Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1900 — Page 4

,THE DEMOCRAT IVKRV THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLIN G HAM. Publisher. 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoftice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. THE TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON. For Congress. Joseph t. day. For State Senator. STEPHEN H. FLEMMING. For Hep-e«< ntative, HENRY DIKKSON. For Judge Adams Circuit Court, RICHARD KINNEY ERWIN. For Prosecutor. JOHN C. MORAN. For Auditor. A. A. BUCH. For Treasurer J. H. VOGLEWF.DE. For Sheriff. DANIEL N. ERWIN For Surveyor, GEORGE E. MCKEAN. For Commissioner 2nd District, SAMVEL DOAK. For Commissioner 3rd District, JACOB ABNET. For Coroner, CHARLES S. CLARK. For County Assessor. BLIAS CRIST, South Bund boasts of a Bryan Club which is eomposd of a membersnip of 750. The New York Journal makes the claim that Bryan and Stevenson will have a plurality in Greater New York that will exceed 89,000. Alabama is still safe for the democrats by a majority of 50,000 or more. But then this kind of music is taken by common consent this year. Tom Taggart has been named as a member of the national executive committee, and that means much for the success of democracy, both in the state and nation. Mark Hanna has already tapped his barrel in New York, which is the best kind of evidence that Mark’s putrid liver is not working harmonious with the expressed sentiment favoring Bryan. \\ e don t hear much from the republican spellbinders about “hauling down the flag” in the American Porcupine mining district of Alaska which John Hay has surrendered to England. b Roosevelt’s malicious attack upon the democrats, living and dead, who served in the war with Spain continues to rebound upon himself with increasing force. The living are more zealous in their resentment of the insult to their dead comrades than to themselves. Everyl>odv is angry including Roosevelt s friends, but nobody is surprised.

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 for the next two weeks. A FEW SPECIAL PRICES broken lots of coats and vests in all wool Chcvoits, Worsteds and Cassimere, former prices—s3.so, 4.50, 5.50, 6.50, 7.50 and 11.00, Reduced prices—s2.2s, 3.00, 3.50, 4.00, 4.50 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 prices—sl.2s, L 75. 2.25, 2.75, 3.00 and 3.50. Great reductions in STRAW HAT& and other lines according. All summer goods must go in this sale. Be sure and come early and get first choice. P. Holthouse & Co.

A n anti-imperialistic league has been formed in Indiana, with Henry U. Johnson as president. Ex Mayor Hopkins of Chicago, is another gold democrat, who this year is a loyal supporter of Bryan. Fugitive Taylor was the drawing card at Reme City last Tuesday, the same being advertised as republican day. _________ The attendance at the Indianapolis notification meeting is placed at 100,000, the largest crowd of people ever in the state capitol. so says the Indianapolis Press. Predictions were freely made that Indiana was safe for the democrats this year. Hon. Charles A. Towne hasoffieially declined the nomination for vice president, which was tendered him by the populist convention. He pledges himself to the support of Bryan and Stevenson, and asks the reform forces of the country to follow his example. The democratic party is as strongly in favor of an income tax now as at any period of its history. This assertion will be abundantly proved by the candidates and their leading supporters in the coming campaign. Every speech will reiterate the democratic demand for the income tax. Thirty republicans of wealth in this country—men who exert a selfish interest in swaying the president and in buying senators and representatives have a joint yearly income approximating $300,000.000. These men can start or stop a panic at will. They can expand or contract the currency at When the Declaration of Independ ence is derided, when a politician proposes to divorce the American flag from the American constitution and to clothe the republican magistrate with autocratic powers, an issue is presented which involves subversion or maintenance of free government.— W. Burke Coreran. The dangerous trust is the creature of privilege, the one that pays for its privilege, and demands and receives what it has purchased. And there is no possibility of destroying it until the republican policy of class legislation is broken down,'and a policy of equal rights to all and special privilege to none is adopted. At the opening meeting of the campaign in Illinois, held at Peoria, George B. Parsons said: ‘lf the imperialistic policy is fastened upon the United States it will be almost impossible to shake it off. An imperial policy means a standing army, and I want to say that a military regime was never organized that was not used to coerce labor. If you have rights you never can look to ttye army to enforce them. The military will be used by the interests which control it to force labor to its terms. A federal court in Tennessee fined members of the pipe trust SI,BOO each. The fine was small compared to the profits of the trust. But the law was established that trusts can be controlled and regulated down in Tennesse. Not so in Indiana as long as Mount is governor. They are not molested in this state. Mount could get a practical example of trusts here iu Anderson, where they have thrown 000 men out of employment. If a federal court <. an fine them in Tennessee, why not in Indiana’—Anderson Democrat.

