Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 21, Petersburg, Pike County, 28 September 1900 — Page 4

Wu ftk* Hi M. McC. STOOPS. One Tear, in Advance. .'T . — .#i 00 Six Mouths,in advance . .. .. 50 Entered at the poatoffice lit Petersburg tor irausiutsslon through the mails as second* class matter. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 38,1900. Democratic Tickat. 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 Heimberger. For Auditor of State, John W. Minor. ForTreasurer of State, Jerome Herff. For Attorney General, C. P. Drummond. For Reporter Supreme Court, Henry G. Yerjjin. For Superintendent Public Instructions, Charles A. Greathouse. For Chief Bureau of Statistics, Edwatd Iloruff. r For Judge Supreme Court, First District. * George L; Reinhardt. * For Judge Supreme Court, Second District, J. W. Adair. 5. DISTRICT TICKET. Fot Congress, Alfred Dale Owen. For Prosecuting Attorney, Leo II. Fisher. For Joint ^Representative, IVter It. Coble. COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, William Liibs. Far Sheriff, Richard Bass. For Recorder, William A. Battles. For County Assessor, Vinson France. For Surveyor, Benjamin F. Lance. For Coroner, Grace D. Harris. For Commissioner 3d district, Herman W. Fulcher. For Commissioner 3rd district, Perry A. Me Roberts. Frit County Council—At Large,, Leroy Robinson, James D. Hollon and James A. Shepard, fst district, Peyton Burk* hart;,3d district, S. W. Chappell; Six! district, George H. Overbeck; 4th district, MellCatt.

Washington Township Convention. The Democrats of Washington township will meet in mass convention at the court house in Petersburg, on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 0, 1900, at 9:30 o'clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to be voted for at the November election. The offices for which candith*te*-wwtt be nominated are: Trustee, assessor, justice of the peace, two constables, road supervisors and three members of the township advisory board. All democrats and all others who will support the nominees of the convention are cordially invited to attend. By Order of committee. -George A. Hollon, Chairman. Campaign literature can be secured by calling at this office. We have a large number of interesting documents ou the several questions before the people at this time. WIluam J. Bryan will beat Washington, Saturday, October 0th. Pike county should send a large delegation. The speaking will be held at one o’clock ii^the afternoon. Our friends who are desirous of having a steel engraving of Hon. William Jennings Bryan, the next president of the United States, can secure one by calling at this office. Beveridge’s speech on the Phillippine question has been consigned to the tire. Over 200,000 copies of it were printed and ready for mailing, when Mark give out the word that it would not do. . The Press will please explain all about its article “Harmony Prevails’’ in its issue of Tuesday. Some of the boys are a little “bit sore over having to pledge themselves every few days. Fess up, professor.

The machinery trust is the latest, and they have dismissed 300,GOO traveling men from their sei vice. Of this number there are over200 in the First congressional district. And yet the republican party favor trusts. The trusts are backing the republican party in the present campaign. The common every day farmer, laborer and mechanic is backing the democratic party, and they will win the ballot of ballots in November. Teddy Roosevelt at South Bend made a characteristic rough rider assault upon the silver dollar, calling it the.48 cent dollar. And yet his running mate, Mr. McKinley, has coined about sixty millions of them since he has been president, at the ratio of 16 to 1, and is still doing it, without the aid or consent of any other nation on earth. These two men should get together and compare notes. Remember the Washington township convention. The hour for holding the convention has been changed from two o’clock to 9:30 o’clock a. m., Saturday, October 6th, in order that all who may desire to attend. the Bryan meeting at Washington in the afternoon. Let every democrat in Washington township l>e present as early as possible that all business may be transacted by eleven o’clock in time for the trayi. Remember that the time is changed to 9:30 a. m.

If Colonel Durbin is so influential with the trusts as to secure the temporary opening of a nail mill at Anderson, as announced in republican papers, will he be a proper man to enforce against them the Indiana antitrust laws? How is he connected with the trusts and what is the Secret of his influence with them, anyway? Will Mr. Durbin get out in the open and answer these questions in which the people are interested? 1 The Press in its last issue says the republicans passed the only anti-trust legislation upon the statute books. All right, but the attorney-general of the United States does not enforce it. The Ikw is a dead letter. If it would prevent the fogpaation of trusts and the republican party is not in favor of trusts, why has the republican party not crushed them out, or is it because Mark Hanna says there is no trusts. The fact is that the republican party is the daddy of trusts and expects these combinations to put up the campaign boodle. The attorneygeneral of Ohio, Mr, Monnett, went after the trusts, and the trusts went after him and prevented him from receiving a renomination in Ohio, Such rot as the republicans being against trusts will not wash down. • The opening republican gun of the campaign was fired for the fourth time in this city last Thursday night when Joe Cannon of Illinois and Jim Hemenway, both congressmen, made speeches. General Thompson, of course, presided. After several days hard work about 125 persons meandered up to the court house to hear the opening gun fired again. The congressmen talked and talked, but thp enthusiasm would not raise, and when they did indulge in remarks about the prosperity of coal miners there was a great lull. At the time they were speaking the greatest coal miners strike ever known was in progress. in which over 130,000 were in Pennsylvania were asking for a small increase in wages from the coal trust. There were some miners present at the meeting who had been out for eleveu months asking for an increase, who did not take kindly to the speakers remarks. The coal miners of Southern Indiana know exactly how .they secured their increase in wages. The fourth opening of the campaign was a huge frost.

