Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINGMAM. Publisher. |i,oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoftice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mull matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 27. 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 Representative. HENRY DIRKSON. For Judge Adams Circuit Court, RICHARD KINNEY ERWIN, For Prosecutor. JOHN C. MORAN. For Auditor. A. A. BOU’H. For Treasurer. J. H. VOGIEWEDE. For Sheriff. DANIEL N. ERWIN For Srrveyor, GEOHGE E. MCKEAN. For Commissioner 2nd District, SAMUEL DOAK. For Commissioner 3rd District, JACOB ABNET. For Coroner, CHARLES S. CLARK. For County Assessor. ELIAS CRIST. There are no trusts. Mark Hanna. Hear the Kentucky orator upon the political issues at the court house tomorrow evening. Now let every democrat get down to good sober work. The tide is with the democrats, so get in the swim. Tomorrow evening at the court house, Hon. P. Watt Hardin of Kentucky. will speak upon the political issues. Mark Hanna says there are no trusts and Governor Mount declares that he will make war on them, and so there you are. Now let every democrat turn his attention to the important feature, of the campaign, that of organizing for election day. Day's candidacy for congress in this district is progressing at a clip that is causing his opponent much unrest. The Hugh Hanna letter and the busting broncho business will never stem the tide that will elect the democratic candidate to congress. An important meeting of the Bryan and Stevenson Club will be held' at democratic headquarters this evening. The president. Hon. Clark J. Lutz, desires a good attendance as business of importance is to be considered, among which is the appoint; ment of delegates to the Indianapolis meeting of Democratic Clubs. Everybody turn out.

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The puzzle picture presen teifin the Maine and Vermont elections is still engaging the earnest attention of the republican managers, who are striving todiseover several missing electoral votes. Whether Mr. McKinley’s partisanship with Li Hung Chang is to be permanent or is merely to be used to try to postpone the action of the other powers >n China, until after the election, is a question of much interest just now. _______________ Mark Hanna wants money and wants it bad. The coal barons should be invited to a feast. That increase of one dollar a ton ought to make a respectable campaign fund, even if it does represent human blood and human tears. The American anti-trust league has formerly endorsed Bryan. This league is made up of men from all parties and its sole purpose is to do w bat it can to rescue the country from the gigantic monopolies that now have it by the throat. As the campaign progresses brighter grow the prospects for democratic victory. The republicans themselves have placed Indiana in the doubtful column, and in a few weeks more they will do the same thing with New York and Ohio. If it is to be boodle against the people, the millions contributed by the trusts to McKinley's campaign fund is not a gift: it is a loan, and the people will pay it if McKinley is elected. The trusts will see to that, and Mark Hanna will help them. Hanna says he is in favor of com" mercialism. Certainly; we all know that. It was commercialism—a little business transaction with the Ohio legislature that put him into the national senate. But for commercial considerations he never would have got there. Mr. McKinley says "the Filipinos opened fire upon our jirmy.” In his official report Gen. Otis says the first shot was fired by an American picket upon a Filipino. Before indulging in any more letter writing McKinley and (His should get together and agree upon a modus vivendi. If this nation fails it will be before the power of concentrated wealth, and that is the source of the present aggressions. The man directing the movements is not William McKinley, but Mark Hanna, and back of him are the great trusts, whose bidding he does. Indianapolis Sentinel. Mr. McKinley, in his letter of acceptance. says: "There is no imperialism.” His manager, the Hon. Mark Hanna, savs: "There is not a trust < in the United States.” There is about the same amount of truth in one of theso statements that there is in the other. Judge J. L. Chesney of this city, declares that he cannot, will not vote for McKinley. He informs us that while he does not care to furnish an interview to this paper that he is very willing that the public may know thq fact. He has never voted any other than the republican ticket since the organization of the party, ami he reverses ttie glorious record of the party in the past, but Hannaism, imperialism. greedy commercialism he refuses to endorse bv his vote this year.— Winchester Democrat.

