Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVSRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. SI.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 23. The sale of the Clover Leaf is nowslated for February 15. The time is almost ripe for the planting of holiday advertisements, and the Democrat ean give you your money’s worth. The democratic national executive committee held a meeting in Chicago Monday, at which plans of the campaign were discussed. George W. Cromer is to vote to unseat Congressman Roberts, ‘‘because the latter practiced polygamy.” Ye gods and little fishes!—Winchester Democrat. Next week begins our new seriel story “In His Steps” or “What would Jesus do.” It is entirely new in the ! way of continued stories, and will be i found interesting in the extreme. THEcounty of Boone takesthe initiative and is the first county in Indiana to purchase the voting machine. This is a revelation in voting that deserves imitation in every county in the state and the union as well. - - - - Our own Congressman Cromer has packed up his bag and baggage and gone to Washington, where ne will serve the Country as a member of congress. Place seekers may now’ safefy address him care of the house of representatives. E. A. Overman represented the Indianapolis Press here Tuesday and succeeded in building up a small list forthat new publication. Mr. Overman is an old newspaper man, for several years being editor and owner of the Tipton Times. The St. Paul Globe calls attention to the fact that the lesson of the American tin trust shows clearly the absolute interdependence of the two huge industrial frauds, the trusts and the tariff, and adds that if we are ever to bring the trusts under public control we must begin serious operations by uprooting the entire protectionist system, which is at once their origin and bulwark.

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Chairman Martin has issued a call for the democratic state committee, to meet at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, on Tuesday, December 12. At this meeting the time and place of holding the district meetings will be determined. The name of Governor Mount is being mentioned in connection with the republican vice-presidential nomination. His record against trusts is one of the recommendations urged, but this is certainly a joke. If he has a record on trusts, we never heard of it. Vice-President Hobart died Tuesday morning at his home at Patterson, New Jersey. The vice-president has been bedfast for some time, although reports of his physical condition for a few days previous to his death, were encouraging. His funeral takes place Saturday. Notwithstanding the fact that Samuel M. Ralston has repeatedly declared that he would not be a candidate for governor next year, the Decatur Democrat continues to boom him for the democratic nomination. The Democrat is an excellent paper and Mr. Ralston is a most estimable gentleman.—South Bend' Times (dem). The outlook seems bright for the Hon. W. H. Harkins, the Jay county statesman, who seeks to be chairman of the democratic state committee. Many sections of the state are already lending him material assistance thereby showing their preference. Mr. Harkins is well fitted for the place and will wage a vigorous campaign if selected as chairman. For forty-four years the Hon Daniel McDonald has been connected with the Plymouth Democrat, and last week the event was celebrated. Mr. McDonald is certainly one of the oldest newspaper men in the state who is actively engaged in business, and we are willing to testify that he is one of the most able and entertaining writers, that it is our pleasure to follow. Mr. William H. Griffith a tin plate manufacturer, told the industrial commission some interesting things as to how the tin plate trust is making it impossible for him to manufacture tin plate as a private concern, but the most interesting and remarkable things were what he told about prices. He said since the tin plate trust had been organized the prices of tin plate had advanced from $2.60 to $4.65 per hundred. That neither the advance in wages nor raw material justified such a price. At $2.60 per hundred there had been 20 per cent profit in the business. Under present conditions $3.34 would be a profitable price.

