Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 March 1889 — Page 4

. g @ o The Ligonier Banner, THE BANNER PUBLISHING COMPANY. THURSDAY. MARCH 28, 1889, ‘ S@bsdribers are requested to notice the date on the address label on-their paper. The date indicates the time paid to. If any have paid and have not received credit on this label, the publishiers would esteem it a favor to be notified of the failure at once. The label is practical y a receipt and should show correctly the time the paper has been paid for. ,:::r:;;::::::::i:::r::::.*::‘::r.THE PRESS throughout the country has spoken so clearly and so emphatically on the subject of doubling the salaries of members of Congress tnat ‘ that proposition is not likely to find many champions when it shall come up for consideration next winter. There are no Ben Buatlers in the Fiftyfirst Congress. » | = T ——t oS— " 1 Here is sound civil service doctrine: i ¢‘lf there are incompetent men in the ciyil service of the goyernment, by all means turn them out; but do not let this necessary ejection be used as an excuse for appointing equally incompetent men to fill the vacancies thus created.”” Al friends of good government ought to be able to stand on this platform. =

WHILE Ohio is not represented in President Harrison’s cabinet by any *‘fayorite son” now dwelling within her borders, she contributes to that bedy Secretaries Windom, Rusk and Noble, who were born upon her soil, and Attorney General Miller, who got his legal education from her. lltisa cold day when Ohio is left in matters involving federal offices. ;

DispAaTcHES from lLos Angcles announce that the excitement about the alleged gold discoveries in Lower California is rapidly dying out in consequence of reports that the news was manufactured in the interest of land companies. This is pro%ably' the truth. People ‘who have entertained the idea of securing a share of the fabled deposits will do well to govern themselves accordingly.

. THE ATTEMPTED - BOYCOTT of the Goshen News, by the saloon-keepers of that town, has proved an abortion. The time has gone by when such ostracism of the press can be successfully carried on. The people are overwhelmingly in favor of the higher municipal license law passed by the Legislature. The only objection there is to it is that the figures are lower than public sentiment demanded.

Has it ever occurred to our esteemed contemporaries, the Auburn Courier and the Kendallville News, that the democratic party, ever since it had an existence, always fayored the abolition of internal revenue taxes as speedily as the finances of the government admitted of such action? If it hasn’t, a Tittle investigation of the history of this country will give .them a few ‘pointers on this interestihg subject.

NEWSPAPEZR MEN appear to be in favor with the present administration. The President started out with the appointment of Elijah W. Halford of the Indianapolis Journal as private secretary; John C. New, of the same paper, gets the snug position of consul-gen-eral at London; Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune, goes as minister to France, and so on. President Harrison evidently has a high appreciation of the power of the press. .

THE fact that Democrats who stand unequivocally on the platform of 1884 oppose the extreme free-trade notions of Frank Hurd et al. does not by any means make them enemies of revenue reform. Onthe contrary, these men strongly insist upon a fair and equitable revision of the existing tariff, in the spirit of the declaration of 1884. What they insist upon is that such revision be made in the manner indicated by the platform which the people approved by the election of Cleveland and Hendricks. Let us have a clear understanding about these matters, brethren, as we pass along. :

AN EFFORT is now being made to increase the pay of United States senators. Five thousand dollars a year is not enough for them to live on in adequate style. A more popular movement would be to reduce the price of living in Washington and to get members of Congress to understand that they are sent to the national capital to work in the interests of the people and not to cut a swell at gorgeous dinner parties, play billiards, attend horseraces, and haye a high old time generally. The sooner members of Congress learn to understand this fact and govern themselves accordingly, the bétter it will be all around.

