Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1894 — Page 2

V, ORTH FIGHTING FOR. The Meaning of Another Pemoeratie Victory This T ear. Everything Democracy Has Fought For In a Generation. _ -.-jgTnag It Means the Continuance of the Reforms So Well Begun—Democracy’s Record the Best Ever Made by Any Political Party In Any Land —To Permit a Republican Victory Now Is to Abandon a Field Already Won. Before next Tuesday every Democrat in Indiana should give cim ful consideration to what Democratic victory or Democratic defeat on that day means. If he does so he will go to the polls and vote the straight Democratic ticket. Not only that, but he will use his utmost endeavors that every Democratic vote shall be cast. And such a victory is well worth fighting for. Not because it would be gratifying to party pride, but because it would redound to the glory of the republic and to the good of the people. For 30 years, until 1893, the Democrats had haa no opportunity to fulfill their oft repeated pledges to redeem the nation from the infamous rule to which it had been subjected by the Republican party, ever holding enough power in the government to prevent the overthrow of its nefarious legislation. But in 1593 there came a change and the Democrats secured control of every branch of the government. They found it honeycombed with Republican corruption, bankrupted by Republican ex travagauce and bound hand and foot by the bonds of vicious legislation to the chariot wheels of the favored classes — the bondholders, the trusts, the monopolies and the protected manufacturers. The conditions were appalling, and such as would have made the hearts of men less brave than those Democracy had chosen to carry out the work of reform shrink from their alloted task. But those brave men never faltered, never hesitated, never knew weariness, and impartial history will bear out the statement that, in the same length of time, no party ever carried out so many reforms or abolished so many abuses as has the Democratic party in the last 14 months. Wrongs which had been entrenched behind 30 years of Republican legislation have been righted. False principles of finance and taxation, under which the country had been steadily drifting toward the commercial disaster which finally came in 1893, were set aside and the nation once more started on the high road to genuine and permanent prosperity. The departments at Washington have been cleared of hundreds of useless clerks and hangers on. The federal election law, designed to suppress popular government, has been wiped off the statute books. The Sherman law. which made of silver a mere commodity of trade, has been repealed. Greenbacks have been made taxable, thus cutting off one of the most unrighteous means of tax dodging ever employed by the wealth of the land to evade its share of the expenses of the government. Appropriations have been reduced more than $90,000,000 per year, and the public revenues have once more been brought up to the requirements of the government. And last, but not least, the first great step has been taken in the reform of the tariff, a step which has vastly reduced the cost of living to every man, woman and child in the United States; has dealt a death blow to the trusts, monopolies and combines, and started the wheels, so long idle, under the malign effect of Republican legislation, in every factory in the land.

Was there ever before such a grand redemption of party pledges ? Did any party in any land ever meet more adverse conditions?. And did ever any party more grandly and more nobly proceed to the work laid out for it ? But the great work is only just begun. Much yet remains unaccomplished. Beside, the interests that formerly fattened off the people, but have now been driven from their feast, desire a return. The work ahead is not only that of carrying on the reforms so auspiciously begun, but also that of holding the ground already gained. The advance made is worth fighting to hold, for patriotic reasons. The safety of the land is still menaced by the same enemies that had brought it to the verge of ruin. It is a time when each man should put the general welfare above his personal inclinations; when he should forget his personal disappointments, should sink his private resentments and battle for the good of all. To permit a Republican victory now is to abandon a field already won after a seige of 30 years; is to command the sun of permanent prosperty, now just risen, to stand still, as did Joshua of old before the walls of Jericho. Can any Democrat afford, as a patriotic citizen, to take any chances of such result ? Can he afford to contribute to such a result by failing to vote or scratching his ticket? Can he afford to give over the joys of a victory for which he has been fighting for 30 years ? HE IS A PREVARICATOR. General Harrison Caught In a Falsehood. If General Harrison has any d oubt as to the fact that he made a glaring misstatement at Evansville when speaking of the Uhls at Logansport, the following letter will show him that he owes his hearers an humble apology: Logansport, Ind., Oct. 16.