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The official count for governor of Ohio, gives George K. Nash, republican, 417.199; John R. McLean, democrat, 368,176; Seth H. Ellis, union reform. 7,799; George M. Hammet, prohibition, 5,825; Robert Bandlow, socialist labor} 2,439, and Samuel M. Jones, non-partisan, 106,721. Nash's plurality is 49,023, the total vote was 900,159,'and the plurality of Caldwell republican over Patrick democrat, for lieutenant governor, was but 12,720. Our apologies are due that able jurist, Judge J. R. Bobo, and upon bended knees we repent. He was one of the committee on bar resolutions as reported in our last issue, and who by the wav drafted one of the resolutions reported by the committee and adopted by the bar. but through some of those inexplainable and truly deplorable mistakes, that some times escapes even the watchful eye of a newspaper editor, his name was omitted as a member of the committee. Then the interminable Philippine question must be settled, at least dealt with, somehow, or somehow else, for it is increditable that congress will abdicate the functions and leave the Filipinos to be ruled by the sword any longer. If we own those islands and propose to retain them, it is the duty of congress to formulate some plan for their government. The question involved therein might as well be faced now as later, for they must be faced some time, and they ought to be faced by freemen resolutely, intelligently and patriotically. The United Statesis not big enough to satisfy the boundless greed of the trusts. They are becoming international in scope. Mr. John W. Gates, managing director of the steel and iron trust, frankly' testified before the industrial commission last week that he had negotiated with Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and other countries to bring about a consolidation of all wire producing interests. His statement about an international wire trust merely illustrates what is going on among other concerns. The trust proposes to monopolize the earth and the fulness, thereof for its private profit. The statements, sent out by “enterprising” correspondents that Mr. James Murdock has declared himself in regard to the presidential and vicepresidential nomination, and that he (Murdock) is a candidate for the state chairmanship, or that he is seeking a place on the national committee, are inventions pure and simple. Mr. Murdock is not a candidate for anything, except a place in heaven after be shall have assisted in installing a democratic administration, and is too busy a man just now to speculate on the make-up of the democratic national ticket for 1900. —South Bend Times. The proposition of some of Gov. Mount’s alleged friends that he be run for vice-president with Mr. McKinley. breeds in our editorial bosom a strong desire to go out in the alley and laugh all our editorial buttons off. In the first place Gov. Mount hasn't the wad which is usually demanded from the man second on the ticket. In the next place he is not large enough. Thirdly, he is not enough of a politician. Fourthly, he would not make the most desirable presiding officer of the senate Outside of these few objections we do not see why the governor cannot become vice-president if he wants to and Mark Hanna wills it. A farmer candidate would be a mightv strong card and no mistake. — Indianapolis Sun.

JAHES HORRISON FOR CONGRESS. Judge 0. J. Lotz, of Muncie will not be a candidate for the democratic nomination for congress in this district. Judge Lotz led the democratic hosts in the Eighth district two years ago and made a magnificent fight. He gave George Cromer and his followers the scare of their lives. In an interview given in Muncie, Judge Lotz said: "My reasons for deciding not to enter the race next year will be so clear that all my friends will appreciate my position in the matter. In the last race I was compelled to leave my law practice and everything else to enter the fight. I think I came as near winning a seat in congress as any former democratic candidate, yet I cannot consistently leave my business affairs for politics. In all my political career of nearly fifteen years the democrats of this county have stood by me to a man. I appreciate all this and hope that they will stand by the man who is nominated to fight the republicans j next year. “Whom shall the democrats of this district nominate if you do not enter the race? ’ the judge was asked. To insure success it must be the present representative in the state legislature from Madison county, James Morrison, of Anderson, he answered. He is a glass worker and is thus employed while he is not serving in the legislature. As an illustration of his i wonderful popularitj’ with the people take the time when he was nominated. 1 The committee that was to notify him of his nomination left the convention 1 hall and found him at work in the glass factory. Without waiting to give him an opportunity to change clothes he was hustled to the convention hall. He had on nothing but a pair of trousers, a thin gauze shirt and a 1 eavy pair of shoes. The people did not care for this. His speech accepting the nomination was a wonderful effort. I The people stood by him and he was elected by the largest majority of any candidate in the history of Madison ) county.” President McKinley is hypocritica if nothing else. He has 'appointed ■ W. D. Bynum to a 87,500 position as I a member of the board of general ap- [ praisers, with headquarters at NewYork, and appointed him too, as a democrat. The law contemplates that of the nine appraisers not more than five shall be from one political party. Five republicans are already in office there, and Bynum’s appointment as a democrat is worse than gall and worm wood to the regular democratic organization. In 1896 Bynum was an influential speaker upon the stump for McKinley and the republican ticket, as he was likewise in 1898. His appointment now as a democrat is the worst kind of peanut politics a president of the United States could indulge in. We are free to acknowledge that Bynum deserves something handsome from the president, but he does not deserve it as a democrat. The minority in the senate will quite likely make it warm for “Willum” before he attains and begins to relish the sweets of public life. The Dewey-Washington residence is now the property of the Admiral’s son, it having been so transferred a few days ago. Gossips are now talking very entertainingly. The Hartford City Telegram is remodeling its printery, by spreading out. The Telegram as a newspaper, is hard to catch, and this latest improvement simplv places them several more points in advance of the band.

