Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1914 — Page 4

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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For Representative It. C. PARRISH. For Prosecuting Attorney, Twenty Sixth Judicial District. J. FRED FRUCHTE. For Clerk Adams Circuit Court WILD HAMMELL. For Treasurer, GEORGE KINZLE. For Recorder, Aa. C. AUGSGURGER For Surveyor, PHIL L. MACKLIN. For Sheriff, ED GREEN. For Assessor, WILLIAM FRAZIER. For Coroner, DAVID D. CLARK. For Commissioner, First District, DAVID J. DILLING. For Commissioner, Second District, WILLIAM REPPERT. CAMPAIGN IMAGINATIONS The democrats of Adams county are having more than their share of troubles. The ring of party demagogues lias become so arrogant that lifelong Democrats are refusing to fall in line. An example of the ring's methods is found in the way the "road roller" mashed flat the candidacy of William J. Archbold, county treasurer, who was seeking re-election. A majority of the voters desired Archbold's reelection because he had proved an efficient official, but Archbold would not eat out of the ring’s hand and as a result he was snowed under in the machine-con-trolled convention. The best element of the Democratic party in Adams County also is charging that democratic :• | 1I £ V||f 4 .£n The “G ab y” an Exclusive Society Brand Model. —I A 3-button, English no-pad soft-roll coat, with pick-up cuff on sleeves. Trousers band at top. S2O to $25 These garments are prime favorites this season. Let us show them to you1 THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

> county officers have been extravagant and that they have spent money needlessly to line the purses of effective party workers. Tlie result of these conditions have been that independent democrats have Joined hands with ITogressives, as well as the few republicans residing in the community to crush the county machine. As Adair is considered a part of the county machine because he is supported by it. Kitzelman’s gains over previous progressive votes, ft is believed, will prove pneuomenal.—lndianapolis Star. The above was written by a man named Myron S. Green and he had the

nerve to place his name at the head of an article designed to show what a terrible defeat was going to be administered to Congressman J. A. M. Adair. The story is ridiculous and ilikely the items concerning other counties are about as reliable as this one which refers to Adams county. It resembles very much some of the stories circulated by the independents concerning local affairs, and is published to call your especial attention to the unfair methods being uised. Every one knows that Mr Archbold was not defeated at a convention but at a primary and that if a majority of his party had voted for him, he would now have been the democratic candidate. The story also says the progressives have joint d with the "few republicans" in Adams county and yet the republicans cast nine hundred votes two years ago and were second party in this county. I If there ever was a campaign in which the opposition manfactured every issue, it is this one in Adams county this year and here is a good sample of the work being done. The result on November 3rd will prove the above a silly campaign story in every particular. We vote here in Adams county and we qualify for that right, as is proven by the fact that the registration greatly exceeds the vote cast two years ago. Governor Ralston will speak in this city Friday afternoon, October 23rd. He will come here from Ft. Wayne and deliver an address at the court house according to information received this morning. Decatur was honored today by a visit from Hon. Hugh Th. Miller, republican candidate for United States senator. He wats the guest of County Chairman Fritzinger and met a iiumI her of the faithful and some of the } unfaithful while here. Millie and his pa and C. L. Walters are al! to speak at Linn Grove the same evening next week. Boys tliatis a "ring.” No use talking about it. when three men go out together to hold a political meeting its a “ring” and one of those vile efforts to influence people to vote for some thing. Hon. Phillip Zurcher, reporter of the supreme court of Indiana, will be the' principle speaker at a_ democratic I meeting to be held at Berne next ! Monday evening. You will agree I with us after you hear him that he is a wonderful orator who will make I clear the issues of the hour. In the political calendar for the independents we miss the name of one of their star performers, the Hon. Frederick Rohrer, but Fred “fixed” the convention and gave the people the ticket” and that ought to be enough service for one man. and then Fred made one speech this summer and lined up so many democrats that may have something to do with his losing out as an orator. Senator Fred VanNuys, of Anderson, one of the most brilliant young attorneys of the state, a capable member of the state senate, and a ! comer in eighth district politics, will deliver an address at the court room in this city on Thursday evening, October 26. Every voter should hear ! hini. He is a pleasing orator and ! will say some things worth hearing. The independents are talking about

