Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1902 — Page 6

THE DEMOCRAT HVIRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Q. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. 11.0 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. ® Severed st the postofßee at Decatur. Indiana as second-class tna‘l matter OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. JULY 31. 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 F r Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER, For Recorder CLINTON C. CLOUD. F< r Surveyor GEORGE E. McKEAN. For Coroner C. H. SCHENK. For Commissioner—First Dist. 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 Tn usurer. JEROME HERFF. For Clerk of the Supreme Court. ADAM HEIM BURGER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction. SAMUEL L. SCOTT. For State Statistician. MYRON D KING. For State Geoi. fist. EDWARD BARRETT For Judge of Supreme Court. Fifth District— Timothy E Howard Judges of the Appellate Court for the «■ uthern District— John r. East, w II Bracken. John D. McGrt. Judges "f the Appellate Court for the Northern District — Richard H Hartford. James T Saunders. Henry C. Zimmerman. These are truly days of prosperity. Mr. Schwab testifies that the steel trust made $140,( <<o.ooo during the fiscal year. But who paid the freight? Senator Foraker gives the HannaFairbanks slate a left handed hook, by publicly stating that President Roosevelt's renomination will be an acclamation affair. Harmony is sweet. Col. Bryan's speech at the New England harmony dinner is the best of its kind yet given the public. It was conservative, clean and smacked of genuine democracy and a harmony that will put the g. o. p. to shame. Governor Odell of New York, announces his retirement from politics after his present term expiree. It has been cruelly intimated that the ghost- 1 iy appearance of Thomas C. Platt has been stalking about at the midnight hour. Anyone can see. who will see the truth, that all the combination of greed, all the plotters who work upon our government to win special gain at the cost of the people at large, are to be found supporting the partv now in power.—Col. W. F. Vilas. Garfield announced the doctnne of his party to the "protective tariff tbat leads to ultimate free trade." His latter dav followers have revised that doctrine and made it more up-to-date. It now is "protective tariff that leads to big campaign contribu-I tions on the part of the trusts.” The superb congressional machine create, 1 by the Chinese congressman ! from this district, still stands the, test of time. The only hope the g. a p have of disposing of hinj is this fail when the machine that controls the nominations can not deliver the vote to elect. Congressman Cromer's machine can and will deliver him a I nomination as long as he desires.

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' Attorney-General Knox stepped from the employ of the steel trnstw-td-the attorney-generalship. And yet the administration would have us be j lieve that he is going after the steel trust. The prosecutors of the state are talking of forming a trust with a view of placing themselves upon a straight salary, and that salary more in proportion to the actual earnings of their legal learning. The oil product of the entire world will be controlled bv a trust, and it is the greatest trust of them all. This is saying much in this day of the steel trust and other noted combinations, and should give rise for another round of that grand old prosperity song. Leslie's Weekly a newspaper with the g. o. p. blown into the bottle, delivers itself from a logical production on which it sees danger for the administration candidates in 1904. The writer of the article gives excellent reasons for getting scared this earlv in the fight. The thirteenth congressional district is politically speaking “shot full of holes” and the g. o. p. chairman and other members of the push com-I mittee are trying to gather up the fragments of peace and tie them together. Harmony is sweet but some times hard to get. Ii might be well to tabw all bar-, monv meetings and give the layman' a chance to talk. One thing is certain if the partv leaders will not get right they may expect to be deposed, and to find their places filled with leaders who are composed of the more sterner stuff. Withovt assuming a too aristocratic air. we wish to quietly tip such small fry newspapers as the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette and the Indianapolis Sentinel, to properly credit any clippings taken from the columns of the Democrat. This request is made after a slaughter of improper credits. The Atlanta Constitution puts the question in a nutshell as follows: I “The political puzzle that millions of voters in this country would like to j understand is why congress can legislate to raise the prices of commodities I and then cannot find any wav to legislate them down again when they : have reached robbery figures’” The Cuban reciprocity fight in the last session of congress is bearing! much large and luscious fruit from a democratic standpoint. The opponents of the president's policy are being fought in their conventions. The bitter feeling engendered will give many districts to the democrats. Had i congress remained in Washington | another fortnight the chances are that a sure control of the next congress would hare been presented on a silver platter to the party in opposition. of the anti-trust amendment proposed by the republicans in the t'ty sixth congress, the Washington Post, which can never be accused of leaning toward the democratic party, said at that time. "The anti-trust amendment device is too shallow to deceive anybody with sense enough to dec line an invitation to buy a gold brick or to go out as bag bolder on a snipe hunting expedi- ■ tiou." And yet the republicans "point | with pride" to their record on the trust question. The political pot has not even commenced to simmer in this district. Congressman Cromer is at home and is presumed to be looking after his fences. And by the way it is giving no secret away to state that they are not in very good condition. A good many top rails are off while in some j places they have been blown completely down by the party tornadoes that have been prevailing during the past three or four years. Cromer 1 will hare to be a pretty busy fence ♦ riser this summer with the prospects in sight that he will not get them all mended in time to keep his partv followers in the pasture next November. In other words there is a very good chance of democratic success in this district next fall.- Muncie Herald.

