Pike County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 May 1893 — Page 4

HATCH. HURT DISEASE 20 TERRS. r. —.w MmtUeml Cm.. JHJUkart, In*. Dia« Bob : Tot SO years I wu troubled with heart iHanari Would frequently, have fulling as5HfftaaS*japtf aide and beck mod of the time; at last IJ nao ana dka nr mi w uio w——— »«itsassffssfjsw» THOUSANDS“ ■"» Mini Ultlvu troubled your JTew Bart Owe. I bed not taken it very lout until I felt much better, and I can now deep oneither dde or back without thelearnt discomfort. I hare no pain, amothering. dropey.no wind h or other disagreeable symptoms. I r _ __r Ul—A ■ oj ui^waiaiN * _» do in'mj own housework without any trouble and consider myaclf ** __ wfcored. "Skhart.'lnd.,]»). H*a. *uinut Hues. It is now four Tears since I have taken any medicine. Am in better health than.1 haTe been g«»,; sbk* cured 3mart Owe eaved xny Ufa _ “—) a well woman. I am now 02 ana made me a weu woman. *•*“*«" jv— Sold oa a Foaltive Guarantee. I. MILES’ PILLS.60 Do«k*26Cts. 1 to §?ito County gcmocrat By IB. HcC. STOOPS. The Pike Count; Democrat has the larKat circulation of an; newspaper published la ke Count; 1 Advertisers will make a note of this fact! Entered at the postoffice In Petersburg for transmission through the malls asaecondelasa matter. * FKIDAY, MAY 19,1893.

With this issue of Tue Democrat the twenty-fourth volume is completed, and it now enters upon another year of its existence. The Democrat has struggled along against great odds for many years until now it stands to the tore as the leading famil^fpaper of Pike county. When it yvas first issued the size was just half the present paper. It has passed through and had several editors and proprietors; and has been under the present management but one year. During the year past the paper has ^>een enlarged aud otherwise improved. Hundreds of pew subscribers have been added to the already large list, who were desirous of reading the best local paper published in Pike county. We desire the support of all our democratic friends and all others who may wish to patronize a firstclass paper. It is the intention of the present publisher to make further improvements in the paper, and to this end we would ask all those who are indebted to The Democrat on subscription to call and settle the same at once. We have earned the money aud need it to liquidate several small claims now outstanding. Please remember this fact when you go down in your' pockets and find a dollar and a quarter. Th* Coffin trust is about to “bust," And hence, through competition, Yon m&j buried be quite cheap, you see. By delaying Inanition. Judge Lochrkn, the new commissioner of pensions, has abrogated Itaum’s “completed files*’ order. The Reform policy in the pension bureau cannot make a better beginning than l>y undoing everything that Kanm. did. Clarkson, Foraker, Platt—oh, yes, young biood is coming to the front in the republican party. The party is actually blushing, it is so youthful and coy, and that coll to Louisville and save the nation was ^so sudden.” Clarkson tells the country that his party musters a new generation of republican leaders. If the generation of leaders does not do better than the old ones last November democracy need bother itself no longer about possibilities aud uncertainties of politics. *

AGAINST CONTRACTION. It ought to be generally understood that the present policy of redeeming the Sherman silver bullion notes in gold only is temporary, aud that the democratic party is 80 far from being-committed to it that it disapproves aud condemns it. This is borne out by the party’s record since 1873 as well as by the national platform adopted last year at Chicago. Democrats have never ceased to denounce the demonetization of silver through the fraud engineered by Johu Sherman and his accomplices, and the party has not hesitated to coudemn the republican policy of paying out gold only in coin obligations, payable by law in both gold and silver. The course of the party cannot be changed now without the most disastrous results, aud we do not believe there will be any change in this respect. The policy of the Harrison administration will be cha^ded-Tas soon as there is opportunity^foK/ftie democratic congress to give Mr. Cleveland the benefit of its cordial and effective co-operation in carrying out a democratic policy. , There is no obligation to pay off the indebtedness of the country except the gold certificates in gold alone,” says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the leading democratic paper of Ohio. “Bonds aud notes are payable in coin, and the ooin of the United States of the standard dollar of silver as well as the standard dollar of gold. It is expressly stipulated that every note issued under the Sherman act of 1890 is payable in gold or silver coin at the discretion of the secretary of the treasury. Every legal tender note is redeemable in coin of either silver er gold, although neither metal in the notes or iu the law for their issuance. The treasury should be prepared to defeat the Wall street conspiracy .by coining the silver bullion in the'treasury vaults into standard dollars and paying ont noin nf KaIK mot ole W

