Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Page 1

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Frank Foltz. Charles G. Spitle Harfy K. Korrie. FOLTZ, SPITLER & KIJRRIF, (Successors to Thompson Sc Bro.) Law, kl Mill, team, ilstrwls Si L mi gar Only set of Abstract Books in the County. Rensselaer. • - Indiana. attorneys-at-law, RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. ser Office second floor of Leopold’s Block, cornei Washington and Vanßens. selaer streets. Paotice in all the conrts, purchase, se)' and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer 8., L. Sc 8. Association ar.d Rensselaer Water, Light and Poorer Company. C. W. Hanley. ?• Hartley &- Hunt, Law, Realty, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Rooms 5 and 6 Forsythe Block, Rensselaei, Indiana, r~ • ' --'O-=^ Wm. B. Austin, LAWYER AND ATTORNEY FOR THE L N A Sc C, Ry., and Rensselaer W L &P- Company. sarOffice t ver Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer - Indiana

James W - Douthit, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. sar Office, front loom up-stairs over Fendig’s store, Rensselaer, Indiana. I*. s. Dwiggins, COUNSELOK-AT-LAW. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. I have recovered my health and as ain entered upon the practice of law. Call and see me. Office in Mnkeever’s bank building. .T. T_j, Duvall, attobney-at-law. * All business of the profession thoroughly and careiully executed. Money to loan on almost any terms. Real Estate bought and sold. Collections promptly attended to, and abstracts cart fully prepared. First door east of P. 0. upstairs Charles E. Mills, attorney-at-law, Rensselaer, Indiana, ensions, Collections and Real Estate. Abstracts carefully prepared, Titles examined. . A®"Farm loans negotiated at lowest rates. Office up stairs in Odd Fellows Hall. Ira. Wm Yeoman* Attorney-at Law, Real Estate and Col looting Agent, Remington, Ind. I. B. Washburn. • E. C. English. Waslkbrtx-n English *»RvslciauS &Surge«T» B iientsriaer Ind Dr. Washburn will givo speoial attention to dieeosesof Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat nd Chxonlc Diseases. Dr. English will give special attention o surgery in ail departments, and Gen iral Medioinf 8. , Office in Leopold s Corner Block, over fiUie Sc Murray’s. Telephone 48.

VT W Ilai-tsell, rvi. Bomsoputhic Physician tc Surgeon. Rensselaer, jlnd. ns? - Chronic Diseases a Specialty. “®* Office in Makeever’s New Block. C- E. Powellj M. X> -? PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Will be at office from 2 to 3 p. m-, Sundays. Calls promptly attended. . Office over Commercial State Bank.— Residence one block north of school phone 60. Residence phone.Bl v22n13 _ ' • • ~ John Makeeyer, Jay Williams, President. Cashier. Farmers’ Bank, Bensselaer, Indiana, Beeoeive Deposits, Buy and Sell Exchnnge, Collections made and promptly remitted. J. W. Horton, Dentist. All dißldSSr <of Tee b and Gums carefully treartwi. Filling and Crowns a spe lialty. Office over Post Office, Eonssel wi, Ind ana A..J. KNIGHT, Painter —AND — Pangr - BfijTOnly the Bwit Wo?k done. ATIBFA OTIONGKjtAR ANT’D! Bensselaer. Indiana ’

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WRIGHT, Undertaker & eibalmeß KSXSRSLABR - - ISDlfm Calls promptly responded to day or night. Addison Parkison President Geo. K. Hollingsworth, Vice President. Emmet I . HoLLiNOSwrBTH, Cashier. THE (?0M MERGML J/,T/ITK BANK OF RENoBicLAER. IND. Directors: Addison Parkison, James 3T. Randle, John M. V, asson. Geo. K. Hollingsworth and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank ie prepared totransact a general Banking Business. Interest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of interest. A share of your patronage is solicited. At the old stand of the Citizens’Stateßanb ALFMoCOI, T. J. JlctOY, A. R. nOPKIAS," Prosidejif. . Cashier. Ass’tCashier A. McCoy & Co.’s EIII, RENSSE AER i IND. 11l esi Mi In Jasper Comity ESTABLISHED 1854. Transacts a General Banking Eu ness, Buys Notes and Loai s Money onLcng or Short Time on Personal or Rea Estate Security. Fair and Liberal Treatment is Promised to All. Foreign Exchange Bought and Solo Interest Paid on Time Deposits YOim PATRONAGE IS SOLeCITED. Having Valuable Papers Them for Safe Keeping."®# HUGH L. GAMBLE, City Engineer, Maps and Blue Prints OF v. iii naif. LAND DRAINAGE, Map Work and Platting a Specialty Rensselaer Ind. Office. Room No. 7, Forsythe Building hootl'^^T KllflE J. F. BRUNER, Proprietor. The only Hotel in the City with Office and Sample Rooms on First Floor. flSHßates $2 00 per Day. Have 'Brown Bus for the conveyance of passengers to and from trains

