Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 9, Hope, Bartholomew County, 30 June 1892 — Page 4

HOPE, REPUBLICAN^ Entered at tho post office at Hope, Indiana, as second class matter. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY JOSEPH CARTER & SON. JOSEPH CARTER* - - Editor. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year — SI *00 Six IWontliN 50 Three MoiiUim 25 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. For Advertising Rates, Apply at Office. THURSDAY, - JUNE 30, 1892’ FOR PKESimiNT, BENJAMIN HARRISON, Ol' Indiana. FOB VICE-PIiESIOENT, WHITELAW REID, Of New York. STATE TICKET. For Governor, IKA J. CHASE, of Hendricks. For Lieutenant-governor, THEODORE SHOOKNEY, of Bandolph. For .Secretary of State, AARON JONES, of St. Joseph. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. COONS, of Marlon. For Treasurer of State, F. J. SCHOLTZ, of Vandorburg, For Attorney-general, J. D. FERUALL, of Lagrange. For Supreme Court Reporter, GEORGE 1>. HAYWOOD, of Tippecanoe. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, J AMES H. HENRY, of Morgan. For State Statistician, SIMEON J. THOMPSON, of Shelby. For Judges of Supreme Court, Second District—JOHN D. MILLER. Third District—BYRON K. ELLIOTT. Fifth District—ROBERT IV. MCBRIDE. For Appellate Judge, First District, A. G. CAVINS, of Green. For Appellate Judge, Second District, O. 8. BAKER, of Bartholomew. For Appellate Judge, Third District, JAMES B. BLACK, of Marion. For Appellate Judge, Fourth District. M. S. ROBINSON, of Madison. For Appellate Judge, Fifth District, EDGAR C. CRUMPAOKBR, of Porter. IT’S DONE. The agony is over, and Cleveland and Stevenson have taken seats in the band wagon that will lead the Democratic hosts up Salt River. This selection has ne t been made by that spontaneous outburst of applause that always follows the selection of successful leaders. The great men of the Democratic party, who have spent a life-time in perfecting its machinery, no longer have any heart in the work. It was evidenced at Chicago, that, while the name of Cleveland electrified and enthused the Democratic heart, a majority of the delegates were inwardly opposed to him. The great leaders of Now York, on whom depend a party victory, were, not slow to confess they had no heart in the work. Mugwumps, free-traders and pensionhaters were allowed to dictate to the convention. The wishes and warnings of the Now Yoi’k delegates, the electoral vote of whose State would bo necessary to elect, was neither respected nor obeyed, but madly on to defeat and ruin they drove the once great Democratic party. As a presidential opponent the Republicans could have made no better selection; none easier defeated. No barrel to make music for the campaign or enthuse the voter will be furnished by the Democrats of the Empire State. Hungry and alone he will grope his way to the polls and cast his vote for Grover Cleveland. The western man, and especially the Hoosier, will stop and reflect before he does this. His mind will wander as he recounts our progress. In visions he will witness our greatness as a State and its grand possibilities under a continuation of the Republican policy. With these things in view apd the tection .ua in the ■ies to our rea vatural re-

SOUTHERN INTOLERANCE. It !■ Still I lie Dominant Feeling In 111 at Section —Experience of an Indiana Ulan. A Tipton county man, who is making a leisurely tour through the South, writes to the Tipton Advocate from Meridian, Miss., as follows; I have visited, seen and talked with all sorts and colors of people. I was very hospitably received and took advantage of this to learn a thing or two. I soon discovered that it would never do to let It be known that I was a Republican, and at present I am playing Democrat. I find that this helps a fellow down here, and if you can find words enough to reflect on the Grand Army, the Yankee soldier, Lincoln, Grant and Sherman, yo'u are a well-informed man and stand well with the people. * * * I spent several days with a man by the name of Silas Davis. He is an unrepentant, unreconstructed rebel soldier. He lost his right leg at the battle of Champion Hills and bobbles around on a wooden peg. He wears long and shaggy hair, a ■full flowing beard, and is a typical Southerner. I successfully played Democrat on him and so gained his confidence that he told me many incidents of the South since the war. He told me about the night riders, the ku-klux and the lightning bugs. He had a bitter hatred toward those Northerners who came down there after the war and organized colored schools. He thought that it was a great sin to educate the colored people. He told me of an incident where a young Presbyterian minister came from Indiana and gathered about him a flock of very respectable people, but that after a while he began to teach school among the colored people and this was the cause of his downfall. The members of the church waited on him and told him that he must quit this, but he insisted on teaching the “niggers,” and he was expelled from the ministry. This only made him more determined and the school-house was burned. He then opened up in the woods, and one morning a committee met him in the road and opened fire on him, but he returned the compliment and he escaped unharmed, but two of the committee received severe wounds. The whole country rose up in arms, and that night they called on him. ‘ ‘He now sleeps over yonder in that graveyard.” He told me of a meeting held by the ku-klux, where it became necessary to dispose of a car-pet-bagger who was in the employ of the government. Being a Republican, his counsel among the colored people was causing the Democrats a good deal of trouble, and it was resolved to remove him. At a meeting twelve men were drawn by lot, one of whom should be selected to get the government official out of the way. After a few ballots the lot fell to a man by the name of Wet Green, a clerk in a dry goods store. On the appointed night he went to the man’s residence, and with a duplicate key opened the door and entered the house. The official was out and would not return until 11 o’clock. While hiding and waiting he peered in a side room, where was a dim light, and looking over in the corner he saw a beautiful woman with an innocent babe in her arms, sound asleep and oblivious to the harm that was awaiting her husband. Tears came to Wet Green’s eyes; ha, too, had a wife and an innocent babe, and his heart failed him and he resolved not to commit the deed. He went to the door to escape, when he heard ’ footsteps at the gate. He drew his dagger and cocked his revolver, and as the tired official stepped into the room Green grabbed him, threw him to the floor and ran with all his speed. At the next meeting of the ku-klux he reported his failure and he and the government official immediately left the country and are, now partners in the dry goods business in Hutchinson, I send you by this mail a xy oh _ * - ■ ku-klux. It is a pin jwjkuiri'dade of nickel and cov-

