Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 27, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 October 1890 — Page 4

» 57 » ® Ele-Fagonier Banuer, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1890, 1 . Democratic Ticket. | For Judge of the Supreme Court, - JUSEPH A.SB. MITCHELL, s of Elkhart County. ) Secretary of State, ; CLAUDE MATTHEWS, - . ot‘;‘ Vermillion County. Auditor, JOHN O. HENDERSON, ot Howard County. . Treasurer, ALBERT GALL, s of Marion County. Attorney-General, . ALONZO G. SMITH, . of Jennings County, : Clerk of SBupreme Court, - ANDREW M., SWEENEY, | of Dubois County. : Superintendent Public Tnstruction, HERVEY D. VORIES, of Johnsoun County. State Geologist, | SYLVESTER 8. GORY, of Fountain County. . State Statistician, WILLIAM A. PEELLE, JR., of Randolph CQounty. . For Congress—l2th District, , CHARLES A. O. MCCLELLAN, of DeKalb County. For Judge 33d Judicial Circuit, JOSEPH W,ADAIR, - of Whitley County. For Prosecuting Attorney 33d Judicial Circuit, LON D. FLEMING. - : of Noble County. . For Joint Representative, DR. NORMAN TEAL, i ot INoble County. - For Representative, JAMES ROSCO. ot For Clerk, FRANK P. BOI'HWELL. L For Auditor, ' ; CARLOS R. WILEY, For Treasurer, JOSLIAH DARROW, : For Sherift, i JACOB SHAUCK. For Surveyor, J.C. BRINKERHOFE. For Coroner, DR, C. A. SEYMOUR. . For Commissioner--Ist District; NICHOLAS B. NEWNAM. For Commissioner—3rd District, JOHN B. RENKENBERGER.

SikNATOR VOORHEES spoke to iarge audiences at South Bend on Saturday, Plymouth on Monday, Peru on Tuesday, and at Butler yesterday.

- THE population of the Territory of SsiNew Mexico is 144,861 against 119,565 in 1880, and yet the republican congress will not admit the Territory to Statehood because a majority of the people are democratic. ,

THE population of Indiana, according to the census just completed, in 2,189,039 against 1,923,401 in 1880. This is a gain of 210,727, or 10.75 per cent. The population of Indianapolis is 107,445, as against 75,056 in 1880, being a gain of 43.15, per cent In. the past ten vears. 7 e

NEARLY everybody in France smokes. During the last decade the consumption of tobacco has steadily grown, until now the revenue reaches a total of nearly £16,000,000 for twelve months. In this respect, as well as in several others, we Americans are a great deal better than our French cousins across the briny deep.

“I wouLp rather be a human sandwich,’”’ says a Chicago clergyman, ‘‘with the gospel on my breast and back, and rescue human souls, than preach in a frescoed temple to a handful of old men and women who have gone to church so long that they have sacred rheumatism.” That preacher understands himself.

THE DEMOCRATIC BOODLERS of Cincinnati threaten to revenge themselves on Gov. Campbell by defeating the democratic state and congressional ticket. Let them do their worst. The democratic party can much better afford to suffer defeat than tamely submit to the dictation of public plunderers.

ReprUBLICAN PAPERS and politicians just now have their hands full explaining the advance in prices of those goods ‘‘protected’’ by the McKinley law. The effect of the law is so different from what they represented it would be that they are much exercised over the dilemma that confronts them. The increase of 25 cents on a $l.OO tin pan is ap argument hard to meet with words.. :

TEE PROTECTED INDUSTRIIES that had the *fat”’ fried from them to purchase votes for Harrison and Morton in 1888, are now getting their boodle back by means of the McKinley tariff law. It is political as well as poetical justice that the very men who exchanged their votes for boodle are forced to pay it back in the increase of prices charged for articles of necessity, though at the same time honest yoters are also forced to contribute by the same coercive measure.