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

STATE TICKET. SAMUEL M. RALSTON, Secretary of State, i JOHN VV. MINOR, i Auditor of State. TOEN G. M’NUTT, Attorney GeneraL HENRY WARRCM, Clerk of Supreme Court. W. B. SINCLAIR, Snperiutendent Public Instruction. JAWfiES S. GUTHRIE, State Statistician. EDWARD BARRETT, State Geologist. JUDGES OP SUPREME COURT. LEONARD J. HACKNEY, Second District. JAMES SI’OAIUj, Third District. TIMOTHY E. HOWARD, Fourth District. JUDGES OF APPELLATE COURT. EDWIN TAYLOR, First District. C.' J. KOLLMEYER, Second District. EDGAR A. BROWN, Third District. WILLIAM S. DIVEN. Fourth Dlstrlot. JOHANNA KOPiir.lt B, Fifth District. DISTRICT TICKETS TENTH DISTRICT For Congresi—JOHN ROSS, of Jippecanoe County For Joint Hepr ,< nt* : •■Lake-Jasper mviD H .HO, aN. of Jasper ; cly COUNIY —— C’erk—JOHN F, MAJOR, I/JVuditor- GEORGE O. STE/dBEL. MAKIONI ADAMS. r^&Ueriflf—WM. o. HUSTON. F Purveyor -DATID E. GARRIOTT. For Coronor—P. F. POTHUSJE, Commissioner,. Fiist District—- „ F M. HEESHiIAN. Commissioner, Secoud District - LUCIUS STRONG.

“the continuance of the present gold standard in the United States IS NECESSARY TO THE SUFREMACY c4l England’s oommerci’l dominion over the world.”— London (England) Ttmes. The effort to pull wool over tLe *-yep of intended victims most genra ly results in failure.

Rensselaer Jasper County. Indiana Saturday October I £B9B

STATE DEBT FINANCIERING

Democracy Has Saved Hundreds of Thou«ands of J Dollars to the Taxpayers of Indiana.

