Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 October 1894 — Page 4

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ANNOUNCEMENTS. JPBOSRCUTING ATTORNEY. William E poj is a candidate for Prose* putlog Attorney Of the Eleventh Judicial circuit ahjiipoacl of the counties of Dubois, Gibbon and 'rake, subject to the decision* of the voters of t^e district a.tthe JJoveiuber flon. Sagar Quotations. From the Indianapolis Journal: ** Oct. 7. 1&8. Hard sugar.I.... Confectioners’ “A”...— 5MM>£. §oft “A” .... . Kitra“C’? .}.... 5V4<gi5% Yellow “C” .;.... 4yt(&5)? park Yellow.. 4}j<&4X Oct. 7, 1894. 5 mi Tpa republican schemers pf the gouuty are just mow opening up a . boodle campaign, aud it will be real '.funny if a few are not taken in. -jdy Reports from all parts of the conn* "1*fy are yery encouraging. The party \ that is afraid to let the voters kuow Y Whore it stands will not \>e in it on JilpPliQn 4»y*

jKYI P. Mokton ?s importec. coachn will be heard of frequently durr the campaign. the republican Jpiidate in New York has broken tiro contract labor law and is pot tit |o execute any other lawn. Qoodle seetus to be the j^eynqte of the republican campaign in Pike pounty. That’s all they are working with this year. Party issues are lost sight of, and it is expected to carry fhe election by the free use of mouey and whisky. If ex-Presidemt Harrison’s theory that a ‘‘cheap coat makes a cheap tpap?’ is sound, the new tariff law and the 4Itier'cai1 merchants have much |q answer for. They are making no pud of “cheap men.” And the raou— they seem to like it. * In the absence of any other reason the Louisiana sugar planters admit they ieaye the democratic party bepause it refuses to take money from the pockets ot the people and giye it tQ them. Thpre's a highwayman’s perve and frankness adopt this that Will commend it to those iyho admire ttiat sort of economic ethics. Thebe will he no joint discussion between the candidates for representative and senator in this district, the Republicans having flunked. There js up reason why a joint discussion should not haye been agreed to by the republicans, unless their candidates were not able to make a speech. No other cause can be assigned. ._■ Tpy democratic party of Indiana b^fe made the only laws on the fttttMe books today that protects the laboring ni*M *»d miner. The republican legislative candidates are splendid promisers, but that is all. If flepted, would the republican candidates for senator and representative frame a bill and present it to the legislature. Soup p| the republican speakers say they are ppiimred to the Wilson tariff because it favors the south. In |he ue^t breath t|i$y gleefully tell bow the liotfiaiaua spgar planters leave the democratic party because |he new tauff is iraiu*‘d tp injure the fop there states. They should make tlielr stories “consist” or nobody will \

>NE rt.I>NKB|Mr t'ke Kep«Uluai Will Nat Accept the Challenge Offers*. Readers of Thk Democrat will re* member I hat the democrats of Pike county through Chairman Deathman had challenged the republican nominees through Chairman Wilson for a joint discussion of the issues of the county, state and natiou. Prom the tone of the appended letter the people will not hear Hon. J.W. Bethel) dis? cuss the issues with the Hon. W. A. Culliop during the campaign. No declination of the challenge to meet D. Q. Chappell has been received, and it is reasonable to suppose that Hon. James A. Coates will supply the “loug felt want.’’ That is, it Is to be hoped that he grill debate the issues with Mr. Chappell, but he wont. There is qo reason why the republican candidates should not go before the people aix^tell just where they staud on state issues. No one knows, but the voters desire to find out before the day of the election. Chairman Wilson will do well to re-consider the mailer and let the republican nominees take the stump and enter a joint debate, as there is plenty of time left in which to make a speech in each township—before the election. The following is Mr. Wilson’s letter, which makes “different arrangements’’ fgr Dr. Bethel!: Mr. M. I.. Deathman, Chairman Dem Cen. Com. Glesen, Ind. Dkak Sir.—Yours received in reference to a Joint discussion of political matters between Dr. W. J. Bethel I and Mr. W. A. Cullop, and imanswer thereto will say that I have, song^fune ago, made different arrangements forwitli in bis campaign and do not now wish to make any changes In it, and hence decline your oliter, Truly, J. W. Wilsoh, Chairman Rep. Cen. Com.

