Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 May 1894 — Page 4

Hu gib County §raoaat Br m. »cc. stoops. r n* nii* CNit; dwihttw tf ur • t'Mwtj! iiTtrttnn • a ittt af Entered at the postofflce In Petersburg for inuwntNloo through the malls as seeoodjclass matter. FUIDAY, MAY 25.1894. SuEitirF Kinman has recalled some ot his deputy sheriffs from the Littles a mine. __ Can anyone tell )ust when the re* publicau congressional convention is going to meet ? There seems to be some skull-duggery about the matter. What’s the matter with having a complete report made out by the town clerk anft treasurer of the^floating debt of Petersburg. As the books stand to-day it is not known just what the amount is.

Coxey aud bis army are not meeting with the success that they were anticipating. The many bodies of common weaters are disbanding and hunting for a soft place to lie down and rest. This tramp uuisance should be abated._ The republican congressional conrent ion has been fixed for Juue 12th and August 7th. Just which date the convention will meet at Mt.Vernon is what the delegates from the county would like to know. But then it makes no difference. Up to the hour of goiug to press the full amount of the town debt is not known. The official organ of the town of Petersburg should lay the matter before the people. Possibly Ae town council will have a statement made out in the near future. Give the people the exact amount.

Who is responsible for the many specials sent out from this city in reference to the turners’ strike? The Press does not contain the same stuff sent out “to foreign papers by its editors. What is the reasou? Is it done for political effect or would it injure Sheriff Kinnian’s chances for re-electiou. During the past week storms hare raged in all parts of the country and in many localities there have been a score of fatalities from the resuls of the heavy wind storms. On lakes and land was there terrible destruction of property and especially to the sailing craft on Lake Michigan, where the atorins were fiercest. Republican senators are still obstructing legislation, When these gentlemen get through talkiug then will the country get some relief through tariff* legislation It would be a wise thiug to call these speechmakers dowu to allotments of five minutes each instead of ten aud twelve hours on each schedule. The convention of miners and operators at Cleveland last week failed to come to an understanding and adjourned. The strike is now on and when it will be settled cannot be foretold. It is possible that the railroad employes will refuse to move coal mined by the non-union men. and in ffrat event a coal famine will surely be the result. Thi democratic party of Pike county is most too tired to nominate a ticket at present. They will he heard from later on in the summer.—Petersubrg Press. The democratic party of Pike county is not at all tired. In the balmy days of August a ticket will be nominated that will sweep the platter. From this time on the editor of the Press and the present republican candidates cau keep up the explanatlous to the people.

The following special appeared in the Cincinnati Tost Tuesday morning: Petersburg, Jnd., May 2L—The City Treasurer’s report shows that the indebtednessof Petersburg is $11,500. This is just as reliable as many other reports sent out from this city by republican editors. The city treasurer's report showed that there were $9,5U0 in bouds and $2,000 in orders sold, but nowhere can you find the net total floating debt ot Petersburg/ Next week the Press Should give the total floating debt. In an article in the Press of last week the following appeared: The Press is informed that a democrat editor while at the Little mines one day last week, in conversation with the striking miners strove to make political capital against Sheriff Kinman because deputy sheriff* had been appointeu to insure protection to the miners who wished to resume work. We are told the editor said: “this will do Klnman UP,” meaning that it would injure his prospect* for re-election and other expressions of E similar import. % This innuendo has reference to the idUor of this paper who made a visit

to Littles a few weeks ago. When the train left Petersburg the editor of the Press also “got on board” and when the train* slacked op at the mining town of Littles this same editor of the Press get oil the train about the same time that the editor of this paper did. We talked to a number of the miners at that place and politics was never mentioned to them only when the subject- was touched on by the miners themselves. A large majority of the miners at that place are republicans and they need no words from any person to tell them the whys aud wherefores. The editor ot the Press knows the situation among the miners as well or better than does the

