Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 June 1898 — Page 4

ghrfilu Countg framat mr m. ncc. ntoofw. ha« Tear, in advance— .$1 *5 itx Months, In advance .v... «5 Entered at the poatofflce In Petersburg for transmliwion through the malls as second* class matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1898. Democratic County Ticket. For Congress, First District, tHi >|f AM &r.N£*S. For Joint-Stale Ateivat or, FJDWAUD P, EICHAHD80N. For Clerk. LEWIS K. TRAYLOR. For Auditor, WILLIAM H. SCALES. For Treasurer, ON I AS O. SMITH. For Sheri IT, W. M. HI DO WAY. For Coroaer, ALLEN RUMBLE. For Surveyor, A. U. CATO. For Commissioner. First District, JOSEPH L. ROBINSflfo. For Commissioner, Third District, WILLIAM n. BOTTOMS. Democratic Stale Convention. Inwakapous' IaD., May 23,1898. To the Democracy of Indiana: The Democratic* state convention will Assemble at Tomlimson Uall, in the city oi Indianapolis, at \0 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, June 22, 1898, for the purpose of nominating candidates for state offices to Jbe voted for at the November election, 1898: the adoption of a platform and such other business as may properly come before the convention. The basis of representation to Mid convention as fixed by the democratic state committee is one delegate for each 200, and one delegate for each fraction, of 100 more, of the votes cast for Hon. John B. Stoll, presidential elector, 1896. Under this apportionment the convention will cou* stst of 1,528 delegatee. The offices for which nominations will be made are as follows;

secretary of state. Auditor of state. Treasurer of state. Attorney-Geueral. Clerk of supreme court. Superintendent of public instruction. Chief of Indiana bureau of statistics. State Geologist. Judge of supreme court, second district. Judge of supreme court, third district. Judge of supreme court, fifth district. Judge of appellate court, first district. Judge of appellate court, second district. Judge of appellate court, third district. Judge of appellate court, fourth district. Judge of appellate eourt, fifth'district., Parks M. Martin, Chairman. As a BEL H. Wampler, Secretary. It is about time that the new republican county committee was paying off those old whisky debts contracted in the last campaign in Pike county. 55H™S""55S!"!SSBB!HHP As Ilanna ought to do something to help along the war which he said wouldn’t happen, how would it do to make him surgeon to a regiment of immunes? Republican newspapers of the First district an not going wild over the nomination of Jim Hemenway for Congress. Many of them think Jim has served long enough. That seems to be the senti ment of the voters of Pike county and they will either vote for Puncan or stay at home on election day. Hon. S, Thompson, chairman of the re-» publican party, ha/ been howling himself j hoarse about the populists of the couuty for! their fallun so far to put a ticket in the [ field. Now, to be plain about the matter, does the chairman favor the putting of another ticket in the field or does he not . fa*or it? ______ The prohibitionists nominated this state tickat: Secretary of state, Aaron Worth, .Jay county; auditor, Rev. M. A. 'Farr, Greencastle; treasurer, Prof. J. F. Kinsey, Lafayette; attorney general, B. P. Watson, j Indianapolis; superintendent of public j instruction, J5. A. DeVore, Richmond;! clerk of the supreme court, D. W. Welch, fit. Vernon; state geologist, V. E. Baldwin, Miami county; stats statistician. J. O. j Ledbetter, Frankfort. Nominations far the jripreme court were left in the hands of the , committee, i

- “ The democratic ticket, district ?end county, as now presented is one of the strongest individually and collectively, ever pat forth. Some of these men have been tried daring the past year and have proven themselves men of honor and integrity and who have had at all times the best Interests of taxpayers in view in the management of comity affairs. The expenditures of eonntT funds has been greatly curtailed, so much so that a large part of the floating order debt has been paid. That is just what they were elected for and they are fulfillin'* that promise to the letter. Not only that but thq whole floating order debt of some* thing like $10,000 will be wiped out in another year instead of being increased as it was under the former administration. In two years time the county was plunged in debt over $30,000 not counting the bonds which were issued to build the jail. The jail was needed, but it was rather an ex* pensive job. It is the duty of the tax* payers to look well to their interests in the coming campaign and elect the democratic ticket from top to bottom. The men who compoee it are well known to you and will perform their official duties with credit and honor to the countv.

