Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 17 July 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EFERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. »1,00 PER YEAR IN S>VAN CE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, JULY 17. COUNTY TICKET. For Congress, J. E. TRUESDALE. For Representative HENRY DIRKBON. For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN. For Treasurer J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For Clerk DAVID GERBER. For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER, For Recorder CLINTON C. CLOUD. For Surveyor GEORGE E. McKEAN. For Coroner C. H. SCHENK. For Commissioner—First Dlst. DAVID WERLING. For Commissioner—Second Dist. WILLIAM MILLER. state ticket. For Secretary of State. ALBERT SCHOONOVER. For Attorney-General, W. E, STILLWELL. For State Auditor, JAMES R. RIGGS. For State Treasurer, JEROME HERFF. For Clerk of the Supreme Court. ADAM HEIMBURGER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, SAMUEL L. SCOTT. For State Statistician, MYRON D. KING. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT. For Judge of Supreme Court. Fifth District— Timothy E. Howard. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern District—John R. East, W H Bkackkk, John D. McGbe. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District — Richard H Hartford, JamksT. Saisders. Henry C. Zimmerman. John \V. Gates has disposed of his corner on corn at a net profit of 53.500,000. The boom of the Hon. Tom Johnson for the democratic presidential nomination has been formally launched with no apparent signs of its being frost-bitten. Judge Nelson of Logansport, was Tuesday nominated for congress by the eleventh district democrats in opposition to Frederick Landis. The convention was largely attended. In Madison county the republican poll books show 1500 members of > their party marked doubtful. Their I special grievance is against their can- 1 didate for congress, George W. Cro- 1 mer. This is harmony with aven- 1 gence. ' i Chairman O’Brien names Septem , ber 20 as the formal opening day of the Indiana campaign. In the meantime he will oil the wires and touch up a few jack-pots with a view of making it so hot the g. o. p. circus will take to the woods. It is conceded from all corners of the eighth congressional district that Congressman Cromer has a rocky road to travel. The harmony brigade in the g. o. p. certainly does not leach the congressional fig'ht, whlcn will BOOn become fast and furious. The rankest kind of a myth is the sweet scented talk about Bryan democrats, Cleveland democrats, Watterson democrats or any other kind of democrats only plain, every day, unvarnished democrats. One of the cardinal principals of democracy is free thought and free speech, and" no man or set of men can bottle up the political independence of ajy democrat and traffic with it, in any degree 1 of security.

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Up to date President Roosevelt has a long lead over all competitors for the g. o. p. presidential nomination in 1904. Some five or six states have already indorsed him, and Senator Hanna will have to hump some to head off his now almost certain nomination. The g. o. p. harmony wagon in this district is loaded to the brim with undiluted salve, and Congressman Cromer has began the weary task of spreading the balm, and rubbing it on thick. The task is an endless one and George is entitled to the sympathy of his friends. The anti-saloon people of Anderson are after the violators of the Nicholson law, they even going so far as to file a petition before Governor Durbin asking for the removal of the present metropolitan police board. It is probable that the agitation will all die abornin’. It seems certain that both political parties will flood Indiana during the campaign with spell binders of a national character. David B. Hill, Richard Olney. Burke Cockran and Senator Bailey are mong those slated for the democrats, while Senator Hanna is among the attractions for the g. o. p. It will be a battle royal from a spell binders standpoint.

‘•I do not like to pose as a political prophet, but I belive it is safe for any man to prophesy a democratic victory in the eighth district this fall,” said W. H. Eichhorn of Bluffton, who was registered at the Grand. “I think 1 understand the situation pretty well, and I know I never saw a time when there was such a general dissatisfaction with a man as that which exists there at present. Republicans and democarts are tired of George Cromer, and there are hundreds of men who voted for him before who are planning to assist in turning him down in the fall election. If he is successful I miss my guess mightly and so will many good republicans, with whom I have talked over the situation, and who think with me that Cromer’s day has come, and, that he will certainly be retired as soon as the people have a chance to pass judgment on his course again.”—Sentinel. That “infant industry” the steel trust whose earnings for six months was more than 564,000.000, and whose profits was the largest in the history of the company, rightly talks prosperity. This tremendous combination, having a monopoly of the American steel industry, capitalized for something like $1,000,000,000,000, declaring annual dividends and payments of interest amounting to nearly $125.000,000, selling its products in all the markets of the world in competition with European steel plants, is one of the “infant industries” for whose maintenance the American people are still required to pay a colossal tax in the shape of tariff duties. The Dingley high tariff is maintained at the insistence of the trust organizations of which the steel trust is so representative a specimen. These great combines claim that their business would be ruined by European competition were it not for a restrictive tariff. Yet all of them are underselling European competitors in European markets. The American consumer, however, is paying thchigh prices made possible by a tariff which is a direct tax upon the American people. He is paying more for American made goods than is paid by the European consumer for the same goods. The gigantic earnings of the steel trust are taken from the American people in the form of this tariff tribute. Little wonder that the steel trust and all other trusts are such ardent champions of the republican party, which has created and fostered their respective monopolies. Little wonder that they contribute millions to republican campaign slush-funds and exert all their influence to compel their thousands of employes to vote the republican ticket. The continuance of the republican party in control of this government means millions of dollars to the trust and these millions are paid by the American people without gaining the slightest benefit in return. The lesson of the enormous earnings 'of the steel trust “infant industry” 1 should not be lost upon the tax-pay-ing public.

