Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 September 1898 — Page 4

Wfu ^ik* Cmmtjj Jraujcrjtf •r n. McC. 8T*#p». Twr,in advance. .. . UK Months,In advance.. «5 S at the poetofllo* In Petersburg for. oa through the malls as sceoudmatter. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16,1898. A kefubucax rdter' said the other day, “the good of the county demands that 1 vote for Joe Robinsou, William Ridgway and Owen Smith and 1 intend to do it." The republican party in the state have abandoned the war as their campaign harp, and are hunting up local issue*. At last they have come to realize that the g. o. p. is nottheouly party that helped thrash Spain. _ Lkw Traylur will make just as efficient a clerk as Jim Brum held is, and it will not take him twelve long years of practice to learn it, either. Brumfield must think that he was born with a county office spoon in his mouth. 1

The Vermont election does not indicate that free silver is dead or dying They could not win on the courage and patriotism of the American soldier. Neither can they win in old Pike by taking unto themselves all the glory pf the late war. Rumor has it, that Frank Poeey and Jitn Homan way have kissed and made up. If it be true Mr. Posey has been tricked by the BoonviUe politician, andPosey’s friends here will prejwre vftth greater deterinina-, tion to give Hetucnway a sound drubbing in November. Thr supreme court of the United States has decided that it is the stamp of the government and the act of congress that gives money its value whether the material is of paper or metal, that the constitution gives congress the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof. Thr issuing of the $^76,000,000 worth,of bonds has not increased the volume of currency, but it has decreased it by many j thousands of dollars which are thus drawn from circulation. What the government and what the people needed at this time was an expaust *n of currency. Thr cause of silver is dead, so say our republican contemporaries; yet the plat-' form adopted by the republicans of Utah in convention last week demands protection, | bimetallism and reoiprocity and says: Independent of the action of anv other nation I we favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It seems that General Miles has forced the war department to show its hand, j Secretary Alger and General Corbin have j both requested an investigation. That" is j the ouly way to inform the public as to the I exact state of affairs. Possibly it may i reveal that the charges are true and not j sensational matter created by yellow journalism. Ir everything is harmonious within the republtcau ranks, it is the queerest kind of | harmony we ever heard of. It may be that j It is like a great many other good traits that the republican {tarty is said to possess, not apparent or felt only by thosg who stand in dose, very close to the big • machine. Under certain circumstances it is always well to pretend that all are of one mind. Dewey is the hero of the Anglo-Saxon world. Joe Wheeler is the hero of the American army. Both bore their honors with the self-same modesty and simplicity. They have “confided themselves, child-like, to the genius of their age, betraviug their perception that the Eternal was stirring their hearts, working through their hands, predominating in all'their being.'* Both are therefore in the category of the great.

Whex Leiter forced wheat up to 75 cent* it was “Hurrah for McKinley;** when it reached $1.00 there was another "Hurrah for MeKintey: when it touched $1 35 “Hurrah for McKinley" was giveu with a war whoop; when $1.50 was reached “Hurrah for McKinley. llorray, H'ray** was given with three cheers and a tiger. Now that Joe loiter is burned and wheat Is down to 60 cents, the price of silver, an exchange exclaims: “Good God. where is McKiniey r Ova business men say that for this time ot$he year trade never was so quiet. September is the month in which the merchant sells great quantities of goods for fall and winter use. But this year trade has scarcely opened as yet. What is still more discouraging there is no prospect of a revival in businews this fall. A glance at the quotations on May wheat would indicate that wheat will remain at present prices, and old buyers fear a further drop in the market. The farmer, it is feared, will not realise much on his corn crop, for the indications are that the price will be little above the cost of production. All these considerations cast a gloom over the business world. The farmer, too. wonders when the period of falling prices will be over. He is holding on to his wheat in expectation of the promised rise. The truth is, that he does not have much faith in the promises of higher prices, but he does not wish to sacrifice his wheat crop. Is it any wonder then that trade is halting and decrepit. The people, too, no longer believe "revival of trade" articles published by the republican pro?-. Even that kind of confidence is •■Ming at sere miuus one.,

