Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 December 1893 — Page 4

BOLIDAYGOODS It is a custom established in years gone by to make presents to your friends orj Christinas, and to give von a choice selection we have just placed on our shelves the finest line of Ever seen in the city. These goods consist of Castors of all Kinds, Butter Dishes, Knives and Forks, Flatters, Fruit Knives, cpootts, Berry Dishes, Cups, Boirdtoi! Baskets, Cake Baskets, Fruit Baskets, Syrup Cups and many other ar'ieles. We have a flue line of \ These goods are the finest made and will make very suitable presents. Ot course we have art elegant litre of s> . - Gold and Silver Watches For which our store has always been noted. We have a splendid assortment of Kings, Chains, Charms, Fins, Lodge Emblems of all kinds. Come . and see us before buying. We have the goods and are selling them at exW ceedingly close margins. We have a few of those $3 eight-day Clocks lett.

k <thr gik? County Democrat By IU. MIcC. STOOPS. The Pike t'ounty l>emo«*rat has the larfftst r-Jrcalation ot any newspaper published in ) l^e County i Advertisers will make a note of thlsftet! Entered at the postOfflce in Petersburg for transmission through-tU'o mails as setondbljass matter. FRIDAY, DEC. 29.1S93. Attention Democrats. Petersburg, Dec. 15,1893. To the democracy of^Jike county: By direction of the Democratic State Central Committee, I am hereby authorized to call a mass convention to beheld at Petersburg, Saturday, December 30,1892, at 2 o’clock p. m., lor the purpose of electing ten delegates to the district convention to be held at Evansville, January S, 1891, to elect a member of the State comjuittee for the ensuing two years.. George B. Ashby,' Cham. Dem. Cen. Com. Tiie Oakland City Record comes up smiling with a new head on the anniversary of the fourth year of its eyiVteuce. “Old Joe” is one of the veterans in tiie cause of democracy and his views of the great political questions are ably presented io his readers from week to week.

Gov. McKinley, ot Ohio, announces that he will be inaugurated ■with Puritan simplicity and that it will not cost the state a dollar, all “on account of the existing financial conditions.” Very good, but he must remember that the “existing financial conditions” of which- he speaks, so feelingly, are duo to legislation that lie championed more than auv other man. 5,

The Hawaiin question has been given over into the hands of congress 1o settle. If by the message of.Presi* der.t Cleveland the subject is adhered to, Queen Lil and the speculators will light it out. By a speculative move-1 inent President Harrison and his man) Stcvens^dethroned the queen and Recognized a provisional government. The whole thing smacks of trickery, and the government should have jtothing to do with the matter.

Wool is one of the articles on the McKinley bill that is highly protected, and yet since that taritl bill was enacted and became a law the price of that commodity has steadily decreased in pripe. There is nothing like protection when it protects, but where does the poor farmer come in ?

The board ot' commissioners of Daviess county have concluded to reduce the expenses of that county by curtailing- the poor expenses. To that end they have notified the township trustees to cut off the needy of their respective townships. Eight at this time, when employment can not* be given to the workingmen, it seems that the board has made a mistake and the poor class of that county will be made to sutler. “Turn the rascals out.” That was ' the tune sung during the first months ot Harrison’s administration and they were turned out .with a vengeance that turned many a man's head dizzy. Rut the present administration is very slow in that regard. In many Indiana towns postmasters have been allowed to remain and hold their offices for four years-and-a-half, much to the discomfiture of those who are awaiting appointment at the various towns. Petersburg is one of those places that want a change in postmasters, and has been of that opinion since the 4th of March last, but it seems that the fates be against us aud we will have to abide time.

Sometime since a paper published in this ci'y ptfnned the Nfollowing: "We lead, others follow.” The Democrat opened up a kindergarten sometime ago and from the appearance of the paper that published the able article it may be noticed that its editors have been very apt pupils in learning the modus opcrandi of getting up a respectable paper. With a few more lessons it may be able to get out an originate ?)paper. The Democrat hired an able writer from one of the townships to write a series of articles tinder the non de plume of “Si Slocum” at a very heavy expense. This pupil in our kindergarten has taken kindly to the popular favor into which “Uncle Si” has jumped, and has assumed the task of patterning after his style. There are newspapers and newspapers.

The boy who writes the heavy editorials of the Press has a desire to become great and earn histrionic honors. He and snorts whenever he happens^o see an item going the rounds about some person trying td defraud tjie government in a matter of pension, generally taking the side of “fraud.” While The Democrat is in fuvor of pensioning all soldiers who are disabled and not able to earn a livelihood, it is not .in favor of giving pensious to those persons who were never wounded or suffered a day’s privation during the rebellion, and who are worth $40,000 or $50,000. Under the total disability act of 1S90 there are a number of soldiers who secured pensions making affidavit that thev were totally disabled and unable to earn ■ a support for themselves and families. The pension roll should be a roll of honor and not one of dishonor. The brave boys who went to the front iu the days of peril, faced the bullets of the enemy and were wounded and suffered privations of army life, came back home broken in health and body, should have recompense tor their sufferings, aud a great Nation is providing and has been for many years, laws that will enable them to secure just recompense. The government is liberal to