OFFICIALLY NOTIFIED. BRYAN AND STEVENSON ACCEPT THE CALL OF THEIR PARTY. The Standard Bearers Paid a (ilowing Tribute by Those Who Believe in Their Cause. Indianapolis Entertains Mer Many Guests,* Including the Next President in True Democratic Simplicity. Yesterday at Indianapolis amid scenes calculated to make the democratic heart beat in fervent rapture, William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson were officially notified of their nominations, and which as a matter of fact were accepted, Such political scenes seldom occur at our state capitol, and such an outburst of enthusiasm and such a crowd of people seldom try to confine themselves within the borders of that city at the same time. The nominees, together with Mrs. Bryan, Mrs. Stevenson, William J. Bryan, jr., Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the national committee, Governor Thomas aud wife of Colorado, J. G. Johnson of Kansas, C. A. Walsh of lowa, Mayor Carter Harrison, Samuel Alschuler and M. F. Dunlap of Illinois, John J. Martin and Webster Davis of Missouri. Judge Blanchard of Louisiana, D. J. Campon of Michigan, R. M Johnson of Texas, J. B. Breathitt of Arizona,and many others, composed the party that reached Indianapolis at 7:30 Tuesday evening. The Indianap olis reception committee joined them at Lafayette and formed an escort. From the Union station to the Grand hotel, a solid mass of expectant people entirely blocked both street and walk. After arriving at the Grand hotel the nominees appeared on the balcony and spoke for a few minutes. That night a reception was held in the parlors and many thousand people were privileged ’to be presented to the standard bearers of democracy. Yesterday at one o’clock the parade formed for the march to Military park, where the notification meeting was held. The line of march was through the principle thoroughfares of the city, and easily outclassed anything of the kind ever witnessed liefore. At the park Hon. James Richardson of Tennessee, notified the presidential candidate and Governor Thomas of Colorado, delivered the notification address to the vice-presi-dential candidate. Their speeches of acceptance were logical productions of political wisdom, and will form the keynote for all the campaign orators in the country. The simplicity, candor and truthfulness of their utterances were convincing and pleasing to the more than 50,000 who withstood the penetrating heat and heard them throughout. Indiana and especially Indianapolis did herself proud upon this occasion, and entertained the visitors in true hoosier hospitablestvle. Those having the management of the event in charge are deserving of congratulations for the energy displayed. After the notification of the democratic standard bearers at Indianapolis, thev will both return to Chicago and with th» members of the national committee will outline the campaign. The national committee is this year acting with a great deal of diplomacy, and its effect will be far-reaching and apparent before election day.

The election of Bryan will mean nothing worse than the Mattering of trusts and imperialism, the restoration of legitimate competition and a full dinner pail at reduced prices. __ Oxe reason that Mr. Bryan issogenerally respected is that he is sincere. He says what he thinks, and what he thinks is generally right. Aud he does not keep quiet on any subject from fear that his views might injure his political prospect. It is because Mr. Bryan takes the position of a statesman and a patriot rather than that of a scheming politician in respect to public matters that he has such a remarkable hold on the people. The people like a sincere man and they are quick to recognize him wheu he appears in public life. The failures for May, as compiled fram Dun’s Review, number 947, as compared with 581 last year, and 917 in the “calamitous” vear of 1896. The number for May, is the largest ever known in that month since the records ha\e been kept. The records fcr the two succeeding months have been equally significant, as indicating the full meaning of the McKinley prosperity. President Gray of the Federal Steel Trust, who certainly has no motive for misrepresenting the facts on that side, said in a recent statement l of the iron and steel industry: “The demand is not equal to the production, and the latter should be cnrtailed until conditions change.” Production , is being eurtailedfat a rate extremely disastrous to the interests of workingmen. And this in spite of the pressure which, it is everywhere agreed, is being brought to bear upon the trust managers by their friends. Hanna and McKinley, to keep their works open if possible until after the election. The trust men are good Hanna republicans and would be glad to comply with this campaign request, but there is a limit even to the powers of a trust which has fattened upon the abnormal profits of a short season of artificial prosperity. The trust men are doing the best they can. but the truth cannot be concealed that the bottom is out of the McKinley prosperity. and the end is near at hand. We see by the Muncie Starthat our old friend, the Hon. J. T. Day. mayor of Dunkirk, Indiana, has received a rousing unanimous nomination for congress. They couldn’t have picked a better man if they had looked the whole state over. We happen to know all about Joseph T. Day, and we never met a man who was less partisan in politics, or more liberal and broader minded than he. Writing as a republican. and from another state, we do so with the sole desire to do honor and justice to a man who deserves the credit, if any man ever did. We knew Mr. Day intimately during his resi dence in Illinois, and alwavs found him to be a pure minded, honorable man. without a grain of deceit or trickery in his make-up. Being ourself an old soldier, we have had many a talk with him along that line, ana will say to the comrades of Indiana that if Joseph T. Day goes to congress vou'U have a friend that will stand by you to the end. He is a man of the’ com mon people, and will represent all the people, not a Dart of them. He has no enimies to punish, for Mr. Day is a man who makes friends of all.' He left a clean record back here in Illinois. and throguhout all the years of our acquaintance we never heard a breath against him. or knew him to be other than a whole-souled man among men.—Gridley, (Ill.) Advance.