—T0 the Editor of the Sentinel, Indianapolis. Ind.: DEAR Sir —We see that Hon. Benjamin Harrison is repeating the story sent out from this city to the effect that our export trade with Cuba had been ruined by the repeal of the reciprocity clause of the McKinley tariff law. We have looked upon Mr. Harrison as an honorable American citizen who would not wilfully and pur purely misrepresent facts. We wish to say that the story with which our names are connected is a base fabrication. The repeal of the reciprocity clause of the McKinley law has in no way injured our export trf.de with the West

Indie*. Long before tile passage of the McKinley law we established a good trade with the West Indies and have held it for years. Only two weeks ago we shipped 2,<MW barrels of Hour to these islands and obtained $3 per barrel, while the best price we could get in the home market was 42.70 per barrel. \\ e are of the opinion that if reciprocity has any merits it should Ik* extended to the great food consuming nations of the world instead of being restricted to the sparsely populated nations of the new world. Please make public • > ial of the statement t':at we have loci .. penny in ear export trade or that it has in any way been injured by the repeal of the reciprocity clause of the McKinley law. Respectfully yours, D. & C. If. I hi., Proprietors Empire Mills. A REPUBLICAN SCHEME. Plans Laid to Disfranchise Democratic Voters, Another trick in politics has come to light in Allen county. Some of the Republican candidates are peddling oldfashioned pasters with their political cards. These pasters are cut into slips with the candidates’ names and mucilaged backs ready to be pasted on the ballot. One case in point is that of J. E. White, Jr., the Republican candidate for senator. Perhaps young Mr. White doesn’t know that every ballot on which his paster would be used would lx thrown out by the election board, and the voter who was foolish enough to w it would lose his entire vote, and then, perhaps, Mr. White is willing to induce some Democrats, out of personal friendship to him or his family, to use one of these pasters, knowing that such Democrat would thereby be disfranchised at the coming election. Let every Democrat be warned that any such paster or any other distinguishing mark on the ballot u ill make it invalid. But Allen county is not the only one in which the Republicans will try this scheme. Arrangements are being made to try it in every Democratic eouuty. The Republican candidate who stands no possible chance of election will ask his Democratic friend to give him a “complimentary vote just to make it appear that he is the most popular man on the ticket.” This sounds all right. But the little paster which he asks his Democratic friend to attach to the ticket is the “little joker” that takes the trick. The minute that is placed oh the ticket the whole vote is thrown out.

The Repnclicans iu this way hope to have many Democratic votes thrown out at the coming election and are counting on it as one of the schemes by which they are to carry the state. Democrats must be on their guard. The only absolutely safe thing to do is to stamp within the square that contains THE ROOSTER AT THE HEAD OF THE TICKET AND STOP THERE. NO HOPE LEFT. Democracy’s Tax Law Must be Obeyed by the Railroads. The railroads no longer have any chance of evading the new Indiana tax law. The United States supreme court has refused a rehearing of the Indiana railroad tax cases decided at the last term of the court iu favor of the law. The cases involved the legality of the Indiana tax law. The railroad corporations, the Pullman and Wagner sleepingcar companies and telephone companies united in opposing the law, and in carrying tne case to test its validity to the United States supreme court. This law increased the assessment of the railroads $95,000,000. The Republicans opposed this law in the legislature and a Republican governor refused to sign it. The Republican platform calls this “an infamous law; the Republican party is pledged to repeal it. That is why Count George M. Pullman has given $60,000 to the