Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1900 — Page 4

THEeDEMOCRAT ■ VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. SI.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana us second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, JUNE 21. =>= THE TICKET. © For Representative. HENRY DIRKSON. Forjudge Adams Circuit Court, © ©CHARD KINNEY ERWIN, For Prq®*cutOT, ij, JOHN C. MORAN.® For Auditor. 9> » ©A. A. BOCH. For Treasurer, J. H, VOGLEIfEDE. For Sjieriff, @ DANIEL N. ERWIN For Surveyor, GEORGE E. McKgAN. For Commissioner 2nd District, SAMVEL DOAK. 4 For Commissioner 3rd District, JACOB ABNET. For Coroner, CHARLES 8. CLARK. For County Assessor. ELIAS CRIST. The wife of Senator Beveridge <ln*d Tuesday morning «t a New York sanatarium. Ie Neely Svere in Indiana now he would be perfectly safe, under the protecting wing > Governor Mount. Congressman Cromer will no doubt have his vacation fully occupied ‘in telling jpst how he and Perry Heath got Charley Neely that job in Cuba. —Muncie Herald. @ — In large headlines then.- Chicago Times-Herald announces reassuringly Unit Mark Hanna will, in the selection of,a a republican vice-presidential candidate "be neutral as far as possible.” - The trust friends of Hanna are the aien with whom Secretary Gage of the treasury bargained for the 'nefarious New York custom house deal and the free apvernment loantf to Standard.. Oil banks. Col.Oi rbin'js cheek for SSOO given to the republican State committee*, has found its way into print. This'is th* kind of that ■ touches a Under cord in, the sympathetic heart c! M.<k Hgnna, the republican party of today. • Neely will take the stump for Cremer in this congressional district. Neely is said to be a thoroughbred, and will back his endorser, Cromer, for all there isin ft. Neely could draw Cromer big crowds. AmlerSbn Democrat; MatorlTaggart wants io Im* ehairmtyi of Jhe national committee and heougmtobe successful in his as-, pirations. A reorganization the national committee will be a long step, toward the success of th** democratic party and the election of \V. J.Bryan. Jhi? Philadelphia consent on will niake their nominations today, and Jhcconling to a statement this morn•ing from the pen of Hanna, the ticket will be.McKinley velt. The latter seqjns more*" popular than the President and a stampede was feared by administrationists, in which McKinley’s efrances would lie in danger. o • •Thomas B. Reed, who at one time presided over the destinies of the senate, still talks straight from the shoulder. He said: “I hope you * gentlemen of congress ®vill find means, constitutional, if possible though that mattsr does net seem to ixither yuii to stop the petit larceny in Cuba, which you intend to steal later entire.” » Without ctxnment we give th® Hon. H. S. Fargo of Hartford City, the ben •efit of a little printer’s ink in this ikkiie. He is a candidate sot congress, as he has a right to be, and as hta democracy and ability is fully vouched for by that able exponent of Jackson and Bryan, the Hartford City Telegram, we cheerfully give him the benefit of our extensive circulation.

•sxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxaxk Mr. BRYAN’S PHILIPPINE POLICY. • H Congress has adjourned without deiining the policy of £ lican party toward the Philipmes. It has “left everything to Me- * Kinley,” who "as sen#a second to Manila toeproclaim a £ “soverignty” which the inhabitants refuse to recognizi* and 1 hich he £ has been utterly unable to establish, after sixteen months war, with r .< 65,000 soldiers. Everything is vague and unsettled except the imrerili<ic idea and the fearful cost in lives and money. £ The voters who are opposed to this Asiatic adventure know exactly H where Mr. Bryan stands in regard to He formulated his policy in £ the Nebraska democratic platform, and lias just condensed it in H words: <& £ I* An immediate declaration of the nation’s purpose: First, to establish a stable government; second, to give the Filiwuos their inde- H pendence; and third.protect them from ouside inffrference. £ OlWhis |x)licy he save: I lielieve that an immediate annouiawment £ ■ < of the governtneutj|K>licy would stop the war and <iake easy the establishment of a stable government. Ido not anticipate any trouble £ h from the protection suggested. Our protection of the South American »- ■j republics has t>een a great help H them and very little expense to us. •s This is in effect a proposition to do in and for the Philippines what *• congress solemnly plwlged the nation to do in Cuba. It is just, it is American, it is practical. It would have profited the war in the * J Philippines. It would stop the "insurrection” now. £ Upon this policy Mr. Bryan will have the earnest support of The World Ji and of every enemy of imperialism who believes with us that the only 7} issue in the campaign worth considering is the preservation of the re- £ •< public, the maintenance of th«» Constitution and a return to the prin ciplea of the Declaration of Independence. New York World. t StTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTrTTTTTTTTTTTfTTrTTTTTTTTTTITTTTTTTTK

