Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVBBY THCBSE'AT MC'RV’VG BT LEW O. ELUNGHAM. Publisher. F • PEE YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered »t the ;• -• See at Imttr. ln<i:*n» as s*- >. ad-ciasa trailer. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUiTY. THURSDAY. MARCH - THE TICKET. For R*p'e*»nu::ve. HENRY DIRKSC'N. For Jodpe Viam« Circuit Court. RICHARD KINNEY KBWIN. For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN. For Auditor. A A- BOCH. For Treasurer. J. H. VC-GLEWESE. • i For Sher.?. DANIEL N. ERWIN. Frr Srrreyor. GEORGE R MCKEAN. For Cobb ss ooer !b4 District. •aMVEL doak For Cotairisstoner >ri District. JACOB ABNET. For Coroner. CH ARLES S. CLARK. For County Assess; r. ALIAS CRIST. The report is denied that ex-pres-ident Cleveland is seriously ill. The republicans of Jay county will meet in county convention April *. Hon. Sienet R. Moon has embarked in the practice of law at his new home in Portland. The annual convention of democratic clubs will be held at Indianapolis. >~ptember 5. Republic or empire, which* D“moeracy represents the former and republicanism the latter. The name of Benjamin Harrison has been suggested in connection with the presidential nomination. Bynum’s confirmation is yet in doubt. If the senate has a spark of decency about them, his rejection will be certain. Some discussion has arisen over a suitable running mate for McKinley.. U hat s the matter with Hanna? Or there is Havemeyer, he is a bullv bov.

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’' The Standard Oil monopoly pays SO per rent profit per annum on a capitalization of sloojooo.ooo. Tee new territory being opened in the Geneva field, is showing a good produc t i i*d. The price of crude oil is advancing, the markets now being i quoted at Si.2l. “Oub plain duty’’ seems to be to take good care that the sugar, tobacco and other trusts have no cause to refuse their usual contributions to the republican campaign fund. The Kentucky legislature has approved a measure appropriating Sl' * '- • • tion of the assassin who maliciously ended the life of Governor Goeble. Oub plain duty is to abolish all eus- . . . . ■ - - - . and Puerto Rico and give her products free access to our markets.—President McKinley’s message to congress in December. Chaibxan Hep.nlet of the republican state committee, went to Washington the first of the week, and while there gave the president and congress a few pointers about party disruption in Indiana. Paint paper sells at twice what it did four m inths ago and republican editors are defending the instrament that make it so —the paper trust. Talk about the real martyr, he is not in it with the republican editor of this 1 moment. Decatur will not be entirely ignored as a convention citv during the pc i:tical season that soon opens. The joint senatorial co®vent: in will meet here May 22. and it is safe to say that a roval welcome will be extended to , the visitors who will grace this occasion with their presence. The Berne Witness has began the publieati nos a German newspaper in connection with the Witness. A: pre*nt it > being issued as a supplement but later will be made a separate and distinct paper. Editor Riner seems t ■ be made of the proper stu® and will make the new venture a financial success. Duein I'riA* the steel and wire trust has made profi - SI - - Be-1 fore the trust was created the profits of the separate industries went to men widely scattered over the country. The increase of wealth was distributed in numerous directions. Under monopoly, it is absorbed by a few metropolitan centers. Having gob-1 bled the industry in which it was made, tbev are as likely to invest in • foreign lands as to put it use here. The u.try is beingdeni;3-i t: benefit the •-.m.i.g billionaires.

