Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 26 January 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVKRT -fHURSDAV MOBXIKG BY LEW G. ELLINGHA.M, Publisher. |1.54 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Pate red at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. JAN. 26. Following the formation of the gas trust comes the announcement that ninety per cent, of the bridge eompanies of the Untied States have combined with a capital cf S. >■ >.<X lO.OOt'. God save the Queen. Do von advertise" If not. can you give one single, valid reason under the shining canopy of heaven why you do not. \\ e reserve the right to reject anv and all explanations to the ■< ntrary, notwithstanding. Representative Krick has fully recovered himself and is daily in attendance at all sessions of the lower house <,f our general assembly. As could be expected ho is always casting his vote upon the right side of every question. Decatur's building Ixxun is one that causes a goodly sized chunk of patriotic pride to trinkle down the spinal column of every citizen, who is interested in the advancement and progress of the best citv in Indiana or of anv other state or country within the borders of civilization. The: Indianapolis Sentinel is again giving the public that threadbare and weary tale of how they brought alrout the election reform as well as every other reform underthe shining heaven, and for which credit is due the democratic party in Indiana. In this respect the Sentinel never wear.es of well doing. The Pike County Democrat. McC. Stoops' paper, came out last week adorned in a new dress of type and printed from a new cylinder newspaper press. Ail these advantages de notes a verv pleasing degree of prosperity, which is certainly very satisfactory to Duke, as we know it is to! his many friends here. Gen. Cockbell has for the fifth time been elected to the United States senate from Missouri. This fact has led the Kansas City Times to nomin ate him for the presidency, but we predict that the name of Bryan will remain too familiar in the minds of the democratic party for such usurpation for such it would be. The Boston Store begins a half page contract this week, thus showing that they are fully awake to the progress of the times. Iresides demonstrating their faith in the best known means of advertising their business. The Boston Store is managed strictly upon a business basis, which more than anything else, tells the tale of their success. That very much advertised Indianapolis Sentinel Almanac has arrived, and upon inspection is found to be an edition of value and worth, espec ially to any Indiana citizen. It con tains information upon every subject of importance and should be in the possession of every person in Adams county as well as elsewhere. The retail price is twenty-five cents. Richard Croker, the Tammany guerrilla, has again publicly declared that the issue of free silver is dead. Why all these salt risen tears over a dead injun? The erokers like Croker are deathly afraid of the corpse, thereby making their season of nightmares long, in which life sized portraits of a silver dollar as big as an elephant track, is strangely illuminated. The sad news of the explosion and wreck of the launch Paul Jones and the certain fate of all on Ivoard. has caused universal expressions of sympathy, especially for the family of Mayor Taggart of Indianapolis, whose daughter. Miss Florence, was one of the pleasure party who went down to a watery grave. She was a beautiful youpg girl and a favorte at home. The mid-winter meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. will occur in the parlors of the Grand Hotel, at Indianapolis next Thursday. All the real wisdom of the universe will lie concentrated into one mild thought, upon this occasion. The president of this association is Royal E. Purcell of the Vincennes Sun, now a member of the senate of our general assembly. George L. Saunders has retired from the Portland Sun. in which he has been financially interested for several years, and during which time assisted in making the Sun one of our brightest and newsiest exchanges. The paper will continue under the sole ownership of W. W. Timtnonds, who is an old wheel horse in the profession. and who is perfectly conversant with all the ins and outs of sue eessful journalism. It is currently reported that the proper effort from our people will bring the division Clover Leaf shops here. If this lie true the propertv owners and business men of our town should wisely consider it, without i eooly referring so important a matter to the Ixoard of trade. It would mean ’ much to our town and its many busi ness interests. Get together gentlemen, and without fear or favor, consider this in all its importance.

