Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 5 October 1900 — Page 1

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COUNTY COUNCILMEN. Attorney-General lanes Opinion About Their Kleetlon. Attorney-,General Taylor, in response to numerous requests of county counciltnen, has given the following official opinion: ‘The act of 1899 provides for the election of three councilmen-at-large from each county and four councilmen to be elected, each from his respective district. It provides for the division of the county into four councilmanic districts. The three councilmen at large will be voted for by all ; the voters in the county, but the councilmen representing each of the four districts will be elected by the voters in their respective districts. “All these seven councilmen are county officers, and the vote therefor must be canvassed by the county canvassing board. That being the case, the names of the three councilmen-at-large will be upon all the county ballots, and, in addition thereto, the councilmen from the districts will be placed only upon the ballots voted in their districts, respectively, so that there will have to be four forms of county ballots, will be exactly alike, except as to the names of the district councilmen.”

Real Estate Transfers. The following transfers of real estate have been recorded in the county recorder’s office during the past week: F. R. Bilderback to Charles F. Boonshot, pt secs 13 and 14. town 1 north, range 8 west. Thomas J. Traylor to S. R. Clark, lots 24 and 25, Demsey’s add, Otwell. David Grubb to Anderson Barrett, ne qr sw qr sec 10, town l south, range 0 west, 40 acres. S. W. Chappell to J. Z. Bell, lot 8, Chappell’s add to Algiers, and pt ne qr sw qr sec 27, town 1 north, range 7 west, 1 acre. James E. Lory to Hilda Craig, ne hf lot 42, Proffit’s add to Petersburg. A. C. Clifford to Daniel Rumble, pt lots 03 and 04, Hosmer. Oliver Cross to R. O. Brown, se qr nw qr, and pt sw qr nw qr sec 13, town 2 south, range 8 west, 68 acres. Jane M. Phillips to Susan and Minnie Davidson, pt ne qr sec 5, town 1 south, range 9 west. Frederick Doemen to Henry Geiselman, sw qr svr qr sec 10, town 3 south, range 8 west, 40 acres. Logan Robling to Monroe Robling, lot 48 Lucas’ add, Winslow. Henry Geiselman to Margaret Doemen, swr qr sw qr sec 16, town 3 south, range 8 west, 40 acres. i Della G. Scanland to OtwelF I. O. O. F. lodge, pt se qr sw qr sec 4, town 1 south, range 6 west, 7 acres. Ellen M. Y. Dedman to Lillian M. Dedman, sw qr nw qr and s hf nw qr nw qr sec 29, and e hf sw qr ne qr sec 30, town 1 south, range 7 west, 80 acres. j Viola Barrett to Mahala R. Roberts, pt se qr. ne qr sec 21, town 1 south, range 8 west.

Otwell Items. * Mis. Elizabeth of Topeka, Kansas, visited Mack Harris last Sunday. James Barnett of Cato, was visiting Otwell last Sunday. John B. Judy of Jasper, was in Otwell last Tuesday on business. Hugh Dillon of Ireland, was in Otwell last Monday on business. Robert Lee of Petersburg, was in Otwell last Tuesday on business. John Hargrave of High Banks, was in our town last Monday. Charles DeMott and P. H. McNabb of Dutchtown, were in Otwell last Tuesday on business. Will Cooper of Ireland, was in town last Tuesday. John Budd of Iva, was in town last Tuesday on business. L. E. Lett has resigned and will not be a candidate as a member on the advisory board. Thomas Dillon and William Liibs passed through Otwell last Tuesday enroute for Velpen. Rev. Sims has taken charge of his work for the coming year. The merchants of Otwell have their fall stock complete and are having a good trade. Those of you who desire to get the worth of your money, come to Otwell. You will be sure to get it. The Otwell schools commenced last Monday with Professor J. A. Barr in charge of the upper room and Miss Daisy Dillon in charge of the lower room. All is satisfactory to patrons and pupils._ Consumption Cure. Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup, the best cough remedy on earth, cures a cold in one day if taken in time. 25 and 50 cents. J. R. Adams & Son. * confined in the Du:aped Monday night *y ouv Three prisoners bois county jail< bv sawini? their J O ■

1 The Don’t I*re my son. are the principles ot the Republican .arty, them is not a Republican/* * (1900): -Here, Mac. what Republican principles up to date, bother about the old fashioned rubbish. Hearst s Chicago Amer

