Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. Thursday, July 30, 1896. | .'ft rwtmnavnY thdmdat st OKEO. E. PtrnUMIBK ABD PBOnUSTO*. orrici In RepabUcan building, on O .ruer of WMbington and Wcatou street*. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Jne Year t 1.50 «1X Month* 75 Three Months....*. M Official Paper oj Jasper County.

Republican Ticket

FOR PRESIDENT wm. mckinley. OF OHIO. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. GARRET A. HOBART, OF NEW JERSEY. STATE TICKET. For Governor-JAMES A. MOUNT, of Montgomery County. For Lieutenant Governor —W. S. HAGGARD of Tippecanoe. For Secretary—W D. OWEN, of Cass. > or;Audltor—A. C. DAILY, of Boone. - For Treasurer—r. J. SGHOLZ, of VanderFor Attorney-general—W. A. KETCHAM, of Marlon. For Reporter of the Supreme Court— CHARLES F. REMY, of Bartholomew. For Superintendant of Public Instruction—D. M.GEETING, of Jefferson. ; For Statistician—S. J. THOM PSOn, of Shelby. For Appellate Judge. First District—WOODFlN D. ROBINSON, of Gibson. For Judge Appellate Court. Second District WM. J. HENLEY, of Rush. For Judge Appellate Court, Third District— JAMES B. BLACK, of Marion. For Judge Appellate Court. Fourth District, D. W.OOMSTOCK. of Wayne. For Judge Appellate Court, Fiftd District U. Z. WILEY, of Benton. District Ticket. For Congressman, EDGAR A. CRUMPACKER. Fer Prosecuting Attorney, E. A. CHIZUM. - For Joint Representative, PIERCE ARCHIBALD. County Ticket. For Recorder. ROBERT B. PORTER, of Marlon Township. For County Treasurer. JESSE C. GWIN, of Hanging Grove Township. For County Sheriff. NATHAN J. REED, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner, TRUITT P. WRIGHT, of Marlon Township. For County Surveyor. JOHN E. ALTER, of Union Township. For County Assessor, JOHN R PHILLIPS, of Hanging Grove Township. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM HALLECK, of Keener Townsnip For Commissioner 3rd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE, of Jordan Township

Very frequently these days is heard the assertion, and often from persons who ought to know better, that our silver money is not a full legal tender. This is a great mistake. Subsidiary silver moneys, as half and quarter dollars and dimes, are only legal tender for sums not exceeding five dollars. But the silver dollars are full legal tender for any sum if it is a hundred million dollars or more, and silver is redeemable in gold. And there is more silver coin in circulation today than at any previous time in the history of the United States. The banks are fairly piled up with silver.

It is no wonder that Hoke Smith has on reflection changed his money views and is now a rabid free silver man. Hoke has been on the jump, day and night for over three years, trying to make some headway in cutting down soldiers’ pensions; but having to do the work piecemeal, and one at a time, so to speak, hb has only got 10 or 15,000 of them down to his satisfaction. But when the adoption of free silver puts the country on a silver basis, it will have the practical effect of cutting every soldiers’ and every soldiers’ widow’s pension square in two in the middle. The dollars the pensioners will then get will be only the same in number and of half the value of those they get now. No wonder Hoke is for free silver. It will bring about such a wholesale, horizontal reduction at pensions, as his wildest dreams never hoped for. “Recent events have imposed upon the patriotic people of this country a responsibility greater

than the pivil war. Then it was a struggle to preserve the government of the fjnited States. Now it is a struggle to preserve the honor of the government. Then it was a contest to save the union, Now it is a contest to save spotless its credit. ‘ Then section was arrayed against section. Now men qf all sections "can unite and will unite to rebuke the repudiation of our obligations and the debase-’ inent of our currency. In this contest patriotism is above party and national honor is dearer than any party name. The currency and the credit of the government are good now and must be kept good forever. Our trouble is not with the character of the money we have, but with the threat to debase it.” —William McKinley.

