Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 September 1892 — Page 1

PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, V. M. STOOPS, Publisher. VOL. XXIII,—NO. 16

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1'ICOI EtfilONAL a«l)l. J. T. KIME, H. IX, Physician and Surgeon, PKTEBSBUBG, IND. WOfflee in Bank building, first Hoot. Will *>e louml at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT IAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention G'ran to all Bnsirosa WOfflce over Barrett A Son’s store. Fjuxcis b. tosbt. Dewitt q. Chai-pku. POSEY & CHAPPELL, Attorneys at Law* Petersburg, I no. Win pruotloo In all the courts. Soeclal attention g v«n to nil business. A Notary 1‘ublic constantly in the office. JWOfHou— On first door Bank Building. tL jl m.T. 8. G. Davbnpoet. ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. WOflce over J. B. Adams*A Son’s drug •tore. Prompt attention given to all business. E. 1*. Richardson A. II. Tatlob RICHARDSON * TAYLOR,. Attorneys at Law* Petersburg, Ikd. Promrt attention gtven to all business. A Notary Cubic constantly In the office. Offieo In Carpenter BuiUiug, Eighth and Main. DENTISTRY. W. If. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms6 and 7 In Carpenter Building, Operations first-cla-w. AH work warranted. Anaesthetic* used tor painless extraction of teeth. L II. LaMAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Isd. Will practice In I'ikn and adjoining counties. Office In Montgomery Building. Office hours day and night gyDOeasca of Women and Children aspscluliy. Chronic and difficult cases solicited. NELSON STONE, D. V. S., PETERSBURG, INR Owing to long practice and the possession of s fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle STTOCESSKTJZjX.Y. a Be also keeps on hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable pricee. Office Over J. B. Young jMn.’s Stow.

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THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHICAGO AMD HEW YORK AT THE OFFICES, OF A. I. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. THUS!EES* NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. XT ©TICK I. hereby Riven clmt I will attaml IT to the duties of the office of trustee of Clsy township st home nn. EVERY MONDAY. A’l persons, who have business with the offioo will {use notice that I will attend to business on no other day. U. M. GOWEN. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby Riven to nil parties Interested that I wilt attend st tny offioo In Stemlal, EVERY STA0RDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with Said office will please take notice. J. B. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given to ail parties con • corned that I will be nt my residence. EVERY TUESDAY, To attend to business connected with tha office of Troelee Of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM, Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY T8UR8DAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of LOfcCh township. JGFTosItlvoly no bus'ness transected ex* eept on office days. SILAS SIRE. Trustee. N< « rOTJCK It hereby given to all parties eon - earned that I a III attend at my residence EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office of Trnstee uf Madison township. WTnsitlvely no bustneas transacted exeept office days JAMgg BUMBLE, Trustee. NOTICE l« hereby Riven to all persons Interested Unit I will attend In my offioe la vripen, EVERY FRIDAY, To transact business connected with the office of Trustee of Merlon township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. BROCK. Trustee. wit; ---»—.— —■

What is Castorla Is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Karcotic substance. It is a harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor Oil. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years* use by Millions of Mothers. Castorla destroys Worms and allays B feverishness. Castorla prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castorla relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castorla assimilates tho food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cas* toria is tho Children’s Panacea—the Mother's Friend.

Castoria. « Castnrtn Is An exeollent medicine for dilldren. Mothers hare repeatedly told me of Its good effect upon their children,” Da. Q. 0. Osgood, . Lovell, He». «* Castoria Is the bent remedy for children of which 1 am acquainted. X hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider tho real Interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrumswhlcli are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful events down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” Da. J. F. KrecHSLoa, Conway, Ark.

