Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVBRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLLNGHAM. Publisher. (1,00 PEP. YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the pox* .ffi.-e at la-catur. Indiana » iecond-claa* mail matter OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUMTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2. THE TICKET. FOB PRESIDENT, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, FOR VICE PRESIDENT. ADLAI E. STEVENSON. For Congreaa. JOSEPH T. DAY. For State Senator. STEPHEN H FLEMMING. For Rep-etxntatire. HENRY DIRKSON. For Judge Adam* Circuit Court. RICHARD KINNEY ERWIN. For Prveeeutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor. A. A. BOCH. For Treasurer 9. h. vugleu ede. For Sheriff. DANIEL N. ERWIN For S. rreyor, GEORGE E. MCKEAN. For CommlMioner 2nd District. SAMVEL DOAK For Cotnmlseioner 3rd District. JACOB ABNET. For Coroner. CHARLES 8. CLARK. For County Asaeesor. ELIAS CRIST. Hanna will enlist the dollars: Bryan gets the men. The democracy is a unit. It stands on the Kansas City platform. There isn't a monopoly in America that will not contribute to the republican campaign fund. Hon. Rourke Cockban has publicly announced his allegiance ana intention to support Bryan. The Goebel trial is bound to result in the conviction and sentence of the Hanna partv in Kentucky. Hanna’s boiler plate factorv has begun operation, and as a result republican newspapers are having a harvest. And still the mints are running night and dav coining monthly a million and half of silver dollars at the “dishonest" ratio of sixteen to one. The annual meeting of the township advisory boards will occur the first Tuesday in September. At this meeting the township tax levies will be adjusted. It is time the republican press was heralding the cherished name of William D. Bynum, as a convert to the duty of Mark Hanna. The omission is quite noticeable. McKinley in his address ci acceptance was mum on the trust subject. Not a word did he utter, showing that he fully appreciated the source from which the. campaign boodle came.

Price Tells the Tale.., The prices presented today are better than arguments, and appeal with stronger force than columns of talk with nothing to back them. It is the fixed purpose of this store to start each season with an entire stock of new goods. In order to close out all broken lots we will offer great inducements to buyers tor the next two weeks. A FEW SPECIAL PRICES Broken lots of coats and vests in all wool Chevoits, Worsteds and Cassimere, iormer prices—s3.so, 4.50, 5.50, 6.50, 7.50 and u.oo, Reduced prices— s 2 25, 3 00, 3.50, 4 00, 450 and 5.00. Broken lots of pants in staple and fancy patterns, former prices—s2.oo, 2 50, 325, 4.00. 4.50 and 5.00 Reduced Great reductions in STRAW HATS and other lines according. All summer goods must go in this sale. Be sure and come early and get first choice. P. Holthouse & Co.

Col. Dvrbin is already having trouble, the labor elements at his home giving evidence of disapproval to his candidacy. The state and national committees will be drawn on to i Hannaize them into subjection. The fusion forces in Kansas have I satisfactorily adjusted their differI ences. and placed their ticket in the \ field. The compact as agreed upon I assures the electoria! vote of that state ! to Bryan and Stevenson. Rathbone is now under arrest as an accomplice of Neeley in the Cuban postal frauds, and this fact again brings to mind that Neeiev came into official prominence through the recommendation of our own Congressman Cromer. United States Senator Wellington, republican, of Maryland, cannot stomach McKinley and imperialism, and makes a published statement of his opinion of such a man and policy. Senator Wellington is one of the most able members of the senate. In his letter of acceptance President McKinley forgot to sav a word about trusts. It is not possible the omission was intentional as the trusts contributed most of the enormous republican campaign fund that elected McKinley in 1896.—P1y mouth Democrat. The Marion Chronicle has been sold to the management of the Morning News of that city, the consideration being $45,000. The Chronicle is one of the best newspaper properties in the state, and from a republican point of view, also one of the best edited. Imperialism has been described as "The White Man’s Burden," but since it crushes the weal th-producer beneath an increasing weight of taxes, it might with more propriety be called "The Poor Man's Load."—W. J. Bryan. Jim Watson, the republican con- i gressman from the sixth district, has i refused the challenge of his democrat | opponent for a series of joint discus-' sions. How well the republican managers realize the utter hollowness ; of their cause. Governor Kern will open his campaign at Columbus on September 1. Mr. Kern is one of the best campaigners in the state and an orator who will rattle the dry bones of the g. o. p. to perfection. His Columbus effort will be the key note of the campaign. Congressman Cromeb and J. P. Goodrich, the latter being the g. o. p. district chairman, were here last Fri | day and held a short consultation with a few of the faithful at Jud Teepie's office. The affair had no outter appearance of "manifest des- i tiny.’’ Bryan stands squarely upon the Kansas City platform, with imperialism the paramount issue. In this he has disappointed the hope of the Mark Hanna party who have endeavored to divert the attention of the people from the importance of this great evil. It will soon be time for Fugitive Taylor to give the hoosiers another production about “what constitutes good American citizenship.” The evidence in the Governor Goeble murder trial, proves conclusively that this great moral Arab was a conspicuous figure in the plot of assasination.

