Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 August 1896 — Page 4

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(iL'KATI'ST CLUAIiAXCE SALK ON KKCOlIl).

It has been a success beyond our expectations, and the scores of people that have taken advantage of this cheap sale have gone away perfectly satisfied that we do even more than we advertise, and that when we advertise a cheap salt' you can depend on it and will not be disappointed when you come to examine the goods. Our

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The R.-T. says that “orator” A. II. ! At Carbon over twenty-five RepubMoore 4 makes a splendid financial licans have thdared for Bryan, and

speech,” and yet his remarks are based on literature sent out by the "Sound Money' League” which orator T. T. Moore declares untruthful—at

least he dct ied its autht ufcty when John Vermillion pulled it on him and quoted from it in a recent discus sionbetween them.

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15, gins SATURDAY, SEPT. 5, and will last for two weeks. We expect to sacrifice all prolit in this sale, and if you are looking for b rgains in the very goods that you will need at once, you should not miss the best chance of your life.

Clothing and Hat House.

THE STAR-PRESS.

The silver craze is dying rapidly. The p lice report fewer discussions to-day than last

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Saturday and fewer last Saturday than the

Saturday before.

I* rank A. Arnold, Editor and Proprietor. 8 itu relay, Aug. 29 1896 TEUM8 <^e Dollar per Year

Entered at the Postoffice, Greencastle, Ind. ts 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 they are out of supplies ot 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. i ; ^1Tnl... i' I

Lieutenant-Governor, John 0. Lawler.

Appellate Judge, First Di

District, Edwin

Taylor.

Appellate Judge, Second Distrcit, Frank E.

Gavin.

VttVIU.

Appellate Judge, Third District, Theodore

Davis.

Appellate Judge, Fourth District, A. J.

Lotz.

Appellate Judge, Fifth District. G. E. Ross. Secretary of Mtate, 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. 11. St. Clair. Congress, John C. Ridpath. Representative, John H. James. Treasurer, James L. Browning. Sheriff. Richard M. HunU-n. Coroner, E. H. Kleinbub. Surveyor, James F. O'Brien. Assessor, Johnson C. Herod. Commissioner, 2d Dist., James E. Talbott 1 Commissioner, 3d Dist.. William S. Burris i’rosecutiug Attorney, J. M. Rawley. Joint Representative, George J. Reiser.

The above is f.om the BannerTimes. and is as far as possible from the truth of the situation. The fact is that silver discussions are on tap at almost any hour of the day, each week, from Monday morning until Saturday night, and the only thing that will stop it will be lack of gold bug advocates to argue their side of the issue. They are bound to become scarce, as every time one of them attempts to stand up before a free silveritu he gets knocked down, •ind is so badly disfigured that he shuns future experiences of the same sort. The advocates of free silver coinage have all the facts and arguments on their side, and they know how to use them effectively.

The outlook for victory for the advocates of free silver coinage grows brighter every day, and it is now confidently claimed that Bryan will carry .States, which poll 12G3 electoral votes, while it requires only ikJS elec toral votes to elect him. The following States are almost sure to vote for Bryan and free silver :

The “present gold standard” cause is drooping and languishing because of lack of support—it will dwindle away and die, as it deserves to.

The history of past campaigns is to he repeated this year—Indiana is going to be the battle ground upon which the result of the campaign depends; every well-wisher of his fellow men,and these well-wishers are those who favor the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 10 to 1, should be ceaseless and untiring in his efforts to uphold the cause and bring it out a strong winner at the polls in November.

The much vaunted answer of Burke Cochran to Bryan’s speech turned out to he neither an answer nor an excuse

Electoral votes. Alabama h Arkansas s Florida 4 Georgia 13 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 8 Maryland g Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 North Carolina 11 South Carolina 9 Tennessee 12 Texas i. 1 ) Utah 3 Virginia 12 Colorado 4 Idaho 3 Kansas 10 Nevada 3 California 9 Deleware 3 Illinois 24 Indiana 15 Minnesota 9 Montana 3 Nebraska 8 North Dakota 3 Oregon 4 South Dakota 4 Washington 4 West Virginia 4

The Mexican dollar fake which

for an answer—it was simply a display of oratorical fireworks calculated to please the ear, but there could have been no real intent on the part of the speaker to set his remarks up as an answer to Bryan's Madison Square Garden address , • failed to refute or attempt to answei single point made

by Mr. Bryan.

