Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 July 1900 — Page 4

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COUNTY ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce the name of William S. Thompson of Patoka tow nship, 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 uf Sheriff, subject to the decision of' the democratic county convention. FOR KE( OKVKK. 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. FOR cor NT Y ASSESSOR. We are authorized to announce the name of J. L. Cape hart of Jefferson township, a* a candidate for the nomination of county assessor, subject to the decision of the democratic county convention! FOR CORONER. Please announce the. name of Grace D. Harris of Jefferson township, as a candidate for county coroner subject to the decision of the democratic county convention. Bryan and Stevenson! Down with imperialism! Hurrah! Even the lightning is down on trusts. It struck a million-dollar Standard oil tank the other day. .. >). i The campaign will be ROOSEVELT & McKinley. How things have changed. Four years ago it was MCKINLEY. , Is IT possible that the administration is postponing the trial of Neely, so that he may stop at home and vote this fall*? Every vote will count in Indiana, you know.

TEddy has been talking too brassy already, and has been summoned to Canton to be talked to and ordered to be good. The trouble is that Teddy gives away what McKinley would like to but doesn't dare. Oyes! Oyes! Circus now open. Step up and see the great trick animal go through his p%ces. Thrilling spectacle of the capture of San .Tuan singlehanded from a distance of two miles. Step this way for the big show. The secretary of the anti-imperial-ists says that body may endorse Bryan or nominate some one of their own like T. B. Reed. or. vote the prohibition ticket or light to control the next House. One thing they will not do. ► and that is vote for McKinley. President McKinley in his speech of acceptance of the republican nomination last week had not a word to say on the trust questiom Why should be? The party is pledged to the support of the trust combinations and the bosses will not have it any other way. General Young, who is now in command in the Philippines, says that 100,000 more troops are needed in that country to subdue the natives. There seems to be a ’‘difference of opinion as the war department officials say that the war is over in that country. _ In 1884, t-he prohibition vote broke the record and gave the Empire state to Cleveland, thus electing him. In 1900 the prohibition vote will, perhaps^get the anti-imperialistic vote of the republican partyj. and may again break the record and give New York to the democrats. Oh, yes, McKinley is :a good civil service reformer, nit. He has commissioned the head of the bureau of statistics of the treasury department to prepare the republican campaign book, using government clerks and government time at government expense to do it. Great is gammon. The republican press is making a great point over the fact that the vote of Hawaii determined the report of the platform committee in favor of 16 to Rand is declaring that Hawaii is ruling the democratic party. What rot this is! It is the entire convention that adopts a platform: the committee only recommends. Rathbone of Ohio, who was inspector of posts in Cuba, and who is now deposed but not under arrest, s?ems to have put on lots of style at the expense of the people. For instance, here is a few items of the expense that the people paid for: Rubber tires for carriage. $195; tWo sets of harness, $577.68; hat for coachman, $8.33; boots for coachman, $31.20; suit for coachman, $18.55; jipijapa hat for coachman, $12.38. There were numerous other expenses for coachman, such as laundry bills, more suits, boots and livery. Hoopla.

The print cloth trust, controlling thirty mills with a capital of $10,000,000, has decided to shut-down for one month so as to boom the already tremendous prices Twenty thousand employes are thrown out of their jobs. Qh, this country is certainly- prosperous under McKinley’s trust rule—prosperous for the trusts, that is. The Bryan and Stevenson notification meeting will be held at Indianapolis, August 8th. It will be the biggest meeting of the kind ever held in the United States, and is a great honor conferred upon our state: Thousands of democrats will attend the meeting which will no do doubt be the opening of the campaign in Indiana. The administration certainly has nerve. Secretary Root announces that no troops can be spared to send from the Philippines to China, and that instead more must be sent to those islands. Yet, he tells us that the war there is entirely over. He needs the Soldiers, he $ays. to make sure that the Filipinos accent the amnesty proclamation. Doesn't that jar you? One result of the Kansas City convention will be to convince the entire country that W. .1. Bryan is absolutely honest. The man who could stand ready to fiatly refuse the nomination olTered to him by a unanimous gathering like that, unless a platform was adopted at the same time affirming a given principle, can never again be accused of being willing to sacrifice principle to expediency. Dr| L. It. Habercorn, a member of the republican congressional committee as manager of German bureau, has resigned and will support Bryan and Stevenson. The great German leader in explaining his position says: “The republican party now stands for imperialistic expansion and is already busy cultivating the spirit of militarism. The* democratic party has earnestly, clearly and forcibly pronounced against imperialism with its resultant evils, and for the pres-! ervation of the republic and the con- j stitution. The issue is thus made up, i and I consider it my plain duty to help ! maintain the republic by such efforts as 1 can make, humble though they are.”

