Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 33, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 December 1897 — Page 1

VOL. XXVIII. PETERSBURG, IND.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1897. NO. 33 : . ' • . * ' -

Reader, this is the last month of old 1897. We have had a prosperous a

r trade all these eleven months gone by, and now aim to make old De- ^ cember the banner month for the whole year. Our two stores are j piled full of bargains, fresh new goo<ls, and we intend to turn you ^ loose in them during December and let you select what you need at a

^ almost your own price. We buy for two stores, we buy cheap, we ^ sell cheap. The poor has the same chance at our stores as the rich. Run your eye down this long list of December prices and see for yourself. 4% LOOK AT THE PRICES. 200 yards pretty patterns in Calico for Comforts .„.. ..3ic 3,000 yards heavy Muslin for Sheets and Underwear.. 5c 500 yards Uark eolors in Flannelette_;. . 5c 650 yards Noveltv Dress Goods, pretty patterns....15c 500 yards i Julies’ Cloth, all pure wool, the 40c kind..;.20c One lot of Ladies’ Cloaks, last year's styles, were $7, $8 and $10.,. $1 50 One lot of Misses' Cloaks, last year’s styles,.now only. 20 Ladies' Capes, new Empire back, trimmed, with Wads, worth $4. 50 Iiadies’ Jackets, all styles, all sizes, were $6.50, $7.50 and $8.. 5 00 500 pairs Ladies* Calf Hutton Shoes, seamless backs, good, stout, the * tregular $1.50 kind .. ...... . 216 pairs Ladies’ Oil Grain Button Shoes, heavy and good, worth $1.50, 37 Boy’s heavy Winter Jeans Coats, good and warm. 117 pairs Men’s Lined Jeans Pants, guaranteed not to rip... 98 Men's stylish Winter Suits, pretty styles, wont fade, worth $7.50_ 300 Men’s fine $10 Tailor-made Suits, handsome styles for DecemWr.... 23 Men’s fine $10 Tailor-made English Beaver Overcoats for December.. «o 98 09 98 59 4 50 7 .50 7 50 Every article in our two immense stores is equally a« cheap. Bring your wife and buy your winter’s supply during this December sale. See the lovely presents we give away for trading with us. W. V. Hargrove & Co. or* mr Star Clothing House and Peoples’ Dry Goods Store, PETERSBURG, I NO.

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M IIINTER, W. Physician and Surgeon. Office in Car|*entcr building, Or*t floor, oppUkltc court bouic, Petersburg. I ml. Alt call* promptly answered. COFFEE AND TEA STORE. The undersigned would Invite all urn-rs of good t offee and Tea to call at his Store, one door above the Miv* Stork* ruilllnery store, East Mala Street, and examine las stork of Coffees. Teas. Spices. Extracts and Baking Powder. We offer you free with each pound a beautiful premium. Our stock of Coffee consists ot Kl«#. Santos, Guatemala. Mexicans, lava* and Moclia. Km press Rlena Teas, Mixed Tea*. Black Teas. t *>lo»* Kugllsh Breakbod, Ceylon*. Green Teas. Japan*, Gunpowder, Imperial. Young Hyson, Old Hyson, Tea L>u*t, Black Japan, Green Tea l>u»t. CaU and see me. L. R. HARGRAVE.

T W. H.V.S1NUKR, Physician and Surgeon. Officeover Bergen A Ollphant's drug store, room No. V. Petersburg; 1ml. All calls promptly answered. Telephone No. hi, office ami residence. NEW i PLANING * MILL and LUMBER YARD Isreated at the fca>t of Ma c at, Petersburg. With a complete line or t achtnery, we are better prcpari-,1 than ever u> ilo all kind* of mill work, making Flooring, Siding and Ceiling, Wlmlow and Poor Frame*, Veranda and ‘ statrwork. Alao odd slaes ttash and Doors a specialty. We also keep a full line ol all kinds of Liimj ber and Kliingles. W ill guarantee all material to be up to grade ’ and workmanship aa good as the best, i Call and see ns before buying elsewhere. E. H. Goslin & Co.

