Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 December 1896 — Page 4

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glttSjfi&f County g$momt Hr ns. MtC. stoopm. jfcjsf“Tlii‘ I*i4i Countj Democrat fc*» the ;*r- * teat circulation »•» any ueenisper |iaAltsfc*it >n Pise County! AdvcrtUer* will «aclic a wo;* ol MiUfkct! , On« Tear, In advance... . . Kix Mouths, In advance tg> ! Entered Ht tl>*> postorlk-e in Pi tersbtirs for tnntilixiiQO through tins maiU a* aoeundcluks matter. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, l>Ut). Till! Press of tlus city has rounded into j its 2ftih Joar, being a few years_aldejr than i its able editor. Tiie Press is one of the ablest republican papers iu the district. Indiana has several republicans who! would uot refuse a cabinet position in} McKiuley’s cabinet. They would, of course, i if McKinley should iusist, take something < of minor jmf*. rtar.ee. Ir any oim knows where the prohibitionists arc “at*' we would la* pleaded to receive information on that point.—Petersburg 1’r* ,-s. r The clectiqn return* in Pike comity fihows where some of them were ••{it.** Pike countv lias gone to populism, jioverty and the, >1. vil. * * *-l'u. r?Lurg Press. - Ftider the republican administration it went ho}H‘lcusly in debt and js floating oouutv orders. That “overwhelming’* defeat of Bryan is not so*lv»d -ts s<>me of our rvpub!i.-;»n fr:en<ls would make bdkve. The facta are that Bryan mviv.-d fifty mow • 1 vutes than did Harrison in 1892. Bryan received 801,505 ?<»u s more than did Cleveland in 1892. Wk understand from reliable authority that then' are partio- iu Evansville who an- willing to accept the post-office there ns * Might rvturn*fbr their services— I\tf|rrsburg Pro* Why go so fur from home? There an* parties in Petersburg who would accept the 1 pustofiice for their past party services. Tms passing around of “confident c" isttcal <»f money is playing out. It neither • buys f.svj,, ].,t hing < r coai and i- doubly sure not t > pay ,-.ixo. \K J\i :.;.•)•* :s ®le ih* doubts that, but the promises ! that “i nfldence" would' U> re-iorcd bus failed to “b’b’W in" at least around t his < section of t.|w United, States. It may ! possibly conn _with ti next cyclone. Allen W. Clark, president of the Indiana bimetallic league, baa appointed an ad- i visory committee composed of John W.j K. rn, lntii«n*| olis; Jaims McCabe, WiJ- ’ liam*j>ort,llugh Doherty. Bluffum; Orlando I J. bU, Munch*. and Samuel M. Ralston,): Ielaoen. The committee will meet iii Indiuiiajs.iiis.it. a few days, and will decide whether permanent- headquarters shall l*e j established with Mr. Clark in charge.

■ Who is the old sohliep that will motive ! the affointgx m f- r the PetemUurg pcartr oflU*? The nation*} plat form of tijjj re-; publican party has * plank that reads somethin;; *:k»' -his; “Wh :. ..j- era, abl*thev should Ik* given the preference In the* inat-Utr of etnpioyiuent.*’ This extra*.; from i the platform has reference,to the veterans of the union -.ruiy. Th< r ■ aress me tw< :,ty candidates for the apjiointment. among tjie number being several uld vet. runs. kMi«<R.\Tio.v to A meric* has created sq great a dearth of labor in the agricultural vji'trict of Germany, that Chinese olohes ! gffe now being imported in perfect hordes j for held work tn the provinces of Silesia, , K*»t Prussia, IWn and Pomerania. Inasmuch as the coolies are content to labor , for twenty cents a iiay, all told, the German landowner* are enthusiastic afa.'.;? f5 • : novation, ami those- f*a.sajit_s who have • hitherto tunwd a deaf carlo the arguments of emigration are no* being driven to the wall, and may sloortlv l** expected to arrive in this country in shoal*. "" .1. ■ Tbk law requiring the do-rifts of the state » of Indiana ; trip to the penitentiaries at the expiation of the sen ten, * a prisoner and bring him L k t • the county from whence he is sent, and thoiv turned i loose without a penny in his p.*-**: to pro- | cure liis next meal seems to work injustice • in many .cases, i* the opinion of the Warsaw Times. Formerly the law gave the 1 prisoner, after completing his sentence, al*jut f 15 in oath witii whic h to start in on the mad t<> reform; but under the existing law the future is not \«*ry promising to a prisoner brought back to a county and compelled to bog in many, instances for his ; fir-t meal. Tice present law was passed in j . the interests of the cities in which are kv ! oaltd the s;an » prisons; but the nutter of turning a prk-onar loose without a cent; . with which to head a better life and turn prer a new leaf should be remedied by the' gjNft legislature.