Bankers, Corporations, Railroads, Eipn pelted to Bear Their Share of ‘ Democratic The financial condition of Indiana prior to 1891 was a source of alarm to its thoughtful citizens, a- condition resulting from the simple fact that the financial resources of th e state were not utilized. Taxation was not only unequal to expenses, but was grossly inequitable, not only because assessments were greatly below cash values, but in addition failed utterly to reach millions of property whioh contributed no revenue at all to the state. To remedy this evil and thereby secure ample revenue to pay the expenses of the state government, and reduce the foreign indebtedness of the state, was the prime object in view when the Democratic legislature passed the act concerning taxation, approved March 6, 1891. It is not required that the numerous provisions of the law should be either mentioned or discussed in this connection more than to say that the revenue power of the law provided for the finding and the assessment, of the property of the citizens of the state at its “true value”—and the provision of the law to enable the assessor to ascertain the clos- i est approximation of “true values” and the act went into effect “from and after ! its passage.” To show the immediate | benefits accruing to the state by the enactment of the law by a Democratic \ legislature, the following official figures j are submitted, giving taxables in 1890 I and in 1891, and showing that under the ! operation of the Democratic revenue j legislation taxables increase < 1,960,- 1 850 as follows: Increase from It ;0 to ! 1891, $897,531,851; from 1891 to 1892, i $12,182,027; from 1892 to If Ho 872,- j ”185, and from 1895 to 1890 ,-■ • >0,706; a total of $451,220,509. For the years 1804 and 1395 the taxables on the duplicate decreased $16,250,719, leaving a net increase over 1890 of taxes amounting to $434,936,850. The abstract of taxables for 1897 and 1898 has not been published, hence any gain or loss that may have accrued is not included. In 1890 the rates of taxation upon the three principal items of revenue were as follows: General fund, 12 cents on the ! $100; state school, 16; benevolent insti- I tutions, 6; total, 34.. These were the 1 rates for 1891 and 1892. In 1893 a reduction of rate was made, as follows; General fund, 10; state school, lS benevolent institutions, 5; total, 28; total reduction, st£ cenffi on the SIOO. These rates prevailed for the years 1893 and 1894. In 1895 the rates of taxation were further reduced, as follows: General fund, 0 cents on the $100; state school, 11; benevolent institutions, 5; total, 25. -And these rates have prevailed for the years 1895, 1896, 1897 and 1898. The taxables for the year 1890 amounted to $837,674,887. from which the revenue on the three items named amounted to $2,848,092. In 1891 the taxables amounted to sl,255,256,088. the rate of taxation being the same as in 1890, but the revenue derived amounted to $4,267,870, a gain over 1890 of $1,419,778. Jn 1892 the taxables amounted to sl,-' 267,438,005, the rates being the same as in 1890 and 1891. The amount of revenue derived amounted to $4,309,289, a gain over 1890 of $1,461,197. In 1898 the taxables amounted to sl,802,810,250. In this year the rates of taxation had been reduced on the three items named to 28 % cents oa the SIOO, a reduction of cents on the SIOO. The revenue derived amounted to $3,711,584, an excess over 1890 of $803,492, notwithstanding the reduction of the rates. In 1894 the taxables amounted to sl,205,106,416, the rate being the same as in 1808, aud the revenue amounted to $3 ,591,053, exceeding the revenue of ! 1890 $742,461. Iu 1895 the rate of taxation was still further reduced on the three items upon which calculations are based to 25 cents cm the SIOO, a total reduotion since 1890 of 9 cents on the SIOO. The total taxables of 1895 amounted' to $1,286,050,581, and the revenue derived amounted to $8,216,126, an excess over 1890 of $367,014. The taxables of 1890 amounted to sl,202,041,237, rates of taxation being the same as in 1895. The revenue amounted to $8,281,608, an increase over 1890 of $878,511. As has been stated, there are no official duplioates for 1897 and 1898, but It is assumed that the amount of taxables for these years is u i so 1898, hence the revenue derive*! by the state In 1897 would show an exce : :>vor 1898 of $378,611, and for 1898, $378,511. The figures thus show that the new revenue law passed by the Democratic party has added to the revenue of the state as follows: 1801 ". *1,419,778 180 a 1,401,197 1893...'... 803,493 1894 1 743,401 1895 397,014 1800 378,511 1897 378,311 1898 878,511 Total addition to revenue. . 85,989,473 The sinking fund law passed by a

Rev. D. A. Tucker las acce ted the pastorate of the F. W.-Jiup" tist cHurch at Kidgeville, Washington’Casey, a resident of this county for over forty years, died at lis home in Union townsh p, Tuesday, aged 87 years and 5 months. Interment at Mt. Ta«bor cemetery Wednesday.

A FIRM ABH3SRE»C’d! t OORSRC T FRI3JCiPMS3.”

