Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 April 1896 — Page 1

VOL. XXVI NO. 48 PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 18%. < f

i Red-Said Imai in Kansas Froze her feet in bed. She was proud, but cold natured, Reader, we cad never tell wliat will happen. Thls*jnay be your last opportunity to buy Carpets while we are almost dying I4«m away. Our Great Carpet aaie t-lom* April }stk. Take < advantages!this golden opportunity; U may never oouur a^n. We have been rushed early and late with buyers, and they all say “they never saw sur)f bargains In carpets.’' All Carpets cut, matched and <J«Wv*tp4 free to any part of the ” city. 4 j • ( ttiF During ttiis sale we will give free with every Carnet a handsome Lace Front Door Curtain. See tiie £=xices: flood Every Day Carpets, good and cheap . . ... 12’*c per yard Genuine Cottage Carpets, good and cheap . . 2k* per yard Pretty l*atterns of Ingrain Carpets; worth tfcc... . .2»c per yard (Genuine Star ingrain Carpet*; sold at 43c . ...... S5c per yard All-Wool Ingpitif Carpets; worth 89c — . ..43c per yard Extra Heavy Ingrain Carpets, high art patterns ..... v fee per yard Pretty Patterns in BnfaselU . .»n4 75c per yard Lovely patterns in Moqu«tL» and Velvets tfilfc Loaders to watch. Mattings Linoleum*. Oilcloths. etc. 9 ' fit**During this sale we} shall offer 2*1}pain of La^e Curtains, full slge and length, for fl.23: regular price 18.00 per pair. There is do place In this wide world where you can buy Carpet* cheaper Jhan pf us, t ftfp Don’t forget Ipis sale positively closes April lMh■w. V. HARGROVE & COMPAlfY \ , • i 1 Petersburg’s Carpet House,

t Ha* not heard of “Jack, the Ripper,” and who has imt h)Mt^l u> the Star Clothing 'House. ThU young man tins, for he bought this nobbv All-Wool Matt forfT.Wof ns to wear «'h«o he rails on Ills best girl next Sunday. We liave more just like this; also an rleg-ut line of Hats, Shoes and Ties, if you Irish always to be dressed In the; latest fash* ;uu« you must buy your 1'lothlne at the f) ’ lie Star EHothing House 'Fls.a Tsmplo of Faat^isn, * ;• Indiana. . . . ■' ■ 1 Petersburg1,

JUDGE E. 4. ELY. The following editorial comment on the ' pandidacy of Hon. E. A. Ely f.>r the Judge- ; ship of the *>7th Judicial circuit k> from the ] iluuriughurg Independent of last week: Though Judge. E. A. Ely, of Pike county, • is not a candidate for the Judgeship,.of the j 57th Judicial district before the democratic j primary, b* is, nevertheless, a candidate for that office and will be, to use his own words, “until the poll*are closed in November.’* He has refused to go before the primary j on account of the $he unfairness of the putt j rule adopted by thc^ democratic central) committee in this eouhty, and by which rule the minority of this county and the entire democracy in county are disfranchised. It would bejfoolish for him fo jgo before the primary when he knows that the political ringsters had rendered his sucpees impossible. - Judge Ely will be a candidate before the ' people at the polls, and there are several hundred democratic voters in this county who are opposed to the unit rule,! and under which rule their votes and voices count > for naught in the primtry, who will be glad that the opportunity will be given them to vote for their favorite, and that their votes will be counted. It has been a time-honored custom in all parties to give a second term to a man who has faithfully served one term by election or appointment as an endorsement of bis first term. Judge Ely lias discharged the duties of bis office ip a faithful and able manner since his appointment, and no one can truthfully say that he ha* not raadea good, fair and impartial Judge. He has given entire satisfaction to all the citizen* of the entire district, without regard to politics or party, and is entitled to a second term as pa indorsement of his services far the short $ime bps has seWed by appointment., f i