Democratic Legislation in Indiana. I, The law prohibiting the importation of alien or foreigu labor into the state under contract. 2' The law making bills for labor performed preferred claims in case of assignment or seizure of a corporation's property. 3. The law giving to labor a lien on 4he work performed in the construction of railways. 4. The eight-hour labor law. 5. ° The law abolishing “pluck me” stores as a meaus of robbing labor of the just measure of its earnings, 6. The Australian ballot law, which protects every citizen in the right to cast his vote as his conscience may dictate, and punishes coercion. 7« The school book law, which gives to the poor the means of education at cost ot production, and drives out a grievous monopoly. 8. The law prohibiting the blacklisting of discharged employes by corporations. 9. The pew tax law, which placed a hundred million dollars ot railway property where it would bear its share of the tax burdens. 10. The fee and salary law, which gives tocthe public treasurv the fees collected from the people in the excess ot fair compensation for services. II. The law prohibiting the discharge of an employe for belonging to a labor organization. 12. The law prohibiting the Pinkerton’s from coming into the state in the capacity ofdepuTy sheriffs. Some of the republican papers have discovered that It is useless to keep up the calamity howl any longer. The revival of business activity is too widespread and general. Among the great republican dailies that have

hauled down the sombre nag of calamity is the New York Tribune which on Monday devoted a page to interviews with New York merchants showing that a great revival of trade and Industry has set in and that the country has a most prosperous year before it. That is the story that merchants everywhere are telling since the new tariff law went into effect. The coming winter is to be one of the busiest in a quarter of a century and best ot all the necessaries of life are reduced from 10 to 59 per cent below the prices that prevailed under the McKinley blight. The editor ot the Press has commenced to read the old war horse republicans out of the party. Last week the lion. Lewis Loveless, of Logan township, was notified that he no longer belonged to the g. o. p. If we understand it right, Mr. Loveless voted the republican ticket long before the young editor was born. Keep up the lick and in two or three years you may learn something. Congressman Taylor opens his campaign in Pike county at Otweli this afternoon. He will make eight speeches iu the county, and from re* ports af various points in the count) he will have large audiences, which he deserves to have. At Ayrshire the boys propose to give him a rousing reception. Let every voter turn out and hear Pike poputy’s honored citizen.

THE HEPOttt CUKIPLETED. It la Haatet la Maapr* T»|«ert aat (U*w«ir. The gentlemen who were appoint* ed to settle certain questions relating to the election of township trustees and assessors hare made their report to Chairmen Taggart and Gowdy. It is as follows: The Hons. Thomas Taggart and John K. Gowdy, Chairmen Democratic and Republican State Committees. Dear Sirs:—The undersigned to whom you referred certaiu questions relating to jthe election of township trustees and assessors report that we have considered said questions and have cooie to the following conclusions : The regular term of these offices be* gins on the first Monday in August, 1895. It will be necessary to nomi*; nate candidates for the regular term i of each office iu every towuship, and to designate such candidates on ;he tickets as “for the term beginning the first Monday of August, 1895.” In addition in every towuship iu which either of said offices is* how held by appointment to fill vacancy it will be uepessarv to eject a successor to the incumbent. The person so elected will only he entitled to hold the office until the first Moudgy of

August, 1895. To obviate the inconvenience and derangement of public business, which would result from a change m officers for the short term, we recoin raeud that persous now holding bv appointment should be nominated for the short term by the party to which they respectivelv belong and designated ou the ticket as candidates “tor the term ending the first Monday of August, 1895," and that no opposing nominations be made. We thiuk we ought to suggest that the same persons should not be nominated for township trustee for both the short and the long terms, by reasons of the statutory provisions that “no person shall be eligible to the office of township trustee more than four years in any period of eight years.” The obvious iuteut of the law of 1893 for electing township officiate at the time of general elections, and under the provisions of thegederal elec tlbn law (acts, 1893. p. 192; is that all provisions of the general law shall apply to the election proper. The new ballot boxes will be provided by the county commissioner*. The township ballots will lie prepared and dis tributed by the county boards of election commissioners as the county bal lots are. Of course there will be a seperate township ballot prepared for each township, and distributed to tinproper townships, through the same messengers that carry the other bal lots. As to the proceedings following the election proper, including the count and certification of the results by the election boards, we are of the opinion that such mat lei's are still governed by the provisions of the aci of 1881 in reference to township elections. (Ke vised Statute, 1881. see. 4,736 et seq ) As the votes for township officers are deposited in separate ballorboxes, the election officers should be provided with seperate tally sheets and cenifi

