Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW O. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. • 11,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at tlie postoßSce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. 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 Rrp-eMiitative. HENRY DIRKSON. For Judge Adams Circuit Court. RKjHARD KINNEY ERWIN. For Prosecutor. JOHN C. MORAN. For Auditor. A. A. BOCH. For Treasurer. J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For jjher.ff. DANIEL N. ERWIN For Surveyor. GEORGE E. McKEAN. For Commissioner 2nd District. SAM PEL DOAK. For Commissioner 3rd District. JACOB ABNET. For Coroner. CHARLES S. CLARK. For County Assessor. ELIAS CRIST. Hear Burke at the court house tc morrow evening. Do not lose your vote by moving from your township after September". Hon. Frank B. Burke on imperialism and trusts at the court house tomorrow night. You can hear one of the best speakers of the campaign at theccurt house tomorrow night. Frank B. Burke is the speaker. Ira war that is “over" and “ended - ’ and “finished ” keeps 60.000 men busy what force would be required for a war that was really going on? Club, township and precinct organization is now under consideration in every part of Adams county and in a very few weeks it will be complete. Do not move from your township after September 7. A residence of sixty days in the township is required to entitle you to a vote November 6. Tee starving Porto Ricans are still paying that tariff tax which President McKinley, in violation of what he himself declared to be “our plain duty,” worked overtime to fasten upon them. Owing to the absence of President McKinley from the grand army encampment at Chicago, W. J. Bryan also informed the committee in charge ' that he would not be present. Still some hard shell republicans persist in saying that Bryan is a demagogue.

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Indiana republicans are becoming alarmed at the chaotic condition of their party, and just cause they have for it. too. A carefully prepared poll gives the state to the democrats by more than thirty thousand. The populist national committee have completed their national ticket by the substitution of the name of Adlai E. Stevenson for that of Charles A. Towne, whose resignation was given that committee some time ago. Hon. W. J. Bryan will lie in Fort Wayne September 13 at the meeting of the national encampment Union Veteran Legion. The distinguished democratic leader will be an attraction that will draw many people to that place, and among them will be many Adams county Bryan enthusiasts. When the republican managers begin to talk about a lack of funds to carry on their work, then is the time to keep an eye on them. And when they begin to talk of “over-confidence” vou may know that they are scared. But when they are scared they work. Democrats should not forget that. Both State Chairman Martin and Mayor Taggart have went on record predicting that Indiana will go democratic by 25,000. It is certainly true that indications never were so encouraging, and from this time on the republican calcilators are liable to grow dizzy while trying to figure out that McKinley and the state ticket has a ghost of a show. Now that it has been authentically announced that ex-Senator Gorman, now at Saratoga, will return to Maryland about the middle of September and take an active part in the campaign until election day. Those republicans who have been actively circulating stories of his lukewarmness towards Bryan and Stevenson must feel that they are very clumsy liars. Along with the "full dinner pail" slogan of the republican trust managers should be considered the “market basket" question. The trusts have enormously increased the cost of liv-' iag and their own profits, but what of; the wages of their employes? The plate glass trust, for instance, in three i years has advanced prices on its product from <35 to 60 per cent, but wages in that industry are only 4J per cent above hard time prices. Judging from Mr. Bryan’s career and character, he will sincerely continue in office the fight against trusts he has so long maintained. If the majorities in congress are opposed to him he will doubtless enforce the Sherman anti-trust law. which, by want of enforcement under the present administration. has been a hollow mockery. He will deal with violators of existing trust laws as he would deal with ob-' scurer criminals, and those now arrogant oppressors will labor in the fear of certain punishment. Unable to answer Carl Schurz’s arguments against imperialism, the Hanna press has taken to throwing bricks at Carl Schurz. They have discovered that the great German American is “working for an office,” that he is "dishonest," and a "trickster.” Mr. Schurz’s whole life is a complete refutation of these and other calumnies. If any public man in America has subordinated interest to principle and fougnt solely and singly for his con- I victions, he is that man. Only a' blackguard press would dare intimatel the contrary.

