Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 80, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 80

WATSON WON ON THE FIFTH BALLOT

Fierce Contest Closed at 3=30 O’clock This Afternoon

JAMES E. USED “POLITICS”

Required Strenous Measures But He “Got There”

EXCITING SCENES Efforts on Three Ballots to Stampede the Delegates Finally Worked PLATFORM ADOPTED County as Unit for Local Option—Delegates to the National Convention Indianapolis, April 2.— (Special)—James E.Watson was nominated on the fifth ballot. Madison county gave her 32 votes for Watson, a gain of four, Miller and Taylor losing. The effort to stampede the convention to Watson continued. Owen county cast her 8 votes for him. Park gave him 12, Ripley left Hugh Miller and gave Watson four and Miller five. Watson won by easy majority. Charles Miller withdrew when Wabash was called. At the time Watson had 730 votes, lacking six of enough. Wabash would have nominated him, but his selection was made unanimous on motion by Taylor, seconded by Hugh Miller. Indianapolis, April 2. —(Special) — The names of candidates who had no

opposition were read and selected by acclamation. The delegates at large to the national convention were Senators Beveridge and Hemenway.Gover- » nor Hanly and State Chairman Goodrich. The electors at large are exGovemor W. T. Durbin, Andersin, with Frank Jones, of Versailles, as contingent and Fred Gardner, of Indianapolis, with John Dyer as contingent. The nominations for governor then started. E. B. Bryan, of Franklin nominated Hugh Miller of the fourth district; James E. Watson was named by the sixth; Harry New of the seventh presented William Taylor and Rome C. Stephenson offered Charles Miller of the Thirteenth. The balloting then began. The convention has become a wild scene. First ballot—Watson, 606V*; C. W. Miller, 392%; Taylor, 284%; Hugh Miller, 184%. Necessary to choice,

The vo.e of Deleware county on the first ballot was contested. The names of all delegates were read and the vote was proved' correct, 26 for Watsin, 2 for Taylor and 3 for Charles Miller. There were a few surprises on the first ballot. Taylor had claimed 13 votes in Vigo and got only five, Watson securing seventeen of them. Charles Miler's district stood by him on first ballot as did Taylors and Hugh Millers. On the second ballot Charles Miller broke into Watson’s own district, securing a portion of the Wayne county vote. In Blackford county, on the second ballot Watson gained two votes and Taylor lost. Grant county’s vote was challenged on second ballot and resulted: Watson 17, Charles Miller 8, Hugh Miller 2, Taylor 4. Second ballot —Watson, 659; C. Miller, 390; Taylor, 259; H. Miller, 66. There was great excitement after the second ballot, when Watson slipped down from the balcony and began work among the delegates. He was seen some time later by Chairman Goodrich and put off. Charles Miller saw him and started for the floor, but was recalled. A trick play was carried out by the chairman when he announced Watson's vote lost,

thus making it appear that all the cheering was for him. Third ballot—Watson, 677; C. Miller, 360; Taylor, 257; H. Miller, 153. An effort to stampede the convention to Watson was made after the third ballot. Watson took advantage of it by standing up, smiling and bowing. It took fifteen minutes to quiet the howling mob into which everybody in the hall had joined. The excitement grew more intense each minute. It was still impossible to call the vote. Order was finally restored. Hugh Miller continued to lose in his own district on the fourth. Charley Miller gained in Allen county. Jefferson county broke from Hugh Miller, casting seven for Miller and six for Watson, and the convention again went wild, the wildest demonstration ever witnessed here. Banners were grabbed and men ran around the hall like mad. The band tried to drown the confusion, but it was impossible. Johnson county also broke, giving Watson two votes and another scene occurred.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday Evening April, 2 1908.

Fourth ballot —Watson, 726; C. Miller, 385; Taylor, 258; H. Miller 99. Indianapolis, April 2.—(Special)— With a crowd that completely jammed the Tomlinson hall before eight o’clock the republican state convention was called to order at 9:30 this morning. Watson men completely packed the galleries. At six o’clock this morning hundreds of Watson rooters with balcony tickets packed Market street. Mayor Bookwaiter, who is for Taylor, arrived at 6:30 Intending to prevent the packing of galleries for Watson. I The doors were not opened until eight o’clock, but Watson’s rooters were there for business and they stayed. The largest crowd that ever attended any state republican convention in Indiana is here. The report of the committee on platform was read first. The only demonstration given any plank in the platform was on the temperance plank. It reads: “We endorse and commend the Nicholson law and pledge the next legislature to enact in addition and supplementary thereto a county local option law, whereby voters of counties may decide whether to exclude saloons by vote at a special election.” Senators Beveridge and Hemen way received ovations when endorsed by the platforms and each arose and bowed acknowledgment. Harry New also received a demonstration. There was no loud applause when Fairbanks name was mentioned.