One or two democrats in each precinct can j|pt organize the forces and get the vote out on election dav. It may seem a little early to begin talking about voting, but a stitch in time saves nine. Begin your precinct or'ganization with a view of getting every democrtic voter to the polls. The coal trust announces that it will fight the 150,000 striking miners in the anthracite region to a finish. And the people will fight the coal trust aud all the other trusts to a finish. That is now the “irrepressible conflict,” and the first great step forward will be the election of William J. Bryan. There are. according to the Baltimore Sun, 1,000 names on the membership roll of the German-American Democratic association of that city, nearly every one of whom voted for McKinley in 1896. Maryland will roll up a big majority for Bryan in November and the Sun is doing grand work in the cause. Let the organization of democratic clubs, and better still the precinct organization continue from now until election day. Every one of the precinct committeemen should know every democratic voter. Get ready to get your vote out for that is what counts in the election of William J. Bryan to the presidency. Mr. Bryan in his letter of acceptance pledges himself to appoint, if elected, “an attorney-general who will, without fear or favor, enforce existing laws” against the trusts, and to “recommend such additional legislation as may be necessary to dissolve every private monopoly which does business outside of the state of its origin.” That is the kind of talk, and it comes from a man who says what he means and means what he says. Will the people hesitate between him and McKinley, backed and bossed by Mark Hanna, who says “I believe there is not a trust in the entire United States.'' The Journal is rather free iu its weekly edition in referring to the "bull dozing democrats of Adams county," many of whom are angels iu disguise when the daily edition goes to its readers. The Democrat has taken special pains to investigate the alleged disturbance at the Geneva Cromer meeting. The republiacns there deny any disturbance and censure the Journal editor for sending to the Indianapolis Journal the slanderous item in reference thereto. It is right and proper to be partisan, but certainly undignified and dishonest to distort facts concerning any party or its individual members. The person who wrote up the dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal from Decatur, relative to Cromer's speech at republican headquarters in the Hugh’s building Thursday night, must have lieen imbibing freely of a spurious kind of whiskey, for the number of falsehoods contained reflected no credit on either party, and its untruthful import makesit highly slanderous on the community whether democrats or republicans. The party who wrote such a malicious lie had better keep the matter to himself and thereby retain what reputation such a person might have, if any, for truth. While there was some hallooing for the democrat leaders while the speech was in progress, the conduct of parties near the headquarters and within that place was well up to the average.— Geneva Herald.

Mark Hanna’s followers have persuaded him that he is a great speaker. Puffed up with this belief, he gave it out that he would like to iiMk-t Mr. Bryan in public discussion. When his attention was directed to the matter Mr. Bryan said that if the repubI lican national committee would certify that Hanna was to be president if McKinley was elected* he would gladly meet hfln. Will that certificate be forthcoming? The extent of Mr. McKinley s control of Mr. Hanna will be shown by Hanna’s future conduct. Mr. McKinley left Washington last week, fully determined to stop Hannas speech-making, having been convinced that it was making Bryan votes by the thousand all over the country. Since then Mr. Hanna has spent a dav with Mr. McKinley at Canton. If Hanna makes no more speeches, it will show that Mr. McKinley retains some say in the conduct of the republican campaign: if Hanna continues to make speeches, it will show that he is the supreme boss of the whole republican outfit, including Mr. McKinley.

WILLIE AND HIS PAPA. . ■ ID! IT I'M “See. Nursie. what a eood Juke Willie ha« just written about me. I de clare. that boy is a humorist: He's almost as t'unny as Teddy." — New Yorl Evening Journal.

The price of flour has been advanced by the flour trust from $2.15 to $2.75 a bag; the sugar trust have raised the price of sugar from 5 to 7 cents a pound; the Standard Oil trust has advanced the price of oil from 12 to 13 cents a gallon; th« beef trust has raised the price of the poorest grade of its beef from 12 to 16cents a pound; an advance of 25 tier cent has been made by the woolen trust, of 50 per cent by the cracker trust, of 30 per cent by the shoe and leather trust; and similar exhorbitant advances in the price of their products have been made by the broom trust, the hardware and stove trust, and other combines that control articles of prime necessity in the houses of the poor. — Kansas City Times.

