Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 August 1896 — Page 4

Clearance, Sale Will be continued one week longer. Saturday, Aug. *2!k will positively be the closing dav ot* this famous sale. This will b(‘the last chance you will have to buy a suit, pants or hat at fully one-third less than real value, and r>Oe Overalls for - r>Oc Colored Shirts for SStlc

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LAD11X SHI iff WAISTS Will be included—the entire line—in this sale: all to be closed out regardless of cost. S 1.00 Waists go for AOc. THE MODEL.

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practical politicians who are in the campaign for what there is in it in the shape of a rake off, for its editorial utterances now-a-days, and this possibly accounts for the ignorance or willful lying found therein. No reputable newspaper would give space

to such trashy fabrications.

Frans A. Arn"U>, Editor and Proprietor.

Saturday, Aug. 22,1806.

TERMS Olc Dollar per Year Entered at the Postoffice, fireeiicastle, Ind.

as second-class mail matter.

We want a good correspondent at each postoffice in Putnam county. Those now acting as correspondents will please notify us when t hey are out of supplies ol any kind and we will forward the same to them promptly

Democratic Ticket. President, William J. Bryan. Vice President. Arthur Sewell. Governor, Benjamin F. Shively. Lieutenant-Governor, John C. Lawler. Appellate Judge, First District, Edwin Taylor. Appellate Judge, Second Distrcit. Frank E. Gavin. Appellate Judge, Third District, Theodore

Davis.

Appellate Judge, Fourth District, A. J.

Lotz.

Appellate Judge, Fifth District. G. E. Ross. Secretary of State, Samuel Ralston. Auditor of State. J. T. Fanning. Treasurer of State, Morgan Chandler. Attorney General, J. G. McNutt. Reporter of the Supreme Court, Henry Warrum. Superintendent of Public Instruction, W. B. st. Olair. Congress, John C. Ridpath. Representative. John H. James. Treasurer, James L. Browning. Sheriff, Richard M. Bunten. Coroner, E. H. Kleinbub. Surveyor, James F. O'Brien. Assessor, Johnson C. Herod. Commissioner, 2d Dist., James E. Talbott Commissioner, 3d Dist., William S. Burris Prosecuting Attorney, J. M. Hawley. Joint Representative, George J. Reiser. The Mexican dollar argument is more honored in the breech than in observance—the Republicans who attempt to work this fake are learning that the people understand it, and know that there is no argument in it. The Republican managers and slick workers—Case et al.—who announced that they had the Populists of this county “fixed,” took a severe tumble after the Populist convention was over, on Friday, when it was demonstrated that the Populists couldn’t he “fixed” by Republican bribers and bulldozers, honesty in politics seems to be a lost art with the Republican managers and steerers a out here.

The Democratic bolters who have sought to appropriate to themselves the name of the “National Democratic Party” have less brains than they have assurance. If they understood themselves, and also understood just how they rank in the minds of the people they would have assumed as a name, the “Wall and Lombard Streets Party,” the “Single Gold Standard Tory Party,” or some other name j equally appropriate and descriptive. It is not silver that has depriciated in value—silver has the same relative value as compared to wheat, and corn, and the various other products ; of the soil and of labor that it had prior , to its demonetization in 1873—it is gold that has appriciated or increased in value, as compared with everything else, by reason of the fact that when one half of the primary and rei demptive money of the country was 1 deprived of these qualities by Republican legislation, its money value was

| doubled.

Join a free silver coinage club and show to the world that you are not ashamed to he arrayed ou the right side. The gol,! craze is on the wane, and is gradually dying out. The present indieatii ns are that ere oloetiou day approaches there will he hut. few to do the single gold standard honor, or give it support.

The 11.-T. says that the prosperity assured by a gold standard is not assured, hence the Republican asst rtions in this line are unworthy credence—they are simply aired foi

effect.

The Runner-Times is awfully sly, and is determined not to he caught in a corner if posible. When driven to close quarters on the currency ques tion it Hops over to the tarifl - as a place of refuge, and attempts to thrust a sleeping issue forward as one of lively activity. Yes, the R.-T. is awfully sly, and its slyness counts with the gang for smartness. In about one month after William J. Bryan was nominated for President by the Democratic party, he was officially notified and in his acceptance he sounded the key note of the free gold and silver coinage at the ratio of 10 to 1 campaign, and the masses know just how and where he is on the great political issues. Gaze on the other picture: McKinely has been nominated over two months and his party is still ou the anxious seat, waiting for the key note of the Republican campaign—that padlock seems to he destined to permanently guard

the McKinley mouth.

