Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 51, Petersburg, Pike County, 29 April 1898 — Page 4

Etofik* Counttj £}nwrtat By n. McC. STOOPS. One Tear, in advance.|1 *5 9 Six Months, in advance. US Entered at the pastofflce in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as sceoud* class matter. FRIDAY, APRIL 29,1898. Democratic Ticket, for Townii arahai, ADAV a.^Y. For Worn# Clfitif, PERRY A.CHAPPELL For Town Treasurer, WILLIAM LI IBS. For Town Trustee—First Ward, WILLARD A. FLEMING. For Town Trustee—Third Ward, PLEASANT O. SMITH. Vote for Andy Lory for marshal. Vote for Perry Chappell for town clerk. Vote for Fleming and Smith for trustees. The ring of Petersburg was hit hard. The slate was smashed. Don't forget the town election next Monday, and vote for a change. The resolutions of the republican convention last Saturday should be published, j Thompson’s new fangled convention wa-; a riproaring farce comedy and full of errors. Sow will Thompson, editor of the Press and chairman of the republican party, be good.

Vote for William Liihs for treasurer of the town of Petersburg. His interests are all here. j Everybody voteti ami voted as many J tickets as they could get hold of at the j republican convention. ^War was declared Monday by congress. Spain will now take warning that Uncle Sam is after her with big guns. James Garry. postmaster general, has resigned and the president has filled the vacancy in his cabinet by appointing Emery Smith of Philadelphia. Hundreds of staunch republicans were disgusted with the proceedings of the convention last Saturday and went away determined never to attend .another republican convention.! It is requested that the Petersburg Press publish the resolutions adopted by the! republican convention last Saturday. The people would like to $ee where they stand on the money question. Hon. John Sbxjulax, secretary of state in President .McKinley's cabinet, tendered his resignation .Jo the president Monday last. Assistant Secretary Pay will probably he appointed to fill the vacancy. The lag democratic convention was held yesterday at Winslow. A full report of the proceedings will be given next week. As th« Democrat goes to press on Thursday the proceedings cannot be given this week. The city election takes place next Tuesday. If you desire a change in the management of affairs, Mr. Taxpayer, make a mark in the first cireie on the ticket. Taxes have been nearly doubled daring the past six years in Petersburg and there is nothing to show for it. Vote for a change.

Vumwl R GiEbt, secretary of the county republican committee, handed in his resignation last Saturday to County Chairman Thompson, which was accepted and the chairman will no doubt make another appointment in the near future. That harmony which the Press has been talking so much about seems to hare vanished into space and cannot be found. Caatuus Thompson, it would seem, has a great desire to run all the political patties in this section of the state. He has nominated candidates for the democratic and populist parties, but his own favorites were turned down Saturday. Don’t meddle with the other parties, professor, they are capable of managing their own affairs, you see you have troubles of your own will take up all your spare time.

PiXE county democrats are too honest 10 declare for tree coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, when the relative commercial values are as 86 to 1.—Petersburg Press. Pike county democrats in convention will endorse the Chicago platform, and will endorse the economical administration of county affairs. But now, really, Thompson, was the republicans in convention ashamed to endorse Mark Hanna et al, the trusts, Wall Street and the finglish syndicates? Publish the resolutions. It has been the prevailing thought for j sometime that Mr. Virgil Qreen of Peters- j burg, would be a candidate for prosecuting j attoruey on the republican ticket; but we ; learu from a reliable source that such is j not the case, and it is now generally sup- j B>sed that the nomination wul fall to John ] . N. Norman.—Ireland item. Not for a minute will the Pike county ! republicans let the nomination go to Dubois county. Jay DeBruler and L. £. Woolsey of Pike are candidates for that position and as Pike has the votes it will carry off the plum.