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In the last national campaign the republicans put much confidence in the statistical prediction of James Creelman. then a staff correspondent of the New York World. Subsequent events justified this confidence, for the count showed that Mr. Creelman had ; “figured" the McKinley majority in the electoral college within one vote. His error constituted one elector from Kentucky, who gave his vote to the democratic candidate. Mr. Creelmati has presented some new figures. He shows by an estimate of the vote by districts that Mr. Bryan will carry New Y’ork by 75,000 plurality. We insist that Mr. Creel,... n is quite as competent a “guesser” today as he was in J 896, and bid our republican friends to scan his figures with fear and trembling. Kokomo Dispatch. Hon. Mark Hanna opened the republican national campaign in a speech at Asbury Park. N. J., Aug. 21. After a little preliminary sparring he began thus: "The time is at hand when every man is called on to contribute what he can to perpetuate this administration,” and then he proceeded to tell his audience that they could not "afford to take anything for granted or miss a trick,” which latter remark, it is recorded, provoked laughter and cheers. Mr. Hanna does not claim to be a spellbinder, and his printed speech is no great shake as a literary effort, but he made the points of the trade of politics with which he is most familiar, namely, that all must “contribute” and that they must not "miss a trick.” He has shown that the campaign is to be one of boodle on the part of the republicans. The republican organ which thoughtlessly refers these days to "the opinion of Mr. McKinley on the money ques tion” is certain to be confronted with another question. Which opinion? For no republican organ in these days ought to forget that Mr. McKinley has placed himself on record as holding from time to time every opinion historical on the money issue in the United States. There is conclusive proof, that if Mr. McKinley had faileel to get the St. Louis nomination on the gold standard he would have been eligible for the presidential nomination at the hands of the silver republicans or the populists. For Mr. McKinley has something in his currency shop to suit any or all parties. It is inexpedient in a campaign to refer to Mr. McKinley’s opinion on any subject. Such a reference is sure to bring forth the prompt interrogation "Which?”—Chicago Chronicle.

One of the ready-made editorials just now being extensively circulated among the rural press by the Hanna campaign committee contains the statement that no less than twentynine newspapers in the state of Minnesota have "abandoned Mr. Bryan” since the beginning of this campaign and gone over to McKinley. The democratic national committee has been at some pains to investigate the facts and is able to state without reservation that this is almost wholy untrue. As a matter of fact, ffiot more than twoof the English papers in Minnesota have made this change and in both of these cases there was also a change of ownership under circumstances which give no political signif icance to the transfer. On the other hand, five English papers in Minnesota have changed from McKinley to Bryan, making a net gain for khe Bryan cause of three English papers. Minnesota is for Bryan this year.

Evidence continues to multiply j showing that Illinois will be found in , the democratic column this year. After , expressing his opinion to that effect. ( Mr . W. H. Broad, of Chicago, said: I "There are a number of reasons for . believing this, but I am convinced > that opposition to imperialism will have a greater influence m the undo- ■ ing of the republicans than anv of the j other issues. There is a big German vote in Illinois, especially in Chicago, and the Germans, almost to a man, | are opposed to the imperialistic policy | of the present administration. There , is also a very bitter factional fight among Illinois republicans, and al though it doesn’t come much to the surface, the feeling is so strong that it will lie impossible for them to make a progressive and harmonious campaign in the state. Opposition to the trusts will also lose the republican ticket a good many votes, and with the labor troubles in Chicago and all the suffering that has resulted from them, the republican orators will find it difficult to convince the working-| men there that the country is blessed I with an over abundance of pros- i perity. Predictions at this time cer- i tainlv give Illinois to the democrats, i

I WILLIE AND HIS PAPA. y kp, 1 ® I f?- V'IIVUU- ’ ’ssmi “Don’t make any noise. Willie. Poor Teddy Is very ill. He is suffering from the disease known as ‘limierjaw,’ caused by talking too much."—New York Ever.lT.2r

The campaign in Adams county will open Friday evening with a speech at the court house by Hon. Frank B. Burke. From this time on it will be made pretty evident to the Adams county voters that there will be an election held this year. Democratic headquarters in the Luckev building on north Second street will be open on and after September 1, the same to be in charge of George M. Haefiing. It will be an enthusiastic and aggressive campaign on the part of the Addams county democracy. The speech tomorrow night by Mr. Burke will Ire a fearless presentation of imperialism and trusts and as the speaker is one of Indiana's best orators, the attendance should be large.

