Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1898 — Page 6

HON. S.M. MISTON’S SPEECH Hoosier Democracy's Standard Bearer Reviews the Issues—Party Loyalty Means the Defeat of Landis—Democracy and the War. State and National Questions. [Delivered at the Ninth Congressional District Convention. Joly 80, 1898. j

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention: I ant glad to greet the Democrats of the Ninth congressional district in convention assembled. While lam not a delegate to this convention I am in sympathy with the object of your meeting and will rejoice with you should the result of your deliberations prove acceptable to the rank and tile of our party. When Democrats meet to take counsel of one another they should never forget that it is the duty of .he minority to submit to the will of the majority. 1 h..ve such faith in the unadulterated Democracy of the Democrats of this district that I feel the choice of this convention will receive the vote of every Democrat in th? district. If loyalty prevails in our party .Mr. Landis will surrender his seat in congress to your nominee and Che citizenship you represent will have a protector and defender against those influences that make against our national life. The Blue and the Gray United. We meet, my friends, under unusual circumstances. More than 30 years ago the great civil war ended that threatened the life of our nation, but unfortunately the bitter animosities kindled by that conflict have manifest! d themselves in some manner in every campaign since the close of the struggle. Party leaders have not hesitated to seek party advantages by fanning anew the uying embers of sectional strife. To-day, h >wever, public opinion demand that Mason and Dixon's line be obliterated, that it may no longer be a flaming wall—.,n impassable barrier to a friendly intercourse between the north and south, aad that the differences out of which the war came must not be cited as a reason for the ascendency of any particular party. The boys who wore the blue have clasped hands across the bloody chasm with the boys who wore the gray, and shoulder to shoulder they are standing this hour under the folds of one flag in defense of a common country. Fortunately for us we are not now engaged in war among ourselves. Within our own boundaries we are at peace. We are united as one man against Spanish tyranny and Spanish oppression. We have heard the voice of the oppressed in a neighboring island, and, yielding to She dictates of humanity, we have determined, it matters not how great the cost may be in blood and treasure, to deliver the Cubans from bondage. This is the purpose and mission of the American people regardless of party affiliations, for in this war there should be no politi-s and S'long as the object and purpose lor which war was declared are adhered to and good faith prevails in its prosecution, damned should be the man or party that shall attempt to gain a partisan advantage through it. DemotiratN First For Cuban Independence. It is to be regretted that the suggestion is occasionally made that Indiana should go Republican at the next election because the present administration has the war on its hands. My friends, it is true that the president, who is the command-er-in-chief of our armies and navy, is a Republican, yet the Democratic party stands ready to strengthen the president's hands in every way possible, and through its representatives in congress it will glad'y join in voting every man ami every dollar necessary to aid in prosecuting the war t > a speedy and successful conclusion. And I now warn our R -publican friends that if they insist that the voters of Indiana should support the Republican ticket next fall because of the war, we shall not hesitate to remind them that Marcus Hanna and his adm nistration were against the war until the excoriation of publ.c opinion lashed them into it. The Democratic party was demanding the independence of Cuba when the Republican party was in a state of lethargy on the subject. Wall street had sat down so heavy on Mr. McKinley and his advisers in opposition to the war and in favor of th- holders of Cuban bonds, that the presence of leading Republicans of Indiana was rendered necessary in Washington to point out to the executive the disintegrating Influences at work in their party ranks and to impress upon him that all chances of Republican success at the coming election would be lost unless war was declared. Democrats Win the Victories. We shal 1 not stop here. If it becomes necessary we will not allow the voters to forget that the man who on that memorable morning of May plowed his way at the head of the American fleet through the engines of death and destruction in Ma nila harbor, and who, after a battle that amazed and startled the civilized world, planted the stars ami stripes on Philip pine soil, was commodore, now Rear Ad mirai Dewey who is a Democrat. We will not forget to tell them that Hobson, who destroyed and sunk in the Santiago channel the vessel that bore him above the waves while hell was belching her fury on him 'rom the Spanish forts on all the hills around, and who lingered his time in a Spanish