Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 November 1898 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. 1888.

PHOSPERITT is the poison which kills Populism.

THERE was plenty of gas at the court room last evening1.

THE Indianapolis ATews suggests Congressman Landis as desiring to succeed Governor Mount.

THIS year each party lost 13 per cent, of its vote in Indianapolis compared to the vote of'90.

FREE silver was killed in '9G and buried in '98. Now if it won't be good it will have to be cremated.

IT develops that the Republican party carried Indiana by about 20,000 instead of 15,000, as at first reported.

IN response to an appeal by Gen. Wheeler over 100 American colleges have each offered to take two ur more young Cubans to be educated free.

THE mutilation of a ballot is impossible by the voting machine. It is also impossible for a floater to mark a ballot aB the man who bought him directs.

MANY of the Democratic members of the next congress are avowedly opposed to free silver. There will accordingly be several leaders of the minority and at least two opposing factions.

A MASSACHUSETTS statesman, Josiah Quincy, said the annexation of the region west of the Mississippi would inevitably break up the union. The statesmen of former days were not always successful as prophets.

TIIK sentiment favoring machine voting in Indiana is growing. This reform is bound to come and while it may be objected to as expensive at the start it has been demonstrated that it pays for itself in two elections.

CALIFORNIA, Oregon and Washington are represented in the house by eleven members. Their delegation in the next congress will be composed of ten Republicans, one Democrat. The charms of silver have faded in that section.

DURING the present year foreign imports have decreased an average of 812,500,000 a month, and foreign exports increased an average of $13,000,000 a month. The foreign trade of the United States is prosperous beyond all former records.

LOUISVILLE Times (Dem.): Indiana will lose nothing in the matter of brains at Washington if Robert S. Taylor is chosen to scuceed David Turpie. Neither will she lose anything in character. Judge Taylor is well known at the national capital and would go to the front rank in the senate at a single bound.

IF the eniaged Spanish soldiers in Cuba are forcibly transported to Spain without their pay they will form an inflammatory and daDgerous element. The Carlists could wish for no better material to aid their revolutionary programme. Indeed, it is likely that if the Carlists do not take advantage of the present situation some would-be dictator will. The reigning dynasty seems doomed.

LOUISVILLE Times, (Dem.,): What the Republican party of Kentucky needs is a visit from the destroying angel, swift on the mission to remove about 70 per cent of its leadership, and upward and if the fool-killer would bestir himself and perform alike job for the leadership of the Democratic party of the nation the effect would be marvelously beneficient both for the party and the country.

INDIANAPOLIS News: Bad news comes from the ninth congressional district. It is reported on authority beyond question that Joseph B. Cheadle will again be a candidate for congress, but on what ticket is not clear. Mr. Cheadle gave out in writing that if he was elected this time he would not be a candidate for re-electicn, and this pledge, his friends assert, does not hold good, because he was not elected. The understanding was that with Cheadle out of the way James M. Fippen, of Tipton county, would be the nominee, and it was for that reason that Mr. Fippen did all in his power to elect Cheadle. Cheadle's announcement that he will be a candidate again will stir up things in the district, and especiallv in i'ipton county.

THE GREAT REPUBLICAN SENATE Indianapolis Journal: After March 4 the Republicans will have fifty-three of the ninety senators, which will leave thirty-seven to the Democrats and Populists. For the first time since the free coinage of silver became an issue because silver bullion had fallen in price, there will be an actual and controlling majority against that heresy. It iB quite as important that the changes which have made the senate surely Republican result from the fact that both senators from the states largest in population and richest in material resources will be Republicans. Both senators from Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, California and Wisconsin will be Republicans. From the Atlantic to the Mississippi river and from the Ohio and Mason and Dixon's line to the lakes, no state will have a Democratic senator. Even Maryland and West Virginia will have two, and Delaware and Kentucky one each of the Republican faith. Missouri, Georgia and Texas will be the only larger states that will be represented by Democrats in the Senate. The opposition to the Republican party has little to hope from the group of states in which senatorial vacancies occur in 1901 after the presidential election, judging from their voting a week ago to-day, as a clear majority of the thirty senators to be elected that year represent states which are carried by Republicans this year. Thus silverism seems to be balked in the senate for years to come.