Castoria. ••Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior toanypccecripttcs known to me." n. A. Atom, 1L D., Ill So. Oxford St's Brooklyn, N. T. “Our physicians In tfaa children's department have spoken highly of their experience In yplr outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have among cur medical supplies what Is known as regular products, yet we are freo to confess that tha merits of Castoria has won us to look will favor upon it.” Ukitid Hospital aim Diaroatnr, Allen C. Snrrn, An,

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’iHX cholera, after destroying thousands in Teheran, Persia, is now on the decrease. The deaths from the disease on the 30th amounted to 200, a decrease of 600 compared with the number of deaths reported ten days previously. • Rt. How. John Mobley, chief secretary for Ireland, went, on the 81st, on a visit to Andrew Carnegie, the American iron millionaire, at the lodge at Loch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland. Thk sculling match between Edward Ilanlan and Charles Stephenson, the champion of New Zealand, was rowed at Toronto, Ont,, on the 31st, and was won by Ilanlan by two lengths. Gov. McKinney of Virginia, on the 81st, notified the counsel for Talton Hall that he would not interfere with the mandate of the law, and that Hall must die. H. C. Frick paid a visit to the Carnegie mills at Homestead, Pa., on the 81st. for the first time since the lockout began. He was received by Supt Potter and made a tour of inspection of the premises. Jacob Henbici, the venerable head of the Economite society, was reported, on the 31st, as being seriously ill at Pittsburgh, Pa., his recovery not being expected. The Michigan state board of health, on the 31st, sent a request to President Harrison, by telegraph, that immigration be suspended until aU danger of cholera is passed. While W. E. Smith and his brother were riding on their wheels from Sinclair to Sherman, N. V., on the evening of the 80th, the former dropped from his machine dead. The Swiss bundesrath has Issued instructions to the local sanitary officers to disinfect the various towns of Switzerland; to carefully inspect all trav- ' elers, and to take every precaution to prevent cholera from entering or spreading in the republic. Georoe W. Adams, who claimed to have saved an express train from wreck near Enon, Pa., on the 36th, now confesses that he got up the scheme himself to obtain a reward from the railroad company. Jerry Hutton and Frank Kimsey, farmers, have been arrested at Sedan, Kas., in connection with the murder of Frazier and Gibbons, two cattle owners of Chautauqua county, two years ago. , Twelve more arrests are expected, and it is said, that a sensational plot will be revealed. George William Curtis died at his home in West Brighton; Staten Island, early on the morning of the Mst The attending physicians were not agreed as to tho nature of Mr. Curtis’ malady, and it was understood that an autopsy would be made. There is both indignation and fright in Edinburgh over the fact that several Hamburg steamers have been allowed to discharge fruit and other freight at Leith, the port of Edinburgh, and that passengers arriving from Hamburg have been allowed to land "at Leith almost without inspection as to their health. *

at a meeting oi tne neaitn committee of the Liverpool municipality, on the let, the medical officers reported that the city of Liverpool was in the healthiest condition it had been for a long time past, and there was no rear son to fear an epidemic. Tbs reciprocity convention met in Grand Forks, N. D., on the 1st, with 800 delegates present It was a representative body of business men George 11. Clifford, president of the Grand Forks chamber of commerce, delivered the address of welcome. Thk steamer Western Reserve broke in two off Au Sable banks, Lake Superior, on the nightof the 30th, and all but one of the twenty-seven persons on board were drowned. Harry Stewart, of Algonac, Mich., was the sole survivor. . Twbntt-fivb persons were killed and eight mortally wounded by an explosion in the Aggrappe coal mine, at Barinage, Belgium, on the 1st Thk Inman line management has decided to carry only first and second cabin passengers from Liverpool during the month of September. Th* public debt statement, issued from the treasury department on the 1st shows a decrease in the debt during the month of August amounting to $2,254,593. The British Colombia Sealers’ association is terribly perturbed over the news of the high-handed operations of aRuesian man-of-war in confiscating some heir schooners and their cargoes in Russian waters contiguous to Behring island, and will seek redress through (he British government Dp to noon of the 1st no new cases of cholera had developed on board the steamship Moravia. The vessel was ordered to the lower anchorage in the outer harbor, where she will remain isolated until it can be determined whether there is danger of further infection. Junes William R. Blaine, ordinary of Glenn county, Ga., was arrested, on the 1st in the act of stealing money from the safe of Grover Michaelson at Brunswick, Ga. He walked right into a trap that had been laid for him, Miohaelson having lost 43,000 within the last six months. A quarantine of twenty days will be imposed, until further orders, upon all vessels leaving infected European ports on and after September 1 on their arrival at their destination on this side. John Koleskr, a Hungarian, in jail at Cleveland, O., on a charge of wife' murder, forestalled the hangman, on the 1st, by hanging himself in his cell with a twisted sheet Upwards of twenty-five suspicious vessels are due at Quarantine, 8. L, during the next few days, and the quarantine health officers are preparing to meet them. It seems almost certain that some of them will have cases of cholera on board. The president's proclamation imposing a retaliatory toll of twenty cents a ton on Canadian produce passing through the St Mary’s Falls canal went into effect on the 1st

