Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 27 July 1894 — Page 4

B) !W. MeC. STOOPS. ftfgr Thr PUr 0«utj #»nomt has tke lar•at circulation at an? Newspaper published ia ‘ike Comity! Adrertiseni wlH make a note «f hlsfaeC Entered at the postoffioe In Petersburg Dor transmission through the mails as seeondciass matter. JWIDAY, JULY 27. im. ANNOUNCEMENTS. . FOR CLERK. Ed. Democrat: Please announce toy name as a candidate for the nomination of clerk of the circuit court of Pike county, subject to the decision of ihe democratic nominating convention to be held August 18, 18tM. The support of all citizens solicited. . R W. Harris. for sheriff. Ed. Democrat.—Please announce my name as a candidate for sheriff of Pike county, subject to t be decision of the Democratic convention. The support of all is cordially solicited. T.J Scales. Ed. Democrat. — Please announce my name as a candidate for sheriff, subject to the decision of the democratic nominating convention. Christa in D. Henke.

Shut down the gates. Do not let any more foreign laborers Into the country to compete with oar home workingmen. Especially debar the class of foreign immigrants who breed anarchy in our midst — Press Just what the republican party failed to do during its thirty years (control of governmental aflairs. A change in afiairs in Pike county |s greatly needed, and to that end the Republican ticket as it now stands should be defeated at the polls iu November. It is necessary for the best Interests of The People of the eouuty that such a thing is accomplished. The gaftg must be let dowu aud help jlicmselves. The house voted on the resolution to elect United^ States senators by popular vote last Saturday morning. The vote stood 137 to 49. It should pass and beeome a law. In fact every officer from president down should be elected by the people. The constitution should be changed and give the.people a chance to do it. President Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson has created a great deal of comment from supposed democratic senators, who have been blocking legislation for several mouths. The letter had th$ right kiud of ring to it, so much so that Senator Hill, who has been forninst Cleveland, defended him in the Senate. The House should Stand, firm by the Wilson bill and give Gorman and his followers a black eye. Siaud by t^e guns. The democrats will put out a ticket in this county merely to bold as many of tbeir party as possible around the standard; not because they have any chance of victory.—Press. After the 6th day ol November the Press will sing another song. • The democratic party is not putting men in pffice iust simply to hold them iu the party. We predict that a majority of the republican ticket will be defeated at the election this fall. The people are getting tired of the ring rule which now ha* full coutrol of the republican party in Pike county.

There art? 65,927 soldiers and soldier’s widows in the state of Indiana, who draw $10,155,622.09 every year. The last payment amounted to $2,596.884 and the next payment, August 4, it will be proportionately larger, as the net increase during the present year so tar is 1,406 new pen-, sioners. And yet the republican papers' claim that the democratic party and the present administration is not in favor of the soldier. No administration has done more for the soldier than the present. It has been honest and held to the law at every point. The pension roll should be a roll of honor.

The democratic mass convention to be held August 18th will be the Isrg- „ Bst ever held in Pike county. The people will turn out en masse to pominate a winning ticket and to $>ear the able and eloqueut speakers who will be present. Besides this it is the intention that every township come delegations headed by a band. There is no question but what it will be *he biggest day ever seen in the countv and will surpass in numbers any political gathering ever assembled together. Be on the move and let each township committeeman go to work to secure »he largest delegation. Next week it may be possible to announce the names of those gentlemen who will Pe present that day to address jhe people. Get ready for the big day and take your basket well filled jfjtb something to eat.

BEP UBUCA N B VG A BOO. There has been much said by republican journals throughout Indiana and many other states with reference to the “wholesale” dropping of pensioners from the rolls that one would tie led to believe that the number would rnu up into the thousands in Indiana. Our neighbor of the Press of this city has taken great pride in ceusuring the present administration in pursuing the laws laid dovmfi by the last republican administration, and whenever it has seen In some exchange paper that some soldier has received notice to furnish further medical testimony it has raised a yell and flauiited the bloody shirt, always stating that the old veteran had been dropped from the rolls. In nearly every instance in Pike county the old veterans furnished the required testimony and were not only restored but many had their peusions increased. The following from deputy Commissioner of Pensions, 11. C. Bell, shows conclusively the uumber that has been dropped and reduced during the present administration and for what causes. Every old veteran is in favor of a just pension to all soldiers, and up to preseut times there have been thousands of pensions granted in Indiana, and in Pike county there have been pensions granted that have been on file for years under republican administrations. Read what Mr. Bell says: •‘After all the extended and persistent criticism of the republican papers and politicians they fail to mnke the old soldiers believe the present