Editor Thompson, who is looking after Jim Hemenway’s appointments at\his place, goes into a state of terrible excitement at the very mention of Alfred Dale Owen's name. From the reading of the editorials in the Press of the past several weeks he has no love for the gallant little colonel, who is now assured of his election as congressman from the "First district. Col. Owen was a brave soldier and his record as such stands above reproach. As to his record as a brave and patriotic soldier we would refer Mr. Thompson to Greene Beadles, Henry J. Wiggs, Samuel Thompson, Elijah Richardson, Dan C. Ashby and a hundred other survivors of the civil war who live in Pike county. The Press says that Col. Owen would have no influence if he were elected and could do nothing for his constituents. Well, what has Hemenway done for his constituents of the First congressional district during his six years*? Who was the old veteran who was appointed to any postoffice in the district that paid any salary of any consequence? What has he done only to draw his salary. / Roosevelt’s Opinion ofU-aboringmen On page 2% of the September, 18%, issue of Reviews, Theodore Roosevelt, in discussing the American union workingman, made the following statement: “The men who object 1*0 WHAT THEY STYLE ‘GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION’ are, as regards the essential principles of government, in hearty sympathy with their remote SKIN-CLAD ANCESTORS WHO LIVED IN CAVES, FOUGHT ONE ANOTHER WITH STONE-HEADED AXES, AND ATE THE MAMMOTH AND WOOLY RHINOCEROS. “They are interesting as representing a geological suryival, but they are ^dangerous whenever there is the least chance of their making the principles of this ages-buried past living factors in our present life. ‘.‘They are not in sympathy with MEN OF GOOD MINDS AND SOUND CIVIC MORALITY.”

The Farmer and the Trusts. Article Farm W agon . Buggy . Barbwire. Plain No, 8 Wire Nails, per keg Prills, two horse Riding Mows Breaking Plows per Price 1886 . ?48 00 . 60 00 . 3 00 1 50 . 3 35 . 40 00 35 00 It 00 08‘i 05 : is* cent 1800 too 00 75 00 4 00 3 00 3 50 50 00 35 00 13 50 Wi W*f 16S higher Binder Twine Sugar, granulated Coffee . AH groceries 25 than in 189t>. All cotton goods 30 per cent higher than in 1890. Will the man that talks prosperity please explain where it comes in this deal. Let the farmer figure and see how much be is placing in the pockets of the trusts. Money to Loan.—Furnish your abstract aud get your money the same day. Mary M. Sec.

Thompson Taken Down. My Dear Professor Thompson:-In your issue of September 21, you answer {?) my letter with referencej to increasing the standing army in a manned which is doubtless very satisfactory—to yourself. To be sure you continue the use of abusive epithets, but then I am almost persuaded that you are so short on ideas that you are compelled to fill in with abuse, some will let that part of it go. But, my dear Professor a number of your republican friends have asked me to request you to answer the last part of j my letter in which I quote from your editorial in which you belittle and condemn the Declaration of Independence. I will not ask space to requote your language, my dear Professor, but you know what it is. Fearing you and your readers may have forgotten its exact import the Democrat has republished it in its columns this week. Head it and then read what Abraham Lincoln thought about the same document, as published in the Democrat September 14, inst. Also, Professor tell your readers what you think of the republican platform of 187fi. Were the men who made that platform ‘‘fools,” “liars,” “demagogues” snapping wolves,” “heathens,” “chattering idiots,” Here is what they said: “They (the United States) are now j embodiments of great truths spoken j at it’s cradle—‘‘that all men are ere-1 ated equal; that they are endeared by | their creators with certain individual I rights, among wi^ich are life, liberty ! and the pursuit of happiness; that for the attainment of these ends governments have been instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Sylvester, ask Jim to ask Me. to ask J Mark what he thinks of the Declaration of Independence and Lincoln and his teaching. Mark will tell Me. to tell Jim to tell Sylvester to tell his readers that the Declaration of Independence is absolete, out of date and that Lincoln was an old fogy and that the teachings of the two are likely to embarass the new fangled republican party which is wedded to Alexander Hamilton’s teaching, imperialism, and to trusts and combines, the subjects of Hanna’s constant care and earnest solicitude. Your Friend, Thomas H. Dillon.

