Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT RVIKY TBUKSDAY MORNINC. BY LEW 0. ELLINQHAM. Publisher. fI.W PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered nt ttn t <sti tti > at l’icat >: r * .iar.a as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. AUGUST 23. THE TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON. For Congress, JOSEPH T. DAY. For State Senator. STEPHEN B. FLEMMING. For Kcp’esr ntatire. HENRY DIRKSON. For Judge Adams Circuit Court, RICHARD KINNEY ERWIN. For Prosecutor. JOHN C. MORAN Fore Auditor, A- A. BOCH. For Treasurer. J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For Sheriff. Daniel n. erwin For Surveyor,

GEORGE E. M< KEAN For Commissioner 2nd District, • SAMUEL DOAK.* For Commissioner 3rd District, JACOB AB.NET. For Coroner. CHARLES S. CLARK. For County Assessor. KLIAS CRIST. The campaign in Adams county will open Friday evening. August 31. During 1899, under the prosperity of McKinley, 116 trusts with a combined capital cf $2,446,500,000, were organized. “If the crooked work of the republican party in power could lie shown up to the people this administration would lie upset in an hour." Senator Teller. Col. Bryan has told exactly what he would do with the Philippines if elected. It is now up to Mr. McKinley to tell what his Philipine intentions are. The organization in Adams county now begins in earnest, and as a result the democrats will roll up the largest democratic majority in the history of the county. The trusts are once again worried about the •’flag" and the “national honor," and “full dinner pails." Thev will i>e desparately patriotic until after the election. Organize Bryan Clubs along with jour precinct and township organizations. and send the names of your officers to the secretary of the Nation al Democratic Clubs. In May of this year there were 947 failures, as shown by Dun's Mercantile : Review, as against 917 th- same month ■ in 1896. Rememlier the dates and remember the figures: 1896 was. according to republicans, a year of calamity. What will they call 1900?

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A Democratic club should be organized in every precinct in Indiana. Keep this in your mind and speak to your neighbors about it. Not only that, but organize a club. The South African war has cost Great Britain $400,000,000, and it has only got about the same sort of control now over the Transvaal that we have over the Philippines. • - - - I It is the desire of the national com- | mitlee that much energy be devoted to the organization of democratic clubs. Every township in the state of Indiana should support a club. Organize. According to Dun business failures for the week ending August 4, were 25 percent greater than last year. But any man who doubts that the ’ country is prosperous is an anarchistand a traitor. I firm:.i be eve that President McKinley will be defeated this year. I think that the interests of the laboring men lies in voting the democratic ticket.'’ —Hon. George S. Boutwell, Secretary Treasurer under i Grant. The first week in August the price : of canned corned beef and roast beef was raised from $1.25 to $1.50 per doz- ■ en for one-pound cans. How much of | the increase will find its way to the ' republican campaign fund in response to Mark Hanna's assessment of the trusts?

“Agriculture, under present conditions, is making millionaires out of men who are not engaged in it—the trust magnates who fatten on the sweat of the farmer's brow. But no one has yet heard of a farmer who be- ■ came a millionaire. —Benjamin F. Shiveley. It should be the personal ambition ’ of every democrat to see William J.I • Bryan elected president. To that end ■ it is the duty of every democrat to I ’ buckle on his armor and work with 1 ■ that end in view. Personal ambition ; ‘ are as nothing compared with the success of the national ticket. "I am for Bryan, heart and soul and i shall do all in my power to help elect j ' him. McKinley has been a failure. He has no backbone and is completely under the control of Mark Hanna. I like Brvan because of his honesty, his integritv and because he is one ofJ the common people.”—Dr. H. Z. Leonard. republican, and consul under; Harrison’s administration. Speaking now of Bryan, whom he opposed in 1896. Burke Cockran. in a letter declaring for him says: "His truthfulness and absolute sincerity have been among the most salutary influences i J this generation of our political life. * * * Any abandonment or abasement of the frankness and sincerity which have always distinguished him would be little short of a national calamity." Cockran on Bryan. The Chicago Chronicle is perhaps the greatest newspaper in the west, audits influence’s far-reaching. Their j editorial writer is one of the best in : the profession, and the paper deserves the wide influence it wields. In this I campaign they are leaders in the ! cause of Bryan and the Kansas City ticket, and the cause of democracv will be greatly strengthened by the determined efforts of the Chicago Chronicle.