The citizens of Dubois county iu' general Kill be pleased to leant that Mr. Ely has con'untoil to be 4 candidate for the Judgedup. and the central committee of this county will find that though they may gag and disfranchise the minority of their party in this county, they cannot gag and disfranchise the people—the vpters in the di«r trict. NOT 4 CANDIDATE. John G. Shankiin, of ^^jvansville, has written Allen W. Clark, President of the State Silver league, that he is not a candidate for the nomination fpr governor. He says in hi* letter it looks to him as if the silvaf democrats Kill have control in the state ponvention, but be will not be a candidate, as that ought cm harass the action of the convention. He will attend the convention and do all he can to secure a declaration far free silvei. ‘*We*can control the convention J£ we only stand together,” says he, “and in doing so we shall give t.yyjatioual convention that it will be foolhardy for it to ignore. '’ Mv. Clark in speaking of Mr. Shanklin’s announcement, sahl today: “No silver candidates arc permitting much use of their names in this connection at this time; all of them am sinking ,tlifir personal aspiration# in the effort to prevent the repudiation of the bum-1#'. be idea by the democracy of the state,1* Either Shankiin, Shiveley. Stoll or Hallman would make Indiana a governor of whom the state would well be proud." . BPOKUBK? AKN1CA SALVE. The beat' salve in the world for cuts, bruise*, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever son-*, tetter, ch^pjaxl hands, chilblains, i-OToe, and ail skin eruptions, and positively cures pile#, or no poy required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 35 cents per box. For sale by J. K. Adams A Son.

WASHINGTON LETTER ) (Prom oar regular correspondent.; Washington, April 6, 1896. Jperything comes to an end! sooner or , Congress has at last finished its consideration of the Cuban question, so far as it is dealt with in the original senate concurrent resolution, declaring for immediate recognition of the Cubans as belligerents and for the ultimate independence of Cuba, which were today adopted by the house. President Cleveland has not indicated his intentions concerning the resolution, if he has any, and those who enjoy his confidence are equally reticent. Consequently, there is much doubt on the subject, but recent) events in Cuba have increased the number of those who believe that the president will! shortly recognize the belligerency of the j revolutionists, regardless of the eongres-1 sional resolutions. North Carolina democrats in Washington j are delighted at the break which occurred ; between the senators from that state, and j they say that if Senator Prichard can con- j trol the republicans and Senator Butter the ) populists, to an extent to prevent the fpsion of those parties again that the return of the state to the democratic column is a certainty, and that when it conies back it will come back to stay. There are reasons for the belief that Senator going to have some fun with Senator Chandler when he comes back to Washington, in connection with that New Hampshire .convention which '“Lktio Billee” let get away from him the other day. By the way, speaking of Chandler, Speaker Reed’s friends sav that he has done more to hurt Reed's chances for the republican nomination than all of his opponents have done. The hoodoo is no new rule for “Little Billee’’; he has played it in the ante-conveution national campaigns of his party for the last twenty years. Mr. Joseph Manley, of Maine), who is chief custodian of the steering apparatus of the Reed boom, has made a wager with a a newspaper man—newspajier men are of course, privileged to do naughty things in connection with their business, but just think of a saintly politician like Joe Manley actually making a bet—that McKinley will be nominated by the St. Louis convention. Making heavy wagers has of late years become one of the recognized mejljoids of influencing political events, but this wager cannot be classed a heavy one; hence was probably not made for its effect. The stake is a box of cigar? and as no price was stipulated the winner is likely to In? the greatest sufferer uuless he shall be wise enough to let his friends smoke them aH.

