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

at the poatotBec in Petersburg for through the mails as second - FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4,18J8. Democratic Ticket. _i— , •• For Secretary of H*ate. SAMUEL RALSTON For Auditor of State. JOHN W. MINER For Treasurer of State, HUGH DOUGHERTY For Attorney -General. john o. McNutt For Clerk of the Supreme Court, HENRY WAHHl'M For Superintendent Public Instruction. W. li. Sinclair For State Statistician. JAMES S.GUTHRIE For State Geologist, EDWARD BARRETT For Judge* of the Supreme Court, 1st Disl., LEONARD J HACKNEY Sd Diet., jAMES McCABE 6th Diet.. TIMOTHY E. HOWARD For Judges of the Appellate Court, 1st Diet.. EDWIN TAYLOR Sit DUL.U J. KOLLMEYEK fcJDUL. EDGAR BROWN ’ 4th trtst., W. 8. DIYEN 6th DIM-. JOHANNES KOPELKE For Congress, First District, TlloMAS DUNCAN. For Joint-State Serator. " EDWARD 1*. RICHARDSON. For Prosecuting Attorney, KERR TRAILER. For JOint-Representative, SASSER SULLIVAN. For Clerk, LEWIS E. TRAYLER. For Auditor, WILLIAM H. SCALES. For Treasurer. ONI AS O. SMITH. For Sheriff, W. M. RllXiWAY. For Coroner. . ALLEN RUMBLE. > For Surveyor. A. fJ. CATO. For Commissioner. First District, JOSEPH L. ROBINSON, For Commissioner, Third District, WILLIAM 11. BOTTOMS.

Ex.*ctiom next Tuesday. Vote for your best interests and elect the democratic county ticket. Two years ago th** democrats promised a reform iti county affairs if the ticket was successful at the polls. The People elected the ticket by a large major- j ity, and as soon as the officials took their offices the work of reform and eeonotnv was put into practice and several thousands of dollars have been saved to the taa-jaiyers j since the officials have-been in office. Tax*-:-have been reduced and a general cutting down in the bills have been made and in another year tike county will be on a good financial footing providing the democratic ticket is again elected. Men should be elected to office to serve the People and not their own individual interests. Not a single word has been uttered derogatory to the official acts of any of the democratic county officers who have served the People during the past two years by any of the republican papers. There can be nothing said or it would have been done long ere this the closing week of the campaign. It is the duty then of the voters to elect the democratic nominees Who have served them so well in the past, that the good work of reform in county affairs may lie kept up and the big debt piled up by the last republican administration wiped out. Think of the debt piled up during the four years of | the republican administration. With $1 ?,- j 500 in the treasury, no orders outstanding, selling a portion of the county farm for •3,500. selling $110,000 of bonds and gettiug a premium of over $1,900 and then having over $13,000 in county orders floating after baring built a jail which only coat $35,500. Figure the matter a little, Mr. Voter, and see bow much money was spent and ask yourself whether or not this was good management of the taxes paid in by you. Think about it before you vote next Tuesday and see if you will not come to the conclusion that it is well < nough to re-elect the democratic county ticket. It is to your interest a* a tax-payer to vote for those men who will look after and carefully expend the taxes which you pay iuto the treasury for the genera] expenses of the county. Vote for the democratic nominees and show by your votes that vou approve of the way they have conducted affairs daring the past two years.

A ska Lous candidate on therepublk-an county ticket had an effectual quietus put upon him one day last week. He went to •ee a substantial democratic farmer and found him over in a corn field husking corn. After a little conversion the candidate asked the farmer *or his vote stating that be was a candidate on the republican ticket. The farmer asked him what kind of a republican he was. whether he was oue of the gold standard kind or whether he was iu favor of gold and silver at 16 to I. This question was a stunner to the candidate, and after he bad partially recovered from his confusion being pressed for an answer be admitted that he was in favor of the gold standard. The candidate realising the awkwardness of asking a silver democrat to vote for him, a gold standard man left the field With a heavy heart. Hon. Tbohas Duncan for congress from this di*tric% will without a doubt be elected nest Tuesday. Mr. Duncan has the ability to represent the people of the district as - they should be represented and will attend to the duties that will be imposed on turn. Mr. Duncan is a man of marked ability and will make a valuable member in eon•reus. Be h well kuowu to the voters of Pike county, having made two canvasses of (fee county and met a large number of the VaIa fn* HiiftAuac — —■» *t^-— WHft » vlH I©» l/UDCttir uCa*' 4 UwCmJ, A*. fe- *

