Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVtRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. • fi.oo per Aar in advance. Fntere*] at the post-office at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. — ... w „ OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUJ&Y. THURSDAY, MAY 24. It is Senator Fleming. b'aUu- grace and Al!<g®ounTr. - -' aa Tj® advertising that doqwnot is almost alway’The advorn-aw Ihat has not been given a chance to pay. The Kentucky governorship contest ended in the recognition of Beckham by the I nited States supreme court, in a decision higided down Monday. Xhe eighth congressional district, weightecFtiown as it is beneath a republican majority, is an angel in disguise beside the gluttonous and greed that comprise the northern end of this senatorial district. Deliverance? wilt thou ever come. 1 Whether it be of trusts <jt militarism or imperialism we complain, we cannot escape the truth that all these ire at last but the fn tage of the basic evil, the evil of concentrated wealth, which springs from special privileges ; usurped by the moneyed oligarchy. We venture the prediction that Adams countv delegates will never again support an Allen county candidate for anything under the sun. There is no oil that will soothe the troubled water- It is u fight ti i a finish, and Bob Bell mav as as well hang his Kan sas City ambitious on a rail. From our state capital comes a “special" stating that Kern for governor. Morss for United States senator. McCullough for congress in the seventh district, and Taggart for national committeeman, is all the Mar county democracy would ask. Modesty forbids comment. Governor Movnt has disappointed what few friends he had left, by his refusal to recognize a requisition from Governor Beckham of Kentucky. Such acts as this certainly place Indiana’s executive, as the Sentinel says.! on the Hernley and leaves him 1 self convicted before the world as a | champion of political assassination; and liai'o rerofft d i,■•-< fi,>m justice. I General Grosvenor of Ohio. Mr.. I McKhia-t - -|i kesman nal i represi-iiralii e in the h:>use.«pid an t \ treme republican partisan, has recejjfc lycalculal g ir and confesses a growth of ddfoocAtic strength during the last four>yeifrs which from an thcr and,an unpaj;tisan calculation places Mr. McKinley’s eleetii n among tiled- -übtfftquantiti’i The »»»-eeh of thejl on. Da- id E Smith before Tuesday's convention was a clever presentation frf the position in national affairs of. the demo- • ratic part v. Dave is already an orator of no mean ability and gives evidence of that culture and improve meat that - with experience upon the platform. We Certainly can not do other than extend our congratula The l<-aven of the unrighteousness cf ; iJi» American government exhibits itself more in the anti Boer sentiment of the republican party than in what is allsp-d to be the use of it by the democracy as a campaign d wiltnent against tin McKinley administration. We find the reverend missionaries praying loudiy for the British to win in Si j|h Africa. because British site cess means a spread of Christianity. Tin kind of Chnstiaritj is not specified, but we know that the Boer takes with him into battle and carries close to his heart the bible and hymn book, whereas the British style of Christian i U carries a gun and dua-dum bullets. All this mawkisn appeal at the genius of Christianity as a reason for crushing a nation seeking its freedom, is influenced by thteßritish manufacturers of public opinion, and in the sanii* manner uh uiuHt us their press correspondents are influenced to malign the Boers and uphold the virtues of the British. For many years Indiana was in bad repute on account ofthe quality of its politicians an<Tits excessive political wrangling. Much of this odium was removed through the efforts of highminded public men like* Thomas A Hendricks, Michael C. Kerr, Benjamin Harnson. Joseph E McDonald. Roherl S. Taylor and others. It is to lie fretted the good work accomplished by these men are nd- in a measure neutralized by the damning rascality of Tndianians employed in the federal service in Cuba. In .a, 14 to counteract the effects of thesshameful developements every respectable newspaper in Indiana ought to take a decided stand in favor of bringing every rascal connected with these frauds to punishment. The fact that some of these-thieves passed for years as ' wholesouled fellows’’and “clever gentlemen” should lie ati incentive to vigorous prosecution intlw than gingerly treatment.- apologies, excuses, etc. Healthy public sentiment needs to assert itself in a manner neither to he misunderstood nor misinterpreted. South Bend Times.