I Uncle Mark has levied hit. campaign assessment on the trusts. The beef combine put up the pace of corned and roast beef last week from $1.25 to $1.50 on one pound cans. The story of Pekin finds all the ministers, members of legations and their families alive. The London Times hears direct from its own correspondent who gives this information and with it shows the Chinese government guilty of duplicity with the other great powers of the world. Chairman Jones has just returned to Chicago from New York, where he has been in consultation with the leaders in the east. His visit there resulted in bringing together the various elements of the party, and this means much for the success of the partv. especially in the state of New York. John Clark Ridpath, the American historian, died Tuesday at the Presbytertan hospital in New York. Mr. Ridpath was born in Putnam county, Indiana, and for years has been the pride of our state. He was a great writer, his first publication being the "Academic History of the United States." Following this up to 1898 many noted publications found their way to the public through his author ' ship. Frank B. Burke was nominated last Saturday by the democrats of I the Indianapolis orseventh district for ' congress. His first act was to issue a ' challenge to Jesse Overstreet, the republican nominee, for a joint discussion of the issues. It is safe to say : that he will be refused such an audi- ' enee, as the g. o. p. cannot meet the issues that have been made by Mark Hanna. Mr. Burke's nomination is • one of the best in the state. Adams county wiil have no belter enthusiast for the success of democracy than Judge Studabaker, who already is impatiently awaiting the formal opening of the campaign. The Judge understands the conditions of the country perhaps better than the average mortal hereabouts, and realizes the necessity for an administrative change in the affairs of government. He is a great believer in close and persistent organization, and will be' found in the thick of the fight after I the first gun is fired. During the campaign Indiana will have the honor of entertaining such democrats as David B. Hill of NewYork. Senator Daniels, of Virginia; Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania; Governor McMillan, of Tennessee; Governor Hogg, of Texas; Webster Davis, of Missouri; .Mayor Rose, of Milwaukee; Senator Teller and Governor Thomas, of Colorado; Senator Blackburn and Henry Watterson, of Kentucky: John J. Lentz, of Ohio: Mavor Carter Harrison, of Chicago: and Congressman Daniels, of North Carolina. The commercial travelers this year know but one issue and that the trusts. Since sirKinley's administration one hundred trust companies have been formed which cover the majority of the necessities used by the American people. These one hundred trusts have absorbed 2314 other concerns and caused 50.000 traveling men to lose their jobs. This tells the story of an issue so far as the traveling man is concerned. They are against the trusts and that means that they are also against the re-elec-tion of McKinley.

; Wren Towne. Hill, Watterson. ' Webster Davis. Wellington and Henrv lU. Johnson get turned loose in Indi- ! ana. the poor disgruntled old republican partv will wonder what hit them. *lt will knock the green eyed goggles off of all the “rough rider" patriotism, I that Jack Heruley can muster in the nett one hundred years. On with the dance. ________ j The Atlanta Constitution well says: “There never has been but one party in this country having the genius, the capacity and the desire to administer the government in the interest of the people, there never has been but one ! party which the people could trust to : advantage to themselves and that is i the partv organized by Thomas Jeffer- ' son to resist the encroachments of those who have no confidence in the capacity of the people to govern themselves, and which party is t lay under the leadership of Wm. J. Bryan.' The attempt by the republicans to shield their admiuistraticn by pushing the sixteen to one proposition, is already proving a boomerang. Their own argument is answered by the McKinley administration, who are ’ and have’ been coining the silver bul- ' lion now in the treasury, a proposition Mr. Brvan suggested four years ago. Over 44.000.000 silver dollars have been coined since the inauguration of Mr. McKinley, and they have been I palming them off at one hundred cents on the.dollar. For campaign i argument thev say this is dishonest money and coined at a dishonest ratio. As the presidential campaign opetfs up it becomes more and more appar- ■ ent that there are many in the ranks iof the degenerate republican party that refuse to bow their kne»— to Baal or accept the decrees and chains of imperialism, The recent action of men like Webster Davis in throwing off their allegiance to the un-repub-lican party brings hope to the hearts of the republic. The uncompromising stand taken by Mr. Davis is evidence that the democracy of Jefferson and Jackson still holds a place in manly American hearts, that the republicanism of Lincoln is still cherished by the people, and that the wise counsel of Washington is not forgotten. The New York World has analyzed McKinlev's speech of acceptance. Here it is: 7047 words were devoted to monev and silver, 313 words to j imperialism and the Philippines. 242 ' words to praise of republican record, | 126 words to protection. 82 words to China. 75 words to the Hague conference. 66 words to Hawaii. 57 words to Spanish war. 22 words to Cuba and Porto Rico, 0 words to trusts. It will be observed that the | political acrobatjtalked most against the principles that he once so dearly loved. He devotes a long paragraph to the beaut it* of shooting the hope of independence out of the Filipino breast and talked at length on the wonderful business acumen of republicans. He really believes that the accumulation of the unneessary war tax is an evidence of business wisdom when it is an outrageously unjust violation of the promise to remove the war tax as soon as the war with Spain was brought to a close. McKinley has put forth great effort to make the (overnment an auxiliary to trusts and e has succeeded to a startling degree. The honest voter who is above party prejudice will help bury him in November and put a real manly American in his place who is above the blandishments of the RockafellerHanna clique.