Comp»u;-iw and the Wealthy fir.; j he State’s Burdens Under the Tax Law. uj | Democratic legislature levied a tax of 3 cents on the SIOO and went into operation in 1893. Assuming that the tax duplicate for 189? and 1898 will be in amount- -equal to the duplicate of 1896, the revenue derived from the sinking fund tax will be as follows: 1893. #1,805,310,850. (8330,093 1894 1,395,106,415. 388,531 1895. 1,386,050,331. 385,815 1890 1,393,041,337. 4 387,793 Assum’d 1897 1,393,041,337. 387,793 Assum'd 1898. 1,393,641,387 887,793 Total from Sinking Fond . 53,338,415 Total increase of Revenue . . 5,989,475 Grand total (88,317,890 lii tiffs is seen an increase of revenue almost equal to the-foreign debt of the state in 1890. . 1890 t-lie f'.A imcl .bt of the state amounted to 7 754 ;/; 15.12. It now amounts to $8 ) 21.'\0i5. v 12, showing a rede; iron of $3,3;U, ;V'o, every dollar of th i • duction -rin : irrefutable evidence- i d the wisdom of Democratic financial legislation. Hon. J. O. Henderson, auditor of sta te, in his report of 1892, takes occasion, in giving the figures showing the immense benefits accruing to the state as a result- of Democratic financial legislation, to say: • “The first year’s operation of the new revenue law has vindicated the wisdom of its passage a thousand fold, and the wholesome results attained proclaims it at once the most equitable and the soundest tax measure Indiana has ever known. For the first time in the history of the state the burthen of taxation is fairly and equitably borue. For the first time in our history tax dodging is uc .by disrep- :. Me, hut a losing busint. ; Indeed, i • e -ible business'if the taxing auth. ri: •..< assess the ability, co- , p: nui - v to do their wh j duty. uder the powerful set roh light of new law, property sequesteratiou is b-d-h a dangerous and a difficult thing. “Never before in the annals of the state has corporate wealth been compelled to bear its just share of the public burden. “Today the dollar of the rich man, of the bank, of aggregated capital, is compelled to contribute to the public treasury equally with the dollar of the humble citizen. “The new tax law is founded on the sound doctrine of honest, full value appraisement-. One dollar is taxed at 100 cents, whether it be invested in lands, products, bank capital, factories or luxuries. “Under the benign ministration of this measure millions upon millions of property heretofore sequestered has been placed on the tax duplicate.” Aud this additional property, as the tax duplicates show, aggregates $484,966,850, and thus the revenue derived from it amounts to $5,989,475. . It was this measure that at once solved the finao. -i tl problems which confronted the stare. ■ It emancipated the state from its financial trouble and •anxiety and substituted confidence for doubts. It was as Mr. Fairbanks said at Fort Wayne, a “Democratic measure” evincing that the Democratic party had clear conceptions of the supreme needs of the state aud the ability to afford the relief required. This eminently wise and judicious revenue law which Auditor Henderson said in bis report had “vindicated the wisdom of its passage a thousand fold” was vindictively opposed, from its incipiency, by the Republican party and this opposition has been maintained at every step since 1891 to the present time with the partisan zeal blind as bigotry and as relentless afe corporation greed. As an evidence of the implacable hostility to just and equitable assessments and taxation, it is only required to produce the declaration of O. W. Fairbanks.' On June 28, 1882, me year subsequent to the ’ hue when the new Democratic revenue law.went into oporation, the Republican party L. ; state convention . Fort Wayne, and the Hon. O, W. Fair hanks, nov United States sentor, presided over its deliberations, and upon accepting the honor of the position conferred upon him, made a speech in which he referred to the new revenue law passed by a Democratic legislature. The present, in the light of all the facts; makes the reproduction of the remarks of Mr. Fairbanks strikingly opportune, because they bring into the boldest possible prominence the well founded belief that his railroad investments and his large fees as a railroad attorney prompted his hostility to one of 'the wisest laws that ever found a place upon the statute books of the state. In the course of his remarks, Mr. Fairb tiks said: “The people of ind; na expect us to relieve them from the cruel and unjust burden imposed . pop. them by ' the Democratic tax law. “They well understand that whenever Democracy has neon invested with power in the state, the debt has been increased until the burden has become unbearable. “They have no confidence in Democratic financiering, and well founded is their distrust. “The creating of a debt in this rich and splendid state of upward of $9,000,000 is a flagrant abuse of power. “The people will always loyally support the state and pay the . taxes necessary to defray the expenses of the government honestly and economically incurred, and any party that recklessly increases obligation, should be repudiated at the polls. “The present odious tax law is a

Jud J . Hunt passed Sunday at Knox. H. Wiis Portei is suffering from injuries caused by a tall. Eldar N. S. Shepherd, having concluded his summer’s studies at Chicago University, will hereafter be found® at his post of duty in this city, h

