Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — Page 4

'' - I •racial Democratic Paper of Jasper U County. I f. BIBCOCK, WIIOB 188 PUBLISHER. ■ R Metered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: •KE YEAR. tt-OO BIX MONTHS..., We THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable in Advance. advertising rates made known on application •race on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis &. Murray’s Store. For President in 1900, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

National Anti-Trust Conference. To The American People: Upon the adjournment of the conference ■Hating to Trusts, held in Chicago in SeptemBerlast under a call of the Civic Federation «f that city, a number of delegates to that conference who were opposed to Trusts met ••ether with the view of securing concerted action on the part of the enemies of private ■sooopoly. appointed an executive committee, st which M. L. Lockwood, president of the American Anti-Trust League, is chairman, and directed said committee, through itschair■san. to call, as soon as practicable, a National Anti-Trust Conference for the purpose of de•tdtng upon an Anti-Trust policy and permanently organizing an Anti-Trust policy and permanently organizing an Anti-Trust Movement. Purauant to this direction the said committee does hereby make the following declaration ■nd caU: Wobelieve the criminal conspiracies in reatoatot of trade commonly known as Trusts, touch so alarmingly characterize the present Bines, are a menace to liberty. They close Bwdoors of business opportunity to all but Bierich and powerful. They impoverish the producer and consumer. They degrade labor. They have seized upon the avenues of transportation and poisoned the fountains of public information. They debauch the elective franchise. They are public enemies. Unless they are overthrown there will be •■nAUahed io free Americas monied oligarch/ on the one hand and a serfdom of the aaasses of the people on the other. They ■Boat be destroyed or free government is lost. The only power capable of successfuly combatting tlie tyranny of these capitalistic mo■opolies is the aroused and organized hosts to the people to whom the government and the country rightfully belong and in whom ail power of right inheres. Our republic was born of the liberty which • 1776 Impelled the fathers to rebel against Ae tyranny of the English monarch and the special privileges of the British aristocracy, and which inspired them to pledge to the oause of human freedom their lives, their for•anes and their sacred honor. The Same love of liberty destroyed the aristocratic institution of slavery, a power •nee fortified in the courts and entrenched in the constitution. That same spirit now will ■office to overthrow the new slavery'and tyranny of the Trusts. In order to restore the equal rights of the people and deliver them from the criminal Beapoiliation of these monopolistic combinations, it is imperative that the special privifrrges which created and foster them be upnoted and forever destroyed. This herculean task can only be accomplished by the origanization of the lovers of freedom in every part of the republic and •rough the president and determined efforts of a united people. To this end a National Anti-Trust Conference is hereby called to meet in the city of diicago on the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, Tebuary 12, li)00. Patriotic citizens from all states and territories duly accredited and in full sympathy with the objects above named, and representntives of known Anti-Trust organizations, are invited to meet together in said conference. Applications for admission to said corfer■nce should be made to the Secretary, Unity Building. Chicago, at an early date, as credentails of delegates must be countersigned My the chairman of the Executive Committee, M. L. Lockwood. Chairman, Pennsylvania. A. M. Todd. Michigan. Dudley G- Woolen. Texas. < A. P. McGuirk. lowa. W. B. Fleming, Kentucky. Alfred Sample. Illinois. Wm. Prentiss, Vice-Chairman, Illinois. P. E. Dowe. New York. James W. Wilson, Chicago. Louis F. Post, Chicago. Weo. S. Bowen. Treasurer. Chicago, franklin H. Wentworth. Secretary, Chicago. Executive Committee.

Beveridge’s beverage seems to | Be very nauseating even to a great many prominent republicans. I' The bubonic plague is raging to Manila but Otis is safe. He | hasn’t caught anything for a coon’s Rge. The surplue is worrying the Treasury department. Why not I abolish it by reducing duties on aome of the protected articles. And now the administration is | seeking to lay the blame of the Philippine war onto Senator Hoar, g aaa of the old stand-bys of their jartyl 1 The only hope against the ( Trusts lies in the Democratic K warty. The Republicans are unK «a> too many obligations to them ■' to give any real relief. The British are disappointed in | tan They thought the entire •osntry was backing them against | the Boers. Unfortunately they I took Mac and Mark for the coun1%. ' . BmjT» I According to Senator Hoar, the I President’s proclamation to the | Xilipinos was toned down by Otis | in. order to prevent a revolt. But | th* Filipinos got hold of a copy of tjt>* the original and it led them to

“Harbor” Knotte of Hammond, is “fer Landis” for governor, so he says. 1 ",!**• Cinciuatti is making a big effort to secure the democratic national convention. A perusal of Senator Beveridge’s speech explains his reason for not talking to reporters. He had nothing to say. District Chairman Forrest has appointed James W. Schooler of Lafayette as secretary of the tenth district, / The Indiana Democratic Editorial association will hold its annual mid-winter meeting at Indianapolis, on Feb. 1. Now Chicago has the cheek to assert that the drinking water of St. Louis will really be purified by mixing it with the Lake City’s sewage. Collis P. Huntington, who has fought the Nicaraguan canal bitterly for years, is now said to favor it. The explanation is to be found in the ship subsidy bill and in the fact that Mr. Huntington has gone into the ship building business.