The following article appeared in the Petersburg Press of July 18, 181)9, as referred to in the above: “Many of our democratic contemporaries are continually braying about what the fathers inculcated in the Declaration of Independence concerning all men’s being created 'equal. We have political fools who J verily believe that the tenets set | forth by that immortal document known as the Declaration of Independence, are such as can not admit of amplification no difference what our conditions, no difference what our population, no difference what comes | or what goes; “The men’who originated or pro- ; mulgated the proposition that all j men are created equal orginated abd promulgated an infamous falsehood. In no sense are men equal. They are not equal in physical strength: they are not equal in mental capacity: and I they are not equal iu their relation | to the government although many ! prating demagogues so declare. ! “The declaration made by Thomas | Jefferson and his co-workers that all ! men are equal was only made for political effect. Jefferson knew better. He knew that African slavery was existing here when the Declaration was made. He knew very well he was acting the demagogue^ or else he would have admitted afterwards that his proposition was broad enough for not only men but women as well. And now the democratic one-horse editors come to the front like a horde of snapping wolves and declare that all men whatsoever are created equal, therefore, the United States has no right to coerce the Filipinos unless they consent, they being created equal to the intelligent people of the United States. Such editors are in common parlance short on brains. They have not the faintest idea of government and its obligations. They do not seem to realize that many of the propositions set forth in the Declaration of Independence are preposterous when considered in the light of our present governmental development. They do not know that

average scnooi ooys oi today Know , more about government than did many j of the signers of the Declaration of I Independence. “This talk about the consent of the governed and all men being created equal is silly twaddle. It is only a text from which the heathen may rage and have vain imaginings. It gives men an- opportunity to exhibit and interminable amount of gall. It is the chattering of an idiot to proclaim all men equal. It is mockery and political suicide for this or any nation to admit that all just power is derived from the consent Of the governed. The governed not unfrequently are not capable of self-government. “So our democratic friends by dropping the H» to 1 fad are now frothing at the mouth about defunct propositions set forth in a document valued only for its historic signiticance, cerjtaiuly exhibit very much gall.!*

pICHARDSON A TAYLOR. Attorneys at Law. Prompt attention given to nil buxines*. A Notary Public cuuiUDttjr in iheoffice. Office In Carpenter building, Eighth and Main-sis, Petersburg, Indiana. Q EORQE It. ASH BY, Attorney at Law. Will practice hi nil court*. Special alientlon given lo all civil t'usiness. Notary Public constant |y In lbe office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office hi Citizens* slate bant building, Petersburg, Indiana. g G. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. Office in Parker block, opposite tbe court house, Petersburg, Indiana. QH ARLES A. COFFEY, Attorney at Law. All kinds of legal business promptly attended to. Your patronage solicited. Office upstairs In Citizens’ stale bauk building. Tel. Itl-2, Petersburg. Indiana. QOX A CROW, ^ Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Prompt attention given lo alt business. Office In Carpenter b ock, first door on Klghtb-st., Petersburg. WILSON A: GREENE, J. w. wilson V. K. GKEK.NE Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all courts. Office In Ftank block, over Star clothing bouse, Petersburg. Ind. pOSEY A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law. Will practice in [ all courts. Collections promptly made. Notary publte In office. Office upstairs in Snyder building In Iron! ot Democrat office, Petersburg, Indiana. gTANLEY M. KRIEG, ■ Attorney at Law. All business promptly attended to. Will practice In all courts, office In Montgomery buildlug, Petersburg, Indiana. JPM. RICE, Attorney at Law. Will practice In Pike and adjoining counties, and iu all courts. Notary Public, Office in Dispatch building, up stairs,Winslow, lnd.

