Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1896 — DEMOCRATIC. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC.

Th 3 Representative and J udicial Conventions will be held at Goodland, Indiana, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1896. The apportionment is one delegate for each 50 votes cast for the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1892. Jasper county will be eatitled to 20 delegates to each of the conventions. L). W. SHIELDS, Chairman Co. Drill. Com. Hon. Frank M. Kistler will adaddress the Democratic citizens of Carpenter and adjoining townships at Remington, Saturday evening,. August 15, 1896. Everybody cordially invited. Alabama 40,000 democratic m&jnrity over the combined forces of the “middle roadsters” and repubn licans.

Summer Resorts Oil the Monon. The Summer Resorts on the Monon Route are more than usually popula. this year. West Baden and French Liok Spri gs, in Or „ ange county, are overflowing with visitors, aid the hotels have all they can do. Paoli, the county seat, has opened a new sauitariu >i, which is well patronized. The waters of the various springs dif*» fer materially m tLeir constituents, and are successfully prescribed for a great variety of maiadies. The woods in the neighborhood abound in game and all the streams teem fish, some of them having been stocked by the government fish commission. All indications point to West Baden (and the neighboring springs) as the great sanitarium and popular summer resort of the west. Cedar Lake, forty miles frem Chicago, is a favorite picnic and outing spot, wtiere the Monon has a fine wooded park of nearly 400 acres. The fishing is first rate. George Spitler is putting up a big stretch of bill boards for Wallace’s bill posters. The long experience of Judge Healy in the Boot and Shoe trade should give him a prestige enjoyed by no other. His stock has been seltcted with care and backed by good judgment, and his prices can not fail to please.

Forty or fifty republicans of Hancock oounty uniting with a Greenfield silver olub last Saturday night indicates that the “gold craze” is gradually dying out Conditions are ranch as tl ey were in the 30g when Jackson lestroyed the money power. Ho was called an anarobiat, a revolutionist. William Jennings Bryan this year will knock out the money changars, the gold hoarders, and the bank syndicates. Sir Richard X. Fowls!, lord mayor of London, -aid i 1885: “If we cat. keep the United States on a gold lusts thirty years lorg r we will »b. solutely ruin tho wheat nndootton industries of that country." Commenting on which the Indianapolis Sentinel Bays: “Wall, they are pretty well ruined as t ly stand today and tho thiity years are not half Rone. The gold bugs are getting ready to ruin everything els* it McKinley’s election in November gives th*m further encouragement in the ruin business Gold monometalism is built forpanio breeding an i business wreokage generally. If any one thinks otherwise wo will be glad to publish his views on the subject. ■ ' "■ Gen. James W. Ridgwny of Brooklyn N. Y , comprehended the full significance of the triumph of the money plank of the St. Louis platform in November wneu he said recently: No better reason exists for the overthrow of the gold party than in the illustration furnished a few days since when the hoarders of go Id in tho East wore able to release $25,000000 of the precious metal from their vaults and supply the same to tho government to prevent another bond issue, wbiob they fearc I might bo fatal to them in this campaign. One mißht ask w v theii patriotism was notfiargo onough to do the same thing in timo tc provent the last bond issue, wliioh increased our public debt $150,060,00(1 and compelled the people to way $6,000,000 interest per year in gold to the very men who object to paying an income tax Congresmau Newlamls, of Nevada, in addressing the silver convention at St Louis, put the flfty-oent-dollar foolery in a nut shell as follows: ‘Let me correct a misapprehension indulged in so largely by the eastern preus as to the purpose of this movement It is not intended to pay debts with flfty-oont dollais or to drive away gold, or to dobaßG our onrrency. Our purpose si npty is, by increasing the coinuge and use of silver, and by giving it equal privileges with ?old, to raise its value, and by diminishng the strain on gold whioh gob: monometalism has caused to take away its unjust appreciation, aud thus by pulling up tin value of silver and puFlug down the value of gold to restore tho old ratio so that sixteen ounces of silver will he worth (in bullion as well as in coin) one ounce of gold. Thus the old unit of value—the dollar—based on both metals instead of one, will be restored, and we shall haves gold dollar worth 100 cents in silver and a silver dollar worth 100 cents in gold.”

