Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 31, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 December 1899 — Page 4

————— Slufikt £)ra»fxt By M. IVcC. STOOPS. One Tear. In advance .. Six Months, In advance . Entered at the poetoflloe tn Petersburg for transmission through the mails as secondetass matter. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1899. To appreciate how far ex-Speaker Reed has removed himself from politics, one has only to observe that he has refused to discuss the Roberts case. The next house of representatives stands 185 republicans, 183 democrats, 8 populists and 3 silverites. The republicans lost several members at the last election. It is to be hoped that the next time the American people make a donation to a hero, they "will take the precaution to learn his matrimonial intentions in advance. We presume that Mr. Roberts of ; UtahwilLieel a little timid at first when he comes in contact with that body of highly moral public men known as Congress. ' As yet no one has nominated the Hon. Whitelaw Reid for vice-presi-dent. Can it be that his exploit in that capacity in 1892 has taken him off the list of eligibles.

DoLLaS wheat that republicans howled so much about has gone down to (>4 cents in the Chicogo market. That's what republican editors call prosperity for the farmer. Now that there is a vacancy on next year's republican ticket it may be expected that Alger will once more begin investing in colored delegates to the national convention. The subject of the acquisition and pieservation of heroism has recently been receiving the attention of that eminent authority, Governor Roosevelt, whose career show's what can be done with a very small amount of capital. _ Tueke are a number of other Palmer and Buckner Rooters who are in the same otticeless condition as the late Mr. Bynum. There is the Hon. Josiah Patterson of Tennessee. Will the president please observe his patient attitude? John Wanamaker. one of the leading republicans of the country and postmaster-general in President Harrison's cabinet, says: *’I have been a republican since 1^50, but my party stinks in the nostrils of decent men. If the people are willing to uphold such corruption as many of the leaders practice and to condone their dishonesty. God help the country.” And that's just what hundreds of republicans think in Pike county in view’ of past events. The publisher of the Pike County Democrat is now living on trust) for breakfast, trust for dinner, and more trust for supper. Two years ago his diet was exclusively dr the lb to 1 variety.—Petersburg Press. Excuse us “colonel,’* we are not living on trust fop^breakfast, supper or dinner. We pay as w’e go or do the reciprocity act. We are not hard up or objects of charity. But for all that, we are not in favor of trusts owning and controlling the interests of the country by special legisla tion, such legislation being in favor of the few’ as against the masses. The wind-jammers have commenced ' their wrork in Washington City. The republican members are being hossed up by the trusts and will not dare do anything that will be antagonistic to their interests at this session. There will be no legislation that will tend to lessen the burdens of the laborer or farmer. The republican party is not built that way. The rich corporations are always taken care of first, and if there is any spare time the producing class come in. But there* is never any spare time the corporations have that all taken up. In 1901 a Congress will be organised that will have time to look after the interests of the whole people.

The United States pays the Sultan of Sulu $250 per month and to the several keepers of his harem the government pays $475 per month. Now ! what is the matter with Roberts of Utah. He was elected* to congress and the citizens of the United States say he should not be seated, and he ought not be. But why should the government float the stars and stripes over the Sultans harem in Sulu and where slavery thrives and the Christian people are killed at the dictation of the Sultan. Article 10 of an agreement between our government and the Sultan is as i follows: “Any slave in the archipelago of Sulu shall have the right to | purchase freedom by paying to the master the usual market value.” The agreement upholds polygamy and slavery ia Sulu, but in the United States it does not go. This is a grand alliance that the republican! party has made. | \

Teds debate which will be had in Congress this winter will bring the Schley case more distinctly before the people. The efforts on the part of the navy department, to cloud the services of the admiral will only bring his work more fully into relief. The politicians who see in the re-opening of this matter, promise of a prolonged fight by the administration against honors to Schley, predict that the people will express themselves upon it in the national election, precisely as both partie^di^in^Ma^la.nd. There is more than usual interest attaching to the action of the Pennsylvania democrats in adopting vigor* ous resolutions against the seating of Senator Quay, recently appointed United States senator to succeed himself after a ^legislature overwhelmingly republican had refused to elect him. It is recognized in Washington that Quay is very popular, and that he may obtain some democratic votes should an attempt be made, as now seems highly probable, to deprive him of the seat which he has held so many years. But the party interests require that a firm stand be taken against Mr. Quay and the precedent that his seating would establish. The Democrat is read by more Pike county people than any other local paper published in the county. It visits every section of the county and has subscribers at every postoffice. It gives all the news obtainable and worth publishing of general interest to the people. The subscript tion has increased more than 250 during the past year, which is a jusrt ap preciation of our efforts to give the people a first-class county paper free from slang and filthy phrases. In this connection we desire to thank our many friends for the kind words spoken for the paper and for their efforts to increase the subscription list. When it is convenient loan your paper to some neighbor and ask him to subscribe for the coming year.

