Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 14, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 August 1898 — Page 4

Gjbt ready to cast yoar rote lor si Iter and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1. T«b republicans of Dubois and Pike ^counties meet at Velpen Saturday, to select candidates lor prosecutor and representative. Tit republican *tate platform now declares for an extension of American trade. Tbe old “home market theory" has been relegated to the mar. TttE grand dictator of the republican party will learn that the broken down politicians who live in adjoining counties still have some influence when the polls close next November. Tax republican state platform does not “point with pride" to the anti-trust or garnishee laws passed by the last legislature. There is a yawning abyss at tbe places when those piauks should have been.

Hawaii has now been taken in and the republican platform must be changed so as not to interfere with “protection to home labor.” The population of Hawaii is made np of Chinese. Japanese end Kanahas. Sotmitas Indiana republican* did not puli any of the platnff at the state convention, as Central Indiana needed them in their business. Governor Mount in the distribution of patronage also forgot Southern Indiana. Tbs gold standard platfoim of the Indiana republkms will not be relished by the farmers and laboringmeu of Indiana. They have had entirely too much of it during the past several years. What the people want is more money. IsnuXAPous got about all it wanted of the republican state ticket. It pulled off ffve of the most important offices. The machine got in its work and the fat places, If the ticket should be elected, will be filled by Indianapolis politicians. The outside counties will get nothing. j Thebe seems to be war between some of the big officers of the naval ami hind farces for honors of the battles won. Of course the people at home know where the honors belong and will give those heroes credit whether the government, does or not. To the victors belong the honors.

Thkkk seems to be some scraping going on between Secretary Alger and Tedd> Roosevelt. and other officers at Santiago. They want to briug their soldiers home to keep them from dying from yellow and malarial fever. The troops will be brought back instead of being sent to the interior. Th* old soldiers fared very slim at the republican stale convention. Five veterans wen turned down for places on the ticket. The old soldiers were also turned down by the republican machine in Pike county. That old cry of “the republican party i> the friend of the soldier” has been waylaid. ‘Tbs gold standard must be maintained.” So says the republican state platform That's what the bondholders and English capitalists say. They want to treat the people to a dear dose of dear money. “Better money for the bondholder/* is another term frequently used by the plutocratic press. Any kind will do for the laborer provided be can get it. The democrats of Pike county are uow sitting up with the corpse of free silver, and by this time it stinkethI—Petersburg Press. This is one way in which the gold bags fight the stiver cause. Such ••stabs” as this is likely to kill almost anything. The professor should move out and go to the hotbeds of goldbugism if this free silver oounty stinketh. It must be terrible for the professor to mingle with ailveritcs who are “sittiug up with the corpse.” Tax Charlotte, Michigan, Tribune, a silver republican paper, very truthfully and aptly observes; A few weeks ago Joseph Letter was conducting a wheat corner that involved millions of dollars and boomed price* for the farmers, even causing silver and wheat to separate far enough to give joy to the gold bugs. Mow Jo's hither is giving mortgages of several millions to liquidate the knees, and wheat and silver are coming about as near together as can remooably be expected, with a war to boom the price of the one and the money demand taken from the other. We ate sorry ’tie so, bat how can it be otherwise? Keep an eye on the indicator. Thk silver cause is still growing among the laboringmen and farmers of Pike oounty. The goldbugism preached to them in the last campaign was a fraud and they ■ow realise it to be a fact. The gold standard is amply for the rich bond speculators. and tends to make the poor man poorer and the rich man richer. That and nothing more. What the people want is mom money and employment whereby they can receive wages for their labor. They were promised that if McKinley was elected he won Id open the mills, that he held the key to the situation. The lock has not yet been turned and the doors thereof opened. Rash promises are easily made bat hard to fulfill. In this ease the promise* have not if/

