Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW O. ELLINGMAM. Publisher. •1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 13. 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 Hepresentative. HENRY DIRKSON. For Judge Adams Circuit Court, RICHARD KINNEY ERWIN. For Prosecutor. JOHN C. MORAN. For Auditor. A. A. BOCH. For Treasurer. J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For Sheriff, DANIEL N. ERWIN For Surveyor, GEORGE E, MCKEAN. For Commissioner 2nd District, SAMUELDOAK For Commissioner 3rd District, JACOB ABNET. For Coroner. CHARLES S. CLARK. For County Assessor. ELIAS CRIST, By moving from your township you loose your right to vote. Let every township in Adams county boast of a Bryan and Stevenson Club. ' Has Mr. Durbin opened his campaign yet? If so, what has he opened it with? The Decaur Marching Club will soon be out sixty strong, in new sparkling uniforms. Mr. McKinley proposes to give the Filipinos liberty and the blessings of civilization if he has to kill them all off while he is doing it. “I want property to be the reward of industry, and I want every citizen to lie secure in the enjoyment of the proceeds of his t<^J." —William J. Bryan. The Decatur Bryan and Stevenson Club now numbers 400, and before another week passes bv, the total will be swelled about one half. Keep the good word going. The campaign opens under favor able circumstances to the democrats. From every which way comes encouragement to the party of Bryan and bis election is thereby assured. “1 have been a republican all my life and served my party faithfully. But I have discovered that it is the Standard Oil company and not the republican party that is running our country.” —George Rice of Ohio.

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1 Randolph county democrats will open their campaign next Saturday. ■ Judge Allen Zollars of Fort Wayne, and Mayor Day of Dunkirk, candidate for congress, are the speakers. According to Mr. McKinley’s views t —revised to suit the sugar and tobacco trust there is nothing like a nice fat : tax to make the Porto Ricans appreciate the benevolence of his policies. Jefferson township now comes to the front with a club organization of ninety-four members. This is the : fifth Adams county club, every one in a healthy condition and still growing- ———. Every member of former President Cleveland’s cabinet including the expresident himself, is this year for Bryan and Stevenson. Four years ago they were ferninst the democratic ticket Wfi.l, shake Olney old boy, come right in and take the best consarned rocker in the shebang. Wouldn’t give one shake of your paw for a whole dozen Bill English's, boot straps and all. Governer Roosevelt’s friends profess to be terribly afraid that he will lose his voice before the campaign is far along. Other equally stalwart republicans believe it would not be a misfortune to the party if he should. The campaign in New York was opened by the Hon. David B. Hill, and the keynote then sounded, had the right ring. New York gives every evidence of going democratic, and some prognostigators have already placed Ohio in the doubtful column. The time is now ripe for the complete organization of every Adams county precinct. Let the committeemen and every other active democrat take up the plan of organization, and see to it that every precinct is thoroughly and systematically organized. The fact that McKinley devoted far more space in defending his administration of imperialism, is evidence conclusive that the Kansas City plat-1 form was right in dedicating imperial-I ism the paramount issue. The presi-' dent's defense wasa course production j of demogogieal misrepresentation. The postmasters of this congressional district were called into conference with Congressman Cromer, and invited to subscribe liberally to aid the g. o. pin continuing them in office. Cromer is following the advice of Boss Hanna, and does not propose to “miss a trick” or loose a “contribution.” Hon. John W. Kern opened his campaign at Columbus, on the Ist. It was in a public speech on the issues, delivered in the broad daylight before a large and enthusiastic audience. When will Colonel Durbin, his opponent. take time from his hack-alley campaigning to let the people hear from him? The Indiana democracy have every reasonable assurance of carrying the state. The Indianapolis Journal states that sixty davs before the election in 1896, the democrats were in the majority, but still the republicans carried the state. The Journal is no doubt laboring under the impression that the same boodle tactics that pre- , vailed in 1896, can be worked again ■ this year. But they can not. The j democracy were never so earnest.

