Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 May 1894 — Page 2

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to sit in wide-awake idleness and indulge in profanity, ail on account of the democratic doings in congress. We would advise neither of the above plans for killing time. Rather would we say, put in the time doing what work you can and in resolving to vote the republican ticket at every opportunity.

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NoTW ith stan imno the senate ' unanimously passed the resolution to make a thorough investigation of the serious charges concerning certain senators speculating in 1 sugar trust stocks and an attempt j to bribe certain other senators, the committee appointed to probe for the facts has decided to sit with closed doors. This action has all i the appearance of a “whitewashing” report —('rn u'fonhviUe Journal. Senatorial courtesy will get in its work and that will end the matThat senatorial courtesy has

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kept many a thieving senator out

of the penitentiary.

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The organette tries to get out of its predicament in refusing to publish republican resolutions this year by citing the refusal of the

SIDE : SQUARE. Baxnkk Timks to publish some proj hibition resolutions. The resolu-

TU 17 U V YY I/I? TIM hV ,ions refers to, we presume, were In E DA A A Tilt 11 JlTiO, the oneg 1)asst , d by a f ew represent-

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utives of that party who met in the mayor’s office on February 10 last. The Banxkk Times, with its usual enterprise, sent a reporter to that meeting, and after a long wait, was furnished a copy of the proceed ings, which contained the names of the candidates nominated. Our comment on the convention was as follows:

The mammoth prohibition convention set for tills city Saturday did not materialize that mornlngat the appointed tirae.Thcfact isthere are not many prohibitionists this year, most of them havlnRseen t heerrorof their way and returned to the republican party. The court room was being cleaned out Saturday preparatory to tin* opening of court, and that afternoon at two o’clock a very few men were holdiiiRa meeting in the mayor's oflicc, when they fixed up the following ticket. (Here follows the ticket.) The above is nil that was said

about the meeting, and if the Demorrat calls that a “bitter ami uncalled for attack on the citizens of | Putnam county who believe in the

• ^Parties addressing mitii or correspond-. ...

em e to this office for tin* newspaper depart-1 principles of the movement,” we

incut will greatly ulmplify matters by direct-

imr the same in the It\XNKK Tl MKS, and not lire Willing tO let It Stlllltl til tllllt.

to any individual address. I

raets are stubborn, and we were

Do not forget the republican township primary today.

Still the republican county convention resolutions have not appeared in the democratic papers of Putnam.

The Cincinnati Couniierciat Gazelle says all that is left in the dinner pails of many workingmen are democratic promises, and they are empty.

The township primary struggle is getting warm, and today there will be a general hustling for votes. A heavy vote will be polled, and may the best horse win.

The couiraercial reports show that business is trying its best to revive, but that the process is slow and uncertain on account of the tariff tinkering that menaces all forms of industry.

If Breckinridge held a job in

about right when we remarked that there were not many prohibitionists this year, as it has developed that they were so satisfied with the republican nominees in the city election that they would put out no ticket, notwithstanding one of the democratic candidates nearly wore out his constitution, and, perhaps, his by-laws, in trying to get them to nominate before the time run out. No resolutions were given the Banner Times at that meeting, but they were furnished the Democrat. When they finally were offered us later, then being stale, they were declined. The Banner Times has a peculiar fashion of its own of publishing news when it is fresh, and all it asks is a fair shake at a piece of news, in open convention, and not at the roundabout agency, of a

committee.

As the organette lias gone rambling oil' into side-issues and seeks to ignore the main question, we

the U. S. senate instead of being a ■n • ,

* i will jog it up on its own ground a common congressman his ills would be so small as to be unnoticeable. That great plaster, “courtesy,”

would bring him out of his trouble with colors flying.

