Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 August 1896 — Page 4

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W» fikr (Sountij Jrwnal fsssr.zr :■=■ Br J*. HcC.ITOWPS. H^tltt fill CMitj iMKnt tat tli* t*rt**t HfwUtiw *1 ar miMfN nUI(M t* fUt C*uti! Itrwttmri will mt« * **te *1 jpS OM T««r. IB BdTBBM tMi Mouth*, to Mivloet $1 So *5 at the poatoflie* Ic Ketersbarg for through the ditlls as sreofijFR1DAY, AUGUST 7,1896. C*li far kBorrtUc CMfithitul l'«i< TttUM. At a meeting of the democratic district committee, held in the city of Evansville, July 97,1899. it was ordered that a democratic congressional convention be held at Cook’s Park, in Evansville, Indiana, on Thursday, August 27. 1896, at 1 p. m.. to nominate a candidate for the fifty-fifth oongrvjjs, from the First congressional district of Indiana. The basis of representation is one delegate for each 100 votes aqd fraction in excess of SO votes cast for Honorable Claude Matthews for governor in 1812, as follows: County. Votes. Gibson. .34 Pike....... .1.19 Posiey ..'..96 Spencer .............95 Vanderburg. 91 Wamek. ....22 By order of the democratic district compittee of the First congressional district. Johv W.Smcu, Thos.W. Lisdsev, Chairman. Secretary. Tb> Tapi many organization of New York has endorsed Bryan and Sewell by a vote of 71 to 4, which was then made unanimous bv the committee. T L Joh.n Claek Kid path has beeu nominated | by the democrats of the Fifth district as a j candidate for congress. Rklpath is the i famous historian of Greencastle. F*o«IsutT republicans all over the U nit ed States are day by day joining the silver j forces. It is the same in Pike county. But the voters are saying very little about their j intentions.

Punk A. I>ay, at present lieutenant - governor of Minnesota, has deserted the gold party and has joined the silver forces. Ha was unanimously nominated Monday by the democrats for oougres*. g—gf . 1 1.. Tub managers of the geld bug party will make this a campaign of boodle. The finance committee is composed of millionaires, the total amount of wealth owned by the committee is estimated at over five hundred million dollars. Tub Press of last week calls the editor of this paper a liar and other pet names in its answer to an article that appeared in the Dkhockat of the week previous. The Dxmoceat does not indulge in like measures, believing that arguments and facts are what the people demand and must have. From a college graduate the people would expect more than the answers which that paper has indulged in of late. Josbfh B. ChkaDL*. ex-state commander of the G. A. it, was nominated by the democrats for congress in the Ninth district. Cbeadle, some years ago, was elected to congress from the Frankfort district as a | republican and .-erred several terms. He has abandoned the gold ship and come out on the side of the people. The district is! over 3,000 republican, but Cheadk will overcome the large odds and be elected by a handsome majority.

»v Iquote from the Labor Nevrsof Quincy, Illinois, the following article on William J. Bryan: “The Labor Sews* is for W. J. Bryan for president of the United States, not because he » a democrat or a populist, or because he is not a republican, but because be i« young, intelligent, aggressive, fearless and honest, fie is one of the people and no part of the plutocracy that threatened the disruption of this nation. Uis talents and opportunities would hare enabled him to become wealthy and a power in corporations which oppress the people.’ But hie heart is right; it has always prompted him to has champion the downtrodden, and he aver followed its dictates, fie before* in goerrn meal of the people by the people, not in the rule of the meases by the money classes, fie is in every way fitted to fill the high office for which he has been nominated, and if he is elected we before he will make the best president the country has had since Lincoln. It Is more than a duty, it is a pleasure, to assist in electing such a man and from now until election day the Labor New* will do its level best to convince the workingmen that they ought u> vote for William J. Bryan fur president. . “Aside from the ethics of the matter, )here ar* practical reasons why men who week for wages should support Bryan. First among them Is the fnet that he hag always- been the friend of the workingman, ke beipvee in the toiler's golden rale that laborer is worthy of las hire;* and he has