We understand that a volcanic eruption will occur in the democratic ranks before many moons have come and gone. There is nothing now bnt fragments—“bosses” and “anti-bosses.”—Petersburg Press. Say, Thompson, as chairman of the republican party and editor of the republican paper, you should harp less on the term “bosses” since what transpired at the republican convention last Saturday. There may be “bosses” in the republican party, as was shown in that convention, but some of them were completelv knocked out. The bonds authorized by the war revenue bill reported to the House from the Ways and Means committee are coin bonds—the gold idea hail to be abandoned by the few who entertained it—bearing 3 per cent interest. $500,000,000 is the amount, to run from ten to twenty years at the pleasure of the government. The issue of $100,000,000 in 3 per cent treasury certificates of indebtedness is also authorized. “The bill makes increases in the internal revenue tax on beer and manufactured tobacco, and provides for new taxation, mostly by stamps, similar to the system in vogue just after the war, that will it is estimated add $100,000,000 a year to the government’s revenues. Ik “16 to 1” be not a dead issue with the democrats of Pike county, why was the phrase omitted in the resolutions passed at the democratic quarrel last Saturday week? There may be such a thing as judging too harshly, but the Press believes that the democrats themselves are not in favor of free coinage of silver at* the ratio of 16 to 1 when the commercial ratio of the two metals is about 36 to 1. * * Petersburg Press. If the single gold standard, better money for the bondholder, etc., is not a [dead issue in Pike county why did not you as chairman of the republican party say so in convention last Saturday. The convention failed to endorse any part of the St. Louis platform. Jcdge David J. Hefron has been solicited all over this district to become a can* didate for appellate judge; but listening to his many friends in this district, regardless of politics, who have most earnestly urged him to again become a candidate for judge of the 49th judicial circuit he couid not refuse such a show of friendship and good will and ha& given away to their appeals. Judge Hefron has gained an enviable reputation as a just and honest judge and has gained a reputation for this district second to none in the state. That our people fully appreciate him and his just administration of justice goes without saying and his place would be hard to fill on the bench'. Martin eonnty democracy is unanimous in his favor and his nomination will be made by acclamation. We are for Judge Hefron first, last and all the time.-—Shoals News.

The Jfew York Journal of Commerce has published an article showing the enormous expense of the civil war. In the four years of the war the direct expenditure of thenational government amounted to about $8.1 SO,000,000, of which *2.920,000,000 should be charged to the war. Of this amount *730.000,000 was obtained by issu* ing greenbacks and bonds. The interest on the war debt during and since the war to July 1. 1897, amounts to *2.664,000,000. making the total cost of the war to the end of the last fiscal vear *7.771,000,000. The country is now payiug in pensions and interest money on account of the civil war about *3.500,000 every week. The Journal of Commerce estimates tharby the time all j the liabilities are settled the money cost of the late war will bare amounted to no less than *12,000.000,000, a sum equal to the entire assessed valuation of all the property in the United States at the beginning of the conflict. *' It is the duty of the republicans of Petersburg to eleet the entire republican town ticket at the May election by an unprecedented majority.—Petersburg Press. The (act is, professor, the ticket has always been elected by unprecedented majorities and the town has been run in debt and bonds issued every two or three years, and with nothing to show for it. Besides all this the taxes have been doubled during the past few years. The following shows the rate of taxes for the several years; WHO. rate on tbefluO . j. f SO 1*1. raieon the 9HK> _ j. » ISfi, rate on the >100 ____ .... l oi 1*3. rate on the >100 . ... M ISM, rate on the I HO. . 1 <K 1*5. rate on the *1(0 . .. 1 25 1*6, rate on the <100 . ...18 I**?, rate on the *140 . 1 51 The above figures were published a few weeks ago and the professor has not disputed them or shown why the rate of taxation has been increased. Taxpayers of Petersburg, is it not about time that you were voting for a change? With increased valuation and increased taxes it has become burdensome upon the poor people of this town. Vote for a change.

Oxi country, one flag, and one object— the licking of Spain. That is the all prevailing sentiment in the United States ^ince the war actually begun. Now that Mr. McKinley has shaken off the Banna peace-at-any-price crowd and their benumbing influence, he has become thoroughly alive to the necessities of the situation. This has been particularly noticeable during the past week. He started on the right track when he asked Congress for authority to use the army and navy to drive Spain oat of Cuba; he took the proper step when he sent that ultimatum to Spain ; again when he recognized the dismissal of our minister by Spain as an act of war; again when lie issued his proclamation calling for 125,000 men to serve two years unless sooner dis - charged. Congress is right behind every one of these moves and the people are right behind Congress. The enthusiasm is unprecedented, and every Spanish flag cap- j tured by our warships add to it. The only ! regret that is heard is that all who desire to participate in avenging the Maiue cannot do so, as each state will insist on furnishing its full quota of the troops called for.