cates. Votes should be counted and certified upon these separately from those cast for county and state offi eers, and it there is but one precinct in the township the inspector ot the election is required to make out and deliver to each person elected a certificate showiug his election, except that in the case of justice of the peace the certificate is forwarded by the inspector to the clerk of the circuit court. Where there are more precincts than one in a township, then the inspectors of the several precincts are required to meet as a board of canvassers on the day following the election at the office of the township trustee at or as near 10 o'clock as possible to count the vote front the returns and canvass and declare the result, making and delivering certificates of election as in the case of townships of one precinct. _ R O. Hawkins, William L. Traylor, J. P. Dunn, William W. Spencer, Leon.O Bailey, F. Winter. Under the McKinley law the sugar schedule gave to the sugar trust $93 for every dollar it gave to the government, and $62 to the sugar growers. Under the new democratic law the sugar schedule gives the sugar trust 10 cents for every dollar it gives the government, and not one cent ol bounty. Do vou see the difference. Nq republican speaker from Harrison on finwn (or up) has yet denied that It is the inteution of the republican party if it regains power, to reenact the McKinley high tax and hard times law and yet they sing through their noses that democrats will not let the tariff alone, that they are agitqtocs, $c. .

BUSINESS MEN TALK EFFECTS OF THE NEW TARIFF LAW ON PRICES. tlM CkiMnl Tendency Is Toward Lower Prim or p Better Qoallty of Geode For Prim Formerly Fold For Interior flntte {Fen (Ind.) Sentinel.] Four years ago The Sentinel laid before its readers statements of a number of oar leading merchants as to the effect of the McKinley law upon the juices of merchandise and upon trade generally. That law having been repealed, and a new tariff law enacted by the last congress to take its place, we have thought proper to interview the same merchants aa to the effect of the new law on prices and upon trade in their various lines. We herewith publish the statements of 1890 and 1894, in parallel columns, and submit them to pur readers without oomment, leaving them to make their own deductions from the statements of the persons interviewed, all of whom are well known as leading business men of our city:

im John 8. Lenhart, of the firm of Lenhart & Sons, said: “Houses with which i do business have sent oat notification that owing t«> the passage of the McKinieybiU many goods in our line have men advanced. Looking glasses have advanced fron. 10 to 25 per cent. Coffin trimmings of all kinds have advanced from 10 to 15 per cent. All kinds of upholstered goods are demanding an increased price on account of the increased price of the material used in upholstering. Tarnish has also been eiced up a notch. I ve noticed that the general tone of all manufactured goods is upward and yet 1 haven't heard of manufacturers paying any more to their hands. There is general dissatisfaction all over the country among business n*en with the effects produced on trade.” J. W. Ellis, of the firm of Ellis, Stiles So Co., said.: “There has been an advance in all kinds of material going into the manufacture of carriages and buggies. Manufactories in this country have advanced their prices. The cloth and finishings have all advanced. Axles and steel tires arv higher since the passage at the bill. An increased price for material meaus an increased price for the finished product, which means fewer sales. Fewer sales means the employment of fewer hands. I regard it as a most unjust measure. It affects all classes and tv * consumer has to {lav it ail In the long run. When will the people haw the sand and moral courage to rectify the wrongs that are being heaped upon them?"

Beck * Reilly, when approached on the question, said: “There lias been an advance in many things handled by us and nearly all kinds of hardware have already advanced since the passage of the bill. Tin was advanced from $liX5d per box to Slif.50 per box, and solder from 13 cents to 18 cents per pound. Of course the man who now has a tin roof put on his house or desires anything in the tin line will have to pay the extra cost. We regard it as a very unjust measure, and it will fall heavily upon the consumer.'' 1800 Ed T. Gray, when approached on the question, sai<% “I haven't investigated the subject very much, but from notices received from wholesale bouses I have been informed that leather has been increased from 1« to 15 per cent. I am certain that all kinds of cloth will be higher, especially in plush goods. Horse blankets will be higher, bat as I bought all my goods in that* line before the bill took effect, prices will not • be materially changed for the present at least."

