Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 16 February 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. J! 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Post. (Beeat Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mali Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. FEB. 16. F. A. Heimbaugh has disposed of his interest in the Miami County Sentinel, and temporarilly will recuperate his health in Colorado. As a newspaper. the Sentinel is hard to beat. A st'BSMBER wants to know if a congressman can hold two offices at once. Whv, certainly he can. Did you ever see a congressman that couldn t hold everything he can get hold of except a red hot poker. The latest thing out is a gas trust. This too, when the thermometer registers several yards below zero. Still there are people who think trusts breed no evil, but that idea generally prevails in the summer time. Editor Beall of the Fort Wavne Gazette, paid us a very friendly and fraternal call, while in the city this week. Since Mr. Beall's connection with the Gazette, the paper has shown manv improvements that reflect great credit to the paper and it's editor. The subject of advertising should not be neglected during this cold snap. Advertising is now as much a necessity to the many virtues of a good business, as at anv other time, and at no time should be a secondarv item of expanse to the progress of any merchant. One year ago this morning our patriotic people were mourning the sad fate of the Maine, which at that time was blown up in the harlior of Havana. The historv surrounding that murderous assanlt is so familiar to everv Adams county patriot, that repetition now is needless. As a punishment for the foul and disreptible blackguard Gen. Eagan, he will now lie permitted to but draw his "pay proper" which only amounts to .$6,500 a year. Military red tape is certainly a good thing for Eagan. We would like to get mad and shoot off a little slime on the same salary. Representative Krick was home over Sunday, returning Monday to his legislative duties at Indianapolis. Less than half the session remains and during that time nearly all the important measur •; will be considered. As a voter of the minority. Representative Krick generally gets on the right side. Some of the groat dailies are not talking so glibly about annexing the Phillipines, thereby creating a new kind of citizenship to be afterwards taken to our bosom as Americans. We predict that a thoughtful study of this perplexing problem will naturally turn to a sentiment that is anti in the extreme. And now Georgia comes forward with a disgraceful lynehitg. The mob came in on a train, and "after a short parley with the sheriff" entered the jail and took the defensless prisoners. although the sheriff had warning in advance, and had called on the governor for militia aid. The men lynched were "believed to have been concerned" in an outrage, and it is certain that the lynchers were. And yet this is claimed to tie a country of civilization, law and ord. —Sentinel. Senator Tvrpie has been criticised somewhat for his attitude on the peace treaty. The senator was ’ferninst it red hot. and seme of the latter day democratic journals think such a course out of date. Not on the theorv that expansion is a good thing, but that this is not the opportune or proper time to show the administration up in its true light. The ratification of the peace treaty practically ends the war with Spain, and that is what the people is inter sted in, more than anything else. Harry R. Daniel is now owner in fee simple of the Journal, the transfer taking place with the issue of yesterday. The new editor is experienced in newspaper work and will no doubt continue the paper upon the prosperous plane established by his predecessors. The retiring publishers have performed well their mission in the journalistic field and retire amid plaudits of a constituency well served. The Democrat extends the glad hand to our new brother and wishes him success in all the avenues of his profession. Says William J. Bryan on the ratification of the peace treaty: "Not by ’anv means. While many have thought that the fight should lie made against the treaty I have felt that the real fight is to be made for a resolution declaring the national policy. The opposition to the treaty has served a useful purpose and the opponents of the ratification made a gallant fight, but there was never any chance of defeating the ratification. Now that the treaty is out of the way it can be treated as a domestic question and the line can be drawn be-: tween these who lielieve in forcible annexation and those who believe that the Philipinos should lie allowed to govern themselves. I have not lost faith in the doctrine of self-govern-ment and lielieve that the people will repudiate the imperialistic polk v."

