Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. *1 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. < THURSDAY, OCT. 40. 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 NEUENSCH WANDER. 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. Do not move out of your precinct as it would result in a loss of your vote. | Do not move out of your precinct, as by so doing your vote will lie lost. Retain your residence until after election day. The fall trade is now on. and if you expect the full benefits from it. begin your advertising. You can not do business without it. The Journal is hereby invited to produce. Ample grounds for expansion will Ire given if that is all they demand. Let 'er rip.

Retain your residence until November 8, and cast your ballot for the party of your people. the proud emblem of which is that gay and festive rooster. The Muncie Herald well says that the truth published about a candidate for congress is not defamation of character, much as some republican politicians would now like for it to be.. The only argument of the republican statesmen this year is "sustain McKinley and his war administration.’’ Such pathetic and weighty argument as this, is sufficient to move a wooden man to tears. Permanent organization is the successful and only means of getting out a full party vote on election day. Committeemen should first of all perfect an organization with this end in view. The votes are what count any way. Cromer in his ten minutes speech at the opera house last Wednesday evening said ‘'why is it our meetings are so flat.” The answer will come on election day, when his vote will have a similiar resemblance. Flat will be no name for it. Every democrat in Adams county should now buckle on the armor. Go to work. See that your precinct organization is perfect, and on election day that every democrat gets to the polls and votes. If you do that, the majority of Adams county will be out of sight. Every indication points to the success of the democratic state aud legislative tickets, all that is necessary is for the polling of the democratic votes. Let Adams county retain her proud position in the state by returning an increased majority for the party of the people. The proper precinct organization means the polling of the entire democratic vote. In this county this feature can not be dwelt upon too much, and every democrat should go to work with the one aim in view, that of getting the vote out. Organize your precincts and go to work. It is now less than three weeks until the election a very short time. The polling of the democratic vote is the one thing to Ire considered. There is but one way to bring about this desired end. and that is by the proper organization. Every democrat should be interested. Go to work. The Lebanon Patriot, the republican organ of Boon county the home of Hon. Sam Ralston, says of our distinguished candidate for secretary of state: "He is one of the ablest campaign orators in his party, and his speeches have been enthusiastically received by thousands of people. He was one of the democratic presidential electors in 1892, and has served on the state central committee for many years. No more active champion of tariff reform lived when that was the issue, and no more zealous silverite is within the boarders of his party than Mr. Ralston, he being one of the prime movers of the Ohio Valiev Bimetallic convention held recently in Indianpolis.

Judge Lotz stands for the people, he stands for respectable manhood, G. W. Cromer stands for nonejof these. His life has not been the kind that any parent would have his boy emulate, while in politics he has been selfish and domineering to such an extent that his party could not afford to have him win at the polls. Muncie Herald. By a decision of the supreme court handed down last Friday the names of the appellate judges will be printed upon the state ballots. This decision compels the republican managers to petition the election commissioners to I get in on the ballot. The republicans I realized that their case was hopless I this fall, and resolved to retain this ; fragment from the ruins. No election ; being had the old judges would hold i over. The special campaign edition of the Indianapolis Sentinel has come to life. It will go down into history known as ! the greatest fake of the age, it having I met but a very few of the requirements promised and was cheap in appearonce as well as in reality. The Sentinel could serve its party better by not ;championing every side issue that j promises nothing better than simply I supplying a little prominence to the 1 faithful of its party at so much per. I It has a better mission upon earth and ! should ever and always sustain a broader and more independent stage upon the field of political action. Mr. Cromer, the republican candidate for congressman, made a speech ■to the republicans of Wells county, in Currv's hall, last Friday, and after waxing the "bloody shirt” he made an extensive harangue, the tennor of which was to the effect that if his republican friends didn’t get up and hump themselves he would not Ik l elected. When Dr. Sharpe asked him "Won't von be elected ?' the speaker replied. "I don't know." Cromeris no fix 1 :md it is apparent that he is wise to the fact that although he is running for congress in a district with a n. rmal republican majority, it is going to lie a hard matter for him to pull through. Bluffton Press.