Treasurer Pangburn of Clark county, and his bondsmen have paid into the county treasury $9,882.16 the amount of his shortage as shown by experts’ investigation. Pangburn openly accuses his deputy of stealing the amount, and the deputy’s arrest will follow. There is said to be a number of republicans who seek the nomination for sheriff on their ticket. Among whom we hear mentioned are Mark W. Reed, trustee of Jordan tp.; James Babcock of Parr; Lyman Zea of Rensselaer, and J. G. Tharp of Remington. Lyman Zea seems to be making the most active canvass thus far. Attorney General Taylor will, in the near future, make a trip along the Kankakee River, to make an investigation of the lands which might possibly be drained. Auditor Nusbaum of Starke county was in the city today to consult with him about the ownership of such lands, as he doubts the State’s title. He says there are several thousand acres of these lands in Starke county. Press.

Parks M. Martin was re-elected chairman of the democratic state central committee at Indianapolis Wednesday by acclamation. The opposition to Mr. Martin in certain quarters proved to be so weak that no other name was presented Mr. Martin has made a good chairman and The Democrat is well pleased with his reelection. Thomas Taggart was chosen treasurer. Mr. Martin will select his own secretary.

Phelps County (Mo.) Democrat: “History repeats itself” is an old adage and a true one. Just one century ago Thomas Jefferson was defeated for the presidency of the United States, and four years latter was triumphantly elected. Jeffersonian Democracy illuminated the beginning of this centuary, and the same Jeffersonian Democracy will usher in the new century by the election of another Jefferson in 1900.

One of the most objectionable things ih this entire Gage business has been the finding of a letter from the Vice President of thedNational City bank addressed to the Secretary, claiming favors on account of the political strength of the directorate and on account of “what was done in the campaign.” The directors include many men prominent in the Standard Oil company and other trusts. There is of course, no proof that Mr. Gage was biased by this letter but nevertheless the thing leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

An exchange says that efforts will be made by manufacturers and shippers to prevent the railroad companies from carrying out their proposed plan to enormously increase freight rates. An appeal has been made to the inter-state commerce commission to put a stop to these extortions, and that body is now giving the matter consideration. It has already decided that the transferring of freight from one class to another in which the rates are higher is illegal. It is to be hoped that the commission will be able to do what is expected and desired of it in the way of preventing the companies from making their rates unreasonably high. While everybody who must utilize the roads for shipping is willing to pay a just rate for the carrying of their goods, there are none who wish to submit to extortion.

Several hundred taxpayers of Fayette county, Ohio, have petitioned Common Pleas Judge Hidy, requesting the appointment of a committee of three to investigate the books of the county officers of Fayette county for the past ten years. * The Tenth district republicans unanimously re-elected T. J. McCoy of this city, for district committeeman at the meeting held, at Hammond on Tuesday. The various committemen will meet at Indianapolis next Tuesday to elect a state chairman. A Greensburg dispatch to the Indianapolis Sentinel says: The county commissioners today made arrangements to employ A. E. Johnson of Indianapolis and Edwin F. Hedges of Lebanon as experts to make a non-partisan investigation of the county offices This investigation is made in responce to the demands of the taxpayers of Decatur county. The board of commissioners’ affairs will be investigated at the time.

The supreme court has just ruled in a case of much importance as it involves the right of county commissioners to employ tax ferrets. Several months ago the Richmond board employed a ferret, but were enjoined from paying him for his services. The case was carried to the supreme court, where the lower court was sustained. It was then taken before the supreme court a second time, with a petition for rehearing. This has just been denied, ending the proceedings.—Ex. The protectionists’ theory that while protective tariffs might at first somewhat increase prices, they would result in lower prices just as soon as the infant industries were once well established, is hardly borne out by facts. Take the wire and nail industry for example. No one will contend that this is not a firmly established infant, and yet this trust has increased the prices of its product to the consumer alarmingly within the past year. In January, 1895, the price of wire nails in car load lots at Chicago was 95v6ents per 100 pounds, in January, 1899, the price was $1.59, and at the close of the year it had been increased to $3.53. In January, 1895, the Chicago prices on barbed wire was $1.90 per 100 pounds; in January, 1899, it was $2.05, and at the close of 1899 the price was $4.13. It should also be borne in mind that the American steel and wire trust is exporting vast quantities of its output to foreign countries and selling at much lower prices than to the home dealer.

