Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1894 — Page 8

THE STATE CONTROL Involved In the Election to Take Place Next Tuesday. What Democratic or Republican Victory In the State Means to the People ol Indiana--The Issues Very Clearly and Sharply Defined — Good Government Versus Rad Government Is the Direct Issue. Indiana is at a critical point in her career and her welfare depends very larirely upon the result of itoxt 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 abuses. Morn >n 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 liigh, and elections became a roaring farce. So deeply had this c< rrupt governmental system fastened its roots 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 of corrupt, taxeating hangers on; the contractors with their pocketbooks fattened from the substance of the people; the corporations, grasping for even greater power and fearful that their hold on the throat of the state would be loosened ; the rings, the combines and all the vicions 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 wllence 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 aud 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 “pluckme” stores are abolished; mine owners must provide adequate protection for the lives aud 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 rhe 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 people—the school book ring. This ring had as its agents trustees, comity 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 means, 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 |!)5,000,000. The railroads and Count 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 the statute books. Vigorous warfare against the false and pernicious principle of tariff protection. Steadfast opposition to monopoly and corporation rule, to trusts and combines. Continnal 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 Pro r -etive 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 cnampion 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 oi artntrauou fs>x me settle-

ment of wage disputes between capital and labor. The restoration of silver to its former place as the equal of gold in the currency of the nation. Bountiful pensions for veterans of the war. A state home for disabled veterans and their families. Antagonism to all sumptuary legislation. And all these things the Republican party opposes. The question for the Imliana voter to decide this year is a simple one. It is merely whether the state shall continue to hold its high place among the states of the Union, shall continue to progress or shall go back 20 years to *he days of corruption, bulldozing, in w nidation, fraud, extravagance aud corporate control of everything, PINKERTON TAKES A HAND. Anxious to Ajcain Invade Indiana With Hig Army of Thugs. The fact has just come to light that the Pinkerton detective agency is taking an unusual amount of interest in Indiana politics just at this stage of the game. The information comes from a most reliable source that this organization has promised to gladden old Jack 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 the period 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 strides in the industrial world, and under the benign influence of the wise legislation that succeeded the product of the Ohio statesman's brain it promises to stand in the front ranks of the great manufacturing states of the country. With its apparently inexhaustible supply of natural gas, and crossed and recrossed as it is by lines of iron highway s, its future is indeed bright. It is in the important manufacturing and industrial states of the Union that the Pinkerton detective derives its greatest revenue. For many years it found in Indiana a most fruitful field. In all states whose citizens are largely devoted to industrial pursuits labor troubles are naturally of frequent occurrence. Indiana never has and probably never will be any exception to the rules. Labor troubles are, in the lan guage of one of Dicken's characters, “witties and drink” to the ghouls and thugs who are on the payroll of the Pinkerton agency. These social outcasts are nearly all acquainted with the inside of state prisons throughout the 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 state. 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 the 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 aud strong” to have their bars thrown down again. In consideration of their contribution to the corruption fund the Republican managers 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 Pinkerton satellites, will hardlv give their suffrages to a party that if it had the power would bring that same state of affairs about in Indiana. KETCHAM’S SOLDIER RECORD, He Served Six Months Ably In the Commissary Department. W. A. Ketcham, the Republican candidate for attorney general, has a “soldier record,” but ho is not proud of it. He enlisted as lieutenant of Company E, One Hundred and Thirteenth Indiana, Dec. 19, 1864, after the war had been in progress nearly four years, and was mustered out at Louisville July 12, 1865. He was promoted to the captaincy of Company I, 113th Indiana Jan. 1, 1865. The 113th was a fighting regiment, but Ketcham took no part in any of its battles. He was in the commissary department during his entire term of "service.” When the soldiers throughout the state were endeavoring to secure the passage of the Morrill bill which provided for service pensions Ketcham denounced the measure in the most bitter terms and declared that the men who were urging its enactment were “pestilent demagogues.” He had been named as the delegate of the de?artment of G. A. R. for the state of ndiana to the national encampment at Boston. His own post, the George EL Thomas, passed resolutions censuring him and requesting him to resign ana allow some soldier who was not a traitor to their cause to act as delegate in his stead. This Ketcham refused to do, and sent a long letter to the post heaping more insults upon the heads of the soldiers. It is not likely that many of the veterans who took active part’ in the various campaigns of the war of the rebellion will give this man Ketcham their support. Shanklin on the A. P. A. We are living in the most enlightened age which the world has known, an age when proscription on account of religious or political opinion is as much of an anachronism as a revival of Greek mythology would be. —J. G. Shanklin at Decatur. Want No More of It. The Indianapolis Journal makes the brilliant pointer that the reason wheat is so cheap is the people are too poor to buy it. If that is the condition of the people after 30 years of protection the people want no more of it. —Bluffton Banner,

Never Wait to Long will soon be here, so prepare and be in readiness. An interested customer while passing through the Cloak Department yesterday cleverly likened the handsome assortment of Fur Capes and Jackets. We are receiving new garments almost daily, and you cannot but help to find something to suit you. The varieties are continually changing and none grow old. SPECIAL BARGAINS IN UNDERWEAR AND DRESS GOODS. NO OLD GOODS IN OUR ESTABLISHMENT. NEW GOODS AT NEW PRICES.