Tb£ question which confronts us in case of war with Spain is, whether we will hare more taxation and less money with which to pay taxes, or less taxation and more money to stimulate business and furnish the means of paying taxes. If the government would coin the fifty millions of silver bullion in the treasury which belongs to the government as seignoriage, that would help some, because silver certificates could be issued on it, which would be good money and would stay at home and not desert us in time of need, and not become naturalized in the coinage laws of foreign countries and join in the ranks of the enemy. ^Fhk peculiar fascination of “16 to 1*’ no longer charms the democrats of Pike county, or else they would have said something [about that shibboleth of power in their meeting on the 9th inst. It is said, that familiarity breeds contempt.—Petersburg Press. Really, it would make very interesting reading if the Press would only publish the resolutions of the convention held last Saturday. Did the convention favor the single gold standard or “better money for the bondholders?" What is the reason the democrats did not declare for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the yatio of 16 to 1 at their mass convention last Friday night ?—Petersburg Press. Say, professor, as chairman of the republican party of Pike county and editor of the Press, will you please publish the resolutions of the republican county convention held at Winslow last Saturday. The people would like to read them, Don't make any apology. ; The democrats of Madison township will meet in mass convention at the Bowman school house. Friday, Slav 6th, at 1 o’clock p. in., for the purpose of nominating candidates for the various township offices to be voted for at the November election. By order of committee. S. M. Williams, Chairman, E. T. Fowler. Secy. Clay, Madison and Jetferson townships cast at the last election 502 republican votes but Thompson’s convention did not give them a single representative on the ticket. Tue Press of this city is booming Rev. Josephus Lee, populist, for congress. What’s the matter with Bemenway or some other republican.

Honest Dollars. What is an honest dollar? You hear a great deal about an honest dollar, but you don’t get many definitions of it, or, rather, you don't often get a definition of it front those who talk about it most. You ask one of the advocates of the gold standard what he regards as an hones! dollar, and he will look wise—because the advocate of the gold standard as a rule looks wise—and he tells you that by an honest-dollar he means sound money. Well, you ask him what he means by sound money, and he looks a little wiser— if it is possible for him to look wiser than he ordinarily does—and he says that by sound mouev be means an honest dollar. And it is hard to get him out of the circle. But if yon get him out and get him to define it, you will get this definition: That an honest dollar or sound money is money which when melted li»es none of its value. Now, that is what they call‘‘the melting pot test." You take the melting pot test aw»v from the advocate of the gold standard and be has nothing left. The melting pot test is his test for determining whether a money is sound or a dollar is honest. I want to show, that that definition is not correct. That definition leaves out of consideration the most important thing a dollar. Why, according to that definition, purchasing power is immaterial. Lest me illustrate: Suppose that all the nations in the world j should get together and decide upon the! gold standard and agree upon our dollar as a unit; and then suppose as soon as that was done the nations decided that we had too much money—decided to gather together 99 per cent of, all the money in the world and sink it in the ocean. What would be the result we would still j have ah honest doliar. liecause if you melted it you wouldn’t lose anything. But if you owed a debt and started out to get the money to pay it you would have to surrender about 100 times as much of your property to get the same amount of money, bnt it would be honest, because if you melted the dollar it wouldn’t lose any thing.—William Jennings Bryan. 1 Season of Hope. To those afflicted with kidney or bladder diseases is Foley’s Kidney Care. Guanafeed. J, R. Adams & Son, a

Democracy and Reincarnation. The essence of the theory of transmigration is that the soul is indestructible; that for ar time it inhabits a body until that body dies, whereupon, instead of dying also, or departing for eternity to some heaven or hell, it sooner or later is reborn in the flesh, carrying with it the same qualities which appertained to it during its first habitation. During each period of occupation the soul,, by reason of environment, and other causes, develops or retrogrades in character. The re-entering of the soul into a new body is described as &e “reincarnation" of the soul. Whatever jfe correctness of this theory as applied to individuals, the brieif history of the American republic demonstrates its correctness as applicable to the soul of the nation. Prior to the American revolution the spirit of liberty had incarnated itself on .earth for brief periods, at long intervals jp various forms, but not until then had it developed into the form of freedom and equality of the people—all the people. Since then this spirit of liberty—this soul of the nation—has at times taken up its abode in one political party and sometimes in aucther.

