Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1910 — Page 2

The Daily democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY. LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier ...10 cents Per year, by carrier >5.00 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 postofflce at Decatur, Indiana, as second-class mail matter. CAN NOT ENDURE HALF STANDPAT AND HALF INSURGENT Senator Cummins stated a fact when, paraphrasing Lincoln, he said that the republican party could not endure half standpat and half insurgent. There is a strong and natural effort to "get together" for the coming campaign, and it may be successful. But it will be meaningless for results, beyond success where this may occur at the polls. It will establish no principle for future harmony. One or the other idea must be given up. Either the insurgents are to go on and compel the adoption of their doctrine that a tariff must justify itself, or the standpatters must be able to prevail with their way of deciding in the counsels of the mighty what the traffic will bear and laying duties accordingly. Nor will it do to cherish the feeling that the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill will suffice to postpone the question. Events have shown that the people, not merely in the west, but in other parts of the country, are dissatisfied. Moreover, an engine has been set in motion that will render acquiescense impossible. It is the tariff board. Although a makeshift, and originally meant to be a preventive of a real tariff investigation, events before congress adjourned forced its recognition as a real force and gave it means sufficient to do its work. It wilt* report results, and, although it reports to the president alone, it is not possible in these days of publicity for the moral weight of its report to be ignored. So it is difficult to escape Senator Cummins’ conclusion. Some thing will happen. The republican party will either modify its attitude and return as the champion of popular rights, or it will harden still more as the special agent of the privileged few. The line of cleavage is clea-, for it runs on a principle, and that is government for the many with equal rights and opportunities, against government for the few with special privileges for them. There is to be, in short, either a reconstruction of the

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party on principle so that it shall stand again for the people, or the organization Is to become still more bourbonistic. —Indianapolis News. Roosevelt, when he speaks in Indiana this fall, doubtless will utter the same old things that some people think he believes. Hut as the Pittsburg Post says, he is a rank Cannonite. He prates of the people; he served the special interests. His deeds and his preachments collide. Later, when party warmth increases, he will utter a panegyric over Aldrich, fall on Taft’s neck and for a time uplift will be kept in the attic. lowa is evidently just about as tolerable to the mind of t'ncle Joe, Jim Watson, President Taft and others too numerous to mention as a summer resort is to Hades. Not only did the insurgents follow the stumping campaign of the standpatters with big gains in the congressional and state primaries but they take a stand in their platform which ’» a left handed jolt to the president. They endorse such efforts as he has made to fulfill the party pledges. The lowa people are showing their displeasures with the regular republican, the kind of republican who is in the majority among the leaders. —Columbia City Post. Senator Cummins certainly made a great speech at the lowa state convention—the best and most conservative presentation of insurgency that has yet been uttered —but it was not a republican speech any more than Vallandigham’s speeches during the Civil war were Union speeches. His prediction that "the republican party cannot endure permanently half progressive and half standpat," is probably'true, but the premises are not stated correctly. It cannot endure half insurgent and half republican, and if it so continues in that attitude there will undoubtedly be a realignment of political lines in the not distant future. —Huntington Morning Times, Rep. MUSICAL MONDAY EVENING. The Y. P. C. U. of the U. B. church will give a musical at the library ha.l on next Monday evening, August 8. 1910, the program will be ;--F follows. Music —Orchestra. Anthem —Choir. Instrumental Music —Miss Nelson. Solo —Miss Vera Hammond. Reading—Marie Ball. Instrumental Music—Mrs. Yoder. Song—U. B. Quartet. Music —Orchestra. Solo —Miss Zelma Nelson. Reading—Miss Grace Baxter. Song—M. E. Church Quartet. Instrumental Music —Miss Rex. Reading—Zelma Stevens. Pantomime —Three Girls. Music —Orchestra —. Conclusion. Admission 15c and 25c. o ATTENTION. All persons knowing themselves indebted to the U. Deininger millinery store should call and settle at once. 180t3 o Edwin Knoff is now handling the Bluffton Steam laundry. Best of work guaranteed. Office at his father's barber shop, next door to the Star air dome. Try it. 183t3