-gThc democratic county ticket is one of the best individually and collectively nominated by any party in the county for many yean. Mach and every nominee is competent to transact the business of the official position for which he has been nominated. During the past two years some of the nominees have been serving in the positions for which they have Uen nominated given splendid satisfaction and have aavod the tax-payers several thousands of dollars. They were elected for that purpose and fulfilled the promises made to the letter. The tax-payers know this aad will again vote to retain j them in their present positions for the coming terms. Under the eid regime the county was being run heavily in debt each year as the records will show, but when the new officers took hold a change was made id the expenditure of county funds, and with the economy now being exercised the county will soon be able to redeem and take up the entire floating debt of the county. To that end the democratic county ticket should be elected at the November election. The great state of Indiana is always to the front in all sorts of things. She heads the procession, taking population into account, in providing soldiers for the war with Spain, with 8,500 men. All the great j states of the west and northwest have filled j their quotas with patriotic promptitude, as the following table of enrolled men, with the ratio based on the population of 1890, t ntfiin' ~

No. ra«s. Illinois . 14.«SW Ohio .1S.M0 Indiana ... . K.HC MU'hi Kan .6.750 Wisconsin .6.22P Iowa . MBS

Population. S.XS.35I a.oe.§» l.fttt.#*)

Batin. 382 am 358 812 390 341

It will be noticed Uiat only iumois and Wisconsin have sent as many uien to the front in proportion to population as Indiana. Ohio is only slightly behind this state, while Michigan and Iowa are considerably in the rear. Those who are thoroughly m accord with President McKinley will vote in such a wey this fall as to indicate where they stanc. This means that Jim Heraenway will be returned to Congress by an increased majority.—Petersburg Pres*. It does not mean that Jim Hemenway will be returned to Congress in any manner whatever. The facts are that Jim Hemenway will be overwhelmingly defeated at the poll# in November. Jiin made big promises to the soldiers, and has he kept them? Has he appointed a single soldier to any important postoffioe in the district? There were several old veterans who wanted the postoffice in Petersburg, but they were turned down. Jira will run behind his ticket in (his county more than 900 votes. Now that the war tax is putting money in the treasury the Diugley tariff is being quoted as a producer of revenue. Assistant Secretary of the Trensury Howell, after having juggled with figures in a fearful and wonderful manner, discovers that the Dingley tariff is at last producing a surplus. This would be important if true, but it seems to be a case of mistaken identity. The New York World says that the official treasuryTeport shows: <*!. That the customs receipts which are the results of Dingley’s‘scientific schedules’ were more than 127,000.000 less in the fiscal year 1898 than in the fiscal year 1897. “2. That the total government receipts in 1898, less the Pacific railroad money, were $7,(00.000 less than in 1897. “8. That Mr. Howell gets his favorable showing for Dingley for the last five months by subtracting from the expenditures all of the expenses of the war and by addiug to the Dingley law receipts the enormous receipts from the new war taxes during the month of July." Such sort of figuring as that indulged in by Howell proves nothing but the disingenkmsness of the mathematician. Dingley based all his hopes for the tariff on the schedules, and the schedules have produced many millions of dollars less revenue than those of the Wilson tariff.

It would engender more respect for officials in the minds of the people if men holding office would deal fairly aud make reports supported by facts. The Dingley bill has been a failure from the start, and it will continue to baa failure to the finish.— Chicago Dispatch. Republican state Ticket. The republicans of Indiana met in conveution at Iudianapolis last week and nominated candidates for state offices. The j ticket as a whole is the weakest individually and collectively ever put out by the republicans. The following are the candidates:! ■ Secretary of state—Union B. Hunt of Winchester. ,Auditor of state--William H. Hart of Indianapolis. Treasurer of state—Leopold Levy of j Huntington. Attorney General—William L. Taylor of j Indianapolis. Clerk of the supreme court—Robert A. j Brown of Franklin. Superintendent of public instruction— Frank L. Jones of Tipton. State geologist—W. S. Blatch ley of j Indianapolis. State statistician—John B. Connor ofj Indianapolis. „ Judges supreme court—First district, i Robert Dowling, Xew Albany. Third district—J.V. Hadley. Danville, j Fifth district—Francis E. Baker, Elkhart. j Fran aXetbedist Preacher. Clay CTnr, Ixnmu. Jan. 12,1807. Pepsin Syrup Co, Monticeilo, III. Gentlemen: It affords me great pleasure to speak in praiae of your moat excellent j medicine. 1 have suffered quite a great deal from sick headache, the remit of sedentary habits and sluggish liver and bowels. Your remedy corrects tbsss' troubles and my headaches are stopped. J.! CL Boone, Pastor Jft. & church. j