Washington Letter. There will be a democratic majority of not less than ten in the next house. That is the way the democratic congressional campaign committee figures it out, and in doing the figuring allowance has been made for every reasonable contingency. Republicans privately admit that these figures are very conservative, and tliat they have almost given up hope of retaining control of the house, unless there is a change in public sentiment amounting almost to a stampede before election day. Even the republican congressional committee has not been putting out any claini, except in the most perfunctory way, of a republican majority in the house. On the contrary, its chairman, Representative Babcock, has been preparing his party for defeat. Among the contingencies allowed for by the democratic committee are loss of seats in New York and Pennsylvania, which the party managers in those states are confident of saving. Mad as the republican leaders are with the lust of power and conquest, and as determined as they are to try to turn this liberty-loving republic into a world-conquering empire, founded on no higher principles than that which dominated the dark ages of youth—“might makes right” they do not dare to publicly proclaim that

purpose as plainly as Ex-Congressman Dugan, of Ohio, once a democrat, did in a speech made in Washington, in which he attempted to justify Mr. McKinley, and imperialistic policy in the Philippines. The following sentence from Mr. Dugan’s speech reveals the true inwardness of the republican policy, which they have been so anxiously trying to conceal by general talk about bettering the conditions of the poor natives and improvement in American commerce: “In my opinion, title is fixed only by the survival of the fittest, and that is why America is going to rule the earth.” In other words, no people’s title to their own country f is good against the greed and avarice of a stronger country. Surely a majority of Americans are not willing to enter the twentieth century championing such a document. Representative Livingston of Georgia, thus sums up the attitude of the two parties towards trust: “In a recent speech made by Senator Beveridge, this statesman says that the republican party, as well as the democratic party, is opposed to trusts, only the republican party proposed to limit and regulate trusts, while the democratic party would do nothing. Now, this statement was made to intelligent people. If ibis is so, how could Mark Hanna go to Baltimore and get from the trusts of that city alone $80,000, while Bryan, even had he tried could not have got 80 cents. Senator Hanna has said there are no trusts. He knows and so does every thinking man or woman that this is false. Here is evidence of the trusts. This year it takes 50 per cent more wheat to buy a plow than it did last year. It takes 20 per cent more corn and it takes f rom $4 to $4.50 a month more to live now than it did a year ago. Why is this? It is because of the trusts.” How desperate the republican managers are getting may be judged from their having ordered the party press to try to make political capital out of the experience of Teddy in Colorado. When the navy department reject

ed the bids for armor for Warships, put iu by the armor trusts, and announced that Secretary Lo ig would exercise the authority confe •fied upon him by Congress to establi; i an ar-mor-making plant, if better ids were not submitted. It was predted that the armor trusts would get the contracts, if they made a sai sfactory contribution to the republt, an campaign fund. That predictu 4 is in a fair way to be veritied. s ecretary Long has been dickering with the agents of the trusts, and it i officially announced that he expec' ? 1;o make a satisfactory contract with them for the artnor, which doubtle s means that Hanna has already ma e a satisfactory arrangement with ihem for campaign contributions, j The Chinese Minister to t it United States having succeeded i, > well in gettiug the administration to act in accordance with his priva ;e advice has gone a step further a. d is now giving the administration mblic advice through the median of newspaper interviews. He want this government to act as media to. between the powers and C'hin:y and says if it doesn’t, it may in the end cd itself shut out of China commerd illy. That “chink” has got nerve 1:o thus threaten the man who hi s been as friendly to him and his g<. vernment as Mr. McKinley has been. Lookout, for preposteroi > republican claims. Orders have gone out from republican national leadquarters to the party newspape. s to print continually and conspicuo. ly during the three weeks previous t i the election paragraphs claiming states enough to give McKinley 25 or 30 more electoral votes than ae had in j 1800. The idea is said to b. that such | wholesale claims oersiste .tiy made, will catch voters who wist. to be on the winning side. j ; *

