Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 October 1900 — Page 7

DEMOCRATS NOMINATE. Voters of Washington Township Nominate a Strong Ticket. The democrats of Washington township met at the court house in this city last Saturday and nominated a splendid ticket to be voted for at the November election. By two o’clock the court room was crowded with voters from all parts of the township to take part in the convention. - The convention was called to order by George A. Hollon, township chairman, who stated the object of the meeting. Hon. Perry A. Chappell was selected as chairman, and David D. Corn as secretary of the meeting. The chairman then appointed George B. Ashby, M. L. Heathman and M. McC. Stoops as a committee on rules. While the committee on rules governing the convention were preparing their report Hon. S. G. Davenport made a few remarks to the convention. After the adoption of the report of the committee on rules candidates for trustee were placed in nomination as as follows, L. R. Hargrave, Eugene O’Brian and George A. Hollon. The voting was by ballot and resulted in the nomination of George A. Hollon on the first ballot. For assessor George House was nominated by acclamation. For justice of the peace. L. 11. Hargrave was nominated by acclamation. For constables, John A. Dedman and Sherman Robling were nominated by acclamation. Township advisory board, John A. Klotz, Gardiner T. Kime and Albert W. Doty. For road supervisors. District No. 1, Isaac Wethers: No. 2, Matthew Blair; No. 3, Emory Cox: No. 4, Ruark Hawkins: No. 5, Warren Frost: No. <>, Henry H. Grable; No. 7. Washington

yuerry. The convention was harmonious in cfVery particular and the best of feeling prevailed among the candidates. The ticket is composed of splendid men and who are known to nearly every voter in the township. They represent every element of strength and will poll a large vote at the November election. The nominee for trustee. George A. Hollon. was born in Washington township, May 14, 1872. He has always lived on a farm and followed the occupation of a farmejr except in winter when he taught school. He has been a successful teacher for seven years, and is held in the highest esteem by all who know him. He is careful in his business dealings and will make the people of the^tpwnship a splendid official. » George House, the nominee for assessor, was born in Booneville, and came to this city several years ago. He is a miner by occupation and has been employed in the Woolley mines at this place for several years. He is a popular young man and has the qualifications to properly make an equal assessment of the property, t The gentlemen comprising the balance of the ticket are representative men of the township and should receive the support of the voters. , Glorious News Comes from Dr. D. B. Cargile, of Washita, I. T. He writes: “Four bottles of Electric Bitters has cured Mrs. Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years. Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure is complete and her health is excellent.” This shows what thousands have proved,—that Electric Betters is the best blood purifier knovfn. It’s the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys and bowels, expells poisons, helps digestion builds up the strength. Only 50 cents. Sold by Stearnes Drug Company druggists. Guaranteed. Stendal has organized a large Bryan and Stevenson club. The boys are hustling in that precinct and will bring up a big majority next month. The officers are: President, H. O. Brewster; vice-president, John Maxey; secretary, Julius Henke; treasurer, William Nuring. To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup, the best cough remedy on earth. 25 and 50 cents. J. R. Adams & Son. - *

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Republicans Against Labor. “Some of the statements recently made by Senator Hanna, chairman of the republican national committee, are a reflection upon the intelligence of the wage-earners of this country,” said an officer of^New York Typographical Union No. 6, to day. “In September and October every four years the republican leaders are hysterical in their protestations of friendliness toward the workingmen. Many of these same leaders are on record, in black and white during the remaining forty-six months as opposed to labor organizations. “Senator Hanna recently stated that he liked to talked to workingmen because he understood him. The wage-earners certainly do understand the chairman of the republican national committee, as will be proved, later on. “By what authority does the Senator from Ohio presume to pledge the republican party to the arbitration of labor controversies, or to any other proposition for the advancement of the interests of labor*? The republican national convention, held in Philadelphia last June, did not deem the labor interests of enough importance to even deserve mention in the party platform. Unless it is admitted that Senator Hanna constitutes the republican party, which impression prevails in the minds of many men. his declaration will be received with extreme caution by all wage earners. “Senator Stephen B. Elkins, secretary of war under President Harrison and one of President McKinley's chief advisers, in an interview published in the non-union New York Sun, on April 189*. answered the question, ‘Is the black labor settled in the mines*?’ as follows: “ ‘Firmly. It is not as effective as white labor, but it does not form labor unions, does not combine and conspire, and the negro spends all he makes.’ “In the same interview the Senator from West Virginia declared: ‘Wages inevitably must go down, as everything else has gone down. Wage earners do not wish to see it or believe it. but it is so. Wages in America stand against any revival of

