Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1914 — Page 4

D AILY D E M O C R A T Pub’i»h«tf lv*ry Evening l«c«pt •u«day Ey TBF DECATIB DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates. > in Par week, by carrier 10 cents Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Pax Month, by mail 26 cents Per Year, by mall 62.60 Single Coplee 8 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poatottlie in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. TOOTING AND ROOTING (1) There is no bull nioosc.no republican, no democratic ticket ,in the field in this county. The issue is between the* citizens’ ticket, supported by voters regardless of party, and the ring democratic ticket, supported by the court house attaches and their satellites. (2) Believing that a local bull moose is more virtuous because of past associations than the Adams county Tammany Tiger as a choice between them the Hernld would toot, root and vote for the bull moose ticket in Adams county, or any other county, except Ya;:oo county, Mississippi. (3) The citizens’ ticket has been enthusiastically endorsed by the county republican central committee, without a dissenting ’ voice, as the logical result of efforts to overthrow the ring which has so long and disastrously dominated the affairs of Adams county; and the republicans are lined up solidly in its support, without dictation from the Herald or any other suggestion than that of a New Freedom for the tax-burden-ai people of Adams county.— Evening Herald. The above is another exhibition of favorite pastime, “telling nothing but the truth.” If it doesn’t convince the, average voter of this county-of real political undercurrent in the cam-. paign, we don't know what would. We call your attention to these statements: First: “There Is no democratic' ticket in the field but a ring democratic ticket supported by the court house attaches and their satellites,” and yet the three thousand democrats of Adams county ala primary election, free and fair and honest, selected the ticket which they are now sup-

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[* Sporting. It Is a ticket of good men, - well qualified, and compares very it favorably with the men on the inde- - pendent ticket which was framed and I slated by two or three politicians an 1 put across at a convention held at Berne at which not more than one- = fourth as many took part, as did it the democratic primary. The Herald s insists that the democratic ticket ia supported by the court house attaches □ and yet there are but two of the pres--01 .lent officers who are candidates for re- • -.election. These are Mr. Archbold, ’{candidate for treasurer on the inde,'pendent ticket and Mr. Macklin, can''didate for surveyor on the democratic ■ ticket. Second: As between the democratic ticket and any other you are against the democrats and that’s all there is to the campaign, an effort by a few bull moose and republican politicians (and we don't care where you class yourself) to defeat the democrats. Third: “Enthusiastically endorsed” by seventeen precinct committeemen at a meeting held without public notice. Summary:—lt is acknowledged that the guiding hand behind the scenes is that of Al Graham, county bull moose chairman. When the Herald endorses his schemes and works hand in hand with them, it would rather appear that they had forsaken oldtime principles and they can’t blame the Huntington Press for saying so. I, “Tooting and rooting” is right and that’s all there is to it. We don't be- ( lieve you will be able to fool the people of Adams county. Register October sth. If you can't be at your home that day yoq should 1 ] file your affidavit. We believe that ev . lery good citizen should vote and should do whatever is necessary to qualify for that right. , 1 The “Berne Democratic Republican” seems to be worrying some folks considerably. Now, he hasn’t given us permission to tell you his name just yet, but he says he don't mind whispering this secret—it isn’t "Zeke Jones.” I Tao progressives announce a meeting to be held in this city next Saturday evening when Mr. Kitzeiman, .candidate for congress, and Mr. Pierson, candidate for secretary of state, will deliver addresses. Before the I campaign is over the republicans will understand just how they have been handed a good one. — I Adam Heimberger of New Albany, one of the leading democrats of south-

, ern Indiana died yesterday of Bright's - disease. He was the nominee for secretary of state in 11)00 and for clerk |Ot the supreme court two years later, I was a member of the board of trustees of the Eastern Hospital at Richmond, and held numerous positions of trust in his city and state. , Fred Rohrer of Berne was a business visitor hero today. The poor people of Geneva will be taxed $4.52 per hundred next year, and will have a poll lax of $2.25 beshles. Berne's hate of taxation will be $3.56 and Decatur’s $5.15. The rate for all townships was given in our last issue. Every man should cut out the list, paste it in his hat, then, when he goes to vote next November, take off the hat, look at the fig-

