Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 November 1894 — Page 5

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Republican Testimony That They Are Here at Last. Business Reviving and Factories Resuming Everywhere, fhe Cincinnati Commercial Gazette and Indianapolis Journal, Though Both Harrison Organs, Are Forced to Admit That Their Calamity Howls Arc Absolutely Baseless—The Busiest Time in the History of Many of the Indiana Factories—The Revival Extends to All Farts of the Country—Facts From the Record. A controlling interest in the Cincinnati' Commercial-Gazette was recently purchased by Steve Elkins in order that the paper might be used to boom Ben Harrison for president in 1896. That paper, however, is very much of a newspaper, and in 6pite of the calamity howling of its editorial columns permits its news columns to bear truthful testimony to the magnitude of the business revival under the operations uf the new Democratic tariff law. In its Sunday, issue The Commercial-Gazette under the heading: SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

MILLS AND FACTORIES THAT HAVE BEEN IDLE AUK RESUMING ALL ALONG THE LINE, has those items: The Union ironworks at Erie, Pa.,’ have resumed operations after a long idleness. The Gadsden (Ala.) carvvorks have resumed after a long period of idleness. Employment is given to several hundred men. Work has been resumed at the Pittsburg looomotiveworks, the plant having been shut down for several weeks. All the old employes were returned to their places, at the old scale of wages. s The large paper mi 11s at Valley Falls, R. I., which have been for a long time idle', are to be converted into factories for the manufacture of cotton wraps. Employment will, be given to several hundred men. # The Gaffney (S. C.) cottonmills are adding new machinery. Twelve thousand spindles and 800 looiys will be operated day and night, requiring several hundred ojveratives. The extensive silkmills at Carlisle, Pa., which have suspended work during the past eight months are now running full time, with an increased force of men. Within two months over 9,000 men har e resumed work in the mills, f;:c'torics and workshops at Wheeling, W, Va., Mintin’? Ferry and Bell.tire, O. The major portion of-these men are now receiving st« u.iy work for the first time in 14 months and an air of prosperity is plainly visible. The largest leatherboard factory in the state will be put in operation at Town -ud Harbor, Mins., about Oct. 1, giving employment to l,0tX) men. From 16Ti'eO io 20,000 workmen have been given area- Ly employment at Braddock, Pa., during the past live weeks. The Youngstown (O.) Iron and Steel Roofing company is a new concern, which now has under construction a number of large buildings suitable for the manufacture of metal roofing, siding and* ceiling. When completed, employment will be given to several hundred men. The Standard Wheel company, manufacturers of wagon and carnage wheels, expect t; vi-art up their several factories in Indian;, by Oct. 1. Except the Terre Haute works, these plants have been idle for nearly two years. The puddling mills of the Old Dominion iron and steel works of Richmond, Va.,, have been put in operation and a large portion of the plant is now at work.' The City Manufacturing company, New Bedford, Mass., started on Monday mornin : at the old scale of wages. This means >t >; >;) oi the operatives out on a strike v r< pa- i mu ploy moat, as the mill eiri or umber. The - oi New Lisbon, ©., have raised t- ? tins $00,C9U required to secure : e s.iou of a large tinplate juanui .. mry, and the remaining portion is expc . etol obtained shortly. The concern, when completed, will give employment to several hundred workmen. Work ha been rosoamd in every department of the New Haven Clock company’s works at New Haven, Conn., giving employment to 500 persons.

The Spring Valiev (ills.) miners returned to work last Monday, after being idle nearly four months. Rents and coal will be reduced in proportion to the reduction that the men suffer under the Columbus scale. The American Manufacturing company of Brooklyn announces that while bagging is now free of duty it will continue ro pay the oid scale of wages to its employes The Anatom tinplate works at Cambridge, t , will bo in operation by Dec. 15, giv ng employment to several hundred a. Co* l : continue to improve at Nasi ”u. During the week several factories put on < xtra men and it can now be safely said that there arc no skilled workmen idle in Nashville. Pope, the bicycle man, is erecting a $750,000 plant fur rolling steel tubing at Hartford, Conn. It will employ 2,000 men. IN INDIANA. Republican Testimony Regarding the Industrial Room. AT ELWpOD. i The same issue of the CommercialGazette contains also ample evidence of the industrial Ixxnn which has come to Indiana since the enactment of the Democratic tariff law. From the Com-mereitd-Guzctto’s Indiana dispatcher the following points are taken^ The labor and manufiictuiTog outlook in Elwood is getting brighter every day, and the busy hum of industry is rapidly filling every house in the city with thrifty work5 "*racn, who do much toR :ir& filling the vert dr with prosperity. Elwc 5 • n several miles of street pa» . Moisoii cc v\ eiskoppf*8 bottle works refipnwl with 200 hands.

