Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVBKY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Q. ELLINQHAM. Publisher. =========== i »1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. OCT. 25. DO YOUR DUTY. Ono week from next Tuesday is the election. That short space of time will soon pass by and it is certainly the duty' of every Adams county democrat to devote his time and his energy to the cause that is so sacred to him. If this is done every precinct in the county will show a substantial democratic. gain, and that taking the country over will materially aid in upholding the proud position already attained by the Adams county democracy. Our majority this year should be a record breaker, exceeding that of every other election ami it will lie. providing the proper effort is made by every interested and devoted* democrat. There is every reason that it should be. ' The national issues appeal to the patriotism of every American citizen and not only to the patriotism but to the pocketbooks as well. There is not a thing to be purchased in the markets but what has advanced in price from ten to fifty per cent., this money going to pay dividends upon watered stock in some combination or trust. The markets in which the farmer sells his produce has not the benefit of this trust protection, so the increase in price is not given him. In matters of state importance, every law of benefit and interest to the taxpayers was placed there by the democrats, and they should again lie returned to power. In that event fugitives from justice would lie returned to the state from which they came, and a democratic attorneygeneral would enforce the anti-trust law. which Governor Mount so cleverly evades. Every candidate on the county ticket is an honest, capable 1 and trustworthy taxpayer, deserving the honor of the office to which they have been nominated. There is not a blemish upon the character or integrity of any one of them, and it is certainly a credit to any party to have them upon the ticket. The same may be said of the township tickets. 1 in addition to this the indications strongly jioint to a democratic landslide not only in this state but in the nation. New York. Ohio, Maryland. West Virginia. Kentucky. Indiana and Illinois all of which went for McKinley in 1896, now show strong indications of reversing themselves and casting their electorial vote for Bryan. The tidal wave is here and all the money and corruption that Mark Hanna can muster, can not stay the tide. Begin to work now for Bryan and victorv.

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Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, democratic candidate for vice-president, at Decatur, November 3. Ohio gives every evidence of producing a democratic victory, and if the lick keeps up Pennsylvania will be placed in the doubtful column. The date of the grand rally has been changed to Saturday, November 3. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, democratic candidate for vice-president, will positively be here on this day. There are enough votes in Indiana favorable to the democratic state and national tickets to give them both a large majority. See that they are cast and counted and counted right. Let every democrat arrange his business so that he can give election day to the service of the partv. No democrat can afford to neglect nis duty as a citizen on the 6th day of November. Mark Hanna is turning his efforts to New York with a view of saving it from the wreck, but alas it is too late. The east is fast drifting away from the g. o. p. and Bryan's triumphant election is assured. “I am quite certain that Mr. Bryan will carry New York state and be elected. All New York democrats are united on Mr. Bryan and working with an enthusiasm never before witnessed." David B. Hill. The prospects were never brighter for the democrats. Vigilant work in every precinct will insure the election of every democratic state candidate End give the electoral vote to Bryan. Let every Adams county democrat be up and doing. The Illinois Wocheublatt. one of the strongest German papers in the state, and since its foundation ten years ago an ardent supjKirter of the republican party, has announced that it will henceforth give its support to the democratic party. Jesse Grant, the youngest son of General Grant, has left the republican party, and is working with all i his might for Byan. General Sherman's son is also for Brvan, and so are the sons of nearly all the conspicuous generals who fought for the Union. The canvass of Congressman J. M. Robinson in the twelfth district indicates his triumphant election. He certainly deserves this success as his record in congress is clean and dignified and he has devoted himself to the needs and demands of his constituency. Will Looter Rathbone ever be prosecuted? Not much, unless Bryan is elected. He has lieen the tool of the republican managers in too many : dirty jobs for that. Hi* knows too much. For instance, he did a large part of the corrupt work for Mark Hanna in his senatorial fight. It was John Sherman who said, in 1890. that when the tombstone of the republican party was erected the inscription on it would read: “Died of too much Ohio." With the fortunes |of that par* v in the hands of such persons as Mark Hanna and William McKinley, both of Ohio, the day for writing ot its epitaph and the fulfillment of Mr. Sherman's prophecey is at hand. The date to be added will I be that of November 6, 1900.

