Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT $ IVIHY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLINOHA.M. Publisher. 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered rt the pnstoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. JULY IS. The state tax Ixwd is now looking into the assessment of corporate property. The annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association is booked for Elkhart some time in October. The Muncie Morning News has been sold by the Heath’s to Harry McEllwee of Martinsville, the consideration being 530.000. Unlike manv of those who criticise him. \Y. J. Brvan's advice to the (>hio democrats is to settle down and support the ticket nominated at Columbus. Senator Hanna paid his respects to the president Monday, going to Canton for that purpose. Tht senator savs the slogan in the Ohio campaign will be prosperity and the lack of reason for a change. Major G. V. Menzies of Mount Yernon. has been mentioned for the democratic nomination for governor in 1904. In point of excellence such a nomination could not lie beaten, but the booming of candidates three years in advance of their nomination is decidedly ill-advised. The democratic press seems to be unanimous in approving of the abandonment of all the unholy alliances. with whom they have become entangled during the last four years. The written history during that time substantiates the fact that the course now being pursued is the only wise and judicious one. The tariff is a great thing as the following from the Warsaw Union will perhaps indicate: It has I teen very appropriately remarked that there are three kinds of tariff: a tariff for revenue, a tariff for protection and a tariff tor politics. The tariff on wool is purely a tariff for politics and the only purpose it has ever served is to pull the wool over the eyes of that class of farmers who are gullible enough to believe whatever republican politicians will tel! them, no mat ter how much their statements may be at variance with the fact. Secretary of State Hunt, in answer to hisletters sent to the steel trust managers. calling on them to incorporate the billion dollar concern under the laws of Indiana, has received replies to the effect that that the trust does no business in Indiana. The letters declare that there are probably some factories in the state in which the trust has some interests at stake. But these factories the replies relate, are managed by their owners and are not I in possession of the gigantic com bination. Secretary Hunt replied that I the corporation misunderstood the' law and suggested that, inasmuch as ; it owned property in Indiana, it would : be compelled to incorporate under the' foreign corporation act.

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It begins to look as though Mayor Taggart would again lie the mascot who will lead the democrats of Indianapolis to victory, in their city election this fall. Jay county’s new jail building has been completed aud accepted by the ■ commissioners of that county. It’s . cost was 530.530, and was built without the aid of extras, a usually neces sary evil in public building. In 1903 there already promises to be quite a round of politics. At that time the terms of thirty Uniter! States senators will expire, of which eight are now democrats, five are populists and the remainder are republicans. In the list of states is Indiana. New | York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois. California and Missouri. Plenty statesmen are willing to be sacrifired. A newspaper interview with Senator Hauna represents him as seriously attempting to criticise the Ohio democratic platform. He calks it "sugarcoated poison.” He argues with earnestness against its principles. He gives evidence that the democrats of that state have caused him serious uneasiness. This is a great change. For the last half dozen years Hanna, as the republican manager, has de dared that in adhering to Bryan and Bryanite platforms Ohio democrats have done just what he wanted them j to do: they had made republican vic- ' tories easy. He will be scared worse yet before the next election if demo-! crats are true to democracy.—Chicago Chronicle. When the democracy of Ohioselects such men as Judson Harmon, who held the high office of attorney general ■ under the Cleveland administration.' as a member on platform aud enlists him actively in an effort to place the party upon a solid basis, it means a good deal and will cheer the hearts of thousands who are longing for a return to the days when Samuel J. Tilden gave the party firmness, prestige and victory. There seems to be. just now. an awakening all along the line. The desire for a democraev un contaminated by populism and socialism appears to be general. This sentiment is likely to grow until it shall lie crystalized in a platform acceptable to all democrats who believe in democraev as taught by Jefferson. Jackson and Tilden.- South Bend Times. The citizens of Adams county learned of the death of the Hon. A. N Martin, with regret and sorrow. He was a congenial eompanioniable man. highly cultured and polished, and with a mind that was unusuallv bright. He began life on a Pennsyf vania farm where he was born somethingover fifty-four years ago, locating in Bluffton when but a young man and began the practice of law. in which profession he was a bright and shining star. In politics he was an active democrat, and a public speaker with a j charm that ever held the confidence of those who believed with him and I the respect of those who differed. In public life he served as a member of the Indiana legislature, reporter of the supreme court and three terms as congressman from the old eleventh district of which Adams countv was I then a part. It was during his congressional career that the people of i this county best knew him. and the : friendship and admiration then formed • will be remembered for many years 'to come. His Adams county friends I were both numerous and loyal and their sorrrow now can not be easily | expressed.

