Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 November 1895 — Page 4

3Hu gtiu tfsuntg genuifat nr .1. IMcC. NTUOI*8. Tk» Pike Voaitf Iteaiorrst ku tfc* tor* TMf clrettUtlcn ot any r.ew*p*per pabl inked to Pike €•«■!}t A4?«rU«*ra will ««s« a aoU> af tkiifattl ' One Year, In advance ...<1 *5 81* Months,In advar.ee. .. .%.. K5 Entered at the post office In Petersburg for transmission through the mails as accondelaas matter. - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1895. After next week a number of person* who have been taking The Democrat without paying for it will receive it uo longer. Their names will be erased from our books and a statemeut of their account sent them. We have been very lenient with the hope that you would come in “after harvest’' and settle. Several harvests have passed and you have failed to comply with the request for silver or gold, or anything else in the shape of money. We canjnot afford to carry you any longer. Please settle an honest account. The McKialey hard times have about disappeared. McKinley Bill is Shelved so far as his party is now concerned. Holmes, the alleged murderer of the Pietzel family, is,on trial in Philadelphia. The trial will probably last several months. I The late lamented Indiana legislature failed to make anv appropriation for the interest coming due each year on the state debt. That economical administration that the Petersburg Press talks about has plunged the tax-payers of Pike county in debt to the tune of $60,000. Oh heavings!

Figubes don’t lie. The democratic trustees of Pike county last year only made one-tenth of the poor expenses of Pike county. The Press to the contrary notwithstanding. Thehe are few real estate changes in Pike county at the present time. Why it is thus cannot be comprehended. The land is fertile and the climate unexcelled for all varieties of crops. Elections will be held in several states next I Tuesday. Ohio, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Keutucky and other states will elect governors, while some elect only tninor state officials. The Pike county coal fields are the best in Indiana, The veins are the thickest and of* the finest quality. IWhat other county can boast of having veins of eleven feet In thickness? To persons wishing * to develop coal miues Pike county is 'the place to locate. Among the Republican candidates for governor of Indiana are Major Charles Doxey, a man with a barrel, \y. D. Owen, F. B. Posey. W. S. Cumback, Theodore Shockuey, Smiley Chambers, John L. Griffiths, John K. Gowdy. There are a few haore counties to hear from.

Tub steady decline in the value of Pike county property is due to the Cleveland ad. ministration.—Petersburg Press. ’ The increase of $78,185 over year 1894 in the value of taxable property in this city might also be due to the Clevelaud administration. —Washington Democrat. ' The decline of Pike county property will steadily proceed uutil there is a change iu the management of affairs. The ring in Pike county has plunged the county in dent to the amount of nearly $60,000.00. Corn, potatoes and apples all break the record this year according to the reports just sent out. The estimated potato crop is 230 000.000 bushels and the apple crop is placed at 10,000,000 bushels. As for corn, the crop is so largo that no estimate can reach It, but it will surpass any previous yield. From this it will be seen that the Lord has been at the back of the democratic party in helping it to bring about good times. j mm— The Democrat seeks to clear the democratic trustees of the blame for raising their township levies: this can only be done by laying it to Cleveland’s administration.—Petersburg Press. The Cleveland administration has nothing whatever to do with Pike county affairs What the People want to know Is why the republican administration in §jke county didn’l raise thotassessmcnl instead of lowering it ? The trustees make their levies on the total assessment as shown by the county assessor. If there was A tailing ofl in the total assessment in! their townships it would, naturally

tend to raise the let y. But that frightful debt hanging over the people ia enough to make them forget that they ever had any iropertv at all. Tub steady decline n the value of Pike county property Is dm to the Cleveland admluietmlou as who n In the Press last week. However the { x>ple will vote for a change In *98 which .means higher value, better times and wo k for every body.— Petersburg Frees. With complete power in __Pijr€ county there is n > reason why the republican official should not have raised the assessment if it was too low. The county assessor is a republican and a major ty of tho board of review were republicans. The people of Pike co nty are burdened with mighty debt. the town of Petersburg is also burdened with an immense debt. These debts were made by the republican party iu control. It is a i atural consequence that property values will go down where heavy taxation exists. Such is the case iu Pike county to-day. Wherever rings and cliques exists there is always be und to be a decline in real estate value. “However The People will vote for a change In *96.” If they don’t it will be because they can't get to the pe lls, The republican party has wobbled ou the tariff question in almost every national platform scarcely ever statiug its position twice alike. In 1888 it virtually declared in favor of the abolition of all in ernal revenue taxes including the wh skey tax, and then when it obtained power refused to carry out its platorm. Iu that same year it condemned what it termed “the policy of the democratic administration in its efforts to demonetize silver,” and then itself treated silver as a commodity, and passed the iniquitous Sheriuan law of 1890, from the evil effects of which the couutry li'as not yet recovered. It admitted republican territories iuto the union as states, and refused