THE MOVEMENT to colonize 5,000 : negro voters in Indiana seems to have 1 had a fair start. The agent of Quay, Huston and Dudley, a fellow by the ‘name of D. MeD. Lindsey, has been sending the following circular letter by the thousand into North Carolina: WANTED-—5,000 COLORED FAMILIES, WE want 5,000 colored men with their familier from North Carolina to iocate north and west in good and happy homes, where they will be well paid for their services and treated humanely, kindly and justly. We want them in parties of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred families. None but sober, honest and industrious parties need apply, We want ontlfy such as desire to better thewr condition. = Address D. McD. LINDSEY, 1713 G street, Northwest Washington, D. C., or J. B. WHiteHEAD, Halifax, N. C. Inclose postage stamp in all Jetters of inquiry. What do the working people of Indiana ‘say to this outrageous scheme? How do they like the idea of bringing such a class of people into this state, “ te with them in labor and to Loverawe them at the polls? ~ *

MaJ. McKINLEY claims that his now celebrated bill gives this country freer trade than any other similar measure passed by congress for a century. The free list, .he claims, has been greatly extended, and embraces nearly half the articles cowming into the country. That has been the general understanding of the people, and it will require pretty strong proof to satisfy them that such is the case. But even if true, the burdens put into that bill far outweigh whatever benefit may be derived from this single commendable feature.

MR. JUusTICE MILLER, of the supreme court of the United States, who was stricken with paralysis in Washington last Friday, was born in Kentucky in 1816, removed tq} lowa when a young man, and was appointed associate justice of the supreme court bvy President Lincoln in 1862. He has been a hardworking, painstaking, conscientious and able jurist, and has been held in 'much esteem by his associates and by the bar. In point of service he is the oldest member of the supreme court, ranking Justice Field by about a year. ]

Davip A. WeLLs has been nomin ated for congreds in the Third Connecticut district. He is a well-known political economist and takes high ground as a revenue reformer. During the latter part of the war and later on he was at the head of the rcvfbnue bureau. His pronounced views on the subject of federal taxation led to his removal. For some years he has been acting with the Démocrats, though to ail intents and purposes an Independent. Personaly, he is a free trader, but frankly admits that free trade is not to be thought of for years to come. -

THE propLr of Missouri and Kansas, as well df Illinois and lowa, last week extended a hearty weleome to President Harrison. Thatis well. Mr. Harrison may not be the greatest statesman that the country has produced;, but he is our chief magistfia{e for the time being, and as such is ¢ntitled to the people’s respectful consideration wherever he goes. It is characteristic of the American people to forget phrt_y bias when the first officer of the nation moves among them. This was eyidenced by the enthusiastic reception accorded President Cleveland when he made his first tour to the West several years ago.

Toe N. Y. Tribuue, recognized as the leading republican paper in the United States, is subjecting Gen. Raum’s management of the Pension Bureau at Washington to a severe scoring. It charges that a gigantic system of tfrétfficking in pension claims has grown up in the Pension Buredun, at Washington, ‘and it is an opeu sefret that lists of claimants who have éases filed in the Pension Bureau, with their postoffice addresses, as also lists of rejected claims and data of various kinds, including copies of or excerpts from certificates of disability; have been regularly sold or furnished to certain favored attorneys from the bureau; and more particularly lists of such claimants as have no attorneys, but simply file and manage their cases themselves. The nefarious practice, of course, enables the attorneys so favored to. add enormously to their revenues, not only at the expense of more honest practitioners, but often to the prejudice of claimants who fall into the clutches of these harpies, and who would otherwise have been saved the expense of their fees. '

THE PRAYER ot Bishop Potter at the unveiling of the statue to the memory of Horace Greeley was a most eloquent tribute tq§ the worth and inestimable services of the great journalist. ‘l'he good Bishop was especially thankful “for him whose image and memorial we unveil here this day, for his stainless and vpright life, for his clear v'sion of duty, for his fearless loyality to what he believed to be truth, and, most of all, for his unflinching devotion to the cause of the bondmen, and his undying hatred of all tyranny, bodily or spiritual, and all injustice and wrong. And no less do we give thanks for that example which is to be here perpetuated of industry, probity and manly simplicity; and for all the winged Lwords which, by him sown broadcagt through the land, have tanght other men the courage of relfrespect, and the wisdom and power of upright and manly endeavor.”” A man receiving such a deserved tribute from such a gource is not likely to pass from the memory of mankind very soon. The name and fame of Horace Greeley have lasting qualities.

ONLY ONE SECTION KNOCKED ZOUT.