prison, is a Democrat. Wo will tell them, too. with becom iug pride that the man under whose direction tu d command Cervera’s fleet was swept from the seas and the arm of Spain paralyzed in war was the daring, dashing Schley, a Democrat. I cannot tell you of the biavery of thas.men. My words are too few and too fei de. The poet and the essayist are yet to be born whose penscan adequately por tray the unselfish patriotism, the love of man for man. and the dauntless heroism they have displayed in their effort to free their oppressed fellow man. But while we rejoice in the parts Democrats are taking in this war. we do nut, wish to detract from the honor and glory due the president and every man under him. down to the humblest in the ranks of the army. To them all we concede a genuine patriot ism and cheerfully acknowledge the debt of gratitude we owe them. Democracy's Kecord In Indiana. There are other things, however, for which the Democratic party is to be commended aside from its position on the Spanish war. Whenever an Indiana Democrat consults the record of hi? partv m mis state or in the nation he finds

cause for congratulation. With pride he points to the common school system of Indiana and her magnificent benevolent i institutions as an evidence of Democratic I philanthrophy and statesmanship. The law that overthrew the notorious schoolbook trust and reduced fully one-half the cost of a child’s education, was passed by a Democratic legislature. Pinkerronism was driven from the state and the power to rob the wage-earner was denied the proprietors of the “pluck-me” stores by the Democratic party. The tax law that incurred the special enmity of Republican leaders, while it was in process of enactment, and that since has been condemned by rhe Republican press and Republican speakers, w an also passed by a Democratic ■ legislature and upheld by Democratic officials until the courts sustained it. Un der this law the corporate wealth of the state has been forced to bear its fair share of the expenses of our state government and the state debt has been set in process of liquidation. And in this connection it is especially pleasing to a Democrat, who is always a stronger patriot than a partisan, to be able to recall that his party gave this state the law having lor its object the preservation and perpetuity of our free institutions through the purity of the ballot. The suppression of corruption at the polls, however, has never met the approval of the Republican party, and consequently it has never lost an opportunity to decry the election law and to change and weaken its most salutary provisions. L'ulliniteil and Independent Bimetallism. But, gentlemen, while in the campaign we are preparing to enter, we shall consider state issues, and the records the two great parties have made touching state affairs, we propose to go further and resubmit to the voters of Indiana the L'nancial question. lam not indifferent te the charge frequently heard that the silver question is dead, but I remind those who talk thus that no question is ever settled in this country until it has been settled right. Gold triumphed in 1896. but a victoryachieved through slander, viililication, coercion and wholesale corruption, can never be permanent. The methods of Colonel W. W. Dudley, the notorious refugee from justice, in his blocks of-five scoundrelism in 1808, were the methods of the Sunday school teacher when compared with the means resorted to in 1896 to pinion this nation to the accursed gold standard. We will enter the contest then in sup port of the doctrine cf free, unlimited and independent bimetallism. In demanding the unlimited coinage of both gold and j silver into standard money at a fixed ratio by law, v e are not departing from the traditions of our party, nor are we seeking to engraft a new or novel scheme of finance upon the country. We are but pleading for the restoration of the monetary system of our fathers, whose virtuous operation can be cited by its supporters in the absent- of famine, starvation and the application of the gambler's art on the board of t rade. Our position, we know, is impregnable. We insist that gold and silver at rates fixed by congress constitute the only standard of value allowable under our constitution, and that the people have the rigiit to the use of both metals in the monetary form, in the discharge of all debts, both private and public. We submit that, if the constitution has made the standard of value to consist of the twe metals, congress has no authority to in crease the value of the measuring standard in the interest of the money-changer and against the wealth-producer by demonetizing silver, and thereby shifting the monetary demand responded to by the two metals onto gold alone. Stat vßinumhip ami :he Supreme Court on the Mile of Silver. We are not without authority, high and respectable, in support of our theory. The ripest scholarship, the ablest statesmanship and the evenly poised judicial mind have indorsed it. It has been taught in the foremost colleges ana universities in the world. It has been expounded in the forum of statesmanship and approved judicially from the bench. Daniel