If you are in favor of bimetalism rote next Tuesday. Ir you desire your beet interests looked after in county affairs make an X iu the circle containing the rooster. Be sure and make a cross within the circle containing the nSoster and nowhere else to vote a straight democratic ticket. “ It is reported that at several points in the county large amounts of republican boodle will be placed. Democrats be on the lookout. Cast your votes next Tuesday for Allen Rumble for corouer and A. G. Cato for surveyor. They are splendid citizens of the county and will make good officials. Don’t be misled by any of the flying rumors that may be set on foot during the next few days. The republican bosses will work any scheme to get a vote on election day. . “You can fool all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the people all the time,” said Mr. Lincoln, but the goldites are tryiug to fool all the people all the time. They’ll get fooled them^lves in November. From 1793 to 1858, all silver fcoins struck at the mints were full legal tender money, ami from 1793 to 1857* all the gold and silver coins of the nations with which this country bad commercial dealings were legal tender eoius. Strikes and lockouts were uuknown during that period. Vote for Billy Ridgway for sheriff. He has made an efficient and economical officer, and has at all times been courteous and accommodating. During his two years as sheriff and jailor not a single prisoner has made his escape from bitn. Ik is a good citizen and very popular with the people. Boys, remember and cast your vote for Ridgway for sheriff.

In marking your ballot make a cross thus X, and remember it must be a cross. No other designating murk will do. If you Tote a straight ticket mark the cross within the circle at the l»ead\f the ticket. If you vote a mixed-ticket -Wake the cross within the squares opposite the names of the persons you desire to vote for. Kemember this and make a X within the circle surrounding the rooster. Next Tuesday a clerk of the Pike circuit court is to be elected, and for this responsible position L. E. Traylor of Jefferson township, is a candidate. He is well qualified in every particular for the position, having a good common sch«x>l education. He has never held a county office, is very l*>pular all over the county as ts attested from the very warm reception he receives from the voters of the several j*olitical parties. If you desire a new man in the clerk's office vote for Trayler next Tuesday and elect him by a large majority. Hox. E. P. Richardson of this city, candidate for joiut senator, should be elected and ought to receive the votes of the citizens of this county. He was born and raised m this county, and the people recognize his ability to serve them in the capacity as a law maker. He is one of the best known men in Southern Indiana as a citizen and a lawyer. The people of this county should bouor him with their votes. The county is entitled the position of senator as has beeu repeatedly said by the republican new.-papers and the prominent republicans of the county. Cast your votes for Richardson next Tuesday.

Re publican papers and speakers affect to believe that a democratic house would not tie in sympathy with the president in the settlement of the questions growing out the war with Spain. As the democratic and populist members of the house gave McKinley what little backbone he finally showed, it is not to be supposed that they i would tie lackiug in spirit if they were : intrusted with the settlement of any or all | foreign questions. The democratic party | has a record to be proud of in dealing with | foreign countries and acquiring and taking ; care of territory. The democratic party , has done more in the line of expansion than | the republican party can ever hope to do. In voting the local ticket be sure and ! make an X containing the rooster and I nowhere else. The democratic ticket isj I acknowledged to be the safest for the tax-! payers to elect at the polls next Tuesday to serve them for the coming terms of office. | Each man stauds upon his merits and j should receive the vote of every friend and j those who faTor an economical adtninistra- | tkm of county affairs. Some of the candij dates have been tried in office during the past two years and have given entire satisfaction to the people. They have beeu economical and saved the tax-payers several thousands of dollars. This in itself should elect the entire democratic ticket. Make a cross in the circle containing the rooster. The auditor's office is one among the important official positions in the county and demands a man who is a good accountant and penman. A record must be kept of all the business transactions of the oonnty commissioner*. The auditor makes up the tax duplicates and computes the taxes of all the people in the county. He must be ! thoroughly competent in every particular. | Such a man is Harrison Beales. He has a : splendid education and for several year* > bait been a successful business man at I Augusta, this county. He is well known for his ability and is a gentleman in every respect and enjoys the confidence and good ! will of all with whoa he has had Mm : dealings. The voters of Pika county will ’ never have regret in ea* n§ their balk**