INDIANA DEMOCRATS Are Aroused and Anxious for Action. State Chairman Parks Martin Issues an Address. Adds Proof that Chicago Platform Is Gaining a Great Hoosier Victory. Good Heading far Every Friend of I he Silver Cuttits

Most encouraging reports continue to come from Indiana showing that the democratic party is certainly returning to power in the state; that every democrat in the gieat Hoosier commonwealth is going to vote with his party at the first opportunity, which means democratic congressmen, a democratic legislature and a democratic United Suites senator to disturb the shrewd plan of the goldbugs to “fix” the Senate so that if Bryan is elected his eirreney plans will be blocked during his entire term. In view of this encouraging outlook Chairman Parks M. Martin of the Indiana democratic state committee has, according to instructions from the committee, issued an address which is virtually a first-class national document, well worth the perusal of all democrats. It is as follows: To the Democracy of Indiana: A little more than a year ago the most remarkable presidential campaign in the history of the United States terminated in the success of the republican candidates. This was the first presidential campaign in a great many veal's in which the issues were squarely between the consolidated money power of the country and of the ; people. On one hand were the enormous and practically inexhaustible resources of the moneyed interests of the United States and Europe, embracing the national banks whose power had been built up by federal legislation, the great manufacturers who ; had become strong and rich under more 1 than three decades of extreme protection, the railway and other corporations, the various monopolies, trusts and combines of [ capital which had been built up by a long course of government favoritism and class legislation, the bondholders and money lenders of two continents, the great army of speculators, jobbers and schemers of high and low degree who are interested in restoring a policy of lavish appropriations and reckless expenditures, and all those who had reaped profits or hoped to do so through the prostitution of the functions of government to their service. From these sources a corruption fund was gathered of such magnitude that, although a golden stream was poured into every debatable state and congressional district in the Uuited States during the campaign, an enormous unexpeaded balance remained in the bauds of the republican national committee after the election. This gigantic combination of wealth and power was able to enlist iu its service evenvenal newspaper in the United States, whatever its past political professions; every orator who was willing to sell his eloquence to monopoly for a price; every huckstering politician; every expert iu

election fraud; every trained manipulator "or boodle throughout the republic. Against this sinister combination the historic democratic party went to the country with a candidate for the presidency whose purity of character, breadth of patriotism, power of eloquence and devotion to the interests of the people marked him as their natural leader in a contest with the hosts of monopoly, and with a declaration of principles which stirred the public : conscience as it had not been stirred for generations. The democratic party relied solely upon the merits of its standard bearer and the justice of its cause. It fought the campaign ; through with ati empty treasury and^a j crippled press, and with many of its state and local organizations honeycombed with treachery. A more heroic political battle against ! overwhelming odds has never been waged ; in this or any other country, and the six million and a half of the popular votes and the 170 electoral votes expressed a great | moral victory, the magnitude of which is j becoming more apparent every day. The principles for which the democratic | party oontended in 1896 were then strong

enough to have carried the country overwhelmingly if the agencies of coercion and corruption could have been eliminated from the contest. These principles have been growing stronger day by day, and there is no question that they are accepted now by a great majority of the American people. The republican party returned to power last March under pledges to re-establish the equilibrium between national revenue and expenditure, to devise a safe and stable monetary system and to restore prosperity to the masses of the people. Neither of these pledges has been kept. The first important official act of President McKinley was to convene Congress in extraordinary session for the purpose of enacting a tariff law, the ostensible object of which was to produce a revival of business throughout the country and to provide revenue to carry on the government, but whose real purpose was to enable the trusts to reimburse themselves for their contributions to the corruption fiind of 1896 by legalized spoliation of the people. This iniquitous law is accomplishing its real purpose. The sugar trust, the beef trust ami all the other great combinations which were allowed to dictate its terms are already realizing enormous profits from its operation.

lu order to swell the ill-gotten gains of these predatory combinations, the public revenues have been sacrificed and the cost of living has been increased to the people. The public debt statement issued December 1 shows that the excess of expenditures over receipts during the first five months of the present fiscal year was #46,101.494, an average of over #9,000.000 per month, at the rate of about #110,000,000 per year. This appalling deficit measures the complete failure of the Dingley law us a revenue producer and will compel Congress at an early date either to authorize auother bond issue or to levy additional taxes or to reduce expenditures. Republican administrations never reduce expenditures. So that after nine months of republican rule the country finds itself face to face with new taxes or another issue of bonds or both. There has been no marked increase in the number of workingmen employed and no general advance of. wages to compensate for the augmented cost of living, and the Dingley bill already stands condemned before the country as the most flagrant and oppressive atiuse-of the taxing power of the government which has ever been perpetrated. The failure of the commission sent to Europe by President McKinley to secure an agreement with England, France and Germany for international bimetallism forces the republican party to grapple with the greatest problem which has ever confronted it. One of three policies must be adopted: First—The single gold standard must be definitely established; or, Second—Bimetallism at the old ratio must be restored by independent national action; or. - . Third—The present illogical, chaotic, dangerous and utterly inadequate currency system must be perpetuated. The adoption of the first alternative involving the* change of all the outstanding interest bearing securities of the government from coin to gold obligations, the virtual retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes and the concession of practically absolute control of the circulating medium to the national banks is urged upon Congress by the administration. The execution of this program would be a colossal crime against the people, and while it would rivet the chains of financial slavery upon them and enormously swell the tribute they are now compelled t© pay ; to the money power, it would cause such a I wave of popular indignation as would | sweep the republican organisation out of : existence.