epidemic. It is said that hundreds of Russian Jews, en route to the United States, refused passage by the regular ocean lines, will embark for Canada, whence they expect to make their way into the United States. The emperor of Austria has commanded that on account of the cholera the Hungarian military maneuvers shall be abandoned. It is reported from Merv that 2,000 Afghans were killed in the last battle ' 'On the 2d the New York city anthort3s voted 210,000 for the fitting up of e barge offered by the St John’s guild for the reception of cholera patients. : According to Bradstreet’s report the clearing house returns of the United States, for the week ended on the 1st, amounted to 2905,150,021; for the Dominion of Canada, 216,148,310. It is estimated thatthe quarantine regulations will entail a loss of 22,000,000 monthly on the steamship companies whose ■vessels ply between European and United States ports, of which 21,000,400 will be on account of loes of immigrant traffic. A relay bicycle run was started from the east point of the capitol in Washington, on the 2d, the objective point being Pittsburgh, Pa., 800 miles distant, with nine mountain ranges to cross. The wheelmen expected to make the distance in twenty-two hours. A Philadelphia A Reading train, on the 2d, made the phenomenal run of nine miles 'in six minutes during a run from Buffalo to Rochester, the entire distance, including stops, being made at the average time of a mile a minute. The British cruiser Druid has been stationed at Grosse Isle quarantine station, below Montreal, Can., and her commander has orders to fire on any vessel attempting to pass quarantine without reporting. Henry Gibbs, a well-known colored jockey, was arrested at Minneapolis, Minn., on the 2d, for the murder of William Jones, at St Louis, March 29 last Gibbs claims to have killed Jones in defense of a woman’s life. Mbs. Catherine Hobane stumbled and fell'at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 1st, and a pencil which she carried in her band was driven through her eye into her brain, causing almost instant death. The entire packing interests of the Armour family, representing a capital of 250,000,000, will he harmoniously united October 1 next Ground was broken at Lament 111-, on the 3d, for the great drainage canal and waterway between the northern lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, the construction' of whieh, together with bonuses for land condemned, it is estimated will cost 235,000,000. Fire broke out early on the mdrning of the 4th, at Patoka, Ind., and destroyed two drug stores, three groceries and fonr smaller shops. The fire was caused by incendiaries, who have made several previous hut ineffectual attempts to fire the town. Twenty-four tons of powder on hoard the hark Auchmountain,lying off the town of Greenock, Scotland, exploded, on the 3d, blowing the vessel to atoms. No person appears to have perished in the explosion, though many were injured.

