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

THE DEMOCRAT SVRHY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. |I,OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. OCT. 4. THE TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, FOR VICE PRESIDENT, ADLAI E. STEVENSON. For Congress, JOSEPH T. DAY. For State Senator. STEPHEN R FLEMMING. For Representative, HENRY DIRKSON. For Judge Adams Circuit Court. RICHARD KINNEY ERWIN. For Prosecutor. JOHN C. MORAN. For Auditor, A, A. BOC’H. •For Treasurer, J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For Sheriff, DANIEL N. ERWIN For Surveyor, GEORGE E. McKFAN For Commissioner 2nd District. SAMVEL DOAK. For Commissioner 3rd District, JACOB ABNET. For Coroner, CHARLES 8. CLARK. For County Assessor. ELIAS CRIST. Do not move from your precinct as it will mean a loss of your vote. Now then let the question of organization be uppermost in the minds of every voter who has at heart the election of that peerless statesman, William J. Bryan. Come out to the club rooms tonight and hear the Hon. Joseph T. Day, the next congressman from this district. He is a pleasing speaker and you will be highly entertained. The election is but a little more than four weeks away. Energetic and faithful work on the part of every democrat in Indiana, means that the state will cast its electoral vote for William J. Bryan. There is not a democrat in Adams county, but what has a supreme interest in this election. Then show it by devoting a little time to the organization of your precinct. See your committeeman and organize. “From the rostrum I heard one of the most eloquent speeches in 1896 delivered by Carl Schurz. Thev have got him. They have got Bourke Cockram They have got a few others ' that were with us in 1896.”- Mark Hanna. Astor tomorrow you can not move ; from one precinct to another without . losing your vote. Remember this and 1 make no promises or arrangements to i move. It is one of the tricks of the republicans to get a democrat to lose his vote, but be not thus worked.

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Every democrat should sleep with both both eyes open from this time until November 6. Spend some of your time in looking after the organization in your precinct, and by all means be alive to the importance of the duties devolving upon you. Following the Indianapolis meeting a two days’ tour of the state will be made by Mr. Bryan, under the direction of the state committee. The gas belt will be covered entire, stops and speeches being made at Noblesville, Marion, Anderson, Elwood. Alexandria, Muncie, Winchester and many other places. Another of the Goebel murderers has been convicted in Kentucky. Fugitive Taylor, who is going over the state making republican speeches, is working hard for the election of Durbin. He does not intend to go back and face that indictment for complicity in this great crime if he can help it. John P. Irish, an alleged gold “democrat,” who supported McKinley in 1896, and who now holds a nice fat republican job in San Francisco, after making three or four republican speeches in this state, says Indiana will go for McKinley. John P. is not a prophet, but he wants to show that he is grateful.

On the high authority of the Chicago Tribune, chief organ of prosperity and McKinley’s most devoted defender. it is stated that Mr. Bryan has the support of “every one that is in distress and every one that is in debt and every one that is discontented." This naturally leaves Major McKinley with only the support of the trusts. There is high treason rampant among the republican organs. The nol le major tells us in his letter that labor was never happier. Yet here are the Chicago Tribune and other champions of the trusts and imperialism denouncing Mr. Bryan for appealing to the discontented. How can he appeal to the discontented if there be no discontent ? It is announced that Colonel Durbin is having “heart toheart"talks with the republican party managers over the state. What’s the matter with having a few "heart to heart" talks with the people about the issues of the campaign’ Does Colonel Durbin have any objection to telling whether it is true that he resigned from the directory of a trust in order to run for governor ? Colonel Durbin turned up in Brazil the other day. but savs The Miner, “no one knew he was in the city except the faithful who had been summoned to meet him at headquarters." Now, we insist that this is not • fair. Why is Durbin afraid to face the,people? Is it because some awkward question might be asked as to his connection with the strawboard trust and other trusts? There will be a democratic majority of not less than ten in the next house. That is the way the congressional campaign committee figures it out, and in doing the figuring allowance has been made for every reasonable contingency. Republicans privately admit that these figures are very conservative. and that they have almost given up hope of retaining control of the house, unless there is a change in public sentiment amounting almost to a stampede before election day.

