Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 29 November 1900 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVKKY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. »1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 29. Christmas is only four weeks away. The McKinley plurality in Indiana is 26,479. Marion will soon boast of a new $70,000 hotel and a SIOO,OOO newspaper plant. The Bluffton Evening Banner was a year old the other day, and for a yearling beats the record. The next legislature will be asked to appropriate SIOO,OOO for the reorganization of the Indiana militia. John M. Higgins the Indianapolis councilman, has been convicted of bribery, and if guilty deserves the full penalty of the law. /' William Kershner of Wells county, claims to be of the three hundred heirs to an estate in Germany valued at $,’10,000,000. Editor Harra New is now busy giving expression to the fact that he is not in the market for a cabinet position under the second McKinley administration. The primary election law agitation is subsiding some among the republican statesmen who will run the legislative machinery during the coming session of the general assembly. Be thankful today. And while showing gratude for the many blessings received and the “prosperity” which was paramount during the campaign, do not forget the poor. The voting machine is a necessity in Indiana politics. It saves time, gives no opportunity for corruption, and the next legislature should provide for their introduction into Indiana politics. H. L. Troutman for many years an employee of the Bluffton Banner, is now owner of the Montpelier Herald. Harry knows the printing business in its entirety and will make the Herald a bright newspaper. The friends of the two Indiana senators are now log-rolling for the speakership for the Indiana general assembly. J ust give it to some true, tried and trusted corporation lawyer and let ’er go at that. The question of an electric railway to this city is perhaps more of a reality than most of our people will admit, The public generally speaking, are seemingly favorably inclined to such an enterprise, and believe it will prove beneficial. The Columbus Daily Democrat has suspended. Its mission was illegitimate and its utter failure to gain any mark ofilistinctioniscertainlycherishing to those having at heart the best interest of the profession and the welfare of the party.

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A DEMOCRATIC RETROSPECT. In three elections 1896, 1898 and 1900, the democratic party of Indiana has been defeated. And yet it is the belief of all parties that democrats have a majority of the votes. Why then don’t they score a victory? They are not united, they are divided. Democracy may be divided and defeated but it cannot bo destroyed. There is in the democratic party as indeed there is in every party a faction who never forget thisold maxim "It is better to be a leader when in the minority than not to be a leader when in the majority.” We have too many leaders of minority. There are democrats enough to carry the poll if they would i join hands and vote together. When i the factions all unite the party will be the party of power, in the state and in the nation. The heart of every democrat is patriotic. If the organization and leadership of the democrats shall ever once be made to give force and expression to the will of the body of democrats, then there will be, and when that time comes, as it will come there will be a democratic victory. A sweeping victory which will carry away the barons, monopolies, high tariffs and all the natural political enemies of democracy. It is division that destroys the force and I effect of the party both in the state and in the nation. It is unity alone that can restore its power. Along what lines can any great party unite in any country? Especially a great party of more than seven millions of men in America; which when I think of it seems to stand alone in all this ! world. They must unite along the lines of conservatism and patriotism. Love of our country and holding fast of well-tried principles and established institutions. We must keep our country first, and we must hold fast to all that is good. College youths play football and risk and i loose their lives; but politics is not j like football. In the arena of politics there is the hope and happiness, the life and death of a whole nation involved. It is an established fact in American politics that “the policy pursued by a great party will lead to victory or defeat without regard to numbers or the polling lists of partisans.” During the campaigns of 1896. ’9B and 1900, not all but many public 1 speakers and orators, of our party, all over the land attacked the supreme court of the United States. That court is a court of law and equitv. The second highest power of the government is in its hands. As a court to determine cases, it has no superior among all the nations and never had, and it may be truly said of it, that it is the greatest and purest court ever established bv man, to pass judgment on the rights and wrongs of men. It has no compeer. It stands out liefore all the world alone, conspicuous for law, equity, purity and justice. It is the sacred department of the government. The public speakers and orators might justly have attacked the decisions of the court, disputed the law with the court and declared that error has lieen done, but they should not have attacted the court as a court. Again in all these campaigns many not all, but many of our public speakers attacked the United States senate as a senate. They attacked the txxly, not this senator or that senator, but the senate. That body of law-makers is the most patriotic deliberative body I in all the governments of the human I race. Well, compare them with the . senate of France, for there is none I other. Whether for good or for bad i the senate is the democratic arm of ■ the American republic. The right

