Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 June 1898 — Page 4

1 Kilt fife Br m. MieC. STOOPS. Ou* Year. In advance... #1 *5 Six MouUui, in advance ... *» Gtittrrd at the pout office In Pt rsbur* for trantmlaalou thruujeh the malts a* aceond-ela-Mi matter. KKiDAY, JUNE 17, 1898. Democratic County Ticket. +— . * * For Corner***, First IKatrUH, THOM AS DUNCAN. For Joint-Stale Serator. JKDWAKI' 1*. RICHARDSON. For Clef*. JL.KWIS K. TKAY1.KR. For Audi tor. WIIXIAM H.SCALES. For Treaauter, ON (AS O. SMITH. For Sherllf, .. W. M. RIDUWAY. .. For t or-ujer. ALLEN KI MKLK. For Surveyor, A. G. CATO. Far Commissioner. First IHtdriet, JOSEPH L. ROBINSON. Fur CouiUJlMiom r, Third lHstrlet, AVI 1.1.1AM 11. BOTTOMS.

Uea^mlir Slate Convention. Uburakiis, ‘Ikd., May 23,1898. To the Democracy of Indiana: The Democratic state cou vent ion will juiserabie at Tonilinsou Hall, in the city of I ludianafadis, at 10 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, Jane 22, 1808, for the purpose of’ nominating candidates for state office* toi be ruled for at the November election, 1898: | the adoption of a platform and such other j business as may properly ooiue beforv the; cooveution. The basis of representation to j said convention as fixed by the democratic j Mate committee is one delegate for each 800. ] and one delegate for bach fraction, «>f 100 or more, of the votes cast tor Hon. John B. Stoll, presidential elector, 1896. Under this apportionment the convention mill congest of 1,528 delegates. The offices for which nominations will be made are as follows; Secretary of state. Auditor of state. Treasurer t»f state. Attorney-General. Clerk of supreme court. SujK4rintendenl of public instruction. Chief of Indiana bureau of statistics. State Urologist. Judge of supreme court, second district. Judge of supreme court, third district. Judge of supreme court, fifth district. Judge pf appellate court, first district. Judge Of appellate court, .second district. Judge of apellate court, third district. Judge of appellate court, fourth district. Judge of appellate court, fifth district. Parks M. Martin, Chairman. Asahel H. Wampler, Secretary. The republican state convention will be beld August 10th at Indianapolis. ' The American flag is now planted on Cuban soil. Long may she wave for the cause of humanity. - The democratic stalks convention will he held at Indianapolis next week. It promises to be the largest gathering of free silver ! people ever held m Indiana. The Prese should publish the ballots of the republican county convention and let republicans know the rote on each candidate. They no doubt would like to know just how that tie vote stood for auditor, i warn.. ggg Pros the out counties of this congressional district comes first class anti Heraenway news. In this city the leagues are in- j creasing rapidly in membership, and thej defeat of Mr. Hrmenway is an assured fact. —Evansville Bulletin (Republican.) The fight for the republican nomination for prosecuting attorney in this district is ranking a great deal of trouble for that ,t party. Pike county has two candidates and Dubois has a candidate or two. Whether there will be a convention or not remains |o be seen. The muddle is growing. While the wheat gam biers at Chicago was running up the price of May wheat the Press of this city wa- giving all the credit i of the $1,87 wheal to MvKiuiey. Now that wheat has gone down to about 70 cents the Press is about as mum as an oyster. The prospect for a big harvest of w heat is a sad itferv to the Press-Cbtcago price.