administration was hostile to the pensioners.” Touching the alleged enmity of the pension bureau toward the pensioners of the country and the oft repeated assertion that thousands and tens of thousands qf men were being reduced and dropped from the pension rolls, a report which has just'Tj&en made by the secretary of the interior to the senate ot the United States on a resolution calling for such report and which gives the names and postoffice addresses of each pensioner also who has been either reduced or droped in the United States, shows that but 2,671 have been dropped, and 3,014 reduced up to Mav 10.1894, out of 966,000 now on the rolls. As there are about three thousand counties in the United States, it will be observed that not more than an average of one and a half pensioners from each county has been either dropped from the rolls or reduced. This report shows that in the state of Indiana, where the above charges against the pension bureau have been made persistent and vicious, but six-ty-thfee pensioners havebeen dropped from the rolls, aud but 143 reduced under the present democratic administration. The reductions aud droppings were mostly under the act of June 27,1890, aud on the ground that the pensioners were not incapacitated from the performance of manual labor iu such a degree as to render them unable to earn a support or were not disabled In such a degree as to entitle them to the rate of pension being received. But some of them were dropped under the general law on the grouud that the disability for which the pension was granted had

ceased; others on the ground that the soldier had not performed the ninety days’ service required by the law of June 27, 1890; still others on the ground that the soldier deserted or was uot houorably discharged from the military service; some tew on the request pf the pensioners themselves; others op the ground that they were in receipt of two pensions; and a small number of Mexican war pensioners on the ground that they had not served sixty days In tho war with Mexico, as the law requires. In the whole state of Illinois, which contains1102 counties, but 102 pen sionerst have been dropped from the rolls, an average of one to each county, and but 177 have been reduced. When it is remembered that the states of Indiana and Illinois contain over 68,00^ pensioners each, it will be seen that the proportion which the dropping and reductions bear to the whole uumberof pensioners is infinitesmally small. Mr. Bell has charge ot all pension matters in Indiana and Illinois and other northwestern states. »

In the tariff struggle, in the fight tor the people’s rights and a great party's honor, Grover Cleveland has put his foot upon the plowshare. liis action may be “unusual;” it may be “without precedentit may offend the punctilious gentlemeu who are proving an expensive ornament to American government in the Uuited States senate. It is possibly all of this, and more. But it is right. It has the sanction, the approval, the applause of his party and of the people. His wise council may not l>e heeded. Indeed, the very act of offering it may operate against its purr

pose of good. But he at least will have freed himself from blame. He has hut echoed the warning that has gone up from every state and country where democrats have assembled within the past twelve months. He tells the *elf-seVving members of the senate that they are leading their party to destruction, their country to its pent.- He tells the truth with the grand courage that has character' teed every act ot his public life. The curse of cruel betrayal, of monstrous perfidy, must now rest upon the men who have sinned against the people, aud these alone. REPEAL THE ACT. In none of the stages of senate tariff legislation was there much to produce faith iu a victory of a blit founded upon approved principles of taxation. All the habits and traditions of the senate are against the use of principle when private commercial interests are involved. The members ot that body regard themselves as endowed with personal privileges; and where there are interests which have friends in that branch, legislation in variably becomes a matter of logrolling and