arm of democracy in America. They might have attacked the errors of the senate or attacked its political policy whether right or wrong and held it up to public view in any and in every light, but they might uot attack the senate itself. The senate is a part of the first, the legislative department of the government. It belongs to the law-making power, which is the first highest and greatest power of government. To attack the senate is to attack the government. It is good politics to attack the administration at all points where the administration is weak, but to lay down a rule that “we who are out will oppose all they do who are in” is stupid and is not polities. It is not a good rule. Why attack a point when it invites inevitable defeat? Surely that is not good politics, unless you imagine that the great party is in the minority and must lead a forlorn hope. It is not so. We can give honor where honor belongs, and then attack wrong and injustice wherever it exists. In the last election and in the canvass we might well have attacked and contested the policy pursued against Spain and all that wo took from her; especially as we did oppose the policy as to Porto Rico and the tariff but many of our people attacked the war itself. The war was an existing fact in this campaign which no man should have overlooked, and one in which the people considered themselves engaged. Our party is sound and patriotic, and there is none greater but the management overshot the mark. They did attack the republican party, but they also went further, they attacked the government itself. That is going too far. The patriotism of the people was shocked, their intelligence was insulted and the result was found in the ballot box. To a looker-on at the last election, it looked much like a seno comic opera, played on the stage of America, with all the world for an audience, and am not sure whether the great democratic party at home and abroad laughed or wept—l doubt not there were both smiles and tears. J. R. Bobo. Congressman Cromer has sent chills down the spinal column of the many aspiring republicans in this district, by the announcement that the statement of his retirement after the expiration of his present term was the w’orst kind of a canard. George likes the snap first rate and does not propose to relinquish it without a struggle.

Rich, independent|and arrgoant from salaries and favors given him bv the democratic party. John R. Wilson, of Indianapolis, says it is ill advised for gold democrats to express themselves at this juncture. If the democratic party had known at the time what a lot of ungrateful and treacherous cuss es it was electing in past years it would be better off today. Ninety per cent, of the leading gold democrats are men who have made all of their money through favors of the democratic party, and after getting all the salaries they could, organized revolt against their benefactor. It would seem that the men guilty of such base ingratitude would be ashamed to appear conspicu ous in any movement and much less to make newspaper parade of the fact that they now palsy the hand which rifted them to affluence. A man who owes the democratic party nothing may become a free lance with perfect consistency, but those who owe it all they have can not turn upou it and smite with less dishonor than follows him who spurns the mother that gave him birth. Rochester Sentinel.

■ MS ttlltllßl too.. Bosses Opera House, Decatur, Indiana* Temple Male Quartette, December 1. Anna Shaw, Lecturer, December 13* Tyrolean Concert Company, January 22* Father Joseph Nugent, Lecturer, February 15. George R. Wendling, Lecturer, March 14. ——PRICES — Season Tickets . _ _ SI.OO. Season Reserved Seats - -50 c. Single Reserved Seats - -10 c. Single Admission . _ _ 50c. Ticket can be secured at Holthouse, Callow & Co. or the Solicitors.

Whatever else is left undone hurry with the army bill. That is the sum and substance of what Mr. McKinley says to every prominent republican senator and representative, who goes to the white house. The reason he wishes the legislation for the inincrease of the army hurried is, that he has received a hint that the decision of the U. S. supreme court will be against the constitutionality of the Porto Rico act, which would mean that the I nited States would have to relinquish ownership of the Philippines, and would consequently have I no us efor a large standing army.

