Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVBBY TBCBSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLLNUHAM. Publisher. 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffi.-e at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 15. Congress convenes the first Monday in next month. Steel has raised §2 a ton. There are no trusts, s;jvs Hanna. California democrats have begun the reorganization of their party. Hon. Marits Dalt, the great Montana copper king, is dead. His wealth is estimated at §50,000,000. The new trustees are filing their bonds and getting ready to take their offices. Every one in Adams county is a democrat. The salt trust has raised the price of table salt from §l.lO to §2.50 for 100 pounds. Great is this scheme of prosperity via the trust route. More splendor and royal blood will lx* mixed up in the next inauguration of President McKinley than has ever attended the inauguration of a president. It is said that the coming legislature will endeavor to again gerrymander the state to make the twelfth district reliably republican. Come on, ye bloomin’ full dinner pail. The American Loval Republican League, of Cleveland, Ohio, has endorsed Senator Hanna for president in I£K>4. Twelve years as president is certainly unconstitutional. Governor-elect Dirbin has broken ♦ into print and informed his aspiring friends that he has nothing to give out at present writing. Suchja gloomy outlook is not encouraging. Tiil meeting of the Indiana legislature is now beginning to agitate the i minds of the lawmakers, who will compose that body. Hon. Henry Dirkson will represent Adams county in this general assembly. The Portland Commercial reports Dr. Culbertson as an aspirant for postothce honois. At this place it is expected tha* Paul Hooper will make) another flying trip to Washington i and then come back empty handed. Governor Movnt has issued his' Thanksgiving proclamation which proclaims Thursday. November 29, as a day of thanks giving and prayer. Let every laboring man with an overload ed stomach and a full dinner pail, take i cognizance of this day and date, JrsT §IOO,OOO more of good American money will be invested in rhe Philippines if the senate ratifies the treaty signed by Secretary Hav and the Spanish minister, which binds this ’ country to pay Spam that amount for three small islands located just outside of the boundaries set by the treaty which ceded the Philippine islands to the United States.

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1 he Future Democracy. Much is being said about the reorganization of the democratic party. Not perhapv* much by the 7,000,(XX) who contributed their money, their time and their ballot in behalf of the candidates of the regularly organised democracy, as by the representatives of the few thousands who now lay claim to lieiog the only real patriots the country has ever produced. A few years back many of these self constituted patriots would have thought but little of the patriotism of a democrat whorefused to support the platform and candidates of their party. Take for instance G. Cleveland and his cabinet, among them Dickinson, , Carlisle, Whitney, Eckles and Morten. What if in 1884 and 1892 such democrats as Hill, Olney, Gorman, Turpie, Bailey, and men of this type had held themselves above their party, bolted the ticket and then flaunted themselves before the public as patriots of the sainted brand. But the election is over. It is perhaps not in good taste to dig up the ghost and rent the air with vindictiveness, but it should be understood that if reorganization is necessary, the persons to accomplish it must be the democrats who have been faithful to their party. It is true that the democracy must divorce itself from populism and fanaticism. but it does not take a Cleveland, a Carlisle or a Whitney to diagnose this fact. So many of the followers of the isms that are prominent at this time, are so extreme and revolutionary that but few will follow them. Politics of today has reached a commercial basis and is void of the statesmanship that was the pride of the country in years gone by. The statement of Mr. Bryan that the dollar is placed above the man is a literal truth or has been, especially in the I last two national campaigns. While ! this may be a deplorable fact, yet it is one that must be realized and met in the future. We do not predict a reorganization of the party because there is nothing about it demanding a reorganization. New men of course must be put at the head of its management. Chairman Jones of Arkansas, Johnson of Kansas, and Stone of Missouri, must l>e relegated, and their places filled with northern men of ability as well as good political sense. In our judgment this will complete its reorganization. - — The orders sent to Gen. MacArthur from Washington, to take the field in person in the new campaign that is to be waged against the Philippine insurgents as soon as the rainy season ends over there, show that the administration takes no serious stock in the statement constantly made during the i campaign that the re-election of McI Kinley would be followed by the colI lapse of the revolution. That was. good enough talk for campaign pur-1 { poses, but now the orders are to fight. ■ it to a finish. The New York democrats are endeavoring to shelve Boss Croker, but I Philadelphia republicans trying to j place the great honor of a United States senatership upon Boss Quay, an infinitely worse man than Croker. At the Philadelphia national republican convention no man was so vociferously applauded or so generally received as Matthews S. Quay of Pennsylvania, unless it was the pseudo governor of Kentucky, Taylor, then and now under the protection of Governor Mount and the great commonwealth of Indiana. What a disgraceful spectacle it was. Sentinel.

