Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1914 — Page 4

DAILY DEM O CRAT Fwk'.<»Md Ivory Ivanlng ftsoact •uaday By TIE IECATUI DEMOCRAT COMPACT LEW G. ELLINGHAB JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates. For west, by carrier..lo eents Per Year, by carrier9s-00 Par Mouth, by ma 1126 conti Per Year, by ma 1193.50 Btnjle Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made mown on application. Entered at the postofflce in Decatur, Indiana, as second class matter. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For Representative R. C. PARRISH For Prosecuting Attorney, TwentySixth Judicial District. J FRED FRUCHTE. For Clerk Adatus Circuit Court WILL. HAM MELL. For Treasurer, GEORGE KINZLE. For Recorder. Aa. C. AUGSGI RGER 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 RKPFERT. . —g— , _— - GREAT SPEECH:— Judge Duncan, chairman of the In diana Public Service Commission, aikdressed the voters of this county at the court room last evening. It was the most logical, the soundest, the best all-around political speech we ever Its- j tened to and that is a broad statement. j It was not the kind of a speech that, would attract the masses, no wild or dramatic climaxes held the audience.' It was as the judge stated in opening, I a serious discussion of the political problems erf the hour. He began at the ! first, giving his idea of politics, parties and what is expected of them. He discussed the causes that lead to the downfall of the republican party, and then told of the wonderful eighteen months of achievement by Mr Wilson and proclaimed him the greatest of ail Americans. He abused no man but in a calm and dignified manner, most fitting to one who holds the high posi- i lion he does, he discussed every prob- j lem. He defended the state adminis-

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? tration and did It handsomely, prals- - ing the legislature of 1313. especially * tor four great taw*, namely, the fire . • marshal law, vocational education, the ( housing law, which provides for bet-1 ter homes for the city poor, the public service law and said while there was : i much other splendid legislation in the J session these tour great laws ghoul I > entitle them to all necessary praise. 'j Republicans and bull moosers are going 1 1 up and down the state and up and ) I ( down the streets of this city and the > reads of this county telling that un- - 1I der the present administration the , I taxes have been greatiy increased. ’' That's true, but for what purpose? , That they don't tell you. The tax for general purposes is lower than for many years and the increase was made to take better care of education- ’ al and benevolent institutions that our great state which we all love might i compare with other states of the un1 ion. When the legislature was in session this course was approved by every citizen and by every newspaper, regardless of politics, but now without I explaining why, the argument of high I taxes is put forward. An appeal ot I beautiful words and sentiment for the continued support of President Wilson and Mr. Bryan closed the speech. We wish that every voter of this county [and state could hear and would think | of the ideas suggested by the judge. SETTER BUSINESS:President Wilson is preparing to put the whole force of the government behind honest business in order to bring about an early revival of prosperity. These are some of the things he is doing. 1. He conferred with Commissioner of Corporations Davies on the ques- - omission which will be organised in December. 2. He will sign tomorrow or Wed- ■ nesday the Clayton anti-trust bill, now being carefully examined by >ttorney General Gregory. 3. He is pressing the treasury department to hasten negotiations with representatives of the British treasury tor settlement of the international i exchange situation. Seeks Contraband Decision 4. He is expending the negotiations I of the state department with the allies tor the definition of absolute and conditional contraband of war. 5. He will facilitate through the department ot commerce and coopera - ; ting bodies the development of Aa-

erican export trade. 6. He will urge the Interstate commerce commission to lose no time in rendering a decision upon the application of the eastern railroads for an increase in freight rates. With callers today the president frankly discussed the business situation. In the United States he regards it as comparatively good in spite ot the efforts of the war. The single exception arises from the absence of a satisfactory market for certain lines ot cotton. —Chicago Herald. The independent defender, the Herald. has the unmitigated nerve to talk about the illiteracy ot the democrat! campaign speakers. They certainly have never listened to a “lew” of their orators. Governor Samuel M. Ralston will address the voters of this community in this city next Friday afternoon. You should hear this distinguished gentleman who has made good as the chief executive of the state. He is a splendid speaker and will bring you a m--s---sage worth hearing. The claim of the anti-democrats in the state campaign are in line wiin those being made in Adams coun y. It’s a case of the outs wanting in and if they can fool the democrats into helping them they have a better chance. If you ever believed in the principles of democracy you ought to be supporting the ticket this year. __ Within the past twenty-four hours a dozen or more old-line democrats, who were supposed to have been line .1 up with the independents, two' .1 whom had signed the call for the con-■ vention, have voluntarily stated that j they intend voting the straight democratic ticket. They have investigated and have found that the attack on the democrats is a plain and simple political trick, hatched for the purpose of

