Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 September 1898 — Page 4

gmrotggjrmmsi! In advance . in adVBlKSe II IS «S rn.nr.ru *1 the In P#t»nborf for -**■ mgarioo through the mall* *• sr«o»U* matter. KUi DAY, SEPTEMBER 3,1S9S. fU '."A. i- '-!IM - ""' Bosr. Cjutuus Msttukws, ej-governor of Indiana, is dead. Ust Thursday While delivering a *|«e«eh at Medary’s grove, near Lafayette, at t he Old Settlers’ association, he wa.- suddenly stricken with paralysis from which he nether rallied and died Sunday hist. Tlie governor was one of the bestknown men in the state having been secretary of state and governor for four years, and duringVs service to the people he gave them .a practical bo si news administration. In JS96 he was a candidate before the democratic national convention for president and received a splendid vote from several states. The deceased was born in Bath county, Kentucky, December 14,1S45, and at aa early age moved to Indiana with his parents. The funeral occurred Wednesday at hw country home in Vermillion county, which was attended by a large number of citizens from all portions of the state,

Axil the cause of silver is still growing, although Vusjir Thompson, chairman of the republican party, says it is dead. ILL. J "HJ'i. • • - '• The party that fosters trusts should be wiped from the fao of the earth, and it will be in the election? of IsWf and 1900. ..... '■ ..- The Ohio demo -mtic Aomwotion real firmed allegiance to the Chicago platform and declared for Bryan /or president in 1900. Thomvson of the Press, is not making prices on wheal now. The gold standard is doing that part of the business. Nice thingJim Hemkxwav, who represents this district in oougress, is not having smooth sailing this carapatgu. He will have a fine tittle explaining to the voters when he comes to Pike county why he distributed the juitronage to so-and-so and why the old soldiers are not receiving their incrwwa of pensions. “1 have been a republican since I860,* says- holy John Wannamaker, Harrison’s postmaster-general, “but rut party now stiuks in the nostrils of decent men. If the people arc wtiliug to uphold such corruption as many of the leaders practice, and to condone their dishonesty, Got! help the countrv.” HhThe republican leaders are afraid of the silver issue in the coming campaign. They will not even tackle the farmer ou the question any more., The farmer and labor iiigmen have about all they want of the present gold standard times Thais true,, laiw prices for produce, low wages and no reduction? for the necessities of life. The reports fr«>iu the various camic of ^ the United Stale? soldier? last Honda) shows that there were 0,019 in the hospitals a! that time suffering from disease. Man) of the .so Idler? have asked t > be mustered out as soon as possible now that the war is ended. Borne of.the Indiana troops will be mustered out within the next few weeks. Tiik disastrous effects of the camp life at Santiago is to be investigated a? w'ill also the war department. More death.-have been caused by sickness than by Spanish but lets. If the charge* made, should be proven those responsible for the starvation and the death of the brave boys who offered their services should be held responsible and removed from office. r Tits farmers of Pike county paid to the twine trust this year from five to seven gents i»er pound for the twine used m binding their wheat crop. The I>mgley tariff law was passed f»»r the benefit of the farmer, tail from some unaccountable reason the twine went up and wheat went down. Of course the chairman of the rernblic.ui party Csi» explain this all away. Nit.

S*ti» a farmer the other day: "1 should like to meet the man who prophesied that wheat would be a dollar a bushel before the middle of August.** The gold standard that the republican state platform savs "must be maintained,*' certainly is a gnat price producer— but the wrong way. It is one of those sliding-scale schemes that slides when the farmer has anything to sell. Now comes the official statistics showing that the railway earnings of the United States for the year ending June 80, 1898. are eight million dollars less than for the year ending June 30 1896. This fact is aimply noted as a matter of news and not as affet ting the business of the prosperity artist. That nimble genius can easily show that though the railways haw* earned less, they have earned more, very much more, and that they are more prosperous whether they hare earned more or not. “The** is not an uncaged fool in the world but that knows that gold dust is worth exactly as much before it is coined." is the way a professor in Pike county disposes of a logical question. There is not an uncaged fool, aside from the learned professor, who does not know the reason. Hold is its own standard and measures itself. 1 hi he dust is free from other metal it is worth the same before as after coinage, but doc- not possess purchasing or debt paying qualities until refined and stamped p\ the government: then it measures everything else of value, including gold dust. iUgg’ OwausriUe Ad valu e. j