Major McKinley spoke to 500 veterans from Cleveland who visited him at Canton Thursday. In concluding his tribute to their valor and patriotism, he said: “The bitterness of the war belongs to the past. Its gloxies are the common heritage of us all. What was won in that great conflict belongs just as sacredly to those who lost as to those who triumphed. You meet to-day, not as soldiers* but as citizens, interested now in maintaining the country you served so well and in restoring prosperity and better times to our goodly heritage. The future is the sacred trust of us all, South as well as North. Honesty, like patriotism, can neither be bound by state nor sectional lines. Financial dishonor is the threatened danger now and good men will obliterate old lines of party in a united effort to uphold American honor- This you have always done and you must strive to keep the Union, worthy of the brave men who sacrificed and died for it. I will be glad, my comrades, to meet you all personally.”

It is stated as a fact that in some sections of this country there are voters who believe that the ‘‘free and unlimited coinage of silver" means that silver dollars will be distributed from the mints free to anybody that wants them. To such people this is the meaning of the demagogical phrase “the poor man’s money,” and there are politicians unscrupulous enough to encourage this miserable delusion. If there are any such in White county we do not know where they are located, but it is well enough that all should understand that the word “free” means only that the owners of bullion shall have their metal coined by the government free of charge, and the word “unlimited” means that the goverment will coin all bullion that may bebrouht to the mints, from whatever source, and no matter how large the amount. The only “freedom” there is in free coinage is for the owners of bullion, and the only way other people can get any of the money thus corned is by working for it or giving something in exchange for just as they have to do now.—Monticello Herald.

One of the few conspicuous leaders of the late war now living is Gen. D. E. Sickles, of New York. Few have been more deservedly popular. A Democrat for years, General Sickles, in response to an inquiry, declared that he could not support the Bryan ticket. In a letter General Sickles has declared for Major ‘McKinley. He does not agree with him on some points, but knowing the man, he says: “As president, chosen as he will be by the votes of men of all parties, his election will not be a partisan triumph. His administration will guarantee public credit and public decorum and order, now threatened by a conspiracy of Anarchists, Populists and Socialists.”

Appealiug to his comrades, the hero of Gettysburg speaks with a frankness which has always been Ms characteristic. He says; “You and I and our comrades are not accustomed to use blank cartridges in presence of an enemy; therefore I don’t propose to throw away my vote on any third candidate. Nor are we in the habit .of withholding our fire when assailed; therefore I don’t mean to stay at home and not vote at all. I shall give a patriotic vote for my comrade, Major McKinley, believing that in so doing I am repeating what I did in ’64 when, as a war Democrat, I Voted for Lincoln and the Union.”

A LOYAL REPUBLICAN.

His Reasons for Loyality are v Unanswerable. _ ! His Reasons Should be Remembered by Every Republican ni Loyal , Old Javier. Mr. Tom Fitch before the late Republican convention, held in the Territory of Arizona, for the selection of delegates to the StLouis convention, " made the following eloquent anA/ patriotic speech, which for diction, sentiment and eloquence is not excelled by any orator. Mr. Fitch has always been one of the most noted free silver advocates in the Territory: •‘Gentlemen of the Convention: I thought that t’he seclusion that the upper gallery grants, combined with other circumstances, would exempt me from any invitation to speak before this convention, but your repeated calls leave no alternative consistent with courtesy but to answer them.

“This morning afriend, whois a member of this convention, and who now honors me with his audience, said to me: “Mr. Fitch, you have always been a pronounced advocate of the free coinage of silver; what will you jlo if the St. Louis convention adopts a plank in their platform favoring a single gold standard and denouncing the free coinage of silver? I did

not anew; r that question then, but with your permission I will do so now. -“lbelong to.. theßepublican party because its history is the history of the growth, the greatness and the freedom of this nation; because its purposes are patriotic;, bepause it is a friend of labor witliont being a foe of thrift; because it is wise, because it is just, because its restoration to complete power will rekindle the furnaces and start the turbines, and fill the land the music of contented and well paid toil, and put bread into men’s mouths, and hope into their hearts. “I belong to the Republican party because it is the grandest political organization of freemen that the world has ever; known f because under its wise guidance, star after star has been added to our flag, ship after ship has been added to our fleets, factory after factory have been added to our resources, millions upon millions have been added to our wealth, city after city has been developed T?6m^ouUvfllag^~Spd -^he/IWffd 3 has been laCed with a net-work of iron rails, and furnace fires have illuminated the night, and the grand diapason of labor has been made to sound throughout the continent.

