Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 September 1900 — Page 4

Sbegikf County gmottftt By n. noc. stoops. On* Tear, in advance. .|i «D 8ix Months, in advance..... • oO Entered at the postoflice in Petersburg for iratismissiou through the mails as secondclass matter. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1900. * Democratic Ticket.

For President, William J. Bryan. For Vice-President, Adlai E. Stevenson. STATE TICKET. For Governor, John W. Kern. For Lieutenant Governor, John C. Lawler. For Secretary of State, Adam lleimberger. For Auditor of State, John W. Minor. For Treasurer of State, Jerome Herff. For Attorney General, C. P. Drummond. For Reporter Supreme Court, Henry G. Ye^gin. For Superintendent Public Instructions, Charles A. Greathouse. For Chief Bureau of Statistics, Edwatd Horn if. For Judge Supreme Court, First District. George L. Reinhardt. For Judge Supreme Court, Second District, J. W. Adair. DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress, Alfred Dale Owen. For Prosecuting Attorney, Ijeo 11. Fisher. For Joint Representative, Peter R. Coble. COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, William Liibs. For Sheriff, Richard Bass. For Recorder, William A. Battles. B For County Assessor, Vinson France. For Surveyor, Benjamin F. Lance. For Coroner, Grace D. Harris. For Commissioner 3d district, Herman W. Fulcher. For Commissioner Urd district, Perry A. AIcRoberts. Fol-County Council, J. D. Hollon, J. A. Shepard. J. P. Rumble, G. 11. Overbeek. S. W. Chappell, R. M. Masters and Mell (batt. Democratic Mass Convention. The democrats of Clay township will meet in mass convention on Saturday, S#f^ember 22, at Union school house, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating candidates to be voted for at the ensuing November election for the following officers: Township Trustee. Township Assessor. ..Two Township Justices of the Peace. a Two Township Constables. Three Members of Advisory Board. All democratic voters and all others who will agree to support the democratic nominees of said convention are cordially Invited to participate in the convention. Let us have a good turn out. By order of the committee. M. B. Thomas, Chairman^ A. F. Kime, Secretary. The Geftoan newspapers of the United States are supporting Bryan and the democratic party. The republicans of Washington township have been placed on probation for the next two years by the county chairman. i Pooh McKinley is left out in the cold this campaign. You never hear of a McKinley club being organized. It is all ‘Tough rider” and imperialistic clubs. And the chairman of the republican party says that he is an imperialist. There are other republicans who claim that they are not imperialists and will vote for Bryan and Stevenson. _

Instead of ‘Tough rider” clubs they should be called “Empfre Leagues.” Leading republicans are now hanging to the Hamilton idea of government in this country. It is British you know. The water works system has ngt yet been contracted for in Petersburg, but the “boss” has commenced to give out the jobs for further political favors. The jobs are a long way off, and it is possible that when the time arrives there will be others. •And still the prominent educators of the country are turning to Bryan and the cause of the people. They favor the constitution of the United States, and are not of the opinion that it is a school boy’s document, as onelof the ex-educators of Pike county says it is. 4 ‘ I want a government that gives evifcry poor man hope of being rich some day, a government that gives The rich man assurance that his children will be protected if they ever become poor. What I object to is a government that protects a few men in their robbery of the masses and then denounces everybody as an anarchist that does not like to be robbed.”—W. J. Bryan. The star route speculators must ' have been refusing to contribute tt> Hanna’s campaign fund, as it is announced that at the coming letting of contracts for more than six thourand star routes, no bid will be accepted by the post office department, unless the bidder lives near enough to the route to personally superintend the work. The speculators have heretofore almost monopolized.these contracts, sub-letting them to local men who did the work. It remains to be ascertained whether the proposed change is intended for a bluff or for a real reform. r 0

It should be beneath the dignity of [ the newspaper editor to bring per- j sonalities into a campaign, but there are some small calibre editors who1 can not refrain from indulging in! such practices. Shame on such! methods of campaigning. It would i be best to go slow in such matters. | The Afro-American council which was in session at Indianapolis last $reek absolutely refused to endorse McKinley for * re-election. Government employes from Washington City were present and made strong speeches, but to no avail. The colored man will vote as he pleases in November and will not be dictated to by political bosses.