KILLED INTHE HOUSE First of the Reform Bills Dies Under Hernly's Leadership. If the Other Measures Get Through the House the "Little Boss" Must Appeal to Democrats to Save Him From Enemies In His Own Party. Littleton Taught a Lesson In Parliamentary Law by Mr. Eichhorn. Appropriation and Tax Levy Bills. Our Indianapolis Correspondent.) Three weeks ago I explained to the readers of these letters that Boss Hernly was likely to have a pretty rocky road to travel in his effort to "hog' for him self and his party credit for reforming the local government system of the state. If the movement for reform is wrecked, the people will have nobody but Hernly to thank for it. Both party platforms demanded it and such able Democrats as Hackney and McCullough freely gave their time and talents to the framing of the necessary measures. Had the thing been permitted to go along non-partisan lines there need have been no doubt about it becoming a law. But it jumped Hernly and made a beautiful mix of it. This should be a distinctly Republican measure and no Democratic votes were wanted. A Republican caucus must be called and make it a caucus measure. Well, the caucus was called in the house and it appointed a committee of seven which has never done anything. Hernly was going to take care of the house all right and delegated the management of the affair in the senate tc Harrv New. New was smart enough tc say at the outset that he wanted all the votes he could get. No senate caucus was called and as a result the bills are going through the senate all right. The first of the three came up in the house last week, after having passed the senate, and Reser of Lafayette, who is leading the consorts of the gang that rallied around the Hanly candidacy, led the fight upon it. When a vote was taken Hernly was unable to marshal more than 31 of his majority of 60 and the bill died ignominiously on committee report. An effort was made to revive it, but it could not be done without Democratic votes, and the only way Hernly can make good his promise to get the other two bills through is by getting on his knees to the Democratic minority. This may be a bit humiliating to him, but so long as he insists that this reform shall be a party measure, he canuot expect Democratic votes for it. I I I .Another mistake that has been made in this reform business was in the choice of Huff as its leader in the house. When a member has some great object of legislation in view it behooves him to keep quiet on nearly all other topics and devote himself to the one thing as much as possible. If his voice has been heard but little upon the floor, if he has been careful to cultivate a friendly feeling among the members, if h - has avoided antagonisms, even a weak man may have considerable infli-nce when it comes t > his own hobby. But Huff is a young man not particularly gifted with sense or anything else but awkward stature. He has talked and talked upon every conceivable subject until the house is tired to death of hearing his voice. His views, though of no particular importance, are expressed upon about every bill that comes up and he has denounced the measures of so many members that nearly all of them are quietly awaiting their opportunity of getting even, I I I Littleton is succeeding in making himself obnoxious to the Republicans, a# well as to ine Democrats in the house. The way he has of savagely sailing into members like a dispeptic schoolteacher with a lot of refractory kids is humiliating in the extreme, and though the Republicans take it meekly, it makes them sore none the less. A few days ago he came down upon poor Roots with both feet in a manner that should attract the attention of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He got a bit gay with Eichhorn the othei day and was taken down the line in a fashion calculated to make his head swim. Eichhorn moved to reconsider a vote and Littleton declined to entertain the motion, declaring that he had voted in the negative. “Who raised such a point of order?" asked Mr. Eichhorn. "Did not you vote in the negative?’’ asked Littleton “That is not a subject of inquiry foi the chair," replied Eichhorn, “until somebody raises the point of order from the floor. A T ho raised a point of order?’’ The members on both sides of the house enjoyed Littleton’s predicament and not a man opened his mouth to raise the point. The speaker was compelled to confess that none had been raised. “Then," said Eichhorn, “thechairhas no option but to put the motion,” and the motion was put. 11l The little governor did a very characteristic thing the other day. The house and senate passed a bill to provide better ventilation for the house, the work requiring something over <6OO. The governor kept it on his table several days and then announced that he had deposited it with the secretary of state without his approval. The bill thus becomes a law without his signature. Now, he did not want his name signed to this measure, because he feared jhat somebody might come along and charge that the work was unnecessary and that he had fallen from his proud pedestal as the only honest and economical public officer m Indiana. Therefore he made use jf this pusillanimous little subterfuge of letting it become a law, with the notion that he might later set up the claim that he had never approved it. Mount is not nearly so big nor so handsome as an ostrich, but he has one of ths