f “I belong to the Republican party because under its inspiration these United States, once a wrangling and discordant commonwealth; these United States once shamed with slavery and decrepit with the disease of secession—these United States have become a country where no slave’s presence dishonors labor, where no freeman’s utterances are choked beyond the hand of power, where no man doffs his hat to another except through the courtesy of equals, where education is free, where manhood is respected and where labor is protected. “Under the patriotic rule of the Republican party these United States have become a nation whose credit reigns at. the head of the world’s finances—whose flag floats proudly upon every sea and whose armies would come at the drumbeat out of the hives of industry to swarm in the defence of the country on every shore. ‘‘Under the rule of the Republican party these United States have become the greatest, freest, and most prosperous nation under the light of the sun. ■‘l belong to the Republican party because it gave land to the landless, because it gave work to the industrious, because it gave freedom to th© slave, because when the nation was in peril, it gave armies and treasure for its preservation. “Forty years ago, then a lad of eighteen, I joined the Republican ranks, and, too young to vote, I flung my blazing banner aloft for Fremont and Jessie. I was present as a newspaper reporter at the Chicago convention of 1860, when all Illinois shouted Abraham Lincoln into the Presidency. I heard the song of John Brown’s soul, sung in bated breath and in secret

gatherings of »his sympathizers, and four years liter on these distant shores I almost caught the echo of its refrain when armies chanted it for their battle anthem. I enjoyed the eloquence and friendship of /Baker and of Starr King, and Butler and Bingham, and Garfield and Conkling, and that noblest Roman of them all, James G. Blaine. .».■ “WHO, THEN, IS THERE IN ALL THIS lAN B THAT DARE TO ASK ME TO BETRAY THESE MEMORIES BECAUSE OF A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION CONCERNING THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH SILVER DOLLARS SHALL BE COINED? “V ho shall dare to tell me it is my duty to ledve tile path along which my youth and my manhood marched, and where, the evening bugle shall sound the final reveille, my age shall be found still marching? Rather , will I turn to ’the Republican goddess the same steadfast face that I bore when my locks, now whitening, were black as the raven’s, wing, and say to her as Ruth said to Naomi: ‘Whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried.’ ”

Will We Ignore Experience?

The advocates of free silver have got beyond the reasoning stage. They are not willing to -learn—anything from the light of experience, says the Crawfordsville Journal. They affect the belief that the United States is so great that it can do what no other nation has ever been able to do. When we point to Mexico and "India typical free silver states their argument in reply is substantially that this nation is so great that it can do anything. What free silver has done for Mexico is thus describedI’by 1 ’by Mr. H. C. Waters, president of the bank of England of the City of Mexico, who is now in this country:

It is an old story of how President Diaz brought Mexico to the silver standard. At the time this country is in the midst of a silver and while every sound money politician cites Mexico as an example, no one makes it strong enough. If gold were the standard in that country at the present time, along with the rule of President Diaz, without a doubt it would be one of the greateat countries in the world. Silver alope has kept it down; and if the United States expects to remain “the nation it is at present and has been for years, it wants to let silver alone, or it will only be a short time until it will lose its proud standing. Bishop Thoburn, who has had many years of missionary services in India, thus speaks of the results of free silver in that country: They have the sliver basis in India, have had it for centuries, and it has had a fair trial. It would ruin this country and bankrupt everybody. The foundation of business is stability, and with a silver standard you can never have it. In Calcutta I can buy this suit of clothes for forty dollars today, and perhaps twenty dollars tomorrow, and the next day it will be fifty dollars. You can never tell from the number of dollars yon own how much you are worth. The country is at the mercy of the money changers and speculators. The idea of going to a silver standard from a gold oue is too ridiculous for serious consideration. I have seen enough of this in India. These are stubborn facts, and such as is the experience of India auci Mexico will that of the United States be, if wd adopt their standard. '

Note Returned Drawn Payable In Gold.