When an American boy dies for liberty his mother thanks God that He gave her strength to bear and rear a son for such a noble sacrifice, but what American mothers want to raise boys at soe?much per head? That is what imperialism means. I believe in the expansion of trade. I want this country to extend her trade, but 1 would not put one American citizen on the block and sell him for all the trade of the Orient if I had to buy it by his blood. W. J. Bryan. It was Boss Hanna who saved Mr. McKinley from making a spectacle of himself by going on the stump in West Virginia. Mr. McKinley promised Steve Elkins that he would do so without consulting Hanna, but as soon as Hanna heard about it. he denied that any such promise had been made and succeeded in compelling Mr. McKinley to allow that denial to stick, even if it did put Elkins in the attitude of having made an aunounce ment that was not true. Hanna had sense enough to see that it would cost Mr. McKinley thousands of votes if he so far forgot the dignity belonging to I the President of the United States as j to g<> on the stump. Thk republicans of Washington township are fully determined to wipe out the odium of two years ago. The action of the Washington township republicans last election j caused the defeat’of several of the republican county candidates! Such will not be the 1 case this fall. Washington township should give the republican ticket a rousing major!-1 ty. If this is done, Washington township will redeem herself in the estimation of the republicans throughout the county.—Press. Mr. Thompson, the chairman of the republican party, is very good to the voters of Washington township. But the voters of the township that attended the republican, convention l(now that he worked openly in the convention against the candidates from that township. The county chairman and editor of the party organ now places them on probation for two years. Hon. Chari.es A. Towne answered Roosevelt to the queen’s taste. The rough rider has been impaled upon the rapier of a scholar and a brilliant orator. This is the way Mr. Towne runs Roosevelt through: “It is quite impossible, whether it would be worth while otherwise or not, to make an entirely satisfactory diagnosis of a civil service reformer in partnership with Thomas C. Platt: a citizen soldier who ridicules the volunteer: a leader in battle who finds glory in being rescued from ambush; a ljero who boasts of shooting a ileeing foe in the back: a candidate who plays and poses to delegates atfd galleries to obtain a nomination that he does not want: a gentleman who charges six and one-half millions of his fellow countrymen with lawlessness, dishonor and cowardice: a statesman who mounted on a hobby, rides roughly at grave questions in economic and politics, swinging his partisan lariate and yelling like and intellectual Comanche.”

That distinguished liuancier and patron saint ot the standard oil bank, Mr, Secretary Gage, objects to Mr. Bryan’s calling attention to the fact that the McKinley administration has ratio of 16 to 1, at th^ rate of more; than a million dollars a month^He admits that this is true, but says'a wrong inference is drawn from it. He asks: “Did he not know when he made this statement that the republican party has never made objection to the ratio of 16 to 1 in the coinage of silver as now carried on for the government for the benefit of all the people, the profit going to the government for the general benefit and' not to the holders of silver bullion?” Most certainly Mr. Bryan never knew anything of the sort. When it was proposed during Mr. Cleveland’s administration to coin the seigniorage, “for the benefit of all the people, the profit going to the government,” the republican party went into spasms, and for several years past republicans have been denouncing the silver dollar as “dishonest,” calling it a “fiftyfive ccntjdollar, ” saying that no more should be coined, and that the silver \ hoard in the treasury should be melted down and sold for bullion. Furthermore, the monetary commission bill— the Overstreet bill—which Secretary Gage indorsed,i expressly provided that no more silver dollars should be coined at the ratio of 16 to 1. Secretary Gage must imagine that the memories of the American people are not long enough to cover the period of the past five years when he makes such false pretense.— Indianapolis 1 been coining silver at the Sentinel. /