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most conspicuous habits of that bird of the desert—and it is not the habit of earing scrapiron, either. I I I The expected came last week when the Republicans of the house added six more clerks to the payroll. Kimbley, the clerk of the house, has no more notion of how to manage his work so a..' to get it done than would a small boy. He went into a combination with Littleton and the Lafayette gang to secure his election and accepted a lot of people on his force that had no intention of doing any work and little idea of how to do it. The natural result of this incompetence was the fact that the clerical work of the house got away behind. Instead < cleaning out the force and giving the places to men who conld do the work, the majority seized this state of affairs as an excuse for grabbing more spoils and passed a resolution putting on six more incompetents. I I I Much of the time of the houses is wasted by the gabble of the would-be leaders of the Republican side, Blankenship. Huff and Noel. This weakness and lack of leadership, which I had occasion to speak of three weeks ago, has grown worse instead of better as time has passed. Though the members of the house have Ijeen kept in their seats every Saturday and until nearly 6 o'clock on week days, it lias not accomplished nearly as much as the senate has done in mm h less time. If some way could be found of shutting off the eternal flow of talk from these three men, much more could be accomplished. 111 The thousands of poor people who will enjoy the benefits of the contributory negligence law have the Democratic minority in the house to thank for it. The fight for the bill was made under the leadership of Eichhorn and there were just enough Republicans, mostly from the agricultural counties, joining hands with them to pnll the measure through, in spite of the leaders and nearly all the members on the Republican side of the house. Whenever the corporations and large monied interests have any advantages to guard, the Republican majority may be depended upon to defend them to the last ditch. Ill; The long fight between the state and nonstate schools is about to result in a measure that will only aggravate the situation. With characteristic bravery the legislature will pass the Hogate bill, which simply transfers the fight from the legislature to the governor's office. This measure goes under the name of the Hogate bill, but it is really the bill prepared by Senator Goodwine. It leaves the presidents of the state schools on the state board of education and increases the membership of that body by three, to be appointed by the governor. Os course the non state colleges will want these three men chosen from among their presidents and the state people will object to this. I predict that the little fellow who sits down in the governor’s chair and thinks about what he will say to the farmers, will have a merry time among the educators. I I I The appropriation Lili will probably come into the house next week and a quiet tip has gone about that the padlock is to be knocked off the state treasury in great shape. The tax levy bill will come in at about the same time and there is to be no decrease in the heavy burdens that have been borne ever since the Republicans came into power in 1895. Their cry then was that they would increase the taxes just a little until a reasonable reduction had been made in the state debt and then things would be eased up again. Having made enough of a reduction of the debt for a record, it was supposed

that they would reduce the taxes to their old level. Not they. They now have control of the state institutions and the bars are to be thrown down for big appropriations and a period of good times at the expense of the state. Shideler, as chairman of the ways and means committee, will have cliarge of the bill in the house and there is some curiosity to know if he will follow the tactics of his predecessor, the celebrated B. Wilson Smith. Smith had a back seat in the house, but when the appropriation bill was brought in he got a table and chair up before the speaker's stand and began to conduct the business of the house. He was the whole thing and then some. Nicholson was made chairman of the committee of the whole, but there was no need of his services. Smith entertained motions and ran things with a high hand. One day, when a point of order was raised and Smith ruled upon it without giving Nicholson a chance to open his mouth, the latter came down from the speaker's stand in disgust and left the fate of legislation in Smith's hands. I I I The theft of law books by the members has begun somewhat earlier this year than usual, and the books furnished by the state for use during the session have already begun to disappear. As usual, the work has begun by a few members sneaking home the books on their desk with much secrecy. As the end of the session approaches they will grow bolder until finally, they will pile whatever else remains into the wastebasket, loaned each member by the state, and order a page to carry it to their hotel. The