One of the most perplexing problems with which Speaker Henderson is grappling is a choice Oi a chairman for the civil service ‘committee. Although the members of the republican party have been loud in proclaiming their adherence to both.the theory and the practice of civil service reform. the votes and voices of the republicans on the floor of the House have been far from what according with what the party has claimed, and the recent sweeping order of the president, by which thousands of department positions, formerly under the civil service regulations, were thrown open to the spoilsmen of the republican party, has made connection with the civil service committee exceedingly disagreeable and in consequence the chairmanship is going a begging. The price of farm products measured by the trust standard is all on 'aide of the trusts who are trying to monopolize the entire world. As it is these combinations of wealth that have been fostered and given power by the republican party, to which it supplies the &oney to carry elections, have about cornered every article that the farmer and laborer must buy. And say, have these combinations lowered the price on any article that you are aware of? Point out a few that you use every day. Let some enterprising republican editor that has more than a thimble of brains stand up again and defend the trusts and say they are good things for the people. Who advanced the price of sugar? The trusts. Who advanced the price of all kinds of iron manufactures? The trusts. Has the price of farmers’ products advanced? Well, j the farmers can answer that better than some pumpkin-headed editors. Trusts are a glorious thing in the eyes of Mark Hanna and the few who follow Mark's beck and call and are after an office.

4, G. SHANKLIN TALKS About the Recent Meeting of Demo* erats at Chicago. Concerning the recent meeting in Chicago of the executive committee, the Hon. J. G. Shanklin talks as follows: “What occurred at Chicago on Monday and Tuesday last would be of ho popular interest, as nothing was considered officially except plans and specifications for the campaign of 1900. One would get a different idea! from this if the Chicago papers could be taken as authority, but what they published was purely speculation. The* platform was not discussed nor were the candidates in the official meetings of the committee, nor were the time and place for holding the national convention considered. The machinery for carrying on a successful campaign next year was the only subject dealt with, and the progress made in this direction was satisfactory. I noticed that several of the papers commenting on the absence of Governor Stone charged that he and Senator Jones were not in accord. There is no truth in this. Senator Jones and Governor Stone are not only in perfect sympathy politically but are intimate personal friends and frequently enjoy each other’s companionship when there is nothing of a political nature to bring them together.

Washington Notes. Hon. J. D. Richardson of Tennessee, who received the democratic nomination for speaker, after one of the longest caucuses ever held, got the vote of every democratic member of the House Monday. He was not, of course, elected; the republicans having the most votes, elected Representative Henderson speaker, and adopted the old Reed rules, but Mr. Richardson will be the democratic floor-leader of the House during the life of the Fifty-sixth Congress. Ther<& may be more showy and brilliant men on the democratic side of the House, but that he will make a shrewd and safe leader is conceded by all. His shrewdness would have been shown by the manner in which he conducted his campaign for the nomination of speaker, had it not been well established long ago. He received no warmer congratulations on his success than his three rivals for the honor. , Mr. McKinley's long message- one of the longest ever sent to Congress — was not sent in Monday, owing to the early adjournment of both Senate and House as a mark of respect to the late