To vote a straight ticket make a X within the circle surrounding the rooster. __________ Read carefully the instructions to voters, which will be found on second page in this edition. 3 —— Remember the big rally and the appearance of the next vice president in this city Saturday, November 3. Hon. D. E. Smith was stumping Wells county last week, and brings back encouraging reports of the political conditions as he focused them while there. He was given good meetings. Hon. Patrick Keefe of Kentland, the great Irish orator will speak at the court house next Monday evening. Mr. Keefe is one of the best and happiest speakers and you will miss something good if you fail to hear him. Senator Sherman, the great Ohio statesman, died at his home in Mansfield. Ohio, at an early hour Tuesday morning. Senator Sherman is known 1 to every man, woman and child in the country, and has been in public life perhaps longer than any other citizen. Watch the boodlers. Do not stop with the common scoundrel, but keep . both eyes on the respectable rascal. As the buyer of votes can not now. be punished, the boodle handlers this year may belong to that class of re publicans who go to church twice on ;Sunday. Hon. Clark J. Lutz will make several speeches in Jay county next week, the democracy there have arranged |to turn thirty speakers loose every 1 day and night there during the next ! week. Hons. Charles A. Towne and Mayor Jones of Toledo, are among I the speakers. Hon. C. L. Drummond democratic candidate for attorney-general, spoke at the Tillman meeting in this city 'Tuesday. He is a brilliant, eloquent and forcible speaker, a lawyer of prominence, and was greatly admired by his audience here. He spoke at Geneva that night. Every good citizen is interested in preventing the sale of votes. For every vote purchased the county becomes liable for SIOO, to go to the briber, and the man who is rascal enough to buy a vote is scoundrel | enough to betray his victim and claim the taxpayers' money. Grover CLRVELANDis in print again, I and this time he plainly disapproves of McKinley and says that he will receive no support from him. He is not in polities and has no desire to again I identify himself in public life. This > announcement at this time clearly shows his preference of the two presidential candidates to lie Bryan. Hanna has been on a spellbinding 1 expedition into the northwest. It is said that he expects to be the next republican candidate for president and iis now laying his wires. He is not 1 satisfied with lieing president in fact as everybody knows he is but wants , to be so in name and live in the White House. The republican party is firm■ly in his grasp and if he wants the I nomination four years from now he will get it. regardless of what the decent members of that organization i think about it.

The old soldier who has trouble in getting his pension matter acted on should remember that President McKinley did not keep the pagan Sulu and Ins harem keepers waiting. 1 lie pension paid to them was agreed on very quieklv and they get it regula.Uv too’ from §4O to §250 per month, eath of them, _____ Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson democratic candidate for viee president, will be in Decatur on rally day. No vember 3. Come and see and hear this distinguished statesman and next viee president of the I nited States. Many other orators and statesmen will also be here, among them being the Hon. Charles K. Ladd of Illinois, Steven A. Douglass, jr., a former republican of Chicago, and others. This event will be the greatest ever witnessed in the political history of this county. Full particulars will be seen elsewhere in the Democrat.

THE M’KINLEY MINSTRELS. “Uncle Mark, wbat am de difference between man and de trusts?” “I can’t say, Theodore. What is the difference between man and the trusts?” "Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long. De trusts wants all de people's dough Till Gabriel bangs gong.” "Our genial Interlocutor will now give his side splitting stump speech entitled 'There Are No Trusts.' "—New York Journal.

k Mr. McKinley is needed in Ohio ! to help the republican bosses hold . that state in line, and he left for Can-1 ! ton today, and will practically manage | the rest of the republican campaign in Ohio. He professes confidence in his election, but his acts indicates that he has grave doubts. News from Mr. Bryan's trip through New York has been discouraging to Hanna and he is afraid that he may lose the state. Congressman Sulzer on his return to New York from a speaking tour through this state, told the New York Journal that it was as sure for Brvan as Georgia, and then he added: ‘T am glad I went to Indiana. I never saw such aggressive, determined and enthusiastic democrats. The people lof the state are thoroughly alive to the issues of the campaign, and against trusts, militarism and imperialism.”

