Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 16, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 August 1898 — Page 4

. J at the poatoflhv In Petersburg for wMon tbraoati the unite ns «oooodFBI DAT, AITGUST9*, 1898. Draw fought the first ami last battle* nf the war. There were no cable lines to head him aff. Tsm looks as if there will be an investigation of the war department during the coming session of Congress. Bcu pardon, Mr. Press Editor, but would it be treason to a*k about that one dollar wheat you wrote so much about? Ikoiana’k volunteers did not have a chance to take part in the active serviee of the war. Nevertheless, ».hey were ready and willing to go to the front at any time during the war. Tut Now York Sun after careful investigation, states that 40.000 working women in that city are receiving wages so low that they are compelled to accept charity or do worse. That is a specimen of the promised McKinley prosperity. Conorkssjjan Dinoiet, he of the new tariff lull, says that some of the revenue raised by the war tax will be retaiued. Wall, under ihe present tariff bill there is somewhat of m deficiency and it will take the war revenue to make up the balauce needed.

Mark Hanna's orders to the Chited States marshal of I’tah u> use all his power to prevent the republicans of Utah from declaring for the free coinage of silver shows that he suspects them of being resurrectionists. Why is the bold and (terMStent Hamm afraid of a corpse? The bosses that be should trot out Miss Confidence and Mr. Prosperity. The campaign will soon be on fu earnest and they should again be let loose so that the republican orators and editoss will have something to talk about. Couifieooe and prosperity of the gold standard kind, however, never buys flour and meat. Bkoush statesmen continue to volunteer friendly opinions toward American retention of ail t^e Philippines. Germany hints at intervention and Russia is said to have sent Spain a bid. All this solicitude is wasted, gentlemen. We have plenty of American opinions, backed by unlimited money, and will not tolerate intervention. Ws arc ready for business, and uo doubt Spain can sit up long enough to have the bed made. Talk about confidence. Nearly every farmer in Pike county has confidence in the McKinley administration. If not, why are they holding their wheat for a belter price? No man ever heard of the farmers holding their wheat for better prices under the Cleveland democratic administration.— Petersburg Press. McKinley is now pre-kleut. Why is it necessary to wait. The promised prosperity and confidence should now be on hand-, or possibly the-people will have to wait auother year or two. Wheat is about 60 cents per bushel or thereabouts. The farmer now ha* wheal to sell.

The Dingier high tariff lav has >«en the means of impeding the enterprise of the manufacturer* of the United Stales and thrown thousands of laboringmen out ol employment Mid also reducing wages. It has provoked hostilities among the trading nations who will not buy American manufactured goods, but will retaliate for the discrimination. Take down the Chinese wall and trade with other nations and thus build up the manufacturing enterprises at home. These manufacturers roust have a market for their surplus goods and unless they hare they will be compelled to shut down half the time as formerly under higl tariff laws. 'The lamest people nowadays are th< editors of republican newspapers who an endeavoring to prove to their readers that the McKinley administration has nothing to do with the fall in the price of wheat They hare a big job on their hands. Oim of the great reasons why the nut is a hart one to crack is because they wen so poaitivi in their declarations that the McKinlej administration was wholly responsible foi the raise in wheat a short time ago, when i few of our farmers received $1.15 for whai little wheat they then had on hands. Then is bat one conclusion to arrive at and tha is that they are either lying to the reader now or were lying to them about the $1.51 wheat. Would it not be a joke on the democrat! of Dike county if they should be cotnpeilec to take one of their candidates off Um ticket? The democrat* did that very thing some years ago and the result was lh« defeat' of the entire democratic ticket However, it makes no difference what tb< democrats of this county do, their tickei will be defeated anyway.—Petersburg Frees Certainty it would be a great joke bui neb is not necessary. The ticket is on pmong the best ever put out by any part] in the county. The editor will remembei that Lewis Sumner was taken off Um republican ticket two yean ago. L. H Jjlilsmeyer was also taken off tberepabbeai ticket. Did you favor Ukutg Sumner off: it is not necessary that the democrat sake any change whatever in the makeuf <*f the ticket as it will be elected by a hand jnse majority in November.

