Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 8, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1910 — Page 1

Volume VIII. Number 234.

MARSHALL S GREAT SPEECH Indiana’s Executive Opens the Democratic Campaign at Tomlinson Hall

STATES FACTS ONLY Governor Stands Squarely Upon the Platform—A Great Document. WAS WILDLY CHEERED » Hosts Gather From All Over the State to Hear Popular Official. DEMOCRATIC NEWS BUREAU, 325 Pythian Building. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 4 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —An appeal to the people to follow principles, not men; a stirring defense of the rights of the individual citizen: an eloquent cry against state and national extravagance; a convincing exposition of republican tariff and tariff commission follies and an endorsement of local self-government and ot the democratic state platform on the liquor question are the features of a message to the people of Indiana delivered by Governor Thomas R. Marshall at Tomlinson Hall here last night. The speech was the governor’s first utterance of the campaign and his views on the issues of the day being eagerly anticipated, there was present an audience that filled the hall to its capacity. Cheers of approval marked the progress of the speech and great enthusiasm prevailed. Governor Marshall's definitions of the standpatter and the insurgent struck home and his declaration (hat the whole economic theory or government is at stake instead of a certain degree of such a theory was convincing. “This is said to be a fight between the people and the powers of pillage." said Governor Marshall. "Well, we democrats of Indiana have been warning our democratic brethren who have been voting the republican ticket for more than twenty years that this was so. May Ibe permitted to inquire who are the powers of pillage? Are they the men who make a schedule, or are they the men who formulate a principle that permits that kind of a schedule? “I am not ready to charge the republican party with being the powers of pillage in this country. I am, however, ready to charge that its doctrine of protection has been the germinating power of pillage. It is a party which is wrong in its economic theory' and it is the principle which constitutes, to my mind, the powers of pillage and not the men. All republican leaders are agreed upon the principle. They simply differ upon the extent of its application. It is the principle which has brought into being the evil and while the principle remains, the evil will remain. “I shall not make against the party as a party, the charge which its own members have made against it. It is a party of pillage by the statement of its own members and its own representatives in the greatest deliberate body in the world. It is a party of pillage according to their charge, not because it stands for the protective theory but because certain gentlemen were unable to accomplish their purposes in regard to certain schedules which went into the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. The gentlemen who make these charges are on a par with the man who told William Jennings Bryan that he believed in teetotalism if it was not carried too far. Upon the great economic question men may be misled and yet all be honest, but upon mere schedules, it seems to be a case of whose ox is gored." Governor Marshall reiterated the belief of the democratic party in local self-government. “It insists," said he, "that it is a doctrine which finds its

