Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 17, Hope, Bartholomew County, 18 August 1892 — Page 2

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. What the Alabama Election Means. AIcKtnlflj't H»r<l Licks lor Protection—A Democratic Secret Circular—Other Interest log; Themes. Mr. Bynum pines to give bis constituents free tin plates, of which they may possibly consume two pounds each a year, but he voted against free raw and lower refined sugars, of which each one consumes about forty pounds a year. The tinplate is lower now under the double duty than it was two years ago, because of the threatened competition in this country, but the sugar is about a third lower. If they paid the additional duty on thq plate it would amount to 5 cents each, while on the sugar the lower price on forty pounds is $1. —Indianapolis Journal. .IMMIGRATION FROM GERMANY AND GREAT BRITAIN COMPARED. It has been estimated by the freetrade advocates that Germany, with her protective tariff, is furnishing more immigrants to America, a protective country, than is free-trade England, and the question is asked, why? The proposition is not correctly stated. The figures show exactly the contrary. During the year ending June 20, 1890, Germany sent to America alone 92,457 immigrants, while Great Britain, not including Wales, sent 128.340. This question was propounded by a leading advocate of‘‘tariff reform” to a protectionist Republican during the debate in Congress to which no reply was given. The reply might have easily been found in the following statement: A comparison of the immigrants arriving in America from the two countries named above from 1815 to June 30, 1890, is as follows: Great Britain, 6,235,277 out of a population of 35,000,000; while from Germany there came 4,504,128 out of a population of 46,000,000. These figures speak for themselves. M’KI NLEY’S HOT SHOT. Cleveland and Hia Party and the Playful Dodge of “Tariff Reform." fm, McKinley, Jr. It requires $400,000,000 annually to pay the expenses of federal govern meut —more than $ 1,000,000 e very twenty-four hours. How is this t : o be raised ? That rests upon you, and you can do it in two ways. First, by taxing yourselves, and, second, by taxing the products of other people of the world seeking a market in the United States. The Democrats look to a direct tax. We tried direct taxation during the war. Everything was taxed by the government on the face of the earth. In ■ cases of national emergency we have tried it three times, and as soon as the necessity passed we repealed it. It is odious to a free people in time ; of peace. The Republican party has wiped out every direct tax on American products, except those on whisky and tobacco. If any one desires to wipe it out on these articles, do not permit him to vote the Republican ticket. Do you know what tariff reform is? Has Mr. Cleveland told us? Has Mr. Warner told us ? Has Mr. Mills told us ? No ! Do you know why they don’t tell us ? It is because they don’t know. Read Grover Cleveland from his first words on tariff, in Albany, to his last public utterance,in Madison square G arden, and you look in vain for an explanation. And the 159 majority in Congress! What definition has it given of the term “Tariff reform?” Why, it has passed a bill to untax wool for the sole benefit of the New England ■manufacturer and the injury of all farmers, while leaving the duty on .all the woolen articles that man is called upon to wear. Yes, and it has passed a bill to lift the tariff on ■•cotton, ties for the benefit of the South, while the almost identical iron bands used in many other callings still have upon them the old duty. This.is tariff reform. This is the economic policy of the Democratic iparty. It might better be called no policy at all. for it obviously represents n i-system and can produce no uniform result for good or bad. WHAT THE ALABAMA ELECTION MEANS. When Mr. Manning, of Alabama, arose in the Omaha convention to place General Weaver in nomination for the Presidency, be pledged that Southern State to the People’s Party. There were many other enthusiasts who followed Mr, Manning, and pledged their States, North and South, to The new party. This party called the Populis party and the People s party was to wipe out sectional lines, break down race prejudice, and bring the political millennium. Alabama bn* held its first election

