Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELUNGHAM, Publisher. fl.oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, OCT. 19. Perhaps this “swinging around the circle” by McKinley will have somewhat the same result of the famous trip of Andy Johnson in 1868. Mayor Taggart is being mentioned for chairman of the democratic national committee, and such a condition of things would be most gratifying indeed. The Dejiocrat and Sentinel one year one dollar. While this offer has been taken advantage of by hundreds of new readers, yet there is room for more. Have your name written there. Editor Morss of the Indianapolis Sentinel, has already announced his intention of seeking the honor of being a delegate at large to the next democratic national convention. There is nothing like being in on the ground floor. Mark Hanna has taken the stump again. At Ashtabula, the other day he brought his unintellectual geniis into motion bv saying: ‘ If we reduce our majority in Ohio this year that will be bad: if we lose the state, as the Dutchman said, that will be h —l.” The Boers of South Africa have committed an act of war by invading British territory. But it must not be forgotton that this very condition was forced by the cold-blooded conduct of the latter, who have relentlessly sought to bring it about that they might have an excuse to annex the coveted territory. May the god of 1 battles be with justice. Is view of all the circumstances connected with the recent municipal contest in Indianapolis, the re-election of ; Thomas Taggart, to a third term, is indeed remarkable. It shows what a strong hold Mr. Taggart has on the masses, what a superb campaigner he can be when the situation is critical, and what a wonderful capacity for hard work he can develop on occasion. It is a hard won battle: under the circumstances it stands out in bold relief as one of the most remarkable personal victories ever won in Indiana. — ■ South Bend Times.

I SEE MOUGEY'S SALE I E ...OF FINE... 3 I Boots, Shoes I and Rubbers.. I £ We still continue to give our customers an op- 3 £ portunity to purchase >hoes of the highest pos- £ sible quality at prices lower than goods of 3 £ equal value have ever been sold. Our values 3 £ have become 3 B Town Taik 3 £ and no wonder either. Come here and look at 3 £ the goods. You will admit their worth and 3 £ smallness of cash. 3 H Don't Buv You Winter Shoes 3 £ Until you have seen the largest values in the 3 £ city; and you will find them here. 3 h Men's Heavy Russ Calf, double sole, black or 3 £ tan, 51.90. h £ Men’s Calf lined, latest toe, 51.90. 3 £ Men’s Calf, London toe, 51.50. 3 L Men's heavy work shoes, ,s'l, 51.35, 5'1.50. 3 h Ladies Dongola Well. 32.00. 3 £ Ladies Fine Dongola Dress shoe, 51.75. 3 L Ladies Kangaroo Calf, 51.75. a £ Ladies Kangaroo Calf, Si.so. 3 3 Children’s shoes, all sizes, at Extremely d 3 LOW Prices. These are only a few of the 3 L values we have. Come in and see for yourself 3 L and be convinced. 3 I JOHN H. MOUGEY m'xlel llul ii 111111 mill 1111111111111111