I Rec,rets were receivod from the! Hon. Henry U. Johnson, the former l Richmond congressman, that ill health prevented him from accepting i! an invitation to the grand rally. The 1 letter will be found elsewhere. Mr. Johnson has always been a republican [ but this year is advocating the election of Brvan. Reports from this congressional . district contain rosy predictions of the J probable defeat of Congressman Cro- ’ mer. who is the republican candidate 1 to succed himself. It seems that the 1 disaffection at his home in Muncie have subsided none since two years 1 ' ago. and that at least 500 republicans in that county will cast their votes for 1 ' the democratic nominee. Madison I and Randolph counties will also prune ■ 1 his vote there and this together with i the clean and forcible campaign being i i waged by the Hon. Joseph T. Day, the democratic nominee, mean that Cromer has the fight of his life.

Join the crowd at the big rally in this city Saturday. Nov. 3. In addition to the many other ballots to be voted election day there will be the constitutional amendment, which will be printed on a sepaaate ballot. The amendments provide for | qualifications for admission to the; bar. and the increase of the number of judges of the supreme court. Republican managers of the McKinley campaign are worried over the attitude of the Grand Army of the Republic. The men who wore the blue are not overly enthusiastic in their I advocacy of the republican ticket, and many veterans have not hesitated 'to declare that the president should lie held responsible for the conduct of the pension bureau, because he has , sustained Pension Commissioner H. | Clay Evans in all the rulings the old I soldiers objected to. The situation this year seems to me to resemble in some respects that of 1876. Then, with hardly a cloud in the sky, and with almost no apprehension of defeat, we lost Indiana, barely saved Ohio with an Ohio candidate running for president, and lost i New York. Now, also, in 1900, the \ democrats hope and plan to carry Indiana and New York, and they will do it unless there is the utmost activity in these states. Forecast by Senator Chandler (rep.) of New Hamspire.

■ . . . ■ , ■ . . . ■ — W W W W M W WWW »* W W W w w — POLITICAL CALENDAR. Oct. 25.—Luckey School House, Union township. Hons. J. T. g Kelley and D.- B. Erwin. 5 Oct, 25, Gerke School House, Root township. Hons. J. F Snow 5 and D. D. Coffee. 5 ’ Oct. 27.—Cotton wo. si School House, French township. Hons. Da- . vid E. Smith and John C. Moran. 5 ’ Oct. 27.— Magley. Hon. D. B. Erwin. a Oct. 29.—Jacobs School House-Blue Creek township. Hon. David 5 D. Coffee. 3 Oct. 29.- Decatur. Patrick Keefe, of Kentland. 3' Oct. 80.—Erwin School House, Union township. Hons. C. J. Lutz g and J. C. Moran. ’ Oct. 30. -Berne. Patrick Keefe, of Kentland. □ Oct. 30.—Geneva. Hons. Jacob Butcher and John Miller. 3; Oct. 31. Friedheim. Hon. Karl Frietag (German). J Nov. I.— Meyers School House, French township. Hon. John (■ 5 Moran. § Oct. 26- Linn Grove. Hon. W. H. Eichhorn, of Bluffton. Oct. 26 Mallonne School House, Root Township, Hon. James I 5 Merryman. 5 Nov. 1 Buckmaster School House, Jefferson Township. Hons. J. 5 T. Merryman and David D. Coffee. Nov. 2. Preble. Hous, J. F. Snow and John C. Moran. NOV. 3.— DECATUR. Grand Rally. Hon. Adlai E. Stev< n- >n- 2 candidate for vice-president, will positively be here. 3 Other speakers are Hou. Charles K. Ladd, of- - Hon. Stephen A. Douglass, Jr., of Chicago. 3 5. Hon. Joseph T. Day, candidate for congress, liom d E Henry Coierick, of Fort Wayne, Hon. J. A. M. Ada>b 3 of Portland, and Hon. Freeman Kelley, of DeKai > d county. Grand street parade in the forenoon ano 3 torchlight procession at night. Three beautiful P ri/e 3 t Hags given away. Excursion rates on all railroads.