uemocrauc territories, aunougn iney exceeded the otiers In population. In 1884 it pledged itself “to correct the inequalities of the tariff” which it had itself enacied, and then in 1890 passed the McKinley bill perpetuating and extending those inequalities. It declared m favor of reserving the public lands for actual settlers, and then when in power with a lavish hand gave those lands away to favorite railroad corporations.—Senator Hill, Apportionment Suit. The appellauts filed their brief last week at Iudiauapoiis in the legislative apportionment suit by their attorneys, Harris & Doughett. The brief sets forth the general statement of facts, including the facts that the apportionment of 1891 was declared unconstitutional ; that the geueral assembly in 1893 passed a new apportionment act and that the legislature of 1895 passed another, tho constitutionality of which is in question,. The argument sets forth the contention of appellee that the constituonal provision beariug upon the case in both mandatory and exclusive, and that, as the act of 1893 was necessarily constitutional, the .act of 1895 could uot be so, as the constitutional period of six years had not intervened. In reply to this the appelants argue as follows: “We take it that the language of the constitution referred to is mandatory aud requires that an enumeration and apportionment be made at least every six years, but there is nothing either in the language or the reason, for such provisiou that leads! our minds to the conclusion that it is exclusive.

”io our miiias the reason for the insertion of this provision in the constilution was not for the purpose of preventing the legislature from oftener apportioning the state when circumstances require it, but to prevent the legislature from retaining for a longer period than six years an apportionment which is unfair and unjust to a section or sections of the state.” Merchants should plant their fall and winter advertising in The Democrat, because it reaches the firesides of the best class of people in the county; and, what is better, reaches more of them than most other publications iu this part of the state. These people read it through and through ; tho whole family reads it these long evenings, and an advertisement therein can’t fail to do you a great amount of good. Our subscribers are of the class that can afford to buy, and do buy, and .if you tyant their trade you should ask for it, else they might Infer that you don’t want them to call at vour store. Dou’t neglect to invite them through Thjc Democrat to trade with you. . Wanted to Rent.—A farm of 250 acres of improved laud for five years; tpnst have good improvements; uear county scat; references given. For particulars address or call at this office. ' A * * 23-4

Their Weakness. Feeling vet the sting of last year’s terrible defeats and bearing much of present disputes, the loyal democrat may shake his head when The Republic tells him that his party was never stronger and its foes never weaker than at the beginning of the 12 months which make the political year of if®6. ^^Ttte-^reefk’s meeting of republican magnates has developed incidents and provoked comments which, while not of decisive meaning in themselves do make known the decayed condition of the bonds holding the republican party together. It is a party without a platform believed in ardently by any great body of people; without a leader of impressive personality. U cannot attack the purity of the present administration nor ihe efficiency of the government as now managed. The issues before the country ate still those raised by the fifty-first congress, whose record consists of the McKinley tariff law and the Sherman coinage law. On both events have crushed the party into a state of abject cowardice. If the republican mauagers go back to that congress for a third issue, they must take the force bill. And they will never commit a folly of such magnitude. Only one of their prominent candidates has been associated with a principle in controversy ; and McKinley’s principle has no promise of success. The turning of republican eyes to Allison, who is uothing but negative caution, exposes the fear of an aggressive campaign. In all the republican press there Is not a note of hearty admiration for man or policy. In whatever is said by an experienced editor or veteran politician concerning:.Iieed, Allison, Harrison or McKinley there is a veiled cou tempt.

It the coming campaign is not to be phenomenally apathetic, the democrats must supply the tire. There is life in the republican embers. The democratic party has proved the whole case it presented iu 1892. The position it occupies is one of impregnable strength if the representative meu to whom the masses of voters look for advice, act for the welfare of the party. If they choose to lead and inflame factions, they can produce enough misconception and internal 6trife to make a present of victory to the republicans, who are too feeble to win it in a square contest of forces. A division of opinion exists upon the currency. But it never was Indispensable that democrats should think exactly alike on the whole of any question’s details. The indispensable thing in a party’s existence is that when once agreed upon the general lines of belief, the members shall refer minor differences to majority decisions and act with concerted earnestness in behalf of the nomiuees whose election is the Victory of all. The democratic party to-day requires nothing more than that its leaders subscribe to this primary article of party organization. The republican fabric cannot stand the strain of a united democratic attack. The democratic party has strength in abundance. Use it with ordinary good sense and the Western mau we are to nominate will be easily elected. —St. Louis Republic.

