Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 July 1896 — Page 4

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loo 1 fldrtiso A CLEARANCE SALE, It means something. This time it means deep cut prices on all Light Suits in Men’s Boys and Children’s. Men’s Wool Suits $4.00, worth $ G.00 Men’s All-Wool Suits 5.00, worth 8.50 Men’s All-Wool Suits 6.00, worth 10.00 Men's All-Wool Suits 7.50, worth 1*2.53 Boys’ and Children’s Suits reduced in the same proportion. TTlis* ^l€»€l «•*!-

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Sstardsy, .1 uly 11,1896.

TERMS Oue Dollar per Year Entered at the Postoffice. Greencastle, lud.

ub second-class mail matter.

Wc want a good correspondent at each

The Republican candidate for Vice President—Hobart, of New Jersey—is not gifted with the gab known as oratory, but he has a barrel that is powerfully persuasive, that will do

the talking act for him.

The fact that McKinley and the Republican platform are receiving the praise and support of the “pauper

poatoffice In Putnam county. Those now pet-t * „ . 1 ni? us correRpondents will please notify us newspapers OI hlirope IS evuleuce wVw^l^r^rV^ 0 d m^?VrthVm y pVomp"y that the voters should repudiate both

candidate and platform at the pol]s 9 Democratic Ticket. | next November.

Governor, Benjamin F. Shively.

Lieutenant-Governor, John O. Lawler. THERE Can be HO question as to Appellate Judge, First District, Edwin . . 1 , Taylor . , „ McKinlev s pos it ion on Uie currency Oavin. question—he would, if elected, vote ^pellale Judge. Third District. Theodore ftuy mea#ure pae8ed by Congress, i ( ;' t , 7 ,pellate 1 '' ourtl1 A - J - which provided for the coinage of Appellate judge. Fifth District, ti. k. Ross, silver as primary redemptive money, .Secretary of State, Hamuel Ralston. i 11 , , , ,

Auditor 'of state. J. T. Fanning Treasurer of State. Morgan Chandler. Attorney General, J. G. McNutt.

Reporter of the Supreme Court, Henry

War rum.

Superintendent of Public Instruction, V..

B. St. Clair.

Representative, John H. James.

Treasurer. James L. Browning. .Sheriff', Richard M. Bunteu. Coroner, E. H. Kleinbub. Surveyor, James F. O'Brien. Assessor, Johnson C. Herod

hence should not be, and we believe

he will not be elected.

The nomination of McKinley has not proven the effective “advance i agent of prosperity,'’ that was prei dieted by his worshippers and admirers ; as a matter of fact the news

Commiaaloner’, M Dt*t.', wuifim 8 T BurrU of shut downs and strikes in largest Prosecuting Attorney, J m Hawley establishments in the east was an-

Joint Representative, George J. Reiser. nounced on the same day as his

Call for Congressional Convention. nomination _ a conciden t worthy of

The delegates to the Democratic Congres- . . sJonal Convention of the fifth district, state I consideration,

of ludiaon. composed of the counties of Clay, and've'rmuVioui11*nfeet r 'fu 9 i’o'i\ K ention r at We 1,ave had twenty-three years of Weduesd 0 .y B 5Uly’mb'iw".1'Je 1 'o dock°p. a single gold stand trd, and the ma-

xu., for the purpose of naming a candidate of ' 1

such party for Congress in such district. By order of the Congressional Committee.

Frank A. Horner.

Chairman.

There is music as well as truth and inspiration in the campaign cry of “Silver, Shively and Success.’

terial condition of the masses of the people has steadily grown worse; give us twenty-three years of bimetallism and restore silver to the place it occupied previous to the Republican demonetization act of 1873, and of the people does not improve and