high taxes and in the same breath are urging thut you vote for the new constitution and at least some of them favor the voting of two million dollars for the building of an addition to the state house. They usually favor every road petition and every tiling else that tends to raise the tax because of the cost thereof and then yelp during a campaign because of high taxes. The democrats will hold a county convention at die court house at 7 o’clock next Wednesday evening at which time will be nominated three county councilmen at large and one for district number two. At the same time a township convention fer 'Washington township will be held toi name three members of advisory board, one constable and road supervisors. At 8 o'clock there will be aa address by Judge Thomas Duncan of Indianapolis, chairman of the public service commission. Mr. Green in his Star article for the independents asserts that there are only a ‘‘few” republicans left in Adams county. He is evidently ba-j- ' ing his opinion on the fact that but seventeen commit- ' teemen attended the meeting which endorsed Uie independent tick- ' et, but the others and hundreds of 1 those of the ranks never knew such 1 action was to be taken. There are a 1 thousand republicans in Adams conn- 1 ty and they are invited to vote the 1 democratic ticket this year. The 1 democrats have fought them always but they have fought them fair, and they have never sold them out. In the first place the best men i of the community seldom go into 1 active politics. There is some- < thing about the atmosphere of 1 the professional politician that I goes against his grain. He hates i to stoop to some of the, means 1 employed to attain selfish aims I by the average politician. Be- i

MB. GREATHOUSE IS INTERVIEWED ]

I tried to inter- I view Mr. Greathouse on campaign issues the other day. It was no use—all he would talk about was vocational education. It went about like this? “How are things ’-Hiking, Mr. Great-

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house? Os course you will win?” “Os course; no use trying to stop it —vocational training is the biggest tiling now before the country.” “Um —I meant the campaign, you know; about your own election.” “We have all of tlie agricultural schools filled now, and several counties have their money in waiting for a chance to organize.” “I suppose you have been out over the state a good deal lately. How does the campaign look to you." 1 hinted, gently, trying to turn his mind. “Could not be better”—with great enthusiasm. “I tell you Indiana will lead the whole country. Yes. to b» sure, 1 go out every chance I get to explain about the new vocational work. I tell you it is wonderful the interest the people are taking in it.” Now' wliat you do with a man who has a one-idea bug like that? Why, proceed to have the same bug bite you, I suppose, and join—the vocational education procession. And I want to say right now' and here, that it is the very biggest thing that has happened to educational processes in Indiana. I have watched the application of its principles—in one notable instance in the local special school. That means the incorrigible school. The boys, you know’, with a penchant for playing hooky—the boys whom their own ward school teachers declare to be unmanagable. Well, perhaps you do not all know about it, but down here in Indianapolis a special school is maintained for the alleged incorrigibles. But I won’t allow’ anybody to call ’em that —I love every one of those bad, mischievous, soiled-faced, patch-ed-pants little boys. They are not incorrigibles—only misfits. They are little boy« with souls and ideas in their young heads, and their teachers simply insisted on treating mem as if they were all cut from the same pattern as all the rest of their pupils. And by the way, their

i sides he has other attractions that satisfy him better than politics. He has a good job, makes an honest and respectable living for his family, socially he is regarded as high or higer than the politician.—Berne Witness. We presume the above refers io Walter Thornhill, who has been in the game a good while, to W. J. Archbold, who has held office for seventeen years, to Jesse Buckmaster, Cal Kunkle, Sam Nussbaum and the others of the new party as well as to the democrats. The men who have taken part in politics in Adams county, we believe, have been good clean citizens and deserving of better trestmen than accorded them in this ediI torlal from the columns of the high standard Witness. The administration and the Democratic majority in congress should be cheered and comforted greatly by the result of the election in the only State voting before November. The President in particular is warranted in regarding the Democratic victory as a direct vote of confidence.Nctwithstanding the return of many thousands of Progessives to the regular Republican ranks the Wilson Democrats carried the State for Governor and re-elected by a greatly increased plurality the only Maine Congress- i man of the President’s party. Ths i result in the Second District is especially significant when the circumstances are considered. This is the stanch old republican territory rep- I resented for many years by Nelson 1 Dingley, Jr., and later by Charles E. ' Littlefield. With the manufacturing interests of Lewiston and the ship- I building interests of Bath, the sec- I ond District seemed perhaps the most j likely place in the Union where the protectionist reaction would begin and the protest would be earliest heard against much that the Sixtythird Congress has done to the tariff and in the way of actual or proposed