Democratto measure passed to rescue the financial credit of the state. “The state was running in debt at she rate of nearly $500,000 par annum. “The eastern holders of the bonds demanded their interest when it was dne. “Current expenses had to be met, nod the Democratic legislature passed the present tax law as the best expression of its financial wisdom. “I misinterpret the signs of the times if the people do not repudiate the law aud the Democratic party at about one ahd the same time in November next. “No law ever rested more unequally upon those who should bear the burden, than does this. ‘ ‘The people already heavy laden with unjust taxes are bompelled to submit to additional exactions.* “Farmers have been compelled to pay on their farms and improvements, and householders on their lots and houses beyond all reason and right, all of whioh you should remember is the enforced tribute of the Democratic party. “How long will the patient people endure these things? “How long will they elect Democratic members of the legislature who do not possess the discriminating ability to place the financial affairs of the state on a broad and conservative basis and who will not more carefully legislate in the interest of the people ? Too much money is wasted in profligate and expensive administration of this state. ‘ ‘The people are paying too dearly for the privileges they enjoy, but so long as the Democratic legislature is in authority they are powerless to escape. “There is one way to cure the tax law, and that is to radically revise it. “The inequalities can be effectually removed in that way. “And it should he so revised that it will effectually relieve the farmers and householders from the present, grievous burdens so unjustly i-.-.i-i Mr. Fairbanks mn -stly drew his inspiration nation association an; ender them service by Uuugiug taxation. Nor was the convention, over which he presided, more fortunate in its declaration. It sought to secure the friendship of those who for years had sequestered the taxables, and deolared: “We arraign the Democratic party of Indiana for enacting an unequal and unjust tax law.” The declaration of the Fort Wayne convention and the speech of Mr. Fairbanks constitute a remarkable blending of stupidity and cupidity, for which Republican platforms and Republican speakers have won a wide recognition. Nor is the impudence of the party less pronounced, for now they are claiming to have reduced the debt of the state, but in so far as it has been reduced, Democratic legislation has supplied the means by which the reduction has been accomplished. This fact is elearly shown in the official figures already produced, but in view of some of the declarations of Mr. Fairbanks, it seems expedient to add a few more official figures to still further demonstrate the wisdom of the “Democratic tax law.” This Democratic tax law, whioh Mr. Fairbanks denounced in his Fort Wayne speech, and which he declared had imposed “unjust burdens” upon the people, sought first, to find “the true cash value of property,” and second, to find millions of property in the hands of corporations, which paid no tax at all, and place it upon the tax duplicate. Those laudable purposes were attained and no injustice was done any citizen of the state. Mr. Fairbanks declared that the people of Indiana “have no confidence in Democratic financiering” and this, he said, at a time when “Democratic financiering ” had added to the tax duplicate, taxables amounting to $397,581,551. His partisanism so distorted his vision and perverted his judgment, so incapacitated him for stating facts regarding a measure relating to the welfarS of the state, that to gratify his implacable hostility to the Democratic party, he became one of the most blatant enemies of Indiana, and this, too, not because the tax law worked any injustice to any citizen of Indiana, but because the Democratic tax la w, by inaugurating righteous proceedings, unearthed millions of property, the owners of whioh were sequestering. This tax appears from the record. The tax law placed upon the duplicate at once railroad property of the state, amounting to $94,882,874, which previously had escaped taxation, and it is well understood that this act of justice to the people was the oause of Mr. Fairbanks’ hostility to the “Democratic tax law.” Since 1890 the “Democratic tax law” has disoovered and put upon the duplicate, bank property to the amount of $1,263,631. It has discovered corporation property amounting to $023,800 antelephone, telegraph and express property amounting to $5,242,092, a total of $7,029,543, and if to this sum is added the railroad property that had escaped taxation, $94,882,874, a sum total of $101,802,417 is placed to the credit of the state and to the wisdom of the Demi ora tic party in shaping financial legislation. But now, when Mr. Fairbanks and the Republican party dare not mention the “iJemooratec tax law” to oatoh the votes of farmers or practice duplicity upon the rank and file of the people, when under the operation of the “Democratic tax law” and the sinking fund law, the debt of the state is, disappearing, Fairbanks and the Republican party, with impudenoe as thick as the armorplate of a battleship, are olaiming that the Republican party is reduciug the debt of the state, when if Fairbanks and the Republican party oould have had their way, the financial affairs of the state would be in a more deplorable condition than in 1890. , Republicans joyously refer to William Jennings Bryan as a “dead politician,” but they will find him, A. D. 1900, the livest corpse they ever saw. Mark Hanna, the boss corruptionist, still maintains his position of bosom friend and boon companion of Major McKinley.

“The C ui few will ring tonight.” Judge Thompson is holding court in Rentland this week. Two Poland Chilie boars for sale, at fjlWpißyip* O. K. Ritchey’s, 4 miles south of Rensselaer Extra good one . Weight about 200 lbs. each.