Tin: quadruply-revised edition of the Wilson bill has reduced the duty on opium. This will be good news, as there is somewhat of an impression among the common peo-

ple that it will be better to “hit the

pipe " and dream pleasant dreams j which was adopted, over the fumes of the poppy thaniishing piece of news that!

little. Why didn’t it print the well-worded resolutions read in open meeting by the populists at their county convention on Janui ary “T last. The resolutions were to the point and ripped Mr. Cleveland up the back right lively. All the great, fair-minded, resolutionpublishing organette gave them was this: “The committee on resolutions read a lengthy report,

An aston-

Maybe

that was a calamity howl also. The Banner Times had them in type an hour after they were read. We quote a few extracts from those populist resolutions as follows: “We heartily condemn tin* cowardly and treacherous action of Senators Voortiees an I Turple anti Co tigress m a n (ieorge VV. Cooper."

**We condemn the administration of Grover < leveland as un-American, unstatesmanllke ami In the Interests of the capitalists and against the interests ot the millions of honest men and women who make their living by hoiu^t toil."

We condemn tin* extravagance and mismanagement of the public affairs of Putnam county, whereby the rate of taxation has been raisM about twentj -five per cent, higher on the hundred dollars than it has been since the close of the civil war, when the products of the farm are lower than they have been for the past thirty years, many of them falling below the cost of production."

We condemn the order of Hoke Smith, secretary of the interior, wherein the pensionsrs were suspended from the roll after makiuK the proof required by the government and requiring them to make further proof before reinstatement, thus committing an act of injustice by condemning a man tlrst and trying him afterward," The above extracts, no doubt, are additional matters, in the opinion of its editor, the readers of the organette were not “aching to peruse,” and they were seen only in the Banner Times, which gives all the news. The organette had better consider these failings on reporting the minor parties as well as on the major parties before it tries to make capital out of a second handed article which this paper declined, as it had evidently been bottled for the Democrat's especial delectation.

they might turn their attention to a ease recently decided in the circuit court. We refer to the case ot James M. Hester vs. W. A. Bowen, county treasurer, injunction. The finding of the court was that the defendant be enjoined from collecting the taxes in question. There is about .WOOD tangled up in a road matter in south Putnam county that is bothering the democratic officials a gicat deal, as they appear not to know where they are “at" in the matter, and are continually piling up costs against innocent people in an endeavor to extricate themselves. Inasmuch as the or gan and organette do not take kindly to resolutions, they might set their officials right before the county on that Mt. Meridian and Putnamville road tax matter. Just who is to pay that $(>000 is a knotty question.

The Great Store.

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The day of small stores is past, every possible adva n

We quote liberally today from resolutions which have been overlooked by democratic papers hereabouts in their anxiety to give the news.

Democracy is getting the eoun try ready for another issue of bonds. The democrat debt increases.

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Important Kventft at the Capital.—The Latent News.

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The organette, otherwise known as the Democrat, after a month's labored effort, tries to make a defense of its treatment of republican resolutions, and goes into a column tirade against calamity howlers that is amusing. It still refuses to publish the republican resolutions for, as it says, the following reasons: The Democrat has printed a fair report of every republican convention held at Greencastle since February 20, ispg. The set of resolutions adopted by the recent county convention contained nothingstrikingor original, or anything our n-mlers were aching to pel use We dubbbed them “a calamity bowl,” and this phrase exactly described the wonderful production that is giving the Banner Times so much uneasiness. So there was nothing in them the Democrat's readers were aching to peruse. “The unparalleled prosperity 7 of our government and its people while harvesting the benefits of a republican protective policy carefully contrasted with the present condition of uncertainty and depression, which is—as many leaders of the democratic party and the leading democratic papers of the country concede—directly due to threatened tariff and financial legislation,” is, we suppose, nothing to interest democratic readers. The other good but plain statements of the republican platform this year (which the Banner Times up to date has a “scoop” on) are not interesting according to the Democrat. “The long continuation of the democratic party in power in Putnam county has invited evils and practices that are detrimental to the people, and we believe that the time has come when a change is desirable to a majority of the voters of Putnam county,” is a sentiment expressed in those reso lutions that has had a response f roni voters all over this county to such a surprising extent that democracy is at last compelled to make an explanation. Those republican resolutions are of very wide interest, and, owing to the continued refusal of the democratic papers to publish them, we have decided to keep them standing for the edification of democrats who subscribe for or borrow the Banner Tikes in order to keep posted on political matters. They are w 7 orth reading, and the democratic papers are lighting shy of them because their constituents are wavering. No better evidence of this is needed than a column defense of its childish action by the organette. As a quiet newspa-