■ HERE’S TO HO<j ALLEN. STEPHEN B. FLYING NOMINATED FOR * JOINT SENATOR. J * Davityt-' Smith As a Presiding Officer is A Brilliant Success. Hon. C. Bell Joins the Phillistines. (* About one hundred Fort Wayne and Allen county - democrats were I here Tuesday, presumably to attend the joint senatorial convention of Ad-ams-Allen counties, but which result- ‘; ed in an Allen countv hygenic effort to inject hot air upon the wounds inflcteci by an imperialistic power which favorably compares with that practiced :i by the administration of McKinley, | and dominated by the merciless hand of Mark Hanna. The^idvance guard was chapefcned by that ever j smiling >lon. R. C. Bell, who first in- ,, formed his Ad ams county adiidYers. that he desired their ever helping hand, in order that his ambitions to be a delegate at large to the Kansas City convention, might be gratified. After that, he was perfectly willing to lend his silent influence ’to assist the Allen countv democrats in performing the last sad rites upon a poor defenseless neighbor, who has ever jaud always worshiped at his feet and i listened to the mockery of his professed devotion to thajr welfare. The preliminary meetings were held and the convention was called to order i and to permanent organization at ten o’clock by L Burt Lenhart. chairman of the central committee of this ! county. The call was h-ad and upon motion of the Hon. ,1. M. Barrett - the name of Hon. David E. Smith was presented for permanent chairman, and his selection followed. He not only presided with that dignity, edse and grace flint charms, but his speech ot acceptance, was one of the best wb ever heard, and itLs with pleasure we reproduce it, "Gentlemen of the convention: I wish to returnto you my sincere thanks for the honor you have conferred upon me. It is no mean favor to bo made the presidingoffr’Wof a democratic convention of such democratic counties as Adams and Allen, when that convention seeks to nominate a candidate to represent you in a political capacity to carry out the will of a majority of the district. "It becomes your duty in your deliberations today, to arrive -n’t a conclusion. the importance of which is not confined within the borders of our counties, but extends throughout the state. :nd may influence the future history of the nation/ "The standard bearer you select today; the man y.ai nominare ns your candidate for joint senatonpof Adams ■ and .. inties, Kill be plecttd ' next Novrtnber. With him you trust ■’*■•■•■■ redjhonor I carrying into ti-iegi-iative Wills >.f the grunt common ■Waith f Fiidlawh. the principles of 'Jefferson us Jackson; principles that have been promoted and upheld er.icy for a hundred years. Wl have l»-ome a c sacred to us. as sacred memories may b<me. when transmitted to succeeding generations. The smoke from the uneven battle of four years ago has cleared away. "The rights contended for by the c. mtnon people at that time have not vet Ijeen obtained. Additional issues, fraught with oven greater import to the nation are at hand. There are new warnings to sound, that must reecho o’er hill and through dale. The time has come when every Idver of the constitution should ' constitute himself % Paul Revere. We are confrosted in this, the yea; of our Lord 1900, by.the most momentous qoes tions human genius has had to meet in the history of the nation. Not only has the life blood, the financial channels of the been affected, but the perpetuity of the institution created by our fathers, that has guided us through the shallows and thedeepe, through the storms and through the ■winshine.the constitution under which our fathers lived and thrived, is threatened with destruction. “Tear down the foundations of the government and what avails you the superstructure? Take froth the people the liberty God gave; make them half 1 slave and half free, and what matters j worldly honors’ Take from a man > the inherent right to earn hi* own bread: thrust his little ones into the control of the infamous mists, and what is left to encourage? And yet, that itJhe position of the American , citizen, who is not a member of the , republican administration trusts, and , the man who demurs to such a state gs things, who dares to offnt up a prayer for better days, they tell us he’s a menace to ‘mankind and a traitor to his country. “The trust is the legitimate offspring i of the republican parts: created by the seducive wiles of upccia! privileges 1 to a favored few. .Manufacturers have been fostered