Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 December 1897 — Page 4

g. •MtHwaMMIclMi. Absolutely Pure ■OVAL jjjaw SOWPCA CO., Ktw TOOK, Skr $\kt County geraonrat By .It. .tier. STOOPS. One Tear. In advauce .. .fl S-i Six Mouths, In advance.. #5 Entered at the postofflee In Petersburg for transmission through the mails as second* class matter. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 31, 1897. Notice of District Meeting. By order of the state central committee, at a meeting in Indianapolis on December j 7, 1897', the democrats of the First congressional district of the state of Indiana, will meet in delegate convention at Prince- j ton, Indiana, on Jauuary 11, 1898, for the purpose of electing a district committeeman for the First congressional district, and for the transaction of any other business that may properly come before said convention, j The representation in said convention will | be 1 delegate for every 200 votes or fraction | thereof over 100 c*>t for Hon. Benjamin F. Shively for governor at the November election, 1896, ami the several counties will be entitled to the following number of dele- j gates to-wit: Gibson county, 16; Sjcncer I county, 13; Pike county, 12; Yauderburg county, 35; Warrick county, 13; Posey j county, 15; total number of votes, 104: necessary to the choice, 53. Now, therefore, the democrats of the j several counties will meet at some place designated by the couuty chairman in the! county, at a date not later than the 8th day of January. 1898, and select the necessary number of delegates that the respective I counties are entitled to, in the district con-, venlion. and this will be their authority for calling said convention. The democratic papers in the several counties will please copy this notice. By order of the district committee. John W. Sruxcut, Chairman. Thomas W. Linwsey, Secy.

Democratic Convention. There will be a meeting of the democrat? of Pike county on Saturday. January 8, 1896, at the court house in Petersburg, Indiana, for the purposeof selecting twelve delegatee to the district convention at Princeton, January 11. 1*96, for the purpose of electing a member of the state central committee to serve for the ensuing two years. By order of the state central committee. W. J. Richardson, Chairman. M. McC. Stoops, Secretary. Dec. 27. 1897. The Chestnut *tre«t national bank of Philadelphia failed last week for $3,000,000. j Is this another indication of returning prosperity?_ ' Fau i.es in business are becoming very j numerous. The Uerriug-Hall-Marvin safe company, the largest in the world, went! into the hauds of a receiver last week. Thk fight will be on in earnest next week i in Ohio for the senatorship. The opposition Senator Hanna is growing, and it is j • question now whether or not he can re- j oeive the caucus uomiuatiou, and if he does ! will be be elected. Tai latest new* from Washington City is that several republican senators and congnafejuen are fereiust the Gage currency measure and will heip defeat the bill if it is ] presented. Uoldbugistn t» drawing to a j dose and the People will take a turn in 1896 and 1900 in restoring silver to its I rightful place. Hart bl to an congressmen are up in arms And want the civil service laws repealed. When the democrats were in power it was just the tiling and wheu some republican office-hid tier was fired a terrible howl went up. But it is different now, the republican? are in (tower and they want the offices, and tcan't get them unless the law is repealed. Jlepeal the law at once and in 1901 the «1ffurites will fire them out. Pr is not an uncommon thing nowadays to bear ot new recruit* to the silver cause from the republican party. They come from avary township in the couuty. There were over a hundred voted far the silver cause in (896, and in 1399 it would not be aurpriaing if over 509 cast their vote* in favor of the money of - the common every day people. The money changer* ol Wall atreet and England have dictated the policy ol the Cmud Suu* long enough, and a change is needed and the common people given a chance. The people demand the return to the double standard of gold and silver at the legal ratio, and they believe it gan be done without the aid ojr consent of §»j other nation, ... ,

