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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1926.

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Muneje, Indiana, Thursday, November 11, 1926.

And It Fell Among Thieves. The. t?ad fate of the republican organization in Delaware county should he a warning hereafter to ail fair and conscientious members of the party who believe in honesty and decency in politics. Never in the history of the republican party in Delaware, county has its organization fallen into such hands as now disgrace, the great party which became great, and powerful and influential through the endorsement of such statesmen as Lincoln, Morton and 1 Roosevelt. A few years ago the party machinery was stolen by William H. Williams Jr., a sort of a jack-of-all-trades residing in the little village of Selma. Hilly inherited from his father, now deceased, a rather uncanny knack of political organizing, but unlike the father, who played the game according to Hoyle, and who sought to keep his party in good repute, Billy inaugurated a spoils systeam, backed up by the enthusiastic encore of lesser lights who were ready to jump every time Billy pulled the string. Billy has been in the saddle approximately eight years. He is now down and out as a political boss, but he can look back upon eight years of hectic rulership which has netted his party more disgrace than Ivory soap can wash out in twice that many years. The boss’s control of the commissioners’ court formed’ the basis of his control of the affairs of the county. Billy was smart enough to know that the power to direct the disbursement of the county funds carried with it the power to control political organizations. Therefore Billy saw to it that the ’‘right” kind of commissioners were elected. Organising while others slept, Billy took advantage of Delaware county’s top heavy republican majority to get his men nominated and elected and then everything was clear sailing. It is said that Billy never made very much money him self out of politics, but with his subordinates he w^as high, wide and handsome. He allowed them to go as far as they

liked'.

One of his lowly lieutenants, Harry' Hoffman, starved at the feet of the boss for a long time. Finally Billy tossed him the nomination for sherff, much the same as he would have heaved a bone to a hound pup. Hoffman served two terms as sheriff. He went in broke and came out rich. With the sanction of the boss the commissioners gave Hoffman illegal road and gravel contracts while he was still serving as sheriff. The contracts were not let directly to Hoffman, but were awarded to Claud Hines, a secret partner. Then Hoffman was placed at the head of the republican county central committee. Billy was postmaster and could not become chairman himself, so he put Hoffman in amf fdfd him what to do. Every move made by Williams served to alienate Republican voters. Each election marked a falling off of republican majorities in Delaware county ancj a corresponding increase of a growin garmy of republican rebels, who objected to the rape of the republican party by Billy and his hungry horde of opportunists. It was not until 1925 that the boss attained the final go£l by electing Hampton mayor, hoisting the jolly roger over the city hall and naming Hoffman head of the municipal wrecking crew. ; By this time the republicans of Delaware county and tin* city of Muncie were in a state of active revolt. The PostDemocrat had sacrificed much to keep the people informed. We told the amazing story of graft and political oppression and the people believed. The big guns of revolt were trained upon the commissioners’ court and the carefully constructed Billy Williams machine is now a mere mass of wreckage. Sometimes we are inclined to think that Billy purposely steered his boat on the rocks. Of late his henchmen have been more and more inclined to attempt to think for themselves. Billy objects to this. Too much easy money went to Harry Hoffman’s head and he hypnotized himself into the belief that he was really a political boss himself. Even-John Hampton became important when Billy wasn’t present to call him down, and began to boast that Billy Williams couldn’t tell him what to do. Clarence Dearth, a very unimportant private in Billy’s army, became circuit judge through the power of the machine, which annexed the Ku Klux Kian in 1922, and used*) it as an ally until the suckers became wise to the fact that paying ten dollars for the privilege of wearing a dunce rap in a shirt-tail parade and voting the way Billy told them to vote, wasn’t buying them anything. Dearth had his salary raised to six thousand dollars a year by Billy’s late lamented commissioners. Instead of showing the proper sense of gratitude, Dearth at once promoted himself to drum major and* proceeded to impeach McAuley, republican machine sheriff, without consulting Billy

about it.