Republican Misrepresentations. The Republican papers throughout the State, at the request of the Republican State Committee, published the following: “DEMOCRATIC ECONOMY’ IN INDIAN.V" v The cost a year of the State government under four administrations —two republican and two democratic—follows: Administration. Cost Per Year. Durbin, republican — $2,385.709.41 Hanly, republican Marshall, dem0crat3.673,312.09 Ralston, democrat (one year}4,433,b7U.70 THE FACTS. The actual rest a year of the State government under four administrations—two republican and two democrat!-.:—follows: .Yd ministration. Coot Per Year. Durbin, republican9-‘J,725.550..’'4 Hanly, republican 4,7243153319 Marshall, dem0crat4,625,000.63 Ralston, democrat 4.5283195.15 The tost tigtires are taken from the records in the Auditor of State’s Officd, and can be verified. Why do the republicans misrepresent the facts to you so much? Because they want to get back to their pie counter.

WHO'S WHO WITH THE CANDIDATES

IL. ■*•**?' ~ "BILLY" HAMMELL

that his father has always been an ardent republican. Billy believes in de mot racy and fights for it. Last fait he started out for the democratic nomination tor clerk of the Adams circuit court and he landed it. after the most ■ exciting race of the campaign, the three starters being about even and ! Billy nosing them out by but forty votes over &:« nearest competitor He has made a speech or two in tie campaign and he makes vcr.es where ! ever be goes. He says if there was any ■’ring" he didn't know es it and ■ he would like to have it explain.;! just bow ft worked him in. He was ; born in this township, just south of the city, and is known by every man, 1 wouiaxi aad vuxtu io tui» section Hating a gent rai a j -ail over the county. His election by a larj ■ majority is conceded and Billy says it will be al! right with him W they make it unan-mous. H-» promwee •r<> give the people the very best service posible. will personally have I ■■(large of his office and "ill try to please Vo?- ??- ■£??■ Har.im.eil. | *

putting a few office seekers in an - have determined to turn them down, i ‘ The Fort Wayne News take* excap J tion to the fact that this paper is us I tag the national democratic slogan: . j 'War in the east, peace in the weal . ■ thank God for Wilson," and wants tc . know who this man » we want thank . i ed. We are not surprised that they . do not know but shocked that they L are willing and anxious to advertise the fact. The new editor of tne Herald has only been here about a week but hi has already caught on to the idea <rf the independents— misquotes the Dem : ocrat. magnifies occurrences and does . I everything he can to mislead the vo I ter. Replying to the articles that Mr. Simon Brandyberry brought to this erf I lice they say we are parading illiter- : acy. When a political party bases a ! campaign on the report of a tniu I whose first public effort is such as to make the Herald speak of it as a case of "illiteracy," it ought to convince * most any one of the fallacy of their i claims. The auditor of Clinton county states that the amount spent in 1913 for legal advertising in their county was 9953.28. We wonder how this would compare with the amount spent in Adams county for that same purpose.—Berne Witness. And we wonder how many roads they built and how much printing they done on those. In Huntington county, one of those used by the independents as an argument, they use neither specl- ' fications er notices to post. In Wa- ■ bash county, another of those used, . the same rates are charged as in Adams county, according to Auditor Dun Showalter, a perfectly good bull tut**--er, bat the notices are shorter. The independents have given

