Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1914 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT IIIW ■> ■■■» 1 ————-f— Pvb'JahM Bvery Evening Becept Sunday By TIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subacrlption Rataa, Far weak, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 15.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mail.. 02.50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on Application. Entered at the postoffice in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. Register October sth—lt's your last chance. The man who doesn't register October stli simpij disqualifies himse'f for voting unless of course he has already registered at the September session of the board. You can’t afford to thus throw away your right of suffrage. And now the Herald is worrying over the various names by which their new party is being called here and other places over the state. Too bad you have reached such a state. We suggest that you call it "The Bull Moose Aid Society.” The Kokomo Dispatch has been purchased Dy a syndicate of Logansport men and Mr. Obenaur, who several years ago conducted the Journal here for a short time, is the manager and editor. The Dispatch is one of the best democratic papers in the state. Hon. Addison C. Harris addressed tlie editors in tlieir meeting at Fort Wayne, opposing the proposed constitutional convention and the great lawyer said some things that caused many of the moulders of public opinion to change their minds on that great question. The Northern Indiana Editorial association has just closed a two days’ .meeting at Fort Wayne that from all reports was one of the best in the haif eentury that organization has been in existence. Mr. McCormick of North Judson was elected president and the meeting next year will be held in Kokomo. The bull moosers are continuing with tlieir plans to make a vigorous campaign in this county, taking advantage of the fact that the republican organisation has laid down on the job. Those seventeen committeemen who surrendered tlieir party into ths; hands of a few office seekers will be sorry they agreed to it when the votes are counted. Fred Rohrer insists that no man living in Berne at the present time is writing articles signed "A Berne Democratic Republican.” Some system that, when Fred cannot only control the votes of his municipality, but can even tell who has and who has not written letters. And then he has the nerve to call some one else a boss. We could give Fred the name of a real prominent republican now living in Berne who called personally at this office and offered to father the liter-

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. - ary efforts which have been published and also said that the Ideas there expressed were exactly his whether qo had written them or not. The Rerne Witness and the Decatur Herald take issue with the Democrat because we said that the Geneva Herald would remain Independent. That paper stated that they would remain as they have for the past fifteen years, Independent and we take it that they meant it. The Geneva Herald certainly has the right to take any position they want and Jo either light for it or not as they see fit. We believe the democratic ticket as selected at a fair and open primary is alright. We believe the ticket is composed of good and worthy men and are willing to back them personally man for man against their opponents. JVe would have been glad If the Geneva Herald or the other papers of the county had seen fit to support the ticket but because they do not, we certainly have no quarrel with them. The boys who conduct the paper are alright, deserving of success in the field of journalism and have the right to do as they please without the consent of the Witness, Herald or Democrat. The Berne Witness bleats about "ridding the county of a selfish party control” and challenges us to reprint their article. The copy of the Witness containing the partisan editorial has been mislaid, but this we know that all there is to the campaign so far as the Witness is concerned is to defeat the old democratic party which has always controlled affairs here, much to the distaste of the Witness and Mr. Rohrer. The latter is a re-

MISS BLYTHE ON VOCATIONAL LAW

By the way, has anybody heard the republican organization say anything about that vocational education law passed by the 1913 legislature? Has any hint of criticism concerning this law been heard to emaninate

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. from the precincts of the republican press bureau? Or has any republican editor in this state so much as peeped about democratic extravagance in relation to this great law —which Superintendent of Public Instruction Greathouse declares to be the greatest piece of constructive legislation in Indiana since tlie constitution. No, there has not been the slightest breath of critism of the vocational education law—and there WILL NOT be. The people of the state will not permit an attack on this law, which is one dear to the heart of the state. There was a demand for it all over Indiana and the law as passed by the democratic legislature gives universal satisfaction. It is one the biggest things ever done by a session of the legislature in tins state, and if there were no other great law to the credit of the democratic party for the 1913 session, it would go down in history as a great, progressive session because of this one law— vocational education. But why do not the republicans attack this law? Why do they not turn that powerful searchlight with which they are so diligently and persistently searching the highways and byways of the state, why don’t they allow it to morror to the public that vocational education law’ > Wity the dense, black silence on this law? Why surely it was extravagant on the part of the democrats to put it on tlie statute books, for it was a fiat increase in the tax. Consider gentlemen! Here is the best, the most flagrant example of extravagance that you can find if you search to the end of the world. A tlat increase, I tell you. And it fits right in, dove tails, with that lovely, moving slogan of yours “less taxes”. Yes, why don’t you attack the vocational law? Why has there not been one single word uttered against it? And it is right out in plain sight to —for the democrats are proud of that law. They have never tried to hide it.