Senator Davis of Minnesota, is dead. Hon. Charles A. Towne, can- < didate for the nomination of vice- i president at Kansas City, may lie appointed to succeed the late Senator i Davis as a member of the United States senate. i Mayor Carter Harrison for president. and Charles A. Towne for vice is a ticket some enthusiast las already nominated to lead the democracy to victory in I’.MH. We dare say that liefore that time comes, an understanding will have to be had with David B. Hill, and there are others. The Indiana general assembly will meet at the capitol city on the’ first Tuesday after the first Thursday or January 8. Representative Henry Dirkson is getting ready to move down on the capitol city during the sixty days in which the legislature will be in session. He will represent the county of Adams in that body. For the edfication of the Journal we will say that Ansel Van Camp’s speech was slightly tampered with by perhaps that wily politician, Rev. Martz. What Mr. VanCatnp said was that President McKinley was responsible for the canteen law and its accompanying vices. Can the Journal or even Rev. Martz deny it? Representative. Champ Clark says: “I am not down cast or discouraged by the licking we got The most unpleasant feature about it is it will take us six or eight years to get the senate As to the proposition to reorganize the democratic party, it is a fact in natural history that’ the tail cannot wag the dog; and the same is true in politics. The party does not need reorganizing to liegin with. It is thoroughly organized, and even if it were to lie reorganized, it would not be from the outside. We want everybody to come in that feels like helping us, but we have a perfect organization of our own.” The Journal is authority for the statement that some “perhaps in the employ of the democratic leaders” destroyed the banners prepared for the widely advertised ratification. The daily failed to mention this great colossal crime committed under the supervision of the Adams county democrats. “The leaders of the local democracy would stoop to such a piece of trickery is a fact about which there is no doubt,” is a gem only intended for its weekly edition. In re gam to the banners referred to, reliable information reaches us that they were safe and unharmed at nine o clock Saturday morning, at least twelve hours later than the time thev were reported in the Journal to have been besmeared.

There is much talk about the next congress reducing the war taxes to the extent of $15,000,000. The last treasury statement claimed that the receipts of the government were greater by three times that amount than the expenditures, but there were several jobs sched tiled togothroughthis winter which will swell the expenditures largely and the people will lie given but little, if any relief. The tax burden is oppressive and the clamor for its reduction is widespread, tint the little reduction that may possibly be made will not lighten very materially the load of those who suffer the greatest hardship from it. The republican majority in congress will follow its usual rule and only pay heed to the clamor of those whose whose fat pocketbooks are best able to stand taxation and tarn a deaf ear to the real sufferers. This has been the his tory of the past forty years of almost unbroken republican rule and it isn’t very likely that with Hanna nt the helm the order will be changer! now. —Miami County Sentinel. Seats for the Entertainment Course are being reserved very fast at Holthouse, Callow & Co’s and persons desiring to attend the entertainments this winter should secure their ttckets without delay. The course opens w-ith the famous Temple Male Quartette Saturday night, Dec. Ist. Charley Leßrun is at home from three years’service for Uncle Sam as a member of the regular army. He arrived Thursday evening and was received most gladly by his parents Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Leßrun, as well as by his many other friends. He is tanned and rugged looking but is in good health and says he has enjoyed the bitter and sweet witii the rest of the boys. The first year of his soldier life was spent in a western fort. At the breaking out of the SpanishAmerican war his regiment, the Eighteenth Infantry were ordered to Cuba. They started, but before arriving were ordered to the Phillipin® islands, whither they went, landing early in the spring of 1898. They were among the first American soldiers to land in the island and rendered valliant assistance in the taking of the city of Manilla. For a time the native Phillipinos fought with the U. S’boys, but when they were forbidden the privilege of entering Manilla after assisting in taking the city, they turned and have since been pretty troublesome customers. Charley say* it will take the government twenty years to subdue the natives and that while the work of chasing and fighting them is dangerous it is exceedingly ’ fascinating and he has mode up his ‘ mind to re-eulist after a six weeks I rest and again get in chase. Charley » talks are most interesting and be can ’ tell you many hair breadth escapes.