Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVIKT THURSDAY MORKIKG BT LEW Q. ELLINQHAM, Publisher. 11.50 PKK YEAR IN ADVANCE. Havered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mall Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 24. Congress convenes the first Monday in December, at which time the country will again be saved. Give thanks for the blessings received, and those you expect to receive. Do not be mealy mouthed' alwut your gratitude, as it costs nothing to be generous in giving expres- . sions, at least. Senatorial candidates are becom- ■ ing numerous, among the latest additions being Albert J. Beveredge and ! Major George W. Steele. Political pulls seem to be the principle 1 recommendations. City Clerk Watts of Marion, has absconded leaving a shortage in his office that will aggregate something like $6,000. He is a brother of Hon., I. P. Watts, who was a candidate before the republican congressional con- , vention in this city last spring. Plant your holiday advertisements in the Democrat where they will grow , into money and make business a | pleasure and profit. Good printer’s ink can stimulate trade more than anv other one means of advancement. It pays big money on the investment, 1 and if you do not believe it, try it.: By all means advertise. Representative Krick is beginning to part his hair in the middle and I otherwise distinguish himself, preparatory to taking his seat on the minority side in the next Indiana general assembly. We will venture the prediction. however, that before the session ends Henrv will have created a very favorable impression upon the floor of the lower house. Many newspapers last week freely gave space to a Muncie dispatch relating to the arrest of Rev. C. U. Wade for cruelty to animals. The dispatch told in pathetic tones of the cruel treatment and chatisement given the dumb brute. It now transpires that that Muncie correspondent had wheels ■ in his head. In ten .minutes a jury ■ acquitted Rev. Wade, which more' fully shows that a bad stomach is a good thing in space writing. Those newspapers should as freely correct themselves.

I Big CuW I ® IN ALL LINES OF DRESS JS GOODS FOR TWO WEEKS, || UNTIL DECEMBER 1. OUR @ ENTIRE LINE OF DRESS i® i GOODS WILL BE ® Slaughtered! ... || All 15c dress goods goat - - nc All 20c dress goods go at -15 c Ail 25c all wool dress goods go at 20c i® All 27H Jamestown dress goods go at 22c V All 33’jc Jarnestown dress goods go at 25c All 42%c Jamestown dress goods go at 35c All 50c all wool elegant goods go at 39c Q All 60c all wool serges goat -48 c|| All 75c all wool, plain and fancy, go at 55c | £ All 90c all wool, plain and fancy, -67 c| f 0 All SI.OO all wool, plain and fancy, -78 c 0 x ? Plain and Fancy Silk all in - | w* eluded in this sale. These are * | 5 7 not ficticious prices—they are -g* ? our regular prices cut down as you can see. Our goods are all marked in plain figures, 1 ’ 3 j and you can see for yourself. 1 j 1 These prices are made to re 1 ? duce our very large stock of Dress Goods. Come and take J t advantage of these liberal J 1 prices—for two weeks only. ; t Sprang & | | True. .. |

There is some probability that the metroiKilitan police law may be changed by the coming legislature. ' While there may in some cases be sufficient cause for a change, yet as a whole we have heard of many things much worse. Brown county is democratic, republican election canards to the contrary, notwithstanding. Ralston’s majority there was 592, while every candidate on the county ticket was elected by majorities ranging from fifty-one to 502. This is the county read so much about. They possess but five townships and a voting population of less than 2,000. This is Thanksgiving, a day set apart for an expression of thanks for the mercies extended during the past 365 days, so do not forget your neighbor. Perhaps he is too poor to I buy the necessaries of life, and one can not rejoice on an empty stomach, i Perhaps he is sick and needs your I companv. consolation or advice. Do [ not be a pessimist on this day. Rejoice and thank God for the opportunity. _____ It now seems probable that the ; peace commissioners at Paris will j finish their negotiations, and that ! quite soon a treaty of peace will be duly signed and executed by that commission. Just the exact terms are not conjectured but it is surmised that the terms submitted by our own American members will be accepted and the agony ended. At least the heads of our administration have I taken on an air of confidence which ! leads one to conclude that such a I termination is in sight. While the democrats will politically be the minority party in the legislative session, now near at hand, yet there is much they can do towards ■ shaping needful legislation, and thus ! reflect continued honor upon their party in this state. As a leader in the j lower house, no better or more able champion of the people’s rights could ; lie selected than the Hon. W. H. ■ Eichhorn of Wells county, whose splendid record of two years ago still reflects credit. He is away up in parliamentary law, a ready debater and a pleasant speaker. The republicans who are opposing currenncy reform are making their stand on the proposition that there is no danger to the maintenance of the gold standard so long as the government’s income is in excess of its expenditures. That is probably true, and it means simply that the gold standard is an expense to the government which calls for increased revenues. The currency reformers have demonstrated that the greenback cur--1 reney has been a great expense to the government, and that is only a demonstration that maintaining the greenback on a gold standard is a great expense. —Sentinel.