The impression prevails among some people that, because the supreme court declared section 13 of the new election law to be unconstitutional, the coming election will be held under the oldlaw. This idea is wholiy fallacious. ' : The dscision of the supreme court simply ~ affects seetion 13, relating to regisiration and the certification of tax-paying. On some of the questions the opinions of the judges are unanimous, but on others they are not. All the judges agree that the legislature cannot add ‘to the qualification of voters and that the provisions requiring ninety days residence in the county and that voters should be tax-payers, are u"hconstituti'onal and void, in the opinion of the court, written by Judge Olds. It is stated that under the constitution the legislature may pass a general registry law, but cannot pass a partial one; that the legislature cannot n,;qm%a a longer residence than

that prescribed .by the constitution; that section 13 is a partial registry law, and . that it does add to the constitutional requirements of voters. Judge J. A 8. Mitchell% in a separate opinion, holds that the pfovisio‘ns of section 13, which require a residence in the county of ninety days are invalid, and so are those requiring voters to be taxpayers, but that other provisions of the act are valid. Judge Eliiott also filed a separate opinion.

No other section of the election law has been contested. It is to be regretted that greater care was not exercised in framing this section. T'he contemplated registration, if made within constitutional limitation, would haye been of great value by way of guarding against colonization and repeating. The elimination of section 13, as remarked by a contemporary, renders it possible for the negroes imported from North Carolina and elsewhere, and for whites imported from anywhere, to vote on election day, unless extraordinary vigilance is used by the friends of an honest suffrage to prevent them from doing so. The anullment of section 13 is a loud call upon all good men in Indiana to redouble their efforts to secure a fair election on November 4, and especiaily to guard against repeating, and voting by persons who have not attained a legal residence in the state. - ‘

A Colossal Scheme of Viliainy,

A wide-spread and well-founded alarm has seized the country, especially the peonle of the states selected for the stupendous outrage, on account of the exposure of the daring scheme of Quay, Dudley and Lindsey, to put ten thousand negroes into Indiana, four thousand into West Vircinia and three thousand into Connecticut, in order to carry these states for the Republican candidate for the presidency in 1892. . Daniel Lindsey is a bright and shining light in the Republican party, and most highly esteemed by Matt Quay and Bill Dudley. Lindsey lives in North Carolina, and hasthe credit of devising this infamous plot, and when he unfolded its black and damnable features to Quay, Dudley, Clarkson and other great rascals who now control the republican party, they eagerly mapped out a programme to put it into execution. .

But it was suggested to these bold, bad schemers that the new election law of Indiana contained a clause that required a certain class of voters to register several months before an election, and that, therefore, .the scheme would not work well in that state. : .

‘While the people of Indiana were struck with amazement and alarm over the threatened raid of ten thousand black voters, they congratulated themselves that the infamous plot would miscarry under the registry clause of our election law. And while thus consoling ourselves, to our astonishment the supreme court of our state, within ten days past, has declared the registry clause of our new election law to be unconstitutional. We may, therefore, look for an invasion of our state by ten thousand ignorant, degraded negroes to teach us how to vote!

Lindsey, in writing to one of his brother conspirators, says: “We will have to stir pretty briskly, for I want to have not less than two thousand men in both West Virginia and Connecticut within the next eight months, and then we will turn our attention to Indiana. We have six wonths longer to operate in Indiana than we have in West Virginia or Cobnecticut.” Lindsey further says that these negroes are “The best laborers and safest voters in the world!"’ B

The correspondence between the scoundrel Lindsey and Whitehead, one of the active spirits in the scheme, has fallen into safe hands and has been made public, and leaves no doubt of the threatened outrage, and since the registry feature of our eiection law is unconstitutional, the way is wide open for Dudley to vote his niggers in “‘blocks of five”’ in every precinet in the state. It would seem that United States Treasurer Huston, of this state, is in the plot and has laid the matter before the president for his consideration in relation to the campaign in Indianain 1892. :

That the Republican leaders in Indiana opprove this threatened outrage on our people, there is no room for reasonable deubt. ; That Quay, Dudley and Lindsey should concoct a programme to defeat the will of the people by colonizing ten thousand of ‘‘the best laborers and safest voters in the world”’ in Indiana, without consulting Michener, New, Huston, and other leaders of the grand old party of honest and fair elections, is preposterous in the extreme. “ e

And what would be the effect on our people, if this monstrous plot should carry into execution? Is it intended that these ten thousand ¢‘best laborers and voters in the world’’ shall be kept in idleness during the year of their sojourn in Indiana? If they are indeed “the best laborers in the world,” as Lindsey assures us they are, then they are expected to go to work as soon as they reach our borders. It means, therefore, that each one of these ten thousand black scoundrels will take the place of an equal number of white laborers in the state, and as they will be here until the election of 1892, and no longer, they can afford, and will work much. cheaper than white men, as they will have no families with them to support, and as a consequence, for at least a whole year, ten thousand white laboring men in our state will be forced out of work o make room Fee e e

