Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 41, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 February 1898 — Page 4

Star after Countt) Democrat Hr n. nee. stoops. One Tear, in advance. — II >5 Six Month*, in advance. .- Entered at the poetoffice in Petersburg for transtniwdon through the mails as sceondclaas matter. PEI DAY. FEBRUARY IK, 1898.

The republican papers are not explaining the cause of the Dingier deficit. The present congress is like the last session of the Indian* legislature, a failure.\ . i . i— ■ ii . -H Bimetam.-x is bound to win iu November next. The gold bug polity has brought ruin to this country. j1 .. ■ .. ■ The people w>il l* satisfied with silver, gold they cannot get after haring elected a gold bug as president. What has the republican Congress done anyhow outside of drawing salary and malting uppropriat ions-; *> J Congressmen are talking about adjourn- j ing Mar 15th in order to fix up their fences for renominations. Many of them, however, will not be elected.even if nominated, j Not haring the fear of Czar Reed before | its eyes, the Senate increased the amount j carried by the fortification appropriation bill from #4.144,912, appropriation by the House, to #9.052.49^., It remains to be seen whether the Czar can.compel the House to insist upon its original bill. 5-—^-The addresses of the. natioual organizations of the democrats, the people’s party • and the silver republicans, hare been approved by a joint caucus and will all be made public this week. The key note of the addresses is cooperation by the frieuds of silver in the congressional campaign. The ootton mill strikes .at Lewiston. Maine. Mr. Dingley’s • home, proves the fact that the average wages of men engaged in the millsis sir dollars per week. The strike is caused br a ten per cent cut. Mr Dingier is kept busy trying to explain to his constituents why high tariff and the gold-bug ideas of finance m#kes it necessary to cut wages. He resort.- to everything but the truth in his explanations. It is indeed peculiar to hear people talk about how solid they are for the gold standard, when even at that time or for that matter during their whole existence they never had a gold jueee in their pocket. How mauy laboring men in Pike receive their wages in gold? How many farmers in Pike county receive pay for tbeir_products in gold? And1 yet you hear some people say they want the gold standard to continue. The democrats of Gibson county last Saturday endorsed the candidacy of Hou. Thomas Duncan for the renommation for congressman for the First district. Mr. Duncan made the rare for congress in this district in 1896 and made a splendid canvass and made many friends throughout the district. He is a logical and forceful speaker and should he receive the nomination this year would undoubtedly be elected j by a large majority.

Thk republican party by its representatives in congress have been placed More! the country not as bimetalists but as favor-' ing the single standard and that ail bonds j and national obligations must be paid in ! gold at the opriofK.of the holder, the] government having nothing to do but crack I down. The resolution which pat the g.o.p. | on record was that presented by Senator Teller, one of the leading republicans of) the country. This1 resolution provided that, all bonds were payable in gold or silver at the option of the government. Thk House judiciary committee has hung up Senator Tillman's bill to permit the states to control liquor carried into them in original packages, and it wjll remain so Unless some metnher of the committee who j voted against reporting the bill can be induced to get the matter up again. j Representative Latimer is working that end in view, and thinks be will succeed. The bill was passed by the Seuata sometime ago a^d was intended to aid the South Carolina authorities to enforce the liquor dispensary taw, which was weakened by a j United States supreme court decision. The principal objection to the Tillman bill by members of the committee who voted against reporting it was that it would be a step towards giving states the right to con* interstate commerce.