& BLACKFORD S CANDIDATE. Hartford City’s candidate at the congressional convention which meets in this city July 18 is Henry S. Fargo. Mr. Fargo is receiving cheering words from all parts of the almost every day, and the neaW the day of the convention, the more certain seems to be his nomination. Mr. Fargo is not making an active canvass for the place, but should the democracy of *the district make him the bearer, he will be found an activi ©and energetic candidate who will continue the fight®mtil the evening of election day. His nephew, the Hon. Charles A. Towne, has promised to assist him all that he can * uld he receive the nonJftation and will ' make several speeches over the district as will also Towne's prominent friends, who, like Mx Towne, are orators ofitecoguized ability. The feeling grows each day that George W. Cromer cannot carry the district this year with his large' ma-( jority. Majorities never got too large for the people to overthrow and tfae ® ® ® «■- ■ h - : ... © r ® $ HENRY S. FARGO,

people are decidedly against Cromer and his record. Believing that Mr. Fargo's friends in this cßnnty and over.the district will be interested in something concerning the life' of Hartford City’s candidate for congress. the Telegram presents the folfowingfcketch: Henry S. Fargo was lorn on a farm near Warsaw. Wyoming county. N. Y., April 29. 1846. He capie to Oakland county, Michigan, in 1859, and im father's bimily settled on a near Davisburg. He attended the country school in winter and worked on the farm in "Summer. In 1864 at the age of seventeen heF enlisted in Co. D, 3d Michigan Infantry. He was with jhe2d army corps of the army of the P< tomac. under the command" of. Maj. Gen. W. S. Hancock and served till the close of the war, taking part in the battle of the wilderness, Spottsylvania, Gpal Harbor, Petersburg, ,Va., rid others. \ft>* returning home, he attended school at Saranac, Michigan. He was married to Miss Gertrude E. Pen v in 1866, soon after he moved io Miami county. Kansas, he engaged inJive stock and farming. \t this time he devoted extra tiuie to the study of law. In 1871, when what* was known as the 20 mile strip in Kansas was thrown for settlement by the government, he tooksup a quarter section of government land, ;n Sumner county in that state, helped to arganize the county, mid was a mem ber of the original town company, of V»t llington, that afterwards beCatte iiecountv seat, and a flourishing little city of 10.000 population. Afte»a residence of three years, during which time he was engaged in farming #nd live stock, cattle, horses, etc.; and attending to such law practice as opportunity afforded. His health failed and he returned to Mrtmi county. He finally located in Kansas City and became interested in lead and zinc mining lands near Joplin, Mo. In 1892 the natural gas belt of Indiana seemed to b<■ the only place in the world for safe investment of capital, anil he became a resident of Hartford City. He promoted and built the Zinc Smelter at J. pland, and ’■also the srtihe year another Zinc Smelter at Ingalls. Both of these industries have for several years lieen in successful operation. During the last five years Mr. Fargo has been in the law practice at Ilartfoid City. —Hartford City Telegram. ® Rathbone, and Neely is Champ Clark's suggestion for a republican ticket on the platform “The Old Flag and Cuban Swag.”