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source and origin in the nature of mankind and which cannot be changed by statutory law without producing friction and disregard of law." The governor said that men of one opinion, men whose likes and desires and beliefs ran along common lines, naturally banded in communities. “Men come together,” he said, “under the workings of a natural law and locally, they desire to manage their own affairs.” /‘Therefore, because I believe in the doctrine of local self-government and bcause I believe that the modes and customs of life of various communities should be settled by the people of these communities, and that a law which arises above the moral centiment of a community and which has been forced upon that community by outside influences, cannot be enforced, I advocate the adoption of the democratic declaration upon the question of the regulation and sale of intoxicating liquors. I am not for this declaration because I am in favor of saloons, nor am I in favor of it because I am directly or indirectly under obligations to any one engaged in the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors. I shall resent any effort of any interest in Indiana at any time to attempt to control the democratic party of Indiana. “It is sufficient for me to satisfy myself as to a principle of government. I stand, therefore, for the democratic platform for the reason that until some way shall be devised among men that the preaching of regeneration by the gospel of the Nazarene, I do not believe it is possible to enforce a law which is opposed to the sentiment of a community and I do believe it is far better to submit this question to the unites of government and to regulate the sale of liquor where they will have liquor, than it is to prohibit and make our citizens, lawbreakers, and what is worse than lawbreakers, citizens who have no interest and refuse to take any interest in the enforcement of the lAw. If men could be made wise and good and sober and industrious by law, then. I should be for that kind of a law. But as a people settle together to satisfy their own likes and dislikes, so have they a right to determine themselves how their personal habits shall be regulated. "From time to time I hear that the republican party is congratulating itself that it is the temperance party of the state of Indiana, and that it stands for county option. Well, I have never objected to the republican party standing for anything for which it wishes to stand, but I shall most absuredly object to its pretending to stand for things for which it does not stand. In the recent state convention it pointed with pride to a large number of things which it claimed to have done and which it said were worthy of the admiration of the people of Indiana. County option is conspicuous by its absence. It was omitted because it was thought to be a dangerous question and because the omission was to be used as trading stock so that the party could declare itself to be wet in wet neighborhoods and dry in dry neighborhoods, and thus fulfill the requirements that the real issue of this campaign is the republican party. “I think I am not unfair when I say to the voters of Indiana that they may well be careful on this question and see that they are not deprived of every option whatever by mere political trickery. The history of the republican party in Indiana is not so unblemished as to warrant it in saying that upon divers and sundry occasions it has not winked the other eye at the so-called liquor interests. I know that under the platform the option law can be repealed, I know that it has one judge on the supreme bench who declared the law to be unconstitutional. and another judge, a candidate for re-election, who also declares the law to be unconstitutional. s How its second candidate, who, if elected, will make a third republican judge, may stand upon this question,’ I do not. know. I do know that the democratic platform proposes to give to the people of this state an option law which will be so clearly constitutional (Continue won page 4.)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday Evening, October 4, 1910.

INJURED FINGER Brings Suspicion of the Law Upon Harry Straub—A Search Warrant. FAILS IN RESULTS Os Locating Goods From Laman & Lee Hardware Store. Let anyone with an injured finger keep rather shy of the law nowadays, for officers are looking for the person who broke into the Laman & Lee hardware store sometime prior to 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning, and they are confident that the person who did so has had so little rubbing up against cash registers that he let the cash register rub up against him in the attempt to open it and got pinched so badly that his life’s blood was left as the tell-tale. With that clue to work upon Night Policeman Melchi and Marshal Peterson got busy Monday and it was not long before they spotted Harry Straub with the knuckle of his right index finger pinched off. Evidence that the officers had collected, they say, showed that up to 11 o’clock Saturday night, when Harry had been playing cards at the Johnson rendezvous, the finger was still whole, fair and smooth as usual, and when seen the next morning, its lily-white perfection was marred by the aforesaid blemish. Night Policeman Melchi was thereupon instrumental in getting out a search warrant and the homes of Dan and Charles Straub, where Harry would be likely to hang out, were searched, but failed to show up any revolvers, pen-knives, etc., missed from the Laman & Lee store, and Harry was released from further suspicion. LYCEUM COURSE Interesting Series of Lectures and Entertainments to be Given—Auspices OF THE SENIOR CLASS Os Decatur High School— First Number October Eighteenth. Decatur people will be pleased to learn that another lyceum course, including lectures and entertainments, musical and otherwise, by some of the best talent on the platform, will be given this season under the auspices of the senior class of the Decatur high school, and the pupils will begin a ticket canvass for the same within a few days. Advertising matter will also be distributed and It is expected that this course will be given unprecedented favor, not only for the aid of the school, but also because of the great merits of the course. The first number of the series will be given October 18th by the Star quartet company, and will be an excellent musical entertainment. The other numbers are as follows: November 11, The Schuberts, a quartet of singers and entertainers; December 2nd, R. P. Niles, lecturer, author, traveler; January 26th, Booth Lowry, lecturer; February 22nd, Sidney Landon, character delineator. All are artists of the highest type from the Coit bureau, Cleveland, Ohio, and the public is assured that the coming season will be one of the best ever. o LEFT AT NOON. Mrs. Catherine McLain and daughter, Jessie, Miss Louise Hobrock and Mrs. Robert Blackburn left at noon over the Erie for Chicago on their trip to Los Ahgeles, Cal., where they expect to make their homes. They were joined by a friend at Huntington, who will accompany them there. From Chicago they will take the Santa Fe and go direct to their destination, reaching there next Saturday morning.

