Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1895 — Page 4

PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. — .~- 1 -•-- | | LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR 1 t $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. THURSDAY, APRIL 11. ( 1 . -= i The most widely advertised * spring suit we know of, is the in- ! come tax suit. 5 The Hon. John E. Limb and wife ha> e arrived back from a three . month’s absence in Egypt. < The new Mexican minister is now ( at his post of duty. He will retain t Bayard Gray as his secretary. t Senator Voorhees will leave t "Washington for his Indiana home , at Terre Haute, in a couple of ( weeks. i Oscar it ilde and the Marquis J of Qaeensbary were mixed up in a t court scandal in which the former , came out worsted. t Governor Matthews was also. J interviewed by an Indianipolis t grand jury, where he explained his t part in of thelegislative "rumpus.” ;| -TW -T r-x ■ I »«— T— »—W— Republican statesmen have ’ c irked up on that funny joke which ( took place during the dying mo- ‘ meats of the late lamented legisla-. lure. Some people thought that the re - L cent decisions on the income tax € would necessitate the calling of an 1 extra session of congress, but the 1 president says "nit.” Governor McKinley is boom D ing himself for the presidential 1 nomination, and we know of no 1 better subject for dissection than ! the Major would make. • I1 The chief executive, Governor ’ Marvil of Delaware, died Monday ' evening after a short illness with a I f complication of Bright's disease. 1 lagrippeand heart failure. ' The Indianapolis grand jury has 1 adjourned without returning any i 1 indictments against the legislative 1 rioters. We now wonder what i 1 would be necessary in the minds of 1 that jurv to constitute a riot. 1 ' ——— — :< 8443.27. This is no lie, neither.l t —Journal. J * Gramm dically speaking, the Journal is entitled to additional ' glory for its exhibited freaks of 1 murdering the king's English. 1 "This is no lie, neither.” I It is a significant fact tint Eng 1 land did not attempt to monkey' 1 with Nicaragua when there was a republican president at Washing ton. —Journal. It is also a significant fact that a ■' republican president not only attempted but did monkey with a 8186,000,000 surplus left by a dem-I 1 ocratic president, and after four • years monkeying turned a bankru pt treasury over to i,i> successor as a 1 souvenir of Is ability t<» "monkey " 1 with a vengeance. The financial question promises to be the leading issue in the next campaign and the people are educating themselves upon the subject. They have noticed that since the demonitizatlon of silver, in 1873,] there has been a steady decline in prices of farm products, of farm lands, and that the only article which has increased in value is the gold of the bondholder. When the currency 7 laws were "reformed,” in ; 1873, wheat sold for over one dollar per bushel and the farmer who; owed 81,000 could have settled his debt with less than 1,000 bushels i of wheat. Today, under the "reform” currency law it takes over g,OOO bushels of the i’armers wheat to pay his 81,000 debt. At the same time his laud has depreciated in value and yields no more, if as much, to the acre, as it did in 1873. —Huntington Democrat. ■i i-i ii , s-rsi Daily metropolitan newspapers frequently comment upon the com mon cross roads country weekly, and its world wide fame of neighborhood gossip, but on matters of truth the average country weeklywill come nearer the version of an ideal newspaper than does themuch talked of daily. The daily is con stantly filled with a cast off lot of sensational rot, many times written by an envious, hair-brained reporter from those cross road towns, the same being soft soaped by the brainy city editor. Thus it goes. Their paper is constantly filled with this "high grade” literature. The dailies should hold up the dignity of their profession and seta worthyexample for their country brothers, aud when they do this the newspaperprofession will have ascended to their proper dignified position in this world of progression.

Indiana oil is quoted at seventy cents thi summing The official statements that are 1 now being sent out with regard to 1 the detrimental effects of the new 1 tariff will make g >od republican campaign documents.—Journal. Yes indeed, brother, it will be glorious leading, but in our opinion ■ you had better have all your fun now, for when campaign time rolls 1 around there will l>e mighty few controversies al«ont the ill effect of the new tariff law. The s r at- committee in this state will not follow the direct footsteps of the Illinois democrats by calling a convention to discuss the money question. Tom Taggart in an in terview on the subject says he don’t think the time is quite ripe for such a convention, for the reason that he believed that the money question should be studied and dis cussed iu every neighborhood. He is right in that, tor but very few people know anything alwut the issue. In the first place it is quite a complicated affair and has been ' sorely neglected by the newspapers ; up to the present time. Now that the question is confronting our thinking people in all parts of the 1 country except the east, we may expect to hear and know more al>out such an issue. The silver : ileiinurat- of this state claim that 1 Governor Matthews will lead them 1 to victory, but that is indefinite at 1 this early stage of the t ame. The Press is glad to mention the good judgment displayed by Governor Matthews iu his re appointment of Ex-Senator Hale of Geneva, ' as a member of the board of directors and managers of the eastern insane hospital located at Rich- ' mond. Mr. Hale has been a mem | her of this board now for fouryvar. •and under his official management many benefic al improvements have ], been brought into effect. He ( thoroughly uuderstunds the needs ( >f the institution aud now his services will be more valuable than ' ever. By an act of the late legis- . iature th- governor was instructed ' to appoint non partisan boards for '■ thes- institutions, thus giving the ' benevolent institutions in the state nine democrats and the same num her of republicans, who will form themselves into boards of directors for the control aud management <>f these institutions. Two republi cans join Mr. Hale in the management of the eastern hospital. The only objection we can offer to this state of affairs is the company I which Mr. Hale will lie subjected to by this new ordeal. He is to be congratulated for the recognized honor conferred, which is some Jibing that don’t happen to every tnd.vidual every day in the week 'dr every month in the year. The; board organized by making \Y. S. i , Page of Fort Wayne, president; E. ■ |G. Hill of Richmond, vice presi J dent, and S. W. Hale secretary.