-^- Asit kind of money witt do for the laborerj provided he can gel it.--Pike County Democrat. There, yon have exactly expressed the] democratic position.. “‘ Any kind of utoney for the laborer,” no difference if it be depreciated or not ! Bro. Stoops, vou have admitted the correct position of the demo- i cratic party. Laboringraen, 50-cent dollars l are good enough for you according to the | democratic oracle of Pike county! Me- j ohanice, Mexican dollars are good enough for you according to the Pike County Democrat! Farmers, any old kind of money is j good enough for you! Soldiers and seamen, j 1 cheap fluctuating money is plenty good j enough for you! The democratic party »j by its declarations is in favor of a cheap, | unstable currency. Now the democratic j i organ of the county declares that any kind j of money will do for the laborer. The Press believes that the laboring man should have money just as good as any man’s money, j The laborer should have money every dollar ! of which is worth 100 cents, and that is the j kind of money the laborer is asking for, | j and the republican party proposes that he | i shall have just what he asks for and noth-1 ing short of it.—Petersburg Press. We did not expect the Press editor to ad-1 mit that he couldn’t read, but the above! article plainly declares the same, and for his henefit we re-publish the article from j which he took one clause: “The gold standard must be maintained.” I So says the republican state platform, j That's w)jht the bondholders and English capitalists say. They want to treat the j people to a dear dose of dear money, j “Better money for the bondholder,” is another term frequently used by the pluto- j cratic press. Any kind will do for thej laborer provided he can get it. Now, if the article which expresses the principle of the republican platform is not J correct, then the Press editor should at once boldly declare the same and have itj changed. Of course to us who believe in j equal rights to all it is radically wrong, j tho* we hardly expected the Press editor and chairman of the republican party to sav that he too understands it that way.

The gold standard fallacy is coming to the front in its true light. The people are learning that the party that clings to the one idea that gold is the only tnetai on which to base the money of this country are the rich who desire to control the money of the world and to oppress the poor. The gold standard has been the law for the past several years, but not until the past two or three years have the money lords been trying to crush the wealth producing class to the earth. These money lords now control the country and will doj so until the wealth producers rise up in their strength and by their votes at the polls say they will not be ground under foot. The laboringtueu and farmers of Pike county doue their whole duty in the campaign of 1896 and will do so again in 1888 and 1900. and will continue to with their ballots until oppression, monopoly, trusts and combinations are swept away at the ballot bo*. These “free silver cranks.” as republican papers are wont to speak of them, are firm and will not be swerved from their right of duty until a congress and a president is elected that will }»ass and enact a law for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the legal ratio of 16 to 1. The voters of Pike county are in favor of such a law. They not only talked it in 1896, but they voted for it. They are talking for silver in 1898 and will vote for it November ne*t.

What is there under the sun to induce any man to tote the democratic ticket this* faff?—Petersburg Press. Kverjr inducement uuder the sun. lu the first place the officers elected two years ago have given the taxpayers of the county an economical administration and have been the means of saving several thousands of dollars. They took hold when the county was being run heavily in debt and at once began a retrenchment of the expenditures and withiu the uext two years will have put the county again in good financial shape. The affairs of the county under the former administration run the county head over heel* in debt and floated over f 10,000 in county orders one year and more the next with the rate of taxation for county revenue to the limit. The rate is now ten cents less and even at that the county » nearly able to meet its expenses and will do so during the coming year. There is no reason whatever why the tax-payers should turn the county affairs over to the same old ring again that a few pets may secure soft , snaps. The taxpayers will not be caught again if they know it.. Tax following is an extract from the 1 famous Hazaard circular, issued in London in 1862, to the capitalists of New York 1 city: Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power, and chattel slavery destroyed. , This 1 and my European triends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor, and carries with it the care for the ’; laborers, while the European plan, led br ■ England, is for capital to control labor by i ‘ controlling the wages. This can be done I by controlling the money. The great debt, that capitalists will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money. To accomplish this 1 the bonds must be used as a banking basis. We are now waiting tor the secretary of ‘ the treasury to make the recommendation ! to congress. It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is oalled, to circulate as money any length of time, as we cannot 1 control that,” Tk Press of this city is great on making > chargee and then not proving them. Several > weeks ago he charged the editor of this • paper with gouging the county in the matter of publishing the rate of taxation, saying there was no law authorising the i publication of the rate. When this paper • published the law which authorises the 11 publication the editor of the Press has i kept mighty still and has not even said | that be was mistaken about it. Be fair in | the matter. Schott ■■

