Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 42, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 February 1897 — Page 4

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On* Year, In advance.fl 85 Six Months, to advance.. . 05 Entered at the postoffice In Petersburg for transmission through the malls as second* class matter. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY.26,1897. Next Thursday jt will b* President McKinley. Grover will move out. These is time y< s tor the Indiana repub lican legislature to redeem itself if it will only pas.* a bill to abolish the provoke law and the grand jury system. 1 Fitzhuoh Lee, consul-general to Culm, has tendered his resignation because of i Secretary Oltjey's failure to deruaud the rights of those Americans confined in Cuban prisons. « The republicans are making a record for .themselves in Indiana. Fostering the trusts, lengthening the terms of office, raising the salaries of officers and passing laws for the benefit of the selected few. The republican members of the legisla--4 tare refused id caucus Tuesday to attempt a congressional reapportioniuent of the •State.—Rockport Journal. Must have been some variety show on the boards that night. Oxlt a few days more remains of the sessions of congress and the Indiana legislature. For this the people should stand and sing. The sessions have amounted to nothing only to spend the people's money with a lavish hand. The people will soon be relieved of what little money they have left. ' ; The New York Tribune says that “at no moment within the memory of the present generation has the number of unemployed in this city befcn as large as now,r and it adds that the suffering is not confined to laboring people, who are within reach of active charity, but has extended to clerks, salesmen and professional men. PETERsarto will in ail probability have a town election this spring to elect officers to fill the various'positions. With a bonded debt of $12,756 it is time the taxpayers were taking a hand in selecting the best men to fill these positions. Elect men who will look after the interests of the town, who will curtail expenses and reduce taxation.

Talk »bout the tariff not raising sufficient revenue to pay tbe running expenses of the govermuyit. Why certainly not. The present congress ha* been the most expensive body ever in existence. The session has appropriated over one billion and forty million dollars of the people’s money. Big gifts and big jobs. This is Cxar Reed's second billion dollar congress. Help the poor who bear t,he burdens and pay the tariff tax. Thk fight for the Petersburg postoffice still waxes warm. Nearly, if not quite all, of the candhlates hare petitions signed up with all the necessary documents and recommendations, including their J record" made in the last campaign in Pike county, and forwarded them to the proper officials for their inspection at Washington, D. C. You may expect to hear at almost auy time that about forty-seven or more are pot in the race. Carr. Sas>er Scxj.it av, Pike county’s representative in the lower bouse of the legislature, has made a good record for himself and the people whom he represents. Be has at ail times voted on tbe side of the people Where votes have been needed, and his vote has al ways counted against every corporation measure which has had for its! purpose the throttling of the people’s will. When he returns home after the session he can say that he voted and acted for the people at alt times. Thi dressed beef trust fixes the price of • all tbe cattle raised in this country, says' the New York World. It controls the freight rates, it controls the stockyards, Even if we imported cattle a protective duty j could not and Would not benefit the stock raisers, but would only then be completely at the mercy of the trust by shutting off for-' eign competition. The proposed duty on cattle is therefore a sham concession to the cattle raisers axui. m so far as it amounts to anything, is the payment of Banner's debt to the beef trust, w hich is on his little fist of campaign contributors,

The sugar trust, rubber trust and zinc trust will all be cared for. The sugar trust only cleared 27,000,000 dollars last year. The farmers’ trust has failed to make a dividend for several years. Ova republican friends will probably renew Xheir talk after next Thursday about returning prosperity and confidence. That is the last date set for the coming of the good times. Listen while they mutter. The Indiana senate has practically killed the bill making it an offense for any county or state official to receive railroad passes.1 That was nothing strange as nearly every member of the assembly has his pockets fall of passes. The strikes and failures continue just the same. There doesn’t seem to be any let up. Now and then some lag firm that supported the gold standard gives notice that wages will be reduced in order to give a change to the confidence-prosperity bill-of-fare. The trusts all want a higher protective tariff. It means simply this: They want the money back they put into the last campaign. The trusts and syndicates are in the swim, and don’t you forget it. But wbat is the laboringmau and farmer to get? Echo answers more promises of confidence and prosperity. The Woolley coal mines put on an increased foree of men last week, work full time and will in a short time put on a larger force.—Pike County Democrat. Pulverise that measly gold standard.— Buutingburg Argus. While the local mine in Petersburg put on six men, the mines in Patoka township have discharged more than a hundred. That’s some of your “measly gold standard.” ___________ ' Th* ‘ third h use” of the legislature, commonly called the lobbyists, seem to be getting in their work in great shape during this session. A number of bills that would have greatly benefitted the people at large have been turned down by the aid of the “third house” members, who are there working in the interests of the corporations. The next legislature should pass a law making it a criminal offense.