The federal officeholders in Indiana I | are being asked to bow to their political chief, Marcus Hanna, and hand j over their contributions the same to be used in corrupting the freedom of; the ballot and thus perchance save the ! 'administration from the humiliation i of defeat in the president's own state. Drastic measures are always used when a case is hopeless. It seems that the sage of Wolfort's Roost received his quietus from Croker in that New York convention. The New York democrats are determined ; to stand by the party with Bryan the! candidate. Anyone who stands in the wav of party harmony will be sacrificed. If not willing to abide by the majority rule a man is not a good ; i democrat and should be read out of' the party. President McKinley is traveling • over the country doing the very thing for which republican party organs and leaders have been abusing Col. Bryan making speeches for political effect. How much more undignified for the president of this great nation to take part in local campaigns than for a private citizen! Os course, this is an extreme case, in which the adminis-1 tration dies hard. Nails that were purchased one year! ago at a profit to the manufacturer at •51.50 per keg. are now selling to the] hardware dealers at S 3. This is 51.50 in excess of last year’s profits on every , 100 lbs of nails. ’ and the consumer pays the bill, because the hareware dealers are selling on less margin than of former years. The trust is pocket ! ing fully 100 per cent profit in excess ; of the formerprofits. Muncie Herald. The Hon. William H. Harkins of Portland, is an aspirant to the posi-' tion of chairman of the democratic I central committee. The Times is per-1 fectly willing that he should have an I opportunity to show his skill and j prowess as a campaign manager, and ; in the event of his selection for the chairmanship will wish that he may be . more successful in his efforts to lead j the democracy of Indiana to victory | than was his immediate predecessor. —South Bend Times. The republican newspapers who 1 have been looking at a mole hill and • seeing a mountain in the returns of ‘ the Indianapolis election, are not | much in accord with the Hon. William ■, Cumback of Greensburg, who in com- 1 menting upon it. says: "It will prob- : ably have an effect on the next repub- 1 lican nominee for governor. The country press and the people out in I; the state seem to feel that Indianapo ‘ lis republicans are not entitled to the 1 candidate for governor if they can’t * carrv their own city.”

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The most significant incident connected with the Dewey celebration in Washington was the spontaneous ovation given to the hero of Santiago, Rear Admiral Schley. It was only by the combined efforts of the police and milita that the people were restrained from unhitching the horses and drawing his carriage by hand. It demonstrates that the hearts of the American people resent the mean and contemptible treatment by which Sampson and Long have sought to rob Schley of the fruits of his grand victory at Santiago. And yet the president has permitted this scandalous and disgraceful action by one of his advisors.

How rapidly the opinionsof the people change says the Plymouth Democrat. Everybody remembers what a hue and cry Grover Cleveland during his first term as president stirred up among the truly loyal republicans all over the country by a suggestion that certain flags captured from the rebels during the war, be returned to the organizations from which they were taken. He was called a reliel. traitor, copperhead, disloyal, and all the mean things in the vocabulary of meanness, and so great was opposition to it that he finally withdrew the order. Now comes the republican legislature a few years later and passes a joint resolution authorizing the return of the flags captured by an Indiana regiment from Terry’s Texas Rangers. Last week Governor Mount and his entire staff proceeded to Dallas. Texas, where on Thursday, amidst great pomp and ceremony, the former hated flag was turned over to the remaining members lof the noted organization. Governor Mount made a timely address, which I was responded to by Governor Sayres |of Texas, and thus ended a ceremony which ten years ago would have been considered high treason. The only objector we have heard of so far is our own beloved Capt. Jim Dodge, of Elkhart. republican candidate for governor. He doesn’t yet seem to have learned that the war is over.

An ordinance is published elsewhere which goes into full force and effect the first of November this year, and which provides for an annual license fee, the same to be paid to the city of Decatur, by corporations or persons using the streets, alleys and other public places for the purpose of laying, constructing or maintaining gas mains, lines and pipes for the supplying of natural gas for illuminating and other purposes. The license fee so charged is -S2OO a mile, the same to lie paid quarterly to the city treasurer. The Logansport & Wabash Valley Gas Company own about fifteen miles of such gas mains and the revenue derived will amount to about 53,000 annually. The cause of this somewhat extraordinary ordinance comes from the refusal of the gas company to supply the city waterworks and electric lighting station with gas, assigning as a reason an insufficient supply. For some time previous to their notifying the citv of their shortage of gas, the company had been using their efforts to get an increase in the rate or price charged the city, which had been 545 a month for all the city used. The councilmanic committee having same in charge took the position that inasmuch as the gas company had I paid nothing for the franchise further , than what they paid in taxation, that ' the city was entitled to cheaper gas, i and now to even up matters this or-; dinance hds been brought to life. It 1 is thought by many that perhaps it will bring about a compromise that! will be satisfactory to both the city and gas company

The trusts are a good thing, so say the republican party orators, needing perhaps only a little regulation. In the last few’weeks the retail price of canned goods have advanced from ten to fifteen per cent., glass jars fifty to sixty per cent., nails ninety-seven per cent., wire goods sixtv per cent., brass ware one hundred per cent., carpet tacks forty per cent., tumblers thirty per cent., window glass 150 per cent., shoes twenty-five to fifty per cent., lamps ten per cent., lamp chimneys ten per cent., and so on down the line. At this rate a little regulation would not come amiss, but better still, annihilate them.

