Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 June 1900 — Page 4

Hu£i)uGmnrt9§<tt»axt By JR. flier. RTMPX.

One Ye*r, in advane*.. .... $100 Six Months, In advance. . 30 Entered »t the poetofflee in Petersburg for transmission through the malls as secondclass matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, WOO. COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS. for sHEKtrr. We are authorized to announce the name of William S. Thompson of Patoka township, as a candidate for the nomination of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the Democratic nominating convention. We are authorized to announce the name of Everett Crow of Patoka township, as a candidate for the nomination of Sheriff, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. »‘OK RECORDER. We are authorized to announce the name of William A. Battles of Patoka township, as a candidate for the nomination of County Recorder, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. <- * We are authorized to announce the name of Florian Bartl of Jefferson township, as a candidate for county recorder, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention, run COUNTY ASSESSOR. We are authorized to announce the name of J. L. Capehart of Jefferson township, as a candidate for the nomination of county assessor. subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. rOR CORONER. Please announce the name of Orace D. Harris of Jefferson township, as a candidate for county coroner subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. Alaska may be cold and it may have gold, but its delegates to Kansas City are instructed for Bryan and silver, all the same. According to !ie dispatches, justice is for sale in Cuba by the native courts. No one has ever doubted th\s, but no one expected our people to catch the contagion Of dishonesty as soon as they did.

Rathbone, who was supervisor of posts in Cuba, will not be allowed to hold office under the postal depart* ment again. President McKipley may appoint him to some other position however. The Democratic vote in Oregan shows a \ain of about 25 per cent of the total vote of the state. Similar increases elsewhere would give, the Democrats New York, Indiana, and a number of other states, and would elect Bryan. The first session of congress spent nearly $710,000,000, and left a number of very expensive Items to go over till next session. The chances are that the two sessions will cost a billion and a half. This is one part of the whitie man's burden. Just before adjournment of congress that body voted to the employes an extra month’s salary, amounting to a total of about $80,000. Th§ employes were then asked to contribute half of the extra month’s‘salary to | . the republican campaign fund. How is that for raising funds? The pebple foot the bills. Secretary Long may pay a “reasonable price” for armor. But what .is a reasonable price? The armor makers say—or said a few weeks ago— that $545 per ton was reasonable. The public generally thinks that $445 is ‘ more than reasonable. What will Secretary Long decide about it? Taylor and Finley, fugitives from justice, now in this state from Kentucky, will take the stump for the republicans during the campaign. Gov-1 ernor Mount has refused to honor the requisitions for their return to Kentucky to be tried for complicity in the assassination of Governor Goebel. The Cuban frauds are rapidly being brought home to Rathbone, whose bondsman has been notified that he must make good some $15,000 and probably more. After a while, steps may be taken against some' one still - higher in authority, to whose gross neglect of superintendence, even after he suspected that something was wrong, the extent of the frauds is undoubtedly due. President McKinley was bound to give Bill Bynum a place for his service ip the campaign of 18%. He was first appointed as supervisior of customs at Ne w York City, a life time job. But the senate refused to confirm the appointment. He has now appointed him a member of the commission to codify the fedefal laws. Republican speeches intended for circulation this fall, fill only about one-tenth as much space as democratic and populist speeches. The members of the G. O. P. had nothing more to talk about, while fresh speeches on fresh issues were being made every day by their opponents. Is it any wonder that they wanted to adjourn congress? “The God-made men do not differ greatly in size or strength, they labor under similar conditions as|&life and health, they are subject tothe same ' moral restrains. Competition between

them, therefore, is reasonably equal and fair. But corporations dfyler in size, in strength and longevity; and, having no life beyond the grave, have neither the fear of the future punishment nor the hope of future reward to restrain them. Comf>etition, therefore, between the natural man and the great corporation may be grossly unequal and unfair. The line must be drawn at the point where the corporation seeks to establish a monopoly and deprive the individuals' or smaller corporations of the right to compete. In other words, the legislation necessary at this time must be directed against private monopoly in whatever form it appears. Those who desire to protect society from the evil results of the trust must take the position that a private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable. The power to control the price of anything which the people need cannot safely be intrusted to any private individual or association of individuals, because selfishness is universal and the temptation to use such a power for personal advantage is too great. W. J.Bryan.