.. .;.... --anTs«or«H favor* of the administration the country b blessewith the largest wheat crop known for many yean. Something like the above will be shortly taking precedence over the heavy editorials In the republican papers. The price of wheat in the last few weeks has taken a tumble and j » now down to about what it was last spring. ' 1 When the Pike county fanner takes his ' woo) to market, he should remember that Jim Hemenway voted for the Dingly law.— | Petersburg Pross. If Jim llemenway and Pingley had any. ! thing to do with the price of wool the; people dont know anything about it. Wool is always lower under a high tariff than it : is when a low tariff is in force. If ia high duty has anything to do with it then wool should be 35 cents per pound. j Tbe United States senate by a vote last I week passed a bill to tax the sugar trust Paud the standard oil trust. Again were | the republicans put on recortl as favoring [ and fosuring trusts and combinations. The democrats, except two. voted for the measure, white all but four of the republican senators voted against t he measure. Senator [ Fairbanks voted in favor of the trusts. The senate as now constituted are putting the republicans on record and making them show their hand on all questions. - .- The democrats are churning to have a majority of from 300 to 500 in Pike county. The Press is of the opinion that they are 1 badly mistaken.—Petersburg Press. The above is written by the chairman of the republican party, who is now sole proprietor and Chief boss of the republicans and who most dance at tbe crack of the whip. The democrats are not making any claims, but if the present chairman will continue to act in his present capacity and stump the county, the democrats are likely to carry the county by TOO or 800. The democrats and populists and the free silverites of Gibson county nominated the following ticket last Saturday, and it is safe to say that it will be elected by a handsome majority in November: ' Representative—David B. Hart. Auditor--W. C. Casey. Treasurer—II. C. Reiman. Sheriff—W. ti. Murphy. Recorder—P. A. Clark'. Clerk—Leonard Hurbaugh. Surveyor—L. C. Heklt, Coroner— Dr. Wilburn R. Ricketts. Commissioners—K. R. Davis and George Smith.

Thk aatt-Hemenwa* league of republicans strength with each, day, so one of He number informed a reporter fk>r the Tribune today. Be related an instance which he saw last night at one of the secret meetings of ^a branch of the league in the eitv. He says that ten men, all of whom were related, a father, several sons and sons-in-law. with a brother or two. came to the league meeting and swore allegiance to anybody or anything pledged to defeat James A. Hemenwsy. The men were formerly staunch advocates of the present congressman's cause.—Evansville Tribune. It is remarkable to knowhow the fanners are fteimg just now. Many of them were so unguarded as to chase the rainbow of 16 to 1 two years ago. They are now estimating tike calamitous effects had Brvan been -necessful. The farmers of Pike county can never l*e wheedled by and further democratic pretentions.—Petersburg Press, i If the chairman of the republican party 1 can be induced to make at least two’ «j *eches in each township during the coming campaign there will be quite a large: addition to those who “were so unguarded j as to c hase the rainbow of 16 to 1 t$r<> years ago.” The editor of the Press stunified the county then. He-should do au again. It is not generally known that over a j century ago the Spaniards took Indiana. ] At least they marched up through this state, past South Bend and across Sit.Joseph county, over the border into Michigan and J captured Fort St Joseph, near Niles. It 1 was in January 1718. Spain then possessed ; a vast amount of territory in what is now j the United States, extending along the] Gulf of Mexico from Florida around to Texas and up the Pacific e-oast to British America. She was gradually making her j way north wan 1 and acquiring territory all through the Missi>sippi valley. Iler northmost post at this time east of the Rocky I Moqntains was St. Iamis, Missouri, where a small garrison was maintained. Tux republican party in Pike county is harmonious and fully determine*! to defeat the enemy. The above is taken from the Press which is edited by the chairman of the republican party of Pike county, lie has a perfect right to holler harmony because it seems quite necessary for him to do so since holding the county convention, and the convention to select delegates to the congressional and senatorial conventions. It is one of the essential things for him to yelp harinonv and put the word in capital letters if he thinks it necessary. But it is only necessary to read the following from the same issue to kndw that all is not harmoqy. for he jumps on one of the best known republican politicians Pike county has ever had and who still lives in the county and not in a neighboring county as stated. This man was fighting for the j republican cause before Chairman Thompson was born. Now here is the harmony that Thompson says exists in the republican party; In an adjoining county to this a politician much worn by lime made a futile attempt to defeat a certain candidate in nominating convention, but was unsuccessful in his efforts. A few weeks later this same politician held at his home a triangular caucus with a candidate of the op|>osiie party to himself and another broken down politician. The result of the caucus was, as it should have been, severely denounced by all selfrespecting partisans.