BERNE MAN BECOMES SARCASTIC

Berne, Ind., Sept. 21, 1914. Editor Daily Democrat:- ' The query has been propounded se”- i eral times, why should I vote a Dem- ] acratic ticket in the county this fall? 1 Why don’t you lend your influence to 1 1 this independent ticket or at least ! vote for it. With a conjunction of the Republicans, the Progressives and the ( Bryan Democrats we can defeat every < man on the democratic ticket. is the way the supporters of the newp party put their argument. After such 1 a great political up-heaval as we ex-|< perienced in this county two years p ago a new alignment of political forces i is a slow and difficult matter. We-f look at politics from a different angle, i The great government disederatuii {< is the most good for the greatest num- s ber. We unconsciously defend our i political convictions on that principle, p A large number of people have | thought for many years, and done so sincerely, that the affairs of the conn- t try would come to ruin under a nation- t al Democratic adminstration, but the ; falsity of this contention has been p shown during the last two years. Our j Democratic brethren have shown an aptitude that we never suspected they ; possessed. The harshness of our for-!i mer opinions has been mellowed to a|< passive toleration by the passing of/ two short years. If we are candid . we will ever be ready to recognize and 1 encourage true worth, when it comes : to our notice, despite the fact that old 1 enemities and convictions are thereby t shattered. 11 As is generally known, no republican will have an opportunity to cast 1 a Republican ballot in this county this I fall, for the simple reason that there is no Republican ticket. We have our choice between the regularly nomin-1 ated Democratic ticket, and an Independent ticket. The Decatur Herald and the Berne Witness are repeated’}’, asserting that all good men are going [ to vote the Independent ticket. Os I course, this statement leaves many of us then in a very undesirable predicament. If we raise our voices in protest at being thus catalouged au 1 inventoried politically, we are immediately consigned to the ever lasting limbo by these patriots. But there is reason in everything that is worth while, a mad unyielding passion and coarse scurrility will not settle political questions satisfactorily. Reputations are not made and lost in a single night, and there is always a day of reckoning for those who travel too swiftly with denunciation and public clamor. We are told that the great panacea for all the aches and pains that afflict our body politic is the Independent cure, advertised so persistently, exclusively and conspicuously in the columns of our thrice-a-week Berne Witness and the Decatur Herald. We are begged only to taste and be cured thereby. The remedy is cheap and absolutely harmless. It can be obtained at the Witness office or of the editor personally every day except on Sunday, at the Decatur Herald office, or the Republican county chairman, at the office of the Independent county chairman, at the county treasurer's office. The only consideration that is asked in return is just a little athl°- • pic turn, only a little political flip-flop.

ures and ask himself the question: "Am 1 going to help continue this?" —Berne Witness. Geneva and Berne made the greiter part of their own tax rate. The county tux, including bridges and turnpike, is less train sixty cents, so we can’t just see how the electio-i of the independents would materially affect the tax rate. Those of them who have or are holding office have never rebated any of their salary that we have heard of. Why, Mr. Thornhill, who leads the independent ticket, as a candidate for representative, lias not made a sensational record in the reduction of taxes in his township. Think it over, Mr. Voter. Dan Shuppert of Attica was here Sunday as the guest of Miss Marie Glutting.

Just a small matter of politics. No one takes political considerations seriously these days. You are giving us practically nothing for this wonderful cure. It you dont care to taste it, il may be administered most effectively through the aural nerve, just stand still while we administer it, remembering always that you are not required to think and use your senses of perception, in fact to be most thoroughly inoculated, we would prefer that you would not think at all. Listen just patiently, and we will do the rest. Prestisslma, once you were a Republican or a Democrat, now you are an Independent. A little feat, a little trick, for we are adepts at our business. If you are skeptical come to us, all consultations are ab solutely free and without charge, and if you cannot come, write and we will gladly send one of our fair an l public spirited representatives. And seriously speaking, thus politics is being hawked, bartered and traded this fall in this community, and all over the county. If you are susceptible to the influences of designing persons, you will be made a victim. Your prejudices will be worked upon, your imagination asked to supply the missing links of an apparently fallacious argument. Who got the money? That is the burden of their complaint. Any dotard, even a parrot, could put that question. But they with all the’r aptitude for arithmetic jugglery, after having access to the books for nearly a year, have no answer for the question that they have asked so often with sneering references. If they know who got any money, the wag; r is even, they know it is no -one whom they are now charging with being identified with their much flaunted Court House ring” or a member of .their imaginary “ring democracy.” If they know’ who got any money between the auditor’s office, the commissioners’ room or the treasurer’s office, they are as silent as the tomb on any revelations. Am I right on this question of deception? Do they mean to make important public discoveries, and then burn the results in their own furnaces? Whom would it hurt if the matter were made public? Rest assured, sir, if any person whom they are after had the goods on him, that fact would be blazoned to the skies like the reflections of a conflagration on the clouds of a dark and somber night. The' sagacious young gentleman, who acquitted himself with, such grandiloquent oratorical effect at the Berne convention, has prowled around the treasurer's office, with the assistance of the county treasurer, for eight months ,and finally discovered a mare's-nest. If such a thing were possible, it ought to be embalmed, and ever preserved to his lasting gratification. Futurity would do him homage, but for the fact that time ‘may prove him to be another Dr. Cook, jf polar fame. A gland spectacle, the elephant, the bull moose, and the donkey all eating peacefully from the hand of the Inde pendent county chairman. Veterans of many a political battle, what do you think of that? Yours truly, A BERNE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN'