Webster, perhaps the greatest constitutional lawyer the world ever knew, said in a speech in 1833 from his seat in the United Stales senate I hat "The legal lender, therefore, the constitution: ! standard of value, is established and can not be overtnrown. lam certainly of the opinion that gold and silver, at rates fixed by congress, constitute the legal standard of value ii this country, and that neither congress nor any state has authority to establish any other standard or to displace this. Janies G. Blaine, once the idol of Republicans. took strong ground against the authority of congress to demonetize either gold or silver. The distinguished jurist, Justice Clifford, in his able dissenting opinion in the celebrated “legal tender eases.” says: "Argument to show that the national treasury was organized on the basis that the gold and silver coins of the United States were to Ire the standard of value, is unnecessary, as it is a historical tact which no man or body of men can ever successfully contradict. * « « Verystrong doubts are entertained whether an act ot congress is absolutely necessary to constitute gold and silver coiua ot the United Statet, fabricated and stamped a--such by the proper executive officers of the mint, a legal tender in payment ot debts. Constituted as such coins are by the constitution, the standard of value the better opinion would seem to be that they become legal tender for that purpose i minted of the required weight and nne-ii'-ss, as soon as they are coined and put into circulation by lawful authority. * * * Currency is a word much more comprehensive than the word ’money.' as it may include bank 'rills and even bills of exchange. as w ell as coins of gold and silver, but the word 'money,' as employed in the grant of power under consideration, means the coins of gold and silver fabricated and stamped as required by law. which, by virtue of their intrinsic value as universally acknowledged and their official origin, become the medium of exchange and the standard by which all 1 other values are expressed and dis- ■ charged.” In the same cases Justice Field, whose I services on the supreme bench of the ' United States cover a period exceeding I that of any other man in the history of j

the court, supplements the opinion of Justice Clifford thus: “The inhibition upon the states to coin money and yet to make any hiug but gold and silver Coin a tender in payment of debts must be read in connection witli the grant of tiie coinage power to congress. The two provisions taken ogethcr indicate beyond question that the coins which j the national government was to fabricate, | and the foreign coins, the valuation of which it was to regulate, were tocons st 1 principally, if not entirely,'' not of the one only, but both, ‘of gold and silver. “Money being a standard, its coin or pieces are necessarily a legal tender. The provisions in the different coinage nets that the coins to be struck shall be such legal tender are merely declaratory of their effect, wiien offered' in payment, and are not essential to give them the-r character.” Thus it is seen that- the views of the bi metallist today are in harmony with the opinion of these eminent statesmen and jurists and when he insists upon the right of the people to the use of both gold and silver, not as currency, but as money, he demands for them only their constitutional right. So my friends, if the opinion a man entertains on the financial question may render him a dangerous member of society, as we were told in 18SKI, it would not be difficult, taking as a criterion the utterances of the gentlemen I have quoted, to point out and designate the real anarchists of this country. It is not enough tor the single standard advocate to say he is opposed to bimetallism because of the ratio proposed. If Webster and Blaine, Clifford and Fields have correctly interpreted the constitution, and the present ratio is an erroneous one, which we deny, bimetallism should be supported at a correct ratio, and he who is not willing to do this, but on the contrarv favors the destruction of on 1 of the metals as money, brands himself as an infractor of the o ganic law of the nation. We hear it frequently observed that the Democratic party is an unsafe guide on the money question, and yet 1 am practically within the truth when I remind you that the monetary system prevailing in this country from itsorgauization until 1873, and under which this nation fought its wars, contributed its share to the swelling tide of civilization and made its most giant-like stride in material progress was the out growth of Demoura- ic statesmanship. Republican Parly Not Entitled to Leadership On Financial Questions. When wtts it the Republican party became the embodiment of the financial wisdom of this country? It was not born until 1856 and its platform of that year contained no reference to money. In 1860 it conducted a national campaign wit hout saying in its platform what it thought about the financial question. In 1864 it favored “promoting the use of national currency,” but by the time 1868 came around it had forgotten what it had thought on the subject four years prior thereto, and