Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 52, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 May 1900 — Page 5

*- PATOKA DEMOCRATS Hold a Housing Convention and Nominate Ticket. Saturday last the democrats of Patoka township held a mass convention in the Young grove at Winslow to nominate a township ticket. There were democrats from every part of the township present to take part in nominating a firstclass ticket. In fact nd mistake would have been made in selecting any of the men before the convention for places on the ticket. The convention was called to order by James Duncan, township chairman, who stated object of the . coming together of the large number of voters of the township. M. M. Rice was selected as chairman of the convention and A. J. Heuring as secretary. A committee on rules and resolutions was appointed which {reported and then nominations were in order for trustee. The names of E. M. ’ Hale, .John H. Jones, W, H. Bottoms ' and-Thompson. After the first ballot Bottoms and Thompson withdrew and the race was then between - Hale and Jones which resulted in the nomination of the latter by a vote of 158 to 148. ! , The balance of ticket nominated

was as follows: Assessor. John R. Fettinger. Advisory board. Joseph Wiggs. sr., Cicero Abel and Ulvsus Curtis. Supervisors..Burch. J. V. Beck: Harrison. Curtis Russ: Winsloye, Ed Blair: Littles. Jeff Nance. The ticket is composed of splendid men from top to bottom and have the ’ confidence and respect of the voters of the township irrespective of politics. 1 The gentlemen are all well known and if elected will serve the taxpayers of the township to the best of their ability.. John H. Jones, the -nominee for trustee, is engaged in the timber trade and lives at Littles. He is well qualified for the position and has many friends all over the township. He is very popular with the laboring men to whom he has given a great deal of employment, and has always been held in the highest esteem bv all whom he has done business with. John R. Fettinger, the nominee for assessor, is a well known farmer of the township. For several years past he has been unable to do much work owing to illness. He is a splendid citizen and thoroughly qualified for the position in every way. Patoka township tax-payers should see that the ticket is elected from top to bottom, at the November^felection. Red Hot From the Gun Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman of Newark, Michigan, in the civil war. It caused horrible ulcers that no treatment helped for 20 years. Then Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured him. Cures cuts, bruises, burns, boils, felons, corns, skin eruptions. Best pile cure on earth. 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by the Stearnes Drug Co. MOTION OVERRULED. Purcell, Light and Meltry (>o To Penitentiary. The Pike county murder cases which were recently tried here have been settled once and for all, as far as the Gibson circuit court is concerned. The motions made for new’ trials in the three cases have all been overruled. . i The attorneys for Light moved the court for a new trial. Special Judge Duncan, w’ho heard the case took the motion under advisement, but after mature deliberation overruled the motion, and today judgment on the verdict vras rendered. Light will spend the balance of his days in the penitentiary. The case of the state vs Andrew Meltry as an accessory after the fact in the Ross murder, was concluded today by the court finding the accused guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The court sentenced him to the state's , reformatory for not less than two years nor more than twenty-one. The judgment was pronounced this afternoon. The evidence submitted in this case was practically the samt; as that in the case of the state vs Light. •• The three men will be taken to prison, possibly tomorrow or Monday, by Sheriff Murphy.—Princeton Democrat. Consumption Cure. Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup, the best cough remedy on earth, cures a cold in one day if taken in time. 25 and 50 cents. J. R. Adams & Son. * V

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THE MENACE OF TRUSTS How They Affect the Tiller of the Soil