requisitions for stationary during the last two or three weeks of the session are usually appalling and many members supply themselves with enough paper and envelopes to last them the rest of their lives, to say nothing of jack-knives, pencils, pens, etc. The 2-eent fare bill has gone the way of the antitrust bills and all other legislation that might tramp on the toes of the big corporations that furnish the boodle for Republican campaign funds. It has been smothered in committee. It will rest peacefully in the pigeonhole until the end of the session. Walter Whitcomb. ■Tiles aud His Troubles. Once more has General Miles troubles of his own. Secretary- Alger has manipulated wires so that General Miles is to be court-martialed in the columns of the newspapers, at least. It is pretty certain, however, that Miles will not face any court-martial, simply because he has done nothing for which to lie court-martialed. No doubt Alger and his frends would like to humiliate General Miles ail they could, but it barely seems possible that they would be so defiant of public opinion as to subject General Miles to any indignities of which the people at large deem the head of the army completely undeserving. No one can have much doubt as to the popularity of the course pursued by General Miles. On the cars, in the hotel corridors, in business avenues, in social gatherings, and wherever men do congregate, the preponderance of opinion is that General Miles has been in the right in all the contest* he Mas waged. He has taken every stand which he deemed necessary for the promotion of the weal of the army, and for the sake of the soldier* he has dared to stand up and fight the most powerful and influential men in the land. There is no mistaking the purposes of General Miles. He had no axes to grind: no ambition to satisfy: no object to gain by his actions simply the interests of the army were the goal to which he aspired, and to

further these he did not hesitate to oppose even the dignitaries at \\ ashington. For his manly course he has won the plaudits ot the people who understand the many influences which have lieen playing against General Miles for years. Army cliques have opposed him: spiteful politicians have harassed him: critics have misrepresented him. but through all their attacks he has come out without a blemish and with honors, just as he did on the battle-fields of the Wilderness. Spottsylvania and Fredericksburg. Now. as a punishment for the beef embalming disclosures. General Mile* is to lie deprived of bis rank as commandant of the army. Hardly just does it seem to condemn a man for reiterating what he can prove, and what he is forced by consienee to voice out. Two hundred and sixty-six of our soldiers are said to have perished from Spanish bullets, the remainder from disease. True, it cannot be denied the climatic effects of Cuba worked much more havoc among our troops than Spanish artillery; hut knowing as we did that that would certainly happen, would it not lie justifiable for General Miles to complain of food in any way avoidably tainted ? He is confronted with the “charge” that he at once recommended canned beef for the army, but no notice is taken of the fact that it was recommended in connection with soldiers in northern parts. Here, indeed, not i even the ordinary process of preservation would be necessary, and our sold iers could enjoy their’ ‘'steaks” with the same relish as we our Chicago lieef. To fair minds there can hardly be a doubt that some extraordinary “doctoring" cured our Cuban beef, but whether it was mercury or arsenic matters but little, because either should never have been used. However. General Miles refuses to overlook this wrong to our people, and since the government refuses to listen to him. to whom will he complain but to the people? But no; it is distastefill to the authorities and it must cease. As a child is put to bed because he cries from a hurt. General Miles is to be degraded because he continues t a openly deplore the wronj s done to his brothers in arms. The officials at Washington may persist in their attempts to injure Miles, but if they do, President McKinley will find that it will lie the most woeful mistake of his administration. Albany Times-Union. By a senate committee report it is ascertained that twenty-four of Indies governors are dead, as follows: \V ilham Henry Harrison is buried at North Bend. Ohio; Thomas Posey. Scwaneetown, Ill.; Ratliff Boone, Louisiana, Mo.; James Ray Brown, bpnng Grove Cemetery. Cincinnati, Ohio; and Joseph A. Wright. New «ork. Nineteen are buried in Indiana, as follows: Jonathan Jennings, ( „ har t St >° Wn: J ames Whitcomb, Crown Hill. Indianapolis; Paris C. Dunning, Bloomington: Abraham Hammond, Crown Hill, Indianapolis: Henry S Lane. Crawfordsville; Oliver P. Mornfi'S'T' 11 Hi -n la £ iana P°lis; Conrad Baker, Evansville: Thomas A. Hendricks, Indianapolis; James D Williams, A incennes: Albert G. Porter Indianapolis: Alvin P. Hovev. Mt NcXn ; '' in^ mHen T dricks ' Madif *>"; Hs w n rOWU J 1 * 11 ' Jadianapohs. Datid M allace. Crown Hill. Indilsp Ft - Wa - vne ; R Slv Gt? ; eW In Mart U H1U ’ < l?. diana Polis- and Claude Matthews came in recent months. It has been determined to erect monu merits where none now appear.