arrangement. The interests moot afleeted by the principles of taxation adopted in House had the friendship of all the republican senators and of at least six and perhaps ten who were elected as democrats. Nothing could be expected of the republicans but bitter and solid opposition to change. After the Gorman combine had held up the bill for months and had impudently endured all the public indignation that was pourefd out when the present bill was reported to the Senate and debated, it writs impossible tor tariff reformers to look forward to the end with rosy expectations. The Republic has not deceived itself or its readers with false hopes. The circumstances all tended to nourished great deal more confidence in the nerve of the Gorman cciubiue than in the ability of the majority of the democrats toobtain the combine’s vote for the Wilson bill. Some of the administration’s friends are willing to adjourn without any bill sooner thau take the G«>rruau “compromise.’' We wonder j whether they have fully considered! how hard the trusts are working to] accomplish that result. Reed’s taunts j in the House and Hill’s in the Senate! Were utttred to irritate the tariff reformers into flat refusal to pass the Senate biti. Reed’s party would he delighted to go before the country on the issue of a barren session—ou the voluntary acceptance of the McKinley law by a Democratic House and Senate. As those who knew them and had traced the progress of the bill in the spring months feared Smith Brice, Gorman, Gallery, Blanchard and Murphy stand fast to their understanding with each other. Hill sticks to his resolution of fighting anything. They can deteat any modification of the Senate hill and will do it. This week opens with the com bine stronger instead of w eaker than it was before—more defiant instead of more pacific. There might have been an opportunity of subjugating the combine if the Senate rules had been changed. But the tariff reformers were not all reformers of rules. Without changing the rules the majority could not. with a caucus reduce the Gorman minority to control. The Republic objects strenuously to a Democratic gift ot the McKinley law to the Sugar Trust and the Harrison campaign contributors. It protests against an abandonment of the ircome tax. The House has asserted itself. The tariff reformers have cleared their skirts When the time comes for a final | decision, and it is between the Senate bill and the McKinley act—-and the time seems near—pass the Senate bill adjourn and give the natural recuperative powers of the country a chance to go to work for prosperity. —St. Louis Republic.

Is order to place The Democrat in. every home in Pike county during the coming campaign we have decided to make an exceedingly liberal offer for «e\v subscriber*. The paper will be sent from now until the 'first of January, 1895, tor fffiy cents. Each subscription must be accompanied by the cash. No name will be placed on the books where the money does not accompany the order. Any postmaster will receive your subscription and send the same to us. This low price fo|* the largest paperin' Pike county should secure t|« a thottsanu new subscribers during the next thirty days. " The campaign is coming on and the people of Pike county should be informed as to what is going ou in the county and to then vote tor their best interests. No other paper iu the county will give ypu

the figures and facts as they exist at the present time. Friends of this paper should speak a good word to their neighbors and get them to send for The Democrat at ouce. Have them send for a sample copy or let them have yours. Fifty cents from now until January first. Sometime last winter the city council made an order that all side-walks should be put down to the grade aud all others repaired and pnt In good condition by the first day of June. Up to the 27th day of July but few walks have been repaired or put in proper condition for the pedestrian. What motive the council has in not performing its duties we are unable to say. The side-walks on Upper Main street are in a horrible condition, while a* oue point there is no walk at ay, having been in that condition for several years. Walnut and Cherry streets side-walks need attention from the council as well as other streets of the city. Each and every street m the city should have walks on each side of it and it is one of the duties of the council to see that they are built or know the reason why. During the wet and muddy seasons of the vear tax-payers are compelled j to wade mud because the. couucii do | not compel certain citizens to build | side-walks. No favors should be I shown to anyone from any stand-1 point. The council would please the people best by following up the order made last wiuter. Commence the work.

The republican ring is somewhat displeased over the way that affairs have taken Issue in Pike county during the past few weeks. They seem to begetting thumped on all sides for the manner in which the candidates were nominated and the methods used by some of the* ring leaders. There is no question in the minds of many citizens of the county, but that the said court house ring should lie squelched at the coming election. It has come to such a pass that unless a man belong to that selected clique of office-seekers that he cannot he nominated, or if nominated, is taken from the ticket as was done in the case of Emmet Smith*a few years ago. The tax-payers must break up the ring or suffer themselves in paying high taxes during the next several years. At the present time taxes arc high enough, but instead of being reduced iu the future they will l>e raised. There are a number of hangers-on about Petersburg that must have a pull at the crib, and the citizens are getting tired of the gang. A change would relieve the people. It has always been a mooted question as to the exact amount of both gold and silver, coined and uncoined in the world, but according to Mu lhail, the London statistician who is an acknowledged authority the world over, the six periods, 1600,170011800, 1848. 1880, and J890 shows that iu 1600 there were 27 tons of silver to one ton of gold. In 1700, 34 tons of silver to one ton of gold. In 1800, 32 tons of silver to one ton of gold. In 1880, 18 tons of silver to one ton, of gold. In 1890, 18 tons of silver to one ton of gold. The report of the director of the mint shows that the world’s production of precious metals last year was, gold $167.918 337, silver, $143,096,234, making a grand total of $311,013,536.

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