The platform includes planks favoring: An arbitration law. A plank indorsing the laws passed in Indiana regulating child labor and urging additional regulation of child labor as far as the constitution will permit. A plank advocating an employers’ liability law. Protective legislation for miners. A plank condemning convict labor when placed in competition with contract work. A law preventing salary increases of public officials from becoming effective during the incumbency of the officer working for the increase. Local option with the county as the unit and supplementing and not supplanting existing liquor laws. A suggestion for tariff revision, with a maximum and minimum rate in the revised schedule for negotiating with foreign countries, by special session of congress immediately after election, (congress meanwhile gathering data and information either by special congressional committee or a special commission. A plank advocating general currency reform, without the indorsement of the Aldrich or Fowler bills, but urging sufficient currency to minimize periodic money stringency, but so safeguarded that there will be no doubt of its redemption in gold. A plank pledging the party to progressive labor legislation. A plank declaring for the establishment of a mine bureau at Washington, D. C. A plank denouncing corruption tn public office and demanding more rigid economy in public office. Planks indorsing all that has been done by the party in pension legislation; favoring a small standing army and moderate navy; urging proper reg-

ulation of railroad corporations; indorsing all that has been accomplished along that line, and pledging the party to all additional safeguards; favoring the settlement of international difficulties by arbitration; asking an early completion of the Panama canal; favoring systematic, progressive and liberal improvement of public waterways; advocating a continuation of the reclamation service by which arid lands are made productive; favoring the preservation of the forests; favoring a law- providing for notice before injunctions can be issued where the destruction of property is involved and speedy trial for contempt of injunction before a different judge where practicable; urging a law providing for the codification of the corporation laws of the state; the appointment of the mine inspector by the governor and a new employers' liability law. —— 0 - ■ - CARRIED HIS LEG Brother of Chauncey Stetson of This City Had Thrilling Experience CUT OFF HIS LEG And Carried it Two Miles Before Relapsing—Died Two Days Later News, which with it, brought most poignant grief to Chauncey Stetson, of this city, has reached the city announcing the tragic death of his brother, Daniel, who, while felling a tree in the forests of British Columbia, got caught and had his right leg all but severed, death occurring as a result of loss of blood. The deceased visited here several years ago and was well known by the Joshua Parrish family and many others who made his acquaintance while he was the guest of his brother here. As will be ascertained by the following dispatch from Tacoma, Wash., the unfortunate man cut the threads that connected the injured member to the body and carried his severed leg in his arms for more than two miles before he relapsed into unconsciousness.

Tacoma, Wash., March 31. —Carrying his severed right leg with him, Daniel Stetson, logger, crawled through two miles of bush to tidewater at Toby inlet, B. C., got Into a boat and rowed another two miles down the coast to a logging camp before finally collapsing. Stetson was hand-logging alone. While felling a tree, he was caught as the tree fell. It crushed his right leg into a shapeless mass, practically tearing it off. Stetson completed the work by cutting the shreds of skin which remained. Although bleeding to death, he retained consciousness and laboriously made his way through the bush to the coast. Foot by foot: he crawled over logs and through swamps until he reached the water’s edge. Suffering untold agony, he got into a boat and managed to reach a small camp two miles away. Then he collapsed The men procured a launch and took him into Lund. From there he was conveyed to the Vananda hospital, where every attempt was made to save his life, but the shock and the loss of blood had been too much and he died. The deceased was forty-three years old and has a surviving divorced wife and son. —oOUT FOR THE FIRST TIME. D. A. Walmer is Recovering from Long Siege with Typhoid. D. A. Walmer was out for a short drive this afternoon, the first time since his illness nearly four months ago. Mr. Walmer has grown a thick beard and side burns since his last appearance in public, and coupled with the effects of his illness, would' scarcely be recognized by a casual observer. Mr. Walmer is very weak and thin, and it will be some time before he can be about, as he was prior to his illness. In view of the very serious nature of the typhoid fever and the many complications that set in, he is very fortunate to be as far advanced as he is.—Bluffton Banner.