Since nobody pretends that Mr. Bryan’s opinions on the questions raised by the Chicago platform of 1896 have been changed, his refusal to disguise them in any way was highly creditable to his honesty, and honesty is the first essential of patriotic presidential service.- Burke Cockran. “The election of Bryan will mqpin the complete arrest of our progress towards an empire and will restore the i republic to its ancient state. It will check the growth of harmful trusts and prevent those trusts from being monopolies that will strangle, if let alone, the enterprise and profitable industry of the masses.” John F. Finnerty of Chicago, who came to this city with James G. Blaine in 1884 and delivered a notable speech in favor of the Plumed Knight, has ' come out in favor of Bryan. Mr. FinI uerty has been an active republican ; campaigner for many years; this year I he will raise his voice in favor of the democratic ticket. South Bend Times. The Liberty Congress of the American League of Anti-Imperialism in i convention at Indianapolis enthusiastically endorsed the candicacy of William Jennings Bryan. Resolutions were adopted denouncing McKinley’s policy in the Philippines and pledging the support of the liiierty loving voters of America to the Kansas City ticket. The democratic party stands pledged to an unceasing warfare against

! private monopoly in every form. It : demands the enforcement of existing! laws against trusts and the enactment 1 1 i of laws yet more stringent. It wisely J demands publicity as to the affairs of j , corporations engaged in interstate : commerce.—Mr. Stevenson's Indian-j apolis Sppeech. The National Roofing and Corrugat- ' j ing Company was formerly organized ■ j by the election of officers and the per- j feeting of plans for taking over the i individual properties by the trust. The concern is capitalized at $50,000.- ‘ 000. and will be in full operation by ■Sept. 1. The intention is to control the market for all classes of metallic sheet building and ornamental work. The extravagance of the first session of the present republican congress is an unswerable argument for turning the government over to the I democrats. The republican congress appropriated $710,150,862.88 and cre- | ated 5.069 new federal offices. A fewyears ago a billion dollar republican congress thoroughly alarmed the country. If the republicans win in the next congressional election, a two billion congress may be looked for. It is very refreshing, indeed, to witness the change which has come over the spirit of Mr. Bryan’s opposers recently. Finding that it is impossible to scare the great leader of the people they are beginning to get frightened themselves. The Utica Observer sounds a note of alarm in this fashion: ” W e repeat that the opponents of Mr. Bryan will lie compelled, whether they like it or not. to meet him on the issue of imperialism. He presents it . in such a form and with such master ly force that they cannot evade it if i they would. In his first utterance of the campaign Mr. Bryan gives assur ance that the contest "is not to be onesided by any means, and the supporters of McKinley will have no reason to possess over-confidence when the battle opens. They are dealing this year with Mr. Bryan at his best.”

The costs of the army and navy are ' s not assesstd against property. It is' f not likely that Rockefeller paid fl.OU*, j toward the wars with Spain and the r Philippines, but made much out of r them. The rich need not care how. - much the government spends on war. If the government got its revenue like states, by taxing property, the i wealthy would be howling for peace. - But so long as the working mules pay ? it there is no need of concern about 1 government extravagance and jobbery . s by the rich, who operate the govern- j ; ment. t ——*• The sugar trust that has raised the price of sugar five or six times in th© , last few weeks, has presented its work--4 men in its eastern refinery with a nice present in the way of a cut in wages, ‘ according to the New York press, and a strike is threatened. Sugar is made much cheaper now than any time in < . the world's history liecanseof new inventions and discoveries and is selling for 14 pounds for $1 wholesale, where two years ago it was selling 24 pounds ! for sl. Thus you see that corporation owned industry, increases the price and lowers the wages.

— WILLIE AND HIS PAPA. / y •• H (Li Wfc "Papa ’hall I ever get big enough to do what I want to?" "Yes. Willie; but nursle and I will always tell you what you want to do!”— New York Evening Journal.

