Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT] EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. i 1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, filtered at the Postofflce at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 10. PROUD ADAMS. Adams county comes up smiling with an old time democratic majority that looks nice and is as nice it looks. While she was troubled somewhat with a stay at home vote yet no more > so than the republicans, which affected the majority none to speak of and places her in the front rank in the : production of democratic majorities. | In an “off year" this is somewhat unusual. and for this the democrats deserve the praise that is due them for: the consideration given the import-' ance of the issues, state and national. The official vote which will be found . elsewhere- gives the state ticket a majority of 1413, Judge Lotz 1377 and every county candidate from 1099 to 1340, an unusual good showing for the party in the county. In the city of Decatur a gain was made over two years ago of 120, making an average of twenty to the precinct. In the country precincts, however, that is in some of them, a full vote was | was not polled, but the falling off will j not exceed that of the republicans in , comparison with their vote. In all it: was a notable victory, and the Demo- ' chat rejoices with you in this hour of I triumph. Get ready to stamp tne, rooster in 1900. And the next day it snowed. Adams county’s democracy still remains unquestioned- 1,413 majority for the Hon. Sam Ralston. Now that the elections are over the Democart will settle down to business and devote itself to the chronicling of the news— all the news all the time. The democrats of Decatur did themselves doubly proud by increasing I their majority 120 over the vote two | years ago. This is certainly a record breaker and is commendable beyond ex pression. The many friends of John M. Smith will rejoice at his election as circuit judge of Jay county. He has been a life long and devoted democrat. and for years the backbone of the party in Jay county. The rereward comes now. He is also a lawyer of ability and will ably preside as judge of that circuit. Although the democrats were defeated in Indiana on Tuesday it is a matter of simple justice to say that the result was not due in any degree to lack of organization or of intelligent, well directed effort on the part of Mr. Parks Martin, chairman of the democratic state central committee. Mr. Martin devoted himself to the labor of the campaign with great industry, and his services to his party are worthy . of the fullest recognition. Sentinel. Jay county democrats made a mag-I nifieent campaign and elected three ■ county officers. Cromer for congress i twenty-eight majority; John M. Smith, democrat, for judge, thirty-eight; Greimer. republican, for prosecutor, five.; Fitzpatrick, republican, for clerk, 212; lepublican for auditor, 167; republican for treasurer. 58; republican for recorder. 181; Whipple, democrat, for sheriff, 82; coroneJ, republican, six: ] surveyor, republican, 309; Weisel, democrat, for commissioue, 49, and a republican commissioner 76. Chairman Lutz deserves especial praise for the generalship displayed in the management of the campaign in Adams county. The majorities attained are unusually large for an “off year’’ and it is due to the thorough organization and constant devotion of Chairman Lutz to the various details, all of them arduous, but seemingly necessary in carrying on a successful political warfare. The results show thothe has done nobly and we heartily congratulate him upon the record made.

PARTY PLURALITIES BY STATES. £ H Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem. £ Alabama 45,000 Montana small, h Arkansas 50,000 Nebraska 5,000 California 20,000 'Nevada small H •j Colorado 30,000 New Hampshire... 10,000 £ y 12,000 h Delaware 2,000 New York 18,000 Zj Florida 15,000 North Carolina 30,000 »- *j Georgia 25,000 North Dakota 5,000 £ Idaho 5,000 Ohio 55,000 e•j Illinois 32,984 Pennsylvanialoo,ooo £ Indiana 15,000 Rhode Island 15,000 H lowa (50,675 South Carolina 35.000 £ Kansas 6.000 South Dakota 1,200 •-* Kentucky small. Tennessee 20,(XX) £ Louisiana 40.000 Texas 120,000 h h Maryland Indoubt. Utah small. £ Massachusetts 70,(XX) Virginia 15,000 h Michigan 80,000 Washington 3,000 £ Minnesota 30,000 West Virginia small h Mississippi 40,(XX) Wisconsin 30,000 £ Missouri 35.000 Wyoming 1,500 H • H v

