Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1896 — Page 1

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ADDiaow Pabxiboh President G»O. K. IIOLLINGSWOBTH, Vice Proeiddent. Emmit Ji. Hollikgswobth, Cashier. THE ind. Directors: Addison Parkison, J&mes T. Randle, John M. Wasson, Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. Thia bank is prepared to trans act a genera) Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned snd good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. , v sar At the old stand of the Citizens’ State Bank John Maiiivbe, Jay Williams, President, Cashier. Farmers’ Bank, Bbnbbblabb. . - - Indiana. Receive Deposits, Buy and Sell Exchange. Collections made and promptly remitted.

Pioneer meat market C BEEF, Pork, Veal, Mutton, Sausage, Bslogna, etc , sold in quantities to suit purahaters at the LOWEST PRICES. — None but the best stock slaughtered. Everybody is invited to call. THE HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR Good Cattle, J. J. EIGLEBBAOH. Proprietor. Th Indianapolis Daily and Weekly Sentinel circulation has reached immense proportions by its thorough service in receiving all the latest news all over the State and from its dispatches from foreign countries. Every reader in Indiana should take a State paper, and that The Sentinel. LARGEST CIRCULATION Of any Newspaper IH THE STATE. • »' * > TEBKB 07 SUBSOBIPTIOW. Daily one year - - 16.0 Weekly one year • LO The Weeklv Edition Has 12 PAGES! SUBSCRIBE NOW And make all remittances to The SENTINEL CO Indianapolis, Ind. Tbit paper will with the weekly edition o 4 The Indiana State Sentinel for $2 00.

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UFtOleCei, T.J.AeCOT. 4.1. HOFIIIS. Fnnivst. Cashier. that Cashier. A. McCoy & Co.’s The OUest Bant in Jasper County ESTABLISHED 1854. Transacts a General Banking Bu ness, Buys Notes and Loans Money on Leng or Short Time on Personal or Rea._j Estate Security. Fair and Liberal Treatment is Promised to All. Fobkign Exchange Bought and Sold Interest Paid on Time Deposits YOUR PATRONAGE IS SOLeCITED. ~B® Patrons Having Valuable Papers May Deposit Them for Safe Keeping. L. A- BUST WICK, ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. Maps and Blue Prints OF LAND DRAINAGE, Map Work and Platting a Specialty RIN6SELAEB IND. Office in Odd Fellow’s Temple.

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RENSSELAEB JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 25 1896

Simon P. Thom on, Band J. Thompson. Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. Thompson & Brother BENSSELAEB, INDIANA. x®" Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collectob ami Abstractor. SS~ We devote particular attention to paying taxes, selling and leasing lands. Janies AV. D out hit, AtUrnov-at-Law and lotary i'uluir. 8W Office front* room, up-stairs, over Laßue Bro’s Grocery store, Rensselaer Indiana. Ralph AV . JVLai’shall, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Practices in Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial itten ion given to settlement of Decedent's Es tates, Collections, Conveyances. Justices’ Cases, etc. jW Office over Chicago Bargain Store, Rensselaer, Indiana.

Charles E. Mills, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, • Rensselaer, Indiana. Pensions, Collections and Real Estate. Abs racts carefully prepared, Titles examined. WFarm loans negotiated at lowest rates. Office up stairs over Citizens’ Bank. Ira w. Yeoman, Attorncy-at-Law, Real Estate ami Collecting Agent, Remington, : Indiana. I. B. Washburn. E. 0. tovsii. Wushbui’n «&- Engli.Mli Pliyaiclaus <& Smtteuxis £en««e/aer, Ind. Dr. Washburn will rr e special ’ttention to diseases or .l.ye, Ear, Nose Throat end Chronic Diseases. Dr. English will give special attention to s urgery m all departments, and General k didoes. Office in Leopold’s Corner Block, over Ellis & Murray s. Telephone 48. AV wIIa r: sei I, M. I>., Houmpathic Physician A? burgeon. Rensselaer, Ind. Bsr Chronic Diseases a Specialty. ' T S» Office in Makeever’s New Elock.

