Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier 10 cents Per year, by carrier 15.09 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail ,$2.50 Single copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. DISREGARD THE FACTS Driven to desperation and utterly frightened by the loyal and unswervering following accorded Congres* man John A. M Adair by the old soldiers and the voters Os the better element of all parties of the Eighth district, the Cromer-Hawkins-Sulloway crowd of political shysters, through their hired medium, the Muncie Star, have don e just what hag been expected by those who know this crowd best and know'their utter disregard for veracity when false statements suit their purpose better. They have, in face of the Congressional Record and uncontrovertible facts written and caused to be published in the Muncie Star of July 15, what purports to be Mr. Adair’s record on pension bills, in which they say 4i e secured the passage of only six special pension bills during the last session of congress, names them out, and declares that this is the sum total of Mr. Adair's labor jn behalf of the soldiers and soldiers’ widows. Now th e truth is Congressman Adair secured the passage of twelve pension bills through both houses of congress and twelve of .them became laws, as follows: Anestalia Seiss, Portland, Indiana; William Saunders (now deceased), Portland, Indiana; Albert Burris, Geneva, Indiana; Samuel Fetters, Geneva, Indiana; William Angel Bluffton, Indiana: Rachel Travis, Bluffton or Poneto, Indiana; William Smith, Union City, Indiana, R. F. D. No. 38; ■William F. Crouch Elwood. Indiana, R. F. D.; George L. Shaw, Elwood, Indiana; John B. Mendenhall, Dunkirk, Indiana; Earl W. Soper, Dunkirk, Indiana and Alexander Hyde, Pennville, Indiana. —Portland Sun. Ail of the speeches made in the national Democratic convention wer e of the highest order. Even some of the Republican papers hav e admitted that the addresses of Temporary Chairman Bell of California and of Permanent Chairman Clayton of Alabama, were, in point and fitness, superior to those delivered by the perriding officers of th e Chicago convention, Senators Burrows and Lodge. The nominating speeches were all exceptionally good. The honor of putting Mr. Kern’s name before tbe convention for th e vice presidency fell to Thomas R. Marshall. Mr. Marshall had no opportunity to prepare a speech in advance, but his extemporaneous effort was so extremely apt and eloquent that it captured the convention and brought him high praise. Through all of the speeches made in the convention ran notes of confidence, earnestness and conciliation. The result was that when the work was finished everybody had, so to speak, "a good taste in his mouth.” As every one who has followed its course knows, the Indianapolis News has supported every Republican candidate for the presidency since Grant’s time. If it follows its usual practice it will find som e sort of excuse for supporting Taft. But just now the News has a pretty clear vision about some things. In an editorial it says: The feeling is no doubt widespread, and is at present growing, that Bryan, in this campaign, represents th e popular aspirations, as Rosevelt did, better than Taft does. There is a feeling that the Chicago candidates and platform are rather to be counted as reactionary; that they have made peace with Wall street and the money power, H and that predatory wealth roars for them hgntly as any sucking dove. • • The Democratic party has turned to Bryan becaus e he represents the pop-