The administration has reached a stage of desperation. They are now using the United. States mails for sending out political rot, all of which is in strict violation of the postal laws. This office has fallen onto one of their free mailed productions, and it bears every evidence of the violation mentioned. Where does the Hon. W. T. Durbin stand on the trust question? Where dot's he stand on any question? These are matters that the people want to know about, and Durbin might take a little time from his back alley campaigning to explain. If he knows anything worth while, why not get out in the open and tell it. One of the most thrilling scenes in the history of American politics was recently witnessed at Cumberland. Md., when Senator Wellington, once the unchallenged republican leader of Maryland, stood on the same platform with Mr. Bryan and solemnly renounced his party for its crimes against liberty and the weak treachery of the McKinley administration. McKinley has at last joined the “sound money forces.” His letter of acceptance was the first public utterance that indicated he was anything but a “straddler.” In 1896 he used his influence to keep the gold standard out of the St. Louis platform, and not until three years after his election as president was a law passed respecting this staudard. McKinley defends his administration of imperialism by placing in his letter of acceptance what he said, when every one knows his public acts have been just the opposite to his declaration. He said it was our “plain duty” to give Porto Rico free trade and then labored diligently to establish a tariff for the benefit of the trusts, in whose control he is securely fastened. If ever there was a scared Irishman, that man is Charley Landis, republican candidate for congress in the ninth district. But then there are others, Watson in the sixth. Overstreet in the seventh and Cromer in the eighth. All of them have their hands full in convincing their party voters that they deserve further consideration from their long suffering constituents. Congressman Cromer’s chances for re-election is already causing him some uneasiness. The labor vote in the district is ferninst the trusts and consequently are against the administration and the labor vote in this district is no small item. In addition. Cromer’s appointment of Neeley and his machine method of dealing out plums, will not strengthen him any among the voters. As the trusts are in control of the federal administration, nothing can be done to minimize the trust evil so long as this administration is left in power. That fact is as plain as daylight. The Dingley tariff is the foundation of hundreds of industrial combines. Without it the trust organizations could not have been perfected as they Lave been all over the country. Two things were necessary for the organization of trusts on a great scale —a protective tariff which would exclude competition from abroad and an administration which would favor them and not interfere with their organization and operation. Both needs were supplied.

Senator Fairbanks, in his Indianapolis speech, devoted six lines to state affairs. One sentence is given to übveruor Mount. Here it is: "All honor to Governor Mount for his magnjhcent achievements. Now what are his magnificent achieve rnents? What has be done to attract special attention save to shield a lot of Kentucky fugitives, who, charged with crime, are here hiding from the officers of the law? W. L. Wilson, postmaster general in President Cleveland s cabinet strongly indorses Mr. Bryan and says that only sickness prevented his attendance upon the meeting recently held at his home, Deer Park, Maryland. In his letter Mr. Wilson emphasized his opposition to a colonial or imperialistic policy, saying that he had early taken this position. Colonel R. P. Wendling, who had opposed Mr. Bryan in 1896, made a brief speech at this meeting, himself vigorously attacking republicanism and pledging to Mr. Bryan his support this campaign. He said he bad known Mr. Bryan from his boyhood and that all the money in Wall street could j not buv him.

v. WILLIE AND HIS PAPA. . & a - - sEsI AmLI iMtoOgw 7 •‘That’F right. Willie. You and Teddy must always keep step to papa’a fid* die.”—New York Hveninp Journal

Governor Mount says that he in tends to deal with the trusts in his speeches. This is all very well, but the question is, how does he propose to deal with them? The one that the people complain of is the "dealing" of the republican politicians with the trusts. Mr. Mount has been governor of Indiana nearly four years, during which time there have been two sessions of the legislature, both having a republican majority, and during all of his term there has been a republican attorney-general. Now. why has not Governor Mount dealt with the trusts officially and in some effective way? It is a little late for him to begin a display of zeal on this most important question.

George L. Wellington, republican senator for Maryland, spoke from the ! same platform with W .J. Bryan, when the latter opened the campaign in that state. Mr. Wellington said: I am here tonight to declare my unalter--1 able antagonism to the policy of imI perialism and my opposition to the representative of that vicious pripcii pie. It is an occasion of more than j ordinary importance for any man to I antagonize the political partv which he has served for a quarter of a century; to which he has given the best . years of his life, and for which he has achieved some success. It brings much bitterness and vituperation. The vials of wrath have already been opened upon me, and there will be much that is unpleasant in the work . I have to do. I have, however, determined to do that which 1 believe to be for the best interest of my country. I will do my whole duty and in the performance of that duty I find it necessary not only to oppose the re-elec-j tion of President McKinley, but to i emphasize that position by supporting I his antagonist, who in this election i stands for free government according i to the constitution.

The national convention of democratic clubs will be held in the City of Indianapolis on Oct. 3,1900. Each club or society shall be entitled to one delegate and one additional delegate for every hundred members. Democratic clubs of Indiana are earnestly requested to elect delegates to this convention, in order that Indiana may be to the front in club organization. John Sherman, former secretary of state in President McKinley's cabinet, in a recent interview said: “The wealth we are taking out of our own country now to fling after those Phil ippine islands is fabulous. We have taken away the miners and agriculturists to subdue the Filipino natives. Depend upon it. the other nations do not envy us, but think us foolish. I see not the slightest sense in our long excursion to the Philippine islands, 12,000 miles away. There we have no acquaintances or affinities, or anything which gives promise of a happy solution of a most foolish undertaking. The natives show that they do not want us by the courage with which they fight us. I fear that perseverance in this imperia! policy will ruin the republican party.” The interests behind McKinley want a big standing army. They want it for use at home. They want it stationed at the great industrial centers. It comes handy when capital can’t make labor d j its bidding. And if these interests can’t get it one way they’ll get it another. They got a war tax to pay the expenses of the Spanish war That war has been over nearly two years. But the tax goes on just the same. They need the money for a bigger army. A repub lican congress won't reduce the stand ing army. If it ever gets through with foreign conquest the regiments now abroad will be stationed at convenient points at home to act as ,policemen over our own working classes There is method in all this military madness. Richard Olney’s “conversion” to the Bryan cause is, in some respects, the most notable event of the cam paign to date. Mr. Olney was Grover Cleveland’s secretary of state, and by all odds the ablest man in the cabinet. He is a Boston man, identified with many interests, commonly supposed to lie antagonized by the Kansas City platform. But he is a democrat. He was the author of the Venezuela message wherein he made Grover Cleveland defy the British government to the point of war, to try to extend its territories in South America. Such a man was not likely to give his sup port to an administration that voluntarily “hauled down the American flag over American territory in Alaska. It is the final test. No American de serving the name can do mote or less than Mr. Olney has done. The brains and heart of the American people go with this staunch New’England American away from McKinley to Bryan.