. —-.-. Vote early next Tuesday. Every silverite should east his vote by noon. Go to the polls early next Tuesday and see that every democrat casts his vote. Every vote in the county should be cast. Duriug Hemenway’s congressional career there have been 305 roll calls and he has failed to answer to his name 145 times. Vote for Duncan. Every indication points to democratic victory throughout the United States. Over confidence is our only danger. Get out and do your duty. Tax democratic county ticket is a good one from top to bottom. Every name on it is above reproach and if it is elected the affairs of the county will be conducted in an economical manner. No voice bat that of democracy is raised in this election to shield the oppressed of our land from the deadly blow of financial despotism about to be struck by the shylocks of the world through the instrumentality of Banna republicanism. Go to the polls. ••__ - Thus is no question as to the election of Captain Sullivan for representative from j [ Dubois and Pike counties. The captain represented this county in the last session of the legislature and bad the distinction of being the oldest man in that body. Honor the old veteran of two wars with your votes next Tuesday. It is rather a striking coincidence that just as the blessiugs of protection and the single j gold standard are being preached the loudest by administration orators, seven miners should be shot dead in their tracks and j eighteen wouuded by Pinkerton detectives simply as the result of the fact that coal operators would not pay living wages and sought to displace the strikers with ignorant colored laborers, mostly ex-con-victs, from Alabama.

Turoiuu the enactment of the banking bill reported by the republican congress the money power will have accomplished at one stroke in a single campaign more than all the despots of the world have succeeded in doing in a whole century. Republican success at this election will be the fir>t great step towards universal empire under the rule of a souless, money despotism. Then indeed will mammon he king of the material world and liberty its slave. Silver dollars are legal tender for all debts public and private. With free coinage of silver the mortgaged farmer, who now barely pays taxes and interest, can ex- ■ change his surplus products for silver bullion, have it coined free of charge, into legal tender dollars, pay his taxes and interest, and have a balance equal to the amount of his taxes and interest to apply on the principal of his debt. Free coinage of silver would double the debt payiug power of the farmers surplus. Every voter in Pike county should go to the polls next Tuesday and vote his sentiments on the financial question. If you favor the restoration of silver it is your bounden duty to get to the polls and show by your vote that you are not in favor of the rich banking classes of Wall street and London dictating as to what the money of this country shall of shall not be. If you are in favor of the masses instead of the classes you will vote next Tuesday. Don’t fail. _ • Owes Smith has proved himself the right man for the treasurer's office. He has made an official in whom the people have had the utmost confidence. He is careful in his business transactions for the People and knows how to conduct the office. He is a safe man to be entrusted with the funds of the county and should be elected next Tuesday to serve the people for another term of two years. During the past two years he has made many friends among the Yoters of all parties in the county who will see that he is giveewk rousing majority. He can be trusted at all times with the thous- j nods of dollars that is paid into the county treasury. . ’ _

lr paying bonds in coin exactly according to the contract is disreputable and dishonorable what expletives and adjectives would be required to fitly describe the perfidy of the bankers who propose to issue two billions of money made of paper and that backed by only 5 per cent of gold. The silver dollar even upon the intrinsic value theory is worth fifty cents on the dollar, while the bauk currency will only be worth five cents on the dollar. Pay according to the contract and don’t worry about your honor. If the success of Bryan ism would be disastrous now, please explain why the country was not ruined in the decade before the civil war, when we had both free trade and free coinage of silver. The county commissioners expend the i money paid in by the tax-payers. These ! positions demand men who will be econo- | inical with the funds, who will not make need I less expenditures, but carefully guard the interests of the tax-payer the same as they do their own personal business affairs. In J. L. Robinson and William H. Bottoms the people will find the men that the office ; demands. Mr. Robinson has been in office | for nearly two years past and has made an ; efficient officer in every respect. He is a good business man and has been very ; successful in his own personal affairs and has need the same business tact in. the management of county affairs that he has in his own individual affairs. Mr. Bottoms is a successful farmer and will make an acceptable officer. With such Robinson, Rumble and Bottoms as misstoners the county*# affairs will be in safe hhads. The voters should see < Tuesday that Robinson and B< elected. It w to the