Republican campaign fund in Indiana. WATCH ’EM. Republican. Preparing to Use All Known Means of Corruption. There is ample evidence that the Republicans intend to resort to all manner of corrupt and unlawful means to carry next Tuesday’s election. It should be the pleasure as it is the patriotic duty of every good citizen to prevent these schemes being carried out. Penal offenses under the election laws of Indiana are: Giving unlawful custody of ballots. Taking unlawful custody of ballots. Failure of messenger to appear. Making false affidavit. Refusing employes time to vote. Making false declaration. Deceiving elector in marking ballot. Depositing marked ballot in box. Mutilation of ballot by custodian. Removing ballot or stamp from election room. Having ballot or stamp in possession. Forging indorsements on ballot. Counterfeiting ballot. Conspiring to violate election law. Opening or destroying ballot packages. Unlawful entry of election room. Inducing voter to mark ballot unlawfully. Revealing how an elector voted. Inducing election board to violate law. Removing or destroying election furui* tore. Electioneering within 50 feet limit. Non-resident applying for ballot. Showing a marked ballot. Receiving ballot unlawfully. Putting distinguishing mark on ballot. Bribery. Breaking open ballot boxes. Altering tally sheets. Voting more than once. Refusing lawful vote. Destroying or removing ballot.. Intimidating voter. It is probable that the Republicans who have now reached a stage of genuine desperation will attempt each and every one of these crimes before nightfall on the 6th of November. Democrats should be everywhere on the alert to prevent the perpetration of election frauds of any kind whatsoever. The Democratic party enacted the laws against election corruption and Democrats should see that* those laws are enforced. McKinley on Wheat. Statistics show that both wool and wheat sold at a better average price under a low tariff than under a high tariff. The lowest price for wheat ever known was under the McKinley law, and the Republicans are anxious to restore this law with all its infamies.—Columbus Herald.

THE STATE CONTROL. Involved In the Election to Take Place Next Tuesday. What Democratic or Republican Victory In the State Means to the People of Indiana —The I»»ues Very Clearly and Sharply Defined — Good Government Venus Bad Government Is the Direct Issue. Indiana is at a critical point in her career and her welfare depends very largely upon the result of next Tuesday s elections. For many years after the war the state was under the control of the Republican party, either absolutely or to such an extent that there was no opportunity for reforming Republican abuss. Morton or Mortonism ran rife in everything. Extravagance and corruption were everywhere. The state’s penal and charitable institutions became a public scandal; rottenness permeated every office; legislation was openly sold to corporations and monopolies and favored interests; the state debt was piled mountains high, and elections became a roaring farce. So deeply had this corrupt governmenial system fastened its r<x?ts in the body politic that it was a struggle of years to uproot it. But Democracy fought on undismayed and unconquerable until the early 80’s when it finally secured control of the state government in all branches and began the work of reform. The task before it was an herculean one. Against it were arrayed the Republican minority with its hordes ot corrupt, taxeatiug hangers on; lh< contractors with their pocketbooks fattened from the substance of the people: the corporations, grasping for even greater power mid fearful that their hold on the throat of the state would b loosened; the rings, the combines and all the vicious cliques and clans that had been built up during nearly 20 years of Republican supremacy. The work of reform was at once begun and has gone forward steadily, unceasingly, vigorously ever since. Every Democratic legislature has added a few stones to the edifice of the state’s glory. The management of public institutions has been brought to a point of ex ell ence unsurpassed in any state of the union or any country of the world. The wards of the state, the deaf, the dumb, the insane, the blind and impoverished are better cared for in Indiana than anywhere else on earth, and ■wise Democratic legislation has placed their care out of partisan control. Elections have been purified and the hand of every man set against the corrupter of the ballot. Under the Australian law every elector of Indiana may cast his ballot for the man of his choice, free from scrutiny and