The raiddle-of the-road populists held their district conventions at Oakland (Sty last week and nominated for congress Rot. Josephus Lee with Alvin Heim for senator. Lee will challenge Duncan and Hemenway for joiut discussions, it is understood. Thus are no bouquets being thrown at General Alger just now but brick dust is plentiful, if half you hear is true the shaking up of dry bones and the cleaning j of the dirty linen should begin without further ceremony.—Decatur Democrat. Which plan would have been the better for defraying the present war expenses— i that of the democrats, populists and silver j republicans, who would have silver coined , into standard dollars and issue treasury | notes, or the one adopted by the goldites issue bonds bearing interest. The middle-of-the-road populists have “taken time by the forelock,” and at the con- j vention last week nominated a presidential ticket, which is two years in advance of the regular time. The two nominees being res[<ectively Editor Wharton Barker of Philadelphia, and Hon. Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. The platform adopted is said to have planks to cover all issues of the past and all possible ones of the future. Borrowers, are you signing any gold contracts these balmy republican prosperity days? Beware, it is another confidence game. There are individuals loaning money in the country who are placing a clause, “payable in gold,” in their notes and mortgages. When your obligations come due you wiH find that gold has gone to a premium, and you will have to pay dearly for your experience with the gold gluttons. The Press would like to say now that supply and demand, instead of the gold standard, regulates the price of wheat. But that would be a too glaring inconsistency, for that sheet said editorially, when wheat ^as selling at $1.85, that the g. o. p. and the gold standard regulated the price. But it must be rememtiered that at present the editor is tongue-tied and his right hand paralyzed so that it is unreasonable to ask him why the gold standard keeps the price at 58 cents.

Suoi LD a mail with whom you transact business have the ability and at every time of demand he pays you in full the amount due and has an abundance of backing, would you continue said business relations as with an honest man and at the same time denounce him as dishonest and only worth fifty cents on the dollar? Such the wav the goldites treat silver. They cry against it saying it is only worth fifty cents on the dollar, yet they go right along using it and it pays its full value of 100 ceuts on the dollar, and the purchaser can realise no difference in the power of either gold or silver. To all intents and purposes the republican party and the money power are Siamese twins. How to get rid of this abnormal development in American |*olitioal life is a problem that must be solved before long by the voters of this country. These two freaks so inseparably joined together stalk abroad among the people in the form and uuder the cognomen of the g. o. p. The death of one of this strange pair is the final destruction of the other. They cannot live apart. The republican party wa.> not born thus, but by a process of assimilation during the last thirty years the life blood of one is the life blood of the other and vica versa. Strike from the money power its republican clothes and.it will sneak away to avoid the radiance of the searchlights of its pursuers. Cut from out the republican party its mainstay, its men of gold, if you please, and it will totter and fall to the grouud. _ The republicans take it for granted that they hare au inalienable right to impose upon the intelligence and good nature of the voters. At every election their cry is. trust us. place your confidence in us, we are the conservators of the peace, happiness and prosperity of the people. In November it will be the same old wail. They have promised many things but their promises have not been kept. They will say, dear people, give us time; give us two more years in which to accomplish—what t The long list of good things promised in 1896.

lime, vorers, 10 couipieie ine impoverisaraent of the people. Shall they be allowed time to reduce the fanner, the miner, the general laborer to serfdom? Why, under the promise# of 1896. mills were to be opened; mines were to run full time; strikes to be a thing of the past; the wages of labor engaged in all kinds of manufacturing were to be advanced; farmers were to receive fabulous prices for their products; | the merchant was to know no had accounts, j for the people would be made debt paying ' under the gold standard: and the country | was to pass through an unperilled period of general prosperity. Have you experi- ! eoced a scintella of a single one of these good and much coveted things? If yon | have, speak up, that the people may make a ; pilgrimage to you, that their eyes might lx* ho Id at least one recipient of the good ! things promised by the republican party. | The fact is that the promised things have fled before us like the mirage. The good fruits of the republican administration turn as we grasp them to apples of Sodom that crumble at the touch. Prices have gone down, down, money became scarcer, : therefore dear : mines run one third of the j time. The contrast between the house of Have and the house of Want is becoming sharper. How long, oh! ye. of so much faith in the goodness of the republican patty, do you propoee to stand in your own light? Can they impose on your intelligence again? j