The array of unemployed laboring men in this country are still looking for that prosperity that was promised some two years ago. That was the greatest scheme to catch votes ever invented. But the laboringtnen have found out that it was only a scheme to hoodwink them into voting for McKinley and the gold standard scheme of making the bondholders and the money sharks of the east lords of all they survey. They will not err again but will return a silver congress for the next two years that will look to the interests of the whole people and not for the few. One of those shrewd Wall street. New York, bankers, business men, millionaire kings, etc., has been making another investigation of confidence and prosperity for the people. The following will be mighty interesting reading: There is going to be a tremendous boom in everything in this country as soon as the war is oyer, and Wall street, apparently, is of the opiuion that it is practically over now. Patriotism has had a very iteulthy boom, and now business is going to reap a benefit. The signs of it are to be seen everywhere by those who are not blind to business indications. The situation has been pretty thoroughly canvassed in every bank parlor in this city of late, and it is. so far as 1 cau judge, the general opinion that this country is about to enter upon an era of unexampled prosperity. - In an adioining county to this a tieian, much worn by time, made a futile attempt to defeat a certain candidate in nominating convention, but was unsuccessful in his ofForts. A few weeks later this same politician held at his home a triangular caucus with a candidate of the opposite party to himself and another ^broken down politician. The result of the caucus was. as it should have been, severely denounced by all self respecting partisans.—S. Thompson, chairman of the republican party, in the Press. This is one way the chairmau has of whipping the old leaders “in an adjoining county” into line for chronic office-seekers. These “broken down politicians” and those “in an adjoining county” will have something to say during the next several years. The report from Cleveland that the wire trade workers had gone on a strike owing to the 334 per cent cut and further reduction in their wages, only carries with it the truth of the predictions made by the advocates of the democratic party in 189'd. says the State Register. Under a gold standard wages are sure to decline. This is logical. There is not enough gold to pay the wages that have been established in the United States, If workingmen will tolerate the gold standard they must do so at the sacrifice of their wages. The loweriug is inevitable under a gold standard, and strikes only prolong the agony and keep the day of lower wages a little further off by loss of time, while wages are wining down. There must be lower wages or there must be a larger use of money. Low wages follow a gold standard as sure as night follows day.

Hon. Samuel Ralston, who heads the democratic stale ticket, has a way of expressing himself that renders it impossible fur anyone to misconstrue his utterances. ■ In a recent speech at Frankfort, among j other things, he said: “In demanding the unlimited coinage of both gold ami silver j into standard money at a raito fixed by law, we are not departing from the traditions of our party, or seeking to engraft a new or novel scheme of finance upon the country. We are but pleading for the restoration of the monetary system of our fathers, whose virtuous operation can be cited by its supporters in the absence of famine, starvation and the application of the gambler’s art on the board of trade. Our position we know is impregnable. We insist that gold and silver at fixed rates by Congress constitute the only standard of value allowable under our constitution, and that the people have a right to the use of both metals in the monetary form, iu the discharge of all debts, both private and public. We submit that if the constitution has made a standard of value to consist of two metals, Congress has uo authority to increase the value of the measuring standard in the interest of the money changer and against the wealth producer, by demonetizing silver, ami thereby shifting the monetary demand responded to by the two metals on to goR! alone.”