Logansport was the seat of war two days last week for something more than fifty newspaper publishers and their families. The occasion was the mid summer meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, and the meeting of 19D1 was full of social enjoyment and well worth the price. It does any person good to rub elbows with such accomplished gentlemen and polished newspaper men as John B. Stoll of the South Bend Times, Daniel McDonald of the Plymouth Democrat. W. C. Ball of the Terre Haute Express, S. E. Morss of the Indianapolis Sentinel, but the list | is unlimited when it comes to placing a personal estimation upon each memMier of that association. Logansport ' is a beautiful city with 18,000 popuI lation. commanding business inter ests of a character that makes it solid and substantial. It contains beauti ful streets, elegant and modern business blocks and spacious homes. Her people are hospitable to a fault A reception in the most beautiful Masonic Temple we ever saw and a carriage drive about the city were among the enjoyable features of the occasion. The Northern Hospital for the insane is located there, and the grounds aud buildings are most picturesque aud lieautiful to behold, being located on the Wabash river, two miles from Logansport. The grounds embrace 300 acres, and the twenty-seven buildings occupy natural elevations that measure seventy-feet above the water, and the total cost of grounds, buildings and equipments is $£54,146.89. There is 145 employes, ten officersand 770 inmates, the total capacity of the institution being >2O. Dr. Rogers the superindent, is certainly a creditable head for such a vast system of perfection. But Logansport is all right, and Messrs. Louthain and Barnes of the Pharos are among her progressive people. The Democrat is aware ot the fact that A. N. Martin had his faults, but with them all, he was a bright and shining star when stood up alongside one Rev. C.G. Miller, whojlast Sabbath sought to prostitute the Bluffton ministry. while performing the sacred duty as pastor at the funeral of this distinguished gentleman. The widow and daughter were alone in their sorrow. neither kith or kin being there to aid. encourage or sympathize with them in their sad bereavement. This even did not deter this lump of pastorial crudeness from holding up to scorn the faults and failures of him who lay cold in death, and who could not in person resent the outrage and insult to his family. Say what vou may of Gus Martin, but there never was money or honor enough to induce him to stand before his countrymen and say of his meanest enemy what this man Miller took evident delight in publishing from the pulpit. Why it rolled out like a sweet and delicious morse! from a supremely happy man. There was not a person in the audience but who knew Mr. Martin in all the stages of his life far better than did this man of destiny. They knew him to be kind and generous to a fault. They knew him always to be charitable— not in gilt edged sophestry but in a substantial waya way that filled the stomach and at the same touched the heart. The genera) characteristics of Gus Martin could well be emulated bv Mr. Miller, and to his advantage. The twentieth century is no time for a cheap preacher to ride into prominence, his chief stock in trade being the extreme size of his gall. At least that is the way Adams county people look at it. and they are fairly representative citizens.

thank you. The most of them too, were friends of Mr. Martin and they take this opportunity of resenting the insults heaped upon their friend, now’ dead. >— A TRICE TO FOLLY. We print this morning a communication from a Brvau democrat of Rushville protesting'against some re ported incidents of the recent Ohio democratic convention. We fancy some of the incidents referred to were grossly exaggerated. The omission to include the picture of Bi van among those displayed of democratic leaders was certainly unfortunate, whether due to accident or oversight. Mr. Bryan has done nothing and said nothing to justify the exclusion of his name or his portrait from those which a democratic convention should recognize with consideration. It is not necessary that democrats should agree with a man on everv question, big or little, or favor his nomination for president, in order to accord him respectful aud courteous recognition. Mr. Brvan’s picture ought to have been displayed at the Ohio convention. On the other band, there was no particular occasion for mentioning either the Kansas City platform or Mr. Brvan personallv in Ohio resolutions. the financial declarations made at Kansas City were adopted at the dictation of Mr. Bryan over the protest of Ohio, and Indiana. The democraev of Ohio thought then as they think now that these declarations were unwise and a triffling with a very serious situation. They would have made a mistake, then, had they adopt ed the other day a resolutian indorsing the Kansas 'City platform in its entirety. As to Mr. Bryan, a great majority of the democrats of Ohio, as of the entire country, admire and respect him. But they are not consider ing him for a presidential nomination in 1904. and there was no special reason why he should have been singled out from all the great demo crats in the country for platform men tion. The alleged trampling under foot of the flag bearing Mr. Bryan's portrait in convention hall was a mere invention of yellow journalism, so far as the significance sought to be attached to it is concerned. It appears that in the excitement attending Col. Kilbourne's entrance into the convention hall, the little flag, bearing the Bryan portrait, lid fall on the floor and hundreds of excited delegates rushed over it without knowing of its existence. Only that and nothing more. But that, it seems, was enough to induce newspaper scribes with a taste for the dramatic and sensational to proclaim to the world, with a profusion of flamboyant rhetoric, that Bryan's picture had been thrown to the floor and stamped upon in a democratic convention. Now our advice to democrats of all sorts Bryan democrats and antiBryan democrats especially is to keep cool. Be courteous and tolerant and considerate. Don't get excited. Don't call each other bad names. There has been enough democratic foolishness to last fcr a couple of generations to come. Any democrat who flouts Bryan or makes faces at his friends is doing his best to keep bis party in a perpetual minority. He is committing the same sort of incredible folly that the Chicago convention cf 1896 perpetrated when, not content with expressing its dissent from Mr. Cleveland's financial policy, it repudiated his whole administration. If the democratic party is ever to become anything more than a disorganized