The Detroit Tribune, the organ of the financial condition of the country the Republicans of Michigan, lias does not grow better, we will be served notice on its readers that it 1 greatly disappointed and will cheerdoes not endorse and will not support fully support and advocate a return the work of the National Republican to present conditions. This promise Cenvention at St. Louis. is needless, however, as the past teaches us that a return to the good The Democratic State Central old ways of old will give us a return Committee should promptly endeavor j of the prosperity of old. to arrange for a series of joint dis-' m—.—— cussions between Messrs. Shively The Banner-Times seems to assume and Mount, the candidates for Gov- as a fact its oft repeated statement ernor. The sooner this is done, and that the point at issue in this camtlie larger the number of joint meet- paign is McKinley and McKinleyism. ings, the better it will be for Demo- H forgets, or is ignorant of the fact cracy. l l' at fl' 6 interests of the masses are of ~ 777~7,. T . far greatPr importance than McKinley Some of Mck.nleys speeches now- and hj8 m iiUonaire - monopolistic a-daysarea httle off tn sentiment. fr ie nd8 , coup,ed with those who fawn r or instance he said recently that be .... . . ... . . „ i at Ins feet and cry “bravo,” in the favored a “full dollar ’ for a “full . . ’ , . .

hope that they will get a chunk of of-

man’ —just what he meant by a full • , ,,, 7 , , .... . r , . i . i hcial pie should he be elected. Mcdollar is past finding out, but any of .... . , . , , , , , ..| Kinleyism has been condemned by

tbe boys can give a full bill of partic- . , .

•’ ,, , i people at the polls, and gold lars as to the meaning of the words, , ... ... , ,, ., siugle-standardism will meet a similar

“a full man. . , .

— 0 fate at the next election. The people When Thurston and his committee r are not blind to their own interests ; called to officially notify McKinley they are not so swayed by partisan

of his nomination last week, the nominee could have shortened his speech and given publicity to all the thought and sentiment therein, bypresenting the committee with a cony of the St. Louis platform and saying with approved and expressive emphasis, “Them’s my sentiments.” It should be remembered that McKinley has given the gold-bug platform of tbe Republican j>arty “careful consideration,” and after so doing lias “umiualifiedly approved” it. In other words he gi\ es - nproval to the destruction of coi. :, utional money that oppresses all v,, ■> labor fora livelihood. So be it; the people will have opportunity to disapprove of his

ambition in November.

The Banner-Times is ashifty sheet; it prevaricates in regard to a given thing until corrected by the StarPkess, and then it immediately starts off with falsehood in another direction, until we head it off, and so it

goes—for shifting its base of "Hack | tacmyconfe'ssed'that" there was no and misrepresenting the facts it h a8 , f ^ ^ ^ b no equal we know of. A safe rule is, j , ican8 who th ht for them8el ,f you read it in the Banner-Times , and re , U8ed to connt pftrty fealty of don’t believe it until corroborated more importance than the good of the

loin another source. whole people.

bigotry that they cannot see wherein their interests lie and vole accord-

ingly.

At the meeting of the Republican State Committee, held at Indianapolis last week, most of the time was spent in listening to the tales of woe told by the State candidates and District Committeemen. All were along the same lines ; the burden of their stories was what should be done to break through the silver sentiment of the state and recapture the disaffected republicans. For awhile the reports as to the restless condition of Republicans under a gold yoke were very temperate. Then came a round of speakers who had a different story to relate. They said it was all nonsense to disguise the fact that the party was in danger. They mentioned Republican after Republican who were off, and whose influence carried hundreds with them. They urged that the money issue be squarely and promptly met but they

The Republican National platform of 18% fails to declare against that greatest of modern evils, trusts, and this omission is an implied indorsement, as the boodle lor the Republican campaign is evidently to be pulled from tbe trusts and monopolies of the country. The best campaign companion of the people during ]S9t> will be tin Star-Press—it will keep you posted, and it will at all times defend ibe people and sustain them in asserting and maintaining their right. Tell a non-subscriber, that -o cents will nay for it during the campaign. In one of his recent articles published in the Arena, Dr. J. C. Ridpath, of this city, says that the demonetization of silver in 1873, "was an act which, though subsequently defended, even to the present day. by all the purchased ability of the world, fs nevertheless condemned by the conscience and common sense of mankind as the most cold blooded, unjust, uncalled for, unmitigated and damnable outrage ever done in this country to the rights and interests of a great people.”