I its citizens who went to the front in ! the dark days of'61 to ’65, and every administration has been seeking to make the laws better and plainer. It Hoke Smith has done a wrong to the pensioners of the country he should rectify the same, but if there be frauds on the rolls they should be cut otl, and it is to the interest of every soldier to see that it is done. Commatidt^' Adams of the National O. A.! I*, calls ou the veterans to look up all frauds and report theJ same to him. lie has the right spirit at heart and it behooves every soldier to act in harmony with him and the government in securing such legislation as will cut these frauds ofl. It is said that there are cases in Indiana where the husband and wife are both drawing pensions; the husband on account of disabilities received, and the wife under the dependent pension act in the death ot a spn. This may ! be right and it may be wrong. . If it [is a wrong one of these pensions should be stopped. If it is right then every soldiers’ wife should have a pension. There are cases where private pensions have been granted to persons who never carried a musket or suftered any of the privations of war. Is this right and will the Press defend such ? We don’t believe there is a soldier in Pike county who would use any disreputable means to secure a pension. The Democrat is patriotic, always has been and ever will Tie to the defenders of the flag under which his father and others fought to preserve. The Press says “but during republican times it was nevpr found necessary to make a wholesale suspension of pensions,” etc. For the edification of the boy it may be said that at one time every pensioner in Philadelphia was cut ofl pending an investigation of fraud which was being practiced there. There were hundreds of names of persons on the rolls who were 'dead for many years, whose pensions were being regularly drawn by other persons. The pension system needs renovating aud the frauds cut oil' If there be any.

The editors of the Press would like to know iast where The Democrat stands on the iail question. • The Democrat might return the favor by asking j»st where the Press stands en the jail question. "Here is the crucial test tor fearless journalism.' The Democrat is always willing to be interviewed on all-absorbing topics of the day, but when being interviewed ana expressing opinions on public questions would prefer having a man at the interviewer’s end of the string. We once heard of a boy who tried to interview a man in public life and who was surreptitiously cut off with “will see you later,” as the boy reported it- But to give our views on the jail question. This is a question which has been revolving in the minds of the people for many months. The board of county commissioners tinder whose jurisdiction this question comes most prominently decided that they were in favor of building a jail and advertised for bids to build said edifice on May 2a. We were in favor of the job just as the commissioners were up to May 25th when the bids were opened. The commissioners then decided not to build said jail ljust at that time. The commissioners then decided that they would let a contract on July 13th following. But when the time arrived there was a remonstrance to the building and an attorney appeared before the board and made a very nice speech aud read the law to them on the subject under discussion. The board of commissioners then decided not to open the bids to build a jail aud residence. At [the last term of the boar*! at eomf

miss loners they decided to build a jail and set the time for openin'; bids at their next regular session, March 6th^ The board of commissioner^ being elected to represent the people of Pike county on all public affairs it is their duty if they think it is necessary to build a jail, to do so. And it they think it is not necessary, not to do so. It is their boundeu duty to serve the people. At the present time we are not one of the board of commissioners and it would be unwise for us to let a contract to build a jail and expect the people to pay for it. And further we ate not able financially to build a jail. To be candid about the matter, Mr. Editor, we may be for the jail and we may be against it. If there is anything fur-ther-you-would like to know make your wants known at your earliest possible convenience.

The treasury of the United Statesis empty and has been so for the past year or more. There is now a deficiency and claims cannot be paid. When Cleveland turned over the government to Benjamin Harrison five years ago it took a large number of men sixty days to count the surplus, and in 1893 when Benjamin Harrison turned' the reins of the government over to Cleveland, he also turned over an empty treasury and a heavy indebtedness to meet. This debt with the large number of pensioners added during the closing days of the administration under the dependent pension bill of 1890 still increased the debt to be paid without any provisions being made to pay it. The government cannot be run on wind, but that is the condition in-winch it was turned’ over last March to. the democrats. It will take several years to again place the government on the sound basis that it was before the billion dollar congress let loose of it. The Harrison administration was the most extravagant ever in poWxll There was a surplus and that surplus must be spent, and today the government is paralyzed for the want of funds. It Was the result of vicious legislation in favor of the monopolists who controlled the government for the fonr years pa§i and looted the treasury. President Cleveland by his wise methods will place the government on a sound footing during the rcoming three years. Reform in all | department!is necessary, and to that end the work is progressing yen fast. — A HEXiops plot has just come to light' at Abiline, Kansas, in which Ruth Cleveland is to be kidnaped and held for ransom. A special from that place says: A package of letters outlining a plan for kidnaping Ituth Cleveland and holding her for a ransom was found here and the police have identified the recipient of it as a tramp, eastward bound. Three women and two men are named in the letter, two of them residents of Washington, and the scheme is evidently a serious one. Twenty thousand dollars it is claimed, can lie secured.

Believing that the republican press as a general rule contains the most notable liars in the country on the pension question, a few statistics would probably not be out of order. It has been claimed that President Ceveland is a rebel sympathizer and that all his works have been against the Union soldier, and. to show the difference between him and Grant and Hays the following should be conclusive evidence of his patriotism : Mr Cleveland, first term. 192,070 Gen. Grant, first term ...8S.202 Gen. Grant, second term — .. 47,140 Gen. Hayes ........ 74,178

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