A Bask Monopoly. That it is a fact that bankers are already preparing for a ooncentation of banking interests, for the general purposes of trust organizations, is conceded by ftnancial authorities. One of the most conservative financial papers in the country is the United States Investor, and it says in its issue of OotoberSS: “The movement to reduce the number of banks in Boston and to organize one large institution in the place of nine that are to be displaced, is not the only sign that the advisability of centralizing banking interests is being taken under consideration. There have been Afcumt&r of bank consolidations' in New York lately, certain smaller institutions being amalgamated with heavier banks.” It might have added that similar consolidations have occurred recently in Chicago, Kansas City and Louisville. This movement is already creating the large institutions which, if the currency reform scheme of the Overstreet bill is adopted, will result in a network of branch banks that will crowd out local and small banks everywhere. The Investor approves this movement from a banking standpoint. It points to the strength of the great European banks, and says that banking in this country has “not yet risen to the dignity which characterizes the occupation in Europe." Possibly not, but it concedes that it is moving in that direction very rapidly. It says: ‘‘But our leading banks are growing in size and in the magnitude and delicacy of their operations very fast,aud the tendency seems to be—iu the large cities at least—lo concentrate the- business in the fewest hands possible. All this tends to the greater effectiveness of the industry. Where the care of tuouey is committed to few rather than many hands it can be used to the best advantage of the largest number of persons. The tendency in such a case is to lend funds with greater discrimination and effectiveness, and at lower rates. One of the greatest evils of today is the ease with which funds are obtained for schemes which do not merit assistance. This is due to the great number of competing banks, which,iu their eagerness to obtain business,

tail VACivisc juupn vaiv ui wicvuug their loans. This danger would be reduced to a minimum if banking were in the bauds of a few large institutions, governed by strong men, rather than in the bauds of numerous weak institutions.” In other words, the removal of small and local banks will remove competition in the banking business aud there will be a disappearance of what the Investor calls “the ease with, which funds are- obtained for schemes which do not merit assistance.” That is to say, loans will be made only to those whose resources are large, and thousands of really meritorious businessman will be siiut off from accommodations by the lack of (tanking competition. At the same time thousands of employes of banks will be thrown out of employment, just as has happened in the case of trusts, combines, department stores and other concentrations of business. The one thing that is now lacking to bring about this result is the privilege of branch banking, and that privilege is given in the fullest way by the Overstreet bill and by the llill-Fowier bill, which has been favorably reported to the house. Local bankers aud business men who are not entirely blinded by the gold standard delusion will do well to consider very carefully before lending their aid to give this ruinous power to the great banking syndicates that are already organizing. —Indianapolis Sentinel.

Robbed the (»rave. A startling incident of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: “I was in a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite—gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a frieud advised trying Electric Bitters, and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. 1 know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim.” No one should fail to try them. Only 50 cents per bottle at J. R. Adams and Son’s drug store. The Overstreet BUS, if Enacted, Will: I. Retire $346.001',000 of greenbacks. 3. Stop coinage of silver dollars. 3. Make $500,000,000 of silver redeemable in gold. 4. Make debt contracts, public and private, payable in gold. 5. Turn over to bonks all power to issue paper currency. 6. Secure bank currency by assets only. | ?. Leave depositor without protection. 8. Enable; banks to contract or expand ! their currency at will, 9. Create a bank Monopoly. 10. Leave honest tanks at the mercy of dishonest ones. II. Make legitims is banking hazardous. 13. Increase the v due of our debt obligations, national and private, many hundred million dollars 18. Open an avenue for wild cat banking. 14. Provide a twei re-year board to control cnrrenev. 15. * Make money he master,everything else the servant.”-—M rKinley. A Gm t D«U of unnecessary expenditure of time and money may be saved ill yon will only keep a bottle of Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepein in the house. Nine-ten lbs of all ordinary sickness is from the stomach; keep that organ in proper condition and all will be

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