MONOPOLIES CRUSH THE FABMER. Lower the Price of What He Has to Sell nod Raise the Cost of What He Bays—Nothing to Hope For From the Repabllcaa Party—Cheap Talk Aboat Prosperity. Nearly half of the people of this couutry work upon the farm, and there Is uot a Uepubllcan policy that can bring anything of good to the farmer. The good the farmer in this country gets i8 from one of two sources, either from au increased crop or an Increased price. Can the Republican party bring au Increased crop? You would suppose from the way the Republicans talk about large crops that the Republican party held in its hands the showers and gave abundant rains wheu the people were good and would give a drought and hot winds when the people voted against the Republican party, and yetj my friends. If a man will stop to think for a moment he will know that the Republican party does not control the rains, because If It did there would'be a monopoly on water, and you would have to buy every shower at a large price. Now, can the Republican party give you a better price for the crops? “Yesi” the Republican party promises, “we will give a better price for the farmer’s crops.” In 1806 they said they had a panic, and some of them called It a Bryan panic. We had Cleveland in then. and. ns if that wasn't enough, they said that there was danger that I might get in. and yet in the midst Of that Bryan panic aud under Cleveland’s ■ administration wheat brought the farmer more than It did last fall when he sold his wheat, nnd yet when wheat went up to a dollar the Republicans claimed credit for It. and when wheat went down more than 30 cents last fall the Republicans did not talk of wheat. The thing that we heard of in Nebraska was cattle. Cattle had gone up. The Republican party has not a policy that promises benefit to the farmer, and yet I prediet every time anything goes up in price the Republican orators will claim credit for it. If potatoes were to go up and cattle fall, every Republican speaker will claim credit for it and will carry potatoes around with him in his pocket And whilei they have not raised the price of wheat the farmer has to sell they have permitted the organization of monopolies that have raised the price of wheat he has to buy. and if the Republican party cannot bring down rain from the clouds it can charge the farmer more for Iron pipe when he goes down in the earth after the water. Go to the store and find the things that are sold to the farmer, and you will find that combinations have raised the price of those things that the farmer buys. Does it require a prophet to tell yon that if the farmer has to pay more for his goods and has no promise of getting more for his crops the time is not far distaut when the farmer will not be able to buy of. the manufacturer, will not be able to produce because he cannot sell bis produce? Aud yet the Republican party without a plan or policy that promises a permanent relief to the great struggling masses of this country has sought to bliud the people to what is going on by talking about prosperity, but you will find that the great masses of the people will reason that no real assurance can come from the Republican party that their lot will ever be better while the great syndicates continue to pile up money more rapidly than ever befoVe and while the administration by its policy is building up in all the great trade centers those financial institutions that will overshadow all the rest.

in ioyp we unu ncany an me Dames against us. In 1900 even the banks will be crying out for relief from these great Osh that are swallowing up the little Osh just as fast as they can. My friends, the money question will* not be settled until we have % financial policy in this country that will make it impossible for a few flnanciers to hold In their hands the destinies of seventy millions of people. The money question will uot be settled so long as a group of flnanciers can go upon the stock market and iu order to buy copper drive it down from .*190 to 225, The country will mwer be safe and the money question will never be settled until the American people come to understand that the speculator, who uses his gigantic wealth for the purpose of robbing his neighbors, is no better ib law or morals than the highwayman who robs upon the highway with his bludgeons. The money question will be in the .campaign, and ns the people study the measure now before cougress and find out that the government paper is to be retired and bank paper substituted, when they understand that you can have national bank notes with the security we have at present without having a permanent and increasing national debt, the Republican party will find that it is not yet done with this money question that has tormented it for so many years. And. my friends, we will not only have that and the questions of the Chicago platform, but the trust question that has become important during the last three years. I shall j not dwell upon It, because only recenti ly I discussed this question in this | city. I simply want to suggest this, : that the Republican party is impotent i to either devise new legislation or enforce present laws against the trusts. You say to a Republican that we ought to have better laws, and he tells you the Sherman law is amply sufficient, and you tell an official that a new

trust Is organized and ought to be extinguished, and he will tell you that the law is not broad enough to govern It And this adjustable opinion of the subject reminds me of the little boy at the table. Ills father was helping him to a plate when the boy exclaimed, “Why, all that for grandma?” •‘No,” replied the father; “this plate Is for you, my son.” “Oh, what a little bit!” complained the boy. Whenever you talk about new legislation you are assured that the present legislation is all that could be desired, and whenever you want to destroy a trust you will d|nd that it is just outside of the border in some way. The supreme court has held that the law does not apply to a monopoly in manufacturing; that the sugar trust, which produces 98 per cent of the sugar of the United States, cannot be touched by that law. and yet there is /nothing necessary to In? done. My friends, the Democratic party will go into^he campaign of 1900 not merely with denunciation of the trust, but with a plain and simple remedy, like the remedy proposed for the settlement of the money question, and upon this remedy It will Invite the confidence and support of the American people.—From W. J. Bryan’s Recent Speech in Chicago.