CAMPAIGN OF EDUCATION

That Is What the Gold Bugs aod Plutocrats Fear. They Know It Means Death to Syndicate*. Trusts, Corporations aud Monopolies Which Have Been Oppressing the People. It is an old aphorism “that men who think govern those who toil.” A “Cam. paign of Education” is a misnomer unless it sets men to thinking. Indeed, the highest function of education is to teach men to think. If it fails in that essential particular, we have men who accept what is told them as truth and who, however much they may boast of their independence, are, nevertheless, the hypnotized victims of cunning men Who use them to promote their schemes of aggrandizement. - The great mass of the people can have no interest in promoting the schemes of syndicates, trusts, corporations, monopolies or the millionaire class, who, operating in conjunction, constitute what is known as the “money power,” or the plutocracy of the country, which, representing 4 per cent of the population, has managed to secure at least two-thirds of the wealth of the country. And this 4 per cent of the population, by devising schemes, the result of thinking, are now dominating the financial policy of the republic. They constitute the brains and backbone of the gold standard aggregation of plutocrats and expect, by the influence they may be able to exert by the use of mouey in the campaign, to substitute duplicity, and all the arts of chicanery for education. These gold standard advocates propose to do the thinking for the masses of the people, and lead them, as white horses lead droves of mules, or as bell wethers lead flocks of sheep. They are destined to experience sad disappointments. The great body of the people are thinkers a .<mg lines which involve their welfare. The mind forces of the masses are now intensely active. The ohuck-a-luol methods of education, the tricks and enchantments of the gold standard wiz> ards will pot be accepted as argument i by the ruuk and file of the American voters; or as reasons why they.shouldabdicate these prerogatives to do thei.v own thinking on alt political questions, including the “free coinage” or th© “sound money” issues. It may be expected that the Republican speakers and the Republican press, daring the campaign will indulge in the usual amount of vulgar epithets, when referring to those who favor free coinage and uphold the silver dollar aa sound money. In 1896 the men who rallied to the standard of William Jennings Bryan, more than 0,500,000 ©f free men who would not bow down and worship the gold standard, as the slaves of old Nabuciiadnezzar worshiped his golden image, were denominated “age archists,” “communists,” “idiots,** "border ruffians,” “socialists,” "blankguards” and other equally argumentative epithets. It was the gold&ng method of education and will again be introduced, but with less avail. The people are now asking for facts, and they will ply the gold bugspeakors With questions which they will shrink from answering. One of the choice declarations of the goldbugs has been that to coin standasd silver dollars would drive gold ou t ©f the country, a condition which they depricated as a far reaching calamite. Weil, from 1878 we have coined 428,000,000 of standard silver dollars, all debtpaying, legal tender, sound money dollars, but gold did not, therefore, leave the couutry, inor was it ever show® that, owing to the coinage of silver dollars, any calamity, large or small, wu oueated; and if such a charge or any ether charge intimating that the coinage of standard silver dollars has been productive of a panic in business, commercial or industrial affairs, these who make th© charge will be required to point out when and where it occurred. This they will be unable to do. The people are thinking and bald assertion, vulgar .epithets and duplicity will be swept away before the onward march of thought which education, worthy of the name, will emancipate the people from their money power vassalage. The farmers, the working men, the producing classes of the republic have, to an extent which cannot occur again, been terrorized by the soothsayers and magicians of the money power—a favor- ’ it© prognostication being that the free coinage of silver would not only drive gold out of the country, but would, to the utter consternation of rich and poor alike, bring home from Europe the stocks and bonds held there for payment. Suppose this should be true, "What greater blessing,” queries a distinguished United States senator, “oould be bestowed upon this country than the giving to the nation and the people a sufficient amount of sound, irredeemable gold and silver coined money of our constitution to enable our people to transact all their business, develop all our resources and pay for and own all the obligations and debts of every kind of our government, states, municipalities and corporations and receive the interest and enjoy perfeot financial independence of all nations and all gold syndicates?” Bat thoughtful men will ask the goldbug coneocters of th© delusion relating to the return of securities held abroad, because of the triumph of free coinage in the United States, in what sort of money would the foreigners expect to be paid for their securities ? Manifestly in silver, the goldbug theory being that the gefld has already been driven out by silver. Thw mere statement of the proposition reduces it to a delusion that

Ira W. Yeoman of Remington, Democratic candidate f>r circuit prosecutor, tva; in this city Thurs day The O. E. 8. and O. E. E. 0. were entertained by Mrs. G. W. Hanley Wednesday afternoon and evening.