Jim IIkmknwat Trill run ahead of his ticket in this county. The populist element of the democratic party will not support Tom Duncan for the simple fact that Duncan was a gold bug prior to the Chicago convention. Duncan is the man who repeatedly accused the populists of being anarchists and disseminators of false doctrine. There is .not a populist in Pike eounty that can freely and conscientiously vote against Jim Hemenway for Tom Duncan, a whitewashed gold bug. There were a few disappointed office seekers who were not friendly to Hemenway before the congressional convention, but now the question of voting to Indorse the McKinley administration is uppermost in the mindsof all true republicans, and it is evident that the way to indorse McKinley is to return Jim Hemenway to congress. To this end all true republicans are working.—-Petersburg Press. We have no objections on earth to the Petersburg Press bolding up for Jim Hemenway, but we do object to its revamping of that old political lie about our fellowtownsman, Hon. Tom Duncan. Mr. Duncan, early in the campaign of *94, when the populists were making free silver an issue, may have expressed himself as rather undej cidcd because he had cot given the matter j the careful study such as the subject would j require. We do know, however, that long ! before the campaign of *96 opened he had | given the matter careful thought and study and eras firmly decided in favor of bimetalItem- Even admitting that he was once a gold bag. which wo do not, has he not the same right to change his views as has Wil- | ham McKinley, who only a few years ago , was a pronounced bimetallist? Consistency I seems to be a forgotten virtue with some I people.—Princeton hesre, Hep. . . ... ‘1 i .4

- —p---—~-Democratic Ticket. For Secretary of S»«te, SAMUEL RALSTON of Boone county. For Auditor of smite. JOHN W. MINER < of Marlon County. For Treasurer or St site. HUGH DOUGHERTY of Wells County. For Attorney-General, JOHN G. MCNUTT of Vico County. For Clerk of the Supreme Court. HENRY WABRUM k of Marion County. •- For Superintendent Public Instruction. NV. B. Sinclair of Starke County. For state Statistician. JAMES H. GUTHRIE of Brown County. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT of Hendricks Comity. For J udge* of the Supreme Court. 1st Dlst.. LEONARD J HACKNEY . of Shelby County. 3d Disc. JAMES MrCABE of Warren County. 5th Diet.. TIMOTHY E. HOWARD of St. Joseph County. Kor Judgesof the Appellate Court. 1st Dlst., EDWIN TAYLOR of Vanderburg Co tnty. 3d Dist.,C. J.KOLLMEYER of Bartlioloinew County. 3d Dlst.. EDGAR BROWN of Marion County. 4th Dist.. W. S. D1VEK of Madison County. 5th DM. JOH ANNES KOPF.LKE of Like County. For Congress, First District. THOMAS DlrNC\N. For Joint-State Serator. EDWARD P. RICHARDSON. For Prosecuting Attorney. <V, KERR TRAILER. For Joint-Representative, SASSER SULLIVAN. For Clerk. LEWIS E. TRAYLER. ■■ For Auditor. WILLIAM H. SCALES. For Treasurer, ONIASO. SMITH. For Sheriff, W. N|- IIIDGWAY. Finr Coroner, ALLEN RUMBLE. For Surveyor, A.«. CATO. For Commissioner. First District. JOSEPH L. ROBINSON. For Commissioner,Third District. W 1LL1AM II. BOTTOMS.

Pathktic was the complaint of nn honest old of f ho republican persuhsi m iimtlt to h group of sympathizing auditors a few days since. After long years of labor or bis farm, the old gentleman thought U spend his declining years in the city, living from the proceeds of the farm enjoying « well earned rest and reward, for the laUur ous years sjeut in “clearing up" the farm thus performing his part in reclaiming tht wilderness and “causing it to blossom uj the rose.” “Men,” he says, after there hat] been some general talk of crops and piioes “I’ll tell you there is something wronj somewhere. Twenty years ago I could hav* sold my farm for $65 per acre. Sineeleav ing it, the rents have but little more that paid the taxes, which, instead of getting less, are becoming higher every year, but I have Held on, hoping that every year then would be a change for the better, until tht: year from the outlook this spring, it looket as if the promised good times were ‘ir sight,’ that we were raising a fine crop oJ that ‘dollar wheat’ the politicians promisee us two yeurs ago. if McKinley was elected So sure was 1 of old time prices on account of the war, and the tariff, and all, that tin old woman was in the seventh heaven oj delight over the new curl'd and parlor set she was to have after the tuxes were (mid. My share of the wheat was brought in tin other day, and instead of $1.25, or even $1 a bushel, I get the measly pittance of sixty cents a bushel, aud after paying my taxes, I’ll ‘bedinged’ if 1 don’t fall short, so tht old woman will have to wait for her imported carpet and her parlor set until wt get better prices. I’ll tell you there is in money in fafining. I would sell my farm but there is no market for land at even $4t an acre, one third less than I eould hav* sold for twenty vears ago. Sometimes 1