— WASCflftOTO* LETTXH. •Mf Hffilar CarvMMB^CBt S«ai* la a flteuh •( If the Spanish ministry had any proper idea of the public sentiment in ibis country it would not bare wasted tea days in deciding whether to accept the teems of peace offered. If they knew a good thing when they saw it, they would hare jumped at those terms. In the statement of the terms of peace, last week, the administration was given credit to which it was not entitled. Instead of providing that claims of Americans for property destroyed in Cuba should be paid by Spain and disclaiming responsibility for Spanish bonds issued as a lein on the revenues of Cuba and Porto Rico, it mentioned neither, leaving those troublesome matters to be added to the numerous other troublesome things that will have to be tackled by the commission that will j negotiate the treaty of peace. The only certain things in the terms of peace are j that Spain shall evacuate Cuba and Porto Rico and that we shall retain Manila and Manila Bay; every thing else is to be settled by the commission.

Mr. McKinley apparently fully believes that the Spanish ministry is honest in informally telling him that it intends to accept his terms of |>eaee, although #fficially it still remains silent. His faith is so strong that the orders for the re-infonce-ment of General Miles have been held up, and that nothing is being done to send General Merritt the re-enforcements that he has askethfor. If Spain accepts the terms, these hold-ups will do no harm, but should Spain be foolish enough to reject the terms, they may be fraught with serious consequences. General Miles is still having everything his own way in Porto Rico, tyid being royally welcomed by the PortoRicans, and.but if it becomes necessary for him to attack the strong fortifications at San Juan, he has not men enough to, take that town, without a great sacrifice of life. Notwithstanding the harsh criticism which has come from all sections of the country and Irom the holders of all shades of political opinion of the partiality shown by the navy department, in favor of acting Admiral Sampson and against Commodore Schley, that partiality still = exists, and according to current gossip, is about to be strikingly exhibited by! a shifting of orders for the purpose of j giving Sampson an opportunity to splurge j in European waters. The orders for send- j ing a strong fleet to the coast of Spain, issued some weeks ago, for bluffing pur- j poses, have never been revoked, and the j officials say that the fleet is to go for the j purpose of “impressing Europe,** now that1 the pending cessation of hostilities and the j prospect of permanent peace have made I further fighting apparently unnecessary. There being no further opportunity for! Sampson to acquire either glory or prixe money in Cuban waters, he is to be given command of the European fleet, and Commodore Watson, who was first assigned to that command, is to have command of all the ships that remain in Cuban waters. As Watson ranks Schley there will be no important command left for the latter. This navy department clique may succeed for a time iu depriving Schley of honors he has won, but Congress can be depended upon to see that justice is done him. Secretary Alger’s mixing of politics with military matters has added nothing to his I popularity nor to his reputation for politi- j cal sagacity. In his eagerues- to injure “Teddy** Roosevelt’s political fortunes, Secretary Alger went to the extent of publishing a private letter from Roosevelt tp himself, in which slurs were thrown at the fighting qualities of the volunteer soldiers, | in order that he might accompany it with ! an official reprimand from himself to Roose-1 velt. Alger was so much afraid that the “round robiir’sigued by the generals under' Shatter, headed by Roosevelt, who is acting commander of*a brigade, would be credited with the accelerated movement of the war department in getting our soldiers away from Santiago, that he had an official statement made to the. press, saying that the soldiers were being moved in accordance with plans made before the publication of