THE southern democratic press is

opening its batteries on the free trade leaders in the Fiftieth congress. Uncomplimentary reference to Messrs. Mills and Carlisle is made in the Richmond _Times, which bluntly declares: “As for Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Mills, it is safe to say that no greater fools have ever given away a great cause , when the opportunity was offered to g,save their section.”’ : This is severe. *But,”’ the Albany Times pertinently asks, ‘““‘why should Carlisle and Mills alone be held up to public contumely? If they had not ~ been encouraged to pursue the course they did, the democratic party would _ not have been committed to a cause Ewmw”m Hothee imimm'm%mwj e

POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER has fifty thousand places to fill, for which there will be at least ten times as many applicants, or in round numbers five hundred thousand. It may be some consolation to his friends to know that he has his life insured for $1,800,000 for the benefit of his family. He carries the largest insurance of any man in the United States. i :

- WHILE it is a fact that Indiana Re‘publicans have been cleverly remenbered by the present administration, ‘in the distribution of federal offices, it is aiso a fact that so far they have been assigned to few positions that have any considerable patronage at their disposal. . Porter and New have snug places, but what good does that do the‘boys in the trenches.’”’ It js the treasury, the postoffice and the interior departments that can take care of the workers. But it may be that Ben will speak a good word for the Indiana boys with the heads of these departments. It is now believed that he has ‘‘some influence” with the present administra--10N.: ;

- Taar distinguished son of old Virginia, General Roger A. Pryor, a very good awthority on Southern opinion, says that the South is in favor of the protectivdystem‘ and will follow any party that favors such a system,whether it be republican or democratic. If Mr. Pryor and the South will look around a little he and they will discover that there is no party in this country now that openly favors the -“free-trade theory. There is a littie faction headed by Henry George and Thomas G. Shearman, but their fpllowing is relatively small and' insignificant. - The campaign of education hasplayed havoc with the rainbow business in politics. We have settled down upon a solid basis.

RoOBERT SlGgrr, son of General Franz Sigel, who pleaded guilty to forging pension checks, was sentenced at New York, Thursday, to six years at hard labor. Just imagine the feelings of that noble .old warrior m seeing his son, whom he trusted implicitly and for whose welfare and prosperity he was so deeply concerned, turn out a rascal and criminal! - How the old patriot must be bowed down with grief over the degeneracy of his son! And what may be supposed to be the feelings of young Sigel as he stands behind the prison bars contemplating the awful anguish that his misdeeds have brought upon his aged father, to say nothing of his own humiliation, degradation and disgrace. He might have enjoyed an honorable, easy, comfortable life; uncommon adyantages were afforded him. But he frittered all this away; his name is forever disgraced; his prospects forever blasted -—all because he did not have the stamina to resist the temptations of wicked associates and of a sinful world. / - ’

THE democratic national campaign committee last fall declined to permit Frank Hurd and other free-trade champions to air their peculiar views in the dg'niocratic states of the East, but sent them to the Northwest, where such notions were assumed to be popular. An analysis of the returns from the Northwest is very instructive. Instead of wheeling these states into the democratic ecolumn, as had been predicted, the republican. majorities were enormously increaséd, while in the democratic Eastern states, where free-trade ideas were carefully and prudently eschewed, the Democracy held its own. It is true, the democratic state of New York did not record its vote for the democratic national ticket, but that was owing to Mr. Cleveland’s inability to poll the full democratic vote, as the party managers were plainly told he could not before he was renominated. The fact that the entire democratic state ticket was elected in the Empire state last Noyember must be accepted as eyidence that an entirely acceptable presidential candidate could have carried Its electoral vote, which would have secured his election. -

OCCUPY TENABLE GROUND

Our esteemed contemporary, the Auburn Courier, is not prepared to admit that the departure from the platform of 1884 seriously affected the result of the presidential election in 1888, but insists that Mr. Randall’s views on the tariff, if adopted by the Demoeracy, would have placed the party substantially on republican * ground. = The Courier forgets that Mr. Randall's views were incorporated into the democratic national platform of 1884; that Mr. Randall’s ideas and theories prevailed in the construction of the tariff plank of that platform, and that the extreme views of Henry Watterson and those who sympathized with him were rejected. We have no recollection of seeing in the Courier a direct repudiation of the 1884 doctrine, though its recent approval of Wattersonian notions and theories might lead to the inference that it is partial to the ‘*advanced position” of the party which led to its defeat in (1888 and averse to the sound, safe doctrines that gave it victory in 1884. ol

What the Courier says in regard to Mr. Randall is so completely and so admirably answered by a clipping from a leading democratic paper of the East, kindly sent us by a friend who has given years of unselfish service to the democratic party, that we substitute it in lieu of an answer of our own. It fits so nicely that it could hartlly be improved upon if especially prepared for this purpose: It is admitted that when Mr. Car-| lisle was first e'ected 'P“Wmm*]

majority of seventy-three in the popular branch of congress; that at the next election that majority was reduced to forty; that at the election following it was reduced to fifteen; and that at the last election it not only disappeared altogether, but the Republicans secured a working preponderance in the house and elected Harrison president.