Last week there were several notable desertions from the MoKinley gold bag aggregation. Among them was Prof. Kidpath, one of the most eminent and highly intelligent soholars and historians of bis day and generation; then followod the Hon. A. F. Snirts of Noblesville, an oldtime Bepublioan ol many years’ experience; Judge Eggleston’s (of Terre Hautef defeotion was another notable occurrence, From Greenfield comes the announcement that between forty and fifty republicans had deolared for Mr. Bryan and united with a new sliver olub organized there Saturday night. A republican gentleman from a strong republican county recently declared that the rrvolu ion in public sentiment there was frightful to those who did not sympathize with it. His opinion was that not less then 500 republicans had determined to vote against McKinley and gold -buggery hnd that if the hegira rrom the republicans was n t prevented by some mean that the entire party would be under the demoevatio (lag long before November. A Bryan club was organized at Canton, the home of McKinley. Saturda/ night, a number of republicans adding to the membership and participatingi u the proceedings Tr e Wall street b nk syndicates are furnishing the government with gold to pn vent another bond sale before the election. Tt.ey exchange gold for greenbacks and these same greenbacks can be used at anytime to drain the gold reserve. Commenting on this condition of affairs the Indianapolis Sentinel sayr: “As to soundness, no nation on enrth has so unsound a spstem as the Unitod States. It hae not only all the natural evils of the gold standard, but also the evils of a'load of credit money, half of whijh is payable on demnnd, which gives to bankersfand brokers tho power to raid the treasuiy at will. At presontrheybave assumed the role of protectors of the treasury and are demonstrating that it is in their power to sustain tho credit of the goverment at will. To talk of the soundness of a money system under which the credit of the government an . the busines of the country is aßsolutely at the mercy of a syndicate of bankors and brokers is an absurdiiy. Such a condition is an abrogation of the constitutional provision that ‘congress shall bave power to coin money and regulate the value thereof Those bankers and brokers can destroy the legal valne of money ia twenty-four bears if they want to do so. Ihere is no soundness in such a system, and no other nation on earth that makes pretensions to enlightenment maintains such a systemIt is a disgraceful and humiliating condition, which would be completely removed by tho advption of the free stinage of silver."

Hon. Leonard Ithon?, Belletonte, Penn’a-, master of the stati grange, chairman of the executive committee of the national grange and chairman oi the legislative committee, who is fully informed on the silvei sentiment among the farmers everywhere, in a recent interview said: “The republicans are entirely

too self-reliant and over-oonfident. They do not realize wbat tremenilous inroads into their party is being made every dav. The farmors composing the grange will be almost a unit for free siuer, and even outside the organization the great majority will cast their votes for Bryan and Sewad aud the Chi'* cago platform The sentiment is not oostined to agriculturists, but is finding hundreds of advocates among tho largest manufacturing centers in the eastern states, among I usiness men and men in all the various professions.” He further predicts that the feel tug will co tiuue to increase from now on until November, aud that the democratic nominees will be elec e<l by one of the largest majorities ever given a national ticket.

The tenor of thespecialsduring the week are as follows: Williamsport, lud. Hun. W. P. Rl'oute a prominent Republic can lawyer and ex-member of tho legislature, addressed a crowded house on the Biver question. Ho delivered a very instructive speech aud stated that he would vote, for the first time in his life, this fall for Brvan aud Bewail and the white metal. He could not accept the gold bug plank in the republican platform .... W. L. ItabOurn, another life long republican and prominent lawyer also gave a short talk and Bevere y arraigned the St. Louis convention for their platform, and said he would support Bry an uud Bewail... .Chas. Bryant, a leading real estate man, aud a life-long republican, publicly expresses himself as in favor of the white metal, and J. li. Hunter, re 4 * publican exsdoputy sheriff ia /aoother for Bryan and Bewail. Newcastle, Aug. 4—A Bryan silver club was organized here last night atuid the greatest enthusiasm, a,d starts out with nii ety ■members, nineteen of whom were formerly straightout republicans. Announce similar to tue above, of same (late, comes from Buler, Kiolimoud, Ewing, Muuoie, Vincennes, Bouth Bend and ojther localities. All speak of ldrgfr accessions from the republics rank**