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Whenever clear vision at a proper distance becomes difficult, it is proper to seek the aid of glasses. They become to the overburdened muscle of the eye as much of a necessity as food to the empty stomach, or a enne or crutch to him who has not the full power of his legs. There is no advantage in delaying their use. - Call on or mail a postal card to CHAS. VICK, Optician, and set a perfect fit, ■with the best lenses in the world, at hard time pi ices, the best that money can buy, Rensselaer, Ind. |

•A FIRM ADHKBENCK TO CORRECT PRINCIPLES.”

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

iSor President, WILLIAM J. BRYAN, Of Nebraska. For Vice-President, ARTHUR SEW ALL. ‘ Ok Maine. State Ticket. Governor -B F. SHIVELY. Lieut.-Gov.—JOHN 0. LAWLER. Appellate Judges, First District—EDWlN TAYLOR. Second “ FRANK E. GAVIN. Third “ THEODORE DAVIS. Fourth “ ORLANDO LOTZ. Fifth “ GEORGE E. ROBS. State Secretary- S. M. RALSTON. State Auditor - JOS. T. FANNING. State’ireas’ier- MORG. CHANDLER. Att’y General- J G. Me UTT. Sup. Court Rep.-HENRY WAR RUM. Supt. Pub. Inst.—W. B. SINCLAIR. State Statistician—o. 11. DOWNEY. For Congress— Tenth District, MARTIN T. KREUGER. Democratic County Ticket. Treasurer— AMMON BEASLEY. Recorder—JUDSON J. HUNT. Sheriff—FßANK FISHER. Surveyor—ELWOOD SPRIGGS Coroner—Dß. POTHIUSJE. Commissioner, Ist Dist. Wm. COOPER. • 2d " J NO. STILLMAN

NV. 15. Sinelair, .4 !'v7' ■■■..■■ • V;;.J X: County Superintendent of Starke county. candidate for State. Superintendent, was in our city Tuesday evening and Wednesday renewing acquaintances. Mr. Sinclair once lived in Jasper county, and taught fwo years in Kankakee township. He is a graduate and post-grad-uate of Purdud University, also a graduat of the Northern Indiana Normal. He was two years a student at the Cook County Normal. He is very much encouroged with Democratic prospects. Jack Gowdy’s advocacy of Palmer <fc Buckner was verv affecting from his standpoint.

Mrs. J. W. Paxton has returned home from a short visit with her sister Mrs. Edward BaecJi of Indianapolis. . - T , *• ♦• - -- Summer Resorts On the Monon. The Summer Resorts ou the Monon Route are more than usually popula. this year. West Baden and I ranch Lick Spri gs, in Or. ange county, are overflowing with visitors, ai d the hotels have all they can do. Paoli, the county seat, has opened a new sanitaria i, which is well patronized. The waters of the various springs diS fer materially intteircoostitnents, ' and are successfully prescribed for i a great variety of maladies. The woo is in the neighborhood abound : m game and all the streams teem fish, some of them having been stocked by the government fish 1 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, where the Monon has a fine wooded park of rfearly 400 1 acres. The fishing is first rate.