think there may be something in the silver argument aiui if I thought—.” But what he thought will never be known, as a free silver man who was listening, remarked: “You will keep right on voting the republican ticket.—Huntington Nqwrs-Democrat. Thompson’s convention which turned down Greene and DeBruler of this county for prosecuting attorney, at least done one thing. It came out flat footed for the gold standard. The republican party wants a dear dollar, “a better money for the bondholder.” The resolution on the money question hardly meets with the ideas of at least three-foorths of the voters of Pike ‘ county, who are in favor of the restoration | of silver. The resolution and which is the | first adopted by the republicans in Pike I county is as follows: The money of the United States is equal to the best in the world- and to keep it as such we are unequivocally in favor of maintaining the present gold standard of money values. This means that the republican party is in favor of Wall Street and English capitalists running the government of the United States. From some cause or other there doesn’t seem to be enough honors to go around growing oat of the present war with Spain. Some of these “sons” who were appointed ; to fat and easy positions want to take the honors from fighting soldiers. H. H. Tislow, jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. 28* ,

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Funeral Supplies a Specialty We keep no*hand at all tinea the finest line of Parlor ami Household Furniture to be found in iheeity. Bedroom and Parlor Suite especially. ^ In funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc..-of the best make. Administrator’s Side. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned adrainistraior of the estate of Samuel W. McClure, deceased, will sell at pubiiesale at the late residence«*' saio decedent, in Mouroe township, Pike county, Indiana, on Saturday, September 10, JS98,1 All Ihe personal property of said decedent, consisting of two bend of horse*. four head of | cattle, fourteen head of hogs, one wagon, one i lot of'timothy hay. one let of wheat, one lot of growing corn, one lot of oats, plows, harrows. harness, one In* ut kitchen and household furniture, and other arlictes to«> muner- [ ous to mention. Sale to begin at 10 o'clock | a. m. c Terms:— \il sums of (.'• and under,cash; all sums over $fi. a crest it of nine mouths will I be given. purchaser giving note with approved ■ security l*enring • per ecut interest from date. ! waiving valuation and appraisement laws and providing tor attorney's fees. No property to he removed from premises until terms t j of sale are compiled with. 15-S JOSHUA M. MeCt.CHK, — Administrator. L. K- Woolsey. attorney. i S OR. CALOWELL’S YRUP PEPSII CURES CONSTIPATION.* *

SUMMER * STUFF.

order to close out the remainder of our stock of summer stock of summer goods we have made the prices exceedingly low. •' * « Good ^elections can yet be secured from the remaining stock of Challies, Lawns, Percales, Lappet Mulls, Organdies . and Linen can he bought for 50 cents on the dollar. A broken assortment of Ladies' Ribbed vests, 10 cent grade for 4 cents, 15 cent grade for 8 cents. 20 cent grade for 10 cents, 25 cent grade for 12|. If you are needing any of these articles for present or future use be sure to see these bargains before you buy. W. L. BARRETT, ^PETERSBURG, INDIANA^ .

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We have the largest stock of Furniture ever bsnpght to Petersburg. Our stock is all new and up-to-date. Call and see our hne line of Furniture and get our prices before buying elsewhere. FINE BEDROOM SUITS EOR $10.00. FINE HALL RACKS FtlR $4.00. We have employed a firstclass Funeral Director. We have in stock a r full and complete line of ^FUNERAL SUPPLIES* And have the finest Hearse in the county. Are prepared to attend calls promptly. Call and see us. Telephone 16-2. ? W. C. Adams & Son, Lower Main Street,* Petersburg, Ind.