Ho*. Parks Martin, chairman of the democratic state central committee, flings a not into the republican camp which will be hard for them to crack. In an interview given out the other day, he said, among other things; J<We trill make large gains among the workingmen. In the cities among the railroad and shop and factory men, in the gas bait and in the southwestern part of the state, in the .coal belt, our gams will he considerable. The workingmen were told in the campaign of 1990 that if McKinley were elected they would be given steady work and an increase of wages. Instead of that their wages have been decreased and they have been laid off. Naturally they feel some resentment and that resentment they are going to express at the polls this fall by voting the democratic ticket. I recall to mind an incident in point. In a certain county of this state there is located a stoue quarry which works a great many men in good times. Just before the last national election the manager of that stone quarry told bis men that he had on hand enough contracts to run a doable set of men—that is a night set and a day set— steadily for two years, but that every ©0»> tract was contingent on the -election of McKinley. That was two weeks before the election. The men voted for McKinley.; The bats and jpwls are now roostiug in, those mills and quarries and they have been shut down tight since thirty days after the election. Here in Indianapolis the proprietor of a large bicycle works held forth the, same promises and within two weeks after the election reduced his force and finally; shut down. So it was throughout the state, and country. Contracts were reported contingent on the election of McKinley, but those contracts have uever materialized. Naturally the men feel that they have been duped, deceived, trifled with, and so thev have.”

It is peculiar indeed that the Press within the past few weeks has found out that the court house yard is in its present condition. So long as the board of commissioners was republican it was mum, very much so, but as soon as the majority of the board was democratic then it began to heller. The Press should have used its influence long ago with the republican Itoard and had the yard put iu a presentable shaj>e, sodded. » fence built around it and a sidewalk bnilt. It was a republican board that refused to build a sidewalk about the square when ordered to do so by the town council. It was a republican board of eommissianers that allowed the yard to beoorne in its 'present condition. Mr. Whitman, the president, has been on the board for the past three years. If the Press has anything further to say it should address itself to Mr. Whitman, president of the board, who is the republican nominee for re-election. For the oonditiuu of the yard the Press should give great credit to the republican management for the past sever*! years.

One of the leading democrats of Pat oka township wsts in Petersburg the other day. lie stated to a friend that he was holding his wheat for a better price. Only another manifestation of democratic confidence in ttie republican administration.—Petersburg Press. So long as tjic gamblers at Chicago were keeping up the price of wheat for spet ulatiye purposes the Press gave the credit to the republican administration. But now as it has gone down to the lowest price within the j»ast three or four years and the farmers are holding their wheat for a better price, the Press m»}> it is confidence in the administration that makes the farmer hold his crop of wheat. The professor might have put Old Man Prosperity along with Confidence. It would work about as well. The American people are very loyal and would cheerfully make any sacrifice to uphold the old flag at home and abroad. The war taxes wifi not be considered a burden, but will be paid with patriotic cheerfulness. And yet, withal the people do a great deal of thinking, as they have a right to do. Ju>t now they are wondering why the issue of $200,000,000 bonds was necessary. The w*r is estimated on good authority to cost fl5O.OOO.0OO all told. There was in the treasury more thin that much gold the result of the Cleveland bond sales. The stamp tax is conservatively estimated to bring in $250,000,001) annually. Now the great query is why the necessity, of a $300,tKMUM)0 bond sale. Tbs democrats of Uhio nominated the following ticket on the ,24th at Dayton: Secretary of state, Upton Guthn-, Marion county. * Judge supreme court, Hugh G. Nichols, Clermont. Clerk supreme court, David S, Fisher, Deteware. Food and Dairy commissioner. John Balter. Howard. Board public works, T.D. Paul, Summit. The platform endorses the Chicago platform W J. Bryan for presidential candidate iu 1900. Tax best man to be entrusted with the people’s business, is the one that manages his own well. This *? cenainly applicable to Jim Brumfield the republican candidate for clerk.—Winslow Kra. Jim’s business is that of an office holder or a candidate. Jim has been a candidate for sheriff two or three times, candidate for auditor once, and candidate for clerk twice. He has been about the court house for nearly twelve years.