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T=-Hco. John G S . klin has to currency bili. together with sutr s-dy bill and the s_. idk blunder the Puerto Rican tan? bill have sntt : where the ess! :cal adminiarat.n will land them if they continue to folic w it. They have certainly made - ■ ~ 1 1 The democrat;; state headquarters were ;-pened Monday and soon the untune cf the campaign will -Ail per,-mac-xt ’--xture. T;.- a..', | secretary will devote their entire time toward the work in charge, and with I the bright prospects ahead. Indiana . ■ will redeem heres- f. by giv;r, ~~~ | elect ral vote to the next presidentia. elect:rs. and that means Bryan. Congmssmas C»?xn stands by the orebident and the president by the trusts, although no* an advocate ;’ tne | outrageous tariff taxation :f Pert ( Rico. car. be f-and in the eighth congressional district. Bun tnese .a. celebrities could be retired t<: private life without a jar or a hitch in the future preserratioa of this great :nJmge CarMPACKMB. cocgressman from the tenth Indiana district, is being treated with a round cf salre. He is the only republican member :: the Indiana deiegat: -n who nad the independence cf mind to withstand the bullring of the trusts and the , president, and to vote with the demo-, : crats on the tariff Porte Rican bi.l. It has reached the stage where a boom . for governor is inaugurated and the end is not vet. The Denver News says the tariff in great part is the cause of the scccesof the trusts. This places the home ' markets at their mercy, outside competition being shut Thee s. centration of money and awav g: tnsmall frv to destrortk®. “The tariff iis the mother of trusts.’ declared ■ -John R Dunlap at C coper I nioc. New York. last week. "Free trade, he said, -would be cue the effective _• Says Govern:r M ‘I an . pcsed to the Puift >Ri in bi., in - entrety. and I am tmcomprcimsmgly opposed to the ship subsidy bill. If Puerto Rico is a part M the United - ■ ■ :.y ; - * ! bill for that island any mire than f«.r ’ anv other territory of the United Stat— 1 If v-must have _ sep-. rattariff bill for Puerto Rio.?, why not for Hawaii, the Philippines and other of j our territory ? This would result ia > eomplkatiocs. and is, I think, not in harmony with the ccmstitutioE. of the United Slat—. - The protective tariff is the mother 'of 'em all. It has made it possible for the organization and operation : f | the many trusts. Upen the pairiotic cry cf protecting American industry ; and American labor, ciass legislation flourished with a high Land, as Gid > also the favored few who received the ; benefits of this iniquity. It Las made , millionaire- of those in control and to whom every consumer.' no matter Low humble, pars tribute. Their organj ization has known no bounds and , their greed no limit. They even in- , raded the sanctity at the white , house and waat was “our plain duty” three months ago. it is our plain duty to reverse now. Ver - this is an age of trusts, whose interests are seemingly the interests A our napoleon I president, ,n the face of the spirit of our constitution and the rights of our i; citizens.

Iris stated by the Indianapolis democrats wh. attended the meeting i of the democratic national committee j in Waskimrtcn that if Bryan secures ! the Domination again this’yesr be will | not make a personal canvass, as he did ; tn ISiri. but will speak only todelega- i tions that may visit him at his home | in Lincoln. There are a great ntanv| pe>:ple wh: . asider it undignified for: a presidential candidate to travel from' place to place to make speeches in his . ■ . i Mr. Bryan recognizes! that there is wne force in this ob-i ;ect Bend Times. Anuc-as coal is sold cheaper in| Pans, France, than in Philadelphia. Amer.. agricultural implements i St Rm--.i than in St. Paul. Minn. American sewing machines cost less in Lend a. England, than -in Leavenworth. . xnd American boots and shces ire iieaper in Burmingham. England, than in Boston. M as* Flour mace fr:m American wheat in Europe is reaper t_an l the United States, and meats shipped to the old world j •an be- bought in the butcher shops there for less than in our own. It took, according to information wh. Las leaked out since the cam- i paign : f j»•;» about twenty million d riiarst -iect Mc Kinley to the presidency. This is an enormous sum and t; those wh; know the corrupting influences of money in politics, it would seem almost inptsss'.ble to overcome this party of debauchery, but the neopie are ruing aroused and all the ooodie that can be pumped out of the tHK- and ott-r illegal interests will n?t save M: Kinley next fall, if present indications ?unt for anything.— Miami County Sentinel. The tenevclent Carnegie concern ' will pay this year about 160 per cent • ' To -.- Frick - statement under o.to m L;- t;..1l m -.u;tv against Carnegie. Mr. Carnegie estimated the • 'll. md ,s well rth it at the above per.-g- ?: inaui; profit. “This is d ;- m part t.. *he says the Denver Xews, “whicti places the home markets at the m-rey cf the trusts. There can :.e no outside eomnetition. It is only a matter of monev concentrat,Tn. ar : --..all:wing of the .ittle fish by the big c nee. T l ? ; ■ v the Jeff . ~?«tian Leagu- it Cc.umbia Club in F.rt Mayne last Thursday night was a decided social and polit- - “ success Twc hundred guests presented themselves and enjoyed the ?- -p.taiity ?* tne .-am-te. Thespeak- ~ -re Ae H . - B F. Shively, of S. itt. Bene. S. r. -A Huntingvs. -Judge Adair cf Columbia Citv. R.- hard K. Erwin cf this citv. J. R. Rc«enthrall of Chicago. John W? Kern .f In Judge Zollars. Senator Barrett. Henry Ccferick and '>tn—r- F rt M avne The addresses were all devoted to the political conditi .n- and aroused much interest and etSihusiasm among tae faithful present. The effort of cur townsman, Judge-elect Erwin, was a masterpiece .n oratorical f -:o<jt>-n<re. and brought forth much aaplans- from the select audience, ail cf whom paid him glowing tribute, We regret that bu.dness in the offioe is soeh that we are unable ■ro reproduce it in the Dewoctut this week. The Jeffersonian League did themselves proud and are to "be congrataiated fur toe noble effort upon this <ccason. May they live lone and 1 alway s prosper.