ousmess. '"Senator Elkins, it will be remem* be red, is one of the largest coal operators in West Virginia, and his treatment of union miners is a matter of history. It will also be recalled that Senator Elkins had some coal to sell to the navy department during the early months of the Spanish-Ameri-can war. If newspaper reports are to be believed. Senator Elkins finally did dispose of, his coal, despite the protests of the proper officials, who objected to its poor quality. “When Senator Hanna attempted to settle the coal strike in Pennsylvania he knew the one man to see. That man was not the president of the miners’ union, nor was he a representative of the national or state government. The ethics of the republican party admit and insist that the coal operators have a perfect right to combine for the purpose of advancing the price of coal or reducing the price of coal or reducing the wages of their employes, but when the miners select a man to represent their interests the operators immediately decide that such officers shall not be recognized. “Instead of treating with their employes’ representatives in a business way, they have offered a bribe of 10 per cent, for the sole purpose of disrupting the Miners’ Union. “Senator Hanna is shouting for a rope to hang the man who prevents the settlement ot this controversy. The chairman of ^the republican national committee will never tie a hangman’s knot in Wall street. He is too busy rigging snares to catch the votes of wage-earners on November

HANDS SHAKEN By Bryan and ltoosevelt as Their Specials Came Together. Bryan and Roosevelt shook hands across the political chasm Monday night at Alton, 111. Their private cars came alongside in the yards. Each stepped upon the platform and recognized the other at once. ‘•Hello, Billy,” said Teddy, thrusting forth his hand. “Hello, Teddy,” quoth Billy, grabbing Roosevelt’s extended hand and shaking it vigorously. “How is your voice1?” “It’s rough as the populist platform. How is yours, Colonel Bryan?” laughed Roosevelt. “Mine is as broken as republican promises,” retorted the Nebraskan, laughing, too. « Then everybody laughed and cheered, the democrats with Bryan shouting “Hurrah” for him and Roosevelt’s j followers yelling for McKinley. The i meeting came wholly by chance, and | was as cheerful as it was picturesque. He Fooled the Surgeons. All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of West Jefferson, O., after suffering 18 months from rectal fistula, he ; would die unless a costly operation , was performed; but he cured himself with five boxes of Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, the surest pile cure on earth, and the best salve in the world. 25 cento a box. Sold by Stearnes Drug Company, druggists. . »* ■ '

Washington Letter. The entire administration, from the president down, is playing partisan politics for all it knows how, and the public business is getting on in any way it can. The White House has been turned into a political headquarj ters with the president filling the duties of lieutenant to Boss Hanna. Anything to keep the republicans in power is the basis of all the White house consultations and conferences. That even single votes are not being overlooked was shown by the official order sent from Washington for the immediate dismissal of a woman clerk in the Indianapolis post office, who got married the other day, and the appointment of a voter in her place. Besides the political work that members of the administration are doing in Washington, the following prominent officials, and this is only a partial list, are on the stump for McKinley, with their salaries being paid by the tax-payers while their official work is being neglected: PostmasterGeneral Smith, Secretary Gage, Secretary Wilson, Attorney-General Griggs, Solicitor General Richards, Third Assistant Postmaster-General Madden, Fourth Assistant Postmas-ter-General Bristow, Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn, Commissioner of Pensions Evans, and Director of the Mint Roberts. In addition to these there is an army of smaller officials in the field speaking or pulling wires to influence voters, and the people are footing all the bills. Republican speakers and writers are not likely to exploit the returns for the month of September from the post offices of the fifty largest cities in the country, just received and tabulated, to prove the increasing prosperity of the country, for the simple reason that fourteen out of the fifty shows smaller receipts than they had in September of last year, indicating that the pinnacle of the temporary prosperity made by the war with Spain, big crops, and other conditions which put money in circulation, has been passed and that the business of the country is now on the downgrade, as democrats have predicted it would be as soon as the

natural reaction set in. Senator Wellington,passed through Washington on his return from a speaking tour in the west and northwest. In reply to questions as to the campaign outlook, he said: “In my judgment, Bryan will be elected. I think the middle west will go for him, and that when the electoral college is polled, he will get the necessary number of votes. I have not the slightest doubt that Mr. Bryan will carry Maryland. The sentiment in that state, and I have sounded it thoroughly, is greatly in favor of the democratic candidate. There are hundreds and hundreds of old-time republicans who will leave the party and vote the democratic ticket. On the other hand, there will not be a handful of democrats who will fail to stand by their party’s nominee. I think that Bryan’s majority in my native state will be anywhere from 13,000 to 20,000.” More government clerks will go home to vote this year, thaa have done so since the days when Zack Chandler bossed the republican machine and made them do as he pleased. Clerks will register and vote who have not done so for twenty years or more. • Every government clerk Presiding in a state considered anyways close has received a circular letter from the^republican bosses of his state, telling him that if he fails to register and vote, his name will be handed to the re'feublican state committee, which is merely another way of telling him that if he fails to vote, he will lose his job. The heads of the government departments are doing their part to help along the exodus of voters, at the expense of the tax-pay-ers of the country, by allowing it to be known that the clerks will be paid for the time lost in going home to register and vote, and will not have the time deducted from their annual leave. The starting of Boss Hanna upon a stumping tour of the northwest shows who is bossing the republican campaign, as it is well known that Mr. McKinley did all he could to stop the speech-making of Hanna, because of his knowledge that it was hurting him badly.