free from any interference on the part of his employer or anyone else; and with a certainty that it will be counted as cast. Under the laws made by Republicans labor in Indiana had been largely deprived of its liberty and placed in a condition of servitude toward its employers verging close upon abject slavery. Today no state has so many laws distinctly favorable to the workingman. Labor day is a holiday; union labels are protected from forgery; eight hours is a legal day’s work; claims for wages are a lien upon the product of labor; wages must be paid in cash and “plnckme” stores are abolished; mine owners must provide adequate protection for the lives and limbs of their miners; no employer may blacklist an ex-employe and the employer must pay for injuries sustained by the employe who incurs them through the negligence of his employer. This condition has been reached only after the bitterest resistance by the Republicans and their steadfast allies, the great corporations. Every law in behalf of labor was opposed by Republicans. Triumphant Democracy found the schools of the state clutched in the grasp of one of the most avaricious combinations of unscrupulous greed ever formed for the purpose of robbing the pockets of the jieople—the school book ring. This ring had as its agents trustees, county superintendents and even Republican state officials. But it went down, after a hard battle, before the assaults of Democracy and the tax which it levied upon education in Indiana has been removed. Under Republican legislation the taxes had been made heaviest on farmers and people of small moans, while the great corporations, the railroads and banks and other heavy contributors to Republican campaign funds escaped with almost no burden of taxation. A Democratic legislature changed all this. It enacted a law which increased the assessment on railroad property alone $95,000,000. The railroads and Connt Pullman fought this law to the highest court, where it has been finally upheld. The only way by which the railroads and other corporations can escape the provisions of this law is by having it repealed. The Republicans have promised to repeal this law if they get the power. One good effect of this law has been to enable the state within the past year to pay off nearly $1,000,000 of the state debt, Which was created by Republican extravagance. The Democracy of Indiana, in the campaign now just drawing to a close, is pledged to these things: The upholding and continuance of all the wise laws which it has placed on th statute books. Vigorous warfare against the false and pernicious principle of tariff protection. Steadfast opposition to monopoly and corporation rule, to trusts and combines. Continual advocacy of the principle of electing United States senators by popular vote. Support to the proposed constitutional amendment requiring congress to meet immediately after its election. Undying hostility to every movement that, like the American Protective Association, would deny any privilege of citizenship to any person because of his religious belief. The absolute maintenance of law and order at all times. Unwavering fidelity to the interests of the workingman, whose steadfast champion it has ever been. Advocacy of laws to keep out vicious and pauper immigrants, and to prevent the importation of alien contract labor. A system of arbitration for the settle-

ment of wage disputes betw«-n capita and labor. f 3nn cTh- restoration of silver to Itsr • place as the equal of gold in the currency of the nation. the Bountiful pensions for ve.erans - W A state home for disabled veterans and their families. !•«««. I Antagonism to all sumptuary legL latiou. , . . p lrlT ,i,pean And all these things the Kepuuncau for the Indiana voter to decide this year is a merely whether the state shall to hold its high place among the star* of the Union, shall continue topw.-*’-or shall go back 29 years to the day- ot corruption, bulldozing, ’ fraud, extravagance and corpora •. trol of everything. PINKERTON TAKES A HAND. Anxious to A<»ta 1.V..1S Indiana With His Army of Thug*. The fact has just come to light that the Pinkerton detective agency is taking an unusual amount of interest iu Inana politics just at this stage of th* game. The information comes from a most reliable source that this organize tion has promised to gladden old Ja -> Gowdy’s heart with a very healthy contribution to the Republican corruption fund. Indiana has for many years been one of the greatest manufacturing states in the Union. It suffered, of course', like all other states during rne peri-I that the iniquitous McKinley laws