Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 June 1898 — Page 3

Nn rwrtstnhlt with Gmt Britain. A large number of people are asking •a what is the policy of the democratic party on the Hawaiian, Philippine and Puerto Kico annexation questions. It is impossible to answer thfc question at this time. The democratic party, unlike the republican party, is not operated by a junta. It makes its expressions known through the people, in na- • tional convention assembled every four “ years. What the party as a whole believes about these questions will find expression in the platform of 1900. Until then every individual democrat is free to express his opinion and to endeavor to find expression for it in the next national platform. This is democracy and the truth expressed by the majority. We are of the opinion that the great masses of democracy are favorable to the extension of the power of this republic. We want no colonies, but we do want coaling stations. We want the Nicaraguan canal, and the democratic party will construct it. -We want to drive England and every other foreign power out of the West Indies, and the democratic party will do it. We do not want an alliance with England or any other foreign powers The republican party favors an alliance with England, favors British partnership in the Nicaraguan canal and British partnership in all our affairs, national and international. The next national convention of the democratic party will draw the lines so plainly on these questions that every true American, whether adopted or na-tive-born, will rally to it« purpose.— National Democrat. HANNA’S BRIBERY cisE. The People Are Dcmasilas Prompt Action by the SCente— An Important <)aeitloa. What is the United States senate going to do with the bribery charges made against Mark Hanna? These charges, backed by the report of an investigation committee appointed by the Ohio state senate, have been laid before ^the upper house, and now the people of this country demand that prompt action be taken thereon. Fortunately for Hanna there is a war, though he asserted there would be none, pud that war has drawn attention from his disgraceful acts to matters of apparently larger moment. Apparently they are larger, but not so in reality. There can be nothing of more importance to the people of this country than in the honesty and patriotism of its lawmakers. Foes without can be met and conquered, but foes within are a constant and deadly menace to liberty. It should not be forgotten that the report of the investigating committee declares Mark Hanna personally or through his agents guilty pf bribery. He is alleged to have bought his seat in the United States senate as he' would buy a seat in the board of trade. Is the senate going to pigeonhole this indictment against one of its members 6r is it going to investigate the charges, and if it finds them sustained by the facta expel this man, who has corrupted men in order that be might be in a position to corrupt the l^ws? What is the senate going to do, anyhow?

PRESS COMMENTS -Secretary Gage ia not pushing his gold standard scheme much th#*e days, but he has it well in hand and ready to slip it through when opportunity of-fers.-—Kansas City Times. ——McKinley is a tried and approved agent of manufacturers, whom he is quick to serve. For the business of war be is not fitted, being neither statesman nor warrior.—Chicago Chronicle. ——Chairman Dingley would find it pleasanter to create a war revenue if he bad Ipot cultivated so much unfavorable comment on his failure to bring the receipts up tt^he expenditures in time *>f peace.—Cincinnati Enquirer. -What pleasant things our republican contemporaries are saying of the British government these days! And how they used to abuse Ambassador Bayard for uttering similar sentiments two or three ykars ago!—Rochester Herald. -McKinley started out to prosecute a holy war, but he has done it in anch a way that the public press is beginning to shoot hole* in his policy. They want the war prosecuted rigorously whether it is holy or not, and let ns have an end of It.—Louisville Dispatch. -It is hoped that the president is preparing to give the nation cause for an unusually big Fourth of July celebration by pushing the war with rigor, as reported by the administration papenu^But if he listens too much to Elkins, HViHfk A Co. he may min connect ^tjiom—jS’fT'Ixmis Republic. * -It has Wen remarked that William Mason has not been heard from since an opportunity was given freemen to respond for their country. But the belligerent statesman from Illinois has spoken at last. He has issued ao appeal to the gentlemen who robbed his house in Washington offering to compound the felony.—Detroit Free Press. -The Dingley law is a failure. Custom receipts in May. 1897, under the Wilson law, $17,000,000: in May. 1898. under the Dingley law, $13,400,534. The new tax hill will serve to hide from general view the deficiencies of the Dingley law. but its failure is nevertheless obvious. The treasury deficit for May was $17,800,000. It arises in part, of course, from war expenditures. These aside, however, the ordinary expenditures would have been in excess of the ordinary receipts, Dingley** lauded

I A DEGRADING POLICY. Tk« A»p*i«tiBc P»wer Akaaei ky tk# Atalatstnttm ta Military - The policy of appointing to military positions men without experience or fitness, simply because they are somebody’s sons or grandsons or are able to bring the right influence to bear on the appointing power, is causing widespread dissatisfaction. At one time it looked as if the president did not intend to adopt thin policy, but the last few days hare been exceedingly prolific in this class of appointments. It is hard to understand how the military service can be strengthened. Or such strength as it possesses be preserved through this besotted policy. It is not the way to meet a great national crisis. It is Argued that many of those men with cheaply won commissions will be placed where they will do the least possible harm, but their placing cannot alter the fact that this policy of be- j stowing military honors on the nnmili- I tary and undeserving has it in it to do j incalculable harm. What encourage- I ment Is there for experience and long j service when men who have no military knowledge whatever are put over those who have spent years in training and in fitting themselves for the stern duties of war? It would not be strange if the demoralisation of the military service followed upon the heels of such an inexcusable and unjust policy. Doubtless if it were not for the patriotism of the real soldiers, the government would find itself compelled to depend in this crisis upon the brains and the valor of its drawing-room warriors. What a farce popular government is in spots!—Binghamton (X. Y.) Leader. CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES. Preseat Appearances laAleate Democratic Saecess at the Polls Wit Pali. Democratic success in returning members to the house of representatives this fall will go a long way towards securing democratic victory in the presidential contest of 1900. But there is danger even in success. The danger will consist in sending unfit men to *he lower house. If cranks and impractical enthusiasts are elected they will do the party incalculable harm. Democracy is of the people and is for the people. The party does not exist\o further the ambitions of aspiring politicians. It has a prouder and more practical mission. There are plenty of wise, careful and brilliant men in the party who can | do it and the people good service in congress. Such men should be nominated and elected. Men with some one fixed idea to which all other things are secondary should not be given a place on any democratic ticket. Wild speeches in congress, incendiary utterances on the part of sincere but mistaken fanatics can do no good and cannot fail to do much harm. Conditions point toward democratic success at the polls this fall. That success should not be turned into defeat by a mistaken choice of congressional candidates. Let the selection be made with extreme care and the result in 1900 will fully repay ths efforts of the present.

