Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 October 1886 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28 1886.

MR. DEBS' INDORSEMENT. The speech printed in this paper of Mr. Eugene V. Debs should be read by everybody. Mr. Debs is the Grand 'Secretary and Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of the

United States and Canada, having recently been elected for. a third time to that important position. He is high in labor councils, is a recognized authority in such matteis, and is a conscientious, honest man. The speech he made to an immense meeting of workingmen at Dowling Hall last Friday night was a plain, concise statement of his views on the coming election. He gave it in the nature of advice, for he was invited by the workingmen of the city to address them so that they might learn what his views were. The gentleman who presided over the meeting a journeyman cooper of city and three-fourths of one hundred vice-presidents of meeting were from city shops foundries. The endorsement by Debs of the Democratic county ticket was hearty and unequivocal. He mentioned over the names of some of the prominent ones and said that no laboring man would make a mistake by voting for them. At his mention of Hon. John E. Lamb's name the great audience broke into the most enthusiastic cheers. Mr. Debs said he knew Mr. Lamb personally. He had once represented us in Congress and he had stood by the people and against monopolies. He was confident that he would do so again if he were returned to Congress. Mr. Debs said he regarded Mr. Lamb as a firm friend of the laboring man, from whose ranks he sprung. This endorsement by Mr. Debs will have a tremendeous effect not only in this county but all over the district. Bead his speech caref ully^^

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"MR. JOHNSTON asks for sympathy and 'support because he cannot speak or write the English language correctly.

No one has any desire to hold that against him as a man or a citizen, for some of the best men of the country were poor spellers and poor talkers. But when Mr. Johnston seeks to justify it by saying that be was compelled to quit school at sixteen that puts another phase on the question. Many of the most distinguished men of the •country acquired knowledge outside of «ohool-houses and colleges and they did it by their own efforts at self-culture Mr. Lamb had no special advantages in his youth. He was a poor boy working at the butchers' trade under his father. He graduated at the High School with honors and that was as far as his school-life went. His parents were poor and they were not able to. give him a collegiate education. What lie is he made himself and by hard, persistent labor. He fought the battle of life single-handed and alone.

MB. CHABIIES EABNEST, ©f Fairbanks, Sullivan coanty, was in the city this morning. He is a cool observer. He states that Lamb will carry Sullivan county by from twelve to fourteen hundred majority and that it 'would not surprise him if it leaped up as high as fifteen hundred or more. Mr. David Stith, of «Parke county, was in the city yesterday. He has been through every township in Parke county and he says Johnston will get seventy-five votes more than he got two years ago, when he carried Parke county by a little over BOO. At this rate, where is there any show for "Our Jim?1 Johnston will run well in Warren county this year.

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J. W. STOUT.

We don't know that any of the readers of the weekly GAZETTE will know who we mean when we headline this article "J. W. Stout." Seme of them will want to know, no doubt, why we dicfii't say "Billy" Stout. A man can travel into the remotest corner of Vigo county and if he doesn't find Billy Stout's name to be almost a household word, why something must be wrong in that family. There is not a more hearty and whole-souled and obliging man in all Vigo county than that piece of humanity that people will insist on calling "Billy" Stout He is all good nature itself. There is no doubt but that if he was elected clerk people from the country who called on him to transact business would be treated handsomely and would not be talked to gruffly and treated as if they were intruders. Billy Stout would make everybody feel at home. He is a poor man and he has the rheumatism. Now if every poor man votes for Billy Stout and if every man who has the rheumatism votes for him, why there is no doubt about who will be our next county clerk. Give a poor man and an old country boy who was born and raised on a farm a lift. True, he may not have any of the fine city mannerisms, but that won't hurt him among the farmers and their hands in the country. They knbw that Billy Stout is one of them, and when they elevate him to the responsible position of county clerk, as we feel assured they will, they put one of their own men there—a man who followed the plow and knows what it is, for instance, to brave the hot summer sun on a farm, with no cool water nearer than half a mile. He does not dress iu broadcloth and sport a bank account, but he is a good, honest farmer's son, and beneath his modest dress is a heart that never forgot a favor or a friend. When you go to the polls next Tuesday, farmers, farmers' boys and farmers' hands, no matter whether you are Democrats, Republicans or Greenbackers, you have a chance to help along in the world, if you only will, one who comes direct from among you and who is proud of it. too

DOUG WEEKS.

