Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VIRY THURSDAY MOKNISG BY LEW a. EU.INOMAM. Publisher. >I.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the poktofflce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, MAY 2. The bonded debt of tbe Chicago Record-Herald is $3,600,000, and still that newspaper will live and make money. Senator Pettigrew has just cleaned up a quarter of a million dollars speculating in Wall Street stock and is not so rantankerous as he was. Senator Hill, the great New York statesman, has wisely denied the assertion that he was already kiting after the presidential nomination in 1901. Hon. Tom L. Johnson, Cleveland’s new mayor, has replied to the many public statements by saying that he is neither a candidate for governor or . United States senator. Mayor John ! son knows hjg business and don’t I ’cher forget It, Governor Dvrbin has honored Dr. I McAdams with a place upon his staff with the rank of Colonel. The Ad-; ams county g. o. p. do not seem to be, on the map. as nearly everv county in ( the eighth congressional district have , acknowledged some favor from the governor, save and except Adams. If all our public men would approach the discussion of trusts and monopolies in the spirit that David; B. Hill approached the same in his Jefferson banquet speech at Buffalo, the foundation might easily be laid for a broad sentiment that would lead to a safe and certain solution of these problems. South Bend Times. Hon. Hugh Docgherty while in the citv yesterday, proclaimed the impossibilitv of his accepting the chairmanship of the Indiana democracy. Mr. Dougherty has too much business and it entails a too large volume of money to neglect in any wav, as the ehairmanshipnecessitates. Mr. Dough erty has grown much in the eyes of j the Indiana democracy, and some sweet day we expect to see him grace the gubernatorial chair, for which he is splendidlv equipped. Governor Dvrbin is slowly but sure Iv building a machine in Indiana that be can confidentlv rely upon to elect him to the United States senate four vears hence as successor to Senator i Beveridge. Everyappointment made 1 so far has been with this end in view; ami while the governor is to be complimented upon the most of his selec-! tions for office, each person so honored ' has had the Durbin label stamped | upon him. In this line the Dispatch has heard it intimated repeatedly that more changes are to be made at the penitentiary, sooner or later until. every official becomes a recognized cog in the Durbin machine. With the great patronage at his disposal, and the governor's acknowledged ability as an organizer, it behooves the junior '♦nator to do some fence building himself if he wants to lie in the senatorial race at the end of bis first term. - Michigan City Dispatch.

1 It is stated that the president of the billion dollar steel trust receives the fancy salary of a million a year. The amount stated is perhaps exag f erated, but nevertheless is enough to eep the wolf from the door. The story is again in circulation 1 that soon James K. Jones will retire : from the national chairmanship and that Mayor Taggart will succeed thereto. In Indiana there is a sincere desire that this change in leadership come to pass. An echo from the Zimri Dwiggins > style of lianking comes from the east. ■ James M. Starbuck, an old partner of , Zimri. has just filed a petition in bank ruptcy, in which he places his indebtedness at $368,380, and not a red cent to pay on it. Asa Napoleon of finance Starbuck certainly is in Zimri’s class. ; —Columbia City Post. The president and party have departed upon that much advertised trip which measures more than 10.000 miles in length and covers twentythree states. The start was made at ten o’clock Monday. The Washington end of the government will be in the hands of Secretary Root during the president’s absence. The trip will cover seven weeks, and be the I most exteided sight seeing expedition • ever enjoyed by a president and his 1 cabinet. ’ The selection of Prof. H. A. Hartman to superintend the public schools lof this city for another year, is a deI serving tribute to the merits of a worthy man, Mr. Hartman is a gen- ’ tieman of much ability in school ' work, all of which has been fully demonstrated beyond any preadven-j ture. His social qualities are such that bring him into the good graces of both the pupil and those interested in the welfare of our public schools. He is worthy the place and the school board is to be commended for their prompt compliance to the wishes of the people. According to the treasury bureau of statistics the national debts of the world now aggregate more than $30.000,000,000. as compared with an ap proximate aggregate of $2,500,000,000 at the end of the eighteenth century. Thus in the last 100 years the world's national debts have increased more than ten times.- This should be compared with an increase of the world’s ; population during the last 100 years lof about 150 per cent and an increase lof gold and silver, which form the i basis of the money with which debt payments are made, of about 300 per cent. The enormous increase in national indebtedness is chiefly the result of wars, standing armies and. works of public utility. The official figures clearly prove that the bulk of i increase in the world's national debts .takes place invariably in times of I great national or international wars. • Most of the recent increases on a . large scale were made during the latter half of the nineteenth century J ■ which included the Crimean war. the , United States civil war. the Franco- - Prussian war. the China-Japan war, [the Spanish-American war and others iof less. note. It is not necessary to j follow here any statistics showing that I the wealth of the nations that have uniformly increased their national debts during the last century has also uniformly increased in prodigious ratio. The point is self-evident that no matter how capable a nation may be of caring for its national debt, it cannot assume a war policy without building up colossal future burdens tor the taxpayers.