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STATE TICKET. Judge of Supreme Court. First District— George F. Reinhard. Judge of Supreme Court, Fourth District— Joseph S. Daily. Secretary of State —William R. Myers. Auditor of State—Joseph T. Fanning.o Treasurer of State —Morgan Chandler. Attorney-General—Francis M. Griffith. Clerk of the Supreme Court —C. W. Welman. Superintendent of Public Instruction— Charles W. Thomas. State Statistician—Alexander Fulton. State Geologist—E. T. J. Jordan. CONGRESSIONAL TiCKET. For Congress—llth District, HON. A. N. MARTIN. SENATORIAL TICKET. For State Senator, CLINTON P. COLE. REPRESENTATIVE For Representatives, JOHN T. KELLEY. J. P. McGEATH. JUDICIAL TICKET. Judge—26th Judicial Circuit, DANIEL. D. HELLER Prosecuting Attorney—26th JudicialJCircult. RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. For Auditor, W. H. H. FRANCEFor Clerk. JOHN H. LENHARTFor Treasurer, DANIEL P. HOLDS. For Recorder, HARVEY HAJJRUFF For Sheriff, PETER P. ASHBAUCHER. For Coroner, 8. C. CLARK For‘Surveyor, W. E. FULK. For Commissioner—2nd Dist. CONRAD BRAKE. For Commissioner—3rd Dist DAVID ECKROTE. Washington Township Ticket Trustee. JOHN STELLE. Assessor, JOSHUA R. PARRISH. Justice of the Peace, A. J. HILL. JAMES R. SMITH. JAMES 11. SMITH. Constable. MICHAEL SMITH. THEODORE KENNEDY. ! wAMES PARRISH.

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Biilnd ; Tine : TiHn. The G. R. fit I. (Effect Sept. 23,18 M.) TRAINS NORTH. ♦No. 3. tNo. 5. *No. 1. Richmond 11:00 am 11:25 pm 7:35 pm Parry........... 11:10 “ Votaw 7:49 “ Harley 7:53 “ Fountain City. 11:25 ” 7:58 “ Johnson 11:35 “ 8:09 “ Lynn 11:40 “ 12:02am 8:15 “ Snow Hill 11:46 “ 8,21 “ Woods 11:49 “ 8:23 “ Winchester.... 12:00 “ 12:20am 8;34 “ stone 12:10 pm 8:44 “ Ridgeville 12:19 “ 12:36 am 8:53 “ Collet 12:32 “ 9:04 “ Portland 12:42 “ 12:54 am 9:14 “ Jay 12:52 “ 9:24 “ Briant 12:59 “ 9:30 “ Geneva 1:07 “ 1:14 am 9:39 “ Ceylon 9:41 “ Berne 1:18 “ 9;49 “ Monroe 1:36 “ 9:49 “ DECATUR 1:47 “ 1:44 am 10:12 “ Monmouth 10:18 “ Williams 2:01 “ 10:26 “ Hoagland 2:U6 “ 10:32 “ Adams 10:43 “ Fort Wayne.... 2:35 “ 2:2oam 10:55 “ ♦Daily, except Sunday. +Daily to Grand Rapids. TRAINS SOUTH. ♦No. 2. +No. 6. SNo. 4. Fort Wayne.... 12:35 p m 11:45 pm 5:45am Adams 5:58 “ Hoagland 1:03 “ 12:15 am 6:13 “ Williams 1:08 “ 12:21 “ 6:18 “ Monmouth 6’24 “ DECATUR.... 1:25 “ 12;37 “ 6:30 “ Monroe 1::16 “ 12:50 “ 6:44 “ Berne 1:46 “ 1:02 “ 6;56 “ Ceylon 7:04 “ Geneva 1:55 “ 1:14 “ 7:06 “ Briant 2:02 “ 1:24 “ 7:15 “ Jay 1:31 “ 7:21 “ Portland 2:14 “ 1:41 “ 7:30 “ Collett 1:51 “ 7:41 “ Ridgeville 2:31 “ 2:03 “ 7;50 “ Stone 2:14 “ 7:» “ Winchester.,-. 2:49 “ 2:25 “ R:O9 « WutXie. 2.34 “ 8:22 “ Snow Hill 2:36 “ 8:25 “ Lynn 3:08 “ 2:42 “ 8:32 “ Johnson 2:47 “ 8:38 “ Fountain City. 3:23 “ 2:57 “ 8:49 “ Haley 8:55 « Votaw 8 59 “ Parry Richmond 3:45 “ 3:20 “ 9:15 “ ♦Daily except Saturday to Grand Rapids ♦Daily Grand Rapids. tDaily ex. Sunday. Jeff Bryson, Agent. The Erie Lunes. (Schedule in effect June 17,1894.) Trains leave. Decatur as follows; • WEST. No. 5. vestibule limited, daily 2-13 n m Xo. 4, I’a.-ilie express, dally 1:114,7 na Xo. 1. express, daily 10:45 a ni No. 31, local, daily ex. bunday 10:45 a. m EAST. No. R. vest ibule limited, daily 8 06 p m No. 2, express, dally 1:85 ml No. 12. express, daily 1:39 a. m No. 30. local, daily ex. Sunday 10:45 m" Train No. 12 carries through sleeping cars to Columbus. Circleville. Chillicothe. Waverly. Portsmouth. Ironton, and Kenova via Columbus.. Hocking Valley & Toledo' and Norfolk & Western lines. ’ u J. W. DeLono, Agent. W. G. McErw T. P A„ Hunt ngtou.

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