The MeCoy lampchimney plant is running at full capacity in all departments. The canning factories are in full operation. The El wood hoop factory has resumed. At the Elwood iron works the plant is ; running night and day and is constantly adding more machinery and putting on more men. The business is increasing rapidly and the men employed there earn good wages and are prosperous. The Holland radiator works, owned by the same company, are 60 days behind in their orders, while the works are running at their fullest capacity. The Diamond Plateglass factory is just at the present turning out some of the largest and finest glass ever turned out in the United States. There has been no disposition shown to reduce the wages of employes and it is believed no reduction will be made. The factory is running at nearly full capacity, full time. AT ALEXANDRIA. The trouble at the Lippincott Alexandria glass factory has been adjusted and i a full force of men resumed work yesj terday. The preliminary arrangements for resumption of work at the DePauw Plate- ! glass works at Alexandria are making and in a few more days 400 men will go to work in this plant alone. The Alexandria Windowglass company has already begun operations. * I The DePauw plant resumed yesterday and 300 -non began to make glass. t The Kelly Ax Manufacturing comrny is having ,a great rush of work and increasing its payroll daily. All the \ smaller Alexandria factories arc running full time and business is on the increase. The city is putting in a $60,000 waterworks pfehit. AT ORESTES. At Orestes 150 new residences are to be built at once and be ready for occupancy bv Nov. 20. Factories are all in operation. AT ANDERSON. Mattler’s tinplate plant is surely seemed. It will employ 800 men. The Anderson Iron and Bolt works will build a plaift at once. The total number of men that will be furnished employment by new concerns By the first of the year will reach the 1,20c mark. This will, by July, beiuoreased to 1,800. The resumption of the Victor Glass works Wednesday and the action of the North Anderson in putting factories 1 and 2 into operation Saturday and the announeeuK it that the Union would resume Monday has h'ad its effect in manufacturing circles, and things are beginning to show a decided improvement. The Buckeye Manufacturing company's plant will be put in operation the

lirst Oi cue mourn, eiupiu^ mg ovo machinists. The Butler Flint-glass company is enlarging its plant from a 7 to aii 8-miil concern. The force of 150 workmen will be increased in proportion. There has been a decided improvement in the labor conditions within the past two weeks. But few men are now loafing and they could, with proper exertion, get employment. The Ameri can Wire Nail works, which moved here five years ago from Covington, Ky., and is now employing 700 men, is being enlarged by the addition of a 60 by 100 feet galvanizing room. ‘ W nk begins Monday on the building for the new tinplate mill, the new shovel factory and tae Riverview Agricultural works*. All of these plants are to be in partial operation bv the first of the vear. AT KOKOMO. The industrial situation in Kokomo continues to he encouraging. The B't works is operating at abo^fc two-thirds capacity, and a fairly good prospect of full resumption soon. Ford & Donnelly, founders and boilermakers. have added another lino. They are now1 manufacturing tinplate machinery, and supplying new' mills at Anderson, Atlanta, Montpelier and other tinplate factories starting up. They, are also shipping goods to Pittsburg. . The canning factories are in the height of the tomato packing season, and 1,200 employes work day and night. The Union Febroid mills, the paper mills and pulp mills continue to run steadily. The American Strawboard mill, dowm for a year, will resume as soon as the river rises sufficiently to give them water. The Kokomo Enameling works, the largest in the United States, i, operating full force, and with encouraging orders. The plateglass factory, since increasing the for,M3 at the Ehvood branch, has ceased Sunday operations, but continues to run night and day. The eloso down of our factories last winter and spring cost the country $13, 000 in “aid to poor,” the idle w’orkingWu having no recourse but to appeal to trag. authorities for support of their families. The indications are more favora hie for the approaching winter. MORK REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY.

The Indianapolis Journal’s Koview Wakes a Great Showing. The Monday Journal of Indianapolis in its weekly review of the business situation has these items: A. A. Barnes, proprietor of the Udell wooden ware works, has 195 persons employed, the largest number since the works wew established. The Dujnlale can manufactory is stil running to its full capacity, and this is to be its best business year since established. The Jenney electric motor ppople are now working more men than at any previous time, and are behind in their orders. E. Ranh & Son, manufacturers of fertilizers, are pushing their business beyond that of any former year. A large per cent of their product is exported. Lumber dealers and planingmill men report their business as some better, but by no means what it should** be. Especially in the wholesale business is the dullness felt. The Cleveland Wire Fence company is arranging to put in a number more braiding machines, increasing their capacity to t wo tons a day. This firm has recently received orders for wire from Canada. The Atlas ongine works are not pushed, although doing a fair busiues and have 350 men at work. Brown & Keteham have ^60 men on their payroll.!, as many as they have employed at any time in the last 18 months. Hetherton & Berner are wore busy than at any time in some months in getting oat iron structural work. •