The Bell telephone monopoly are handsome liars. For several years they have owned an exchange at Union City where they charged large juicy fees with an extra dose for holding their lines longer than three minutes at one clip. An independent exchange is now being put in there and as argument against their new competitors the Bell agents tell dried herron fish tales about the weakness of the independent brethren, quoting Decatur as a sample copy of “how we killed the bar.” They have the impudence and real genuine nerve to tell the people at Union City that the Bell came into Decatur through a local organization and in less than a few months had practically control of all the telephone business and the independent company were about ready to nail a prospenty emblem upon the front door and quit business. Some of the prime movers of the Decatur Telephone Company will certainly swell up when they learn what an important factor their Bell company is becoming to be. It is news here, however, and simply demonstrates that the Bell have many tactics and they do not fail to enforce them when it is to the interest of the Bell. When it comes down to business, however, the Citizens Telephone Company can offer you more for your money than can the Bell. In local exchange business the field is entirely covered, and it is safe to sav they will hold it no

matter how much competition is turned loose or how many Bell lines are introduced. No business house i for the loss of one customer can afford to throw out a Citizens’ ’phone and put in its stead another. In toll line business the Citizens’ Company reaches more connecting towns and cities and their charges are less than those enjoyed by patrons of the Bell. So taking it all in all the independent telephone companies have but little to fear. There is but one suggestion we might offer to the Citizens Telephone Company, and that would be to reduce the price of office and residence ’phones. We realize that this could not be done in face of threatened competition which is backed by the Bell, but when the storm is past and it is evident that peace is at hand, we believe it would be a righteous and just act, and would show their patrons, their friends and neighbors that the almighty dollar is not all there is in life. This would perhaps take away all the profits ot the local exchange, but what of that. The reduction would place many telephones in the residence portion of our city, and that would increase the value thereof to the business man and ! the merchant, and the popularity of i the Citizens company would grow in proportion. This is only a suggestion, i but the Democrat heartily favors it, ' and if it ever becomes evident that tele--1 phone competition is dead, we will . take up the < ause of cheaper tele- ■ phones for residences and second floor ' offices, and pursue it, uptil it becomes an accomplished fact.

THE BRUTISH MOTHER. It was to be expected that there would be more or less slush produced by Anglo-maniacs in this country in connection with the boer war, but nobody anticipated such sloppy slush as that offered by Senator Kyle. This imperialist volunteers the information that Great Britain has “guided” the South Africa republic and “acted as a mother.” If like any mother, Great Britain has acted like a “Lady Macbeth” mother, who had sworn to take evervthing the boers possessed and proposed to keep her oath. The boers were practically driven into the wilderness from Cape Colony, to begin with, by this British mother. They packed up their goods, yoked their ox teams and went back into the lands of the savages to win new homes where they could be independent of British rule and preserve the customs that they loved. They were followed to their new homes and British rule was asserted over them again. Once more they gathered their movables, left their farms and pushed on into the wilderness. Again they established their homesand organized their government beyond the Vaal river, where Great Britain had no claim. But in this new home they came in conflict with the powerful Zulu tribe and were sorely pressed by the savages. Then this tender British mother again took advantage of their misfortunes, and under pretence of protecting them from the natives, asserted her soverignty over the Transvaal. Later on the diamond mines of Kimberly were discovered, and the good British mother intervened to create a native state, under British protection, which included the diamond mines. Some fifteen years ago the boers were driven to desperation by the British mother’s tender offices and went to arms. They whipped the British troops in handsome style, not only at Majuba hill, but also at every other place where they fought, and under this kind of persuation the British mother was glad to make peace and confine her claims to a veto power on treaties with foreign nations, | leaving the beers to regulate their own 1 domestic affairs. Under this arrangei ment there was for some time no I trouble, because the boers had very | little interest in foreign affairs. All they asked was to be let alone. Then came the gold discoveries and British Greed was awakened once more. British capitalists secured the mines and British laborers were imported to work them. There grew up a British settlement which was supposed to be strong enough to overcome the Dutch settlers and seize the land. There was no hesitancy about it. The attempt was made, and every step of the proceeding and following the events shows that the British foreign office was in close sympathy with the Jameson raiders, the British mother 1 was foiled in that attempt to rob her child, but she took up the cause of the raiders and has pressed it in such away as to make her intentions plain. Then the boers again determined on war, and the British mother relaxed her claims somewhat and said she wanted to negotiate. But while talking in this way she continued to send 1 troops and munitions of war to South 1 Africa from every direction. The I boers were not to be deceived again. ! They sent their ultimatum—stop ; sending troops or fight. And the I British mother replies that such a proposition cannot even be discussed, i Whereupon she gets the she must fight or get out of South I Africa, and present indications seems i to be fight.—Sentinel.