faces never stay dirty longer than it takes them to travel from the class room to the wash room. And no boy ever shows up twice with a dirty face —they have a corps of teachers who 1 understand exactly ROW to arouse the pride of even an incorrigible boy. But how about the vocational training? Well, there is a certain teacher over at the special school who knows boy nature —and - she figured it out that boys become truants because their busy little brains and fingers need more occupation. Congenial occupation. So she planned a regular line of arts and crafts work. She found out wliat the boys liked best, and it is amazing what latent artistic talent was discovered in that school. Why, there are boys there who have marvelous sense of color —boys who can turn out such exquisite art work, who can weave such charming rugs that ■ the best homes in town are glad to make a place for them. All this of course, in addition, to the regular grade work. And there is your vocational theory all worked out. I never saw a happier nor more contented lot of boys—and they were once classed incorrigibles. And it is this great, vital work of vocational training that Superintendent Greathouse wants to help put into practice; it is for this that he is willing to sacrifice his time and money. Once he has it going—why then his mind will be at peace, his conscience satisfied that Indiana Is giving her boys and girls the very best possible opportunities in the way of an education that will fit them to become useful citizens with training to enable them to make their own way. He will rest assured that the young people growing up to take their places on the farms of the state —the greatest opportunity that the commonwealth affords—are equipped to make every acre yield capacity to the last ear of com and the last grain of wheat that highly cultivated, intelligently operated farm land can be made to produce. Then will “Charlie" Greathouse go contentedly back to his own farms, and History will say of him that “there was a good and faithful servant qf the people.”

legislation affecting shipbuilding. Mr. McGilllicuddy’s seat was contested this year by Harold M. Bewail, a re publican of exceptional ability and prestige. No candidate could have put the case more effectively to th voters from the point of view of these local Interests; yet against all the apparent logic of the situation. Mr. McGillicuddy’s plurality of 1.281 in 1912 was increased fourfold.—The New York Sun (Ind. Rep.) POLITICAL CALANDAR! CEYLON MEETING. The democrats of Wabash township will meet at the Ceylon school house Thursday evening, October 8, to nominate advisory board, justice, constable and supervisors. Speeches by , Judge D. E. Smith and Will Ham- ’ mell. At Berne, Monday evening, Octo- ( ber 12th, 7:30 o’clock, Hon. Philip ( Zurcher of Indianapolis, reporter of ( the supreme court, on the issues of , the hour. One of the best. Hear him voters. , Decatun Thursday evening, Octo- r ber 22nd. Senator Fred Van Nuys of , Anderson, an orator of ability and a member of the legislature. ( ■- " Decatur, Wednesday. October 14th, Judge Duncan of the Public Service Commission. Be sure to hear this splendid speaker. ’ ( Rupright school house, Preble town- r ship, Saturday evening, October , 10th; convention nominate candidates for advisory board, justice, constable and supervisor. Speeches by Hon. J. C. Moran and Hon. R. C. Parrish. ■/xxxjaeccxxxxxxxxxxxxrxxxx ■[ t 8 DOINGS IN SOCIETY | SOCIAL CALENDAR. _. . T Thursday. D. Y. B. Class —Miss Bertha Howell. United Brethren Aid —Mrs. A. L. Ball Baptist Aid —Mrs. Simeon Brandyberry. Helping Hand —German Reformed Sunday School Room. , Methodist Missionary —Mrs. John Rex. Presbyterian Aid —Mrs. Will Kre- ’ mers. , Friday. Queen Esthers—Margaret Mills Mite Society—Mrs. R. D. Myers. Miss Effie Miller will entertain the 1 Good Times club Friday evening at ' her home on Seventh street. Three Link Club —Della Harruff. Eastern Star Chapter. Saturday. Evangelical Pastry Sale —Winnes Store. _ J O, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant: And many a word at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's 1 broken. —Sir Walter Scott. 1 Miss Alice Knapp entertained the 1 Poinsettia club last evening at th« first meeting of the autumn. Prizes at five hundred were taken by Miss Georgia Meibers and Mrs. James Colchin. Refreshments were* served. Miss Lydia Miller will entertain next week. _____ i The Three Link club will be enter- ' tained Friday evening by Miss Della , Harruff. Mrs. Clem Vogtewede' and Mrs. P. ' J. Hyland were guests besides the members of the Wednesday Afternoon "500” club entertained yesterday in a charming way by Mrs. Ansel Bremerkamp. Prizes wjpre won by Mesdames John Wilson, Lawrence Kleinhenz and Frank Ilan hoi. Mrs. Ed Coffee will entertain next Wednesday. The Concord Lutheran Ladies’ Aid society had the pleasure of the presence of many of the members of tin Mt. Pleasant Mite society yesterday at their meeting at the home of Mrs. C. C. Wilder at Monmouth, tv.cntyfive being present. Mrs. E. S. Christen, vice president, in the absence of the president, Mrs. John Evans, who has moved to Camden, presided, during the business period and the lesson study. Refreshments were served during the social hour and a verygood time enjoyed. Several from Decatur were present. The picnic supper given last evening by flip twenty-five ladies of the Shakespeare club was aa auspicious preliminary to the regular opening of the season for study. The comfortable and beautiful country home of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Suttles, east of the city, was thrown open for the affair

