Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 December 1900 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1900.

THE lloaters may not sink after all. The life preserver has been tossed to them from a certainly unexpected source.

POSTMASTER GENERAL SMITH SayS rural free delivery can bo extended to 20,000,000 people without extra cost. by reforming' the pound rates of the department. Ths subject should receive the best attention of congress.

IN nothing is the great prosperity of the country more strikingly shown than in the growth of our exportation of manufactured metals. From statistics already compiled at the treasury department it is certain that our exports of manufactured metals will for the year ending Dec. 31, 1900, excced $200,000,000.

INDIANAPOLIS Journal: It is reported that a considerable number of voters in Montgomery county havo been indicted under the election law. It is charged that these men accepted $1 and gave a receipt for it, with the promise of more after the election, for heir votes. The cases will attract so much attention that the outcome will be watched with interest, if the object of the movers is to break up the practice of selling votes the movement is commendable, but if their only purpose is to "get even" with political foes it is anything but commendable.

A MEMBER of the 10th infantry, stationed with a small detachment in the mountains of northeastern Luzon, writes that the region is full of deer, wild caribou and wild, hogs, and that fresh meat is served to the troops every day. In three months the detachment of seventeen men has been supplied with thirty-seven deer, eleven caribou! and seventeen wild hogs. Deer are always in sight from the camp. On the other side of a river two miles away is a village of 10,000 savages, almost naked and armed with bows and arrows, spears and battle axes. They are not unfriendly with Americans, but are required to keep on their own side of the river.

ONE of the rich Vanderbilts has had his fortune shown up in black and white, and the figures are disappointing to those who had expected great things. At his death rumor, "well verified," placed the fortune far above $100,000,000. But in the hands of the executors it is a trifle above half the rumored figures. It is a case where the heirs and children come along in geometrical ratio, and the fortune increases only at a legal rate of interest. A generation hence the Astor and Vanderbilt fortunes will be in the hands of almost! hundreds of heirs, and the amounts for each will be comparatively small.

M». BRYAN announces that he will I soon begin the publication at Lincoln, I Neb., of a weekly paper called the "Commoner.'' No doubt the paper will for a season attract thousands of subscribers from all over the country and prove a gold mine for its owner. When his prestige flags, however, and a new leader of the Democracy arises, as one certainly will within the next two or three years, the "Commoner" will lose out and THE JOURNAL believes will become the official organ of the Populists. it is to that party that Bryantand thousands of his followers are surely going, and under the banner of Populism they will wage their war four years hence.

SECRETARY ROOT made a statement before the senate committee on military affairs, which is considering the army reorganization bill, recently passed by the house, showing the necessity for speedy action on the bill, in order that enlistments may be started under the new law in time to get men in condition to take the places of the volunteers whose time will expire the first of next July. The committee decided that no further hearings would be granted, and Senator Hawley, chairman, says no time will be lost in getting the bill before the senate. Already many applications are being made to the President for the smaller commissions in the reorganized army, the general understanding being that the appointment of outsiders will, as a rule, be confined to second lieutenantcies and that all of that grade in the regular army will be promoted.

TILK ONLY WAY.

There is or:e way to prevent vote buying in Indiana and only one way. Enforce the Caraway law.

There are other idqal ways, other methods that look well on paper or that sound real nice in a club room discussion, but practically there is but one way to root out this whole disreputable business. Enforce tbe Caraway law.

This law provides that the person convicted of selling his vote shall be disfranchised for a period of not less than ten years nor more than twenty. The person who furnishes the information leading to a conviction is entitled to a reward of $100 to be paid from the county treasury. The person who buys the vote is not liable to prosecution.

There is the Caraway law in a nutshell and a more righteous law was never passed if the matter ih considered in its practical bearings.