Senator George, of Mississipi, will have charge of the Voluntary Bankruptcy bill which {.he senate judiciary committee has ordered to be favorably reported to the senate, and he says that congress will not adjourn until the senate shall have been given a full opportunity to show whether it wishes to pass this bill. The bill provides that no preferences shall be shown to creditors by those who make assignments, ac"pt debts due the United States or any state or territory, to servants or laborers for work performed within one year, and to I liens or encumbrances on homesteads to | the extent of #1,000. The chances are! against the Coal dispositon of the bill at thif> session. i , ' Considerable discussion has followed the j decjsiou of Speaker Reed upon that long j disputed question of whether a majority of | the full membership of the House was j necessary to make a quorum or Whether a | majority of the living menders was a quorum. In the fifty-first congress Mr. Reed rules that the former was necessary. In his last ruling he reversed himself and declared a majority of the living members | of the House are a uuorum. He says his ! first ruling was hurriedly made. He isn’t j ! the first mam whq has been on both side.- j of a question. t Although opposed to the free distribution i of seed, Secretary Morton very promptly j j arranged to carry out the mandate of con-1 gress and senators and representatives were notified several days ago that their quotas of seed* were ready and would be mailed by ’ j the seedsmen from whom they are purchas- j ed, under congressional frank, as fast as addresses were sent in. 'Hie quota of each senator and representative will be 15,000 packetsiof vegetaltie seeds in packages containing 15 assorted varieties, and 1400 packets of flower seeds in packages containing five varieties. The introduction of the A. !P. A. into the republican fight for the presidential j nomination may prove to have been a »very unwise move on the part of somebody, especially if the A. P. A. man wins. It is ; understood in Washington, although your correspondent is not in a position to vouch • for it, that the A. P. A. is working for McKinley’s nomination. If it is true, it adds another to the many strong reasons why democrats should wish tor McKinely's j nomination, Burns are absolutely painless when DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve is promptly applied. This statement is true, A perfect remedy for skin diseases, chapped hands and lips, and never faiiy to cufe piles. J. [R. Adams & sou.

A BLOW AT THE “RING." A correspondent fronj this county to the Huntingburg Independent 'writes as foD lows on the Judgeship situation: In our previous articles to your newsy and liberal sheet we have, in a manner, accused the party in Dubois county of being a hog. We wish to say in explanation that, in doing so, we did not intend to impute porkishness on all the members of the party, individually, but to the ring and its sympathisers that manipulated the so-called Jasper convention; the self same ring, barring the two gentlemen we excepted in our other articles, that has wielded the party whip so uuerringly in its own favor for I lo, these many years; and we wish to J say to ‘ Fair Play.” of the Argus, that your back will smart and ache for years to coiue if the drivers at Jasper learn your identity. What they have done for others who, in their eyes, had the audacity to oppose their will, do to you—lay you away ou the political shelf at the court house; file you in the ring archives as one who dared protest against the centralisation of power in Jasper; and, in ages to come, your mummy will be dragged forth and waved l>efore the political progress of those grandchildren for whom you have such fond and natural' aspirations, even as the bloody garments of Ceasar were waved in the streets of Rome, planting their death kncil politically to the populace. Why? Their father forsoothe was a liberal minded democrat, believing in equal rights and party courtesy: in adhering to the time-honored principles of-the democratic Jackson, followed from his to the present time, and practiced in every district except the 57th, believing that the firm adherence to those principles have ' been the source of the party's wonderful recuperiitive power from the successive defeats it has suffered in the years gone by. That the ring is hoggishly inclined is proven by the candidates they hav# in the field for county office, and their action iu the district matter. For instance: Ed Bohnert, for treasurer, second term* no opponent; Henry Cassiday, for sheriff, second term, no opponeut; Joseph Fritz, for commissioner, second term, no opponent; Joseph Sehroeder, for commissioner, -econd terra, no opponent: and because they think that Alr. Ely will want the office of Judge for*he district they take time by the forelock and put it out of his power to make the race l>efore the people selecting a time for the canvass and the convention when Ely would be busy holding court and unable to make a fight. At best that was cowardly! The county officers have no opponents because they are segments of the ring that, with iron hand, has ruled the hosts in Dubois, and as such are entitled to consideration. But let a man from