The second policy to which the democratic party stands pledged, and which presents , the only practical solution of the currency j question, will not, of course, be considered \ by the party in power. | The only alternative, therefore, to the adoption of the administration program is I the do uothing policy, which would iuvolve confession of utter impoteuce on the part ; of the republican party and would render its overthrow at the next general elections ; as certain, if not as complete, as if the pol- ■ icy just proclaimed by President McKinley were to be carried out. j The political situation is full of inspira- ! tion and encouragement to democrats every* where, and at the same time it suggests to them unceasing vigilance. The republican {larty has not only failed to solve the curi rency question; it has not only failed to restore prosperity to the people; it ha? not ouly failed to negotiate an agreement for international bimetallism, but it has in other ways violated its pledges to the country. Its attitude with relation to Cuba is contrary to the explicit promise of the St. Louis platform, and is in the last degree undemocratic, unrepublican, unpatriotic j and unAuiericau. The voice of humanity, the natural sympathy which every true American feels for

a neighboring people struggling to throw off the yoke of savage despotism, and every consideration of enlightened self interest demand the recognition of Cubau independence, a stop which the administration for some mysterious reason refuses to take. The utter bad faith which the administration has shown to the enforcement of the civil service law, a measure placed upon the statute boobs by the republican party, invites and will receive the reprobatiou of the country. Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to this law, all good citizens will agree that, so loug as it is a law, it should be faithfully and impartially enforced. Its perversion by the appointees of President McKinley to the service of partisan greed is ( a distinct violation, not only of the pledges of his party, but also of his personal pledges to the country. At preseut the law is enforced only when a democrat can thereby be deprived of official preferment, and it is evaded or violated as often as a republican can be thereby retained in or provided with a public position. A party which deliberately violates every day a law of the United States is dangerous to our peace aud safety aud approaches very nearly to the state of lawlessness and anarchy which it has sometimes charged upon its opponents.

The only measure of general importance which the republican leaders now promise the country is the enactment of a bankruptcy law—a law presumably which will enable creditors to enforce into bankruptcy debtors whose inability to pay is due to republican tariff and currency systems—a fitting sequel to the protective law enacted last summer. The issues to be passed upon by the country at the congressional elections of 1898 are the same which were presented in 1896, i accentuated and emphasized by the record | of the republican party since its return to power. Let the democracy of ludianu rally their forces, close up their ranks and march sh aider to shoulder in the contest for the principles of Jefferson and Jackson and Bryan. Men who formerly acted with the democratic party, but who iu 1896 withheld their support, are in every voting precinct in the state back in the ranks. They are disgusted with the record and policies of the republican administration and arc ready and anxious to follow once more the good old flag of democracy. We welcome them back. With united and determined efforts, the state can bo handsomely redeemed next year, the election of a democratic United States senator is assured and a'largely in- \ J creased democratic representation in the popular branch of. Cougre>s returned. The democratic state committee appeals to and invites every citizen of Indiana, whatever his past*political affiliations, who believes in the principles to co-operate j earnestly from this time uutil the polls close j next November iu the endeavor to secure their triumph. The district conventions for the selection of members of the state central committee will be held in the various congressional j districts on Tuesday, January 11, 1898. The members of the new committee then chosen will meet at Indianapolis on Tuesday, January 18, for organization. Parks M. Martin, Chairman Democratic State Central Committee. _ The Coming Woman Who goes to the club while her husband tends the baby, as well as the good oldfashioned woman who looks ufter her home, wi.l both at times get run down in health. They will l>e troubled with loss of appetite, headaches, sleeplessness, fainting or dizzy spells. The roost wonderful remedy for these women is Electric Bitters. Thousands 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 kinds are soon relieved by the use of Electric Bitters. Delicate women should keep this remedy on hand to build up the system. Only 50c*. per bottle. For sale by J. K. Adams & Son.