One of the facts made most plain in the present political campaign is that the big money changers, the millionairs, the princiapal officials of railroads and corporations, the wealthy newspapers, and monetary aristocrats of the country are arrayed in favor of “the present gold standard” and against the people. With them it is anything to beat.Bryan, and they will u-e their raorfey freely to defeat free silver coinage at the ratio of 10 to 1. The stand taken by wealth and corporate greed is an object lesson i hat will not be overlooked by the j cop e.

Republicans am attempting to work is supposed to be a clinching argu i ment in favor of the single gold standard by those weak-minded, partisanblinded Republicans who have eyes 1 and see not, ears and hear not. As a matter of fact, let us see just

how this matter is.

"On our desk we have three silver dollars. The first is a Meiicau dollar, the second is an American standard silver dollar, and the third is an American trade dollar. The Mexican dollar and the trade dollar contain about an eijual amount of pure silver, both containitiK more than the standard silver dollar. Now, we will give the American trade dollar and 10 5 cent cigars for an American standard silver dollar. The reason we can do this, and the business bouse can perform its offer, is very simple. Here is the whole secret: Neitner the American trade dollar nor the Mexican dollar is now a legal tender in this country. There was a time when the trade dollrr was a legal tender in this country, and then it circulated side by side with the standard silver dollar and gold dollar. There was also a time, prior to IK-W, when the Mexican dollar was a legal tender in this country by act of congress and strange to say, the Mexican dollar at that time went hand in hand with our silver and gold dollars. This shows the wonderful effect

produced upon bullion by making it a legal tender coin. Without this quality the

bullion is so much metal that very few people want. With the legal tender quality the bullion becomes coin that everybody wants Silver and gold as bullion and silver and gold as legal tender coin are as different

statue

and gold as legal tender coin are as di as the rough block of stone and the chisseled therefrom by the sculptor.”

The Republicans attempt to frighten people by asserting that if Bryan ami tree silver are victorious the whole world will dump its silver into the United States, and they aver that such a stale of facts would be a terrible catastrophe for this country. Lets look at the facts : Who before ever heard or dreamed that dumping wealth into a country would prove a catastrophe? The fact is that additional wealth brought to a country is always considered a blessing, adding to its prosperity in proportion to the additional wealth obtained, and common sense teaches that this is a fact.

The attempt of Republicans to deny the fact that the depreciation in the pi ice of farm products and silver began in 1S7S, and that this depreciation continued ri^ht along, side by side, year by year, is futile. History proves to the contrary, experience and observation proves to the contrary, and the statistics of the world give the facts in figures so plain and convincing that evasion or contradiction are unavailing. Sauerbeck, who;

this it. the story coming from other places where simular declarations have been made—the tide is coming

our way.

The Republican party has descended to the lowest d-p'hs of shame in becoming the willing and obedient tool* >■[ the millionaire individuals and corporations who ate more interested in a single gold standard than in tin ir soul’s salvation.

The bitterness and viruleney of the attack made upon Bryan by the gold bug newspapers, since ho made his speech in Madison Square Garden, New York, convinces the people that Mi. Bryan was strong, truthful, logical and eloquent in presenting the cause olfi'to silver coinage on that occasion. Being unable to answer his arguments they descend to villilication and abuse; what they lack in argument they make up in multiplicity of uncomplimentary adjectives. The people arj up and coming, however, and the gold bug contingent will meet with overwhelming and deserved defeat in November.