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ADAIR’S CONDITION. ♦ ♦ Congressman John A. M. Adair, ♦ ♦ East Arch street, who has been ♦ ♦ ill of typhoid fever for several ♦ ♦ weeks, was able to sit up a short ♦ ♦ while Sunday, the first since his ♦ ♦ sickness. He repeated the per- ♦ ♦ formance Monday and his attend- ♦ ♦ ing physician has promised him ♦ ♦ to be able to ride up town on ♦ ♦ Governor Marshall day, Tues- ♦ ♦ day of next week. —Portland Sun ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ o COURT HOUSE NEWS Mrs. Palmer Baker Asks a Divorce—Alleges Neglect and Non-Support. THE COMMISSIONERS’ Notes—Board Went to Infirmary For Dinner— Real Estate Transfers. Attorneys Fruchte & Litterer have filed a new case, Sarah A. Baker vs. Palmer Baker, suit for divorce. The parties were married December 30, 1908, and separated a year ago. Neglect and failure to provide are alleged. Mrs. Baker says her husband made her move five times in seven months, and finally housed her in an incubator building or chicken house. He was lazy and often remained in bed all day and sold the furniture which she had bought and spent the money. When he asked her to go to an immoral house to live she rebelled and went home to her mother. She asks that her maiden name, Sarah A. Sherry, be restored. A marriage license has been issued to Perry Workinger, 34, farmer, to Ida Gay, 20, daughter of George Gay. Real estate transfers: Mary Macklin to A. T. Macklin, 17 acres, Wabash tp„ >412.50; C. H. Heckman to Fred Heckman, tract in Root tp.. $5.500; Alex Bolds to Rosina Bolds, 40 acres, Hartford tp., $3,200; Amos Reusser to Fred Braun, pt. lot 363, Berne, $2,800; J. W. Smith to William Roberts, 80 acres, Jefferson tp., $7,000. The board of county commissioners allowed the bills, closed up their work and went to the county infirmary today to take dinner with Mr. Graber. The petition of Jacob J. Sprunger et al. for the opening of a highway in Wabash township was approved and the road ordered, the viewers reporting favorable. The Walters macadam road was accepted by the board upon recommendation of Engineer Ernst and Superintendent Conrad. The board filed the general specifications for blank books, etc., for the year 1911, which was adopted and approved. GETS CONTRACT To Upholster Remainder of Decatur Motor Cars. Wilber Porter, who has been engaged in the upholstering business for some time, has received the contract from the Decatur Motor Car company to make the cushions for the remainder of the cars they have on hand, numbering fifty. Mr. Porter has been working at this trade for some time and is an expert in his line and will no doubt do his part toward adding attractiveness to the already fast-selling car. A MILITARY BURIAL For Late 'Squire James H. Smith This Afternoon. Funeral services for the late James H. Smith were conducted this afternoon at 2 o’clock from the home on Ninth street, a large attendance of friends and relatives being present. The G. A. R. and W. R. C. attended in a body, the former being in charge of the services. He was given a military burial, the body being laid to rest in Maplewood cemetery . —o— NURSE IN ATTENDANCE. Miss Nulf, a trained nurse from Fort Wayne, arrived Monday to be in attendance on Mrs. Catherine Niblick, who is in very frail health.

