for peace while yet prudently preparing for war. And we further express our most earnest approval of his vigorous prosecution or the war, and our entire confidence in his ability to secure such terms of peace, now happily near at hand, as will advance human liberty and comport with the dignity and honor of the American people.

THE NAVY.

Having achieved its manhood, the republic, under God, is entering upon its greatest period of power, happiness and responsibility. Realizing the mighty future of wealth, prosperity and duty which is even now upon us, we favor the extension of American trade, the reformation of our consular system accordingly, the encouragement by all legitimate means of the American merchant marine, the creation of a navy as powerful as our commerce shall be extensive for the public defense and security, and the establishment of coaling stations and naval rendezvous wherever necessary.

PENSIONS.

We most heartily approve of the annexation of the Hawaiian islands as a wise measure; we recommend the early 1 construction of the Nicaraguan canal under the immediate direction and exclusive control of the United States government—the importance and necessity of the canal having been emphasized by recent events connected with the present war with Spain.

THE FINANCIAL QUESTION.

The Republicans cf Indiana are unreservedly for sound money, and are therefore opposed to the heresy to which the Democratic party is wedded, of the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. which we regard as absolutely sure to debase our money and destroy our private and public credit, and cause general business disaster. We recognize the necessity of comprehensive and enlightened monetary legislation and believe that the declaration in the St. Louis national Republican platform for the maintenance of the gold standard and the parity of all our forms of money should be given the vitality of public law and the money of the American people should be made, like all its intitutions, the best iu the world. We felicitate the country on the fact, when iu theexigencies of war it became necessary to issue 1200,000,000 of government bonds to meet the extraordinary expenditures, a Republican administration had the good sense and wisdom to put the loan within the easy reach of the people, where it has been wholly absorbed, furnishing a splendid security for their savings, awakening a new interest iu the permanency of our government and the soundness of its financial system.

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We especially com mend the presideu t and congress for the prompt passage of a wise revenue iaw in accordance with the sound Republican doctrine of re- | ciprocity and protection to American , industries and home labor, and express our unbounded confidence in the beneficial results predicted for this measure I by our party leaders, evidencesof which

DEMOCR ATlC—multiplied, the cost of the necessaries of life has been increased and the wages of labor h»v» not been advanced, and wh ■ h has entailed upon the country a de l it ot many millions to be made up onb,' by additional taxation in time of war, thus imposing, instead of a benefit, an onerous burden upon the people of the United States.

We reaffirm and emphasize our re- i peated declarations in favor of the election of United States senators by the people.

We sincerely sympathize with organized labor in its efforts to adjust differences between the employer and employe. We denounce the incorporated trusts which have overcome these efforts by cruel and unjust methods and we favor a system of equal and disinterested arbitration as a means of adjustment ot such differences. We take pride in the long list of laws enacted by Democratic legislatures for the benefit of the workingmen of the state, including the 8-hour labor law, the law prohibiting “pluck-me stores,” the repeal of the infamous Republican intimidation laws, the law prohibiting the importation of Pinkertons, the law prohibiting “blacklisting,” the miners’ law providing for the proper ventilation of mines and the use of honest weights and screens; the law protecting workingmen in the right to organize for mutual defense, the co-employes’ liability law, the mechanics’ lien law, the law prohibiting the forced collection of fees from employes of railroad corporations to sustain company hospitals, restaurants, etc., the law guaranteeing the civil rights of all citizens, and the law prohibiting the importation of paupers and aliens under contract into the state who have no purpose of becoming citizens thereof. We demand a more thorough enforcement of the 8-hour and other laws in the interest of labor by the public officials charged with that duty. We are opposed to the contract labor system in prison, but we believe that to maintain convicts in idleness is inhuman and unjustly burdensome to the people. We believe some plan should be devised for the profitable utilization of their labor without bringing it into competition with free labor. The projects for its employment under the public account system or in the construction of a ship canal connecting Lake Michigan with the Wabash river, or in some other enterprise of great public utility should be carefully considered and that plan which promises the best results and is open to the fewest objections should be adopted by the next legislature. We approve the child labor and factory inspection law, and favor such amendments to the same as shall render it more effective.