[Jecatur s Correspondents. I The county The dispatch commissioners was. we feel safe have simply ae- in asserting, the I eepted plans. The most brazen lie . \ , contract cannot that ever came | !be let until after from the pen of . the plans have man. The above i i been approved by lie will net the ■ the state board of man who thought , ' charities and cor- it out. about 30 : I rect i o n s. But cents, which shows : ■ aside from this how big a lie this ' ! error, the state- fellow is willingto i , ments in the dis- tellforthreedrinks ' - patch are true. —Journal March | and the Journal 3. , : endorses every , word that is contained therein. — Journal Feb. 16. It is evident that the Journal editor admiresftlns far-famed correspond- j ent only when he lies to suit the Jour- , nal. The Democrat endorses the sentiments as expressed in the issue ; of March 3. The name of our fair , city has many times been raped by i this pusiianimous prevaricator, and we denounce him. not only in one instance but in every one. from the in- , firmary and county libel to the last production, wherein the Decatur Egg Case Company—one of the best industrial institutions in the city is held up to satirical ridicule through the Fort Wayne and Indianapolis papers. PORTO RICO AND THE CONSTITLTION. The proposition pending in both the house and senate for a tariff upon the products of Porto Rico brought into the United States is being discussed chiefly with regard to its (economic effects. In a broad wav the i bill provides that the Diuglev tariff is ito be enforced against the products lof all countries, except the United < lap rted into Porto Ric . thus recognizing Porto Rico as a part of i this nation, and a tariff equal to 15 < j per cent of the Dingley law imposed , upon the products of the island brought into the states thus declar- ! ing Porto Rico either not part of the I I nited States or not in any wav subject to the provisions of Hie constitution- The constitution savsexplicitly that all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the UnitStates to the United States. If it is a part of this country, of this nation, then any tariff on its products is a direct violation of the constitution. If such a violation eould be permitted in its , i case, there is no reason why a like violation should not be permitted against | Alaska or Arizona, for Porto Rico is as . • ■ much a territory as they. This pro- ' I i 6 **. *? DOt on F a plain reversal of the position taKen by the president in Lis ' last message, in which he said "Our plain duty is to abolish all custom . tariffs lietween the United States and . Porto Rico and give her products free . access to our markets.” but it is an . absolute negation of the constitutional 1 guarantees. It is not unusual for ■ Mr. McKinley to reverse himself and it seems hardly worth while to com I ment on that, but if we have a territory within our national domain to . which the constitution does not apply, ? can we stilleall ourselves a constitut tional republic? If we can violate the t constitution with reference to Porto • j Rico, which we got through war from - Spain, why not then violate it also in - the case o: Arizona? Senator Tillman who sometimes says in a plain wav | I! very telling truths, remarked in the ■ - senate the other day that apparently ; the nation had not a shred of the eon’Lstitution left. The statement was (exaggerated, as too often Mr. Till-

! man’s are. but he had been well within the lines if he had said that the experience of the last few years has demonstrated that the constitution cannot stand the attacks of an executive backed by a strong and servile majority in both houses. William Kaovgh chairman of the central committee of Allen eountv. and also district chairman of the twelfth congressional district, was here yesterday in consultati n with E. Burt Lenhart, chairman of the eountv central committee. At this meeting it was decided to nominate a candidate for joint senator for Adams- Allen counties, and thereby defeat allpossibility of a contest and perhaps the seating of a republican. In compliance with this arrangement, a call was issued for a senatorial c. 'nvention which will be held in this city. Tuesday. May 22. Senator Ryan contends that his election extends two rears, and this means that the senate will be called upon to decide who is eligible to hold down the seat assigned to the statesman from this senat rial dis- j trict. The opinion of several lawyers of high standing is in keeping with the course being pursued. Senatorial Convention. Pursuant to a call herebv issued by the undersigned, the democrats and all others desiring to affiliate with them, are respectfully invited to attend and participate in a senatorial convention comprising the joint senatorial district of Adams and Allen counties, the same to lie held in the city of Decatur. Indiana. Tuesday. May 22. 1900. The object of the convention will be the nomination of» joint senator for this district, tote voted for at the general ele< n. Xov-j ember 1900. The basis of r> presentation will be the same as affix-■ 1 by the democratic state committee Indiana, one delegate to every 200 . ; . fraction! over 100 votes east for John B St ... as presidential elector in I-.' E. Burt Lenhart. Chrm Dem. Cen. Com. Ad . -C< Wm. Ka ‘oh. Chrm Dem. Cen. Cum. A Co. On Thursday night. Mar spatrons of Bosse’s opera 1 >■*“ ™ witness an elaborate pro! ; x 11 the powerfully construe tot ; y "Tj* Two little Vagrants." pr - :;ted ty Edward C. White’s well ki; «n pany of artists. This drama is established as one«ft tie omenally popular product!ensintw history of the stage of Pari.-. Londes and New York.

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