| Late advices from Illinois put that state in the sure democratic column. A poll of the state completed by the democrats several days ago, gives Bryan a majority of from 20,000 to 30,000 outside the city of Chicago, which has been practically conceded to the democrats by the republicans from the beginning of the campaign. When it was telegraphed to Washington a few days ago, that Teddy had, in a speech at Milwaukee made the positive promise that the war tax on beer would be repealed by the republican congress at the coming session, it was thought that he had been talking merely to make votes among the brewing interests of that locality, but it is now almost certainly known that he spoke by the card, and that Boss Hanna has made a dicker with big brewers, whereby in return for big campaign contributions and theii influence, he promised that the beer tax would be repealed at the next session of congress. Teddy’s onlj break in publicly stating what Hanna would probably nave preferred being kept quiet until after election. \

THE NEW YORK STORE • The New York Store is now in its new quarters, with a large and varied stock of Dry GoPds, Notions, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Gents’ Fnrnishings, etc. Every department is well stocked with clean, fresh and up-to-date goods. Our prices are lowest. See the prices below and you will be convinced that we always giye pur customers the very best bargains—and the store is full of bargains. V

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Ladies’ Separate Skirts.

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CLOTHING. Suits for Men and Boys. We carry the larges| stock of Men’s, Boys and Children’s Overcoats. Special prices for autumn.

* 40 Men’s Black Worsted Suits, worth $7.50— for.... — Meu’s Good Heavy Winter Suits, worth $7.50for.. $4 $5 Men’s Tailor-Made Suit? worth $10 and $13.50— will go at. Men's Tailor-Made Suits, cost $15 any other store—our price,. $7.50 (10 Br>ys’ Knee Suits, 4 to 15 years— and uoward ..

Bovs* Long Trouser Suits, 13 to 14 vears, worth $14— for. Boys’ Pine Suits, 14 to ID years, heavy cheviot, well made, worth $6— will go for... $3.50 $4.00

Men’s hea vy Cassiinere pants, worth $2— for. .. ..... Men’s A1 -Wool heavy Pant: worth £3for.. Men’s Tailor-Made Pants, worth $4 and $5— for.... Men’s Wool-Filled Jeans Pants, lined, worth $1.25— for. Boys’ Loig Pants, all w«k>!, worth 5$ 1.50— will go for...J Children’: Heavyweight Pants, for winter— to go a :.

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A Big Bunch of Shoe Bargains.

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1.15 1.00 Boys' Stao.-s. 8 to 5$, wo||h $1.50— for..*. Boys' S>hojs, 18 to 2, worth $1.35— for...

Notions. Ladies' fleece-lined Ilose, worth li5e, for.... 10c Ladies’heavy fleece-lined Hose, ICa worth 2oc, for... IOL Men’s heavy cotton Underwear, Cp worth 40e, for ... Men’s heavy Sweaters, worth 40c, /| Qq Men’s Working Shirts, each........ 25c

Men’s Negligee Shirts, fast colors, with two collars, worth 75e, for. 50c 100 pairs Woolen Blankets, worth $4 to $4.50 per pair. . .. ... :$3.00

Notions. Men’s Overalls, per pair.tvi. . 45c Waterproof Collars, worth 10c anil 15c, for.... Cotton Batting, per roll......% . 5c 5c \ Ladies’ Heavy Mittens, ) per pair.... * MenJs41aavx^Vi,lter Cloves. ,, per pair... Jv,. 10c 25c

Children's Heavy U-uderw for Ladies’ I'Jeeee-Lined for. 8ic up h 25c

p Don't fail to come and see us and look over oi r new stock. We will surprise yon by showing you the largest variety of fresh goods Drought to Petersburg at one time. Come in and get prices and we will convince you that our prices are the very lowest in the city. Big stock to make your selections from. tub New Yen store. Max Blitzer, Proprietor. Next door to J. R. Adams & Son's drug store. PETERSBURG, IND.