Washington Letter. From our Regular Correspondent. Washington, Oct. 28, 1895. President Cleveland aud Secretary Qlney could not have secured a better state of affairs than the expressions ot prominent republican newspapers aud congressmen have brought about if they had personally had charge of the arrangements themselvbe* These republicans have publicly put their party on record and when President Cleveland sends a special message to congress, as he will do shortly after 1t assembles, setting forth the demands he has made upon Great Britaiu to recognize the Monroe doctrine, and accompanying it with Great Britain’s answers thereto concerning its claims in Venezuela, the republicans canuot without stultifying themselyes hold up their hands in holy horror and cry “jingoism?” They will be compelled to endorse the President’s position, simply because their previous utter* ances will have left them •nothing else to do. There is nothing new in the dlplomatic complication with Great Britain, but there is reason to belieye that there will be this week, as Great Britain’s answer to Secretary Qlney’s last dispatch, stating the positiou of this government and its intention to stand bv the Monroe doctrine, is daily expected. Upon the nature of this answer the next move of the government will depeud. Although a specific answer was asked for it is regarded as probable that it will not be received. Even had Great Britain fully determined a week ago to,

positively deny the right of* the United States to interfere under the Mouroe doctrine with its affairs In Venexueta it would nut do so now. The deal that Russia has made with China has given Great Britain something more to do than to quarrel with this country. British commercial supremacy is at stake in the East and for that reason it is believed that the answer will be a diplomatic one that j will leave the question open until John Bull has more time to give to it. The rather silly report that Harrison and Quay had made friends and that the latter is going to take charge of the former’s boom found no believers in Washington, but it served to bring out several good if not new stories, concerning similar reports in in the past. Lots of people remember that during the latter part of the campaigu In 1892, at about the time the Harrison ticket struck the toboggan slide/6osk\Quay went to New York, and the pti$£rs tvere full of stories about his having become reconciled with Harrison and going to succeed Carter, who bad as chairman oy J&e republican uational committee made a mess of the campaign, so far as his own party was concerned. Mr. Benjamin Harrison has not given up hope of getting the nomination again, notwithstanding the opposition of Quay, Platt and other republican 6o-»es. This has been made very plain.to those who know the inside track. When a number of the republican national committee met in New York City last week, to decide upon the date for committee meeting, which will determine the time and place for holding the national convention of the party, Mr. Harrison had a confidential representative on the ground—he is reported to entertain doubts of chairman Carter’s friendship tor him; others are certain that Carter has joined the

combine against him—m Uie person of \V. S. McKeen, the railroad man, to find out the full strength of the combine against him. lie has also an agent—Ex-Gov. Saunders,, whose daughter is the wife of “Prince Russ”—in the South trying to “arrange” tor delegates to the national convention. Secretaries Carlisle and Lamont have been to their respective homes and registered and they will both vote the straight democratic ticket on election day. President Cleveland did not register, consequently he will have no vote. Secretary Carlisle says Kentucky will go democratic, although the majority may be smaller than usual Senator Gorman, after having gone carefully over returns made by trustydemocrats in every elecitou precinct in Maryland says there isn’t the slightest doubt of the state remaining in the democratic column. The republican trick of trying to persuade democrats to vote for the republican candidate for governor and the re*i of the democratic stale ticket ijs too transparent to cath votes. The nearer the opening of the session of congress gets, tlie more apparent it becomes that the fight which a number of republican members are making for the chairmanships of the most Important committees may develop some rather dangerou® obstacles in the path of the Reed presidential boom.

The Discovery Saved His Life. Mr. G. Caillouette druggist Beaversville, III., says: ’ To Dr. King’s New Discovery I owe my life. Wes taken with la grippe and J tried all the physicians for miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told 1 could not live. Haring Dr. King’s New Discovery in my store I sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose begau to get better and after using^hree bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won’t keep store or house without it.” Get a free trial bottle at J. R. Adams & Son’s. $2.25 Cincinnati aud Retain. The B. & O. S-W. By., will run a special train Saturday, November 2nd, leaving Washington, 8:04 a. m. arriving at Cincinnati 2:00 p. m. Returning leave Cincinnati 8:30 p. m. same day, making all stops between Cincinnati and Vincennes. Tickets will be also good rettirning on regular trains ot November 3rd and 4tb. Ticket agents will give full particulars. How to Prevent Croup. Some reading that will prove inteiesting to young mothers. How to guard against the disease. Croup is a terror to youngmothers and to post them concerning the cause, first symptoms and treatment is the object of this item. The origin of croup is a common coid. Children who are subject to it take cold very easily and croup is almost 6ujre to follow. The first symptom is hoarseness; this is soon followed by a peculiar rough cough, which is easily recognized and will never be forgotten by one who has heard it. The time to act is when the child first becomes hoarse. If Chamberlain’s cough remedy is freely given all tendency to croup will soon disappear. Even after the eroupy cough has developed it will prevent the attack. There is no danger in giving this remedy for it contains nothing injut ions. For sale by J. R. Adams & Son. ‘n Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Pair Highest Medal and Diploma.

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