Madison county democrats succeeded in electing their entin* county ticket, something unusual for that county in late years. We take off our : hat to" Dale J. Crittenberger, the brilliant editor of the Anderson Democrat. The Hon. Hugh Dougherty was ; flatteringly endorsed by his Wells county friends Tuesday, by receiving 300 more votes than his ticket. \\ ithi out regard to party Mr. Dougherty's very much admired by every one who knows him and especially by those who know him best. The representation in congress from this state is nine republicans and four democrats, no change as to political complextion. The first, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and thirteenth districts are republican, while the second, third, I fourth and twelfth are democratic. The majorities attained by the republicans are generally reduced. The Democrat is a day late in orIder to place before our readers the’ | official vote of Adams county. This ' unusual occurrence is never indulged • in unless the occasion warrants, and | ■in this instance we flatter ourselves that it does. The vote is official as ! canvassed by the board of election iu- ' spectors Thursday afternoon. Senator Turpie was greeted with a ■ crowded house at Bosse’s opera house last Saturday evening, at which time ■ he discussed" the issues of the cam- j paign in his eloquent and logical man- ' ner. The senator is a grand old man : and has many ardent admirers here ( irrespective of party affiliations. M e i are indeed sorry that the political j fates are against us and that he will not be returned to the United' States I senate where he has so honorably and I with dignity represented the state of , I Indiana. The vote of the now Congressman- I : elect Cromer almost equals that of ' his party ticket in this county, which j leads us to say that for a public man iof his calliber, he runs quite well. ; His majority in the district, however, is cut in the middle which also demonI strates that there are republicans who ; can net swallow “any old thing” simply because he happens to be on the ticket, Although defeated, it is a grand victory for Judge Lotz, who in- . creased his vote in the district at least [ 1,000. He made a gallant race and every democrat in the district is proud of him. Election returns show some very funny voting. For instance the ma- i j jority of Ralston over Hunt on the state ticket is 1.413. On the county ticket Judge Lotz, for congress, leads the ticket, receiving 150 more votes than Ryan for joint senator and 144 more than was given Krick for representative. On the other hand Cromer did not carry the full party vote having sixteen votes less than Johnson for senator and seventy-nine less than was given Buckmaster for clerk. Yet Lotz’s majority is thirty-six less than ' that given Ralston for secretary of state. While the elections Tuesday are favorable to the republicans, yet it is no landslide and broods no discouraere-i ment to the democratic party. The | republican majorities attained are greatly reduced over that of 1896. In Indiana there was a general apathy among the democrats who saw no importance in the election and did not vote, while the war achievements encouraged republicans, enabling them jto get out a better vote. The demo- ' erats gain many congressmen, making i the republican working majority very i slim. In all there is nothing discouraging to any democrat or supporter of the issue of bimetalism. Prepare for a different tale in 1900. The county election in Wells county resulted somewhat disastrious to ; the democratic ticket. Hatfield, re- ; publican, defeated Studabaker, democrat. by two votes for clerk. Beirie, | republican, also defeated Rupright ; for treasurer 187 votes, and A. C. ' Brown, republican, was elected by seventy-eight. Lon Batson, democratic candidate won by the small i margin of sixty-five, while the remainder of the democratic candidates ! were elected by majorities ranging from 300 to 700. Billy Marsh was elected auditor by 700. and Judge Lotz for congress was given a majority of 876. The Hon. Hugh Dougherty lead the ticket with 1364 over his ■ opponent. It was worse than any I Waterloo ever read about. The state ticket slipped through with 1050 mai jority.

