Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 April 1894 — Page 4

jEbe County geraofrat Br M. IScC. STOOPS. tGF‘ The Pike County Democrat has the largest circulation of any newspaper published la Pike County t Advertisers will make a note of thlafaet! Entered at the postoffice in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as sceondClass matter. FlIIDAy, AP1UL 13,1894.

To the Democracy of Pike County. There will be a mass convention held at Winslow, on Saturday, April 14th, 1894, foMhe purpose of electing a county chairman for the ensuing two years, and a committeeman from each towuehip for .the same length of time. Let every democrat turu out and assist in this matter. Geo. B. Ashby, Chairman. D. Q. Chappell, Secretary. Subscription money is needed at this office. Many persons who have promised to settle during the past few months have neglected to do so. On account of large expense recently contracted this delay is very inconvenient to us. It is to be hoped that all delinquents will give this notice immediate attention. * M. McC. Stoops. The republican congressional convention meets at Evansille next Thursday to nominate a candidate to be defeated at the November election. There are about a dozen candidates and prominent among them are, Colouel Twiueham, James Hemminway and Colonel Frank Posey. It is said by 6ome prominent republicans that a dark horse will win out. That truth is stranger than lietion never had a clearer proof than in the fact that the republican journals which now condemn the President for not holding Carnegie to the strict let er of his contract denounced him for holding ilohn Roach to the strict letter of a similar contract during his first term. , Mr. jDleveland should have learned by this time that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye ot a needle than for a man to be a good president aud please the republicans at the same time.

The republican town convention is a thing of the past. It is all right in the republican camp when the old veteraus are laid out in the cold, but if the same thing had occurred with the democrats what a*yoll they would have set up. In the convention.Mon*day night there were seveu candidates for town marshal, five of whom were old veterans andworthv of a nomination that would have paid them $700 or $800 per year. Well, neither one of these got it. That’s all. Nothing more need be said. Tt was a republican convention. Tomorrow at Winslow the democrats select a county central committee and a chairman to acf for the coming two years. In the selection of these officers great care should be exercised and men Of great influence with the people and energetic and live democrats should be selected. The coming campaign will be stubbornly fought from start to finish, and for chairman a fighter should 1^, selected who will go into the canvass to win. Pike county is close* politically speaking, and it takes but a few votes to change the tide. With the proper amount of work and a strong committee under the capable leadership of a man who understands manipulating the wires will go a long ways toward victory this fall. Select Snr best men and select a good; der. ' |

>■ .... ■ - The Washington Post says: “The chances are three to one, that VicePresident Stevenson will be the nominee for president of the next democratic convention,” said a senator, who. however, insists on preserving his incognito. “I made the prediction because he is the strongest and most prominent democrat before the country today. In the first place the pressure of the south and the west will be so great in the uext convention, owing to Cleveland’s course on the silver question, that none but a democrat from the central western state can {be nominated. Stevenson has a geographical advantage in living iu Illinois, a doubtful state, and throughout the west and south is recognized as a straightout democrat ot the old school, yho has no sympathy for new fangled ideas in politics. His course throughout has been singularly free from entanglement with the policy of the administration, and j there are few who do not believe that he will find a strong ally in Senator Hill when the time comes for Mr. Hill to declare himself on the presidential question. The New York senator does not expect to be able to secure the nomination and will do what he can in the east for Steven-1 son.” Representative Sayers, of Texas, j believes with his great democratic predecessor at the head of the house committee on appropriations, the late Samuel J. Randall, that the system of permanent or continuing appropriations is wroug and should be done away with, leaving all appropriations tq be made annually, aud his bill providing for the change will probably be favorably reported to the house at an early day. The late Samuel Randall introduced a similar bill in the Forty-seventh congress. It passed the house, but not the senate. The amount of these continuing appropriations over which congress can, under the present system, exercise no detailed supervision, is $140,000,000 a year. Some of these are nearly a century old and are senseless and in some cases wasteful. Chairman Sayers’ bill is thoroughly democratic and ought to become a law. It will save money and reform a bad system.

An important measure to bankers and financiers was reported from the house committee on banking and currency this morning. It was Congressman Cooper’s bill authorizing the taxation of greenback money. The vote on reportingjhe bill wa 9 to 4, all the democrats and one republican (Walker, of Massachusetts) yoting for it. Four republicans, led by Mr. Johnson, of Indiana, opposed the bill, and will probably present a miuority report. “The object in taxing greenbacks Ts to prevent their being hoarded by banks to escape taxation,” said Mr. Cooper, author of the bill. “The report is a priviligcd one, and will be called up in the house at the first opportunity, and I believe, will pass. Senator Voorhees favors it. The senate once passed a similar bill introduced b\ Senator Mcltonald, of Indiana, and I think it will pass this one. Republican candidates are bobbiug up at a lively rate. Candidates for clerk, candidates for auditor and the other offices. Said a prominent republican Monday when he heard thai there were two or three more candidates trom the south part of the county: “If they don’t let up we will trot out a candidate tor auditor.” This looks as if there was to be swapping. The south end to get the nomination fori auditor and the north end to get the rest. But the threat is to be.carried out if ihe’candidates front the south end don’t draw oft before the nomination. The whip is in the air and someone had better get a hold on the handle and take oft the cracker. Logan township is about to trot out a candidate for onettf the prominent republican nominations. Then there will be trouble.