The gathering of the prominent men in politics at the quadrennial convention of the association at Indianapo- ! lis on Oct. 3 and 1 is expected to i break all records. In addition to William J. Brvau, A. E. Stevenson . and Burke Cochran will speak as will ’ many other men ot national reputa- ■ tion. Among the other distinguished • men who will certainly be present are > Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the democratic national committee; Hou. Benton M'Millin. governor of Tennessee; Hon. W. J. Stone, vice , chairman democratic ' national com mittee; Senator Edward Murphv, Jr., of New York, Hon. Charles J. Faulk- ' ner of West Virginia, Hon. Chauncy I F. Black of Pennsylvania, Hon. James L. Slavden of Texas, Evan P. Howell of Georgia, J. L. Mitchel of Wiscon- ' sin and J. C. Dahlman of Nebraska. ! A great parade of clubs is being arranged for and every club in the state that can do so should be represented ’ in this parade. This demonstration will take place on Wednesday night, ’ October 3. Following the Indianapolis meeting Mr. Bryan will spend two days in Indiana one of which will be devoted to the gas belt, which is callsi ing the republicans much alarm.

I Hugh H. Hanna is now trying to I I bolster up the cause of Cromer iu this ‘ district by his wholesale display of 1 1 confidential letters in which he admits the doubtful election of both ’ Cromer and a republican congress. * His salve will not work this year. “ Many of his letters addressed to De- : i catur business men have been turned 1 over to this office, and will be later used as jollification powder over the triumph of that true patriot, the Hon. - Joseph T. Dav. i - -- i The speech of Mr. Bryan delivered at St. Louis last Saturday will doubtless have the effect of giving the trust > question a far more conspicuous place in public discussion than has been the case up to this time. It was al- • most entirely devoted to rapacious trusts that took advantage of public necessity by screwieg up prices beiyond legitimate points. That sort of iconscienceless extortion deserves all 1 the censure that can be passed upon i it. South Bend Times. The supreme i-inirt i f the United States is not only the highest judicial tribunal in America, but it is the highest judicial tribunal in the world; but its justices are only men. and their opinions are often controlled by political considerations. That court has been dominated by a republican majority ever since the war between the states, and, ever since that time, the steady trend of its opinions has been towards the centralization of power in the general government and away from the states. That trend has been so pronounced that the late Justice Miller (although an anient partisan republican) said in a public lecture, just before his death: “The time was when the danger in this country was from the great powers of the states, but the pendulum has now swung theother way—thedanger now is from the centralized powers of the general government,” or words tn that effect. Whenever, since 1861, a question his arisen as to whether any partieul. r power belonged the states or to tie general government, the supreme vjurt has, almost without an except ion,-(aimed the power for the general government; and, bv this process, tins hv B st judicial tribunal in the land haieen a nioßt powerful Political factor. Tt first decided against the gwe| ackß . But the number of just K-es wa» increased bv adding two and mala. lht> total 1)UIn . Ix*r mne instead oL ( . v .. n . an(l p resi . dent Grant. >n filliL, tIIPK( , tW() , vacancies, took pt tl) . u | ar ins t T\ ,n, :? wh ° ” to lx* ™ s •(» «>i " C '"X' tionaltv of class, \ ~t oustltu: helped’ to destroy V« lslat ! ou . “ ni equality before the ,P?i 1 "-pl P f framers of the con*',* the to lie one of the corn 11 1,,n “Mended great republic. Tl» r this (ovpr night) to chant t ? Urt favor of, to being 7 ? ro “ in stitutionality of an : ’ a,nR ‘ ‘ ho con ' 1 iconic tax.