Wealth brings power. " Power breeds arrogance. Wealth and power are the twin foes of the elements of democracy, freedom and equality. There are exceptions to the rule—which but prove its truth. During the period prior to the war the southern democracy waxed wealthy and arrogant. Liberty died within the party, and its soul passed into and was reincarnated in the republican party, which in its earlier years became the exponent of the true Jeffersonian principles of freedom and equality—of government by the people. 11 turn the controlling element in the lepublicau party became wealthy and liberty pined away. Does the sugar trust bel eve in ‘‘freedom and equality”’of all the people? Does the oil trust or the steel trust, or the two hundred other trusts? How can they, when the primary object of a trist is to “smash the fellow;” to crush out competition; to reduce ail engaged iu that particular busij ness to the position of si bordinates, employes, and subject to th^ control of the managers of the trust. Trusts in the business world are as inconsistent with freedom and equality as a monarchy is inconsistent with a republic. The American trusts are not only in the business wcrld, but in the political field. Is there any doubt ;>s to which party they are suppor ;ing? It is officially on record tjat a few years back the sugar trust contributed heavily to both the democratic and the republican campaign funds, but can anj one point out a trust which contributed to the last democratic campaign treasury, or which is not now enthusiastically supporting the repubr lican party, and the single gold standard? If so, we shall be glad to hear of it, and print its name and the names of its managers. The spirit of equality—of fair play—of j live and let live—still exists in thousands pf republicans, but the great controlling influences, in the grip of which the rauk and file are powerless, is the monarchial spirit of the sixteenth century, which has no use for “the people” except for what they can make out of them. The spirit of liberty as a vitalizing influence cannot coexist in the same organization with the spirit of concentration of power. It does not exist nor control in the republican party today. The corpse of liberty lies mangled and cold on the threshold of. the republican home in which it once dwelt, and its spirit has flown and become reincarnated in the democracy—not the $20 a plate Princeton brand—but the new democracy which once more bears aloft the banner of Jefferson and Lincoln: the democracy which0 places the man above the dollar, and demands that the people and all the people shall have equal rights before the law and equal opportunity before the world.—National Intelligencer.

Democratic Congressional Convention. At a meeting of* the democratic district committee held in city of Evansville. April 14, 1898. it was ordered that a democratic congressional convention be held at Boonville, Warrick county, Indiana, on Thursday, May 1$. 1898, at 1:30 p. m. to nominate a candidate for the Fifty-sixth congress from the First congressional district of Indiana. The basis of representation is one delegate for each 100 votes and a fraction in excess of fifty votes cast for William J. Bryan, elector, John B. Stoll, in 1896, as follows: County. Votes. Gibson . m Pike . . ... » Posey . St Spencer. 27 YaoUerbara . ...— "0 Warrick .....- ....29 By order of the democratic district committee of the first congressional district. John W. Spencer, Chairman. W. E. Stillwell, Secretary. Joint Senatorial Convention. To the democrats of Pike, Vanderburg and Warrick oounties: Notice is hereby given that a convention will be held at Boon villa, Indiana, onj Thursday, May 13, 1898, at 1 o’clock p. m. j for the purpose of nominating a candidate | for joint state senator from the district! composed of Pike, Vanderburg and j Warrick counties. One delegate will be; allowed for each 100 votes cast for William J. Bryan for president in 1896. W. J. Richardson, Chairman Pike County? Glrlet Tavlo*. Chairman Warrick County; J. R. Goodman, Chairman Vanderburg County. Co to H. H. Tislow lor ail kinds of watch and clock repairs, 28*

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