and encouraged; “infant industries” have been iTarmed into life and strength and now with their venomous tiling they strike down ' the generous Ixwmi that gave them food for a hundred years. . "Thomas Jefferson, a hundred years ago, advised, and the democracy has soundtsljt he warning to the people dur|mg all these years, yet inch by inch, ttep by step, thv so-called iloctrineof "rrotectiot has heen wiring itstflf ‘ with its treacherous coil, About the American iieopie. Now, conscious of i its strength, it boldly throws off its flimsy mask, and with all its power in matured and legitimate growth, 1 the trusts defy tho people and defy the law. * J Home eompetitioiHjas lieen destroy- . el; foreign competition is denied and we are at the mercy of the combines. ! The money market of the world may be cornered; panics may be assured; • i homes may be lost and business bank- • o

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r'Tpted at their seeming pleasure. The robber hand of the trust is at the throat of the American people. "The republican party is trying to disclaim any relation to the trust. They hdvo Is-held. in their last four years of banquet, the hand writjpg on tliA wall. They even say they de nounce their child and its schenn-s of n -hbery and grime. But as Abraham Lincoln once said: >u cannot fool all of the jx-ople all of the time.” The American voter will not lx* led into the fold br low taps and be fed n unsorted chaff. The people bound ha they are bv hand u d foot, struggling once more fwt* the right to live; demanding liberty; liberty to buy and liberty tosell, free and untrameled; liberty to make an-honest dollar: with their names enrolled upon the democratic banner, bearing aloft and f >ating to the breeze the streamer of "equal rights to all and special privileges so none." threats, intimidation, or coertion cannot deny them. They will meet without a tremor or without a falter the trust-enriched republican money mongers of the nation. Nor will the God, of our fathers desert their offspring and their flesh in this hour of need. <**‘Soine One said that we cannqt win multiple of issues; that no birttle was ever won upon two fields. We are not fighting upon a multiple of issues; we are not seeking to win the battle upon two fields. The single gold standard, trusts and imperialism are dastaWl triplets, covered by the same hide and feci by the same beast. Together they conspire against the national honor and against thenation al pocket; together they conspire against the liberty of the people and against the nation. It is time the people were looking well to their suffrage, when ffreulations run rife on Cuban soil; when we look upon the national administration’s attitude toward the Filipinos; when “forcible annexation is criminal aggression.” Its rapid change to front of “our plain duty' toward the Portoricans; when the president of this republic, infatuated with the idea that he is a man of destiny the re incarnation of Napoleon lionaparte, asks that the standard army of this country lie inif this may be done in a time of |ieace •vhen wjjl an imperialistic policy demand a million men? Is there some hidden meaning in this that is not meant for the laymen to learn? “Historical farts reveal, that a country’s safety lies in its volunteers. Men have gone out from the stores and shops and the fields and have antwered their country's calls in its hours of need. It was volunteers who left their blood stained tracks on the frozen ground at Valley forge, it was volunteers who fought’for lilierty in the revolution; it was volunteers who won the war of IHI2 with the hated Britishjit was volunteers who marched into the great and untutored west and placed the stars and stripes in triumph over the palace of the Monte zumas; it was volunteers who foSght the civil war the greatest in the history of the world, and it was the volunteers who swept the Spanish despotism from off the western hemis pbere And when this country is again threatened, the same spirit of 177 G to IN9N will manifest itself to the satisfaction of the eseiny. And that without the aid of militarism. “They toll us that wAre narrow in our thoughts'* that we are a roiartv of contraction; I deny *it. The democratic party has been a party of expansion and growth, seeking to take into .the fold contiguous territory and