OKIAfl O ArrUUUJUlli Shrewd Trtclc of the Administration *• Get the Democratic Leader Oat of the Wajr. Secretary of War Alger has weakened on bis scheme to keep William J. Bryan out of the army.- Clever secretary of war, Alger. It was stupid politics and worse patriotism for him to persecute the man wiho received 8,500,000 votes for president of the United States. McKinley, with a narrowness characteristic of the man, ignored Bryan’s offer for services, and when Bryan began td raise a regiment of soldiers Alger thought it would be a smart thing to prevent the acceptance of that regiment. All the anti-democratic papers were filled with spiteful glee over Alger’s shrewd trick. But it seems a new light dawned on the secretary of war. He has discovered that he made a monumental mistake when Missouri offered Bryan a regiment, and so he changed his plan. Now he proposes to accept Bryan’s regiment and send it to guard outlying islands of the Philippines. The Lad rones or Mariana islands have been suggested. This banishment of Bryan to the other side of the world is really a brilliant idea. The only wonder is that it did not occur to Alger and McKinley sooner. How anxious Alger and j Hanna and McKinley are “to be fair” with the late democratic candidate for president. Ptrietasa RepsbUeass Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is about the only republican politician who is true to the St. Louis platform. McKinley. Hanna & Co. used the St. Louis platform as a means to .^et into power and then they repudiated it, but Chandler is not that kind of a man. In discussing the war revenue bill Senator Chandler vigorously opposed the single gold standard and quoted from the records of McKinley, Allison and other republicans to show that they had frequently voted for silver and had supported the Stanley Matthews resolution. Secretary Cage eame in for a share of Chandler criticism and was charged with disregarding the St. Louis platform. When McKinley voted for silver a dollar was quoted at 92 cents. It was a dishonest dollar then. If McKinley was honest then, he is dishonest now. But if he was dishonest then, the republicans have raised a dishonest man to the position of chief executive of this nation. Republican hypocrisy received a sharp rebuke in the speech delivered by Chandler. The perfidy of the party was shown in a clear light. -It Is a curious fact that those whc jeer Mr. Bryan for raising a regiment have distinguished themselves in thit war only by raising their voice.—Chicago Evening News. « *

Dowbtfwl Mcwriic. George—And will yon bum me while I am «w«y> Ethel? Ethel—Indeed I wtU, George. "That’s some consolation to me. "And to me also, dear.” “Why to you V* “It will be such a consolation to have the pleasure of missing yon.”—Chicago Evening Oflatsu Dtfer. Alas! those qualities that cause us to feel our own superiority are precisely the ones that rate us aa inferior among our acquaint* Puck. _ WOMEN IN BUSINESS. From the Free Press, Detroit. Mich. A prominent business man recently expressed the opinion that there is one thing that will prevent women from completely filling sun's place in the business world— Onf can't bo depondsd upon because they are sick too often. This is refuted by Mrs. C. W. Mansfield, a business woman of 58 Farrar St., Detroit, Mich., who says: “A complication of female ailmenta kept me awake nights and wore me out. I could get no rebel from medicine and hone waa slipping away from me. A young lady in my employ gave me a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. I took them and was able to rest at night for the first time in months. 1 bought more and took thorn and they cured me as they also cured several other people to my knowledge. 1 think that if you should ask any of the drug' B' ts of Detroit who are the best buyers of . Williams' Pink Pills they would s*v the young women. These pills certainly Wild up the nervous system and many a young woman owes her life to them. “As a business woman I am pleased to r e e o m -

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The OUlfM The standsrdof the Celestial Empire is a ay queer looking dffair. It represents the moat grotesque of green dragons on s yellow ground. The latter is suggestive not only of onT out also of that of this the nations] col a sufferer from 1_ unbecoming tint from the_,__„ Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which will •preally regulate your Uver, prevent malaria, and remedy dyspepsia, nervousness, rheum* turn and kidney omplaint. May Bo a Destiny Follow. "I have just weed,” mid CholKe, “that the gweat Napoleon spent more than ft,000 a yeah on dwess. It tewwifiee me.” “What terrifies you, you idiot?** asked his disgusted father. “To find that we aw so similar. Who knows but I am one of those destiny feh lows.”—Indianapolis Journal. Try Alloa's Foot-Dose, A powder to be shaken into the shoes. At this season your feet feel swollen, nervous and hot, and get tired easily. If you have smarting feet or tight shoes, try Allen’s Foot-Ease. It cook the feet ana makes walking easy. Corea swollen and sweating feet, blisters and callous spots. Relieves corns sad bunions of all pain and gives rest and comfort. Try It to-day. Sold by all druggists and aboe stores lor 25c. Trial package FREE. Address, Allan S. Olmsted. Lt Roy, N. Y.

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A FAMILY FAILING. The struggle with Heredity. '' • ; ——." ■ ! The Right Side of the *^olonLlne» - i * *

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