sacrificed his timejtalents and opportunities for personal gain to show that he has the courage of his convictions. For {Hoof of this read the articles he has written in the leading publications of the count ry and the eloquent speeches he has delivered in the leading cities of the nation. Opposed to him is William McKinley, the creature and candidate of labor crushing monopolies, “jjjfyan is the ablest living exponent of the free coinage of silver. 5 He has championed that cause when to do so was to insure political ostracism. The workers of the country are beginning to see. what he saw years ago, that in a contracted currency was the chief cause of their injustices. They have rewarded his fealty to the silver cause by assisting in his nomination; they should not cease their efforts in his behalf until by their votes they have triumphantly elected him. “Mr. Bryan stands on a platform that pledges the very legislation which labor has vainly asked for many years. If Mr. Bryan is elected he wiU be bound by that platform to do for labor just what labor desires done. “This is a campaign the results of which will be momentous to the people who work for wages. There is but one issue—shall the people govern through a man of the people or i»e further oppressed by the money power through its chosen agents? “The man of the people is William J. Bryan, the other fellow s name is McKinley. Workmen, take you; choice.” The “Silver tnue.” The ' ‘silver craze” is on the wane, say some of our esteemed republican contemporaries. Many of the Eastern gold bug papers oontiuue to use the phrase “silver craze.” Western editors wore it threadbare several weeks ago.

I he hastern gold bug papers are far behind in the discussion of the financial question. The illustration of the farmer who had several hundred dollars worth of gold and silver coin burned in his barn and what he did with it has been “slam banging'' around Indiana for weeks. It has, however, started Eas^ We saw it in a Western Pennsylvania newspaper yesterday. It will reach Philadelphia and New York during the week. It'ls thin, threadbare and foolish, but it will tickle the Eastern gold bugs for a few days. Yes. They are strangely behindhand and usually dull in the discussiou of the financial question. The ‘*sihrer craze* is not on the wane to any very appreciable exteut thus fagim the eauipaigti. Ijast week there were several notable desertions from the McKinley gold bug combination. Among them was Prof. Ridpath.one of the most eminent and highly intelligent scholars and historiaus of his day generation; then followed the Hon. A. ,F. Shirts of Nobiesville, an old time republican of many years’ experience; Judge Eggleaton's defection, wired yesterday from Terre Haute, was another notable occurrence. A dispatch published yesterday front Greenfield annouuced that between forty and fifty republicans had declared for Mr. Bryan and had united with a new silver club organized there Saturday night. A gentlemau from a neighboring republican county was in the Sentinel office Friday. He declared that the revolution in public sentiment there w*t> frightful to those who did not sympathize with it. Hts opinion was that not less thau 500 republicans had determined to vote against McKinley and gold-buggery and that if the hegira from the republicans was not prevented by some means t&t theentire party would be under the democratic flag long before November. Another significant movement was the organization Saturday night of a Bryan club in Canton, the home of Mr. Kc Conley. The defection from the republican party will run from two to five hundred or more in every county of the state. This may be retied upon by those who are asserting that ••the silver crane is dying out.*—Indianapolis SeotineL

! Extras!* From BtjmN Spmk. The individual is but an atom; be is born, he note, he die*, but principle* are eternal, and this has been a contest of principle. \ When 1 find a man who is not willing to pay hts share of the burden of the govern' j (Bent which protects him, 1 find a man who ie unworthy to enjoy the blessings of a government Like ours. ;■ \ Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was n straggle between the idle holders of idle capital and the straggling masses who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country, and. my friends, it is simply a j question that we shall decide upon which side shall the democratic party light. You cone to us and tali os that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. I tell you that the great cities rest upon these bread and fertile field*. Burn down your i cities and leave our farms and your cities ! will spring up spun as if by magic. But destroy your farms and the gram will grow in the streets of every city in this oountry. Many a dajy’a work is lost by aek head* troubles. DeWitt's Little Early Risen are the most effectual pill for overcoming such difficulties, J. K. Adams A Son,