; j wMMnBoc-asfiaiaisEsiao**® 4 ** ■ J :: DOINGS IN SOCIETY § WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Tuesday. Bachelor Maids —Mrs. Lawrence Kleiulienz. Afternoon Club —Mrs. Carrie EhInger. Pythian Needle Club — Pythian Home. Wednesday. Wednesday “500" Club—Mrs. bred Schaub. Euterpean Picnic —Mrs. J. S. Peterson. Thursday. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. Dolly Dark in. Mt. Pleasant Mite—Mrs. Sam Fuhrman. Helping Hand—S. S. Room, Mrs. Fred Heuer, Hostess. Friday. Mite Society—Mrs. Amos Yoder. Saturday. German Reformed Pastry SaleKirsch & Robinson's. Great battles are really won bei fore they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of every-day life. —Sir John Lubbock. Mrs. Lawrence Kleinhenz will entertain the Bachelor Maids this evening at the home of her mother, Mrs. Carrie Ehinger on Fifth street. The Howard Burdg home was the scene of much merriment this afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 o’clock when little Floyd Burdg entertained thirty friends for his sixth birth anniversary. The fine September sunshine was just the thing to make the out-door frolic what it should be. and games of all kinds werq enjoyed. The refreshments were tempting and the I birthday cake was a splendid feature. I — Miss Nora Huston of Canal Win-i Chester, Ohio, will arrive today to be I the guest of her cousin. Miss Victoria i Stone. The “Wednesday 500 club" is the name of a new social organization to meet weekly, on Wednesday afternoons. The first meeting will be tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Fred Schaub. The Mt. Pleasant Mite society will meet Thusday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Mrs. Sam Fuhrman. A jolly party of West Ward pupils enjoyed a picnic dinner and fine time in the Cloud woods last Saturday. Those present were Mildred and James Leonard, Irene and Helen Russell, Opal Robinson, Mildred Liddy. Esther Burkett, Gladys Butler, Marie Gehrig, Leona and Donald Hunsicker, Hazel and Nola Hofstetter, Junita ami Alice Cloud. Clyde Butler, son of Mr. and Mrs. ' H. E. Butler of Tenth street, was six teen years old yesterday. The event was made the occasion of a happy 1 surprise given him by about thirty of the members of both the Methodist Sunday School classes taught byMr. and Mrs. A. D. Suttles. They went in a body and agreeably surprised him, played out door games and had a general good time. Clyde was presented with a book. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Waters and children, Bruce, Walter and Ho, motored here from Huntington and were the guests of the J. C. Hower family. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hill and son, George, and Mrs. Margaret Louthan of Fort Wayne, were also guests there. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chronister entertained in a hospitable way Sunday, at their lovely country home south of the city at dinner and supper, for the Misses Amelia and Mary Niblick, Miller, Mrs. Susan Bell and granddaughter, Jennie Zimmerman. The Presbyterian Ladies’ Aid society will meet next Thursday after noon with Mrs. Dolly Durkin on First street. The Tri Kappas held a special meeting last evening at the home of Miss Madge Hite and arranged for conducting a stand for the sale of refreshments at the county fair. They will sell Ice cream cones, zigzag, soup on -Wednesday, Thursday, hot hamburgers, corn cakes and buns. They invite all their friends to come and buy of them. Miss Ignota White has returned from Chicago, where she has been for several weeks. Miss White had planned to do theatrical work this season but finds that her health will not permit her. Miss White made a great success several years ago playing

Xith the UeUe but wa f __ Fort Wayne 5 count of li‘f , hl(e htta vißiSninkcr home with wedding CHIMES (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) > T Stifle was exquisite in pure -h.l large wedding cake, in *•> te. ‘ many ether guests were seated at (lit ferent tables. - Mr. and Mrs. Meyers will be at home three miles south of the city where the groom has built a fine, moi • - era house on his farm, which is await i™ his bride. Mr. and Mrs. Ulman ' will live on the Ulman farm, our miles east of the city. . R would be difficult to find two ladies of as charming personality, and ■ of as fine character, as these two brides, who are pre-eminently fitted, by nature, and training to be the helpmeets of these two young men, both of whom are of excellent character, and progressive. Both are surely de- ; serving of the happiness that is theirs. —oTHE HOOVER CASE. j The Hover case will be heard in the supreme court of Ohio on Tuesday, on proceedings in error, the action be- 1 ing the move of the prisoner to have ( the case set back for a new trial. The arguments will be along the same lines as those in the court of appeals, f Hoover, through his attorneys con- ( tending that the original trial was marked by errors in the admission of testimony, particularly the ruling which permitted the implied admission to go to the jury and the impeaching of an expert witness. Pros- j ecuting Attorney Good and H. L. Conn will appear for the state and W. H. g I Dailey and O. W. Kern for Hoover. f 'The supreme court's decision will not be rendered for at least several days, } after the arguments.—Van Wert Built'tin . ' Ralph Hoover, it will be remembered, was charged with the murder of . his young wife.