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One of the ablest and fairest indepent newspapers is Harper s Weekly. In a recent editorial it says : “If he is elected the country will discover what evils can issue from weak amiability, and an uninformed mind that accepts, almost without question, certainly without a moment’s opposition, what it assumes, or guesses to be the average sentiment of the party. * * American politics will reach a low ebb when McKinley is nominated for President.”

The jiassing of the days]? adds strength to the assertion we made in our issue of June 27, that the Democratic State Convention made no mistake in either platform or ticket. The platform is right and the ticket is an ideal one, hence both are strong and receive the hearty support of the people. Shively, for Governor, is strong intellectually and a model physically; he is a brilliant speaker and a strong debater. The other gentlemen on the ticket rank higher as citizens and as Democrats, and each adds to the strength of the whole. With such a ticket and such a platform, ^success

is assured.

One of McKinley’s trite sayings to callers at Canton is that “the great body ot the people know what they want.” His idea is correct, but his mind docs not seem to grasp the fact that the people do not want and will not have a restoration of his schedules of tarifl' taxation which robbed the people to enrich the monopolies and trusts in the protected indus tries; they do not want and will not have a continuation of the Republican policy in currency affairs, which wiped out of existence silver as a constitutional and primary redemptive money, at the behest, and by tiie command of millionairies, that their money might be doubled in value, while at the same time all other property and labor was diminished in value one-balf. The people know what they want, and they don’t want McKinleyism or gold

bugism.

POSITION

Since his nomination McKinley has made a multiplicity of sjieeches remarkable for amplitude of words and dearth of strength in expression The whole series have been political twaddle, devoid of originality and barren o! distinct and definite thought on the issues of the campaign, save that lie avers that hu has read and considered the Republican pisiform and gives it his unqualified endorsement. It is quite clear that he is a weak statesman or a i'ever Dimmer and-time server, afraid o express an ojiii ion. lest thereby be make an ent my in ills political following. As a matter of fact the Republican nominee is a sort of one-idea statesman, and this idea is not an issue or a fac tor in the campaign. Ilia ideas in regard to finance, if he has any, are unspoken, save as he gives unquali tied, parrot like support to a single told standard declaration of the platform upon which he was nominated, and this fact only makes doubly sure his defeat at the j>olls, in November

next.

The Democratic Convention. The great convention opened at the Coliseum in Chicago at noon on

Tuesday.

Chairman Harrity ol the National Commute proposed the name of David !!. Hill as temporary chairman, hut alter discussion ami no little excitement, Senator Daniels, of Virginia. was chosen in his stead. Mr. Daniel- i- a Virginia Democrat of the old Jeffersonian typo,and stands boldly and uncompromisingly fof- free silver, while Hill represents the gold men of the east. Senator Daniels' selection was cheered by the crowds of silver men in the great hall. After a lengthy speech by .Senator Daniels and much speaking on the part of the

tl'em to appreciate how cheap they are.

Senator S. M. White of California, a staunch silver advocate. Not much else was done on W ednesday. A special from Chicago, July N. stated I

ON Tin:

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MONEY QUESTION

In Very Simple.

Bring in your DOLLARS and laky away your Dry Goods, Carpets and Shoes. Any kind of DOLLARS will do, just so you are satisfied. A very small amount of money used at the proper time has often times a very much greater purchasing power than at other times. For instance, we have a line of FRESH, NEAT and CLEAN DRESS GINGHAMS that we have been selling at 10, 15 and 20 cents. You can take them away at cents. In Carpets, you can buy BETTER CARPETS FOR THE MONEY than you can later on. but you will have to see

that even body whose opinion was] worth quoting said that the ticket would be Bland and McLean. A later dispatch, however, gave encouraging news in regard to Ihe Gov. Matthews boom. As we go to press it is quite uncertain to whom the honor will be given of leading the Democracy to victory in November, but beyond any reasonable doubt it will be a free silver man. About 17> candidates have been voted on. with Bland and Bryan in the lead. On the fourth ballot the vote was Bland 211. Bryan 280. with a gain over the first vote for Bland of 8. for Bryan 146. A full report of the proceedings of the convention will he given in our columns next week. Later—Bryan nominated on 7ith iballot. McLean of Ohio for Vice

President.

