Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVBRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Q. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Tostoffiee at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. OCT. 27. 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. Do not move out of your precinct as it will result in a loss of your vote. Any voter who. moves from one precinct toanothebcforereiection clay, will lose his vote. One week from next Tuesday is election day. Retain your residence and vote the democratic ticket. Be careful in marking you ballots and make a X within the circle if you vote a straight ticket, or within the square opposite the names of the persons for whom you desire to vote. Hanna's famous verdict that the Maine “blowed herself up," is equaled by the administration claim that the soldiers in Cuba and in southern camps took sick and died "for political effect.” The "tall Sycamore of the Wabash" the Hon. Levi Mock of Bluffton, will address the people of our city at democratic headquarters in Meiber's hall, next Saturday evening. There will be seats for every one, so come. Cromer's moral and political record is not as lovely as it might be. It has been proven that he has been a traitor to his party upon more than one occasion, and it would be no more than right that his party should rid themselves of such bad rubbish. Vote for Lotz. If strikes can be said to be a gauge or criterion of prosperity, the state of Illinois is having an indisputable evidence of such prosperity. However, the striking miner at Pana, who work ed ten hours a day for 80 cents, will dispute the arrival of "the advance agent" so far as he is concerned. Marshal Field. Chicago’s great merchant says the Dingley law is a flat failure from both a political and economic standpoint. This is the opinion of a close student of affairs, and a practical business man, one of the greatest merchants of the world. The Dingley law is a failure, and statistics of the treasury department show it. The Journal’s allusion to a court house ring is somewhat amusing in the light of the republican county ticket nominated. For treasurer their nominee’s reputation for virtue is worth but 514.50. that price being fixed by a jury in the Adams circuit court, at a somewhat recent date. The Journal’s scarcasm on county matters at this late day, is solely for the purpose of detracting attention from the congressional race, and perchance cut Lotz’s plurality some. Be not deceived. The Indianapolis News correspondent says that the effort toimpose upon the people “that the reputation of Lotz is not much better than that of Cromer,” has created a still greater revolt against the republican candidate. The Journal was the first one in Adams county to be caught trying to turn the trick, and now they occupy a very complicated and embarassing position. Lotz has been before the people too long and is known too well for such classifications to be effectual. During the time of the republican congressional convention at Decatur, Judge Lotz was here working honestly and enthusiastically to secure the nomination of Hon. G. W. Cromer.—Journal. The above is about as near correct as the Journal’s bald faced assertion that “Lotz’s reputation is not much better than that of Cromer.” While it is true that Judge Lotz was present at that convention, vet it was as a spectator only. Not a person can be produced to whom Judge Lotz expressed himself favorable to Cromer’s nomination. It is a cheap way for the Journal to try to bolster up the inevitable.

Hon. David Turpie will speak in Decatur at the opera house on Saturday evening, Nov. 5. Don’t fail to hear him. The Democrat still asks the Journal to open up its dispeptic can, and air itself upon the immoral side of the democratic candidate for congress. Give us the real thing. Vote for Lotz. By so doing this district will be represented in congress by a man who is honest and honorable and who has no stains of immorality or political demagogy. The democrats of Adams county should first of all see that every democrat votes. It is important this year that we sdll assume our station as the banner democratic county in the state. Our "Dick” Erwin is in Grant I county making political speeches under the direction of the state central committee. Dick’ is unusuallybrilliant and this year makes an eloquent and earnest qddress upon the issues. Let every democrat in Adams coun- j ty go to work. The matter of getting I everv voter to the polls is the one and i only thing to be considered. See that j nothing is left undone to accomplish * this important feature of our success, j Men talk about "overproduction" I in this country because big cotton and food crops are selling at a low figure, ; when thousands of the operatives of cotton mills are in rags and often go hungry because they are unable to buy clothes and food even at a cheap figure. If every democrat will do his duty there will be no doubt about Indiana going democratic on November 8. The prospects are bright and signs of encouragement greet us upon every hand. Go and vote and see that every democrat in your precinct does the same thing. But a little over a week remains until election day. Every democrat should well consider the importance of the issues and begin now to see that every rote is cast and counted. Go to work. Devote a few days to the cause at hand, and rejoice in the triumph of your party. We reproduce from the Indianapolis News, an independent newspaper with republican tendencies, a series of articles relative to the congressional campaign in this district. The articles are witten by their regular staff correspondent and are perfectly reliable. They disclose an eruption in the republican ranks against Cromer that will most certainly defeat him. The democratic county ticket is acknowledged by people of all parties to be the best, the cleanest and the strongest the party could have. Every name on the ticket embraces ability, honesty and intelligence. That it will be endorsed by every democratic voter and many besides, is a safe prediction. Make an X within the circle surrounding the rooster, and vote ’er straight. It is a rather striking coincidence that just as the blessings of protection and the single gold standard are being preached the loudest by administration orators, seven miners should be shot dead in their tracts and eighteen wounded by Pinkerton detectives simply as the result of the fact that coal operators would not pay living wages and sought to displace the strikers with ignorant colored laborers, mostly ex-convicts, from Alabama. Uncle Jonathan Fleming is our poet. Among his compositions is a campaign song which will be found elsewhere in this issue. He sang the song at the meeting last Saturday night, and the boys fairly took the roof off in applause. Uncle John has been a faithful and ever working democrat for fifty years or more, and today manifests more interest in the cause of democracy than ever. Such bright shining examples are rare. The Democrat and the democracy of Adams county are proud of Uncle John. The record of the democratic party upon state issues is one of eminent pride to the party and of direct interest to the taxpayer. One of their greatest triumphs is the Indiana tax law, which compels all the large corporations to pay taxes the same as the farmer. This law has greatly les sened the burden of taxation in the state. All the elements of the republican party bent all their energies toward defeating the law. but to no avail, thanks to democratic state officials who have the back-bone and courage of their convictions. The Journal erred in its statement of last week concerning Judge Lotz. The county in which he was elected was Delaware instead of Madison. The times when he received only nine more votes than the head of his ticket, were when he was a candidate for appellate judge in 1892 and 1896. These errors are not material. The fact that his personal popularity did not elect him remains just the same. —Journal. The aliove error is material as the Journal well knows. When Judge Lotz was a candidate for appellate judge, he was a candidate upon the state ticket, which makes it entirely a party issue. When he was a candi- ! date for circuit judge it gave an opportunity for his jiersonal popularity to expand and he was elected. The Journal should not correct one error j by another.