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WATTERSON ON BRIAN. i “Mr. Bryan and his future,” is the . caption of the leading editorial which appeared in the Courier-Journal. > from the pen of Henry Watterson. It is his comment upon the Nebraskan’s announcement that he will seek the presidency uo more. Mr. Watterson ‘ says: ■ -It is over early to say whether Mr. Bryan is a statesman or a moral phil ' osopher. a preacher or a partv leader: I 'a democrat or a socialist. Statesmen have made in their time as many mis takes as lie at bis door; howbeit he is 1 young yet. Democracy has been so ; ill defined of late years that the commonality of democrats have got confused somewhat, albeit they have not wholly lost the trail. “But it is quite certain that if Mr. Bryan is to be a useful force in the arena of democratic politics he must pull himself together and get down to business from the high horse of mere idealistic sentiment he has been ridding, and that if we are to have a de 1 mocracy of the old order, unterrffied and unclefiled, yet equal to things real, the entire opposition to syndicated government, as emboaied by the republicans. must be united under broad er banners and lie marshaled upon surer ground. In a word, he, and the rest of us. must get down to facts. ‘'He may not be king; but he may be Warwick. He must devote himself to the future rehabilitation, not the future division of his party. He must not nurse illusions. He must not split hairs. He must set himself to the healing of wounds, the mending of fences, the combining of forces. He must show himself a disinterestednay, even a self-sacrificing man. If he fail in this, or if he attempt further to exercise autocratic power, he may find its magic gone from him in a day and night, passed to some newly risen favorite of fortune come as suddenly as came to the front, and offering the following that was his a hope. “It were a melancholy reflection twenty years hence, as he crosses the shadow line of sixty, if. amid the crumbling arches of life time of lost opportunities he should be obliged to confess, with shame and guilt, that all his theorizing hail brought him were the discredit of his counsel and the ruin of his party. “There is a radical difference between recognizing existing conditions and of being answerable for their existence. We may regret the altered situation raised by a Spanish war. We may. as an original proposition, be averse to the idea of outlying territory and all it implies. We may have been shocked by the president's change of policy as to Porto Rico, by the scandals in Cuba by the blunder- , ing in Manila, but we cannot deny that, for weal or woe, we are in possession of Porto Rico and the Philip pines, that, we are renant in Cuba, and that we must either pack up and come away—and in doing so make a confession of national impotency or else, standing our ground proceed | with the new and complicated obliga tions and duties incident thereto. “In abandoning the Philippines we yield our vantage ground in the far east, which is already become the center of the strife of the powers for commercial supremacy. We make what the world and the ages will hold an ignominous and short sighted surrender. for we are entering upon a cycle of pure commercialism whose end will witness the survival of the fittest and since when was any spirited people insensible either to” money cr empire? “‘Wrong, morally wrong.' says Mr. I Bryan. Why, on that line of effort

which has gain for its objection is wrong. -Out of Hue with American traditions,' says Mft'* Bryan. W by. every important movement from the Louisiana purchase to the abolition of slavery might lie described. But right or wrong, they are facts, and as an organized body what shall the democratic party do about them ? Mr. Watterson warns Mr. Brvan not to venture on too much predicting, sets up for a prophet God ' help him, because in that event God only can. He should rather recur to Kinglake's fine illustration of Louis Napoleon and apply it to himself. ‘An aeronaut who has twice fallen from the skies and is still in some measure alive. "If the intuition of mind much given to speculative studies do not inform him his reading must that the idol of today becomes the outcast of tomorrow. Heaven forbid that we should decry the bravery of youth; but, in the case of Mr. Bryan, while it has carried him far, it has fallen short of the mark and has lest him upon a most dangerons eminence. Mr. Watterson closes by recalling the criticisms he