The deficit of the government for the first seven months of the fiscal year under the administration of Hanna-McKinley, Dingley-Reed, is $51,901,823. If it had not been for the sale of the Union Pacific railroad, the proceeds of which have been used in current expenses, the government would have been asking congress for more bonds, or more tariff, to bolster up McKinley’s prosperity! News comes from every county in Indiana where the democrats have reorganized for the coming contest that the Chicago platform of 1896 has been unanimously endorsed. The People still maintain that silver shall be restored to the place in our monetary system that it did previous to 1873. Silver at that time was at a premium, but through the machinations of the monied class it is now at its lowest ebb. The democrats of the First district are still in favor of the free coinage of both gold and silver at the legal ratio of 16 to 1 without the consent of any foreign natiou, believing that the United States is able to care for itself. . -

Is November next Pike county will oust the biggest democratic majority that has ever been given any ticket for many years. Tne People are in favor of the restoration of silver, and besides that they endorse the administration of the democratic county officials who are laboring to decrease the county expenditures and to pay off the floating county order debt which was floated during the past four years. The expendituies have been greatly reduced during the past several months, and with the present economical administration the floating orders can all be taken up during the next year. The People are in favor of just such officials and will re-elect them by handsome majorities in November next. Repkesejctitive Allen of Mississippi, (•‘Private John Allen of Tupedo,”) has applied the well known story of the negro who baked the ’poesam, went to sleep beside it, and woke up to find the ’possum gone, with the bones lying before him and ‘possum grease on his fingers and lips, to republican talk of prosperity. The story makes the astonished darkey say: ‘ ‘Can it be possible d*t I eat dat 'possum while I was asleep? It do look like I must have eat him, but ‘To’ God, dat 'possum has less effect on my constitution' dan any ’possum 1 ever eat befo\" Mr. Allen says to the republicans: “You tell us about prosperity and show figures that look like prosperity, but ’fo’ God. this prosperity has less effect on my constitution than any prosperity I ever had in my life.” The republican party is the only party now advocating practical bimetallism—the use of both gold and silv r as circulating mediums'. The Brvanite theory would result only in silver monometallism.—Uoekport Journal. Anything but that. The republican party has just been forced to show its hand in Congress on the question of bimetallism and stood squarely on the side of gold and nothing else. The republicans in the Senate and House voted against the Teller resolution. The republican party stands squarely on the single gold standard policy as outlined by Grover Cleveland and followed up by Hanna. McKinley. Gage and others of the republican leaders. The republican party does not favor bimetallism in any1 form. The commission sent abroad seeking international bimetallism was a makeshift to lead people to believe that the republican party had some idea of bimetallism. Don’t run away from the issue. * The fight is now on in the republican ranks of Pike county in earnest. Xbe party is hopelessly divided and it wilk be impossible to heal up the disaffeetions by the nomination of a county ticket. Two years ago certain men were defeated for the purpose of placing others on the ticket and their friends now say they must be nominated this year or there will be trouble galore. The little bosses will not stand it. 'Jftiev want nothing but old liners or their friends nominated, and the man that split his ticket in 1896 must stand back and come into the ranks as a private. *In other words, the kicking republicans will not have a voice this year. They are not wanted in the secret councils of the gold bugs. These republicans who have been dubbed “kickers" say they will have their sav at the republican convention, or say it at the pobs in November as they did in ’96 To j be sure, there is peace and harmony in the ranks Of the g. o. p. in Pike county. Nit.

The president of the United States has been insylted by a Spanish blackguard who held the ooiumi>sion of his govern raentLis minister to the United States, and our d^artment of state has been held up to the ridicule of the world for allowing ] itself to be gulled by Spanish shams labeled autonomy for Cuba and negotiations for a ! reciprocity treaty; the insult was in writing,' the authorship of which was acknowledged by Setior de Lome, and has been published j throughout , the civilized world. The, natural thing to be expected after de Lome acknowledged having writtenj the published letter,was that Mr. McKinley ! would at once send de Lome his passports. Instead of that he sent a request to Madrid that de Lome be recalled, and before it was presented to the Spanish government, de Lome bad resigned and his government had accepted the resignation, and now Mr. McKinley is waiting to learn what Spain will say about it all. It has been proven j time after time by Congress that politics cuts no figure in. the solid backing always given a president who stands up firmly for1 any question affecting our honor or rights, t and Congress was and is still ready to back ; Mr. McKinley, even to the extent of a declaration of war, but be does uothing, i