It is next recorded that he entered the Spanish war in Cuba, and, although his regiment was commanded IW another man, he succeeded by means of that modern weapon of warfare known as a newspaper bureau in winning more renown in a week than I General Grant did in four years of hard fighting, and he seems to be the 'only man on this continent who boasts ■of having with his own hand shot down and killed a Spaniard that was I fleeing from the battle-field. In his Iwok he says: “As they turned to run I closed in and fired twice, missing the first and killing the ' second." He then boasts that he had considered this feat unique, and so it is.—Altgeld on Rooevelt. < The time has come to rewrite the declaration of independence and bring it into harmony with the ideas and purposes o f those who propose that we shall hold some millions of subjects. Part of the rewritten document will have to run something like this; “We hold these truths to lie self-evi-dent: That men are created unequal; that they are endowed by their conquerors with such rights, aud no others, as the latter choose to bestow; that none of these rights are unalienable; that to secure such limited and alienable rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their ! just powers from those who acquire the right to govern by conquest and subjugation.” This may not sound very well to some of us who are accustomed to the ring of the declaration ot 1776. But it is only the plain English of what the republicans declare in their Philadelphia platform, and what McKinley has declared even more boldly and remorselessly in his speech of acceptance. ChieagoChronicle. ’ The official notification of Bryan and Stevenson is now a recorded bit of history, in which Indiana and especially Indianapolis, may feel justly proud. The notable gathering was expressive too. and gave especial emphasis to the fact that Bryanism— as some republican journals are happy to name it is not on the wane, but to the contrary is still growing in the minds and hearts of the American people. Unlike McKinleyism, Hannaism, Neeleyism. Rathboneism, Rooseltism, and a hundred other isms that play an important part in the present administration, Bryan appeals to all that is truly American. Four years ago he appeared in Madison Square Garden, New York City, upon a similar occasion, and at that time he was almost a total stranger, unknown and without the confidence of his countrymen. Today he stands the acknowledged statesman and patriot, known and trusted by the masses in every state in the union. His election is sure to follow and Indiana at that time will pay him a more substantial tribute by giving him fifteen electorial votes and wishing him God speed in reestablishing our government upon the high moral plane so wisely set forth by the fathers of the republic. In no recent presidential campaign have the republican managers had to face the embarassment at the outset caused by the luke warmness or out right bolt of leaders of great influence as at the present. The list of big republicans who have either openly declared against the ticket and policy of the partv or have shown a lack of interest in the party’s success contains the names of ex-President Harrison, ex-Speaker Reed, Senator Wellington, of Maryland, and ex Representative Henry U. Johnson, of Indiana. No assurance has come from either ot the two first named that he will contribute anything to the re-election of Mr. McKinley, and the latter two are in open revolt. General Harrison has immured himself in the fastness of the Adirondacks, and probably will not emerge from his hiding place until the critical stage of the campaign has been passed. The republican managers have apparnetly exhausted all their recourses in vain to extract from the former president some word of encouragement. Not since be denounced the Oxnardized Porto Pican bill has General Harrison been known to make any comment upon the administration's course or his party's politics. Just liefore he came east he was broadly quoted as saving that Indiana would vote against Mr. McKinley,and no authoritive denial of this declare tion has yet lieen obtained. It seems that Mr. Reed had promised to make a few speeches in the Maine state campaign, which doses in September, but he has not pledged himself to appear on the stump as a pleader for McKinley. Senator Wellington has issued a statement avowing that he is unalterably opposed to imperialism, and saying further: “I am opposed to President McKinley because he has deceived me in national affairs, and I shall oppose his re-election.” The Marylander is of German extraction, and wields a tremendous influence with that element of voters in his state. Besides, he has a well organized machine in Maryland, and will operate through this’ to throw the electoral vote of that state for Bryan and Stevenson. It is conceded that his defection from McKinley will more than over throw whatever effect the lukewarmness of Mr. Gorman may have upon the democratic situation in Maryland.. Mr. Johnson’s personal following in Indiana ia large and loyal, and there are few as powerful stumpers in the country as he. Better still, he is thoroughly familiar not alone with the Indiana temperament ffiit also with the “tricks'’ of the Hoonier republican politican* Not only his eloquence and logic, there fore, but also his knowledge of republican election methods will bo turnwl to good account for the democratic ticket in Indiana.—Washington