i Mark Hanna defends trusts and > Senator Beveridge defends imperial- ' ism and wants more of it. McKinley’s campaign managers burned our junI ior senator's first speech, but he grits ted his teeth and wrote another one, worse than the 4irst. With Hanna, Beveridge and Roosevelt all on the - stump at the same time it is no wonder > that the republican party is in doubt whether to take to the sea or the woods. Another trust has also entered into , the campaign of terrorism and starvation. The Deering Harvesting company of Chicago last Saturday signal ized its royalty its creator the republican party, by reducing its working force from 7,000 to 3,000 men. The wages of those retained have been reduced from 15 to 40 per cent. The wages of 200 finishers were reduced from $4.50 per day to $2.25 per day. At the close of Cleveland’s administration in 1896 the entire cost of the government was $4.94 per capita. The cost in 1899 was $7.97 per capita, which means S4B per year to a man with a wife and fivechildren. It must be remembered that national taxation is not based upon property, but upon what we eat, wear and drink. In 1900 the cost per capita was $9.01. The estimate for 1901 make the cost $9.59 per capita, or nearly double the cost under Cleveland. So long as the Hanna-McKinley imperial policy is continued, just so long will the cost of the government increase. Representative Livingston of Georgia, thus sums up the attitude of ; the two parties towards trusts: “In a , recent speech made by Senator Beveridge, this statesman says that the re- 1 publican party, as well as the democratic partv, is opposed to trusts, only the republican party proposed to limit and regulate trusts, while the democratic party would do nothing. I Now. this statement was made to inI telligent people. If this is so. how : 1 could Mark Hanna go to Baltimore and get from the trusts of that city I alone SBO,OOO. while Bryan, even had I he tried could not have got 80 cents. Senator Hanna has said there are no ! trusts. He knows and so does every ' thinking man or woman that this is false. Here is evidence of the trusts. I Thus it takes fifty per cent more wheat to buy a plow than it did last year. | It takes twenty per cent more corn and it takes from $4 to $4.50 a month more to live now than it did a year ago. Why is this? It is because of trusts.” The Hon. Joseph T. Day candidate for congress, is in Adams county this i week. Monday evening he addressed a large and enthusiastic audience at J Berne, Tuesday evening he appeared j at the Brandyberry school house in I this township. Wednesday evening at Linn Grove, tonight he will lie at the club rooms in this city, and tomorrow night at geneva. Mr. Day is a pleasing and conspicuous speaker and makes votes wherever he appears. His canvass in Delaware. Randolph. Jay and this county has increased his vote materially and made his election probable. Republican organizations in the labor districts are aiding him and his election need be no surprise when the votes are cast and counted. He is in every way superior to his republican opponent, and in congress will represent the district, instead of a few political henchmen in each county.! who have had a death grip on the machine that secured his nomination. His reception in Adams county is pleasing to the democrats, all of whom are working hard for his election.

Thf national convention of Democratic Clubs now in session at Indiaii® apolis, is one of the gr* atest political events of the campaign. All the great orators, including BryaiY'nnd Sb-von-son, are there, together with HD.OOO democrats from all sections of the country. Indiana iff certainly highly favored in getting to entertain so distinguished and important a political gathering, and its effects will lie effective in placing in the Bryan column the electoral vote of our fair state. The Journal is just now very much exercised about the prosecution of Dan P. Bolds, and for their benefit will say that the ease is set for trial and in all probability will be heard this term of the Wells circuit court. However, we have no jurisdiction over courts, but have generally found them fair, honest and impartial something the Journal is not bothered with much. The democratic officials of Adams county brought suit and have and are pushing it to trial, and asked and were given an appropriation for its continued prosecution. In this the democratic officials deserve commendation instead of cheap criticism.