shut-downs and lock-outs. Overproduction and increase in selling price are doing their work. From everv part of the county comes news of the ciosingof manufacturing plants, ostensibly, in some instances, for "repairs improvements,,’ which really is not the reason’ but is an excuse offered by the "trust', magnates, which has’no purpose othetthan to deceive the discharged employes. The cause is found in the fact that consumers will not submit to enormous demands of the "trusts” on the sale prices of their manufactured goods. I What with the attempts to reduce tije pay of the wage-earners, which have caused strikes on the part of the laborers. and the immense increase on the ; sale price of the products to be used. ;in many places great improvements which were contemplated have not been begun, and enterprises which would have given employment to hundreds of thousands of laborers have been entirely abandoned. In some of the largest cities specific branches of construction business have been ((analyzed and tens of thousands of honest, industrious mechanics and laboring men, and over one hundred and fifty thousand women and children, whose sustenance i depends upon the employment of their fathers, husbands and brothers, are hungering or eating bread from the hand of charity. Truly the wealthy combines ar effectively doing the work for which they were organized. The republican managers are declaring that they are the authors of the prosperity which covers, they say, the country as a canopy. They also declare that they have made it possii ble that there shall lie employment for every man who who wishes to work, Thev also claim that they have | increased the wages of labor and that peace and plent) follow the operation of the economic and industrial laws which they have inaugurated. There is not a word of truth in the claims they make. It was not, is not. and never will be the aim of these political managers to enact measures that will ameliorate or improve the condition of the laboring classes. The object of their legislation is to make labor sub servient to wealth. When an honest member of the repblican partv, comprehensive of the just aims of government, and anxious to establish justice lietween the money employed and the man employed, succeeds in enacting a law to curb the rapacity of organized I capital, such as John Sherman's "anti- ' trust iaw." the republican administraj tion furnishes an attorney-general to declare that there is no law which will enable him to compel the greed of capital to spare labor from outrageous imposition. For nearly forty years labor has been at the mercy of capital. The affluent and conscienceless have been legislated for. but no thought has been given to the laborer, except as how was the most effective way of taking the fruit of his toil and be protected in the robbery by the law. In former years the black man was held in slavery, but he was not left to the ruthless rapacity ol his master and owner. The local laws in each state where slavery existed compelled the owner to provide for the necessities of the slave, to clothe him. house him, feed him, and in sickuess to see that he was ministered to by a physician. To the credit of most of the slave owners they complied with the mandate of the laws. But our capitalists are not affected by any such laws. Not a single burden is imposed on them except those which are covered in contract. Their business, under the enactment of the republican managers who suggest the . haracter of all legislation and who control the manner in which the law is applied and enforced. is to filch from labor everv penny it is possible to obtain. There are republicans in political faith; but this class has no sympathy with the managers of the republican party. They are just men who perform all the just obligations between themselves and their employes. With the conception of the "trust system" of robbing these men they have had no relation. They condemn the infamy of the combinations and are objects of the hatred and persecution of the “trust managers. They are not , Rockefellers, or Carnegies, or indus- | tnal steel plant men, nor any of the I Aber thousands who have built the I "trust" combinations. They do not ask the paternalism of the government to aid them in robbing the consumers. They do not “shut down” to prevent production, and do not “lock out” their employes to force them to accept lower wages. Each telegraph column is burdened with news of plants closed and laborers idle. This news will continue to come until the economic system which births it is destroyed.—Enquirer. Here is the meat in Governor Roosevelt s speech officially opening the campaign: “The democrats stand for lawlessness, for dishonesty and dishonor, for license and disaster at home and cowardly shrinking from duty j abroad. ’ What more could you want to make democrats vote for the brave Roosevelt! What do you think of a T‘ ,un K who characterizes in , this fashion and seven million American citizens who voted for Bryan four I years ago. Governor Roosevelt’s de‘“•ription, by the way, applies to Geni era! Lawton he was a democrat; and to Dewey—he is a democrat; and to ! die is a demncrat;and to Gen II erai W heeler- he is a democrat. Were these men "dishonest at home and i cowards abroad ?” A wise old man in I the democratic party remarked when II Roosevelt was nominated: “We can | safely rely on that voung man to make inore kinds of a fool of hinuulf than I any man has ever done in public life.” I Governor Roosevelt seems to be rapidly verifying the prediction.—ChiII cago American.