disgraced the statute books, but since the day this vicious measure was wiped out of existence it has made gigantic sto: - in the industrial world, and under the benign intiueiice of the wise legislation that succeeded the product of the Ohi ■ statesman’s brain it promises to stand in the front ranks of the great mannfrut uring states of the country. With itanparently inexhaustible supply of nat ural gas, and crossed and reerossed a it is by lilies of iron highways, its futur is indeed bright. It is in the important mannfacturin i and industrial states of the I m >:i ra:;; the Pinkerton detective agency derive its greatest revenue. For many year- i found in Indiana a most fruitful fi-I*l In all states whose citizens are largely devoted to industrial pursuits label troubles are naturally of frequent o>currence. Indiana never has and probably never will be any exception to the rules. Labor troubles are, in the language of one of Dickeu’s characters, “witties and drink” to the ghouls and thugs who are on the payroll of ths Pinkerton agency. These social outcasts are nearly all acquainted with th** inside of state prisons throughout th country. 'Too indolent to work, they earn a precarious living by shooting down honest laboring men who dare to revolt against the oppression and cruelty of greedy and overreaching corporations When the toilers asked for peaceful arbitration the response that met their request was a couple of carloads of these engaging ruffians, armed with Winchester rifles. These irresponsible scoundrels had instructions to shoot to kill, and they carried out these instructions on the slightest provocation. One of the first acts of the Democratic party when it secured absolute control of both branches of the general assembly was to pass a law effectually barring Pinkerton detectives out of the statt. This is the act, it will be remembered, that requires that any person serving as a special police officer, deputy sheriff, constable, etc., shall have resided in th* state at least one year continuously proceeding his appointment as such peace officer. The penalty of a violation of this act is a long term of imprisonment in the penitentiary. Thus the Pinkertons were cut off from a very heavy source of revenue, and they are willing to give up “good and strong” to have their bars thrown down again. In consideration of their contribution to the corruption fund the Republican mana gers are willing to give them a pledge that they shall have a clear field for operations should the party carry the next general assembly. Workingmen who remember the Homestead troubles in the summer of 1892, in which even women and children lost their lives at the hands of Pinkerti:. satellites, will hardly give their suffrage to a party that if it had the power would bring that same state of affairs about in .liana. KETCHAM’S SOLDIER RECORD. lie Served Six Months Ably In the Commlmry Department. W. A. Ketcham, the Republican candidate for attorney general, has a “soldier record,” but he is not proud of it. He enlisted as lieutenant of Company E One Hundred and Thirteenth Indiana Dec. 19, 1861, after the war had been in progress nearly four years, and was mustered out at Louisville Julv 12, is.;,-, He was promoted to the captaim-v Company I, 113th Indiana Jan. 1, i‘w-‘ The 113rh was a fighting regiment, bn: Ketcham took no part in any of its battles. He was in the commissary depar’ ment during his entire term'of ■--.- vice.” When the soldiers throughout the state were endeavoring to seeur the passage of the Morrill which provided for service pension Ketcham denounced the measure in t' most bitter terms and declared that th men who were urging its enactm n were “pestilent demagogues.” He hie been named as the delegate of the "<l, pariment of G. A. R. forthest.it Indiana to the national encampment a* Boston. His own post, the G. ~r . H Thomas, passed resolutions censurin ’ him and requesting him to resign an ' allow some soldier who was not a traitoto their cause to act as delegate in h stead. This Ketcham refused to do. an sent a long letter to the post heapm ■ more insults upon the heads of the ’ =- diers. It is not likely that manv of th* veterans who took active part in th various campaigns of the war of the r* belhon will give this man Ketcham th-lr support, Shanklin on the A. p. A. We are living in the most enlightened age which the world has known, an ag< when proscription on account of r ..]j.. ions or political opinion is as much of anachronism as a revival of Greek W ° UW be '~ J ' G ’ ShanUl “ at Want No More of It. The Indianapolis Journal makes the brilliant pointer that the reason wheat is so cheap is the people are too rJW f( , bUy i IL <■? 18 the cond ition of th*peop e after 30 years of protection the people want no more of it.—Bluffton