iir the destruction oi tne Kusstan city ofMiadsola,on the 3d, by fire 4,000 persons were left without shelter and in a destitute condition. Lord Rosebrbry denies that he was induced by Queen Victoria to take the foreign office under the Gladstone government. Several earthquake shocks were felt in Zelt, Greece, on the 4th. A movement is on foot among English yacht owners to sail direct to Chicago to visit the World’s exposition next year. LATfe NEWS HEMS. were ue* small vilver Elbe is - the air. World's Kair Commissioner Kyan, who returned to Columbus, O., on the 5th, from New York, where he went to secure the Standard Oil exhibit at the World’s fair for Ohio, announces that the exhibit will be credited to Ohio, though Pennsylvania offered 935,000 for it This company will make a 915,000 exhibit T. W. Parsons, who died suddenly at Scituate, Mass., on the 3d, aged 73, was one of Boston’s most eminent poets. His translation of Dante's “Inferno” was considered one of the best translations of the work. His most recent work was a versification of the Episcopal Collects. Premier Gladstone says he did not offer Mr. Labouchere an office because of certain incidents connected with the latter’s position and occupation. Mr. Gladstone explains that Mr. Lae bouchere’8 action in voting against the royal grants was no bar to his holding office. The mill, lumber yards, offices and stables of the Union Planing Mill Co. at Pittsburgh, Pa., were destroyed by fire on the 5th. A lighted torch fell into a pile of shavings and the fire was soon past control. The loss is about 945,000; nothing was insured. Gwyrede Gruchy, the sharpshooter, captured at Harriman, Tenn., was, on the 5th, held for murder in the first degree without bond. The soldiers say that he is the man who killed Smith and another militiaman, and they are very bitter toward him. Labor day was celebrated at the Homestead (Pa.) mill by increased activity in all departments, especially in the bessemer mill, where seven heats were run by 9:80 o’clock. President Harrison’s letter of acceptance of the nomination to the presidency by the republican convention at Minneapolis, Minn., was gi press on 5 th. Out of a large party of Austrian soldiers billeted in a farm house ha Galacia, Sunday night, eight were and seven more or leas injured. L. Moody, the evangelist, n out of a carriage at BelTMilan#! #m 3d. and is Confined ained foot

-----;- A STATE NEWS. i Columbus Construe* ng a test near Lonear Kokomo had to i dotvn. B. F. Strasseb, of Washington, on the charge of L on Sunday and is slowly and pain* Inspectors Holden, of 1 Fletcher, of Indianapolis, by means of a decoy letter caught Will B. Vandoran, the postmaster's assistant, robbing the mall. He was arrested and placed in jail. Albert Smith and “Gray" Starling quarreled at Madison. Smith Shot and killed him. Smith was jailed. Several days ago the beautiful eight-een-year-old daughter of Mr. Dierdorf, of Brazil, was attacked by a vicious dog. She was going to a neighbor’s when the animal sprang upon her and sank its teeth into her left arm. The dog had to be killed before it would release its hold. The wound began swelling and inflamed until the arm was in a terrible shape. Hydrophobia was feared, and the young lady was taken to Terre Haute to have the wonderful mad stone applied. ▲ proclamation was issued the other day by Mayor David B. Deeper, ordering citizens and the city board of health to give the city a general cleaning at South Bend. The forger who swindled the merchants of Portland has been ide^jfied as H. B. Gordon, one of the four per* sons who broke jail at Dima on the night of August 4 and escaped. Republicans have pitted Charles D. Henry against W. D. Bynum in the congressional race. The governor has appointed W. Z. Wiley, of Farley, judge of the Third judicial district At Columbus, Willis G. Stewart was jailed for assaulting Oliver Dessing, brother of the girl to whom he was engaged to be married. Cabbie Diehl, a six-year-old daughter of Charles Diehl, of Orleans, was run overby a heavily loaded wagon and instantly killed/' She and her sister were riding on the coupling pole, when her sister got off, and, taking her by the arms, pulled her off. She fell backward and was caught by the wheel, which passed over her body, crushing the life out of her. The hern-burner is at work near Kokomo. The other night the barn and large straw-stacks of Harrison Harlan were burned; also the barn of Thomas Huston. The loss wUl reach $2,000. Mayor W. D. McCullough, of Brazil, was stricken seriously 111 with heart trouble suddenly the other night Until the hour of attack he was enjoying good health. He is in a Critical condition. Dewib Smterb, one of the oldest residents of Wabash county, died at Wabash the other day, of flux, aged seven-ty-six. Mr. Smyers was an extensive land-owner and a stockholder in the Wabash Citizen's bank. At Indianapolis Night Watchman Dichtenberg put two bullets into a colored thief, but the fellow escaped. At South Bend Hon. Wm. Rupel, 90, retired capitalist, married Miss Clothilde Meyer, a pretty young school teacher, 23 years old.

