Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 21 August 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVTBT THVRSDAT MORXtSG BT LEW 0. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. ll.tß PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered nt the poctofScc at Decatur. Indiana asaecond-dasa mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUUTY. THURSDAY. AUGUST 21. COCXTV TICKET For ( ' inrress. J E TRFEbDALE. For Representative HENRY DIRKSON. For Presecut r JOHN C. MORAN For Treasurer J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For Clerk DAVID GERBER. F r SberiS ALBERT A. BVTLER. For Recorder CLINTON C. CLOCD. F r r rvev r GEORGE E. McKEAN. ForCoroner C. H SCHENK. For Ccmnbsiooer—First Dis*. DAVID WERLING For Comn lss: ner— Second Dis*. WILLIAM MILLER. STATE TICKET Forse-retary >f State. ALBERT SCHOON VER. For Attomer-GeuerC. W. R STILLWELL For State Auditor. JAMES R RIGGS. For State Treasurer. JEROME HEF.FF For Clerk of the Supreme Court. ADAM HEIMBVRGER. E r Superintendent of Pu i:e Instruction SAMVEL L SCOTT. F r State Statist--ian, MYRON D. KING. For State Ge £ist. EDWARD BARRETT F • Tihotht E Howard. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern Dtstriet—J«ns R Fast w h Brackes. Johx D. McGee Judges ■ f the App*iHe Court forth- N inhere D.st-:ct - R:. BARI. H Harrroaik. JaJtl- I ' .AAA The large ecru crops of Kansas are of course directly attributable to the successful republican administration. The Illinois republicans are in the midst of a very beautiful factional fight, in which ugly words are hurled bas k and forth with a vigor that is amusing—to the democrats. It is a seif evident fact that the g. o. p. have troubles of their own. It has been unfeelingly charged that Mr. Hanna s effirts toward adjusting the coal strike are with the idea, not so much of keeping humanity warm this winter, as that his own pees dental chances be kept up to the boiling point. 1 —» The Soutn Bend Times preperiv says that Judge Griggs as chairman of the democratic congressional committee. should be better emploved than for making presidential candidates for 1901. The election of democratic congressman is the dutv of the hour for Mr. Griggs.

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’ The selection cf a United States Senator to succeed the late Senator McMillen is agitating the g. ap. slate makers of Michigan. Senator Defew is i» Europe and will not return for several months. k This must necessarily dispose of the announcement that President Roose- ■ velt may call an extra session at an early date. The beef trust confesses that there has been blacklisting and a restraining of trade, but it turns around and in ■ an off-hand way says. "What are you going to do about it *” No one has seen any real signs of Mr. Knox's doing anything about it. The Bluffton Daily Banner has changed its style of make-up to an eight column wide six column long folio. The change is a creditable one due to the wisdom of- the Banner's present editor, who knows a thing or two about practical* journalism. One Charles A. WaAh. one of the stiffs who tried to manage the last two national campaigns for the democrats, is now dealing in long winded interviews as to how to elect a democratic president in 1904. It is time for Mr. Walsh to go way back and sit down. Chaibman Babcock grows wonderous astute in his old age. He is now engaged in explaining to the usual republican campaign contributors the difficult problem of retaining control of the next house. This strikes us as perhaps better politics than Judge Grigg's style of claiming "everything in sight.” The Eagle Club, whose membership ‘is exclusively republican and also ex- ■ clusively anti-Cromer. has just re ceived encouraging news from the gas belt district. There the labor vote as well as manv of the silk stocking variety, are organizing for a very loud and boisterous campaign against their part v candidate for congress, George i W. Cromer. The pi t thickens. ~ The democrats of Indiana certainly have reason to congratulate themselves upon the choice of the state central committee for a chairman.! Mr. O'Brien certainly is the right man in the right place. He is thor- ' ■ ■ oughly familiar with political affairs ■. in general and is fast gaining a com- ' plete understanding of the situation in Indiana.—South Bend" Times. Evest time a republican tells about ! the commercial invasion of Europe he ' is furnishing the best sort of an argument why the tariff should be revised. If we can ship our goods to Europe i > and undersell her there, how in the name nf reason can there be any ’ danger of any destructive competition here? Every article almost that is | exported to Europe is sc Id at a good deal lower figure than the same ar’’cle is «old for here. These is only one way in which the ' . trusts can be restrained and regulated. . There is only one real remedy for the ' extortion practised by the trusts upon the people. This is to repeal the Dingier protection duties which give the trusts vitality and power. None of these duties are needed for revenue. None of them are needed for "protect; on." The only service they per f onn is to bolster up the trusts and ■ enable them to levy tribute upon American industrv.