out the sacred precincts of the charmed circle come for ^nomination and how quickly art opponent appears. The Representative candidates are a fair example. Pinnick of tfce outerland, makes his announcement and there is immediately a man pitted against him, and if the past is any criterion Pinnick might just as well take iu his sign and retire from the lists, because Mr. McFall, a good man, is from Jasper, a spoke in the wheel, and what a man be^ longing thereto asks for in Dubois county, h ? usually gets. For, when the last day in the morning comes, the ring lash swishes a id hurtles warningly through the political atmosphere and the good democrats prance gayly, yet meekly, to the polls and rote for the ring solid. If the ring can act fair with those who ompose it. and, it does, why can’t it act fair with the district as well? The reason s terns plain: it is not liberal enough to consult to any one but members of the com* tine sharing political honors and emoluments with them, and the law-biding oiti7.3nsof Dubois county vent their discontent i» murmurings only. The district caudit ates for office are undoubtedly entitled to t he same consideration as to their rights as 1 he county office Seekers. Mr, Traylor, the candidate for judge to supersede Mr. Ely, waits until his circle i idopts a plan that will insure him the notnnation and then springs his uame on the wople, making it impossible for a camlilate from this county to go on the ticket; imply shutting Mr. Ely out of a chance or a nomination in a joint convention of he two counties, and making it a foolish hing indeed for hiuf to announce himself .is a candidate before the j>eople for a sec>nd term, not giving him even a fighting chance for a nomination in a joint convention of the two counties* not giving him even 1 fighting chance for a place on the ticket, and the circle at the countv’capital endorse Mr. Traylor’s action in the matter, as dutiful servants should, for the Book of Books sets in no uncertain terms: “Servants obey your Master.” The master who has been their brains and motive power for so long now asks that they break through custom _>f the party, usurp the present incumbent, seat himself, and they must obey. Will the mass of fair-minded voters of Dubois county agree to this? It remains to be' 1 **11. * I The state’s attorneyship we cede to Dubois county as her right; further, a more 1 conscientious, faithful and diliigent officer never was elected tlnwi Mr. Cox, and deiuo 'rats and republicans, alike, will vote for : him en masse in this county; further, Mr. C*>x is a politician iti the best sense of the ‘ word and, even with the ring against him, 1 he has wielded an influence second to none i in political affairs; second to none, not on- j lv in the countv, but the district as well, j

You can't keep a good man down! The ring tried it with the “holdover,” we understand, but the “holdover” is * man strong in his covictions and honest in purpose and, a result, the ring candidate was completely snowed under, much to the chagrin of the judicial aspirant from your county. The same gag rule that has been worked on the layity of Dubois county by the ring they are how trying to force on the district. Will 7,500 free and indepen* dent thinking voters submit that eight or ten men, scheming ringsters, name every man that they shall vote for? Will the voters of Pike and Dubois sit tamely and without protest permit eight or ten men who have oulv private advancement in view td control the offices of the district without allowing them a voice in the proceedings? We think not! The ring at Jasper inajr have matters settled to suit themselves now, but the voters of the two counties will settle the matter when the ides of November roll 'round. ’ * * * r With kindness we are, Thx Daju* Pfool From Piss. EMPLOY GOOD TEACHERS. Many of the district schools throughout the countv have already closet! and the remainder will close soon. With the closing of the schools the selection of the teachers for tiie etching war arises. The selection of teacher* “is one of the most important. things which trustees are called upon to do, and at the same time one of the most emImrassmg. Trustees; should be guided by the qualifications of the teacher in making selections and pot favor school keepers, simply because it is their desire to teach. ThA teacher who possesses the qualifications and teaches successfully is the one to employ. A trustee cannot afford to lose him if wages which are iu the bound of reason wiil Aeep him. A great many people in the country districts are too indifferent in the matter, i hey should remember that the future welfare of their children depends largely on the kind of a teacher under whose care they are placed six months out of each year froia* ten to fourteen years, A poor teacher is Expensive at any price and should not be employed until all the better material is exhausted. In many instances where the schools are small, it is charged, trustees have been in the habit of employing poor teachers. This is unjust, for the child that attends a small school is entitled to the same consideration as the 'child who atteuds a larger school. None but good teachers should be employed, and neither politics, family re- / latum nor church connections should be considered as a part of the necessary qualifications. . The New York Thriee-a-Week ;%brld and The Democrat, one year, for $1.75

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Laces jrom 5 to 50c pci' yard.' Btltiny and Buckles. Ilair Fancy (J Sailor Hat*. Trimmed Hats. 50c to $1.00.

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iD^rsr. ■ •: ' : ' V. ; /....-■ ': ■ .. We litre «*t apart Thursday of eaen week as Bargain Day. Don*! wait until Saturday, but if vou want to purchase good* at an egtra low price call <»u Thursday. "Ail Trimming at Mat** guaranteed to be in the latest si vies Call and see iw before selecting your Spring and Summer Hats. . . «MRS. EMMA S. RICHARDSON* j ■ . v . ' - - ■ ‘ . <