Democratic boys in the camps and upon the fields of action, woidd certainly cherish hearing republican campaign speakers in a labored effort say “that if Spain could vote at the elections in this country this year, there would be no doubt of democratic success.” Such twaddle is treason to our people and their freedom. Political lines are unknown when the liberty and protection of our people is in doubt, and no better example of this uuaminity was ever shown than when congress without a dissenting vote, gave the president every aid at their command. The people know this, and when a speaker gives expression to such rebellious and outrageous declarations, he simply sets himself the damphool that he is.

Republican organization against the election of Cromer is now going on in Delaware county. In this or ganization will be found men of high party standing, who say that Cromer is morally and otherwise unfit to represent such a great district in the congress of the United States. They outwardly say thatthey willbedoing their party a service by electing a democrat at this time, and by’ so doing burry Cromer ism and his disreptible methods out of sight forever. They contend that there is no danger of partylines hinging upon one congressman, aud that they will be paying a debt of gratitude to their party by supporting judge Lotz, the democratic nominee. An organization of this kind means the defeat of Cromer, nothing else.

The speech of the Hon. Samuel M. Ralston at the opera house last Saturday evening, was one of the best heard here in years. He is a fluent orator, an able man and a coming leader in the democratic ranks. In his two hours address the money question, the war issue, the tariff and other issues of interest were thoroughly- explained to the everlasting credit of the democratic party. Entertaining and eloquent were the speaker’s references to the patriotism of our leaders in congress, as was also his glowing tribute to our gallant leader and next president, Hon. William Jennings Bryan. The democrats of Adams county are now very much in love with Hon. Sam Ralston. It was his first public appearane here and it is safe to say that if he ever comes again the town will not hold the people who will flock to hear him and to pay their repects to a noted Indiana son.

The American Farmer, non-partisan in every sense of the word, arises in indignation and speaks of tne mistreatment of soldiers in the following Italic language: "The American Farmer has been slow to credit the stories of the mistreatment of our soldiers in camp and on transports, so long as they were confined to the sensational press. But when they are substantiated by official reports and statements of responsible officers of the highest standing, it becomes the duty of the press, regardless of party or character, to spread the facts before the people for the purpose of securing proper punishment and affixing blame where it belongs. As our readers, in common with all American citizens, are vitally interested in the matter concerning their sons, fathers, brothers and other relatives, we feel that no apology is needed for deviating from our usual custom and devoting considerable space to matter not in our ordinary line. Much of the complaint has come from Camp Chi ckamauga, where at different times since the first of June there have been in camp about 75,000 troops. So persistent were the chargess of abuses at

that point that finally General Breckenridge, the commanding officer, detreinined to detail a board of his most reliable officers of high rank to make a searching investigation. This board has made its official report, and it is such as to shock the entire country. In the language of the Queen of Sheba, after she visited King Solomon, "the half had not been told," and matters were much worse than anything printed in the newspapers. Cromer Not an Angel. The Journal acknowledges the defeat of Cromer for congress, by saying that the private record of Lotz is not much better than that of Cromer. The latter we deny in whole and in part, and challenge the Journal to produce the documentary evidence showing even the slightest resemblance of a blot upon the private record and character of Jtidge Lotz. On the other hand we have supported evidence showingCromer s arrest upon two charges of public intoxication and one of riot, the same occurring after his election to the office of mayor of Muncie. We, like the Journal, “do | not approve of a campaign of personal vituberation and abuse, and for that reason have made no specific charges against the republican candidate for congress, preferring to make such references in a general way, and let it go at that, instead of digging into the scabbv record of a very seabbv man. But’since the Journal sees ; fit to deny anv insinuations that | Cromer is anything but a white winged j angel, duty and justice to our eandi-1 date compels us in a measure, to let i down the bars and invite the Journal to open up its mud batteries and turn on its search light for even a tincture upon the noble life of a noble man, that of Judge Lotz. \\ e only have to go back to the campaign that proceeded the nomination of Cromer, to find the outline of his life which is interrupted with frequent intervals of debauchery and political trickery.! We only have to take the evidence of j republican party men at that time to ] find him delegated as an unsafe and i an immoral man. He securred the i support of his home county through ] political trickery. All this was freely i commented on when the convention ; was held here not by democrats or democratic newspapers —but by republicans, the rank and file of the g. o. p. They told of a grand jury indictment then sleeping in the hands of officers of the Randolph circuit court, wherein Cromer was charged with intoxication, and an indecent exposal of his person, and a number of other things equally as barbariousand indiscreet. All these things were good enough for the republicans to talk about then, but the Journal thinks not good enough for the democrats to allude to now. Among other things referring to Cromer's candicacy for congress, the Muncie Herald says: No matter how important a prin

