Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 19, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 September 1898 — Page 6

11 UHL Great Annual Parade, the Chiet of the Grand Encampment, a Success. Ws< UNDER BRIGHT BLUE SKIES. i of til* Bln* Becoming Omy Ionorlen of OB* War Revtv*d—Morgan*. Raid aad Smith’. Daring—Th* “Ohio BuUn." i, Sept 8.—The great an —al ygirnt of the Grand Army w« Ste ewat of the day yesterday. It not aalj aeilpsed other events, but it also Nftted the meetings and reunions more held on other days. The began assembling early for ths parade and were too tired for or anything else after the re broken shortly after 4 p. parade occurred under the ___, blue eky and with everything letts favor it surpassed al 1 expeeta

* Whe Boys In Bis* Adopting tbs Gray. Tk* boys in blue are becoming (fray, %«t they still enjoy marching alon(f. If—y of (hem meet as the parade ia Aamhiag. countermarching and break* hag casks, when they are unable to 4aA —eh other at other times. They — frequently heard yelling out to —db other, and they do not hesitate to Insk ranks for greetings. BO Chr tk* first Tin* sine* th* Wur. Qumu men met during the parade ysalarisy who had not met since they — mustered out. over 30 years ago. Araoug the spectators were many of the old confederate "Morgan raiders,’ mho crossed the Ohio river and foraged oil around Cincinnati and throughout —(hern Ohio during the war. There were also many confederates here mho were with Gen. Kirby Smith when be marched over the Kentucky 4illa within sight of this city. At that Aims (he Queen City of the west was — badly alarmed as Santiago during (he recent campaign. Th* **Ohto .Squirrel Hunters.” It wan aot so yesterday. What were 4k—wn la the war as the "Ohio squir* —theaters.” came marching into Cint1—by thousands to protect the City. Most of tt\em were armed with gsu that had hung over their doors ■inr years and some of those weapons we— aot at all dangerous even for eqnirrei*. Aa (he boys in blue and those in grey ■iaflril they laughed over the raid — Cincinnati as well as Morgan'sraid, hut la reviewing other experiences (hay were reminded of suffering and Man loan of beloved comrades. J—Uvltte* Clos* sad Business Begins. With (his demonstration the series of (activities is almost closed, and the .4—laem sessions of the Grand Army *mt(he Republic and its auxiliaries be* (is to-day. During this afternoon there will be mcivic and industrial parade of un* —i dimensions, with a peace jubi* lee, hut the business of all the organi* cations will proceed in the morning uad continue all Friday night. LET THE BOYS PARADE. t« McKinley U Willing It It Will I Trove Injurious to the Health ot the Soldiers.

New York, Sept 8.—Major Van Wyek received yesterday from Presi4rat McKinley an answer to the tele* fnua requesting permission for the troops of the regular and volunteer •nay to parade in this city at the celeIrstioa of a peace jubilee. The an* swer was aa follows: MYour message of the8th is received, ft would be very gratifying to me, if the health of the,soldiers will allow, to permit a review which will enable |1m people of the city of New York to •how their appreciation of the brave ■sen, who, in the last three months, have performed such heroic serv* .lees to the country. I will direct that ■the commanding generals as well •a the medical officers of the army, now in New York and arriving there, shall •report upon the probable effect upon 4he health of the troops of the parade you propose. If they report that it will not be injurious to the health of 4he soldiers in their present condition sdnring this heated term, and it is agreeable to the officers and soldiers themselves, it will afford me special pleasure to comply with your patriotic •aarret inn " Politics and Pistols la Colorado. Colorado Springs, Col„ Sept. S.—Tbs (political war between the two factions of the silver republican party resulted 4a the death of Charles Harris, of Den* wcr. It was the result of an attempt t»y the Broad faction to capture ths opera house, which was guarded by -the Sprague faction. At four o'clock a rush was made by tS or 100 of the Broad men from both -front and rear of the building, and the Sprague men, who held possession, in .repelling the attack fired a volley into their assailants, and Harris fell with bullet through the abdomen.

