Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1914 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT PubUeiMMl Ivtry Ivanina Incept Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LIW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER lubacrlptlon Rataa, Par week, by carrier 1# cents Per Year, by carrier.. 1600 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mall 12.60 Single Coplee ..2 eenta Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice In Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. ASKING MORE QUESTIONS The following editorial cloppings from the Huntington Press may be of some interest here: We do not know whether the editor of the Decatur Herald is angry because the Press called attention to his new affiliations with the progressive party, or whether he Is angry because we recalled his past affiliations with the standpat party. The organ of the gas company says that the Press "came out against the progressives in Adams county.” We republish the statement so that the public may see the utter disregard for facts indulged in by the organ of the octopus. The Press merely called attention to the fact that the Decatur Herald is not thia year supporting a republican ticket, but instead is supporting a bull moose ticket. The traitorous conduct of tj»e Decatur Herald has received the official endorsement of the Huntington Benedict Arnold publication. One year ago the light company's edition played traitor to the republican city ticket, and refused to support Charles A. Butler, regular reublican nominee for city judge. The light company’s edition has never told why it refused to support a regular republican nominee, and supported the bull moose candidate for city judge instead. The Decatnr Herald is now supporting a bull moose ticket. Does the Decatur Herald editor wish to be understood as saying that the Huntington Herald was right when it stood against Charles A. Butler, the regular republican nominee for city judge? Register October sth if you have no; done so and want to vote at the November election. It's your last chance.

Well, the Herald finally got an announcement of Mr. Fairbanks' arrival here on the first page, but it took several days to get up the courage or perhaps it had to be squared with the bull moose brothers some how. They must be between the deuce and the deep sea. Did you notice that the Herald reported the office expenses at the surveyor’s office as allowed by the county council at $3,500 instead of $350? Did you notice that they said Mr. Parrish received SIOO instead of ten. Did yotf notice that they did not mention the name of C. L. Walters, the other attorney who also drew a fee and who happens to be the independent candidate for prosecutor? Did yoU notice that when they gave the itemized account of gravel roads some who drew money were not mentioned, for instance Levi Miller on the Blue Creek township road? Why this discrimination in a non-partisan paper like the Herald that has only the good of the community at heart, we wonder? It seems that in spite of the plainness of our explanation some

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people have chosen to misunderstand our position in regard to the coming campaign. Because we will be independent they seem to believe us the enemies of the whole democratic party. However, we were pleased to note the unprejudiced way in which the Decatur Democrat viewed the editorial replying to challenges from the Decatur Herald and Berne Witness, which papers seem to think I our declaration means support of the entire citizens' ticket. —Geneva Herald. The above should prove how the Berne Witness and Decatur Herald jumps at conclusions and should bo plain enough even for them to understand just where the Geneva editors stand. The boys seem able to take I care of themselves and they evidently refuse to be bulldozed by any one. The Herald is greatly exercised now as to the pure democracy of William J. Bryan and Woodrow Wilson, but we take it that the general run ct people are satisfied with the brand. Mr. Bryan once said that "A democrat is a man who votes the democratic ticket” and we have a foolish idea that he likely retains the same opinion. We don't know to whom the perplexed individual refers as Murpay but whatever he said upon his return from Baltimore, was probably not as severe a criticism of Mr. Bryan as that handed out by the Herald editor for twenty years past. According to the report of the public accountants there was no shortage at the treasurer's office up to January Ist last, and Mr. Yager has a receipt in full for some $22.00 from Mr. Archbold, which amount he was ahead. A perplexed democrat who goes to the Herald for a decision on political problems wi'l get just the kind of "dope” he is looking for no doubt. LETTER FROM BRYAN DEMOCRAT Decatur, Ind., Sept. 24, 1914. To Adams County Democrats: It is very amusing, not to say ridiculous, to watch the efforts that are being made at this time in certain quarters by certain politicians to palm themselves off on the people of this county as the only original Bryan-Wil-son supporters of this community. I see continually in the columns of the Decatur Herald and the Berne Witness that those editors in conjunction with other stalwart Bryan-Wilson Democrats, are going to save the county this fall from disgrace. That they are fortified in the citidels, and are calling upon all good people, in the name of Bryan and Wilson to rally round their standards, and help them save the day. This call is made in the names of Bryan and Wilson, with particular emphasis on the name Bryan. I give the leaders of the independent party credit with knowing who is the strongest individual personage politically in this county. They know that Mr. Bryan has, and has had for twenty years, the most devoted following that any man ever had in this county. That the great majority of the democrats have stood unfalteringly for him every time he ran for office, and would again should he be a candidate. They have voted solidly for him, knowing that the odds were greatly against his election, and did it gladly. They have defended him for tweny years against the attacks of the very persons who are at this late day now claiming to | be the original Bryan men. They, have gone down In humiliating defeatl defending Mr. Bryan several times, 1 but arose the next day undaunted to renew the fight, and did renew the conflict. They stood their ground against the assault of corporate