The only punishment provided for the vote seller is the loss of a privilege which he wholly fails to appreciate. As a punishment it, is extremely light, as befits one who commits an offense more in ignorance than malice. To be sure there are many who sell viciously and corruptly, but it would mean no more to the average floater than the loss of a five doilar bill every two years. But think what it would mean to the State of Indiana add to every community in the State. Clean elections with all that the term implies. Honorable men could run for office without paying exorbitant campaign assessments. Self respecting men could go into the active management of party work without the necessity of laying their self respect aside temporarily.

There is no penalty lor the vote buyer. This meets with objection from many, but THE .JOURNAL is prepared to defend this section of the law both on the ground of .expediency and on the ground of justice. In the first place it has been demonstrated by previous ex perience that a law which proposes .-a penalty for both parties to an illegal contract of this kind is a Hat failure and results in no penalty at all. It has also been demonstrated that when the penatly is placed on the buyer alone the law is equally futile in curing the evil aimed at. So as practical men the legislators resolved to try the only alternative left by placing the entire burden on the vote seller. And there is justice in this. As a rule the men who buy votes are good citizens. In very many cases they are our best citizens. They do not buy votes from choice but from necessity. Realizing that the party that maintains its virtue in this respect recklessly llings away its chance of.success these men consent to perform a disagreeable duty for the sake of their party and its candidates and not in most cases for any personal gain. A good church elder is said to have remarked last November as he received the portion of the corruption fund intended for use in his precinct that he did not think it wrong to pay a man to 'lo right. This man and his attitude are typical perhaps of the whole business from the standpoint of the party managers on both sides of the political fence. It would be nothing less than an outrage to send the class of men who "handle the moneyv to prison for doing things the benefit of which goes principally to others who knowingly acquiesce in the offense. Public sentiment has coincided with this view of the matter and it has been impossible to get a conviction in the few cases of prosecution for corrupting voters. For in fact and truth the voters are not corrupted. They are already corrupt and they haunt the party workers and candidates for weeks and even months before the election as well as on election day, seeking money in a manner which can only be described as blackmail. It is rather the vote buyer who is corrupted by the floater and there is hardly a man who has been compelled to corral these cattle, misnamed citizens, who does not despise the job and who would not gladly turn it over to some one else or get rid of it altogether. But so long as there are votes on the market they will be bought and, and as we said in the beginning, the only way to purify the ballot is to take the only practical means of getting them off the market by enforcing the Caraway law. There is but one feature of that law which needs change and that is the reward should be cut down from $100 to about $25 or less. It is stated on good authority that in Montgomery county there are about !)00 purchasable votes, which it would make it cost this county $90,000 to get a clean election. Of course if a small organization of disinterested, public spirited men wish to undertake the enterprise of getting these floaters disfranchised without claiming the rewards except in so far as is necessary to pay legitimate expenses this feature would be relieved of its terror to tax payers.

Some will criticise the motives of those who are pushing the prosecution now in progress here against vote sellers. THE JOURNAL considers that phase of the matter as of minor importance. The important thing is that there is a prospect of disfranchising forty or fifty floaters and thus reducing in a small degree an unmitigated nuisance and a serious evil.

IT looks as though some of the floaters may sink.

THE JOURNAL has no desire to be understood as defending or justifying the theory of vote buying. In the abstract the system is vicious, demoralizing, and criminal. But we arc confronted by a local condition. When a party finds vote buying essential foi* self preservation. as the political parties in Indiana do to-day, the situation is changed from what should be in theory to what in fact is necessary. We have often heard those condemning vote buying sagely remark: "If there were no buyers, there would be no sellers." Cheap sophistry! As well condemn the victim of a blackmail by arguing that if there were no victims there would be no blackmailers. For political blackmail is the direct cause of vote trafficking in Indiana. Good citizens do not pay for votes because they rejoice in it, think it great sport, or because they have money they don't know what else to do with. They do it because in the heat of a political campaign, when all is excitement, suspicion of the opposition, and a desire for the success of what they honestly and verily believe to be right principles, they are sought out by vicious men, usually men claiming affiliation with their own party, and are plainly told that the cash has to be forthcoming. "7/ you don't couyh up we know—well who will." Familiar and potent words!