A poor man, they say, has no right to run for an office. The GAZETTE does not believe that this is the truth. There are many more poor men in this country than rich ones and the poor men as a general'thing are the bone and sinew of the land. This remark has a peculiar application to the candidacy of Doug Weeks, who is the candidate for sheriff. He is a Yigo county boy and is a young man of undisputed qualifications for the place. He was born and brought up on a farm in the lower part of this county. He was nominated over strong competitors by a representative convention composed in th9 main of the best men in the party. They saw in him fitness and popularity and merit. Mr. Weeks has served as deputy under Sheriff Cleary now for about three years and he has been found faithful and prompt in the performance of such duties as fell to him. His candidacy has cost him a good deal of money—as all canvasses in Yigo county do—and as he is a poor man a reverse would fall heavy on him at the present time. But from all the GAZETTE hears Doug is going to be elected without a doubt. Being a country boy his strength lies especially in the country, particularly in the lower part of the county, where he was born and raised and where he is so well known. Any Republican or Greenbacker who wants to vote for a man with a good, big, grateful heart can vote for Doug Weeks and be none the less a good Republican or Greenbacker for it. He is accommodating, honest and reliable, and would be able to take hold of the sheriff's office and run it at once, without Waiting six months or a year to learn his duties. Give honest Doug Weeks, farmer boy as he is, a vote. »,

JUDGE J. M. ALLEN, What a splendid record Judge J. MAllen has made as Judge of the Superior Court. Not one of his decisions has been reversed by a higher court. He is not only a good Judge but he is an able

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men who puddled iron at the blast furnace." This is the richest joke of the season. It even beats the chicken story. PERLEY BELL When did pnddlets get to working at One of the hardest working met, on tie the blast furaaoe? For a -. who m:

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AT Dowling Hall Mr. Johnston said against his strict integrity and honor that he was in favor of protecting "the Of ripe experience and large practice he brings to the bench the most invaluable qualifications.

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and in getting around among them to let them know of his candidacy, he is traveling over a good deal of ground. No one who has ever had any business at the Recorder's office but can testify to Mr. Bell's courteous treatment of them. He is fully qualified for the

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FRANK ARMSTRONG. It is only as a matter of form that the weekly GAZETTE has anything to say to its numerous readers throughout the county about the candidacy of Frank Armstrong for county auditor, for so many Republicans already concede his election and announce their intention of voting for him that really there does not seem to be any doubt about the result. Bat then no man has a sure thing on anything, except it be taxes and death, and the proper thing for all good citizens, regardless of party, who have the interests of their county at heart, is to vote for Mr. Armstrong. Get your neighbor to vote for him also. No one disputes the fact that an untried man cannot successfully run the oounty auditor's office as well as a rrlan who has had years of experience in it. The records in this office are mighty important to all tax payers and they are a silent yet effective testimonial to that fact. No one in the county knows more about these records than Frank Armstrong. His splendid penmanship has made the records of the oounty in that office something that any man may well be proud of. The Republican candidate, while in other respects undoubtedly a good man, has no qualifications for the office that could recommend him. He has not had a moment's experience with publio records, and as the GAZETTE remarked once before, if his election depended on it tomorrow he could not tell the difference between one record and another. The duty of us all is to get the best men for our liome offices. If any man will carry this home to himself he cannot help but support Frank Armstrong. -.r

DR. W. W. HAWORTH. It's a question with some of the candidates which is the best natured man on the ticket—Dr. WiU Haworth, with his ever-ready wit and appreciation of a good thing, or Billy Stout, whose hearty, infeotious laugh makes everybody feel better for being near him. Certain it is that Dr. Haworth is not wfrrying himself about the canvass. He is a physician with an increasing practice and is eminently well qualified for the position of coroner, which in all reason ought to be given by each party to a physician. As head of the Board of Health in this city he has shown that he is a thorough and a conscientious official and has reoeived the praises of citizens of all political faiths.

