Greencastle Star Press, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 September 1896 — Page 4

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Early Overcoat. w————— )N SATUBDAY, SEPT. 5th, AVe commence our two weeks’ clearance sale of overcoats ami woolen underwear. This sale includes men's ulsters and all boys’ an 1 children’s coats. We have marked all of these down to a price that will close them out fast. Anybody and everybody can get suited in this stock, ns we have overcoats both cheap and fine, former price 85.00 to $25.00, all reduced to a price that if you will come and look you cannot help buying. Our WOOLEN IDERWEiB Efiteil Less M Cest. Two Weeks Only.

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i HE STAR-PRESS. Frank A. Arnold. Editor and Proprietor. ' tu Sept. 5, TERMS t > . Entered at the Postoffice, Greencastle, Ind. second-class mail matter. We want a good correspondent at each I ostoffice in Putnam count:,. Those now acting as correspondents will please notify us when they are out of supplies ol any kind and we will forward the seine to them promptly

Democratic Ticket. President, William J. Bryan. Vice President. Arthur Sewell. Governor, Benjamin F. Shively. Eieutenant-Goveriior. John Lawler. Appellate Judge, First District, Edwin Taylor. Appellate Judge, Second Distrcit. Frank F.. Gavin. Appellate Judge, Third District, Theodore 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. Clai r. Congress, John C. Ridpath. Representative. John H. James. Treasurer, James L. Browning. Sherilf, 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. Rawley. Joint Representative, George J. Reiser. The BoarJ of Tax Commissioners of Indiana, at one of their sessions field last week, decided that running stock in building associations is not taxable. The case settled was an appeal made by the Wabash Building and Loan Association—an attempt had been made to place its regular running stock on the tax duplicate, and the State Board of Tax Commissioners mled that it could not be done. The editorials in the Kepublican press, and the addresses of the Bepublican speakers of this campaign consist of brag, bluster and bulldozing. They have no argument to put forward in favor of the “present gold standard,” and they are driven to the three B’s mentioned shove for material to make up their public utterances, and what is lacking is then made up of misrepresentation and downright falsehood. Republicans in their speeches, declare that the ; »tage and currency laws have nothing lo with the low price of corn, and mis, and wheat, and cattle, and other products of farm and factory, but that the price of these things is governed by the law of supply and demand. All right we’ll take them at their word mid when Bryan takes his seat ns President and a majority of the Congress of the United States passes a law providing for the free and unlb mifed coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 16 1, that law of supply and demand will be, at the same time repealed, and we will have a return to the good times and go d prices we r \ i rieoced prior to the demonetizali<,n of silver in 187.‘t.

The gold craze is drooping—death

is gnawing at its vitals.

The Japanese should be a happy people—no such thing as an oath is known to the Japanese language. But how in the world do they sucoessfuliy conduct entertaining curb

stone political discussions?

1 he Republicans are endeavoring to frighten people in a manner that would call for mirth, were it not that most people give no heed to their threats and evil prophecies. They attempt to frighten the people by telling them that if free silver coinage is carried we will have too much money. Who ever heard of “two much money” injuring or harming those who depend upon their own exertions for the expenses of life. They tell the people that if free coinage wins at the ensuing election a great panic will be precipitated upon the country ; that money will take to itself wings and tly away, and that the lack of money produced by the free coinage of silver will cause misery and want to stalk about, gaunt and hollow eyed, over the land. Thus they contradict themselves and expect the people to believe them. They are more remarkable for the unreasonableness of their lies than for their avoidance of truth, in this campaign, and ‘twill lead to their undoing. If Burke Cochran and his Republican allies can have their way, the price of wheat, corn, cattle, and all other products of the farm is to he made still lower, in the interest of the gold bug classes. Of course, while these money holders and money changers advocate this sort of a policy, they don’t care a snap for the toilers of the land who woik hard to put these products in the market, only to find that the pay they receive therefor is not sufficient to meet the expense of production and give them sufficient surplus to keep the wolf from the farm house door. If the toilers of the land do not vote to foster their own interests, they may depend upon it, that the nonproducers, the rich who go arrayed in purple and fine linen, will not do it for them. Politics should cut no figure in the present campaign—it is a conilict believe right and wrong; between the money changers and those who produce the wealth of the country by the toil of their hands and heads; between the millionaries and the masses, and the people should, with one accord, raise their voices and record their votes in favor of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of IP to 1, and thereby regain the prosperity and happiness stealthily taken away from them by the Republican party when it demonetized silver, the best and truest dollar the poor man ever knew, in 1873.