A suit to test tne consiuuuonaniy oi the last senatorial representative apportionment act will be filed in either Hendricks or Henry county. John W. Hopkins, 104 years old, died at Bremen. Tub man run over by Biff Four train at Alexandria was Clint Hart, an Ohio man. A. R. Bbinson, oi Kirkpatrick, has sued the Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City railroad and Crawfordsville for (3,000 for injuries received while load* ing hogs at Kirkpatrick. An election held at ‘Edinburg the other day resulted 5 to 1 in fa^or of the water works Miss Mabt E. Baldwin, who was hurled from the top step of the passenger coach to the ground, recently, at Edinburg, never regained consciousness and died a few days ago. At Indianapolis Mrs. Minnie Miner was convicted of enticing young girls to their ruin. ? Pkoplb are hunting for an old man who enticed two little girls into the woods near Brasil. Maby Baldwin, aged 16,of Columbus, is dead as the result of jumping from a nioving railroad train. Dora Evbbbach, aged 38, committed suicide at New Albany because of betrayal by Charles Ethridge. A iattlk babe of Mrs. Clifford Eckstein, of Columbus, was choked to death while nursing at its mother’s breast. At Portland Harvey Beed died the other day after three weeks of incessant hiccoughing. He was 75 years old. At Tipton Mrs. Kichard Huston is under bond tor smashing in a saloon front with an ax. An unknown man broke into the dry goods store of Chas. Fisher, ol Inwood, the other night, getting (130 In money, about (50 worth of dry goods and a Winchester rifle valued at (30. The marshal of Inwood arrested Henry Kline at Bourbon on suspicion. Kline is insane. Otto Block was fatally crushed under a freight trail) at Ft Wayne. William E. Jenkins, who has been on trial at Richmond for killing John Dixon, was acquitted. At Crawtordsville David Carlisle took whisky for a snake bite, got drunk, engaged in a fight, was hurt, and may die. While ex-Councilman Ira Rinehart, of Delphi, was returning with hiB family from Battleground, his horse took fright and ran away, throwing the occupants of the vehicle down a steep embankment The aged mother of Mr. Rinehart had her shoulder broken and was otherwise dangerously injured. John Clabk shot and fatally wounded Henry Suder and seriously hurt Henry Grant, at Logansport Result of chnrch trouble and a scandal, involving Rev. Baird and Mrs. Dr. David Millau. wor A eAJfO of burglars have 1-..-ing Kokomo for the past week, the -„-to private ___ Eight houses have been broken into and watches, jewelry and cash taken. agedM, smokedfiftycigarettes a day. old books it apnative of s was the southern