editor of this paper. He was there at the same time, heard the miners express themselves, aud more than that Sheriff Kinman has heard what 4he miners have to say iu the premises.' No one denies the right of Sheriff Kinman to protect any mau or set of men, the law gives him that power at his own pleasure when called on to do so. But the question arises “was there cause for alarm and the taking of deputies to Littles tehines to guard those men working and the property of the company ?” When ethe writer visited the mining station there were no surface indications of a riot or any trouble whatever. The men were quiet and sitting around engaged in conversation, harming and molesting no one. The Democrat is iu favor of organized labor just the same as in any other branch of business. Big corporations organize, as well as railroads and manufacturers, and whv not labor, the great fountaiu from which springs all the wealth of the country. If seven or eight millionaires can combine together and control the markets, have not workingmen the right to organize? Most assuredly they have the right, and should have just as much protection as the millionaire manufacturers or other business men. In the coal miners strike in Pike county they have grievances which should be adjusted satisfactorily to all concerned. If the editor of The Democrat said anythiug at Littles that does not suit the editor of the Press, lie cau make the most of it %ird is at liberty to sail in at the first opportunity. To gfve you another poiuter we will just say that we were at \|Tinslow last Saturday, and talked with a number of people who live in close proximity to both the towns of Ayreshire and Littles. The Press might possibly make capital out of this visit on the part of the editor of this paper.

The Pike County Democrat has auspiciously begun its twenty-fifth year, and shows evidence 'of great p rosperity.—Washington Gazette. Peter Drof has just received two car loads of Portland and Louisville cement, also a few carloads of fresh lime. Builders and plasterers supplies always kept iu stock. Call aud see him. * 2-4 The Pike County Democrat at Petersburg, with Bro. M. McC. Stoous as editor, is just twcuty-four years old. It is still sprightly aud amply able to care for the democracy of that county. May it continue to sail its kite high in the heavens.—Canueltou Telephone. , With last issue The Democrat closed volume twenty-four. '1 he Press congratulates Editor Stoops upon the decided success he has made ol The Democrat. The democrats of Pike county should give the paper the substantial support it deserves.—Petersburg Press. The Pike Couuty Democrat was twenty-four years old yesterday. It is one of the best local papers that come to our .office, and under the management of Brother Stoops is last growing in favor as oue of the best weeklies in the district. We wish the Democrat unbounded success— Princeton Democrat.

Remember decoration day, May 30, 1894. To any soldier or citizen living near any grave yard£in Pike county, you are earnestly requested to go and decorate each soldiers grave with flowers or evergreens of some kind, where there has not been a committee appointed for that purpose by some G. A. R. Post By order of Committee, I1 G. D. Martin, L C. Higgins, R. B. Brazzleton. , Many people do not know that by writing with a pen or pencil on the margin of a newspaper or on the fly leaf of a book and sending it through the mails at newspaper or book rates they subject themselves to a fine. But such is the fact. It is permissible to mark articles or items with pen or pencil, by drawing a line or making a cross or ipark for the purpose of calling attention to it, but no intelllgble word must be written unless regular letter rate postage is paid. |

PATOKA DEMOCRATS Nominated a Township Ticket Last Saturday. John Howard, a Farmer Nominated for Trustee. WUIUun C. Wiffs'Ptawd on the Ticket for Amwmt. A tfpleaAi* Ticket—A NmI HaniM* !•« Meetlag.

THE TICKET. For Trustee, JOHN HOWARD. For Assessor, WILLIAM C. WIQQS. For Justices of the Peace, GABRIEL ADKINSON. MARION THOMPSON. SAMUEL JOHNSON. For Constables, JOHN THURMAN. WILLIAM HEDGES. ENOCH DAVIS.