Mexican Wages. la om of tte financial catechisms tor the tn&int class passing: around tl$? fold standard j>ress the sutgeet of the wages of Mexican labors is discussed as illustrating the fate of the workingmen of the United States should Bryan and Sewall be elected. Information about the wages .pf Mexican labor is interesting and would he important to voters if it were pertinent tp the issue iu the coming election. The true measure of the wages of labor Is its productive power. It was from this standout that Mr. Blaine made his famous remark to the effect that labor in the United States was cheaper than in any country on the globe because each laborer here produced several times as much as the laborer of any other country. The explanation of the low wages of ! Mexican laborers is found in this quotation 1 from a Mexican n« wspaper embodied in the catechism referred to: ‘‘The laboring classes regard themselves as a plant, which motes by extraneous aids only, and has no power of volition, and no desire to exercise it if it had,” The fact is, the M&xican native laborers are worth more than they receive, and would be worth no more under any financial system. Much as President Dias has done to awaken his country industrially, the native laborer’s development toward efficiency is ohiefly in the future. There would be as much justice in citing the wages and conditions of the laborers of Turkey or Italy to illustrate the effect of free silver coinage.—St. Louis Republic. Tile Issue Jalaed. [ftom the Republican Money Plank.J We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by in ternational agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, and until such agreement can be obtained we believe the existing gold standard must be preserved. [From the Democratic Money Plank.j We are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard, which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only um American, but anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United States only by the { stifling of that indomitable spirit and love ' of liberty which proclaimed our political j independence in 17711 and won in the war of the revolution. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver j at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender,equally ; with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will pre- ' vent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract.

James G. Blaise, “the Plumed Knight.” ■ once the idol of the republican party, said in 1878: I believe the struggle now" going : on in this country and in other countries for a single gold standard would, if success- | ful, produce widespread disaster in and ■ throughout the commercial world. The ; destruction of silver and establishing gold as a sole unit of ' alue must have a ruinous effect upon all forms of property except those improvements which yield" a fixed return in mousy. It is impossible to strike silver out of existence as money without results which will prove distressing to millions, and disastrous to tens of thousands. I believe gold and silver coin to be the i money of the constitution: indeed, the * money of the American people anterior to - the constitution, which the great organiclaw recognised as quite independent of its own existence. No power was conferred on congress to declare either metal should not be money. Congress has in ray judgement no power to demonetise silver any more than to demonetise gold. ' ' The ladies’department at the Pike county fair this year promisee to be ope of the finest and most attractive features, surpassing by far all past exhibitions in this department. 13-3

Alpitfl iMtmU} |ilW4. Mr. T. S. McKinley, of Terre Haute, read master of the E. & I. juid ,S.,& T. H. xjdh* roads, was -crushed to deatv near Washington, lad., at 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon, fcy being caught under a mass of earth which fell from the roof of aeuivert under .construction. For several days a large force of workuieu, under tfee supervision of Mr. McKinley, have been engaged .in putting a covert j under the track at Maysri le, a short ,dis- ' tance from Washington. In order to do 1 this it was necessary to tunnel the [track, ' which is on a high embankment. This had just been completed and the work of putting in the heavy timbers was tu progress, j Mr. McKinley went under the track to (.diamine the work when, vrithoutany warning, a heavy mass of earth gave way. The i workingmen were hiuriii J, and began immediately to try to rescue him, but it was full four miuiites bef ore he could be reached: He was uueoncious when found and his form was horribly mangled by the great weight of the earth. His leit thigh was broken and his left eye was crushed out of the socket. In spite of his injuries the ; unfortunate man lived for twenty minutes | and recovered consciousness. He died in ; great agony. j Word was sent to Washington immediately and a special train was sent ^o the scene and his remains were brought to Washington at 3:15 o’clock and prepared for burial. His family, living at Terre Haute, were notified and telegraphed directions for the care of the body. Mr. McKinley resided in Terre Haute, from whence he attended to the business of his department of the roads in whioh he was engaged. He is well known in this city, having had many pleasant business ; relations with the railroad people here. He | j entered the employ of the EL & I. in 1889, j but before that time he had much experi- j Mice in his department, ItaTiug worked for a number of years in Texas. He leaves a family, a wife and one [laughter about 13 years old. Mr. McKinley was a t hirty-three degree i Mason, having gone higher than most men | go in that order, and big funeral will be! conducted by the Knights Templar. A j special train left Washington at 7:10 o’clock I last evening to carry the remains to Terre ; Haute, and the funeral will be held there; to-morrow. Mr. McKinley leaves a host of friends all ; i over the state, who will mourn his loss, for { by his courteous and gentlemanly conduct j he won the respect and friendship of people, i not only iu his own home, but wherever he { | weut.—Washington dispatch.