THE ILLINOIS CAMPAIGN. Mr. Stevenson's Address to tbs Prairie State Democrats. The All-Important Inn of tho Piwoi Politico1 Strr.ggle-Hlgh Tariff wad Law Wages—The Force Bill. KtsThe democrats opened the crunpatgn In IlUnois vrith & jjrand rally at BlotAK ington on August 27, at which were present some fifteen thousand people among whom were leading democrats from all over tho state. A. E. Stevenson, the democratic candidate for the vice presidency, Senator Palmer, Gen. John C. Black, and others delivered stirring speeches, and nominations far various state offices were made. In his speech Mr. Stevenson spoke upon the leading issues of the campaign as follows: "Ours is c government of the people It is wisely provided in our federal constitution that once in four years political power shall mum to the hands of the people Tweuty-six times during the IQS years of our history have the Americas people. In She exercise of their rights as electors, cast their ballots for the candidate of their choice far the high office of president of the United States. We are now on the eve of another presides tlnl election The responsibility of determining what line of public policy shall be pursued and who shall be selected as chief magistrate Is again upon us. "The importance at aa intelligent and conscientious exercise of the privilege of designating those who are to be intrusted with high office cannot he overstated. In the pending struggle for political supremacy grave public questions are at Issue. Upon the correct determination of these questions through the peaceful methods prescribed by law trill depend the welfare of the people. It is all important, then, that the determination at the polls be the result, not of prejudice nor of misrepresentation, but of honest and intelligent disencsion of the Issues involved. Soring the short, time I shall detain yun it will be my endeavor to suggest some of the reasons why Mr. Cleveland should he elected president and the democratic party restored to power. The four years’ administration'of President Cleveland was confessedly an honest administration. None of the predicted evils of which democratic triumph was to be the forerunner followed his Inauguration. In tbs campaign of 1884 the people were told by republican speakers that democratic success would bring blight and ruin upon the commercial interests of the country. Those who predicted evil from Mr. {Bcrolacd’s election proved false prophets. The democratic administration ending March 4, 1886, has gone into history as an ecpnomloal and able administration of the government No scandals attached to any of its appointments to office. Under it the rights of all property—of all sections—of ail the people were recognized and enforoed. “Under It toe bonded debt of the government was paid at maturity; trust funds were not used to avoid a treasury dc&cit, and the gold reserve was not menaced by threats of invasion to meet the current expenses of the government. Under that administration up additional hardens were laid upon the people. At the close of President Cleveland's administration the surplus in the treasury, exclusive of the gold reserve, was. In round numbers, 183,001,000. It will be remembered that during the latter half of his administration the important question was: What shall be done with the surplus revenues? In view of the tact that the annual revenues of the government were then *100,000,000 In excess of its necessities, the quotation was one of practical interest to the American neonta. • -

ens the treasury is the result, first, of the enactment of the McKinley tariff lav, and, secondly the lavish appropriations of the Pinyfirst congress. “The secretary of the treasury was constrained by what he regarded as the exigencies of the financial situation to extend the payment of *»,000,000 of government bonds maturing September 1 of last year. This aet of a republican secretary of the treasury is in striking contract with that of his democratic predecessor, under whoso wise and effleient administration the bonds of the government were paid at maturity. The appropriations of the Isst republican congress—which has gone into history as the ■blilion-doUar’ congress—far exceeded that of any of its democratic predecessors. ‘The large appropriation* of the first session of the present congress are, in the main, due to the reckless legislation of the Fifty-first congress imposing the necessity of heavy appropriations upon its successors. Much of the appropriations by the late session were in pursuance of the requirements of existing laws— laws enacted by a republican congress In this connection it must kit be forgotten that the republican senate of the present congress added more than JB.OCO.OCO to the appropriation bille as they originally passed the democratic hdtiso of representatives The reckless expenditure of money by appropriations which no public necessity demanded merits the condemnation o( the people. “For twenty-four years immediately preceding tho inauguration of President Cleveland, all departments of the government were in the main under the control of the republican party. During that period the larger part of tho legislation which has boon so potent in burdening the people with debt and taxation was enacted. That legislation was resisted by the democratic minority in congress. Tho treasury of the United States has ever found its most faithful guardians in the democratic party. Tho tribute of Mr. Blaine to its old-timo leaders was but Just when he said they had ‘guarded the treasury with unceasing vigilance against every attempt at extravagance and corruption.’ "The tariff is the all-important issue of tho campaign upon which we have now entered. Shall there be a revision of cur tariff laws, and, as a consequence of such legislation, a reduction of taxation, or shall it become the policy of our government to maintain, permanently, high protection? The position of the two leading political parties upon that question cannot be mis understood. The republican party, as illustrated by its recent, enactment of the MoKinley law, stands for a high protective, in ‘Other words, a prohibitory tariff. The democratic party, as emphasised by its utterances and its acts, is tho advocate of tariff reform. The issue la squarely presented. Upon the one side are the advocates of * high protective or prohibitory policy—a policy that enriches the few at the expense of the many. On the other the advocates oi such reduction of tariff duties, as will give to our manufacturers the benefit or cheap raw material and lessen to the consumer the cost of the neceasariee of Ufa “Dong enough Isas the vagewsarncr been deluded by the cry that high tariff means high wages. Tariffs have no effect upon wages exoept to reduce the purchasing power. The higher the tariff the loss the purchasing power of the wages. Wages are governed by the great law of supply and demand. If tho claim of the protectionist is well founded, why have not wages increased as tariffs have increased? Why oonstant reduction of wages in the most highly protected establishments in the land? Tc the toiler the McKinley bill has ‘kept tho word of promise to the ear, hut broken it to the hope.* “In his great speech against the high-tariff corn laws in the British parliament in 1843 the matchless orator, Daniel O'Connell, said: ‘But what is the meaning at promotion? It means an additional sixpence for each loaf; that is the Irish of it. « he had not the protection tho loaf would sell for a shilling, but if he has the protection the leaf will sell for one and sixpence. Protection is the English for sixpence, and, whet is more- it le the-English for an extorted sixpence. The real meaning of proteothe rich.' “What is the condition that now confronts us at the end of three and a half years of repute lican administration? On the basis of revenues to the government, as estimated by the secretary o’ the treasury tot the present fiscal year, and of the liabilities of the government on account of the annual and permanent appropriations for the same period, there will be a deficit of 162,000,000. Upon the assumption that tho law requiring tt&OCO.OXs for the sinking fund will be complied with, there is no escaping the deficiency I have montioned. And this, too, notwithstanding that the administration made default In providing Jot the sinking fund to an amount exceeding fll.Oua.emo during the last fiscal year. The bankruptcy which now threat