Julius Falk said. ' “The goods in my line that are bought from tlds time on will he very much dearer, especially is this so in worsted goods. The retailers will be compelled to charge the consumer the advance in price. I have been keeping an eve on the McKinley bill and to forestall a rise in prices bought $1Q,<JU) worth of goods which I now have on my shelves, and over $35.000 worth of staple goods for next summer. 1 have how lying in Chicago more tr o

John* S. Lenhart, of the firm of Lenhart* Sons, says: “The passage of the new tariff law has had the effect of cheapening all good* in our line and of stimulating trade. Trade has improved perceptibly within the past month and as the new schedu 1 e s of wholesale prices have enabled ns to buy our goods cheafier than formerly we can afford to and do sell them cheaper. The placing of lumber on the free list will not benefit furniture man* ufacturers as much as users of pine lumber and other timber and lumber in building, hut it will haw a tendency to make furniture cheaper. The heavy cuts In plushes, velvets, carpets and other materials used in upholstering, also the reductions on glue, paints, oils, varnishes, plateglass, etc., will enable retailers to sell a much better quality of goods at the same price they were formerly compelled to charge for inferior goods and to sell the inferior goods at a less price than under the McKinley law." J. W. Ellis! of Ellis, j Stiles* Co., carriage > manufacturers, says: , “The passage of the j wool schedule of the . new tariff law has enabled us to give our customers a better grade of cloth in trimming for the same price they formerly paid for lighter goods. We can now- give them cloth weighing Id ounces to the yard for the same price we formerly had toCharge for Its ounce cloth; about the same for ltl ounce that 14 ounce cloth cost under the McKinley law. Reductions in cotton fabrics will also enable us to use better and heavier grades of enamel gtKMis, buckrams, etc., without increasing the cost of finished vehicles. Free lumber will probably enable manufacturers of hubs, wheels and bodies to make lower prices to vehicle manufacturers, as will also reductions in paints, oils, varnishes, leads, etc., as well as iron and springs. The result will be a very much better grade erf vehicles for the same prices formerly paid under a high tariff system for ordinary work.”

1894 John H. Beck, hardware, stoves and tinware: “Prices of foreign cutlery will be much lower than under the McKinley law by reason of the reduction of import duties on the same. Tin and manufacturers of tin will also be lower for the same reason. Build' era’ hardware will probably remain about the same as at present. Nails will be some lower; glass will also be considerably cheaper; paints will tend downward, as will nearly all goods in my line. Bunders will notice quite a difference in the cost of tin rooting from the rates that we have been compelled to charge for the past three or four years. They will be doubly benefited by the new law, as they will be able to buy a much better quality of roofing tin for less money than they have heretofore had to pay fOr poor tin.” 1894 Ed T. Gray, dealer In vehicles, harness, robes, horse furnishings, etc.; "The new tariff law tends to make all goods in my line cheap»r. I bought a bill of goods last week 33H tier cent less than I was compelled to pay for the same class or roods under the McKinley law. In fact, the bill 1 laid in last week is a better grade rf goods than we were titered under the old system of high tariff. My customers will, at morse, get the benefit ti the reduced wholesale rates, because having purchased my dock at lower figures lean make my regular margin of profit und still sell them at lower prices than hose which haveprerailed heretofore.' 1894

Julios Falk, the clothier and seats’ furnisher: “My business for the months of August and September of this year has been much heavier than during the same period of last year, but not up to the mark of 1W8. I am selling woolen suits, overcoats, hats, caps and underwear lower than ever before and the demand seems to be for the better grades of goods. The reason why customers are buying the higher grades of goods this year is because

wonted goods any 10 retailers In Chleago hava, which I bought before the bill affected them. Yee.it on the via-be hard _ __ fellow who boy now.”

MK) Fblii Levy pt the French Btnit said: “I have received many circulars from wholesale houses in which they refuse to fill orders at the old prices. Plushes have advanced from 3> to 85 per cent, and those that cost $5 per yard before the enactment of the law are now sell&at from to 5 per yard. The goods affected most are of a cheaper nature, those selling from 15 to SO cents per yard —that is, woolen goods and cashmeres. We handle a corset that formerly cost $24 per dozen, and we are now informed that they will eost us *27. The bill is a hard blow to the merchants, as it will be a difficult matter for them to make their customers believe that the advance was made necessary by the uew law. It will work great hardship.”