To be Well ® DRESSED AT SMALL COST J I IS NO LONGER A SERIOUS PROBLEM We show you the most complete line of Fine Clothing a n d || Gents' Furnishing 11 Goods, t t At such low figures that you can not afford to 1 be otherwise than well dressed. —_____ __ A V | S | T jo our STORE J 'ff Will convince you of this fact ''W*' That y° u can buy S°°d, honest J® V® ft Goods of us for less money Oil Than other people ask you for H Inferior quality. Call and see us. WOBK Jj We will be pleased to show you OWiy W Through our stock. f Yours truly, HO Schulte, Folk & 1. Ehinger. The Leading Clothiers and Tailors.

THE NET RESULTS OF THE CAMPAIGN, | The republicans have carried their state tickets in the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, Wyoming. South Dakota, Washington and Nevada. These states all voted for Bryan in 1896. The democrats have carried Kentucky, have elected the governor of Minnesota, and nrobably have the legislature of Nebraska and Nevada. The republican majority in Illinois in ' 1896 ot over 140,000 have been cut down to something like 10,000. McKinley's majority in New Jersey of over 87,(XD has been cut down to about 20.000. His majority of 268.- : 000 in New York has been reduced to 18.000 for Roosevelt. The republican j majority of 295,000 in the last presi-i dential campaign in Pennsylvania ! has been entirely effaced and the re- i publican candidate for governor was I elected by a minority vote. He would i have been defeated had the supporters of his two opponents combined. In Massachusetts three democratic representatives have been elected to congress instead of one in the present congress. Republican majorities in other states have been greatly reduced. Finally, the result of the great struggle for the house of representatives is a reduction of the present republican majority of fifty-seven in that body to a majority of fourteen, in the next congress. The change in the complexion of the senate is due to the election of republicans in republican states which six years ago elected democratic senators in the great democratic tidal wave caused partly by the McKinley tariff bill, and partly by the refusal of Speaker Reed to allow the house to vote on the free silver bill which had passed the senate. There is nothing in these results to justify the stimulated glee of the republican organs or their party oracles. On the contrary, the results are full of promise for the future of the democratic party and its allies, and all they represent. The campaign has not been conducted with reference to any domestic question except in New York and Pennsylvania, where the republican state administrations were placed on trial, and found guilty by the people of gross frauds and other maladministration. Every man of sense knows that since last February, when the battleship Maine was destroyed, our relations with Spain have been uppermost in the public mind. The war has been the sole topic of public interest. The silver question has neither made or lost votes in any quarter. The gold standard of Mr. Gage has not bet n the subject of discussion. The six and a half millions of voters who stood against bribery and intimidation and a general reign of terror in 1896 have not faltered in their opinions, nor have the silver republicans who were then inveigled into the support of Mr. McKinley by his pledges of bimetallism been reconciled to his gross breach of faith on that question. In the far west, visions

of commerce with Asia, and the whole of the Philippines as a commercial and naval depot for the L niter! States have loomed up and monopolized public attention. All over the country the national pride has been satisfied by the glorious victories of our army and navy. The support of the government by the people during a foreign war dulls the interest in domestic questions, and thousands and hundreds of thousand of voters support the partv in power lest a contrary course might be encouraging to the enemy, the whole American people , I have been united in support of the administration during the war. They are not united as to the treatment of I 1 our soldiers, nor are they united as to ' the final outcome of the war. This! , whole subject will be disposed of long ' Itefore the slightest move is made in i the direction of the campaign in HMM), i The republican gains are less important and less promising than thedemoeratic gains, and every opponent of the republican party will have ample I cause for hope in the divisions which will surely arise among the republicans when they commence the exercise of the power of their majorities in the two houses of congress. Meanwhile it will be more profitable for the democrats of the far west and south to rejoice overtheimmense democratic gains in the east than to criticise the methods of the campaign in the eastern states. No principle of the democracy has been sacrificed in any eastern state. The principles of the democratic party have everywhere been emphatically indorsed in our conventions. This was the equivalent of an indorsement of every national platform, including that of Chicago in 1896. The leading democratic measures of these times is the reinstatement of the free coinage of silver at sixteen to one. Nowhere has there been uttered a syllable of retraction of that policy in any democratic convention or upon any democratic authority. In this connection the New York democracy and their grand leader. Richard Croker, should especiall receive from the democrats of the west and the south expressions of ap preciation of the noble fight they have made, and the tremendous victory they have won. The election of Cleveland over Folger in 1882 against a previous republican majority of about 200.000 was then considered the greatest political triumph in the records of the country. But it was exceeded on the Bth of this month when 2;>0,000of the 258,000 republican majority of 1896 wereswept away under the leadership of Mr. Croker. The democratic party of New York nominated a candidate for governor proposed by that gentleman who was so universally recognized as a man of purity of ■ character and of high ability that from beginning to end no repubj liean writer or speaker called him in i question. Out of the mouths of his • enemies the people were assured of