i I Sliver Club at Ayrshire. Ijast Friday evening an enthusiastic j meeting was held at the school house at I Ayrshire and a free silver club was organiz- j ed and the nominees of the Chicago con- I vention enthusiastically endorsed. The meeting was addiessed by J. C. Thomas and C. L. Holcomb of this place. Both! gentlemen delivered able addresses to an i earnest and determined audience. A club was orgauized with a number of signers, which will be greatly increased during the campaign. The officers of the club are as follows: J. Simons, president; Charles Smith, vice-president; John M. Carey, secretary, and Frederick Stone, treasurer. Siwular clubs will be orgauized in all parts of the county. The people are enthusiastic in the cause of silver ami will work uneeas- j ingly for the overthrow of the millionaires who are opposed to the use of silver as a ; money. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,j August 19th, dUth and 91st the £. & 1.j railroad will sell tickets to the Bike county ; fair at one fare for the round trip from all j stations, from Washiugton to Evansville inclusive; good on all regular trains, and good returning until Saturday. August 33d. On Thursday they will rug* a special returning tram to Evansville, leaving Petersburg at 3:15 p. m. The Air line will, on these same days, sell tickets at one fare for the I ! round trip, from Huutingburg and Prince-1 ton, and all intermediate stations. 13-2

Democratic TicketFor President, WILLIAM^, BRYAN. For Vicejple&ident, ARTHUB^EWALL. Governor, BENJ.JF*. SHIVELY. St- Jo*«pb CwuHy. Lieutenant Governor. JOHN C. LAWLKK, Washington C|ouuty. decretaly of State, SAMUEL M. RALSTON, Boone County. Au<lij(or of State. JOSEPH T. FaNNING, Marion County. Treasurer of State, MORGAN (CHANDLER, Hancock County Attorney General. J. G McNUTT. Vigo County. Reporter of the Supreu'e Court, i HENRY" WAKKUM, Marion County. Superintendent of Public instruction, W. B. ST. CLAIR, Pulaski County. State Statistician, O. H. DOWNEY, Noble County. Appellate J udges - five Distitcts) ' KpWlN TAYLOR. FRANK K. GAVIN, ?, , THEODORE P. DAVIS, ^ ORLANDO LONTZ. GEORGE E. ROSS. * For Judge of the 37th Judicial Circuit,^ .EUGENE A. ELY, Pike County. For Prosecuting Attorney 37th Circuit, WILLIAM E. COX. Dubois County. * For Representative. SASSER SULLIVAN, Marlon Twp. For Treasurer. ONIAS O. SMITH. Washington Twp. For Recorder, NATHANIEL CORN, Lockhart Twp. For Sheriff, WUXI AM M. RIDGEWAY. Patoka Twp. For Coroner, , JOHN T. KIME, Washington Twp. For surveyor,, A. G. CATO, Monroe Twp. , For County Assessor, JOHN B. McKINNEY, Monroe Twp. For Commissioner, First District, JOSEPH L. ROBINSON, Washington Twp. For Commissioner,.Second District JAMES P. RUMBLE. Madisou Twp. All Exciting: Time, A scrap between members of the gentler(?) sex was the cause of a lively sensation in one of our suburbs the other night. Mrs. Toddy in a confidential “now-don’t-you-tell-a-soul” wav informed evej*v woman in the surburb that Miss liruiser, ^neighbor's daughter was iu the habit of setting up late of night with her true lover. In spite of Mrs. Toddy’s close-mouthed secrecy iu the matter, Miss Bruiser heard of it and she and her mother went to Mrs. Toddy’s to have the latter apologize. Mrs. Toddy didn't apologize, but picked up a chair and proceeded to dear out the visitors. A free for all fight ensued iu which all kinds of weapons including a sickle were used. Mrs. Toddy got a cut over the eye in the melee, but otherwise there were no serious wounds. All the parties were cinched and taken before the officer who gave them a good lecture and informed them he would not exact a fine off them provided they.promised to go to the great Pike county fair at Petersburg to be held August l« to 21, as it is going to be the best exhibition of the kind ever held in this section of the state. Thi> they promised to do, the officer also recommends that all the jwople take this same advice and go. because he believes they will keep in a good hunter aud at peace with their neighbors therealter.