Carl Schurz, one of the well known men of the country, is furninst the imperialistic .policy of the HannaMcKinley empire and will vote for Bryan and Stevenson and the part}* of the people, who believe in upholding the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. In a recent article he says: “Do you not hear the scoffing levity with which the Declaration of Independence and the high ideals of liberty and human rights which so long have been sacred to our people are made sport of: how the teachings of Washington and Lincoln are derided as antiquated nursery rhymes, and how the Constitution,, when it, stands in the way of grasping schemes, is lightly brushed aside with the tlippant word that constitutions are made for men and not men for^onstitutionsV*’ Dun's Review, a paper published weekly in the interest of business and finance, says: “Failures in the first half of 1900 were 5J>02, with liabilities of $ 100,570,135. There were thirty failures of banks and financial corporations?* In'real estate brokerage alsp there were failures of unusual number and amount. The Fall Riyer committee has decided to close their cotton mills for a time and some of the largest woolen works have been closed or much reduced in force. A . large share of the boot and shoe force is inactive- The actual shipments from the works in June has been 395,410 cases against 492,745 last year, or 80 per cent, whereas in 1895 the shipments were 98.0 per cent, of the same amount, 90.1 per ceht. in 1894. and 89.5 per cent, in 1898, and 88.0 per cent, in 1892, and83.0 percent, in 1894, and 83.8 per cent, in 1897. These facts indicate *a rather large shrinkage in the shipments.’’

Hon. John W. Kern, democratic candidate for governor, shows the republican fallacy on 16 to 1, in the following: “Our republican brethren sqem to be greatly disturbed about 16 to 1, and they should be disturbed. Sixteen to one is the ratio fixed by tlfie statute for the coinage of gold and silver. The republicans have both Houses of congress and the president. T|Vrhy don t they repeal the statute? ■they have it in their power to get rid pf 16 to 1, and while they, are denouncing it as idiotic they allow the statute to remain and McKinley's going on <pQining a million five hundred thousand dollarseyery month—every dollar at the ratio of 16 to 1. There seems to be no difference between the two parties on the question of ratio. They differ as to free coinage, as to trusts and imperialism, but on 16 to 1 they stand together. If the McKinley party I wanted to make 16 tq 1 an issue they ought to have repealed the 16 to 1 statute and should quit coining money at the ratio of 1(5 to 1, Until they do so their noise abbut 1(5 to 1 Will be the most ridiculous thing in politics.”

f True to Labor's Cause. It was a logical and consistent spirit which led the democratic national convention io incorporate in the democratic national platform a labor plank declaring against government by injunction, denouncing the blacklist, favoring arbitration between corporations and their employes, and recommending the creation by congress of a cabinet department of labor to forward and protect the interests of the American working man. Democracy, the party of the people, must be in its very essence the party of that vast majority of the people which constitutes the working class. The welfare of the country is dependent upon the independence and prosperity of its working people. A partv which opposes caste, which stands for the rights of the many as against the privileges of the few, is pledged in its every fiber to the cause of the millions who work for wages. It is as natural that democracy should align itself on the side of labor as that the sun should shine. The labor plank in the democratic national platform is eminently in harmony with with the democratic declaration against the trusts, against the high protective tariff, against the infamous shipping subsidy bill. It is a necessary feature of democracy’s brave stand to prevent the impoverishing of the many for the future enrichment of the few. It is an honest and explicit declaration. The party by which it is made deserves the support of every workingman in the United States.—St. Louis Republic. . Story of a Slave. To be bound hand and foot for years by the chains of disease is the worst form of slavery. George D. Williams of Manchester, Michigan, tells how such a slave was made free. He says: “My wife has been so helpless for five years that she could not turn over in bed alone. After using two bottles of Electric Bitters she is wonderfully improved and able to do her owu work.’’ This supreme remedy for female' diseases quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, headache, backache, fainting, and dizzy spells. This miracle working -medicine is a godsend to weak, sickly, run down people. Every bottle guaranteed. Only .‘H) cents. Sold by Stearnes drug company.

