Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 September 1900 — Page 3

®k» fike U. McC. STOOPS, Editor and Proprietor. PETERSBURG. : INDIANA. How a Rainstorm Gave BROWNLEY an Idea TytOWNLEY had an engagement to If go bicycle riding with Mabel one Sunday recently, but they failed to consult the weather man, and as a consequence the d ay opened with a lowering sky and a cold wind whistling in around the unprotected windows. So instead of his bicycle clothes Brownley arrayed himself in his cutaway and derby and after dinner directed his footsteps toward Mabel’s apartments. Th^se “apartments” comprised one large front room with an alcove on the second floor of a dwelling belonging to a widow who rented furnished rooms. The main room contained the customary furniture of a drawing room—a combination bookcase and secretary, a small rocker, a sofa, one upholstered patent rocker, a leather-bot-tomed rocking chair and two straight* mTnmr?-r=n

um «n - i backed cane-seat chairs. The only article foreign to the room was a birds’-eye maple dresser with an oval glass. This was set diagonally of the darkest and most unobtrusive corner, yet it was the most prominent object in the room. A carpet of Brussels covered the floor and was supplemented with a rug, while there were sundry knickknacks* on the mantel and bookease and divers lithographs relieved the paper on the wall. The alcove was shut off by heavy portiers and was terra iii^ognita to Brownley, though he had reason to know it contained a gas stove and surmised it might also hide a view of one of those folding indispensnbles to economical life in. the city boarding or rooming house. Brownley and Mabel had long ago discovered that their tastes were similar, and having got a safe footing with each other had adopted a somewhat bohemian manner of enjoying themselves when together. Which accounts for the fact that Brownley had grown out of the habit of dining at home Sunday evenings, and as a result usually took home with him considerably later in those evenings a case f.Jfst 1

X of indigestion, severe or mild, according as he fed on salmon salad, coffee, pickles, pie and cheese or from a menu of cold fried chicken, milk, cake and fruit. There was absolutely nothing between them—nothing of a sentimental'nature. She was an. eminently .sensible girl, and besides they had known each other too long1—chums, nothing more. “Hello!” ejaculated Brownley, on this particular Sunday evening, as she opened the door in response to his knock, _ “Hello! where’s your vrheel?\ls this the way you keep your appoinftnjnts?” met him as he stepped inside, you’re “Well, I don’t notice that dressed to go for a century.” “Oh, perhaps I can change my dress in eight or ten hours while I’m waiting for you!” retorted Mabel. “You see, it’s like this: When I got up at six o’clock this morning and found it so cloudy and dark I knew you wouldn’t wake up till noon and thought there was no use coming, so I went to church with the other girl,” explained Brownley, with^nuch cheerfulness. Perhaps it was the suggestion about OMMjther girl that caused Mabel to *e the subject, but in any event soon turned their attention to a Ssal of a newspaper and a discus

•ion of the events of the preceding day is chronicled therein. As the customary time for luncheon drew near Mabel approached with evident diffidence a ■abject that several times before had been the cause of arguments between them. “Say, Charley,” she asked, coaxingly, “will you let me run up to the corner and get a bottle of milk?” “If you will let me go with you.” “But you are tired and I’m not and I can go quicker alone.” “What do you want the milk for?” asked Charley, suspecting that she wanted it only for 'him to drink, knowing his preference for that fluid. “I want it to put on the pudding and must have some cream for my tea,” affirmed Mabel, evasively, adjusting and pinning on her hat. “Now, if you are going out to get milk for me to drink, I’d rather you wouldn’t, for I’d just as soon drink water,” replied Charley, suspecting the subterfuge. “Well, I wouldn’t, and I must have •ome cream for my tea. I won’t be

gone five minutes. You stay here ace read the paper.” “Won’t you let me go with you?” begged Charley. “No. you’d only be in the way.” And without waiting for further argument she disappeared through the <*oor and started downstairs. Brownley sighed, stretched himself out on the sofa and in another minute was buried in the details of an exciting episode in the history of the mad kina ot Bavaria or some other erratic member of European royalty. Just as he arrived at the point in the narrative dealing with the strangling and drowning of the perfidious actress by the frenzied king he was called back to his own less romantic affairs by the sound of rain beating against the win- | dow’s. He jumped up, threw down the paper, rushed to the window, raised it^ looked out and listened to assure himself that it was really raining hopelessly; then he grabbed his hat, found an umbrella and, hurried down the stairs to meet the girl and bring her back as dry as possible. The rain was falling heavily and the wind was driving it at a sharp an^le; [ the umbrella, like those most women carry, was just about large enough to keep his hat dry. He took the shortest route to the thiih depot, expecting to meet her on the way home or waiting for the rain to cease. He was dis appointed, however. So he hurried up the street a block to the fruit store where they had frequently bought fruit of an evening. But in vain; she was not there. Then he retraced his steps and went three blocks in the other direction to see if she had goneto any of the bakery and confectionery stores. The search seenjed useless, for Mabel had apparently made one of those mysterious disappearances common to large cities. Thinking she must have returned, home by another street and thus missed him, Brownley made his way back to the house against the wind and rain. He went in unannounced and ascended directly to her room. The door stood open ana he walked in. The first objects his glance fell upon were a quart bottle of milk ^.