truss me puctteus ui use taxpayers a the sugar-grower*. “In addition to this, whatever come to the consumer by the tree Of the bill i3 overbalanced many largely increased cost of woolen all other necessaries of life. The i sugar tax was simply intended to ! consumer to the still greater taxes him. Heretofore the persistent proteotionist has been that tariff ( not paid by the consumer. This abandoned. The advocates of law concede thetax upon sugar to paid by the consumer. Else, why take so t credit to themselves for removing it! not danger that the consigner may inqni removing the tariff tax upon sugar '- oost, why would not the follow a reduction of tariff taxes upon t other necessaries of lifer "The democratic house of representatives of the present congress has passed a bill t ‘ the increased duties imposed by tbs bfilupon tin plate and providing 1 few years it shall go upon the fr also passed the, free wool and bill, by which wool is admitted free* a large reduction sought to be < tariff upon woolen goods of all ( has also removed the tariff upon ! But for the hostility of a republican these measures, so just, so beneficial to ti pie, would now be upon our statute 1 present tariff laws need careful revision, glaring inconsistencies should be i is to the interest of manufacturer sumer alike that in the main raw t admitted free of duty. Working the ■ terial into the finished product would j ployment to our skilled workmen, lion of tariff taxes to the minimum necessaries of life is importan t to i pie; it would prove of inestimable value 1 millions who earn their bread by daily toil. ‘‘My fellow cittxenn, to you the tariff is the all-important question. The question is not how much of your earnings. Shall be given to t* support of the government,'but how much founder the forms of law be seized by the t —the protected—classes. "When the tariff bill of 1881, Increasing the average of tariff taxes from 19 to 85 per cent, was under consideration Mr. Morrill, the republican author of tho bill, said: ‘It was not designed as a permanent system, but only as a temporary measure’ As already shown this war tax. instead of being reduced when the war had closed, was by successive republican congresses increased to an average of 47 per cent. The republican party responded to the demand of tho people for reduced taxation by the passage of the McKinley tariff bill of 189a. thus heavily increasing war taxes upon the people twenty-five years after the war had closed. Are your Interests safe In the hands of a party controlled by tbe protected monopolists of this country! This is the important question for your determination at the polls. The democratic party wages no warfare on any business interest. It favors no legislation hostile to the true Interests of any business enterprise. We belteve that the burdens of taxation should be equally distributed. We oppose all legislation that enriches the few by taxing the many. “The contest upon which we have now entered 1st of deep significance to the Amerioan people. Shall high tariff, continually Increasing with the demands of the protected classes, be the settled policy of our government, or shall there be relief to the people from the burdens of nalust taxation! “Another issue of great moment In the pending contest is the force bill. The magnitude of this Issue cannot be overstated. It may mean the control of the election of representatives in congress by the bayonet. The republican party, by its acts m the Fifty-first congress and by its platform in its late national convention, stands pledged to the passage of the force bill. That It will pass this bill when it has the power no sane man can doubt. To all of the people—all who desire the peace and prosperity of our common country—this question Is important. To the people of the southern states Itls one of transcendent importance. Shall they still have peace and the protection of the law, or ahall_ the horrors with-wlftch'they 3re-aMg(NfVRP their counterpart only in those of the i hours of the reconstruction period! "I am heartily in accord with tne party in its efforts to repeal the obnoxious previsions of the compulsory school law, enacted by a republican legislature In this state. 7