THE DEMOCRATIC TAX LAW.

We congratulate the taxpayers of In- i diana upon the rapid decrease in the 1 state debt, and beg to remind them that the revenues with which the payments thereon have been made and are being made result from the enforcement of the Democratic tax law of 1891, which was enacted by a Democratic legislature over Republican opposition and protest, which was assailed by a Republican state convention, denounced by Republican orators and the entire Republican press, but which was sustained iu the highest court of the nation through the efforts of a Democratic attorney general. Every dollar paid on the state debt by Republican officials is cumulative evidence of the stupidity, or worse, of the Republican organization in its bitter opposition to the law which made such payment possible, and which, since coming into power, they have made no effort to repeal. We also recall that a Democratic legislature enacted a law creating a sinking fund of 3 cents on the §IOO, to be applied exclusively to the extinguishment of the state debt, and that under these laws the Democratic administration of Governor Matthews, in 1895 and 1896, set the pace by reducing the state | debt more than §2,000,000.

The Democratic party feels a just pride in the other great legislative reforms it lias accomplished for the people of Indiana and points to their continuing benefits as certain proof of their visdom. We call attention to the Australian allot law. enacted against Republican opposition and still having a great purifying effect on elections notwithstanding the Republican amendments lessening its safeguards: to the board ot state charities law for the supervision and regulation of our penal and charitable institutions, to the school book law. by which the great school book trust has been driven from tnc state, the price of the books used in public schools has been reduced over one-half and the frequent changes in books, formerly so burdensome to the people and detrimental to the school’s, have been prevented; to the fee ami salary law and other great measures of reform which the state of Indiana owes to the Democratic party. We call attention to the record of the last two legislatures, each Republican in both branches, which made scarcely a iaw of material benefit to the people. Both of these legislatures were marked by corruption and debauchery so scandalous that even Republican organs were driven to denounce them. They have to their credit the iniquitous special verdict law—made in one and repealed in the other: the present legislative get rymander, by which the senate is given 51 members, in violation of the constitution; the antitrust law. inspired by trust attorneys and purposely made so worthless that Republican state officials dare not attempt to enforce it; an oppressive garnishee law, which undertook to deprive wage-earners of the state of their constitutional right of exemption: and the outrageous partisan measures to extend the term of the appellate judges, county superintendents and township trustees.

PRIMARY ELECTION REFORM.

We are earnestly in favor of legislation for the regulation and reform of primary elections.

COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT.

We recognize the existence of grave defects : in the laws governing counties and townships of this state. We favor a complete and systematic revision of such laws to the end that public business may be transacted with greater efficiency and economy.

THE TRUANCY LAW.

We favor such an amendment of the truancy law, which now requires a large and unnecessary expenditure of public moneys, so as to transfer the duties of such officials to township trustees, who shall perform the same without further compensation.

PERSONAL LIBERTY.

We adhere firmly to the teachings and 1 practices of the Democratic party in favor of 1 the largest measure of personal liberty consistant with public security and social order. We are opposed to all projects of legislative interference with, or regulation of, matters which lie within the domain of individual judgment and cGiibcience.

—REPUBLICAN are dailv accumulating m the way of renewed business prosperity and amide revenue forordinarv governmental expenditun s. We, therefore, reaffirm our belief m tkedwtrine of reciprocity and protection to American labor ami home industries and condemn the Democratic doctrine of tariff for revenue only as unsound and uuuiited to tnebest in- • terests of the country, a doctrine the falsity of which has been demonstrated bv our experience under the M ilsou revenue bill that plunged the nation into commercial and financial distress, from which it is fast recovering since the ! change from that Democratic pmicy.

ELECTION OF U. S. SENATORS.

LABOR.