so it omitted to incorporate a money plank in its platform. Its memory was still no better in 1872, nor had its stock of information been added to, and the result was it adopted another platform without a money plank. In 1876. however, 20 years after it was born, it gave its first but very slight premonition of having a financial idea, as was evidenced by its platform declaration in favor of “a steady progress to specie pay | nient.” It would not be expected, of course, of a party to make very rapid progress in the development of a subject about which it required 20 years to get an idea, and so no particular surprise was maniles e.l when this selfconstituted guardian of national honor went before the country in 1880 on a platform containing no money plank. In 1884 it was in favor ot an international agreement for tie vso oi both gold and silver a:t standard money. In 1888 it loved s'lver and denounced the Democratic party for its unpatriotic attempt t > demonetize it. In 1892 it still loved silver and here in Indiana it was very vociferous in its congratulations of the country that a long stride ha-i been taken toward the free coinage of the white metal. But. my friends, in 189 j, to believe its story now, it begu . to see the error of its way in forming ml attachment tor silver, and consequently in its St. Louis platform it made, over the the protest of Hon. Richard W. Thompson, Henry M. Teller and lUJ other leading Republicans, a hr.lf-way confession of its sins. And now, in this good year of 1898 this party of progressive ideas, of sujierior wisdom, ot immaculate purity, is confessing by its course that in reality it never knew anything about the money question until recently, and since it has been placed under the command of its new leader, that distinguished statesman of finance, Hon. H. H. Hanna, doubtless a direct descendant of Marcus Aurelius 1. I wish I had time to take up anti discuss the financial measure recently introduced in congress, back of which this gentleman and Wall street’s monetary commission arc standing. But 1 can give you briefly an idea ot this b 11, as 1 get it from Mr. Hanna himself. A friend to whom he atldressed a letter in support of his measure was kina enough to hand tne same to me. He says: "The bill is politically the best measure that has been prepared.” The word politically he has undei scored, and I suppose he means thereby to suggest that it will call forth the sinews of corruption when the light is on. Then he continues: "It meets the expectations ot those who believe there can be no permanent business prosperity until the greenbacks are retired, and it does not oppose the prejudices of those who favor the greenbacks.” Now, it you can conceive a measure embodying two theories of finance diametrically opposed and yet every part working harmoniously with the whole you will at least have a faint conception of what Mr. Hanna imagines he has in his bill. He is beyond question the right man to be at the head of the vision: rr commission which is pretending to believe it should supercede congress in determining the monetary policy of this government. A candid investigation will fail to es - tablish the right of the Republican party to leadership on financial questions, it has rendered complex and thrown into confusion our monetary system. Its statesmen have labored to unravel the web ot idiocy running through its financial legislation, out to no purpose. In making this charge Ido not overlook its financial policy during the rebellion, but the --olicy it then adopted for the salvation of the nation it now condemns. It asseverates with great pretensions to wisdom in favor of the single gold standard, and yet you may take any two Republic ans of your own selection and have them each evolve a theory of finance bottomed on the single standaid idea and you will find their conclusions to be as wide apart as the pole.-,. Au Appeal For a Union of Forces. I appeal, then, to those Democrats who do not fully indorse the financial theory for which *heir party is standing, to give It their counsel and support. I beg them to remember that the parry with which they have affiliated in the past the party

I of their choice and the party of their love. I is greater by far than any one idea. 1 i point them to its glorious past and to ' t - ml pec tier for it a still more bril.hint future It has been fighting for a cent ury i the tyrannical and centralizing influences in our national fife. Wherever the braI zoned features of monopoly have shown thi-ms-lve< the Democratic party ha-> I challenge ! their right toextort and fatten ! oil the product of honest labor. And. to its credit, thq party of the sage of Mont i- ■ cello and of the hero of New Orleans has 1 never in its great career joined hands with I organized greed to assault the. best interests of our country to paiiperiz ' the bone and sinew ot our land and fa-ten about the throats ot' Americans the vicellke gr'n of plutocracy. Oa rhe other hand, however, it has always stood for that form of go.