tage is gained by the consumer in this large

which cannot possibly he ottered by the smaller deal

store

to buy goods cheap they must he bought in

Great Quantities.

The same number of clerks, the same amount of storrent, small increase of insurance and taxes with more system *11 *1 ,1 *-L „ U.y-x* 4-11'.-V C , 4*/~vr , AALJ tYTI'Y ixlllxyr ♦ 1 , 1

l C 1 1 l, Cl I I 1 Cl i 1 . * ^ ^ J will easily do the business of two stores, enabling the lar,-] store to sell stud' at an average of 5 per cent to 10 percer. ]

cheaper and really fare better.

are learning this in Putnam Co.; those who are coir. ! pelled fo make every dollar cover the most territory as to pur chasing power and those sensible people who buy goods! strictly on merit where they are sold at the most favorable prices.

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Perhaps it may be true, as lias been constantly reiterated, that Mr. Stevenson is not particularly friendly towards Mr. Cleveland and his administration, but his selection of the democratic members of the senate committee that today began a star-chamber investigation of numerous charges of crookedness against senators and outsiders, beginning with the cock and Bull story eoncorning an attempt having been made to bribe Senators IIimton, of Virginia, ami Kyle, of South Dakota, to vote against the tariff bill, and including the charges against democratic senators of having speculated in sugar trust stoek ami of having given the sugar trust protection in exchange for its big contribution to the Cleveland campaign fund, makes him appear very friendly indeed towards the administration. For instance, Senator Gray, chairman of the committee, is known as chief of the senate “cuckoos,” and a man who would do more for the administration than any other senator, while Senator Lindsey, tli? other democratic member of tlie committee, i-. in addition to being a cuckoo, known as Carlisle’s man. The significance of these selections will not be underrated when it is remembered that Secretary Carlisle, representing Mr. Cleveland, has been from the first to the last mixed up in all the dealings between the democratic senators and the sugar trust. Senator Mill-, of Texas, has publicly stated that Secretary Carlisle gave the president of the sugar trust a letter of introduction to him and that he refused to see him when lie called to present it. The democrats ask credit for being fair because Senator Allen, of Nebraska, was put upon the committee, but they do not deserve it, as Allen has voted with the democrats on all political questions and is regarded as a democrat, although he calls himself a populist. It is clear that if any thing is shown up by this committee it will be through the energy of its two republican members—Lodge, of Massachusetts, and Davis, of Minnesota. But nothing can lie shown up, unless witnesses choose to tell what they know, the supreme court having some years ago decided that a congressional committee could not compel them either to testify or to produce books dealing with a citizen’s private affairs. That decision is a great consolation to more than one democratic senator just now. Another consoling thing to certain democratic senators was the decision by the committee to make the investigation secret, giving out from day today only such information as Senator Gray may see tit. That means that the newspaper men will have to hustle to find out what is going on in that committee room, as Mr. Gray is one of those non-communicative senators who regard newspapers as a kind of nuisance. An amusing tidbit is going the

rounds, recalling the old couplet, “A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.”