What caused this decline and fall of the Democracy if not the policy pursued by the dominant elements, persistently and in spite of all protestation and -warning? They formulated the issues, they framed the last n - tional platform. The platform of 1884 had been taghiened by other influences, and on that we won the presidency. But the policy Mr. Carlisle’s friends pursued in congress lost us more than half of our remaining majority in that body. On the last plattorm, that of 1888, which embodied their own ideas, we were beaten. ?

Is there no lesson to be gathered from these facts? If there is a lesson, what is i§? Let us reason together. We address ourselves to the patriotic and intelligent masses, not to those who are hopelessly blinded by cranky theorizing, personal selfishuess, or disappointed ambition. In the light of these events, no thoughtful and fair-minded person can believe that if Mr. Randall had occupied the chair during the years Mr. Carlisle filledlt, if he had influenced the general ideas of Mr. Cleveland’s administration and the policy of the party in congress, if he had had the framing of the national -platform, we should now be compelled to surrender both branches of the government to our adversaries. To maintain such a proposition would be to scorn the clearest facts of recent history and put common sense at defiance.

But we are told that although we abandoned the historic position of the democracy on the tariff and internal revenue, and surrendered it to our opponents, we must now adhere to the change and renew, perpetuate and sanctify the blunder. Because the republicans are protectionists we must be free traders. Such reasoners argue with Macbeth, that having waded in so far, ‘‘returning were as tedious as go o’er’’; and so they would land us in the fatal quicksands of absolute free trade. Thenindeed, the only duty left us would be to perform the funeral rites of the democratic party. . We maintain that both prudence and principle demand a different course. We should recover the ground we. foolishly abandoned. We should at once restore our skilled and successful generals to command, and reduce to the ranks and the rear the authors of our misfortunes. Masses of citizens, like masses of soldiers, become wise with sad experience, and will not follow captains who lead only to defeat. In time of war, when peril presses hard upon the hearts and homes of men, they instinctively turn to those who are born to command. When the Athenians saw the massing of Persian hosts on the plains of Marathon they turned naturally to Miltiades, and the broken legions of Rome rallied around Scipio when they heard the terrible tidings from Cannge. Belisarius was brought from prison, where he had keen thrown by the ingratitude and jealousy of his imperial master, to beat back the advancing Goths and rescue the Roman capital from the spoiler. - A wise instinct pervades political parties in heurs of disaster. We do not then select marplots, or mercenaries, or unknown adventurers for the important.trusts of the supreme leadership. We take men whom we have tried and found fit for the highest -duties, men adroit, calm, and able; worthy, as Emerson puts it, “‘to stand the gaze of millions.” Fortunately the Democracy is not lacking in Sach leaders, and the masses are steadily gathering arcund them. j

STILL TALK:NG AT RANDOM.

‘Ouar good friend, the genial editor of the Kendallville News, must have been at fever heat when he penned the following tor last week’s issue of his paper: :

“Wethank the Almighty, the Creator of the universe, that there are but few demeocratic papers in the entire country that attempt to apologize for Sam Randall’s democracy, neither do we believe the BANNER to have one democratic reader, ‘who will endorse Mr. Randall’s position upon the tariff. Sam Randall is a Republican so far as the tariff issue entered into the questions that divided the two parties at the last campaign. His arguments quite likely led astray a few Democrats from the support of Grover Cleveland and the grand principles which he represented. I'he only difference between a Democrat and a Republican today is protection and non-protection. The democratic party belongs to the latter class. Sam Randall belongs to the first and we are sorry indeed to have to include the BANNER among his followers.”’