TO PUBLISH THEM Democrats Trying to Pass Law Compelling Publication Campaign Expense TRYING TO REINSTATE Foraker and the Negro Soldiers—Land Fraud Trials in Progress Washington, April 2. —The Democrats of the house committee on the elec.lon of president, vice president and representatives in congress have agreed to put forth every effort to obtain the passage of a federal law to compel the publ'cation of campaign expenditures. The McCall bill, while strongly advocated by influential men of both parties has been pigeon-holed by the republican leaders. Now an effort will be made to bring about action on the bill. The Democrats will petition the chairman of the committee to report the bill to the house. The bill as agreed on makes several modifications of the McCall bill, so as to eliminate all possible objection on account of the claim that it would involve states’ rights. Another important change is one providing that, the preliminary publication called for in the McCall bill shall be given ten days before the election. Washington. April 2. —In reporting adversely from the committee on military affairs two bills for the reinstatement of negro soldiers of the Twentyfifth United States infantry, Senator Foraker said that he would not move an indefinite postponement, as is usual i.i such cases, but would ask that they go on the calendar. “At the earliest opportunity,” said Mr. Foraker, “I will call up the bill introduced by me for consideration and will ask the senate to disagree to the report and pass the measure.” Washington, April 2. —The trial of the land fraud case against Frederick A. Hyde, John A. Benson, Henry P. Dimond and Joost H. Schneider, involv. ing an alleged conspiracy to defraud the United States of valuable lands in (Continued cn page 2.)

THE SCARE IS OVER Quarantines Have Been Lifted in French Township and School Re-opens LOOKED SUSPICIOUS For a While but Dr. Miller and His Assistant Dr. McKean Do Good Work The French township farmers and their families who have been terrorized by the spread of that dread diseast smallpox, are again at ease as all traces of the eipdemic have been stamped out. Some weeks ago a man of French township went to Ohio for a visit and after returning he inoculated the community. Several of the patients were treated for chickenpox, and not enough precaution was taken for the prevention of its spread. After the afflicted persons broke out and it ■was ascertained that they were suffering from genuine cases of smallpox, Dr. J. M. Miller, secretary of the board of health, immediately set at work to prevent Its further spread, and as a consequence twenty homes were quarantined. Dr. T. J. McKean, of Linn Grove, was deputized to assist in the work. The people of the neighborhood became so alarmed that the fourth district school was closed about three weeks ago, but only after every pupil had been exposed. In the meantime Joseph Schwartz, of Wells county, moved to French township and his home was immediately quarantined. It was at one time suspected that genuine cases would exist in twenty different homes, but by the efficient and timely work of Dr. Miller and his assistant, Mr, McKean, the deadly germs are extinct. The school re-opened last Monday and the scare is all over.

ERIE HAD A CLOSE CALL. But Advance of Steck is Proof it Has Escaped Receivership, New York, April 1. —The announce ment today that the public service commission has approved of the proposed new issue of Erie railroad notes and declarations of railroad officials that all coupon payments due today would be met as usual were responsible for a much better feeling in financial circles regarding the future prospects of the company. It was predicted that the 15.500,000 notes coming due next Wednesday will eithed be paid off in cash or renewed on acceptable terms and talk of a possible receivership, heard on the market yesterday, died out. The renewed confidence in the road’s responsibility was shown in the sharp advances of its stock and notes on the exchange. While no authoritative statement has come from officers or directors in the "street” it is understood part of the prospective new issue of notes will be exchanged for those soon maturing, while others will be sold for cash to meet other obligations.