Hear ye! At last the exact date lor the return of “prosperity” has been fixed. A Missouri paper says: McKinley will be inaugurated on the 4th of next March, and on the 5th he will cali an extra session of congress. It will take about ten days for congress to convene, which will be on the 15tb;.on the 16th the House will pass* a protective tariff law; on the l?th the Senate will pass it-: on the 18th the president will sign it, and on the 19th prosperity will begin. "Dubois and Pike counties are set down as a legislative district. The total vote in the two counties is 9,138 votes. The unit of representation is 6,270, and the two counties has a surplus of 2,868 voters. The counties are democratic and to jbin them on to any other couutv would insure the election of a democratic representative, but the republicans in their unadulterated fairness have ^placed them together. In other counties where they were solidly republican and did not come up to the unit they were given a representative. McKixlet’s cabinet is now completed and will contain the following: Secretary of State—John Sherman of Ohio. Secretary of Treasury—Lyman J. Gage of Illinois. Secretary of War—Russell A. Alger of Michigan. Secretary of Navy—John D. Long of Massachusetts. Secretary of Interior—Joseph McKenna of California. Secretary of Agriculture—James L. Wilson of Iowa. Postmaster-General—James A. Gary of Maryland. ' Attorney-General—John J. McCook of New York. The Huntington Democrat offers the following prescription and says it has been known to work wonders: Gold cure prescription for prosperity: Gold logic, 1 quart: destruction of greenbacks. 1 quart; interest bearing gv*ld bonds, 17 lbs; Mark Hanna's love for labor, pulverized, 5 lbs: Rothschild aud Iekeihelmer’s gold seal, 1 lb. Mix with republican promises in large quantity, cut out some of the promises of immediate prosperity made by the “advance agent” and distributors of his * ‘cure-all” documents before election and paste these on a pair of spectacles. Put on the spectacles and take a large do>e of the tonic and look through a bank window. Pat your hands in your pockets and you may imagine you have money to pay your debts aud buy what you need.

“Wrrais the past week," says the Bluffton Banner, “we h$re received from the sound moiiey committee of New York an offer to furnish “sound money" plate service free of cost. This is only a sample of j twenty or more similar offers which have ; come within the past six or eight months. This committee proposes to keep up the fight until the number of free coinage advocates is much decreased. We'declined: the offer with thanks and predicted that their work in this county would be extremely difficult. In the light of the events since the election the drift is strongly the other ’ way. And so the, surplus in the hands of the republican committee is to be used to educate the people out of the ‘free silver! craze.’ These same men are warning ‘free silver cranks* to keep quiet test they frighten off prosperity, at the same time they expect to being the influence of money to bear to induce the people to lie still and permit the chains of the money power to be still more firmly riveted upon them.”

The Law and the Fees. In one of the series of interviews, by which the people of the State are showing through the columns of the News their opposition to the Uawkins bill to give county officers salaries and fees to an unknown amount, ex-Representative Terhune of Anderson, approving the present law and opposing the Hawkins bill, said that the difficulty with the present law is the lack of a penalty for non-collection of fees; that all an officer need do is to collect fees enough to pay his salary and then he may let the others go, and so there is a loss to the county. If this is so, it is not because the present law is lacking, but because it is not enforced. Section 138 of the present law declares that “if any of the officers named in this act * * * sha.il wil. fully fail or refuse to enter tax or charge at the proper fees,” he shall be fined in any sum not less than $35 and may be imprisoned in jail not more than one year, in addition to which he shall be liable personally on his bond for any damage or loss sustained by the county. Section 133 says that any officer failing or refusing to make the reports required by law or to pay the amount due into the treasury shall forfeit and >ay to the State a sum equal to the amounts of the fees actually collected during that quarter, to be recovered by the prosecuting attorney in any court, one half of the sum to be paid to the attorney and the remainder into the school fund. Section 133 declares that the board of county commissioners, with their attorney, shall have full power, “and it is hereby made their duty to inspect the records, fee-books, papers, etc., for the purpose of comparing the accounts rendered by count y officers, and any officer failing or refusing to deliver his fee-book for inspection shall forfeit and pay one hundred dollars. Section 124 says.- ‘ All officers whose salaries are provided for in this act, and who have the collection of fees, costs or other money under the law, shall collect the same and pay them over* to the proper officer or officers,” and shall make and file quarterly an itemized account of such collections, and they shall make and file with the proper officers or authorities quarterly an itemized account of all fees, moneys, etc., that remain uncollected; and they shall accompany each of such accounts with a statement'as to each item and as to the means employed to collect it, and why

