Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1912 — Page 2

D AIL YDE MOCRAT Published Every Evening, Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rate* Per Week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 ►er Month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on ' jpnliratinp. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as sceond class mail. ABOUT THE SICK Little Babe of Wilson Miller of Fort Wayne at Point of Death. HAS RELATIVES HERE A. B. Daugherty Recovering , —Andrew Wesley Returns to Office. Mr. and Mrs. George Miller left ’ this morning in response to a ines- 1 sage received Monday evening that 1 their grandson, three months’ old Rob-i ert Allen, son of Wilson Miller, of Ft. Wayne, was at the point of death. Herman Geimer, who has been ill, having been operated upon seven , weeks ago, is recovering nicely and on Saturday will be able to come to town for the first time since the operation. Marion, fourteen-year-old son of Ira ' Steele, of Pleasant Mills, who was 1 shot through the foot, accidentally, 1 three weeks ago, while shooting at a mark with a 22-calibre rifle, is recov-. ering nicely. - « , ** ‘ , A. B. Daughert” of near Monroe, i is recovering rapiuiy from injuries re- ( reived on Tuesday of last week, when he was kicked at the side of the head! by a horse. Physicians stated that 1 the ear-drum was probably bursted. Gerald, two and a half-year-old son i of Dr. and Mrs. .1. W. Vizzard, who 1 had been very ill since August first, with dystentery, is much better. Andrew Welfley, county recorder, who has been off duty several days, on account of poison, affecting his ; ’nee and eyes, was able to be at the office again today. The pbisoning grew from a small pimple on the forehead, which rapidly grew causing a swelling of the face and eyes. WANTED. I wint to rent a 7 or 8 room house, as near central part of city as possible. H. BURROUGHS, 19<H3 At Old Blackburn Drug Store. : THE TRIALS OF * TRAVELER.

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DOINGS IN SOCIETY Standiford-Faulkner Reunion Scheduled for Lima, Ohio, August 29th. A SURPRISE WEDDING Bluffton Young People Elope — Meyers-Riden-baugh Wedding. WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. ’Wednesday. I Shakespeare—Mrs. H. R. Moltz. I Thursday. Thursday. Baptist Missionary Mrs. .lohn EvI erett. Needlecraft—Sue Mayer. Ruth Circle —Gretel Shoemaker. Baptist Missionary—Mrs. John EvI erett. Friday. | Christian Aid—Mrs. Jacob Eady. I Zula, Leah, Geraldine, Pauline and | j Evangeline, children of Jesse H. I Steele, have returned to Pleasant I M'lls, after a several days’ enjoyable I visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Hower. | Miss Conine Taylor Adams, daug’ti ter of Deputy Sheriff Fred Adams of | Bluffton, and Earl Farling, son of Gilbert Farling, a member of the meat 1 firm of Farling & Sons, Bluffton, have just announced their marriage which took place two weeks ago at Cold-; water, Mich. They had planned to' keep it a secret till Christmas, but ! the word leaked out and they an-1 nounced it this week. Miss Blanche McCrory, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. McCrory, who has been attending normal at Angola, will] arrive home Thursday evening. Thf Berne young people, who have also! been students there, will return anti will spend the time at the McCrory home until leaving later over the G. R. &I. for their home. They are Blanche and Dora Hirschy, Alfred Habegger, Armon Hirschy, Mr. Wanner, Miss Sprunger, Fanny Schindler. ' Miss Fanny Frisinger and her guest, Miss Gladys Lee, of Alexandria. went to Fort Wayne to spend Monday afternoon.

The birthday party given Saturday evening by Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Schamerloh of Union township, for Mr. Schamerloh, was one of much pleasure and enjoyed by the following present: Hannah, Louise, Matilda end panttno Krupckeborg. Srima Bleeke, Sene Thieme, Hedwig Reinking, Cordula Weiland, Edith, Louise, Sophia and Marie BultemMer, Walter, Anton and Hugo Thorne, Arthur Bicnz, Edward Schamerloh. Roland Croto Julius Rrinking. Simon and Richard Bleeke, Louis Reinking and Gust Krueckeb»rg. The Needlecraft club will be entertained Thursday evening by M’ss Sue Mavar. The third annual reunion of the Standiford-Faulkner relatives will be held in the city park at ima, Ohio, on Thursday, .August 29, 1912. All relatives and friends are invited to come and spend a day in the park, one of the most beautiful places in the state of Ohio. A special program is being prepared for the occasion. A number ’rom this place are expecting to attend.