ENTHUSIASM HELo COUNTY. Dl.c u „e,i7r^; nl In '.rlo U »P. r t.„ (Demoi , ’ . v At . tlie Raudebush school i*""' Washington townshin t hI M democratic meeting of th at N’ was held. Hon. David p « Jobn T. Kelley were the and the audience were nm( , !J(ia S stowing upon the speakers ln '*• plause, thereby showing tUv? aPin the important campaign able presentation of the iLLT th « orators of the evening fi t|)e iMfS ever field 'in Gem*£* of last Saturday even in. ti heoa « era being the lions. R K are certainly active as mDreZm ” from all parts of the townshin present The issues were cleanly defined by the Geneva and Wabash township dj 6 crats are among the best on J. Ji that they will come up handsome majority favoring B „ kern, the county and the to 3 ’ tickets is assured. ns ‘P • Tuesday evening at Washington school house in this ship Hons. David E. Smith and £' C. Moran spoke to one of the l a » school house audiences, that ta favored any speakers during the caT paign. The house was packed L the speakers cheered to the They paid particular attention to th. policy of commercialism that is ning mad with the administration and the republican party. The audienre was attentve, and showed an unusual interest in the campaign. Hons. Dore B. Erwin and David D. Coffee appeared at Hissy's school house in Jefferson township Tuesday evening and spoke to a crowded house upon the issues that are paramount \ ery able speeches were made and much enthusiasm was prevalent, all demonstrative of the unusual interest already so pronounced in the interest of Bryan and the rest of the democratic tickets. Jefferson township promises to outdo herself when the returns come in. PUBLIC SPEAKING? Oct. 2. Brandylierry school house, Washington township. C. hl. France and John Moran. Sept. 28. At the court house. Decatur, Gen. P. Wat Hardin, of Kentucky. Notice of Primary Election. The democrats of Washington township and the city of Decatur will hold a primary election at democratic headquarters, in Decatur, on Saturday, .Sept. 29. 1900, for the purpose of nominating: 1 justice of the peace. 3 members township advisory board. 1 supervisor, district No. 1. 1 supervisor, district No. 6. Polls to open at 4 p. m. and closest Bp. nt., standard time. Those desiring to be candidates will present their names to chairman of democratic central committee on or before Friday morning, Sept. 28,1900. Committee. Attend the meeting of the Bryan and Stevenson Club tonight and also bear in mind the court house speech tomorrow night, of Ex Governor Hardin. Governor Mount has had another round at Hanna in which he riddled into smithereens the national chairman's statement that there is notl trust in the United States. ——— — Organization should be the watchword. This is all that is required w insure success and victory at the polls on electicn day. Every Adams county democrat should talk organization Senator Beverage was a speakerii Chicago the other evening, The uncertainty in Indiana has caused t« republican managers to bring, junior senator home, where he will ® missionary work for the g. o. PNh i'Nr •■ loMeO of thorough organization, so let democrat in Adams county get work. Volunteer your services ' your precinct committeeman amt show vour willingness, and not ", to be'drafted into service, lip* proper organization Adams co . will show a handsome increase m majority. „ The leader of the republican part, the man who absolutely con o' ■ . policy and says what it S l | ' ll L"' what it shall not do Mark I■ ' says there are no trusts. Tha how the republican partv the trusts. It shows ah<> " 11 .. liancemaybe placed in rP P.' declarations on that subject. » of the matter is that the tru “contributed," and their robberv an* not to be mterfi M<-Kiuley is re-electi-d Tm: ml men " ' '■"l ; 1 yesterday by the oil inarb Mfot five cents. This wa ? n ° iLonaml us the cold weather is co g in . then the market generall' - stead of dropping- A nui i best informed down n®! evening if the market «•' farther the Indiana pn« „ (1 slow up on working iu>< fall cut would make the dri considerably. Indiana is South Lima. 81; j> e uiisjl' Castle. 95; Coming. vania, Lima. •’*