BRYAN IN THE CHAIR. BY JONATHAN FLBMINO. Oh, the bells shall sound their music, And the air with hammers ring. And the winter days shall never hush The farmer's song of spring; When we’ve won the cause for silver Bv the ballot voted fair. And have seated Billy Bryan In the Presidential Chair. And the money kings will grumble At the Yankee Eagle's scream; And the factory’s spindle rumble At the hiss of rushing steam; And the British Lion cower In his black and bloody lair, When we've seated Billy Bryan In the Presidential Chair. Oh, the land shall glow with gladness From the mountain to the sea. And there'll be no cause for sorrow When the workingman is free; And the shinning road to heaven Will lie up the silver stairs, When we've seated Billv Bryan In the Presidential Chair. Ah. the shaggy wolf of hunger Shall be driven from our land. When the good old Silver Dollar Is in the toiler’s hand; And the land shall groan with plenty And the poor man have his share, When we’ve seated Billy Bryan In the Presidential Chair. In November. 1900 We shall vote for Billy Bryan, And the money king’s gold standard Will be many counts behind; But the people they will vote it straight And vote it with good cheer; Bv voting straight they will succeed With Bryan in the Chair. Oh, the Silver Dollar is the “chink" To make our cheek books shine, And the surest way to get it Is to vote for Billy Bryan. Then the people all throughout the land Will each one have his share When we’ve seated Billy Bryan In the Presidential Chair. At democratic headquarters last Saturday evening, addresses upon the political issues were made bv Hons. R. K. Erwin and Judge James R. Bobo. Meiber’s hall was crowded with people who enthusiastically applauded the speakers. Both impressed their hearers with the importance of the issues. In marking your ballot make a cross thus X, and remember it must be a cross. No other designating mark will do. If you vote a straight ticket mark the cross within the circle at the head of the ticket. If you vote a mixed ticket make the cross within the squares opposite the names of the persons you desire to vote for. Remember this and make a X within the circle surrounding the rooster. The Overstreet bill which is an issue in the campaign, is a most vicious piece of “currency reform,” and if the republicans are successful will be given the force of law. The provisions of the bill is epitomized as follows : 1. Retire £346.000,009 of greenbacks. 2. Stop coinage of silver dollars. 3. Make £500,000,000 of silver redeemable in gold. 4 Make debt contracts, public and private, payable in gold. 5. Turn over to banks all power to issue pa Tier money. 6- Secure bank currency as assets only. 7. Leave depositors without protection. 8. Enable banks to contract or expand their currency at will. 9. Create a bank monopoly. 10. Leave honest banks at the mercy of dishonest ones. 11. Make legitimate banking hazardous. 12. Increase the value of our debt obligations, national and private, many hundred million dollars. 13. Open an avenue for wild-cat money. 14. Provide a twelve-year board to control currency. 15. "Make money the master, everpthing else the servant.”.