Mrs. Gauretta Acker pleasantly entertained the following guests at hehome in Pleasant Mills, Sunday, the I day being the anniversary of her ' birth. At 12 o’clock a sumptuous din- | ncr was served, which was thoroughly enjoved by all present. Guests were Mr. and Mis. Cha! Walters and I Miss Nina Medaugh of Glenmore, O.; Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Acker and family, I A. F Acker, Dr. J. W. Vizzard and ! family, and Jerome Carter of Pleasant Mills, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Worden of Marion. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Cowan of Willshire and Mrs. Jones and 1 daughter. Mrs. Mary Halstead, of i Missouri Valley, Iowa; Richard Carter and Miss Bertha Carter of Wren, Ohio. I ! A very happy wedding occurred Sat- | nrday evening at the home of Mr. I and Mrs Andrew Jackson, near Wren, Ohio, when Mrs. Jackson’s daughter, Miss Agnes Meyers, was married to Mr. Emil Ridenbauch, a farmer residing northeast of Middlebury. Rev. Kohne of Willshire, Ohio, officiated. The following were present at the wedding supper: Mr. and Mrs. Fremont Putman, Glenmore: Mr. and Mrs. Adam Metzger, Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Myers, Ohio Oity; Miss Nellie Myers, Charlotte, Mo; Mr. and Mrs. John Taylor and family, Miss CONTINUED CTf PAGE FOUR

'MARSHALL SAKS HE MLLJWI Governor of Indiana Formally Notified of His Nomination for the Vice Presidency. DEMOCRACY DEFINED BY HIM I Rule of the People Not Essentially Rule by the People—He Believes Return of Hl* Party to Power Would Right Prevailing Wrongs. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 20.—Governor Marshall was formally notified this 1 afternoon of his nomination for the vice presidency by the national Demo cratic convention. The notification committee, headed by Judge Alton , - ■ ■ r, . us received at the state fair £” >unds at 2 o’clock and the chairman :: "de a brief address. ’n accepting the honor of the nomi- I n’ t’on, Governor Marshall said in part: I’ will be well for the voter to clear U| some uazy definitions. We have for l years been entertaining a belief tc . upon no fact whatever, that I <-ii c< racy and Republicanism repre I F’ r* different Ideas of government 1 The Republican has looked upon the I Democrat as a man opposed to the i g<. vernment. The Democrat has look i ed upon the Republican as a man op- | posed to the people’s rule and in favor ' o; aristocratic sway. It is time for us to remember that Democracy is not a ' s).-tem of government. Indeed, Democ j rr- y may find its expression in any one I cf nume'ous systems. The rule of the people is not essen- 1 tf’iiiy rule by the people. By their I votes. even when Democracy has un- I folded to full manhobd suffrage, the ; jccple may have a monarchical form • cf government. The people's rule does let depend upon the number of votes j ncr necessarily upon the system of! government under which they vote. Good or bad government must go back to rood or bad citizenship, to intelligent or ignorajjt, to hon c st or dishon- .. electors. I venture the assertion tte electoral franchise were now granted to the citizens of Russia ‘ U-s Little Father would again be crowned in Peter's City*

’‘Classes’’ In America, 7'..< historic BemocraUc Tarty o' Ar-.erica had its Inspiration and its - X conduct of «<s Si eat founder. It is time now to Lave a perfect concept of that Democ racy, for, in recent years, we have divided ourselves into three classes and the classification has been made net by the heart-throbs of men but by their social condition. We have those who are immeasurably rich and who are looking for more, and we have these *i)o are unutterably poor and who are growing poorer. Between these extremes, we have a great middle class, living well and reasonably content except for the uncertainty of ’ ■ ' ' _ wing whether they are to -rise into the first class or sink into the third. Many have assumed that only the unutterably poor and those sinking into that class were Democrats, and that the Immeasurably rich and the climbers were Republicans. But these Cvis'ons have not been Icgicnl. Republican "Senile Dementia.” This campaign calls upon some for Justice, upon others for charity, upon all for patriotism. It does not call fcr the bandying of epithets nor for an appeal to the personal. We may safely leave to that senile dementia which has seized the so-called Republican party the personalities of this campaign. Its unfitness to rule the republic Is disclosed by its inability to keen its temper. It was cohesive eo far as its leadership was concerned while it was engaged In looting the public, but even Its leaders are now disorganized while quarreling over the loot