Sends HI S Resets. Iho following exnlnno* was received from the Hon f/ letter Johnson, the brainiest 1 Indiana, except Gen. Harrison ' Richmond, 15,,. <L. • . Hon. R. K. Erwin, Decatur l I My Dear Sir: I verv ur ’ p 1 that I am in such condifim. 1 i that it will not be possible f f ' ea < even attend and preside at « T i eratic meeting in veur eitv •> i-® 0- ' invited by you to do It’is H of my life that I have been | take the stump for Mr Brva " b V° campaign, and do what littU r th , w to aid him in the great mH fight which he is so mg for the rescue of our free ,ak ’ ’ tious from the desecrating hla ' tll ' the present administrafion T ° f much hope that your meeting wiinl a success. Yours verv sinceSv “ __ The appearance < >f Senator Till,, in this city Tuesday from every which wav. m.uiv a distance of twenty miles to dtstingmshed senator apeak ' pon ® political issues. For several v’ears has been a character in public £ that is peculiarly his own fiery and bluntly plain vet p?‘u have learned to credit him with W esty and sincerity and the eo llra „ e “ f Ins convictions. H ls speech pie proof of these facts and a j ovation was paid him. His addrw ' was a plain ummrnished statement I and explanation which was well reI eeived, understood and the gravity of l their importance appreciated. Political speeches upheld in the I county during the past week at the ! headquarters in this city. Geneva j Monroe, Deßolt school house in Wadi’ ■ ington township. Jefferson township j and in this city Tuesday. The speak ’ ers were the Hons. C. .1 Lutz. D. D, | Coffee, R. K. Erwin, and J. T. Merryj man of this city, S. A. M. Butcher of I Geneva, N. D. Doughman of Fort Wayne, Senator Tillman of South Carolina and C. L. Drummond of j Plymouth. Reports from every meet--1 ing shows greater enthusiasm and renewed interest, both in the issues and 1 probable success of democracy at the election. The Adams county ilemocraj ey are certainly alive and doing good and efficient work for their party, as the returns will show when the count is complete. In the meantime let every democrat lie alive to his duty.

Mrs. Clark J. Lutz left yesterday for Richmond, where she "will visit with relatives and friends for a few days. You have perhaps before this time read the posters which announce the coming of Adlai Stevenson, candidate for vice president, to this city on November 3 and the monster celebration in his honor. Other noted men are also announced, and the dav is to be one never to be forgotten. Join your j delegation and come in. The boys’ drum corps. Leaded by the two young “prints," Mayer and Tester, who bid fair to become political generals in time, have b*en boomingjtheir candidates. Bryan and Sk« venson along in good shape for the past week by giving concerts and pa- ; rades upon Main street. The boys L are all right and can make more noise i than anybody. Tonight they will ; stir up a good grist of enthusiasm at I the Luckey school house. A party of movers on their way from Paulding county. Ohio, to Tipton county. Indiana, passed through here last night on their first davs trip. They were not ordinary movers of the usual type who travel by ■ wagon nowadays, but first class farm- | ers who had sold out their farm in the Buckeye state for a better one in Hoosierdom and were traveling overland , to save expenses that would hare bren incurred in conveying themselves and shipping their stock, etc., > by rail’. They had good horses and cattle and brand new wagons and > started many of the old timers to tell- ’ mg tales of times when such modes of ■ moving were absolutely necessary in this country.