Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 10 June 1908 — Page 1

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT.

Volume VI. Number 139.

HON. JOHN A. M. ADAIR RE-NOMINATED

Democrats of Eighth Congressional District Hold Enthusiastic Convention

ADAIRS’ KEYNOTE SPEECH

Ringing Addresses by Hon. Thos. R. Marshall, Stokes Jackson and Others THE ORGANIZATION Adams County Men Honored—Judge Sturgis as Permanent Chairman Union City, Ind., June 10, Convention Hall. —(Special to Daily Democrat) —Midst the applause frcm hundreds of enthusiastic and sincere ad-

mirers, the Hon. John A. M. Adair was this afternoon nominated by the Democrats of the Eighth congressional district to succeed himself in congress. It was the first event of the kind ever held in this city, and Union City extended the hand of welcome in a most, hospitable manner. Every county in the district was represented by a delgation of from 100 to 300, and though there was not the least opposition to Mr Adair, the meetings were marked for thei r spirit and enthusiasm. The convention was held at the opera house, which proved much too small to admit the big crowd and overflow meetings were necessary. Many prominent men from all over the state, including Thomas R. Marshall, democratic nominee for Igovernor, Walter J. Lotz, candidate for attorney general, Stokes Jackson, state chairman, and others, were here and addressed the boys. The preliminary meeting was held at 11 o’clock this morning, when Judge James D. Ermston, of Anderson, was made temporary chairman, and Dale Crittenberger, also of Anderson, temporary chairman. The appointment of committees resulted as follows: From Adams county—Committee on resolutions, A. B. Bailey; organization, Henry B. Heller; credentials, C. O. France. Wells county —resolutions, Frank Dailey; organization, E, M, Ranier; credentials, J. C. Smith. Delaware county —Resolutions, W. R. Lindsey; organization. W. H. Knapp; credentials, Bryan Moffett,

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Madison county—Resolutions, W. A. Dehority; organization, Daniel Boland. Randolph county—Resolution, A. D. Johnson; organization, Fred Stock; credentials, J. Thomas. Jay county—Resolutions, R. H. Hartford; organization, C. E. Coder; credentials, D. Cromas. The convention proper convened at 1:30 this afternoon, Judge Charles 'J Sturgis, of Bluffton, being chosen as i permanent chairman and Dale J. Crit- > tenberger as secretary. Mr. Adair [ was placed in nomination by Hon. j Richard H. Hartford, of Portland, and the nomination was seconded by SenI ator John W. Tyndall, of Decatur, for Adams county. With a cheer that could be heard for blocks Mr. Adair ’ was chosen by acclamation. There ; were cries of “Adair,” “Adair,” from all parts of the hall and he responded I with an able, appropriate speech, ( sounding the keynote of his campaign. He was followed by Hon. Thomas :R. Marshall, who enthused the delegates and others present .with his oratory. It is certainly a wonderful ’ convention.

The committee on resolutions reported the following which was unanimously adopted by the convention: The Democracy of the Eighth district of Indiana, in delegate convention assembled, do hereby resolve and declare: First, That we wish to express to the people of beautiful and progressive Union City, of every political faith, our grateful l hppreciation of the kindly spirit in which they have received and welcomed us, and of their generous hospitality, and we assure them that their kindness and cordiality have contributed much to the pleasure of this convention and will ever be recalled and cherished by us in grateful remembrance. Second, That w e endorse the official acts cf our congressman, the Hon. J. A. M. Adair, who, by his distinguished services as a representative of all of I the people of this district, and by his able and effective advocacy and I support of good and wholesome legisI iaticn in the interest of the common people, and his steadfast opposition to all legislation inimical to their cause, has won for himself, and has attacted the attention of the entire country to our district; and we recall with pleasure and pardonable pride

the fact that, in all his official acts, he has been on the side of the common people, and against special interests. We especially commiend him for his independence in congress in conscientiously supporting all measures that, his judgment seemed for the best interests of the people of this district and of the country at large, unactuated by selfish motives, uninfluenced by partisanship, and regardless of whether those measures were proposed by democrats or by republicans.