We favor the enactment and enforcement of laws restricting and preventing the immigration of such undesirable foreign population as is prejudicial to free American labor. —

i We commend the wise, prudent, pa1 triotic and economical administration of Governor Mount and the Republican state officials, under which, with a re* duction of 25 per centum in the state tax rate within the last 18 months, $920,000 of the state debt has been discharged: an army of over 7,000 men has been equipped and placed iu the field at an expense of over $200,000; the laws have been enforced and the name of Indiana honored throughout the land,

GENERAL STATE ISSUES.

In 1895-97, for the first time since 1883. owing to the vicious system of enacting apportionment laws, whereby the minority might still control the majority, the Republican party found itself in condition to legislate for the state, ami the laws that it wisely enacted and the other measures which it still more wisely refused to pass, constitute an epoch in legislation that is an enduring monument to the faithfulness and intelligence of the party which the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth general assemblies represented. Among the many wise and just measures of legislation that stand upon the statute books as the result of the labors of those two general assemblies, are the acts creating a labor commission: providing means for the settlement of disputes between employers and employes by arbitration: al>olishing the prison contract system: taking con- : vict labor out of competition with free labor; 1 providing for factory inspection and the protection of the lives and health of operatives and prohibiting the employment of child labor: providing safeguards in the auditing of public expenditures; complying with the constitutional mandate that the venal code should be founded on principles of reformation and not of vindictive justice: providing i for the protection of the people against incompetent and inefficient professional men; I making permanent in county and extending to state officials the provision that officers I shall be paid according to their services, and not constitute a burden upon the people by reason of excessive feesand salaries; the taking of the benevolent institutions out of the purview of partisan politics, whereby the poor and unfortunate wards of the state are assured competent and humane treatment: and above all, the enactment of an honest, fair and constitutional apportionment law. These acts emphasize and illustrate the intelligence and integrity of the 59th and «Oth general assemblies.and we congratulate the Republican party and people of the state on their action.

We favor, as a supplement to our present election law, the enactment by the next legislature of such a primary election law as will I secure to the people a full and free expression 1 in the selection of their candidates for office.

Believing that there is need of reform in county and township government, and that a vast saving of the public monev can be made by better methods, we favor early and thorough revision of the laws upon this subject, to the end that the people of Indiana may have the best and most economical management 1 of local affairs.

THE MAJOR’S EXPERIENCE How He Spent the Greater Part of His Life-, Time When His Lite was in Danger. From the Free Prese, Detroit, Mich.

One of the staunchest supporters of the deep-water way from the Great Lakes to the ocean is Maj. A. C. Bishop, of 715 Third Ave., Detroit, Mich. I Im ~L h J J MAJOR A. C. BISHOP. Mai. Bishop has had unusual experience in that line of work and probably few are so well qualified to speak intelligently of it as he. For the greater part ot his lite he has been engaged in water ways, and is one of the oldest and best known civil engineers north of the Ohio river. Commencing in 1850, he was fora number of years an assistant engineer for the I hidson" River Railroad, and later held like positions with the Genesee Valley Canal. New York, and also the Des Moines River Improvement and Railroad Co.

ine Australian aborigines are now ranked by ethnographers as fifth or sixth in the list of so called natural races, the Veddahs of Ceylon being the lowest in the scale of savage culture. To be classed as a millionaire in the United States a man must be worth at least $1,000,000; in England he mud have five times as much, or $5,000,000 , in Germany 1,000,000 marks, or $250,CCO. The caribou, or reindeer of Newfoundland, has its home in vast areas of unbroken wilderness. Some of the larger species which have been shot have each weighed from 500 to 600 pounds. The earliest known statue is one that has been recovered from an Egyptian tomb. It is that of a sheikh, or headman cf a village, is made of wood, with eyes of glass, and is evidently a portrait. It is 6,000 years old.