SOCIETY DOINGS Decatur Royal Neighbors Report Royally Good Time at Craigville. * WELL ENTERTAINED Mrs. Kuebler Entertains For Her Sister, Mrs. Julius Spies. J* FRECKLES AND TAN. Say, what are these wee little freckles And what In the world is the tan, That color and sprinkle all over The face of our dear little man? The tan is a heavenly mixture Os happiness, sunshine and joy. That darkens the shade of the roses That bloom in the cheek of our boy. The freckles are the scars from the kisses That angels, in loving embrace, There pressed, in a careless confusion. All over our little boy’s face. So here's to the boy with the freckles — The boy with the freckles and tan— These glorious imprints of heaven Have labeled him God’s little man. —Exchange. Miss Ella Charleston of Marion and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Harper were entertained at 6 o’clock dinner last evening by Mr. and Mrs. Milton Hower. Mrs. James Hurst delightfully entertained a company of friends at dinner and supper yesterday at her home on Sixth street. The company included Mrs. Sarah Cochran and hetdaughters, Mrs. Chris Weldy and Mrs. Maria Hartman, the latter of Detroit; and Mrs. Hurst’s mother, Mrs. Sarah Fisher. r The descendants of Thompson Roebuck have planned to hold their family reunion at Maple Grove park a week from next Sunday, August 14th. The occasion promises to be one of much pleasure and is being eagerly anticipated. The annual reunion of the Magley families will be held in the near future in Robinson park, Fort Wayne, the gathering comprising the families from Adams and Whitley counties. Indiana. and from various places in Ohio, being the grandchildren and great-grandchildren and great-great granchildren of one Christian Magley, who came to this country from Switzerland in the early part of last century. There will be in attendance at the reunion this year a distant cousin, Albert Magley, from Switzerland, who is a descendant of the branch of the family that remained in Switzerland when the brother came to America. The. Royal Neighbors of this city, numbering about twenty, who went to Craigville Thursday morning, where they were entertained in a royal manner by Mrs. Myers and Mrs. Roe, report the time of their lives. They left on the 7 o’clock morning train, and arriving at Craigville found the home beautifully decorated for their reception in the lodge colors of purple and white. At 12 o’clock they were all seated at the table, where a fine dinner was served, the dinner consisting of good things such as the Craigville

ladies only are capable of preparing, i Those present were Mesdames John Christen, John Glancy and daughter, Opal; C. C. Enos, W. H FledderJohan and daughter. Flora; J. Scheuman. J. Tester, granddaughter, Grace Schroll; E. Archer and children, Car). Florine and Helen; W • Richards, Swerrlnger and son, Milton; J. Jeffries, William Biggs, C. J. Weaver, Mrs. O. D. Weldy of Fort Wayne. Mrs. A. Pease. Mrs. D. Stanton, Miss Clara Coll of Craigville. Mrs. W. C. McKinney proved to be a delightful hostess yesterday afternoon to the C. W. B. M., which convened at her home. The regular program on mission work was carried o«t as announced, after which a social season was in order. Mrs. McKinney was assisted by her daughter, Mrs. George Steele, in serving cooling refreshments. consisting of sherbet, cake and iced tea with lemon. Mrs. Julius Spies of Cleveland. Ohio, who is visiting with her sisters, Mesdames Kuebler and Crawford, will be (Continues on page — o YOUR VERY FIRST CIRCUS. Do You Remember How You Planned and Dreamed? Can words describe the sensation that you experienced when you stand the names of things and could a circus parade? Probably not. Lots of us were in arms and too young to become thoroughly interested. But a little later in life, when you were old enough to walk and could underChristmas were on the list, but the distinguish between a brass band and a steam whistle, or a dump cart or a gold chariot—it was at that age that you really saw your first parade, for that age is probably as far back as your memory can carry you. It was about this time that circus day took precedent over every holiday on your calendar. You looked forward to the Fourth of July, you looked forward to the ten weeks’ vacation from school during the summer, and Thanksgiving and Christmas were o nthe list, but the circus leads the procession and trotted in a class all by itself. You recall how the first advertising car arrived in town, then the pictures on the billboards; then another advance car with the pretty lithographs in the windows of the store. From this time on everything went by the board in anticipation of the circus. You began to save your money. You were good to your mother. You ran errands without complaint and begged to be asked to run more. You never cried; you were never cross; you went to bed early for weeks without registering the semblance of a kick. And how you did buckle into the woodpile! But those are all memories of the past. The day of days has dawned when the circus has arrived. When you were very young you arose at 3 a. m„ after a sleepless night, and with a big brother or father wended your way to the place of unloading. A little later in life you did not go to bed, but sat up all night and convinced yourself that the night before circus day was the longest night of the year. After the first number on the day's program—unloading the show —came a short intermission. Then the parade. You stood on the sidewalk, the curbstone, or in the doorway; or perhaps you were perched in a tree or on a lamp post. How you did stretcn the cords of your neck looking for the first chariot with the band. And how you imagine every few minutes that you hear the band and would look again in the direction from which the parade was to come. First the big looking-glass chariot with the band on top. Then some more gold chariots, drawn by four, six, eight and ten horses. Then some cages with animals, and more wagons and more cages. Then some riders on horseback and more cages and another band. Finally the lumbering elephant, preceded by the men on horsebacK who shout “hold your horses." W’ell, that was your first circus parade. That was the first real circus thriTl that tingled the blood of your veins. From that time on you had the fever, and circus day becomes the star day of the year on your engagement book. Circuses have changed since those days, and parades have changed. Year by ”ear they have become better, larger and more stupenduous, more gorgeous. Year by year have been added feats of great daring, acts of greater merit, artists of greater ability. The Carl Hagenbeck and Great Wallace Shows combined present this year a super excellent pageant that is superbly stupendous. Not only in this way do they excell all previous efforts but the performance itself is given by the greatest aggregation of artistic talent that money can hire. The wonderful trained wild animal exhibition , the bears, the name of Hagenbeck, is considered the most exciting and most novel of all circus exhibits.