A merry Christmas to ono and all,if the Dkjux jut's many readers. That the fuming year may be a pruspjjKnis .me is the wish of all people, amPto that e id all citizens should put their shoulder to the wheel and help push aloug every enterprise that may spring up. This city and locality has many advantages which an? not known outside of the county, and it is the duty of every business man and citwen to let the outside world know what we have and the advantages offered. Don’t sit back as during past years ; ml do nothing, do something that will help your neighbors as well as yourself. If several factories could be added to IYttrsbnrg during the coming year it would be a great benefit to every business man, farmer and mechanic in this community. Push and see what can be done ere another Christmas day rolls around. The silver senators will not be caught napping—especially by international bimetallists who u>e the term only as a subterfuge. Joint Sherman is willing to lend an ear to Wolcott and pretend to.-help his scheme along, knowing full well that England will never consent to silver coinage as long as she can make a profit of §0 cents on each ounce purchased when it remains demonetized, and that without Er gland, the banks of New York and fheduen who put up for M< Kin'.ey will not allow the republican party to declare with other nations fot- silver remonetization. However, we hope for the last, One tiling is sure—the McKinley administration must bring pr. -perily to the people very soon er silver will win hands down four years hence. Hon. Sasskr Scu.itan will do well to start for ludianajadts immediately. The-se-sion of the legislature will be far adVaiK - vi by the time he succeeds in crawling over tile, r-s k- and lulls of Marion township to the nearest railroad station.—Petersburg Press. Just the same the captain succeeded in getting over the rooks and hills of Marion township fast enough to come in with a rousing big majority over his competitor in the race. • 13 - — ... “ls.T is. HionuY, ex-geologist of Indiana, who has lawn pr spccting among the mountains of North Carolina for some months, has developed a gigantic onyax mine, which contain.- hundreds of ton- of the stone. He had just concluded a deal whereby a stuck c‘inpany of eastern capitalists has l»eeu Organized to develop the I ii.iti-. For hi- part -f the work Mr. (derby j will receive wit'h a royalty oil the future output. |

It May Overreach Itself. Evidently t Ik- In tie remnant* of activity Lhatstiii exists in the commercial life of the ■ountry isaltout to i*j destroved by a long wiu'pgle rvrr tar i! legislation. The owners oTthr pr "’a etoi imlustnes are flocking to tVashington with their schedules already i*r- i-.it. 1 and arc shamelessly demanding that they it* meorj<ora!ed in any bill lliat the ways and means committee may agree.up n. If the managers do not put a j t-iieck to tl::s business MeKmhyV. adtainis- j tration will !*- condemned before it even 1* gin-. ’! he men. who, ever since the war | have been the b-gu hennas of speeiai legis-1 latino in the way of protective tariff, have taken his election to mean that the people were eager to have the robber tariff restored.! ft »s oue of the ;uvsterna of j>syuhok>gythat those who are in the ei *>; >f ill-gotten gains often become so infatuated as to imagine that eveu their victims are eager that the robbery should go on. It is difficult t<» account for such -senes as are being ,witue>s«d daily in Washington .ujkmi any other theory than that the actors in them have persuaded themselves that to be r< bbed becomes a confirmed habit of society, which it difficult for society to divot itself of as it is for those w ho do the robbing to correct their habit. It is already evident that the “infant industry will have cougrcs* i*y the threat from now on to th<- end of the McKinley administration. The money syndicates will not object to this arrangement because it "id ‘ft*ert pubin attention from them. Their advantage has already becuestab hard by the single gold standard. They do not waul iegidatiuu. Ad they ask is ;o U let alone. Blit what is It going to profit tin- protected bosses and the money .syndicates :{ th masses of the people become so impoverished that they can neither pay the exter?ionale prices for the products of the on - nor the rates of interest demanded by the other J Lhves it never occur to these p»yrs< ns that greed may over-reach itself?—Evansville Courier. To call » girl a “duck” is regarded as a compliment, because people so seldom see ducks that they forget that they waddle, have ugly feet, big noses, like mud, ami make the worst nobe inthe barnyard. You will offend a girl by calling her a iaen, though a ben is a neat, useful, modest fowl compared to , the duck. There is ry accounting for compliments. Call at The Dexoc&at office for jo jc job printing. The best job printer i i th* city, bee us before leaving your or i j,