J t Many allude to Mr. Harrison’s administratiou as the "debt paying] administration,” but when com pared to the first term of the present occupant of the presidential chair, his record is as slim as doughnuts in pea time. The first i term of President Cleveland the de- ; crease in the public debt was 8399,412,903. During Harrison’s administration the total reduction amounted to 8136,970,275, just a trifle more than one third as compared to Cleveland’s record. There is but little room to question the poliei'S of these two public men. Mr. Cleveland did not believe that it was good policy to tax the people to create a revenue greater than was needed for the payment of bonds as they became due. He did not believe that it was good policy to buy at a premium bonds that were not due. He said so plainly. Mr. Harrison did believe that it was good policy to buy at a premium bonds that were not due. ■ He paid the bondholdersßl7,997,807.32 in such premiums. He did . not go to the length of advoeatlug tile collection of extra taxes to

buy bonds, but he did unite with his party in the policj’ of inereas ! ing taxes to the prohibitive point to cut off revenues. He did partic , ipate in the policy of increasing ■ expenses to prevent a surplus. He f did leave a practically bankrupt treasury to his successor. He ran i on a platform w hich said that the i republicans would “effect all needed reduction of the national revef nue” by repealing the taxes on toi bacco, by a tariff which “tend ■ to cheek imports,” and if necessary , a repeal of all internal revenue ? taxes. It demanded more ships, . coast defenses, river and harbor i improvements, and an extension of ? pensions, but it declared only for r “the payment of the maturing pub- ; lie debt.” The bond purchase pol- , icy was not avowed by his party, but when added to the extravar--1 gances that were avowed by it, and i put in practice by it, the result was a paralysis of government iinances. I

Executive Appointments. Governor Matthews has madethe following appointments of boards of control of the Svenevolent insti tutions in the state: Deaf and Dumb—Charles E. Haugh, Indianapolis, democrat; Thomas 1.. Brown, Bedford, democrat, and Samuel A. Bonner, Greensburg, republican. Institution for the edu cation of the Blind—J. L. Allen, Covington, republican; Nelson Bradley, Greenfield, republican; John F. Hennesey, Indianapolis, J democrat. The democrats have a majority on the board for the institution tor the education of the deaf and dumb, and the republicans the majority on the board of the institute n for the education of the blind. They are pledged to retain the pres ent management. Now that the governor has made all the appointments, under the new law, rabid republican politicians are growling because the governor has been able to find republicans « ho are willing that the present superintendents of the institutions shall all be retained. Some of the local republicans lament and declare that the gover Dor allowed the superintendent of each institution to select his own board after he (the governor) had designated whether the institution should have a republican or a democratic majority on the board. One republican state officer said to day that it was wasteof time for the legislature to enact the new law. "The legislature wasted nearly half the session q ttarreling over 11 >e qties tion," said he, "and it succeeded in passing a bill that does not amount t<> anything. M e are just where we were before t he legislature met. There will )>e no change in any of these six benevolent institutions named in the new way."—Ft. A’ayne Journal. - And now eight United States supreme jurists equally dividetheir opinions upon the income tax, four of them d-ciding that the whole law fiom beginning to ending is unconstitutional, the remaining four holding it valid. So now what are we to do and who are we to l»e lieve. The rich, whom the law will effect, will universally cry of its in validity and despotism, and will back that mogul cry with theirmillions of corporate wealth, their bonds, bank accounts and political influence. We, of the common herd, will unite our faint utterances iu behalf of the validity of the law. To us it seen s but simple justice that those who own, control and en- ' joy those blessed financial luxuries should pay the bulk of taxation. If our income wereß4,oooa*. uually, above all business expenses, we would not kick one minute on paying 880 into the United States treasury. And so it should be. But the clandestine opinion is genJ eral among the wealth of this country, that they should live as cheap Jly as the man who works upon a ] poor salary. This is an unjust

