Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 November 1897 — Page 4

8 hr f ikt County irnwrrat ,gr ".■.—. .. Mr M. (Bee. »to©**«. Ob** Tear. In advance . BU Month*. In advance -- Entered at the postnffleo In Petersburg fur transmission through the mails aa aeeoud.class matter. FRIDAY, NOYKMUKK 12,18117. « Nebraska anti Colorado went lor free silver l»y nice majorities, ami the republi* can press says free silver is a dead Issue. The Ohio legudaum is republican bv five on joint ballot, whereas before the election it was over sixty. Of course free silver is dead when such gains are made. The republican majorities in New York aud Kentucky of iast year were wiped out ami the states carrietl by the democrats by large majorities. The republican pres* before the election said the silver issue was deal. Well, well. Petekvt'So needs a system of water works. Have you ever thought about that ? Well it is now time to lie thinking the matter over. A home company should have the preference, but if one cannot l>e organised, lets have water works any how. RKH Ht.nAS newspapers are not saying touch now about international agreement on the money question. The foreigners don't want to agree with the American people on any question. The Chicago platform is good enough for the people ami in 1900 the voters will sat that they are capable of running this government without the consent of any other nation. It was real amusing la-4 week to read the headlines in the republican pa{»ers about Pennsylvania. Massachusetts and Iowa going r*i*iblican. It is seldom that these slates ever elect a democrat to state office. This year, however, the pajs?rs rejoice probably because they did not go republican. as the majorities in each were cut down over one-half. Gold bugisrn is doomed.

Tits war th»* democratic rvswter twisted the tail of the g. o. p. elephant last week was a r aut kwi. One more twist and Mark Hanna would have lost the Ohio legislature. A* it was. however. Mark got an awful scare. The last Ohio legislature was sixty republican on punt ballot, while the legislative body eh-Cted Inst w«;k will l<e about four or five on joint ballot. And the republican pres.- says free silver is dead. Recently the supreme court of this state rendered a dsciaMt that is rough on taxdodgenu PwsMis Who fail to list all of their property, the auditor or county assessor may go !>ack nt;*l put it on the tax duplicate, though it was omitted twenty years ag". ami the penalty may lie added for any nunder of years. The delinquents cannot plead statue of limitation under any circumstances, and they are liable to a penalty ranging from $30 to $»\,00Q. lass all other men who ha\e been in a position to know the influence of the local newsjuaper, William J. 1 try an fully appreciate? its value. In one of his recent si»veb . in* sh ti ••Tin .weekly m wspaper plows the ground, sow* the wed ar.d cultivate* the crop, and too often is forced to step aside, while those who neither plant hor cultivate reap the ripened grain. The cau-e which you advocate, the candidate* you support, ami the party you love will l>e immeasurably strengthened if each of you will step into the office of your local newspaper that is patiently and uncomplainingly keej. ug alive ths spark of democracy and |>ay jour subscription a year ahead.** Tuts city has natural pi*, electric and iucandesveut lighting systems and now needs a first class system of water works in order to keep up with the times. The people are able to afford it and by «'« •domical administration of town affairs taxation would not have to he raised in order to puy the annual rentals. The DtxonUT is in favor of a water works system just the same a* it was for street lighting and natura. gas. There is some talk of home capitalists taking some action m the matter of a system of water works. These gentlemen am wideawake and are among the leading business? men of Petersburg and should they conclude to pat in the system it would be finite lass in eywry particular. At present the Democrat :s not at liberty to give names, but tfh agitation of water works must be kept up. Neighboring towns have , systems of water works and why not Petersburg, the only natural gas cut of Southern Indiana.