wealth, against the onslaught of machine politics, against the cries of | want of patriotism, against the charge[ of a desire on their part to ruin the government, and wreck the country. The majority of the democratic electorate stood manfully in the face of all these charges for Mr. Bryan, ami stand stoutly at this time for him. These Incorruptible voters marched valianUy to the polls and with their voices and suffrages supported him, in days gone by when it meant something to be incorruptible. They stood courageously out against corruption in I those days, when corruption was on I every hand, when money was as plentiful in politics as it is now in the reserve banks of this country. D*d they seek the price of suffrage, when price denominators stood on all cori ners and tempted them? This majority who did these things for years are now classified as gangsters and ringsters, with no other desire but a raid i upon the county treasury. 1 can see a lump of indignation arise in the throat of each individual. I can see a ner|Vous desire to be at the polls on election to resent such charges and such indignities. They know that they were i not corruptible twenty years ago, have i not been since and are not now. They I were decent citizens then, and still maintain the same decency. They have been tried and tested before political furnaces white with heat, and need not to be told by every new i comer the way to political morality. They have taken good care of their political morality for years now long past, and feel well able to shape their i own political destinies. These men who now claim to be the original Bryan men in this county, and who have undertaken to read hundreds of loyal democrats out of the party, were really the “original” profaners and scoffers before the ancient shrines of democracy. Size up the list of leaders among the independent party, take their measure of man for man, J and who of them ever uttered a serious word in the name of democracy before this campaign began? They were in the van, leading an entirely 'different host, when the name anarchist was being so loudly applied to the man, whom they now profess to be serving. This militant throng of democrats is now being referred to by a Berne editor as “pseudo” democrats, j meaning thereby that they are false and traitorous. Even he has mounted I the rostrum, intending to bask in the .reflected glorious rays of Mr. Bryan, and is now calling upon the people in J the name of Wilson and Bryan to head their processions his way, and he will i expound to them at great length what a Bryan democrat must of necessity be. He and many others of his class are just able to recognize Mr. Bryan from photographs they have seen of

him and in no other way. "Pseudo” democrats, false and traitorous, that is the sum of his learning in democracy. Years ago when they i I were fighting him and the class that he is trailing with he thought of all democrats as “pseudo,” false and traitorous, and he has not got over his 'old way of thinking. "Pseudo,” false and traitorous democrats are fine , words to conjure with, but they had |l>etter|pot be uttered in Adams county by men who have no sympathy wiin real democratic doctrines, who only | desire to creep into public favor Ly posing as friends to the great demo- | cratic chieftain. If they want to knew .who are the "pseudo” democrats, false and traitorous, let them put that query 'to Mr. Bryan. He has been here several times, is a familiar figure in Adams county. It would do him no good to be informed by the editor of the Decatur Herald, the editor of the Berne Witness, the chairman of the progressive party or the chairman of the republican party, that those innumerable hard and gnarled hands that grasped his, that those livid countenances raised in response to his, those hearts that beat in rapturous accord to his splendid oratory, and those wild and tumultous cheers that he carried away with him ringing in his ears, were “pseudo,” false and traitorous. That his real friends and supporters remained at home, behind drawn curtains or barred doors. That the vast throngs that greeted him