Gen. Charles P. Eagan was served i with legal notice of the ordering of a I court martial for his trial just Ix-fore the close of office hours Thursday. This notice was delivered by a messenger of the adjutant general in the usual course, and had the effect to relieve General Eagan from duty as ! commissary general of the I nited States army, pending the conclusion 'of the court martial. The office was temporarily placed in ehargeof Lieut. Col. George B. Davis, who has been cii duty there for some time as assistant to General Eagan. It is given out that Congressman Steele, having failed in his senatorial aspirations, will next year try to secure the republican nomination for governor. If the wily congressman from the Marion district should decide to do this he will have to make some verv explicit explanations to the supporters of Judge Taylor before he is likely to get their votes. At Fort Wavne it is freely charged that Steele violated a positive agreement with Judge Taylor and that he (Steele, is directly responsible for Taylor s defeat. South Bend Times. Through the kindness of Representative Krick we are favored with a printed copy of the county and township reform bills, which are receiving some attention by the legislators at this session. The bills in some respects are reform with a vengeance, but in the end we predict will lie the means of saving nothing to the taxpayers. It creates new offices, and pays all officers from judge to assessor direct from the county. Many of the powers of commissioners and trustees are taken from them and divested in what they term a county or township council. The solitary populist who sits in the Indiana legislature by the grace of democrati - votes, generously imt mistakenly bestowed upon him last November. couldn’t find it in his heart to honor David Turpie with a complimentary vote for United States senator. Gill is the name of this isolated populist. He hails from M ntgetiiery county, located in the congressional district which twice in success ,n administered to democrats the nauseating dose of a mongrel nomination for congress. If the action of Gill doen't forever cure the democrats of that district of fusion alximination. it is difficult to conjecture what will. South Bend Times. The defeat of the sugar beet bounty shows a commendable advance in the republican party in Indiana. The party has always favored bounties and subsidies for all sorts of things outside of the state and for almost everybody but farmers. Now that it comes to a bounty to farmers, and at home, they refuse. It is to be hoped that they will how adopt the good old democratic principle of equal opportunity for all and special favors to none in other matters. Why not have a legislative resolution opposing Senator Hanna’s shipbuilding bounty bill’ The bounty and subsidy business is an imposition on all but the beneficiaries. Sentinel. Major W. H. Daly, who was chief surgeon on Gen. Miles’ staff during the Porto Rican campaign, and who wrote the now famous report to Gen. Miles, stating that the government refrigerated beef had the odor of an “enbalmed dead human body," was before the War Investigating Commission. Major Daly, a tall, large, fine looking man. with grayish beard •and Irish cast of countenance, was a most exclient witness. He spoke quietly, without any nervousness, and his answers were prompt and to the point. It did not appear that the examination or cross-examination lessened in any degree the weight of his condemnation of the beef served to the troops in Porto Rico. Another gas trust is now under formation. The gigantic scheme was formated in some dark Wall street hole in the ground and will consist of a capitalization aggregating 560,000,000. It will be christened the Central Union Gas Company, and will exclusively comprise Indiana and Ohio gas companies among whom arethe the Indianapolis. Gas company, Indiana Natural and Illuminating Gas company. Fort Wayne Gas com pany, Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas company. Lafayette Gas company, Ohio and Indiana Gas company, Davton Gas companv. Tippecanoe City Gas company, Covington Gas companv.New Weston Gas eompany, Piqua Gas company. Sidney Gas company. Troy Gas companv. Urliana Gas company. South Charleston Gas company and the Mount Sterling Gas company. The tramp nuisance has reached its zenith in this city, and the time has come for our city legislators to apply some caustic measures for the release of our citizens from the tirade of abuse and dangers that are being so freely dispensed by this class of the world's populace. Highhanded out rages have been committed. Complaints are heard every dav where insults have l>een heaped upon our people Itecause they refused to turn their larder over to the free use and disposition of these weary waggles. Mavor Beatty has signified his willingness to administer the law. and during the )>ast week has reurauded two oi three to jail, but w hat we need is a general ordinance for the disposal of the thugs and bums who invade our town, i terrorize our people amt place human life and property at their mercy. If a st >ue pile will do the work let's have

BOSS HERNLEY — Interference of the Republican State Chairman Not Relished by Legislators. If County and Town-hip Keform Are Defeated It Will Be Owing to the Boes Who Desires to Land In the Governor's Chair—Littleton Paralyzed the Little Dictator — W here Hanly's Strength < 'ame From-Dem-ocrats the Only Member- Attending Committe Meeting- Hegularly. [From Our Indianapolis Correspondent.] Charles L. Heruh-y. chairman of the Republican state committee, has be n spending the winter in town, in the landable job of endeavoring to boss legislation. Entirely unmindful of the rebuffs given the great and only “Oom Jack’’ Gowdy in 1895. and forgetful of that old saw about fools rushing in. Hernley had no sooner finished the routine work of assigning speakers and cancelling their dates during the campaign I than he began to figure upon what he 1 should have the legislature do. The first thing was to have it elect Taylor to the senate, but notwithstanding his dictum and the advice of Ham- u given when- , ever he had a chance to talk to members, the heartle— so'.ons paid no particular attention to him and let young man , Beveridge run away with tae cake. Bat in the meantime Mr. Hernley had been fixing up a plan of reform that would ■ make hi- name famous and land him with great ease as the n st farmer gov- ' ernor of Indiana. He called a considerable number of the members-elect to the . capital and helped to form a commission : to do th? busine-’s. If tne reform movement is wrecked thi- . :i the people will have the meddling of Hernley to thank for it. B th parties declared in their plats tl.