If, dear reader, there were no noisy vote venders, and men burdened with boodle should go abroad over the land seeking whom they might corrupt and soliciting poor men to barter what all should regard as a sacred privilege, then indeed vote buying would be a heinous crime. But it is not such a condition that exists.

Tilio Indianapolis News is opposed to James F. Stutesman because he engaged in lobbying at the last legislature. It is not denied that he is the most eminently qualified man for the place but he "lobbied" and that ends it so far as the News is concerned. Mr. Stutesman, as an attorney, certainly did lobby in the interest of certain measures, but no man ever impugned his honesty. He was nevev accused of giving or taking a bribe. If the JVcies undertakes to berate all the lobbyists it will have its hands full and should begin operations early by opening up on the presidents and trustees of the state colleges who are the most numerous and persistent lobbyists in the business. Judge Martindale and a few of the other eminent attorneys of Indianapolis should also be held up and excoriated. The fact of the matter is that lobbying is perfectly reputable and legitimate work so long as it is confined to presenting to legislators! the merits or demerits of proposed legislation.

THK Norwegian government last year divided its patronage between American and English makers of steel rails. This year it gives the whole contract to Americans. English manufacturers can hardly blame it for that, since the British government itself is forced to buy bridges for Africa here.

TK the Caraway law is made efl'ective it will prove to be the only election law that ever amounted to much in Montgomery county.

An Accident.

Tuesday morning Mrs. John Snyder drove her husband to the Vandalia depot in her phaeton to take the train. As the train started the engineer let off steam and Mrs. Snyder's horse, greatly startled, reared almost straight up falling back against the buggy. Fortunately he fell slightly to the side and striking against the wheel was prevented from falling in on Mrs. Snyder. The shafts were broken off and bystanders grasping the horse by the head prevented him from running off. The horse was uninjured by the accident.

Card of Thanks.

To the Editor of The Journal.

NEW ROSS, Ind.. Dec. 17.--Would you be kind enough to allow us space in your valuable paper to express our heart felt-thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kindness and affection shown during the sickness, death and burial of our dear old father.

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HOOSIERJNFLUENCE

Indiana Statesmanship Has Done Much For Washington's Upbuilding.

SENATOR FAIRBANKS HAS PLANS TO U14T 11 Ell THIS INTEREST.

The Ercction of a Hall of Public Records In ths National Capital Will Be Another Exhibition of the Thoughtfulness of an Indiana Man Some Intimate Information

Regarding the Recent Cuban Posts Frauds —George Lockwood Touches on Several Matters of Interest to Indiana Readers.

(Special Correspondence.]

Washington, Doc. 10. Indiana statesmanship already has to its credit two of the most important public buildings in Washington—the congressional library, which was fathered by Senator Yoorliees and planned by another Indianian. Mr. Sniithmo.vor. and the Smithsonian Institute, which was provided l'or in a bill introduced ly Robert Dale Owen. The building itself was designed h.v his brother. Darid Dale Owen. If Senator Fairbanks has his way, still another public building will rise as a monument to Indiana's interest in the national capital and in the public service. The senator's joint resolution, adopted by the senate last week, providing for the appointment of a committee from the senate and house to discover a suitable site for the erection of a hall of public records, is the first step in the direction of filling a want which constantly becomes more apparent. Government buildings intended for the transaction of public business are stuffed full of records dating back, some of them, to the beginning of the sroverninent, and the floor-space of several of the department buildings is being absorbed by new accumulations. Even the handsome tower of the new postofiice building is stuffed full of public records. An Indiana ollicial of the postofiice department. by the way. tried to unload some of this material on the congresssional library last year. He suggested to the librarian that the early records of tile post office department would make a lino feature of the manuscript division of the library, and the official innocently agreed. When the postoffice prepar'd to unload on him enough dusty junk to sai: the library floors, the librarian throw up his hands, and concluded to lot the department keen its valuable and interesting. not tu say moth-eaten, files to itself.