and encouraged him on in the battle [were venal, corruptible, “pseudo," [false, traitorous, mere shams and pre-, tenders, and that the "original" brethren were all at home devising ways and means of frustrating what he and the 'pseudo" were trying to accomplish. A BRYAN DEMOCRAT. DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS. Hon. Francis H. Rheinard of Indianapolis, a German speaker, and Hon. J. F. Fruchte, democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, will address the voters of Freidheim, Preble town[ship, Friday evening, October 2nd. Hear the issues discussed. 226t4 | e I DOINGS IN SOCIETY g WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Friday. Mite Society—Mrs. Amos Yoder. Saturday. German Reformed Pastry Sale — Kirsch & Robinson’s. Christian Aid —Mrs. John Barnett. (For the world is full of roses, And the roses full of dew, And the dew is full of heavenly love That drips for me and you. —JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick were host and hostess at a 12 o’clock dinner today given in honor of Mrs. Max of Mobile, Ala., and Mrs. Ernst Wiecking of Bluffton. Other guests were Miss Hattie Studabaker, Mrs. A. B. Morrison, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Suttles and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Niblick. SOCIAL SESSION FOR MOOSE The Moose lodge will hold a social session following their regular meeting next Wednesday evening. Be sure to come up boys. A good time is as- [ sured. 0 NINA OF THE THEATER. The two-reel Kalem feature, “Nina of the Theater.’’ which has caused so much comment has been secured by [ Manager Parent of the Crystal for this evening’s performance. Alice Joyce is given the feature part. Nina is engaged by a theatrical company and : she and Paul become engaged. Paul falls sick and in order to pay the bills Nina agrees to undergo an experimen,al operation for SI,OOO. The physician falls in love with her and tells Paul that she has lost all her charms and intercepts letters to her. Believing : that Paul has rejected her she marries the surgeon. He neglects her and she goes back to the stage. Paul is called (in to take a part in the show and the [lovers are reunited. The surgeon’s | mind becomes unbalanced and in an attempt to kill Nina he falls over the ! stair banisters and is killed. Many scenes from “As You Like It” are featured. In addition an Essanay comedy entitled, “Snakeville’s Volunteer,” will be given. o MRS. FRANK SNYDER IS DEAD. Wife of Former Portland Attorney Expired at Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Frank Snyder, wife of the fori.mer well known Portland attorney, ; died last night at 9 o’clock at her I home at Los Angeles, California, where they had moved about a year [ ago on account of the failing health of both Mr. and Mrs. Snyder. She is survived by the husband and four children, a son and three daughters. Mrs. Snyder was a daughter of the late William Fleming of Portland. The news was received here by Mrs. L. C. DeVoss, an aunt of Mr. Snyder. Death was due to paralysis. The message did not state what the funeral arrangements would be. Q CONVENTION IN JEFFERSON. The democrats of Jefferson township will meet Tuesday evening, September 29, at the Buckmaster school house to nominate candidates for advisory board, justice of peace, constables and road supervisors. Speeches by J. C. Moran, D. B. Erwin and J. T. Kelly. FRESH BRITISH TROOPS ARE LANDED IN FRANCE (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) meeting Tuesday. Destruction of .bridges, tearing up of railroads and the cutting of telegraph wires were reported by Funston today. He could not fix the responsibility, however. London, Sept. 25 —(Special to Daily [Democrat) —The town and harbor of Frederick Wilhelm, the capital of Kaiser-wilhelmsland in German New

Guinea, has been siezed by Austrian i forces, was reported to the admiralty by the admiral commanding the Aus- . tralian army. Washington, Sept. 25,—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Secretary of war Garrison today cabled General Funston at Vera Cruz that there was no possibility of withdrawing the American troops from Vera Cruz within the next ten days. Paris, Sept. 25,— (Special to Daily Democrat)—The first statement issued from headquarters today was as follows: "The fighting on the left continues, being marked by almost constant artillery fire. The allies have made another slight gain. On the heights of the Meuse, fierce fighting continues. The enemy continues its bombardment of the Meuse forts but they are maintaining their defense. On the whole the situation shows a steady improvement from our standpoint. The enemy is heavily entrenched but at no point on our left or in the center has it been able to assume the offensive. The morale of our army is excellent.” The bombardment of the Rheims cathedral by the Germans has been renewed, was announcced. The foreign office charges directly that General Stenger, commanded the 53rd. German infantry to give no quarter but to kill every French soldier, saying: "The Germans will not leave a single Frenchman behind them.” London, Sept. 25 —(Special to Daily Democrat) —From several points the news was received today that the Kaiser is under the care of the imperial physician suffering from a severe cold. Nish, Servia, Sept. 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat)—The Austrian force has again endeavored to cross the Danube river at Belgrade but were repulsed as they have been on all previous endeavors, so the war office announced today. London, Sept. 25, —(Special to Daily Democrat) —It was announced at the admiralty that only 778 of the enlisted men on the armed cruisers which were sunk by the German submarine on Tuesday, were rescued. They were divided as follows: From the Hogue. 354; from the Aboukir, 236; from the Cressy, 188. Petrograde, Sept. 25, —(Special to Daiyl Democrat!—The general staff has announced that three seperate and distinct attempts on the part of the Germans to invade Russian territory from Eastern Prussia have been repulsed. Todays official statement

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