< in fav r• .f reasonable reform in ■•■unry an I township government. and if the movement had been Permitted to go along nonpartisan lines there raid have been no doubt of the result: but. a- the case -lands, Hernley has been trying to “hog'' the whole m ivement for the benefit of himself and his party, and now finds that he cannot hold his majority in the house in line. Desperate efforts are being made to do it. Last Thursday night the house Republicans held a caucus to whip the “kickers" into line and appointed a steering committee and all that sort of thing, but the chances are that Boss Hernley will have to appeal to the Democrats f >r votes before they can get anything that smacks of reform through. I I I In this connection a row of beautiful proportions has developed between Hernley and Littleton, speaker of the house. Hernley insisted upon dictating the membership of the county and town- • ship committee, and gave Littleton a i list of the men he wanted on it. He was i a bit paralyzed to find that instead of 1 appointing this committee Littleton 1 packed it with opponents of reform. 1 Then, when the matter came up in the ' house on a committee report on one of the refegm bills, the speaker gave comfort to the opposition by indorsing the cowardly personal assault on the president of the state board of commerce. : This was a little too much for Hernley, and he has served notice on Littleton ! that he is just the same a- dead in Indiana politics, and that he will see to it that the pet schemes of his employers are cut off. I I I Little by little—and mostly by Littleton—those who have sense enough to watch things closely are getting onto the various deals and combines of big interests that gave Hanly such enormous strength in the senatorial scramble. The question is of living interest, for the combine still exists and has other objects in view. I don't suppose Hanly : himself knew of half of them. He is just conceited enough to suppose that * these influences came to him because they thought he was a great man. There were a great many mysteries about his i strength; why this, that and the other ' man was supporting him. and where the stacks of money that the Hanly i people had to run their expensive campaign were coming from. These are being gradually cleared up, and it seems that the Hanly campaign simply formed a convenient rallying ground for the formation of a combine that was undertaking to run the legislature in its own interests. Will Wood and George Haywood of i Lafayette are not usually in business for their health, and they did not spiend ' months working up the scheme just for the fun of it. Haywood is attorney for the Lafayette Bridge company. George McCulloch, for some mysterious reason, suddenly dropped Steele and came to the front as the chief boomer of Hanly. There was a weird tale that McCulloch did this because he was mad at Fairbanks. McCulloch is not fool enough to spend a lot of time and money trying to \ get such indirect revenge. McCulloch i is vice president of the Indiana Bridge I company. See the point? The wonder- : ful Knotts of Hammond, who has been for years attorney for the Roby gam- I biers and lobbyist for every interest in Lake county that wanted to get the best of the state in any way, was in it up to his I neck. Did he think Hanly great? Not he. Roby defense and anxiety to pull out an appropriation for deep water at Hammond were behind him. Then Senator Perry Newby was in it good and strong. We all know how much Newby would naturally admire Hanly's greatness. What did Newby want? Any old thing that might come along and prove to be good. He represents certain insurance companies at home, and of course he forgets about them when he gets into the senate chamber. He always has in the past. The first big move of the

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combine was to capture Littleton by ; promising to make him speaker, and they carried out their contract In his I committee appointments and in his ml- j ings from the chair he is carrying out his jart with great fidelity to the cor- I ruptionists. He created a new committee to help Knotts out with his deepwater snap jacked the county and ! township committee in the interest of | the bridge companies and the county commissioners they control, permitted Nicholson to dictate the chairmanship of the education committee in the interest of the nonstate schools and at every point gave all the advantage he could to the sjiecial interests represented in the combinethat had gathered alien* Hanly's candidacv. 11l How the lieutenant governor came to be left out of the combine is a mystery to some people. Haggard usually has an anchor out to windward and it has not been his habit to let good things glide idly by. There were two reasons. In the first place there are not enough good things lying around Lafayette to satisfy all the smart people there and long ago there was a split, with Wood, Haywood, Flynn and that crowd on one side and Haggard on the other. The lieutenant governor does not cut nearly as much ice at home as he does elsewhere aud the "kids" have never thought it worth while to make terms with him. But beyond this Haggard was plumb crazy on the subject of getting into the governor’s chair by making Mount senator. Os course, it never occurred to him that the very thing that made Mount s name an impossible one before the caucus was the contemplation of the possibility of two years of Haggard at the head of the state, and he kept plugging away at the Mount boom until the caucus was over. Thus it I happens that while the combine has control of the house, its only footing in the senate is Newby as. president pro tern and the members it has upon the floor. People who go before committee