Washington letter. ^ Mr, McKinley has been convinced by official evidence and the itdvieeftf tome of his long-headed friends, that he could not afford to coutinue to ignore the oharges of mismanagement made against the war department, thus virtually himself assuming responsibility for what Secretary Alger has done, and more especially what he has left undone in looking alter the health of the soldiers, and has allowed ithe announcement to be made that he would appoint a commission of eminent men, whose report will enjoy the confidence of the country, to investigate the eutire conduct of the war. Secretary Alger, who had repeatedly said that no investigation was needed, was compelled, before be left Washington, on an inspection tour of the camps and hospitals, which, by the way, he was also compelled to make, to write a letter to Mr. McKinley asking that an investigation be made, if senators and representatives wbo have been in Washington during the last few days correctly represent the views of congress, there will also be a congressional investigation, regardless of what the commission, to be appointed by Mr. McKinley, may do. The desire to get at the truth, regardless of who it may hurt—to place the responsibility for the death and semi-starvation of so many volunteers, and to punish the gudty is growing every day, and will continue to grow until the truth and the whole truth shall be known. The official report of a military commission which investigated the charges against those in charge of Camp Thomas at Chickamaitga,' found the charges true, and placed the responsibility upon Major General Brooke, his surgeons and a lot of hospital contractors. • This report says: “We can find no reasonable excuse for the lack of supplies, which could have been easily obtained, and were not, by those

responsible; and they should be heldstrictly responsible.” There is more of the same sort, and this report was not signed by the correspondents of* ‘sensational newspapers.” bat by Milo B. Ward, major and brigade surgeon; Janies J. Johnson, major 2nd Arkansas volunteers, and Emil S. llellburn, j 2nd Kentucky volunteers, and is now in the hands of Major General Brecken ridge. Ft is no wonder that sporting men are offering odds that Alger will have to go. There are not many shrewder politicians in the country than Mr. McKinley, and he ha«u't displayed a slicker bit of his shrewdness lately than in taking the three out of the five peace commissioners from the senate committee on foreign relations, which must approve the treaty that will be made by the commission if it is to have any chance to be ratified by the senate. Senators Davis and Frye aie depended upon to get all the republican senators to support the treaty, and Senator Gray is expected to get enough democratic senators to make up the requisite two-thirds. Secretary Day is on the commission, solely to be Mr. McKinley’s mouth-piece, as he has been at the heat! or the department of state; Whitelaw Reid was selected—well, nobody knows what in the deuce he was selectwl for, unless it was to show Boss Platt that his protests did not always count. The commissioners are to meet Mr. McKinley this week, previous to sailing for Euroj* next Saturday. According to current gossip, the administration will only a.»k for one island—Luzon—in the Philippine group. The news received at the headquarters of the democratic congressional campaign committee gets more encouraging every day. In many districts that were sometime ago put in the republican column by a small margin, or were considered doubtful, the democrats are now confident of winning. There is a feeling among democrats j that the House can be captured, and a determination to do it. In a number of | states the republicans are divided into! factions, whieu will add to the chances of j electing democrats in congressional districts i now represented by republicans. The republicans are dropping their boastful! attitude, and instead of talking of increasing their majority in the House, as they were doing a little while back, they are talking of trying to bold their own, and1 sending out appeals to the factions in a number of states, to get together. General Shatter, who came, to Washing- ; ton under orders from Mr. McKinley, called I on General Miles, at his office in the war department, but it was a duty call upon his commanding officer and not a social call. General Shafter absolutely declines to talk for publication, but It is an open secret that he has got it in for Miles, because of his taking the recently published interview with Miles to mean an attempt to deprive him of the credit of conducting the Santiago campaign. Miles is tickled to death over the investigation, and. if allowed, will render valuable aid in getting at the truth.