FUTURE DEMOCRACY. Governor Claude Matthews Gives His Views. The Party Needs No Beorganiza* * tion—Stronger Than Ever. Its Position on the Silver Question Will Kcntain I n changed. The Cause Mill Of«w During the ( outing Four lean. The newspapers advocating the gold standard are takiug at present a very lively interest in the sentiment of the prominent democrats of the country as to what their attitude will be toward the bolters. The Chicago Times Herald, in its issue of 1 Monday, contains nearly 100 interviews with democrats from different states upon the following questions; “What will lie the probable basis for reorganization of,the democratic party?" “is the silver issue likely to be abandoned:*’ “Will the gold and silver wings .come together?" Governor Claude Matthews repiy*-“The question. 4'What is the probable basis or organization ol the democratic party:" i* based on a false presumption. It implies a condition or necessity that does not exist. The democratic party does not stand in need of reorganization. It is already :or the battle o( lMt>, and it is stronger than it wa^six mouths ago, as our opponents will M>on learn. “There is but one democratic party, and that was the one that stood on the Chicago platform anil supported Bryan for president. There will be but out* democratic party in 11MXI, and it will be composed of the same kind of men as thoae wno have been loyal to democracy and democratic principles tins year. Mr. Cleveland and bolting democrat* may organize a new parly, and march under the single gold standard, but they cannot reorganize the democratic party on the Indianapolis platform, or any ot her. The democratic party will be true to its traditions and principles, not. as Mr. Cleveland would interpret these, but as it has ever been, the party of bimetallism and the party of the people. “The silver issue will not by any means be abandoned. It will be the main and leading issue, both two years and four years from now. The advocates of the free coinage of silver did not, nor do they now, believe that there eau be a permanent restoration of prosperity .under t tie single gold standard. They believe that this attempt to strike down silver i< dangerous, wicked and unpatriotic, inimical to the happiness and the welfare of the vast majority of the American people. They also ladieve that both gold and silver are the money of the constitution and must be muintii'hfkl. It is true the silver cause met with a temporary cheek, but its l'rieujs are neither disheartened nor discouraged. “Conferences may he held by bodies of men who assume to thyn.se!ves all financial wisdom and political virtue, not taking the people into their confidence, but the people will not be hoodwinked" or deceived the second time, and bimetallism, the free coinage of both gold and silver, is bound to win. The cant, hypocracy and false pnsensation of the last campaign will not again fool the people. ‘•The democratic party will keep open its doors and reeciv«yback its bolting members whet tiny h^ve >« en the error of their way. Nearly all will return save thy self-con-stituted leaders of the bolting movement, who for selfish purposes misled and deceived others. The democratic jarty will be stronger Uvause of the desertion of these*, and we cheerfully commend them to the tender mercies of their republican allies. They will probably meet the same consideration from the republicans that Arnold received from the English."

Democracy** Future, In an interview with the Chicago TimesHerakl. Hon. Thomas Taggart, one of the shrewdest democrats in the state, saitS; “In my judgment there is no new! for rerganizatiun of the democratiepa rty, as it stands today where it stood in the days of Jefferson and Jackson. Tlie silver issue will not U'^K-Hudojied. In tny judgment t;.< tu-xt : ] »Mic;ia national • will not have a plank in its platform advocating silver. Should the McKinley administration fail to come up to the standard of prosperity which republicans have promised the people on a gold basis, as they liave talked it, there is no power on earth that w ill prevent the elect km of a president in 1900 on a platform advocating the free and unlimited coinage of silver. I believe, further, that had the democratic platform of 1896 been on the silver issue alone, with the attacks on the federal courts and national administration left out, the party would have been successful.” Or. Price’s Cream Baking Powder World’* Fair Highest Medal aaiilMIploam.

