Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 February 1894 — Page 4

Entered at the postoffice In Petersburg for transmission through the mails as sceondclass matter. . FRIDAY,. FEBRUARY 23,1894. Repeal the civil service law. It is un-American, un-tlemocrallc and *£eeps our opponents in office. “To the victors belong the spoils.’’ Clear out the department at Washington City and place democrats therein. To the victors belong the ' spoils and the republicans should go. hr jf ikr (County grraorrat By M. McC. STOOPS. The Bike County Democrat ha* the largest circulation ot an; newspaper published in Pike Count;! Advertisers will asake a note of Ihisfact! FOR CLOTHES. ' .• ' / —. . ro. erm.

Down at Winchester, this state, last week a saloon-keeper made an assign- . jnent. Our republican exchanges will charge all this to the democratic administration, and such is life. Ex-President IIarrison is making a stroug bid for another nomination. His reoeut speech before the Liucoln league at Indianapolis tainted very strongly with “I want to try *er again.” Joe Patterson has concluded not *o make the race for the republican pomiuation for county auditor, but has announced himself as a republican candidate for trustee of Washiugtou township. ———■rgi? The scheme of republican politicians to have democratic soldiers* pensions suspended through republicans in the peusiou department is being exposed. Democrats are getting on to why it is done ami who is doing |t, from the fact that only democrats are being suspended. The Press *his week will not make as much tuss over the restoration ol the pension of the old veteran and democrat, William OWjne, that it did last week when it announced his no- , tice of suspension for further medical testimony. It is ikhoss of another color, and the campaign thuuder has been busted.

Say, Mr. Taylor, the farmers la the First district are willing to sell their wheat for considerably less than the dollar a bushel you promised them.— Evansville Standard. We will venture the price of a new bat that Congressman Taylor never made any such promise, knowing that under the Harrison administration wheat declined from $1 per bushel to fifty cents. Posey, you inay explain the decline under the Harrison regime. i. Dttiii.ey’8 infamous “blocks-of-five” tactics will be brought to life by our republicans iu the coming campaign In this state. What a purifying effect the republicans have in elections. If they cannot win on the dead square they will use any means to corrqpt the ballot-box. But there is one thing certain the Australian ballot law will have some offeef in lessening this crime of purchasing votes. It is dangerous business. As the farmer jogs along coming to market with his fifty cent wheat he should remember that upon the contents of those bags there is a glorious (?) sample of protection. If he exchanges his fifty cent wheal for farming and household implements be should remember that in some cases he is paying more for the same implements than people in the old world *' fife for the same goods. After the transaction he ‘♦plods his weary way ^omeward” and wonders which end of the string he is chewing^any way. Ho will feel about as much like voting the republican ticket uext fall as he would like answering a “greco goods*' *

A WARNING TO DEMOCRATS. A Washington special to the Indianapolis Journal says: “It Is believed that there will be a great deal of mugwumpery In the campaign of ; 1880; that all who oppose Income taxes and fr e tr ade will Join the republicans in order to bring about the repeal of the tariff law. This is why the republicans have worked and voted all along to keep the Wilson bill and income tax together. They believe that when both are a law the incentive Will be much greater for a repeal than if but one was upon the statute books. There will doubtless be many confiscations, thousands of pending indictments and mart, men in the jails or penitentiaries when the next presidential campaign opens—and the income tax will be the cause of it all. The republicans are feeling pretty well, thank you, over the outlook for their next national contest.” Those democrats who were disappointed over the action of cougress ou the silver question and felt so impatient with the course ot the democrats at Washington on that important subject as to express indifference to future democraiic success, should read this declaration of the republican state organ thoughtfully and seriously. The announcement is here made that if the republicans should be restored to power by the aid ot democratic stav-ai-homes or democratic votes they will refasten the chains of tariff slavery and restore to the shoulders of the masses the $50,000,000 of taxation annually of which the income fax will relieve them. It Is here aunouuced that the return of the republican party to power will be signalized by restoring aud increasing the privileges of the money power and by addiug to the already intolerable burdens of ifie peopled • It is well to understand what is to be expected as a result of democratic revolt long enough iu advance to enable all discontented democrats to seriously consider the consequences <ure to tolldw the slightest deviation from the path of democratic duly. Never in the history of the country has it been so vital to the ultimate triumph of liberty ami freedom that democrats should stand by the party organization as now.' For the first