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aad impotent mob it must stop this infernal nonsense, let bygones be bygones. shake hands all around and go in strong for harmony at all times and under all circumstances. Every democrat should consider himself under bonds to keep the party peace, and the first one who breaks it should be given a dose of “something lingering with burning oil in it." Sentinel. THE PRICE OF W OOL. The annual report of the Chamber of Commerce says that wool prices have declined almost to those ruling in 1898. giving the following table: Jan. 1, Jan, 1, 1900. 1901. Cents. Cents. Ohio fleece 35 27 Unwashed half b100d... 29 23 Unwashed quarter2B 23 J Australian combing4o 35 Cape2s 20 Montevideo 68 24 The report continues that extravagant duties on foreign wool “do not seem in the long run to benefit our wool growers.” and it adds that “if they were modified or abolished, fluctuations would be less frequent and speculation less rampant, while the consumption of the staple would be increased and the use of adulter ants would be discouraged." Here we have the situation in the wool market presented by an institution that is devoted to commerce, and probably if its membership was interviewed it would be found to be largely repub bean for years. That party ‘has hail the support of the wool growers on the theory that its tariff policy was beneficial to them, but in the face of the cold facts presented the delusion ought to be dispelled and the tariff spell broken. It is a fact that the discriminating duty has resulted in a decreased use of wool and an increased use of shoddy in garments purchased by the people. We have the truth in a nutshell presented from a business standpoint. For Wavne Journal. P-S’a W II B ®*" R l x - akHa ‘ Island I ark Assembly, Rome City on Thursday, July 25. Ohio populists will probably nut a field i n their Bta, » oam paign th's year. It is a matter of sincere congratulation that there will lie no alliances there with the democrats. Hom. Charles A. Towne who was such an anient follower of Brvan in David B Hii?’?°Y thiD v” ,h “‘ Ho °- iJavid b. Hill of \ew \ork will candidate of his party In

MARKETS. CORRECTED BT E. L. CARROLL. GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new? 58 Corn, per cwt, yellow (new).... 58 Corn, per cwt. (new ) mixed.... 56 Oats, new 22 (o 25 Rye 40 Barley3o (S 35 Clover seed 4 00 p 5 00 Timothyl 00 (g 1 50 Potatoes, per bu new 80 Eggs, fresh 10 Butter 14 Chickens 06 Ducks 06 Turkeys 08 Geese 05 Wool, unwashedl3 to 16 Wool, washed2o and 22 Hogss 00 TOLEDO MARKETS JULY 10, lt3o P. M. Wheat, new No. 2 red, cash....f 6''Sept wheat 69g Cash corn No. 2 mxed, cash... Sept corn 50J EATING FISH, It Is not good form to ask for a second helping of fish. It Is considered extremely had for l ® to use a knife In dissecting fish. A little modern fish knife, with R” ingenious fork arrangement on one side. Is now made. A bit of lemon Is served with broiled and baked fish, and It Is in correct fora to use the fingers In expressing the juice. Potatoes are considered a proper accessory to the fish course. Sliced cucumbers, with plain French dressing, are also served. With a boiled Csb the potatoes art also usually boiled. cut Into bits p scooped out and garnished with a !•' melted butter and chopped parsley. Never use the fingers to separate * • bones from the eatable portion of The bones must be evaded with W dexterity as one can command ” ‘ tlu ’ . other aid than such as a bit of br*» held in the left hand may furnishAre Shorter at Nlsht. It li» an undoubted fact that tbs 1 man body Is shorter at night the morning, and that Is due to weight of the body compressing intervertebral cartilages. During« or while In a recumbent position, pressure being removed, tbelr D » ‘ elasticity enables them to resume normal size; consequently thebe g ‘ an individual will vary from tn eighths to half an Inch between 11 Ing and night