It is earnestly requested by Allen W. Clark, who has charge of the precinct organization in Indiana for the national democratic committee, that at all the township democratic meetings to be heU) next Saturday Sept. Ist. One obwt of the meetings shall be the completion of the precinct organization in each township. Precinct representatives of the national committee who have already been appointed and can fully explain the duties required, are requested to attend these meetings, inquire whether each precinct in the township has a precinct represenative. and if not to secure, in co-operation with the count y or township chairman, and to recommend to the national committee in Chicago, the name of a representative democrat in each unrepresented precinct who will accept the committee’s appointment. Mr. Clark is endeavoring to complete this precinct organization at the earliest possible moment, in order that it may be fully utilized by the state and county committees as soon as the campaign actively opens and the co-operation of all party workers, especially those connected with the various committees, is earnestly solicited.

In this year of grace. 1900. and of the reign of William McKinley, the third, the 16 to 1 provision is a Jiving, active force in the administration of our national finances. With an unblushing gold standard advocate in the treasury department, a complaisant senate in his right hand, a servile house in his left, and a supreme court that can be relied on in every emergency, William McKinley, by the grace of Mark Hanna, king of the United States and emperor of Porto Rico and the Philippines, has not annulled this 16 to 1 law. Instead, he has used it, and he is still using it every day. In June 1898, congress passed an act for raising revenues for the Spanish war. The law provided for coining one and one-half million silver dollars each month. What kind of dollars? "Dollars good in Europe?” "Honest” dollars of the kind the republicans talked of in 1896: dollars as value in bullion as in coin?” On the contrary, they were 16 to 1 dollars; “50-cent” dollars, the same identical "dishonest,” “fraudulent,” "repudiating” silver Mr. McKinley and his friends told us four years ago Mr. Bryan would force upon the country, if elected to the presidencv. The republican presidential ticket has sugar for its head and vinegar for its tail. McKinley has exasperated partisan republicans by fawning upon, and trying to hold those gold demo crats. who supported and elected him in 1896, and he has done everything he could to hold the colored brother in line ond keep him well pleaser! with the continued political Ixindage to the grand old party he has used sugar always and unsparingly. But the tail of the ticket- the redoubtable Roosevelt is made of very different stuff. He is a fighter and fire and brimstone issue continually from his nostrils. He prides himself on Isnng a rough rider and he seems determined to win a neH reputation -that of being a rough talker also. He has grosely insulted the gold democrats who supported and elected McKinley in 1896 and whom McKinley has beeii trying ever since very arduously to hold in the republican ranks, and he has equally insulted the colored people of this country whom McKinley has been trying, oh, so hard, to keep in good humor with the republican management. His favorite word of abuse is “coward.” A coward is the most despicable character in his estimation upon earth; and he has said and repeated the charge over and over again that al! democrats are cowards. He has charged them with being dishonest and dishonorable at home and abroad. He has said that the colored troops who saved him and his regiment from total annihilation in the battle of San Juan Hill were cowards, when all the world knows that thev were the real heroes of the occasion. „ v ' lle 8' ttr to counteract all of McKinley a sugar. No wonder he was called to white house and cautioned before taking his departure to face voters