Ox* of the prominent republicans fanners living a few miles from Petersburg was in town last Saturday. He was looking for that republican leaders who ad viand him to talk up the gold standard farve that wheat would be a dollar per bushel. When it was <8 cents he was ready to «e§! and now that it has gone down to 58 he is a» mad as a hornet that has been riled up.

' Territorial Expansion. Now tha. the war is nearing * satisfactory conclusion, it b perhaps true that the minds of the American people are being divided upon the above question. There is not the least possibility that political parties will attempt to arraign themselves upon different sides of this question, for they should be guided by reason ami principles if they are to command oor respect and support, and they should not be content, whether rig^t or wrong, of simply opposing some oth^r party. Yet it is ever true that there are two sides t»* every point of discussion, and just now we see both sides of this question under discussion throughout the country. Many of our great political leaders have assumed different conclusions regarding our*iequisitiori of territory which can be oars as a result oft the present war. But however this may be, no democrat should be found oq the side of opposition. “Let us not be aftaid to follow in the path marked out by destiny. I would be afraid to sec the great democratic part? exchange positions with those who have always opposed <che march of our national progress and our certain destiny.” Those who are opposed to acquisition of territory and to progress have never commanded the support of the people of our country. I do not believe they ever will do so. With a country like ours, extending from the sunny dime of Mexico to the rigorous clime of the snowy north, and bounded only by the craters of the Atlantic and f’aeific; with its seventy millions of people; its vast and varied productions; its grand status among the great commercial nations of the world, we are among the ftrstdass powers of the earth. ** We cannot avoid the duties and responsibilities of such a power except by our owu cowardice.” For this reason one of our first duties is the prompt annexation of all the islands acquired by reason of the present war. And secondly the construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus joining North and South America, thereby securing the passage wav of the commerce of Western Europe and Eastern Asia, a commerce which has enriched other nations in the past and which will achieve our own commercial giorv. The annexation of the Hawaiian islands lias given us a place where our ships can rest, coal and be repaired on their long voyages across the Pacific; The annexation of Porto Rico, with the proper fortifications, puts us iu a position to protect our Gulf ami Calftbean interests, and also a convenient and half-way stations between our Atlantic and Gulf towns. These and the absolute jaxisession of the Philippines will give to the United States the most favorable position and conditions for a vast

commerce. , ' There is no reason to object to this policy on the ground of the necessity ot increasing ou;* array and navy, for the results will certainly justify the expense. Such will make ours the grandest nation on the globe. It is l»est for America, best for Spain and best for humanity that the United States acquire all of this territory. Some have satd we cannot do it under the constitution. Why not? After having acquired three-fourths of our territory in this way, 1 do not see the point of objection. These object-tons were made m 1806 when Louisiana was acquired, again when President Monroe added Florida, aud yet again in 1846 when Polk's administration annexed the great state of Texas, it will be seen that all of this grand extent of territory was acquired by the democratic party, and that party can never put itself ou the side of opposition to acquiring territory. The only acquisition never objected to by those opposed to democracy was that of Alaska. So by these additions the "area of free constitutional governments has been extended and millions of happy homes added to the freest and most blessed people of the world.*' We have ever been a nation of conquest. so that cannot now be charged against u$. It is too late for that. . ' Should these annexations be objected to j on the theory that it would result in the cheapening of labor through the importation of coolies and uatives, who can live on a lower scale than our own workmen, I reply that the element of Uawaii and of the Philippines are laxy and loo incompetent to prove an injury to American workmen. Our institutions of self-government can be carried into these benighted countries and they can be freed from thoir superstitions and political misery. Our government can make tJbwni independent and free and teach them the blessings of a government that maintains a separation of religion and politics. And lastly, if this policy is claimed a* contrary to the Monroe doctrine I cannot understand it so. And l think I understand that doctrine which has ever been famous in American history. Yet, if it should prove so. I believe the time has ootne when the United States must change thi» policy and accept the conditions forced upon them by necessity and destiny. So let it be; let us hope that under such a policy our country will march steadily forward in *he line of progress and that uLiberty Enlightening the World” may ever be the guiding star for freedom and independence. James C. Thomas.