and a pint bottle of cream standing on the table. As he looked around the room, however, he discovered that she was not there, and, supposing that she had gone downstairs to the landlady’s apartments, he stoo<| the umbrella in a jardiniere to drain, turned down the bottoms of his trousers and shook off of them what water he could and then sat down and took up the paper again. In a few minutes Mabel returned, carrying a dripping umbrella. She plumped down into the chair nearest the door and gave way to peals of mirth. Brownley looked at her in amazement and endeavored to elicit an explanation of the funny feature of the incident, which he rather failed to see himself. “If you hadn’t gone out to look for me I shouldn’t have got wet,” she finally managed tr gasp. “I hadn’t started for the milk when you went out. I happened to think that Mrs. Doyle might have some to spare, so instead of going out I went into her rooms.” “No wonder I couldn’t^Lnd-youany-where,” interrupted Brownley, the ab

-— ■■.jr--» surdity of the incident beginning to strike him. “Mrs. Doyle gave me all the milk I wanted, but when I came back you were gone, and so was the umbrella. Then I knew you had gone out to meet me, so I took the old one and went after you.” “Did you go to the milk depot?” inquired Brownley. “I went around to the back and looked in the windows.” “So did I.” “Then I went to the fruit stores.” “So aid I. Did you go to the bakeries?" . “Yes,” she admitted. “I went past them and looked in.” “Then you must have followed me all the way,” observed Charley. “If you hadn’t left me the umbrella with a hole in the middle I might have kept dryer,” shaking the globules of water from her hat as she took it off. “I took the best one I could find," confessed Charley, “and it was the salvation of my hat, if nothing else. It’s a good thing,” continued Brownley, without waiting for a reply to his reflection on the umbrella, “that I didn’t know you had gone out to look for me or I might have started out after you again.” “Well, you go on and read the paper while I make some tea,” said Mabel, when she had sufficiently recovered from her spasm of laughter, and she disappeared behind the portieres. Brownley noticed when she reappeared a few minutes lateT that she had on a different skirt. He had to sit around for two or three hours in trousers that were wet to the knees, but he bore it very well. Something seemed to have happened to please him, for he smiled to himself several times during the meal. “What is it?” asked Mabel “I think you ought to share up if you’ve got anything good.” “I think so, too,” said Brownley. After a pause he added, apropos of nothing: “I think we seem to show an inclination to t ake care of one another; doesn’t it strike you that way?”— Chjcaaro Daily Becord.

in will Items of Information Concerning Political Affairs at the Capital. THE REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN U66IV6 Present State ot the Philippine Can* pa I am — The Coal Miners* Strike and the Instrumentality of Hanna ■democratic Outlook In the Bast -Urjan GuIbIdk. [Special Correspondence.] President McKinley has gone home to Canton to give his personal atten* tion to his campaign in so far as llansa will permit. The republican campaign needs something to give it life and energy. President McKinley and his advisers are not likely to change the adverse drift of popular sentiment. They have several campaign lies to be sprung the last-mo-ment. One will be that the Philippine insurrection is over and that civil government has been established. This might do if it hadn't been worn thredbare so many times be* fore. It is even hinted that the announcement will be made that Aguinaldo and the other insurgent leaders have surrendered.' Well, that also has been used before. No announcement of the termination of the Philippine campaign will be believed unless accompanied by an order for the return of at least 50,000 troops. This is the test. It will be found that the republicans cannot meet it. Talk is cheap, but the troops are not going to return until the insurrection is over. Those whose term of enlistment is out will be replaced1 by others, if the next a4> ministration is republican. •