During the past six or eight years, it cannot be said that either responsible party could claim a [majority. For 1C to 1 there was a majority, but beyond that question no party had such a lead in the Benate as to be really responsible for its conduct. The important financial committee has been in the hands of the silverites, and other leading committees which shape legislation have been so divided as to be without power. This uncertainty as to parties has been responsible for the dissatisfaction of the country with the senate. Now that the Republicans will have an assured majority of orthodox Republicans, may not the country expect to see more definite action and less delay?

Harper's Weekly: If we are to increase our international complications we should have a government which can transact international business secretly if necessary at all events, intelligently, politely, and effectively. If our boundaries are to touch those of Europe at their sorest points, we ought to minimize the chances of causeless, wars. We know now from General Woodford that all the proposed results of our war with Spain could have been obtained without war, and that diplomacy was about to win the victory for us when congress slanged the country into war. We ought to take away also the power of the senate over appointments, especially if we are to become a military power, for we have seen how weak and ineffective the influence of the Benate made the executive, and how it has filled the army with ignorant and inexperienced youth, to the loss doubtless of many valuable lives. We ought to have a stronger executive, a better administrative force, for we cannot safely intrust the power to govern colonieBand the opportunity to incense foreign powers to heelers and strikers.

THAT Kansas should have returned to Republicanism iB an event of far--reaching political significance. The high intelligence of the state is beyond denial. Its apparent abandonment of the party whose birth was coincident with ita own, each the champion of the other when tried by battle and ilame, was a cause of serious concern to thoughtful Republicans throughout the country. The wavering of Kansas was hard to understand, but it was rightly held that the causes were ephemeral, aod due to misconception that needed time to clear away, not in one state alone, but to some extent in all the states. In Kansas the cure is well advanced. The Republicans of the state in adverse days held their ground valiantly. They were defeated in 189:) and 1896 by small margins, never reaching the size of their own majority this year. The future looks bright for steadfast adherence to the party in whose most stirring pages of history the share of

KansaB is vital and unchangeable.

THE revenue derived from Cuba by Spain has varied from twenty-five to forty millions of dollars per annum. In addition to this Cubans have been compelled to pay Spanish officials from five to ten millions of dollars in bribes. Bqt an insignificant fraction of the revenues has gone to local improvements. It is estimated that the United States can govern the island far better than Spain ever did at a cost of only six millions of dollars per annum.

After Sinelcer.

Landlord White, of the junction houBe, on Wednesday swore out three warrants for the arreBt of saloon keeper Smelcer who operates the bar at the suburban hostelry. White and Smelcer have quarreled and White accuses Smelcer of having given him the double croBS. He is accordingly getting action through the courts.

AGAINST A STATE SCHOOL TRUST

Dr. Burroughs' l'lain Letter to the Legislative Candidates of Indiana.

The fight between the Btate and nonstate colleges for representation on the state board of education is going to be carried vigorously by both sides into the next legislature. The question was before the last legislature and on account of the failure of the educational people to agree upon some bill fixing the composition of the state board of education the legislature refused to pasB any bill and left the matter as it was.

After the adjournment of the legislature committees representing the state and non-state colleges met repeatedly and held correspondence in an effort to arrive at some agreement. The effort resulted in failure and the matter was left as it was. The fight will now be taken into the legislature, the non-state colleges insisting upon having representation upon the state board if the state colleges have it, but preferring to have neither side represented.

At present the state board of education includes the presidents of Purdue, the state university and the Btate normal. It also includes the superintendent of public instruction. The present legislation gives life certificatesito the graduates of the Btate normal and this concession is opposed bitterly by the non-state institutions, or those which are not receiving a specific tax from the state.