I Holiday advertising is now about due and now is the time to plant 'em. Hon. Parks M. Martin has been made a member of the state boord of tax commissioners, the appointment coming from Governor Mount. Since the election Governor Roosevelt has publicly admitted that his statements concerning the democratic i mayor of New York Chy. were untrue and only made for political effect. The ice trust there as elsewhere, is a i republican institution and officered by ■ re-publicans. Cabinet positions are now being handed around to Governor Mount, Hugh H. Hanna and Harry New. The Democrat is filled with enough home pride to wish the whole concern would be illuminated with, Hoosier republicans, with salaries that would be a fair comparison to the adminstrative war tax rate. Now every one hold their breath while the Philippine war subsides. Those measly democrats, you know, are alone responsible for the little agitation, and now that Hanna's ship subsidy steal is assured and the i country saved, that flirtation will stop ; —in a horn. Instead reinforcement 1 is the administrative talk. < At first the republicans were not satisfied with the election returns and I uttered a protest that they had been ! robbed by the measly democrats, and ■ 1 Kentucky taken from them. Later and ■ ’ wiser counsels prevailed and they now ' admit that Beckham was elected gov- ■ j ernor and that Bryan carried the state ‘ bv about 8,000.

Democratic senators aud represent atives have not been disposed to talk for publication on the result of the election, not because they are discouraged or that they consider the future of the democratic party in eithei doubt or danger, but on the general principal that it is always good policy for the defeated party to let the other fellows do the talking for awhile, just as they will have to do the legislating and administrating of the country for awhile. For the same reason they think the talk about reorganizing the democratic party, which has been indulged in to a limited extent since the election, premature at this time. The best policy for the democrats to adopt for a while is to keep a careful watch upon the republicans, show up everv blunder they make, and do a whole lot of thinking. It is now practically admitted by republicans that the talk previous to the election of a repeal of the war taxes was nothing more than a campaign bluff. A call for the ways and means committee of the house to meet on the 20th inst. has been issued. The bill the committee will prepare will merely revise the war taxes some campaign obligations will be paid that way and will not repeal all of them. The republicans know very well that with the total appropriated by the last session of congrees of §674,000.000 and the probability that a larger sum will be appropriated by the coming season, all or nearly all of the money produced by the war taxes will be needed. The bill prepared bv the committee will probably reduce the war taxes in the interests of favored classes, something like §15,(XX),000 or §20,000,000 a year, but the bulk of those taxes will have to be paid by the people for an indefinite period.