THE CURRENCY BILL, Places Great Power la the Hand* of the Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. Dorsey W. Shackleford of Missouri removed the gorgeous covering from the currency bill in his remarks in opposition to It before the house committee of the whole and exposed the grisly skeleton thus: “I am opposed to the bill because it provides for an unlimited increase in ofir bonded debt. I am one of those who believe that we should be paying off our debt, not increasing it. This measure gives to the secretary of the treasury power to issue bonds whenever in his discretion be may deem it necessary, and he will deem it necessary whenever the national banking trust shall demand it So it is that to confer these special bounties upon the national banking trust you not only burden the people now living with all the hardships they can carry, but you lay a heavy debt on the country to be paid out of the toil of generations yet unborn. You sell our wry children into slavery to the gold power. “I oppose this bill because it will retire our greenbacks from circulation. The people are satisfied with that form of currency. Let the government issue directly whatever paper money Is needed and not turn that function over to be execlsed by the national banking trust. Republicans say that they want the government to go out of the banking business. Without stopping to discuss the soundness of that proposition I assert that it is more important that the banks shohld go out of the governing business. It is not ifecessary, however, for the government to go into the banking business in order to keep the greenbacks in circulation. Gentlemen tell us that the greenbacks serve as an endless chain to deplete the gold reserve. This could never have been had the secretary of the treasury obeyed the law instead of yielding fo the dictates of the gold power. When greenbacks were presented for redemption, had they been redeemed in that metal, which it was most easy and convenient to obtain, not a greenback would have been presented for redemption. That is what the plain letter of the law required. “I am opposed to this bill because it creates a trust and confers upon it privileges and Immunities not conferred upon the rest of the people. It grants a monopoly. The bank currency provided for in this bill is made secure not by the solvency of the bank, but by the bonds deposited with the secretary of the treasury. Then why should uot any bank or any person having bonds have the right to deposit them and take currency? There are many bauks. thousands of them, in the country which are uot uatioual banks that are abundantly solvent. The purpose of the bill is to limit the special privileges granted to a few hundred national banks which compose the trust This «bill confers upon the national banking trust the power to issue and regulate the volume of currency. It can make money plentiful or make it scarce as best suits its purpose. It can make mouey plentiful in one part of the country aud scarce in another, as It may choose. It can hurt the whole country. It can hurt one part of the country and help another. The ua tional banking trust under this law can issue currency up to the full amount of bonds it can control, or it can decline to issue any at all. Having issued money, it may call in any or all of it, as may best suit its stock jobbing purposes. By these processes it can control prices and keep marliets continually fluctuating and disturbed. Some very good object lessors as to how this may be done have befcn given within the last few days.” \

Revenge at Last. Revenge, like fate, comes slowly, but surely. During the Venezuela difficulty. when Mr. Cleveland was twisting the British lion’s tail and giving it a toothache, a literary writer sent him a letter of advice as to the proper manner of performing the job. On reading the letter Mr. Cleveland was moved to inquire. “Who the - is Richard Harding Davis?” When Mr. Davis reads Grover's last effusion to the Chicago Tribune, political events transpiring since the Venezuela episode will justify him in inquiring. “Who the -is Grover ClevelandY* Concerning Lobsters. The naturalists of the country arc attempting to solve the puzzling question. “Are lobsters fish?” Well, no— that is. not all of them. Some lobsters are politicians.

RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly In the office. Office In Carpenter building, Eighth and Main-sts , Petersburg, Indiana. QEORGE B. ASHBY, Attorney at Law. Will practice In all courts. Special attention given to all civil t usings*. Notary Public constantly In the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office *n Citizens’ state oana building. Petersburg, Indiana. g O. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over J. K. Adams A Sou’s drug store, Petersburg. Indiana.

,011 ARLES A. COFFEY, Attorney at Law. All klndsof legal business promptly attended to. Your patronage solicited. Office upstairs in Citizens’ state bank bulldi ng. Tel. 16-2, Petersburg. Indiana. 0OX A CROW, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Office in Carpenter block, first floor on ElghUt-st., Petersburg. YV n'SON * GREENE, j. w. wilson *» V. K.OKKKNK Attorneys at Law. Will practice iu all co'irts. Office in Parker block,opposite the court house, Petersburg, lud. pOSEY A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts. Collections promptly made. Notary public iu office. Office upstairs iu Snyder building in iront at Democrat office, Petersburg, Indiana. gTANLEY M. KRIEG, Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Will practice in all courts. Office in Moutgomerv ouildiug, Petersburg, Indiana. M. M. RICE, Attorney at Law. Will practice in Pike and adjoining counties, aud in all courts. Notary Public. Office in Dispatch buildiug. up stairs, Winslow, lud. T. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a'specialty. Office over Citizens’ state bank, Petersburg, Indiana. M. HUNTER, * Physician and Surgeon. Office in rear of Citizens' Stale bank, Tel. 91-2 residence and office., Office hours—day and night. D R. J. W. COOK, Vitapathic Specialist, Graduate of the American Health College, employs all vital and vitalizing methods ot the superior Vitapathic system iu cleansing impurities and removing poisons and causes of disease. Processes covered by State Charter and United States patents; Also Electro Thermal Vital Warm Air Baths given. Office iu Parker building, opposite court house. J. GLAD1SII. Hypnotism & Magnetic Healing. Every known disease cured without medicine or surgery, it cures where everything else fails, terms reasonable and all correspondence receives my best attention. If diseased write at once. Office at Rumble, lud. II. STONECIPHER, - Dental Surgeon. Office in roomsO aud 7, iu Carpeuter building. Petersburg, Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction ol teeth. yy ILSON A TYNER, F. M. W ILSON. T. W. TVNBK. Petersburg Collecting Agency. Collections in all parts of the United States. Remittances promptly made. Charges are reasonable. Give us your old accounts, notes, etc., ami w’e will do the rest. Call on or write us. Office opposite court house in Parkes* building, Petersburg, Ind. XfGTICEis hereby 1A terested that I in Stendal, given to all parties inwill attend at my office EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connected with the office o(4rusteeof lawkharl township. All persons having business with said office wiH please take notice. J. L. BASS. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned that I will attend at my office in Otwell EVERY DAY. To t ransact business connected with the office of trustee of Jefferson township. ROBERT M. GRAY, Trustee. Postoffice address: Otwell, Indiana. N OTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that 1 will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY/ To transact business connected with theoffice of trustee jf Madison township. Positively no business transacted except on office days.® C. J. GLADISH, Trustee. Pqstoffiee address: Bowman; lnd.