of the year. In this State election Mr. Manning and the People’s party have met the enemy they expected to wipe from the face of the earth. But the returns from Alabama indicate that the regular Democrats will have a majority of 30,000 to 50,000. The Kolb people c. aim that systematic fraud was practiced against them, and threaten a contest. They are in the position occupied by the Republicans in the South, and have been treated with no more consideration. They have made their campaign and have failed to break the Democratic line. It is well that the People’s party leaders have had their opportunity early in Albania. They went into this work with great enthusiasm,and old time Democrats from the South talked so much confidence at Omaha that they made many Western farmers believe that the solid South was to be broken by this new political fofce. The West was ready to meet the South half way. Alabama was one of the most hopeful Southern States. There was a split in the Democratic party. The new organization would take advantage of this and unite dissatisfied Democrats with the alliance men to sweep the State. That was their outline at Omaha. But in the campaign the Kolb leaders depended upon another force to carry the State. Instead of breaking through the lines of the Democrats, Chairman Bornan sought in every way,even by forgery, to-secure the negro vote, which has been Republican. He forged Chairman Moseby’s name to an alleged Republican manifesto, urging all Republicans to vote for Kolb, and he engendered more strife than did Re. publicans. It should be remembered that Colonel Kolb was an old Democratic leader ; that he was an ex-Confed-erate soldier ; that he was for years a State officer; that two years ago he went into the Democratic State convention with more delegates than any other candidate for Governor, anil even by a combination of all the other candidates he held them in a dead look until they bribed several of his delegates and sprung several scandals in the press which went against him ; that he was the leader of the Alliance in the State, and as hopeful of controlling his party in Alabama as was Governor Buchanan in Tennessee or Governor Tillman in South Carolina. But with all these advantages Kolb has been defeated in Alabama. Governor Buchanan has been compelled to retire as a candidate for re-election in Tennessee, and Governor Tillman has a very poor prospect for re-norai nation in South Carolina. The bubble has burst. There is little hope for the People’s party in the South. The Alabama election clearly demonstrates this. The Alliance men did not vote the Kolb ticket. Their State lecturer and several other State officers deserted Kolb. The old cry of white supremacy was just as powerful against the new political combination as it has ever been against the Republicans. Western Republicans who had a leaning toward the movement to take the Alliance into National politics are now able to see how futile are the efforts to break the solid South by such a combination. Southern Democrats talk fair, but they vote as they shot. The destinies of this government can not be worked out along the Alliance line. The old political parties are to wage the battle and decide whether majority or minority rule shall prevail. The People’s party in the West can only help those in favor of mi nority rule. Every vote for Weaver in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Indiana or Illinois is a vote for Cleveland. The People’s party in the South is only a myth. The Alabama election has demonstrated this and that the new combination is only for use in the West to assist the Democrats. DEMOCRATIC SECRET CIRCULAR, Indianapolis Journal. A copy of a circular issued by the chairman of the Democratic State central committee has reached the Journal and is printed in another column. The circular has been sent ■ to Democratic trustees, who are to act as spies on the chairmen of county committees, finding out what they have done or left undone, completing the work they have neglected, and giving the chairman of the State committee secret information as to the doings of the local chairmen and also of their own operations. The circular seems to have been suggested by a suspicion or fear that the local committeemen, and especially the chairmen, could not be trusted. The burden of the instructions is to ascertain whether the local organization is doing its duty, and if not, why not. The secret agent is to “ascertain ” a great many things. One clause of the circular reads: “Ascertain if they [the local committeemen] are looking after voters classified as doubtful Democrats, and j how. ” So it seems there are some ! “doubtful Democrats” in spite of ! assurances to the contrary, and they ■ are to be “ looked after. ’’ Mr. Tag- ! gart’s method of “looking after”