The Outlook It Bright. Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, gives utterance to the following over the recent democratic successes, which wiU be right in line with the rank and the greet party which ue represents. He says: “The recent elections sbodd give new hope to the democracy. If the change of sentiment had been confined to certain localities the cause might have been sought m local influences. The apparent strengthening of democracy in all parts of the Union goes to show that the democratic party with its native and virility will take more whipping and still survive and thrive than the republican party can ever administer. “The democracy stands committed today to the policies and ideas it adopted in July ’96—in other words, the Chicago platform contains the dogmas of party belief to which all true, loyal democrats must give earnest and undivided support until those dogmas are either reaffirmed or amended by a new national convention. Whether those principles of party belief were specifically indorsed in the various nominating conventions of the past six months or not, really amounts to but little. A convention called in the name of democracy in that very act affirms the democratic faith can be found in the pronouncements of a democratic national convention alone. “The convention which nominated the city ticket victories in Chicago in April reaffirmed the principles of democracy as laid down by all the democratic conventions of the past. The convention nominating Judge Van Wvck for mayor of Greater New York contented Itself with advocating local issues only. Personally, I believe the New York idea the proper one; that while it is necessary to preserve |>arty organization in local as well as state ami natkmal affairs, municipal fights should be made by the party organizations U{h>u local ideas and local issues.

“Judge V an Wvek was selected as the standard bearer in the Greater New Vork fight as one who had been k>yal to the national ticket in yti. He was nominated as a democrat. ami while the local issues involved in his campaign may have had much t<> do wish bringing_abowt the toperfa plurality by which he was elected, the influence of national affairs in his election cannot be ignored. “It occurs to me that the fight between the two great parties in the nation today is really but a conflict between monopoly as r represented by republicanism and the |>cople as represented by democracy. The battle for the use of both metals as forming the basis for the currency of the country is as much an anti-class and anti-monojioly fight as it is the opposition to the tariff : robbers, and the various trusts that ate today dominating national legislation. “The victory in greater New York won on a platform having municipal ownership of natural monopolies shows the democracy j of the nation’s great metropolis in line w ith | the party in the west as demanding mires* j for the people from the expression of the |corporations. The fact that the platform ; did not sjiecifically reaffirm the principles advocated by the Chicago convention dwindles in importance when attention is called to the fact that the ticket was nominated as ademoera tic ticket, the nominee was known as a loyal tkm >erat, and nothing in either platform or campaign was ^aid or done in derogation of the national 1 platform. 1 regard the victory of greater New York as offering encouragement to the supporters of William J. Bryan in liflHJ ' equal to that afforded by the reduction of i republican majorities in Iowa and in President McKinley's home state of Ohio. They all go to show the people are in sympathy with democratic ideas.. The revulsion of feeling as evidenced by the r^c'ent democratic successes bodo> but little good in the federal elec tions of next year to | the trusts and corporations.”

Bryan on the Remits. Hon. W. J. Bryan has given out the following lUlfBtfut t*> the Aaociattd | Press: “The returns are so incomplete that it is impossible to discuss yesterdays election in detail. The republicans everywhere endorsed the republican administration and m view of loss* s sustained by them in almost every state it would seem that republican politic- are not being endorsed at the polls. Tih sentiment in iavor - f the Chicago platform shows a healthy growth throughout the country. Perhaps our opponents will now admit that silver is not dead. . The attempt to secure inti ri.ati'<nal binn-talii-m ha» proved a f.uiurv aud it is now more apparent than ever that the paofde of the United States must Sate for themselves on the financial question. Free and unlimited coinage at 16 to 1 is nearer now than it was a year ago. High tariff upon a gold basis has disappointed those republicans who looked to it for rehef. Taken as a whole the returns are very encouraging. I think 1 to ice the sentiments of democrats, populists and silver republicans when 1 say that the fight will tie coatiuued with even more earnest* ness until the gold monopoly is broken and the money tru-t is overthrown. The fusion forces lucrease their percentage in Nebraska by probably their actual majority. (Signed) W. J. BatAX.* Belays Are Dangerous. Many of your friemts, or people whom you know of. h*”» contracted consumption, pneumonia or other fatal diseases by neglect of a single cold or cough. Foley's Honey and Tar, a safe, sure and pleasant cough median*. would have saved them. Itis guaranteed. Bergen Si Olipham. u Groan roa Salk.—A firstclaes organ for sale; been used about a year; good as new. I Cali at this office at once.