i "BSty" Hammeil is the democrat: I inominee for county clerk and It wi’l | (take a lot of nerve for you not to vote It jr him. He :s a young min who has ' |*on out against the most adverse eir-! Icumstances imaginable. During til [tie years of his life he has not had I Ithe use of his limbs. He has not (walked except by the use of crutches, | md yet this young man has not allowLd that to interfere with him. Unriringly. unceasingly, yet often pa iIfully. he has struggled on, working his way through the Decatur public schools and graduating from the high -chod ta 190 s. Then he read law with iSchurger & Smith and in 1910 was ad|mit:ed to the bar. He has for severlai years been a worker in the demo-1 Icratic ranks, bw-oom? a follower o* ‘ Mr. Bryan, notwithstanding the fact

d the people their material in actual figures, all inclusive, and since the Democrat can verify its side, l*" it is desired that they should do * J so—Berne Witness. : I All inclusive is rights The reports '■ I published include several thousand “'dollars that Mr. Macklin sid not draw t- I It seems to us it is up to the Witness > to explain it. They are the people who y | have helped to circulate a report that e I they know is incorrect. Mr. Macklin I had nothing to do with the money that any one drew excepting himse/. s For that he i% willing to answer If 5 the county paid money to any one else ’ |as they did to Mr. Ernst, it was paid ' j because the money bad been earned * and the most of the money drawn by *" • him had been earned years before ‘There are nene so dumb as those ” won't understand and that's the pc.tion that the Witness seems to have * j taken. * I 0 | Any policy is entitled to be jud.'ed : by its results; and by that test the e,„ . . President's Mexican policy is spi- -• r I .. I didly vindicated. A vargrant war item • records that one Victoriano Huerta is I marooned in London, presumabi;- ■ awaiting a chance to get into Spa.u ' Little noticed amid bigger distract- | ions, the Constitutionalists took peaceful possession of the Mexican capital The future, perhaps, is anybody # guess: but Hderta is out, and a Government that has some show -o resi tore settled conditions is in. and only f : a few American lives have been E- '; The President and the Secretary ci State were rather lonesome in adh- \ tag to the policy that has ensued ir. | this bloodless fashion; but when they , I I are entitled to deep satisfaction This I country is horrified by the Europe.‘.r slaughter. Everybody is horrified by i war after it begins: yet only a few months ago we heard a great deal about the merits ot taking a stror.-’ , j stand with Mexico, asserting our aa tional dignity and the rest of the rig marole that meant rows ot America.-! youths dead or wounded in a ttivi?' cause.—Saturday Evening Post. For two months the citizens have , been talking about tha coming ot Mr Bigelow to make a political speech for them. At first the name of the mai. was shrouded in mystery and then fin ally it was announced with due cere mony and under the auspices of thcitizens. Mr. Bigeiow came and bimeetings were not by any means < success. We imagine the very ' that this man refused to speak < be half of the county ticket was a sa . disappointment. The Berne Witness explatas it thus in a story combinin: the Bigelow meeting there and t'..speeeh by Hon. Philip Zoereher reporter of the supreme court who spotfor the democratic state ticket Mon I day night: "In the case of Mr. Bigelow, many didn't turn out because they feared ; that he was going to expose local r' , fairs, others didn't venture out. r. ‘ I because they didn't want to hear wh?i. he had to say 1 many really want i to hear h» message because it is sa . j to have sounded good from the outI side) but because they didn't want t< show their colors. Private reasons may have justified their action, buthey lost out on a gixxi speech. Like wise in the case of Mr. Zoer her. though his address and that of Mr Bigelow were of a different character it was a good clean address ft hurt no one to hear the polic es of Wool row Wilson defended, such as the mcr al basis of the tariff, the necessity o.' the war tax. the new currency la~ ; the trust legislation, the foreign p.j - * cies of the president, etc., etc . to ..ear these discussed fairly and squarely does no man any harm. Local politics were scarcely mentioned. Straj- , gers who stop in for a hasty speech or two, haven’t the opportunity to investigate circumstances themseiv ; and so it's eoiy just and proper that ~ they make no definite statements this home affair.” LOST-Cota watch with name engr« i. ed on it. Also bad a chain with a ' silver knife connected to it. Finder please return to this office. 242 t" HEAR BEVERIDGE AT THE COURT HOUSE SATUFtDAr, 4.v0 P. M.