A WATERLOO. THE DEMOCRATS UNSUCCESSFUL IN THE STATES. While Defeated It fleans No Discouragement to the Democratic Party or the Cause of Bimetalism. The election Tuesday was a Waterloo to the democrats. The results show that the republicans have been successful in many of the state elections and will havea working majority in both senate and house of congress. The majorities are all reduced and in many instances they win by a scratch. In Indiana Chairman Martin of the state central committee, concedes the state to the republicans by 14,500. The legislature as summarized will have a total of twenty-seven republican senators and twenty-two democrats, and the lower house- will have fifty-five republicans and forty-five democrats, with one district in doubt. This gives the republicans a majority of sixteen on joint ballot and insures for them a United States senator to succeed Senator Turpie. Democratic congressmen were elected in the second, third, fourth. and twelfth districts with the fifth district in doubt. NEW YORK. Latest figures obtainable show that Roosevelt’s plurality in the state is 21.286. Only ten counties in the state give Van Wyck pluralities and they were all localities swayed by cities, as New York. Kings. Queens and Erie. The falling off in Roosevelt s plurality as compared with Black s in 1896 | is due to a decrease in the republican vote up to the state of 61.000 and in Greater New York 62,000. Against this Van Wyck gained 20.000 above the Harlem and 53,000 below it as , compared with Porter two years ago. The result on congressmen in this j state seems to have surprised even the democrats themselves. Nineteen of their candidates were elected, the republicans getting but fifteen. In the present house the New York delegation stands twenty-seven republican to six democrats. In Greater New York all the democratic candidates were elected. PENNSYLVANIA. The results in Pennsylvania show a plurality favoring the republicans of 125,'W0n the state ticket. The delegation to the next congress will comprise twenty-one republicans and nine democrats, a democratic gain of six. The present delegation is composed of twentv-seven republicans and three democrats. The districts gained by the democrats are the eighth, twelfth, thirteenth. seventeenth, twentyseventh and twenty-eighth. NEBRASKA. . Returns by counties tonight, which come with provoking slowness, indicate a sealing off of republican gains and making the state ticket in doubt, and so close that official count may be required. The legislature is probably republican on joint ballot, but Senator Allen will not concede it. Secretary Thompson of the fusion . committee conceded the election of republican congressmen in the First and Second districts, but claimed the other four, admitting that the Fourth and Fifth were close. On the state ticket and legislature he said: “The result is in doubt and may not lie known until official count is made." MISSOURI. The state of Missouri gave an old time democratic plurality of 35,000, and elected twelve out of fifteen congressmen. The city of St. Louis gave a republican majority of 1,200. NORTH CAROLINA. Later returns indicate that the democrats have elected all nine of their congressmen, all twelve solicitors, forty-four out of forty-four state senators, ninety-five out 120 icpresenetatives and the state judicial ticket by 30,000. WASHINGTON. Returns from the state of Washington are incomplete, but enough are 'at hand to make it certain that the republicans have overcome the fusion majority of 12,000 two years ago, elected both congressman and two supreme court justices by a majority of at least 3,000. Later returns will, it is thought, increase rather than diminish this estimate. CALIFORNIA. Less than half of the vote of California has been counted, but 1,111 complete precincts out of 2,407 give Gage, republican for governor, 9,540 i plurality. At this rate his vote will lie 20,000 in excess of Maguire's. It is reasonably sure also that the republicans have carried the rest of the state ticket with the exception perhaps of secretary of state and two judges of the supreme court. The vote on these is close, with the chances in favor of the democratic candidates. It is certain tlurt the republicans have gained at least two congressmen, with the | third one in doubt. NEW JERSEY. New Jersey shows up a republican majority of 12,000. Elvin W. Craine, j the defeated democratic candidate for i governor, said that he recognized the fact that his defeat was due to national I questions. Many New York business men reside in the townships throughout the state and have no interest in local affairs, but vote according to their feeling in New York. KANSAS. The latest returns indicate that the plurality of Stanley, republican candidate for governor, will probably reach 13,000. Taylor Riddle, the popu- , list state chairman, practically concedes the defeat of Vincent, for congress, in the Fifth and Jerry Simpson in the Seventh.

