Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VIST THURSDAY MORRISO BY LEW 0. ELLINOHAM, Publisher. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mall Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, DEC. 1. Th© new bankruptcy law will take effect January 2. Holiday advertising is now due. The merchant who wishes to reap the best harvest should be early in the advertising field. Consult the public now. Silver has again been buried, much to the delight of the same coterie of statesmen who perform these last sad rites with due regularity. The next date has not yet been announced. The Indianapolis Sentinel Almanac will reach the publie about the first of the coming year. Unlike their catch 'em and skin 'em campaign edition. it will be of some importance. The republican press is unanimous in predicting a tremendous influence against the reform of county and township government in the next legislature. The powers that secured the outrageous extension of office of trustees to 1900 must indeed be potent with republican legislators. Sentinel. The time has now arrived for Governor Mount to immortalize himself. He has been busy breaking into the newspapers about the inefficiency of the anti-trust law. His reeommenda tions upon this subject wiil have great weight with the legislators soon to assemble. Let the loop-hoies bo sealed. Ax Indiana bureau has been established by the democratic national committee, with Allen Vv. Clark in command. The principal object of the committee is to raise funds for “Coin" Harvey of Chicago, and Mr. Clark as well, and incidentally toi solicit financial aid to carry on the ' next national campaign. The scheme is a pretty good one for them but i otherwise not of much force. County and township reform seems 1 to be a subject of much discussson right now. That there are many : evils that could and should be ad - justed, is true, but it is a subject worthy of much careful thought and study, and the recommendations off > i should not be an experiment in r'fo”’i 1..'.t instead should beanform that reforms, and not a correction of one evil by another.

I Big Cut | & IN ALL LINES OF DRESS § GOODS FOR TWO WEEKS, 5 UNTIL DECEMBER 1. OUR @ ENTIRE LINE OF DRESS ® GOODS WILL BE | | Slaughtered! ... | All 15c dress goods goat - - nc (j @ All 20c dress goods go at -15 c 5 ® All 25c all wool dress goods go at 20c @ All 271 C Jamestown dress goods go at 22c y Sj All Jamestown dress goods go at 25c 6 All 42%c Jamestown dress goods go at 35c : All 50c all wool elegant goods go at 39c tj 6 All 60c all wool serges goat -48 c | All 75c all wool, plain and fancy 7 , go at 55c (■ All 90c all wool, plain and fancy, -67 c 1 All SI.OO all wool, plain and fancy, -78 c | X ? Plain and Fancy Silk all in - I 'xe eluded in this sale. These are not ficticious prices—they are ’• our regular prices cut down as ‘ you can see. Our goods are : all marked in plain figures, X . and you can see for yourself. ‘ These prices are made to re i v duce our very large stock of * J. Dress Goods. Come and take ; •5 ? advantage of these liberal j v prices—for two weeks only. J | Sprang & j I True. .. j

The Wabash Times has been pur--1 chased by Milo Meredith and Bern Kinerk. This change in management returns the paper into the democratic 1 ranks, from which it wandered in 1896, refusing to support Bryan and his platform. This returns the last newspaper betrayer in the state, into the ranks of democracy. Still the free silver corpse is dead again. On the surface it is made to appear that young Beverege is an important factor in the race for senator to succeed the Hon. David Turpie. We will await the reality before allowing I ourselves to consider how awful sueh a calamity would be, especially when I such men as Judge Taylor are too asI piring to the high honor named. How- ' <-ver, it is nothing but an admitted fact that young Beverege is a quani tity that is making more than surface pratenticns. An extra session of congress after the fourth of next March is being already urged by many who insist that currency reform in the shape of the single gold standard shall be a reality lin law, instead of an option with the I executive head of an administration. . Whether the politicians '.ho want to play with the issue will succeed or those who think they know what they ! want, will not be known until the ! sparring for points is finished, and the ! scalps of the defeated are dangling high and dry. At any rate the republican party have the power, and with them alone the responsibility rests. -=! ' Peace is now assured, the Spanish peace commission, having affixed their signatures to a treaty, the considerations of which Spain relinquishes Cuba and cedes Porto Rico, Guam and the Philippines to the United States upon the payment of .820,000,000. In editorial comment the Sentinel says: “It cannot be disguised that the form of settlement will have a very material effect in determining the future policy of the United States, and it was probably designed to do ’ so. We take the Philippines by a cession that is to all intents a_ purchase. It is reported that the L nited States will also purchase the Caroline islands. The act is one of annexation. The thing is done. The program appears to be to hold the islands under military government for some months without any reference of the matter to congress. Every dav that thev are held makes the dificulty of letting them go greater, and increases the probability of their being retained as a part of the United States. Every day that they are held increases the probability of our being embroiled in the political controversies of Europe and Asia. What will result no man can forsee, but we are certainly entering territory now where this government can no longer assert the absolute supremacy it has heretofore maintained as to this continent, and where our will may be contested bv nations mora formidable than Spain.

