Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 9 November 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT .RVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Q. ELLINUHAM. Publisher. JI.OO PF.R YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 9. Three weeks from today is Thanksgiving we already are grateful that it is not today. Hanna says that “we will take care of the trusts,” and no one for a minute will doubt it. The Anderson Democrat came up smiling last week with a four paged advertisement, which looked well and was as nice as it looked. Decatur merchants please copy. The Hon. B. F. Shively of South Bend, is again being spoken of as a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor. He was the party nominee four years ago. We are pleased to again call your attention to an interesting contribution to our news columns by Miss Hattie Studabaker. This time she portrays very graphic descriptions of the cities of Greece. Hurrah for dear old Maryland. Back again to her first love of democracy, whv it actually makes us smile. Step right in and help yourself to the huckleberry pie. Winerwurst is not good enough for you. Jones, this man Toledo Jones, perhaps you may have heard of him before. He ran a race, but that is all. It is stronglv hinted that he ran faster in Indiana than he did in the house of his friends in Ohio. Hon. W. H. Eichhorn of Bluffton, last Saturday attended a meeting of the board of control of the Jeffersonville reformatory, and reports that institution as being managed in s he interests of prison reform and with economy. In dispatches this morning from Kentuckey both parties are claiming the election. The slow returns from the mountain districts perhaps is the cause for the long time taken to get actual figures. We are under the impression, however, that the republican ticket is elected by a safe plurality.

In our Thanksgiving issue of November 30. the Democrat will begin the publication of a very popular and interesting serial story entitled “In His Steps.” It is something entirely different from the usual type of stories and we believe it will be the most popular. It is written by one of the best known authors of the day. The Bluffton Banner is this week moving into a new and commodious home which has been especially arranged for their convenience and comfort and which contains all the necessary adjuncts of a modern newspaper office. The Banner is to be congratulated, both for its manifested spirit of progress and for the nerve of displaying it in a little town like Bluffton.

I Are You Supplied With Woolen Underwear? | H . ft If not, you should see our line of STALEY'S UNDERWEAR. This is known throughout the United yft; States as being the best and most durable underwear made. Despite the advance in price on all Woolen and TO ©3 Cotton goods we are still selling at the Same Low Prices. I — I J We have them in all Styles and grades . . . H nMn The Flat Goods at .00, $1.50 and $2 00 per ii garment. AS 8 /I ’ The Ribbed Goods at si.oo, $1.25 and $1.75 1 \ P er garment. IV I I p lhe Best [Cotton, Fleece Lined, Underwear I goes at 50 cents. lllk WIbIPMO I If i I ™ / Boys’Union Suits at 50c per suit. W F / EVERr 8 r .' 8 “lk T . HIS 1/5 pieces of Underwear to close at 25 cents. I I ———— ft Give us a few moments of your time and be convinced that we 1 are S ivin S y° u better goods for your money than you can get elsewhere. Yours Respectfully, | PETE HOLTHOUSE & CO. | M Cor. Second & Monroe Sts. DECATUR IND M

RESULTS OPTHE ELECTIONS] 5 O 364 Nebraska upholds Bryan i plurality ) 1 OOQ I 1 Ohio goes Republican .. 50,364 Ne w York against Democrats « ) 75 ’ “1 Kentucky stays Republican (S'”R » 6O ’ 000 Pennsylvania strongly Republican (£S; a ) 140,000 I lowa re-elects Shaw (SIX' > 60,000 s* th Dakota for expansion (X S» 8 ’ I Democrats regain Maryland (XX d) 15,000 Renublican I e ’ t,m *‘ ed Y ie’Jb Massachusetts firmly Republican (». .62,000 New Jersey remain = 15,000 1 Virginia sturdily Democratic «) 50,000 Miss.ssippx Democratic as usual ).... 30,000 I TOTAL ESTIMATED VOTE POLLED IN THE SEVERAL STATES. I Rep. Dem. Bep. Dem - Kep ' I .Ohio 335,364 285.000 Nebraska 97,500 112,500 Kentucky 180,000 170,000 I lowa 217,500 157,500 New York ... 500,000 470,000 South Dakota 34,00 0 26,000 I Maryland 105,000 120,000 P(inn< , v i vall ia ...470,000 380,000 Virginia 10,000 60,000 I Massachusetts 164,000 102,000 Mississinni 10 000 ar n ■ TJ New Jersey ..150,000 135,000 Mississippi 10,00 0 45,000 I Estimated vote Jones, Ind. 75,000 _ . H