He has earned the confidence and support of the farmers of the district by assisting in securing better appropriations for the agricultural department, thereby furthering the interests of the farmers throughout the country. He has won the esteem and confidence, and earned th e gratitude and loyal support of the soldiers of the civil war by espousing more liberal legislation in their behalf. He has, by effective and persistent effort, secured the allowance of hundreds of claims before the bureau of pensions. Since his term of office began, more than two thousand soldiers and soldiers' widows have secured pensions and increase of pensions, and the soldiers and soldiers’ widows of this district are now- receiving over SIOO,000 annually in pensions than they were before he entered congress. His speeches in congress were reproduced in all of the metropolitan papers of the country, and were made the subject of lengthy and most favorable editorial comment in all papers not controlled by special interest. Every promise that h e made to the people in the last campaign, he has faithfully kept. He has been true to his trust We are justly proud of him as our congressman, as we share in the honor and renown his achievements and fidelity to duty have won. For what he is, for what he has accomplished, and for what he can do w e commend him to all the people of this district for reelection to the high position which he has graced and made more honorable by his splendid ability, his sterling integrity, and his fidelity to duty. Thrd, We endorse the Democratic State Platform, and the Democratic state ticket,! jand iwe also endorse the Honorable William Jennings Bryan for president.

ADAIR’S ACCEPTANCE. Congressman Adair responded to th e call for a speech by delivering the following able address: Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I thank you kindly for this expression of confidence in me and this endorsement of my services as your representative in congress. Two years ago, on the 21st day of this month, you nominated me in the city of Alexandria, and in that convention I told you I would be elected. You are all familiar with the result of that campaign, but I am not vain enough to believe that the overwhelming majority by which I was elected was due to my own personality, or alone to my individual effort, but was largely due to the fact that this district was in the hands of a political machine, which was not only disrupting and disorganizing the Republican party, but was working a hardship upon all the people. It was thought when the election w’as over in 1906 that the machine was crushed and thereafter the party in the district would be controlled by the people. But recent developments have shown that the same man is still in control and if his candidate is successful in November, the postoffice appointments and nominations will be dealt out in the future, the same as in the past. Therefore the same conditions which justified five thousand republicans in voting for me two years ago still exist, and I confidently believe 1 will be re-elected by a larger majority than before. But, gentlemen, there are many more reasons why republicans will vote for me this year than there were two years ago. At that time I was making a campaign on promises and pledges. Now I come to you with pledges sacredly kept and upon the

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday Evening, June 10, 1908

record I have made as your Representative. I believe in honesty in polities as well as in business and despise corruption in all forms. I shall not ask, accept or receive from any corporation, campaign committee or individual a single dollar with which to bribe a voter of the district. If I cannot be honestly and fairly elected and go back to congress with a clear conscience and an honest record, I prefer not going at all. I shall not engage in a mud slinging campaign. I believe a candidate who is afraid to go before the people on his own merit, but bases his hope of success on personal attack or upon misrepresentation of his opponent, is unworthy of either your confidence cr support; therefore, I shall not enter into a personal controversy with my opponent, but shall go before the people with a plain, honest statement of what I have done in the past and what I hope to do in the future. What were the promises I made two years ago? I told you that if elected I would be in congress when it tvas in session, looking after the interests of the people, and that I would not spend my time back in this district building up a political machine to continue myself in power. Have I kept my word? In answering that question I refer you to the Record in which you will find that during the entire six months’ session just closed although we were called upon to vote hundreds and hundreds of times, I only missed two roll calls during the entire session. If you will look up the record of every man who served in congress from the earliest history of our government to the present time, I doubt if you will find another such record for attendance.

Some time ago I had a letter from a friend, saying. I had better come home and go over the district, as my opponent had gone into the campaign and was having published in the newspapers, false and misleading articles about my service. I replied to that friend by saying, that I had promised the people I would be in Washington when congress was in session, and that I would not violate that promise if it resulted in my defeat. I also promised the people that if elected, I would go to congress not as the representative of any political party, but as the representative of all the people, and that when I entered the house I would forget my politics and have in mind only the faithful discharge of my official duty. I told you I would support any legislation offered by President Roosevelt or a republican member, just as quickly as I would support it were it offered by a democratic president Or a democratic member, if 1 believed it to be in the interest of the people. I now call your attention to the fact that I have sacredly kept that promise and I ask you to examine the record and you will find from every vote 1 cast and every word I uttered that I <j>d not allow partisanship to enter into a single act of mine Mr. Cromer charges in his Muncie paper that I voted against the recommendation of the president for four battleships, but h e fails to tell you that I voted with a large majority of the republicans in the house for the construction of two battleships this year. Out of 225 republicans in the house, only 57 voted with the president and 166 stood -against his recommendation. I stood with the 166 republicans because I believed it would be a tremendous burden upon the people in times cf peac e to contract for four battleships in one year costing forty millions of dollars. In fact the speaker of the house and all the republican leaders voted as I did upon that question. With this one exception, I voted for every recommendation made by the president during the entire session. Therefore I am sure no honest man will contend that I have not kept that pledge made to the people. What else did I promise to do? I told the farmers of the district that I was born and raised on a farm and believed I knew the wants and needs of the farmers and it elected I would support all legislation that would be an advantage to them. I now recall the attention of the farmers to the fact that I supported all legislation that would be helpful to their interests. I believe the department of agriculture is one of the most important of all the departments of the government, and after making a study of the work it is doing, I became very much interested and insisted on a (Cofjttnoed <m pac* «-)