Thu Indianapolis News is a republican newspaper, but now and then it discusses politics fairly. In speaking of the-,republican prospects for success this year the News points out the following reasons why McKinley i^ weaker in 1900 than he was in 1890: The action of the administration and congress on the Horto Rican question has decidedly weakened the party. Growing out of this is the feeling that the president is not his own master— that he is too much disposed to yield to the demands of the party—or rather to the leaders of the party. The Cuban scandals have also operated against the administration. It is feared, too, that we have not reached the end of them. The development of trusts, the concessions made to great moneyed interests in the Dingley tariff bill, the threatened passage of the ship subsidy' bill—all these things have had their effect. And the enactment of the gold standard legislation has expelled to some extent the fear that the people felt four years ago. It will be argued by some men that the money question is settled beyond the power of Bryan to disturb it, and that, therefore, there is no reason why they should not vote for him on other issues. In these particulars, then, the situation has, from the" republican point of view, changed for the worse.

Frank B. Posey was here today for the first time since the republican state convention. Said he: “I expect to make few, if any, speeches during the campaign. I am not sore, but I have stumped the state for twentyfive years, neglecting my law practice. and the remainder of my life I propose to devote to my family. I have no doubt that the state will go republican and that the First district will return James Hemenway to congress. I am for Roosevelt for vicepresident.—Indianapolis Press. It's a Trust Record. When Mr. McKinley shall be renominated for president of the United States by the vote of delegates attending the republican national convention in Philadelphia he will then stand before the American as awaiting their verdict on the acts of his first administration. The American people are prone to generously reward their public servants who have faithfully and conscientiously performed their duty. They are equally inclined to rebuke those who have failed in such performaqce. They will pass judgment on Mr. McKinley’s record as established by the facts and conditions confronting this country. During Mr. McKinley’s administration the power of the trusts has reached a height never attained under any other president. The syndicate influence has controlled the president and mastered congress. It has led to a policy in Cuba which justifies the Cubans in believing that this government has no intention of fulfilling its pledge for Cuban independence. It dictated a line of American action in the Philippines 6 which precipitated war and compelled the employment of a big army for foreign conquest. It demands the holding of the Philippines at any cost, as widening the field of profit for itself. It forced the sin of the tariff taxation of the Porto Risans in violation of the constitution. It is demanding the passage of a ship subsidy bill which will place a tax of $200,000,000 on the American people for exclusive syndicate benefit. It is driving the United States into a policy of imperialism and militarism utterly at variance with American principles and institutions. The American people will hold Mr. McKinley responsible for the fact that the trusts are now the dominant factor in this government. They are resolved to overcome the trust evil and to punish the party of the trusts. They know that this is imperative if true Americanism is to survive. They know that to control and regulate the trusts they must retire Mr. McKinley from the presidency of the United State'S There is good reason to believe that their votes in November will accomplish this end.—St. Louis Republic.

McKinley's Chances.

McKinley's chances are not so good this year as they were in 1896. His record is against him. Hanna's friend-1 ship is against him. The scandals of the last four years are against him. And when election day has ended next November it will be found that the people are against him. Discussing this matter the New j York Post shrewdly remarks on this | question of the personal equation of j the men “that disgust is a stronger motive than vague dread. Men do, in jSfkite of thht sage advice, fly from the ills they have to evils that they know not of. Thousands of independent and republican voters are beyond all question, disgusted with President McKinley for some reason or another.” “Therefore,” it Concludes, “it will not do to rely upon their distrust of Mr. Bryan to prevent them from voting against Mr. McKinley.” It adds as a fact within its own knowledge, for example, that the professors of a certain New Englund college, who were almost unanimously for McKinley in 1896, are almost unanimously for Bryan now,’ and the reason is, it says, assigned by these professors is that Mr. McKinley “has betrayed them,” and that “they do not intend to be like the fool in the Spanish proverb; and break a leg twice over the same stone.” On the other hand, the general consensus of opinion is that Bryan has grown stronger since the campaign of 1896. In the first place, the million or more votes taken from Bryan by the bolting democrats in 1896 have returned to him. In the second place, a large per cent of the republican voters will decline to express approval at the polls for McKinley imperialism. Taking into consideration the great issues of trusts, imperialism and militarism which are espoused by McKinley and denounced by the masses, it looks as though McKinley's chances for re-election were not so brilliant.— | Chicago Dispatch.