'There Is considerable dissatisfaction over the selection of delegates to the republican congressional convention from Petersburg. It is claimed by those who are opposed to Posjfey the four delegates selected from Washington township were all selected because they were favorably disposed toward Posey. The best way to secure delegates is to pack your side of the house. But the boys are talkiug of going to the convention. There is strong talk in some quarters of making a fight at the coming town election. An independent republican ticket will be placed in the field. It is a fight among republicans, the democrats taking no part whatever. Well, well, Hoke Smith had nothing to do with knocking out the old veterans for marshal, an office that pays about $700 or $800 per year. that the convention was

TWENTY-ONE YEARS In tlie Pen is the Dose Prescribed for Spradlin w_ For the Murder of “Surly” Mitchell at Pikeville, Jan. 13th. John Miller, as icc ssorj, Secures Sixty Days in the County Jail. «e. But Judge Welborn Suspends Sentence on Good Beharior. As announced in our last issue the trial of James Spradl u and John Miller, on trial for murder, would go to the jury at supper time on last Thursday. After Judge Welborn instructed the jury on the law, they retired to the jury room to deliberate upon a verdict and on Friday morning about ten o'clock they announced that a verdict had been agreed upon. They were brought in ai d the foreman handed the verdict to the judge who in turn handed it to the clerk who announced the verdict of twentyone years in the penitentiary for Spradlin and sixty days in the county jail for young Miller.

Saturday morning the prisoners were brought before the .court for sentence. Judge Wei born in a few brief remarks gave Spradlin his sentence and at the same time released young Miller on his good behavior, admonishing him that if he came before the court again he would sentence him on the old charge. The case was hard fought from start to finish on both the part ot the state and the defense. The arguments before the jury were never before equaled in the Pike circuit court. Judge Ely and Frank Posey made the pleas for the defense, while W. E. Cox, G. B Ashby and J. W. Wilson spoke on behalf of the state. This tragedy was the outcome of a school boy fight. Henry Mitchell and John Miller, both mere boys, bad traded slates^ sometime previously, one agreeing to -pay the other some boot. They met at Pikv'ville on that fatal day andirenewed their quarrel. Finally Spradlin came up and he and William Mitchell, his brother-in-law and uncle of H^nry Mitchell, took sides in the matter, Spradlin pulling his revolver and shooting the elder Mitchell three times and the young boy once. The latter shot proved fatal, the boy dying some days later. Spradlin immediately fled the country and went to Mississippi, where he was arrested. He was brought to Union City, Tenuessee. where Sheriff Kinman met the officers having him in charge and brought him back to Petersburg and lodged him in jail after his lining at large for three or four weeks. There was no cause whatever for him shooing either one of the Mitchells. There had been no ill-feeling whatever between them and they were on good terms, but it seems that Spradlin had been drinking slightly on that day and was ready for a fight and had but a few hours previously traded for a revolver. The sentence is regarded as a very light one for the crime committed. At one time, it is understood that the jury stood three for hauging, but as time wore on the jurymeu finally compromised upon the sentence as slated aboye. He was taken to the penitentiary Monday by Sheriff

KinmaM. By good behavior he will gain six years time, ti us reducing his sentence to about fifteen years. The Party l ayer. No one outside a newspaper office realizes the amount of work, responsibility, and the comparatively small return therefrom. Many times the outlay iu money alone is greater than the financial return, and you therefore contribute your labor and have all the responsibility for nothing—except fTTh-abuse and curses you get from those for whom yot have labored. General C. P. Hayes, ot Illinois, see'ms to have a proper appreciation of the situation. At a recent editorial meeting he had this to say: “The party owesfuPy as much to the paper as the paper owes to the party. This remark will uo doubt sound a little strange to the average party worker not connected with a newspaper, but it is nevertheless true. The great trouble today amongst party open is tha| hey don’t recog

nize this mutual obligation between the paper and the party. The average.partyke is willing to take all he can get from the paper, but wants to return the paper little or nothing. H^e expects the party newspaper man to do the maior portion of all the party work, to keep the party machinery in perfect working order and then pay all his own bills and take all the cursing that may happen to come his way. As things are today there is no one connected with the party who gives so much time, labor and money to advance the party’s interests as does the newspaper man, and there is no one who gets so little for it. But this should not be so. The laborer is always worthy of his hire, even when he works.for his party, provided always that he does good work. The party should always be supported and should be supported well. If a paper works for the party all of its membership should work tor the paper. Every member of the parly should make it his business not only to take the paper and pay for it in advance, but to give it all work of every kind which has to be done} Not only this, but he should talk foiMiis party paper, and thus eudeavor to get other people to take it and patronize it in every way possible.” An eflort will be made at the next sessiou of the Indiana legislature to make the office of justice of the peace a salaried one, instead of being entirely dependent upon fees, as at present. The object sought is to secure a better administration of justice. The idea is a good one. Often In the trial of cases the evidence on the opposing side is so evenly divided that it is

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Sired by Anteros 6020 (fall brother to Antero Antevols 2:10?'. a ml Coral 2:25 at three years oltk) First dam—Nellie Bourbon, by Bourbon Chief, Jr., Bourbon Chief. Jr.', sired the dam of Magnolia 2:10. Lidia 2:20, also sired Indiana Chief, She sire of Kissel’s Dal las 2:10^1 ■ Second dam- -Rosa by Ham bieton fan Margrave, by Edward Everett, sire of Judge Fullerton 2:18 and 12 others in the ih-j with nine sons that have sired 37 and V daughters that have produced 13 trotters in the ’30 list. Third dam—Plainnie, by Planet. Planet sired the dam of Palo Alto 2:0834 and Gertrude Russell 2:23*i at 3 years old. Anteros by Electioneer 125. Electioneer is the sire of 146 in the ’30 list also sired the daips of 31 that have trotted in 2:30 or better. Antero is a beautiful black five years old, 16 hands high with plenty of substance, food legs and feet, exceedingly nandsome and stylish, mire gaited and very fast- At-3 years ni<F he was

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