A Perfect Diagnosis. Dr. George Fordyce, who came in 1762 from Edinburgh to London, very speedily- made himself a name by a series of public lectures on medical science, which he afterward published in a -volume entitled, “Elements of the Practice of Physics,” which passed through many editions. Unfortunately he was given to drink, and, though he never was known to be dead drunk, yet he was often in a state which rendered him unfit for professional duties. One night when he was in such a condition he was suddenly sent for to attend a lady of title who was veryill. He went, sat down, listened to her story and felt her pulse. He found he was not up to his work. He lost his wits and in a moment of forgetfulness exclaimed, “Drunk, by Jove!” Still he managed to write out a mild prescription. Early next morning he received a message from his noble patient to call on her at once. Dr. Fordyce felt veryuncomfortable. The lady evidently intended to upbraid him either with an improper prescription or with his disgraceful condition. But to his surprise and relief she thanked him for his prompt compliance with her pressing summons and then confessed that he had rightly diagnosed her case, that unfortunately she occasionally indulged too freely in drink, but that she hoped he would preserve inviolable secrecy as to the condition he bad found her in. Fordyce listened to her grave as a judge and said: “You may depend upon me, madam. I shall be as silent as the grave.”—Gentleman’s Magazine. DnnKerous Trndinar. Upon returning to camp we found that John, the driver, had purchased a load of pumpkins, which the native men and women from the Mazoe valley had brought to the wagon to barter. At first I was pleased, but when I found that John had traded away about 20 pounds of preservative, consisting of alum and arsenic, which he had mistaken for salt, 1 was filled with dismay! We knew not the villages whence the natives had come, nor could we explain the mistake, as we were ignorant of their language; and before my scared mental vision rose piles of dead Mashonas, pestilence and war on the whites—provided there re-

‘IN HIS STEPS.’ “What Would Jesus Do.” THIS is the title of the most popular book pubr fished in the last decade. Over 3,000,000 / copies in book form sold in four months, and the author, Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, is one of the most talked about men in Christendom. By special arrangement with the publishers, THE DEMOCRAT jg enabled to offer the story to its readers in serial form, and the opening chapter will be given in our Thanksgiving number of November 30, continuing ten or twelve weeks. No matter what your reZl ligious views may be, the story is well worth reading. Now \ is the time to subscribe. f I

mained enough live Mashonas to make it. Hence it was that before daylight the next morning we left for the fort. We made no mention of the matter to any one, but a year later, when visiting the Mazoe valley, I inquired of the natives if there had been any disease among them about the time when the white men arrived in the country. They said there had been an epidemic of stomach aches, but, fortunately, no one bad died from it; so my conscience was profoundly relieved.—“On the South African Frontier.” Curtin and Cheese. The rough outlines of cheesemaking are probably familiar to every one. Fresh milk is taken and curdled with rennet. The curd is then broken up and the liquid whey drawn off; the breaking up of the curd, its straining and the subjection of it to pressure are processes repeated several times Sntil eventually the curd has become of the necessary consistency and solidity, it is then set aside, usually for some considerable time, to ripen, and during this time great changes are subtly taking place in its substance, so that the curd, which at first was an uneatable solid, becomes gradually transformed into a palatable cheese. Suitable external conditions, chief among which is a proper temperature, are, of course, necessary to bring this ripening of the curd to a successful issue. but the real reason of the trausformation is the presence of myriads of bacteria, which find in the curd a luxurious dwelling place, where they 1 can live and multiply. That in so living they must abstract foodstuffs from the curd around and give out in turn new substances is merely the natural course of their life, but it makes all i the difference between curd and cheese.—Good Words. The Combination Crank. “What are you doing?” asked the inquisitive man. “I’m working on an interesting problem,” replied the man who has a pasI sion for figures. “New York has -I-'--000 barbers, and I am endeavoring t” find out whether the groans they bring from their victims at a given time would, if they could all be put into one. produce a roar as loud as that of Niagara or not.”—Chicago Times