bo thoughtful man will consider for on© minute, afed yet ttes senseless vagary has been injected time and again into the dieowwiou of the money question as one of the impending disasters whieh would befall the oopntry provided free coinage was to triumph and silver regain its rights at the mints to stand, as the constitution of the republic intended it should stand, as one of the metals out a t which standard, legal tender sound mSfeey dollars should be coined. Again, the people have heard that, already the limited coinage of the j standard silver dollar, the sound j ■elver dollar, the legal tender over dollar is embarrassing the govern* uent by requiring vaults of large di* nensioaa in which to store it. Th© aducatioaal knaves who resort to thi© trick laugh in their sleeves at the gullibility of those they impose upon. Up to 1896, as has been stated, 428,000,00# of standard silver dollars had bean coined, of this amount more than 875,000,000 are in circulation in the form o i silver certificates, leaving about 48,000,* GOO silver dollars in circulation, or about 67 cents per capita of population, or if the total amount, 423,000,000 were in circulation as coin, it would be only about $0 per capita of our population Tor if the total amount oonld be equally distributed to families of five persons, each family would have SBO. Along such lines the people are thinking and, as the campaign progresses, they will be heard resolutely demanding of the goldbng Republicans faot© instead of delusions manufactured by plutocratic spoilsmen to deceive men who do net think.

ADVOCATES OF FREE SILVER

Their Demands Just and In Congo* nance With the Constitution. In 1896 the main issue of the campaign was the free coinage of silver, or the unlimited coinage of silver, at th© i ratio of 10 to 1. The imperative dei mand was that silver should enjoy all the rights at the government mint* which are accorded to gold. William Jennings Bryan, one of the “common people,” a superb leader, an orator in the best sense of the term, thoughtful, lObieal aud eloquent, was the national standard-bearer, and to his support rallied 6,511,678 American citizens, who oast their votes for bimetallism, for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, for the same rights of silver at the mint* that gold enjoys. The demand was just, eminently so. It was a lawful demand, in consonanoe with the oonititution of the republics. It wav a demand for an upright, Impartial, even-handed, straightforward financial policy. And, besides, it was a demand as purely American as the national flag. voiced the patriotic sentiment that the United States was, and ought to be, in shaping its financial policy free and independent, having no entangling alliance with any other nation. And here it should be said that no nation on the faoe of the earth consults the United States in any way when a change of financial policy is contemplated. When Japan decided to reduce . the weight of her gold yen oue-hali without impairing its debt paying value, she did not consult the United States or any other nation; and when Russia reduced the weight of her gold coins to the extent that 16 roubles were made equal so 15 roubles, the imperial autocrat asked ji either permission nor consent of any other nation. It is only the degenerate advocates of the gold standard in the United States that become the willing vassals of European nations when a financial policy is discussed. The advooates of the gold standard in the United States, In congress and out of congress, have filioitated themselves and the country that what they are pleased to call the “silver oraze” is dead, that the campaign of 1800 was what gave It the death stab, and that She advooates of free coinage, like Bret Hart’s Chinaman, were defunct, and that “subsequent proceedings would interest them no more. ” But they have found it a remarkably vital and lively corpse, and now they are tflying to kill it again. Indeed, they find it more vigorous, more energetic than in 1896. The more than 6,500,000 of voters who cast their ballots in 1806 for the remonetisation of the silver dollar are as determined now a* then to overwhelm the goidites in defeat and confusion. They know the principle for which they contended is bed rock, fundamental, constitutional and just. The result in 1896 neither' dismayed nor demoralized them. They believe that the conspiracy to demonetise silver has wrought incalculable ruin, and fib*y believe with John G. Gariiste, late secretary of the treasury, that “THE CONSUMMATION OF titfOH a SCHEME WOULD ULTIMATELY ENTAIL MORE MISERY UPUWTHE HUMANVtACE THAN ALL THE WARS, PESTILENCES AND FAMINES THAT EVER OCCURBED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. THE ABSOLUTE AND INSTANTANEOUS DESTRUCTION OF HALF THE ENTIRE MOVABLE PROPERTY OF THE WORLD, INOLUPING HOUSES, SHIPS, RAILROADS AND ALL OTHER APPEL ANDES FOR CARRYING ON COMMERGE, WHILE IT WOULD BE FSI/T MORE SENSIBLY AT THE MOMENT, WOULf) NOT PRODUCE ANYTHING LIKE THE PROLOWGED DISTRESS AND DISORGANISATION OF SOCIETY THAT MOTS INVARIABLY RESULT FRQH THE PERMANENT ANNIHILATION OF ONB-MALF OF TUB METALLIC MONEY IN THE WORLD.” Th© advocates of the gold standard care nothing for the ruin which Mr. Carlisle pictures so graphically. -They