AttHIH&TOX LETTIK. 0*»r Hegular C«rmpra<lMf In • Match at He we. Senator Jones of Arkansas, chairman of the democratic national committee, arrived in Washington in a decided); jubilant state of mind over the results of last week’s elections. He said on the subject: “Well, you bet I’m tickled. It makes me feel 25 years younger and makes me understand that the American people have not been bought or bliuded this time. The results | are an omen of coining and greater good. | It just takes opposition and sorrow to de- } velop the full strength of .the democratic party. This result convinces me that the I silver sentiment grows, grows and grows, ! and that by the next presidential election it i will have grown to an irresistible strength. (Just mark my wonis. Error dies from a I pin scratch, but truth survives the cyclone. The democratic party is Truth. When it i comes to a long race and a hard race the democratic party gets there. I am very ! sorry because of the turn matters have i takeu in old Maryland, but hope for her is j not dead in my bosom yet. Of course it j would have been more desirable had Mark j Hanna been inhumed under au avalanche of democratic votes, but when a great uign ! saves his scalp only by the skin of his teeth, it is virtually a defeat."

I One of the most interesting stone* growing out of the Ohio election is now being told on the quiet in Washington, and it finds believers, too. According to this story, Secretary Shermau has been approached by Foraker republicans and of- | fend an opportunity to get eveu with Boss i Hanna ami Mr. McKinley for the shabby ! treatment they have given him. not ouly by I preventing Hanna’s election to the Senate, ! but by securing his own return to that body. ; Mr. Sherman is too old a bird to gobble up everything tempting that is placed before hint, but he is said to have this proposition under consideration and to be makiug a quiet investigation, through trusted agents, as to the probability of success should he consent to enter the anti-Hanna combine. The scheme in brief is for the Foraker members of the Ohio legislature to stay out of the republican caucus, which will, of course, nominate Hanna for. the Senate, and to nominate Governor Bushnellor some other thick and thin Foraker man as the anti-caucus candidate. The Furakerites Claim to have members enough to bring about and keep up for an indefinite period, a deadlock in the legislature, and they argue that after Hanna sees his own election lo be an impossibility, he will be willing to join Bushneli in withdrawing and in agreeing u|>on a compromise candidate who can get the eutiie republican vote and be elected. That is where the Furakerites tell Mr. Sherman that he cau come iu. They say that they will suggest him as a compromise candidate for the Senate, and that much as they would like to neither Ik ss Hanna nor Mr. McKinley will dare to object. There are too many “if>” in this scheme, but it indicates how harmonious the Ohio republicans are. Consul General Lee has received his final instructions and will this week return to (,’uba. He is as careful as ever about discussing Cuban matters, but there are good reasons for saying that he is confident that there will be peace in Cuba in a few months: It was because of this belief oil his jmrt that he agreed, when urgently requested to do so by Mr. McKinley, to remaiu iu Cuba until the trouble was over. The army of {tensioners still steadily grows in numbers, notwithstanding the assertion of several commissioners of pension- that it had reached high water mark and was about to start on the down grade. Tli.' annual report of Commissioner Kvan> shows that there were 5,336 more uamea on the rolls on June 30, 1897, than there were one year before, notwithstanding the dropping. during the fiscal year for death and other causes of 41,122 names. There w ere 976,014 names on the roll at the close of the tiie last fiscal year, ami unless, death claims an unusually large number, it is prolwble that the million mark will be 1 passed before the close of the present fiscal

From all directions come complaints about the tremendous rise m the price of almost everything, excepting the only asticle that more than half of our people have 4o set)—their labor. An expert says vf the lhngiey tariff upon the prices of men's clothest “A suit of clothes that could be bought last year for $15 cannot be duplicated now under $20 and that fact is an annoyance to dealers and customers alike. With men of ample means, who have their clothes made by fashionable tailors #5 or #10 advance Lon a suit is hardly noticed evokes uo com- * plaint. It is very different, however, with S those who have to be careful in their expenditures, for to this class $5 represents a considerable sum. The number of men i who buy $15 and $20 suits is largely iu excess of those who pay tailors $40 and $50 for a suit, and it is from the poor and the middle class that the kick against the Dtugley tariff is sure to come.’’ The C oming Woman Who goes to the club while her husband tends the baby, as well as the good oldfashioned woman who looks after her home, will both at times get run down in health. | They will be troubled with loss of appetite, i headaches, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The rnos-t wonderful remedy for ; these women is Electric Hitters. Thousands j of sufferers from lame back and weak kidneys rise'Up and call it blessed, it is the medicine for women. Female complaints < and nervous troubles of all kiuds are soon relieved by the use of Electric Bitters, j Delicate women should keep this remedy on hand to build up the system. Only 50c. per bottle. For sale by J. K. Adams & Sou.