-ernment and for those measures and laws that take into account the citizenship of the man at the forge, in the factory and in the shop; of tile boy in the ditch and in the mine; of the woman at the spindle, by File loom and over the tub, ami guarantees to each and all of them their fair share in life's achievement-. A party with such a past can be trusted in the future. And for the future of our country we have much concern. Ihe four quarters of the earth are at this time anxiously watching American statesmanship, and on every hand the concession is made that the destiny of this republic is largely dependent upon the question of annexation. It is well for us, therefore, toreflect in this hour of feverish excitement that territorial aggrandizement may lead to a national weakness and degradation. It is at least suggestive tnat the late secretary of state, Senator John Sherman, who was a fair representative of the ripest statesmanship of the Republican party, reserved the last paragraph of his “Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet in which to sound a note of warning to his countrymen on this question. In conclusion I quote his words: “The events ot the future are bey >nd the vision of mankind, but 1 hope that our people will be content with internal growth and avoid the complications of foreign acquisition. Our family of rtatet is already large enough to create embarrassment in the senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions. Every new acquisition will create embarrassment. Canada and Mexico, as independent republics, will be more valuable to the United States han it carved into additional states. The union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others If my life is prolonged. 1 v. ili do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisitions of foreign territory.” Do Not Head la the Cars. A London publisher whose eyesight has become so impaired that he finds himself able to do scarcely any reading warns readers against vfjirking their eyes when traveling in the cars. He says: “For many years past I have been in the habit of reading and writing for some hours in the train almost daily, and my present trouble is undoubtedly traceable to this cause.” Oculists are now unanimous in the statement that after a certain time, which varies in different individuals, reading in the cars is a positive danger to eyesight. The page is in constant vibration, and the eyes are strained in trying to follow automatically the rapid movements. Too much light is almost as bad as too little. Reading by a powerful electric light invariably brings on eye troubles. People would make their eyes remain serviceable much longer it the instant the printed letter becomes blurry or the reading matter gets out of focus they would seek the bsst professional skill and prepare to use glasses. This may be at any age between 18 and 40. A Flirtation Checked. One day when Queen Victoria was present in her carriage at a military review the princess royal, then rather a willful girl of 13 or 14, sitting on the front seat, seemed disposed to be rather familiar and coquettish with some young officers of the escort. Her majesty gave several reproving looks without avail. At length, iti flirting her handkerchief over the sides of the carriage, the princess dropped it, too evidently not accidentally. Instantly two or three young officers sprang from their saddles to return it, but the voice of the queen staid them. “Stop, gentlemen, leave it just where it lies,” she said. “Now, my daughter, get down from the carriage and pick up your handkerchief. ” There was no kelp for it. The royal footman let down the steps for the little lady, who proceeded to lift from the dust the pretty piece of cambric and lace. She blushed a good deal as she turned her head saucily, but was doubtless angry enough. The Screw of Archimedes. Archimedes of Syracuse, when he was in Egypt, invented a machine for pump- j ing bilge water out of the holds of ships. I This instrument was also used in the i delta for purposes of irrigation. Diodorus Siculus twice refers to it (i., 34, 2; v., 37, 3). A curious model of such an instrument, probably of the late Ptole- : maic period, has been found in lower Egypt. It consists of a terracotta cylinder with a screw inside it 10 inches long and 4t£ inches in diameter. Near the center of the outside is a band with crosspieces. These may represent footholds and suggest that the machine was worked after the manner of the treadmill. Such screws were probably made of wood. No other example of this screw seems to have come to light. —American Journal of Archaeology The Early Umbrella. We may infer from the following announcement, copied from The Female Tatler of Dec. 12, 1709, that the umbrella at this period was regarded as too effeminate for the use of a man: “The young gentlemaa borrowing the umbrella belonging to Wills’ coffee house, Cornhill, of the mistress, is hereby advertised, that to be dry from head to foot on the like occasion he shall be welcome to the maid’s pattens. ” About this time it was customary to keep an umbrella in the halls of larger houses for use in rainy weather, for shelter in proceeding from the house to a covered conveyance, and doubtless the one alluded to in the advertisement above quoted was for that purpose.