I . — — opinion, and those jurists should not take the technical points of the law as written to base their opinions on, but instead should look into the larder at the poor man’s home, and ; tax the wealth to pay their just proportionate share of the government’s maintaiuance. If this is not legal law it is human law at least. An evenly divided court as firms the constitutionality of a law, so for the present it is valid. ».■.-•raßcswarwvs'-swasMHMraBBWB* The average citizen understands, of course, that the increase of im ports does not signify an increase of employment for home labor.— Journal. No, but the exporting of wagons, carriages, steam engines, pumps, boots and shoes to nearly every J country in the world, the exporting of steel armor plates to Russia and Italy, the exporting of manufactured steel and iron to South J America, the exporting of cutlery and wiMjlen fabrics to England, and the exporting of cotton goods to other conntries, does signify an increase of employment for home labor. "That’s no lie. neither. ’ I I ;

QHIERIFF S SALE. j The State of Indiana. Adams Con«tyIn the Adams Circuit Court of Adams tounI ty. Indiana. 1 The Aetna Life Insurance j Company, a corporation, j vs. Ira F. Winans. No. 4951. I Geneva A. Winans. William li. Winans. ! Laura B. Winans. i By virtue of an order of sale to me directed i by the clerk of the Adams Circuit Court of said ! County and State. I have levied upon the ■ J real estate hereinafter mentioned and will expose for sale at public auction at the east | ' door of the Court House in the city of Deca- t | tur. Adams County, Indiana, between the : ■ hours of 10 o’clock a. m. and 4 oclock p. m,, on Saturday. May 4, 1895, ■ the rents and profit?, for a term not exceeding I seven years, of the following described real : | estate, situated in Adams County. Indiana. i to-wit : The north one hundred (100) acres off.of tne i north side of the northeast quarter of section j | thirty (30) township twenty-seven (27) north. I i range fifteen (15) east in Adams county and i I State of Indiana. And on failure to realize therefrom the full : amount of judgment, interest thereon and] costs. I will at the same time and in the same I manner aforesaid, offer for saie the fee simple I of the above described premises. ■ Taken as the property of fra F. Winans, Geneva A. Winans. V illiarn IL Winans and Laura B. Winans, to satisfy said order of sale j this 11th day of April, IS&S. Petek P. Ashbaitchkr, Sheriff. By Daniel N. Erwin. Deputy.

Legal Ad ising. AN K ST ATL. ?. ¥. NT. Report of the condition of the tHd Adams County Bank, at Decatur, in the Slate of Indiana, at the close of its business. March * HFSO. HCKB. Loans and discounts 5362.®* Overdrafts -••'•• Bonds 1/-4. »> • Bankings house H-S** 4*< Furniture and fixture 5............... Current expenses Due from banks M 'Cash on hand 3»i.56b 95.* U 42 Total resources S- 4 -’* ■mm Si UABILITIES. Capitalßstoek paid in '•/“ 30 Surplus fund 2. »>*> '** Discount, exchange and interest.... ~7 I ndivided profits ‘.’LL Dividends unpaid 1.575 IndU de'iM>sitS T 9 lnd’l deposits on iinje SUM? M Total liabilities 5U2.5.7 STATE OF INDIANA, < > County of Adams, f 5 . I. R. K. Allison, cashier ot the Old Adams County Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. \ Subscribed and sworn to before me.\his2 ‘tli day of March, Simeon P. BeattT. Notary Public. TO CONTRACTORS of the letting for construction of the Patten free gravel road. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned engineer and superintendent of the Patten free gravel road in conjunction with the iHiarusof commissi*»ner> ot Adaui’* ••*»!•" > and Jay county, state of Indiana, will, ou the 18th Day of April, 1895, at the auditors office In Jay county, Indiana. pnan‘ed to let to the lowest and l*‘st bidder or bidders, the contract for the furnishing of all • . fi !.c completion of the said Patten free gravel roan, according to plans and specifications ou file with the auditor of each county above named. Bids for the same may l>e made and filed with the auditor of Jay county. Indiana, at any time until 10o’clock a. m. of said day. All bids must be sealed and accompanied by a bond of §s<>o. signed by at least two freeholders of one of the above named counties, and approved by the engineer aud boards of commissioners: conditioned that should the contract be awarded them, they will enter into contract for the faithful pt-rfoi manev of said work. Said road begins at the southwest corner of section thirty-thns-1 township twenty-five (25) north, range fourteen (14) east. Adams county. Indiana, thence running vast on the county line road, between the counties of Jay and Adams, state of Indiana, to the Stateline, a distance of 10. U») feet. The engineer and commissioners reserve the right to reject any or all bids. Abe Bergman. Auditor Jay County. W. H. H. France. Auditor Adams County. John W. Tyndall 24-t8 Engineer.

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