ered with a devil's mask, horns and all. There are lots of unreconstructed rebels here yet, and it will take another generation or two before it will be effectually stamped out. THE STATE TAX AND THE STATE OEBT. The Journal has been waiting some time for the Sentinel’s source of statistical information to answer, or attempt 1 to answer, Representative Claypool, whom it attacked more than two weeks ago. His answer was a merciless revelation that either the Sentinel’s statistician did not know what he was talking about or that he was trying to throw dust in the eyes of the people. Some of the retorts of Mr. Claypool are so neat that they will bear repetition. For instance, the Sentinel asks: “Why should any Republican or Republican paper be interested in stating that the total appropriations for the year were $2,741,898?” and then answers, “To make people believe that the appropriations for any one year amounted to that sum, which is not true. ” But Mr. Claypool gives this knock-down answer: “Because I wrote every line of the appropriation bill of the last Legislature for the chairman of the ways and means committee, and I know that the aggregate of its items was $2,741,898 for the year which will end Oct. 31, 1892,” and which the Sentinel could . verify by looking through the acts of that Legislature. There is no retort to such an answer, therefore the Sentinel has been silent two weeks. Another point to which Mr. Claypool called attention in that seemingly forgotten letter, which the Sentinel should have noticed after attacking him, is the statement of that paper that “the expenses of the State government are $2,162,884 a year.” To show that the Sentinel is in error, Mr. Claypool takes it back to the report of the Democratic Auditor of State, which shows that the net expenditures for the year which ended Oct. 31,1891, were $2,520,934,60, not one cent of which was applied to the payment of the public debt. That is, the Sentinel has made an error, compared with the official figures, of $365,050.64. Whether this is a blunder or a bluff makes little difference, as its commission, in either event, deprives the Sentinel of all claim upon public confidence in regard to State finances.

The point which Mr. Claypool and the Journal have made is, that the present increased taxation for State purposes, yielding, according to the Sentinel, $2,106,012.30, is not equal to the State expenditures, which, as above stated, for 1891, were $2,520,934.60. Upon the basis of the expenditures of 1891 there will be a deficit of $354,322.30 next October, if taxes alone were relied upon, and of over $575,000 if all the money appropriated for the year shall be expended. But for the three or four hundred thousand dollars of receipts coming from other sources than levied taxation, there would bo a large deficit to add to the increasing State debt when the year ends, and probably one or two hundred thousand dollars with the best management. In other words, the immense increase of the State taxation of the people—from $1,096,839.07 in 1891, to $2,166,612.30 in 1892—will not reduce the State debt a dollar. Meantime, the refund war tax from the United States Treasury, amounting to $719,144, has been swallowed up by last year’s deficiencies.—Indianapolis Journal. A t this hour, when a free-trade Congress is declaring tariff on tin a tax, and trying to destroy the industry by removing the duty, a dealer in New York City advertises for sale a cargo of American pig tin from California at the regular price of the imported product. The 70-cent tin cup and doubled price articles preached by Democracy in 1890 are now known by experience to be nothing but campaign lies, and in the future the words of their proclaimers are entitled to no respect or considerateby /honest men. They lied 1 3 ; they will do it again.

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