PARTI’S PLATFORM. PRINCIPLES UNDER WHICH DEMOCRACY IS TO WIN ITS VICTORY. I Declarations by the Indiana State Convention on Topics of Engrossing Interest to the People of the Commonwealth—All Issues Clearly Defined. The Democratic party of Indiana takes }ust pride in the strength of the record it has made in the legislative and executive departments of this commonwealth by the enactment and enforcement of* wise and beneficent laws in the interest of the people and in the fulfillment of its pledges. State Issues. It passed the mechanics’ lien laws and the law giving laborers a lien upon the product of their labor for wages and materials furnished; the law protecting labor organizations; the law providing for the safety of miners and the proper ventilation of mines; constituting eight hours a day’s Libor in public employment; prohibiting the blacklisting of employes; prohibiting “pluck me” stores; the employes’ liability law; forbidding the employment and importation of Pinkerton detectives; against the importation of alien or foreign labor; it

enacted tne scnooi dook law, saving large sums to the people, breaking down an oppressive monopoly and placing the instruments of education within the reach of the poorest and humblest citizens; it enacted our existing laws purii fying the elections, giving an untrarnmeled ballot to the voter, and by the Australian ballot successfully preventing fraud and the intimidation of employes and others at the polls; it framed and passed our present tax law, thus adding many millions of property to our tax duplicates; it passed the present fee and salary law; it enacted tho Barrett improvement law, which has proven a blessing wherever used; it also passed the state board of "charities law, which has insured honest, humane and intelligent administration of our public institutions. All this has been accomplished, almost in every instance, in spite of the determined objection and opposition of the Republican party. By this course of legislation, in fulfillment Qf pledges to the people, Indiana has been placed at the forefront of all the states in the matter of this and kindred reform legislation, and we pledge ourselves to the maintenance and enforcement of these measures, while the Republican party stands pledged, at the first opportunity, to destroy, either by repeal or amendment, the most important of these wise laws. The Ta* Law. We congratulate the people of Indiana upon the upholding of the tax law of 1891, under which more than $100,000,000 of corporate property has been added to the' tax duplicate. And we especially commend the action of the state officers in charge in prosecuting and enforcing to a successful conclusion the provisions of said law. Ae»)n»t Protection. We reaffirm our opposition to the vicious system of class legislation, miscalled protection, and pledge ourselves to continue the battle against it until every species of extortion and robbery fostered by the McKinley act shall be obliterated from our revenue system and the people enjoy all the blessings of commercial liberty. The protective system has built up the great monopolies and trusts which control absolutely so many industries and have done so much to debauch the politics of the country and corrupt the legislative department of the government. We denounce tariff protection of every kind as a fraud and a robbery of the great majority of the American people tor the benefit of the fev«T We maintain t^hat no tariff taxes should be levied except for the purposes of revenue only and that such taxes should be limited to the necessities of the government, when honestly and economically administered. We* denounce the McKinley tariff law enacted by the Fifty-first congress as the culminating atrocity of class legislation. We approve the efforts of President Cleveland and his administration and of the Democratic house of representatives and of the large majority of the Democratic senators, and particularly our distinguished senators from Indiana, Hon. Daniel W. Voorliees and Hon. David Turpie, and our entire Democratic delegation in congress, to redeem the pledges made to the country by the last Democratic national convention, and to execute the will of the American people as expressed so emphatically at the ballot box* in November, 1899. We condemn the Republican party for its persistent efforts to prevent the execu

non ox mis unimsrtucu my popular verdict, and we especially condemn a small coterie of senators who, masquerading as Democrat *, by threats to defeat all tariff legislation* have temporally prevented the Democratic party from carrying out all of its pledges to the people for tariff reform as announced m the Democratic national platform of 1892. We congratulate the Democratic party and the country upon the fact that, notwithstanding the open opposition of the Republican party and the oonduot of a few pretended Democrats, a substantial measure of reform has been enacted; that many important raw materials of our industries have been placed on the free list; that material reduction has been made in the duties on iron ore and ooal and that the tariff tax on nearly all classes, of manufactured .goods, including woolens, and on the necessities of daily life has been very largely reduced. We approve the action of the house of representatives in following the enactment of this law with the passage of separate acts placing sugar, coal, iron ore and barbed wire on the free list, and we demand that the senate shall concur in these righteous measures at the ear lb est possible moment. We especially indorse the income tax as a wise and eq®iabl0 measure designed to place a fairshare of the burdens of the government upon the, property of the country, for the benefit of which the expenses of the government are so largely inourred. Taxing Greenbacks, We indorse the law passed by a Democratic congress authorizing the taxation of greenbacks as other money is taxed as a great measure of reform, and we take pride in the fact that the demand for such reform was first formulated by the Democracy of Indiana, and that it is ( due to the persistent and intelligent ef