This is what the law contemplates and this is what the democratic par* ty will insist upon in the future as in the past. The Sherman act of 1890 does not go so far as to demonetize silver. It only makes it possible lor an administration which is attempting a contraction of the currency by changing silver dollars from assets into liabilities to refuse to recognize that a silver dollar is “coin” and to interpret the law to mean that there is no coiu save gold coin. Certainly the democratic party will not be a party to such a policy as that inaugurated by the Harrison administration. The tremendous pressure exerted by its beneficiaries has thus far prevented a change, but when Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle are re-enforced by a democratic congress the party will have an influence enough in Washington to repudiate the ruinous policy of contraction adopted hi Messrs. Harrison and Foster whejU'lfeSi set the example of refusing to use silver coin at all in redeeming coiu obligations—even in redeeming those issued on deposit of silver bullion. There Is no greater issue before the people than this of whether over half a billion in silver money, belonging to the people, is to be treated as a debt agaiust them. Those who wish to treat the, silver money of the people as demand notes payable in gold are not supported by either law or common houesty. The people will not submit to their dictation. Come what will, this issuo must be settled, now that it has been forced, and settled rightly. OF INTEREST TO SOLDIERS. The following order which will be of interest to soldiers has been issued from the pension bureau : Washington, April 26, 1893. The secretary’s order of April 16, 1892, touching congressional calls tor status, having been revoked, it is ordered that hereafter all congressional calls for status in cases where the claimant is a bonafide resident of the state represented by him, shall be promptly answered: Provided, that status shall not be furnished oftener than once in every ninety days. These answers shall be as far as practicable, by letter, and not by card or circular, and in all cases a duplicate, showing the name of the congressman to whom status given and the date of the same. The senator or representative, in order to receive the benefits of this privilege, will be required to state in the call-slip that the claimant is a bonafide resident of his congressional district (or state, if a senator,) and that the call is not made at the instigation or request of any pension attorney or claim agent. D. J. Murphy, Acting Commissioner. Meldl has no equal in the medicine iim. ' it

THE STATE DEBT. The Indianapolis Sentinel a few days ago contained an interview with Albert Gall, State Treasurer, which will be of special interest to every citizen of Indiana. The interview is reported as follows: “This,” said State Treasurer Gall, “is evidence of the beginning of a new era in the financial policy of the state.” The above remark was occasioned by the return from New York of the bonds recently paid off by the state treasurer. They were .to the amount of $340,000, and were for a temporary interest loau which fell due on April 2. This is the first payment made upon the state debt for a quarter of a century, with the exception of some 5 percent state stock certificates, which were paid in 1891, the principal and interest of which amounted to only $20,253.62. The state debt is now in the best possible shape and drawing the minimum interest. Under the laws of 1889, all the debt of the state was refunded, except bonds amounting to $484,000, due to the state uiversity and Purdue university, which drew interest at 5 percent. The bonds, known as the domestic debt are of a permanent character and are intended, not so much tor a loau to the state, as a means of a steady income to the two universities. Aside from this the funded debt of the state amounted to $8,346,615.12. The cancellation of the bonds just returned is the payment of $340,000 of this amount. The amount of $6,615.12 is old state stock certificates, which have been entirely lost track of although every effort has been made to locate them and have been repeatedly called for. This leaves the debt of the state at $8,000,000 even, and drawing a very low rate of iuterest. “This debt,” says Mr. Gall, “is so placed under the new laws that interest is paid in regular installments and the principal, when due, can be