Bro. Parker is such an earnest, en)thusiastic champion of what he considers to be ‘correct democratic doc‘trine that we dislike to disturb the !foundation of his undying faith, though ;it be ever so fallacious. But at this particular time, when thoughtful Dem. ocrats all over the land are profoundly impressed with the necessity of doing something to prevent the democratic party from being made an adjunct to the party of Henry George and Thomas G. Shearman, personal considerations must be made subordinate to the general welfare of the democratic organization. ; First, we want to disabuse the Doctor’s mind as to any number of démocratic papers, howeyer ingignificant, “apologizing’’ for Sam Randall’s Democracy. Not a single democratic paper in the country is engaged in such work. ‘‘Apologize!”” Why and wherefore? Apology is indeed in order —not, however, for *‘Sam Randall’s Democracy,”’. but for the many foolish slurs hurled upon that gentleman by a class of editors who delight in clapping their hands over the anties of the trolicsome bull in the china shop and gleefully point to his wondrous achieveg - Now, let us giye the News a few plain facts, to the consideration of which its editor can profitably dovote VomE U 1 bl e mimes: M B Tvonts e B i e i e e s e E s o R

son, Monroe, Jackson, Silas Wright, etc. He is radically opposed to free trade, whether sugar-coated with “tariff for revenue only’’ or veneered with any other device conceived by artful straddlers or cunning deceivers. His yiews are shared by an overwhelming majority of the three eastern democratic states—New_ York, New Jersey and Connecticut. They are endorsed by a majority of the leading democratic journals |of the South. They were explicitly affirmed by the last democratic convention of Virginia, and have the unreseryed approval of such acknowledged democratic leaders as Wm. H. Barnum, Cal. Brice, Senator Gorman, Smith Weed, Roswell P. Flower,and in fact nearly all the men | who were actively asspciated with the{ management of the national commititee in the effort to re-elect Mr. Cleveland. 'The Democracy of the state of New York last fall emphasized President Cleveland’s explicit disavowal of a purpose to antagonize the protection of American capital jand labor bya-‘ crusade in favor of free trade, and in yarious ways reaffirmed its devotion to the old-time democratic doctrine of a tariff for revenue with incidental protection. _ | What nonsense it i 3 for angbody to assert that ‘‘the only difference between a Democrat and a Republican today is protection and non-protection.”” Mr. Mills and every member of the ways and means committee who was permitted to speak in the east daring the late campaign emphatically declared that the Mills bill was a protective measure—that it was designed to protect American manufacturers and to promote their interests, and that its special aim was, besides giving them an average protection of 42 per cent as against 47 under the existing tariff, to place free raw" materials at their disposal. That’s what Mills, M¢Millen, Breckinridge and others of the ways and means committee said in their speeches in New York, New Jers?y and Connecticut, and what Henry Watterson, the ‘genial custodian of t%e star-eyed goddess of reform, reiterated in all of his speeches in that par& of the Union. Does the editor of the News believe for a moment there would have been the ghost of a chance to carry the states named if these gentlemen had declared that the only difference be- ’ tween the two great parties is that the one is in favor of pratection and the other in favor of free trade? If demo!cratic leaders were ingclined to commit %political harikari, that would be the ‘most effectual methoi}l possible to be ’adopted. B ~ In all kindness we beg the News edii tor to take some lessons from the past. The curse of the democratic party during the past thirty-fiye years has been its extremists. 1t was the extreme champions of slavery that disrupted the democratic party in 1860 and led to a terrible civil war. |lt was the extreme anti-war element of the Vallandigham stripe that reduced the democratic party to a hopeless minority in | 1864. It was the recollection of these ‘extremes that kept the party so long ‘out of power even after the Republicans had repeatedly demonstrated ‘their unworthiness to retain possession of the government. It was the tariff-for-revenue-only fallacy that defeated the gallant Hancock in 1880, and colossal stupidity of a like nature that wrought the result of 1888. If there is glory in shaping a party’s policy so as to invite inevitable defeat, the Kendallville News is on the right track; but if restoration of confidenee and the consequent resumption of governmental power .be deemed of value and importance, a change of front cannot be adopted a momient too soon. “While the lamp holds out to burn,”” even a wandering freetrader may return to a common sense policy.