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I NO DICTATIONS FOR THE DEMOCRACY. Since the democratic party was or- ‘ ganized,over a hundred years ago, no man has been big enough to lay down ’ the law as to who should be called 1 democrats or who should bt- nominated for office. Unless the reorganizers and disorganizers learn to show more respect for the party and less fortheir i own vanity, theirexperiences aspolitical advisers may end before 1904 in complete loss of influence in democratic counsels. The historv of the past four years shows plainly how the ■ democratic party in constructed. Its origin is in the people; power is in the people; it« policy at any time the wish of the people. There are no successful dictators among the individuals who aspire to leadership. When they cease Io follow they cease to lead. They cannot read each other out of the party and cannot maintain a oneman or two-man test, invented to push rivals, imaginary or real, out of the road to the favor of voters. One of the most foolish attempt of a democrat in one state is to undertake arbitrary command of what course democrats in another stale shall take. There has been not a little of such foolishness on the part of the narrowminded persons within the four years during which the party has been gathering strength for the contest against trustism and imperialism. It has been manufactured passion and has awed nobody. The democrats in the states have gone ahead doing what democrats ought to do. They have fought their battles as conditions required. They have attacked bad gov- ! ernment on the lines locally laid down ■by the circumstances. They have redeemed Kentucky and Maryland so bravely that republicans have given up hope in both states. In Missouri they have won back the large cities. In Illinois they have made such gains that they have ample reasons for confidence over the outcome this fall. All these and other gains have been made by offering good government to the voters on the issues developed by facts. There will undoubtedly be this year the heaviest democratic gains seen for ten years. And no thanks to the jealous clamors of reorganizers and disorganizers. The democracy will simply do the duty of the hour. Wherever there is a boodler it will hit him. Whenever the substance of the people is being wasted by official spendthrifts, it will assault theintrenchmentsof the public enemy. On national issues it will declare its allegiance to all the wellunderstood fundamental principles of the party. When these victorious elements of the democracy came together for deliberation in the national convention of 1904. the platform and the nominees will proceed from the counsels of the stale delegations and not from the ukase of rival bosses. Governor Stone recently addressed the democratic editors of Indiana. He I

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told them that the platform could be conscientiously supported by any democrat. Yet a New Yorker must needs be a selfish and premeditated brewer of strife for strife's sake if he could not accept the same platform. Nick Perrin one of the old silver leaders of Illinois, told The Republic last week that the state platform was entirely satisfactory to him. Yet that platform could be endorsed by every honest Massaehussetts democrat. So the people are moving ahead, conducting their own battles and making their own platforms, paving little heed to the word slingers in New York or in Kentucky, or in any other quarter. It is a symptom of genuinedemocratic strength and vitality. It amounts to a prophecy of national tri-; umph in 1904. The vigor and aggres- i siveness of the constitute parts are! the power of the whole. The party is I all right. The fit-doctors would as, well withold their prescriptions and, stop their wrantrlcs. The scene of thel democracy perceives what are the! wrongs to lie righted at the next national election. The capacity of the people to organize for what they intend to accomplish will knit together the forces opposed to trustism and imperialism. If the disorganizers and reorganizers have not brains enough, to see what is going on. they will be put out of the game by their own blunders. St. Louis Republic. The present city council whose elec tion hinged upon the fact that they held a first mortgage upon all the economy that was running loose, has already gone wrong. One of their campaign issues was the extravagance of planting several thousand dollars in water meters, the use of which was illogical and unbusinesslike. Tuesday evening this economical council ordained that every user of city water must sport a meter at the cost of the city, thus following in the footsteps of those they so severely condemned. Up to date the Democrat never saw much merit in spending so much of the city’s lucre for water meters. However, since this late and somewhat lamented has seen fit to so unanimously indorse the system of meters, we will investigate the merits thereof, before taking issue with them. Admiral Schley uttered an admirable sentiment when he said: “There is glorv enough for all.” The unfortunate controversies of the campaign are not yet dead, but already it is apparent that in the end this sentiment will be the sentiment of the country, when it is a large and deserved glorv will be spontaneously awarded to this faithful commander whose bravery, capacity and untiring vigilance brought fresh renown to the American navy and gave our flag an added importance upon the seas.— Des Moines Register.

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