Th* Press slope over when its attention is called to the fact that during Sheriff Ridgway’a term eo far there has been a great saving to the tax-payers in the matter of bailiffs during the terms of circuit court, and the sheriff has saved the tax-payers money in other instances as well as in circuit court expenses. The Press should stick to the question and not branch out onto something else, To show the taxpayers of the county just how much was expended at each term of the Pike circuit court for bailiffs it is only necessary to examine the allowances made. The following shows the expenses of each terra from the March term, 1893, to the present: KIXHAN’S TKKK. March term. 1898. ...1285 25 July term, 1898 ....106 00 November term. 1893 ... 230 2D Match term. 1894. ... 265 25 July term. 1894.... . . 19130 November term. 1994. 810 00 March term, 1895.... . 290 25 August term, 1895 ... 163 00 November term, 1895.... 510 25 February term, 1895 .... ... 374 50 May term, 1896 . 191 50 August term, 1896 . 191 50 November term, 1996,one week . 122 CO KIDOWAV'S TERM. - November term, >896. five weeks..#149 ‘20 February term. 1897 .. 119 25 April term, 1897 . 96 25 June term, 1897 —. 87 00 November term, 1897... .. 178 50 Figures speak for themselves. Make your calculations and then see if the expenses of the matter of bailffs has not been reduced. During Ridgway’s term the total bailiff amounts to only $580.20. The tax payers fully appreciate the work of reducing the expenses by the present county officials and this is only one of the items in which the expense# have been very largely reduced. Take any four terms of court and the expenses of bailiffs have been largely in excess of what it has been since Kidgway has filled the office. Tuu National democratic convention of 1896, which met at Chicago, resolved to abandon a policy that had been so disastrous to the party. The people, through their representatives, in that convention determined to make the fight from that time forw ard on a square and open declara- j tion of democratic principles. If those who are now so auxious for harmony had been willing to be governed by the will of the majority we would have elected a democratic president in 1896. They have tried their experiment and failed. * * * * We demonstrated in the last election that the democratic party is strongest when its platform is unequivocal and bold in its declarations. Harmony is a most desirable thing to have in an organization, unless, it is baaed upon an agreement on principle it cannot endure. The party cannot triumph j in a mad struggle for spoils, regardless of j principles. The foundation would be | rotten and the superstructure would go to pieces of its own weight. * * * * The democratic vote polled by any party in the United States, and the votes polled by democrats in the election since 1896. are an unequivocal and unmistakable indorsement of the Chicago platform. The party’s attitude is right, and it will take no backward step. It will reaffirm in 1900 the platform ot 1896 in every essential particular, and it will nominate and elect William J. Bry an president of the United States. This is not in the nature of prophesy or conjecture. It is the manifest will of the democratic party.—Iauiisville Dispatch.

The comparative statement of the government receipts for the month of November, 1897. were $43,363,605, of which $18,194,618 whs received from the" reorganizatiou committee of the Union Pacific railroad, making the ordinary receipts for the mouth $25. 16k,987. The total expenditures for November were $37,810,838, of which $4,549,368 was cash in the Union Pacific sinking fund turned into the treasury and repaid to the appropriation from which it had originally drawn for investment. Hence, the month’s disbursements include this sum. The ordinary receipts for the month, therefore, were $25,168,987 and the ordinary disbursements $33,271,470, leaving a deficit of $8,092,483. The receipts from customs were $9,830,024, a falling off of about $100,000 as compared with November, 1896. The receipts from internal revenue were $13,630,649, a gain of about $430,000 for the month. The excess of expenditures over receipts for the five months of the present fiscal year, independent of the proceeds of the sale of. the Union Pacific railroad, was $46,101,494. The government has received another payment of $6,100,000 on account of the Union Pacific sale, which still leaves due from the committee $34,153,605 to be paid in four equal installments, the last on J&nuarv 6. 1898. The Press has a “crow to pick” with the county commissioners because they elected ! Clarence Holcomb as county attorney, ! claiming him to be a populist. There were but two propositions made before the board ; for the place, that of L. K. Woolsey, repub-1 la:an. ami Clarence Holcomb, democrat, and the latter was selected. The Press from time to time has said that the popu-1 lists were getting nothing as the result of the last election in Pike county, and now j the aforesaid newspaper says that Holcomb is a populist and that some democratic attorney should have been appointed. Well. Had a republican been elected then it would have been different. Ix the last two issues of the Press it stated that this paper did not correctly publish the trustee's report of Madison township. The editor of this paper desires to say each and every item of the report as j made by the trustee was printed. The Press published the reports of the republican j trustees and if there was any difference in the manner of setting them up we failed to | see it. The law requires that the trustees have their reports published, and they were published as made by the trustees. And : i that is all there is to it. (j