SILVER THE SHIBBOLETH

Reorganization of Indiana Democratic Committee and Plans Completed Fora ThoroughGoing Campaign. ■ V' PARKS M. MARTIN, CHAIRMAN. The Democratic State central committee met Saturday morning at 11 o’clock and the matter of selecting n chairman to succeed Sterling It. Holt was. immediately taken up. Nearly a dozen names were considered, but after a full discussion of the situation, and before a vote was taken, it was apparent that the unanimous wish of the committee was that Purks M. Martin, committeeman from the Second district, should take the reins and conduct the campaign. Mr. Martin signified his Willingness to accept tire duties and lie was elected chairman by a unanimous vote. Following the work of the committee there was a conference of a number of leading Democrats and allsignified t h< ir enthusiastic desire to assist the chairman and the committee in every way possible. James Murdock of Lafayette arrived on a morning train and was with the committee in the arrangement of the work. Ohairmau Martin later in the day announced the appointment of tho following campaign committee which will assist him in tho work and which will meet as tho occasion may require: Governor Matthews, Mayor Taggart, John E. Lamb of Terre Haute, Janu s Murdock of Lafayette and D. F. Allen of Frankfort. In addition to this committee Allen W. Clark was selected to take charge of the literary bureau and beginning his work at once. Mr. Clark will bo at the committee rooms constantly during tho campaign and will conduct the bureau in a vigorous manner. Chairman Martin's A<l<li'<<hh. Chairman Martin has issued the following address, which explains itself: “To the Democracy of Indiana: “Selected unanimously by tho member's of the Democratic state central committee, and by tho request of the candidates upon the state ticket, to the position of chairman of tho committee, I announce my acceptance of tho same and my assumption of official duties as such. “The change in the chairmanship has occasioned no interruption in the campaign, and has been made in regular accord with the usages of the party. Tho organization of the party, both in the state and counties, is in good condition. My best endeavors shall be used to aid and perfect tho same in every way until the close. “Tho Democratic cause is on the open highway to success. The principles of the Chicago platform have commended themselves in the highest manner to the people of Indiana. Accessions to our ranks, to our aid and from all sides are more numerous than can be rated, and these are the surest manifestations of public faith and confidence. All persons of whatever political parties and societies, who sympathize with us in this groat contest, are earnestly and, sincerely invited to co-operate with us in the conduct and labor of tho campaign. “The coercion of corporations, tho bribes of political corruptionists, the tricks and devices of tho gold standard hirelings cannot accomplish our defeat. They are and will be exposed, detected and overthrown. This is peculiarly a campaign in behalf of the people. I have that faith in the justice of our cause, and high hope of its success, that I pledge my most earnest effort to secure a victory. I will need tho aid of the Democracy of the state, and I appeal to all Democrats for their cordial, loyal and united support.

“Organized effort continued and faithfully presevered in will bring to our cause a victory as certain as it will be overwhelming. Pabks M. Martin, “Chairman Democratic State Central Committee.” Universal Approval. The selection of Mr. Martin, who Is an original silver man, met with unanimous approval. He has been since his election to the committee, one of its strong members, and has gained the respect of all with whom he has been associated. He has unusual executive ability and is a fairminded, conservative man with fine discernment and judgment. The selection was awaited with considerable interest, and, when announced, was received with satisfaction. All expressed themselves as pleased. In view of the general satisfaction with which the selection of Mr. Martin was received the work of completing the details of the organization went on with renewed interest and enthusiasm. , The members of the committee departed highly gratified witli the result and the general expression was that the work will now proceed without the suspicion of friction and with all interests united for the success of the ticket. The meeting further developed the fact that there is not a single gold standard man on the committee, all being heartily in favor of the Chicago platform and ticket. There is an unanimous belief that the state will go Democratic, and the committee is pushing the work with the inspiration born of the confidence of success.

Every workingman who think* at all knows that if gold is forced up and prices down wage* must follow price* a* low as they go. In the Intereat of Economy. The election of Mr. McKinley might in one sense be economy. Congress could dismissed and we oould get our laws tu the British parliament direct.

CHURCH EXTENSION.

EMBARRASSMENT OF THE WORK UNDER THE GOLD STANDARD. I Rot. Dr. A. J. Kynett, of Philadelphia, Who Hao Charge of the Methodist Church Extension Fund, Saya the Work Bum Been Seriously Hindered by the Dl*. u<>e of Silver. Advocates of the gold standard, in their attempts to array the church on their side of the financial issue, are I promptly met by the managers of | church enterprises themselves in refu- | tatlon of their claims as to how church wi rk would be disastrously affected by th free coinage of silver. We take t h sure in reproducing in tills connection the following article from the Itev. Dr. A. J. Kynett, of Philadelphia, who han charge of the Church Extention work of the Methodist church throughout the country. The article Is taken from Christianity in Earnest, which is published by the church for the special purpose of aiding tlui work of church extention. •‘Churchps Affected by Silver Their extension work seriously interferred with." In a heated political campaign all parties gather all sorts of arguments in support of their views. This is well for an "educational campaign,” as intelligent people will be thereby assisted to right conclusions. This requires, however, that when anything unauthorized or false appears It should ba promply challenged. An article, under the above heading, draw inc, . ,e churches in for partisan uses ha: been going the rounds of tbo papers. We now ilnd It quoted, with Implied approval, in Zion’s Herald, of Aug. 2'i, from the New' York Hun of Aug. 22d. Jt is too long to quote, but wo feel culled upon to refer to certain passages in it. It rays: "Tile Methodists have about $1,000,000 which Is used for church extension throughout the country, under the direction of Rev. A. J. Kynett, of Philadelphia. This money is loaned on mortgages on church edifices, throughout the country, at a low rate of interest. Much of this mondy is loaned In the west, and the struggling new churches have,through the hard times which have followed the agitation for free silver, in many instances, been unable to meet their mortgage obligations. The result has been that the work of the church extension has been greatly hindered, and the mission fund will have to remaih idle to tide the new churches over this distressing period. The churchmen have not been at a loss to place the blame for this condition of affairs where it belongs, on the free silver agitators. • » » • of course the proposition to pay one-hundred-cent debts with flfty-three-cent dollars is a moral question which might well arouse the FeMgtous element of the nation In opposition.”. Similar statements are made as to the church edifice fund of the'Baptist Home Mission society; also the Presbyterian Board of Missions. The impression sought to be made is that the free allver agitators are, by these churchmen, held responsible for the embarrassed cenditlons referred to.

