Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINOHAM, Publisher. f 1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. MAY IS. In the matter of army white wash, the present administration is well supplied. It is now stated that General Gros venor the Ohio statesman, will trim his political sails and try to succeed Reed as speaker in the lower house of congress. Senator Fairbanks will goto Alaska next month, he being one of an appointed commission to investigate and report upon a boundary dispute between the United States and Great Britain. The subject of gravel roads is receiving some attention in Union township. with other parts of the county yet to hear from. The building of good substantial macadamized roads is a matter of vital importance. Suppose now. that you had fifty millions of dollrs that you desired to place where that vast amount of money would do the greatest good to society, where would you begin and how would you go about it? South Bend Times. An iron and steel combination is among the late combines, which absorbs thirty-six corporations. Tribute to trusts is becoming a very alarming reality, but still some republicans are bold enough to say that trusts are a good thing.

Col. W. T. Durbin of Anderson, has formerly and publicly announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for governor. Col. Durbin is quite well known to the politicians here, and at the last republican congressional convention held in this city originated the resolution thanking the democrats of Decatur and Adams county for their assistance in aiding the republicans on that memorable occasion.

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Chicago is claiming two million people. New York just got hitched onto Brooklyn in time to dodge second place. County and township councils have been named in our surrounding counties and we may expect them here at any time. Judge Heller has been giving the matter considerable attention, and will no doubt announce them at an early date. The many substantial and modern improvements that are maturing in this city are only the more assuring of the advantages of Decatur. As a business center we have few equals and as a supporter of good public and business buildings and handsome palatial homes, we have fewer equals. The meeting of the democratic national committee that was to have been held this month, proves to have been a misapprehension of facts. They have no meeting until some time next winter, at which time the i place of holding the next national eoni vention will be considered and announced. The body of Miss Florence Taggart has been identified by her father, and the same has been removed to Indianapolis for interment. Her body was found on Chandeleur island, and there buried some time ago. The I finding of the body will be a comfort |to the grief stricken parents, whose ; cup of sorrow has been overflowing since the announcement of the destruction of the Paul Jones. The sympathies of the entire state are again centered upon Mr. and Mrs. Taggart. The death of Henrv Winnes re moves from life one of the oldest and best citizens of this city. The announcement of his death late Mon lay afternoon was a shock to the community and created unbounded sorrow in' the hearts of every one. He was an old land mark here, both as a .citizen and business man, being en- ' gaged in the retail boot and shoe ■ trade for many years. He was a true I and patriotic' citizen what greater i tribute can be paid to man. No pub- ■ lie enterprise of merit met his disapi proval and whatever was of interest to the public was also of interest to him personally. In all he was a good citizen and occupied a place in the estimation and hearts of our people that can not easily be filled by another. He was a devoted member of the Masonic and Odd Fellows secret fraI ternitv.

To the Public.— After envoicing we find that we have ....300 Coats and Vests.... i of broken lots, which we will sell at a SACRIFICE. These goods are all first-class stock, but must go at any price. Call in and see them. Yours respectfully, Pete Holthouse & Co. jmi . ----- - W - ■

The sudden death of Ex-Governor Flower of New York, removes from the business and political world one of its most prominent characters. For years he has been one of the powers of Wall street, at the time of death being worth many million dollars, the fruits of a successful career in speculation. His funeral was held Monday. |

Mrs. George whoeseaped conviction for the killing the brother of Mrs.) McKinley, delivered her first lecture I at Stevbenville, Ohio. Fourteen peo- , pie paid to hear her. , lx a speech of much force Senator Hoar declared at Boston last Saturday that congress must take up the \ matter of suppressing the encroachments of trusts. He complimented Massachusetts on having done all that a state can do byway of curbing the rapacity of industrial combinations, and said it devolves on congress to do what the states as such cannot accomplish bv legislative enactment. In dealing with trusts, the distinguished senator said, care must be taken to permit the socialistic idea to be incorporated into any legislation that may finally be agreed upon by the law making power of the nation. He says this question calls for the application of the wisest statesmanship that the nation can command. South Bend Times. If the idea of a popular subscription to buy a Washington home ! for Admiral Dewey is as well received | all over the country as it has been in Washington, enough money is likely to be subscribed to buy him a whole J town instead of a single house. Dewey ! has notified the navy department that he will leave Manila in a few days, and will get to the United States in about four months, which indicates his intention to make the homeward voyage in a very leisurely mariner, as , th- trip could easily be made inside of 1 two months. His friends say that the Admiral wishes to give himself a chance to get good and strong and the cool weather of fall to arrive before he tackles the ovations which be ! knows awaits him in this country. Dewey is a long-headed chap. The voting machine is being introduced in Indiana. It was tiied lately

at Irvington, and the Indianapolis New says: “The practicability of a machine is no longer a question. It is a certainty and it is a mere question j of time when its use will be universal, and it will be no long time either, j People will look back to the days of hand voting, as it may come to be called, when separate bits of paper were deposited and these were separately counted, as a device as obsolete and inadequate as one now would look at the hand-counting of newspapers ’ from a press. The voting machine will become as necessary as the per-

fecting press or the adding machine iin counting houses. The Irvington I trial resulted perfectly except so far as the element of speed, which did not enter in. This has, however, been tried in other machine voting, and. as in every other phase, machine voting has demonstrated its superiority over hand voting or ballot ’ voting. The machine adds the votes as they are made, and when the polls are closed all that is necessary to know the result is to open the machine and read off the figures. This was done at Irvington, and the result announced in nine minutes after the polls closed. It has been shown by every experiment in machine voting that there is greater speed, greater certainty and fewer opport unities for losing a vote. There is, of course, no opportunity to manipulate the vote or to “stuff the ballot box,” as the saying is. either by rascally voters or rascally officials. As far as appears machine voting is fully correct, is absolutely accurate. It is only a question of time when it will S1 oe universal, and Indiana should be 2 • progressive enough toloe one of the “ i first states to make it general.”