. Shameful Brutality. . A tale of inhuman 'Eruelty and brutality, almost incredible in its details, 'reacbed»fifis town od Saturday afternoon. The facts as narrated to us are ‘as follows : A heartless wretch, named John D. Corbin, a renter, residing about six miles west of town, a few nights ‘ago, getting angry at| his two-year-old baby, for crying, tookl a lath and beat the little helpless: thing unmercifully, winding up his ogre-like performance by grabping the baby by the legs and throwing it across the room. The poor, horrified mother, on| attempting to rescue her babe from the hdrrid brute, wds violently assaulted and terribly beaten. The scoundrel next day, no doubt fearing the vengeance of his neighbors when the facts came to theiri ears, decamped for parts unknown. Mrs. Corbin has advertised her‘house-} hold effects and whatever other littlei property she has, for public sale on Saturday next, and hopes in this way to realize sufficient funds to take her -and her little ones to the home of her parents, in Missouri. | It is difficult to‘ imagine how such things can occur in a country claiming to be christian and civilized; and among & people who are ever ready at short notice to subscribe liberally for the conversion of the heathen in foreignlands. The heathen is at our doors—that| of the partially civilized and wholly debased type. et iy Sl e ' Consumption Surely Cured. To taE Eprtor—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timfiflfi&&w&m@fiflwwy Ses have beon permanonly cured.” 1 shall be glad to send two bettles of my remfien toun e MY 5f youe & il send me|

OLD TIMES IN NOBLE COUNTY. Preaching and a'Ba—m—Flght on The Same . Afternoovn at Shobe’s School House, i Perry Township. Rome City cor. Kendailville News. ~ Early in the forties in the southwest portion of Perry township, resided a‘ sturdy, honest, yeomanry composed Ofi the families of Woods, Shobes, Smalleys, Bakers, Harpers, ete, not excelled in any country for their sterling worth of character and honesty of purpose. That they were not all christians and members of churches, we admit, but they all relied on and believed in the Divine wisdom of the Creator of all, none will deny. They trusted in their industry and sobriety through God’s helping hand in having good crops. They were among the favored ones who prospered and all laid up a good competency to cheer them on the way, te the end of all the earth. Such a community naturally attracted the attention of the outside world, and who would respond and seek such, quicker than a Methodist preacher.

AS CLVILIZATION MARCHED WESTWARD in her stately power, she was joined hand in hand by this same minister. The school-house put up by the settlers was of hewed logs, and split timbers were used for benches, with legs properly adjusted to hold them up. Pegs were driven in the walls, slanting toward the seats, covered with long boards, making writing desks for the older children. This was the place where the minister and the people congregated together whenever occasion demanded it. One of these early traveling preachers arrived in this settlement, riding a horse, his saddle-bags properly adjusted on the back of the saddle, his legs comfortably covered with green leggins, seeking the cabin door of some stanger whose latch string hung outward—a sign of hospitality to all comers—a welcome that alone greeted strangers in a strange land, convincing all that peace reigned within. The home of Jacob Baker was sought; here he was received with that kind ‘‘back-wood’s’’ hespitality that such as those whe have enjoyed it in the past can testify. His horse was put in the log barn and cared for. He was invited within, the best the house afforded was put at his didposal. His previous appointment had been circulated and on the morrow, Sunday, he expected to enlighten this community on paths trod by his Lord and Savior. The Sabbath day dawned, giving evidences of a delightful day, all serene and balmy. Shobe’s school house was to be :

THE CENTER OF TWO GREAT ATTRAC- ! TIONS

—the new preacher at, the usual hour in the afternoon, and a ram fight. Early Sunday morning” Uncle Niah Wood, who has long since crossed the river of death, knowing of the arrival of the new preacher at Baker’s house, hurried over to his neighbor’s home, opened the door without knocking, meeting Uncle Jacob and the minister engaged in conversation. Not giving Uncle Jacob time or opportunity to introduce the minister to him, Uncle Niah at once opened up a conversation by saying: ‘*‘Jake, come down to Shobe’s schoel house this afternoon; we are going to have the d——est ram fight ever fought in this country. I have bet fiye dollars on Shobe’s ram. Come down sure and bring your friend along. We are

GOING TO HAVE A BIG TIME."