The Record. “The Dingier deficit law is the greatest known failure in the history of the United States.”—Indianapolis Sentinel. How about thr Wilson bill, about which the Sentinel left uo word of denunciation unsaid ? How about even’ democratic tariff measure ever enacted? The Sentinel te as short on memory as it is on truth.—Fort Wayne Gazette/ There is no better evidence of the hopelessness of a cause than the fact that its champions have to resort to misrepresentation and falsification of notorious truths in order to make any defense of it. Of course our readers will remember that this statement as to the Sentinel is entirely untrue. It never had a word to sav in condemnation of the Wilson law except as it departed from democratic principles and violated the pledges of the democratic party. As it left the House it was an excellent democratic measure, but there were several amendments made in the Senate, especially those favoring the sugar trust and the coal combine, which the Sentinel condemned, and which it still condemns. But, with these defects, the record of the operation shows that it was based on correct principles, and that what was needed was merely an extension of the same principles to the entire tariff schedules. No more complete demonstration of this could be made than a comparison of the results of those of the McKinley law preceding it and the Dingley law following it, which were as follows:

f iscal year. im .I.. 1886<seven months) ...... .... 51.80i.S2o From this it is apparent that the disastrous condition to which the country was brought in the last year of the McKinley law (1894) was erring wav to the treatment of the Wilson law. until the tide was turned in the opposite direction by the Ditigley law, the deficit under which for the first seven months of the current year is already greater than in any entire year under the Wilson law. And this change is due/to the qualities of the Wilson law as a revenue producer, as is seen by the record of receipts from customs in these years: Fiscal year. Customs receipts. 1&4 . . . . fl3t.8W.fat )sft> ... 152.186,617 lS»nj .. ... 1(50.021,752 1887 . 17(5,.754.126 In other words,there was a steady growth of revenue under the Wilson law which would in ali probability have equalled expenditures by this lime, but with a great clamor for more revenue the Dingley law was put in its place, and we entered once more on the downward path. This is the record of the comparative effects of democratic and republican tariff laws on the national treasury, but their effects on our commerce are still more important, as will be seen from the following official'record of exports and imports of merchandise: -Year. Exports Imports. 180# *.. ♦ 892140,572 8654,804,622 1885 . . 807,538.165 731,808.065 The last year of the Wilson law, as compared with the last year of the McKinley law, shows an increase of imports of $110,000,000, and an increase of exports of $158,000,000. The exports for 1897 were the largest ever known in the history of the nation, and the balance of trade in our favor was also the largest ever known, jr aching the enormous sum of $‘386,263,144. This is the magnificent record that was made bv the law that has now been superceded by this wage-reducing,deficit-making, trade-destroying aboitiou known as the Diugley law. The only protection there is in it is the protection of trusts and combines that prey on the public and corrupt legislatures, courts and other officials. The democratic party has no need to a|*ologize for its tariff record, and would be standing on it today but that the distress caused by the goid standard and the danger of the' honest money steal outweigh ali other issues, —Indianapolis Sentinel. Richard L. Metcalf.. in the Omaha World-Herald, devotes several columns in defending W. J. Bryan from the infamous attack made upon him by the New York Journal. It was a masterly article and fully exploded the false theories advanced by the Journal. In giving a short forecaste of the outlook in 1900, he says: “It may be that Mr. Bryan may not be the uominee in 190Q-—life is very uncertain—but, fudging from the condition today, the man who undertakes to outline the campaign of 1900 omitting William J. Bryan as the leader of the democratic hosts, has limited his political observation to the immediate neighborhood of Wall street.” 1886 1806 1887 42.805.236 25.2U3.246 . 4 1880 1807 832,606.838 770,724,674 1,050.083,556 764,730,412