Returns from the wheat prospect for this year are coming- into the state statistician's office. The figures so far received indicate that this year's crop will be about .'K) per cent of the average. In the northern and central parts of the state the crop is almost an utter failure, and most of the ground that was sowed in wheat last fall has been plowed up and put in other crops. In the southwestern counties—Daviess*,Gibson, Vanderburg and Posey—the outlook is almost up to the average of other years. Lack of snow last winter to cover and protect the crop, and the appearance of the Hy are set down as the reasons for the failure over the state. The corn prospect is reported as being fine throughout the state. In the bottom lands in some places the floods have ruined the crops, but that complaint is not general—Indianapolis Press. „ Died From Taking Prussic Acid Through mistake. No worse mistake is that than is taking blood medicine for stomach trouble. Dr. Paid well’s Syrup Pepsin cures all forms of indigestion. constipation or stomach trouble. Don’t take the1 wrong kind of medicine, take Syrup Pepsin. Ask the Oliphant Drug Co, j ’76-Democratic Qoctrine-’99. We hold these tilths to be selfevident—that all men are created equal; that they 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 just powers from the consent o#"tfee governed. I . Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but skin eruptions rob life of joy. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cures them, also old, running and fever sores, ulcers, boils, felons, corns, warts, cuts, bruises, burns, scalds, chapped hands,' chilblains. Best pile remedy on earth. Drives out pains and aches. Sold by Stearnes drug company.

What McKinley Wanted. “1 am for the largest use of silver in the currency of the country. I would Hot 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. Consumption Cure. Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup, the best cough remedy one&rth, cures a cold in one day if taken in time. 25 and 50 cents. J. R. Adams & Son. * Chairs for Bale Cheap—BO chairs saved from the burning church will be sold cheap. They may be seen at jGoodlet Morgan's. Inquire of* Mrs. Fanny Reed, phone 80. They will be sold in a lot or by the single chair.

STOCK SALE! Tbe undersigned will sell at public auction at his farm five miles southeast of Monroe City. Knox county. Indiana, on Wednesday,, July 25, 1900, The following live stock, to-wit: Eighteen head of horses and mules. 12} head of tine sheep, one thoroughbred buck. Mve very fat weathers and the, balance good breeding sheep, from last spring lambs to three rears old. 170 head of welt bred hogs, 23 line brood sows, one thoroughbred male hog. 70 head fat hogs, the balance nice and well bred stock hogs: 364 head of tine cattle: 106 fine breeding cows and heifers. About so of them have calves sucking, and the balance will drop calves later on. and some of them that have calves are bred again: m head of two year - old feeding* steers, fat and tine. 3 thoroughbred four-year-old bulls, which are verv tine, 11 head of young bulls from 84* 13 months old. someoj them are readv for service: from 8 to 10 tine suckling bull calves. The balance are steers and heifers from 13 to 18 months old. which are also very tine. Tkkmh or Sauk:—AU sums of floo and over a credit of 13 months will be given, with 6 per cent interest from date until maturity. If not paid at maturity 8 per cent from date until paid with attorney 's fees to be included in any judgment taken in collecting anv note, should there lie anv. the purchaser giving note with approved security; and no property to Ik* removed until terms'of sale are complied with. Sale will commence promptiv at 9 o'clock, and will continue from dav to dav until all are sold. JAMES S. MeCOV. The ladles of the M. E. church will turnish meaK $8.50 Petersburg to Niagara Falls And Keturn July q6, 1900, Via E. & T. H.. C. C. C. & St. I*. L. S. & M. S.. X. Y. C. & H. R. R. Return limit August 6. I960. Special train with through sleepers and coaches wil| leave Evansville at 7:30 a. m. July 36th. arriving at Niagara Falls about 9 a. m" July 37th. Applications for sleeping car space should be made to the undersigned not later than July 33rd. For further detailed information address F.P. JEFFRIES. «. P. A . H. R. GRISWOLD. A. G. P. A . Evansville. Ind. WHERE TO LOCATE? Why, in the Tenltory Traversed by the Louisville k Nashville Railroad -THE