The democrats of Adams county can certainly congratulate themselves upx>n being favored with such a talented speaker as as the Hon. Frank B. Burke, who will opien the campaign | wtih a spieech at the court house. Fri- ! day evening of next week. Every one 1 is familiar with the fact that Mr. Burke is one of the best campaigners in the state, and as a speaker he will not be surpassed in eloquence and logic by any public spieaker who may apipxear here during the campaign. A nation, like an indivicual, that sends away more wealth than it gets back, is impoverishing itself. This country is ’ending away hundreds of I millions goods more than come back jin any form and imagines itself prosi piering! Neither the import of good*, gold or silver equals theexports. Non : what is the nation getting? Suppose we should export all the wealth made and import none, would we lie pros- ■ porous? Even admit that we got pay for it in gold, could the people live on i gold ? England rules the world because she gets more than she sends away. America brags that she send* away more than she gets.

At a conference held Tuesday by 1 the members of the Adams county ) central committee and a number of ' other democrats of the county, there were present District Chairman I ampbell, Hon. Joseph T. Dav candidate for congress, and R. H. Hartford of Portland. Plans of organization were unfolded and other matters dis--1 cussed, all of which will result in much good to the democracy. “Forcible annexation is criminal aggression,” said Mr. McKinley onee upon a time. If we are not forcibly annexing the Phillipines what are we I doing? The giving of free trade to Porto Rico was, in December. 1899, “our plain duty," said Mr. McKinley. Two mouths later he was abjectly but-ton-holing republican congressmen in the interest of a bill to force upon the Porto Ricans a tariff. A short time before his nomination for the presi- | dency he was boldly advocating free ’ coinage of silver, but had no difficulty in changing his views to meet those of the money barons. This sort of thing leads One to wonder if Mr. McKinley ever had an honest, courageous opin- _ ion on any subject. Is he invertebrate j or is he dishonest?

Organize Bryan Club®. Indianapolis, Ind.. Aug. 21.1900. To the Democrats of Indiana: William J. Bryan. Adlai E. Steven- ’ son, James K. Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee and \V. R. Hearst, president of the national association of democratic clubs, have issued a signed call urging all citizens throughout the United States who are willing to support the Kansas Citv platform to meet in their respective committees on Saturday evening, September Ist, 1900, for the purpose of 1 organizing city or precinct democratic clubs where such clubs have not already been organized. The call also requests that when a club is organized the secretary at once send to W. R. Hearst, president of the national association of democratic clubs, 1370 Broadway. New York City, the name of the club, roster of officers, date of organization and number of members. .In view of this call and of the great importance of club organization in the work of the campaign. I urge upon all supporters of our cause in Indiana, to meet at the time and placeßesignated to take the action requested. And I also ask that the secretaries of all democratic clubs, whether organized •on the date specified or previously, shall, in addition to sending the information asked to Mr. Hurst, also send the same to the democratic state comi mittee. 84 Lombard building. Indian- ; apolis Parks M. Martin, Chairman Democratic State Committee. Democratic headquarters will be maintained in this city, and also at ■ Berne and Geneva. 'They will be opened September 1. and kept open until afterthe November election. The public is invited to visit these headquarters at any and all times. ___________