'f‘or Quay’s and Dudley’s ten thousand tniggers! 5

The infamous Lodge eederal election bill will be passed by congress this coming winter, and under that bill the ten thousand negroes who are to come | to Indiana will have no. trouble whatever to vote. The Rep"sublican_party! has for many years proclaimed from | the house tops and tree tops that it has been and still is pre-eminently the friend and protector of the poor man. It has always claimed, and still is| loudly claiming, that a high protective tariff was a necessity in this country, not so much to protect our ’ho_mel manufacturers, but mainly to protect our laboring men from the pauper‘ labor of Europe. And strange as it seems, ‘it is nevertheless true, ‘that many thousands of laboring men in Indiana have been made to believe it and vote to keep that party in power. But what do thelaboring men in Noble county think of this scheme to throw. next year, into our state a swarm of ten thousand black pauper laborers from the south! And isit to be supposed that these ten thousand black cheap laborers are to be herded into one corner or county of the state? By no means. Dudley understands too well how to put things where they will do most good. Noble county is a very close county, and will be well taken care of in the distribution of the black voters. - There is but one way to handle such a vast heard of imported voters. They must be scattered as evenly as possible over the state, and if Noble county gets its share, and no doubt it will, we shall have a little less than 200 of these black raiders in our midst to compete with an equal number of white laborers in our county. Two hundred- -negroes in Noble county to take charge of the ballot box! Here is food for much startling reilection. The appointmentof United States Supervisors has raised a good deal of indignation in this county, but this coming raid of bratal, ignorant negroes into_our county should rouse every man who has a spark ‘of honor and patriotism to stand forth and denounce the wicked measure and unite to destroy the party thatresorts to such damnable means to defeat the will of the people expressed througth the ballot box. Was there ever before concocted so stupendous and shameless a scheme of outrage on the people! In all the lawless, reckless plots of political villainy heretofore perpetrated by the Republican party, its leaders have not had the wicked audacity to perfect a scheme like this. But then the leaders of that party to-day are utterly without honesty or <=onscience. Matt Quay and Bill Dudley are the republican leaders, and that tells the whele story.

e - Don,t Scratch Your Ticket

There is one provision in the election law’ which, an exchange thinks, will be pretty hard for the average voter to understand. = The law provides that the names of ail the candidates, including three or four complete tickets, shall be printed upon the same ballot. In preparing this ticketthe voter, if he wants to vote the straight ticket, will stamp the square opposite the title or heading of the ticket he wishes to vote. If he desires to vote a’ split ticket he will stamp the squares in front of the candidates he wishes to vote for. This done it only remains for him to fold his ballot correctly and hand it in. The average voter will find it pretty hard to understand that he is not to draw his pen across the opposing ticket or through the names of candidates he does not ‘wish to - vote for, for he will tremble to think that his vote asdeposited contains the printed names of a large number for whom he does not wish to vote, with nothing to indicate his intention but the stamp. But this is the law and if he should scratch out or draw his pen across any of the names it might be constructed as a “distinguishing mark’’ and cause his ballot to be thrown out. There must be no seratching or erasing of names. The stamp, the stamp is the thing.

An Qutside Opinion,

The republican managers of Noble county have evidently overreached themselves in making an application for federal supervisors at the approaching election. On a full vote the Republicans have usually had a majority of from seventy-five to 100 in Noble county. On the.l2th of September the applications were forwarded from Albion to Judge Gresham ot the U. 8. circuit court for the appointment of thirty-two 'supervisors in order, as the petition says, ‘that the said election should be guarded and scrutinized,’’ etc. This was, of course, in accordance with the Michener program, but the petitioners soon realized that they had made a serious blunder. There has long been a republican ring at Albion, and of the thirteen signers of the petition twelve were recognized members thereof. Two of the signers are the republican nominees for auditor and treasurer, against both of whom there is considerable republican opposition. They have expected to pull through by the aid of democratic votes, but as their petition impeaches not only individual Democrats, but the party at large, it has solidified democratic opposition to them, and they see defeat staring them in the face. We understand that they claim that they did not know what they were doing when th(g’ signed they signed the petition, and that they are making an effort to recall the petition. They would better never have signed it. The pretense that, with a preponderance in the election boards, and with the safefuardq afforded by the new election law, they needed federal supervisors to secure & fair election, is an insult to every .Democrat in Noble county, which ought to be, and we doubt not will be, resented most emphatically at the pollson the 4th of November.—lndianapolis Sentinel. TR

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At Last a Candidate.