meetings to make arguments are generally surprised to find that most of the members present are Democrats, notwithstanding the fact that the Democrats are largely in the minority on all the committees. The simple explanation is that the Democrats attend to the business for which they were elected, while most of the Republicans neglect their work either I for a good time or to indulge in political conferences, about such questions of overwhelming importance as whether or not there shall be an additional doori keeper, and if so. who shall control the appointment. This session is even worse than the last in failure to attend committee meetings. Both houses have been working the old scheme of adjourning at noon each day and from Friday noon to Monday noon, "to give the committees a chance to work." Then all the Republicans go home and the committee meetings are declared off for lack of a quorum. The only way I know of for . correcting this evil is to put enough i Democrats on each committee to nwk . ! onnrp.m. " 1-

Os all the flights of oratory in nominating the senatorial candidates last week, that of Senator Drummond, in placing Senator Turjiie in nomination, was generally accorded the most praise. It was a gem in its simplicity and beauty. In the house the tremendous honor of placing Beveridge in nomination was accorded to the awful Roots. Roots, by wearing everybody out two years ago. captured this same distinction in the election of Fairbanks, but this time it came easy. One of the foxy Beveridge managers went to Root* in November aud told him that if he would support | Beveridge, he should have the honor of placing him in nomination. He enlarged upon the fact that no other member of the legislature had ever had the distinguished honor of placing in nomination two United States senators. He knew the w eakness of Roots. This was a bigger bribe to him than the offer of f 100,003 would have been aud Roots fell an easy victim. It was rather rough on the newspapers, however, to stand another siege of Roots in demanding that his speech be printed in full. Beveridge has had to suffer for a number of years from the reputation of having a swollen head and some of his fool friends here are now doing their best to make it hard for him in the senate by increasing this reputation. It has come to be a common question to ask, "Have yon given your dinner or reception in honor of Beveridge yet?" One of his business friends, who would not hurt him for the world, gave a dinner the other night to which a number of local leaders in politics aud business were invited and had a regular programme of a dozen toasts with Beveridge the theme of every one of them. It was “Beveridge as a Neighbor,” "Beveridge as a Friend," "Beveridge on the Stump " ‘•Beveridge’s Future,” and that sort of thing. One speaker after another told what great things the young man would do. They had him a vice president, president, the greatest statesmen of his time aud so on until finally Dr. Hays, president of the Columbia club, predicted that they would yet see a federation of all the people of the world with Beveridge at the head of it. At this poiiit one of the members of the legislature present remarked that he did not see what more they could de for Beveridge unless they gave him God’s job, and there was au end to the absurd performance Ir , I I I it was worth several times the price of admission the o*her day to see Hubbell cavort about in the senate when thesuirgestiou was made that there was a lobbv roppomng a bill that had been referred biU WaS ° U ’ aud ,hat the b.ll should be recommitted to another commute. The member making th, -ggesnou did uot kuow Hnbbe * on the committee iu question, but the , senator from Elkhart took it all to him I self aim protested his virtue i c ,..n_ hat ,t will be tunuy „ v j «uto aim in the future. '

A Question of Polk). While Colonel Bryan was wander ing alxreut as an anti expansionist minstrel the Nebraska legislature passed, by a vote of more than two to one, a resolution approving the foreign policy of Mr. McKinley. New York Sun. The Sun should tell the people, if it can. what the foreign policy of ft McKinley is. What did the Nebraska legislature indorse? The president does not stand as an expansionist tol day. He has lieeu intermittent on t« subject. and this journal will not or dertake to say what his position d be tomorrow. Now it is merely t» of an investigator. His message- to congress might as well not have ben written in so far as they offer are solution of the Philippine question. Some of his speeches have indicated* desire to absorb the w hole archipelago but he has not been specific to tn» effect. He cannot be said certe-: to lie even in favor of ratification« the treaty of peace. He that document to the senate witnou comment or advice, and with s l ® ll ’ timidity about committing nitre* l the proposition. Now that the * March is likely to come and g° U! “ out a ratification of the treaty by- - and he shows no signs o eitement or disappointment, nutgw’ cooly about the appointment commission to proceed to the ■ to examine the conditions and tn report which shall be of value in final determination of the eour- _ the United States. This will sarilv be a long and tedious »cr ■ volving much travel. n<^ee 'Lmlv president seems to be geb'ng’ for a conservative and dehbera ment of the question. 1 his ''liatis volve "hedging" on his part. nothing new. The policy of . ministration has changed ( times. Information reques al resolution adopted by the ,3 the instance of Mr. Hoar was . by the executive departnien % it would in all probabilit' b a ' e theaet that the American ers went to Pans with demand nothing as to tbe but a coaling station. Afte plan of taking all the island* agreed upon, anil the A ,nerl ' |l)fn l. pie were insulted by the afe in so far as the make one. to pay Spam — ■ jf for that which we had won i . y we were entitled to keejv it a [ s . first the people of the I[ n 11 1 lauds were to be consider* • the performance went on 1 presumption that the , 1 . foiiiand Spain were the only l w ' . terest. In fact our g°s eru tb»‘ blown hot and cold so freq l the bodv which undertakes its policy should do so 1 1 attaehment^^nqmi*’^^ — Place your ad in the Ml