What happened is history. Dearth was compelled to skin it all back and pin bouquets all over McAuley before the boss would consent to call it a day. On election day he was forced back into the ranks and was compelled to work at the polls for the sheriff whom he had declared was unfit. Deliberately, it seems, Billy has wrecked Dearth’s ambition to succeed himself as judge. Without raising a hand to prevent he has allowed the municipal contractors’ trust to rob the citizens of Muncie. The truck dfeal went through without objection from the boss and Billy allowed the gravel gang to hang themselves. Having destroyed his party, busted the community and jeopardized the liberty of a large percentage of his following, Billy is apparently taking considerable satisfaction out of their plight. They thought they were bigger than the boss. Billy knew his downfall was at hand. They didn’t. He made a grotesque joke out of the whole business, took a reserved seat in the posfofiiee, and is enjoying the sight of the ruins tumbling about the heads of 'the lickspittles who though the Christmas Tree was theirs forever. There were many well meaning republicans who have always voted for Silly’s hand picked candidates, but a vast majority of the be^t dknient of the party simply nefused, to “stand hitched.” voicetrtheir displeasure by all allying themselves with the democrats and are openly rejoicing over the downfall of the machine. A saddened and chastened republican party is now preparing to reorganize. Billy Williams nor none of his assistants will have any hand in the reorganization. They have had-the i r dag,It.. was.,£astly tor... thr ..piirty, and* the, ers of the county but the lesson should be a useful one.

One hundred and nmety-tfvp years ago John Peter Zenger, “The Dutch Boy Printer,” editor and publisher of the New York Weekly joumall, bold!} 7 took to task one Crosby, colonial governor of New York, appointed by King George of England.. C - Governor^Crosby had been oppressing the colonists and using his office, as a basis of graft and corruption. The Dutvh Boy Printer exposed the graft. If Governor Crosby had had a stond in with the county commissioners and had bankrupted New York by spending all the colony’s funds for useless gravel, we feel assured that Peter would have risked the gubernatorial wrath by printing the story. Zenger was arrested for libeling the governor. A jury was impaneled and the court, appointed by the crown, instructed them that evidence supporting the truth of the publication could not be regarded as a defense. The jury refused to be bound by-such an infamous pronouncement and returned a verdict of acquittal. This famous decision was the stepping stone of the freedom of the press of America. Almost two centuries later an Indiana supreme court harks back to colonial times and by its astounding “truth is no defense” decision in the Dale contempt case attempts to revive the spirit of autocracy which sought to impale the brave Dutch youth who shouted defiance in the face of the king’s emissary. Elsewhere in this issue of the Post-Democrat appears an editorial taken from the November issue of The World’s Work comparing the Zenger case of 1734 and the Dale case of 1926. The cases are astonishingly similar, the difference being that in the 1926 case the defendant was refused a trial and was not permitted to introduce evidence in defense. If anything the young publisher of colonial times had the best of it, since he was accorded a trial by jury. The World’s Work speaks advisedly when it says the people are entitled to know whether the truth is no defense,whether enunciated by a colonial governor or an Indiana judge.

ASTOUNDS BRITISH 3C0 Gather At

WITH SPEECH ON U.S. REVOLUTION

Train Shed To See President

License Climax Up To Kentucky

Andrew Jackson, defeated last week for re-election for county commissioner, has one of the finest pear orchards in Delaware County. Andy sent out word during the campaign that the boys could have all the pears they wanted, without money and without price. Colored voters of Muncie were particularly invited to help themselves to the free pears. The response was instantaneous. Three hundred bushels of the succulent fruit Were toted away from big hearted Andy’s pear preserve. The bbys lugged the pears away and voted for Joe Mann. Such ingratitude was never known before. The pears are all gone and so is Andy, The campaign expense account of the defeated candidate will be lacking one important item if the pears are omitted.

