Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 May 1896 — Page 4

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Skt §pl» County gerneut •r HI. McC. STOOPS. JUT Thu Pike I'mtjr Ueaerrat kii the Isr* Kt rlmlitlti ol it; newspaper published la » t’Matjr S Advertiser* will Make a aate of tklsfart! One Year. In advance ...,.$1 S5 Klx MuiitbN,In advance.. .. ... #5 Entered at the |*»itofli<v In Petersburg for transmission through the malls as secondclass mutter. FRIDAY. May 20,-1890. *?—■■—* .. . ■ 1 " " '5 ' Auuouncement. COUNTY RECORDER. Florinn Hart I ol Jeflersnn township. I* a candidate for county recorder, subject to the decision of the democratic noiuinMting con* vent ton. Please announce my name as a candidate for the nomination of Recorder of l*tke county, subject to the decision of the democratic nominal I tic convention. r Dows ay Hratty. .... .. STATE CONVENTION. Indianapolis, Ind., April, 1, 1890. ] To the Democracy of Indiana: .. The democratic state convention will assemble at Tomlinson Hail, in the city of Indianapolis. at 10 o’clock a. m., on Wednesday, June 24, 1890. for the purpose of nominating candidates for state offices lo be voted for at the November election, 1896: the adoption of a platform ; the selection of : delegates to the national democratic con- i vention; the selc t on of presidential electors ami such other business as may proper- j ly coiue befon* the convention. The basis of representation to said convention its fixed by the democratic state central committee is one delegate for each 150, and one delegate for each fraction of ?•*» or niore votes cast for Hon. Claude Matthews for governor in 1892. Under this apportionment the convention will consist of 1,747 delegates. , Steri.im; li. Holt, Chairman. S. L. Wallace, Secretary. Harmony pervades the rafik of the Pike county denijx-ra. v in every particular. Never 1*»fore has the party started into a campaign in Pike county with suclt an united effort t*< win. Never has the party had such an opportunity to make a splendid catnj>aigti. It starts out without party or distension a disorganized front. Every party worker in the county and many who have never cast* a democratic vote, see the need of a radical,change in the affairs of the county. The eoaidy is in debt and'it needs financiers at the helm to manage Hie affairs; it needs business meu and not politicians, who are politicians, for the money t here is in it. The connty must have efficient officers who enu and will manage the affairs without iucuring heavy debts. It "needs men who will look after and care for the interests of the taxpayers. That is why the democracy is harmonious and why so many voters irres|H*ctive of party will help by their votes and influence to elect men at the coming Novemlier election who will not tie dictated to by a few haugers-on. Taxation mast be reduced; l he debt decre*vse<i, and no won bonds issued. Chairman Harrity, of the democratic national committee, knocks oat the sensational rejHirt that Mr. Harrity hail said that no delegate who gave advance notice . of his intention to bolt the candidate and i platform, if they didn't suit him, would l*e , admitted to the Chicago convention. Of j oourse, Mr. Harrity didn't say so. Neither he nor attv other individual has the author- i lty lo say who shall be admitted to the convention. What he did say, atul what lias U-en said by -core- of democrats in 'congress, is that no delegate who threatens to bolt ought to he admitted to the eonven- _

Theek isfeotl for thought in the words of Senator Hill concerning the probability of tariff legblatiou at any time iu the near future. He said: “There will- be no tariff legislation in this congress, or in an extra session if one should be held, or in the two years dnriug which the next congress will be in session.'* It looks as though most of the senators agree with Senator Hill’s eery emphatic assertion, for not one of them teen made a pretense of denying or of challenging them. By their action the Pike county demo1 crate absolutely deny Dubotfi'oountV the right to have a candidate for judge.— Huntingburg News, The I*ike county democracy have done nothing of the kind. The Jasper ring concluded to ruu things to suit themselves and to ignore tin* minority of Dubois aud the entire democracy in Pike. The majority in the district will also hare a candidate since the ring has nominated a candidate. The republican house was so disgusted with a resolution offered for the impeachment of President Cleveland by Kepresentatire Howard of Alabama, that it refused by an almost unanimous rote to give him a hearing on it. Howard has virtually been ostracised ever since he became a member of the house, except by bis fellow populists, because of a disgraceful book he wrote just before he became a candidate for congress.