The devil has to deny his best friends sometimes in order to carry cut his purposes. But he always nflfees amends. Now watch the g. o. p. do the devil act with its friends, the trusts. The New York Herald has interviewed the democratic national committee as to the issues most prominent in the congressional campaign. Ail but two named the trusts and the fight will be made along this line. The New England "harmonv” dinner was a great success. Col. Aryan's conservative speech was received with enthusiastic demonstrations of approval. He insists that the ' first principle of democracy is to support the ticket.” Statistics are just at hand showing the final estimate of the wheat crop of India. The conditions have been unfavorable. and the crop is 500,000 tons less than the average for the past ten years, and 750,000 than the crop of last year. There will be little competition for our farmers to fear from India this year. Literature continues to go into politics. It is now announced that i Churchill, the author of "Richard Carvell” and "The Crime." is to stand for the legislature of New Hampshire, and has been assured an election without opposition. Perhaps he wiii enjoy it, but he may learn from experieoev that literature is at least as I pleasant and far more remunerative ’ than politics. Col. William F. Vilas of Wisconsin. now finds himself among the most prominent democrats of the country. It was brought about by an interview upon the political situation. and the duty of the hour from a democratic point of view. It overshadows any previous efforts and places Mr. Vilas in the front ranks as a democratic statesman And by the way he is perfectly capable of occupying the position of honor to which he was so recently advanced. The Bluffton carnival was a sickly affair. The newspapers there shut their eves and divorced themselves from a happy illusion of its moral tone, but no one is fooled by this dis- ' play of well rounded periods. The carnival was no doubt as good as such carnivals can be. but the best of i them are enough to make a man speak ill of his grandmother. It was no doubt a great treat to Bluffton and will be remembered with favor by I them, long after the carnival fake be- ' comes a dead issue. The republican state platform, of Pennsylvania contains the amazing and amusing assertion that every promise by the national platform has been fulfilled. What about reciprocity? Why are not Oklahoma. Arizona and New Mexico admitted to statehood? When will the new department of commerce be established? What law has been passed to curb the trusts? No republican promise concerning these issues has bren fulfilled. Th, state platform of the party is as full of buncombe on national questions as on state issues. Congressman Cromer's only speech during the four years he has undertaken to represent this district, was j upon the exclusion of Chinese. About i eight of these long tailed individuals now reside within the confines of the' eighth congressional district While the speech in question was never de- . livered in congress but simply printed in the congressional record, yet it was but just that even the devil be given his dues. His friends should push I his record upon the Chinese proposition, because that is all the record he has. It is reported that the late governor of the Bank of England left an estate ,of but So.OtJO. Though he handled billions upon billions of dollars, yet that is all his estate amounted to when it came to be closed up. Our bank officers seem to be more enterprising. Many a bank goes up in smoke and is found to contain no dollars to handle, yet the estate of the managing officer is frequently found to be of ample proportions. Thrift and enterprise, and the old saw, -The Lord helps those who help themsevee,” seem to be the controlling factors.