it cannot be collected* and these accounts shall be tendered under oath by the officer himself and not by a deputy. Section 1115 reads: “Any officer fading to comply with the provisions of the foregoing sections shall-be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000." Verily, it appears that if there be auy fault in the present law in the direction that Mr. Terhune has indicated, it is because the law is not enforced. What we need is enforcement of law all along the line, and most emphatically we do not need, and the people of Indiana will not have, any Hawkius fee-grabbing bill, or any other bill of the kind. They want the present law, with whatever inequalities there may be in it corrected, and they want it enforced.— Indianapolis News. Do Not Want to be Transferred. On April, 1, when the law transforming the Indiana state prison south” in Jeffersonville, to a reformatory, goes into effect, a special train will be used to transfer all lifeterra men and others over thirty years old who are doing terms higher that two years or have six months of their sentences left. Clerk Pate has informed Warden Uert that 317 convicts will have to be sent to the prison at Michigan City, where, in the future, ail criminals who receive sentences for murder, manslaughter and other offenses, wherein the perpetrator is past 30 vears old, will be confined. The Michigan City prison will send 340 convicts to the Jeffersonville institution. The men in the Jeffersonville prison have to a man expressed their unwillingness to go to the northern penitentiary. The main reason'is that they are attached to Warden Bert, Deputy Warden Garvin and the assistant officers, and another reason is that they dislike to be classed as hardened criminals, for hereafter the Michigan City institution will be known as the piace where the worst of Indiana’s criminals will be kept. The life-time men are particularly loth to leave the old prison, and some of them shed tears when they talk of the matter. The transfer of the men will, for a time, disorganize the working forces on the contracts, but Warden Bert says that this will not last long and the lessees will be better satisfied with the younger conrk-t$ after they become familiar with their new duties.

Signed By the Gsvernor. The governor announced that he has signed the following bills: Senate bill No. $9, fixing the compensation and prescribing the duties of certain state and county officers. House bill No. 177, repealing Sections 217, 218, 219 and 220 of an act concerning taxation. ; House bill No. 424, to legalize the joint session of commissioners of Knox and Sullivan counties for the establishment of a drain in said counties. House bill No, 49, appropriating money for paving streets in front of State property in the city of Indianapolis. House bill No. 430, to legalize the incorporation of the town of Andrews, Huntington county. % House bill No. 851, to legalize the incor- ' poration of the town of Mauckport, Karri-, son county. House bill No. 214, to legalise the incor- j poration of the town of Toneto, Wells county. _ H. FL Tislow. jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28*

From Keutnekj. - Scbbee, Feb. 19, 1897. Mr. Editor: Thinking jour readers might be interested in a letter from across the Ohio I have decided to write one. Kentucky is close enough to Indiana to be much like it, but in many respects the people of the two states are as little alike as though an ocean instead of a river separated them. A person coming inU> this state from Indiana soon realizes he is among a different people in many things. Before coming to Kentucky | had often heard of the hospitality of her people and had my doubts as to the report, but I was not here long till I realized as the queen of Sheba of old, “the half had not been told me.” As a rule the people here do their utmost to make one feel perfectly at home, and to associate with them is to be drawn toward them. This state was unfortunate in the way the land was laid off, and to a Hoosier it seems very awkward indeed. To find a road running in a straight line for half a mile is an unusual thing. As a result the roads are terribly crooked, and a square field is a rare thing. Out of the hundreds of farms I have been on I think only one is square, and that is a fifty-acre farm belonging to Squire Walker, the surveyor of Henderson county. Kentucky is far behind Indiana in school advantages, but is making much progress in that line. The state government is very different, too. Each county has a county judge, county attorney, county eourt clerk, school superintendent, representative, circuit court clerk, jailer, sheriff, assessor and surveyor. The sheriff collects the taxes. Seven magistrates conduct the affairs of the county the same as Indiana commissioners. The magistrates elect a county treasurer, who has nothing to do with the collection of taxes, but when collected he receives it and pays it out. Henderson, Union and Webster counties form^a judicial circuit which elects a judge and commonwealth attorney, who is assisted in his work by the county attorney: In Pike county the people sometimes think there are plenty, of candidates, but they ought to step over into this state if they waut to see candidates. This week the candidates of this (Webster county) began a canvass of the county together, and they are to meet in each of the seven magisterial districts. The object is for eaeh candidate to make a short speech in presenting his claims for the office to which he aspires. The county judges have ten minutes each and some of the others five minutes each. I attended one of these speakings, as they called them, yesterday, in Slaughtersville. Below I give the number of candidates for the several officers together with the salary: C’ounty judge. 4 candidates. food and fees County attorney, 2 candidates . 550 and lees SSchool supt., 4 candidates.750 Hepresentattve, 5 candidates 300 County court clerk, 7 candidates... -. fees Circuit court clerk, 3 candidates .. fees Jailer, 10candidates .. ...... ,..... fees Sheriff, 4 candidates ...... fees i Assessor,3candidates.’.... fees: Surveyor, 1 candidate . fees