WILLIE AND HIS PAPA. — i y gbiiiii!iHii, jp 5 Pl n I 1 CoS !///> / IfeW / /JiSr r "Well, well, Willie. what is it this time?” "We re playing Republican minstrels, and Teddy wants to be the two end Sien and the middle man. too!"—New York Evening Journal.

On Feb. 21.1900. the Indianapolis Press said: "The republican party wiil make a very grave mistake if it fails to enact reasonable legislation on the subject of trusts before the session elites. Os course it will have an antitrust plank in its platform, but that w ill not l>e enough. Congress is in session: both branches are republican. The people will be likelv to hold it responsible for the failure to check or regulate these great combinations of capital. Congress knows quite as much now as it will when the national platform is made." The people surely will hold tl.e republican party responsible. It had the power, but it not only failed to enact legislation, but through the man who absolutely controls its policy it is now denying the existence of trusts.

Lookout for prosperous republican ’claims. Orders have gone out from republican, national headquarters to the partv newspapers to print continually and conspicuously during, the three weeks previous to the election paragraphs claiming states enough to give McKinley 25 or 30 more electoral votes than he had in 1896, The idea is said to be that such wholesale claims persistently made, will catch voters who wish to be on the winning side. The insolence of the trusts was never lietter illustrated than by the threat of oneof them in a Nebraska city last week to prevent Mr. Bryan speaking. The situation was so grave that the mayor had to issue a proclamation commanding the peace. This happened about the same time that one of Roosevelt’s “rough riders” nrovoked an outbreak at \ ictor, Colorado, by tearing a banner from a woman's hand and destroying it. As they are powerless to meet the issues, we may reasonably expect the republican managers to use all sorts of schemes to divert attention from them.

The same bulldozing coercion of 1896 is to be again employed. Many of the trusts are notifying their employees that if Bryan is elected their factory will dose. This but demon- , strates the intimacy of the trusts with this administration. Since McKinley’s election one hundred and fifty-three trusts have been incorporated in New Jersey, with a capital of $3,131,100,'OOO. Fvery one of these trusts are protected with a protective tariff, un til now they have grown from "infant industries” to gigantic corporations whose influences can not easily be reckoned. They absolutely control the administration, to the disgrace and detriment of the American people. Senator Beveridge should takegood care of the speech he made in Chicago the other night. If he leaves it Iving around unguarded the wicked Mark I Hanna is liable to slip up on it and ; give it to the flames as he did his prej vious one. Beveridge devotes his j whole speech to a defense of imperialism, which Hanna says is not an issue. The speech is labled “An Anj swer to Bryan.” That is what it is called, but there are no internal evi- ' dences of an “answer.” In fact, it is jin substance a brazen admission of ! most of the things which some other I republican orators and many news- [ papers are busy denying. Beveridge thinks we should follow the example of imperial Great Britain. The republican campaign committee, before the great strike in the anthracite regions of Pennslvania, distributed a circular labled in big, black letters: “Coal; a Barometer of Prosperity and Activity to Labor.” This document is remarkable just now in two or three respects. One statement is as follows: "There is a tariff |on coal, yet we appear to be captur ing the markets of the world with that product.” And then it w shown that for the year ending June 30,1900, coal was shipped abroad to the value of more than $19,000,000. After this comes the statement that “Expansion is the order of the day in our coal industry as in all others. More men are employe*! at the mines. More wages are paid. The output is larger.” Yes, there is a tariff on coal. It keeps foreign coal out so that the coal barons may levy a tribute on the American people to the extent of millions every year. The coal trust is thus assured of the American market at its own prices, and is enabled to send coal abroad and compete in foreign markets. Who gets the benefit? The trust, of course. The people get none of it. aud as for the miners well Just now we all know that nearly 150.000 of them are engaged in a life ami death strike against starvation wages and trust tyranny. The statement that more men are employed in the mines u> a self-evident lie. As for expansion being “the order of the day I in our coal industry ” that is true in a sense, but it is the expansion in cruelty and greed on the part of the trust and of suffering and hopelessness on the nart of the miners.