Putnam county will give a majority of o*er 700 for the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 10 to 1 — mark the prediction. It seems that the Republican-gold bug eampaigu of education has been so weak and unsuccessful that the “literature’’ feature is to be dropped and the managers are going to de pend on boodle foreflective work The announcement is made that Bryan will make speeches in this State, in October, at Fort Wayne. Marion, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Evansville. In making this tour of the State he is sure to pus.through Greencastle, and the advocates of free silver coinage should give him a largo and an enthusiasticreception. The itenerary of bis trip should be prepared early, so that tin people may be advised of the time of bis arrival at the different towns and cities through which lie will pass. The Republicans started out in tl e campaign in this city, claiming the earth, and they organized several Republican Clubs, but tluse same clubs didn’t thrive, and propeer, and grow strong; on the contrary they proved puny and so sickly that death almost took them off. In the hope that they could form one healthy club the remains of all others wenmerged into what is termed the Greencastle McKinley Club, last Monday night, and this last organization is struggling for cxistance now, with the possebility that it will peter out before election day. The G.O. P. is

in hard lines.

According to Burke Cochran the intent of gold bugs and the gold standard is to beat down the pries of the products of the farm and the shop to the lowest possible notch, and hold it there. No point in his speech was made so prominent as this. And yet there are farmers and working men howling themselves hoarse for McKinley and the “present gold standard.” These men are surely misguided or misinformed ; it cannot be possible that they knowingly and willingly support a cause that is calculated to keep down the price of the products of their labor, and thus keep them in proverty and want, or within a stone’s throw of them. Ovek at Elwood a strike has been on at the tin plate mills ; the owners of the mills wanted to reduce the pay of the men and the men refused to work, except at the old scale of wages. The conflict between the laborers and their employes was injuring the Republican cause, and the G. O. R. P. managers determined that something had to be done, so the National Republican Committee was called upon, and the situation was explained. The result was that the committee paid the owners of the mills -t20,000 to sign the wage scale and start the men to work at old wages. The men will he employed on this basis until after the election is over, and then look out for a reduction of wages and another strike—sure to come. The Republicans persist in asserting that a double standard—free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio of Ifi to 1, is not praticable ; that to talk of such a thing is simply nonsense; that a parity between the white and yellow coin cannot be maintained at this or any other ratio, etc. Ask them for proof that their assertions are correct and they immediately begin spinning out some fine spun theory to bolster up their cause that is more flimsy even than the cause itseif. The fact is that they have no sound argument to base their assertions upon. The fact that the United States did have bimetallism for eighty yeais prior to 1873; that the two metals were held at a parity during all those years, and that the county prospered and grew strong while bimetallism prevaileJ, iean argument and an experience that gold hug theories cannot and

will not down.

Have heard of no Republican around about here that has expressed any willingness to meet Mr. T. E Ballar<J,,oiCfawford«ville, in a joint discussion of the currency question, in this city. What’s the matter? Do you lack the nerve, or have you no laith in the policy you advocate? The go'd bugs of Indiana are worried and terribly shocked over the fact that a Bryan fr. o silver club, made up entirely of Republicans, has been organized at Terre Haute, with a membership of ueurl. .100. The gold -taudard people will see and hear much to shock them between now ind the day of November election. The fact that the denumetization of silver depreciated its marketable value, as well as the marketable value of everything else, and thereby in creased the money value of gold to a corresponding degree is so plain that our friends, the Republican-gold-bug enemy, have about quit attempting to deny it. All the facts and all the history of the past twenty-three years corroborate the statement here made. The remedy is as plain as the fact Put silver in our coinage in the place it occupied prior to the demonetization act of 1873, and the good old times will come again. Every voter in Putnam county should cast his ballot that way—’tisto his interest to do so.

The man who works in the shop or on the farm is more interested in getting a good price for the products of his toil, than in anything else in business or politics. He toils for the benefit of himself and of those he loves, and the happiness of the toiler and his family depends largely on the amount lie receives for the hours spent in sweat and toil. It is to their interest to have a bimetallic standard of currency and free coinage of silver and gold^it the ratio of 10 to 1. No farmer, no mechanic, no man who depends on his own exertions for a hvlihood can afford to support and vote with the political party or for the political candidate which advocates the “present gold standard.” In doing so he votes to deprive himself of just reward for the hours consumed in toil, and votes to benefit those who have large wealth and are not forced to earn their bread by the

t sweat of their brows.

The letter of acceptance of McKinley has made its appearance’, and it is a disappointment to his friends, while it furnishes a new supply of amunition to his enemies. His only suggestion to better the condition of affairs is to increase the tariff taxation which has robbed the common people and built up monopolies, trusts and millionaires in the past. Only this and nothing more. He slops over in fulsome praise of the “present gold standard,” which has added 1202,000,000 to the debt of the peoplo in a vain effort to keep up the ••f 100,000,000 gold reserve said to be necessary to maintain the “present gold standard;” and has brought upon the country an era of financial depression that has worked injurv and harm to ail our people save timse who have grown fat off the people's misfortunes—the bond holders and money changers.