The popularity of the Post-Democrat was attested last Saturday by its enormous street sale. From 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon until 9 o’clock Saturday night forty-one boys sold 3,800, the greatest street sale of any newspaper in the history of Muncie. One boy sold 1 a little over three hundred copies of the Post-Democrat. The people of Mun^ cie and Delaware county know where to go to get the real!, news. ■ •

Australian Premier Declares English Were Wholly Wrong In War.

LONDON—Those who sat at the luncheon of the American Chamber of Commerce in London recently, ahowed curious surprise when Australia’s youthful premier, Stanley M. Bruce, declared with vehemence that the British crown and government had been wholly wrong in the struggle against the American colonies. They gasped when he declared that Australia would have fought alongside the American colonial troops if it had been a nation at that time. He eased the situation for his Kiiglish auditors .however, by saying that Australia now enjoys full liberty as a nation of the British commonwealth because of the victories of the American colonies. Seeks Accord. Premier Bruce struck the keynote of an American-Australian accord when he pointed out that the positions of the^e two countries as great Pacific powers made their international problems of mutual concern. The premier spoke of the feeling of Australians that they were inheritors of all that had been won by the American forefathers in the war for independence. “All thinking people must realize,” he continued, “that there was something wrong in those days in the attitude of the British government, which did not recognize the aspirations and ideals of young peoples.” o Houdini’s Secret Is Being Sought

LONDON—Harry IIoucMr-” it. will be sought r

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during the 1-attrr pv.

Indianapolis. Nov. 11.—Immediate steps to learn the attitude of

Indianapolis. Nov. 11.—PresidentGovernor William J. tpields of KenCoolidge smiled a greeting to about tacky on the Indiana-Kentucky mothree hundred persons who gather- tor vehicle license situation will be «d at the Union station late yester- taken by Frederick 75. Schorte-

day afternoon to welcome the presidential party while engines were being changed on the special train eii route to Kansas City, Mo. But characteristically the President didn’t have a word to say, even when one of his ardent admirers "whooped ’er up,” “We’re for you

in 1928.”

The presidential party, which also included Mrs, Coolidge, Secretary of War Davis, Everett Sanders pf Terre Haute, who is the President’s secretary, and attaches, arrived on the Pennsylvania railroad

meier. secretary of state, it was

learned yesterday, following a decision by the Kentucky Court of

Appeals which upheld the Kentucky law requiring out-state truck

and commercial car operators to

purchase Kentucky licenses. Wants To Change the Primary Law

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and 11 years old, wth a razor. She then attacked her husband, who escaped to a neighbor’s house and called help. In the meantime Mrs. Clark took poison and died Shortly afterward. v—i—nrrr;~,"„

Dr. E. 0. Haynes and Dr. Jessie B. Haynes Chiropractors Seven years successful practice in Muncie. Hundreds have regained health by these new methods of Haynes & Haynes. Phone 442 for appointments. Nights, Phone 4049. Comer Mulberry and Main street. 201 New Little Block,

Conn era viffe, Ind.. Nov. 9. —Wm.

special train at 5:30 p. m. Ten min-L ^

rites later they departed for St. Getithuger, Democrat, who was

Louis, Mo., and thence to Kansas City, where the I'resident will deliver an Armistice day address to-

day.

BERM MAN AGAIN CHOSEN MEMBER OF BUDGET BODY

Jackson Names Three New Members After Con-

ference.

elected joint representative in the state legislature for Fayette and Franklin counties, is preparing a hill calling for the repeal of the

present absent voters’ law. He says he will not support any

absent voters’ measure unless it provides that the application for absent voters’ ballots be made in the presence of representatives of all parties; that all absent voters’ ballots, voted and unvoted, be held by representatives of the parties until the polls are opened election

day.

Dent linger is the first Democrat elected as join representative for the two counties.