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The eleventh district democratic 1 convention will lie held at Huntington on August 8. Arrangements are flready being made for a red letter dav for the democracy of-that district. All the candidates for state office will be there, and it is sjjfe to say that everything will beilecidedly democratic. Kern is readv for a joint discussion with Mr. Durbin. Lot the campaign be opened right here in Anderson. Let the voters size up the men, and hear their views on the issues. Fifty thousand people woukF come to see the candidate. Mr. Durbin will be inyited to join Mr. Kern in a public discussion. The News hopes 51r. Durbin will accept. An derson Democrat. The pretense of doubt as to whether Senator Hanna will assume charge of the McKinley campaign and the senator’s own affectation of coyness afford one of the funniest incidents of the present political situation. The fun would be mog l overwhelming. th»ugi it could scarcely be more abvious, but for the melancholy certainty that Mr. Hanna will manage Major McKinley's campaign just as surely as Major McKinley shall become a candidate. Os this no thinking portion entertains the smallest dount. The sympathies of our people this week extend to the family of Jacob C. Miller, who moftrn the sad death of t eon and brother in the cruel Philippine war. Doubly 5 * cruel it seems too, when that death took 8 place seven long months ago, and the first and oulv notification came to the family was last Thursday. Even if the war is being wa#-d for aggeesion and has no constitutional American spirit contained within it, yet there is certainly a direlict of duty 'iipon the part of the regiment or army officials in addi*on thereto, ana we are lead to believe from the tone of Sergeant Smith's litter, that this instance is not out of the ordinary. Think of it in a mild passion if you The total numlier of delegates at the Kansas Citv convention will be 930. Os these, two thirds, or 621, will lie necessary to nominate. It is thus seen that the choi-.M>f the convention for president and its attitude toward the Chicago platform already de termined. Mr. Bryan will lie nominated and the principles, whose advocacy has imttie him the people’s Choice for their chief office, will be reaffirmed, cordially, enthusiastically, unanimously. No other candidate has been mentioned and no discordant note sounded. Such unanimity is significant because it is a spontaneous tribute to a great man and a great principle. Both are safely established in the heart of the democracy—of the Amer ican people. The ship subsidy bill is Hanna's own, and he would lie one of the chief beneficiaries. It is no fault of his that congress did not dare before the election to perpetrate this outrage which would take from the treasury $90,000,000 and put it iu the pockets of six or seven transportation magnates under the pretense of reviving the American ' Ulen hul marine. Hanna and his friends saw the handwriting on the wall and deferred that steal until after the November election. Just as surely as William McKinley is re-elected president it will be revived at the short session of the LVltfi congress. If McKinley be defeated and the Hanna influence in congress driven from power, it will bo heard of no more.

Worse and Worse in Cuba. Ycsterdnv morning lepiiuled I part of an Havana letter to the Indianapuiis News only a part, we say, for much of it seemed almost incredible; and after all, what we did reproluce seemed to be - eßough. We frankly admit that while we have known for more than a year past that the money of the @uban taxpayers was outrageously wasted upon finworthy and incompetent persons, v.e never for a moment dreamed of such infamies as are disclosed or suggested in the communication referred to. The Post has consistently and persistently condemned the appointment to office with high salaries attached, of such men as Lacret, Sanguilly, Quesada, Carlos Garcia, Quintin Bandero. &c., &c., on the score that it was unjust to the classes who contributed the money. We have held to the position that all disbursements of the kind are indefensible upon any ground that would receive respectful recognition in this country. But we were totallyunprepared for such a revelation ol dishonor and iniquity as this. The jvriter charges not only a wide spread system of official robbery in Cuba, but a deliberate and calculated policy of concealment on the part ofourauthorities. He does not content himself with asserting that Neely is a comparatively significant thief; he declares that the bigger thieves have been known for months, and that their superior officers have intentionally shielded them. He even goes so far as to say that the investigation now in progress is a carefully devised sham, having for its object the concealment of the real criminals and the magnitude of its wickedness. He emphatically alleges that the inquiry has been by design directed to the two branches of our governmental establishment in Cuba which are notoriously clean and honest—the custom house and the publie schools and adds that it has been so directed with the fixed pur pose of postponing until after the campaign injthis country any exposure of the departments in which jiecuialion is known to rage like a conflagration or an. epidemic. Finally, and worst of all, he declares that this is done with the knowledge and consent of Washington, if not under definite, though, of course, secret, instructions. Here is a dreadful and humiliating situation a situation under which the parties concerned cannot with dignity and honor rest. It seems to us that Senator Platt ,sannot too soon inaugurate his investigation or too soon publish its results. Washington Post, ind. Some republicans excuse Governor Mount’s violation of law, duty and decency on the ground that "it "is all politics.” It may tie mentioned that it is not all politics to Justus Goebel. He has had a brother assassinated shot down in cold blood. It is not all politics to the commonwealths of Kentucky and Indiana. It is a very serious matter, and not one to lie disposed of as horse play. Sentinel. The administration will lie wise to muzzle Gen. Otis if it is to persist in the assertion that the Filipinos are "incapable of self government,” and must be kept indefinitely under Amer ican military control. "I have Hjsmt a year and a half among the Filipinos,” said the general to a Washington interviewer this, week, “and I want to say they are without doubt the best of any race of the Asiatic races living on the Pacific coast and islands. Their acquisitive abilities are remarkable.” Gen. Otis knows whereof he speaks.

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