Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. »1,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 11. 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 Sheri IT 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 lIEIMBIRGER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, SAMUEL L. SCOTT. For State Statistician, MYRON D. KING. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT. Forjudge of Supreme Court, Fifth District— Timothy E Howard. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern District John R. East, W. 11. BllACKen, John D. McGee. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District — Richard H Harteord James T. Saunders, Henry C. Zimmerman. South Carolina passed a law prohibiting the sale of pistols. The dealers now “rent” them. This is almost equal to law evasion by the trusts. Boss Platt of New York, has already given out the word that there will be no pledge of the New York delegation to Roosevelt for president in 1904. The trusts are permitted unlimited sway by the republican party to tax ' the consumer in order to obtain the cash that will rob and corrupt the producer. I AV hile in the city Wednesday of last week Judge Truesdale was pilot- , ed about the city and introduced to the g. o. p. voters by Barney Kalver, one of Mr. Truesdale’s enthusiastic republican supporters. The democratic candidate was warmly rej reived and will be as warmly sup ported.

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RECORD OF GEORGE W. GROMER — Representative Eighth District of Indiana in the 56th and 57th Congresses. I

URING these two congresses, thus far, Mr. Cromer has in- ' trod need seventeen private bills, of which five have become laws, and one other (a pension bill) passed the house ; and would have passed the senate only that the beneficiary died in the interim. Mr. Cromer has also introduced two public bills, for the erection of public buildings at Anderson and Muncie, Indiana. During both congresses,

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thus far, he has made only one report from his committee —a favorable report in regard to the care and adornment of Moore’s Creek, North Carolina, battlefield, but the house took no action on the re- [1 port. (Congressional Record, volume 36. page 6,922.) Mr. Cromer, thus far, has taken absolutely no part whatever in ii the debates of congress, and his service on the floor has been limit- ( ed to the delivery of two short speeches in the last session, in favor of the classification and appointment system in the rural free mail delivery service, as against the contract system; and in favor of the 1 drastic house Chinese exclusion bill, as against the proposed exten- * sion of the Geary act. The first of the above was delivered on March 7, 1902, (volume 35, page 2,852,) and the second was delivered on April 5,1902, (volume 35, page 4,398.) There is nothing at all remarkable,one wayortheother,ineither [' of these speeches; both of them are utterly common-place. His j speech on the Chinese exclusion bill was mainly devoted to a 1 routine review of the history of our treaties with China. The rest 1 of the speech was made up of the usual stock arguments. The 1 only argument worth mentioning was one in which he favored the | amendment prohibiting the employment of Chinese sailors on our vessels. In his peroration, Mr. Cromer took occasion to laud the republican policy of “protection” claiming that it protected our working men by levying a tariff on manufactured articles equal to the difference in wages abroad and at home, and by keeping out i cheap foreign labor. He did not go into the question as to how | much benefit our working men derived from a tariff which enabled , their employers to charge them and other American purchasers ] high prices for all the necessaries of life, while selling at a profit j the same articles to foreign purchasers at much lower prices. It will thus be seen that Mr. Cromer’s record in congress has ' been extremely meagre and colorless. Probably there have been ! few members of the fifty-sixth congress and fifty seventh congress ! who have done and said so little, either on the floor or in committee, as Mr. Cromer. As cited above, he has introduced only nine- ! teen bills and made only one report, all of which were of an unim- ‘ portant character; and although the ratio of his successful bills t was good, the number of his measures is one of the smallest and t least conspicuous on record. He has not contributed a single line ' of information in the general debates upon public questions, or a single thought of value in his two published speeches. He failed to vote and was absent on some important occasions and also that in two or three instances he was absent without being paired. The record also shows that he was absent on leave for nearly a month in the first session of the fifty-seventh congress (volume 35, page 204) and for ten days in the first session of the fifty-sixth congress, (volume 33, page 4,527.)

Adams, Jay, Madison and Weils counties will favor Judge Truesdale with majorities sufficient to make the Cromer column in Delawere and Randolph county look sick. Watch our smoke. The best evidence that the tariff is a shelter and a foster mother to the trusts is the fact that every time the proposal to revise it is made the trusts hold up their hands in holy horror at the proposition.