jular protest against the tendencies in J our institutions which Roosevelt made great headway against And this turning is the stronger in the view of many because the Roosevelt course cannot be looked for under Taft; that with Republicanism as defined at Chicago the voic e may be the voice of Roosevelt, but the hand is the hand of Wall street. WAS AGAINST GUFFEY. Abram Simmons, delegate at large from Indiana to th e democratic convention at Denver, contradicts and brands as wholly incorrect certain dispatches which were sent out from Denver during the convention to the effect that he supported Col, Guffey, of Pennsylvania, in his fight to seat a contesting delegation. Mr. Simmons voted in favor of the ifryan delegates all the time and never supported Guffey for a minute, either by word or vote. THEY ENJOIN THEM Property Owners and Bluffton City Council Have a Mixup SANITARY INSPECTOR A Little News from Surrounding Neighbors Bluffton is enjoying the excitement of an injunction suit against the members of the city council, enjoining them from entering into contract for the improvement of three of her streets. The injunction followed the arbitrary action of the council in refusing to recognize a remonstrance signed by nearly every property owner affected. The irate citizens took their offense to heart and will now fight in court, adding collusion and other elements of spice in order to make the thing look real. Bluffton has what they are pleased to term a sanitary inspector. He is clothed with the law and will personally nose around in all back yards looking for anything and everything that ha s a tendency to smell bad. The Jay county council have had a special meeting, they being called upon for special appropriations. William Kaough sues the Mcßride Electric company for SI,OOO damages on account of injuries received in a runaway received several weeks ago. Th e plaintiff was seated in his buggy when a horse owned by the Mcßride company ran away and dashing into his rig, overturned it. Mr. Kaough was physically injured and his buggy was badly damaged. Henry and Guy Colcrick are his attorneys.—Ft. Wayn e Journal-Gazette. o NEWS FROM GENEVA. Sam Acker Has Opened His Store to the Public. H. A. Fristoe returned on Friday from Winona, where he has been outing for the week. H e reports great advantages and attractions at that renowned place. This was temperance week and renowned speakers, including Geo. R. Stewart, of Tenn., were present to participate in the program Mr. Sam Acker, successor to Acker and Teeple, will open the store on Saturday under his own management. He has completely overhauled the business rooms, made additions to the stock and rearranged the entire business. Mr. Acker knows how to please his customers and it is needless to say that he will have hosts of them to deal with. - The Junior Leaguers under the management of Miss Mary Scheer, their superintendent, picniced on the banks of the Wabash last Thursday afternoon. More than forty of these young people, with some older ones to make a good crowd, were in attendance. Evrybody had a good time. The Methodist church has just bought eighty-eight new hymnals for use in their services and still another order is to be made later. The result will be that the congregation will be entirely supplied with books so that all can take part in singing. Rev. Mr. Myers, pastor of the U. B. church in Geneva, and Rev. Mr. B pastor of the U. B. church east of town, have united in holding tent meetings. These meetings are of the revival order, especially in the interest of Christian holiness. They expect to conduct services for at least on e month.

A NEW RAILROAD Singular Record in Railroad Building Was Established on July Ist SUDBURY WAS SCENE Second Direct Communication With Toronto Within Sixteen Days A singular record in railroad building in Canada wag established on July Ist, when Sudbury, two hundred and fifty miles from Toronto, and the town of the greatest nickle mine in the world which is controlled by American capital, had its second direct railroad communication with Toronto, the manufacturing metropolis of Canada, within 16 days. The second line to be opened since June 15th, will be the Canadian Northern Ontario railway (part of the eastern division of the Canadian Northern, which has 3.300 miles of track through the great wheat belt of western Canada) which for a year has been running from Toronto to Parry Sound, alongside the wonderful Muskoka lakes, and which has been extended to Sudbury, through a wild and rugged country that abounds with rivers and lakes full of fish, and is roamed over by thousands of red deer, and which, as it is’ immediately south of the nickle copper, iron and silver mines that are proved to be among the richest in the world, also likely contain large deposits of minerals. For instance, Mr. J. T. Kerr, of Detroit, who getting into the French river district on construction trains, did a little prospecting, has already arranged to take'® party of prospectors to work for the rest of the summer. He writes, “The assay of the quartz discovered has proved quite satisfactory, so I decided to go back and commence operating." The new railroad will bring the ore from the Moose Mountain mines, about | 30 miles north of Sudbury, to Key Harbor, the port which has been establish-1 ed on Georgia bay, with an initial ca-! pacity for handling 8,000 tons per day, and which brings Cleveland and other iron manufacturing cities 500 miles nearer to mines than they were when they had to depend upon supplies via Duluth. The town at the Moose Moun- 1 tain mines has been called ’‘Sellwood’’ after the vice president of the Moose Mountain Iron company (the president is John W. Gates, of New York) and shipment will begin as soon as the docks are completed, which, it is ex-, pected, will be sometime in August. Key Harbor is at the mouth of Key inlet, about six miles south of the outlet of French river, which will, some day, be the channel of the Georgian ’ Bay canal, taking western grain via Lake Nipissing and the Ottawa river to Montreal, saving about 400 miles haulage to tidewater. It is remarkabl e that the French river should receive railway service in I the year that the tercentennary of the I founding of Quebec by Champlain is I being celebrated. The French riser was navigated by the French explorer, nearly three hundred years ago, on his way to stay with the Huron Indians, prior to a raid with them upon the Iroquois, south of the St Lawrence. Indeed, Champlain camped on the site of modern Key Harbor, where some interesting relics were discovered when work on the port began a year ago. The whol e French river region is a delight for fisherman, canoeist and camper, and already many Americans, who know something of sport in Canada. hav e arranged to spend their vacations among the woods and rocks and waters of this hinterland of Georgian bay. Th e Canadian Northern Ontario railway makes access to the French river remarkably easy, for, instead of a long, roundabout and tedious journey ther e is a first class daily passenger service with parlor and dining car accommodation. With the development, of mineral traffic from Sellwood to Key Harbor, and also to Toronto, where a smelter, capable of employing 15,000 men is planned, the wilderness through Chaplain passed wiil become on e of the most profitable localities on the continent. o GETS A VERDICT (Continued from Page One) gas supply may be materially reduced the coming winter unless several new producing wells can be added to the supply as it will terminate th e supply obtained from the Warren and Indiana and the Fulton Drilling company and will be turned into the mains of the Wabash Valley Gas Co., supplying Geneva, Decatur, Bluffton and other cities.