5 B-rrwarr -- . ... -— - £ Cb j **l Political Announcements. 2 | 5 c The campaign in Adams county will lie opened in 2 E Decatur on Friday evening, August 31. The Hon. Frank 5 □ i ®4 r,l{e ' one the ***t orators in the state, ond a candi- [2 c date for congress in the seventh Indianapolis district, is ? 5 the orator. Mr. Burke recently issued a challenge to his .2 5 opponent, Hon. Jesse Overstreet, for a joint discussion of 5 5. the issues, but it has not been accepted. If you want to 2 C h*f ar the liest speech of the campaign, come out and hear 5 c Mr. Burke at the court house, Friday evening of next week. 2 ® miiHimram 5 c The democrats of Kirkland township will meet at the i g home of William Breiner at 7:30 p. m.. Saturday, Septem .2 □ »er 1, to nominate three members of the township council, 5 5 peace. two constables and a supervisor. c T“J* democrats of Kirkland will please l>ear this in mind 2 c and l>e present. By order of William Breiner, committee- 2 5 man. ■ -3 a SEinnss On next Wednesday, August 29, there will be a dem- a 5 ocratic meeting at Booher’s school house in Jefferson 2 2 township, held for the purpose of nominating three town- K 5 ship councilmen, road supervisor and the organization of a 2 g. Lryan club. Local shakers will be present. A general .2 j invitation is extended the public and Jefferson township i in particular. By order of Abe Bebout and William .2 j nerr, committeemen. * i mnrnnrnan <j t A* the Koer school house in Union township. o n .2 Thursday evening, August 30, a convention and demo 5 ]' crane meeting will be held. The nomination of an as- g i • season three township councilmen and two road supervis- 5 ]• ors will be made. Public sibling will follow the nomin 2 i ations. By order of John I*. Spooler, committeeman.

Some Straws Which Show th ,h » Political Tide' Uirec,l ’« «i There are man v surface seem to indicate that the is turning Bryan-ward nj tlCal ‘ids is too early to make an a J. c ? Ur *-it cast of the result by states- b? a* are many gratifying genera . The German-Au X° nS h pleasetl at neither the tendencies of present poli ci( !’ r al * attitude of the admiuistrai 88 ElJr the South. Irish-Americans are C8 ’ jubilant over the manife^ I** 1 **' 811 ! alliance into which the \L v ■ ministration has entered £ y * i ' government of England; the «!? diers of the Union are not over at the treatment which thee k 1 ceived at the hands of *' pension man. H. Clav Evan«“ \ s negroes of the country feel th?? ( i have not been given that nnnou - which they were promiM-J andT?” right to believe they hands of this administration. tLi ® Kinley in the last contest under a I belief that he was reallv a bin? l' h * and would do all he could S iailb .mld.iplioity rtrt manifested by the administration i? I pretending to favor bimetallism sole? for the purpose of gaining power n] establishing as firmly as statutes cj establish anything in this country k iniquity of the gold ! there are thousands of honest ba? < working and deserving republicans„ , the country who feel like resenti “ the fawning favors which M c K ln i4 has been bestowing in a proselrtij spint upon those recalcitrant demo crats who. under the guise of opposi tion to free silver, have given \fX ley temporary support. Republican, claim that the gold democrats have I gobbled up about everything worth having around the executive department in Washington, aud that executive favors has discounted republican : loyalty. But. in addition to all c f these favorable signs-, there is another consideration which is reassuring in the highest sense. There is a vast wave of popular resentment sweeping over the entire country—resentment of those tendencies in executive and legislative polii-v which belittle the sanctitvof the landmarks of limitation set up by the people in our federal constitution.repudiate the traditional policies and wrangles of the European muddles, and I commit our government to a military , spirit with a vast standing annr, I dependent colonies and imperial ! equippage. The people are not es I pecially pleased, either, with the - wonderful growth nnder McKinley's administration of those gigantic trusts and commercial combinations of capital which have taken control of the prime necessaries of modern life and made them the source of unjust and extortionate exactions ami which, in I exchange for favors received, are piling up fabulous sums of money as a : corruption fund in aid of the re-elec-I tion of those who have placed the I great agencies and fostering powers :of the government in co-partnership with the private interests of those who I are bent upon the spoliation of the ' masses for the enrichment of the I classes. There is abroad in the land a very i firm conviction in the minds of the observing and thinking people that our pxopular institutions can ill afford four more years of such management of public affairs as McKinley's reelection would insure. Do not fail to attend the jpeninj meeting of the campaign and hear Hon. Frank B. Burke discuss the issues. Mr. Burke has won great admiration from the democrats of Indiana for his great spieech liefore the democratic state convention. I poo other occasions he has also Jistinguished hinself, and this county» certainly favored in getting him » early in the campaign. He will make one of the best speeches of the cam paign aud should lie heard by e ve 7 onewhocan px>ssiblv attend Thetime is Friday evening. August 31.