Indianapolis, Nov. 11—Three new members were appointed to the state budget committee, yesterday, by Governor Ed Jackson and one former member was reappointed. The Governor announced his selections late yesterday after several days spent since the election in conference with members of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Indiana General As

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Mrs. Frank Clark, wife of a farmer, Iving east of Lfither, Iowa, while temporarily insane Tuesday night killed her two children, 9

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The Star in a tremulous editorial begs all Delaware county republicans to get together. It bewails the republican party division that won for the democrats and sounds the dire prophesy that the democrats will clean the platter in

1928 if something is not done about it. Now wouldn’t that be* following his death last Suna dire calamity? Worse things than that have happened but ^ Kis^fritTn hopeToCpwWng of course it would be hard to convince the. Star of it. this contention.

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British, and also Continental he

livers in spiritualism desire to j cbmuTes. and \Miscm

tie the question whether the man - whom Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, characterized as the “master trickster” actually did his remarkable feats by legerdermain or through the exercise of supernatural power. Those who believe that the latter was the' case, contend that he extricated himself from places of confinement, including his famous “water cell” by dematerialization, and that his feats were not actually accomplished by dexterity and

trickery as he claimed.

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Friends of Hershel F. Shaw are pleased at his promo tion to the position of division freight agent for the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad, with headquarters in Muncie. Mr Shaw Ls a young man but his proven executive ability has led to his rapid rise in the railroad world. Mr. Shaw was promoted from the position as general agent here to that of division freight agent, with added responsibilities and a nice increase in salary.

PRIVATE FISHING POND IS DEFINED

Ind. Supreme Court Makes Ruling On Matter of Interest To Public.

INDIANAPOLIS—A recent ruling of the Indiana supreme court may answer for many fisherman the question involved in what constitutes a. private pond. Indiana laws permit taking fish with net or seine from strictly private ponds, but not from public waters unless where a river serves as a boundary

line of states.

Excerpts from the ruling of the supreme court, are as follows: | "A pond so connected with publicwaters that in times of freshets or high water fish can go into it from such public waters or out again, is not a private pond, whether they might come out again the same day or the next season. The owner of the land on which such pond is situated does not have such exclusive interests in the fish therein as to he immune from prosecution for taking fish therefrom with a seine. “Under the statute prohibiting seining and possession of seines (Secs 72 and 73 of law booklet) the term ‘private ponds’ as distinguish

Gasoline Tax Shows Increase

Indianapolis, Nov. 10.—An im crease of $54,626.15 is shown in the state gasoline tax collections for October, 1926, over the same month last year, according to a report compiled by A. N. Bobbitt, state gasoline tax- collector. Total collections for the month were $880,276.38, as compared to collections of $82.5,650.23 for October, 1925. Current taxes collected last month were $878,954.59 with $266.00 delinquent taxes and $1,064.72 from other sources. The report shows a total of 29,342.546 gallons of gasoline were sold in Indiana during October.

Befaian Money Now On a Gold Basis

es from ‘waters of this state,’ is used in its common law sense as a body of water wholly upon the lands of a single owner or of a single group of point owners or tenants in common, which does not have such connection with public waters that fish can pass from ope to the other. The statutory definition of a private pond does not apply to the statute concerning seines “The statute which Forbids taking of fish With a seine and haying possesion of a seine does not'contain ah exception . to streams .or ponds whivivgo dry, 1 either wholly or partially, in dry seasons. It is violation - of the.law to take 'fish

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Two negro bandits held up Her man Raab. .Indianapolis, salesman for Hamilton-Harris & Go., and robbed him or approximately $500 Hi-eash, -and- clae«k#-^arlx_\Yednfis*u

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BRUSSELS—'Belgian money has gone to a hew gold basis with the creation of a ««w monetary standard—the bolga—equal to five paper francs and wilh a definite gold value of .209211 grams. The Belgian franc will be stabilized at 174.6 to the pound sterling Or about one-seyfcnth of its prewar value, hut it wiU no longer be quoted on the fo. _.» t exchange mar-,

kets of the world.

Belgium's money how T has the

support of Urn leading hanks of Europe. the United States and Asia. This support expressed in loan of $100,000,000 will be Used to keep the Belgian franc up to its How patlevel, which will make ,jt about .36 to the-dollar. The loan will he placed upon the. market soon. It will bear-interest'•at 7 per cent/plus 1 per cent for amortization and will

run for a term of 50 years.