Though a majority of the people have been voting the Republican tick et and have been assuming thereby that the majority would rule, the disgraceful but purifying scenes which have been enacted recently tn Republican conventions disclose that a large number of those who have been vot'ng the Republican ticket are Democrats at heart. These scenes disclose further that we have been mistaken in some of onr conclusions touching government in America. We have yielded a quiet assent to the proposition that a majority Is all-powerfui and that a minority has no rights which a majority is bound to respect. But now we know that the theory of •the historic Democratic party, that it is the right of a majority to rule but onlv within constitutional limitations and without the usurpation of a single inalienable right of a single Individual, is correct. Majority Becomes Minority, It is only when majorities thus rulrthat governmental machines movi without friction. The right of a majority to thus rule must always be conceded. I wonder, however, if it ha.dawned upon the sober second thought cf this people that it is possl6> for a majority to be a minority and that it is equally possible for a minority to be a majority. At first blush, it would seem that the officials elected by the plurality of votes become the representatives of the majority snd that as such, they rule. But I am not in error when I declare that St > not the mere number of votes

wmcn aeterminea a majority in America, In the sense of having the power to formulate the policy, enact the legislation and control the govern--1 ment, and I point to the election of i 1908 for proof. The protest of every man who voted for President Taft I and who is now dissatisfied with the president's management of public affairs proves that for four years a : minority has been the majority in I America. The social condition which we call I Democracy and which finds its avenue of expression at the polls through our party, is unalterably opposed to special privilege whether granted by the law or seized by ruthless ambition. It is true the mother of all special privilege I is the high protective tariff. All who I voted the Democratic tlcuet al Uu last presidential election were unalterably ' opposed to this system cf unjust taxa- ' tion and a sufficient number of those ■ who voted the Republican ticket were ( likewise convinced of its Iniquity to I make an overwhelming majority against it Save a favored few, all were agreed that relief, to a greater or less extent, should be afforded to the people from the unjust exactions jof this sytem. All knew that we could I not educate the people of America in- | discriminate!}', enlarge their views of life and happiness and then by the high cost of living deprive them of their pleasures without making of American life a seething caldron of discontent. Theoretically speaking, tnerefore, the majority of votes, having put a party in power upon r platform, pledged to relieve the peo | pie of their burdens, has been ruling 1 i under constitutional limitations. But I this is not so. immediately after the I election the mluurltj became the ma ' jority in the sense that it assumed i control of legislation with reference to special privilege. All the members of the Democratic party and all the protesting members of the Republican party have been in the minority when it came to counting votes where the count fixed the cost of living. It may be said that this is a mere acci dent of politics, a single illustration, and that it will not occur again But it is no accident. It is only one of the many illustrations. It simply discloses the utter folly of a man remaining a member of a party when the party policy ceases to voice his innei spirit. The Republican party does not recede now from its protective theory Its return to power will mean again the rule of a minority and the theoretical idea of Democracy will continue to be the practical aristocracy of special privilege In this country.