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We keep on band at all times the finest tine Of Parlor abd Household Furniture to be found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Suita n Specialty. lu funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc.. of the best make. ASH BY A COFFEY, G. B. Ashby. C. A. Coffey. Attorneys at (ay, PETERSBURG, INDIANA. Will practice In all courts. Special alien? tion given to all civil business. Notary public constantly la the office. Col tedious made and promptly remitted. Office over 8. G. Barrett <& Son s$’ore. ■' , •. c■ . I QRANT FAlfH, Attorney ftt Lew wi Abstractor of Titles, PETERSBURG, IXD. Will practice in all court*. Special attention given to real estate law. Notary public ! iu office. Collections made and ommpUy remitted. Office on second floor opposite democrat office, Snyder building. ■ 'T' "" ' 1 ..sad a 1 r [Kutice of Commissioners Sale of JReal Estate. Xotice is hereby given that the undersigned Commissioner appointed by the Pike Circuit Court at its February tern:. MRW, in a partition suit wherein to illv t haunts et al. were plaintiffs. and Perry Griffiths et at were defendants, will sell at public auetfon at the door of the court house iu 1'etersbUfg. Pike Copnty, i Indiana, at two o'clock p. iu. on SATURDAY, AUGUST Sth, 188*. The following described real estate iu Pika County, Indi.ina.to-wW: The northwest quarter of the southwest quarter,and the efWi half of the west halt of t he southwest quarter of the northwest quarter, all in section one, town on<- south, range eight west*containing in ati fifty acres, more or less. sAki sale will be made upon the following terms, to-wit: Said lauds to be sold „tq the htghe$*, bidder, but for not le>s than tgrothinls of the appraised value thereof: onethird of the purchase price to be paid in cash on date of sale, and the balance in equal in* stall meats at sl.t and twelve months from date of sate; the purchaser to execute hta macs tor tne deferred payments, due In st^ and twelve mouths from date of sale, respewli ively, bearing six percent interest per annum fr«>m date, and providing- for attorneys Uses, waiving relief tiotu valuation or apprrt$e1 nient laws, with go»»d and sufficient personal security thereou to the approval of theuudgr? ! si sued Commissioner. sf-5 A G. Da y kNPOKT, Cqmmissionea | —- Notice of Administration, Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of t he Circuit Court ot Pike County. State of Indian*, adminis! raior pi the estate of Jonas Kob|uson, hoe of Pike County, deceased. , Said estate is supposed to be solvent. ’ WU4^4tt F. Bkock, July £», lseu. • Administratos. Notice of Administration. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appoln edfiy the clerk of the circuit court of jqfie county, State of Indian*, adfaintstraior with the grill annexed of the estate of Sarah J. Ash, late of Pike county, deceased. ■ « Said estate ia supposed to be solvent. Kdwako P. Kwh a sosos. July l%h, 1MM. Administrator.

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