r October 16 —J- C. j rn<? nd L. G. Ellingha®- > Saturday. October . T m .ran and D. G- Eiling--17 —Joan v. »<-•— bam. renins. October; U t Sl ' 7 B F-wta and D. D CtrfToe. Decatur. October 23rd.. -.° Ur i m Ralston, governor of Indspeaks at I:3® o’clock. testing NEW CAR j — — (CONTINCEi THOM PAGE ONE) • « nt her on tne? ere Mr Hinkle and Mr. Mellen, j railroad, and Mr. Da-; originator of the ear. The jjarty ■ .rt d from Frankfort yesterday niorn:n«. slopped over night at Marion | and aspects to reach Toledo this even j ins* tar on their trip the car has of ‘me cars over the entire road. Tne [ arrangement for the car is much sim . compartment being divided off for the motorman and baggage, the middle | .--i-njrtment for a smoking room, the | general passenger compartment, and i he observation corner on the rear. RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE DEFEATED BY GERMANS fCONTTNTEB FROM PAGE ONE) tater :'ir. From far up into a>Ca :ium. zigzagging across into French | errttorv and down the Metz, the al- i lies ire apparently pressing the Ger-! i.ans back. There was every indica-1 ten here that the wedge of Belgium. I Brand Frey h with which the al-; pn'‘cunt»?r*?d the blow at! •ho X rth sea ports in Belgtox is be ns pushed forward between the arm-! ies ' Von Boehm and Von Besler. Be- i or- Germans occupied Antwerp ; he allies had prepared to engage their ’ight wing along ‘the river Lys. The | *roops have also been pressed back I -ast of the Arras. Unofficial dis-1 Washington. Oct. 15—(Special to) ’Taily Democrati —President ’Wilson’s) icutral proclamation was torn to! ■•hr-. :- in i..- .. rise today when Repreeutative Gurdn-t o f Massachusetts fiayed the Germans and declared that God would visit them with defeat. He that he was not neutral. “I hink the German cause is unholy and is a menace to the principal of democracy. I believe the God of battle will vis;: defeat upon them but we must remember that victorious nations have iroven headstrong and high-handed We must begin at once to reorganize 3tir military strength if we expect to >e able to resist this high handedness, when the time of necessity comes." Gardner then introduced a resolution irov’.diug for a committee to investi;ate the progress of the United States or war, either offensive or defensive.} ~ o—— , POLICE COURT. . - motion to quash the affidavit in the I ase fit State vs. Charles Wise, charg-1 ■d with selling intoxicating liquor to I Janies Coverdale, by the attorneys for! A ise on the grounds that the affidavit ’ was not legal and that it contained;} e charges of selling and gift. | •nd other if egularities. and also be-j a :se it was drawn up by Squire! Kin:-., was sustained in the court of! Kintz this morning and the j ise was dismissed. Whether or not i -er affidavit will be made is doubta- at -j.is time as Coverdale refuses! tc sign a new one. -*3avit was filed late yesterday afternoon before Mayor Christen by ys. Edith Schwartz against Mrs. Mary ateele. botn residing east of the citv I and in which the defendant is charged assauit and battery by the pX J <aSe . Wil! **“ iieanl Monday! cou Q? at ' oc ' ock at tke mayor’s! — I SIGNS ANTI TRUST BILL. I Xi “’ s PeeU» to A j *®? craO ~' Pr ««Mei»t j * -■ ' lav too anti-trunt, ... , ’t-i ■ ir.'ir-.'j: ik last a ' ■