’ The Indiana legislature at its last session passed “An Act defining the regular terms of boards of commissioners, regulating certain duties of boards of commissioners and of oounty auditors, providing the penalties for the violation thereof and authorizing suite to be brought for the recovery of allowances iu certain cases.” Sections 8,4, 5 and 6 read as follows: Section 3. It shall be nnlawful for any board of commissioners of any county in this or for any member thereof, to make ang allowance or to allow any claim agaiust such county, or order the issue of any county order or warrant for the payment of any sum of money except at a regular or special sessiou of said board, and it shall be unlawful for any county auditor to draw or to issue to any person any warrant or county order for the payment of any claim against such county except the same has beeu ordered and allowed by the board of commissioners of the county while in regular or special session, or by a court of com-1 petent jurisdiction; that nothing herein) shall aflect the issuing of warrants relating 1 to the management of the common or congressional school fund or insanity inquests. ioetion 4. No claim shall be allowed by ' the board of commissioners of any county I in this state unless such claims, duly item-i ized aud verified by the claimant or some one in his behalf, shall have been filed in the auditor’s office of the proper county, and by him placed on the claim docket at least five (5) days before the first day of the regxdar or special session of such board; provided, that nothing herein shall prevent the board from issuing warrants at the

close of any term for the payment of money due officers of the commissioners court for services rendered at such term; provided, claims for services as road or highway viewers or reviewers may be allowed at the session at which they art1 filed. Section 5. .Any county auditor or any member of the board of county commissioners violating any of the provisions of this act shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars 1 #50.00) for each offeuse and any such auditor shall be liable on his official bond in double the amount of such warrant so drawn which may be recovered .by any taxpayer of the county on giving security for costs for the use and benefit of such county, and the court trying the same shall allow such taxpayer a reasonable coin(>ensation including reasonable attorneys’ fees for the trouble and expense incurred in prosecuting such suit to be named in the order and payable only out of the money recovered. Section 6. Any citizen and taxpayer of any county in this state at any time within sixty days after the allowance of any claim, after demand made on the board of commissioners of the proper county and refusal by them, may in his own name on giving bond for the costs, prosecute and maii.taiu for the use and benefit of such county the proper suit for the recovery of any illegal, unwarranted or unauthorized allowance made by such board, and the court trying the same shall make such person so bringing such suit such reasonable allowance to be named in the order as will reimburse him for the trouble had and expense incurred in prosecuting such suit, including reasonable attorneys’fees to be {raid only out of such money that may be recovered.

The Press is devoting considerable space now and then to the democratic trustees of Pike county, and at the same time not a word atom the republican trustees. The republican trustees of Pike county raised their levy for the coming year, and the democratic trustees, with one exception, lowered their levies. The Press should not overlook its own political household before jumping on the opposition. The average tax levy of the five democratic corporations for 1897 will be a fraction over 80 cents, while the average for six republican corporations is 91 cents and a fraction. Here is the rate of taxation for state, county, city and township purposes in the several republican corporations for the years 1890 and 1897, and each one shows an increase except Winslow:

l.erles for 1890. Washington |l Clay ....... 1 I’atoka 1 I/tgan . 1 Petersburg — 2 2D Winslow .... 2 10

Levies for 1887. Washington $1 Clay. 1 Pa! ok a . 1 lx>guu 1 Petersburg _ 2 Winslow 1

The following is the levies made by democratic officers in the several corporations which include levies for all purposes:

Levies for 1««. Jefferson __ $1 85 Madison 1 80 Mour»>e .1 55 Lockhart . 1 SO Marlon . 1 75