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FUTURE DEMOCRACY. Opinions of Some Leading Adams County Democrats. IRVIN BRANOVBtRRY. Should discard all uu democratic doctrines. Have enthusiastic organizers and leaders at the head of the party and adopt a platform of live issues. H. A HARTMAN. It is not reorganization so much that is needed as a more thorough organization upon the real issues which will present themselves in the course of the present administration. MAYOR A P BEATTY. I do not believe that the democratic party needs any reorganization. She is founded on principles that look to the interests of the masses and not the classes. She is the poor man’s friend, and should be led by men who have a common interest with the people. JOHN C. MORAN. VYe need no reorganization. Our principles are right. Perhaps reorganization and surrendering on the money question would bring back those who left us, but surrender one single principle, I say no, never. Let us fight it out on the present lines—-in the interest of humanity and the cause of the common people. Let us win right or not at all. JAMES r.MERRYMAN. In my human opinion the democratic party needs no reorganization. It ever has been, is now and will continue to be the conservator of our civil institutions. Its principles are co-equal with personal liberty and individual rights to the fruits of industry without being hampered by robber trusts or aristocratic despotism. In the future it should recognize the fact that the people desire to test fully and fairly a single standard of monetary value, cut lose from “isms” and rest our cause on that high plane it has always maintained as planted in our immortal declaration of independence anil demand liberty and equality liefore the law tar every man, woman and child on the face of the earth, and libertv loving Americans will see to it that the democratic party is perpetuated to the end of time. JAMES R. 8080. The republic is one thing: hold that sacred, it is the heart of the heart of every patriot, every one who loves Dis country. W hoever attacks the republic itself invites destruction], total to himself aud his party. The republican partv. that is only a party in name formed tar power. It has served its purpose. We all know why that party was formed and w hat for. Has it served its day! Let every one ask his own conscience and make his own answer. The great democratic party is formed on other lines -every dem-

ocrat knows what democracy is. It is j as great as the state, broad as the | nation, as wide as the world, and | patriotism is the onlv ebon! to hold it together. It gives much, asks little and stands for good government. Unite. If vou love your country unite. That is all the reorganization the democratic party nt«ls. I nite. I nity. Get together as one. and overthrow the trusts, war tariffs and all the bar . ons and sons of spoil born of the recent administration of the nation’s business. Let the battle erv be “Free trade and free silver” or "Fret 1 silver and tree trade,” and let no man fear the dragon of direct taxation. Li t that take care of itself. Let democrats unite for one sole purpose. Unite for strength. We are somewhat divided, unite, unity is the reorganization that will bring all the force.-, together and win the victory. Unite for patriotism and power. CLARK J. LUTZ In my opinion the democratic party does not need to be, and will not lie reorganized. In the first place the democratic party stands today where it has always stood for the principles set forth in the declaration, aud for a strict construction of the constitution for a government, for the people and by the people. Great political parties can only be reorganized by representatives assembled in convention, and those representatives must as they always have been, chosen by the prople. No set of meu calling themselves leaders, salf chosen can meet and successfully declare what the policy of the party shall lie. Reorganization of the democratic party is onlv favond bv the republicans, and such men as Diekison. Fairchild. Eckles and the like, and if they attempt it what the seven millions of faithful democrats who have kept tlie faith and fought the battles since the close of the Cleveland maladministration will do them will be a plenty. What we should do and w hat we will do is to buckle on the armor, line up the I forces and get ready for the battle of 1904. The so-called leaders who will meet from time to time in conference to decide what the future policy of the party shall be, will be the same persons who we have found in the enemy’s camp in the last eight years. While we have gone down in defeat we should nut be discouraged, the principles of right and justice must, and will prevail. There are ten repub-1 licansto one democrat advocating the; reorganization of the democratic party today. DAVID E. SMITH. The silent vote has made itself heard in this election. During the campaign I could see no reason why the voter, who was paying more for the necessaries of life, more for his materials in improving his home, should remain silent if he intended to support the republican administration. But he seems to have had some reasons. There can be no doubt, when you now analyze the vote, that he compared the present times of inflated prosperity, and the republican argument of the “full dinner pail” to the times during the last years of Grover Cleveland’s administration. There can be no doubt that the financial question also had much to do with ' the result. There is no mistaking the fact that the east, the money centers and those holding securities, are opposed to the free coinage of silver. The west that apparently seemed favorable to that issue four years ago has changed. The west is naturally republican upon any issue, and while there was a large defection from the ranks of the republican party four years ago throughout the west—that defection calling themselve populists upon the first opportunity, they crawled Iwk into the