L. A. Rizer of Delphi, who was an elector on the Palmer and Buckner gold standard ticket in 1896, has been selected as secretary of the republican county committee of Carroll county. These gold standard fellows made strong claims to being the only genuine, simon-pure, z name-bio wn-in-the-bottle democrats in that campaign, but the fact that many of the loudest of them, including Billy Bynum, the bell-weather of the flock, have since gone boldly into the republican fold, is proof sufficient that their democracy was never from principle. A man who ever was a democrat from principle could not possibly join the republican party at this time, when tariff-fostered trusts and combines have the people by the throat, jnst as we long ago predicted they would, and when the foundation principles of republican government are being undermined by the present administration’s foreign policy. A man who will leave the democratic party now and join with McKinley, Hanna & Co., with their newfangled ideas of government by force and not by epnsent, their secret foreign alliances, their covertly expressed sympathy for England as against the struggling Dutch republics in South Africa, has never been —and never can be, a true democrat, because he hasn’t a proper conception of a government of, for and by the people.— White County Democrat,

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From oar regular correspondent.) If the republican grumblers in the House had nerve in proportion to their dissatisfaction, the McKinley muzzles would be quickly thrown aside and the House would do some business, instead of wasting time, as has been done ever since the reassembling of Congress, waiting until the Committees have prepared some bills in accordance with their instructions, as the democrats stand ready to help them at any time to restore the proper functions of the House. They nearly all have bills in which their constituents are interested, that they would like to get action

upon but thev dare not move" without permission- When the* republican floor leader neglects tel move an adjournment promptly | enough, Speaker Henderson prods J him by saying: *'The gentleman from New -York moves that the House do now adjourn. 7 ’ AsMr. McKinley's agent. Speaker Hen- ’ derson is out-Reeding Tom Reed right alcng. That the republican leaders do not feel sure of their ability to jam S the ship-subsidy job through Congress is shown by the presence in Washington of Ex-Senator Edmunds, who has been employed, J he says by the shipping interests, to lobby for the bill Mr. Ed- ’ munds has made elaborate arguments before the committees off i; the House and Senate in favor of the bill, but those arguments were § not intended for the committees, a j majority of both having been persuaded to support the bill long ago by Boss Hanna and his assistant pushers. Mr. Edmundsy is not a cheap man, and he would not have) been employed if his services had; not been considered necessary.; His aiguments are expected to brace up the weak-kneed republicans who have candidly acknowledged themselves tn be afraid of the ship-subsidy bill, as well as to furnish texts for the republican editors to preach from. 9 9 9 Democrats in the House were by no means satisfied with Secretary Gage’s alleged explanation of' his relations with two National Banks in New York, city, and Rep- ] resentative Sulser offered a resolution, providing for a committee | of nine to investigate. The re-’ publicans had the resolution referred to the Ways and Means Committee, where they can either j smother it or fix it up, as their orders may be. By the way, speaking of Gage and the National Banks, one of his assistants, —Mr. Vanderlip,— has had the nerve to say that such letters as the one ■ from a New York National Bank, jj calling attention to the political status and work of the members of its Board of Directors, as a reason for demanding favors from the Secretary of the Treasury, are often received. If Mr. Vanderlip’s statement be correct, it uncovers a shameful state of affairs, which furnishes the strongest sort of an argument in favor of the democratic contention that the U. S. Treasury should be absolutely divorced from the banking system of the country, and the democrats in Congress should demand copies of every such letter received by the Secretary of the Treasury, in order that the namesof these political bankers may be known to the people of the country.

§ § § It begins to look as though the opposition to the reciprocity treaties negotiated under the Dingley tariff act might be strong enough to defeat them all. Mr. Kasson, who represented .the U. S. in ne- , gotiating them, and who has been active in trying to get favorable action on them, has gone to Florida for his health, and they are now at i a standstill. It is said that he will return later in the session and i resume his efforts in behalf of the I treaties, but their opponents claim j to be gaining strength all the time, j MS Senator-elect Blackburn spent Sunday in Washington, receiving the congratulations of his friends, but returned to Kentucky Monday ! so as to be present at his second | re-election, Tuesday, which was j gone through so as to leave no') rocm for casting doubt on the le- j gality of his election. When he • comes back to Washington, to re-) sume his duties as Senator, he will be given a complimentary dinner,' which promises to be an old-sash- > ioned democratic love-feast, par- .1 ticipated in bv all the democrats' in Congress and by many others. 9 11 The friction between Gen. j Miles and Adjutant General Corbin has reached an acute stage, and Miles has filed a vigorous protest with Secretary Root, in which he asked whether he or Corbin! was in command of the Army, and ■ citied instances where Corbin had pigeon-holed orders which did not suit him, instead of issuing them, i 9 9 1 It seems that one of Boss Hanna’s I chief literary agents, First Assistant Postmaster General Perry Heath, has also been sharing in the administration’s financial favor. Last June, Perry Heath became, the largest stock-holder in the Seventh National Bank of New York City, of which his brother became Vice President, and that immediately that bank was made the depository for postoffice funds : in New York. Of course, neither' politics nor Heath’s official posi-! tion had anything to do with it.; Whoever heard of one of the Hanna school of politicians working his official position for his personal profit?

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