President Cleveland’s consistent recorc of refusing to sign the river ami harboi bills, to say nothing of the extravagant)} large appropriations already made by this congress and the lack of money in sight t< pay them, makes it reasonably certain thal tlie river nnd harbor bill now in his hands which breaks the record by providing foi the enormous expenditure of $75JXK).00l will be vetoed. Congress is expecting * veto, and, owing to the wide distribution fo the appropriations for in the bill,expects to be able to pass it over the veto. It ws« stated in Washington several days ago that enough votes had been pledged to pa>s tht bill <>vt*r a veto. While nothing is posi- ! lively known, democrats, generally, hope and believe that the president will make his i message vetoing this bill a ringing protest against the extravagance of this congress— something that will make a strong and convincing democratic campaign document.. The “Jasper ring” has been working hard in Pike'county the past week, trying to get the democracy of that county to declare, at the convention next Thursday, in favor of holdiug a joint judicial convention. The “ring" will find its labors to have been in vain, for the Pike county democrats are not going to forget the manner in which they were disfranchised bv their brethren in Doubois county, and they are not going to declare in favor of holding a joint judicial convention. The Pike democracy is going to nominate E. A. Ely forjudge, and the people of the 57th judicial circuit are going to elect him at the poll' in November. And don’t you forget it.—flummgburg Independent. McKinlev’s position, in*tween the devil and the deep sea of the money question would be uncomfortable enough in any event, but no misery is greater than that of the man whose unspoken speeches of the present are rendered stid more painful by the eloquent straddles of his past. MR. SHANKLIN’S LETTER. Some days ago Mr. Charles W. Bridges of Iudianafiolis. wrote to the Hon. John G. Shanklin of Evansville, asking him if he would la* a candidate for governor. Mr. Bridges has received the following reply: “I hope you will pardon the delay in answering your much appreciated letter of the 15th. Your question -concerning the coming democratic convention and the possibility of my being a candidate before it are gratifying proofs that hope still lives in the breast of Indiana democrats. I quite agree with you that the democracy can carry this state if bur convention, on the 24th day of June, reaffirms the oftrepeated principles which have been as a, lamp unto our feet ever since you and ; I have been old enough to discriminate between right and rohg. If I recall you 1 am considerable older than yourself. My first vote was for George B. McClellan in 1W4, and I have never swerved a halt's breadth from democratic principles and j*arly obligations sinee that time. Among the foremost of the. policies which the {■arty has advocated is the ('quality of silver and gold as materials for^ money at the r&tiu of 10 to 1. and since their first issue, of United States treasury notes as legal tender for all debts, public and private. “We have opposed national banks and advocated the right and duty of the government to furnish the money used by the ^•eople. This the philosophy which Jefferson taught and which Jackson defended, and there is no reason why any democrat should depart from it simply because some of those whom ihe party has trusted have joined the caravan led by John Sherman and inspired by the syndicate whose prophet' are Lombard and WaR streets. 1 believe in the free and unlimited coinage of silver as well as gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, and am utterly opposed to waiting for the permission or co-operation of England or

any other country hefore adopting the policy. Indeed, it is more & principle than a policy, because if the testimony of history goes for anything the progress of civilization and humanity is dependent Upon the adoption of this course. ‘‘Feeling as I4o I am going to the state convention,to assist my democratic brethren by every means that an honorable man may use to impress upon our state convention the absolute necessity of expressing this principle in itsqdatform, and as 1 consider the adoption of such a declaration of | far greater importance than any man's personal interests or ambition, I shall not i place a handicap upon sincere effort by } asking anything for myself. I am sure you trill see the logic of this view of the case. ! If I went there as a candidate and as an advocate of free silver coinage the charge | that 1 was using a principle to promote a jiecsonal desire might be justly made against me. To many other letters received from every quarter of the state 1 have said | what I now say in response to your friendly inquiries, that I am not an aspirant for the nomination for governor, and that ail 1 ask ! of the state convention is that it will not desert the principles which have ever been sacred to the democratic heart, whether in victory or defeat. “I shall go to Indianapolis as early as-the 33d of June and will stop at the Grand . hotel, where I hope to have the pleasure of ( seeing you often.” Joe* G. Shasklis ”

THE JUDGESHIP. When the Fifty-seventh judicial circuit, composed of Pike and Dubois counties, was formed, Dubois had, and still has, the j prosecuting attorney. For that reason | among others Governor Matthews decided1 that Pike county was entitled to the judge-1 ship and appointed E. A. Ely judge of the | new circuit. At the coming November j election both a judge and prosecuting at- i

torney will have to be elected, under me i custom of all parties, and more especially of the democratic party. Judge Ely should ’ haw one term by election in recognition . and approval of his services and as a com-* . pliment to the governor who appointed him. ( To set. Judge Ely aside now and put another in would be a declaration bv the public that Judge Ely has not done his ’ duty and is not worthy of the position, and } would be a direct insult to Governor Matthews, who appointed him. All the lawyers and all the people of Pike county, without regard to party, supported Judge > Eiylu his application for the appointment. That he has discharged the duties of his office faithfully and ably, and that he has made and is making a good and satisfactory judge none will deny. Mr. Traylor and Mr. Cox l>oth applied to the governor for the judgeship, but for the reason before staU-d the governor gave it to Judge Ely. The personal light .indulged in by parties in Dubois county made it imj>ossibje f> r the governor to appoint either of the j gentlemen from that county. Governor Matthews is a dean man and does not, and will not, approve of unfair incans of any kind. The same men who managed Mr. Traylor’s cause then are managing it now. The governor did not give*the position to Mr. Cox for the reason as above stated, be held the office of prosecuting attorney and lived in Jasper, and the governor thought then, as tW people think now, that Dubois was not, and is not. entitled fo both judge and prosecutor. Pike county concedes, fhe prosecutor to Dubois county, but Dubois county is not satisfied with that, but comes before the public ami asserts that she is entitled to both and leaves nothing whatever for Pike. When we say l hat Dubois is asking for both we have reference to that part of the Dubois democracy that is properly known as the Jasper ring. The Jasper i ring caused the central committee of that