Last Saturday the democrats of Patoka township met at Winslow for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to be voted for at the November election. The weather was very bad, but a large number of the faithful met at the town hall and proceeded at once to nominate a ticket. Pat Beattv, the township chairman, called the meetiing to order and George B. DeTar was elected seere tary. After the object of the meeting had been stated by the chairman the names of the various candidates were placed before the convention. For trustee, John Howard and John O. Miley were placed in nomination. William C. Wiggs and John Curtis were placed in nomination for assessor. For justice of the peace and constable there were a number of name** presented. When the votes were counted out the tieket was nominated as above giveu. The ticket is composed of good men aud one of the best tickets ever nominated by the democrats of that township. It will have the full support of the voters of that township, aud will no doubt receive the suffrage of many men of other parties, and if the men composing that ticket are uot elected at the coming electiou it will be no fault of theirs. They are men ot good sound judgment aud if elected will give the township the best efforts in their power for an economical administration of the township’s affairs. The convention was a most harmonious one aud everything passed off very pleasantly.

nuuivavravrs aj.cursiuu* On May 29th the Baltimore & Ohio South western railway will sell excursion tickets to home-seekers to points in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico. Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana. Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, Minnesota and Iowa. Tickets will be good to return within thirty days, and will permit of liberal stop-over privileges. This will afford an excellent chance for all who are contemplating going west to do so at a minimum cost As a good beginning inBures a good ending in all cases the Baltimore A Ohio Southwestern should be the route over which the trip is begun. For (dll information as to rates, routes, sto , apply to any agent of the B. A O S. W. R’y, or O, P McCarty, General Passen ger agent, St. Louis, Mo. —-_4_ A Remedy for the Grip. A remedy recommended (or patients afflicted with the grip, is Kemp’s Balsam whioh is especially adapted to diseases of the throat and lungs. Do not wait for the Bret symptoms of the disease, but get a bottle and keep it on hand for use the moment it Is needed. If neglected, the grip has a tendency to bring on pneumonia. AH druggists mil the Balsam. 44-8 -

HLL, THE TRAITOR. 4 Three thousand Democrats met in mmeeting in San Francisco and passed long resolutions denouncing the traitorous utterances of Senator David B. Hill of New York. They ended as follows: Resolved, That the recent utterances of Senator Hill are traitoroos in their purpose, false in their assumptions, absurd in their logic and excite the indignation and derision of the Democracy of California. Resolved, That the un-Democratio course of Thomas J. Geary in reference to the Wilson bill is hereby condemned and repudiated.

The Samoset club, a strong Democratic dab of Omaha, whose leader is exGoveraor Boyd, held a meeting April 17, at which the following resolutions were passed unanimously: Whereas, The principle of the tariff for revenue only, as announced by the last national convention of our party, is by us considered as the most cardinal of the doctrines of the Democratic faith, and Whereas, It is the chief ain^ of our organization to strengthen the hands of those in or out of office who make honorable battle for Democratic principles, therefore be-it Besolved, That we, as an organisation, heartily commend the action of President Cleveland and his ooworkers in the present congress in the cause of tariff reform, and while we deprecate and regret as un-Democratic the position of all those who will not support the Wilson bill we hereby denounce David B. Hill of New York for the speech delivered by him in the United States senate April 9, 1894, as showing him recreant to his duties as a Democrat and brand him as a deserter of the party in the hour of its direst need, as a traitor who, having hitherto talked behind the watchword, “I am a Democrat, ” dealt a treacherous blow at the vitals of his party at the time of its greatest peril; who gave aid and encouragement to our common enemy in this imminent crisis of party destiny. GiMtctt and MmumU of lUem Indirect taxation is the greatest and the meanest thief on earth This thief takes liitle at a time, but he takes that little from each person 365 days out of every year. No civilized being on this globe is exempt from his ravages. He has the authority of the government to plunder its citizens. The government kmrtrs that the thief is cautious, judicious and sly, and that he has had experience in the art of extracting money from the pockets of the people for revenue and “other purposes,” as the McKinley bill puts it. The thief turns over to the government about one-third of his swag and gives the other twothirds to his real employers—the manufacturers and monopolists. Thus this thief pilfers from us each year over $300,000,000 for our government, and probably $600,000,000 more for the monopolists and trusts—an average of nearly $75 a year from each family, $50 of which goes to a favored few. With such a magnificent thief abroad in our land, it is no wonder that we have produced over 4,000 millionaires since 1860, who, according to the census of 1890, own one-fifth of all our wealth It is no wonder that 9 per cent of our population own over 70 per cent of our wesdth, leaving 91 per cent practically paupers living from hand to mouth This condition of affairs is a reversal of the condition in 1860, when 90 per emit of our population owned over 70 per cent of our wealth A thief that has in 80 years transferred nearly $50,000,000,000 from the pockets at the masses to the pockets of the classes is certainly the greatest of all thieves. He is also the meanest, for, unlike most thieves, who operate mainly upon the rich, his victims are the hardworking people. He stealthily lays hold of every fifth dollar of the poor and carries it exultingly to the vaults of the rich. Shame on the senator who is such a traitor to the people or who is so grossly ignorant of the nature of indirect taxation that he will rise in his place in the senate to champion the interests? of the greatest and meanest of thieves! B. W. H.