t The latest from the Jefferies-Fitz-v Simmons ringside is a damage suit s inaugurated by the latter against the >. San Francisco Examiner, in which i, Fitz asks for SIOO,OOO. A fake newspaper story that Fitzsimmons had laid down to the champion, caused '• all the rukery. t The Indiana Democratic Club are 1 now keeping open house at their new e home in Indianapolis. It is a much needed addition to the democratic forces at the capital citv, and we sin- • eerely hope it will meet with the res eeption it deserves. Their new club a house is well arranged and adequate ■ for the purposes designed. t " t There is plenty of work in the’ country, but wages are no better than when meat was selling for ten cents a I ? pound instead of twenty. The pros f peritv cry of the g. o. p. has not j • reached the laborer, while at the same s time labor is producing more in the| < shops and mills. The trusts are the f principal beneficiaries of the general ■ rise in prices. 1 The story conies from Indianapolis that the democrats will bend most of 5 their energies, time anil money in the t first, fifth and thirteen congressional I districts. And if there is anybody j I asks you. there are a few other dis . tricts in the state that will surprise i • the natives and send a democratic : representative to congress, ! It was a spirited and animated yet ! harmonious convention held at Boon- ■ rille yesterday: when the first district democrats nominated their candidate for congress. It seems certain they > will win out there this time as the. > district is too close for comfort at best, and the republican candidate has several ugly looking chunks of i harmony to contend with. Hon. John W. Spencer of Evansville was nominated by acclamation. He is one of the strongest democrats in the district. The report eminating from the hairless brain of a New York newspapier writer, to the effect that Senator Fairbanks would soon be retired from polities, seems ridiculously absurd to us of Indiana. He is decid , edly the largest part of the g. o. p. machine and furnishes most ot the oil that tickles the vanitv of the boys who . rounds 'em up. Os course we expect him to be retired from the United States senate and his vacant chair moved to the other side of the chamber and occupied by a democrat, one too. who will preach the doctrine of democracy and seek to have it applied to the ills that now confront us. In case such a state of affairs exist it is I hinted hereabouts that Major G. V. Menzies of Mount Yemen, will make goo-goo eyes and seek to supply the wisdom of such a vacancy. It is no ; idle boast to say that Major Menzies would fill the bill all right. He has the brains and all the elements of a statesman —a democratic statesman. Ox wire nails, the American consumer pays the steel trust ?2.25 while the European pays but $1.30 per keg. For wire rope the American pays $12 1 while the foreigner pays but $5. The American {>ays an even 100 per cent, more for lead than the foreigner and the same on axle grease. The Eng- i lish house wife pays 55 cents per dozen for fruit jars while her American sister must pay 90. The business man of London or Antwerp or Lisbon gets an American typewriter for $65 while an American business man must pay SIOO for the same machine. In like manner the foreign house- 1 keeper gets an American sewing machine for sl7 that costs an Amer- ■ ican woman S4O. In Europe thev bur American washboards by the ciozen at $1.70. Thev cost here $3. The alarm clock which you buy here for 60 cents is sold abroad for just half that figure. Barbed wire is bought by the foreign farmer for $2.20 per hundred; the American farmer pa vs S 3. A lawn mower which costs you in Lafavette $4.25 can be bought in Manchester or Lyons for $2.75. A first-class piano can be had in St. Petersburg or Bombay for S3(to. The same instrument costs the American $375. A meat chopper that is sold • ■ here for $2.70 is to be had across the, ocean for $1.50. and American shovels which the American cannot buy for ‘. les« than $7.50 per dozen can be had on the other side for 55.9 Q. How do you like it?—Lafavette Democrat.

The congressional fight in Delaware county looks good—to us. The wily ■, Congressman Cromer is working |, manfully to disentangle the mass of harmonv in his own ranks, and the harder he works the worse the blame thing looks. It seems to be contag eous and will never stop until it ends j the career of the Chinese congress- j man and who also poses as the head.. shoulders aud rear of a political machine that works like a charm. Cuban reciprocity has received its death blow at the hands of the republican party, and no amount of apologies or fake treaty negotiations

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will ever reanimate it as l on ~ commercial agents of the dominate the senate ami 1 trust| representatives ualix "I subterfuge and empty siatem ‘ the president can secure bv what has been denied bv 1 3 « i president could not obtain a !’* :in the senate how is be to dm ■ ! thirds of that body necessarv f,, ratification of any treaty? j i’® the matter as you' please', nothin' M to be seen but a president repudi | ® by his party, that party and the sugar trust in the saddle t' is evident that the trusts are ‘ than Hie government.

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