his fitness for the governorship of New York. The New York contribution to the gains of the democratic party in congress is not the least of the achievements of the democratic partv ' in that state. Under Mr. Croker's leadership the campaign was made largely upon state issues, and the unworthiness of the republican party | to be longer trusted by the people.' Democrats in the south, where there i is no substantial opposition, can hard -1 ly appreciate the services of the New York democracy which sent [ Roosevelt into the office of governor with a majority of less than eighteen ! thousand, which everybody admits ' will be reduced instead of in-! ’ creased when the votes of the New ‘ York volunteers in the army come to ■ lie counted. Is not the democratic I partv of New York in a much better condition to enter upon the president-' ial campaign of 1900 with their oppo-, nents thus cut down and humiliated 1 than they would lie if they had in the 1 state campaign appealed to the voters solely upon the question of free coinage of silver? We venture to say the national convention of 1900 will not see the scenes of 1896 repeated in the seats occupied by the New York delegation. New Yorkers will express their opinions as to the language iu which democratic doctrines shall be stated, but they will acquiesce in the decision of the majority whatever it may be; and when they return to New York it will be to enter upon the campaign encouraged by the result in 1898. and full lioth of hope and determination that the Empire State shall give its electoral vote to whoever the national convention may nominate. What is now most needed is a broad and national fraternization between the demo-rats of all sections of the country. The south, with its 224 assured democratic votes, can have no fear of dictation from the east, and the east, with the hard fight before it, will realize that conflicting views on minor details are to he reconciled by friendly consultations. The democratic party must not be a southern party against the north, nor a southern and western party against the east. It must l>e a national party, with a full recognition of equality for all of its members without regard to the section of the country in which they live, and the contest must be waged in every state. Enquirer. REFORM LEGISLATION. Some legislation for reform in township. county and state government, is brewing. An executive committee appointed has drafted the following resolutions, which will bring the subject into discussion at least. The resolutions adopted are as follows: “That the present township laws lie reorganized so that the legislative duties of levying taxes and mating appropriations shall be committed to a committee of threo persons serving without pay, elected by the voters of

the township. Estimates of taxes and appropriations to be made by the township trustee and a day fixed for a hearing by the council after giving public notice thereof. All citizens and taxpayers shall have the right to appear and be heard at such meetI , u “We recommend to the favorable ' consideration of the commission the 1 formation of a state administrative i board of revision and appeal, with the power to review the more important Icontracts made by county boards when so requested by citizens of the I county, anil to revise, modify or ?et I aside the same if found by them to I be v fraudulent or improvident. « I Ixiard to lie composed of men of special qualifications for such work an I appointed bv the governor. | "That the legislative power of tenI ing taxes and making appropnahons lin the county be vested in a rey>n I sentative bodv of taxpayers without pay.’ That it be the duty t the auditor to submit to an nual meeting of this body aibu “■ the required appropriations for J' suing year after public notice 1 • when the tax rate shall be fix , the appropriations made. 1 ministrative power of the conn 1 vested in a board of three chosen « the people, their powers hiniW the expenditure of themoney p ly appropriated by the repre' . bodv first mentioned." , We presume that the ab°' J* lion will find their way to a B - committee. OF PEBLJC LETTI> G ' Notice Is hereby %lv® n - M Onmrhw loner* «»t Adim y or ib* Indiana, will recent- --h d *« Mruction of th- Ttnr* , county, known th’ * And PecHiur and Munn* • , w gco and also tor th** eon*tru<itioiv • mad in sa d • 'S ftlL ized WAshinirton Townsh r Macada until 10 o clock a. m , on Thursday, January 5, ' at a sp-eia' session of m ".loners call- <i tor " tri the <’omn i'sloner J rixmi h-use in the cit- ot IMatur. In liana. Seperate bids will V M , ( j r( »Ads ' s rucHon of < ach of the _ , 0 , an-e with the pl.np. rot the yt. rs dmu „ty. i th- Au liter s aiow- , lobe builtot.vrurh'U stow , in ttnf A bond m"’’ the amount nt ’h<* bi nori road upon ’ j . m ar.v '" e . tlifC'f for the faithful p-rfo>n>»' WHr iwl v and that the bidd. r will- ' irHCi enter into contract ... e ncbU nlete tne sa” e accoiding 1 ?nd in aecordanee . bids shall he so math so X ’ IP . at Which each ’■‘■l’^®'^,.% final* j .<1 for cash payable ' notto f bv the t t.irln. er '« percent of ant <«* t)ic -ale'M • io be hereafter raised required by l» w - -yllW cC *’ ' Both of theahoye nn^edn^’ r i y)S | (i ‘ plettd nut later tb«u - • reserve ) h»'“^ i ‘ ud,llb !;; lAHM AN6o^. !rf . j _ 4 ’ Auditor A<s‘ D “