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| constitute the “money pc , u th© ! plutocracy of the country, a-pvgr has Is soulless and heart less and in its fc?e©4 as relentless as a hungry tiger . a th© jangle. Aud, strange to say, lowers© paradoxical it may appear, tGs ua .oey power thrives on the calamities of th© people, as wreckers thrive when th© storms and the billows drive ships upon shoals and rooks. A faot that wa© brought into the boldest possible promt* hence when its managers bought gov* eminent bonds with depreciated paper money, the bonds costing them about 08 cents ou the dollar, and then, by using their influence over a Republican con* gress, made them payable in , *ooin, , ' gold or silver, aud prooeeded to collect prinolpal and interest of the bonds in gold, and this has been going on for mere than 30 years, until we have the astounding faot disolosed that on u in* terest-bearing debt of $2,821,811,918 in 1806 interest alone up to 1807 had been collected amounting to $2,A11, 169,008, or approximately $289,887,147 more than the total interest-bearing debt in 1805. It is this money power, this power tih&b controls the wealth of the country, tost advooates the gold standard policy and denounces all who advocate free coinage. These faots are stated that the friend© of silver may have in full view th© enemy that confronts them. It is as Bryan would say, the plutooraoy at wax with the producing oiasses—the men who oreate the wealth by in* ’’famous legislation, is poured in .A th© coffers of the rich in a ceaseless tide. As an issue in the campaign now on. the friends of free coinage of bimetal* llsm, the friends of the producing classes, may expect to have their lead* ers aud their cause traduced by the ad* vooates of the gold standard policy. A subsidised press will lend its energies ta the nefarious work, but they will find the ranks of the free silver advocate© compact and unbroken. They ,vlll dud them shoulder to shoulder and lore© to knee, intrepid aud unfaltering, belling'the welfare of the country deperp.. upon achieving a victory by virtue of which silver shall regain its rights at the mints and place the option which the law oonfers upon the secret ary of the treasury in the bauds of a man who has not been corrupted by the money power, and who will give to silver it© rightful station as a coin in all regardaj at the legal ratio, equal to gold.

INSTRUCTIONS 1 , TO VOTERS J*# - -■ -■ .Jy How to Mark Ballot, i « - j DBM OOftATIC TICKET, , Fo? Seuratary o t State© SAMUEL M. RALSTOfIfc m-h.SZ zam For Auditor of State, jorn w. Mijffdia. For Treasurer of State, DBM. 3 HUGH DOUGHERTY. j 1 "*' ■MMSHfe* »• iSiSE . For Attorney General. DEM. JOHN a. MoNUTT. I- . i ______ :j@w For Olerk Supreme Court. DBM. HHMfftY WAH RUM. INSTRUCTIONS. If you want to vot® a STRAIGHT* DEMOCRATIC TICKET make « arose thus, X, within the l*r*re ojrol® containing the ROOSTER at the top of the ticket. If you rm *kln th * LABOR OIROLB you must not rr* •> e a mark anywhere else on the built # or you will lose your vote. If you v/ant te vote a mixed ticket, you must not mark within the large circle, but must make a cross thua, X, in the SMALL SQUARE opposite the name of eaoh person, for whom you desire to vote. You must not mark on the ballet with anything but the 9LUB Pi '} CIL given you by the poll cler, . "it you by mistake mutilate your foalics return it to the poll clerk and ./at new ballot. You must fold your ballot before coming out of the booth so that the face wfll not show, and so that t Initials of the poll olerks on the baok will show. Thß Silver Dollar. There is not a voter in Indiana who does not know that the standard silver dollar is sound money. There is not a voter in Indiana who does not knew that the standard silver ■ dollar is a legal tender for all debtsprincipal and interest, public and private. There is not a voter in Indiana v/h; ■ does not'know that the man who geek-; to discredit the standard silver e.G is a knave, and working in the inf of the money power and against th ferests of the producing classes. Bimetallism, for the seeming of wh the Democratic party stands pledg, and will contend for as long as the a rooster to crow, means the use of 1 gold and silver as standard mono, - money of teal payment and redemption, “How absu d for the Journal lQ thiuk f.>r a moment that i's (th© Democrat's?) readais would swal* low such rot.” —Democrat? Yes; “rot” is the proper define *ba. The “interest” of the Dem» oerat? iu the welfare of the peo-* I pie is on par with that of the wolf 3or the lamb. He is over, zealous,