Dr. Haworth was reared on a farm and his family is one of the best known in

THESE is not a more important question before the country today than that relating to the payment on the public debt of the surplus in the treasury. Yet when the report of the conference committees of both houses on the joint resolution directing the payment of the surplus in the treasury came up for a vote in Congress on the 4th of last August Mr. Johnston was not in his seat and is recorded as "not voting." Mr. Johnston admits that he missed that important roll call and says jokingly that as the Republican congressional convention was coming off soon here in Terre Haute he thought he would start for home. This is a pretty excuse, isn't it, for a man who has been doing so much talk about Mr. Lamb missing rolls on motions to adjourn, etc? Mr. Johnston says, in effect, in trying to explain why he failed to vote on this matter, that he placed politics above business, and as the people paid him a snug $5,000 for last session this will be cheerful news to them.

MB. JOHNSTON is seeking to get elected by false pretenses. A card signed by seven citizens of Montgomery county has been sent us which states that Mr. Johnston said in his speech at Darlington that he only missed two roll calls while in Congress. Mr. Johnston made no such statement as that in this county for very good reasons. It is evident that he is making his speeches to Buit different localities in order to deceive some people. This is hardly creditable to a "moral" candidate, is it?

THERE should be a large crowd out next Saturday night to hear ex-Senator Jos. E. McDonald at the skatincr rink.

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ANOTHER HALT CALLED. The Express of this morning says: "When Mr. Lamb was appointed district attorney for Indiana, his appointment went before the Senate committee. Charges were filed against Mr. Lamb by responsible men, responsible Democrats, men of his own party, against the blue eyed fraud."

There were no charges filed before the Senate committee against Mr. Lamb either by Democrats orlby Senator Harrison or by any one else. Before Mr. Lamb resigned his position as District Attorney to devote his time to the congressional race he went to Washington and had the files of the Senate Judiciary Committee examined. Nothing was found filed against him. The GAZETTE is willing to have joint representatives of each paper examine into this matter also and challenges the Express to a joint investigation of the records either on this point singly or on it with all the other points in the recently made proposition which the Express has not yet accepted.

HOW MR. JOHNSTON ATTENDED TO BUSINESS: As an illustration of how attentive Mr. Johnston was to his duties in Con gressthe following need only be stated: There was a "bill pending in Congress for an appropriation of $28,000 for our government building. It passed the Senate. Two months after it had passed the Senate Mr. Lamb went to Washington on some other business and while there, as he was a resident of Terre Haute, he thought he would see what had become of the bill. He went to Afr. Johnston and asked him about it Mr. Johnston said the bill was in the Senate and noth_ inghad been done with it yet Mr. Lamb then went over to the Senate and found that the bill had been pass nearly two months and had been sent to the House. Tet the Johnston manag ers would like to have the publio be* lieve that Mr. Johnston was attentive to his duties in Congress. The result of this public building business was that the appropriation did not get through Congress at all, though it passed the Senate all right of whioh Mr. Yoorhees was a member. Work on our public building is thus stopped in consequence of Mr. Johnston's failure to properly attend to his business and a number of workmen have been as a consequence thrown out of employment. When Mr. Lamb was a member of Congress the appropriation for our building and for the improvement of the Wabash river went through all right

THAT SOLDIER INDORSEMENT. Really, the most cruel thing during this whole canvass is the way James T. Johnston has gone back on the NationalTribune of Washington. We can imagine just what a' fearful condition of mind this paper must be in sinoe Jim turned his back on it. Two months ago it was the greatest paper in the world with him. He hung around its office long enough to get the editor to insert his (Jim's) picture in it. Then Jim's heart swelled with pride as he contemplated his likeness in print. The presumption is that Jim bought up all the extra copies of the paper that were over that week tliat he marked his picture and wrote his name across the margin above it so that his friends would know who it was, and that he then mailed it home to his admiring constituents so that they could see what a a truly great man Jim Johnston, of Parke, really was. But a change has come over the spirit of Jim's dreams. He doesn't regard the National-Tribune as tenderly now as he did when it printed his picture. And why? V/,