ciple may be if the man selected to look after the interests of the people is incompetent, immoral and thoroughly unreliable, it were better to have no one at all. The man must count for something. Principles are but the formulated wisdom of many minds working along certain lines. If vicious men get in control no matter how important or sacred a principle, t will count for naught. Drunken- | ness, debauchery and dirty polit- | ical scheming are poor recommendations for any man. Telling the truth about the repu- , tationof a candidate is not defamation of character. If a man has so conducted himself that his reputation has suffered in consequence the fault lies at his own door and the blame cannot be placed elsewhere. If a man is a bawdy house bum he is such from choice. If he is arrested for drunkenness and boisterous conduct while in another city he can not plead defamation of character if attention is called to his conduct. The News of this city is trying to cover up the shortcomings of its candidate for congress by shouting defamation of character. If the News wants the facts published, if it wants the whole truth told just let it talk about defamation of character. As for the Herald it does not care to go into details about the Martinsville disgrace, all of which was published in the Herald at the time it occurred but the News must not talkof “defamation of reputation.” The truth can not defame. This is not a patching to the dirty record that could be made public, and Cromer can well thank the democratic press of the district, for paying him the respect of silence, even to this time. However, if the Journal wants to go into the character building business, now is a good time to begin. Senator Turpie, who has been on the stump for three weeks in this state, speaks not only encouragingly, but enthusiastically of the political outlook in Indiana. He feels confident of a democratic victory in November, not only as to the election of the state ticket but also of a majority in the next general assembly. That the democrats will gain several members of congress seems to be generally conceeded by republicans.—South Bend Times. Headquarters Opened. On and after October 1. 1898, the Democratic Headquarters in Meibers’ hall will be open to the public. A competent person will be in charge of the rooms which will be open from 8 a. in. to 10 p. tn. of each day, except Sunday. All the leading daily papers will lie on file, also an abundance of excellent literature. The public generally are invited.

How to Mark Ballot. ■ ;» •w © * (( F ® < ■ wSfiGh \ j I til 1 lf£ °\\ ft V Vk //& O k V. // $ * DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Secretary of State, DEM ' SAMUEL M. RALSTON. For Auditor of State, DEM ' JOHN W. MINOR. For Treasurer of State, DEM HUGH DOUGHERTY. For Attorney General, DEM. JOHN G. McNUTT. For Clerk Supreme Court, HENRY WARRUM. INSTRUCTIONS. If you want to voto a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET make a cross thus. X, within the large circle containing the ROOSTER atthe top of the ticket. If you mark in the LARGE CIRCLE you must not make a mark any where else on the ballot or you will loss your vote. If you want to vote a mixed ticket, you must not mark within the large circle, but must make a cross thus, X,ln the SMALL SQUARE opposite the name of each person, for whom you desire to vote. You must not mark on the ballot with anything but the BLUE PENCIL given you by the poll clerk. If you by mistake mutilate your ballot return it to the poll clerk and get a new ballot. You must fold your ballot before coming out of the booth so that the face will not show, and sothatthe Initials of the poll clerks on the back will show.