Choice for the Voter. ” - The voter who cannot satisfy him thij year is indeed censorious. Eliminating the "verbiage of piatformfi, t&king their substance and viewing the candidates placed on them, the voter who believes that the cost of production at home and abroad should be equalized to the manufacturer of this country and who wants an oligarchy to rule, may vote the straight Republic an ticket; the voter who believes in a similar protective theory but who pre fers to an oligarchy that the president shall be the state, may vote the Progressive ticket; the voter who believes litis government should be turned Into a socialism, may vote the Socialistic ticket; the voter who. thinks that church and state are not separate in America and that the people have a right to settle religious questions and to determine by ballot what is good and what is bad, may vote the Prohibition ticket; and all those who insist that it is not the business of the government to equalize the cost of production at home and abroad to the manutacturer until It equalizes the difference in the purchase price to the consumer at home and abroad, who believes that the only equalization justifiable in our government is the equalization of opportunity, who thinks .hat public office is a public trust, who does not believe that disgruntled and defeated politicians are genuine reformers, and who think that reforms are not born with sore toes, mayvote the Democratic ticket. 1 respectfully urge all those who are opposed to special privilege to ally themselves this year with the historic Democracy, the cornerstone of whose edifice Is the Declaration of Independence and the keystone of which is the Golden Rule. At Baltimore, it proved its right to be because there It arose and by its proposed policy met the needs and wants of a people. Results of Economic Injustice. It Is idle for a thoughtful man in America, whether millionaire or pau per, to longer play the ostrich. Safe ty does not consist in hiding one's head in the sands of either sentiment or hope. It is foolish for the vastly rich to keep on insisting that more and more shall be added to their riches through a spacious system of special legislation ostensibly enacted to run the government, in reality enacted to loot the people. It is worse than ig norance for them to smile at the large body of intelligent Americans who regard themselves fortunate if the debit and credit accounts of life balance at :he end of each year; and to assume that the mighty many, who are becoming convinced that jfiat social system which we caJl Democracy Is but a gilt tering generality, will long endure the industrial slavery being produced. The hour has come when patriotism must consist in something more than eulogies upon the flag. Whether voting the ticket or not, men everywhere looking upon the awful injustice of this economic system are becoming socialistic in theory If not in conduct. And shall anv fairminded man say that if it redounds to (he interests of the people of this country that a hundred men should control its business to the good of everyone. that there !■ «i.ythlng fallaci ous in the theory rovernment in.

steao or transremng Dullness to a favored few for the benefit of al) should itself discharge that business for the benefit of all? I have never been able to convince myself that either system would not cast a pall oi er human action and dull the motives which have heretofore moved mankind to the very loftiest endeavor and produced what I conceive to be the most perfect system of government ever devised by the brain of man since that far-off theocracy of the Jew went 1 down benea‘h his demand for the pomp and splendor of earthly power. And yet, 1 do not hesitate to say that if It be impossible to restore this Republic to its ancient ideals, which I do not believe, and I must make the ultimate choice between the patemali ism of the few and the socialism of the l many, count me and my house with the | throbbing heart of humanity. Three Grades of Citizens. The discontent in Republican ranks is Democratic discontent. How much of it has reached the point where wearied with the bad workings of a good system, it is willing to topple •hat system over and try something new, I cannot prophesy. But I am quite sure that whatever badges men , may wear in America this year, what ever ballots they may cast and what ever battle-cries they may utter, then are but three grades of citizens. The first grade is made up of the favored few. their hangers-on and their bene firiaries. who think the eagle is upot the dollar, not as an emblem of liberty but as an emblem of power and whe look upon government as an annei to their business affairs; these art they who in the past years of Repub lican misrule have turned the temph of constitutional freedom into a mon ey-changers mart and have made ol the co-ordinate branches of government obeisant lackeys of the jingling guinea. The second grade consists of thost whose outlook upon life has been en larged by the civilization under whici we live, who have been taught by the school and the college, by the presi and the magazine, who appreciate ant enjoy the good things of life, whose horizon has been enlarged and whose capacity for joy and sorrow has beer increased. Conditions have become unbearable to them They hesitate tt hope for reform so often has It beet promised to them and so often has It been denied. They have reached the point where, in the struggle for that which they believe to be right, they are willing to destroy the Ideals of the - Republic. How many there are oi | these. I do not know, but I do know : that special privilege in the Republic Is breeding them day by day like rabbits in a warren.