- Jacob and the minister were ‘dumbfounded. Uncle Jacob, winking, and nodding his head towards the minister, availed nothing. Uncle Niah quickly stepped out of the cabin door leaying his neighbor chagrined, and the minister wondering if his words soon to be spoken would be received by. this community in that spirit of brotherly love he cherished for them. The school house was occupied and there was no postponement of the ram fight on account of the previous notice. This, Jake considered, was the best one ever given to the public. There remain a few who remember the incident. Let it be handed down to their children and their children’s children, for it illustrates the back-woods witticisms, enjoyed by those who withstood the storms of an early pioneer life.

~ An Ancient Chicken. George Simpson, who resides near Millersburg, is the possessor of a venerable hen that has got a history. She has attained the mature age of 21 years, and promises to live long enough to get acquainted with the roosters that will crow oyer three or four more presidential elections. This ancient bird, when in the first year of her chickenhood, had one of her wings chewed off by a hog, and, in consequence of this disfigurement; Mr. Simpson made up his mind to shoot her. He fired two shots at her with murderous intent, but without ruffling a single one of her feathers. Then he concluded that she was bewitched, and gave up the attempt to kill her, and now points to her with pride as the oldest hen in Indiana, if not in the world. He is probably right; though Postmaster McDonald thinks that she has only been a short time in possession of this honor. He says it is only a few days ago that he bought a ‘«chicken” of Jakey Frank, and he has good reason to believe that it was one of the same brood as that of -Mr. Simpson’s old hen. Takingit all in all, this is a rather “‘tough’ story. : R e s i Fun Ahead. 2 It affords us inexpressible pleasure to announce that that apostle of truth and mysticism, known throughout the length and breadth of Indiana as ¢‘The Immortal J. N.,” is about for the ninty-ninth time to visit this town and lift the impenetrable veil that so effectually shuts out truth from our obfuscated opties. Inacommnnication to th 9.,‘ Angola Herald “the Immortal” says: +I will soon lift the veil in the beautiful little city of Ligonier, a place that I am truly attachéd to in the associations of long, long ago, before truth R i B B B e i e e e erend i e el e forms us that he will Litt the Veil here:

An Interesting Family Reunion, | An interesting family reunion was held at the residence of A. E. Mawhoorter, Wawaka, on the 12th inst. This was the first time the brothers and sisters met together since the death of their parents—William and Prudence Mawhorter. The presence of the sister on a visit, after an absence of six years in Michigan, was thought a good time for them all to come together. Two brothers—Wm. A. and M. L. and their families were unavoidably absent. ‘There were present three brothers— A. E,T. J. and J. K. and the only sister, Mrs. Sarah C. Swank and their children and grand-children—twenty-two in all. Seyeral neighbors and friends were also present and aided in making the occasion a pleasant and long-to-be-remembered oné. The’ Springfield Cornet Band was also there and enlivened the pleasant gathering with choice musical selections, in a first-class manner. A couple of scenes of the occasion were made permanent, by Johnnie Harkless, Albion's noted artist being present and taking two negatives-—one group with the band and all present, and one group of the brothers, their families and the sister. A real good time was enjoyed, though sad that all could not be present. All joined in thanking the band for its presence and for the effort made to add to the pleasure of the day.

Judge Adair.

The Rome City correspondent of the Kendallville News writes: *‘Jo Adair is a Noble county boy; he was born in Washington township, Noble county, Indiana, in 1844. His present term of court has made Jo Adair popularin-our county. Nothing but eulogies are heaped upon him. The attorneys practicing before his Honor are more than pleased; his gentlemanly deportment, his calm, cool judgment, backed up with a good training in the law, has placed him at once in the front rank as a firstclags jurist. The citizens of our county, regardless of party ties, who have had the pleasure of doing any business in his court speak in the highest praise of his manner of conducting business. Whitley county can well be proud of her adopted son. Noble county is proud of his having been born on her soil.”! | :

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