Heresy of Imperialism. David Starr Jordon, president of Leland Standford university, and one of the most learned men of the country, h^s taken a decided stand against imperialism. Upon that issue he says: “There are four enemies that have stood in the path of man. These are aristocracy, militarism, slavery and imperialism. There***® various other enemies, but thpse ar^ the four archenemies in the political sense. They all spring out of the idea that man belongs not to himself, but that he belongs, body and soul, to somebody or something else which owns him. These four enemies in a dangerous garb confront the United States to

day. ‘“Schiller Bays that the tyrants reach hands to each other—that tljey reach to each other the hands. TheV stand together now. Wherever, ther^ is one the other is. Aristocracy, slavery, militarism and imperialism. They reach other’s hand. “They all have their fair, attractive side. They are defended sometimes at the iireside. Slavery was discussed And defended from many a pulpit in New England. “Aristocracy has its fair side. “The foundation of quality is aristocracy the foundation of our liberty is rebellion against it—t*he very thing we came here for. “There is a fair side of slavery and a fair side of militarism. How clean the streets can be kept under military discipline and how free from noise! How easily people can be sent to bed at dark if it be desired. “There is a fairside of imperialism. You will find in many places that nine-tenths of the people believe it is a good thing for the world. Maybe it is but when we come to read history from the one side to the other we will find that the British people have been debauched by their course in India and that the Hindoos have been cursed. You will find that the English people have been turned from being a strong, freedom-loving people. You will find also that the heart’s blood has gone out of Great Britain as it has gone out of all countries which have engaged in constant wars. “We know how Napoleon depopulated France by his wars. We know’ of the murders of the nobility, the murders of the peasantry and the result in France today. In 1(>30, when the Philippine question was a burning one in Spain, La Puente, an Augustinian friar, expressed his opinion of the whole thing when he said: “Against the gain of redeemed souls I place the cost in loss of armadas and of soldiers and friars seut to the Philippines, and these I count the chief loss, that while mines give silver and forests give lumber, only Spain gives Spaniards, and she shall give so many of them that some day she shall be left childless and forced to bring up strangers’ children instead of her own. .“The heresy of imperialism is the most dangerous that has arisen since the heresy of secession, and it must be fought as vigorously as the heresy of secession. If we admit as citizens any number of millions of people that are not ready for liberty, if we admit them with all the degradation which they must bring into our politics, we must take the consequences. “It is better that we should be just and faithful to our ow'n principles and to the principles of God and that we should in our laws be no respectors of persons, because if in our laws we are respectors of persons we must go the way of empire, as all empire has gone. “The best w’ay in which the growth of any man or nation has ever been promoted, has been through self-gov-ernment, democratically looking after its own affairs. We do not expect that self-government will always be good government. Men learn not by their successes, but by mistakes. It is absolutely impossible for any Republic to conduct any affairs well except its own.”

One Half the News Comes from our neighbors. A neighbor of Joe Crook’s of Bridgton Ind., told him of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. He is cured of a case of indigestion that kept him down twenty years. Mr. Crook wishes us to refer ^tny one to him who doubts the wonderful cure he found in Dr.'Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, which has gained an honorable foothold as a true remedy for constipation, indigestion, sick headache and stomach troubles. Oliphant ^rug company, f * *What McKinley Wanted. “I am for the largest use of silver in the currency of the country. I would not dishonor it; T 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. McKiuley in 1890. Stop a Minute And consider if the pills (no matter what kind) you haye taken for your constipation have really done you any good. Are you not more and more liable to this trouble ? Try Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin if you want sure relief. 10 doses 10 cents also in 50 and $1.00 sizes. Oliphant drug company. *

J>ICHARD80.N * TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to all business, a Notary Public constantly in theoffice. Office In Carpenter building, Eighth and Main-sta., Petersburg, Indiana. Will practice in ail courts. Special attention given to all civil t-ttslnesa. Notary Public constantly tu the office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office «u Cltiseu*’ state baiiK building, Petersburg, ludiaua. jg G. DAVENPORT. ) Prompt attention given to all business. Office in Parker block, opposite the court house, Petersburg, Indiana. EORGE B. ASHBY, Attorney at Law. Attorney at Law.