“it is passing strange teat legislation so Hostile to the spirit of oar tree institutions should ever have found its way to our statute books. The right of the parent to exercise reasonable control over the education of his child should not he abridged. The democratic party of Illinois 3tand pledged to the repeal of a law which has, Justly, given offense to so many of the best citizens in our state. "Fellow Citizens: I flrmly believe that yo«* interests, the interests of all the people of thesa United States, are bound up in the success the party that came in with Jefferson in I very infaney of our republic; the party t lor more than half a century of existence 1 stood at the helm of state; the party-which i all periods of our history has been the bulw of oitr constitution and the faithful guardian t the rights of all the people; the party under whose broad banner the men of all nationalities have been welcomed to share with us this God- - given heritage; the party which, from the beginning, has been the foe of proscription, whether on account of blrthplaoe or religion; the party which knows no privileged classes, hut which demands equal and exact justlee far all; the party which, under Jefferson, purchased the great valley of the Mississippi and extended onr domain to the gulf and to the ooean; the party which, under Madison, bore our flag to victory in our second struggle with Great Britain, and which, under his immediate successor, established flrmly for ail time the rights of the American nation by the declaration and mahw w tenanee of the Monroe doctrine; the party which. In the early morning and In the noon of this century, gloried in the leadership of Jaekson and of Douglas, the undaunted foes ot special privileges and of unjust taxation. “U^der the matohless leadership of the man who gave you an honest administration ol the government; who wrested from the grasp of those who had robbed you of your heritage 80,000,000 acres and restored it to the public domain: whose principle In action is: ‘A public office Is a public trust’—under his leadership the democratic party confidently submits the momentous questions at Issue, and will abide by tho determination of the final arbiters at the polls." _ ... -.I’ffSfBSsflB An Indian. Opinion. Maj. Peter Rouan, the agent of tha Flathead Indians in western Montano, recently purchased a fine-blooded but ugly-faced bulldog. He did not get the animal so much for his usefulness as • watchdog as to give his Indian wards a chance to study a new specimen and perhaps to find out what their opinions would be on the snbjeot of this novel creature. The appearance of such a strange quadruped caused great excitement among the “red men ;TpL the forest.” They seemed to consider him an extraordinary sort of a dog and held long consultations on his various points. The Chiefs of the' tribe, after a - long pow-wow, decided to call him a name of their own—“The good, baJP’’ dog,” The name seems a little curious and is worth studying. The first adjeetive, probably, the Indiana put in for the sake of being complimentary, perhaps from a feeling that it was safest to be polite in addressing so formidable an animal. It shows a little bit of Indian diplomacy which is funny. But the second adjective shows that, after all, they had a strict regard^tor truth and wanted to describe that dog accurately if it took all their vocabulary to do it. And so the Indians’ estimate stands of the bulldog; “The good, bad dog.”—N. Y. World. What Was tha Good of lit ~ Willie is six years old, with abrothffll and sister two and four years ejdefl nod these two were recently invited 9 Mr. Blank to a little party, mueh^TS