nine in thirty~tour years we nave control of every branch of the government- During the long uight of republican misrule all of the misrule all of the evils we are now forced to endure were established by republican legislation. Thoughtful democrats must perceive how impossible it [is to remedy and abate them in a few mouths or even iu a few years of democratic control of affairs. No party could accomplish all of the reforms that press for settlement in a single session of congress except by such legislation as would evolutionize society and unsettle business and industrial enterprises fora generation. If a new party were iu power today it could be no faster than the democrats are moving without endangering the peace of society. We have made a good beginning. We have struck the first blow at the power of plutocracy!. The reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis will come rapidly now, for those who honestly oppose tariff reform through dread ot its consequences will be the first to see how groundless were their fears of a measure that gives them a better quality of all of the necessaries of life at less cost than they have been paying for inferior goods. They will feel their burdens lightened by the transfer of $50,000,000 a year they have heeu paying from their shoulders to those of the very rich who are better able to bear them. They will see the avenues for honorable and profitable employment broadeu and increase iu numbers until every oue willing to work shall fiud it at good w ages.

ii mey siaini uraveiy uy me pany organization and the party candidates, they shall see a democratic congress elected in November on the cur$#nc\ issue alone, and they will see it carry out the pledge upou a basis that shall forever destroy the power of Wall street to speculate upon the necessities of the people. They shall see Grover Cleveland bow to the will of the masses and sign a bill for the free coinage of silver and the abolition of all forms of paper money other than legal tender treasury notes issued by the treasury. It is no time to hesitate or dally with new party organizations. The democratic party has all of the machinery ready to hand for giving force to the will of the people as expressed at the polls. It has shown in its a^tiou on the tariff qucstiou concerning which it had special instructions trom the voters of the country that it faithfully obeys their will when it is clearly aud specifically expressed. Let democrats who are dissatisfied with the action of congress on the currency question instruct their candidates for congress clearly and unmistakably aud then do their utmost to elect them. No man will dare,to accept these Instructions and afterwards ignore them. When the republican state organ boldly announces that it expects re

publicans to win next 3?ovet tber by the aid of democratic vote or by democratic apathy, and that the first use a republican congress w II make of the yictory will be to restore the chains of industrial slavery and release the millionaire task masters from their just share of th: taxes, it should serve as a warning t*» democrats and to all liberty-lovin*r people that the next congressional battle to be a straight fight between the masses and the classes and t tat a division in the ranks of the masses means the permanent establishment of industrial slavery with ti j money power in undisputed control of the government for half century :o come. —Ex. ' William Clink, who rec: ved notice last week that his pension would be reduced from $12 to $6 per mouth uuless further medical testimony was prodneed, received the intelligence last Saturday from Congressman Taylor that his peusion had been restored and that no further evidence was needed from him. Fora ew days some of our republican frier ds were overjoyed at the fact that the old democrat was dropped a d their scheme had been successful. Congressman Taylor was notifi d of the circumstance and he set to work at once to have the matter straightened tip with the result as the fallowing telegram explains: Washington, D. C. Fet 17,1394. lion. E.. ?. Richardson. Peter? Ourg, lud. I had oar friend. William Cline r stored today. He need not take examii i!ion nor send auy further affidavits. Co igratralate him. 4. H. 'i aylok. Thus our readers will see that to drop democrats from the roils has been nipped iu the bud rig t at the start. It is said that democrats are selected by a clique and reported to headquarters and whose names are sent to republican clerks in the pension department for action. It will be noticed that qf those receiving notice in this county they are n a majority of cases democrats, and who have several sous and relatives who