The following letter signed by President Burroughs, of Wabash College, representing the non-state colleges of Indiana, waB sent to every candidate for senator and representative:

Dear Sir:—It is generally conceded that educational questions will come prominently before the next session of the state legislature. In view of this fact, the undersigned has been commissioned by the members of the association of Indiana non-Btate college presidents to set forth in few words the position which they have continuously occupied Bince the opening of the present controversy. The several published statements which they have made to the public from time to time, and the correspondence between the state board of education and themselves, connected with their attempt to reach by compromise and harmonious adjustment, which has recently been given to the press by a member of the board, are the basis of the following statement: 1. The constant effort of the nonstate presidents has been to have all factors of education in the state acknowledged in its legislations, and to find so broad a foundation that both state institutions and those sustained by private benevolence may, standing together upon it, work co-operatively for the further advance of education in Indiana. They have, therefore, never opposed the appropriation of state fundB for the support of the state's higher institutions of learning, nor have they asked any share of these funds for their own support. Not only have they[not asked representation on the state board of education, but they have constantly declined to accept it. They have simply sought such changes as would unify all interests and lead to harmonious progress. 2. With this end in view, they have asked for two things only— 1. They have sought such reorganization of the state board of education as will enable it to become, by common consent, an agency controlling and uniting all educational forces supervising all higher educational institutions, and advancing through all of these collectively, as well as through the public schools, the general standard of education in the Btate. It is evident that this cannot be done through a board upon which the heads of the higher state institutions appear ex-ofiicials, as is the case at present with the Indiana board, but only through a board upon which no higher institution, state or non-state, shall be officially represented. The non-Btate presidents have been perfectly willing that any, or all, of the gentlemen at the head of the state's higher institutions should serve on 6uch a board in the capacity of citizens of prominence actively engaged in educational work duly appointed by the proper authority, and they havo said so voluntarily and heartily. Such reorganization of the state board, for the end specified, is the one great point for which they are standing. They took the initative in an endeavor to introduce into the coming legislature, in joint harmonious action with the state board, a bill in which the above feature shall be incorporated. They prosecuted the matter until the other side appeared to exhibit entire unreadiness to act with them. They are now left to submit such a bill themselves, having as its object the furthering of the interests of the state institutions as much as those of their own and the advancement, through harmonized working, of the entire educational life of the state. 2. The non-state college presidents have also sought fairness in the matter of life licenses toward all educational institutions supplying the state with teachers. If the reorganization of the state board which they are seeking

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Such provisions as these the nonstate presidents are confident will conserve all the interests of the higher Btate schools and will very greatly elevate the standards of qualification on the part of Indiana teachers. They are convinced that the efforts made in the past to obtain life license for graduates of the state university, who have not attended the state normal school, show conclusively that the present situation is not satisfactory to the state's higher institutions themselves. They know that the situation is not satisfactory to the teachers and supervisors of the Btate in general. They, therefore, also intend, in connection with the bill for reorganization of the state board, to submit a bill setting forth the above features regarding life license, believing strongly that such legislation will advance at the same time the interests of the state's higher institutions and the entire educational life of Indiana. 3. The reasons of the non-state presidents for seeking the changes above mentioned have been sufficiently set forth. It remains to state briefly why they are not satisfied with the existing conditions: 1. It is unique in its injustice to non-Btate institutions. As a result of a careful examination of the methods of state supervision in the several states, the non-state presidents are forced to say that in no other state is there a method of supervision 60 inimical to the welfare of non-state institutions of learning as is that of Indiana while our state board remains constituted as at present. The state institutions of the surrounding states of Michigan, Illinois and Ohio are increasingly prosperous. In Ohio there is no state board, while on the boards of Illinois and Michigan no state institution is represented. To seek, therefore, such a change as is desired in Indiana cannot be said to be asking for a situation prejudicial in any respect to the state institution of higher learning. 2. The present situation is sure, in the nature of the case, to produce constant friction. It has already created in many minds a strong preju­