A Life and Death Fight. Mr. W. A. Hines of Manchester, la , writing of his almost miraculous escape from death, says: “Exposure after measles induced serious lung | trouble, which ended in consumption. 1 had frequent hemorrhages and coughed night and day. All my doctors said I must soon die. Then I began to use Dr. Kings’s New Discovery for consumption, which completely cured me. I would not be without it'eveu if it cost $.‘>.00 a bottle. Hundreds have used it on my recommendation and all say it never fails to cure throat, chest and lung troubles.” Regular size 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Stearnes* drug company. The Death Rate. Veterans of the civil war are dying off at about the rate of three and onethird per cent per annum. Commissioner of Pensions Evans estimates that there are about 925,000 survivors of the civil war. Of this number there^ were on the pension rolls last year 742,467. During the year 24,787 pensioned veterans died. This number is slightly more than three and one-third per cent. Assuming that the death rate among those not pensioned is the same as among the pensioners, the total number of veterans who died during the year would be about 30.855. Commissioner Evans estimates that the average age of the veterans who still survive is about fifty-nine years. The last survivor of the war of 1812 died last summer, seventy-five years after the close of the war. At the same rate there will probably be a few survivors of the civil war still living in 1960. It !$ Strange that some people who say they never read patent medicine advertisements will be found lugging home every now and then a bottle of some ‘favorite remedy of theirs. We don’t bother you with much reading but just ask you to try a 10c trial bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin for constipation, indigestion and stomach troubles. 50c and $1.00 size at Oliphant drug company. j *76-Democratic Doctrine-’99. We hold these truths to be selfevident—that all men are created equal; that t£ey are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their jqst powers from the consent of the governed. To Cure La Grippe in 24 Hours. No remedy equals Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup for this terrible and fatal disease. If taken thoroughly and in time, it will cure a case in 24 hours, and for the cough that follows la gripne, it never fails to give relief. Price -5 and 50 cents. J. R. Adams &,Son. . * What McKinley Wanted. “1 am for the largest use of silver in the currency of the country. I would not dishonor it; I would give it equal credit and honor with the gold: I would make no discrimination; I would utilize both metals as money and discredit neither; I want the double standard.”—Congressman Wm. McKinley in 1890. "

Glorious News , comes Irom Dr. P. B. Cargile, of Washita. I. Ti He writes: ‘ Four bottles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years. Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doctors could give no help: but her cure is complete and her health is excellent.” This shows what thousands have proved,— Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known. It‘s the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion builds up the strength. Only u© cents. Sold by Stearnes’ drug company. t Guaranteed. All who suffer from piles will W glad to learn that DeWitt’s Witch ) Hazel Salye will give them instant and permanent relief. It will cure eczema and all skin diseases. Be ware of counterfeit. Stearnes’ drug company. » *

Sheriffs Sale. By virtue of a certified copy ot a decree to n»e directed trom the clerk of the Pike circuit court, in a cause wherein the Huntingburg Dry Pressed Brick t o. et ai are plaintiffs, and Kdmoud Palmer et al are defendants, requiring me to make the sum ol three hundred and fifty dollars and twelve cents, with interest on said decree and costs, l will expose at puhlie sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the ?th day of July, A. D. 1900, Between the hours of 10 o’clock a. m and t o’clock p. ni. of said day, at tla* door of the court house in Petersburg, Pike county, Indiana. the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate to-wit: Part of lot eighty-six. iu the town of Winslow, Pike county. J mliuna, and described as follows: Beginning* at the southeast corner ot said lot eighty-six, running thence north twenty feet, thence west titty feet, thence south twenty feet, thence east fifty feet to the place of beginning, together with the onestory brick- building thereon situate, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and (“.sts. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation or appraisement laws. | W. M. RnxiWAY, June 11,1900. Sheriff Pike County.