The worst feature of the situation is the lack of safety in 1he present method of keepinu: the public records. None of the government buildings is fireproof. and a recent lire in one of the departments, which is not believed, despite its timeliness, to have been pulled off for the purpose of accentuating the demand for a. hall of records, has served to indicate what miirht. happen if any department should be visited by a irreat fire.

The new structure, if erected, will doubtless lie one of the largest buildings in Washington, as it would be ex peel (d to contain the files of all the departments for many years to come. The chief end sought in its construction will of course be immunity from fire.

The departments are not alone in the complaint against crowding by reason of the accumulation of documents. In the second tier of rooms below the main floor of the capitol public documents have been accumulating year after year, circumscribing the working space of those whose duty it is to mail them out over the country to the constituents of senators and representatives. Many of the documents printed by order of congress are of greater interest and value than the general public appreciates. Others are published for distribution by congress merely because the printing of these reports began years ago, and it has occurred to no one to stop them as a public nuisance. Another cause of the glutting of the capitol basement is the fact that a dozen copies of every public document are filed away by the house library to gather mould in dark cellars. A house committee has investigated the condition of affairs and has ordered one of the biggest junk sales on record,and thousands of books on the Rocky Mountain Locust, the Melbourne Exhibition, the Salishan language, the Coasters' Nautical Almanac, and other topics of equal moment, are to be ground into pulp and given a fresh start in t.lie paper world. O. M. En.vart. an Indianian, is assistant librarian of the house, and is often called upon to make a search for some forgotlen document:, guided by a lantern in winding channels between mountains o!" books, piled there at various periods through the last half century. In the central portion of the capitol there are books which have been on the shelves for nearly 100 years, and some of them, doubtless, have never been disturbed.

The members of the Indiana delegation arc partial to that section of the city known as the Northwest, which is, in fact, northwest of the capitol. Senator Fairbank's home is at 1S00 Massachusetts avenue, N. W., a few blocks north of the White House. Senator Heveridge is at the Gordon, a hotel still nearer the executive mansion. Major Steele is at the Dewey, probably the most popular hotel In Washington with members of the

house and senate, as 22 are quartered there. Representatives Hemenwny and Watson have apartments near the corner of Fourteenth and II streets, while Representative Overstreet is at the Ebbit, just around the corner, and Judge Crumpacker is at the Willard, just across the street from the Ebbit House. Mr. Cromer lives a stone's throw away at 1338 New York avenue, and Mr. Brick at the Norinandie, in the same neighborhood. Mr. Landis and family are at the National hotel, Mr. Miers at: the Driscoll. Mr. Griffith at 430 Rhode Island avenue, N. W.,and Mr. Robinson is at 20 li street, all near the capitol. On Capitol Hill arc Mr. Zenor, who lives at 213 North Capitol street, and Mr. Faris at 21 A street. S. E.

A Washington special to one of the Indianapolis papers states that "the war department is anxious to suppress the report made by Inspector Lawshe of the treasury department, into the Cuban postal scandal. Officials of tiie postofiice department, are eager to see the contents of this investigation made public. Tlie.v say the war department has shown a disposition to shirk its share of the blame. Nearly all the items of extravagance now complained of were allowed by the war depart ment."