Vice-President Hobart. It went in Tuesday, and then the real business of the session of Congress began. The democrats were never in a more aggressive mood, and ‘‘hot times” are ahead lor the republican majority in both Senate and House. The attention of senators is being called to the fact that Governor Stone had no constitutional right to appoint Mr. Quay to the Senate, after the legislature adjourned, without electing his successor. The state constitution of Pennsylvania expressly provides that vacancies in the United States Senate shall only be filled by the legislature. A number of influential Pennsylvanians are in Washington, working against the seating of Quay on personal grounds, against both precedent and law. One of these is ex-Ile presentative Sowden, who said on the subject: "The question should not be made a partisan one, but each Senator, regardless of his politics or his personal friendship for Mr. Quay, should vote as a conscientious. impartial and upright judge, and decide it according to its merits and the dictates of his own conscience, under his official oath. If this be done, there can be no question of the result. Governor Stone’s unlawful appointment has not a single merit to support it.” ^3rhat our pension laws are in need of revision, everybody knows, but they will get it, or whether the revision will make them better or worse, is a horse of another color. The secretary and assistant secretary of the interior, and the commissioner and assistant commissioner ofp^nsions have testified before a sub-cominittee of the senate committee on pensions, that a revision of the laws should be made, and recommended that it be done by a non-partisan, would be a non-partisan commission. A national commission that is really non-partisan would be a rarity, indeed, although there are many so-called. Representative Smith of Kentucky, who*was recently acting Chairman of the Kentucky Democratic State Committee, thinks the legal contest in that state, depends upon the view the court of appeals takes of tissue ballots. He thinks those ballots were illegal. and knows that they were used extensively in the republican border counties, to make sure that the “floaters” voted as they were paid to vote. He says if the tissue ballots are thrown out as illegal, Goebel will have a plurality of from 2,000 to 10,000. Mr. Smith says he doesn't believe there will be any trouble in the State, no matter what the final decision may be. Mr. McKinley is in a somewhat dis

agreeable predicament, by reason of his desire to push his friend, and old family physician. General Leonard Wood, ahead in the regular army. He told General Wood, some months ago. that he intended making him Brigadier General in the Regular Army, and it leaked out. There was a flood of protest from the friends of the line officers—many of them influential republicans—who objected to having them jumped by a staff surgeon, with the rank of captain. Mr. McKinley then tried to satisfy General Wood with something else, but he wouldn’t have it that way, preferring to stand pat on the original promised This was the principal reason for General Wood being ordered to Washington at this time, and not the withdrawal of troops from his District in Cuba, as announced. No Right to Ugliness. The woman who is lovely in face, form and temper will always have friends, but one who would be attractive must keep her health. If she is weak, sickly and all run down, she will be nervous and irritable. If she has constipation or kidney trouble, her impure blood will cause pirn pies, blotches, skin eruptions and a wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is the best medicine in the world to regulate stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify the blood. It gives strong nerves, bright eyes, smooth, velvety skin, rich complexion. It will make a good-looking, charming woman of a run-down invalid. Only 30 cents at Stearnes Drug Co.

J^iCHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt Mention given to all business. A Notary Publicconstuntlv IuthenffW. Offlrr In Carpenter building. Eighth ami Malu-sts, Petersburg, Indiana. A811 BY A COFKEY, «. B- Ashby. j C. A. Coffey, j Attorneys at Lam. Will practice In all court*, special attention given to all civil i uslnesa. Notary Public constantly In the office. Collection* made and promptly remitted. Office over W. U ! Barrett’* store. Petersburg, Indiana. g G. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Lam. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. R. Adams A 8011’a drug store, Petersburg, I ml tana. J JOLCOMB A CROW, Attorneys at Lam. Will practice In alt courts. Prompt atten- j ttou given to all business. Office in Carpenter b nek. first Hour on Etgh»h-*t„ Petersburg. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens’ slate ban a, Petersburg, i YV H. STONEC1P11ER.

Dental Surgeon. Office In rooms S aud 7, in Carpeuter build tng. Petersburg. Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Anesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. tv ILSON * TYNER, r. X. wipson. " , T. W. TYMKR. , Petersburg Collecting Agency. Collections In all parts of the United .States, Remittances i-romptly made. Charges are reasonable. Give us your old accounts, notes, etc., ami we will do tire rest. Call on or write us. Office opposite court house in Parker building, Petersburg. Ind. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties interested that I will attend at uvv office In Steudat, EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connected with theoffice ot trustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS. Trustee. VOT1CK is hereby given to all persons eon1 v ccrued that 1 will attend at tny residence EVERY MONDAY. To transact bus! ness connect ed with theoffice of trustee of Jefferson township. L. E. TRAYLOR.Trustee. Postofflce address; dwell, Indiana. Dortf Coal Go. V * • Having' leased the Borer Coal Coal l^ine, and being the nearest mine toNtown, we are prepared to furnish ctktl at all times. All orders promptly filled. TELEPHONE NO. 16-2. Sonr M Company. «4FRED SMITH** Dealer in all kinds of FURNITURE!