Levies for 1597. Jefferson .H Madison _ ... 1 Monroe ..1 Lockhart 1 Marlon . 1

Who is raising the taxes of the people of the county? The Press is trying to make buneomb out of nothing. Hos. John P. St. John, ex-governor of Kansas, and one of the strongest prohibition advocates, has come out flat-footed for the true blue democracy. He uses the following plain and unequivocal language: I have reached the conclusion that it is as important to provide a home for the detvqt and sober man as it is to pull the drunkard out of the gutter, and if I live, and have the chance I will vote for William J. Bryan in 1900. If any one had told me a few years ago that 1 would ever Tote for a democratic ticket I should have said he didn't know what he was talking about. , But the Bryan democracy is a new-boni democracy- It is going to rule this country. 1 And if it doesn’t rule it right the common people will desert it. - Tried and True. Thousands have tried Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin for constipation, indigestion and sick headache and have found it true to the claim made for it, via: That it is the beet remedy now before the good people j for the relief of stomach troubles. Trialj nzes lOe. large sixes 50c and #1.00 of Bergen 6 Ottpbutk d

President Harrison in his message of 1880 made a declaration which rises up against the policy of the party at the present time. He said: “The increased circulation secured by the act has exerted and will continue to exert a most beneficial influence upon business and upon general values. “The enlargement of our currency by the silver bill undoubtedly wave an upward tendency to trade, and had a marked effect on prices, hut this natural and desired effect of the silver legislation was by many erroneously attributed to the new tariff act.”* The ex-president referred in the above statement to the increase of silver coinage under the Sherman law over the silver coinage under the Bland act. If it was a fact then that the “most beneficial influence” and the “upward tendency to trade” was produced, why would it not be a good thing now. The republican papers say the silver dollars are “dishonest dollors,” but that was what made the country happy and prosperous. The People demand that a change be made ami that silver be given a chance in the Coinage laws of the country the same as gdld.

The republican central committee will soon be reorganir.«il. We want it distinctly understood that the Press is opposed to putting any man on the committee whd has heretofore been classified as a kicker. A republican who demands a place on the committee or else kick is not a fit subject for any position of trust or responsibility whatever. The sooner the republican party fires a number of its grunters the better off it will tie. We believe in political stability and with us is the mass of the gFeat republican party.—Petersburg Press. To read between the lines in the above article one would be led to believe that the editor is dottig a little kicking. Possibly Editor Thompson thinks there were some members of the committee last year that mixed their ticket, and he wauts ’em fired. The annual report of the state auditor of the building and loan associations in the state, which has just been published, shows a decided decline in building and loan business in Indiana during the past year. There were 53,449 investing members in 1587, as against 101,775 in 1596: 55,061 borrowing members, as against 55,459 in 1596, assets $37.634.418.43, as against $35,095,157.70 in 1596: liabilities, $37,634.419.43 as against $35,095,147.70 in 1596. Receipts, $33,301,610.74. as against $34,998,991.91 in 1556: disbnrsinents,$33,310,619.74, as against $34,995,991.91 in 1596; shares running stock, 766.561, as against 550,510 in 1596.