September 10. For particulars see Large Posters in our windows. We propose to give to the lady placing on exhibition in our window the largest dozen of Eggs (size to be determined by weight) a pair of Ladies’ Fine Shoes worth 83.00.

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I\ one of his recent speeches in New York State, William J. Bryan gave utterance to gospel truth as follows: If we must part company with those who believe in a government of syndicates, by syndicates and for syndicates, may we not appeal with confidence to those who believe that a government of the people, by the people and for the people should not perish from the earth? If these men who pride themselves upon tl eir prominence in the business world and who glory in the title of business men are going to make a business out of politics, and are going to use their ballots to increase their incomes, I beg you to consider whether the great toiling masses of this nation have not a right to make a business out of politics once and protect their homes and families from disaster.

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Dry Goods and Shoes.

The friends of the free coinage of The gold bug national convention, silver and gold at the ratio of 1G to 1 j held at Indianapolis, was a fraud and have been making an effort to arrange farce combined ; the attendance was

blinded by the bias of glittering gold.

rostrum—they give, as an excuse for not accepting the opportunity to

put forth Meade as their champion, ^ !,E Banner Tim-s says that M. L. the slim excuse that the Republicans , was one of the speakers at the

In a recent circular rent out by Henry Clews & Co., the great banking firm of New York, is found language that means much to the honest people of the country. It is notice that bribery or bulldozing is to be re--orted to after the election, should the free silver coinage people he victorious at the polls, and demonstrates the truth of the charge we have frequently made in these columns, that the money power has the country by the throat, and will continue to hold in its merciless gt ip, unless the people, in their might, decree to the contrary in terms so pronounced, and in action so strong that the money' power will see that their days of dictatorship are over. From this circular sent out by Henry Clews A Co. we make the following extract: “Wall street has learned to believe that there are greater potencies than party platforms, than legislative subserviency to popular ignorance, than the madness of a partisan infatualion. They know that there are situations and events winch can instantly coerce and convert the most reckless legislators into willing servants. The near prospect of the authotization of free coinage—the counting of heads showing a certainty of a twothiids vote in the house and senate for 1G to 1—would evoke in Wall street the kind of conditions that no congress has ever yet dared to disregard, and the cause of free coinage would be over-thrown at, the moment when its success seemed most certain. It is this reserved power on which Wall street is reposing.” The Banner-Times needs protection for itself, hence makes a mean, lowspirited, and dirty attack on the business ot Rev. A. T. Riley because he dared to express his convictions to the people, at the free silver picnic

I last Saturday.

cannot afford to pay the necessary expense of bringing Meade here.

Ox last Monday Maynard L. Daggy addressed very latge audiences at Russellville and Fincastlc, in the afternoon and evening. Both speeches were quite lengthy and full of thought; they were fair and hone"t presentations of the free silver coinage cause, and as such were listened to with attention, were applauded with enthusiasm, and no doubt ox

for a joint debate between Maynard L. Daggy and Ed. S. Meade, the latter being as devotee of the single gold standard. Both these gentlemen graduated from DeP.iuw University this year; Mr. Daggy has proven to our people that he has opinions, and that he has mental power to uphold and maintain them successfully against the adverse critcism of all comers; Mr. Meade is said to be strong in the presentation of gold bugistn, but his friends, the Republicans have not sufficient faith in their cause to pei-

small, and it was magnified a thous-and-fold by the Republican press; the real intent is to assist in the election of McKinley, but this inteut is cloaked in protestations of patriotism and party fealty ; the whole affair is sham Democracy, and is calculated only to continue the grip of millionaires and money changers on the throats of tlie people; the most noticeable thing about it was that the active workers were millionaires and their tools. There are, of course, some honest men in the movement,

mit him to face Mr. Daggy on the but they are misled, misinformed,

Cloverdale picnic last Saturday. This is another 11 -T. falsehood ; Mr. Daggy was not at Cloverdale that day, but lie was at Bedford addressng a crowd of 1,YM people, an I they were so well entertained and instructed that they insisted on his return to that place to-day, where he will make two snoeches, and we doubt not will hav. Y.OOO hearers.

That offer made by Mr. Burkhardt, last Saturday night, to give -fo to any

Uts that they were productive of good I one pro.ent a bona fide

and will result in strength to the

cause of bimetallism.

The Vermont election seems to be highly pleasing to the gold bugs — they increased their majority there. It is also pleasing to the Democrats, because the Vermont election resulted just as they foretold, and as they expected—that State is a sort of pocket borough for millionaires and

corporations, and has been barren, us ' • our ils own hills, of true Democratic sen- 1 Take your school booksTto timent for many decades. wood’s to exchange for others.

argument in favor of the single gold staiidaid, is still open. Some of our extra smart, local Republican politicans should immediately show up tho .•ugument and t ike in that $5.

Rememiiek that Saturday, Sept. 5, is the lust day that a voter can move from one county to another in this state and not lose his vote. Don’t move after that day, or you will lose

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