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Union of Forces. William J. Bryan has written an article for the New York Journal answering the question whether in the congressional campaign of 1898 there should be a union of forces by democrats, populists and free silver republicans. In answering the question in the affirmative he writes: Co-operation does not contemplate the abandonment of party organization or the surrender of any political principles; nor is co-operation defended on the ground that the platforms of the three parties are identical. Campaigns generally turn upon a few issues, sometimes upon one, and events do much to determine which issue shall' most absorb public attention. 1 If the democrats, populists and silver republicans'were agreed upon but one question, that question might be important enough to justify co-operation, although the parties differed on all other subjects. But those who advocate the union of the principal reform forces against the common enemy can point not to one, but to a number of reforms which are demanded with equal emphasis by democrats, populists and silver republicans. First—They are unalterably opposed to gold monometallism. Second—Thev demand the immediate restoration of bimetallism at the present ratio by the independent action o' this wmntrv

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Political I'ommeuts. Free coinage of silver would be just like the free coinage of gold. Gold now has free coinage by law; silver also had free coinage from 1792 to 1873, when Ij^a law secretly passed free coinage was taken from it. Bimetallists simply ask to have free coinage restored to silver, because experience has shown that the free coinage df both metals affords more stable prices than the use of only one. Is there anything new in the bimetallists’demand?—Washington Advertiser. ^ Republican statesmen are discovering that discrimination is a game two can play at, although it is not profitable or productive of good results to either.—Fort Wayne Journal. The trusts were never more open ahd defiant in their operations in Indiana than since the anti-trust law was passed. That iuw passed not only by the legislature, but also by all the officials who ought to enforce it.—Indianapolis Sentinel. How will President McKinley’s campaign utterance in 1896 agree with Secretary Gage’s single gold standard and greenback retiraey theory? President McKinley said: “I believe in a three-fold circulating medium, gold, silver and paper, with which to effect our exchanges, that shall be as sound as the government and as unsullied as its honor.—Huntingburg News.

It appears as though Secretary Gage was doing the administration's currency orating, hut high tariff Dinglev still does tariff prevaricating and, considering, does; it pretty well. It takes a heart of oak to go on daily contradicting the official deficit figures of the treasury.—Shoals News. There are men in both branches of Congress who are more afraid of the little lour letter word, g-o-l-d, than they are cf ithe devil, although they vote for everything that upholds gold, provided the word “gold” is left out. "Even the president of the United States seems touched with it his fear. lie used six words—"the best money .of the world”—when “gold” would have expressed all he meant.—PosevVilie Xews$ Now that the gamblers have cornered wheat, they put it to $1.10 and the republicans howl with glee. It does a farmer lots of good to know that if he had any to sell he would “have $1 wheat.” Hut the wages stiff go down.—English Democrat. Ex-Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho, speaks i>ut in no uncertain sound regardingj the growing sentiment favoring the free coinage of silver. He says there will be no compromise between the eastern gold bug democrats and the party organization. The silver men will get together1 oni the coinage question and work most zealously for success. Thousands ot people who voted the republican ticket under the belief that that party really intended to do something for silver are no longer deceived, and will vote with the democratic party. — Mt. Vernon Democrat: —o— The Teller resolution has had the effect to clear away the political fog and Show the alignment of parties for the struggle of 1898 and 1900. The vo|e shows that the republican party stand out for the single gold standard, the system prescribed by Rothschild and Wall street, while the filver republicans.populists and democrats present an unbroken phalanx fighting for gold and silver with equal rights at the mint.— Bluffton Banner. In casting about for material for a state ticket the democrats of Indiana should bear in mind that it is essential to select men whose records are not tainted with the gold standard fallacy. The democratic party islands today as firmly pledged to'the Chicago platform as it was in 1896, and if success is to crown the efforts of the party it is bf the greatest importance that no compromise be made. No democrat who has the good of the state and the democratic party at heart whose record is at all blotted with the gold standard will thrust his name upon the convention. The democrats can not be too careful in the selection of a ticket.—Portland Sun.

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