The failure of the gold standard in Chili, Japan and India, is a cause of considerable uneasiness in the gold camp. , Bradstreet says, that the Scheme to fotce upon the people of India the gold standard, which was some time since adopted by law is belie red by the tending economic and financial writers of Great Britain to be dec dedly suicidal. These writers point out that for a country already butdend with debt public and private on which the interest is payable in gold to enter upon a policy that necessarily involves additional heavy loans in order to accumulate and maintain a large gold reserve would be a piece of financial perfidy. A blind man can see how applicable, this criticism is to the present attempt to fasten more permanently the gold standard upon the United States. We an burdened wfth a public debt. We are obliged to make loans to maintain the gold reserve and our people—the masses have the further burden of private debts. But the goidite is wise in his own conceit. He teams not from the teachings and experiences of those who know, especially if the teachings and experiences are not in accord with his pet scheme. However the people are throwing off the blindfolds. They see She light of a new day. That light reveals the goidite folly. I * ,■** •* * v «. t . y — ..M 1 ^ ^ Iks*. c :J *

Wobd has been handed down by Chairman Martin of the democratic state committee, that the formal opening of the campaign will occur September 84th. Upon that day there will le speaking ip every county in the state. Among the speakers of note that will take ]>&rt in the campaign are Congressman Towne of Minnesota, and H. F. Barline of the Eimetallist. Duncan a Sore Shot. That Thomas Duncan will be our next congressman is an assu red fact. " James A. Hemenvvay betrayed the trust .put in him by his own people ar.sd why should they support Such a man. They will not. Opposition to him grows strouger each day, while Mr. Duncan meets more with favor every place he goes.—Winslow Dispatch. Hon. Thomas Duncan of Princeton, was in Boonville Wednesday, looking after his political fences. He is in good health and reports his prospects very fine. The outlook in Warrick county is that Mr. Duncan will increase his majority considerably this tall.—Boonville Enquirer.

Petersburg, Ind., September 6.—It is the general belief of the people of ^11 parties here that Hon. Thomas Duncan, the democratic candidate for congress. Will run at least 300 votes ahead of his ticket. Hemenway is not popular in the county by reason of his appointments. He has many enemies in his own party who have a desire to crush his political ambitions. His appointment of Dr. LaMar as postmaster at this place was a blunder t hat no one can forgive. The leading republicans of the county are working against Ilemenway and many of them will vote for Thomas Duncan.—Princeton Democrat. Free Silver iir Iowa, Silver sentiment .which has been report ed ‘•dead** by the republican press, came to life at the Iowa state con •ention of democrats, silver republicans a ul populists. For a “dead issue" the question of free coinage of silver has a peculiarly stubborn habit of coniine to life in democratic state conventions, anu ’he funeral ceremonies so frequently announced by the republicans are thus postponed from time to time. At Marshalltown, Iowa, the free silver corpse was able to “sit up rind take notice,” and the fusion convention adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm the following leading plank in the platform: “The democracy of Iowa in state convention assembled discern in the democratic national platform of 1896, tbich we hereby heartily reaffirm, the bes expression, of democratic principles enunciated since Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. The utterances of that platform coui-eruing finance explicitly define our faith on the money question. The tree and unlimited coinage of silver aud gold at the ratio of 16 to | we hold to be indispensable to the financial, industrial and political independence of our people, and recognixmg Wm. J. Bryan as pre-emi-nently the representative and exponeut of the platform, we earnestly favor his nomination for president of the United States in 1900.” Under the circumstances the republicans will be forced to admit before long that the issue which they are so anxious to bury is very much alive, and they may find cause to regret that they have thrown aside the mask or bimetallism under which they won the contest of 1896.—Chicago Dispatch and Democrat. I is: ALL WOMEN I

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