[ doubtful voters is pretty well known. Another clause of the circular di-1 rects the secret agent to “ call chairman’s attention to the necessity of conferring with county commissioners, trustees, etc., and see that a induction in the levy for taxes is made at the meeting of the commissioners in September. ” So that racket is to be played again and on a larger scale. This is a repetition of Chairman Jewett’s instructions, sent out shortly after the tax law was passed, directing Democratic county commissioners and township trustees to reduce the local levy so as to keep down the aggregate amount of taxation. In a number of counties this was done to such an extent as to compel the commissioners to negotiate temporary loans to meet current expenses. This is a characteristic Democratic dodge. Another clause of the circular directs the secret agent to “have chairman make out lists of names and addresses of German Lutheran Republicans and mail the same to the State committee.” This means that an attempt is to be made to work the Bennett school law scare in this State, and it can only be characterized as a dirty, contemptible trick. No legislation of that character has been proposed in this State, and there is not the slightest probability that there will be. The attempt to introduce that issue in Indiana politics is an insult to every German Lutheran in the State, because it assumes they have so little intelligence that they can be easily fooled. This secret circular is notice to Republicans that they have to deal with an opponent who is underhanded, untiring, unscrupulous and ready to use any means, fair or foul, that may contribute to success. WHAT THETARIFF HAS DONE. Senator Aldrich’s Speech. By its revival of activities in every direction it has given profitable employment and certainty to all classes of the people. It has directed American enterprise into new channels and given wider scope to the genius of American inventors. It has afforded the opportunity for production in the United States of all the finer and more difficult manufactures in every branch, productions which will demand from our artisans and skilled workmen greater artistic taste and a higher mental development. The beneficial effect which the entrance upon these new and broader industrial fields will have in in quickening the national life and broadening the national experience cannot be measured by the sum which the establishment of these industries will add to the national income. The declared purpose of the Democratic party to repeal this act immediately upon their return to power is certain to provoke a lively opposition to their political restoration. We can await the result of this contest with calm confidence. The plain people of the United States have too much good sense and discernment to mistake pretentious platitude for philosophy. They are not likely to exchange the certainty of satisfactory earning and savings, of constant employment and comfortable homes for Democratic promises of a millennium that is to follow revolution. These promises are but the shadows of the unknown, for which an intelligent people will not surrender the substance of a present and abundant prosperity. PROTECTION AT THE ROOT. N. Y. Press. Our production of beet sugar grew from 600,000 pounds in 1887 to 4,000,000 pounds in 1888, 6,000,000 pounds in 1889, 8,000,000 pounds in 1890, and, under the”Melvin ley law, to 12,000,000 pounds in 1891.

NO WONDER THE STATE IS POOR.

“I’m very hard pressed, just now,” said Billsby, “It sets me crazy to be squeezed in this manner.” ‘ ‘Squeezed! Why I think it’s delightful,” exclaimed his daughter, and then rushed from the room in confusion.—Boston Post.

~ A REIGN OF TERROR. Inaugurated In Buffalo By th8 Striking Switchmenr.vlldlosi ar.d Cuts Sot on Fire —Many Non Men Auuultod.amI aTraln Derailed. Tho switchmen In the Erie & Lehigh Valley at Buffalo went out on a strike Friday. Dispatches from Buffalo on the 15lh say: There had been more or less trouble Saturday between the strikers and their sympathizers and the men who were doing the strikers’ work and a few desultry assaults had occurred. Things began to put on a moro serious aspect at 2 o’clock Sunday morning, when a serious of incendiary fires broke out simultaneously in the Lehigh Valley yards. Eighteen or twenty freight cars filled with wool, cotton, hay and various other merchandise, two passenger coaches and two watchman's houses were burned. The fires occurred at places where the firemen could not successfully stay the flames on ac count of an absence of water besides the difficulty of access to the fires. Tho water tank adjacent to the coal trestles was smashed and an engine that was taking water there wrecked by a string of ten runaway cars that bad been turned loose from the trestle. Fire was first discovered in the eastbound yards east of Dingens street. Here a little office building and two or three freight cars were destroyed. At this time Yard-JIastor Mead discovered flames in two passenger coaches used for the conveyance of workmen, and turned in an alarm from William and Dingens streets. In the yards east of Dingens street fire raged among tho cars of merchandise. It took tho hose from thiee carts to reach tho flames from the nearest hydrant. The firemen, however, prevented the destruction of a groat number of cars, and tho loss of perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property. The cars destroyed were in the midst of a great number of other cars. The firemen uncoupled a number of cars and removed them from danger. A dozen or so of cars were thrown from the Lehigh tracks through a misplaced switch. The first intimation of anything wrong was when the coal cars were set loose and demolished the water tank. Then the fires broke out simultaneously. That, briefly, was what happened up to daylight Sunday morning. But that was only the beginning. The strikers, or their sympathizers, have pulled pins, turned switches and driven off crews. Three men are at the hospital badly hurt. One was assaulted at 3 o’clock Sunday morning, two others at 11 and another at 3 in the afternoon.

