Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1895 — Page 4

?he Zemoaratis jms PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR »1 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. THURSDAY, JULY 25 Clyde Smith, Mercer county's defaulting surveyor, is now serving a two years’ sentence in the Ohio penitentiary. Sentence was parsed on the prisoner Saturday. A POLITICAL Miss Wells should come to the surface in the south, and proceed to England to teach the English people how to hold elections over there. Rioting seems to lie the common order of things there, and they ought to lie taught the beauties of our Austra lian system.

One of the silliest movements of recent years is the proposed boycott of the national bank notes. If it were possible for the movement to succeed the only result would be a reaction upon the heads of the promoters. To remove the large volume of bank notes from circulation by boycott would cause a worse panic than that of 1893. President Cleveland has extended the provisions of the civil service law so as to include the various pension agencies in the United States. The impetus given civil service reform during President Cleveland’s first term has continued until it is being adopted by different municipalities in the country. The true mode of reformation of the government of our great cities is by the merit system. W hen merit is made the test we will have better servants in public office. Such organizations as Tammany will find their influence gone, and hence dissolution will take place. The elections in England the past week illustrate the difference between our political system and that of England. Many prominent liberals were defeated at the elec tions in the early part ofjhe week, but immediately stood for election in another district. One may live in the south part of England and be elected from a district in the north part. If we had had such a system in force last fall some of the leaders upon the democratic side of the house might have tried again in another district. As it is there are hardly’ enough experienced democratic members to make a motion to adjourn. The Horr-Harvey debate at Chicago is no doubt responsible for the recent wind storms. The selection of the windy’ city for the place of meeting was peculiarly appropriate. Mr. Harvey seems to be better informed upon the subject than his opponent and Mr. Horr frequently exhibits his temper. Just how auy of the American people are to be benefited, except the debaters and the publishers of the proposed book, is not clear to the average citizen. The currency question is solved by the busylaborer, for silver and gold, however plentiful, is not coaxed into our hands through idleness. Gov. William C. Oates, of Alabama, says: “Business and times generally bid fair now to become prosperous, if not disturbed ■ by the money question; hence agitation should be left severely alone for the present. As to silver, lam in favor of using all that we can keep on a parity with gold. It makes no difference about the standard and money of final redemption, as long as the law—as it does now—declares that the silver dol laris as much a legal tender as is a gold dollar. We have had it as it is for twenty-two years, and would never have discovered the difference nor found any’ objection! to it had it not been for the panic, hard times, and money stringencyconsequent upon the low pr ces of products, all of which, in my opin ion, were brought about by causes other than our financial system. The free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 would not, under the existing conditions, give the people any re lief, but would, in my judgment, result in such a disturbance of our financial and commercial affairs as to produce a panic. Alabama elects a successor to Senator Pugh next year. I have said for the last five years that I expected to be a candidate to succeed Senator Pugh in 1836. I supported him every time he was a candidate, ’ and the last time he was elected he told me he did not expect to be a candidate again, and would like to see me succeed him, and ever since I have made no concealment of my purpose to be a candidate for the succession next time.”

Nothing has exhibited the staying qualities of the governor of Indiana better than his successful Roby fight. A man who exhibits -uch qualities is a safe man to elect president. In the death of Auditor William 11. H. Erance Adams county loses one of her most progressive and popular citizens, a fact that can lie readily sunnisedwhen it is known that twice he was elected to fill the ; official obligations of county andi tor. He was popular with all classes of our people, and to day the expressions of sympathy and regret are universal. He was gen erally popular -with the democratic party, of which political organization he was an aet ve member, and was ever ready to 1» nd a helping hand towards its success. In this, his store of wisdom will be missed; but none will miss his careful counsel and consideration more than his immediate family, and to them every body extends sympathy.