the “round robin' which, by the way, Roosevelt is accused of having furnished to the Associated press. This need not fool anybody, as it says that the secretary of war had sometime ago notified General Shafler that his men would be brought back to the Uuited Slates “as soon as the fever subsided.'’ The fever has not subsided, but the tnen are being brought back as fast as they are able to get aboard transports. There isn't the slightest doubt that the “round robin,” however much it may have been tinged with insubordination from a strictly military point of Tiew, caused the men to be moved sooner than they would otherwise have been moved, and that thereby many valuable lives were saved. Insubordination that breaks red tape that is killing our soldiers is not likely to receive popular condemnation;nor does it deserve it. The Best Remedy For Flax. Hr. John Mathias, a well known stock dealer of Pulaski, Kentucky, says: “After suffering for oxer a week with flux, and ! my physician having failed to relieve me, j 1 was advised to try Chamberlain's Colic,! Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, and hare the pleasure of stating that the half of one bottle cured me." For tale by J.R.Adams A Son. ’ * a; Back ten's Arnica Halve. The beet salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, mid positively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. J*riee 25 cents per box. For said by J. R. Adams 4 Son.

Democratic Ticket. - For Secretary of S»afe, SAMUEL RALSTON of Boone county. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. MINER of Marion County. For Treasurer of State. HUGH DOUGHERTY of Welts County. For Attorney-General, JOHN G. McNTJTf of Vigo County. For Clerk of the Supreme Court, HENRY WaRRUM of Mkrion County. For Superintendent Public Instruction. W. B. Sine'air of Starke County. For Slate Statistician. JAMES S. GUTHRIE of Brown County. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT of Hendricks County. For Judgee of the Supreme Court, 1st pist., LEONARD J HACKNEY of Shelby County. 3d Dish. JAMES McCABE of Warren County. oth Dist., TIMOTHY E. HOWARD of St. Joseph County. For Jmigcaof the Appellate Cotart. 1st Dist.. EDWIN TAYLOR of Vaaderburg Co inty. 2d Dist.,0. J. KOLLMEYEK of Bartholomew County. At Dist.. EDGAR BROWN of Marion County. >3 4th Dist.. W. «. DIVEN of Madisou County. 5Ut Dist., JOHANNES KOPELKE of Lake County. For Congress, First District, THOMAS DlTNC\N. For Joint-State Serator. EDWARD P. RICHARDSON. For Prosecuting Attorney, KERR TRAILER. For Joint-Representative, SASSER SULLIVAN. For Clerk. LEWIS E. TRAYLER. For Auditor, W11,LI A M H. SC A LES. For Treasurer, ON IAS O. SMITH. For Sheriff, W. M. R1DGWAY. For Coroner. ALLEN RUMBLE. Fee Surveyor. A. G. CATO. For Commissioner, First District. JOSEPH L. ROBINSON. For Commissioner, Third District, WILLIAM H. BOTTOMS.

R ICHARLMON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Puhlic constantly in thc’nffiee. Office in Carpenter building, Eighth ami Main-sis., Petersburg, lnd. \SH BY A COFFEY. G. B. Ashby, C. A. Cofley, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to nil civil business. Notary Public constantly in the 6tiW. Collections made a ml promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett’s store, Petersburg, lnd. o G. DAVENPORT, O. Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. H. Adams & Son’s drug store, Petersburg, Indiana. ^ M. A C. L. HOLCOMB, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Office in Carpenter block, (list floor on Eight li-st , Petersburg. IE. WOOLSEY, Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Collections promptly made and remitted. Abstracts of Title a specialty. Office In Frank's buildings opposite Press office. Petersburg, lnd. T. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizen*’ State Bank. Peteisbnrg, Indiana. T. W. BASINGER, Physician and Surgeon. Office over Bergen A Oliphant’s drug store, room No. », Petersburg, lnd. All calls promptly answered. Telephone No. 42, office and residence. 'yy H. STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office in room*# and 7, in Carpenter building, Petersburg. Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. A meet belies used for painless extraction of teeth. C. C. MURPHY. Dental Surgeon. Parlors in the Carpenter building, Petersburg. Indiana. Cntwn and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. B.&O. S-W. RY. THCE T.A TTT/H5. Trains leave Washington as follows for

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