Great Central Southern Trunk Line, — IN — KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, FLORIDA, —WHERE— Farmers. Fruit Growers,Stock. Kaisers. Manufacturers. Investors,Speculators amt Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the Vniled States to make “big money” by reason of tlte abundance and cheapness of Land and Farms. Timber and Stone, Iron and Coal, Labor—Every tiling. Free sites, financial assistance and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer. Land and fi rms'at *1.00 per aere and upward s, and 500,WX) acres in West Florida that can I* taken gratis under the U. ». Homestead laws. Stock raising in the Gulf Coast District; W,ill make enormous profits. [ Half f ire excursions the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Let us know what you waut.and We will tell you where and how to get it—but don’t delay, sis the country is filling up rapidly. .Printed matter, maps and all information free. Address, R. J.WEMYSS, General Immigndion and Industrial Agent. LOUISVILLE, KY. Evansville; AND Indianapolis rr No.south. 7:20 am No. .52, north .. .. .. . II:10am No. .si, south 1:20 pm No. 34, north _ .... 5:45 pm Trains No,:U and 11 run bet ween Evansville and Washington. Trains No. :12 and :53 run between Evansville and Terre Haute. Ft r sleeping car reservation®, maps, rates and further information, call on your nearest ticket agent, or address. F. P. JEFFRIES, G. P. A T. II. R. GRISWOLD, A.G.P.& T.A. Kvansvil'e,* lnd. C II. WEHK, Agent, ; Petersburg, lnd.

* * 50 YEARS’ EXPERJENCE RADE MARKS Designs qmtckl.T ascertain onr opinion free whether an ! invention is probably patentable. Conuaunica- I tions strictly confidential. Handbook on Patents 1 sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive i special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. largest dr. cuiation of any scientitlo iournal. Terms. IS a year; four months, $1. $ v,d by all newsdealers. One Wife says: I would just as well try to serve breakfast without dishes as to serve it without A I 0 HIGH-GRADE ill III COFFEE. The blend and the flavor are just right in A. I. C. Coffees. Sold only in bulk from bins bearing the above trade mark. i i

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Everybody invited to examine our Pianos. - l{ej) member, a complete stock of ) * DRUGS i AND i i * * * * t * * t 0 Lower Main Street, DRUGGISTS' i SUNDRIES! Is always m hand. Make ns a visit. FATTL BEOS. 5 Petersburg, Ind. 4 f_j

«4FRED SMITHS Dealer in all kinds « . FURNITURE! «

Funeral Supplies a Specialty W e keep on hand at alt time* the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Suite a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouds, etc., of the best make.

iorer Coal Co. { Having leased the Borer Coal Coal Mine, an4 being the nearest 1 mine to town, we are prepared to | furnish coal at all times. All ord1 ers promptly filled. i •' ;.'v TELEPHONE NO. 16-2. {Barer Coal Company. ""1 ... l " 1 1 L'j_L_! "

Before cleaning house this spring call and see our immense line of new designs in Wall Paper. The designs this spring are much finer than ever and we have bought nothing but the late patterns, whic i are now coming in, and we now show the most complete line ever brought to Petersburg. Before-buy? ing call and see i s. We have some Wall Paper that was slightly damaged during the recent fire by water that will be sold at greatly reduced prices. The paper is only slightly soiled on the edges, and many bolts are as good as they came from the factory. ; , Remember us for Drugs, Patent Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. We handle nothing but the best brands. •sOLIPHANT DRUG CDfci

STOCK REDUCINP-SALE ! In order to make room for a large fall stock we have decided to sell all our Summer Suits art Pauts at Greatly Reduced Prices: alsi better grade Straw Goods. •£>SEE THE F»F*IOE©<£ Hen’s Men’s Men’s Men’s 1 den’s 1 den’s Men’s len’s Men’s Men’s Men’s $12.50 Suits, 10.50 Suits, 9.00 Suits, 8.00 Suits, 7.00 Suits, 3.00 Pants, 2.75 Pants, 2.50 Pants, 2.00 Pants, 1.75 Pants, 1.50 Pants, at $8.50 at 7-75 6-75 5-75 5-25 2.35 2.10 1.85 1.50 1-25 1.20 Come and buy a i uit and a nice pair of Pants and you will save money. Come early and get first choice. TL 1&. S& Sow, OTWELL, NDIANA.