suffered for insisting that the south accept the three war amendments and make peace with the north, adding; “It was fighting for the democratic party which, except it reached some high, solid ' ground to stand on must flounder “!t»ng in a quagmire of its own delu sions. The Greelev fiasco was but the I prelude to the Tilden triumph; the storm of sectionalism was over, and except for the other extremists, represented equally by the selfishness and the incompetency of Mr. Cleveland. and the illusions and optimism 1 of Mr. Bryan, the democrats would be in power today, a great, conservativeforce. true to the constitutional teaching of the fathers of democracy, yet allying tradition with progress. “In 1901 we faced a revolution as great as that of 1865. Except as we realize its requirements we fail. Noth- - ing is easier than to theorize about i the bucolic republic of Washington j and Franklin to fustianize about the ‘constitution,’ to make speeches and write prose-poems against imperialism. to fiddle and fool away the time whilst the republicans whipsaw us here and hamstring us there. Mr. Bryan's violin may give forth sounds sweet to listen to. Meanwhile Rome burns. “It mav be that we ought to deliver up to the useless sacrifice of the flames of a few more presidential elections in the interest of a cause already lost. We may be of the earth, earthy, wanting in grace, but somehow we ; cannot help feeling that in this wicked world it is substance, not shadow, that rules. “We are mighty tired of shooting I blank cartridges out of flint muskets i against an enemy armed with Mauser riflles and occupying all the strong positions upon the field of battle.” William J. Brvan and his Common er are made out of the right stuff, as the following taken from his paper . indicates: “I have no enemies to pun- : ish. No matter what a man may have said or done against the ticket in 1896 and 1900, that man becomes my friend the moment he accepts democratic principles. Neither have I any disposition to reward political friends at the expense of our cause. No matter what a man may have Aid or done for the ticket in 1896 or in 1900 that man becomes an opponent the moment i he turns against the democratic principles. Political battles are fought, | not in the past or in the future, but in

WE done some remarkable shoe selling this spring, as most most p eo pie know. But we want to sell more And we aje going to give you that “little more” for your money in order to do it. Now to those who haven’t seen our shoes this spring we want ysu to see them... We will show you just as much courtesy whether you buy or not. What we wast is to have you look and we rely on the shoes and prices to sell them. We place on sale this week: A womans solid Dongola shoe, at s|.oo Boys lan shoe. $1.50 kind, 9to 13. |.qq Lot of men's 4 shoes, different kinds |,QQ Babies moccosins, all colors, Saturday g c VOGLEWEDE, The Shoe Seller.

the present. The heretofore can not | be recalled and the hereafter cannot be anticipated, but the now is all im- - girtant." In the same editorial Mr. * ryan announced that he had no in- > tention of again becoming a candi- j date for a third nomination for presi < dent. j - I Allowed Plenty of Time. Speaking of the late William Travers . leads me to remark that, so far as I j am personally aware, only one of the , classic stuttering stories about him is 1 actually true. X bad the honor and I happiness to reside at Newport for a 1 year or so once, and at the time Mr. ( Travers was a summer resident there. He certainly stuttered a good deal, but he did not go around habitually discharging staccato witticisms at the world, as you might suppose he did from all the stories you bear. But the one story that 1 know about is this one: Travers was at a garden party one afternoon when a young lady said to him. “What time is it, please, Mr. Travers?” Travers took out his watch, wabbled his mouth awhile, blinked and finally said, “It'll be s-s-s-s-six o'c-c-c-c-clock by the time 1 can say it!” It really lacked five minutes of 6 when he began.—Boston Transcript In Trouble. Mrs. Turtledove —Fk> yon know, dear, I'm afraid Harry does not Icve me the way he used to. Mrs. Kissimee—You do not mean to say he Is cross to you? Mrs. Turtledove—No. but he says that he is hankering for a square meal; that he'll starve to death if he does not get away from a chafing dish diet before long. And he used to be so enthusiastic over the things I cooked in the chafing dish when be came to see me! Men 'are so changeable!