THEY ARE BUSY Decatur Foundry Turning Out Large Amount of Work Daily. RECEIVE BIG ORDERS Are Becoming Quite Popular Throughout State — Many Employed. ” | One of the busiest places of this city in the industrial line is the Decatur Foundry and Machine Works, which for the past several months has been getting all the work and contracts that they can possibly handle with their present force of competent men. Just last week they completed a big job of installing a large elevator at the plant of the Red Cross Manufacturing company at Bluffton, and from the word received, it is o. k. in every respect. G. W. Tester, one of their employees, returned home last evening from Hicksville, Ohio, where he had been for some time, putting up one of their famous furnaces, which are also becoming quite popular as a first-class article throughout the state. Messrs. M. E. Fritzinger, Jacob Tester and John Schnitz also left Monday evening for South Bend, where they received a contract calling for one of their large elevators to be erected in one of the building belonging to the Standard Oil company, which is to be completed as soon as possible. Since the reorganization of this company some time ago, it has been running at a merry clip, and is now enjoying a liberal patronage, both local and toreign. They are known as being right up to the front in their line of business and are bound to succeed. A large force of men are at present being employed at the factory, and if the present business continues, the number will have to be increased to care for the business. SPELLING BEES Another Contest Will be in Order in County Schools Again This Year. ARRANGEMENT MADE At Meet of County Educational Board—District Contests in December. At a special meeting of the county board of education held at the office of L. E. Opliger, county superintendent of schools, it was decided to hold another series of spelling contests which found so much favor with all the last term of school. It will be remembered that district contests were first held to select representatives to the township contests; the winners in the township conests to represent the townships at the county contest, which was held last spring at Berne. It was decided to hold the district contests this year in December. The township contest will probably be held January 7th, and the county contest, probably on January 21st, though the last two named dates have not been wholly decided. The county contest will this year be held in this city, a decision which will find favor with many. The contest will be open to every pupil in the first eight grades of the schools of the county, and provisions have been made this year by which the grades of the schools of Decatur, Geneva and Berne may enter if they so wish, a privilege not given last year. The county board at its special session also filed their quarterly book reports. , o —- SERVE CHICKEN DINNER. Section 4 of the German Reformed Aid society will serve a chicken dinner and a fifteen cent supper in the Niblick building, first door south of this office, next Saturday, October Sth, the day Hon. J. D. Kern comes to town. They expect to have Mr. Kern as their guest at supper, During the evening they will serve hot hamburger sandwiches and coffee.

SUSPECTED OF TRAGEDY. (United Press Service.) San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The police of San Francisco are almost positive that three men giving the names of Leonard, Morris and Bryson, who purchased 500 pounds of dynamite from the Giant Powder Works at Oakland September 24th, are responsible for the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times and they are looking for them. — o THE BOYS IN LEAD Just Three More Boys Enrolled in City Schools Than Girls. k' FIRST MONTH GOOD In All Ways According to Report of E. E. Rice, City Superintendent. The school girls and boys of the city public schools are “having it just about nip and tuck" in the matter of attendance, for the first monthly report of E. E. Rice, city superintendent, shows that there are 392 boys and 389 girls enrolled —just three more boys than girls. The high school enrollment, however, shows the girls far ahead, as there are only 65 boys and 90 girls listed therein. The enrollment in the wards is as follows: North ward, 77 boys. 69 girls; West ward. 85 boys, 60 girls; South ward, 68 boys, 70 girls; Central, 97 boys, 100 girls. The North ward leads this first month in the percentage of attendance, which is 98.6, 12 pupils being not absent during the month. The per cent of attendance of the others are: West ward, 97.7, 106 not absent; South ward, 98.1 per cent, 97 being not absent; Central grades, 98.1 per cent. 148 being not absent; high school. 97 per cent. 93 being not absent. The total percentage of attendance is 97.9, 556 of the 781 students in the schools not having missed a day of the month in attendance. The visitors have been treating the schools pretty well this opening month, the register showing 76. Os this number 16 called at the North ward, 5 at the west ward, 14 at the South ward, 34 at the Central, and 7 in the high school. The first month of school of this term has been a most successful one in all ways and the school officials, as well as patrons, are well pleased. o MUCH INTEREST In the Missionary Convention Banquet. The pastor of the Methodist church, Rev. Sherman Powell, reports that he has received notices from several charges already indicating deep interest on the part of representative laymen in the banquet to be held on Thursday evening at 6 o’clock in connection with the missionary convention. Many leading men of the district will be present. A cordial invitation is extended to the men of Decatur to join them. It is important that those in the city who desire to attend should report their names early so that the caterer may know for how' many to prepare. Please ’phone your name to the Fort Wayne & Springfield Traction office and you will be recorded and you can procure your ticket at the church. Tickets can also be obtained from the pastor or from any member of the banquet committee, W. H. Fledderjohann. A. R. Bell, Dan Beery, J. D. Hale, Dan N. Erwin and Rev. W. J. Myers. The price is 35 cents a plate. The convention program will appear tomorrow. o SPECIAL SHRINERS’ CAR. A special interurban car has been chartered to convey the Shriners and their friends from this city to Fort Wayne tomorrow to the Mardi Gras, and will leave here tomorrow evening at 5:30 o’clock. o— —— ATTENDING GRAND LODGE. F. V. Mills and John R. Parrish, representatives of the local Knights ot Pythias, have gone to Indianapolis to attend .the session of grand lodge.