o AUTOISTS NATIONAL ANTHEM My auto, ’tis of thee, short cut to poverty—of thee I chant. 1 blew a pile of dough on you two years ago, and now you quite refuse to go, or won’t or can’t. Through town and countryside, you were my joy and pride; a happy day. I loved thy gaudy hue, thy nice white tires so new. but now your down and out for true, in every way. To thee, old rattle box, came many bumps and knocks; for thee I grieve. Badly thy top is torn, frayed are thy seats and worn; the whooping cough effects thy horn, I do believe. Thy perfume swells the breeze while good folks choke and . I wheeze, as we pass by. I paid for ] thee a price twould buy a mansion ( Amwa....eob ETA SH SHR HRRD ' twice, now everybody's yelling "ice” —I wonder why? The motor has the grippe, thy spark plug has the pip and ' woe is thine. I, too, have suffered chills, ague and kindred ills, endeavoring to pay my bills since thou wert ■mine. Gone is my bank roll now. No more ’twould choke the cow, as once before. Yet if I had the mon. so help me John—amen. I’d buy myself a ' car again, and speed some more.—Ex. ' — PREACH AT SALEM. Announcement is made that the Rev. J. m. Gibson will preach at the i Salem Evangelical church Sunday i morning at 10:30 o’clock 1 — Democrat Wants Ark p av . It

Special Sale and Demonstration of “Wear Ever’’ Aluminum. COOKING UTENSILS To Be Given by Miss Grace Hesler at My Store Fair Week Only Sept. 28th. to Oct. 3rd. Many interesting and instructive test?. Just the opportunity you have been looking for to secure Roasters, Sauce Pans and Presen ing Kettles, at prices offered only as a special inducement f° r ft your attendance. s ee our at the Fair. JOHN BROCK

COURT HOUSE NEWS. The fate of the six strangers c|, (> d with stealing Walk-Over this city from a consignment sent,,, the Chicago (4 Erie railroad | n j’ u ,* will be given to the Jury this ev en Z’ about 5:30 o’clock. The completed at 2 o’clock and each JJ alowed an liour for the pleading, * William O. Meyers qualified as m dian <>f Pauline and Emma Germ*, minor heirs of Henry German, glvl ' SI,BOO bond. The estate of the late Harry |q e|t ing was ordered set off to the ’ and the court directs that no le(tfr| ’ of administration issue on it, the ej penses of the last sickness and funer al being fully i*ld. Dan Niblick, guardian of Omer Nib. lick et al. was authorized to i nm , $750. in Adams County Bank stuck for the wards. ReaJ estate transfers: Ida A. Bar. ter et al. to Lean Voght, 10l 698, tur, $1,250; Frank Eiting et al. lo John B. Holthouse, lot 57, Decatur, ft. 713.30. The State case against William Pratt has been set for trial for oq. ober 8. ■I—" 11 < James F. Graves, guardian, vs. Ju. bal Bechtel, ejectment. Cause ordered left off the arial calendar. Celia Weiland vs. Martin Weilwd, for support. Motion to require plaintiff to make complaint more certiij and specific. o —— ABOUT THE SICK. Mrs. John Koop, formerly Miss Clan Bultemeier of this city, who underwent a serious operation some time ago in the hospital in Fort Wayne has recovered sufficiently to return to her home in Fort Wayne. She will come here next week to be with her mother, Mrs. S. Bulteineier for awhile. Forest I>ake. scarlet fever patient, is convalescing.

Miss Mabel May, sixteen year old daughter of Nelson May. continues ill of typhoid fever. She has been ill two weeks. Adrian Herman, who underwent an operation at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.’John Meyers,la getting along nicely. THREE BRITISH SHIPS SUNK BY THE GERMANS (CONTINUER FROM PAGE ONE) battle. However, the engagemenU are becoming less violent which is interpreted as meaning that both sides consider the slight amount of ground gained as hardly warranting the heavy losses and are therefore preparing for a strong offensive move inent at some strategic point. London, Sept. 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—ln the battle of Aisne, which began a week ago last Saturday, nothing but outflanking move ments can have any affect on either army, is the opinion of military experts, based on the facts that both armies are strongly entrenched and that so little ground is gained on either side that the opposing army does not even move from the entrenchments. A heavy artillery duel is being carried on while the infantry makes attacks and counter attacks, which are in the nature of sorties from a besieged fortress. _