At Fort Wayne, last Saturday, after much wire-pulling a republican congressional candidate was selected. When it is taken into consideration that the nomination has gone a begging for nearly a- month, it was indeed strange that any opposition would develop to any one who wanted it. Three candidates were on hand, but when the convention opened it was evident that the thing had been fixed for Babcock, Bookwalter, the Indianapolis candidate, not developing the strength his Fort Wayne admirers expected. The convention was called to order by Wm. Bunyan, when John W. Baker, of Columbid " City, was chosen permanent chairman. The preliminaries being- settled, the convention proceed to vote. A motion that the first ballot be informal was carried and the roll of counties was called ‘with the following result: Allen— Hayden 12, Bookwalter 12, Babeock 3; DeKalb—Hayden 4, Bookwalter 5, Babeock 11; LaGrange—Babcock 11; Noble—Babcock 15; Steuben—Babcock 12; Whitley —Hayden 11. Result: Hayden 27, Bookwalter 17 and Babcock 46. : ; » When the result was announced the name of Mr. Bookwalter was withdrawn and the second ballot was as follows: Allen —Hayden 27; DeKalb— Hayden 7, Babcock 7; LaGrange— Babcock 11; Noble— Babcock 15; Steuben—Babcock 'l2; Whitley—Hayden 11.- Result: Hayden 45, Babcock 45. No choice. ' The third ballot was taken with the following result: Allen—Hayden 23, Babcock 4; DeKalb—Hayden 8, Babcock 6; LaGrange—Babcock 11; Noble —Babcock 15; Steuben—Babcock 12; Whitley—Hayden 11. Result: Hayden 42, Babcock 48.

Jaynes Norman Babcock, tl:e nominee, is a well-known Haw-Patch farmer with most pronounced revenue reform ideas and a record as a stalwart political kicker. He has been counted among the independent voters of this part of the state for many years, and we can’t conceive why he should be nominated as a republican upon a platform diametrically opposite to his well known ideas upon the tariff, unless it be a case of misplaced confidence or an effort to coax him back into full party fellowship by according him an empty honor.

o It Won’t Work.

" The Albion New Era is just now engaged in spreading taffy over Hon. H. G. Zimmerman and his friends in the vain hope that it may influence that gentleman to knife our local and judicial ticket. In a recent issue the New Era says:

“The ‘Democratic ring’ in this county by methods that are peculiar to the politicians, defeated Noble county’s candidate for the judgeship, and having accomplished their purpose are now hoping to ‘whip in’ the friends of that candidate to a support of the candidate chosen by them. Perhaps they’ll succeed.”’ ‘ :

To which the Albion Democrat responds as follows: ¢« «That candidate,’ has no enemies, dear Era; and his many Democratic friends are of a class and character requiring no ‘whipping in’ to support the worthy gentleman and able jurist who is the nominee of the people by choice openly and freely made known through primary elections in every precinct of Noble county. If any influence could stimulate the honorable “friends of that candidate’ to unusual energy in behalf of Judge Adair, it would be their indignant contempt for the false pretence and picayune cunning of the above style of tactics—in relation to a judicial choice. After the election in. will be evident that the ‘spook’ the Era pretends to see was only a deformed and leering ‘spuke.’” 0 E————— .~ Notice. All those knowing themselves indebted to me by account, will please call and settle same by Oct, 30th, or same will be left for collection. I leave by Nov. sth and I want no accounts left open. I mean business. Come while you can settle with me individually. Geo. W. KINNISON. _ Notice of Disolution. The co-partnership heretofore existing between Jesse L- Dunning and Frank Jackson, under the firm name of Dunning & Jackson, has been this day dissolved by mutual consent. . J. L. DUNNING, o FRANK JACKSON . " The business will be hereafter conducted by J. 1. Dunning, who has purchased all of the assets of the old firm, §ook accounts, notes, stock, ete,, who will pny il outstanding obligations, All old custom' s who have open ac: | ounts are earnestly requested to call early and % ':he mot:’!".lrtfl, 80 thljt: g‘yegthing gp.n ;@,«““p@”,v”.“:éu‘o; AN “',g

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