The National-Tribune is a distinctively soldiers' paper and it has an enormous circulation in all parts of the country. Its circulation is given in the newspaper directory as 150,000. It is a non-partisan paper and its business is to look after the interests of the soldiers. A week ago it endoi-sed the candidacy of Hon. John E. Lamb in this district and urged upon all the soldiers, regardleas of party, to vote for him, for, as it said, "he is a firm friend of the Union soldier." It went on to recite the aid given by him in passing the Mexican pensions bill in the Forty-eighth Congress and it spoke in the highest terms of Mr. Lamb's course while a member of that body.

Now Jim is trying to prove that it is all a mistake about the National-Tri-bune being the soldiers' organ. The Express, no doxibt speaking for him, says it is the organ of the claim agents. Well, now, this is too bad. If the NationalTribune is the organ of the claim agents now it was also two months ago when Jim had his picture published in it.

And isn't it strange that Jim and his organ only found this out after the Na-tional-Tribune had endorsed Lamb? What would they be saying if it endorsed Johnston? IVhy they would denounce every man who denied that the Washington National-Tribune was the organ of the soldiers of the country as a rebel and a traitor, or a Confederate brigadier or some other very fearful thing.

On the wliole we think that Jim has acted real mean towards the NationalTribune after it went ahead and published his picture for him.

IN 1884 after Mr. JohnBton got the nomination for Congress he declared with partisan bigotry from the steps of the Rockville court house that "he thanked God that no Democratic blood flowed in his veins." Of course, this was a silly utterance, for no man is better than his fellow-men because he is either a Democrat or a Republican. But it shows the narrowness of his mind. A man who indulges in 6uch billingsgate as this is hardly the proper man to represent the whole people of the district in Congress.

HON. JOSEPH E. MCDONALD, exUnited States Senator, and one of the most distinguished men ever produced by Indiana, will speak in this city at ths skating rink next Saturday night. No one should fail to hear Senator McDonald. Accompanying him will be Hon. Robt. C. Bell, of Allen county, one of the brightest orators in the state.

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OUR GREENBACK FRIENDS. There are scores and scores of Greenbackers who either take or read the' WEEKLY GAZETTE. We are glad to have them do so. We endeavor to treat all parties fair and when the Republicans had a big meeting to greet Col. Thompson the GAZETTE said so. It does not hurt to tell the truth. Well, to return to our Greenback friends. They have plaoed no ticket in the field for this election. They met and after mature deliberation decided that such a step would be the best. There are no better citizens in Vigo oounty than the men who left both of the old parties during the days when the Greenback party was strong in this county. Some of them have returned to their old parties since and others still adhere to their Greenback principles. The GAZETTE has a few words to say to these Greenbaokers. They are as desirous as anyone else that our oounty affairs shall be well managed. We take it for granted that they want the best men in officc£ regardless of party. Well, the GAZETTE is candid in saying that \6 believes the Democratic county tioket, taken as a whole, is the best put forward by either party in this election. Look over the list of names presented for the various offices. Do you not see there the names of men who would make model -officials in every respect—good, honest, obliging men, a number of them farmers -or farmers' sons. If you cannot vote for all Of them you can surely make up your minds to vote for some of them, for therer are men on the Democratic oounty tioket this year who would grace the public positions for which they are nominated.

JAMES COX.

The nominee for County Treasurer is James Cox. Mr. Cox needs no introduction to the public. He is the present treasurer and is a candidate for reelection. He has made an honest official and deserves another term if ever a man did. The people's money is in safe hands when he has it and the people of Vigo county are well aware of that fact. No man who has occupied the office of County Treasurer has made a more accomodating official than 'Jim Cox. The high regard he is held in outside of his own party is shown by the large vote he will get out of the Republican ranks, in which he is deservedly popular. So well was it understood that a Republican nomination against him this year was an empty honor that half a dozen prominent Republicans were approached and offered the nomination before the gentleman who finally accepted it was seen. This goes to show how well Mr. Cox's first term as our county treasurer has impressed the public generally, including our Republican friends.