Th<W in charge of the church funds can answer for themselves, or allow the statements to pass unchallenged. On questions of fact, as related to Methodist church extension, I speak officially. In matters of opinion, on which persons composing the management may differ, I speak only for myself. On questions of fact I have to say that our treasurer’s reports for years past indicate no great change In the condition of churches borrowing, until within the last four years, and, with the exception of that period, the difficulty alluded to has been of gradual growth. There is no greater acuteness of the trouble perceptible as a result of "free silver agitation.” The Interest received on loans was greater in 1895 than in 1894 and the same is true of the amount of loans returned, and the present Indications render It probable that the receipts of loans returned and of interest during 1896 will be about equal to those of 1895, and in excess of those of ISM. I find, In the facts shown by the treasurer’s report, absolutely no justification for the statement that "the blame for this condition of things belongs with the free silver agitators." Now, as to questions of opinion, I speak solely for myself. ’ The difficulty with our Methodist churches, including those Indebted to us for loans, that has resulted In the serious embarrassment of missionary. Church Extention and other benevolent work, arises out of the great reduction that has taken place within the last twenty years in the value of farm lands, and farm products and the paralysis of manufacturing and mining industries throughout the country. Churches indebted to our loan fund are chiefly in farming, manufacturing and mining communities, and of course, suffer in their ability to pay debts or make benevolentcontributlons. Whatever may have been the cause this great reduction it has been coincident with the disuse of silver and the establishment of a single gold standard. This general condition Is, at the same time, the cause of our embarrassments, and of the free silver agitation. It Is an outrageous and cruel wrong to accuse directly or by implication, the great body of the people thus embarrassed and seeking relief, with dishonesty, or with a disposition to repudiate any obligation, personal, corporate, or of the state or nation. To demand payment of old obligations in money of a new and higher standard of value Is worse than Shylock for it is not "so nominated in the bond.” These debts are all payable in "coin” or in "lawful money of the United States,” and the creditor has no right to demand payment in gold. When, in 1893, we were constrained to borrow $50,000 to lend distressed churches, five out of six of the money lending corporations to which we first applied wanted obligations payable in coin. We simply answered, "Gentlemen, lawful money of the United States is good enough for us, and ought to be for you. We will give no gold coin obligations.” Such we have never asked, and never will. "To coin money and regulate its value" Is the constitutional right of the American people, by them vested in congress, and should not be Invaded by private contracts or otherwise. f on questions of policy, or the best possible relief from existing conditions, Iwe think and let think. We make no i partisan plea. Our plea is for charity, 1 thoroughness, honesty and courage.

