Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT KVBPY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW Q. ELLINOMAM, Publisher. 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14. 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. McKEAJi. 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 Co'trt, ADAM HEDIBURGER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, SAMUEL L. SCOTT. For Stale 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. Bracken. John D. McGee. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District — Richard h Hartford, James T. Saunders. Henry C. Zimmerman. = 1 - : — - Senator Hanna will touch the g. o. p. button at Indianapolis October 10. The republicans are preparing to j defend the trusts in this campaign. He that defends the thief is as bad as the thief himself. What a blessed privilege it is to pay a hundred dollars for an American made tariff-protected typewriter that is sold in London for 855. Oliver W. Holmes succeeds Justice Gray upon the bench of the United States supreme court. The appointment reached the public Monday and as usual was the greatest surprise of the week. Notwithstanding the claims that the attorney-general has begun the smashing process with the beef trust, the prices of beef continue to remain in the upper firmament. A good many people are inclined to think that efforts to chastise this trust are more on paper than anything else.

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The Great Northern Indiana Fair exhibits at Decatur, September 23-26. The tin plate workers at Elwood are working on a twenty-five per cent reduction in their wages. Another prosperity song. Who made possible the holding up of the consumer while the “tariff sheltered” trusts filched the money out of his pocket? Senator McMillen of Michigan, died Monday from heart failure. The senator was one of the shining lights of his state and of the nation. Every* time an American citizen buys a trust made article he pays tribute to a tariff sheltered monopoly. Had we not better knock the props from under that shelter and at least give the citizen a fair show. The republicans announce that they are going to apply the gag rein to the trusts. But they are in about as deli cate a position as the boy in the apple orchard, when the teeth of the bull dog therein has a good firm hold on his trousers. The lowa republicans have, according to one of their own number, made a distinct concession to the democrats, when they acknowledged that thetariff shelters monopoly. Perhaps they made that confession on the principle that an honest confession is good for the soul. Col. Bryan again announces that he is not a candidate for the presidential nomination in 1904. It takes about eleven such statesments every week to convince the erring g. o. p. boiler makers, whose chief hope lies in stirring strife aud discord in the ranks of the unterrified. The Hon. John B. Stoll of the South Bend Times, will be one of the favored speakers in the thirteenth district congressional fight this year. This means that the hopes of the g. o. p. there will grow beautifully less. Mr. Stoll is one of the brainiest men of the party and knows a thing or two about practical polities. Davy Crockett tells us of how he caught a bear by the tail once, anil how after a few whirls he concluded that he was in ver-y grave danger, as it was extremely unsafe to hold on and awfully risky to let go. The republicans have awakened to find themselves having a Davy Crockett time with the trustsand the tariff. The Muncie Herald asks of Congressman Cromer how he stands on the trusts, and intimates that he has been silent as the tomb on this important issue. If the Herald knows of any public question upon which the Muncie statesman lias not been silent, we wish he would mention it quick. He is ferninst the Chinese hot and heavy but other questions are of minor importance. The trust fight appears to be on in earnest. Late wires from the field of battle, Atlantic City, state that Attor-ney-General Knox has been attacked by cramp. It may possibly be of the good old fashioned variety but as the names of several magnates are associated with this particular cramp it is presumed to refer to the great ship builder. The blow, however, is said to have been just below the belt line.

President Roosevelt will be in Indiana next month, and will pay his respects to Indianapolis, Muncie, Kokomojj.ogansport, Columbia City and Fori AVayne. It will be what is termed a jaunt upon a special train, and is for the purpose of injecting a little hope into the g. o. p. cause. It now comes to light that the managers of Congressman Cromer are making up a jack-pot to pay some populist to make a race for congress in this district. If a quiet tip is worth anything, we advise them to save their money. No amount of hair splitting will save the wily congressman from defeat, and the best thing the Cromer machine can do, is to go th.rough the ordeal as cheaply as possible and take their defeat gracefully. In his speech on Cuban reciprocity delivered before the senate last winter, Senator Hanna made this prediction “failure to pass this bill will most certainly be rebuked at the polls in November.” The Ohio senator knew that it would deserve rebuke, and the whole world agrees with him on that proposition. Who was responsible for the failure to pass the bill? Let the voters of the country fix the guilt and give the reprimand. It is a fact that the trusts will cut the biggest kind of a figure eight in this campaign. The Muncie Herald has the cold and heartless nerve to inquire as to the attitude of Congressman Cromer upon this issue. The Herald needs to be turned up to the sun and spanked. The only issue Cromer can muster is to exclude the Chinese from the domain of United States citizenship. This is the only record of statesmanship he has and it has taken him four years to get it. When the matter reached a vote in congress everv democrat and republican voted for it, so we are sure he is straight on this proposition. Statistics just issued by the treasury department show that the United States steel trust exported ninetyeight million dollars worth of the steel to European markets during the past fiscal year, and yet the republicans tell us that it is but the marketing of a surplus product. Mr. Bab- i cock, chairman of the republican | committee, discovered while in Europe ! that one firm there had placed an | order with an American manufacturer i for twenty thousand tons of steel. He i said in view of that discovery that it would not do to say that that was but surplus product. Where it comes to j ninety -eight million dollars, we wonder I what he will say. “After protection has accomplished its purpose it operates against the general good,” says the Washington Star, a staunch republican organ. That has been the contention of the democrats all these years, and yet the republicans are just awakening to the fact. But the powers that be in the republican party are not willing to admit that the tariff fosters trusts and operates against the public good, as the Star is honest enough to admit; consequently the only way to remedy this tariff operating against the public good is to elect the party which stands and has always stood" for an intelligent application of the tariff principle! A vote for the democratic nominee will be a step in this direction. For forty years the democratic party has been the adverse element in this nation, says a republican spellbinder. But still his party is running away from the righteous wrath of an enraged people, and are seeking a good place of safety directly in line with every contention of the democratic party in this campaign. The democrats have demanded relief from the trusts, now the republicans are demanding it. The democrats have insisted on a revision ofthe tariff, now the western republicans are insisting on the same thing. The detnocrats condemned “Hell Roaring Jake” Smith and his “howling wilderness” in Samar, and the republican president followed suit. And yet the democrats are the adverse element!