pam uu auu uie ouiiub cauceiieu 11 so desired. Under the old order of things it not frequently happened that small loans were overlooked and the interest compounded until it amounted to more than the principal. Iu 1883 twenty-four internal improvement bonds amounting to $1,000 each were taken up and the interest a mounted: to $110,149.49 nearly five times the principal. In or was this thejonly case of the kind. All the oli^jbonds taken up during the first ten years under'the act of 1862, amounted to $201,900, while the interest on the same was $520,452.10 The payment of these bonds is the beginning of a new order of things. The state debt is now systemized and with the enforcement of the present tax laws can be steadily decreased as the different loans become due.” Mr. Gall expressed himself as vejy much gratified that it should fall to his lot to make the first payment .on the debt under the new law. “The appropriation for the payment," he resumed, “eras made after a hard fight. It was made, however, without in the least straining the capacity of the'itate and without eucroaching upon the rights of any other department. The credit of the whole matter belongs to the new tax laws by which all property is assessed at its proper value and which bring under taxation millions of dollars’ worth of taxable property heretofore not upon the tax duplicates. “Will the $370,000 which fall due next year be paid ?" “Yes, the appropriation was made and the amount will be paid if everything else has to wait." Civil service-reform has been progressing steadily during the last decade. At the present time about onefourth of the miner clerical places have been taken out of politics. There were 15,500 offices in the classified service at the beginning of Mr. Cleveland’s former administration, and at the end of his term they had increased to 27,300. At the close of President Harrison’s administration they had reached 43,400 out of a total of 183,000 offices. Every extension of the classified service has been attended with good results. Mr. Cleveland being a sincere reformer, and the policy having encountered public approval, there is every promise that several thousand mpre offices will be placed under business regime during the present presidential term. Civil service reform is an eye-sore to the horde of hungry office-seekers who infest the capitol but it’s all right for the people who demand efficiency in the public serviee. Bucklen’s Arniea Salve. The Bkst Salve in tbe world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Uloers, Salt Rheum. Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guar, anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale oy J. B. Adams & Son. aprS-SS

It has been suggested to The Democrat upon several occasions that ihere should be an effort made by the school trustees, superintendent or someone else £o throw out some inlucement that would bring pupils to this city to secure their education instead of going to Princeton, Oakland City and neighboring towns. At this time there are not less than fifty young people, who are desirous of requiring an education, attending neighboring schools. Petersburg should have these young gentlemen rod ladies in her schools. If there is tnv reason why they cannot be ac:ommodated here it should be remedied at once. If teachers and instructors of a higher grade are needed, secure them. Keep up with the times and take caro of those who are lesirous^f acquiring an education, rhere is no doubt but what if Petersburg had such a training school she could at least add forty or fifty pupils during the coming year. Try it. President Cleveland is being importuned to call an immediate extra session of congress, and the presence of Speaker Crisp in the capitol started a rumor that he had so decided. If he has he has not made the decision public. There is little doubt that Mr. Cleveland would call an immediate extra session* if he knew that it would promptly repeal the Sherman silver law, but-of that he is not certain, and a refusal to repeal might have a bad effect on the financial situation^ which has uot been affected by the Wall street excitement during last week. Many democrats express the opinion that it would be the proper thing a( this time to call an extra session and throw the n - sponsibility of maintaining the government credit upon congress, but they also express their confidence in the president’s ability to do the right thing.