people of our own kind. That is true expansion and natural growth. Thomas Jefferson was th« parent of that true growth: he it was who mad* impossible for Indiana to become a state and a part of this great Union. Westward Hol has been the watch word of our progress; territory after territory has been added to our domain by democratic effort and democratic sanction; political power has moved with the people, until iSfiO brought us the rail-splitter from Illinois, and i'.W will bring us the presidency fr tn Nebraska. Yea. mete than that; from cut this great land hns come a new Jefferson and .Jack son combined; a man whose inspiration is the Declaration of Independence; and who will, like Moses of old. safely lead the people across the tem pestuous seas of trusts, imperirlists anil money mongers and guide them in their fight for financial and jwjlitical independence.” Benjamin Eilert was chosen secretary . A committee on resolutions was appointed, composed of R. K. Erwin, S. W. Hale, and Jesse Steele, of this coulty. and R. C. Bell. J. M. Barrett, and George A. Gale for Allen county, and after a short session reported as follows: We, the delegates of the joint senatorial convention of the democracy of Adams and Alien counties, hereby declare our adherence to the time honored principles of the democratic party, as set forth in the Chicago platform of 1896. And we hail with satisfaction the spirit manifested by the deißocracv throughout the whole country in support of the same, presaging certain victory at the polls in the coming election We most heartily endorse the candidacy of that incomparable leader, William Jennings Bryan, 'whose nomination will itself constitute a sufficient platform. Me denounce the present republican administration for the aid. comfort, and support given to the trust and oppressive combinations of aggregated wealth, and under whose fostering care they have grown so prodigiously, until today they are a standing menace to the welfare of the people, and destruction of all legitimate competition and business enterprise, and we deplore the condition of anv intelligent citizen who hopt* for relief from these unholy combinations through the republican party. We extend our heartfelt sympathy to that industrious, liberty loving, God fearing people, th« Boers of South Africa, ia their noble fight for their property, * their firesides, and their liberty; and in their splendid efforts to ' keep alive the principles of self government, in the face of almost overwhelming odds in the cruel warfare made upon them by a greedy, powerful, merciless monarchy. And we denounce the sycophancy and cowardice of the administration which for the first time in American history has failed to express sympathy for a struggling sister republic. ’Ae denounce the action of the governor of the good state of Ind lana, who in the face of tt decision ofrthe supreme court of the United States, refuses to deliver up I ’.to a si'itor state a fugitive from justice, charged with the crime of murder, upon a regular requisition therefor. This action of the chief executive of this state is the very subordinate of an-

archy, exercised in the interest of » narrow, partisan republican politics. We denounce the doctrine of imperialism adopted i»v the re publican party under the guise of expansion which necessitates the maintenance of large standing armies, overturns all our time honored principles of the past, and attacks even the principles of the Declaration of Independence. Recent developements in Cuba only go to show that the government of colonial dependencies is being maintained for the purpose of looting and robbing weak peoples in the interests of mercenary republican politicians. We call uponttEe memlrers of our house of representatives and senate to probe to the Lot tom the corruption which we believe has lieen and is running riot in Porto Rico and the Philippines as well as in Cuba. Following the resolutions came the nominations. R. K. Erwin, in an out burst of eloquence and good reasoning. named Dr. J. W. Vizard. It was a plea for life and reviewed the history of the two counties from the time of the adoption of the constitution, showing the greed of Allen and the true devotion of Adams. It was such a speech that would melt the heart of true democracy, but in this he lacked an audience from Aik i ,ty. The name of Stephen B. Fleming was simply announced, there being no good reasons (or his being a candidate. so none were given. The vbte stood: Viz Flem- . , ard ing. Adams 17 Allen 1 49 Total 18 49 May the Lord bless Dr. Morgan, the one Allen county delegate who refused the bribing and bull dozing