publican, believes in a protective tat- « iff, shouts it whenever he can, and n would delight in the defeat of any 1 democratic candidate. He knows as i does everyone else that tlie democrat- i ic candidates are men of good character and ability and he knows that | the space he has been giving to local 1 1 politics this year has been a grandstand political play and nothing else. He talks about "men being masters" and yet he knows that the democratic candidates were named at a county primary while the independent ticket was selected at a convention held in Rerne and planned a few hours before by himself and Al Graham, bull moose chairman, Morton Stults a i one or two others. Which was the fairest? We are willing to let the people decide it, and we do not believe that ail the hot air you can give them about "men enslaved by cruel masters” will divert the democrats of Adams county from tlie principles in which they have believed always. If the voters just stop to think for a moment that the very fact that Thad Butler and Fred Rohrer are supporting supposed democrats they will realize there is a political “nigger in the wood pile” and that "nigger" is “anything to beat the regular democrat ticket.” While we know every one is busy with war news and politics and important affairs of every sort, we can't help calling your attention to the fact that we have no place for basket ball and other athletic sports for which the young people crave and to which they are entitled. We had hoped that by some means or other a Boys’ and Girls’ City could have been provided, but nothing has been done

But it is a subject on which the other two parties have remained absolutely quiet—not one word have we heard. Are they afraid of the wrath of the people—who stand solidly behind this law — or do they hesitate to direct attention to the fact that the state owes this great piece of constructive legislation—which will forever stand to the credit of the Democratic party do they fear to let people know that this law was enacted by that 1913 session of the legislature which the republican press bureau and both political organizations are trying to make the voters of the state believe was bad? I woider now —but what do you think? Here is the record of the republican and progressive platform on the vo- ■ cational educational law: In 1912 the platform of the Republican state Convention of Indiana epntained the following declaration: “Knowledge and learning generally diffused throughout a community being essential to the preservation of a free government, we hold it to be the duty of the state to promote by every possible means such an educational system as will truly give to all men, whether they go into the workshop or on the farm into the professions, such an education or training as will fit them to he efficient citizens. We favor the extension oft industrial and agricultural education as the wisest solution of our gravest social and economic problems.” The Progressive platform of Indiana in 1912 contained this declaration upon the same subject: (We demand) "a decided change in state education which shall prepare youth to engage in life work through trade schools and widespread industrial and agricultural education; free school books for children in common schools.” The Republican platform of Indiana ' in 1914 contains this declaration: “We favor the extension of Indus- ' trial and agricultural education as ; tending to the solution of many ot.; our social and economic problems.” . The Progressive platform of Indiana in 1914 declared that more truly 1 popular legislation has been effected 1 during tlie last two years than ever i before in the history of the nation, j We congratulate the people on the passage at the last session of the legislature, _ of certain progressive meas-> ' ures. i .Xyx: Z|

so far and tlie enuftren will have to I amuse themselves as beet they can, • hoping that the establishment of such ‘ a place of amusement and recreation is not an absolute impossibility. DOINGS IN SOCIETY | UtMBMMaMBWBBSMBBMKMMM G WEEK’B SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Afternoon Club —Mrs. Carrie Ettinger. "Grant that with zeal and skill this day I do What to me behooves, what Thou commands! me to. Grant that 1 do it sharp at point of moment fit, And when I do it grant me good success In 1L” The Historical club has decided to postpone its formal opening, which was to have been a social at the home of Mrs. Mary Eley next Tuesday. Instead the opening will be the regular study period, Tuesday, September 29, at the home of Mrs. C. D, Lewton. Mrs. Charles Battenberg will be the leader. The Zion Lutheran Ladies’ Aid so- , ciety met this afternoon at the school house. Mrs. Ferdinand Bleeke was hostess. The Euterpean club’s year books have been issued from the press at this office and are very artistic. The i season will open with a picnic supper Thursday, September 24, at the home of Mrs. Olive Peterson. The first study will be October 1, at the home of Mrs. Henry Heller. Mrs. Helen Patterson will be the leader and the study will be of “Child Welfare" and i “ Judge Lindsay and the Juvenile Court.” The home of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Whitright was ablaze with good cheer Friday evening, when a few of their relatives, neighbors and friends gathered in to help them celebrate their