Bank Wreckers Pardoned. President McKinley has pardoned quite a number of bank wreekers since assuming his high official duties. The list of this I class of officials granted pardons this year j are as follows: llarry L. Martin, oonyicted February 10, 1S96, embezzlement; sentenced live years, j pardoned April 2. Alonzo B. Crawford, convicted of violation of United States j banking laws in Missouri; sentenced October 8, 1804, five years; pardoned May 8. Henry H. Kennedy,-convicted in Pennsylvania of violating national banking laws, sentenced September 16, 1891, ten years; pardoned May 21. John M. Wall, convicted i(n Ohio of violating United States banking laws; sentenced April 27, 1897, to five years; pardoned October 9. Frederick E. Edgar, convicted in New York. May 9, 1894, of violating national banking laws;] sentenced five years; pardoned June 1. Charles R. Fleischman, convicted in Illinois \ of violating banking laws; sentenced De- j cember 8, 1896, five years; pardoned June 28. Frederick L. Kent, convicted in Mis- j souri of embezzlement; sentenced Septem- j ber 7, 1898, ten years; pardoned July 7. Edward R. Carter, convicted in New York of violating national banking laws; sentenced January 9, 1895, six years and six months; pardoned July 9. Francis A. Coffin, convicted in Indiana of violating Uuited States banking laws; sentenced October 26. 1S95, eight years; pardoned September 9. Lewis li.dwine, convicted in Georgia of violating United States banking laws; sentenced January 12, 1894, six years; pardoned October 26. -Stephen M. Folsom, convicted in New Mexico, April 17,18W,of falsifyingtbe books of a national bank; sentenced five years; pardoned November 16. Frederick W. Griffin,convicted in Illinois of embezzling national bank funds; sentenced May 24,1895; five years; pardoned November 22. W. E. Burr, convicted in Missouri in 1896 of violation of the banking laws; sentenced to five years; pardoned December 24. Hamilton R. Norvell, convicted in New York of embezzlement ; sentenced to one year and six months; pardoned December 24Household Gods. The ancient Greeks believed that the Penates were the gods who attended to the welfare and prosperity of the family. They were worshipped as household gods in every home. The household god of today is-Dr. King’s New Discovery. For consumption, coughs,colds and for all affections of throat, chest aud lungs it is invaluable. It has been tried for a quarter of a century and is guaranteed to cure or money returned. No household should be without this good angel. It is pleasant to take and a safe and sure remedy for old and young. Free trial bottles at J. R. Adams & Son's drug store. Regular size 50c. and f 1.00. Air Line Florida Sleeping Car Service. The L., E. k St. L. C. By., Air Line, has established a daily line of Pullman buffet sleeping cars between Sl Louis and Jacksonville, Florida, via Louisville, Lexington, Chattanooga and Everett. These ears will run on traiu No. 4, which leaves Oakland City 3:87 a. in., Louisville 7:45 i.m., Chattanooga 6:10 p. m. Arrive at !ack«onville8:40a. m. J. F. Hckt, Agent.

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Some Plain Pacts. Grave errors, injustice, wrongs of greater or less degree, arise from lack of knowledge of the truth, and more frequently from deception. The most infamous case on record of deception and injustice is the attempt to demonetize silver as a money of final redemption in the United States.

There is no learned judge, skilled lawyer, or court of justice that is capable of reconciling the effort with the constitutional laws that govern the issue of money in this country. The people have been deceived, officials in power, chosen to adminis- | ter justice under the laws, have I ignored their sworn duty, and given aid to the scheme that has paralyzed | industry, reduced property values one-half, and beggared millions. There is no authority of law, either specific or by inference, by which gold alone is made the only money with which to discharge debts, either public or private. The effort to make it so is unconstitutional and a national calamity. Plain and ample information, facts, and truth, concerning this almost successful scheme to corner the wealth of the people, is now being printed in the Cincinnati Enquirer, a newspaper which the combined power of money has failed to muzzle or buy. The Weekly Enquirer is only 75c. a year. The address is Enquirer Company, Cincinnati, O. Caveats, and Trade-Maria obtained and all Patent buimeaa conducted for modcratc Fees. Our Orncc is Opposite U. *. PATtinrOmce and we can secure patent in less tune than those remote from Washington. .... Send model, drawing or photo., with description. We advise, ii patentable or not, free of; charge. Our fee not due till patent is secured. , > Pampmlxt “ How to Obtain Patents,” with com of same ur the U. S. and foreign countries sent free. Address, C.A.SNOW&CO. Oee. PaTKMT ©met. washihotoh, D. C.

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LoaisYille, EyansYille & St. Louis C. Railroad Time table In effect Nov. 28, 18W:

st. Louis Fast Exp. S:00 a_m. 10:45 a.m. 11HW a m. 11:22 a m. 11:38 a.m. 6:20 p.m. St, Louis Limited. V;00 p.m. 11:40 p.m. 12:01 a.m. 12:14 a.m. 12:30 a.m. 7:12 a.m. Stations. Leave . Louisville ..arrive Leave . Hnntingburg . arrive Leave..Veipen. arrive Leave.Winslow .arrive Leave.Oakland City..... arrive Arrive. ..St. Louis* .Leave Louisville Louisvillo Limited. 7:00 a.m 4:25 aon 4:02 a.m. 3:52 a.m 3:37 a. m. 9:15 p.m. Fast Exp. 5:45 pan. 2:55 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2.16 p.m. 1:57 p.m 7:52 a.m. Night trains stop at Winslow and Veipen on slgna*. only. K. A. Campbell, G.P.A., St. Louis. J. P. Hurt, agent, Oakland Citj.