The gold hugs strive to mislead and mystify the people, in discussing tlie currency question, by asserting and assuming that the price of an article and the value of an article are precisely similar teims and mean exactly the same thing. This is not so—value and price are as distinct and as different as day is from night. A simple illustration easily understood by every one will readily convinceoftho truth of this assertion Suppose that in 1873, when silver was demonetized, that the price of a bushel of wheat was ifl, (it was nearly!

Tue gold craze is evidently dying out, and the gold bugs are becoming pain stricken and demoralized. The gold hug Republican newspapers say that Bryan and the Democratic party stand for ‘‘repudiation, robbery and revolution.” Hit so gold • mgs should remember that this sort of three R busi-H-* indulged in by them iu a previous campaign, when ihcy charged that Dt mocracy stood for “rum, roinanism and re ■ellion,’’ contributed to Republican downfall and demoralization. The th.ee R denunciation of Democracy is sure to result in a similar manner in this campaign.

This presidentiat campaign is prolific in national tickets, there being six already in the field, with anothei yet to he named by tlie gold hug bolteis from the Chicago convention. The tickets already nominated are as follows : Republican—William McKinley, of Ohio, and Garret A. Hobart, of New Jersev. Democratic silver William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, anti Arthur Sewell, of Main Populist—William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, ami Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia. Prohibition—Joshua Levering, of Maryland, and Hale Johnson, of Indiana. National C harles E. Bentley, of Nebraska, and J. H. Southgate, of North Carolina. Socialist Charles H. Matchett, of New York, and Matthew Maguire, of New Jersey

Twentyone Years 1

Your Needs

The Republicans are proclaiming from the hill tops and from the columns of their newspapers that the people who toil long hours, each woi king day in the year, for a bare subsistence or even lees, for themselves and their wives and children, are anarchists, or communists, or idiots, or lunatics, simply because they advocate a change in the laws of the land whereby the class legislation enacted in 1873 for tlie benefit of the millionaires and money changers he blotted from the statute hooks, and the old laws in regard to coinage and currency in force prior to that time, and under which all prospered, be reenacted. Of course, the farmers and artisans who are thus villified and abused, feel wronged and outraged by such unjust and unmerited treatment, and they will do their best to get even at the polls, in November—the chances are that iu this evening up business they will succeed admirably.

The Republican newspapers, and especially the Banner-Times, harps

$1.15) and that the price of a bushel upon the 50 cent dollar in one col-

Thk Banner-Times grows funny in its editorial comment on the address of Mr. J. B. Burris delivered before the Greencastle Free Silver Club ; its aggregation of editorial writers, who know more f "original packages” than they du tlie almighty power of truth, consume several columns in commenting upo- what Mr. Burris did not say, but carefully avoid attempts to contradict or prove false that which Mr. Burris did say. The B.-T. notice of the speech of Mr. Burris is a fabrication ; a setting up of a man of straw for the purpose of knocking it down, and thereby misleading and misinforming the readers of that irresponsible sheet. Mr. Burris’ statements were all so plainly made that they could not he misunderstood by sensible people, and every fact cited by him was favorable to free silver coinage, and his speech resulted in good for the cause.

Theiie is a vast difference between I tlie attitude of the Republican and Democratic parties before the people in the present presidential campaign. The Republicans favor a single gold standard of currency, which depreciates the value of everything except gold itself; the Democrats favor a double standarJ, composed of gold and silver, that will appreciate all values and bring down the value of gold to its old-time normal standard. By favoring the single gold standard the Republicans favor the issuing of more gold interest hearing bonds; the Democrats desire to curtail the gov- | eminent debt, hence they favor the ! free coinage of both gold and silver at ; a ratio of 1C to 1. The Democratic party believes that the United States has sufficient strength and sufficient brains to legislate for lUelf in financial affairs; the Republican party, in its platform, declares that this country should not legislate on financial af fairs without the consent and agreement of England and other European nations. The Democratic party believes that all the people have equal rights, and that these rights should he guaranteed to and given them under the law; the Republican party favors legislative enactments in monetary and other affairs that foster and care for the millionaires and money changers, to the harm and detriment of the masses. Choose ye between

them.