COURT HOUSE NEWS The Ed Young Damage Case Will Go to Jury this Evening HARD FOUGHT CASE New Partition Case Filed— Suit on Note Will Be Heard Tomorrow The $5,000 damage case against Ed Young and his bondsmen in which Mrs. Sarah Gleason is seeking to recover for the death of her son. Clem Boze, will go to the jury this evening. The evidence was concluded about .noon and the arguments are being heard this afternoon. The case has been one of the hardest fought of the term, the attorneys battling for every point. Attorney A. P. Beatty filed a new case entitled Warren W. McQuiston et al vs. Charles F. Felty et al, petition for the partition of real estate. City of Decatur vs. The Toledo, St. .Louis & Western Ry. Co. to collect S2OO for electric light rentjal, dismissed and costs paid. The case of Henry C. Davis vs. Fred W. Fuelling, suit on note, will begin trial tomorrow morning. Levi L. Baumgartner filed a Federal Union Surety bond for $3,000 as superintendent of the Mathias Miller ditch. The bond was approved. A marriage license was issued to Lloyd B. Campbell, aged twenty-one. a school teacher, and Florence B. Hettler, aged eighteen, both of Blue Creek township. Benjamin Habegger was granted letters of administration in the estate of Caroline Duer and filed bond for $1,300. o — FASTEST COLT IN INDIANA The fastest colt, by inheritance, ever foaled in Indiana, has been brought to Jay county, and is now at the Dell Palmer stock farm, south of this city. It is a brown filly, from Bernice. 2:07% and is sired by New Richmond, 2:07%. Both are race record for mares over half mile tracks at Titusville, Pa., on July 12, 1902. New Richmond, 2:07% is considered by many to be as great a race stallion as lives. His race at Galesburg, 111., where he stepped the sixth heat in a winning race in 2:07%, is seldom equaled. This is the third foal at the Palmer stock farm, out of mares with race records better than 2:08. Orval Roberts, of Warsaw, came Tuesday, and returned with the new team recently purchased' by Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist, in his summer driving. They are half sisters, both being sired by Stately, 2:11%, and are considered by judges of horseflesh, to be as fine a pair as ever left the Palmer stock farm.— Portland Commercial-Review. ——o The funeral of Jacob Reppert will be held tomorrow afternoon at one o’clock at the Magley Reformed I church.

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MARKET IS POOR Sale of Gravel Road Bonds Seems to be a Difficult Matter Just Now NO ONE WILL BID Wells and Cass County Seem to be at a Standstill on Improvements Bluffton, Ind., April 2.—Although the county treasurer and auditor have received many inquiries concerning the $133,000 worth of gravel road bonds for sale here no offers to buy them have been received since the bid of A. S. Kean & Co., of Chicago, who never followed up their offer made last fall. The question of whether or not the bonds will sell is especially important at this time, for contractors and farmers are anxious to know whether the roads can be built the coming summer and to know whether or not to plan for the work. Some of the petitioners are anxious also for the reason that if the bonds are not sold and the roads are not built under the petitions now on file the signers of these petitions will be liable for accumulated costs. These costs would be especially heavy in some Instances in Nottingham township, where several signed as many as eight and ten petitions. The Cass county board of commissioners also are unable to secure buyers for the gravel road bond's. According to the Logansport Tribune they fear that the bonds are taxable, along with the comparatively low rate of interest in such case, is one reason the bonds do not sell. The Tribune in part says: “The county commissioners held a meeting yesterday for the purpose of receiving bids for the gravel road bonds, but none were sent in. The commissioners did not decide whether they would re-advertlse or not. but it is probable that the matter will be dropped. The bids were for roads in Bethlehem, Washington and Jefferson townships. If the bonds were not taxable it is probable that they could (Continued on page 2.) A BRILLIANT TALK Was the Lecture of the Hon. George E. Clarke Here Last Evening LIFE OF BONAPARTE Taught But One Lesson, that of Self Confidence — Was Entertaining Hon. George E. Clarke, a distinguished lawyer from South Bend, delivered his lecture, “An Untitled Adventurer,” at the Bosse last night, to about four hundrea people, who thoroughly enjoyed his splendid abilities. He portrayed the life of the wonderful Napoleon Bonaparte in a manner that was interesting and entertaining. One of the principle thoughts of his address was the thought that no man, no political party, no community, no government can succeed without having full confidence in himself. Bonaparte was born in obscurity, poor and detested, but because he believed in himself and his power, he became the greatest emperor of all time, the king of kings, the master of the world. Bona parte’s career was spectacular and Mr. Clarke pictured it perfectly, in language sparkling and well chosen. In the great general’s life says Mr. Clarke, "there was absolutely nothing to love, nothing to emulate, nothing to admire." He died an exile, detested by all the world, because of his despotic methods when in power, and his wonderful success against such great odds is the only lesson his life teaches. Mr. Clarke is a brilliant lecturer and one of Indiana’s most promising lawyers, whose name was prominently mentioned for lieut lant governor at today’s state convention.