MAKING OR SPOILING SALE frequently Opening Rxpr*ju; On by Clerk Detern-.me* Whether turner Purchase* or In • UtUo talk w hi. not long ago * siaxeeufu! E , * said: • Ono meet harmftd Uhlt Muijj ta b> rn*ay Balwtpworfe ta th* tug ot sorno muaidaglues term to\Z vigltor who come* to tho num. will take eJi ex-Hwabm, for ttan, UU you all beard, thing for youF We It ta '.w si >re, in th® case, la the oafvti >ta. a the city tall We eiannot g t W|| ♦rum IL yet everybody to tiled of Ing It • Thto term with others, 'What 4c you want? Anything fur you! in ttr U that elir bottom Nothing else, la there? Tou •ant this, did you,’ are disgmt lug to tha customers. They mean Milling and KUI sates Ruh,. r get buslneee. “The first thing you do or saj atproaching a customer usually cidee whether you will be able u> aai( a sal® ar nut Every day v« pn> apectlve customofg who have at acme counter really tateresud ij s ee line of goods, when they ar« w coated with 'Something for you* j a mediately lose all thetr in teres t there t» surely eomethtag they » Mli but what Is ’t? On a real hot laj it may be a cooling, refreshing drink or shat not, but then your qu<»stios did not creeta a desire to purchaw dry goods, nor did It auggest any wants along that Hao. “If salesmanship la going to be you profession, say something that sin brlr.g out a reply in your favor, make some positive suggestion, give some kind of infonna.Lion. give some kini cl selling talk that will be educating »b»t will mako your customer see the N aefiLi of tho the same as * you do." SECRET OF RADIUM’S ENERGY Particles Shot From It Are Declare; to Travel Through Atmoapner# at Speed of Light. — Tte energy, or power, of a mo-.fnj object to prejMjrticnal to Its weichi atd Ito velocity. A motorcycle nnni:.g at 60 miles an hour will nirfitt as hard a blow as a tw>ten uk-ving at three miles an hour. A unaU caliber high-power rille bullet w1:l strike as Imrd as a ton weight traveling at slow speed. Mlcrosc .plc bodies traveling at high velocitlet have an energy equal to that of much heavier bodies traveling slowly. This is the reason radium possesses such enormous energy. The particles shot out from It are mlcroec ; icallj sr. all, but they travel with th> speed oi light, or Ibti.ftOO miles a second. It ’ has been well said that a spider's web running over pulleys at the speed ot ' light would give enough energy t > ran ■ all the machinery in England. A small st -am of water under great pn - :re will tear down a mountain more rapidly than a siow-running river. i V.'ith thia in mind it is easy en >ugh . to understand how electricity traveling at the rate of 18*1,000 miles a secI ond is capable of transmitting thousands of horsepower over a coppet wire no larger than a lead pend. Stable Boy Named Horse. Commenting on the curious tames often given to racehorses, a writer in a London daily -recalled the Uistcric case of Potoooooooo. The earl ot Egreinont had a horso he inter >1 to call Potatoes, and in going round the stable one evening he gave the stable boy tn charge of the horse a piece of chnlk, and told hftu to writ® the name on the corn bin. The boy wrote Pot and then, evidently in some doubt as to the correct spelling, finished the word by repeating the letter "o" eivht | times. Thia so amused Lord Egre moot and his friends that tha horse w*s eo named forthwith. Why Linas Ar* Busy. “Why didn't you answer me when I called up today *" “I couldn't Mary, the second girl, was using the 'phone. Her young ; ..ut works In a livery stable and when lie's cleaning a horse she has to watt quite a while before he ran come to the , ’phone.” "She didn't talk forever, did she? You knew I wanted to reach you. Why didn't you call me when Mary got through?' “1 couldn't Delia, the cook, w& s next” Autograph Hunter's Ingenuity. No autograph hunter ever greater ingenuity and knowledge of human nature than the Newcastle (Eng.) mac, who, in the ’sos, wrote to a number of famous men intimating a desire to givq their illustrious names to vessels he was building. Sentimental replies with the coveted antegraphs poured in, and even Carly! o w»s moved to write hoping that ,r;C v««s«< w ou j(j sail In larger and deeper Tatere than had ever been reached b> th* man whose name it bore." Dog’s Suicide After Rescue. What was apparently a determinwi *t>i«npt at suicide by an Airedale tertier wan witnessed by a large numbe of vtoitons at Bray, County Dublin The animal jumped off the nort ptou of the harbor into the sea an waa sluicing when some fishermea r eS ‘ cnsd it. W.en they let it go the terrier mad o a tar the other pier, jumped ..riYMxnn>pd.