Old-Fashioned Democrats. The third grade of citizens it pleases me to call old-fashioned constitutional Democrats. These are they who believe that the equality of mankind does pot consist in an equality of brain and brawn but in an equality whereby every man. native and for-eign-born, has an inalienable right to • erclse all of his ability in getting on In the world just so he realizes that in getting on he owes it to himself, to his family and to the Republic to see to ft that he gets on honestly and that he does not prevent any other man from obtaining the reward of his honesty and enterprise. These oldfashioned Democrats believe in making money, but they believe that every dollar made should be so clean that an infant may cut its teeth upon it They hold that it Is no part of government to boost one man and to boot another. and that any system of government which enables one man to take advantage of another is not a system under which a Democratic condition of life can thrive. They hold that from age to age. social and economic conditions change, but that the great principle of the equality of all men before the law can never change while time shall last, and that the honest interpretation of this great principle in statutory enactment, judicial construction and executive conduct, will take from the life of a people the mighty avarice of the few, bind up the broken hearts of the many and loose the bonds of all who are in slavery to wrong, injustice and ignorance. If I doubted that the return of the historic Democratic party to power would fail to right the wrongs of industrial life, to wipe out the injustice* of legislation and to preserve the opportunity of every man for happiness, then my voice, now weak, would be silent. It I did not believe that, in-so-far as human agency can, this party of ours will promote the brotherhood of mankind, I would here and now repudiate it. But believing as I do that the Republic had its origin in an inspiration which did not cotne from the mere brain of a mere man but sprang from the heart of humanity, believing that this age more than any which has preceded it calls for conscience and brotherhood in governmental affairs; hoping that every sacrifice of mind and body and personal good which has been made, is a guaranty of the perpetuity of this, the latest and greatest experiment upon the part of a Democracy to work out its ideals In government; and .trusting that the God of Washington, the founder, and of Lincoln, the preserver, will still be the God of the republic, and will not permit his chosen people to forever wander in the wilderness of legislative sin, I accept upon its platform, the nomination of the Democratic party for vice president of the United States And may my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if in all my gettings I fail to get that greatest gift —wisdom and understanding to know tbs heart break and the «e«d nt out ocmaoa hiuuao'tr.

VAN WERT COUNTY ..EAIR.. Sept. 2,3,4,5 and 6, 1912 THE BIG EVENT OF THE YEAR Famous for Great, Good and Clean Exhibitions and U usements. Especially strong on agricultural and industrial features. Greater preparations have been made than evi before. $14,000 EXPENDED IN BUILDINGS The Art Hall (new 94x15S feet) Exhibit a Leading Feature ENTERTAINMENT FOR ALL Daily Concert by Bands and Kirk's Vocal Orchestra. The five fl - Moores, Aerial Artists, in their Big Casting Act. Other special ' E ures announced later Stock paraoe Thursday and Friday. ‘ e,t ' DAILY£SPEED EVENTS Tues, Sept. 3 fcWed. Sept. 4 Thurs, Sept 5 j 2:27 pace S3OO 2:18 pace.... $ ; 00 2:22 pace $3002:20 trot » 2:30 trot 3002:17 trot 300 2:24 riot 3002:14 trot ' r Ladies road race 75 2:12 pace 300 2:15 pace S A mile run 75;Gents road race 75 a m j Je run p An Addition to Grand Stand Affords Sufficient Room EVERY YEAR A LITTLE BETTER Special trains from Celina and Bryan and intermediate points on Th day. Aug. sth. For particulars and premium list address, E V. WALBORN, Secretary Family Tickets age Limit 18 yrs. $1.50 Single admission 25c WE Want your Shoe trade if we deserve it we are handling the best slice man can , Produce. The most skiiieu i Shoemakers best efforts j in the finest leathers ob I tainable. Come and give us a trial. Peoples And Gerke e- ■■*■■■!■ ii — • ————— , ___ ._„ r » tj. MR. SMGKcRGet a whiff from or.e of ose Cabin cigars, ii fF" ma Le you smile and ust ‘ e dive cents ill invest- * / x ’ gate mcr * ts n - f ' gar. Ask your dealer the s next time you smoke. H. A. COLCHIN, For Sale At All Dealers PLENffoF WHISKEY IS FLOATED R V . on the market by extrava- LI4R gant.advertising. Restassured the cost of that advert is- It % mg comes out of the whisk- At? . V" ey. Try a bottle of our Sol,, |«IM M » Ji brand and you’ll get a'l i| whiskey value. It is a whis- /.« Key that good judges pronounce and that doctors declare entirely wholet-ome. B e rg°ff Beer by the case. CLRLFY Comer of Second and p Madison streets. BOWERS-NIBLICK GRAIN CO. WE ARE IN THE MARKET FOR ALL KINDS OF GRAIN » SEEDS Just Received A Car OF Large Lump Coal For Thrashing GIVE Us A TRIAL F’horie 233