Hanna ana the Coal Trait. The coal miners’ strike becomes a matter of national importance. The coal operators are responsible for the strike itself and for any consequences j which grow out of it. The men p’.et up with starvation wages until body and soul could no I longer be held together. Think of j supporting a family on 90 cents a day | and having four days! work a week, j It is a crime against civilization that I a combine should have the power to ! dictate such terms to workingmen, j The men offered to arbitrate and the | operators scorned their pitiful appeal, i The sympathy of the country will go ' out to these'starving miners in their ; struggle for living wages. It is to be hoped that the men will be patient even under the provocation j that is sure to be offered by the i operators. They are accustomed to ; starving, as one of the mine workers’ ! executive board said recently: “We | might as well starve iole as working. ; It is starvation anyway.” What becomes of the republican assumption of prosperity and the “full dinner pail” in the face of this strike of 143,000 men for Wages to support a bare existence? It is many I a month since the miners have had a ; full dinner pail, and they never expect to have prosperity as long as a trust controls the output of the world’s supply of anthracite coal. The public is directly interested in this strike The coal barons are i threatening an advance of one dol- ; lar a ton for coal. Not because there is any scarcity, but because cold ! weather is coming and they have the power to squeeze the consumer as well as the workman. -

• A ever was there a greater output of anthracite coal than this year, and never have the operators enjoyed more prosperity, yet they begrudge their men decent wages out of the millions made from the industry. Hanna would have been glad to avert, or at least postpone, the strike, but the operators let him know that he is their servant, not their master, j When they want anti-trust legislation killed it is Hanna’s business to see I that it is done. When Hanna wants the operators to concede the demands of the miners becausa a strike will have a bad effect on the republican campaign, the operators tell him to attend to his business of managing the campaign and they will attend to theirs. Hanna is chagrined, but he is like the man in the Arabian Nights who let the genii out of the j box and couldn’t get them back. Bryan Gatntnar. Chairman Jones, of the democratic national committee, has been spending a few days in the east. He is very much pleased over the democratic outlook. New York state is putting up a splendid campaign and the republicans are much disorganized there. Th"; democratic state committees have good active organizations in the middle western states. The precinct organzations and democratic clubs are making great headway. The democrats propose to see to it this year that every man who wants to vote for Bryan has the opportunity and that every vote east for him is counted. There is no objection to Hanna getting out as big a republican vote as he can, but the republicans will not be permitted to count any votes except those actually cast ior their candidate. Every week brings new accession to Bryan from ihe republican ranks and every week shows plainly that there is going to be a big stay-at-home republican vote this year. The administration is decidealy unpopular with its own party. Bryan by his own speeches is making thousands of votes. He speaks as the plain man of the people. He has the compassion and understanding for humanity in nia heart. He ia

frank and courageous. He tells tbs people exactly where he stands on all the great issues. His Labor day •peech in Chicago pat him in sympathy with tne working people all over the country. He discussed their cause with understanding and sympathy, as | if he were one of them. Not so with Roosevelt. He was pelted with jeers and hard questions by the workingmen of Chicago on Labor day. They openly taunted him with favoring government oy injunction and a military form of government. Hanna has been keeping Roosevelt j as far5 west as possible because the ! eastern republicans will not stand for his bombastic and egotistic oratory on any terms., blit Roosevelt baa troubles in the west. The western people are not to be imposed upon by a gingerbread hero. At Roosevelt's meetings there are the ubiquitous colored men, who remind him that a colored regiment saved the rough riders from annihilation on San ».uan hill, and then there is sure to be a shower of posters containing quotations from Roosevelt’s books in which he shows himself the narrow, conceited aristocrat, haring no real sympathy with the people. He has sent Hanna word that he is tired of the west a. ^ wants to come home, but, while he is losing rotes for the republicans, he is doing it in states that will be democratic anyway, and Hanna doesn’t propose to let him help the democrats by his foolish speeches in doubtful states. Flaws In the Gold Standard. The republicans are now industriously pointing out the flaws in their gold standard law and asking to be given another opportunity to fix it up; They will get that anyway in the coming short session of the Fiftysixth congress, but if a republican congress and executive couldn’t pas,s a satisfactory gold standard law at the last session, the bankers have, a right to suspect that they will be unable to do so at any* future time. ADOLPH PATTERSON. TAXDODCER HANNA.