SECRET SESSIONS. Vmanetioai Oir«n Amy by Seuton Ml Xbpatlw of tbo Oppoettlou—Aa ftyjrfl for Foods. Madrid, Sept 9, via Biarritz, Sept 10.—The government's severe measure to prevent reports of the secret sessions of the cortes are nullified bv the senators and deputies of the opposition, who are eager to inform the foreign correspondents as to what goes on. Thursday's session of the chamber ended with Senator Silvela attacking the government and exclaiming, “The Sagasta ministry is a corpse and we do not discuss corpses; we bury them.” Senor Canalejas. who is a lieutenant of Polaviejas’ new party, urged an inquiry into the sources of the charges against the army and navy. The debate apparently weakened the government. It is reported that at Thursday’s cabinet counsel Senor Sagasta told his colleagues that they must be prepared for the fall of the cabinet Gen. Blanco has appealed to the gov* ernment for funds, representing that the situation in Cuba is most distressing. Senor Romero Giron, minister for the colonies, has asked the treasury for 100.000. 000 pesetas. In reply he received 30,000.000. v The bank of Spain nominally holds j 1.000. 000.000 pesetas in internal fours, j but the sum supplied to the govern- j ment on this guarantee is already ex- j ha us ted. FUNERAL AT CAMP WIK0FF. WvIcm Over the Kernel»» of Cadet Thomas ; H. Wheeler and Licet. Klrkpat- ! rick, Who were Drowned. Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, L. L, ! Sept. 10.—Impressive funeral services were held at 7 a. m. over the remain* j of Naval Cadet Thomas H. Wheeler. | son of Maj.-Gep. Joseph Wheeler, and Lieut. Newton 1). Kirkpatrick, First j United States cavalry, who were ! drowned, while bathing, Wednesday I afternoon. The funeral cortege, with the caskets on gun caissons, was ted by details from the First and Third cav- j hlry. Gen. Wheeler and the member* of his family rode in a carriage immediately behind the caisson on which : were the remains of his son. The Second cavalry band, mounted, | played a dirge, and on the way to the \ station, a distance of about four miles, troops were drawn up at different j poirts, and the soldiers uncovered ■ their heads as the solemn little pro- j cession passed. Gen. Wheeler and his family ac- j eoxnpanied the remains of Cadet Wheeler to Wheeler, Ala. The body j of Lieut. Kirk wit rick goes to Lexing- j j ton. Va. The war department detailed I an officer to accompany Lieut. Kirk- i i patrick’s body. A GRACEFUL ACT. | The Sword of Urn. Miranda, Taken nt Cor* j regldor lnlaud. Returned by Capt.

Manila, Philippine Islands, Sept. 10.! : —The United States consul here, G. F. j Williams, in behalf of Capt. N. Mayc ! I)yer, of the United States cruisei i Baltimore, has returned to Gen. Mi* I rundu the sword which the latter sur* J rendered to the American officer at 1 ihe capture of Corregidor island, at j the entrance of the bay of Manila ! The general replied that he was over* j whelmed by the generosity of Capt j Dyer. The recruiting agents of the insur* gents are causing further trouble. They have beeu impressing the employes of foreign residents, including those of the British consul, and several of the foreigners have complained . that the native grooms are taking i their employers* horses and joining . ♦.he insurgents. The American army chaplains have instituted Protestant services in pria.uiq saoi.vjas qan$ ’RSuipjirtq ajes never previously been held in the history of the Philippine islands. DEMAND AID FROM ENGLAND. Hi* Only Available Remedy for lh« Industrial Crisis Filstlng la tba Brltlab Weal Indies. Kingston. Jamaica. Sept. 10.—The conference of West Indian representatives at the island of Rarbadoes passed a resolution demanding aid from ths British home government as a matter of right, as being the only available remedy for the industrial crisis, and , also demanded the adoption of measures either for the exclusion of bountyfed sugar from the English market or the enforcement of countervailing duties. No ultimatum looking to American annexation was adopted, although the question was incidentally discussed as a possible future contingency, to effect Cuban and Porto Rican competition in: the American market should Great j Britain conclusively render the relief demanded. The question of annexation to Canada was not mentioned, and the Jamaican delegate, in an interview, declares that while annexation to the United States is improbable, the transference of the British West Indian islands to Canada is impracticable, besides promising no relief.