Political Calendar. Bolds School House. Hartford township, Friday, Oct. 21, at 7:30p. m. Hons. Dave E. Smith and S. A. M. Butcher. At Geneva Saturday, Oct. 22. at 7:30 p. m. Hons. Jchn T. France and J. Will Kelley. Saturday night at Democratic Headquarters. Decatur. Hons. James R. Bobo and R. K. Erwin, at 7:30 p. m. Fruchte School House. Preble township, Wednesday. Oct. 26: at 7:30 p. m. Hons. John T.Franceand Dave E. Smith. Fravel School House, Wabash township, Friday. October 28, at 7:30p. m. Hons. John F. Snow and Sam Butcher. Huey School House, Jefferson township, Friday. Oct. 28, at 7:30 p. n?. Hons. R. K. Erwin ond L. C. DeVoss. Bobo. Thursday Oct. 27. at 7:30 p. m. Hons. John T. France and Dore B. Erwin. Cottonwood School House, Saturday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p. m. Aons. Dave E. Smith and J. F. Mann. Thursday evening, Oct. 20, at Bobo, Hon. John T. France and Dore B. Erwin. Friday evening, Oct. 21. Blue Creek township, Hons. R. K. Erwin and A. P. Beatty. Two justices and two constables will be nominated.

Clippings from the High School Journal. Oct. 11 1898. Jessie Magley, Editor. Get good sense and you will not want for good luck. The third years gladly welcome Bernice and Cal back with them again. Miss Fannie DeVilbiss spent Friday and Saturday at the Fort Wayne fair last week. Frank Burns attended the fair at Fort Wayne last Friday and reports a pleasant time. The Juniors completed algebra and will now take up geometry. They are not sorry, either. There is a good deal of (Snow) in the sixth room, fourth row aud fifth seat —mentally at least. Joseph Simon, a Hebrew, who has been elected congressman from Oregon, is the fourth of his nationality to hold that office. It is true that one always drifts into the ways of his companions whether they be" good or bad. The other even, ing the bass singer drifted into the soprano part. The pupils of the high school greatly appreciate the new reading table. We now have “Self Culture,’, "Harper’s Review of Reviews," “Scribner,” “The Christian Herald,” “Cosmopolitan,” “McClure,” "Prof. Fling’s American and European studies” and “The Chicago Record." Handil’s Oratoria, the "Messiah" was composed in 1741. Handil went to Dublin where it was produced for charitable purposes. When he returned to London the Messiah was performed for the benefit of the Foundling Hospital. It was repeated annually for this purpose and from 1749 to 1777 bronght $51,500 to that charity. Lookout for “A Breezy Time.”

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GOLI) AND SILVER. One of the arguments made by the advocates of the free &nd unlimited coinage of silver is based upon statistics relating to the fact that the amount of gold and silver coin in the world is approximately and practica ly equal. Secretary Gaga of the United States treasury department estimates the gold and . silver coin in the world as follows: Gold coin $4,359,600,009 Silver coin 4,208,300,003 Total $8,567,900,030 ‘ The current estimate of the world’s I population is 1,500,030,000. Accepting the estimate and it is seen that the gold coin in the world is equal to $2.90 per capita, aud that the silver coin is equal to $2 80 per capita, or that the total coins of the two metals is equal to $5.70 per capita. But it is replied that such estimates are of little consequence because the population of the world includes savages and barbarians in all of the zones. That is true, and to meet the objection, 500,000,000 of the estimate is omitted, reducing the total to $1,030,000,000. This would give the civilized population of the world $4 35 per capita in gold aud $4 20 per capita in silver, or in both coins $8.55 per capita. It should be remembered that this close equality of the two metals as money is not of recent date, but as Mr. Shafrotb says, has been the case “at almost ail stages of the world’s history.” That such conditions should have existed is not necessarily miraculous, but it is, nevertheless, most extraordinary, and would seem to have been brought about by providential oversight, as much so as that, by some occult design, the sexes have been maintained through all ages as about equal. At any rate this equality in amount or value of gold and silver seems to be the order of nature and of wise design. The gold advocates propose to strike down silver as primary money, to reduce it to snbsiduary money, to redeemable money in the interest of gold standard advocates abroad and in the United States, and this outrage upon the great mass of the people is proposed without a scintilla of proof that either individuals, communities, municipalities, states or nations have ever suffered by bimetallism, the use of gold and sil, ver at such ratios as have been established by law or custom as standard money. And if a motive is sought for placing gold on the throne with a crown on its head, and silver on the scaffold with a halter around its neck, one, and only one, will be found, and that motive will be to enable the rich men effectually to plunder the poor. Say what we may, the men who control the money of the nation will control its destiny, unless the masses properly estimate the dangers which environ them, and swear, as did Jackson, “by the eternal” money shall not rule and shape the destiny of the American republic.