of his co-conferates. May his star ever shine. The nominee made a few remarks in which his gratitude was bestowed upon those whocommitted the unpardonable sin. Dr. J. W. Vizard also pledged his support to the democracy and thanked those who sffp ported him with sueh sincerity. The Adams county delegation was a unit in his support and did everything to give him the honor that belonged to Adams county. STEPHEX B. FLEMING. The nominee is a native of Fort 1 u-Z ne ’J* ing horn November 20, 1870, and is a son of the Hon. William r leming, who years ago was a power m Indiana politics. He is a business ’tnan and has devoted his life m this “ hati Stained a rrmtieal knowledge not equalled bv few. many years his senior. For six years past he has been engaged in the manufacture of straw Ixjard which is made into paper Ixixes of all kinds the institution is one of immense proportions, the company having factories both at Hartford City and Eaton, Indiana. With him is engaged ort M ayne capital, Henry Paul, John Ur John Moore, jun., Charles rox and A. B. Trent man representing interests, which are managed by M? Fleming. He has fully demonstrated hs great ski land ability ns a mat o business, and is hekl in high SJ by every one m Fort Wayne. FBOM fort WAYNE JOVfcNAL. rhe democratic joint senatorial con wii ( sh ,‘ “ “ V '‘ ry . ‘■ on '"'»-'>'lable and wist thing in nominating Mr. Stephen

E. Fleming to sit in the upper house of the legislature. Viewed frcm jjt standpoint. it must lie conceded tiat no better selection could hare fa* made. Mr. Fleming is a voting but possesses a mind that, naturalk of the brightest, has l>een matured br actual contact with the world, and Li constituents can lx- assured that th interests of the public will be well and carefully guarded. He has pn*. en himself a capable business man bv sucessfully conducting enterpras of a scope and character not usually confided to one of his years. He i honest,absolutely fearless in mittainiug what he believes to lie right and with a fund of energy that, cob-’ bined with his other trims, will mate him just the sort of man needed in the state assembly. He is a worthy son of a man who for many \hus stood high in the councils of tte state, and the exalted attributesoftte father have descended in hninteoo measure upon the son. Withal, Stea Fleming is a popular man. and bis candidacy will appeal to admirers d vigorous, genial manhood. The vexed questions that may arise from tte divergent views as to the senatorstet from this county and district will te the more easily solved by having r the nominee an aggressive forceful young man such as Mr. Fleming to insure the welfare of the district. From the weight of present opinion Fort Wayne will lie handsomely recognised tn the coming democratic state convention. It ; is, believed by a good many politicians that Judge Zollars, who* high character and sterling ability are strong recomeudatione inhis favor, will be the permanent chairman and will make the key note speech. The committee on or ganization, whose decision h» never lieen ovendden in a democratic state convention, probably will recommend SamuelE.Mot*. I R. C. Bell, Senator lurpie ana Chairman Martin, delegates at large to the national conventionFort Wayne Journal. The “weight of present opinion probably confined within the tata* of Allen county. IVi mally «*' * no reason to reward Judge Zollars W his disregard for the democraticpt>t? in 1896, by making him eha nnan « the state convention and [lennit t-- 3 to sound the keynote and furni® tte music by which the party shall ow fiance. Neither do we see the h tß * of things in making the Hon- »■ J’ Bell a delegate to the national c* vention, in preference to the Bend statesman, the Hon- U _ Shively, a man who stands clow William J. Dr van than any ’ diana democrat. The conveoi should not neglec* Mr. ShirelcT*. it comes io selecting delegates tu Kansas City convention. The money trust "' : 9’H j-if have begun its operation* m 1,1,1 ed States with the organization 0 _j gold trust during the civil "'®' • it is through the American -|y s Association begun in the ear., that its operations may I*’ M ' r. This trust has succeeded in j. on panics, in demonetizing "..'J having the law sanction 'l"*. 1.-,no-private money, in retiring pub al ey, and in forcing the f w °P le t |m indebtedness aggregating n l ' r thirty billions of dolin' * " are compelled to pay to 1 r changer in the form of m, 5' nual tribute iipproxiim tul lf iions of dollars.