Funeral Supplies a Specialty We keep on hand at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Saits a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keep Caskets. Shrouds, etc., of the best make. -

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FACTS ■ *r Nothing but clean, cold facts. We have a clean, well seI lected stock, bought as tow as cash can buy, to offer to tl buying public of Pike and adjoining counties. About Blankets We have the largest stock in town, and something you ha to have this winter in order to keep warm. Note the fallow! prices: One lot of 10x4 Blankets, others sell at 48c, our price ... 4 One lot goody heavy, part wool, worth §1)50......._. 1. One lot all wool, sells at $3.25, reduced to.. 2. One lot extra Lamb wool, 11x4, for.......1 t

Shoes We are overstocked on some kinds that we offer at reduo prices: One lot Ladies’ Lace, latest style, solid sole, sold at Sr. 50, v - now One lot Kangaroo, oil grain, Button, worth Si.50, now. .. One lot in Lace and Button Kid, with tio, latest styles. worth $2.50, reduced to...... >,< And Dress Good At prices never heard of before. 26 pieces slightly that sold at from 40 to 60 cents, reduced to 15 and 20 cents yard. Come in and get your daughter a Dress before they all gone. -AA/.L BARRETT

FLORIDA. A Superior Through Sleeping Car Line Between St. Louis and Jacksonville. Commencing November 18th the Florida Air Line, consisting of the L., E. & St. L. ky. St. Louis to Louisville. Southern railway in Kentucky. Louisville to Lexington, tiueen and Crescent route, Lexington to Chattanooga. Southern railway, Chattanooga to Jesupand Plant System, Jesup to Jacksonville. Florida, will inaugurate for the season the great through slet ping car route to Florida. Through sleeping cars will leave St. Louis 9:15 pm daily, passing Louisville ?:W) am, Lexington lrt:50 am. reaching Chattanooga 5:50 pm, Atlanta 10:.'ll) pm, and Jacksonville 8:30am (second morning.)- Stop-overs allowed. This- route is through large cities and interesting country, and is operated over most superior and well established Hues of railway. The schedules are fast and most convenient. In addition to the above schedule leaving St. Louts at night, train leaving St. Louis 8:08 am, will arrive at Jacksonville the next night 10:00 pm. making only one night out from St. Louis to Jacksonville. This line also affords passengers for Florida j trip via Ashevitle. N. C.. the greatest Alnerl- | car alt-year-amund resort. Correspondence solicited and information ! promptly furnished. R. A. Cambell, general I passenger agent, »t. Louis. Missouri. This is also the best line to points in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and North and South Carolina. N'OTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that 1 will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY? To trausact business connected with the office of trustee jf Madison township/ Positively no business transacted except on office days. J. D. BARK KR. Trustee. Postofflee address: Petersburg, Ind.

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.wage*?' LouiSYille, Evansville & St. Louis G. Railroad Time table In effect Nov. 38,188T: St. Lotus Fast Exp. 8:00 a.m. 1«:45 a,m. 11.-08 a:m. 11:22 a.m. 11:88 a.m. 0:20 p.m. St. Louis Limited. 9:00 p.m. 11:40 p.m. 12:01 a.m. 12:14 a.m. 12:80 a.m. 7:12 a.m. Stations. Leave Leave Leave . Leave Leave Arrive. .■ Louisville . arrive . Hnnttngburg ..._ .. arrive .Velpen .arrive ..Winslow.. .arrive Oakland City..arrive St. Louis- >.....Leave lamtsville Limited. s Louisville Fast Exp. 7:00 a.m, 4:25 a.m.. ,4:02 a.m. 8:32 a.m: 8:37 a.m: 0:15 p.m* — . 5:1,5 p.m. 2:35 p.m 2.18 p.m. I?37 p.m. 7:32 a.m. Night trains stop at Winslow and Velpen on sigua: only. Mgjfc, R. A, Campbell. G.P.A., St. Louis. J. P. Hurt, agent. Oakland City. KSiS