There is naught but discouragement and hopes blasted in the political situation, for Republicans. Only a few weeks ago, according to their own beliefs and notions they were going to carry the country and secure almost the entire electoral vote ; they were so confident of victory in Indiana that the aspirants for a place on the State ticket were as thick as buzzards about carrion; in this county they were in high feather and boasted of their strength, which they vowed would overcome all opposition ; so firm was their faith that nominations for county office were at a premium ; their confidence and cheerfulness, ami ante election jollity and mirth have all disappeared ; smiles have been chased away by tears ; from the pinnacle of hope they have been dashed down into the slough of despond. Their agressiveness has disappeared, no more do they pose as the big dog of the lanyard or the grey wolf of the prairie they’re tired and the spirit which moved them to exclaim “I'd sooner fight than eat,” is broken. The Republicans of this State have a factional war on between the Fairbanks and McKeen followings, and in addi tion to this the silver Republicans have severed their allegiance to a party that bows the head and bends the knee only and solely to the shrine of a single gold standard. The gold bug platform and the McKinley candidate have destroyed Republican hopes, and Democracy are building up swiftly and strongly on their

ruins.

Fincastle.

Fred Turner was home Sunday J. U. Kdwards attended the Danville races Opal Goslin, Johnnie Witt and Lucy Boyd, of Roachdale, are visiting John Avritts Mrs. Tom Bell is visiting her parents in the southern part of the state Several from here spent the 4th at Roachdale Rudy Burkett and family visited Harve Gardner's Sunday-...!. Clay Bridges ami family and Clay Cooper and family spent Sunday at John Bridges’ The farmers are now busy threshing wheat and the yield is very poor, as is also the wheat Rev. Airhart and family spent Sunday at J. O. Smith’s The infant child of Squire Young D not expected to live Walter Boyd, of Russellville, occasionally looks after his interests near here Len RatlitT is moving back to this place Klla Walsh is visiting her sister, Maggie, at Goldsmith Rettie Shannon left Lola Trial in charge of Effa Grider. KITa is thinking of taking uj> the profession ns nurse Will Walker went to Danville Sunday on his wheel, in searcli of Elmer Hays' horse and buggy, which were stolen from the hitch rack at Roachdale, Saturday night. The last report, the horse had returned without the buggy. xx

Oakalla.

Walter Torr and wife visited friends at Greencastle Sunday John Johnston spent Saturday* and Sunday at Indianapolis S. F. Johnston and family visited Mrs. J. K. Johnston this week Miss Mollie Torr and Minnie Stroube visited Mrs. Clara Torr this week Joe Dennis and wife, of Indianapolis, visited Mr. Vickers, Saturday and Sunday Misses Josie Gilmore and Anna Landes, of Greencastle, visited Miss Pearl Sears Monday Blackberry picking is the order of the day ..Bartley A Stroube are shipping berries from tills place W. S. Torr went to Terre Haute and brought back a new buggy for John Bence, Monday Misses Minnie and Emma and Master Edwin Torr visited Mrs. Albert Stoner, at Cioverdale, Tuesday Last Thursday morning as Ea Hillis was driving a colt it became scared, upset the buggy, and ran away, going two miles before it was caught. On Friday he intched it to a cart and started to ills work at Oakalla, when it again became scared, and ran through a barbedwire fence three times, scratching Ed and itself very badly S. T. Johnston and family spent the Fourth at Greencastle. sx

ALLEN BROTHERS. DRY GOODS, SHOES AND

CARPETS.

Reelsville. , 1 YF - I II

The school was dismissed on Friday I illOIlBV I

on account of the serious sickness of -i-'-i-v/H V f UwttllV.Vl .