Sheriff's Sale. By virtue of a certified copy of h decree to me directed from the cleric of tfie Pike circuit court iu a cause wherein Jacob Burger is plaintiff, and David Adams and Elizabeth ▲dams aredefcnuants, requiring me to make t he sum of sixteen hundred aud eighty-four dollars and eighty-1 Wo cents, with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 30th tlav of June. A. D. 1900,' ‘Between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o’clock p. m. of said day. at the door of the court house in Petersburg, Pike county. Indiana, the rents andl profits fora tern', not exceeding seven years, of the following described real estate in Pike county, fo-wit: The south half of the southeast quarter of section twenty-eight, in township No. one south, range six west, Sh acres, more or less. Jf such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to sat isfy said decree, interest and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relict whatever from valuation br appraisement laws. W.M. RIDGWAY, .1 une 5,19W. Sheriff Pike County. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. Notiee is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of William M. Bell, deceased, to appear in the Pike circuit court, held at Petersburg, Indiana, on the 9!h day ot July, 11*00, and show cause, if any. why the final settlement accounts of aaines Z. Bell, administrator, with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there jmake proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Witness, the\ i»rk of said countrtjiis -hid day of June, 1000. 7 J. W. BRUMFIELD, o- > Clerk Pike ClrcuivCourt. Richardson & Taylor, attorneys. ~ Non-Resident Notice. Leslie Lamb. Administrator of 1) estate of Helena Reuss deceased. Vs! s ■ Henry Reuss. Frederick Reuss. j Lollie Reuss. Percilla Reuss. Bet- ( tie Herboth. Kate Limp Theck- j la Burkhart and Ella Hisgeni j To Lollie Reuss. Percella Reuss. Bettie Herboth. Theckla Burkhart and Ella Hisgen et hi. You are severally herebv notified that the above named petitioner as* administrator of the estate aforesaid has filed in the Pike cir cuit court of Pike countv. in the State of Indiana. a petition making you defendants thereto, and prayi ng therein tor an order and decree of said court authorizing the sale of certain real estate belonging to the estate of said decedent and in said petition described to make assets for the pavment of the debts and liabilities of said estate; and has also filed an affidavit avering therein that vou and each of you are non-residents of the State of Indiana and that you are necessary parties to said proceedings, and that said petition so filed and which is now pending is set for hearing in said court at the court house in Petersburg. Indiana, on the 18th day of July. 1900-. Witness the clerk and seal of said court this the iith day of Mav. 1900. J.' W. Bki-mfielp. Clerk of Pike Circuit Court. Copy of Charter of the “First National Bank of Petersburg.” Treasury Department-Office of the Comptroller of the Currency - Washington. Ik C., April if. laOQ. Whereas, by satisfactory evidence presented to the undersigned, it has been made to appear that -The First National Bank of Petersburg.” in the town of Petersburg, in the county of Pike and state of Indiana, has complied with alii the provisions of the statutes of the United States required to be complied with before an association shall tie authorized to commence the business of banking; Now therefore. I, Thomas P. Kane, deputv and acting comptroller of the currencv, do hereby certify that ‘The First National Bank of Petersburg.” in the town of Petersburg, ih the county of Pike and state of Indiana, is authorized to commence the business of banking as provided in Section 5M» of the revised statutes of the United States. In testimony whereof, witness mv hand and seal of office this 3ith dav of April.'1900. T. P. KANE. Deputy and Acting Comptroller No. 5300. of the Treasury; aj-8 JRE FOR

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