Senator Hanna is an advocate of perpetual franchise, and this question will be the chief issue in Ohio politics this year. As usual the democrats are on the peoples side and against this colossal steal. The congressional fight in this district is warming up beautifully. The rebellion within the ranks of the g. o. p. against their candidate can not help but bring about his defeat. Jacob P. Denn, editorial writer on the Sentinel, has been nominated by the seventh district democrats as their candidate for congress. Mr. Dunn is a gentleman of marked ability, a stu dent of public affairs and as a member of would add lustre to the state. Judged by results, the Dingley tariff is a tariff that protects the 'trusts while the trusts rob the consumer. The steel trust made ?140,000,000 last year. It is needless to say to any sane man that the consumers paid that out of their pockets in addition to the cost of the goods bought. The republican county convention here last Thursday was' not a very glittering success. It also brought to the open the real Cromer and antiCromer sentiment, and the antis won in a walk. The latter mean real business and will carry their convictions to the voting booth on election day. But nineteen attended the convention and this number is the strength of the Cromer machine, and is certainly not a very flattering endorsement from a county with HXX) republican voters and with fourteen postoffices to sup ply official pap and Cromer support. The managers of the republican campaign find themselves placed in an unusual perplexing position. It takes money and considerable amounts of it to successfully run a republican campaign. The clients of the republicans, the trusts and the protected corporations are prosperous as they never were before, with liberal campaign contributions for their benefactors, they are displaying indifference and in some instances even hostility. The reason, howevei, is plain, and he who runs may read. If the election of a republican 1101186 of Representatives were deemed neces sary to the continuance of the conditions favorable to the trusts, a goodly percentage of their profits, derived through the abuse of over protection, would lie promptly poured into the laps of the republican campaign managers. But the trusts see clearly that the election of a republican House would in no way interfere with their fattening process. The trust controled Senate would promptly squash any democratic tampering with the tariff.

O A Good, Healthy ® I School Boy J V ——IS HARD ON ~ |his clothes] TT seems to his parents as if they were BS -I always buying him a suit. To these parents we want to say that we can jS Ss save them money. We have given the boys special attention this year and g have secured a very extensive line of S clothing for them. All the new styles h are here and we want you to inspect ® our boys’ clothing section before buy- - § —PRICES RANGE FROM— | g $1.50 to $6.00.1 X Holthouse, Schulte A & Company. ..*4

Republican spellbinders in this year's campaign will have an interesting time of it explaining the brand of prosperity the country is now enjoying, with its tremendous increase in the cost of living and the paltry advance in wages. All accounts that come to us from the scenes of the coal strike asseit that danger of lawlessness is to be apprehended only from “ignorant, illiterate and vicious foreigners.” Who is responsible for the presence of that dangerous element! Some of the enthusiastic Cromer machine already glibly say that Cromer will be elected this year and renomininated again without opposition. This simply bears out the contention of the democrats that if the republicans are in earnest about retiring Mr. Cromer they must do it at the general election this fall. He Las full and complete control of his party’s machinery and can nominate himself as often as he desires. This is the year and the fourth of November is the day. The republicans say they are not re sponsible for the trusts,and cite the fact that there are trusts in England. Admitted that there are trusts inEngland, everyone knows that they cannot charge the exorbitant prices there that our trusts charge here under the shelter of the protective tariff. To illustrate: Suppose there was a steel trust in England, and suppose they concluded to put the prices of steel products up like our trusts have done. Now, although selling our own con Burners steel rails at S2B per ton, our steel trust is selling the same rails nt S2B per ton, else it would be undersold at every point by our manufacturers. So it is with every product, if a great English trust goes to corner the market and put prices up, here comes the American manufacturer and sayft to the English people, “I will sell you for less than that,” and the would be speculator at the expense of the masses finds out he can not do so without being undersold by the foreign manufacturer. So it would be in our country if the tariffs were taken off of trust-controlled products. When the trusts would go to putting up prices, as they do now, they would find that the foreign manufacturer would be ready to come in and sell to the American people at a reasonable profit. This would at least prevent the exorbitant prices that trusts now fix. A well known trust magnate testifies before the United States Industrial Commission that the trusts put the prices up just as high as business will stand. The other way they would only be able to put them up as high as competition would allow.

It is a fact evident to any man whose mind is clear enough to see that two’and two makes four, that any circumstance, of whatever nature it may be, which enables a manufacturer to charge higher prices for his products. forces the consumer to pay more for those products. That proposition none will deny. The primary I object of the protective tariff was. as everv one who is acquainted with the history of protection knows, to keep foreign competition out of our markets so that the borne manufacturers could command better prices for their products. The republicans themselves statwl that that was the object of the tariff . Xow . it is evident that if it enabled the infant industries to com mand better prices for their products, so long as it is continued it will enable the successors of the infant industries to do the same. We all know that the infant industries of the past are now the giant trusts, and that now the same laws which enabled these infant industries to grow rich off of the consumer, enables their successors, the trusts, to levy tribute on these same consumers. The republicans cannot blow hot and cold at the same time. They cannot denv their own statements that the tariff'wasdesigned

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I to hold up American prices, and thq ' cannot get around the fact that if fat i tariff held up prices then, it holds» | prices now. And it is equally evidem that if the manufacturer is enabW through the tariff, to charge more fit his goods the consumer has to pi’ more for them. The great mass 1 the American people are consumers. The tariff compels them to pay nx» for the products of consumption than they would otherwise have to pt’ Every time they buy a trust made article they pay a tribute to the truS which controls it. a tribute made possible by a protective tariff. It 4 evident, therefore, that revision nirt come, and that the American are going to demand that it sbu come. The third appeal to CongrAssmsi Cromer to visit his constituents anc party workers in this county, W brought a response that he "ill I* with us fair week. Whether it is fw week or some other week the "ii<j congressman is assured of a hot « time when he does come. A list 1 perplexing questions is now in coiM of construction, and it is safe to s»f that everything will lie in readmes* for his reception.