Washington Letter. (From our regular correspondent.} Washington, Dee. 21,1896. Talking war and voting for what would bring actual war are two different things. The leading republicans furnished their share of the war talk which preceded the election in the halls of congress, but now that the election is over and a republican president is on the eve of being inaugurated, some of these republicans have changed their tune. This has been especially noticeable since the senate committee on foreign relations took the bull by the horns and report a short resolution declaring the independence of Cuba, and that the United States would use its good offices to bring about peace between the Spaniards and Cuba, notwithstanding a protest from Secretary Olnev, who appeared before the committee ami argued for a continuance of the policy of non action. The republicans have not made any party announcement on this resolution and probably will not until the public discussions during the congressional holiday recess shall have shown unmistakably whether it wohU be wise for them to make the defeat of the resolution a party question. McKinley doesn't want the resolution adopted, and his eloseSt friends in congress are scheming to get up a plau under which it may be hung up ■ without a vote. Speaker Reed declines to j publicly commit himself, but he is believed ‘ to lie against it. That the resolution, if j put iuto force, would .result in war with I S{»ain is believed by all, but it is a long | ways from begng in force, ami your eurre- ■ spoudent would not like to put up a cent on its ever being in force. In the lirst place, it would have to get a two-thirds vote in both branches of eougress in order to be adopted oyer President Cleveland's veto, which it would certainly meet upon j its first adoption. McKinley's wishes may i not affect-the senate, but' they will have much weight in the house. - The fate of the f resolution depends largely upon the state ; of public opinion when congress reassembles laud that may be affected one way or the ' other by news from Cuba during the next j two weeks. The remarkable position assumed toward the Cuban resolution by,Secretary Olney is ! causing much talk among the constitutional j lawyers in and out of congress. lie says i that the president alone is vested by the ’constitution with authority to recognize anew state and that Mr. Cleveland will not obey the resolution even if it should receive t he unanimous vote of both branches • of congress, but wil! retard it simply as ail j expression of congressional opinion. Most j of those who will talk express the opiniou that Mr. Oittev is wrong. The Tennessee delegation in the house j arc under obligations to Speaker Reed j for counting a quorum to pass the bill | appropriating $180,000 for a government | building and exhibit at The Na-liville ct ntennial, which was fought by Representative ; Dailey of Texas. A goodly number of senators and rbprejsentatives didn’t wait for the adjournment ion tiie 22d for the Christmas recess. Cou- , gross will reassemble January 5. In addition to Senator Alien’s resolution for a general investigation by a senate | committee f the expenditure of money in the presidential campaign, Representative Meredith of Virginia, has offered a resolu- : tiou providing for an investigation of the report alleging that national banks contributed large sums to the republican campaign fund. A preamble says that national banks being under government control, it is clearly .wit hin the province of congress to protect their stockholders' from misuse of their funds. The resolution provides for a conunittee-of eleven, including representatives of the republican, democratic, >iivcr republican, populist and national democratic parties, which shall have power to send for persons and papers in its investigation, and which is directed to report if it be found that such contributions were made whether the same were lawful, and if not, what penalties arc provided by law. The resolution further directs that all government bank examiners shall assist the committee by investigating under its instructions, the banks in their districts. Senator N est declares the report ridiculous tiiat he had the nomination of Secretary 4' rune is held up to htip him get reelected to the senate, and calls attention to the fact that there is neither a Palmer nor a McKinley democrat in the Missouri legislature. As to why this and other gold 1 democratic nominations have been held up, Mr. Vest said: “The nomination of Francis was postponed for consideration until after the recess, as were the nominations of all the Palmer or McKinley democrats.” There was a look in the eyes of the senator when j he spoke, which bides no good for these held l>p nominations. Charlie t'ri-p, son of the late ex-speaker of the house, wits sworn in as a member on lay. lie is the youugest member of liie bouse.

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