Chairm an Babco.'k of the republican congressional committee—he who acknowledged the justice of the dernocratic.contention that the tariff fostered the trusts by offering a bill in the last session of congress to take the tariff off of trust made articles has performed the latest feat at loop making. \\ hen he offered that bill it was with the ostensible aim of striking a blow at the trusts. The vehemence and the energy with which he denounced the trusts through the newspapers of the country may have led some people to believe ft a sincere effort to curb the trusts. But now comes out in an interview in the Washington Star of July 29 aul denies the evils that exist through the tr ists. He denies that the v ,ry evils he proposed to cure through hi's bill exist. H« that the export price of trust made goods is not higher than the home price except to get rid of small job lots. When Carnegie says that he can compete with the world, when the steel corporation sends steel to all parte of the globe at prices less than our own. when Mr. Schwab him sell testified that the Steel Trust selis steel in England at $23 per ton against S2B per ton right here at home, ves when it is remembered that our steel exports to Englund according to government statements la«t year amounted to $43,(XM),000, who will give due credit to the statement of the Hon. Mr. Babcock? He voted against his own bill, the child of his own brain, in the secrecy of the committee, yet publicly he acknowledged it as his own. Can we expect real genuine anti trust legislation from a party which juggles with bills and facts in this? manner?

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Summer Wearables!

DURING the month of August we are going to reduce the price of all our Summer Clothing, consisting of Coats and Pants in homespuns, flannels and cheviotsblue serge and gray worsted coats and vests; double breasted blue serge coats.

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Hon. W. Bolrke Cockran the peerless New Yorker, will be the orator at the dedication of the million dollar Allen countv court house, soon io be opened to the public. An international harvester company with a capital of $120,000,000 has been organized. The McCormick concern are reported in the deal. It will be a good thing for the farmers and will compell them to pay three or four prices for their machinery. But then the G. O. P. prosperity comes high. While the republicans are flooding the country with figures on prosperity it might be well to see who the prosperous are. The Steel trust is making money at the rate of $140,000.000 a year. No one will deny that that is prosperity. The Beef Trust is selling beef at figures that puts about 10 cents in their coffers on every pound of beef the American people have to buy. Certainly that is prosperity. The Coal Trust is charging two dollars for one dollar’s worth of coal. No one will deny that they ought to be making a few dollars as they go along, and that they are feeling slight evidences of prosperity in their pockets. too. The typewriter manufacturer is selling typewriters to American buyers for SKM) each which he can afford to sell in England at $55 each. He is undoubtedly prosperous at that rate. The sewing machine manufacturers are selling the housewives sl7 sewing machines at $.30 each, and that is prosperity. But what about the other fellow ? When the public spirited men of a town want to build a street railway they must pay the Steel Trust S2B for the same kind of steel that that organization ships to England and sells there for $23 per ton. Does that make the buyer prosperous? Last May and at the present time, the laboring man had to pay 25 cents for a pound of the same kind of beef that the Beef Trust ships to London and sells there for 15 cents per pound. Is he prosperous? The Coal Trust makes the consumer pay $lO for $5 worth of coal. Perhaps the consumer feels that all is prosperity while he is doing so. When the Amerkau buaineM mau wants to buy a typewriter he is charged just SIOO for a machine that he shipped from here to England and sold there for $55. When the busy housewife, who has to do her own sewing in ordei to help her husband to make buckle and tongue meet, wants a sewing machine she has to pay S4O for a machine that her English sister can buy for sl7, In the face of these facts who will have the hardihood to deny that ours is a blessed prosperity with the tariff fostered trust manufacturers growing richer every day at the expense of the people? The prosperity of the trusts is not the prosperity of the people.

BIG SALE OF

25 PER’CENT DISCOUNT.

$12.00 coats and pants for . .- $9.00 io.oo coats and pants for 7.50 7.50 coats and pants for 6.13 6.50 coats and pants for 4.88 5.00 coats and pants for 3.75 5.00 blue serge coats and vests for . . 3.75 4.00 blue serge coats and vests for . . 3.00 5.50 grey worsted coats and vests for . 4, | 3 3-75 S re Y worsted coats and vests for . 2.82 4.00 double breasted blue serge coats and vests 3.QQ

THIS SALE IS STRICTLY CASH

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