While this was going into type, so was the report of Mr. Lawshe at the Government Printing Office, for the purpose of transmitting it to congress and lite country as a public document. The items of extravagance complained of were not allowed by the war depart ment -in fact, Mr. Rathbone. who was appointed as a postofiice official, and transferred to the jurisdiction of the war department, saw that they did not get past him. lie had in collusion with him a dishonest auditor, who. by the way. was a civil service employe transferred to Cuba on account of an efficient record and apparent honesty. If the system inaugurated by Auditor Lawshe when the department was organized in Cuba had been carried out. lie trouble could not have occurred. But Neely and Rathbone had reasons now apparent for not continuing a system under which concealment of "eusseuness" was impossible. The Rathbone-Neely scandal Is without, parallel for flagrancy in the history of the United States government. That: thievery so shameless could have continued so long at first seems inexplicable, and yet when it is remembered that practically everyone capable of making disclosures was "in (di the deal," the success of the conspiracy is no longer occasion for surprise. Major Rathbone is credited with saying to friends in Havana: "Thai man Neely his the greatest head for finauco on the island." If Neely's was the master mind in the Cuban thievery, it: certainly was a strong one. Conceding the previous good character of Rathbone and Reeves, it took Fmt a few days' association with Neely to put them hand In glo\e with the most dastardly plans for looting the government of which they were trusted employes and disgracing the friends through whose favor they had been given p'ace. An inspection of Mr. Rathl..ue's accounts as presented in.a recently printed report by the postofiice department to the senate, does not seem to indicate that Neely was tbe king of the pirates after all.

Indiana is the homesteaders' state. It has probably sent more of its sons in search of homes on the government lands beyond the Mississippi than any other state in lie Union. Tt commenced to overflow about the time the settlement of the trans-Mississippi country began. Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotus. especially, have been fairly overrun by lloosiers. After the war there was a continuous stream of Indiana soldiers into Kansas. The Indianian is too enterprising to stay in a community wJiich has become too crowded to offer opportunity, and thus it is that the Iloosier state has contributed some of her best life to the winning of the West. The Indiana man was present in force at the ($ptn ing of the Oklahoma territory, and has been prominent in the affairs of that new commonwealth ever since.

Considerable inquiry from Indiana has been o.\-it',l by the announcement of the opeii'ii (Tf the Kiowa, Comanche and

pa el. lands in Oklahoma.

Commission.lierinann calls attention to the fact tlmr no settlement or location by outsider* upon these lands will be permit led uci it after the allotments to the Indian?) h.ive been made, and after proclani'f'.eii by the president. Rules and regulations for the settlement have been prescribed by the land office.

Few pwipif i-'i sit up nights read ing 1 lie

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W. G. Swank, M. D.

PhysiclBti and Surgeon,

Office: 119i N. Washington St.

Residence 712 W. Pike .St. Culls attended in city or county, day or nignt. Telephones—Residence 195 Otltce 532.

Travis Browti

Buy and sell Real Estate. Insure Property. Loanifi per cent. Money.

Procure Pensions, Ktc

110 South Green Street.

Bertrand E. May,

OSTEOPATH

Uraduate of the American School of Oiteojpathy at Kirksville, Mo. Ofilce 116 S. Wash. St. Hours 7 to 12 a. m., 1 to 4 p. m. Consultation free. Correspondence solicited land osteopathic literature on application.

F. A. DENNIS,

Physician and Surgeon. Office in Thomas Block, East MainJ Street •, Home 'phone 394

Farms„and City Property....

For Sale or Trade.

150 acres at $40 per acre. 75 acres at $40 per acre. Very well improved good soil. 90 acres at $40 per acre. Fine] stock farm, good improvements.

Several good farms of 160 acres. Fine homes. Several good 80 acre tracts at from $40 (per acre to $65 per acre. ST'tjClj

I have several farms thai will pav you 10 per cent as an investment. If you want'to bay a farm you cannot do better than to call on me.

Andrew Townsley*& Co.

Crawfordsville, lnl.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE, Mortgage Loans, Real Estate.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE carefully cornpllfrom up-to-date abstract books. MONEY TO LOAN at lowest rates wltb privilege of repaying part of principal at any interest period.

ARMS FOR SALE, desirable land, well located and Improved, at reasonable price per acre.