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OPENS CAMPAIGN Hon. John W. Kern Spoke at Evansville Saturday Night. A GOOD AUDIENCE He Showed Up the Inconsistence of Senator Beveridge. , » Evansville, Ind., Oct. 4—John W. Kern of Indianapolis, democratic nominee for United States senator, opened the democratic campaign here Saturday night before a great audience. His speech was an eloquent exposition of democratic doctrines, mingled with a sharp and pointed discussion of current events. Mr. Kern took occasion to point out the complete surrender of the "insurgent” Roosevelt to the standpatters in the New York convention, dealt interestingly with the "progressive and non-partisan sentiments" of his opponent, Senator Beveridge, and called attention to the "Billion Dollar Congress," which has been fostered at Washington by the republican party. "The crying demand of the times,'' said Mr. Kern, "is for a return to the old-fashinned, honest, economical government, to the end that the people may be relieved of the unneccessary burdens of taxation which now grieve and oppress them, and that the cost of living which now absorbs the earnings of the poor, may be reduced to the normal, and the standard of living may again be raised." Senator Beveridge's appeal to the people to vote for the republican ticket which is the same breath he condemns, is regarded by Mr. Kern as impudence which increases a “degree of sublimity never before approached in the history of American politics.” "The impudence of such an appeal reaches a degree of sublimity never before approached in the history of American politics. Verily, the old order hath changed, and given place to that which is new, since the days of the great republican giants, Morton and Harrison.” Mr. Kern declared flatly in favor of a dollar-a-day pension for old soldiers, saying: “In this day of twelve-million-dollar battleships and billion-dollar-congresses. there should be no hesitation in granting cheerfully to these old soldiers the full measure of their demands. The nation has only a few years at most within which to discharge its obligation to the men who saved it." Conservation, he declared, has always been a demand of the democratic party and that it has likewise stood for every meritorious reform that has been proposed and advocated by the republicans. Mr. Kern spoke at length of his own record on labor questions, and contrasted that of Senator Beveridge and expressed himself strongly in favor of the peaceful settlement of labor disputes, the protection of the lives and health of workingmen and women, of liability laws which would afford workmen injured in the line of duty speedy relief, efficient child labor laws and all other legislation necessary to insure the comfort and health of the toiling masses. He paid a tribute to Governor Marshall and his administration and to the candidates on the state ticket, closing with a warm commendation of the record of Senator Shively and all the democratic members of congress from Indiana, and especially urging the re-election of Congressman John E. Boehne of Evansville. o- - — ENTRIES IN AIR SHIP RACES. Chicago to New York Flight Saturday—Sail Across Indiana. (United Press Service.) Chicago, 111., Oct. 4—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Four and perhaps six aeroplanes will start in the $30.000 race from Chicago to New York next Saturday. Three of these machines will be Curtiss biplanes and will be driven by Charles Willard. J. A. McGray and Eugene Ely. Special stations will be stationed at Laporte, Elkhart and Waterloo, Ind.; Stryker, Toledo and Cleveland, Ohio: Erie. Pa.; Buffalo, Rochester and Albany and 126th street, New York.