1 was in Union county last week and was told there were fifteen men whp expect to be jailer and plenty of men willing to serve in all the various places of trust. In Henderson there ib no trouble to get men to run for office. In both Webster and Henderson counties the free silver democracy and the populists have made a fusiou, and the principal qualifications is that they voted for Bryan. In Henderson county there are many sound money democrats who are not “in it.*’ One of them told me sometime ago that he was not even allowed to peep under the circus tent. In Union county the democrats feel able to cope with the republicans without the populists, as they are “going it alone.” Each of the forty-nine candidates have thirds printed announcing his candidacy upon which is his device. One man will have a horse, another a cow, sheep, hog, chicken, turkey, house, and so on, no two being alike. The Sebree Herald is kept pretty busy printing cards. The agony in this county will be over March 27. There seems to be no limit to the tobacco raised here in this part of the state. It is no unusual thing for from 100 to 300 or 400 four-horse loads of tobacco to be delivered iu one day in Henderson, and this is kept up for weeks besides. This little town has Sve large factories, and other towns buy a great deal each year, but Henderson is the great market, in fact it is said to be the largest loose tobacco market in the world. My opinion is if the people of this section would raise less tobacco and raise more small grain it would be better for the people, apd many of them are of the same mind, bat old habits are hard to break off from, and many raise tobacco from force of habit. The trouble is it is difficult to raise tobacco and wheat successfully on the same farm, for when the ground should be broken for wheat the tobacco must be cut and housed, and as a result too much of the breaking is done too late to bring good wheat With proper haudling this section could be made as good farming land as could be found anywhere. About two miles west of Sebree is a little town called Petersburg, not so large as your own Petersburg, nearer the size of Alford. With best wishes to all I will not afflict your readers further. Respectfully, J. B. Y.

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J^ICHARDSON *fc TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in tbe office. Office in Carpenter building. Eighth and Main-sts., Petersburg, Ind. ASH BY a COFFEY, G. B. Ashby. C. A. Colley. Attorneys at Law, Will practice in ali courts. Special attention given to all civil business. Notary public constantly in the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over S. G. Barrett <& Son’s s’ore, Petersburg, Ind. g G. DAVENPORT, Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. K. Adams & Son’s drug store, i Petersburg, Indiana. Dillon a greene, t. h. Diiion V. K. Greene Attorneys and Counsellors at Law Will practice in Pike and adjoining counties Careful attention given to all business. Collections given promnt attention. Notary Public always in office. Office over Citizens' State Bank, Petersburg, Indiana. g M.4C. L. HOLCOMB, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in aK courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Office In Carpenter block, first floor on Eighth-st, Petersburg

WJt. E. COX HOKACK ELY ^JOX & ELY, Attorneys at Law, Will practice In the Pike Circuit Court and | adjoining counties. Prompt attention given to alt eivit business entrusted to their care. Office over J. R. Adams A Son's drug store. Petersbu rg 41 ud ia ua. L. E. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law, Ail business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made and remitted. Abstracts of Title a specialty. Office in Snyder’s building.opposite Democrat office. Petersburg.lnd T. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty Office over Citizens’ State Bank, Petersburg. Indiana. H ENTER & BASINGER, Physicians and Surgeons. Office in the Carpenter building, first floor, opposite court house. Petersburg. Ind. All calls promptly- answered. p E. HiLSMEYER. Physician and Surgeon. Office on Third-st., next door io postoffice, Velpen, Jr.diaua. Office hours—7 to 9 am, I to 3 pm, 6 to 8 pm. All calls promptly answered. W. H, STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office ip rooms t> and 7 in Carpenter building, Petersburg, Indiana. Operations first class. All wors warranted AuteatbeUcs used for paiuless extraction of teeth.

Q C. MURPHY. Dental Surgeon, Parlors In the Carpenter building, Petersburg, Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. N OTICE is hereby given to all parties interested that 1 wilt attend at my office in Glenda!, ? EVERY SATURDAY, To transact business connected with tbe office of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS. Trustee. V'OTICE is hereby given to all pa^es interested that I will attend in my office at my residence EVERY MONDAY. To transact business connected witb tbe j office of trustee of Marion township. All persoii* having business witb said office will please take notice. T. C. N EL-SON, Trustee. Postoffice address: Winslow. NOTICE Is hereby given to all parties con- j censed that 1 will attend at n y residence ' EYERY WEDNESDAY. To transact business connected with the office of trustee ol Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on j office days. J. I). B A t(K E It-Trustee. Postoffice address: Petersburg. Ind. N OTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence * EYERY TUESDAY To attend to business connected with the office of trustee ol Monroe township. — J. M. DAV’ls, Trustee. Postoffice address: .Spurgeon. NOTICE ts hereby given to all persons concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY MONDAY To transact -business connected witb tbe office of trustee of J*ffem»o township. L. E. TKAYLOR, Trustee, t Postoffice address; Iva, lnd.

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