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latal Diamond Ring. A. ring studded with diamonds and pearls hangs suspended to a silken cord around the neck of a statue inone of the most frequented parks in JlSdriu. It is safer there than in one o the strongest rooms in the Hank of England. Thousands of yeopie pass it everv dav and admire its beauty, bit the greatest thief In Spain hesitates even to touch it. It is believed to deal out death to whom it belongs, ahe rin-’ was especially made for the »ate Alfonso .XII. who gai eit to his cousin Mercedeson the dav of theirbetr.rotnal. I pon her death it ; assed into the possessicnot the Kine's grandmother. Queen Christina. Three months afterward she died. The King passed on the deadly band of gold to his sister, who died a month s’ler she had received it. The Ki: g then placed the jewel in his own casket of precious relics, and lived less thac a year after he hai done it.—Boston Herald. The Kcc Question in Hotels. The egg quest on in a hotel that laughs at expense in the endeavo to secure for its g ests what is more than palatable has the clore-t attention; for the most part, the middleman operates here, though the eggs do not lie on his hands long. Among many hotels I have failed to find one that uses any but warranted eggs, and even these are broken by skilled assistants, separately, before they are used by a cook or baker: for one faithless egg can wreck Sdlons of soup or cake galore. In the c.land House this incidental duty means the breaking of X 1.500 worth of eggs every month: never less than 12t> dozen ace used per day. The Marlborough Hotel averages dozen every day. During the World’s Fair the Palmer House reached the average of 600 dozen.—Cha.itauquan. Battlefields for bale Cheap. “You may imagine my feelings when, standing on the tumulus which covers the remains of the 200 Greeks who fell at Marathon. 1 was approached by a farmer who offered me the plain upon which that immortal battle was fought ‘or 1 ,: ,O-X> piastres, or about £«IO sterling. To think that the dust of Miltiades should be worth no r ore than that' It could scarcely have set• bed le-s if sold by weight. ' Thus wrote Lord Byron in 1812 to bis friend, Mr. -John Cam Hobho.ise. afterwards Lord Broughton, who res:ended bv writing from Rome that he ha: himself been offered the battlefield on which Cann, was fought tor less than hail the rum at which the Plain of Marathon was appraised to the noble author of "Chifde Harold.’’-London Te*exraph. Hard-Whiter SigtM In Maine. Those who study omens say another long, co.d winter, filled with blustering storms, is ahead. The goosebone is near i a.l white, and snow, thev sav wifi he on the ground from in December until April, or later. Corn Th/t.V* i mort thaD «’ aa lv thick. ? SpU A°, naa fc «ra overtX’X the zero temperacure to come. Moodchuck- and chipmunks are alreadv f»t An o , Jw p ... •S' So <*rntl» Bull.. Settle A h.,n n be “““io most mav suddenly and « . tb come very N Ut h®' be allowe; at liberty l‘ -F b s‘‘ 3 , hould kept under control.'' b t ShoUlU mg a'w’ meet an ec ?agement

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Brclnmng and End of the ( l,(| War The war I egan actually on .lar.uar 8, I*6l. when South I arolina troop fired on the steamer Star of the \Ve» carrying provis ons to the forts ij Charleston haibor. The war ends; on April 3, l'<*6. the dale of the Pr-> ident's proclamation of peace. Piso’s Cure tor Consumption is xn e. peril'll; goo'l me Heine for Congh.—Mrs X. Arent, Jenrsbere. Texas. Mxr ‘.tt. i MaRRIAGB is a partnership, but ths woman is never taken into full n , B . bership until the man has a financial trouble. Swallow It. That Is the tewt war to take a P.:taa Tatule, best liecaus* the most plraaasi T i all llret, eu4 -lomach disorders Tabules are the most effective remedy, a fact, the standard. A Headlight is of no use to nej. ligence. Sesd your full name and address to Dotbias' Soap Mfg. Co.. Philada.. Pa.,byre;un mail, and get /ree of a.l cott. a coup j -■'■c-rt 1 : -ev<-ral d* i'ars if ii-e.l , full advantage. Don’t delay. This is worthy attention •• Never let go to spit on your hands, ArrrsD the Fort Waynw Busine»s Cellefs, Sulkiness sours its own milk. To TBS sailor a yacht is superb but hor much more lorely to the land.mao are ths rosy cheeksof young ladies who useGlesas Sulphur Soap. Prejudice has but one eye.

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