THE ELECTIONS. The elections Tuesdaycontainmuch that the democratic party may feel encouraged over, and nothing that teems of'Jdisparagement. While the administration newspapers may try to bolster up a lost cause by making the false claim of indorsement of the president’s war, his foreign policy and his party’s favoritism of the trusts, yet the people will not be carried away with such light handed praise. Taking the results in Ohio, the president’s ; own state and where contributions from all over the country were solicited, their plurality is over 2,000 less than it was in 1896. When you take into consideration that this is the president’s own state and that the machinery at Washington are at work laying the wires for his renomination, little else could be expected from Ohio. Then the candidacy of Jones, drew more heavily from the democrats than from the re-, publicans, and this tended to enlarge ] the republican plurality. This was caused by the unpopularity of Me- , Lean, the democratic candidate for governor. The result in Ohio shows nothing from which the administration can draw encouraging ( signs, and does not indicate how . the wind will blow next year. In ' Kentucky, the result is somewhat de- ‘ plorable, but it signifies nothing. ‘ There the democrats chose to nominate , two tickets for state officers, and the i usual result followed —both were de-: feaied. Taylor, the republican can-! didate for governor, has a plurality of ’ 15,000. The democrats will now quite ( likely bury their differences and get' j together, and if they succeed, next i year Kentucky will give Bryan ai ! plurality of 30,000. While the repub- [ lican majority in Massachusetts is I plenty large enough, yet as a whole itl shows a falling off of 18,000 over 1896. In Nebraska Bryan won another notable victory, carrying the state by 15.000 to 20.000. Nebraska normally

gives a republican plurality of 25,000. In 1896 Bryan carried the state by 13,000, increasing the plurality this year over 2,000. thus showing that he is growing in popularity and strength. In that state the issues were clearly defined being national, and the result shows that the people there are not sending out their indorsement of a McKinley policy. Maryland, which state is right under the president’s nose, redeems herself by giving the democratic ticket a majority of 15.000. This can be considered a rebuke,owing to the state's intimate connection with the national capitol, and her recent l past history in giving republican pluralities. In all, the democrats may feel encouraged and hopeful. Next year, with Bryan as a candidate, and with a president and congress to elect enthusiasm will run high and victory ' will crown the efforts of the people; and the democratic party. Get ready for 1900. Considerable opposition by the tax , payers of Logansport has arisen over the proposal to purchase the independent telephone system there. Among the objections, says the South Bend Times, is “that rates could not be maintained without loss; that the telephone system would in the course of time prove a source of expense instead of profit, that the management would necessarily be under partisan control, which is very objectionable, and that it would involve the maintainance of two telephones, which is now generally considered an annoyance rather than an advantage.” As yet we have heard nothing from the Citizens Telephone company relative to a reduction of office and residence telephones. We admit that the proposition is worthy of time for reason and debate, as a reduction in price is an important subject for any businesscompany todissect. Wearewilling for the proper allowance of time, but insist that it is a matter of grave importance and one that the company must grant or refuse within a short time. The people have decided that a reduction is due them and will dei mand it if the Citizen’s directors do s not gracefully take the initative.

President McKinleys Thankgii- ■ ing proclamation reads more like one of his republican speeches delivered 'from the hind end of his special car ‘ while swinging around the circle re- . cently, than an invitation to the people to return thanks to Almighty God for whatever blessings they are supposed to enjoy.—Plymouth Democrat. The milk trust must seem a cheerful thing to the farmer. It has advanced its prices to the consumers in eastern cities four times in the last month. < The latest raise will increase its in- ! come about 81,500 a day. There is no record of its having raised the prices to the individual farmer, from I whom it buys milk. But then neither the farmer nor the consumer belongs to the trust. Why should they ex- ; pect to share in this kind of prosperity ? ___________ The country is asked to believe that all these vast proposed expenditures are "to develop American commerce. It really means nothing short of imperialism and {criminal aggression. The heavy war taxes now imposed are not to be remitted nor lessened. On the contrary, they are liable to be increased, or else the expenses to be incurred are to be met by further bond issues. Congress will be asked to create a department of the colonies and the country will be invited to look at a spectacle of American ruling over millions of subjects who are never to be citizen?, over colonies which are never to be states and at courts and laws and administrations entirely outside of the constitution. ; The administration program of lavish expenditure is apt, however, ‘ to receive a setback in congress. The indications are strong that enough republicans will be found in opposition to McKinley to create an adverse majority in the senate. Hale of Maine, Hoar of Massachusetts, Wellington of Maryland, Mason of Illinois, and Pembrose of Pennsylvania are reckoned in certain opposition, with several others more than hike warm in their position. In the house the narrow republican majority of fifteen means that the considerable group of republicans who stood with ex-Speak-er Reed in his opposition to imperialism may also turn that body into an anti-administration stronghold. McKinley and his administration seem i foredoomed to defeat.