and brought to the several charter members still identified with the du the memories of the organization of the club so many years ago >y ■ ■ Suttles’ grandmother. Mrs. D. Studnbaker, who resided nt this same place. [ Fach lady had the privilege <>f i» vit j ing a guest, Cither her husband or, some other friend. The ladies met nt | 4 o’clock at the Suttles home, taking their sewing over which they chatted | until they were johfd nt 6 o’clock, by the gentlemen for dinner. The re-I past was spread on the long dining! room table, about which the company marched and helped themselves buffet style. The dinner was then taken to the other rooms where places were found at Httle tables. Partners for the dinner were found by matching cut verse slips. Witty verses al each plate were read during the dinner.. The pretty autumn Howers and leaves: were used in the decorations, combining most artistically. After dinner tin [ good time was continued. Names i of prominent personages were pinned on the backs of tiie company who! guessed from questions applied to . them, who they represented. Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison of Los Angeles,; t’al.; Miss Hattie Studabuker of Co-1 ronado, Florida, and Mr. and Mrs. |, Henry Witgenfeldt of Cincinnati, 0.,'. who are guests of Dr. D. G. M. Trout and family, were out of town guests. I The entertainment committee comprised Mrs. J. W. Tyndall, chairman; I Mesdames W. A. Lower, F. H. Hub-’ hard. J. S. Sutton. D. T. Stephenson. ( T. M. Reid and A. I). Suttles. ( Invitations were issued today for the wedding of Miss Esther Corbett,' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Corbett and Mr. Fred N. Fullenkamp, Thursday, October 15, at the St.; Marys Catholic church, and for the I wedding breakfast and reception at j 11:30 at the Corbett home. Mrs. Robert Mann and Mrs. Dale Moses and son, Janies Calvin, went to Monmouth today noon for a visit with Mrs. Sherman Kunkel. _____ Mrs. George Lord and Mrs. Orval.’ Ixird spent the afternoon at Mon- 1 mouth with Mrs. Kurt Fritzinger. Mrs. E. J. Denman changed cars i here enroute to Fort Wayne from Willshire, Ohio. The Thimble club with a few other ' 1 guests were entertained by Mrs. L. A. j 1 Holthouse yesterday afternoon at a' pleasant sewing party given for Miss Gertrude Moses before she leaves forp Yankton, S. D., and for Mrs. Otto 1 Haubold of ITescott, Ariz., and Mrs. 1 Fred Bell of Bluffton. The party was! strictly a thimble party with no other! 1 diversions, but it was a much-enjoyed ' one nevertheless. Bitter-sweet ■ and autumn leaves in their pretty colors were used in the decorations. Twen-! ty-five invitations were issued. o WILL MEET FRIDAY. All Women Invited to City Improve- ' ment Society's Meet. All women interested are invited to| the meeting of the Woman's City Im-1 provement society Friday evening at. 7 o’clock prompt at the council chamber of the library. At this time plans' for the municipal Hallowe'en party to be given Friday evening, October 30, will be considered. o— — REMODELING HOME. Carpenters today began work on the! remodeling of the Dr. W. E. SmitlC residence on Third street. The prqs-j ent remodeling will be confined to the rear of the house, several rooms | being altered and enlarged and rearranged. In the spring there will be ( more extensive improvements, includ-1 ing the changing of the front of the home and the stuccoing «f 'the outside. it will he a very handsome and ■ convenient residence when the finishing touches are put upon it. FINGER AMPUTATED. Geneva, Ind., Oct. 7- (’lark Stanley, a farmer living about two miles southeast of here, who was attacked by an angry sow several weeks agoj was forced to have the index finger of his left hand amputated. Rex Haviland, another Geneva man, while engaged in cutting corn cut himself severely in the left ankle' and as a result will be forced to go on crutches for some few days. ■ —— ■ WANTED—Hay and straw. p ur e timothy or mixed. Wheat or oats : straw. Must be well baled. Car lots only (10 tons). Describe and state price loaded in car, your station. Address Grain & Hay Dealer, Box 284 Kokomo, Ind. 221 ’ FOR SALE—2OO acres Adams r 0 Well improved. $l6O per acre. 208 acres Jay Co.. 4 miles east of K wnt . pelier. Well improved. ?150 per acre. * ° acres Newton Co. Fenced and ditched. Good stock within 60 miles o: Chicago. $65 per acre. Address th(j dZr ’ L R ° berbtoQ ’ Vabash, 1„. 193t30