POLITICAL CALENDa^^ 5 At the home of Will; T > . in Kirkland township' q. ? rei . ner Sept.!.. township councilmen on. • of the peace, two a road supervisor. a &(] At the court house, Decui, Friday evening. August 3? a’ campaign m Adams count* Tl ”' H »» Sk ff Burke will be tue speaker. U ' The Progress ot lmperi.||, m (he The new fangled doctrine that a constitution does not follow tb« and that congress and the may acquire «nd govern insula J 1 pendencies outside of the constib.r is imperialism established £ !° D congress or the president' has . power not granted in the consti*,?”* and this doctrine negatives th? 1 ? 11 ’ that our government must just powers from sovereign j±u nullifies the principles of Dona government and establish?? penalism in all of its baldness fint such doctrine is in tierfwr U • and tha present congress It ;' • keeping with the abandonment of tU Monroe doctnne (which has been £ cherished policy of the American 1 pie for over a hundred years), tested in our invasion <sf the orient and mixing ourselves up i„ European politics and cross-purposes;in L?? with criminal aggression, character ized in our dealings with those who are struggling (as our forefathers struggled) for that political, religion, and civil liberty which is so dear to us and in which we are supposed tn be the light of the world: in’keep? with the perfidity and dishonor en acted in our treatment of the people of Porto Rico, who took our represent ative, General Miles, at his word and welcomed our invading army with open arms only to find our promises no more sacred than those of the treacherous Spaniards had been before us. and in keeping with present efforts to convert our democrat republic of citizens equal before the law', into an imperial republic of insular dependencies and vassal subjects to be governed outside of the constitution by an imperial president. The republican party turned the backs of the Amer lean people upon these sacred promises made in their behalf to the Porto Ricans at the time ol our peaceful invasion of their island home, and imposed upon them unjustly discriminating and heavily burdensome taxes—not only without their representation or consent or any constitutional warranty. but in the tace of our promises to the contrary, at a time when they were absolutely helpless and. reiving upon that word of national honor which they thought they could cherish, had taken our yoke upon them. This new doctrine that the constitution does not follow the flag is exemplified in the tendency of the present congress to clothe the president of a democratic republic, whose corner stone was laid upon the great principle of majority-rule, with plenary and absolutely unchangeable power in everything and every direction. It is plainly manifested in the scope given him in dealing with the Filipinos, Porto Ricans. Culiaus and Hawaiians —all of whom he is allowed to govern, absolutely, through officers appointed by him without the senate’s confirmation as a check on pernicious selections. He not only names the governing officers and manipulates the franchisee but dispenses the special privileges in these dependencies in true imperialistic style. Thue, one man power in insular government is completely enthroned with such pow era that he may do as he pleases in almost everything, without asking the sovereign people any odds or deigning to give them any account whatever of his stewardship. This tendency, indulged in for a very short time iu the manner and to the extent characterized in recent conduct of public affaire, would convert our democratic republic, in which our people are supposed to rule in a state of equality before the law, into an imperial republic, over which a capitalisticcabal may (at the behest of plutocratic magnates of fabulous wealth and lordly power) rule in defiance of the popular will, while the great masses of the common people may degenerate, under the tyranny of combinations and trusts, ‘into abject creatures of toil, clothed with no more rights, and of no more importance to the state than the reptiles which crawl under their feet. How marvelous its progress has been. How alarmingly ominous tire prospects are! How menacing to the perpetuity of our institutions! Let Hannaism win in the present contest and finish the iiastardly work which it Las only begun, and a "government of the people, for the people, bv the people will perish from the earth!

James L. Keach.od? of the shrewdest politicians in the city of Indian apolis, has finally decided to support Bryan. He is a gold democrat and did much to roll up 7,(XX) majority for McKinley in Marion county four years ago. He hesitated long before finauy deciding whom to support this year, but at last decided in favor of Biyam The announcement was made on the same day Captain English made known his decision to support McKinley. Ab a practical politician Mr. Reach is a match for any one in Indianapolis, and that town literal'.' swarms with shrewd politicians■South Bend Times. The opening speech of the campaign by Hon. Frank B. Burke, a the court house tomorrow night, wi lie one of the best of the campaign' Don't tail to hear him.