THE VALUE OF COINS It Is That Which the Government Set. Upon Them. _ WHETHEB OF GOLD OB OF 8ILVEB. Both Am Money of rtn*l Mcnytlon ud Am Equally Local Tender For the Payment of Debt*—Vaporing* of a Treasury Subordinate. The present director of the mint, Mr. Preston, seems to be oppressed with the idea that he has the responsibility for the ooinage legislation of the country and that it is his doty from time to time to give orders to congress for snoh amendments to the coinage laws as may seem to him to be wisa He evidently believes that he is not only possessed of complete and exhaustive information on the subject of coinage and metallic production, but that he is gifted with prophecy and can state with accuracy what will occur in the future on these momentous questions. He bos wisdom on tap and bids all who are thirsty to oome and drink freely from the fountain of his learning. He is as glib tongned as his counterpart in tho paper money line. Comptroller Eckels. He seems to be spending most of his time in preparing interviews with himself and scattering them broadcast among newspaper reporters. His latest deliverance is that be regards it as a certainty that within a few years every nation on earth will have adopted the gold standard and that silver mnst further decline under the weight of old monetary silver stocks thrown upon our market for what they will bring, and then he adds: “The use of silver must be limited in future to subsidiary coinage, or, as France and the United States now nse it. to money whose value is maintained by being* kept on a gold basis, just as a volume of paper money might be thus

maintained. When Mr Preston wrote these words, he wrote h mi self dowu an ass. The value of silver money in the United States is not maintained on a gold basis. It is maintained solely on a bimetallic basis which makes gold and silver equally a legal tender in the payment of all debta If Mr Preston does not know this, he is an ordinary fool. If he does know it, what is be? What Mr. Preston means to say in this deliverance of his is that greenbacks and silver dollars are both redeemable in gold coin. It is uot to be supposed that he is ignorant of the law. He knows very well that the silver dollar, like the gold dollar, is the mouey of final redemption and not itself to be redeemed iu anything. But, like those he serves, he is ready to set np against the law of the laud the decrees of the gold gamblers, who seek to repudiate and nullify so much of the law as relates to the silver dollar. The silver dollar in this country is not now and never has been dependent i upon anything but the statute to give | it value.* It has been coined under laws enacted in pursuance of that clause of the constitution which declares that ! congress shall have “the power to coin j money and regulate the value thereof. ’* Whatever value congress sets upon the ooius of the United States is the value at which those corns must be received iu every part of the country in the payi ment of debts and taxes. | The value thus given to silver dollars keeps them at an exact equality with gold coma Silver dollars are no more 1 on a gold basis than gold coins are on a silver basis, and Mr. Preston knows | it if he knows anything, but if he is really as ignorant as he pretends to bo he will be instructed by referring to the fourteenth, paragraph Of the circular of the treasury department upon the issue and redemption of currency of Nov. 1, 1894, being department circular No | 108 and treasurer’s office circular No. ( 163 It is there explicitly stated that ; standard silver dollars may be presented to the treasurer or assistant treasurer : for exchange into silver certificates only. If they can be exchanged into | “silver certificates only, “ they cannot | be exchanged iuto gold coin. This circular is signed by Treasurer D. N. Mor- | gan and approved by Secretary of the j Treasury John G. Carlisle. But what Mr. Preston means to say I is that the laws of the United States ! are not the laws of the laud when not ! approved by the dealers in money, and it is only upon this assumption that silver dollars can bo likened to paper money.