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>F xlepresemaand Blackford!

G. Drake of

Fairbanks, Democratic state representative from Sullivan county. Thurman A. Gottschalk of Berne. Democrat, was recently elected to a seat in the state Senate to represent Adams, Blackford and Wells counties. Mr. Gottsehalk served on the committee during the last year but. was appointed as the Democratic member of the committee from the House of Representatives.

Draper’s First Term.

.Mr. Draper, who will serve for

the first time in the coming Legislature, was elected November 2, to replace Walter S. Chambers, Democrat, of Newcastle, as state senator from the three counties in his district. He has been prominent in Re•ntblicau politics and it is understood his selection was made for omplete harmony with the state dministration. He is president of he Draper Shape Company and las served as Republican county

chairman of Henry county. Mr. "Farrell’s selection was defin-

itely decided yesterday after he had conferred with Governor Jackson' about the appointment. He is president of the Haiftfrod City Foundry Machine Company and represented Blackford and Grant

counties in the 1923 Legislature.

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In Royal Tour

Queen Marie’s Train at Denver, Col., Nov. 11.—-Peace and harmony ! settled over Queen Marie's train again yesterday. While the royal party was enjov ■ ing a hearty reception by Denver residents, the Lole Fuller party, which had become invert vod in much controversy aboard the spe cial, left for New York. Miss Puller, wartime friend of the Queen, left on her own accord, with the understanding that she could remain with the party as long as she wished as a guest ,of the Queen and Col. John H. Car roll, host to her Majesty. Business j engagements in New York requirot her- presence there, she explained, and ^ said good-by to the Queer) during the morning.

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TRIAL OF OIL CASt STARTs NOVEMBER 22

Washington. Nov. 11.—Albert B. Fall./raueher, one time senator, and

a seine from supli waters/’' . .but recently,, secretary of thy inter. V j, Q--;",— 'fidt’/Amm before the'"bar of’jhfetiW

yesterday, and with his old friend. 'Edvard u. Dohcny. ’California oil uiau. pleaded n6t guilty to a charge of haying conspired to defraud the SDWPmWJt coimp.ctiqq .with Elk Hills; Cal., naval oil reserves.

Relief Begins In Storm-Stricken Maryland Town

La Plata, Md./Nov. ' tie town emer;' . from the m. stunned it T warning, a fre ;: • . • hail storm tlelr.oi ,

1m use.

Warsaw Pacer Sold for $3,500 Warsaw, Ind.. Nov. 11.—Crescent Direct, rated r me, of the fastest pacing marc m Indiana, Monday was sold by Frank Polk of Warsaw to M. G. Kenyon of Hartford Conn., for $3,500. The mar© is marked at 2:06^ and holds track records at Aurora and Joliet, 111.; Rochester, North Manchester, Fairrhount and Crown Point, Ind., add Celina, Giro. During the last season she $5,530,in bto:cs. ,/Fonr years - - Gy -vf'•fbc horse *ayrmr n/a'r , Warsaw'Tor

j,, killing yr • fata fourteen children and

JcasLd.wonty-thi’f't'' others.

The death lifet,' including a Negro man and woman, mounted last night to sixteen when Theresa E s tel 1 a, Be an. age 9, died in \V a s b - ifigton. Scarcely a family among the 500 residents of the town Was lefi untouched in the toll of casuallies and no coherent' story of,,Abe djrc<iit, iia(i yet rm.Tg-d Jrom. the dazed accounts of survivors. • -

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• i President Thomas. R. Marshall,.now dead, has been filled. Officials of the largest cigar manufacturing company in the United States, say the five-centers being sold today up and down aud across the land, are just as .good‘as any fiye-ce^t. cigar tfie country ever' has had And this despite the increase by .80 per cent in the cost of living, generally, since 1913. i

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