It was given out from Washington that the publication of Grand Master Workman Sovereign’s boycott against national bank notes attracts a great deal of attention and was very generally discussed as to its effects, if any, upon the condition of the treasury and the' circulation of money anu the payment of obligations. Secretary [ Carlisle said that the boycott would i net affect the treasury department; or its condition. National bank notes, it was stated, as between individuals were not a legal tender and could be refused if offered by ! one individual to another, and declined without in the least impairing the validity of the debt. The same is true of gold and silver certificates, neither of which are legal tender, but simply the representative of a gold or silver dollar which is a legal tender between individuals and between the government and individuals. In case a j national bank note should be dedined by a debtor, all the creditor would have to do to make it available for use would be to present it to the treasury’ for redemption. It would be immediately redeemed by the payment to the holder of a United States legal tender note and the bank of issue notified to either recoup the government by returning to it a legal tender note or retire the national bank note. Treasury officials express the opinion that while a general boycott of national bank notes by labor unions would, perhaps, cause temporary embarrassment, it could have no permanent effect, as stripped of all technical surroundings, it was a boycott against the government itself on the part of a portion of its citizens, which was in itself, they said, an absurdity. Whatever the objections, it was pointed out. that may exist against the national bank system under the present law, they’ can only be remedied by a repeal or modification of those laws and not by a boycott, as an attack on the sy stem, such as that instituted by Grand Master Workman Sovereign, resolves itself into an attack upon the government itself. Hour vs. Harvey. The third day’s debate on “Coin’s Financial School” was devoted to the discussion of the “crime of 1873.” Mr. Harvey maintained that the law demonetizing : silver was passed by corrupt agencies, and Mr. Horr denounced his argument as a reflection on humanity. Mr Harvey showed that a great deal of corruption had been exposed in the congress that demonetized silver, and in the administration at that time. This is historically true, but it is not established that it was more corrupt than other congresses. More people may have been detected and exposed, but this is merely evidence that there were more honest men in congress who had the nerve to expose the scoundrels than there are usually. And what is more against Mr. Harvey’s theory of corruption is the fact that in all the investigations and exposurrs vi tuut coDgrui-s no thing was evua hinted at as to any corruption in the passage of this bill, and in all the research and hunt for evidence in the twenty years I following nothing has been developed to show corruption. No action of any congress has been so thoroughly probed as this, and probed in the lifetime of the men who were members of the congress, and who were desirous of proving fraud and I corruption, and yet not one iota of evidence has been found to prove that money was used to secure the passage of the bill. It is true, however, that a large number of members who voted for the bill have denied that they knew that it demonetized silver. It is true that there is evidence that the French dollar —the proposed dollar equivalent to the French five-franc piece—was surreptitiously dropped from theb ill, but there is no evidence that our standard dollar —the “dollar of the daddies” —was so dropped. There is no evidence that the adoption of the gold standard was surreptitious, unless we may so consider the fact that the bill was nominally a bill for the revision of the mint laws. It was plainly stated on the floor of the house that the bill made gold the s'andard. There is a large amount of

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evidence that the members of that congress did not know much about the money question, and that not one in fifty of them could have told how to demonetize silver if they had been asked. Years had passed since there had been any real consideration of standard money, bimetallism, ratios, or anything of that kind in con-gre-s. Public attention had been turned with intense force to other subjects, apd the only form of currency discussion that was familiar io the congressmen was connected with paper money. Coin was not in common use. The resumption of specie payments was not as yet practically proposed. The question to them was largely an abstract one, and there was nothing in it to awaken fear of serious results to the uninformed and unsuspicious. In that fact lies the real crime of the action. John Sherman has admitted that he had no idea then of the results that were produced by demonetization of silver. Tnis is probably true. But he did know that he was securing a radical change in our coinage system without bringing it before the people, and without calling the attention of congress to that point and explaining what he expected to accomplish by it. He thought he knew more than the people or his fellow-congrtssmen. Three years later he saw that he had made an axs of himself, and made an endeavor to have silver remonetized for the redemption of our paper currency. Two years after he wrote his letter to Mr. Groesbeck, one of our representatives in the conference of 1878, begging for international action to undo the folly he had helped to bring about. He had made the mistake of his life. He had ruined the chance of election to the presidency, which has been the dream of his liie. He began to real ize that fact very shortly after his demonetization bill had become a law As for the rest of the congressmen there is nothing to show that they were controlled by anything but ignoiance and carelessness. Take the case of Mr. Kelley. He denied any knowledge that the bill demonetized silver, and yet he not only introduced the bill in the bouse, but also made a speech in support of it, stating that a double standard was impossible and that it was necessary to make gold the standard. We do not question Mr. Kelley’s honesty. Me simply did not know what demonetization meant. And, ’ considering the numtier of people who artstill insisting that silver has never been demonetized, it is not surprising that congressmen were so ignorant on the subject in 1873 If the world’s money troubles for the past twenty vears have been due to anything but gold monometallist assump tions of wisdom and extended ignorance of the money question, the evidence of it has not yet been produced.—Sentinel.