J R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chrouic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens' state bank, Petersburg, Indiana. W M. HUNTER, Physician and Surgeon. Otlice in rear of Citizens’ State bank, Tel. t>l-2 residence and office. Office hours—day and night. D R. J. W. COOK, Vitapathic Specialist. Graduate of the American Health College, employs alt vital and vitalizing methods ot the superior Vitapathic system in cleansing impurities and removing poisons and causes ot disease. Processes covered by State charter and Uniter) states patents. Also Electro Thermal Vital Warm Air Batbs given. Office in Parker building, opposite court honse. J, G RADISH. Hypnotism & Magnetic Healing. Every known disease cured without medicine or surgery, it cures where everything else fails, terms reasonable and ali correspondence receives my best attention. If diseased write at ouee. Office at Rumble, Ind. rpiIOMAS B. ALSOP, Dental Surgeon. All work warranted, office over the Nev \ork store in Osborn building, Petersburg. H. ETON ECI PH ER, Dental Surgeon. Office ln rooms ti andT, in Carpenter buildlog. Petersburg, Indiana. Operations tirs\class. All work warranted. Antestheties usetl for paiuless extraction oi teeth. ^TOTICKls hereby given to alt patties In i', terested that I will atteuu at my offic in Stendat, 1 EVERY SATURDAY. To transact business connected with the office ol trustee 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 con cerned that 1 will attend at my office It Otwell EVERY DAY. j . ■ To transact bust ness connected with the offic of trustee of Jefferson township. ROBERT M. GRAY, Trustee. Postoffice address: otwell, Indiana. N'OTICE is hereby given to all parlies eoi cerned that l will attend at my resident EVERY WEDNESDAY, To transact business connected with theofl of trustee >f Madison towrtshlp. Positively no business transacted except office days- C. J._G LA DISH, Trustee Postoffice address: Bowman, Ind.

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n The last day of the world, a ■ prophet says, will fall on April l S, 1908. In the meantime get < t he best you can oulof life. Use * your money to the Wt advant- i age and enpy its fulF purchasing i power. Here are a few things * you may need: A Suit, Over- 1 coat, pair of Trousers, a Hat, a < Shirt, Gloves, Underwear, Neck- 1 wear and other articles too mu- J tnerous to mention. We have , Garments so well made that with care they will last yon until 1908, ( and think now much better you will feel if you are welt dressed on that occasion.

How Abou; Clothing? V\ hut can be had? What will be most becoming? What will a siw Suit cost? What will be the correct th.ng in Overcoats? These and a host of other questions will be answered sa? isfaetorilv when vou favor us with a call. - ‘ Our Store is now jammed full will, the newest, brightest and choicest Suits and Overcoats that ever was mad». If vou are at all suit hungry come a and take a look at these garments. We will be in our new quarters on or tocut October 1, 1900, four doors up the street. W.-L. BARRETT & CO., Men’s Ottfitters, PETERSBURG, 1ND.

LonMe, Evansville & St. Louis G. Railroad Time table in effec Sov. 28, 1897: St. Louis i St. Louis Fast Kxp.1 Limited. Station i. 8:00 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 11:08 a.m. 11:22 a.m. 11:38 a m. 0:20 p.m. 9:00 p.m.| Leave 11:10 p.m.! Leave 12:01 a.m.' Leave 12:M a.m. Leave 12:30 a.m. Leave 7:12 a.m. Arrive. Loulsvlili Himtingb irg3 Velpen . . Winslow .... Oakland C Ay St. Louis* . . arrive arrive* arrive arrive arrive Leave liOUlsviile Limited. 7:00 a.m. 4:25 a.m. 4018 a.m. 3:58 a.m 8:87 a.m. 0:15 p.m. Louisville Fast Kxp. 5:45 p.m. 2:o.i pin 2:80 p.m 2.1Hp.m i*-57 p.m 7:58 a.m — - i— -r-—y \ Night trains stop atjWmslow at d Velpen on signal omljv U. A. Campbell, G.P.A., St. iouis. J. F. Ilurt, agent. Oakland City.

d \n ITT T) I T)UI) Say, have you seen that Wall Paper at L II. a II A Jill r A f nil Clark’s? He has the cheapest the and prettiest f * patterns it the town. Paj>er as - low as 4 cents d per roll to the finest in the market. . « d Manufactured independent of pools »r trusts. Delivered to any part of \ the city free of charge. L. H. CLARK, Mosesson’s old stand, Lower Main stn et.

Before cleaning house this spr ng call and see our immense line of new designs in Wall Payer. The designs this spring are much finer than ever and we have, bought nothing but the late patterns, which are now coming in, and we now show the most complete line ever brought to Petersburg. Before buying call and see us. 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, P« tent Medicines, Paints, Oils and Varnishes. We handle nooing but the best brands. C (■OUPHANT DRUB CO;

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A Telephone in your time and make you money* Office or Store will save Our present Rates leave modern necessity. 5 ' excuse for being without this 4 Don’t “sponge” on your . Thirty days trial \\ifL4 > convince you. Place yoiir orde r now, and have a Telephone \ placed in your residence know your wants. |Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph.Co,« d. w. Manager.

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