Military Park where tZ '— tion of Bryan and place, is large enough to ODO people to get within heS'* s °>' tance. At this meeting there A dis ' four set speeches, the 111 be the presidential candidate* seutative Rwnardson the chairman at the Kansas Citv tion, and Bryan’s reply to ton. 000 !? 1 ' notification of SteveLor bv r*' Thomas of Colorado, chairman at Kansas Citv . candidate’s reply Besi'd speeches will be made bv all L S democrats of the countrv a ii n , .4 will be there. Adams rounu s kh* well represented at The that in many insane asvlums "" men a large majority of the in are farmers wives. The frwnmn. 88 tition of this assertion GeorgeJG. Gross, a PeunoylvaE > sictan of some prominence an <l 8c P £ student of agricultural condition , Hivestigate the situation thorouJ? w>th the vrew of ascertaining thvff He declares that the fanners wives m these institutional greatly exaggerated and that statements made concerning them ar ! a base slander upon farm life Them are a good many other illusions e nn cerntng the alleged unpleasand f~ tures of country life which oueht T be dispelled. South Bend Ti£ When Mr. Brvan took the field four years ago he had on his shoulders th 6 great work of reorganizing the party and making its strength effectire’ That is what his wonderful canvass of that campaign meant. In a large part 1 of the country he was deserted bv the democratic press, and in the great states the organization was a merepre tense, doing nothing for the cause of the candidate. He has not to do over again in 1900 the work he so nobly and splendidly performed in 189$ That work is done. He now starts where he left off in the last campaign. He is backed by a united party, never so determined to achieve victory, if victory is possible, or can be achieved through well-directed and earnest effort. With all disadvantages against him in 1896 he has now all that could be reasonably hoped for at the outset of the campaign in his favor. In 1n96 he polled 6.500,000 votes and had a large majority of the nativeborn white voters, coming within 20.000 votes of an election, if there had been changes to that extent in six states. He accomplished this under such obstacles and discouragements as never before faced a candidate for the presidency. With this record, what may not be expected when everything is favorable? We believe those who subscribe to the’ Kansas City platform and believe in Brvan today constitute a majority of the American electorate. The united democracy go forth to certain victory. —Pittsburg Post. THE CRIMINAL CUCKOOT IT« la the One Exception to the Ktadiy Nature ot Bird*. rind temper and cruelty are perbapa the most obvious signs of mental degeneration in the beasts. The larger monkeys, for instance, become as bad tempered as a violent man when they grow old, and many In their treatment of other animals are cruel as we use the word in regard to man. Among the carnivorous beasts the cat amuses itself by torturing a mouse, and the weasel tribe kill for sheer lore of killing. No auch cruelty Is seen among eagles or falcons. , Fierce as their tempera are. they do not torment other blrda which they catch or kill for killIng’a aake. Good temper h general among blrda. Except the cuckoo. «jch a thing as an ill tempered wild bird Is unknown. Nowhere In the race can a temper like that of the Tasmanian devil or the wild bunting dog or the Ca;* buffalo or the baboon be found. Even those which in spring are thieves and egf robbers are not mauvafs couchenrs at other times. Good temper and good fellowship in society, a personal affection to each other to which the beasts offer no parallel. Industry and independence, intense devotion and foresight in tending their young, with other very human and engaging traits or character, must all be credited to the race of blrda. Among these kindly and simple natures the cuckoo is a monster, l* there be no mistake on this s'wject He unites in his life «nd chsracter. from the egg to the adult bln! jractlces and principles tu which the wboi race of warm blooded animals offers n parallel. He is an outrage on the mor al law of bird life, something so nsgrant and so utterly foreign to the ws of thought of these kindly beings that if be did not exist he would celv*ble. It Is not merely that he » ■upplanter and a changeling, whole nature Is so evil that In world of birds be Is Incarnation the principle of lU. an embodiment o vices which would If understo* adopted by other birds put an en the existence of the race.-^’ n Spectator. Her Frerepeec "Do yon think he ean support yon' food style after you are married, ne I bear he is worth nothing “I know Harold isn’t rich. m»mn£ but be has bls life insured for ■ and 1 eould get along quite coni bly on that”— Chicago Tribune. etvta* Tfc*- «*• . C fty An impecunious man In h*"' practically lives on ba naD “- i uf t eats them, be throws the P 0 * outside bls office door. That» he flvea bls creditors the sllp - City Star.