THE ' The appearance of Gen d Hardin at the court hou« 12 J’h evening was the moans *** Fnda, that public place with an n crowd. The speaker “ o speak, but neverthelei a f D(iuil fit than one hour his eloqueZ yineiug statements were a e d listened to and heartily is a pleasant, yet forcible S’ viewing political history i?S*’ » knowledge thereof. \ f lty aili public speaking he also shoS® ture, being a conversational PaL is a treat to listen to. lat » • — —. At Berne Monday night . i crowd turned out to' hear thin ? seph T. Day. the nev “ "on"Iofrom this Strict D H P hour and a half and fairly those who heard him. He est talker and discussed well t&’ ing issues, He makes a gS* anceandis making an active Tuesday evening a rousing was held at Branbyberry school h 5 in this township. The speakers » Hons. Joseph T. Day, CM and John C. Moran.' The thoroughly discussed and much est shown. The democrats in that 2 o . Adams county are organic ahve and will come up smiling with a large majority for the democratic tick ets. The organization of the Bovs Brvan and Stevenson Club was dulveffect Monday evening, with twentv-tU youthful members, all anxious to lend a helping hand in bringing about th» triumphant election of the democrats They have a drum corps and are otherwise prepared to defend the honor and do missionary work for democracy. PUBLIC SPEAKING. Oct. 4.—Decatur. Hon. Joseph T. Day will address the B™ club. Oct. s.—Geneva. Hons. Joseph T. Day and C. J. Lutz. Oct. 6.—Knopp school house. Root township. R. K. Erwin. Oct. 6. Pleasant Mills. John C. Moran. Oct. 9—Kinney school house. Jefferson township. D. E. Smith, Ora France. Oct. 9.—Prairie school house. Bl® Creek township. David D, Coffee. Oct 9. —Preble. Jacob Ingenthai, R. K. Erwin. Oct. 13.- Election school hous, French township. R K. Er win. Oc.t IL— Freidheim, Preble township. James T. Merryman. Let it not lie blotted from your mind that the man who wrote the anti-trust was Van Wyck. the New York Ice Trust magnate- I Journal. Let it not be blotted from you mind that the above Van Wick is nd a member of the New York IceTruS Let it not be blotted from your mind that Senator Platt, the head of th* republican machine, is one of the mod influential members of this same i® trust, and for this reason Governor Roosevelt is not using his officii! power derogatory to the wishes if Boss Platt. But the democratic party is against the ice trust as well ascreff one of the other one hundred and fifty-three trusts organized since the reign of Hanna. W. D. Houser will sell at publie sale at his farm, known as the Jobs Houser farm, one mil*- south and ow mile east of Curryville, on Monday. Oct. 8, brood mare, mare colt, w® horses, milch cows, sows with piss shoats, chickens, farming nnpleiMffl <fcc. A credit of nine months will» given on purchases amounting to three dollars. John W. McKean, sr.. will have < public sale on Wednesday, Ortow 17th, 1900. He will sell 5 head « horses, 5 head of short horn cattle. 1 head of sheep, 28 head of ahoatM bows aud pigs* 1 Poland- ■ boar, 1 wagon. 1 surrey 1 buggv. of heavy work harness. 1 set of iff harness, 1 mower. 1 hay rake, lu corn plow, 1 barrow, breaking r , aud shovel plows, 100 wheat, oats, corn and barley. a of hay, and many other article* here mentioned. A credit of l .. will be given on all sums over approved security. Auctioneer. - France. S. C. Mills announc a public to be held at his residence two m east of Craigville and one an . half miles south and one mile • . Honduras, commencing at < pn " a. m. on Wednesday. Octol^i r which time he will dispo** «' lowing property: Brood tuam years old driver, two years oh J two ream old draft colt.threi*yea« spring colt, four cows, two fresh soon: four two years ok two years old steer, two fl P nl J |( g four thonmghbred '’rood with pigs by their side; tw«nt of stock hogs, thousand .’brajj log wagon with new set log two breaking plows, new A E corn plow, spring tooth barr drill, sot double harness. J 1 chickens and numerous otbir - The usual lilieral terms will