A Berlin newspaper says that the orders of decoration borne by the emperor of Germany are worth over 1,000,000 marks (a little over $230,000). His principal and most valuable decorations are the insignia of the Black Eagle, the order of St. John, of the Garter ami of the Toison d’Or. In all be has over 200 crosses, stars, badges and other insignia. The surprisingly bad marksmanship of the Spanish gunners has brought to light some interesting facts concerning the relative skill of the Anglo-Saxon and lat tin races. It is said by those who know that a dark eyed race never makes good marksmen, aud many instances are cited. It has become a proverb in England that no dark eyed man ever goes on the team for the Elcho shield. The Sure LaGrippe Cure. There is no use suffering from this dreadful malady, if you will only get the right remedy. You are having pain all through your body, ywr liver is out of order, have no appetite, no life or ambition, have a bad cold, in fact are completely used up. Eleetrie Bitters is the only remedy tt»t will give vou prompt and sure relief. They act directly on your liver stomach and kidneys, tone up the who vstem and make vou feel like a ue" being. They are guarranteed to cure or price refunded. For sale at A, Blackburn’s drug store only aO cen» per bottle. Notice of sale OF REAL ESTATE. Notice is hereby given ,hst ’ h J f ““rich signed,, administrator of the estate Gehrig, deceased, will on Tuesday, November 22, It'. l ''. * of at 10 o’clock a. in., at the [“"’’’“'S’BJrne, the Ute Ulrich Gehrig 111 tlie , “continue® 1 -' Adams county, Indiana, and i |rf4alW thereafter from day to day unt , ' ie sale, shall b&old, offer for sa eat pm"j v>| for not less than the full a l’P r ‘( ’ order of thereof, all in accordance »nnJ' oun ty.the the Adams Gircuit Court of ’A' d ”. U co unty. following I real estate in Ada Indiana, to-wit: , , of th* OommealiuE at the northea- C arter soulheustAuarter of the twenty of section'll irtv-thref - to”, a . t . rue six (36) non.,, range fourteen 1 w > ning thence south thirty-oni i’J tW #e stake in theFenterof the,ui rod* west along f.,,. said ditch f ourte h “ nCf . north and three links to a stake, tn i(] ce . thirty-one (S ; ends and f>'e» n i)( . w tl>J east fourteen Hi rods and three ‘ 0 place of beg nnlng. Containing 74-100 acres, m lie or less. rtv .foiir ,3 *' lo Also part of nlotnuntbertn.ro f o ||o« the town of B. me. said Commencing a t the southsist iv .f„ur said inlot. then running north « wa) . „f (44> feet, thenct east to the ri-n w>il Cincinnati. Rich i'” l ' l , & U'h'.Vsaid thence south parallel J ,hence w way about forty-four G) fevt. tn the place of beginning , Mlf hwert l ’ or ” „ Also commencing at of inlot number slxtem i lh,l "h forty. he of Berne, thence running PULfe! 0 * 1 ?. 44) feet, thence ea-t to the "’ffiynei* l '®*! Cincinnati. Rlchn, nd A I, 1 "L right "'’Ji thence south paSdiel »n ll ’U, feet. thenof the said railroAd forty-f°. west to the placelof beginningTERMS OF SAL , h »dln One-third cash, in hand: months and one-third tjy £ from the date of sale. o ,a . f,eelii'l“ l S e | ments to be securer *t‘ h mifadio" »■ I mortgage security t > the s»m> ■ w „i S b«t ¥ I Mann & Beatty. Att«mey s - I