Tbe man who was assaulted at the I Western, New York & Pennsylvania : crossing was on his way for the wreck at' the time and was turning a switch. The strikers had turned switches and thrown six cars from bfs train before that. He was struck on the head. When .taken to the hospital he was completely dazed and did not know what had occurred. One of the men was assaulted at the passenger station and two at William street. Olio of the most cowardly things done was the throwing of switches under passenger train No. 17 at William street at 7:30 o'clockSnnday night. Two passenger coaches were thrown from the track, but the conductor does not think anybody was hurt, though many were badly frightenedFifty men boarded passenger train No. 3 at"ll o’clock in the morning and molested the employes, driving them off. The crow finally succeeded in getting the train to the station. J’hen the mob took possession of the Seurea switches threo or four times during the day and drove off the signal men. Three stalwart policemen wore stationed at the landing and in the hallway loading to the offices of Superintendent Brunn and his associates. The strikers say they are determined to win the fight, and they assert the roads are losing heavily by not having men to perform the work of the strikers. Two trains of freight cars standing on sidings in Cheektowaga, the railroad suburb of Buffalo, were burned to-night. The Lehigh .has called on the sheriff for protection. Ho sent six deputies to the scene and will swear in fifty more. The police have yards In seven out of eleven precincts in the city to guard and all the reserves are called out. At 1 o’clock Monday morning fire has broken out in three places in the Lehigh yards again simultaneously. The fire department seem to bo unable to quench ItThe Now York express. No. 100 (Erie), is held two miles out because it cannot pass. New York express, No. 4, has not, been sent out for the same reason. Word is received that a train of fortytwo cars on the Erie road, filled with line merchandise, a mile west of William st. is now burning fiercely with no protection At the same time the switch lights on the Erie be I, ween Smith st. and the Western New York A Pennsylvania target were stolen. It is impossible to tell how the switches were set. THREE GRAND EXCURSIONS. To Kansan City and Return and to St. I.ouis and Return. From August 19th to 22nd, inclusive,the Vandaiia Line will sell excursion tickets to Kansas City and return at rate of $0.oo. and to St. Louis and reiurn at rate of *5.00. Tickets good returning until Sept. 15th. Call at the nearest Ticket Office Vandaiia Line, or address W. F. Brunner. District Passgr. Agent, Indianapolis, Ind.