WEST VIRGINIA. Johnston, democrat ‘1 elected in the Thin! distr< . an Freer, republican in the fourth. ■ First and Second districts are st 11 m doubt with chances Ult . tion of Dovernor, republic..). First, and McGraw, democra . m the Second. The state senate will >» rt publican and the lower house democratic with a democratic majority of two on joint ballot for a successor to Senator Faulkener. CONGRESSMAN CROMER. The Republicans Elect Their Congressmen by a Greatly Reduced Majority. The election of George M . Cromer to congress is assured by a greatly reel need majority. Two years ago wit h no populist or prohib.tion eand dates, Congressman Henry was elected by but 2.682. This time both these parties were represented on the tit • which gives the republicans a plurality of nearly 4.000. Nevertheless, Judge Lotz reduced the republican plurality amazingly. \\ ith unofficial returns from Delaware and Madison counties, the following is the result: Lotz. Cromer. Adams Blackford :50 - •• •• • Delaware■■■■■' Wells _• Totals 2.555 3,783 Majority ’ — The official count may reduce or increase the vote of Cromer, although the probability is that the result as ! stated above will not be changed to i any alarming degree. It is a gallant showing for the democrats and Judge Lotz. The Voters Say, "Yes.” The gravel road question in this, Washington township, ended in a victory for the road. The agitation was somewhat heated and the result shows that the east Washington township road carried by but thirty-one. The vote by precincts was as follows: EAST WASHINGTON. WEST WASHINGTON, yps no yes no A, Ist ward, 51 47 59 54 B. Ist ward, 45 40 58 43 A, 2d ward, 70 75 89 72 B, 2d ward, 29 38 42 44 A, 3d ward, 41 54 52 54 B, 3d ward, 82 60 93 63 E. Wash'n. 66 65 110 51 WWash'n. 66 40 67 39 453 419 570 420 Majority, 31 150 Unless otherwise obstructed, the i roads will be built, and then Wash-| ington township will have some of the J best roads, as well as some of the best territory, that the sun ever shone upon. This progressive spirit is commendable and shows that the enterprise of our people can always be depended upon when it comes to improvements of any legitimate character. MW FACTS IN A FEW LINES. Eight hundred thousand people still speak Welsh. The cheapest rate of postage in Europe is that of France. There are at least 10,000,000 nerve : fibers in the hiunan body. Nearly one-fifth of the students at I Swiss universities are women. A miniature Mcrro Castle has been erected at the Thousand islands. The first envelope ever made is in the possession of the British museum. No fewer than 1,173 persons have been buried in Westminster Abbey. Great Britain spends on tobacco and pipes about £14,000,000 every year. The maintenance of the sultan’s harem costs Turkey about $15,000,000. Twenty-five per cent of the shares in American railways are owned in England. In Brazil there are said to be 300 | languages and dialects spokcu by the Indians. The battle of the Boyne was not fought on July 12, as alleged, but on the Ist. One out of every six inhabitants of France has an account in the state savings bank. An employer of German clerks says ’ that they work 20 per cent slower than English ones. There have been 27 cases of insanity in the Bavarian royal family during the last 100 years. It is well known that toothache is I often caused by a disordered stomach, j and is removed by a simple aperient. A Brighton (England) young man killed himself because his wife made fun of him for kissing the servant girl. The wonderful part of the Maxim guu is that it has only one barrel, and yet it can discharge 600 shots in one minute. In Germany and Holland girls are chosen in preference to young men in all occupations where they can be advantageously employed. One-fourth of the people on the earth die before the age of 6, one-balf before the age of 16, and one person in each 100 born lives to the age of 65. There are several varieties of fish that cannot swim. In every instance they are deep sea dwellers, and crawl about the rocks, using their tails and fins as legs. When carbolic acid is to be used as a disinfectant, it should be mixed with boiling water. Xt is more soluble, and the two combined into a solution will keep for weeks.

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Boucicaalt and His Hair. Boucicault for a number of years used to dye the little fringe of hair he had. and it generally took on all the hues of the rainbow, much resembling Tittlebat Titmouse’s experience in coloring his hair. I was standing in front of the Union Square theater one day after rehearsal with the late Charles R. Thorne, Jr., and Joe Polk, writes Owen Fawcett, and we were arguing the question who should “buy,” when along came Boucicault, as chipper as ever. Os course he must stop, ask all the news and have a chat, for he was a most entertaining man and well worth listening to. On his preparing to leave Polk said, ‘‘Mr. Boucicault, I do not wish to insult you, but I wish to congratulate you on one thing. ” “Not a bit of it, my boy,” said Boucy. “Wbat is it, Polk?” “I see that you have given over dyeing your hair or what little hair you bad, and you do not know how much better it makes you look. ” “Yes,” said Boucicault, “I have found out one thing, and that is in all the years I have been foolish enough to paint my hair I was only deceiving one person, and that one was myself. Good day, boys.”—Detroit Free Press.

Their Kiemet, Proverbs, like grammatical rules, are liable to exceptions. For instance, the familiar saying, ‘‘Lightning does not strike twice in the same place, ” bad its exception during the bombardment of Widin by the Russian batteries of Kalafat on the opposite shore of the Danube. The incident is described by Dr. Ryan in his book, “Under the Red Crescent,’’ the Turkish equivalent for the Red Cross society. The shells from the heavy siege guns at Kalafat were dropping incessantly within the fortress. One of them as it exploded tore a great hole in the ground large enough to contain a horse. A Turkish woman, who was cowering with her three children under the shadow of the wall, took refuge in the hole. According to the law of chances, it was the least likely spot to be again hit by a shell. But scarcely had she crept in and drawn the three children after her when another shell, leaving the cannon’s mouth at Kalafat, nearly two miles away, dropped into the same hole and blew mother and children to atoms. To the Turks the grim exception was a vivid illustration of their doctrine of kismet, or fate. The woman's hour had come; kismet led her into that hole; it was the place assigned for her departure from earth. Another shell struck the angle of a house, tore down the walls and reduced one half of a room to ruins. In the other half of the room were a Turkish woman and two children. They were not even hurt. Their kismet, according to Turkish ideas, saved them.

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