Gric«by’« Roach Riders. Chickamaugs National Military Park, (ia., Sept. 9.—Six troops ot Grigsby’s llough Riders were paid and mustered out of the service to*day, and the men have been leaving the park on every train. It is intended to have the entire command mustered out by to-night and Col. Grigsby and IS of his officers will leave to-night for Chicago. The order for the Ninth New York to proceed to New York tomorrow has been countermanded and it has been decided to pay the men here. They will probably not get away before Monday.

THE NEW COMMANDER, OaL Jura A. Sextos, ef ChlM,j«, Chosen ComuesOer-la-Chlef of the Ortnd Army of the Republic. Cincinnati, Sept. 9.—Col. James A Sexton, of Chicago, has been elected commander-in-chief of the G. A B., receiving 434 votes against 341 for A. JX Shaw, of New York. No other names were presented.

COL. JAMES JL SEXTON. Col. James A. Sexton, of Chicago, the new commander-in-chief of the G. A. 11., was born in Chicago, January 5, 1844. When Lincoln, in 1861, issued the call for 75,000 volunteers, Col. Sexton enlisted, on April 19, 1861, as A private soldier. He was then only 17 years old. After three months’ service he re-enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois volunteer infantry, and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was later transferred to the Seventysecond Illinois volunteers, and was made captain of Company D. He served in Ransom’s brigade, McArthur’s division, Seventeenth army corps, of the army of Tennessee, and participated in its campaigns, sieges and battles, [ . As a regimental commander, he fought his regiment in the battles of Columbia, Duck River, Spring Hill, Franklin and Nashville, and throughout the Nashville campaign. In 1865 he was on the staff of Maj.-Gen. A. J. Smith, the commander of the Sixteenth army corps, and remained with Smith until the end of the war. At the assault and capture of the fort at Mobile, April 18, 1865, his left leg was broken below’ the knee, being struck by a piece of shell. He was wounded at the battle of Franklin, and at the battle of Nashville^ After the war he remained two years in Alabama, owning a plantation near Montgomery, In 1867 he returned to Chicago and founded the firm of J. A. & T. S. Sexton. In 1872, after the Chicago fire, this firm was succeeded by Gribben & Co., and is still manufacturing stoves, hollowware, etc. Col. Sexton has been a prosperous and an active citizen in every movement for the public. President Harrison made him postmaster of Chicago in April, 1889. Col. Sexton gave himself up to his duties as postmaster, and did much to make the office a well-managed public concern. The World's fair was held during his term. He is an active worker in the G. A. R., the military order of the Loyal Legion, and other soldier and army societies. He is a past commander of the department of Illinois. G. A. R. At the present time he is president of the board of trustees of the Illinois state soldiers’ home at Quincy. He has been a presidential elector, a Lincoln park commissioner, a colonel in the Illinois national guard, and has held several positions of honor and responsibility in the state. The National Encampment Proper. There were about 1,200 national delegates present when the encampment proper was called to order at Music hall at 10 a. m., with Charles Wentzel as officer of the day. The welcome address was delivered by Gov. Bushnell of Ohio with a supplemental welcome address by Mayor Tafel of Cincinnati and by M. E. Ingalls, chairman of the citizens’ committee, and president of the Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio railways. There was excellent music for the opening session, and the hall was elaborately decorated. In bis response Commander-in-Chief Gobin referred most eloquently to the attractions of the week and the lavish entertainment of the citizens of Cin