Th* O. o P sad The TsriH In IS9O a Republican Congress pas sed the McKinley tariff bill. This bill was a protection measure, designed. it was claimed to protect American labor. This may have been the object of its patron but the subsequent history of the country during the period proven bevond the shadow of a doubt that its effect was to enable the manufacturers of our country to fix their I ; own prices on their products. The | American people were quick to see this, but John Shenna: saw it sooner than they. He knew that there would : be abuse of the protective principle- ‘ knew that be would be the making ;of inordinately rich manufacturers at the ex pence of the American people. i and that was a condition that would inevitably lead to trusts and combinations in restraint of trade. It was to anticipate this evil, and to offset it that he offered and succeeded in hav- . ing passed, the Sherman Anti-Trust law. W hatever mav have been Senator Sherman's object in fathering that bill, time has proven that it served no other purpose than to deceive the people into believeing that the republican partv was opposed to trusts and monoplies, and to stand as an ornament on the statue book. It is a law that is more honored in its breach than its keeping. It is a republican antitrust cannon that has been spiked and put out of commission by rich contributions from the very interests that it was aimed at. to the campaign coffers of the republican party. Its utter uselessness has been conceded by the republicans themselves, who ■ are now coming out and favoring more stringent legislation for the control of the trusts. The people are at last awaking to the fact that the Dingley bill of 1-9 7is more of a monopolysheltering, trust-fostering, measure than the McKinley bill. Realizing that fact, they are insisting, in unmistakable language that there shall be a revision of the tariff, and that the trusts must go. It is to ease this sentiment. and lead the people away from their insistance that the tariff must be revised that the p.esent cry of the leaders against the trusts is raised. Every republican politician, from the president down, is Insisting that the trusts must be curbed. But their cry iis like unto crocodile tears. Let them . I first tell us why. with a republican i president, a republican senate, and a republican house, is short, with entire I control of the governmental machine since 1596, they have now passed the I legislation thev dow. on the eve of a (political campaign against trusts, pretended to regardas sc necessary. Let them tell Amer.can peoole why they waited until two days after the adjournment of congress to bring the > matter to the attention of the people. Let them explain why they have not ■ made a single Bona fid? effort to enforce the laws that are on the statue ■ books. Let them explain the the fact that every attorney general s’nee has come from the ranks of the trusts lawyers. Let them inform the American voters why the largest cci.tr.Lu , tion to the republican campaign fund | come from the treasuries of the trusts. I Let them give the people light on ■ these questions and then and not till then can they hope to have the confidence of tne people. The Dingley bill has made the necessity for legislation just as the McKinley bill made . the necessity for tne Sherman AntiTrust law. What stronger argument could be desired of the importance of the removal of the iniquitous trustbreeding schedules of that bill? With the United States selling $400,000,000 worth of monufactured products in markets where it has to compete with the world, why does its manufacturers need a protective tariff? If we can ship our goods to foreign markets paying the cost of transportation, and then undersell the whole world, how in the name of reason can there be any danger of foreign competition in our heme markets ? Se retabt Shaw says that it will not do to talk about revising the tariff now that although it is a ’act that there are unjust schedules in the tariff they must be let alone for if an attempt was made to pull one of them out beneficiaries of these unjust schedule s would pull the whole structure down on toe party. How is that for an acknowledgment of >erril obedience to the trusts! And then it comes from an administration spokesman. Now comes the Pendleton Republi can who says the happiest effort in the life of Congressman Cromer, was his speech upon the Chinese Exclusion bill in the last congress. The Republican ha« been imposed upon. Congressman Cromer never delivered a speech in congress upon any subject, the Dearest be ever came being to get ooe "print«l * n *be congressional record. If the Republican wants to get next to a live congressman be should court the friendship of Judge Truesdale, who after the fourth of March will jar the rafters in the dome of the capitol building. | Last year tbe manufacturers of agriculture implements exported over t SIfiJJOOJCOO worth of implements to : foreign countries. As far back as I fifteen years ago a prominent harvest- ( ing machine manufacturer acknow 1- ' edged that be sold his machines ■ cheaper in England than be did here. ' Are tbe American farmers willing that after they have Viren these infant industries the protection, and belp them to their feet, that they shall now ■ ingre.tes and sell to foreigners at | turn lower figures that to their real bene | factors? A protective tariff holds the j farmer up while the manufacturer j fixes hie price.