SLANDERERS AND CONsp??' I TORS REFUTED I The bogus Knights of c u [ Unil) . I oath which hus been aHottna 1 iprominence in the Menace ..... 1 ! kindred sheets, for the purpose O s I ijudldng the mind.i of ,j 'that organization, can no employed to fan the flanms of'i,.."* 1 ! I try as will be seen below. With apologies to the !ri t Plll people who constitute the vast niaj Uty of our community, we i, Pg to : !mit the following for the such whose minds huve perhaps |» poisoned by the aliovb named D. D. COFFEE, THOMAS MALLEY C<mnnin w . I The Real Pledge of the Knight, of Columbus. Libeiers Who charge E. M. LawlaJ with taking the bogus oath arc f ouill guilty and sentenced to impr , iniaent Ito the county jail for thirty days. An action was conimem, q j n tl( , "Waterville municipal court at tv a t (r i ville, Minn., on Wednesday, Jnj y ] 1914, whereby one E. M. Lawless, itor of the Waterville Sentinel ! [against A. M. Morrison and G i; j, or ' - risen, father and son, editors and pub. ' lishers of the Mankata Morninj Jour. ■ |nal, of Mankato, Minn. The* libel consisted in charging E | M. Lawless with having taken the ‘ gus Knights of Columbus oath, n,® district attorney who prosecuted the case was Francis J. Hansel of Montgomery, prosecuting attorney tor U. jSueuer county, who was assisted by Attorney Hession of LaSueuer, Mj nn . A jury was selected of which Rey. Thomas Rilling, the resident Method, list minister of the town, was chosen as foreman. The following named persons were I important witnesses for the plaintiff. Rev. H. E. Chapman, the pastor of the ; local Congregational church, was a witness for the prosecution. Doctor E. W. Buckley of St. Paul, supreme physician of the order, tesitified in effect that Mr. Lawb had !received an initiation in the fourth degree under his direction a: master, 'Upon cross-examination Dr. Buckley .was asked as to the nature of the oath administered in the fourth de- ! gree, and most emphatically denied then, as in answering subsequent j questions of the defendant's counsel [that the order had any oath in any | part of its ceremonial or degree work, j Jie freely admitted that the order had ! a pledge or obligation which Is ad- : ministered to candidates. Dr. Buckley fully answered the question and gave the substance of < the obligation as administered to can- ! didates upon being initiated in the ; [fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus. William J. McGinley, of New Hajven, Conn., supreme secretary of the [ Knights of Columbus, also testified to the nature of the obligation as the official custodian of the offi< ial inunu- ] ‘scripts and all other matters pertainI ing to the ceremonial of tin ieiy. I He placed a copy of the obligation in evidence and it was mad ■ a imrt of the record of the trial. The obligation filed is as follows: “I swear to support the constiintion of the United States. 1 pledge myself, as a Catholic, citizen and a Knight of Columbus, to enlic 'en myself fully upon my duties as citizen | and to conscientiously perform such ; I duties entirely to the interests of my country, and regardless of all personal consequences. “I pledge myself to do all in nif power to preserve the integrity and purity of the ballot, ami promote obedience and respect for law and of* der. “I promise to practice my religion openly and consistently but without ostentation, and to so condu m.'sell in public affairs ami in the exercise of public virtue as to relle • nothing but credit upon our holy < lutici' t» the end that she may flourish and our (Country prosper to the greater honor and glory of God.” Both Doctor Buckley and Mr. McGinley testified in no uncertain words it hat the bogus oath which was the. subject matter of the prosei uib’’ l ' ,,aS neither in letter or in spirit a part [of any of the ceremonial of tiie l Knights of Columbus in any of lts degrees. The defendants made no attempt to establish the authenticity of the bogus oath, hut threw themselves upon ‘[the mercy of the court. The jury re[turned a verdict of guilty, and the Hcourt. imposed a jail sentence oft!» r ’ ty days on each of tne defendants ! I, F. M. Wralek, clerk of the di f ‘ ■; trict court, LaSueuer county. Miim (! ' 1 sota, do hereby certify that the oifl stated facts are true. F. M. WRALEK- ■ Clerk of the District Court, LeSueuef County, Minn. Q. — 'LOST—At the fair grounds, a L' lllb ’[ pocketbook. Will give reward f“ r pocketbook and contents. Lea' ' ' l ' ‘‘this office or call ’phone 61.