—Boston Transcript. First Theißbt. “What animal Is it that Is web footed, Tommie?” “The spider, ma'am.” — Yonkers Statesman. Easy Gblbi Japs. Japanese business methods are in the less important places of a very go as you please description. At Nagasaki the other day a foreigner calling at the branch of one of the chief shipping companies found the whole place deserted. It appeared that, the day being fine, the manager and staff had gone out on a mushroom hunting expedition. Mushroom bunting is a pursuit that appeals to every true Japanese. Ml..cd the Name. Guest of the Doctor's (late home from the theater)—Hurry up, old chap, and let me in. Absentminded Doctor (who has forgotten all about his visitor)—Who are you? Guest—Mr. Trane. Doctor—Missed o train, have you? Well, catch the next.—London Fun. It Came OS. Mother—Willie, your face is very clean, but bow did you get such dirty hands? Willie—Waabio me face.—Tit-Bits. No Veotare A boat It. “Is this your first venture in matrimony?'' the preacher ask.-d while the bridegroom was out in the veanbule giving certain Instructions to the best man. who was also his head clerk. “My dear Mr. Goodleigh,” she re piled, almost blushing, 'this isn't a venture at all. He has given tne deeds to more than MO.OQO worth of property already.”— Chicago Times-Herald. lahoritod. “Pa, said little Willie, looking np from his arithmetic, “what Is a linear foot?” “Why— er—a linear foot.” replied pa, tvmporiziiig. “why, it's one that's hereditary. Didn't you never hear tell of a linear descendant?”—Cathode Standard and Times. Both of the sons of Thomas Jefferson were members of congress from Virginia while he was president. One of there rn« Thomas Msau Randolph and the other John W. Eppea. The average weight o f « »heep fleece Is Bounds

APPLICATION FOR UQVOR LICENBB. Notice is berebv given to the citizens of th. Third Ward of the city of Decatur county, in the state of Indiana, that I. Niehota! Schafer. « male inhabitant and -aid ward, a person over the ag. ot twentr one years, a person not in the habit ot becotL ing Intoxicated and a flt person to ID „X ed with the sale of intoxlcaiing liquors, wii make application to the board of coLmMor. ersofthe county of Adams at their June session, for the year ll»l. for a license to sei; spirituous, vinous malt and other intvilMt ing liquors in le,s quantities than a quart ata time with the privilege of allowing tbs sat™ to be drank on tbe premises where sold The place where I desire to sell said intoxlcatij liquors Is in the front (round tl >or room ot the one and one-half story frame huildinr fronting on Monroe street. Commencing atk point on the north side of Monroe at net in the city of Decatur. W. feet west of the southeast corner of inlot No. 250 in the original Dial of the citv ot Decatur, thenee running north at right angles with said Monroe street 132 feet, thence west parallel with said Moarne street t*l feet to the alley, thence south aiont tbe said alley « feet to a stake, thence east perallel with said Monroe street 45 fettles stake, thence south .’0 feet to tbenonkwde of Monroe street, thence east 11 feet to place of beginning. s-3 Nicholas Schafer. Applisait. J. S. Bowers. S. J. Law. Studebaker Wagons STILL THE BEST. Bryan Clipper Plows STILL THE BEST Farmers Want the Best and we sell only the best. Garden Implements, ...REED'S... Spring Tooth Harrows ...AND... Corn Cultivators at prices that have never been heard of before. We sell tbe best line of buggies and surries that is sold in the city; we don't only say so, the people say so. We will give you more buggy for the money, that is goods and quality considered. Come in and see our line. We have everything in hardware and implements that is tbe best that money .will buy. J. 8. BOWERS & GO. DECA TV R, INDIANA. TRIPS TOJTHE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. ■ - ■ - THE PICTURESQUE ERIE RAILROAD The favorite route to tbe World* Fair at Chicago in 1893, with great.) • improved facilities and equipment. ' offers tbe following rates from Oeca- > tur to Buffalo during the Pan -Ameni can Exposition, ®17.00 I ’ Round trip for tickets good for return paosage until October 81 st. Round trip tickets good for fifteen ' days, including date of sale. • ® ii.eo Round trip tickets good for ten daP’ ' sold on May 7, 14 21 and 28. Tb» , Erie line to Buffalo has no ! ami the beautiful region thro g which it passe« is the ndnnratm all travelers. All trains run vi« ( ' , tauqua Lake. M A. HAM- •, 6-7 Agent, Decatur Ind-