Keep Yew Youth If you are young you naturally appear so. If you are old, why appear so? Keep young inwardly; we will look after the outwardly. You need not worry longer about those little streaks of grav; advance agents of age. Auer’s Hair Vigor will surely restore color to gray hair; and it will also give your hair all the wealth and gloss of early life. Do not allow the falling of your hair to threaten you longer with baldness. Do not be annoyed with dandruff. We will send you our book on the Hair and Scalp, free upon request. Wir/te to tho Doctor. It you do not obtain all the benefits you expected from the use of the Vigor, write the doctor about It. Probably there is some difficulty with your general system which may be easily removed. Address, DR. J. C. AYER. Lowell, Maas.

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He has been superintendent mg operations and when th. s . tory at Elmira. N. Y. was b].¥'“* superintendent and engineer i„ ’" e Mi construction. 111 Major Bishop was attached t„ Brigadier General Chamberlin o n l ‘ U J«I tional Guard of New York with .r* e S ‘ of Major from 1857 to 1865. ’ ' ra »k He has been located in Detroit.' and has a large acquaintance ness men mid citizens of this city 8 lne '“I Two years ago, for the Bishop was in the hospital. Fur'tw’’ he hail the best of medical attend,?''". 11 ” when he was discharged he wis no?? lal M ujor Bishop of ohl. Was not the When asked regarding his health r “When 1 had my sp,ll and came out of the hospital i sight I could not gain my could not walk over a block foFLS weeks. “ I noticed some articles in the new... regarding Dr. Williams’ p illk I>i|l s People, which convinced me that they ? worth trying and bought two Isiies ’l J! not take them for my complexion b ut 7 strength. After using them I felt J and know they did me worlds of Jo 1 am pleased to recommend them to invira who need a tonic or to build up a shaft, j constitution. “a. C. Bishop" ■ Subscribed and sworn to before me this eighth dav of January, 1898. 4 Robert E. Hi li. Jr.. Notary Pm, The pure, powerful vegetable inerediL in Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale supply the antidote for poisonous matter i. the blood and add those elements build lip body and brains. Many dis e 2 long supposed by the medical profession’ be incurable have succumbed to the mum influence of these pills. They can be taka by young or old, being harmless i n theh nature, but powerful in eliminatingdiseaie

MORTGAGE LOANS Money Loaned on Favorable Term LOW RATE OF INTEREST Frivelege of Partial Payments Abstracts of Title Carefully Prepare F. M. SCHIRMEYER Cor. 2d and Madison Sts. DECATUB, IM)

HENRY U. HELLER. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, rooms 1 and 2. Stcne Block, opposite court house. Collections. Notary Public. JAMES T. MERRYMAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW. DECATUR. IND. Office—Nos. 1. 23, over Adams Co. Bonk. ! 1 refer, by permission to Adems Co. Bank. R. S. PETERSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR. INDIANA. Rooms 1 and 2. in the Anthony Holthouse Block A. P. BEATTY J. F.SUSS MANN & BEATTY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public. Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. I John Schurger. Dave E. Ssnltl SCHURGER & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Money to loan at lowest rates of intent Abstracts of title, rea 1 estate and collections Rooms 1. 2 and 3 Welfley block. - — DeVilbiss & Archbold, DENTISTS. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. T> . „ „ ( Office, 42. Phone i n esjclenee- 9. IVEFTUIWE DENTISTS. Now located over the 1 it.v th! prepared to do all work f'U'“ a °Mciii“!' de-ual profession. Gold filling 8 to J. ID. HALE DEALER IN Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt.O 11 Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. nd Elevators on the Chicago & i ‘^ esoU thLeaf railroads. Office and retails gtre€ts . east corner of Second and Jette ( eer* Your oatronage solicited. c.t isbed 1 Capital $120,000. the old ADAMS COUNTY Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking bu-.in<' ; irv BW-’ lections in all parts of tin '!“ Foreign town, township and count? j1 and domestic exchange lioughtana terest paid on time deposits. t p.*tua Officers—W. H.Niblick C»^ er baker. Vice President: K- *hjer. ami C. S. Niblick. Assistant