Wabash Plain Dealer: Soule time ago a man living in Wasbash, who by the wajr, is one of the orginal free unlimited silver sik-teen-to-one democrats and rather loud at that, gave a note for a certain sum to an Indianapolis house. The time for paymen tof the note was approaching, and the, Wabasher, desiring to keep a little loose change for campaign purposes, asked a renewal of the note. His request was granted, but in a manner that set him thinking. A second note was drawn up and forwarded here for his signature. The new note was drawn payable in gold, and that is the manner in which, a vast majority of the notes will be drawn, until after the free and unlimited coinage of silver has blown over.

Republican Precinct Meeting.

The Republican voters of Jasper County will meet at their voting places at 2 i*. m., on Saturday, August 29th, 1896, and select a delegate and alternate to the Judicial Convention to be held at Goodland, Indiana, Monday, August 31st, 1896, The precincts are entitled to the following representation in the joint convention! Hanging Wove 7-10 vote, Gillam...* 1 “ Walker..... 1 Barkley, East ..1 “ Barkley, West 1 Marion No. 1 1 “ “ “ ........1 <c « 3 1 u “ “ 4... ...... ...1 J ordan 5-10' “ Newton .5-10 “ Keener........ 1 “ Kankakee.. 5-10 “ Wheatfield 1 “ Carpenter, East .1 “ “ West. 1 “ “ South 1 “ Milroy... ..3-10 “ , Union ...1 “ T0ta1........ 16 “ B. F. Ferguson Chairman.

Call For Judicial Convention. The Republicans of the 30th Judicial Circuit of Indiana, “Composing the Counties of Benton, Jasper and Newton” will mee,t in Mass Primary Convention in the several voting Precincts of each of said counties on Saturday, August, 29 1896 and select delegates to the Judicial convention of Circuit. The representation of each County will be as follows: Benton County,’ 18 votes, Jasper County, 16 votes. Newton County, 16 votes. The delegates so selected will meet in convention at Goodland, Indiana, on Monday, August, 31 1896 and nominate a candidate for Judge for said Judicial Circuit to be voted for at the November election, 1896. D. Me A. Williams, Chairman Benton Co. John B.* Lyons, Chairman Newton Co. B. F. Ferguson, Chairman Jasper Co.

Announcements of Candidates. FOR CIRCUIT JUDGE. The Ilon.U.Z WILEY having been nominated for Appellate Judge, some lawyer of the Circuit will probably be promoted to the bench. We are authorized to announce that Simon P. Thompson of our city, a member of the bar for over thirty years and a man well known to the people of the circuit Is willing to become the Republican candidate for that honor.

Germans for .Sound Money.

During the last two weeks the German-American money league has received from nearly 16,000 German business men replies to the question whether they are for sound money or free coinage. Taking the country as a whole 88 2-5 per cent of these business men are for good money and the rest for free coinage. The percentages vary slightly in the different states. Those for lowa, New York and Wisconsin are decidedly above the average. These percentages are true not merely of the tierman business men but of the Germans generally. Then after giving these figures the League asks if the democratic party can win without the votes of the German Americans.

It certainly cannot elect a president without them. Their votes elected Cleveland in 1892. They voted for him because the money plank he stood on was sounder than the Minneapolis straddle. In 1892 out of 259,000 registered votes in this city 45,000 were German Americans. The open revolt of German democratic papers since the adoption of the free silver platform and the nomination of Bryan shows that more than 90 per cent of the Germans here and elsewhere will cast their votes for sound money candidates, —Chicago Tribune.

The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such an agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard mttet be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all

measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, jat the present standard—the standard of the most enlightened nations of the world. —Republican National Platform, 1896. ’ In 1873 the world’s product of silver was 61,000,000 ounces. In 1895, owing to new mines and improved methods, it was 16;),000,000 oniices; or almost three times as much. But while the annual supply of silver has thus increased at such an enormous rate, there has been nor could there be, no cqi responding increase in the demand for it. Hence what else could happen butjs fall in the price? What else could happen to any other of the world’s gre»t. products, under the same circumstances? To, iron, for instance, to coal, to copper, to corn, to wool, to wheat? Vastly increased production is the principal cause of the decline of silver, and if people wi’l look at the subject with the same common sense they use in otMer mattefs they can not fail to that it is.

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