einnati. Grn. Oobln** Pment. Gen. Gobin wore a fine gold watch and chain that had been presented him, at the camp fire Wednesday night, by his old comrades of the For* ty-seventh Pennsylvania regiment, and on the assembling of the encampment he was presented with a fine gavel made of historic timber. The encampment will have much work in considering the proposed revision of the ritual and also in considering propositions for amalgamation. SmUmmI la Favor of Bln® aad Gray Mootlag Together. There is more sentiment in favor ol uniting those who fought on different sides in the same war, and a resolution will be offered inviting the confederate veterans to meet with G. A. R. next year. The Missouri delegation will likely present the resolution, as that state was about equally divided during the civil war. If no joint encampment is arranged it is proposed to have fraternal delegates sent from one encampment to the other. Aeeldooto to Totoroas. Cincinnati, Sept. 9.—While mounting his horse for the G. A. &. parade, Wednesday, Charles A. Partridge* adjutant of the Illinois department, slipped and fell, severely straining the tendons of his ankle. He viewed the parade from his hotel. Ixrais Bus, of Sandusky, fell off the reviewring stand and sprained his right hand and nvrist aad cut his forehead. John Pippin, aged 76, of the Sixth Indiana infantry, of Hartford City, ind., was thrown to the street, in an attempt to board a streetcar in mo- ! turn, and wraa so iniored that b? died*

FINANCIAL POISONING. Qsauclac Effect of the Gold Standard Ipon the Money Circulation. We have just had a sample of how the party in power in Washington can ran a war department. With unlimited money at its command, it has allowed our sick soldiers to die for the want of food and medicines. Geniuses of incompetency hare control of the things that affect the very life of the nation. The affair in the war department is but a straw that shows the way the tide is running. The same incompetency controls the financial affairs of the country. Financial bloodpoisoning is the result of their doctoring, and the whole commercial life Is limited and weakened by it. Sticking to the gold standard and trying to fasten it »o securely on us that we cannot shake it off, they are giving us a credit money instead of a basic money. The circulating medium of a country is the blood' of it. and to make the principal part of that circulating medium bank notes is to inject into it the worst kind of poison. It is one of the most potent means of circumventing the people in their right to rule themselves. We have the material in ourselves of a healthy and* abundant circulation. Never was a body better fed or better developed, but we are now refused" the right of using the resources we have. The very fact that it is proposed to greatly increase the issue of national bank notes is a proof positive that the men in control know that it is an impossibility to get enough gold to form a safe currency or enough abundant to meet our needs. In working for a great circulation of notes

I issued by private institutions they I tacitly acknowledge our need of the I unused silver lying in our mines. That ! silver would do away with the necesi sity of having national bank notes. In fact, it is enough abundant to take, the place of most of our credit money and give us a large amount of basic money; the only credit money then being necessary would be the United States notes, than which no better sredit money exists on the earth. The great fight between the bimetallists and the monometallists is fast narrowing itself down to a question of whether government shall be for the advancement of private or of public interests. Were there gold enough in the world to take the place of the great quantities of credit money in the world we might believe that the gold standard advocates were sincere in their efforts to displace silver. But since both gold and silver are insufficient in quantity to fill up the gulf we can but conclude that the fight Is being carried on with the hidden purpose of making the private interests of the moneyed classes paramount, aud with the added purpose of abolishing the rule of the masses of the people in financial matters. The blood poisoning has been slowly working for nearly a quarter of a century, and we see its effects more and more every day. Business is still far from its normal condition, even after years of depression. The recovery is slow on account of the slowness of the circulation in the body politic. The poison shows itself more and more every day in our politics, where money is coming to have a predominating influence. All of the legislation to better matters is after the nature of outward applications to a blood disease. The blood itself needs purifying. It needs the abolition of the right of national banks to issue and curtail our airculation. It needs further the injection into that circulation of the streams of the white dollars to displace 4he credit money. In the human body the “white discs” of the blood are the disease destroyers. In the body politic the “white discs” wiM perform the like act of purification. H. F. THURSTON. SOLDIERS STARVED. IhaHetal »*lect aid Slsaa of Jobbery la the Military Headqaartera.