Special Excursion Kates via Soutuerii Hallway. Home-seekers’ and settlers' tickets, on sale December 7 and 21. via Southern railway to points South. A great system of railways through a great country. Also winter excursion tickets to Florida and ; other southern „ resorts, sold daily, via iiouisville. Kenrucky/or Cincinnati, Ohio, in connection with Southern railway and Q. 0. rout*. Write for information to C. A. Baird, traveling passenger agent, Louisville, Kentucky: J. C. Beam. X. W. passengerngent, 80 Adams street, Chicago, Illinois; A. , Whedon, pas-enger and ticket agent, 216 Fourth avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. From an Old Soldier* Knox, Ind., Jan. 14. 1897. Gents:—I have every confidence in reeom-! , mending your Syrup of Pepsin. I am 72 i years of age and am broken down, the trouble having been brought on by my experience in the war. Your medicine has done me more good than a hundred doctors and I am just about well of stomach troubles. Yours truly, Jefkebsom Wiuiklx. Sold by Bergen k Oliphant. d j

BLACK DIAMOND R.R. A Bis: Meeting Held Last Thursday Night. Addresses Made by William Kirkby Col.Boone and M^j. Simpson. Committee Appointed to Solicit Money for Promotion Fond. .Meetings to be Held at Otwell and Algiers Next Monday.

Last Thursday night a meeting of those interested in the promotion and building of the Black Diamond railroad through Southern Indiana was held in the circuit court room and was very largely attended. E. E. Watts, chief engineer of the surveying corps, was present and exhibited the profile of the route through Pike county, together with other information concerning the proposed route. These maps and profiles were quite interesting to the public. The meeting was called to order by Prof. Foreman, president of the business association, who stated the object of the meeting and then introduced Major Simpson of Paoli, one of the directors of the Indiana branch of the Black Diamond system. The major plainly stated the details of the system before the meeting and made a rather strong talk in favor of the building of the road. Col. Boone, the promoter of the railroad system, was the next speaker. The colonel spoke for sometime on his plan of buildiug railroads, which is a very feasible one. Hon. William Kirkby of Toledo, Ohio, president of the Black Diamond railroad, was present and made a short talk in defining the plans of building this great system of railroads. The citizens of Petersburg are now more thoroughly aroused thau ever over the building of this liue through Southern Indiana, and on Monday evening a number of the business men of Petersburg met and selected a committee to raise funds for the promotion of this road. As stated in the meeting last Thursday evening at least $o00 per mile should be secured from Washington and Jefferson townships as a promotion fund, which would amount to about $7,000. Those selected for Washington township are James Chew, L. C. Thomas, Aaron George, J. D. Holion, J. D, iSelby. J. L. Robinson, J. W. Bergen, MoCrillus Adams, Henry Read, Charles P. Booushot, Leslie Lamb, John O. Davis, W. V. Hargrove, George E. King, Byron Brenton, G. J. Nichols. Sherman Dealing, Mort Alexander,Will Braden, J. S. McCoy, J. W. Brumfield, Will Lamb and William Liibs. The committee will go to work at once to secure the amount needed from Washington township. Meetings will be held in Jefferson township next Monday. At Otwell, Monday afternoon at two o’clock, and at Algiers in the evening at seveu o’clock. These meetings should be largely attended by those who desire a railroad through the township. At these meetings committees will be appointed to secure aid in promoting the system.

Free of Charge to Sufferers. Cut this out and take it to your druggist and got a sample battle tree of Dr. King's New Discovery for consumption,coughs and colds. They do not ask you to buy before trying. This will show you the merits of this truly wouderful remedy, and show you what can be accomplished by the regular size bottle. This is no experiment, and would be disastrous to the proprietors, did they not know rt would invariably oure. Many of the best physicians are now using it in their practice with great results, and are relying on it in most severe cases. It is guaranteed. Trial bottle free at Adams & Son’s drug store. Regular sue 50 cents and 11.00, Christmas and New Year Holiday Rates. As usual the B. k O. S-W. railway has arranged for special holiday rates for their patrons, and will sell round trip tickets from all stations to any point in Central passenger association territory. This territory oovers St. Louis, Louisville,Cincinnati^ Cleveland,Chicago, Indianapolis, Pittsburg, Buffalo and many other points. Tickets on. sale December 34th, 25th, 3lst and January 1st. Good returning to and including Jan-» uary 4th, 1898. Any B. & O. tsW. ticket agent can give full information. O. P, McCarty, general passenger agent, Cincin* nati, Ohio.