W ASUUSGTOS LETTER. Oar Rcftttmr Cwrreapwntfem *«■«• •n a Batch at Haws. It is not surprising that Admiral Samp" sod should have shown impatience in his dispatches to Washington because of the delay in sending him the troops promised. Be has had within the last week ample cause, for impatience, aye, and for indignation, too. He destroyed the outer forts at Santiago and had everything ready for troops to land, hut there were no troop; he captured Guantanamo Bay, and still holds it, for the same purpose, hut the troop which ought to have been there to land were on transports anchored at Tampa, held up by orders from Washington, on account of the code and bull story about a fleet of Spanish warships being at Havana ready to steam- out and capture the troops as soon as they started, until Sampson could detach a number of his most formidable ship and send them to convoy the transports to Santiago. Meanwhile Sampson's marines hold all the Cuban ground j they have captured. Although nothing' official can be obtained, there is reasou to; believe that tte troops are now ou their way to Cuba, under convoy. The frequency with which hol&ip orders ‘have been sent from Washington wheu important move- j merits were about to be started, on no better j foundation than wild and improbable j rumors, presumably of Spanish origin, j makes it look $s though somebody who has j influencerenough to eoutrol the issuing of I orders has the misfortune to have a streak | of yellow down his backbone. It cannot j be stated to an absolute certainty who this j individual is, but unless the delays have b*en purposely made to prolong the war, there is little doubt that be exists. It is j only where those in command are out of reach of holdup orders that notable successes have been obtained. Orders have been sent to Generals Coppinger and Lee, who are to eornmnnd the Porto Rican army, to get their men ready to start, but there is no telling how many holdup orders they will have to contend with before they get off.

Oh yes. Indeed* indeed! A good little boy is Tommy Heed! After being compelled by the majority of the House to get out of the way of the consideration of the resolution for the annexation of Hawaii, Czar Reed has the audacity t“ say, through his thick and thin followers, that he had never stood in the way of the majority, or intended to stand in the way. This comes too late to help the political fortuue of the Czar—ex-Czar now. He has been deposed by Mr. McKiidev. and will never again wiehl the autocratic j>ower he has had. The annexation resolution will be voted upon Wednesday afternoon of this week, and will, of course, be adopted. About twenty democrats have announced their intention to vote for the resolution. The fact that the war revenue law provides for the coinage of the silver bullion owned by the government at the rate of $1,500,000 a month destroys every argument advanced by the gold standard men against the coinage of the seigniorage. The amount to he coined each mouth is less thau was proposed by the silver men, but authorizing the coinage of any amount was a recognition of the principle advocated by the sU«er men. It is already announced that the sugar trust and the standard oil trust will refuse j to |iay the tax of oue quarter of one cent on their gross receipts in excess of $350,000 iiapoaed by the war revenue law* and will go I iuto court to tight the constitutionality of j the law. It is openly charged on every hand that much of the inconvenience that the,.troops have been jmt to has been directly traceable I to the incompetence of many of the civilians | apt*>inted to important staff positions by 1 Mr. McKinley. Secretary Alger now says; hat in ten days a very man iu the army j will be provided with his fuli equipment for war/ Then there can be uo further' valid excuse for pottering along instead of at oage fighting the war to a close. There have been ugly reports from time to time of the lack of harmony between the J fighting branches of the government, and upon more thau one occasion Mr. McKinley is said to have bad to exercUe his anthority to compel them to work together. It is also said that there have been frequent clashes between General Merritt, who is to command the army in the Philippines, and Secretary Alger; also between the latter and General Miles, who is reported to have charged Alger with toeing responsible for the demogplizatiou he found existing in army matters when he got to Florida. None of these things are pleasant to write, but they explain why things are not moving faster. Ir the Merrimac was bought by the government for three times its value after it had been rejected by the Naval Board of Inspection, it is not unreasonable to suppose that other vessels recentlv added to the navy brought to their owners similar profit. Congress will hare a great deal of work to do when peabe is restored. Bargains far Basic Liven. To locate best advertising mediums we offer through well known papers, the very latest popular and patriotic music at lass then wholesale rates. ‘‘The Royal Blue Two Step,” latest popular march, and “Dewey’s i Victory,* greatest battle song written, both ! 50c. pieces, sent to any address on receipt of 35c. Mention this paper and mark! envelope “Music.*' O. P. McCarty, Genera!' Passenger Agent B. & U. S-W. Ry., Cincinnati, O. 6-4 Penny Wise and Poind Fait Ik* are they who have not Foley's Colic Cure a* a safe guard. J. R. Adams £ Son. j I