SURROUNDED BY SNAKe'A Frightful Experience of a Ken'll tucky Farmer. It Turned His Hair White and ItTndo HIh Wife Hysterical—Scores of Them Killed. Timothy Gates, of Gates Station, was in Greenup, Ky., on the 11th, to relate his horrible experience of the previous nighti and to obtain the services of a physician to attend his wife, who lies in a deathly stupor, brought on through fright or by breathing the sickening fumes arising from the mass of deadly rattlers that surrounded them during the night. Gates’s cabin is occupied only by himself and wife, and is elevated some two feet off the ground. His three dogs aroused him from his slumbers about 11 o’clock at night. He and his wife listened intently and thought they discerned the sound of many rattlers above the baying of tho dogs. Soon tho dogs ran under the house, and the hissing and rattling that was now heard fully convinced them that rattlesnakes in great numbers were beneath their cabin. Soon the barking of the dogs ceased, and they were satisfied that their defenders were laid low in death. Great were their fears, and Mrs. Gates soon became unconscious. They were afraid to get out of bed, as there were largo holes in the floor that the snakes could crawl through, and In their imagination the snakes wore in the room all around. • Mr. Gates, well known to the citizens of Greenup as a stalwart man of raven locks, was scarcely recognizable owing to his whitened hair, it having turned gray in a single'night from fright. Dr. Howard reports his wife in a critical condition and having the appearance of having aged ten years during the night. Mr. Gate 9 reports that upon the light penetrating his cabin so he could see he cautiously peered around, and, seeing no signs of snakes in the room, lie got up, dressed and looked out in the yard, when his eyes beheld a sight which was enough to strike terror to the stoutest heart. There in the yard were hundreds of snakes lying lazily about, apparently unconcerned. In the course of an hour a neighbor approached on horseback, and. nearing the cabin, Ilfs' horse slopped as if paralyzed and would not respond to whip or spur. The man heard Gates calling him and at the same time first noticed the danger that beset his path. Seeing the number of the monsters and knowing that it would be useless to attempt to cope with them single handed and unarmed, he turned about and gath1 ered the neighbors in a posse, armed with 1 clubs ami shotguns, to go to the rescue of the unfortunate Gates. This they did and engaged in a war of extermination that [ lasted for one hour before Gates was re- ' leased from his cabin. Eleven dogs sufi fered death during the fight, and numerI ous others will die from the effects of the bites of the snakes. After tho battle was over an inventory was taken and it was found that 141 snakes were killed, some of them monsters, measuring oyei six feet in length and having forty-three rattles and a button. Several persons were made faint from the peculiar odor arising from the bodies of the poisonous reptiles. Hundreds of the snakes escaped to their dens in a cleft of rocks in' au old quarry near by. Huckleberry pickers had reported that the bills in that vicinity, which arc covered with bushes bearing this succulent berry, were overrun with rattlesnakes to such an extent that it was dangerous to engage in gathering the berries.

POLITICAL RIOT IMMINENT* Charges of Election Crookedness in Alabama Causes Wild Excitement. BmMitrGiiAM, Ala., Aug. 1!.—Rockford, the county seat of Goosa county, Is in a panic. The county went for Kolb at the recent election, and the Kolb men assert that they caught the probate judge and sheriff tampering with the boxes afte 1 ' they had been returned to the court house, by whicli their majority was reduced. Yesterday 100 armed Kolb men marched into the town and declared their intention of killing the probate judge, sheriff and circuit clerk, who constituted the returning board, and declared vengeance on all Jones men. The sheriff summoned a posse and a ilot was prevented - The mob declared their intention of re turning Monday next, prepared to execute their will. The inhabitants are in a panic stricken condition. A POLITICAL SURPRISE. Judge Gresham Will Take the Stump For the People’s Party, St. Louis, August 11.—The National People’s Party headquarters to-day were alive with enthusiastic workers, all of whom are jubilant over a telegram received, and its contents verilied by a letter to the effect that Judge Gresham had concluded to take the stump, In the interest of the third party, and would make his opening speech at Indianapolis, the latter part of this month. Chairman Taubeneck received this Intelligence from the chairman of the State committee of Indiana, to whom Judge Gresham had written, declaring his intention and setting forth his reasons for making a campaign in the interest of General Weaver. In his report to the national headquarters, the chairman of the Indiana committee states that. Judge Gresham, is apprising him of his intentions, informed him by letter that he did not refuse the presidential nomination because he was not in sympathy with the party, but for a reason that was entirely personal and not political.