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shall be obtained, viz: a board without ex-ofiicio representation upon it of the state's higher institutions, they are then prepared to urge the adoption of practically the proposition presented by the state board in conference with the non-state presidents, viz: (1) That the life license of graduates of the state normal school shall qualify for teaching in the common schools alone (3) that life licenses, qualifying to teach in schools of any grade, shall be granted without examination, by the reorganized state board to the graduates of any college or university of Indiana maintaining a standard course of not less than four years, who shall subsequently graduate from the state normal school or from any other professional school for teachers which, in the judgment of the state board of education, reorganized as above set forth, shall be of equal rank with the state normal school. Such life licenses shall also be granted by the said state board of education, without examination, to graduates of any college or university of Indiana maintaining a standard course of not less than four years who shall have pursued in connection with, or subsequent to, their college or university courses, a pedagogical course of study of not less than one year in length and approved as to scope and quality of work by the reorganized state board— provided, that said pedagogical course shall have been taken in addition to the full number of credits required for graduation in the institution from which the bachelor's degree is received and provided further, that all such college or university graduates, of either class, shall present satisfactory evidence of their having 'had successful experience and school management for a period of not less than two school years subsequent to their professional or pedagogical study hereinbefore prescribed.

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dice against the state institutions, which is steadily on the increase, and which, unless removed, threatens their support on the part of the state. The present situation blocks all true educational progress. Instead of friction and unreBt there should and can be harmony and progress. 4. The non-state presidents do net hesitate to say that they hope for such a conciliation of educatibnal interests as will lead to such consolidation of working forces, represented in both the state and the non-state institutions, as may permit the forming of all collectively into a "University of Indiana," exchanging credits, giving a common diploma, itself supervised by a reorganized state board. To this, so long ago as 1850 Caleb Mills, whom Richard G. Boone has called "the father of the system of public instruction," looked forward in his fourth letter to the constitutional convention. The time has fully come when competition should in Iadiana be replaced by consolidation. If consolidation does not come within the state it will come with interests outside its limits. No loyal educator of Indiana desires such a result. 5. In conclusion, it is desired to say that at no time has any word of criticism been passed by the non-state presidents upon the moral or religious atmosphere of the state institutions. These have never spoken of "church schools" as contrasted with "state schools." In spite of persevering conciliation they have stood together, entering into no alliance, open or covered, with any other parties, whatsoever. Their motives they lccow to have been honorable and unselfish throughout. Their methods of procedure have been uncovered and known to all. Their cause they are confident is just. The increasing support which is coming to it on every side is the best evidence of this fact. Their purpose is to continue steadfastly to press their views, courteously and persistently, upon the attention of every thoughtful citizen. Their appeal is to teachers, supervisors, legislators, citizens of all parties and of all religious denominations, and to those outside of all denominations, for the conserving and advancing of the highest interests of education in Indiana.

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J^OTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of John w, James, deceased. In the Montgomery circuit court. September term, 1890,

Notice is hereby given that Fred T. Pitman, as administrator of the estate of John W. J»mes, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers In final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said circuit court on the 7th day of December, 1898, at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees' of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notified to bo in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 14th day of November, 1898. ll-18-2t FRED T. PITMAN, Administrator with the will annexed.

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In the matter of the estate of Jacob G. Srader, deceased. In the Montgomery Circuit Court, September term, 1898

Notice is hereby given that Morton E. Srader, as administrator of the estate of Jacob G. Srader, deceased, has presented and filed his accounts and vouchers in final settlement of said estate,and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said Circuit Court on the 10th day of December, 1898,' at which time all heirs, creditors or legatees of said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause If any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notified to be in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 10th day of November, 1888 ,, MORTON E. SRADER",

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