To be Well- * ft DRESSED AT SMALL COST IS NO LONGER A SERIOUS sft A PROBLEM JMHif We show you the most complete line of Fine Clothing an d Hgß Gents' Furnishing J|j Goods, , , , , At such low figures that you can not afford to be otherwise than well dressed. _ A VISIT TO OUR STORE fap] Will convince you of this fact \That you can buy good, honest KM Goods of us for less money /.Q , rUtMk Than other people ask you for Inferior quality. Call and see us. ||| We will be pleased to show you MBC? ® SfC Through our stock. MM Yours truly, Isl Schulte, Falk & J tL Ehinger. The Leading Clothiers and Tailors.

The opposition to Joseph W. Bailey for leader of the minority in the next house of congress, is not likely to i materialize very forcibly. At any rate Mr. Bailey has the inside track and will no doubt succeed, as he j ought to. R. G. Dun A Co. prance nimbly to ’ the front with the assurance that one - cause for Thanksgiving this year is that “the people’sverdict hasgiven reason to hope that the soundness of the currency and the nation's honor will , not again be in peril.’’ The Dunn agency should be in better business than , sending out that kind of stuff, and the - Associated Press should not burden , the wires with it. It is not “news” in j any sense of the word. Men may and j do differ about the financial question, j The country certainly has voter’ against bimetallism and to establish 1 1 the gold standard, to retire the green-1 I backs and to grant the national banks I exclusive control of our paper curren- j cy. The Sentinel, for one, insists that, j it is the duty of the republican party I to carry out this verdict and give the j country, “for better or worse,” what it ; wants or seems to think it wants, at I the earliest possible moment. But it is untrue and demoralizing, and mischievous, and injurious to American credit, at home and abroad, to assert that the national honor or the soundness of our currency has Ireen ,at any time, in peril, or to imply that a great political party, comprising about half of the American people is, or has been, in any sense, in favor of unsound or dishonest money, or of compromising the national honor. If this were true the republic would be indeed in a sad way. and its future would be most unpromising. It is as wicked, and as unpatriotic, and as salsa, to make such assertions as it is to represent half of the American people as sympathizing with Spain and as enemies of their own country. It cannot be too often repeated that, however the American people may differ about financial and economic questions, or upon other issues of domestic politics, they are practically unanimous in favor of sound and honest money, in support of the public faith and honor, and in the defense of American principles and policies and interests as against a foreign foe. They differ among themselves, very sharply, as to the liest methods of maintaining a sound currency and protecting the national honor. But it is not true, it is notoriously false, that there is any political organization in this country which wants an unsound or dishonest currency, or seeks to compromise in any way, the national honor. We advise R. G. Dun & Co. to confine their weekly bulletins to statements of facts and to keep their low opinions of half of their countrymen to themselves. And we suggest that the Associated Press supervise these bulletins and exclude, before sending them out, the partisan rot which too often finds its j way into them. Sentinel. I

OFFICIAL FIGLRCS, Total Vote of the State as Compiled at the O - fice of the Secretary of State. Secretary of State. Ralston, democrat 269,125 Hunt, republican 286,643 Worth, prohibition 9,961: Morrison, people’s 5,867 Yochum, socialist 1,795 Hunt’s plurality, 17.518. Auditor of State. Minor, democrat 264.472 Hart, republican 283,565 Shoemaker, prohibitionist.... 9,525 Parks, people’s 5,725 Rempler, socialist 1,711 Hart’s plurality, 19,093. Treasurer of State. i Dougherty, democrat 265,226 I Levy, republican 282,534 | Kinsey, prohibition 9,508 Rrown, people’s 5.796 j Helbich. socialist 1,703 1 Levy’s plurality, 17,308. Attorney-General. McNutt, democrat 264,163 Taylor, republican 283.617 Watson, prohibition 9,538 Bal lard, people’s 5,822 Taylor’s plurality, 19,454. Clerk of Supreme Court. Warrum, democrat 264.265 P’-own, republican 283.592 Welch, prohibition 9.483 Todd, people’s 5,793 Brown’s plurality, 19.337. Superintendent Public Works. Sinclair, democrat 264.036 •Tones, republican 283,387 Devore, prohibitionist 9,507 Packard. peopPg 5,809 Beam, socialist 1.688 Jones' plurality. 19,351. Chief Bureau Statistics. • Guthrie, democrat 263.925 Conner, republican 289.442 TxHlietter. prohibitionist 9.488 Adams, people’s 5.776 Movers, socialist 1.686 Conner’s plurality. 19,771. State Geologist. Barrett, democrat 263.810 Blatchley. republican 283,581 Baldwin, prohibitionist 9,358 ' Allen, people’s 5,813 , Blatchley’s plurality, 19.771. Supreme Court, Second District. ■ Stannard, democrat 264.060 Dowling republican 283.684 Greene, peonies 5,660 More, socialist 1,705 Dowling’s plurality. 19,624. Supreme Court. Third District. McCabe, democrat 263,919 Hadler, republican 283.605 • Atkinson, people's 5,700 Hadley's plurality. 19,686. Supreme Court, Fifth District. Howard, democrat 264.203 ■ Baker, republican 283.664 , i Bozarth, people's 5.641 1 Baker's plurality, 19,461.