After all the republican league convention at Louisville hasn’t amounted to much. Beyond resolving a few times and electing officers little has been accomplished. To be sure a step^ias been taken toward giving the party a new issue—that of woman suffrage. But even .this has not been fully accomplished, and it is extremely doubtful if the whole party when it meets in convention, will tangle itself up in the crinoline. Beyond the glorification of Clarkson the convention has ttoue nothing worthy of note. W. R. Drewekt, of Norfolk, Virginia,was arrested about a year ago for procuring fraudulent pensions, but was not punished. Further investigation of his work has revealed stupendous frauds. About 98 percent of the coin that he haudled was of that character, and his stealings will reach $100,000. He used as his instruments colored men and women who could not read or write. His case will be brought before the United States court iu Norfolk on Monday. The international couventioiy>f the young men’s Christian association in session at Indianapolis last week represents a work, the magnitude of which is world wide. The usefulness of the association through its moral and Christian influences is beyond estimation. It has turned thousands of young men in the right direction and reclaimed thousands more. No body of Christian workers deserves higher honors than those which the association has earned. 'fhe person who furnishes items for The Democrat is always a valuable friend to the editor. Many persons hesitate about sending items to a newspeper regarding the movements of friends, lest the editor should think them anxious to see their names in print. We yrill think nothing of the kiud, but on the contrary he is always glad to get such items. Mauy seemingly unimportant uotes wheu printed are news to a large number >t readers. Wall Street bankers say that if Mr. Carlisle had begun bis adminisratlou with the annoucement that be would pay out gold just as his prede:essor had done “he would have been spared the anxietv which his curious ;ourse occasioned two weeks ago” —meaning by this tima when they sailed the hand of the treasury and , forced its cards to the beard. They ire rather insolent—those Wall Street people, but this is their deal. We are very fond of the independent republican press of New York md Boston, and we are really glad to Pave such able newspapers eugaged ( m tho work of helping us to support I i democratic administration. But it would be seemly in .them to be a title less demonstrative in their rejoic- ■ ug that Kentucky and Georgia eo!<# iels have been shut out Qf the White douse.

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i. b. mu ico This spring we have added to our Stock quite a lot of articles never kept by us before. In springs wraps we have an elegant line and can show all the diff erent styles. Our Carpets were selected from one of the largest stocks in this country giving us quite an advantage in styles and patterns. In Dress Goods we have everything from Calico to Silks. Our stock of Gents furnishing goods is much larger than ever before, placing us far in the lead of our competitors. „ We have a nicer and better line of Shoes than heretofore, and the largest stock of Hats ever shown in the town. We still have a nice lot of Clothing which we are closing out at cost. We have the goods and are making the prices to suit. 1. L in 2 CO

THE MODEL Backes & Herridge, Props. We have just opened itp a Bakery and Restaurant in tbe room formerly oecniise bv Frank Battles, on lower Main street and where we invite all our friends to. call and see us. We will bake M ki is ad Estes Every day. We also serve Lunch a:td Warm Meals at all hours of the day. i ■ ■ ■ ■: y; • GANDIES AND ICE CRE/I We will make a specialty of the aboro this summer. Don’t fail to call ami see us. Backes & Berridjie

DRS. VINCENT & BIGGS, Specialists. • • • • • The physicians^ whose phenomenal success has been thosbbject of much comt ten. hroughout Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, were formerly connect* d with the celebrated 8t ick - _ house Medical Institute.

Any person wis lint; to confirm thg am serous reports regaidii % their success are requester! to write for testimonies Drs. Vincent A Iiggu have made chroni; diseases a life long bi udy and have ample pi oof that their reputatio n in this line is unequillel Every week for two years past the statement of one or more lea line citizens, who were! : ur» d by these piiysicians, hai t been published in t ae Evansville papers. Unlike most Traveling Specialists-the;' do pot persuade you t> ca 1 on them for the put poso of robbing you. On tie contrary they pie peso to show no partia lty, and give the same lov uniform rate to all. Their motto is, ‘HL1 vet aqd f.et Live,” and if you wifi call on then:, they will prove their sincerity.

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