fortsof a Democratic representative from Indiana that this reform has been em- ; bodied into law. We favor the prompt enactment of a law by our next legislature fear the taxation of that class of money. We also most heartily indorse the action of the Democratic congress in repealing the odious election law. Election of Senators. We are in favor of a constitutional amendment providing for the election of i United States senators by a direct vote of the people. We are also in favor of such constitutional and other changes as may be necessary in order that congress may assemble as soon after its election as practicable, and to the end that the will of the people, as expressed at the E>lls, may receive prompt and full legistive express oa. A. P. A. denounced. We believe and declare that the policy | and principles of what is called the American Protective association are illiberal, unwise, unpatriotic, undemocratic and unamerican. In the spirit of that religious freedom which Characterizes our constitutions and laws, and the spirit of that wise toleration and generous statesmanship which seeks to accord to all the rights and privileges of American citizenship, we call upon every man to do battle against such an organization. Labor. The Democratic party of Indiana is, as it always has been, the friend to the laboring man, of whom its membership is largely composed. It is in hearty sympathy with every lawful effort to secure for those who earn their livelihood by their daily toil full protection in all their rights as American citizens, to better the condition of their lives, to secure for them full and fair compensation for their labor and to afford them every possible opportunity for moral, social and material advancement. We condemn the efforts that have been made, whethemfey the professed friends or the avowed enemies of our wage •frorkers, to identify their cause with the infamous conspiracies of lawlessness and anarchy which threatens the very foundations of social order and civilization. We are opposed to every manifestation of violence and mob spirit and stand squarely for the maintenance of law and order upon all occasions and under all circumstances.

Immigration. We favor the enactment and enforcement of such laws regulating immigration frpm other countries as shall exclude the pauper and vicious classes, who are unfitted to become American citizens and whose presence in this country will furnish a standing menace to the order and prosperity of our land. The Republican runic. ' We deuounce the unprincipled and cowardly effort of the Republican party to escape the responsibility for the existing depressed condition of the business affairs of the country. This condition is the natural, logical and inevitable result of the infamously corrupt system of taxation known as McKinleyism, combined with vicious financial legislation and the profligated extravagance of the Republican party. Arbitration. We favor the establishment of a tribunal of arbitration in which there may bo secured a peaceful settlement of ail disputes between employers and employes. Sumptuary Laws. The Democratic party is, as it ever has been, opposed to all sumptuary laws as contrary to tho principles of free government, and favor the largest individual liberty of the citizens consonant with good government. The Silver Question. We indorse the repeal of the purchasing clause of that cowardly Republican makeshift, known as the Sherman silver act of 1890. We reaffirm our belief that both gold and silver should be used as the standard money of the country, and that both should be coined without discriminating against either metal, and without charge for mintage. We believe it absolutely necessary to the welfare and prosperity of the great producing masses that silver should be restored to the place it occupied in the currency systems of the world a quarter of a century ago, and we hail with delight the many ; signs of a revolution in public opinion i in the great commercial nations in favor of a restoration of the bimetallic system. We pledge our hearty efforts to secure the adoption of every measure for the complete restoration of silver to its proper place in our monetary system, either through international agreement or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals, and equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in payment of debt, and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par and redeemable in such coin. Hawaii. We declare that the present national administration has acted wisely and honorably in permitting the people of Hawaii, unawed by our naval or military forces, to manage their own domestic concerns and to place their country in the family of republics.

Cleveland and Matthews. We heartily indorse the able, fearless and patriotic administration of Grover Cleveland, and especially his oourse in maintaining law and order. We heartily indorse the wise and patriotic administration of Governor Matthews, whose conduct as a public servant has called forth the commendation of the people of every state in the Union and placed our state in the foremost rank for good government, and cordially commend the action and conduct of our several state officers. Concerning Pensions. We remember with gratitude the patriotic services of the soldiers and sailors of the late war, and ^recognize the fact that, after the lapse of 30 years, by reason of the hardships, privations and exposures of army life, many are passing away and others becoming more helpless. We therefore demand that congress, in the matter of pensions, shall not only deal generously, but bountifully with these aged veterans. We also reiterate the declaration of our convention in 1892 that the state should provide by liberal appropriation for the support of a home where our disabled veterans, with their wives, may be supported without sending them to almshouses.

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