—BIG SALE OF 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 cheviots; blue serge and grav worsted coats and vests; double breasted blue serge coats. «*rv —„ 25 PER CENT DISCOUNT. Schanher J—< & frlarX — """ - - ’Tailor' J Clofhes jT $12.00 coats and pants for $9.00 / \ io.oo coats and pants for 7.50 I I ■' 111 "'5°* 00315 pants for 6,13 4 6.50 coats and pants for 4.88 4 / j| pip 5-00 coats and pants for 3.75 1 I jp I 5.00 blue serge coats and vests for . . 3.75 W J 4.00 blue serge coats and vests for . . 3.00 \J I 5.50 grey worsted coats and vests for . 4.13 If b I 3.75 grey worsted coats and vests for . 2.82 XI 4.00 double breasted* blue serge coats n Im and vests .... 3.00 ® THIS SALEIS STRICTLY CASH HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & COMPANY. .<* A»t ,4 ,4 a4 t 4.4

Emtob Watterson has refused the alluring red lights of office and will not be a candidate for governor of Kentucky. In his present position he receives the tempting salary of Ss.tW a year, and we do not blame h>m for his apparent refusal to crave the itch for office. As a side issue his lectures furnish him additional spending ' money to the tune of STOOD a year. Congressman Cbomt?. has as yet failed to show up in Adams county, although he was due. according to promise, some three or four weeks ago. It is currently reported that his nerve has not hardened to a point that will permit him to stand up before the breastworks of g. o. p. indignation that so universally prevails here. The date of his arrival is known only to the favored few. The affairs of the nation seem to run on notwithstanding the absence from the seat of government of the President. the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War. the Postmaster General, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture. Even the most important individuals can. on occasions, be dispensed with. Edward M. Shephesd the brilliant New Yorker has been mentioned as a presidential possibility by Judge Griggs. The selection is not a bad one. but the time is a little frosty for a boom not out of its swaddling garments. Let us have patience gentleman and at present writing confine our efforts to the duties of the hour—the election of democratic congressman. Os all the protected pets of the g. o. p. perhaps the tin plate industry is the most sacred. This political party actually claims the distinction of creating this industry. It has been fostered by the highest protection, and now in midst of a lona md clamerous cry of prosperity, the tin plate trusts compel their already poor paid employes t<r accept a twenty-five per cent reduction in their wages, to all of which the Chicago Chronicle says such is tariff-made and trust-made prosperity. If you wish to deal effectively with monopoly, you want to suppress the trusts, you must put a party in power that means to do it. We know the republican party will not even try. because it belongs to the trusts I body and soul. We know that the 1 democratic party will try to destroy the trusts if for no other reason the trusts are trying to destroy the democratic party. The trusts and the republican party are sheltered behind I the same breastworks of a high proi tective tariff.

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