HI* Sworn Statement to the Aueiaot to Hta Home County tu Ohio. A startling revelation has just been made at Cleveland, which shows that Mark Hanna, instead of being a plutocrat, is one of the poorest citizens of the republic. It all came out through the office of the assessor of Cuyahoga county. Mr. Hanna has made a sworn return to this meddlesome official showing that the value of all his personal property is only a little more than $9,000. This return makes Mr. Hanna’s tax bill for the year very small, and, as before stated, shows that he is a poor man. It is suggested that if Mr. Hanna continues much longer to devote himself to the interests of Mr. McKinley he will be a bankrupt, for it is well known that when Mr. Hanna first entered public life he was worth many millions. It is recalled that his first great stroke (ft statesmanship and act of patriotism consisted in contributing liberally to the fund raised to pay Mr. McKinley’s debts, which were aoi cumulated because confessedly Mr. i McKinley was a statesman and not a business man. But this patriotic act did not cost him much, according to the statements of himself and hie i lieutenants. Mr. Hanna’s living ex- ! penses are not nearly so heavy as are those ef 20 or more other statesmen at | Washington who have acquired a great deal less feme than has Mr. Hanna. What, then, it is being asked, [ has become of Mr. Hanna’s fortune? It is not believed that he put all the money for Mr. McKinely in the last campaign or that he has been dr^vv- ! ing on his own bank account for the | president’s benefit in this campaign. ; And yet Mr. Hanna’s sworn statement ! recently made at (Cleveland shows him to be almost a pauper.—Washington Times.

Disagreement Anions Lenders. Unless the republican leaders put their heads together and harmonize their arguments they will stand a j good chance of not deceiving many | people in this campaign. McKinley declares that silver is the main issue and that the battle of 1896 must be fought over again. Roosevelt insists that silver is not only an issue, but the paramount one, which it would seem ought to satisfy even a Montana “silver republican.” On the other hand, Foraker says in his Youngstown speech that all of the republicans and half of the democrats are opposed to free silver, but that Brvah will try to force it.—Anaconda Standard. 'What McKinley Aaattmea. There is something almost laughable in Mr. McKinley’s wholesale assumption of credit for tfce prosperous condition of the country. In his letter of acceptance the republican party and his own administration are again made the source of all the blessings which the people enjoy. The republican party—especially in its earlier days—can point to much in its history that is worthy of praise and commendation, but its amiable and. self-satisfied leader, Mr. McKinley, really assumes too much when he robs nature of the eredit that is due to her prodigal generosity.—-Kansas City Star._’ -If the republican gold standard legislation of last winter is good legislation, if it does what President McKinley and his supporters claim for it, in what way can the demand of the democrats, populists and silver republicans be a menace to the country? If it does not do what its supporters claim, why are they bragging about it? Have they purposely passed a weak law so as to have the question an i*sue in this campaign?—Helena Independent.

THE IMMEDIATE ISSUE. Jaatlee, Honor ud Doty Ignored by McKinley la the Interest of Pnrtjr Policy. Maj. McKinley declares that while the Philippine issue may be paramount the silTer question is immediate. He therefore insists that the latter must take precedence in the campaign. Yet if Bryan should be elected, as now seems assured, and by a political revolution both houses should be democratic, at least four months must elapse before Mr. Bryan could get congress together to deal with silver or with anything els^. From November 7 .until March 4 William McKinley will still be president. But meanwhile shall the “nigger” killing still go on unchecked and unchallenged in the Philippines? Shall we keep in the field an army of 65,000 men and a great fleet of war ships to back up our wicked and baseless claims of sovereigftty over a people who long to be free? Shall we go on with our criminal aggression, burning and slaying and sowing havoc throughout \ stricken land? Which is the immediate issue? That of dealing with a question that cannpt be reached in half a year or that of stopping a war that is destroying the iberties of the Filipinos while undermining our own? If you/ house is on fire, which is the immediate issue, that of extinguishing the flames, or that of deciding on dans for a new barn which you think »f building next year? Imperialism is at once the parauount and the immediate issue. Maj.

I JICTORY WELL ASSURED. Ti* Vermont (Election Indicate* Tbnt the Drift 1« Toward Briar, ■r£>ur years ago 48 more electoral rouce would have elected Bryan. To be elected sow he must get that many votes in addition to those he had in 1896, and if he loses any of his former votes he must get enough in addition to make up for the loss. In 1896 several states on each side were very evenly divided. A slight drift would have sent them over the line. Everything depends now, therefore, on the direction of the drift. A snail majority in a state is safe if the drift is in the direction of making it secure. The Vermont election Indicates that the drift there is toward Bryan. The democrats are indisputably stronger in Vermont now than they were four years ago. What light does that throw on the possibilities in other states? The republican vote in Vermont has fallen off about ten per cent, as compared with the corresponding election i:a“1896, while the democratic vote has , i a creased about 16 per cent. Indiana has 15 electoral votes. In 1696 the republican vote there was 323,754, and the democratic 305,573. If - the republicans lose ten per cept. and the democrats gain 16 per cent, the republican vote in Indiana this year will be 291,379 and the democratic 354,573, leaving a democratic plurality of 63,083. A similar process would give the democrats Delaware by 447, West

THE M’KINLEY MINSTRELS.