BOTH LIABLE TO PROSECUTION v Internal Revenue Ruling on Denatured Alcohol. That both the physician who writes the prescription for denatured alcohol and the druggist who prepares the prescription and sells the medicine to the patient are liable to criminal prosecution is held in a decision rendered by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Capers. The decision is the result of the action of some druggists wto prescribed denatured alcohol for external medicinal purposes, not knowing that to do so was in violation of the law. The decision says in part: “The second section of the law regulating the sale and manufacof denatured alcohol |>pitovides fine and imprisonment for any person who uses denatured alcohol for manufacturing the beverage or liquid medicinal preparation, or knowingly sells any preparation made in part or wholly from such alcohol. o THE SOCIAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Parks, of Near Magley, Were Agreeably Surprised LADIES’ AID SOCIAL Ladies’ Historical Society Held Meeting With Mrs. M. Burns At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Parks north of Magley, was the scene of a gay time when her music scholars and their parents surprised her Tuesday evening by coming to her home masked. The evening was pleasantly spent in music, waltzing and playing ■ games. At a late hour ice cream and . cake was served after which they departed, wishing Mrs. Parks many I more such happy events. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Porter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Neuenschwander and family, Mr 1 and Mrs. Robert Stewart and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Grim and family, ■ Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Longenberger and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Barger and family, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Shady and daughter, John Barger, Rosa Haffner, Nettie Frauhjger, Ada Elliott, Sadie Berger and Edward Neuenschi wander, Mr. and Mrs. Parks and family. Mrs. John B. Meibers entertained at a six o’clock dinner Mrs. Ellen Dur--1 bin, Mrs. U. Deininger, Mrs. G. Berling in honor of Mrs. Durbin, of Peru, Ind. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the i Union Chapel church have made all ’ arrangements to give an ic e cream ■ social at the home of Louis Murphy the first hous e north of the Union Chapel. The time is this evening and the public is cordially invited. The Ladies' Historical Club of the city .held a business meeting, at the ■ home of Mrs. Burns last evening. The meeting was attended by a large crowd and many business matters wer e discussed, among them being the arrangements for their next years’ meetings, which will probably begin early in the fall. At the close of the meeting a social hour followed, during which dainty refreshments were served by the hostess. The regular monthly meeting of the Knights of Columbus will be held on next Mkmday evening. A good attendance is desired as special business will be transacted and it is important that every member be present. T. H. Ernst and Trustee Hite are home from a ten days’ sojourn at West Baden, where they drank the water and are now feeling much improved. Dr. D. D. Clark returned this afternoon from Chicago, where he has completed a course of special training in surgery. The physician was called home two weeks ago on account of the illness of his daughter and I he returned to finish the course. —o—- > JUST EXACTLY RIGHT. r “I have used Dr. King’s New Life 1 Pills for several years, and find them I just exactly right,” says Mr. A. A. » Felton, of Harrisville, N. Y. Nw Life . Pills relieve without the least discomfort. Best remedy tor constipation, biliousness and malaria. 25c at all druggists.

— # John W. Kern of Indiana Bryan’s Running Mate One of Democracy’s Most Valiant Champions—A Man of High Ideals and Sterling Worth. Excellent Campaigner—A Stump Speaker Second to None In the Hoosier State.

