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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1899
Page
4
A fragment from Corydon Indiana discusses local politics and finances. It mentions a prosecutor withdrawing charges, a county superintendent investigation, a Chicago platform appeal to wealth producers, and a Wulf township bill adding officers. It notes opposition to taxes and a large standing army, with a year’s deficit forecast of 12,000,000 and a grain market remark by Cliff Frank.
Col William J Bryan insists the peace treaty should be ratified to end the war and says the United States will handle postwar questions its own way. The County Superintendent has failed to deliver quarterly school reports, leaving students in many counties without books this winter.
At the National Wool Growers Association gathering in Boston last week, Secretary North reported a year of small business, anxiety, and hardship across mills. He noted the tariff bill would greatly benefit the wool industry, despite McKinley’s prohibition era tariff not yielding prosperity for growers.
The House Committee on Coinage Weights and Measures orders a favorable report on a substitute for the bill on currency reform. The measure declares the dollar as standard, limits silver to subsidiary coins, and provisions for retirement of old coins. The text is unclear but references ongoing debate and potential broader impact.
The piece argues extending the gold standard to Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines would strengthen gold and cheapen all else, harming American wealth producers and risking revolts abroad. It cites Cuba meat issues in wartime and criticizes the American Steel and Wire Company price hikes and protectionism. It notes federal and legislative concerns over military spending and bounty plans.
The governor's measure to prevent lynching sits with the judiciary committee. Critics say the bill's remedy gives power to corrupt officials and wrongly holds communities liable for crimes they did not participate in. The draft risks promoting lynching and white capping and lacks clear penalties.
Representative O Bannon, in the minority, pushes popular bills to tax gifts and inheritances, bar gold contracts, and regulate school and road supplies, but faces a Republican Legislature that hinders passage while spending on itself. Taxes remain a central complaint.
Mrs. Cox of Plaucheville Louisiana credits Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral with stopping a severe croup attack in her family. She recalls using the medicine during a frightening episode and attributes the breakthrough to the remedy.
The New Albany Tribune endorses Gov Mount’s call for better roads in southern Indiana. It argues bad roads waste farmers time and horseflesh, while good roads promote progress, education, and uplift, and urges public arousal to fix the issue across Harrison and neighboring counties.
County Commissioners and County Auditor accused of secret contracts for six new bridges to inflate costs. Fraud claims prompt injunctions by taxpayers aiming to halt executions. Harrison County reports similar issues.
Prosperity and taxation topics aside, various locals visited kin and friends last Sunday including Jonathan Kintner and wife with Henry T. Brown family, and William Thacker of Paradise Bottom Ky. Claude Crecelius lost a horse last week. The No 4 school closed for diphtheria. J D M Curts rented John G Cline's farm. Martha Draper visited Lorenzo Barks family. Harvey McAdams won a hog at Columbus Mauck's shooting match. Emma Binkley staying with David Cole. Kintner visited William Reas family. Jan 16, 99.
The report lists Indiana benevolent and correctional facilities with inmate counts and annual costs. It covers Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Hospitals for the Insane, State Soldiers Home, Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home, Indianapolis facilities, Blind Asylum, School for Feeble Minded, State Prison, Reformatory, Reform Schools, and county asylums, totaling over 8,000 inmates and about $1.12 million yearly. Names include Indianapolis, Lafayette, Logansport, Richmod, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Plainfield, Michigan City, Jeffersonville, and Indianapolis offices. The document is available via Secretary A. W. Butler.
Sunday guests gathered at Samuel Ludlow's New Middletown home to celebrate his sixty six birthday. Relatives and friends enjoyed greetings, conversations, and a plentiful dinner with many Ludlow and Kannapel family members present.
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