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Attack* oh Brian. Smc« William J. Bryan entered -the services of the United States as a colonel in command of a Nebraska regiment he has been hounded by the republican press for remaining silent. Before he became a soldier Bryan was abused by these saute republican newspapers for expressing his opinions on political and economic [questions. In both.instances the republican newspapers were unfair, indecent and unjust. But in their abuse of a man who j wears the uniform of an American soldier, | and who resj»eots that uniform so much that he makes no reply to his tradueersj ! these republican newspapers have shown a cowardly, unpatriotic and malevolent feelI ing, and should received the merited contempt of all right-minded and honorable meu, irrespective of party ties. Recently the Si. Loui-f Globe-Democrat said: “Mr. Bryan was not a silent man on the subject of expansion when it first came up, but be is now/* In reply to this the Washington Post which is opposed to Bryan in politics, but is decent iu it* opposition, says: ! “When Mr. Bryan-took occasion to utter his eloquent protest be had not been ! mustered into the service of the United States. True, he had been appointed to the colonelcy of a regiment and was on the | eve of a movement toward the front; but the fact that he was still outside of the federal services made it possible for -him to address his fellow citizens upon any question of public policy without violating laws, regulations,, rules or ethics. “indeed, there were one or two officers of high rank in the regular army who were quoted as having delivered themselves with great freedom Ait favor of expansion just about the time when Mr. Bryan sounded his blast on the other side. ‘‘Siinec Colonel Bryan became an officer iu the volunteer arwy of the.United States he has made no public utterance upon any question of national policy, hut has attended strictly to the discharge of his duties. To intimate that his j change from a talking to a silent man is evidence of lack of moral courage is not generous, to say the least." Honest opponents of William J. Bryan will condemn those ncwsjuqjers now engaged in attacking him, and the result will be more injurious to those newspapers than to the man or the .cause which Uhey attack.— | Chicago Dispatch.

Thk following is the estimated wheat yield this year in Minnesota and- the Dakotas: Minnesota yield 88*000,000: acreage, 15.500.000. North Dakota yield, 63,800.000 acreage. 4.700.000. South Dakota yield. 36.000,000, acreage, 3.000. 000. Total yield 189,800,000, acreage 13,200, 000. The campaign will soon be on in full blast. The republican party is trying to dodge the money issue and will take up something else. They fooled the jieople in 18% and will try and do so again, in this section of the stale the people were not hoodwinked into voting for the gi ld standaid and the party of trusts, and will vote a^atn for gold and silver at the legal ratio of 16 to I. Weekly Crop Bulletin. Warm weather,on the first few days of the week was followed by cool weather th* latter part. Good local rains fell on few days. Karlv oorn is ripening; the shads an* drying nicely,and in a few fields in the southern port ion, some corn has tieen cut and put in shock; late planted corn is kept green by the frequent rains laJUdy in many localities, and it ripens only slowly, some is still growing: in general, the yield will le good; iu Greene county it will be enormous, 1 provided the early heavy frosts do not in- | jure the less advanced corn. Tobacco is in I fair condition, laite potatoes, much bene* fitted by rains, promise a good yield in many fields; in some localities of the northern portion they are still green and in bloom. Clover seed hailing continues: in general, the yield is good; in some fields