Roosevelt on the Union cioldier. i In his life of Benton ]»age 38, speaking of the decline ox the “militant spirit,” Mr. Roosevelt says: “To it is due, more th m to any other cause, the undoubye > average INDIVIDUAL INFERIORITY OF THE NORTHERN COMPARED TO T Hi SOUTHERN troops; at any rate .t the beginning of the great war of the rebellion. The southerneirs. by their whole mode of living, their habits and their love of out-door spwr ;s, kept up their war-like spirit; wh ie „ in the North the so-called upper lasses developed along the lines of a wealthy and TIMID BOURDEOISE TYP 3* MEASURING EVERYTHING BY A \ i£ltCANTlLE STANDARD (A PECULIARLY DEBASING ONE IF TAKEN PURELY B' [TS SELF) AND SUBMITTING TO BE EU 1AXD IN LOCAL AFFAIRS BY LOW FOR ION MOBS, and in national matters bj their arrogant southern kinsmen. T e militant spirit of these certainly food them in good stead in the civil w ar. The WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN B .-TITER SOLDIERS THAN THOSE WHO FOLLOWED lee; AND THEIR LEADEl WILL UNDOUBTEDLY RANK AS, WI THOUT ANY EXCEPTION, THE VERY GREATEST OF ALL THE GREAT CAPTAIN THAT THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PJ» TES* HAVE brought forth—and thi *, although the last and chief of his antagonists may himself claim to stan I as the full equal of Marlbourgh and Wellington. To Cure a Cold In 0 >e Day. Take Warner’s White ^ .fine of Tar Syrup, the best cough remedy on earth. 25 and 50 cents. I. R. Adams & Son. i *

Spurgeon Items. J. M. Ward and William Yarber have traded farms. Elder Goad preached here Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. J. A. Shepard visited her sister. Mrs. John Cliffiord near Oakland Monday. J. N. Lorton and Dr. Tea ford are at West Baden springs this week. They will be gone several days. John Langford is building a nice residence on lower Main street: when completed he will move in town. ? Wilson Leighty and wife of Petersburg. were here Saturday, visiting relatives and attending J. B. McKinney’s sale. Elijah Roy returned home from Cincinnati Monday, where he had been for the last two weeks attending embalming school. Mrs. John McMelier who has spent the suayner with the family of W. T. Ridle. left Monday for home in Mountainview. Missouri.

John Lemasters and sou Sherman, left here Tuesday to visit Mr. Lemaster's son Wes. in Oklahoma, and will be gone about a month. Schools began here Monday morn* ing with Pofessors Jordon and J. K. Arnold as teachers. They have a very large attendance with every prospect of a very successful school. William Liibs was here Saturday at the sale of the late J. R McKinney, where he met and made the acquaintance of a large number of people. He made a splendid impression on the people here. There will be a large crowd of democrats and several republicans from here go td Washington Saturday so that they can say they saw one president as everbody bdre without regard to politics believes he will be elected. On next Sunday the building committee of the Blackfoot church will surrender the house to Klder J. W. Richardson for dedication. The church is one of the neatest country churches in the county, a large crowd is expected. The building is fully paid for and no collection will be taken up, which speaks well for the commuuity. , Will Support Bryan, The Philadelphia Times, one of the leading papers of that city, has come out for Bryan and Stey€nson. The Times in stating its position says: “Four years ago. in the sudden crisis that divided the councils of the democratic party, it seemed better to the Times to sustain Mr. McK4nley’selection as president rather that of Mr. Bryan. The decision was made in good faith. The result has shown it to be wrong. It is repented and re

canted. “All of the evils and the perils of the so-called republican policy have returned sevenfolds, developed and extended till the very foundations of - the government seems threatened. “A false economic system has resulted in vast combinations ojf.capital that throttle individual industry and hold control over all the functions of government, and the spokesman of the administration, a, representative of one of these great trusts, is calling upon his fellow-capitalists for contributions to buy another four years’ license to rob—another four years* life for their inflated and false prosperity. “The government thus controlled has found its fittest expression in scheme of military conquest. “Imperialism, militarism are the natural outgrowth of commercialism in politics: of the power of the few over the many, the elevation of money over manhood. “The condition is one that the country must meet now, and the way to meet it is by reassertion of the democratic idea and the election of a democratic president, “No one can question the ability, the earnestness, the integrity of the democratic candidates. For the rescue of all that has made America glorious in the past and that can make her strong in the future, it is a duty to support their election.” ’76-Democratic Doctrine-*98. We hold these truths 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 jmen, deriving their just powers fronT the consent of the governed, Men's heavy kip boots guaranteed all solid at *1.3® a pair, at the 22-2 * Star Clothing House. • ■ - / ... i r ’’sl