Some of those people who some time ago signed a petition for a reform convention will l>e surprised to know that their signatures now adorn a petition filed with the clerk of the Adams circuit court, asking the election commissioners to place upon the local ballot a county ticket under the heading of the people’s party. That this is true seems certain. The sheet upon which the names are written has been cut and pasted upon the petition named, and bears a strong resemblance to the same document that was in circulation prior to the so-called reform convention. The ticket as certified is Charles F. W. Bartling representative. Wilson M. Tumlinson clerk, John Case sheriff, William Campbell treasurer, Isaac M. Teeter recorder and William M. Clymer commissioner third district. The petition bears the names of Will Clymer, William Lee, ,1. St. Myers, T. S. Lumpkins, W. M. Burrell. Silas Oliver, Martin Lord, Ben Wale. John W. Elzev. A.C. Huffman, Wilson P. Clymer. W. H. Ward, Jessie Clark. George Thomas John Conrad, Martin Beery, Wiliiam Custer, W. C. Dye, Frank Boyer. Eh Ulrey. William Selby, X. T. Markin, W. W. Moats, Thomas Buckmaster, Ira Thomas and F. Faust. If such appears true, and we feel certain that it is a scheme championed by the republicans, to cheat J udge Lotz out of a few votes, and it is for this reason only that we mention it. Otherwise it is of harmless creation, and amounts to nothing. Do not allow any mis guided statements to keep you from voting for Lotz.

How to Mark Ballot J? lb Si ’HKSiFV 1° •\\ zuuL //£ o\\ //q V NX //£ * '* DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Secretary of State, DEM ’ SAMUEL M. RALSTON. For Auditor of State, DEM ’ JOHN XV. MINOR. For Treasurer of State, DEM ‘ HUGH DOUGHERTY. For Attorney General, DEM ’ JOHN G. McNUTT. For Clerk Supreme Court, DEM ' HENRY WARRUM. INSTRUCTIONS. If you want to vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET make a cross thus, X, within the large circle containing the ROOSTER at the top of the ticket. If you mark in the LARGE CIRCLE you must not make a mark anywhere else on the ballot or you will los : 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.IntheSMALL SQUARE opposite the name cf each person, for whom you desire to vote. You must not mark on the ballot with anything but the BLUE PENClLglvenyou by the poll clerk. If you by mistake mutilate your ballot return itto 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 coll clerks on the back will show.

FARM PRODUCTS How the Demonetization of Silver Affected Them. Tlie Democratic campaign book for 1898 is a mine of information for all people who desire facts regarding the influence of demonetization upon the welfare of the country, and especially are the facts valuable to farmers, who perhaps have suffered more than any other class < f our feilow citizens. In a number of tables showing the depreciation of value in farm products, since 1873, when the demonetization of the silver dollar occurred, omitting fractions, the value of pure silver in a silver dollar was in 1873. $1 02. then a bushel of wheat was worth 81.15 and a pound of cottou 20 cents. In the month of September. 1898. a bushel of wheat was worth G 2.3 cents a bushel, and a pound of cottou 55 6 cents. Silver in 27 years had declined from 81.02 to 47 cents, or 55 cents. Wheat hid declined to 52 5 per bushel and cotton 14 44 cents a pound. The price of corn declined from 1873. when it was 48 cents a bushel, to 21 cents a bushel in 1896, a decrease of 27 cents a bushel. Oats declined from 37 cents a bushel iu 1873 to 18 cents a bushel in 1896, a loss of 19 cents a bushel. Rye declined from 76 a bushel in 1874 to 40 cents a bushel in 1896, a loss of 36 cents a bushel. Barley declined from 91 cents a bushel iu 1873 to 32 cents a bushel iu 1896. a loss of 59 cents a bushel. Hay declined from $13.55 a tou iu 1873 to §6.62 iu 1896, a loss of §6 93 per ton. Potatoes from 70 cents a bushel in 1873 to 40 cents a bushel in 1896, a loss of 30 cents a bushel. But there is auother way to look at this gloomy picture of the depreciation of farm products, consequent upon the demonetization of silver, not from the