Legal Advertising. PPOIN'TMENT OF ADMINISTRATOR Notice is hereby given that the under*' ned ; lias been appointed administrator of the estate of Henry Trick, late of Adams county, deceased. The estate is probably solvent. John Thick. Administrator. ' France & Merryman. Attorneys, j July 20. 1*93. 4it3. OF ENUMERATION OF WHITE MALE INHABITANTS IN ADAMS COUNTY. Notice is hereby given that the Township i Trustees of the several townships in Adams I county. Indiana, have made and returned to I the undersigned auditor of said county, their enumerations of the white male inhabitants over the age of twenty-one years, of their respective townships. Notice is further hereby given that said i enumerations are on file in the office of the undersigned auditor, and are subject to the i inspection of the public at said office; and ' the public is hereby invited to make examin- ; at ion thereof, with a view to the correction i of any errors, mistakes or omissions therein. The aggregate number of white male inj habitants over the age of twenty-one years in each township of said county, and the ag- ! gregate num tier in the entire county, accordi ing to the said enumerations and returns, are ■ as follows: I Union Township 270 I Root ” 295 i Preble “ 2fis * Kirkland ‘ 2*j I Washington “ 1342 I St. Marys •* 2*l | Blue Creek “ 246 i Monroe " fifi4 French “ 258 Hartford " 32u Wabash 717 Jefferson “ 263 T0ta15147 Tn witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal tins2oth day of July. \ 1895. (Seal.) W. H. H. France. Auditor Adams County. I 4113 By Irvin Brandy berry. Deputy,