By GEORGE H. PICARD. JOHN WORTH KERN, the mat> who has been chosen by the Denver convention to be the running mate of William J. Bryan, is known as one of the most valiant champions of Democracy in the Hoosier State. It is true that in the majority of the political contests in which he has figured he has been on the losing side, but that has not had the effect of lessening his popularity or relegating him into the obscurity whit'll is the usual fate of the oft defeated candidate for political honors. It is admitted by all of those who are at all conversant with the political situation in Indiana that Mr. Kern is far and away the most popular Democrat in the state. This fact has been made apparent on numerous occasions. He has been twice honored by bis party with the nomination for governor and has also been the Democratic candidate for United States senator. It is not by his political associates alone that Mr. Kern is held In high repute. Men of all political creeds have learned to like him and to appreciafe his sterling worth. Although ever since his entry into political life he has been accounted an extreme party man, he has never permitted himself even during the heat of a political campaign to indulge in personalities

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or descended to the abuse of any of his political antagonists. He is esteemed throughout the state as a man of high ideals and pure motives. In 1900 Mr. Kern received the nomination for governor, but he went down to defeat with Mr. Bryan. Again in 1904 he was given another opportunity, but the sorry political fortune of the previous campaign was repeated. Although he was regarded as one of Xir. Bryan s stanchest friends, he was the first Indiana man of any especial prominence to come out for Judge Alton B. Parker, whom he supported loyally without in any way endangering his friendship for the man from Nebraska. Thus it is that he is today one of Mr. Bryan s closest friends and admirers. Mr. Kern Is a native son of the Hoosier State, born in Howard county near Kokomo, le 1849. He Is of southern extraction, his father having emigrated from Virginia in 1836 and becoming one of the pioneers of Howard county, where be practiced medicine for several years. When John was five years of age his parents decided to remove to lowa, and the family remained in that state until the lad was fifteen. Soon after the Kerns had returned to their old home their son entered the State Normal school and after a short period of preparation became a district school teacher in Howard county After he had succeeded in saving a little money he entered the University of Michigan as a member of tbe freshman class. His means were not sufficient to admit of regular attendance at the university, and he was obliged to take several long intermissions in order to earn the money necessary to complete his course. But he was resolute in the determination to obtain an education, and he permitted no hardship to turn him from his purpose. When he was graduated he carried off all the honors to which he was eligible, and his record was most gratifying of any member of the class. Successful at an Early Age. At a very early age Kern had decided to enter the legal profession, and when he returned home from college he set about the achievement of his heart’s desire without delay. As soon •» he was admitted to the bar he hung

out his shingle in Kokomo and began business on his own hook. From the very first day be was 8 pronounced success In obtaining business, and his luck in bringing his cases to a favorable conclusion soon became proverbial. In an incredibly short time be established a business second to none In the prosperous county town, and bis prospects were exceedingly bright. He came by his political creed very naturally. His father was a so called Democrat of the old school, having Imbibed his political ideas in the atmosphere of Monticello, near which he was bom. Thomas Jefferson was the elder Kern’s political ideal, and he made a point of training his clever son in the same faith. Outside of his immediate home circle young Kern received little sympathy in his political predilections, for Howard county was overwhelmingly Republican, and a follower of any other party was in a hopeless minority. Thus it was that the young lawyer traveled a rather hard political road in his early days. A Man of Nerve. This preponderance of Republican sentiment in his immediate vicinity, however, did not discourage him. He realized that be was fortunate in having established a reputation for ability and uprightness in a community which

was so opposed to him in political views, and he accepted the situation and devoted himself to the task of building qp his business. It was not long until he had arrived at a legal eminence which seemed to him sufficient to warrant a flight into the political field. With this end in view he came out as a candidate for the legislature and at once entered on a vigorous campaign. Although the circumstances of the case did not seem to justify the experiment and all his friends were opposed to the venture, he actually came within a few votes of securrng the election. He carried the city in which he lived, but could not secure the country districts. It was actually a great triumph for the voung Democratic lawyer, and it added Im. menscly to bls reputation as a man of way detn ’/I 1 ?™ wa * elected «ttorexnlred OkOmO ’ “ n<l bls term «P he was accorded a re-election While serving in this capacity h e mad. an excellent record. During his two and ord " ’ere and it became a current saying in Kohomo that there was n ( , „ , bolt tbe door a?iong as K “ ty to the watch. ongas waaon In the state election of 1884 Mr Kern was elected reporter th fl diana polls and soon b(> SetUed ln In ’ Identified with the and policies of th st IDeSS Crests He wa i elwted to ca Pltallegislature. From in the Kern was city attornef of tod M " ' »nder Mayor Tom Tamrt th anapolls al chairman of th- nation " He took a very : P-eat political battle of iU?* the identified with the fort n Md waa in the staSVIX. 01 Redhot Campaigner. ’ into wffich r Mr° I Ke^ mpaign Os 1904 > ' drafted by M Practically 1 «» impaired physi^rrondi’H'^ l him Title, for Be “ - busing