BERNE MAN IS AT IT AGAIN ■** - ‘ •

Berne, Ind., Sept. 18, 1914. k Editor Daily Democrat: I Did you ever suffer from a serious nervous shock? Did you ever hear a t > peal of thunder from a j cloudless sky? If you did you can un- • d erst and my condition this morning, ; when undisturbed by questions of 5 paramount issue, I was ruminating on the enlightening information contain--1 ed in the columns of the Berne Witness, and leisurely performing a morn--1 ing gastronomic pleasure. I was shocked to behold in that virtuously patriotic paper that its courageous editor, that journalist who always clinches his arguments with holy sayings, that giant of righteousness who will not permit a political tare to even sprout in our wheat fields, who is always crying, f “a limb for a limb,” etc., had inside information that the gang at the court ' house was going to employ a new set of public accountants to give all 5 democratic officeholders, both present and past, a clean bill of moral health. 1 1 have come to this conclusion, that you r t to tills conclusion, however, that you are not a bad man, an undesirable citn . izen, you are not even a member of t the mentally constructed court house ring, unless you are against the inde- - pendent ticket. Can it be that Brother Rohrer has affiliations with the democratic ring that enables him to give sucli impor- ; tant information? I have heard this I rumored on the streets of this town. I put the question to a hard-headed individual. His reply was that Brother Rohrer had no such information. That, that statement given out in the . columns of his paper was as mythical as the brother’s imaginary ring. Says Neighbor Jones, Brother Rohrer is so immersed in this campaign of deception, his imaginative hopes are so quickened by a possibility of dethroning his ancient enemy, his hunger of power so voracious, that the merest suspicions are immediately convert- ' ed into facts by his process of reasoning, and given out to the world as indisputable truths. I then concluded that a man who makes the gospel the foundation of all his criticism:', and complaints, had better deal very

fifth * wedding anniversary. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Mills and son. Charles; Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Knodle and daughter, Juanita; Mrs. Mary Parrish, Mr. and Mrs. C. 8. Young, Mrs. Bogner. Mr. and Mrs. Alva Buffenbarger and son, Carl; Miss Ruth Parrish, Miss Violet Young, Miss Louise Bogner, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Whitright, Mrs Jesse Smith and daughter, Thelma, Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Whitright, son and dauguter, Charles and Naomi. Gaines, contests, music and conversation, with refreshments of ice cream and cake were the pleasures of the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Whitright received several beautiful and useful presents, and at a late hour the guests all departed, wishing them many more happy anniversaries.—(Contributed.) Miss Rena Sprunger of Berne will ’ be a week-end guest of the H. A. Fuhrman family. iw 1 Mrs. Sophia Wehmeyer of New Bremen, Ohio, is a guest this week of her son, the Rev. Wehmeyer, and family. In spite of the canning season which kept many away, the Lutheran Ladies' Aid society had a splendid 1 meeting at the school house yesterday and accomplished much quilting. Mrs. Ferdinand Bleeke was hostess and served a fine luncheon. This afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, at the parsonage of the First Reformed church, the marriage of Miss Doris Devona Archbold, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo H. Archbold, and Mr. Wilmer Reed Kleinknight, farmer, son of Mr. and Mfs. Melvin Kleini knight, was solemnized, with the Rev. H. B. Diefenbach officiating. The couple reside near Tocsin. —Bluffton News. ! Mrs. James Brown of Rome city and I her granddaughter, Elizabeth Brown, > of Maryland, are. guests of the C. L. Meibers family. They will remain until Tuesday. • Fifty ladies were at the Mite so- • ciety meeting at the home of Mrs. T. -W. Holsapple yesterday afternoon. (Continued on Page Four)

carefully with his utterances. For.

“By their fruits ye shall know them" applies as well to malfeasors of the truth as to any other condition. Hely thought, distorted and misapplied, will not supply the place ot legitimate argument, and it comes with great good grace from a source that is always applying that standard to the affairs of life. I admit that "by their fruits ye shall know them” will be taken into consideration in this campaign, but it may not result so satisfactorily to the persons who have injected biblical expression into this contest, with the hope of such good results. Deacon Rohrer’s assertion that there would be a new set of accountants to go over the books and his insinuation that the candidates were going to meet the expenditures is likely political tommyrot. He bases a serious charge upon a mere rumor that had its birth within the narrow precincts of his own cranium. He is using his paper as an organ of prejudice, to work up a mean feeling against persons whom he does not like. And then when he thinks he has made a master stroke comes the inevitable, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Has Brother Rohrer forgoten the scriptural injunction about the Pharisees and Publicans? He may believe in his own mind that he is putting something across on us because most of ub don’t get much farther than the depot, but we know a thing or two about Phariseeism. It is taught at numerous places ih this town on Sunday, and we like to go and hear about it in order to be the better enabled to judge of these political tricksters. I will bet that Deacon Rohrer would be afraid, even moie than that, ashamed to tell the peopie of this community the source of his information, because he would not own up that he has been trying to deceive his own people. He could not afford to have it known that he willfully manufactured deception within his own sanctum sguctorium, and then generously passed it out to us tor the truth, Yours truly. A BERNE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN. •

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