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kl T You people who know a t argain and like to buy the best Goods at Jobbers prices. Here are some irice^: ] 16 pounds best Granulated Sugar, $1.00 2 packages Coffee, 25c 3 nans best Tomatoes, 25c 3 cans Babbitt’s Lye, 25c % 3 pounds Prunes;, 25c ’ Hice per pound, 5c j 6 pounds Xavy leans. 25c - ^ 25 pounds best Flour, 50c * 20-cent Coal Oil, 15c ° *- Also full line of Candies, Groceries, Glassware, QueensWare and Tinware at equally low prices. We wa nt your Butter, Eggs and Chickens at the highest market price, cash or tr< de. We have the biggest stock in the city. Call and investigate. Store c oses at &30 each night. 3". £31. 3^/£o^VXt£Z3JE3 c$C CO., -West Main street, Petersburg. Indiana.

G o to th e Star Tailor here the crowd-goes if you need anything in the line of Tailoring. He has seen ml an expert tailor. Business has bee n too (strong for himself. Go in and see them make your Suits or Pants. All thp lates designs to pick Rom. Suit to Order, $12.00 Up. Pants to Order, $2’50 Up. Suits pressed while you wait, ,v0 cents. Pants pressed, 15 cents, and alt kinds of cleaning and repairing at lowest pi ices. Hi. sat. cx-.a-:ekk:. Next door to City Hall,. >'i Petersburg, Indiana, Time is Money : : : : ' Time Saved is Money Earned Don’t Travel,—Telephone! A Telephone in yojir Residence, Office or Store will save time and make you money. / Our present Rates leave no excuse for. being without this modern necessity. j Don’t “sponge” on your neighbor. Thirty days trial will convince you. Place yfmr order now, and have a Telephone placed in your resident: :. Let us know your wants. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co, j J. W. •HOMAS, Manager.

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■W-A-I-Ip I Say, did you see that Wall Pap>r at L. II. Chuk’s? He has the cheapest ami prettiest patterns in the city. Paj* r jus low as 4 cents per roll and op to the finest there is on the market. Paper delivt red to any part of the city free of charge. This Paper is independent of any trust or pools. L. H. CLARK, . ■ ... . ;vj i . ; - ? -?<f ' Next door to City Hall, • j Petersburg, Indiana. LonisYilte, EyansYilie & St. Louis G. Railroad 1 |{ • . V Time tabl e ^ effect Nov. 28, 1897: A St. Louis Fast Exp. 8:00 a.m. 1»:15 a.m. 11 aw a.m. 11:22 a.m 11:88 a.m. 6:20 p.m. St. Louis Limited. 9:00 p.m. 11:10 p.m. 12:01 a.m. 12:11 a.m. 12:80 a.m. 7:12 a.m. Stations. Leave Leave Leave Leave Leave Arrive. iduisville .r.arrive . !.t ilnttngburg .1 >...:; .arrive Jlelpen.|t. - arrive . W v' inslow . .;.a rri ve Oakland City ..— arrive St. Louis’.Leave Louisville Limited. 7:00 a.m. 1:25 a.m. 1:02 a.m. 8:52 a.m 3:37 a.m. 9:15 p.m. Louisville Fast Exp. 5:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m 2::i0 p.m. 2.16 p.m. 1:57 p.m. 7:52 a.m. Night trains stop at U mslow and Velpen on signal only. U. A. CiunpWll. G.P.A., St. Louis. J. F. Hurt, agent, Oakland City.