WAS RED HOT ONE Convention Names C. W. Miller for Congressman in Thirteenth ALMOST A FISTICUFF Convention Ignored Reports of Committees Amid Bedlam of Noises

Plymouth, Ind., June 9. —Charges W. Miller, who recently made a losing race for the Republican nomination for governor, had better luck today. He was nominated by the Republicans of the Thirteenth district as their candidate for the vacancy caused by tre death of Congressman Abraham L. Brick, and also for the full term of the Sixty-first congress. Mr. Miller’s victory over his antagonist, John L. Moorman, was all the more notable because of the revolutionary tactics that brought it about. The convention organization, including all of its committees, was controlled by the Moorman forces. The convention took matters in its own hands, rejected the majority reports of the committee on credentials and the committee on rules and order of business and refused to seat the delegates that a majority of the credentials committee certified as being regularly chosen. Old politicians cannot recall another instance where a congressional convention in Indiana has rejected the reports of its principal committees. Today’s convention w’as perhaps the hottest ever held in the Thirteenth district; At times it looked as if there might be a resort to fisticuffs, and almost from start to finish the convention was a bedlam of noise. Charges of chicanery and trickery were handed backand forth and loud angry talk was freely indulged in when the verdict was announced.

GET FLAGS READY Observe Anniversary of Its First Display Next Saturday A PATRIOTIC EVENT W. R. C. in Charge of Celebration—Special Program Prepared

Next Sunday, June 14th is Flag Day, the anniversary of the first display of our national emblem, and an order has been issued that the day be celebrated on Saturday. It is a patriotic holiday, the observance of which tends to add to the patriotism of young America. The W. R. C. of Decatur will look after the event here, Mrs. S, W. Peterson, patriotic inspector of the order being in charge, and she has requested us to ask every business man to hang out the American flag, the world’s most beautiful emblem. Display the stars and stripes at your home. It is a simple matter but a pretty and suitable observance in honor of a historic occasion. On sja urday ■■teniug a. suitin'* program will be given at the G. A. R. han in honor of the event, and the public is cordially invited to attend. The program for this occasion will be published in our issue of Friday evening. Watch for It and don’t forget to HANG OUT THE FLAG.

MAY GET OUT COUNTY MAP. Representative of Rand, McNally Company Here. T. W. Simmons, of Chicago, the Indiana manager of the Rand, McNally Map company, is in Decatur on an important mission. His company is planning a new Adams county map and Indiana state atlas, the map to sell for the extremely low price of $1.90 if a sufficient number of orders can be secured to justify the printing of same. Mr. P. H. Watkins has been appointed agent to look after the advance sales and has begun a canvass of the county to ascertain whether the people want such a map or not.

HUGH DAUGHERTY IS HONORED Chosen to important Place on DePauw Affairs. A president of DePauw university will be elected at a meeting of the trustees in Indianapolis next December, the new man to take the place of Dr. Edwin Holt Hughes recently elected a bishop by the Methodist General Conference in Baltimore, and who has been assigned to San Francisco. The date and place of the meeting was made known following the semi-an-nual meeting of the trustees Monday at Greencastle. At the meeting President Hughes presented his resignation, but it was declined until his successor can be named, and he will remain in charge. It was decided to appoint a canvassing committee, with Hugh Daugherty, of Indianapolis, as chairman, which shall report on a successor for the presidency as soon as possible. There are a dozen on the committee with Mr. Daughterly, including Rev. C. U. Wade. At the meeting Monday Mr. Daughterly was also elected president of the board of trustees of DePauw.