THE AVERAGE COST An Increase in the Cost of Deciding a Case in the Supreme Court. A COMPARISON Some Statistics on the Indiana Supreme Court and Their Record. I DEMOCRATIC NEWS BUREAU. 325 Pythian Building. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. s—(Specials—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Lawyers who have been criticizing the rulings of the present republican supreme court are finding some satisfaction in figures which have been prepared, showing that fifteen years ago the average cost of deciding a case in this court was >56, while today the figure is about >228. They argue that not only is it difficult for the plain citizens to obtain justice in damage suits against corporations, but that the rulings which go against them are costly beyond the bounds of reason. The figures which show the great increase in the cost of the work of the supreme court, deal with a period of four and one-half years and give a comparison of the work from January, 1889, to June, 1893, with a similar period of the present court's work. From January, 1889, to June, 1893, the supreme court decided 2,075 cases. The cost of these decisions was covered by four legislative appropriations as follows: >26.547.60, >24,300, >26,900, and >26.900, a total of >104.647.60. The average appropriation per an num was about >26,200. The number of cases decided in one year is computed by the following method: In four and one-half years, 2,075 cases were decided; thus in nine years the court would have decided twice as many cases, or 4,150. In one year the court woul have decided one-ninth as many, or 460. Dividing the average annual appropriaeion, >26,200 by 460. the average cost per case is found to be about >56. The present supreme court, with its republican judges, has decided 7991 cases in four and one-half years. The following appropriations have been made: >40,100 in 1903; >40.100 in 1905; >41.200 in 1907, and >41,600 in 1909. These appropriations total >163,000. By the same method used in the preceding Illustration the overage cost per case is found to be about >228. The average annual appropriation is >40,750. Take 800 cases instead of 799, for convenience, and in nine year sthe court would decide 1,600 cases. In oqe year, dividing by nine, 178 cases would be decided. Dividing the annual average appropriation. >26,100 by 178, the cast of each case is found to be about >228. Thus, the figures show that fifteen years ago. for a given period, the total appropriations were >104,647.60, as against >163.000 for the same period today; fifteen years ago 2,075 cases were decided in a given period, while today 799 decisions are handed down in the same length of time. It cost >56 to take a case through the supreme court fifteen years ago. To day it costs >228. o FOR SALE—Two milch cows, 21 shoats, 4 ewes, 6 lambs. —G. W. Cramer, Rural Route 12. 178 t".

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