republican party. I agree with the democrats generally, that the money question will not agian lie an issue, but I disagree with such renegades as Diekison, Whitney et al., as to the reorganization of the party. The party is already organized, and if there are to lie any changes in the policies or platforms, they will be made by those who have been true and loyal, who have fought the fight and borne the heat and burden of the day. Such changes will not be made by traitors whoviilfyMr. Bryan, that peerless leader, who stands close to the hearts of the seven millions of voters who cast their ballots for him at this election. W’hile I, w'ith all other democrats, was dismayed at the results of the election, I am not discouraged. The democratic party is the champion of the people’s rights, and its principles must prevail. The people, for the time being, have placed the bit in the mouth of the republican party; have handed the party leaders the lines. They cannot miss the ruts of favoritism, nigh protection, trusts and imperialism, that must eventually bear their party to destruction. Rll KURD K. ERVIN, In the great political battle just closed there is much for discouragement and much for encouragement. We are inclined to feel discouraged when we realize what victory

j for the opposition means. This victon ! for the republican party means thJ I this republic of ours shall enter th arena of the world, where , not right shall be the moving sp iri t I where the nation that will be foremost in the great achievements of the world | must have the largest armies and the mightiest enginery of war, where the glory of the nation shall depend inion ■ its getting gold or possessions repaid less of the individual rights of "men or nations, where the principles o f rights, individual libertv and human rights shall be a secondary consideration with those in power;"aud where home and kindred ties shall no longer be taken into account in the mad race for glory, gold or fame. O n the other hand we have much to encourage us We have the thought that in this fight there has stood shoulder to shoulder seven millions of freemen whom the lust for gold or office could not buy; men whom the power of the gold plutocracy could not intimidatemen whom the glint and glitter of the splendid trappings of the warrior could not lure from the safe aud glorious principles of equality and love of home and native land. In the hands of such men as those that tallied to the standard of democracy must everrest the hope, the happiness, the aspirations of the human race and the perpetuity of our free institutions and religious liberty. They shall be nucleus around which all liberty lor ing citizens may rally in four years and re-establish our government in its original purity ere the time shall come that McCauley predicted "That the hungry and homeless millions of America shall write again the law that will establish social equality." No nation ever has been deprived of her liberties by a domestic foeman without its consent, and a majority of no nation has ever consented at the same time; but from time to time have those who desire to rule encroached upon the rights of the people until they feel it a duty to the rulers and their country to surrender their liberties into the hands of kings. The Israelites did this when becoming dissatisfied with the judges, and when I Saul was anointixl they cried “long I live the king,” and the same rule has governed ever since. Some have talked of a reorganization of the democratic party. If this means that some one outside of those who have stood iby us in this fight and assisted in waging the greatest battle of the cen- ‘ turies, shall be given the leadership ! and his counsel lie taken for those who know how to fight for the right because it is right, then reorganization should not lie thought of, but on the other hand I would be in favor of justly earned promotions from the ranks of the party, and put in command some one from the great battle fields of the Mississippi valley, who understands what is required to win the cause of the people against the money and trust power and the army sentiment growing up in the country under the fostering care of Teddy Roosevelt, and who will make no alliances with those who have pretended friendship but stabbed us in the back and deserted us in the thickest of the sight ’ ___ Sheriff Erwin was at Fort " ■>. vl »' yesterday, where he was nosing around on official business. Andrew Gottschalk, at one time one of the substantial business men of Geneva, was in the city yesterday. Mrs. Frank Von Sweringen who has been visiting her sister, Katherine . Miesse, here for several days returned to her home at Fort Wayne yesterday. 1 Several residences and business houses at Wren, Ohio, were destroy*! by fire Friday morning entailing 3 1 loss of about §2,500, partially insured. ' Mayor Beatty’s law office smacks of prosperity, the floor being adorned with a handsome new covering of real linoleum. The improvement is i' l ' r , tainly creditable and looks first rate. Robert B. Allison haabsen appoint- > ed administrator of the estate of the > late Isreal J. Miesse, deceased. Hi» 1 appointment and bond were approved 1 by the circuit court Monday. The W. C. T. U. will meet Saturday ’ afternoon with Mrs. Charles Allega r ’ ’ at her home on Sixth street. Every ’ member is earnestly requested to l* present as the annual election of olf 1 ncers will occur. . i William H. Niblick vs. Albert Pete 1 et al., foreclosure. $4,500, aud -1 & Shepherd Co. vs. Peter A. Heath r | Co., foreclosure, §350 are the titles i 1 new cases filed this week in the A< ; [ ams circuit court. f 1 Wanted: To buy a farm of •> (l jj acres. About one-third down a, ' v r : balance on easy payments, or ivdl I’- 1 , cash rent for a good farm. Adore E. Hemp, New Madison, Ohio. t The Indies of the Woman’s - Corps will se'-ve dinner in the or t. son room on Saturday afternoon 11 i- 11 until 2, and also supper from >’ y til 7. The public is