The fact is becoming plainer every day that party lines are being obliterated in the present campaign, and those people who honestly and sincerely support “the present gold standard,” advocated in the Republi-

can national platform are growing

is considered the greatest, most re I beautifully less as the days and the

liable and most trustworthy statistician of the world, and is acknowledged authority, publishes the facts in table form, wherein it is shown that the average price of silver and wheat in the years from 1873 to 181)3 was as

follows :

In 1873, silver I1.C9 wheat - 1-31 In 1875, ailver 1.28 wheat 1.12 In 1877, ailver 1.2U wheat 1.17 In 1879, ailver 1.12 wheat 1.07 In 1881, silver 1.13 wheat 1.11 In 1883, ailver 1.11 wheat 1.13 Inl88S, silver 1.06 wheat 86 In 1887, silver 97 wheat 89 In 1889, silver 95 wheat 90 In 1891. silver 90 wheat 87 In 1893, silver - 72 wheat 68

The coterie that is distorting the truth in manufacturing editorials for the Banner-Times, is composed of individuals whose spirituality is so welt known to those most intimate with them, that nothing real or tangible could be expected to emenate from such a source. Their latest and most labored effort is what purports to be a review of Col. Matson's recent speech at the Court House, in which he is misquoted more frequently than he is quoted aright, and the whole job is one of misrepresentation of facts or mi.--representation of recent political history. The B -T., if it had knowledge of the laws of journalistic decency, or if it was disposed to treat the affairs of the campaign in a truthful manner, could deny the assertions of free silver campaign advocates, and present facts and argument to substantate its denials, but it don’t tlo these things becauase it cannot and descends to the methods that obtain with it and simply because it is driven to lie and get out of trouble, or« lie and take punishment because it cannot lie out of it. Gold bugism is in a sad plight when it depends on the B-T. to advocate and uphold its cause as one worthy of countenance or support. -

weeks go by. It is true, however, that many Republicans who at heart are opposed to ‘'the present gold standard” lack the independence and nerve necessary to declare their true position, realizing that to do so would call down upon their devoted heads the maledictions and abuse of Republican politicians and rounders, hut when these men go to the

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polls they will vote their sentiments; those who would traduce them will he none the wiser; the whole people, however, will reap the benefit of their righteous action.

The Republican part}’, by its own declarations, convicts itself of dishonesty and cowardice. On the stump Republican orators declare, aud in the press Republican editors proclaim that the fiee silver dollar is worth only fifty-three cents, yet the Republican party, in its national platform adopted io St. Louis, declares that it favors free coinage of silver if the nations of Europe will agree to go into partnership with them in silver coinage business. In other words, the Republican party declares it is willing to go into a conspiracy with the nations of Europe to palm oil' a fifty-three cent dollar on the people, and it thereby establishes its own dishonesty, and it adds to this crime, the guilt of cowardice by acknowledging that it is afraid to go into the free silver coinage business without it is aided and abetted in the scheme by the nations of Europe. These are the facts as gleaned from the Republican record, and they can't be denied. On the other hand the Democratic party affirms that the silver dollar of the dads is worth 100 cents now and it always has been ; they also assert that they favor the free and unlimited coinage of these silver dollars, regardless of wnat other nations think or do about the matter—the Democratic position is honest and brave; it challenges the admiration and support of the people, and it will win in Novem her.

Over at Nohlesville, a few days ago Hon. J. L. Evans, a Republican ex Congressman, was convinced thaf'the present gold standard” of currency advocated by the Republican party is wrong, and that the free coinage of silver policy of the Democratic party is right. He has publicly made the following offer, which still holds

goods.

“I will contract to buy all the No. 2 wheat you have raised iu 1893 at 60 cents per bushel, providing Bryan is elected, and with him a tree coinage congress; or I will sell you all the No. 2 wheat yon want at 50 cents per bushel, providing McKinley is elected.” In a recent interview Mr. Evans said : “I will make money on either proposition. If Bryan and a free coinage congress is elected wheit will go to about 70cents. If McKinley is elected and the gold standard is continued I cau buy it for less than 50 cents.” Having in view tlje fact that labor is the foundation of prosperity, Mr. Evans further said; “While in congress I served on the committee of coinage, weights and measures, and I think I then learned just what free coinage of gold and silver means. The experience of years since then has only strengthened my convictions. Free coinage is the only hope for our

farmer friends. We

The September L'.idles’ Home Journal—in a coYtr gmog ft dainty suggestion of early

autumn—opens with an interestingly chatty on “The Personal Side of Dickens,” in

>aper c shich

Stephen Fiske writes of the famous author ot home aud hs a host. A new study

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opening chanter of “The Experiment in The

< leister.” Biographical sketches

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List of Letters

Remaining in the postofflee at Greencastle,

unclaimed, Aug. 26. 1896:

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Fruit cans, and granite and porce-

m;ss F ' le V,\J I “ rr u% pA'lrf, v T R Mnn^o’ lain kettles, at the lowest prices, \\\ a D. e LogiNHs,'Minnie E. Brow-'. ‘.lames Bickuell Hardware store.

o. Boat*.