While death at the hands of the Spanish soldiers has been a rare event during the late war, death from the neglect of the war department has been frequent. Especial attention to this shameful and criminal condition of affairs has been called in more than one instance, and the death of Lient. William Tiffany, of the rough riders, in Boston, will intensify the feeling of resentment which has arisen against the war department. Lieut. Tiffany served at Santiago and was brought north in the Olivette and landed at Boston. He was taken to a hotel? given care, bnt could not rally. The death certificate signed by Dr. F. M. Johnson gives this as the cause of young Tiffany’s death: “Death due to protracted fevers, due to war life in Cuba, and starvation.” While the government cannot control fevers, it can provide food and medicines and decent shelter for its soldiers, and this it has not done. There have been criminal blunders in the selections of camps, criminal blunders in sending troops home in pest ships, criminal blunders in exposing men to contagion, criminal blunders in failing to supply medicine and surgeons. <* In addition there have been robbery. inefficiency, carelessness and cruel neglect in the commissary department. Alger has much to answer for, and by the storm of popular indignation which Is rising he will beswept out of public life into an oblivion which is hia just deserts. -John Sherman Is not a copperhead, a democrat or a mugwump, but his voice is for an immediate investigation of the war department.—St. Louis Be public.

DILEMMA OF REPUBLICANS Blander* of the Administration Pat I the Party In a Bad Pro- > dleament. Republican campaign managers find themselves “between the devil and I the deep sea.” The ink had not dried on the protocol arranged between this country and Spain before the republican congressional committee announcer that . its handbook was ready for the mails, j Over 60 per cent, of the contents of the | compilation was, it was given out, taken up with the recital of how the i republican party had brought on and conducted the most successful war of ancient or modern times to a conclusion without the aid, advice or consent of any other political organization. Before the hot-pressed pages of the handbook were off the press, the “round robin” signed by the generals of the army in Cuba came like a burning simoon to draw public attention upon the horrors of mismanagement by the republican war secretary. Then came the gaunt and hollow-eyed he- j roes to their native shores to grow weaker still in a treeless, waterless camp and to tell with trembling voices the story of their privation and neglect. Then came revelations of the , unmedicined and unvictualed hospital ships, the mortality and pestilence of the military camps and the political favoritism, jobbery and incompetence | responsible for these unnecessary and horrifying conditions. The mass of these exposures have been made since the republican campaign handbook has been placed in the hands of the printer. Other facts, too, have emerged. Alger and Corbin have been charged with the unparalleled conduct of sending a secret dispatch, calculated to cause a clash of authority between the general in command of the armies of the'United Spates and his subordinate. which might have dangerously intensified the military crisis brought to a focus by Shafter’s bungling management of the Santiago campaign had it not been for the good sense, promptness and firmness of

the former. . Gen. Miles* coming will be the determining point in the course of the republican administration as to whether or not the charges against the war department will be subjected to the searching inquiry which is demanded by an overwhelming majority of the American people, the democratic and independent press, and all the republican organs that have not been Hannaized. The president is said to be wavering between duty and the counsels of the men who have been the controlling element in republican politics and have supplied it with its biggest scandals. If an investigation is staved off till after the fall election, it will be looked upon by the people as an exhibition of cowardice that is equivalent to a full confession of the sins laid at the door of that large segment of republican official life known as Algerism. If an investigation is ordered, the damaging facts that have already been ventilated will recejy* the sanction of judicial corroboration. In either event, the criminal blunders committed by republican officialdom will come in for a scathing rebuke at the hands of the outraged and deceived people on the eighth day of November next. Chairman Babcock has done wisely to take" his prematurely advertised handbook out of the hands of the printers and to hold it for correction and revisionist. Louis Republic. OPINIONS AND POINTERS. -The salutation among Ohio republican politicians now is: “Good morning; is John Sherman hot enough for you?”—Dallas (Tex.) News. -It is a poor day for politics in this country when the republican press cannot find some awful (?) fight in the democratic ranks to sputter about. —Buffalo Times. -Up to date, so far as has been announced, no American girl has attempted to kiss Secretary Alger or any of the officials in the various bureaus of his department.—N. Y. Brese (Rep.). -It is announced that “Mark Hanna has been done in marble.” This will not, however, have the effect of putting a stop to the efforts of several Ohio republicans, who propose to “do” him in politics.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader.