are democrats. What is it done lor? Simply for political effect and that alone. But the First congressional district has a congressman wlio looks to the interest of every man, >e he republican, prohibitionists, peoples' party or democrat, with the utmost care and instanter upon receiving notice. No person has writtei him on the subject of pensions without receiving an immediate answer or their wants maue known at the department. And just so long as his matter of suspension continues tor political effect he will be found &i his.post correcting the evils. The r< publican campaign thunder has been unearthed and those of our democrat c friends who have beeu slightly in doubt should remember the source that has brought on these suspensions. Recently the Washington correspondent ot the Chicago Herald sent the following to his paper concerning the rapid talkers of the house of representatives, and in which will be seeu that Congressman Taylor of thi& city is classed as one among the most rapid speakers in that body: “Rapid talking Congressmen are pretty rare in the House of Representatives, when it is taken int > consideration that there are more than 350 men of every conceivable nationality ou the floor, some §f win n might make it troublesome for the reporters.’ But there are two men who are apt to keep the pencil-pushers pretty close tp their note books when engaged in debate, aud they are Tom Johnson, the cherubic-looking Ohioan, and his antithesis in looks, the lean aud gaunt Taylor of Indiana. When cither of these speakers 1ms the floor the stenographers at the desk below the Speaker look uneasy, ft id a few seconds later they are pretty apt to be skirmishing in the bocy of the House and right at ihe elbt w of ‘lie single-tax apostle or the Hoosier. Words pour from their niou h just as though they were being ground out of a Gatling gun, and some estimates made are that they can talk about 300 words a minute. Just tiiink ofit, 18.000 words an hour.

Wheat selling at fifty thr e cents a bushel, with a protective tariff of twenty-five cents a bushel ou it. That outfit to show the fa mers the absurdity of the claim that a high tariff benefits them, and under the McKinley high tariff of ten ceuts a pound, western and territo ial wool is selling for only six cents a pound This is a fine illustration of the ridiculousness of the republican claim that a high tarifl increases the price of wool. You can’t et a republican high tariff advocate to attempt tp explain why the price of wool has gone down so uik sr a, high tariff. Rev. Irl Hicks, the weatlie prophet, after missing the indicatiu i during the past winter months, h s finally hit February to a clot.

BUSINESS RESUMING While the republican orators iu Congress cry calamity without ceasing, the two great commercial agencies in the United States—Bradstreet and Dunn—report improved business everjrhere. Mills are starting op, says these authorities. “More of the smaller works have started than have stopped.” “A movement iw the direction of the expansion of business has appeared.” “The volume of business in iron and steel at Pittsburg is larger than in any week in December and the feeling there is that the feeling will be more pronounced soon.” There is heavier demand tor firm machinery ana manufactured prods ucts iu the South. Cotton factoids? have ordered ahead. Worsted and carpet manufacturers are starting machinery and buying wool. Bi.uk. clearings, though not equal to those of the corresponding week in 1193, are distinctly better than for the past two weeks. All these reports of improving industrial conditions co ne from ihe lipn-political com mere al agency reports. They may well lire supplemented by the declaration of the republican St. Louis Globe-Qeio-oerat that “four or five mills t re opening at the present time to every one that is closing.” This record of improving business, of mills resuming operation, of tra< e taking op renewed activity is presen - ed by authorities indifferent or hosti e to tariff reform just as the Wilson bi 1 approaches final action. It gives authoritative contradiction to the politicians who have charged all recent disasters to dread of impending tariff changes. Those changes are still to be made and the certainty that they will he effected grows •treater daily. Nevertheless in all portions of the country sigus of | revival of business increase and mul- ; tiply. The surest evidence of thfc merit of the Wilson bill is'the daily improvement ot commercial business. That evidence gives the lie to the wild assertions of the republican opponents of the measure.

There is but one way of bringing to a halt this wholesale stoppage of of pensions to democratic soldiers in Indiana, and that is by placing democrats in the different positions in the pension department. The state pension agents of many states are republic cans a> is tflso all men under their supervision. ‘The special examiners ot many states are republicans. These examiners travel about the state and hold secret confabs with the republican leaders in each county with reference to the men who should be dropped from the rolls that it marbling discredit upon the democratic administration. Many of the chiefs of divisions in the pensiou department at Washington City are republicans and by the advice of republican leaders* democratic pensioners ^re suspended lor thirty days, not that they are not deserving but to send Out the impression that the democratic administration holds the soldiers in contempt. It should be the duty ot every senator and congressman and. the head of every department to see that every republican now holding a position, civil service or no civil service, be bounced forthwith. The republican office-holders will use any disreputable means to bring censure upon the present administration. Make upVach and etfery department with democratic employees, theu the democrats are willing to bear the blame. In this we speak the sentiments of every democrat, and we urge that every republican now holding positions in the several departments or the government be fired unceremoniously and forthwith and democrats be placed in their stead. “To the victors belong the spoils.”

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