Mr. Miller's babe Mrs. Bolev, of | T ♦,

Terre Haute, is visiting Mrs. Counts ,i an T 8Um > P0 . r an y time. Must Ad. Chew has a large apple tree 8ee th®k orro ' ve t',n person. de _ in full bloom A. II. Penley is talk- la y- Money furnished at once at the

ing of going to Arkansas to , lla ke ver J'lowest terms.

staves Hay and oats harvest in -w-* -»—. _ — full blast—tiie latter good and the Uf* JCla» xVJbJit former fair Fox Bros, started two T , T . 7 . machines last week and one tin- lUSlirtlllCB cLUu il£?6nt week We have a health office in I O > town now; we could give it a better GREEXCASTLE, /XI). name Esq. Glrton turned over j " —— the amount of tines collected to the' t tv i

Monday...... Janiss M. xiurley,

REAL ESTATE,

county treasurer on

Fishing seems to have abated......The I Fourth was as dry as tinder here until 4 j>. m.—then it just rained The blackberry crop is paying only 1 8 cts. per gallon M. B. Glrton is putting a steel roof on bis dwelling Clark McCormick says that if the ! party who is stealing his stove-wood \

is not careful he will need a new real estate of all kinds for

stove ere long.. ..’Rah for the Chi-

cago nominee ami 111 to 1 Mollie i _SA.LE AND RENT.

G' se. who inis been sojourning in i tZaIZ*7^77777. T '"'—“".■ l , Chicago, is at home. J. 1 C. Llve . atock Market.

Tnsmrjrnee ^•Yiul I^ouns*

Insist on having just whst you call for when you go to buy Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the One True Blood Purifier and nerve tonic.

List of Letters Remaining in the postotfice at Greencastle, unclaimed, July H, IHWi: Miss Lixzy Summers, Albert Kelley, Susan Jane Morelars. Frank McCray, C. H. Myrick, Isaac Blaln, Miss Annie Allen, Rev. A. A. Dunlavy, James Caugblin, Elmer Kundson In calling for any of the above named letters please say "advertised.'’ WILLIS G. NEFF, P. M.

New Maysville.

CATTLE -Receipts, 1.50; shipments, light.

I Market steady.

Choice export grades ?l 15@4 40

The glorious Fourth was celebra- I S ^ ted by OUT folks, most all of them Stockers and feeders 2 75^3 90 going to Roachdale Mr. ami Mrs. 1 Good to choice heifers 3 00

Ada.nAder ofBainbndge; Mr and

Mis. N. W. ot Groveland, and Fair to medium cows 2 50(^2 75 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sanders, of O £®du>° ho i i ceb . u119 2 so<$3 00 Roachdale. Sundayeu with James marke’t^st^eq! 6 ' P * 9 ’ " oa: ' ,hi P ment,, • 50 °- Oakley John H. Owens, tine 01 Good to choice sheep ..fa 00^3 50 our old citizens, gave our town a Fair to medium sheep 2503300 friendly call last Mondey Our "1 v" VTA r soo tsso merchants complain that nobody is Market Mo^ P ' eh,p,ue " t8 ' i ’ ow >- in town these days Free silver VS. Choice medium and heavy fs 20(93 45 gold, is all von bear talked of now ' heavy packing J 20 .13 to The folks that went to the wed- plgl* ] 2-sSa S ding last Sunday say there wasn’t] —«— -2171...—,- : ~ “ 1 any Just stay at home and listen Sunday Joseph Hutcheson, of and you will "hear dem bells' 1 We Terre Haute, visited relatives here lou t understand this 16 to 1 argu- last week. Joel Weathers, of Putnient unless it means 1<> free silver namville, visited ills sister. Mrs. A. J. men to one gold mau. ...Isaac Hink- Albright last week The young le's children are down with the folks enjoyed a party at Annie measles Prof. Moore is talking of ; Hutcheson’s Tuesday night ignite leaving our town There was a «• large crowd from here attended union Bunday school at the ’7. E. ! the festival at Walnut Chapel July Church last Sunday—why not have 1 Fourth Mrs. Kiser and daughter, that kind all the time? xx of Greencastle, visited relatives here last week H. N. and A. M. Ali- ^ an ^ la tta' n - bright, John Hooten and Jake King Ruth, little daughter of Frank have returned to their work on tiie Stroube, has been quite sic.k Dud | L. E. and W. railroad A large Hutcheson aud wife, Fred Stoner erowd attended the burial of Eliza and wife, Luther Easter and wife Lee, who was brought from Gn-Jin-and Phillip Hutcheson and wife j castle and buried here last Sund»J>

last i Success to tbe Star-Prksb. XX

visited Frank Daggy and wife

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