PPUINTMENT OF RECEIVER Perry Robison Amos 8 Gillig. No. Daniel W. Myers. Notice is hereby given that tin- under--signed has been appointed receiver of thr firm of Robison, Giliig & Co., by the Judge of the Adams Circuit Court, in the above- ; entitled cause of action. All parties owing said firm are notified to settle with the undersigned, and all creditors of said firm are notified to file their ' claims w ith the undersigned for adjustment. David Ef.ev. > Receiver. France & Merryman, Mann A Brattv. Attorneys. j July 24.1585 TO NON RESIDENT:* The State of Indiana. Adams County. • Tn the Adams Circuit Court, \ugnst Term. 1 The .Etna Lifelnsur-} ance Company No. 5043. vs. Complaint to foreJohn o ria ns. close mortgage. Katie Orians. J i It appearing from affidavit, filed in the above entitled cause, that John Orians and Katie Orians. the aliovr-named defendants, an non-residents of the State of Indiana, Notice is therefore hereby given the sain John Orians and Katie Orians that they I* and appear before the Hon, Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the third day of September. 1*93. ihe same being the t went let h juridical day of the next regular terra thereof. to be holden at the Court House in the city of I>ecatur. commencing on Monday, the twelfth day of August. A. D. and plead bv answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in their j absence. Witness, my name, and the seal of said court, hereto affixed this [seal] ninth <iny of July. D John H. Lenhart. Clerk. Bv E. Burt Lenhart. Deputy. ' Schurger. Reed \ Smith. Attorneys for Plaintiff. 39w3 EOF HEARING OF DITCH PETITION In the matter of the petition of Sarah J. i Campbell. Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed with the Auditor of Adams county. State of Indiana, and viewers have been :•»>- I pointed who have viewed and reported said ; view, which is on file in my office. The heari ing of said petition upon its merits will lie on Wednesday, the 4th day of Septeml>er, 1*93. the same being the third day of the SeptemImt term. 1*95, of the Board of Commissioners i of Adams county. Indiana. The prayer of said petition is that a ditch bt* constructed on the following route, to I wit: Beginning at a point which is eighteen ; rods east of the southwest corner of the east half of the northwest quarter of section 19. | | township 25 north, range 15 east, in Adams! county. Indiana; thence running in a north- : westerly direction, thence in a northeasterly : direction, thence southeast, thence northeasterly. thence northwesterly, thence in a I southeasterly direction, and terminating iin Indian Creek at a point al>out thirty rods south and twenty rods east of the northwest quarter of section 29. in township '23 north, range 15 east. in Adams county. Indiana; passing through and upon the; j lands of Sarah J. Campbell. Miranda Buck : i master. Sophia Brewster and Martin Laughj lin. j This proposed work will affect the lands of 1 the following persons: Antone Comche. E. ! D. McCullum. James Laughlin. D. B. Ford and .Jefferson township. W. H. H. France. Auditor Adams Comity. ■ 4113 By Irvin Brandyberry. I>eputy. -XT’-OTICE OF HEARING OF DITCH PETITION. i In the matter of the petition of Lucinda E. i I Flemming. Notice is hereby given that a petition has, been filed with the Auditor of Adamscounty, I ! State of Indiana, and viewers have been ap- j I pointed, who have viewed and reported said , view, winch is on file in my office. The hear- I ing of said petition upon its merits will Im* on i • Wednesday, the 4th day of September. 1*93. ' the same being the third day of the Septem- . ber term. 1895. of the Board of Commissioner* • of Adams county. Indiana. The prayer of said petition is that a ditch l I be constructed on the following route, to wit: Beginning at a point which is thirtyi one rods north and fourteen rods east of the j southwest corner of section IS, township 2* north, range 15east, in Adams county. Indiana; thence running north, thence east, thence north, thence west, thence north, thence east, thence in a northeasterly direction, thence in a southeasterly direction, thence in a northeasterly direction, thence I in a northwesterly direction, and terminating in the Frank Gideon ditch, at a point about forty-six rods west and forty rods north of tiie southeast corner of the southwest quarter of section 7, township 2* north, range 15 east, in Adams county. Indiana; passing the lands of Lucinda E. Flemming. Margaret Sullivan, John Weldy et al.. Abra- ' ham Weldy. J. H. Mumma. Mary Ahr and 1 i H. L. Gladen. This proposed work will affect the lands of the following persons: J.D.Stults and Union s township. W. H. H. France Auditor Adams County. 4113 By Irvin Brandyberry, Deputy. I. T. FRANCK, J. T. MERRYMAW. N. P. FRANCE & MERRYMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, IND, i Office—Nos. 1, 2 and 3. over Adams Co. Bank. We refer, by permission, to Adams Co. Bank. A. P. BEATTY J. F. MASI 1 MANN & BEATTY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW , And Notaries Public. Pension claims prose- | cured. Odd Fellows bulldtaij. I 8080 i COFFEE. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rooms over P. O. Decatur. Ind ILF. COSTELLO. i I'll x SICIAN and SURGEON ’ Office on west side of Second Street, over Teveres Hardware Store, Residence <_>n west Third Street, between Monro*? and Ja« kson. Calls promptly attended to day and night. Money to Loan. I have money to loan onthe Loan As>. .elation plan. No fees to he paid by borrowers Can furnish money on a tew days noti<-<- Huv a home and stop paying rent. Low rare <■! interest. Office over Donovan X Bremer camp. Central Grocery, lheatur. Ind. s PAUL HOOPER P — s GEORGE R. DICKERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. ’ , Pensions and Collections a specialty Os- ; fice in tile John C. Hale Building " i _• GENEVA. .... INDIANA. ; John Schuruer. W. H. Reed. Dave E. Smith SCtil RGER. REED& SMITH. 0 ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ■> Money to Loan at lowest rates of interest b Abstracts Os title real estate and collections. - Rooms 1. i and 3 Uelfley block. 38 3 — — j; . ID. H: DEALER IN - Grain, Seed, Wool, Salt, Oil, y Coal, Lime, Fertilizers. Elev-ators on the Chicago & Erie and Clover Leaf railroads. Office and retail store southeast corner of Necond and Jefferson Streets Y our patronage solicited. 1

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