Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 13 March 1896 — Page 4

/. P.BeU, Peeaiwti—frtj wife of tbo editor of The Graphic, the leadlag loeai paper of Miami county, writes lor six jean, severe palpitations, short* aeas of breath, together with each extreme nervousness, that, at times I would walk the floor nearly all night. We coeeelted the best medical talent, fheg wM there sews mo holy/hr mm, •hat I hail organic disease of the heart for which there was no remedy. I had read yoor advertisement la The Graphic and a year ago, as a last resort, tried ooe bottle of JDr. JKfcee* Mem Cure fee tfcs Memrt, which convinced me that there was true merit in it I took three bottles each of the Heart Care and Restorative Nervine and J» esevMrlg cured me. I deep well at night, my heart beats regularly and I have no more smothering spells. I wish So say to all who are suffering as I did; lime's relief untold far them if tin;j will only give yoer remedies Just one trial.*' Dr. Miles’Heart Cure Restores Health Hu £ilu gousttj g rawnit nr m. vfoc. stoops. MTTIi* flit Ci-.i ti Drsornt has the lsr(*st cIrrelilies el ih) semeaper nMlikri Is rthe Cesetjrl Ad?*, umk will naic a eete ef this fact! One Tear. 1n advance. ... .*. 9135 Six Months,In advance ... 65 Entered at the postoffloe In Petersburg for transmission through the malls as sceondclass matter. FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1896. ] „ Announcement. Florian Haiti ot Jefferson township, is a candidate for county recorder, subject to the decision or the democratic nominating convention. Marlon Township. . The democrats of Marion township will meet at Spragius school house Saturday, March 21st, for the purpose of electing a member of the central committee and township and precinct committee men, also to select delegates to the state and congressional conventions. Let ail democrats attend the meeting sis it is important that you should be there. That brnament that adorns the court house square, the wind mill, from some reason or other fails to work successfully*. Instead of it pumping water^to the jail to puy for itself, men hare to be hired to pump water for the use of that institution. The well and wind engine cost $447.75.

Senator Sherman has a scheme by which be hopes'to resurrect the dead House tariff bill before the cession doses, but his hopes are not shared to any considerable extent by auy of his colleague*. He is trying In his sly - sort of way to jolly the silver republi* cans, and the very idea of It is enough to make a horselaugh. It seems to take a great inauy lead pencils, pens and penholders to supply the county officers. From January 12th there were purchased eight gross of pens, four dozed penholders and eighteen dozen lead pencils. The total cost: of these little item* only amount to 122.33 for the quarter. How does the editor of the JPress iike the stationery'contract Hos. W. E. Cox, the present very able prc«ecutlng attorney of this judicial circuit, has concluded ite be a candidate for nomination. He is now serving his second term in that capacity and has made a splendid official, doing bis whole (duty :jat ali times. He is a terror to all evil-doers, yet at the same time doing only that which it is sworn duty to do under the laws of the state. As a lawyer he is one of the foremost in this section of the state, and during his term as prosecutor has made many friends in this city and county. At the coining election in November the taxpayers of Pike county will have a chance to show whether or not they desire the present party in power to control! the affairs for the coming two years in this county. With a limited debt and money in the county treasury two years ago, it has been largely increased and the surplus comparatively knocked out County orders have been floated, anti those holding orders will continue to hold

them for sometime to come. It baa come to that point where the county treasurer will not take them in pay* ment for taxes, or at least only a portion of the amount. The taxpayers must gel together and oust the present p0tv in power in the county. Thx war now raging in the republican ranks, in congress over the presidentirff nomination of the party is much more real than any war that is likely to come because of the Cuba concurrent resolution adopted by congress. So bitter has this war now become that the prediction^!* openly made that it will take the St. Louis convention a week to settle the contested seats from the South alone According to the program as outlined by both the McKiuleyite* and the anti’s, there will be contesting delegations from every southern state It will be remembered that it was upon a plan somewhat similar thai the Harriaen men got their mac nominated at Minneapolis. Undei this sort of a scheme it is the committee on credentials, not the convetition, that nominates. The plan which nominated Mr. Harrison was so bad that it made his defeat certain and resulted in a proposition from the more respectable element among tht republicans to reduce the represents tion of the southern states in theii national conventions, bnt the present plan is lots worse, and if carried out iu its entirety will disgust the friend* of all of the candidates who get turned down to an extent that will be worth thousands of votes to the democratic ticket.

Our highly esteemed friend, the editor of the Press, desires to know how we stand on the financial question. It may possibly take more time than we are willing to share al the present time, we being engrossed with a huge amount of Job printing and taking notes of county affairs, On the financial issues ot the day we haye been unable to locate just where the able editor of the Press stands. His party stands on a single gold standardS^nd yet is unable to pass auy legislation in the halls of congress from the fact that a few Western republican senators hold the balance of power in the senate, which blocks the gold bug republicans. It would be well for the editor to state just where be stands before interrogating the editor of this paper. Today the minority of the republican party control the majority in the legislative halls of congress. Is the editor with the inajority or the minority? From time to time you hear some store-box whittlers sitting around crying hard times. They haye talked this one idea so long tha| they have become accustomed to it and it i6 second nature to them. Action is what these fellows need. They seem to be frightened at the sight of work or that which would look like work. | The country is full of money but too I many men will not work where it is I offered them. The following from the Lagrange Democrat makes things look rather lively in that section : Over seven hundred dollars’ worth of bicycles were sold in Lagrange last week, and yet people talk of hard times. The God’s fact is that there never was more money, and that it wonld never bay more. The trouble Is a panicky, sacred feeling—that tired feeling we read about—that keeps people from spending it freely. J nst look oat for the best year’s business all around that Lagrange hat bad in ten years.