* If sliver dollars were redeemable in gold coin instead of being redemption money, there would be no excuse for their existence, because paper mouey, redeemable in coin, would be mnch cheaper and much less troublesome, but, as Mr. Preston speaks without any authority, and as any messenger in the treasury department would have an equal right to thrust himself into the discussion in an official manner, we will not pursue the discussion of what he said. Our purpose in calling attention to it was not so mnch to controvert the stupid things he said as to call attention to his impertinence in assuming the oracular dignity of a great finance minister The secretary of treasury should shut off the ignorant chatter of the nation's coiner and coufine him to his job of supervising the mechanical work of converting gold and silver bullion into coin. —Cincinnati Enquirer. -— Bryan SUll Popular. It must strike the average gold standard shooter of the east as a little curious that Nebraska fanners should stop thrashing 76 cent wheat long enough to drive 15 or 80 miles to hear Mr. Bryan talk for a few minutes. Wages Holding Bark. Wheat, corn, oats—everything we sat i has gone up. hut the wages that it , take* to bu/>t are holding back

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A Chance of the Season at W.L Barren’s.-!-The Greatest Bargains the Gonntry Has Eier Known Ami if you are thinking about the purchase of Clothing of any kiml it will pay you to visit his Store. He is over crowded and must sell by Deeemtier 35. A Complete Wreck of Prices^ Men’s Suits in Fancy Checks, Plaids, Blue and Black Cheviots, Correct Styles, Single and Double-Breasted, Worth #7.50; for............ Men's All Wool Cassimer and Cheviot Suits, made in the newest Shades of Brown Mixtures in Plaids and Checked Patterns, and cut iu the latest styles of Single and Double Breasted. A Suit that retails for #10.00; will go at.... .. ... Men’s All Wool Clay Worsted in Blue and Black, nicely made, extra quality. Sells everywhere for $10.00: will go at. Boy’s Short Pant Si&s in neat dark colors, l>oth Reefer and and Double Breasted styles in Cheviot, Plaids, Checks and Brown Mixtures, well trimmed, age 3 to 15 years; from Men's Overcoats, made of a good quality of goods in Blue, Black and Givy, lined throughout, durable, velvet collar; for only.., .. ."... Men’s Overcoats, made of Pure Wool in Blue, Black and Brown Kerseys, good Serge lining and Silk sleeve lining; for only ........ Men’s Overcoats, made from a high grade of Beaver, heavy Serge lining, extra quality of Siik sleeve lining; Regular price, $13.00, for...... $4.98 $7.50 $6.75 42c to $5 $3.75 $4.75 $8.50 Come and Examine Onr Stock. Prepare for the Cold Wave. W. L. BARRETT, ^PETERSBURG, lND<r

Fall and Winter Suits^ All the Latest Patterns and Styles to Select from. Suits, $ 16 and up. Pants, $4 and up. Call and See our Piece Goods and Trimmings. C. A. Barger & Bro., Merchant Tailors. t < i

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I have some of the best pigs on hands now that I ever owned. I have 18 gilts and 4 males that are tiptop, sired by my great show boar, Boone, No. 8095. Among the lot are two extra December i boars that are large enough for service. Prices reasonable. • M.L.Heathman, Giezen.Ind

Louisville, EyansYille & St. Louis C. Railroad Time table to effect June 27,1997: st. Lout* Fast Exp St. Imii* Limited. Stations. S^»7 a.m. #:0? p.m Leave .. Louisville .... arrive 10:4ft nm.> 11:45 p.m. te*ave .. Hantm*bur* .... .... ... arrive IIjnft a.m J 12:91 a.m. Leave.Vcipen arrive 11:18 e.in !2:tiH.tr.. I*-ave . . — Winslow ... arrive 11:11 am. I3:SI a.ro. Leave . — Oakland City.. arrive 0:20 p.m. 6;jtf a.n». Arrive.8t. Louis- . Leave l<ouisville Limited 7:00 a.m. 1:25 a.m 4:»*2 a.m. 2:52 a.m S:S7 a-m 8:1ft p.m. Louisvilla Fast Kxp. 5:30 p.m. p.n». 2:3* pm. 2^7 p.m 2:12 p*n 7:52 a.m. Nigbt trains stop at Wwsluw aud Velpen on signal only.. H. A. Campbell, G.P.A., St. Louis. J. F. Hurt, agent, Oakland Oity, • ?*■ ?&«*■