Appellate Court, First District. Taylor, democrat 264.473 Robinson, republican.. 283,087 | Robinson’s majority, 18,614. Appellate Court, Second District. Kollmeyer, democrat 264,174 Henley, republican 283,071 Henley’s majority, 18,897. Appellate Court, Third District. Brown, democrat 26*1,267 Black, republican 283,012 Black’s ma’ority, 18,745. Appellate Court, Fourth District. Di ven. democrat 264.087 Comstock, republican* 383,214 Comstock's majority, 19.127. Appellate Court, Fifth District. Kopelke, democrat 264,013 Wiley, republican 283,137 Wiley's majority. 19,124. VOTE FOR CONGRESSMEN. First District. Thomas F uncan, d 19,337 James A. Hemenway, r 20,383 Josephus Lee, pro 475 Hemenway's plurality, 1,046. Second District. Rol>err W. Miers, d 20.245 William 11. Gardiner, r 18,656 William J. Trout, pro 1,333 Miers’s plurality, 1.589. Third District. William T. Zenor. d 21.111 Isiah F. Whitesides, r 16,791 George T. Mayfield, pro 356 Zeuor's plurality. 4,320. Fourth District. Francis M. Griffith, d 21.751 Charles W. Lee. r 19,733 Jasper N. Hughes, pro 213 Griffith's plurality, 2,018. Fifth District. Samuel R. Hamill, d 22,305 George W. Faris, r 22,557 William E. Carpenter, pro... . 647 Alexander J. Farrow, peo 195 Faris’s plurality, 252. Sixth District. Charles A. Robinson, d 18,844 James E. Watson, r 21,048 Samuel Walker, pro 121 Watson’s plurality, 2,204. Seventh Distrct. Leon O. Bailey, d 23,269 Jesse Overstreet, r 25.868 V\ illiam B. Campbell, pr 0.... 567 Henry Kuerst, socialist 235 William B. Smith, peo 2 Overstreet’s plurality. 2,599. Eighth District. Orlando J. Lotz, d 24,021 George W. Cromer, r 25,388 George M. Martin, peo 908 James A. Thompson, pro 397 Cromer's plurality. 1,367. Ninth District. Joseph R. Cheanle, d 21,357 Charles B. Landis, r 22.447 George M. Thompson, pe0.... 712 Frank H. King, pro 226 / Landis's plurality. 1.090.

Tenth District. John Ross’ d 20,206 Edgar D. Crumpacker, r 24,656 Crumpacker's majority, 4.450. Eleventh District. George W. Michal, d 20,281 George W. Steele, r 24,367 David A. McDowell, pro I.l’l Edward L. Wilson, peo 436 Steele's plurality, 4,086. Twelfth District. James M. Robinson, d 19.484 Christain B. Stemen, r 18,044 Henry C. Schrader, pro 44S Robinson's plurality. 1.440. Thirteenth District. Medary M. Hathaway, d 20.885 Abraham L. Brick, r 23,3 w Thomas E. Webb, pro OiO John R. Korner, peo 2h Brick’s plurality, 5,482. Real Estate Transfers. Henry Dirkson to Edward Dirkson, 94 acres, Preble tp 8500. J. T. Merryman to J. Husser, 40 acres Monroe tp 8640. United States to Jacob Tuest, 40 acres Union tp. , ■ un Albert Knavel to Peter Forbing W acres. Union tp SL . . Elizabeth Meyer to Andrew Fisher, 15 acres, Root tp 8280. . James Laughlin to Peter Forbin o , 80 acres, Union tp §2OOO. Peter Forbing to F. Steigmeyer, W acres. Union tp 82200. . s Elsie A. Kintz to John Trimacres, Washington tp 81- . « Theodore Kennedy to_ D. o. Trout. 27 acres, Root tp SuOO. Daniel Welty to Daniel Gilliamlot 311 Berne, 865. E. F. Wash to Knepper & Anderson, pt lot 116 Geneva. 81450. ( David Lehman to C. H. Strum, acres, Wabash tp 81. 14 <). Mary A. Meyers to B. H- Mepe ■ • acres, Washington tp 8700. Ellen Touhey to Thomas louh ~ pt outlet 120 Decatur. . * G. H. Marsh to S. H. Adams 1 see 29, Wabash tp 81000. , t Jacob Baker to John Studdler. - 1 and 2 Geneva, SSO. Cphafer John Wiand to Catharine 40 acres. Washington tp J j John Studler to Stella • ' Geneva. 8150 Notice of Dissolution of Co-!>»rtnersh'P Notice is hereby given ‘J. ] x ,. partnership heretofore e? S?,, Jocke, tween John Mougey and under the firm name of Locke, is by mutua! consent ‘Il John Mougey having l” irt 1 ‘ bo f Locke’s entire interest m tne a* of the late Ann. He debts and collect the boo y oroE r, Dell lx**®’ See Blaney’s “Hired Girl’ at b<" ■ 1 opera house Dec. 27.