Perverting the Lesson. The Tribune professes to find in the recent elections “the answer of the people to the Democratic tariff.*” The voters, it adds, “want the tariff bill killed and tariff agitation stopped.” Perhaps The Tribune believes this, and perhaps it is only beating the party tomtom. Either way it perverts a perfectly plain lesson. The voters are disgusted not because a tariff bill is proposed, bnt because it has not been passed. They never rendered a clearer or more emphatio verdict than they rendered in 1890 and 1892 in favor of tariff reform. This verdict was rendered after ample discussion and was reiterated after a second campaign in which it was practically the sole issna It was not a transient sentiment due to temporary causes. It was rendered during a business calm after a long period of unusual prosperity. The rational judgment of the people was appealed to, and they decided in favor of tariff reform. Had their decision been made operative at onoe—had Mr. Cleveland, as The World urged, called oongress together early in 1898 in order to make it operative— the “revulsion of feeling” of which The Tribune speaks would never have occurred. The disgust that manifested itself in the elections is with the delay and with the shifty and dishonest politicians who are trifling with the people’s mandate for reform.—New York World. Under all the circumstances the delay In reporting the measure back to the senate was unreasonable. The “harmonising” has been purchased at a heavy cost, snd the disputed questions are still un-settled.—-Buffalo Courier.

The Rodgers Shoe Company has been overstocked with $150,000 worth of

And will be sold to the people oi this section at the lowest * possible margins. This great sale begins May 19th and will continue for fifteen days only. AMONG THE BARGAINS YOG WILL FIND

177 pairs Ladies* Patent Tip Slippers, 74c. 98 pairs Ladies* Fine Slippers, 99c. 278 pairs Ladies* Shoes, 98c. 89 pairs Ladies* Fancy Shoes, $1.3 300 pairs Children’s Shoes, 24c. 124 pairs Children’s Shoes, 48c. 84 pairs Men’s Buckle Plow Shoes, 98c. Jim Corbet Shoes, 99c. And so on through the entire line you will find bargains. These goods must be sold and the above prices cannot be duplicated in Petersburg. Look for the ^New York OnePrice Store. ' i . , 1 v MAX BLITZER, Proprietor.

Summer Goods Now Arriving. ® ® The latest styles and novelties in fall and winter Urn ;fgooas . Guaranteed to lie the nest wool goods oo the market. Larg jvoiee of DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HATS, GAPS, BOOTS <md SHOES. Give me a call and be convinced that I will give you as big bar* gains and as tine goods as any store in Petersburg • • • ToIxel Hammond.. i n 1111 h m i n i n i m ) ii i n i n 11» h n 11 h i m mi m m m n n i m.

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