from home to recuperate. He con ducted a whirlwind campaign that year, making a great number of speeches and traveling over a greater part of the state. Ha is regarded as a redhot campaigner and is an orator of force and eloquence. H e was the friend of Hendricks and Voorhees and served with those great political lights In many well fought battles. Mr. Kern is above the middle height of slight build and active nervous temperament An able constitutional lawyer, he arraigns the present R®. publican administration severely f or usurpation of power and the state administration for Its enactment of ths so called “ripper” bill, which he claims was used for partisan purposes by the Republican governor. Mr. Kern Is dark haired and has a crop of flowing whiskers and Is a most impressive perBonality generally. Family Socially Prominent. The Kern family is prominent socially in Indianapolis. Mrs. Kern Is a brilliant woman, endowed with a lively wit, and the Kern home Is tbe center of a refined circle composed of tbe most intellectual people of the notably intellectual capital of Indiana. It Is no secret that the Kern boom has been the particularly pet hobby of the Democratic chairman, Tom Taggart, who announced to his friends on the eve of his departure for Denver that he should never return unless John Kern were given the nomination for the vice presidency. It has long been known in Indiana political circles that Taggart has always considered his friend to be first class presidential timber, and he saw no especial reason why he should not be given first place on the ticket if tbe Nebraska man failed to make good. Taggart’s determination to promote tbe advancement of his friend was the cause of much merriment at Denver, although those who are personally acquainted with the nominee are of the opinion that Kern is big enough to justify the chairman’s admiration. When His Aim Was Poor. A story illustrative of Kern’s disposition to grow restive under disap. polntment comes from Indianapolis. When he was a member of the state legislature he introduced a bill which was defeated. It was a matter in which he felt a great personal interest, and when the vote was counted against it he rose in his place, accused the speaker in no undecided terms of killing his bill, and, hurling a bulky typewritten copy of the measure at the bead of the presiding officer, shouted, “If you won’t pass It, eat it 7’ Fortunately for everybody the irate legislator's aim was defective and the ponderous missile went wide of the mark. The speaker saw the humor of the situation and was disposed to make a joke of it So it happened that the hasty legislator did not suffer from the consequences of his Indiscretion. It is altogether to his credit that a short time for reflection convinced bim that he had been an offender and be lost no time in making the proper apology. The friendship between Taggart and Kern is really something out of the ordinary. At the St. Louis convention the latter might have been' considered seriously as a vice presidential candidate but for his determination to put no obstacle in the way of Taggart’s candidacy for the national chairmanship. When the party leaders went to Kern and almost importuned him to permit them to use his name in connection with the vice presidency he declared that he would not be mentioned for the place because he wanted Indiana’s share of the glory to go to Taggart, who was a man that deserved all he could get He even went to New York to urge Judge Parker to stand for Taggart for the chairmanship. He obtained a proxy from a western member of the committee, and he it was who ’placed Taggart in nomination at the meeting in New York at which his friend was made chairman. A Free Silver Champion. Perhaps the most telling charge which will be made against Kern in the coming campaign Is his more or less sudden conversion from an ardent advocate of gold coinage into a champion of free silver at 16 to 1. It will be remembered that at the outset ba was a gold advocate, speaking at a public meeting Ln Indianapolis in 1896 against what he then termed the "free silver craze.” The leaders of the gold movement remembered Kern’s “desertion," as they were pleased to term IL and when he ran for governor they withheld from bim many of the votes which he might otherwise have controlled. But in spite of his somewhat mixed political tendencies Mr. Kern is certain to find many warm friends in Indiana among the members of all parties. Personally he Is liked by al' most everybody. Schoolboys’ Weather Observations. An Interesting method of instructing boys in that part of nature study Pertaining to the atmosphere has been devised by John Reid, the headmaster of the Reekleford Council school at Yeovil, in England. Each day of tbe school week several boys are sent to the corporation gas works to copy tbe records of barometer movements and rainfall there kept, one or two less experienced lads accompanying then). Meanwhile other boys note the directlon of the wind and record the temperature from readings of thermometers huny in the open on the north and south sides of the school. The teacher of the class then enters the particulars on a sheet and encourages the scholars to make deductions from the collected, data. The boys copy tbe results, and every Friday they wrbe •a account of their observations in the form of "general remarks” on ’reek’s weather.