Sleeplessness especially frequentjn high altitudes. How it May be Overcome in Any Climate,

While the Rocky Mountain region is iuetlv famed for its salubrious climate, and L becoming more and more the inecea toward which pilgrims are traveling from all pans of the world that they may till their weakened lungs with its life-giving air, yet there are ailments in that climate as m any other, one of the chief of which is sleeplessness. This is due to the rarity ot the air wlnch on some constitutions is too stimulating to the m"ves. In some eases patients are compelled to remove for a time to the sea level to escape the high nervous strain. As sleeplessness is not an uncommon accompaniment to certain nervous conditions (in any climate) the story of a woman ot Pueblo, Col., may point a moral to others, who have had a similar affliction. , The woman eame to Pueblo thirty years ago when the town was a frontier settler ment, and Indians were by no means unusual visitors, bands of Ute’s often passing through on their way from the mountains down to the plains to hunt buffaloes. She had been in good health, until a few vears ago when at each recurring soringtime she became debilitated, weak and languid. Her strength left her, she was listless and lifeless. This, too, in spite of the stimulating effects of the high altitude. The most serious difficulty, however, was sleeplessness, which she could not cure. The long weary watches of the night told on her health and she dreaded the approach of night. 1 ins lack of sleep weakened her strength and brought on extreme nervousness, until she was a phvsical wreck. . , , As she could not well take the long journet necessary to a change of climate, she sought for some nerve restorative, that would build up the nervous system, and thus ena-

A Khodes’ Anecdote. Here is a new anecdote about Cecil Rhodes: In 1884 he was seveiely attacked in the press, and notably by one journalist to whom he had given very considerable assistance. “1 do call that man a hound,” said one of Mr. Rhodes’ friends, “after all you have done for him. ” Mr. Rhodes flushed up, and with one of his sudden though rare explosions burst out with, “Hound yourself! Do you think I wanted to bribe the man?” An Eye to Business. Optician—My dear sir, your case is hopeless. Customer—And am I doomed to blindness? Optician—lt is inevitable. I think you’d better look at my beautiful line of artificial eyesat once.—Jewelers’ Weekly-

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MORTGAGE LOANS Money Loaned on Favorable Terms LOW RATE OF INTEREST Privelege of Partial Payments. Abstracts of Title Carefully Prepared F. M. SCHIRMEYER, Cor. 2d and Madison Sts. DECATIK, IXD

HENRY B. HELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, rooms 1 and 2. Stone Block, opposite court house. Collections. Notary Public. JAMES T. MERRYMAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR. IND. Office—Nos. 1. 2 3. over Adams Co. Hank. 1 refer, by permission toAdams?Co Hank. R. S. PETERSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR. INDIANA. Rooms 1 and 2. in the Anthony Holthouse Block A. P. BEATTY J f. MASS MANN & BEATTY. ATTORNEYS AT LAW And Notaries Public Pension claims prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. I John Schurger. Dave E. Smith SCHURGER & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Money to doan at lowest rates of interest Abstracts of title, real estate and collections Rooms 1. 2 and 3 Welfley block. DeVilbiss & Archbold, DENTISTS. I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Phone 1 Office - 42 - rnone } K esidence. 9. IVEPTUIVE BKOS. DENTISTS. Now located over the < :ty Newprepared to do all work pertaining to' ■ demal profession. Gold filling a .j 0 J. ID. HALE DEALER IN Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt, OiL Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. Elevators on the Chicago A Erie l J>utbLeaf railroads. Office and east corner of Second and Jeffersc HT Your uatronage solicited. Capital $120,000. Established DTHE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business. mak g urs lections in all parts of the coun -;. ort .|gn town, township and county c-aer. • i u . and domestic exchange bought an terest paid on time deposits. , n stude-Offlcers-M. H. Niblick. baker, Yice President: R. K- AI VS arid C. S. Niblick. Assistant Cashier