-The republican goiaue organs are boasting over the large surplus in the United States treasury. They seem to be unaware that a large surplus in the public treasury means a large deficit in thecirculationrof money for business purposes. It does, however.—Illinois State Register. -For a gentleman who was supposed to have been quietly and decenti|- interred the venerable John Sherman is dancing, around in a most lively and menacing fashion. It looks aa though Mark and the major would have to set to work and bury him all over again—a most disagreeable job when the deceased persists in kicking off his winding sheet #nd chasing the nournew with an ax.—Chicago Chronicle. -Concerning the silver issue exGov. Alt geld says: “I have been asked if the silver question would be prominent in this campaign. Well, gentlemen,you might ask will you have winds hi September or will you have frosta in winter. We are getting back to 50 cent wheat, with all the hardships, all the embarrassments, all the trouble that that implies, and the momenjt you step outside of Chicago you will be confronted by nearly 3,000,000 of people who are directly affected by it. how, then, that money question ii there. Ton can discuss it or not, just aa you please, but it ia there In tbs minds of the people.”

Scrofula Taints the blood of millions, and sooner on later may break out in hip disease, running sores or some more complicated form. To cure scrofula or prevent it, thoroughly purify your blood with Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which has a continually growing record oI wonderful cures. , Hood’s8^;. Is America's Ores test Medicine. SI: six for «&. Hood’S Pills cure Indigestion, biliousness. HE HATED TO LIE. A Negra Pioneer Who Rose Superior • to His Prejudice. William Thomas is a negro whose remark' able aim in life is to, under all circumstance^ tell only the truth. William was indicted by the nexf to the last grand jury for grand larceny, and he was brought from jail this morning to be arraigned. Thomas has what is termed a “tough case,” so he agreed with the prosecutor to plead guilty and receivo the-minimum sentence—two years in tho penitentiary. “Stand up, Thomas,” said Judge Wofford. “Are you guilty or not guilty?” “Judge, answered tne man, with a sigh, “I do hate to tell a lie, but I guess I’ll bare to. I’m guilty.” “Oh, you hate to tell a lie, do you? I won’t let any man plead guilty if he thinks he is innocent. You'll stand trial.” \ This was exactly what William’s attorney did not want. : .7 “Your honor,” he said, “thisman is not accustomed to court ways. He did not mean that.” “That’s right, judge. I never was in court before, and I don’t think I quite got you.” “You may not understand much law,” re* torted the court, “but you know whether you went into that store and stole thoao goods.” • “Oh, yes, sir. I done that.” “Two years/’—Kansas City Star.

The War la Over And now our thoughts are all of peace and home. There are, too often, people to be found who have no home, and it is to them these few words are addressed. If you really want a home yon can easily get one, but you should act at once before the relapse from the war puts prices,-on the advanced? In Marinette County, Wisconsin, the very finest farming land is >6 be had now at a most modest figure. >ExceHenChome markets are at hand to-fake whatever the farmer raises, and good price^are given. These lands are on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and full information concerning them will cheerfully be furnished by C. E. Rollins. Immigration Agent, 161 La Salle Street, Chicago. Surprising; Achievement. “What is luck, Uncle Jim?” “Luck? Well, it is when a boy turns ovt to be as smart as his grandmother said be was.”—Detroit Free Press. Free1 Homes In Western Florida. There are about 1,000,000 acres of Government land in Northwest Florida, subject to homestead entry, and about balf as much again of railroad lands for sale at very low rates. These lands are on or near the line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and Mr. R. J. Wemjrss, General Land Commissioner, Pensacola, will be glad to write you all about them. If you wish .to go down and look at them, t'he Louisville « Nashville Railroad provides the way and the opportunity on the first and third Tuesday of each month, with excursions at only $2 over one fare, for round-trip tickets. Write Mr. C. P. Atmore, General Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky.» for particular*. No Cause for Jealousy. Mrs. Benham—Don’t you really care any* thing about root her ? Benhafn—Well, not enough to make yon jealous.—N. Y. Journal. Hall’s Catarrh Care Is taken Internally. Price 75c. When a worthless man isn’t staring at the clock he is gazing at the thermometer.— Atchison Globe.

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