of wheat to-day, under the single gold standard is 50 cts., which is pretty near the present market price. As a matter of fact, no clear headed man would say that the bushel of wheat had more intrinsic value in 1873 that it has in 1S9G—there is just as much nutriment in the bushel of wheat now as then ; there is just as much bran, shorts, Hour, etc., in the bushel of wheat now as in 1873—the real value is there still, hut the price is diminished by one-half because of Republican legislation that depreciated it in price by enhancing the purchasing power of the dollar. -OWithout doubt the artful dodgers who are doing the editorial work on the Banner-Times, in these latter days, are far more sparing in the use of truth than they are in the use of woids. One of the recent twists in this line asserts that the prostration in business and paralysis in industry that has overwhelmed the country tor the past five or six years is the result of the Democratic tariff measure enacted two years ago. A more preposterous and unreasonable untruth was never published in newspaper columns. The truth of the matter is that the panics, the paralysis in business, the trail of bankruptcy, that have been manifest iu the years last past are the direct and legitimate result of the high protective tariff and the demonetization of silver enactments passed by Republican Congresses, the intent of which was fo benefit the classes at the expense of tlie masses, and this intent was realized to the sorrow of the peo-

ple.

From Seattle, Wash., comes a special which says that U. S. Senator Squire, of that State, and who is, by-the-way, a brother of Mrs. X. S. Joslin, of this city, has come out in an open letter in which he takes stand as follows ; “I take my stand with the friends of silver and heartily endorse the platform adopted at the conference of bimetallists at Tacoma, June 30. As a necessary sequence 1 shall support Bryan for president. The money question is the paramount issue of the campaign. All others can be held in abeyance. Therefore I trust the friends of silver will particularly unite on one common cause regardless of previous party ties and work for the speedy remonetization of silver in this country, which if accomplished, will do more than can he done in any other way to efiect silver remonetization throughout the world. It is my intention to proceed to the state of Washington as soon as possible to hear my share of the hur-

umn, and talks about enriching the silver miners in the adjoining column by making 50 cts. worth of silver into a dollar. One or other of these statements is absolutely false. If the mine owner is enriched by increasing the value of the silver in a dollar from 50 cts. to 100 cts. then thtre is no such a thing as a 50 cent dollar—all our dollars are and would he worth 100 cents, and the people would have, as we have always claimed, sound and honest money. So far as enriching the silver miners is concerned, that really cuts no more figure in the currency question than does the enriching of gold miners, who have been ■directly enriched and benefited ever since 1873, by tlie enhancment in value of their out put, by the legislation which decreased the price of silver and doubled the purchasing power of gold. Denial of this proposition is absurd—a dollar, under the double standard prior to 1878 would generally purchase one bushel of wheat; since that time, under the single gold standard, one dollar will

pay for two bushels of wheat. There seems to be but one question

for the people to settle in their own minds iu this campaign, and that is whether the United States has the right and the strength among t ie nations of the world to legislate for itself in financial affairs. The Demo cratic party, the Populist party, and the Prohibition party, have declared iu their platforms, in favor of the free coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, regardless of the wishes of the millionaires and money changers of the rest of the world ; the Republican party, by implication, acknowledges in its national platform, that ihe free coinage of gold and silver is correct and right, hut it declares that ic must not he done unles8 i England, France, Germany, ^.Russia, and other European nations, great and small, give their consent, and go into partinership with the United States in the currency and coinage business The real and only issue of tlie campaign is truthfully and hrielly stated above. Will the people hesitate to declare for the right, in this contest, regardless of the wishes of Europe? There can he no halting between two opinions—the universal sentiment is that the singla gold standard is wrong and robs the masses ; the double standard and free coinage of both gold and silver is right, it benefits the masses, and wrongs no one—cast aside partisan bias; vote for principle, and not for party ; vote right and good will result

to you and yours.

dens of the coming campaign which, 1 think, is one of the most important.

in its history. I hid God-speed to the) No nliu can fall untli;he trles t0 Ket along

Jcause of the people." | without God's help.