NUMBER 38

Neither partisan clamor, nor abusive epithet, nor self-assumed and self-as-serted honesty, soundness, or anything of the kind, should weigh a feather with intelligent and patriotic American citizens. The partisan slogan “sound money," "honest dollars” is a bald begging of the question and an offense of millions of men as honest as the sun ever shone on. The intensity of factional and partisan spirit is truely a revelation of the magnitude of the Issue and of the interests Involved. Honest money must mediate Impartially between debtor and creditor. The terms and history of the promise to pay must have due recognition. If the creditor, after the relation is established. acquires control of gold bullion he has no right to ask that coinage be limited to gold. If the debtor acquires control of sliver he has no right to demand freer coinage of silver than existed when his debt was incurred. The law of Immutable righteousness, therefore, requires that the government, under which the relation of debtor and creditor exists, shall “coin money and regulate its value." Money so coined and regulated, whether gold or stiver or both, is "sound” and ’•honest money” and neither debtor nor creditor can justly complain of a law Which makes it legal tender for debts. So far as the administration of our church extension work Is concerned we shall do our best, under the unavoidable difficulties, and will give those indebted to our loan fund the best possible opportunity to meet their obligations. We will most gladly receive in full payment of principal and Interest the so-called “llfty-three-cent dollars," or any other lawful money of the United States. A. J. KYNETT.

THE VICIOUS CLERGY

MR. BRYAN HAULS A CLASS OF PREACHERS OVER THE COALS. He Declare* They Are Maligning the Poor and Degrading tho Pulpit When They Denounce the Common People iu Annrohlet*—The Church aud the Gold Standard. Raleigh, N. C„ Hept. 18.—Candidate Bryan completed a great day's labor in Nash's park here last night by making a speech in condemnation of those preachers who are degrading the pulpit by espousing the cause of the dishonest money sharks against silver. He said: "I could stand any appeal made by the advocates of the gold standard to almost any class better than an appeal made to the preachers and teachers of religion. If there Is one thing that the church people of this country could afford to array themselves against it Is the gold standard as it is being advocated by the American people at thia time. [Applause.] And yet the Republican party Is appealing to church people to take their place on the side of the gold standard. “How things have changed in the last 1,800 years! Look at the people who head the gold standard propaganda In the United States. Look at the bondholding class and the money changers classes, the brokerage classes of New York, who are trying to fasten a gold standard upon the people of this country—not openly, but secretly and In disguise, and then turn back 1,800 years, when the meek and lowly Savior threw the same kind of people out of his temple because they had made his home a den of thieves (great applause), and then think that these people come and appeal to the ministers of the gospel and the church papers to save them from the wrath to come. [Laughter and applause.] "My friends,when certain ministers of the gospel denounce the great mass of people who stand behind free coinage: when these ministers have denounced these advocates of free coinage and have taken their places upon the side of these great aggregates of wealth, I remind them that when the Savior was here it was the common people who heard him gladly—these very people whom these ministers today call anarchists and socialists. [Great applause.] "My friends, when I find—there are not many of them, but they are quite ■ conspicuous—when I find these men casting their lot upon that side and exhausting abusive language in their description of the great masses of the people of this country, I feel like saying to them that if they will take their chances with Dives, I will risk my chances with Lazarus. [Great applause.] This money question is a question which concerns every one of you and you have a right to consider what has been done and what will bo done and then decide whether you want to support the present financial policy or not. When prices are falling and money rising a man can better afford to lock his money up in a vault and gain the rise rather than invest his money in property and risk a loss In the value of the property. "You are making the property not worth having, and everybody is trying to turn property into money. And while the gold standard lasts that condition must remain and times must be hard, and hard times mean more idle men, and more idle men means more destitute men, and more destitute men means at last more criminal men: and yet the gold standard men appeal to the ministry to Increase crime." [Great applause and cheering.]

Mr. Stevenson Will Preside.

Vice President Stevenson has Informed Secretary Gardner of the Association of Bryan clubs that he wil accept the association’s invitation to preside at the club convention at St. Louis on Oct. 3. The club officials now count upon an attendance of 10,000 delegates.

A New Job.

Visitor—Where is your living skeleton nowadays? Museum Manager—Out working for McKinley. He sits on the platform at Republican speakings as a Mexican laborer.

Nothing but Money.

Mr. Hanna Is now using money and oratory in the west and oratory and money In the east—and principally money.—Nashville Sun.

Palmer Isn't.

It is said that Palmer was a Democrat before Bryan was born. But Bryan Is still a Democrat.—San Francisco Examiner. Hanna's Hessians have gone into camp, but Bryan is crossing the Dela- —