'Y vrr>^ Uncle Mark, did you know dat de republican party am like a steamboat? Why, no, Theodore; explain yourself. Yassir; you am de captain, de trust:; am de passengers, de president am de figurehead an* I'm de foghorn. , That sweet vocalist, Mr. Sugar Trust, will sing his favorite ditty, “We've Got a Lot of Money, But We Want to Get Some More."

McKinley, with all his shiftiness and ail his smug hypocrisy, cannot dodge or obscure it. The flag is being trailed in the dust of his ignoble ambition and the blood of our late allies, perfidiously betrayed, stains its folds. Shall we palter with standards and ratios while American guns are slaughtering freedom in a foreign land? Shall we quarrel over the color of our money when the rivers are running with blood shed in pursuit of a horrible conquest ? No. The immetfTate issue is one of justice and honor and high duty. Silver and everything else must wait upon this. And Maj.= McKinley hopes in vain if he hopes that this great and insistent issue can be either obscured or evaded. Republican boss. Mark Hanna is alarmed over the growing indications of republican defeat this fall: Fear has seined tht camp of the republican national com mittee, and the party boss has begui to use the whip on the party work ers. The big republican loss show; in the- Maine election, following 01,; the heels of the decreaseu majority secured by the G. O. P. in Vermont,: has served as the cause for peremptory orders having been issued fo:every henchman of the party to ge.. out and hustle.. Hanna has quietly begun the squeezing of campaign funds from western monopolists anti trust directors. Word has beex; passed along the line that contributions or pledges must be forthcoming during the ten days the head of the party is in Chicago. -Since ex-Secretary Alger ha ; consented to make a few speeches fox* McKinley, why not call in Gen. Eagan from the Sandwich islands, or wherever he is enjoyirg his five yean ’ vacation for blackguarding Gen. Milex, and get him to do a little talking? His pay is going on all the time, so he might do it quite cheap.—Philadelphia Times. --Nothing which President McKinley or any campaign orator who U working for his reelection naay say i i denunciation of the trhs^s can be atcepted as sincere or genUin^^s Ion ; as the republican party upholds pnctection, which forestalls faxV compet - tion and thus fosters ail sorts of con - binations against trade.—Kansas Gif Star. a , i-.'.’ ' . r{>

Virginia by 13,822, Kentucky by 56,398,t Ohio by 80,501, and North Dakota by 283. ] OHIO IN REVOLT. One Hundred and Twenty-Five Former McKinley Men In One Town Come Out for Bryan. Republican managers in Ohio art | aghast at the ocntyiued desertion of voters from Hanna-McKinley ranks. From nearly every city and town in j this state comes reports of prominent and influential republicans who declare openly that they will vote for Bryan and Stevenson and against McKinley, trusts and imperialism. The following communication from a prominent business man of Coshocton is only one of scores of similar reports from Mark Hanna’s private bailiwick: “Coshocton. O., Sept. 10, 1900,—Edltor National Democrat: I herewith send you the names of a few prominent republicans of this city who are against Mr. McKinley in this campaign because of trusts and imperialism: | “Hon. Theodore Neighbor, a prominent merchant of New Connorstown, and with him more than 30 others, who declare they will not vote for McKinley this year, Mr. Neighbor was a prominent speaker for McKinley in 1S96. ' “G. W. Banden, of Coshocton, because he cannot stand Mark Hanna and the trusts. “James Crawford, a prominent farmer, who says the only way to save the country is to vote for Bryan. “Frank Ward, a wealthy rolling mill man, who says he is going to vote the straight democratic ticket in order to rebuke the trusts, one of which closed our mills and left him out of work. “Clyde Linn, of the Twentieth Century Printing company, who declares that McKinley is but a Punch and Judy puppet for Mark Hanna. “There are at least 125 other republicans in and about this city who have declared their intention of supporting Bryan this 1 year, but whose names are kept secret to prevent being persecuted by the Hanna machine gang. Yours truly, *‘H. T. KNIGHT.” -On the paramount issue of imperialism Bryan is winning republicans from McKinley just as on the silver question, which was paramount in 1S96, McKinley won democratic votes from Bryan. The position of the parties has changed about as regards accretion and diminution. There are no defections from the democracy thia year, but a return of those who left it four years ago. There are no accessions to the republican party this year, but desertions notable ,n character’ and in number—Boston Post.