HOUSEH AND LOTS in the city tor sale at very low prices. If you want to purchase or «ell real estate, or to make or renew a loan at a low rate of interest, please call and consult me at my ofilce.

Thos. T. Mtsnhall.

Abitracter, He*l Estate and Loan Agt, 123H K. Matn Rt. o»nr Laoey'n Boolr Htore

MONEY

cor.s.is bulletin, which is

entitled ''Mome.-rV Animals in Barns and Kii'-losure»:. Not on Farms or Ranges."' Still it is interesting to nr-te that Indiana h:v» 127.2.17 horses. mules, ii, 12." sheep and 7!.2.S7 swine answering ihis description. It seems strange, however, that Union county has not a single mule in this category, and there will probably be a kick coming from that part of the state on this particular item. Roone, Clinton Hancock. Miami. Parke. Putnam,* Rush, Steuben. Warrick and Washington counties are reported to be without a goat to their names, while Allen county leads the state with a goat population of 70, which will be accounted for in Terre Haute, which boasts only 10 goats, on the theory that they are used as models for painting bock beer s!gns.

GEORGR B. LOCKWOOD.

Fens at half price at the Golden Rule.

BOOKS 5C at the Golden Rule.

LOAN

We now have an unlimited amount of money to loan on Improved farms at 5 per cent, interest, prantinR the privilege of paying any or all of loan at the end of first year, or any time thereafter. No gold ncte. Pay all Interest and partial payments at our olflce. Wo ask no appraisement and examine all farms ourselves. No publicity whatever. Money on dnpusit and can close loans without delay or red tape. Call or write us for further particulars.

KLIAXK C. EVANS CO. 107 North Green St.

Office with A. 9. Clement*. Aeent Home of New York.

The Crawfordsville Trust Company..

is authorized by law to act as Executor, Administra- ». tor, Guardian. Receiver.

Assignee. Trustee, and General Agent. Interest paid on time deposits, property cared for, and consultation as to wills

v- and investments free. Office—Corner Main and Green, over the American.

DIRECTORS

A. F. Ramsey, Silas Peterson, P. C. Somerville, D. VY. Rountree, T. N. Lucas, F. P. Mount,

Zack Mahorney.

Estate of John Vyse. deceased. OTICi-. OF APPOINTMENT.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and duly qualified as administratrix of the estate of John Vyse, lute of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

JIIELEN VYSE. Administratrix.

Dated December 15. 1900-12-21-31

OTJCE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Christopher Landis, deceased. In the Montgomery Circuit Court, September term, 1900.

Notice is hereby given that Mary F. Landis as administratrix of the estate of Christopher Landis deceased, lias presented and filed her accounts and vouchers in llnal settlement of said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said circuit court on the 14th day of January, 1901,ut 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 notitied to be in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 18th dav of December, 1900. MARY F. LANDIS. 12-21 2t Administratrix.

OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS.

Probate cause No. 2,803.

Leonard E. Acker, executor of the will Edward T. Jennings, deceased, vs. Caroline Stewart et al.

In the circuit court of Montgomery county, Indiana. September term, 1900. To Mollie Marshall, child and heir of Edward T. Jennings, deceased.

You are hereby notitied that the above named petitioner as executor of the estate aforesaid, has tiled in the circuit court of Montgomery county, Indiana, a petition making you defendants thereto, and prayins therein for an order and decree of said court authorizing the sale ol' certain real estate belonging to the estate of said decedent, and in said petition described, to make assets for the payment of tbe debts and liabilities of said estate, and has filed an affidavit showing that said defendant is not a resident of the state of Indiana, and whose residence is unknown to this afliant, and that said petition, so tiled and pending, is set for hearing in said circuit court at the court house in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on the 30th judicial day of the January term. 1900, of said court, the same being the 16th day of February. 1900.

Witness, the clerk and seal of said court, this 18th dav of December, 1900. DUMONT KENNEDY, Clerk. 12-21 3t