«*>uuty in secret session to adopt what is | known as the unit rule, but what is more i properly known as the gag rule. The committee held that the person who received a majority of the votes in the Dnbois primary for judge, should receive the fourteen votes of Dubois county in joint convention for that office and likewise for prosecuting attorney. The next day after their primary | they held a county convention and appointed delegates and instructed them to cast j the fourteen votes of that county for Mr. | Traylor lor judge and for Mr. Cox for | prosecutor. As Pike county would have only ten votes in joint convention, we see that if the star chamber proceedings of the Jasj«er ring are carried out Pike county will get nothing whatever. To hold a joint convention under this star chamber rule would be a useless and foolish proceeding, a waste of time and money. The Jasper | star chamber has decided the matter. No Lneed of a convention. In this outrageous i manner the minority in Dubois and the entire democratic party in Pike are ignored and disfranchised. Will the democrats of this circuit submit to this irdn-huuded star i chamber proceeding? The voters will de- ; tide this question at the polls. The Jasper Herald and' Huntingburg News gets t«ff a long siting of nonsense about the action of Pike county twelve ! years ago. At that time Dubois, Gibson I and Pike counties constituted the circuit. | No action any one countv could take would I determine the matter. Now there are but ! two counties in the circuit, Dubois and : Pike, and the action of the Dubois commiti tee if submitted to would decide the matter At i without any further steps being taken. ; that time nos|ar chamber proceedings were i held in either county. Each one held a | mass convention in which every democratic j voter in each county had, or could have ! had, a voice. Now the minority in Dubois and the entire party in Pike have no .voice i whatever under the proceedings of the star | chamber priK-mlings of the ring. Quite a ; difference between the proceedings then and j now, and all the drivel that the Herald and | News may send out from now till the elec- ! tion will not keep the voters of the two -counties from seeing and recognizing it. | The fair way to have decided this whole matter would have been to leave ft to a i primary election jn the two counti#, and let thejiuau having majority of the ; democratic votes of the two counties be tin? ; candidate for judge, and likewise for prosecuting attorney. The democratic party in j Pike county wanted to decide the matter in this way, and Judge Ely was in favor of ; this method of nominating the judicial can-\ didates. Several of his friends spoke to a gentleman living in Jasper about it and he j i said -sNo sir, no &r; that would be allowing i the weak to dictate to |he strong.'’ Said jie would not do it and that he insisted on the unit rule. Mr. Traylor did not publicly announce his candidacy until after the ring had procured the adoption of the unit rule. t The Jasper ring through the Uuntingburg News, says, the folk* down here in Pike j county are not democrats. The ring says j this because we do not meekly walk up to j the altar and lay our heads in the basket aud let them walk off with them. If we would let toe ring take the judge and pros-! ecutor and all there is in sight without any ! protest on our part, or even a vote in the matter, then we’d be good democrats in the : eyes of -the ring. But simply because we ask for what Governor Matthews has said we are entitled to; what the practice and custom of our party says we are entitled to; what justice and fair-dealing says we ate , entitled to—the judgeship and* nothing

more—ami propose to leave that to the majority of the democratic voters in the two counties, we are not democrats, but bolters in the eyes of the Jasper ring. We are better democrats than any men who belong to the Jasper ring because we staud by> democratic principles and methods. We believe in and practice the principles of democracy as taught by Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland. They taught land believed

in exact justice and equal rights to all men, in fair plnv, ami that the majority of voters of a district should rule and no| a select few in star chamber session. Tie men who belong to the Jasper ring are bolters. They are the ones who are advoeatiijg and trying to enforce things not denui-ratic. It is they, and they alone, who are trying to disfranchise the minority in Dubois and the entire democratic party in Pikit*. It is they who bolt the custi m of giving a good and faithful officer a second term: [who bolt the principle that a majotitv ofij Jhe district shall govern; who bolt the common courtesies that should prevail between individuals and counties: who bolt {he principle of dividing the officers of a district among the counties Constituting it. tea, it is they who say through their inoCth-piece, the Huutingburg News, if Traylorfis not elected uo man from Ptke county shall be. This is about the size of tiieir boasted democracy that seems to consist of nothing but brute force and swieish propensities; It is they who will ruin if they can’t rule. And yet they iKotst of their democracy. We have tip fight with Mr. Traylor personally, or with the masses of Dubois democracy. That the majority of them are genuine democrats and good men and believe inf fair play we have no doubt at all. That we believe this is shown by our willingness to let. a majority of the democrats, of the two counties nominate the judicial candidates. We are entitled to recognition in this! matter, to a voice in the selection of judicial candidates, to a division of the judicial offices. This is all we ask, and this we do ask and will have. When the Jas|*r ring in their arbitrary, overbearing, dictatorial star uhamber proceedings deny us all these thinjgs and claim all the judicial offices, then tl|e only resort open to us is the true democratic course, and that i» an appeal to tire {country and the polls. That appeal we halve taken and will cheerfully abide the resttlf.

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