what is Our government is based , theory not only that all' ‘he derive their just powers ? * sent of the governed, but that .f o®* 0 ®* powers shall never be the people to the endX mg autonomy of our renal,K ' Vort always prove to be a Iv n 'av the people, by the peo'pf of pie as happily expressed by » mortal Lincoln in his gJh l l ® speech. The jealous e are , who crew the specifications hued the charts by which on? d t ° ut ' state was to be constructed' pof was ever exercised to prevent tk ru » sibihty of any function of self-government’s beii llz ‘ pui »t from the people themselves vent its being taken out of tU i ptfr of tne people or place. 1 bev O n,| T’ contror'With that end sQ ’ l ' view their all controlling so safeguard every function of' u people s government as t 0 persons, chosen from time to time? administer temporarily the pub |j® « fairs of the republic, keenly aS diately responsible to th.. “®,®’ whose instruments amt servants ti’ were intended to be alwavs Ti'J/V rock idea of the whole pl an tt . firm belief that the closer the ment is kept to the people and 2 more keen y responsible each Pll | servant is kept to the will of the 2 pie, the safer and the better will th liberties and the sacred rights o f ’ people be preserved, and the impossible and ineffective willbeT ever-present temptation (on the pan of those temporarily in authority)? pervert and use the functions of L? ernment in promoting selfish ends securing special privileges or working out, unjust and unfair advantages In theory at least,’therefore, we find even public servant responsible, directly or indirectly io ihe people. And’ m studying the deliberations in which the safeguard and wise-provision, thrown by them around our govern ment were formed, we also find that those unselfish patriots who planned it were so jealous about having the people’s control over every governmental function preserved in itsentiretv that everythiug which was orisone degree removed from the direct eon trol of the common people was aud is the result of a compromise— not a compromise', however, between those who favored a marked degree of removal from the common people, on the one hand, and those who favored the most intimate and immediate responsibility to the common peopieon the other; but a compromise lietween those who, while favoring alike the most immediate responsibility of the government to the people, were trving to accomplish three'things: a "government of the people, by the people, for the people," which should preserve justice, insure equality aud be suffi ciently strong and stable to perform its functions effectually. But, in these later days, the tendency to remove the government away from the people more aud more, as well as the tendency to regard lightly and brush aside easily the sacred landmark of limitation set in our constitution, and even to set the constitution itself aside as a thing of the past, obsolete, out of-date and inapplicable to present conditions seems to lie growing more accelerated and emphasized day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year. And the manifestations of these tendencies has become justly alarming to those of our people who believe in constitutional government and are jsainfully conscious of the increasing frequency and boldness with which its well defined limitations are lieing questioned, strained or totally disregarded. This tendency to remove the government further and further from the people, to constantly minimize the force of the people's vote in the disposition and management of the current affairs of our government and to increase and greatly magnify the powers which those temporarily elected to office may exercise without hinderarcs and with absolute impunity is wui is meant by imperialism We hare seen very plain manifestations of » during the past few months, or at least that eternal vigilance which ■’ the price of liberty has become alarmed at the trend of current tendencies in government matters. A democratic republic is that form of government m which a self-governing people niH while an imperial republic is form of elective government in """’J agencies more or less independent ■ the popular will may rule an enipJ* with an elected ruler who. once J power, mav lx» all-powerful ami ladF iy independent of those who p him, and that trend of events ’'l' 11 has a tendency to change the m™ l , into the latter and which inl ' , , our people think they set* manner in the present administrative an legislative policy of our govern^ 1 . has provoked that earnest pM which makes such policy . mount issue in the pending presw ial contest. Roosevelt has discoventl, ly somewhat to his surprise, tha are American citizens who do m> his admiration of his own achiev »* which he has so proudly f* 00 ! 1 , .i.' # t shooting a Spaniard in the M , the battle of San Juan. L nfor for Teddy's fame as a soWl ®' U American people hold bi" l / 0 , pj, bravest who is the least They like the Wellington or Gran’ Sherman typie of soldier ,H *'’ . 10 (j makes war only to secure p',' forgets the strife as soon as l K : j instead of bragging of *t 111 , peace. And this is only u ‘ for many unpleasant shocks in * ' Colonel Roosevelt during / y paign. Mr. Bryan’s h|mmx'li at fndianapolis, dealt at length this subject.