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gANK STATEMENT. Report of the condition ot the DecatorSfr tional Bank at Decatur. in the *taie of IndS ana. at the close of business. Feb. 4,18 W, resources Loan? and discounts Overdrafts, secured and unsecured.. E. S. Bonds to secure circu ai u .7MWJ Due from approved reserve aweimDue from National bank' nut Keserve Agents).... Banking bouse, furniture and fixtures Other real estate and mortgages owned Current expenses and taxes paid 1. Premiums on U. 3. Bonds Checks and other cash items Internal Revenue Stamps Fractional paper currency. Dickies. and cents Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz; Specie ||4.74dfts , Legal-tender notes W • L3B# Redemption fund with I’. S Tretturer 5 percent of circulation Total LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in Surplus fund — 9 '_«r Undivided profits. National Bank notes outstanding g■ - Individ’! deposits subject to check au -• Demand certificates of deposit i Due toother National Banks ‘• QSS » Due to State Bank and Bankers Total State of Indiana. County of Adams. s-. I. C. A. Dugan, cashier of the show bank, do solemnly swear that theaters ■ . rnent is true to the best of my knowlWbelief. C. A, DrOA».Cj«»L Subscribed and sworn to before me to. day of February. 1899. „ „ Clark J. Lutz. Notary Correct-attest. .1. H. Hobrock. I Daniel Si-kaxg. • Directs. E. X. Ehingei ’ Notice of final settlement 1 - 1 ’ ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to the er ’ heirs and legatees of Henry hch..l, court, ceas d. toappearin the Adamscin^i 3 heidat Jiecatur. Indiana. en l, .bytk March, 1899, and show 'ause. it «oy- - [e t> < final settlement accounts with w-’j mi said decedent should not le s ? p , h . re n>u e said heir are notified to then proof of heirship, and receive their | tire shares. r rxHtßt. O" 1 - John H. Lesh.ooDecatur. Ind.. Feb. 15.1899 Lutz & Snow. Attorney. TO NON-RESIDENTS. The state of Indiana, county ot Adan”- . A nril ten* In the Adams circuit court, ap 1899. Mattie Young VS. v \Mj4Joseph Durbin, „ Ji.'ont toQ aicl Ellen Durbin. Comply* William Durbin. Lawrence Durbin. I Charles Durbin. J , n ihe It appearing from 4 ® liavl l \ f eph Du* above entitled cause, that Jo«P !s<r eo« Eller: Durbin. William Durbw- tM Durbin and Charles Durbin. of tW named defendants are non-ree State of Indiana. u tbc ia “ Notice is therefore hereby Joseph Durbin. E len Durb.n. Du rbio : 'L Lawrence Durbin afd Charl - tiny be and appear before the tM ten the Adams cir.uit court on g t day of April. 1899. the me A pril first juridical day of the ,‘J'S thereof, to be bolden house in the city of'Decatur..co A p ■ Monday, the 10th dav of M ,d and plead by “"c® ®. r A > nd d plaint, or the same will oe mined in their absence. Witness, my name and j-c.-pijniat. l, hereto affixed this 15th day o John H 49-3 ByE. Bt RT L®> B '" Ed Coffee. Attorney for F* |B 1 '