Duringan executive session the other day w hen a discussion was going on over the confirmation of some nominations in which the republicans had no interest a number of them whiled away the time writing verses on the exhibition Senator Turpie, of Indiana, made of himself recently by bis uncalled for personal attack on Senator Aldrich.

do you ask; there can be but one Greatest Store and no matter of whom you make this inquiry there will be but one] answer. Allen’s. It was not r

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per tip to it, we will state that re-

publican resolutions and conven- venerable, Senator Morrill, affee

That this year we would endeavor to mark goods a ] smaller margins than customary with merchants, we are d ing it and the crowds you daily* find in our store affords am j pie proof that the masses have found out that to buy

Dry Groods, Cetrp>ets or STioes.

satisfactorily they must come to

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eluded to hold their ammunition for Men Who Are FlKhtliiK Cooper,

big game, considerable progress ha* ^pecinl to the Indianapolis Journal,

been made and will continue to be made Coll’mbi s, Ind., May 22.—A st j indisposing of the unimportant items one! meeting of the anti-U’onpi of the tariff bill, but the sugar schedule ’ forces in this district has just been

is resrarded as the (liirwest of the hiir I t. i , . ..

is regarded as the biggest of the big he](1i an(l another one i8 ,

game anti when that is reached there is I .. . .. .. .

going to he righting all along the lin J *°r Indianapolis the first week «f

audit will not he surprising if some At the last meeting wet

democrats join with the republicans in trying to strike out the $50,(HH).000 which the proposed amendment to the -ugar schedule will add each year to the cost of sugar consumed in this country. A number of republican senators are prepared to tire some sensational facts at the democratic friends of the sugar

present committeemen of each county. The men now in the ntcflj against Congressman Cooper are i Judge A. M. Cunning, c\ Congn sman Matson, of Greencastle, an 1 Judged. C. Robertson. The tbretJ men most bitter against Cooperl

trust, and it is understood that Senator I lu . rL . are Hon Wilson S. SwerngP

Kill will also have something to say on 1

the same subject that will not make enjoyable reading for either M r. ( leveland or Secretary Carlisle. It is expected that the sugar schedule will be reached by the end of this week.

Hon. J. C. Kalmeyer and Citv Treasurer John Mahoney. It i« I now claimed that the opposit.B forces to Mr. Cooper have 105 del egates, with a drawing force ot twelve, enough to nominate thei^

GettniK Rcinly for a Move.

The Banner Times man was J,nan. The Cooper Guards, a clu

, , , tionatelv called the fattier of the senate,

Uons are this year about the live-! gtarte(l t l„. amusement and soon a half

liest newspaper items afloat, and dozen senators were cudghng their

are eagerly published by all wide-

awake journals.

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As the democratic papers of Put nam positively decline to publish republican convention resolutions, as one of them states because its readers don’t want to peruse them.

brains for rhymes. Senator Mander-

son’s verse was unanimously voted the best. He wrote: “Aldrich is n triple liar," said Turple In a rage. But Aldrich, without show of fire, >aid, “Turple is no sane.” And Into no abuse he sunk In staling Tnrplo sure was drunk. The republican senators having con-

greatly surprised Tuesday morning in visiting the court house to see the records, those musty recoids, those dusty records, those untrusty records, those mysterious books, boxes, pouches, pamphlets and papers, that are stored in the dark, deep recesses of the building, stacked out in the halls in huge piles. As soon as lie recovered his equanimity an investigation was made. Dan Hurst, with ids feet higher than his head, was first interviewed and said he was, like all other good housekeepers, getting ready to leave a clean house after November. Auditor Black wasn’t feeling well but he was overseeing the rubbish cleaned off his books. The others about the house were waiting their turn and said they were going to paint, paper and clean their offices. When informed that they would be saved the trouble of this preliminary work if they would just wait until November, when the republicans will clean out the entire ranch, the officers were surprised but decided to finish the

job, as they hud begun it.

The offices are to be brightened by paint and paper, perhaps water though it wasn’t mentioned, and several democrat contractors are doing the work. The board of health hasn t as yet made a move

in the mutter.

of young democrats here, huvil thrown aside their name. The anti ? < 'ooper forces have already engage: 1 quarters in this city for the cniniu. convention.

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