Senator Morgan of Alabama, indulged in some very plain talk, just after tbe Senate had by a vote of 45 to fil decided to put the clause for the issue of bonds and certificates of indebtedness back in £be war revenue bill in place of the clause for the issue of greenbacks, which was put iu the bill by the Senate finance committee. He declared that tbe national bank combination, which he believed to be far stronger in the matter of controling the destiny, of the couutry than the 150,000 soldiers pow in the field for the Uuited States, was behind the conspiracy to force a bond issue upon the people, and that, no governmeut has ever been ridden by such an incubus as this, and no government ought to yield to such an imposition/’ No surprise was caused by the vote in the Senate, as it had been a foregone conclusion from the first. The democrats who voted for bonds were, Caffery, Faulkner, Gorman, Gray, Lindsay, Mitchell and Murphy. The silver republicans voted solidly against bonds; also the populists. Tbe republican county ticket is growing in f%vor each day. The republican candidates are christain gentlemen of high landing and there, is not a single one of them but that is capable, painstaking, and honest.—Petersburg Press. If so,, the county chairman will please state for the benefit of those Christians that attended the republican county convention who furnished all the whiskey that was taken from Petersburg. The convention lias characterized by hundreds of republicans as a drunken howling mob and many were disgusted with the proceedings ami left for home long before the convention adjourned. It is time to pay off that whiskey debt of the last campaign. Czar Reed decided to eat that humble pie as privately as possible. In order to avoid caucus action that everybody would recognize as a slap in his face, he has promised to allow the House to vote upon the resolution for the annexation of Hawaii during the present week. It lias been hinted, however, that this concession isn't as great as it appears to lie, and that Reed held the House up until a combination had been arrahged iu the Senate that will be strong enough to prevent the Senate voting on the resolution before adjournmeut. Mr. McKinley’s friends are saying that if the Seuate doesn’t act, <-he will, by seizing Hawaii as a war measure.

Again has the republicans been put on record by the United States senators as being unfavorable to silver. Last Friday a resolution came up in that body to coin the silver now in the vaults at the rate of $4.~ 1)00,000 per month in order that revenue might be raised to carry ou the present war. Nearly every republican senator voted against the measure, all being in favor of interest bearing bonds. Senator Fairbanks voted against the resolution. No democrat Voted against any bill the sole purpose of which was to provide revenues for the war. Oetnoorats do object, however, to making the war an occasion far bleeding a patriotic people for the benefit of the Wall street gang of blood suckers that have always made the extremity and necessities of the nation their opportunity for the most outrageous swindling of the people. _ Tueke is nothing that our republican editors like better than a healthy advance in the matter of baying paper and printers’ i supplies. Type has advanced during the past j few weeks and the usual discount has been j greatly reduced and paper and stationary j is going up nght along. But their reyenye ! in return remains just the same. Sesato* Fairbanks, republican senator From this state, is in favor of issuing bonds to carry on the war instead of issuiug greenbacks and coining the seniorage in the treasury. Senator Turpie, the senior senator From Indiana, stands just opposite and is tgainst a bond issue until it becomes accessary. Tbs manner in which candidates were aommated at the republican county conrention is toil! breeding new troubles every | lay. The numerous jugs of whisky taken From Petersburg and which was drank From the jugs along the Winslow road ranks in the bosoms of a great many voters Tax old soldiers of Indiana have called For the removal of H. Clay Evans, pension commissioner, but he has not yet been removed. The republican papers set op a lug ury about Lochreu and Hoke Smith, but are not saying a word about Evans bebe is a republican.