Republicans on Finance. It is very evident that the republican caucus committee bas acted in conformity with the desires of President McKinley in formulating a currency bill, and that the whole power of the government will be used in putting it through congress. The recommendations of the president to the last congress on this subject are summarized as follows: 1. A provision that will make the so-called endless chain, caused by the redemption of greenbacks with gold and consequent runs upon the treasury reserve, impossible. 2. That national banks be permitted to issue circulation up to the par value of the bonds deposited to secure that circulation, instead of only 90 per cent., as at present. 3. A reduction of the tax on national bank circulation, the present tax toeing 1 per cent. 4. That national banks with a

capital of only 525.000 lie authorized to be established in small towns, the minimum now being $50,000. These were accompanied by declarations that the gold standard would be maintained, and their similarity to the proposals of the new bill will be seen from the following telegraphic statement of its contents: Specific provision for the maintenance of the gold standard is made in the bill drafted by the Atlantic City currency committee for submission to the next congress. * * * Other than this single- standard provision, the essential features of the bill are confined to these three main principles. The protection of the gold reserve by placing returned greenbacks in a separate fund and paying them out only for gold. The issue of national bank currency to the face of the bond deposit. The organization in small cities of national banks with a capital of $25,000 instead of $50,000, as at present.

It will be noted that the only differences named are the provision for the maintenance of the gold standard and the reduction of the national bank tax, and there is little room for doubt that there is any real difference as to these. When the bill is brought in it will probably be found to provide for the reduction of the bank tax, and the provision for the “maintenance of the gold standard” will be a declaration that all obligations of the United States are payable in gold coin. The whole object of this is to make the national bonds payable in gold by mere declaration, although the pur chasers only four years ago offered a premium of 25 per" cent, to secure this stipulation, and it was refused. The declaration will be equivelent to a donation of one-fourth the value of all outstanding bonds to their holders amounting to over $200,000,000. The reduction of the bank tax has been the great object of the bankers in the “currency reform” movement from the first, and it has been urged by the “banking on assets” theorists that it was necessary to give some favors to the banks to induce them to assume the burden of maintaining a gold standard paper currency. All of the elaborate scheme of thelnidanapolis convention doctrinaires is thrown overlioard. As the dispatches state. “This bill will not meet the wishes of ail of the advocates of currency reform of course, but it is comparatively so conservative that is expected to con-

solidate the republican strength in its support.'’ In other words, it is strictly political currency reform. Its effect will of course, be to grant the banks all the privileges offered them by the Hanna commission and relieve them of all the burdens proposed bv that commission. The banks will have their bonds made payable in gold; they will be authorized to issue notes to the face value of their bonds: they will have a reduced tax on circulation: and the organization of small banks will be authorized. In return for this the banks will be asked to do nothing but remember their friends. And this is a political proposition that will appeal forcibly to the republican statesmen in congress, who. like Mr. McKinley, want the decks cleared for the campaign of 1900. The primary essential of McKinley and Hanna polities is to get the people with money solid, and trust to their aid to get their votes. And their plan will be adopted by congress. In the progress of the imperial system the president has become the whole thing, and congress is merely a mouthpiece through which his will is spoken. This applies to all questions which the administration considers of importance. As to minor and immaterial matters republican senators and representatives are permitted to exeecise their discretion, but on all important questions the president is the boss, and deliberation is all over when he and his advisors get through. Sentinel.

The Pittsburg Post says of trusts: •‘Distil a gallon of ilicit whisky omit a stamp from a beer barrel send an abusive or vulgar letter through the mails, or smuggle a few yards of lace —and the whole power of the federal government is invoked. Courts, prosecutors and jurers are on the alert, backed by the whole executive power. But to these criminal combinations to tyranize over trade to plunder the people to defy the law as to these, anti-trust lawscall for their enforcement. and the attorney general, whose duty it is to prosecute the criminal conspiracies under such laws, jumps into the arena as the defender ami champion of trusts. The president of the United States can marshal armies and move fleets ten thousand miles away— he can declare war he can kill, burn and destroy but when invoked to turn the machinery of the law against the pirates who are making war on the business and industries of the country who are pauperizing trade and oppressing labor and the president and the attorney general weaken at once and declare the lawless conspiracies immune. ”h'; They elected and own McKinley. He recognizes past favors and is on the lookout for past services. It is an open question whether these trusts are not more powerful than the American people. The chances are that they are backed the administration and its agents.’ The mushroom season is now on. The spongy appearing spring mushrooms are to be had a short time each year about the first of May. they are regarded as a great table delicacv bv most people and are hunted with almost the same pleasure that a sportsman would hunt wild game. Until within the last few days the woods have been too dry for the plan , but the recent rains have sp ro, ‘ w '_ them and they are now being har vested. A number of the \V. C. T. I ■ n 11 ’ I ’ l bers of this city have been attending convention at Geneva this week, r turning home yesterday.