There is not much to sum up in the present session of congress. That body has done absolutely nothing in the way of legislation outside of making and unmaking republican presi- ] dential timber, 'll might favorably ! be classed with the last session of the Indiana legislature. The laws of the latter body, however, hare caused more litigation in the courts of justice L,a*t year the stationery.cost $143.7; for the first quarter. This year the stationery cost 1359.68 tor the« first quarter. Only two months have passed and the stationery has cost nearly two-thirds as much as th< whole price paid last year. If thh rate is kept up the stationery will cost double that of last year. Another member of the Kentucky legislature has succumbed to disease which now makes it impossible foi either party to elect an United State senator to succeed Blackburn. Sen ator Wessinger died Monday of pneu monia. He was elected by the demo crats. There is a probability that then will be a full delegation of senator to be elected this fall in Indiana. I the democratic state central com mittee conclude to act upon that prop ositioa the democrats will elect i ! member from Knox and Pike. The latest republican presidentia ticket now being talked of is Harri sou and Morton. This is the old tick et of 1838.

With eircnil and commisstouers’ court in aewston this week we have not given much attention to county affairs and the local democratic organ. In doe time, however, they shall receive the treatment due them and the people will be kept fully informed on the results of the investigations of the great political star-gazer, the editor of The Dkxockat. Perhaiw, some day be may see fit to quit “acting in fairness” to that mgbt-mar*. the republican ring, and tell what he knows. —Petersburg Press. Suppose now that the editor at once turn his attention to defending himself and (hearing. The local democratic organ is getting along very well thank you. It does not require any aid whatever. Our very caustic friend of the Press would have the people believe that we are a political star-gazer aud sometimes thinks we should take “paregoric” and many other drugs, but for what purpose we are unable to say. The above extract from the Press should be read very closely. Suppose The Democrat 1 should start in first with its investigation of the present stationery contract of which the editor of the Press is one of the contractors, and show to the taxpayers 6f the county that it will cost more than last year to furnish the stationery. Last year the contract price was $575. This year it is not known what it will cost. Only a small idea of the cost may be gained f by taking into consideration the amount allowed by the board of commissioners las|i week. The present contract went into effect on the 12th day of January. Since that date the 1 stationary haa cost the tax-payers $359.68. The whole sum paid out for statioDery last year was $575. The 1 contract last year was let out to the lowest bidder. There were several ' bidders for the work and with the result that several hundreds of dollars were saved to th^ tax-pavers. The editor of the Press now ha« full swing to keep the people ‘‘fully informed on the results of the iuyesttgations of that great political star-gazer, the editor of The Democrat.” If it pleases the editor will he now inform the tax payers just how the contract was made, and whether or not bidders were wanted to compete for the work. During last year the stationery cost $143.75 per quarter. The first quarter of the present year cost $359 26. Now Mr. Editor explain.

Voters, irrespective of party, will have a voice in November election at which time the Petersburg ring will be knocked into a “cocked hat.” The republican clique may dictate nominations and county finance affairs, but there is a probability that they will not be able to dictate to the voters again who shall be the county officers. The county is in debt and it needs a change in the affairs to place it once more in the even tenor of its way. A clean sweep should be made. Taxpayers, get together aud put a strong ticket in the field to compete with the republican party at the November election. The efforts of all voters, irrespective of party, ts necessary to win at the polls. * The republican state committee have commenced proceedings to set aside the apportionment of 1885 and all previous laws of a like nature. The committee seems to be getting desperate siuce the governor has refused to call an extra sessiou of the legislature, which body was unable to pass a fair apportionment law at at its last session. The state republican organ, the Indianapolis Journal, is unt in favor of an extra session, and upholds the governor in the matter.

OuB friend, the editor ol the Press, thinks It absurd to say that there is a ring or combination of republicans in Pikecouuty. The editor has a right to hiis views upon the subject, but the tax-payers think there is some kind of ring or combination that work things to suit themselves. As Indianapolis wife murderer was acquitted one day last week on the old plea of insanity. I Take Simmons Liver Regulator > now. Its just the remedy for the] sprlug ot the year to wake up the liver and cleanse the whole system of the accumulated waste of the winter. I “My wife combatted more Malaria in II Alabama in 1861 with Simmons Liver! ’ 1 Regulator than all the doctors in the | 1 neighborhood. We’ve bad a siege of malaria in our own family, and it ' helped us."—W. N. Bryant, Dallas, ‘ Texas. The Hartwell mines has been on * fire for two mouths, catching from 1 1 the slack pile. The owner has] r come out to see about extinguishing * the fire.—Winslow Era. i “Give me a liver regulator and I can regulate the world.” said a genius. The druggist handed him a bottle of DeWitt’s [ Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. J. B Adams A Sou. fW TTal it ■" ■ fraim Rotrlmm wa-j_ i/is rncc 3 wreftin IHiKlllg rOWdCf

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