Tarn* are reasons for the statement that two many orders from Washington are seriously hampering and delaying oar naval success in Cuban waters. The Spanish fleet would have been located several days earlier than it was had there been no orders from Washington. It was an order from Washington that sent Admiral Sampson to take command of the blockading squadron off Santiago de Cuba, after Commodore Schley had run the game down and was preparing to bag it. This may not affect the fighting of the squadron,but it certainly j will not increase its efficiency. Without] pretending to say which of the two men is the best to be in command, anyone can se^ 1 that justice would have allowed Schley,

who is in reality Sampson's senior officer— they are both commodores, Schley the senior, but Sampson was made acting admiral when the war began--to have an opportunity to carry out his plans and get all the glory he could out of capturing or destroying the Spauish fleet. Sampson was ordered from Washington not to attack until the army, which ought to be there by this time, was landed to assist in taking Santiago. It was this order that caused Sampson to blockade the entrance to the harbor, aud thereby bring about one of the most heroic deeds of. the war—the sinking of the 17. S. collier Merrimac in the channel at the harbor entrauce by a volunteer crew under Lieutenant Hobson. If he couldn't go in after the Spanish fleet, he wanted to make sure that the Spanish fleet couldn't get out if one of the sudden storms, frequent at this season in those waters, should compel a temporary withdrawal of his ships. Lieutenaut Hobson aud his brave crew, whose daring deed is unsurpassed in naval history, were all captured, but steps are being taken to bring about their immediate exchange for Spauish prisoners held by this government. If the orders from Washington are not of a pacific siege, General Shatter and his array and Admiral Sampson and his squadron ought to tie in possession of the Spanish fleet, or so much of it as is afloat after the assault, and of Santiago before this week is ended. They cannot, of course, act contrary to their orders. It is about time for Secretary Long to repeat that fairy tale about'Sampson and Schley not being hampered by orders from Washington. The bill to permit volunteer soldiers in the field to vote at congressional elections wherever they are stationed, has been favorably reported to the House from the elections committee. The report says: “The justice aud propriety of permitting our eitizeu soldiers in the field to exercise their civil rights as voters during their military service will be eoueeded by all. Our policy as a nation has been to call on a citizen to perform duty as a soldier at any time when his services may be needed. Tq deny him the right to vote while performing such duty would deprive many of the best of our citizens of all participating in civil government.” Here is a hot .-hot at Prof. Thompson, chairman of the Pike county republican committee, from the Worthington Times, a redhot republican paper: No friend of Hon. F. B. Posey of Evansville. and he has a host of them in Greene county, will fail to resent the action of the Petersburg Press in attacking 31 r. Posey by innuendo because he sees fit to disagree wi:h the editor of the Press. Mr. Posey is the peer, intellectually, of any man in the state; has labored all his life for the welfare of the republican party, and we mi-s our guess if his Pike county friends do not resent, in a fitting manner, the contemptible action of the Press.

The postoflk-e department has audited the postal account between the Uniled! States and Spain and finds a balance ap- , proximate]}-, of $50,000 due this country, j at'the date of severance of friendly relations. Spain is one of the very few nations : with whom we have no money order system ! being used with that nation and colonies, j The foreign division of the post office departtnent has experienced considerable: difficulty in the past in collecting balances due from Spain. Jrxs 14 will be flag day owing to the fact that the present national flag was adopted : by Congress*on the 14th of June, 1777. The first official flag of the present design j ever used on sea or land was made in June, j 1776, from a rough drawing modified by General Washington, who substituted the star of five points instead of the six pointed star that had been originally in the draft., This day should be appropriately observed i this year. Host. John M, Smith has been nominated by the democrats of Jay county for judge of that judicial circuit. The judge is an old friend of the editor and we are much gratified to learn of his nomination. He is a lawyer of much ability, stands in the highest esteem by democrats throughout Northers Indiana, and will do honor to the people who cast their votes for him at the j November election. Hon. Leroy W«joe of Posey county, will be a candidate before the state convention for appellate judge of this district. Leroy ; is well known in this county where he has j made a number of speeches in the last several years and his many friends will wish j him success. As a campaigner he has few j equals and is always for the people shd ! against corporations and trusts in every particular. Dm. A. J. Thomas, who for a number of years was superintendent of the Southern Indiana asylum at Evansville, died last Wednesday. He was a very clever gentleman and well known throughout the state. He at one time was the editor of the Vincennes Son and also served as treasurer of Knox county, having been elected by the democrats.

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