1900 Hugh McCaffrey, when asked what goods handled by him would be affected most, said: " “I have not had the time to investigate all the phases of the bill, but from what 1 have learned from word sent ont from the large wholesale houses, 1 can say that queensware, glassware, cutlery and tinware will all be made higher. The American factories are all stiffening up their prices on account of the McKinley bill. The consumer will have to pay the advance.*’ George C. Miller, of tbe firm of Shirk A Miller, said: < “There can be no question that the new law is having a very decided tendency to increase the prices of many lines of goods. Especially is this true in worsted goods, tin, carpets, queens ware and boots and shoes. While 1 Uu not thinly that t^e bill is brought to bear so heavily on leather goods as upon some other classes, the tariff on the raw material going into the manufacture of them greatly euhances the prices. I am in favor of free raw' material for the manufactories. Most of our merchants made their purchases before the hill went into effect, and its effects will not be felt until the merchants go to restock.”

they can get the beat in the market for •boat the game prices that we have had to ask them tor inferior goods heretofore. There can be no one st ion but what the removal of the import duties from raw wool will have the effect of lowering prices and of improving the quality of woolen fabrics at the same time. There is a marked tendency toward improvement in the jgkvle, quality and finisw of all kinds of clothing. The sharp competition among manufacturers has naturally brought this about. Footwear and rubber goods have changed but little in price, bnt the same rule of better values for the same money applies to those lines as well as to all others in which I deal.”

Felix Levy of the French Bazaar: “As a result of the reductions on cotton goods domestic cottons are selling 25 per cent lower than under the old system. Prices of woolens remain about the same, as the wool* en schedule of the new tariff law will not go into effect until Jan. 1,1886. After that date 1 think prices of the cheaper grades of woolen goods will fall 25 per cent and of the finer grades about 12H or 1& per cent. The general tendency of prices on all goods in our line where the tariff rates have been reduced will be downward. The present stocks were purchased under the McKinlev law and prices will probably not change materially until after Jan. 1. Then 1 anticipate an adjustment of retail prices to correspond with the new law. There is no doubt but what better goods can be sold under the new law after all the schedules are in force for the same money inferior goods have brought under the high tariff laws.”

Hugh McCaffrey, ot McCaffrey & Co., grocers: “1 have been too busy lately at the mill and with other mat* tere to carefully examine all of the schedules of the new tariff law Waring upon the grocery business. I can say, however, that word received from home manufacturers, jobbers and wholesalers indicate that there will be reductions in many lines. By reference toour advertisement in this issue of The Sentinel your readers can see for themselves .wh> t we are doing in the way of cutting prices. There is no guess work about our statements in our advertisement. They are the prices we are offeri n g our customers. There are many phases of t he grocery business which would require much space to speak of in detail. A list of the prices at which we are offering goods tells the story.” 1S94 George C. Miller, of Shirk A Miller: “Business is considerably better than it was last year, but uot up to !89=. The general tendency of the new tariff bill is to lower prices of goods in nearly all lines. We are selling woolen goods, such as flannels, blankets, dress goods ami woolen clothing, underwear, carpets, bats and caps, etc., cheaper than wre did last year. There has been a disposition on the part of manufacturers for some time past to improve the style, quality and finish of goods, which, taken m connection with the gradual drift toward lower prices, enables merchants to sell their customers a better quality of goods for the same prices they have been compelled to charge them for inferior goods in times past. Cotton fabrics have been steadily declining in price fear some time and are now selling at low figures. There has been very little, if any, change in the cost of footwear, but we are able to give hotter values for the same money. Queensware is selling at a lower scale of prices than formerly. The reduction of duties on imported queensware has materially reduced retail prices of foreign w are. Brices of tin have declined and will probably continue to do so. American manufacturers are constantly improving their methods of manufacture and the result will be a higher grade of tin for about the same or lower prices than tin has sold for in the past. Builders’ hardware was never so cheap as now. To sum up, I am of the opinion that there is a universal tendency to improvement in the quality of all goods. There is less shoddy put upon the market each year. The natural result will be consumers will get better goods for their .money than formerly.”

It will be seen by reierenoe u> tne van-1 oos interviews that the consensus of i opinion is that the new system will result in a cheapening of goods and improvement in their quality. “A condition devoutly to be wished.” The Sentinel has always contended that high tariff meant high prices for neoessaries, and we think the unbiased statements of facts of persona in a position to know whereof they speak fully supports that view of the matter. Seeing the Effect*. Democratic prospects grow* brighter each day . The party has weathered the storm of a Republican panic and its ranks are closing. The fainthearted have taken new courage as they begin to see the good effects of legislation for the whole people-—Frankfort Crescent.' Tht Democratic Argument. Twenty-five to 50 per cent reduction in the price of all garments, whether for male car female, is the Democratic argn- ■ menjf that is finishing all that is left of j protection.—Evausville Courier ^ ■« J S la

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