^jlIARLBS A. COFFEY, Attorney at Law. All kindsof legal business promptly attended to. Yo«r patronage solicited. Oltlee upstiilrs In Citizens' stale bank building. Tel. ltt-2, Petersburg, ludiaua. £lOX A'CROW, ,i Attorneys at Law. Will prnctlce In all courts. Prompt attention given to all business. Oltlee In Carpenter b ock, first floor on Kighth-st., Petersburg. W ILHON A GREENE, J. W. WILSON V. U. GREKNI Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all coirts. Office In Frank block, over Star clothing house, Petersburg. lnd. pOSEY A CHAPPELL. ^ ' Attorneys at Law. Will praclice in all courts. Collections promptly made. Notary public in office. Office upstnirs in Snyder building in lront oi Democrat office, Petersburg, Indiana. gTANLEY M. Kill EG, Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Will practice in all courts. Offioe in Montgomery building, Petersburg, Indiana. M. M. RICE, Attorney at Law. Will practice in Pike and udjoinlng counties, and In all courts. Notary Public. Office iu Dispatch building, up stairs,Winslow, lnd. R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens’ state bank, Petersburg, Indiana. T M. HUNTER, W Physician and Surgeon. Office in rear of Citizens’ State bank, Tel. #1-3 residence and office. Office hours—day aud ulghl. D R. J. W. COOK, Vitapathic Specialist, Graduate of tho American Health College, employs all vital and vitalizing methods ot the superior Vitapathic system in 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 in Parker building, opposite court house. J. GLAD1SII. Hypnotism & Magnetic Healing. Every known disease cured without medicine or surgery, it cures where everything else falls, terms reasonable and all correspondence receives my best attention. If diseased write at ouc^. Office at Rumble, lnd. H. STOXECIPHEil, Oentai Surgeon. Office In roomsttand 7, in Carpenter building. Petersburg, Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Amesthetics used for paiuiess extraction of teeth.

NOl ICE Is hereby given to nil parties interested that 1 will attend at my office I in Steudal, EVERY SATURDAY, To transact business connected with the office ot t rustee of Lockhart township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS, Trustee, NOTICE is hereby given to all persons concerned that I will attend at ury office in Otwetl 1 EVERY DAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Jettersou township. ROBE RT M. QUAY. Trustee. Postofflce address: Otweii, Indiana. N'OTICE Is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact business connected with theoffice of trustee jf Madison township. Positively no business transacted eicepton office days. j C. J QLADISH, Trustee. Postofflce address: Bowman, Ind. I r“—..

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Funeral Supplies a Specialty ■: if We keep on hand at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furnit urs» to b>$ found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Suita a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keeo Caskets. Shrouds. et<^ of the best make.

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I STOCK REDUCING - SALE ! In order to make room for a large fall stock we have decided' to sell alt our Summer Suits and Pant s at Greatly Reduced Prices; als) better grade Straw Goods. '>SEE THE PRICES^ Meat’s $12.50 Suits, at $8.50. Men’s 10.50 Suits, at 7.75. Men’s 9.00 Suits, at 6.75. 4 Men’s 8.00 Suits, at 5.75. Men’s 7.00 Suits, at 5.25. Men’s 3.00 Pants, at 2.35. ? Men’s 2.75 Pants, at 2.10. Men’s 2.50 Pants, at 1.85. ' Men’s, 2.00 Pants, at 1.50. Men’s; 1.75. Pants, at 1.25. Men’s 1.50 Pants, at 1.20. < Come and buy a Suit hi d a nice pair of Pants and you will save money. Come early aud get first choice. 'R. TS&. S Sow, OTWELL, INDIANA. INHHMMINmiUNHIlHmHHMmnnHni

Louisville, Evansville ! St. Louis G. Railroad Tlrvo table In effect Nov. 28, 180T: st. Louis Fast Exp. 8:00 a.m. lo:45 a.m. 11:08 a.m. 11:22 a.m II :88 a.m. 6:20 p.m. St. Louis Limited. 8:00 p.m. 11:40 p.m. 12:01 a.m. 12:11 a.m. 12:80 a.m. 7:12 a.m. Stutlons. Leave Leave Leave Leave Leave Arrive. Louisville .. Hantmgburg .Velpen — Winslow _ Oakland City St. Louts*. . . .‘W.-.arrive .arrive ^. ... arrive .arrive .....<. arrive . Leave Louisville Limited. 7:00 a.m. 1:25 a.m. 4:02 a.m. 3:52 a.m 3:87 a.m. 0:15 p.m. Louisville Fast Exp. 5:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m 2:30 p.m 2.16 p.m 1:57 p.m 7:52 a.m Nifcht trains si oj> at Wmslow and Velpen on signal only, R. A. Campbell. G.P.A.* 31. lands. J. F. Hurt, agent. Oakland City.