i the yield is i>oor. Young clover is doing I well, but there are too many weeds in some I fields. Cabbages are abundant aud a good (crop. Beans do not promuse very well. Not much buckwheat was sown; in some i localities of the northern portion the crop t is a failure. Sorghum is nearly ready to j cut. Garden truck is very abundant and | good; turnips grow nicely. Millet looks * well. Sweet potatoes are growing well. > Tomatoes are abundant; in some localities of th« northern portion they ripeu only | slowly, Pickle fields have been abandoned as the salting works cannot use the iraI tnense crop. Cranberries are a good crop. Pears are abundant; peaches in most orchards. A great and good crop of melons | is coining on the market. Plowing is [ nearly ended, and the fields are in good condition and ready for seeding; in HuntI ington comity seeding has begnn. Rye I sowing progresses, and the early sown is coining up nicely. Oat threshing still continues, with fair results. Pasturage and stock are in good condition. Hog cholera prevails in some localities. Horses suffer* i ijig with glanders have bean killed by order of the state authorities in Washington county. Hell*! Did you say that you were not feeling well and that your stomach was out of order? Well, then try a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin and you are sure of relief. Constipation and indigestion cured. Sick headache cured. Greatest boon to mankind and is being appreciated by thousands. Teo cents will get you a trial six* bottle. Larger sixes 3d cents and #1.00. Df Bergen & OJiphaat, a

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Suarar Beets*—Prevention of Leaf Injury -^Harvesting. Purdue University Agricultural Kxperln ent suit ion. Newspaper Bulletin No. i“. August ». ISMS t ' A large number of progressive farmers in Central and Northern Indiana have undertaken experimental work with sugar bents this season. The season has been | favorable for the rapid and continual growth [of the l»eets. From all sections come the vre{H'rts that the Wets in most cases are doing well. At this season two dangers threaten the plants—the leaf spot disease, which appears as brown spots on the leaves, and the blister beetle or old-fashioned potato bug. which is very fonjj of the Wet foliage and can greatly damage the crop. The remedy for the leaf spot disease is to spray the plants with Bordeaux mixture, made bv dissolving three pounds of blue vitriol ia water and adding to it linnswater made by slacking tgro pounds of lime and Mirring it up with water. The mixture is made up to one l*artv|. If the blister beetle is on the plants, add live ounces or arsenite of soda or of Paris green to the mixture. If the bli.-ter beetle alone is present, the

arsenic compound uiav be simply mixed with water and sprayed on ihe plants. There is a tendency to harvot fleets too early. They seldom ripen until the first of October and sometimes not until the middle of November. During toe ripeniug period the increase of sugar is;very rapid. Kij>eness is shown by the leaves !becoming lighter in color; but the most satisfactory method is an actual test of the amount of sugar in the beets. The experiment station will select certain

fields nmt make test,* at short intervals anti wltan the beets are ripe will call for samples frtw» the ex|fc*rimcntul plants. The whole of the experimental jdantshould nothe harvester! until after the reports of the sample is received, its an additional sample may he necessary. The l>eets will not l»e in any danger from frost if left in the ground un*il the middle of Vorerul»er. But if the beet* are sliown tola* ri|H* they should be harvested at once to prevwrf a second growth alter the fall rains lwg;o, as the legality of the treei.is seriously injured by this. Beets tuay he stored ill well a is of in pile* covered with straw or stalks, and a thm layer of earth. IT titay are to Iw left through the winter, another laver of straw and earth should la? added about the last of December. Where targe quantities art stored, jt is necessary to provide ventilation. An examination of the fi>*M should ha made at once, ami if the Iwets show a tendency to project aim vs ground, tha earth should lie ridged tip along tha rows an»l cover the roots as cnriijdetely as possible. U A. Bustos, Chciui^. ,

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