A. Best. Isaac Baughman. Wallet All.paugh, Robert Lee Allen. Amiy Christen! err, , Mis*

Maggie Clifton, Miss Della Pickett.

Iu culling for any of the above named let-I

ters please say “advertised.” WILLIS G. NEFF, P. M.

Hardware, Tinware, Stoves, Washing Machines, Wringers; Gasoline Stoves at Cost at Bicknell’s. tf

Bargains in Road Wagons, Buggies ] and Carriages at Bieknell's. tf

Onkalla.

W. S. Torr and K. R. Martly attended the Avon Old Settli-rs’ picnic,

, , —— tended tin-A von ( Hd Tv-ttors piciili Studebakerand Icnnesseo Wagons mr. Johnson, of Sanford, nttend-^t t. Hioknoll's. tt e( j t j le telegraph office while Bartley

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was at Avon...

and Jessie

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West Cloverdale. Briggs, of Illinois, are visiting John

the McFarland Alf. Curtis, wife and

of the

daughters of George William Curtis, Joseph Jefferson and Charles Kingsley, and sketches also of Grace King, Ruth McEnry anil Elizabeth W. Bellamy lall with portraits,) bring the readers into close intimacy with “Three Daughters of famous Men,” and "Three Writers of the South.” Ex-President Harrison writes in his --This Country of Ours”

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paper of the Secretary of War, PostmasterGeneral and Attorney-General, detaili-"

1 and Attorney-General, detailing ly and instructly the duties of -The Young Man as a Citizen” is the

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the title of Dr. Parkhurst’s paper. There are also articles upon dress, the coiffure, the floral bay-window, Chinn cabinets, seaweed di signs for needlework, mourning costumes. and the usual departments. The practical and literary value of the score of admirable articles in the September Jour-

nal is very materially enhanced by a large

of excellent illustrations, making

the number one of the best ever issued.

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The Forum for September will contain a article that for dramatic interst lias proba-

article that for dramatic interst has probably never bein excelled. It is entitled "Fire and Sword lu Cuba,” and it is an absolutely

trustworthy history of the present insurrection in Cuba up to Dampos’s downfull, a thrilling and intensely interesting article. The author, Mr. Clarence King, has travelled the island widely, and enjoys the friendship and confidence of the leaders of

the revolution. The Forum for September will contain a notable paper by Dr. William

, P. Northrop, an eminent physician of New Cannot have York, giving the result of a recent investl-

prosperity on constantly falling prices., l^menTormphthe'”ia*n neaGy e.ooo* cmc” There must be a restoration of the I The^.utlatic. P r # °J e tr ^°^ t “ .-The‘ Pro* prices of the products of labor before|Xetit”.’%?if ext”mS“ # "nter n we can hope fora revival of business eating article in the September Forum by , , .. , Mine. Jeanne E. Schmahl, leader of the move-

and a return of prosperity. | n, cn t in France.

Many from this part attended Teacher's Institute at Greencastle this week A. J. Taber took dinner with J. K. Jenkins and family of Greencastle on Monday Mrs. Ida Keiser, of Terre Haute, visited relatives in this vicinity last week Wiu. Larkin was the guest of Alcany Farmer last week Nora Cunningham visited Mrs. Joseph Torr, at Oakalla, this week Homer Morrison was on the sick list this week Aunt Lucinda Cline continues very sick Wesley McMurry and family, of Clay county, are visiting relatives in this locality. country Girl

urtis,

sister visited G. W. Busby on Satur- . day Ross Torr hits been visiting at * Cloverdale G. W. Johnston has been here from Indianapolis visiting his mother Frank Torr had a valuable mare die J. I). Torr has a new road wagon .Mrs. Allen has returned to Russellville Country Keadintr Club met with Mrs. J. D. Torr, Wednesday Mollie Torr is visiting at Manhattan Simpson Keyes has moved to Manhattan G. W. Busby and wife attended a birthday dinner at Moses Boone's on Saturday. xx

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