= It is reported that the biggest steel trust ever known to the country is now being formed by the Rockefellers, Andrew Carnegie,Piermont Morgan and the so-called Drexel crowd of Philadelphia. The plan was ooncCived by J. Loeber Welch, who is the head of Drexel & Co., the representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., of Philadelphia. The companies now understood to be controlled ace the Illinois steel company and the Columbia, and other important • operators to br taken into the deal are the Bethlehem' iron company. Ohio > steel company, Carnegie iron and steel company. Scran to iron company, Lakawanna iron and steel company and the Minnesota iron company. By securing the control of the big iron and steel manufacturing plants and with plenty of ore, the trust can regulate prices so as to practically shut off outside competition. The ore carrying fleet which John Rockefeller controls on the lakes can be employed in transporting ore only to the plants in the trust and to the exclusion of all others. A combination of this kind would tie as tremendous power as could be created in thik country. and vet it is iu defiance of law.—Indianapolis Sentinel. Judge, the comic republican weekly published iu New York, has gone into the hands of a receiver. It’s really too bad. Judge has run Rs presses night and day printing vivid cartoons depicting the return of prosperity. AU the colors of the lithographer were used by Judge in showing how under the gold standard and protection everybody was becoming healthy, wealthy and wise. Judge was too lavish. It gave prosperity to the country but didn’t save any for itself,—Evansville Tribune. I^ICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public rnnsiantiy in theotliee. Office in Carpenter building. Eighth and Vain-sis.. Petersburg, ittti. VSH BY A COFFEY. Vi. B. Ashby, C. A. Coffey. Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts. Special attention given lo all civil business. Notary Public constantly in the office, Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett’s store, Petersburg, Ind.

li. UAVEXrOKT, Attorney at Law. Prompt attention (riven to all luwiness. Office over J. K. Adams & Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. •' i - ‘ ■ i ^ M. A C. L. liOU’OSIB. Attorneys at Law. Will practice in ail courts. Prompt attention (riven toall business. Office in Carpenter block. fitst floor on Kightli-M., Petersburg. IE. WOOLS EY. Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Col lections promptly-made ami remitted. Abstracts of Title a specialty, office In Frank's building, opposite Press office. Petersburg, lud. rr R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty, office over Citizens’ State Bank, Petetsburg, Indiana. T. W. BASINGER, Physician and Surgeon. Olfh-e over Bergen A Ollphant’s drug store, room No.!!, Petersburg, lud.. All calls promptly answered. Telephone No. 42, office and residence. D R. A. B. KNAPP. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, of Washington. Indiana, trill beat the Pike Hotel on Friday of each week. H. 8TONECIPHER. Dental Surgeon. Office In rooms^fi and 7, in Carpenter building, Petersburg. Indiana. Operations tirsrcl,u>s. All work warranted. Anaesthetics uard for painless extraction of teetb. C. C. MURPHY. Dental Surgeon. Parlors in the Carpenter building, Pefersbnrg. Indiana. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. N'OTiCE is hereby given to all pertains interested that I wiil attend in tuy office atuiy residence EVERY MONDAY. To traasret business eon nee ted with the office of trustee of Marion township All persons having business with said office will Please take notice. T O, N ELSON, Trustee Post office address: Winslow. N'OTICE Is hereby given toall tiartles concerned that I will-attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact business connected with the office oi trustee of Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office days. J. D. BARK ER. Trustee. Postoffice address: Petersburg, Ind. VfOTlCE I* hereby given to all parties inO t» rested that I will attend at my office In Htendal. EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connected with the office j of trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with safd office wilt please take notice. J. L. BASS. Trustee. VOTICB is hereby given to all parties eoncerued that I will be at my residence EVERY MONDAY To attend to business connected with the office of trustee of Monroe township. J. M. DA VIS, Trustee, Postofflce address: Spurgeon. N OTICE l* hereby given to all persona concerned that t will attend at my office EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with the office oi trustee of Jefferson township. L.E TRAYLOR, Trustee. Postoffice yidress; Algiers, Ind

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LoiMle, Evansyille & St. Lonis G. Railroad Time table in effect Xov. 28,1807: St. Louis Ktel K*p. 8:00 a. 10:43 a.m. ll:«(* a-in 11:22 s.m.; 11:3R a. in 0:20 p.m Kt. Louis Limited. Stations. Louisville Louisville Limited. 9:00 p.m. Leave ..-.. lawtsvltle .an-lve 11:40 p.in. Leave .Huntingbur*. ... mrriTe ttHi aim. Leave .Velpeo .. arrive 12:14 a.in.:Leave .. -...Winslow ... .arrive* 12:20a.m. Leave.Oakland City ...arrive 7:12 a.m. Arrive.St. Louis- . Leave! 7:00 s.m 4:23 a.m 4:08 a. tn. 3:38 a.m 3:37 a m. 9:15 p.m. Fast Exp. 5:45 p.u. 2:55 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2.10 p.m. 1:57 p.m 7:32 a.m. Night trains stop at Winslow and V el pen on signa'. only. K. A. Campbell, G.P.A., St. Louis. J. F. Hurt, agent, Oaklaml City,