unit standpoint, but upon the sum total of production, and the sain total of value, which ought to convince farmers, as Mr. Hatch of Missouri reported from the committee on agriculture in 1895, that "class legislation of the worst character encumbers the statute books, and has been carried on to the detriment of agriculture and its dependent industries for 30 years, culminating in the crime of the age—the demonetization of silver in 1873.” In 1873 the wheat product of the country amounted to 281,264,700 bushels, its total value at $1.15 per bushel was $323,504,805. In 1896 the wheat product was 427,684,346 bushels, and its value at 50.9 cents a bushel was $310,602,530. In this, the crushing fact stands out in bold relief, that, though the wheat product in 1896 exceeded that of 1873 by 146,419,646 bushels, its value was less than that of 1873 by $12,902,275, and this robbery of farmers was brought about chiefly by the demonetization of silver. But a still more deplorable condition of things appears in the disastrous decline in the value of corn, the product of which in 1873 was 932,274,000 bushels, which at 48 cents a bushel was valued at $447,183,020. In 1896 the corn product reached 2,283,875,165 bushels, an excess over the product of 1873 of 1,351,601,165, which valued at 21.5 cents a bushel, amounted to $491,006,967, an excess of value over the product of 1873 of $43,823,967. If, however, the value per bushel—4B cents—in 1873 had been maintained, the product of 1896 would have brought the farmers $1,176,. 261,080. or an excess of $685,193,8130ve'r what they did receive for their corn. If the farmers desire to know the chief cause of the hard times which

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has visited them with greater rigor than lias fallen to the lot of others, it is found in the demonetization of silver, which, said Mr. Hatch in his report, | “was a bold stroke iu the interest of capital that has reduced the value of i every product iu the world. This is conclusively proven by the fact that | just as silver has depreciated, in like proportion have all other values fallen iu the scale.” In other products, rye, oats, barley, | potatoes, etc., the sum total of loss for the entire product, comparing product i and prices in 1873 with product and I prices in ‘1896, is equally startling, a I loss so great, though demonstrated by official figures, as to challenge credulity. I If farmers want still more of Republican financiering, they can have it by voting the Republican ticket iu November, I 1898. SPANISH GUNBOAT Compels a Vessel Flying the American Flag to Return to Manila. Manila, Oct. 24.—The commission of Spaniards sent here recently by General Rios, Spain's chief representative in the Philippines and governor general of the southern portions of the archipelago, arranged a temporary commercial convention. Accordingly inter-island traffic was resumed, but it is now again interrupted, this time by orders from General Rios. The steamer San Nicolas, which left Manila flying the American flag, was compelled to return by a Spanish gunboat, whose commander offered as a plea for his action that the crew consisted of Filipinos who might smuggle contraband articles. The San Nicolas after reporting her experience sailed again, followed by the United States gunboat McCulloch. The insurgent schooner Mauriola entered Manila harbor flying the insurgent flag, which was promptly hauled down by the Americans.

Hon. David Turpie, U. S. Senator, Will address the people of Adams county at deoatuh. Saturday Evening, Nov. 5. Everybody should hear this distinguished and quent statesman and orator.

Political Calendar. Fravel School House. Wabashtownship. Friday, October 28. at 7:30 p.m. I Hons. John F.Snowand Sam Butcher. Huey School House, Jeffersontown- ' ship, Friday. Oct. 28. at 7:30 p. m. Hous. R. K. Erwin oncl L. C. DeVoss. Bobo. Thursday Oct. 27, at 7:30 p. • m. Hons. John T. France and Dore , B. Erwiu. Cottonwood School House. SaturI day. Oct. 29. at 7:30 p. in. Aons. Dare ; E. Smith and J. F. Mann. At Berne, Wednesday evening. Nor. 1 2. at 7:30 p. tn., Hon. Daniel W. ! Simms, of LaFayette, and Clark J. I Lutz. Hon. A. N. Martin at Monroe. FriI day evening, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. I J j At Decatur Democratic HeadquarI ters, Saturday night, October 29. Hon. I Levi Mock, of Bluffton. At Steele P. 0., Tuesday night. Nov. 1, at 7:30 p. m., Hon. JohnT. France and Dan Erwin. At Sehnepps school house. Union township, Tuesday night. Nor. ha’ 7:30 p. in., R. K. Erwin. • At Deihl school house, Kirkland township, Tuesday evening, Nov. !• a 7:30 p. in.. Hons. Dave E. Smith and Charles M. France. Root township, Mallonee schoo house. Thursday night. Nov. 3. at . > Dave. E. Smith and R. K. Erwin. Friday night. Nov. 4, Rodenbek school house. Washington townsnip, Dave E. Smith and L. C. Del oss. At Oak Grove school house. Monroe township, Wednesday evening. - j 2, at 7:30, Hons. J. F. Snow end - • Beatty. . , Pleasant Mills. Wednesday, Nor. - at 7:30 p. in., Hon. John T. I ram ■ Thursday night, Nov, 3, at Lin n Grove, John F. Snow and John i, Kelley. „ ■ Thursday night. Nov. ' school house, I nion township, p. m., Hon. John T. France.