OFFICERS AROUSED William Whitcomb Created a Sensation Last Night at Midnight HE FILED A CHARGE Os Larceny Against John Woodward—Was Released this Morning

William Whitcomb, of north Second street, created quite a sensation last night at midnight by calling Marshal Fred Bohnke and Mayor C. O. France from their peaceful slumbers and filing an affidavit against John Woodward, an employe of the Decatur Lumber company, charging larceny. After arousing th e officers, Whitcomb informed them that Woodward, who was boarding at his house, had stolen picture frame moulding and paint from the Decatur Lumber company and that he (Whitcomb) had the goods which would verify his allegation. Mayor France issued an affidavit for the arrest of Woodward, and Bohnke made the arrest, landing him in jail shortly after midnight. Whitcomb was notified to appear before Mayor France this morning, but when the specified hour approached he was not there, and Woodward was released at once. It has developed since Woodward's incarceration that nothing was stolen from the Decatur Lumber company nothwithstanding the fact that Whitcomb showed the paint and moulding which he thought was stolen property and which he found at his home, where Woodward has been boarding for some time. Those who know of the case state that it was mere spite work on the part of Whitcomb.

+ A FEW ADAIR POINTS. * * Will not ask. accept or receive from any corporation, campaign + committee or individual a single dollar with which to bribe a voter. + Shall go before the people with a plain, honest statement of what + I have done in the past and what I hope to do in the future. + Only missed two roll calls during the entire session. If you look + up the record of every man who served in congress from the earli- + est history of the government, I doubt if you will find another such + record for attendance. * Stood with 166 republicans because I believed it would be a ♦ tremendous burden upon the people in times of peace to contract + for four battleships costing forty millions of dollars. ♦ Had the distinction of casting the first vote for the Employers' ♦ Liability bill. * Introduced a bill to increase the pensions of private soldiers, ♦ which bill w-as endorsed by 2.000 grand afmy posts, and I have + enough votes pledged to pass It during next session of congress. ♦ More pensions and increases have been granted by the bureau ♦ since my term of office began than had been granted in eight years ♦ previous, and soldiers and their widows are drawing SIOO,OOO an- + nually more than they were drawing before my term commenced. * My committee appointments the first session were equal to + those of my predecessor, after eight years of service. ♦ Succeeded in getting thirteen bills passed by the house and + senate, and signed by the president. The average to each member + was six. * Introduced a bill to repeal the duty on lumber, which, if enacted + into law, w T ould save the people of this district over SIOO,OOO in one ♦ year. The bill is still pending in the committee and I will never ♦ rest until it is enacted into law. * Want the same laws for every man, both rich and poor. If the ♦ millionaire violates the law, punish him the same as you do the man ♦ without property. Compel every man, no matter whether he lives ♦ in a cabin or a brown stone front, to obey the commandmant Thou ♦ shalt not steal.”

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LA DUKE ON STAND Told Story of the Murder of Marshal Croy of Woodbum IMPLICATES MILLER Says He Was Present and Participated in the Robbery The state produced its star witness in the Wdooburn murde r case yesterday, and the jury heard from the lips of Fred LaDuke substantially what he told the officers in his confession, after his arrest last winter. His testimony told strongly against Herman Miller, the defendant, but more so against John Stout, one of the quartet in jail for the crime. He said that Miller was implicated in the robbery of the Faulkner saloon and was present when Marshal Columbus Croy was shot and killed, and he also declared that. Miller was the instigator and perpetrator of the robbery of the Eby barber shop and had in his possession all the time th e cigars which he pretended afterwards to have fpund in the stove in his blacksmith shop. The state did not attempt to bring out that the pistol used was given to Stout by Miller, but it is possible this will be brought out in the later testimony. LaDuke will be up for crossexamination today, and it is noi unlikely that the state has reserved some of its evidence for the subsequent examination. As the evidence stands it shows Mllle r in the light of an accessory to the murder of Croy.—Fort Wayn e Journal-Gazette.

COMMENCEMENT TOMORROW. No Admission Fee—Everybody is Invited. Everything is in readiness for the second annual commencement to be held at the Lehman grove, Berne, tomorrow, beginning at 9:45 a. m. Quite a number from this city will attend, leaving here on the 7:14 on the G. R. & I. and returning on the afternoon train. The event promises to be very Interesting and the public is invited to attend. No admission fee will be charged. The program follows: Music Temple Quartet Invocation Rev. Frank Hartman Music Temple Quartet Class Address... .Rev. E. L. Brown Music Temple Quartet Presentation of Diplomas Prof. L. M. Sniff Music Temple Quartet Song “America” —By Audience .... Led by Temple Quartet The music will b e furnished by the Berne orchestra and the Temple quartet of Huntington Frank M. Cottrell, of Berne, transacted legal business in the city last evening.