The Democrat stands corrected by the South Bend Times. In our eulogy of the Indianapolis press who favored Taggart we unintentionallv omitted the German Telegraph, and recognizing the effective service of this very able newspaper, we hasten to acknowledge the correction. The elections this fall are already beginning to incite more or less interest, owing to the effect they may have upon the national contest next year. The following states will this vear hold elections: lowa will choose a governor, lieutenant governor, judge of the supreme court, superintendent of instruction, and railroad commissioner: also members of the legislature. Kentucky will elect governor and seven other state officers, and legislature. Maryland will elect governor, attorney-general, comptroller and legislature. and vote upon a proposed amendment to the constitution of the state. Masssachusetts will elect governor. five other state officers and legislature. Mississippi will elect governor. nine other state officers and legislature. Nebraska will elect judge of the supreme court and two regents of the state university. New Jersey will elect part of its legislature. New York will elect members of the assembly and vote upon four proposed amendments to the constitution of the state. Ohio will elect governor, six other state officers and legislature. Pennsylvania will elect state treasurer and justice of the supreme court. South Dakota will elect chief justice and two associate justices. irgima will elect a legislature. Lewis C. Corbin is displaying his skill and excellent workmanship in good style at the court house and the interior is fast becoming a scene of beauty. The Royal Arch Masons were busy last Thursday evening conducting Brothers Milton Byers and Milliard Suttles through the mysteries of the final degree of that order. A good time and an oyster supper at Martin restaurant followed the initiation and was enjoyed by all. Theodore Lengerick and Miss Josephine Bentz were married at the St. Mary’s Catholic church at eight o'clock Tuesday morning. Father Wilkins officiating. Mr. Lengerick is a well known voting man of this county and has many friends here. Mis* Bentz is a Fort Wayne lady also wet known here. They will reside on the Alphonse Kohne farm near this ci.yWe extend congratulations and be? wishes. Porter J. White’s description of hell: A whirling and rumbling of hideous noises, the flashing of lightning, am the strong roaring peals of thunde , the sight of some poor unfortuna struggling against the demons of he incarnate: behold the demonhke torn that belch forth the curses of dam nation. Faust "My good Da-tor. look; see: all this you shall feel, am more; you shall know what it is mock the pure and innocent: to go thy soul into my keeping. L ‘ whom all the universe fear and tn ble. O! for tne soul of one wise i < to show on judgment day— thong I gather fools, and my work 18 n ‘‘ done; with this night ? ro '' s , llar '',1the demons gather in midnight re ‘ ry and curse the immaculate apR the Virgin Mary; and is his. ° from the throne of torment, comes a lull, and all roars forth i wreathing mass of fire with enc ing hideouiness. and the curtain - to hide from view the remorse o lost souls.