.^'1 BOGUS TICKET OUT." f| HM Che GAZETTE learns on what it believes to be good authority that the opposition to Lamb, failing in influencing the voters of Vigo county to accept their peculiar ideas as to what should be done next Tuesday, has resolved, if pos" sible, to defeat him by a trick and with the advice of the Republican campaign committtee has had printed a Democratic ticket so near like the regular Democratic ticket that it is almost impossible to tell them apart. This ticket is printed with Johnston's name on it in place of Lamb. It is reported to be the in. tention of those who have this matter in charge to scatter these tickets so thoroughly around polling places on the day of the election that some of them may be voted by mistake. The only comment that need be made on such a trick as this is that it shows plainly^ that the opposition to Lamb have come to the conclusion that the vast body of the true and solid Democrats of Vigo county have minds and heads of their own and cannot be led around at some sweet people's will and that the last recourse they have is to defeat him by a trick. In view of the honorable, manly and open canvass made by Mr. Lamb it would be thought that these men would meet him in an open field face to face. Instead of that, however, the unscrupulous methods of that gay and good Republican, Nioholas Filbeck, Esq., have been called into service, and the campaign of the anonymous circular is this brought to a fitting close.

Watch your tickets closely/ See tliat net only John JE. Lamb's name appears uponthem but also the names of every other man whom you intend to vote for. People in this great and fair-deal-ing country of ours do not take kindly to methods that contemplate not only the stabbing of a candidate in the dark but also deceiving and misleading the honest voters of Vigo county, who are not used to such work as this. There is a feeling in America that tricks react and if a sympathetic feeling does not run all around th6 county of Vigo we are badly mistaken. John E. Lamb alone and unaided fought the battle of fhia world and he is not the kind of a man that tha people of this, his own, oounty will patiently stand by and see tricked in this manner. Stand by John E. Lamb next Tuesday ancl see that his name is on jour tickets,

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T—POCKETBOOK—List Friday afternoon on Cherry street, between Fourth and Fifth streets, containing two ten dollar bills and one due bill for 15,90. Also a note for $55 against Frederick Berner paid off. The finder will please return the same to ihi? office and receive liberal reward.

THE Republican congressional* cam- "•.. paign has many ludicrous features about it, and now we have another and a new one. This time it is in the nature of an issue of fact between Mr. Johnston and Mr. Johnston's organ in this city. They have gone to war with eacb other. At .i Pimento the other night Mr. Johnston declared in tragic tones that times had not been harder since the year 1842 than *r. they are at the present time. Two N mornings after Mr. Johnston thus delivered himself at Pimento, the Express came out in an editprial paragraph saying: MM "It should bo borne in mind that any indications of revival of business are attributable to the Republican majority in the Senate, administration, and not to the Democratic which it holds in check."

This reminds us of the story of the man and the mule. The man wanted to go one way and the mule wanted to go another. Finally they compromised by going neither. How is the public to decide about this grave issue of fact between Mr. Johnston and his organ? The situation is indeed beginning to look serious. •*,'

MB. JOHNSTON when in Congress is -J recorded as "not voting" in the Congressional Record when the bill restricting the ownership of public lands in the territories of the United States to American citizens came up for its fiaal passage. Mr. Johnston asks the people to regard him as being very attentive to their

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ON an inside page will be found a caustic card from Mr. Jesse Herrald, of Pierson township, in regard to Mr. Lamb as a friend of the soldiers. Read Mr. Herrald's card carefully. He is oneof the best men in the county, was badly wounded in the war, and what he says about Mr. Lamb cannot fail to have much weight.

I. N. KESTEB and Cornelius Meagher, will make good representatives in the* legislature. One is a farmer and the other is a laboring man. j"^

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