Enables us to offer you Ihe best selected stock of Dry Goods, Carpets and Shoes. Not always the lowest priced, but the very best values at correct prices. We don’t run a junk shop and avoid clearance sales: they are expensive to the consumer. If we may have your Fall Business you shall have no cause for regret. 2S cents stncl SO cents You may he fitted in a Shirt Waist. Evcry one this season s styles and worth two or three times as much.

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Janes M. Hurley, j MoilCJ Loaned!

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REAL ESTATE OF ALL KINDS FOR SALE AND RENT.

In any sum, for any time. Must see the borrower in person. No delay. Money furnished at once at the

very lowest terms.

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Indianapolis Live Stock Market. CATTLE—Receipts, 50; shipments, light.

Market steady.

Choice export grades $| I5(<j4 40 Oood to choice shipping 3 S5«,4 15 Fair to good shipping 3 60Q3 H5 Stockers and feeders.. 2 ?5@3 50 Good to choice heifers 3 50(^3 80 I Fair to medium heifers? 3 25®3 50 Good to choice cows 3 00(A3 50 Fair to medium cows 2 50® 3 00 I Good to choice hulls 2 50(83 00 SHEEP—Receipts, 1,700; shipments, 1,000.

Market steady.

Good to choice sheep |2 7503 25 Fair to medium sheep 2 25(82 75 Good to choice iambs I SO AS 00 HOGS—Receipts, 3,500; shipments, 2,000.

Market slow.

Choice medium and heavy $3 10(33 35. Mixed and heavy packing 3 10,7.3 30 Lights 3 2U(ij3 10 Pigs ... 2 50(83 35

At Kokomo politics are red hot— HICHARDS01Y & IT'JH,ST,

Democrats are in high glee and Re-! publicans are in the slough of despond, j W. D. Ward, one of the most piomi-1 nent Republicans of Kokomo, and! Treasurer of tlie Republican county I central committee, has resigned his |

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GREENCASTLE. IND.

Bainbrldge.

J. H. Scotton, wif>- and daughter, of Newman, Ills., visited Mr. Scot-

otlice as Treasurer and publishes an | ton's sister, Mrs. Pherson and family, open letter, in whicli he renounces I last week; tliey drove through in the his connection with the Republican j family carriage, and have gone on to

party and declares for Brvan and free the eastern part of the State, and silver. In his letter he s’avs the ein . ' V 'H return next week. The glo gold standard advocated *>•" i corp8 ,1HS new dnck " niform8

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, .. , l,le Hubbard expects to move into Mrs. Repu dieaps, if continued and en Rhea's west rooms soon Preaching forced, nn. bring greater disaster; next Sunday morning at the Al. E. than pestilence or famine, especially : Ohurch, and on Saturday night and to our toiling masses who earn their Sunday morning and night at the living by daily labor." Christian Church Frank Ragan ^— and wife have moved to Honsertown Monon Exoursions. .....John Randel lias taken a new Sunday, Aug. 80,to West Hadcn and French wife Mrs. Howard, of Madison town-I.U-k Spring.; special train passes Green sllil Mrs. Nancy Ragland. of C °To 8r. 1 Pamf mViim^Of A^R Encampment; Mitchell is visiting here Mr Cm Auk. 31 and Sept. 1; good returning until an(l wife, of Morton, visited Sept. 30 ; tare f 11.go. here on Sunday The sick are Mrs.

: Miss Lou Pherson Mrs.

Home Seekers Excursion to the South, f hRpma.Il, Mis M(*NOrton, I . (r. h ry, Aug. 3i, Sept. 1,14 and 16, Oct. 5, e, 19 ami 20; ! Mrs. Black and Mrs. John Miller one fare plus $2 for round trip. One way I Mra Onninbs Brakes is cnnviilesi-oiif settlers’rates to Southern points the Island t>!-i 1 f. 1 . V ‘r 3d Tuesday of each month at 1 1 . cts. per mile. Mrs. I ICKle is a do to be out J. A. Michael, Agent, again. Scotch Lassie. fir & $ fir fir fir & Ve fir © © © © © ' 7? fiy O © © © © fir © ©

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