POLITKAL AN N OUN There will be a deni., at Monmouth school’ hou*/r evening, Sept. 18, forthe ’ Tue S nominating township rpOse of speakers will addressj■ The democrats of Monro i will me* in mass conveutSn tiou school house, WednJn. ‘ F l *' 19. for the purpose of nomijg’Jpt, members of township and supervisor for District Xo’7 James T. Merryman will * a( u” Bonmeeting, at 7:?K) p , m 111 Colonel Jons K. republican congressman f wnl ? rnK ' r says the re-election of MeKinla. ,’ lie a national calamity the president’s imperialistic andT" 18 favoring policies, h,. adds “« tI T McKinley be successful think he will not be, but should *!’ a calamity befall America, the fi mart will again come into exi<Z on American soil. Labor will eDCe the chain of the helot, with theala™ ing addition that the white toift stand beside his black fellow 1 on the auction block of the trusts?

* F ii J y the de *»ocrats cottended that an increase in the volume of money would make better c “ President McKinley in his acceptance stated that four hundred and thirtv-six million dollars in have been added to the gold the I mted States since July 1, Then the republicans contended that we had plenty of money but was simply short on confidence. Now thev say what the democrats did in 1896, that more money makes better times. The discoveries in gold and the minting of more than $2.000000 in silver every month has done much to relieve the stringency in the nionev markets. ' 1 W. H. H. Miller, attorney-general under Harrison, said last March in the Indianapolis News: "Porto Rieo is as much of a part of the United States as New Mexico or the District of Columbia. There is no more right under the constitution to discriminate in the tariff against one than against the other. It will fully justify what President Schurman has said- that fit will make truthful the charge of imperialism against the republican party by the democracy." Well, it is a part of the history of the country that this outrage was and according to this eminent republican authority the charge of imperialism is true. It may also lie said to Mr. Miller’s great credit that he has in no wise recanted. Mr. McKinley’s letter of acceptance is a most carefully prepared document, especially that portion of it which seeks to lull the public fears of imperialism. It misses none of the usual arguments in favor of expansion, and either omits entirely or glosses over the acts of imperialism of which the administration has been guilty. That portion of it dealing with the country’s prosperity is not so carefully put together and will be sure to arouse smiles of incredulity among the well-informed, who know that it is providence, and not the republican administration, which has given the country bountiful crops and that wars and not the republican administration, have largely increased the volume of money in circulation.

“The events of the future are beyond the vision of mankind, but I hopethat our people will be content with internal growth and avoid the complications of foreign acquisitions. Our family of states is already large enough to create embarrassment in the senate, and a republic should not hold dependent provinces or possessions. Every new acquisition will create embarrassments. Canada and Mexico as independent republics win be more valuable to the United States than if carved into additional states. The union already embraces discordant elements enough without adding others. If my life is prolonged I will do all I can to add to the strength and prosperity of the United States, but nothing to extend its limits or to add new dangers by acquisition of foreign territory.” From Recollections of John Sherman, p. 949.

n nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmin/.nruV'P £ Fencing wire has been i n ‘ 3 g creased by the wire trust 87 J per g £ When you go to buy a stove i ffl and find the price 50 per cent. | £ higher than it was in Isw, g 5 charge that to the trusts. £ When you find that the price | 2 of the sugar you buy has been 3 £ raised, charge that to the sugar ■ E trust. ? §• If you buy tinware and find | r' the price increased all the way 5 c] from 20 to 500 per cent, charge 2 £ that to the trusts. | The steel that goes into your 5 § horses’ shoes has been increased ,d g in price 100 per cent, within two 3 5 years by the steel trust. 5 5 When you buy a suit of clothes 5 c do not forget that the trust has 3 5 advanced the price of woolens K c from 20 to 25 per cent. 5 When you buy a pair of shoe* d £ remember that the leather true j S has advanced the price on a d S grades from 15 to 20 cents 3 g pair. d When yon go to a hardware ,d g store to buy nails and find d £ thov cost you 02 per cent, mor 5 g than they di<t 18 months ago, 3 5 charge the difference to 1 i 6 trusts.