The candidacy of Hon. M . H. Harkins of Jay county, for chairman of the democratic state committee is meeting with approval in political circles all over she state. The press and prominent democrats have kindly given ' Mr. Harkins their preference and ap- ■ proval, and in this we think they have j acted wisely. His extended acquaint--1 ance, high standing and well known ability as an organizer together with | the fact that he can call to his com- ■ mand all elements of his party, all I tend to make him the one man to be I chosen. " And Nebraska and Bryan, did you I ever see anything to equal the devoI tion of the people comprising the | former, which they uninterruptedly i bestow upon the latter. It shows that the people at home still idolize the next president. It shows too, that the goose quill talk about the people of the west going to break away, is the kind of breaking away that will meet the approval of every democrat. Bryan still stands out the idol of his party and they rejoice with him over the grand victory achieved in his home state of Nebraska. Chairman Lutz informs us that the county central committee will in all probability be called into session some time the latter part of this month. At that meeting a date will be named for the holding of our county primary. A lively interest in the approaching contest is already being manifested, by the many candidates and their friends. The officers to be elected > next year are judge, prosecuting at- ' torney, auditor, sheriff, treasurer, : county assessor, commissioner in the i second and third districts and township officers. To have the Philippine Peace Commission give out a special report before election was in harmony with the usual policy of the administration. The document misrepresented the whole situation from the beginning down to the present time. It did not help the administration because the people throughout the country have kept themselves pretty well informed on the Philippine situation. It was a forecast, however, of the manner in which the administration will try to excuse its mis-management to congress and then throw tha burden of repairing the mischief that has been done entirely on that body. An infant child of Will Cowan died last night after an illness of several days. Elmer DeVinney, a former Decatur boy, who has been holding a lucrative position at Akron, Ohio, was visiting friends here the first of the week. Elmer is a steam and gas fitter, and from recommendations which he carries from his employer, he is giving ! the best of satisfaction, A head-end eollission occurred ou | the Clover Leaf, one mile east of Ko- | komo at five o’clock yesterday afterI noon. The east bound passenger, due I here at 7:16, left Kokomo ten minutes { late and running at full speed as they came around a curve at that place { dashed into a west bound freight. • Conductor Huntington and Engineer j Hogarth, both of the passenger train, ■ were badly injured. Tho passengers were all terribly shaken up and one ii old lady badly cut about the head. Both trains were damaged considerably. The conductor of the freight • train is said to be responsible for the I accident, which is reported one of j the worst which ever happened on the 5 road. i; G. Zimmerman and G. Kaylor will 2 offer at public sale at the' George fl Zimmerman farm, three-ouarter mile east of Decatur, commencing at 10 n o'clock, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, the * following property, to-wit: Twenty J head of Shopshire ewes, gray mare B eight years old, Dnrham cow, fresh in ji April, three cows, will be fresh soon, 4 brood sow with six pigs, 29 head $ Poland China stock hogs, full blooded Poland China male hog, steel frame ?) spring tooth harrow, wood frame fl spring tooth harrow, iron frame double shovel plow, one-horse spring’ g tooth cultivator, two snathes and one hi scythe, Shropshire buck, sorrel mare, 10 years old, three cows, fresh, six a steers, 2-years old, 4 brood sows, will 3| farrow soon, 2-horse Turnbull wagon g set double work harness, Clipper fl L p^ klu “ Plow, single shovel plow, U McCormick mower, sulky hav rake seven pitchforks, mud boat ’wheelfl barrow, and other articles. Twelve ™ onths t ime on all sums over 3; 50, purchaser giving good security. 2t

The Huntington News-Democrat I says: The Erie has given all of ■ freight soliciting agents instructions ■ not to solicit any more freight until I orders to that effect are given. Th s I move is made on account of the fact I that the Erie has not enough rollin- I stock or power to handle its freight I business. The increased business'at I the present time is due to the large I amount of live stock that is being I shipped to the east. I An Inviting Gun. ■ The Hon. William Wortham, lon- I state treasurer of Texas, was in a New I York jewelry store one day when he I noticed a showcase filled with splen- I did jeweled revolvers with silver ami I gold grips and chased barrels, having I precious stones set into the butts. I “Lemme see one of those guns,” he I said to the clerk. I “Which one, sir?” a “The gold one with the big ruby in I the handle.” I The clerk took it from the case. It I was marked $33. and it looked worth | even more. The Texan took it tender- | ly in both hands and held it admiring- j ly up to the light. Then drawing him- I self up to his full height, which was I CU> feet, he rested the revolver barrel | upon his left elbow, crooked for the purpose, and looked over the sights down the long store. Those persons who saw him involuntarily dodged. “Say,” said Mr. Wortham, with quiet but intense enthusiasm, as he returned the weapon, “if I was to wear that gun down in my state the people would be falling down on their knees begging to be killed with it.”

FROTECnON THAT PROTECTS. Wi®i y n i MffiC I e -3 i STRONGEST UN THE WORLD. THE EQUITABLE UFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY Farmers! Did you ever stop to think who will pay off the mortgage on the farm if you should die before it is paid ? Can your wife and little children ever raise the money to lift that mortgage, or will they be forced to see the old farm sold and what little interest they did have all eaten up by the lawyers’fees and court expense? And just at this sad time the wife and children are thrown out upon the world without support or money sufficient to keep the family together, therefore, the children are cast out without education and without motherly instructions which nine times out i of ten drives them from bad to worse. You can be relieved of all this worry for a small outly this year. Wewil guarantee to pay the mortgage on and give you a guarantee that will ** accepted by any loan company 01 banking institution in the workYour family is entitled to this pro tection. Protect them now for nex week it may lie too late. Send for our booklet entitled “A home paid for. HUGH MILLER, Agent, Decatur, Indiana.