Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1914 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Puk'.iahMt Bvery Evening lacapt Sunday By TIE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LBW G. ELLINQHAB JOHN H. HELLER •übacrlptlon Rate*. Par week, by carrier 10 cents par Year, by carrier 00-00 Per Month, by mall ...26 cents Per Year, by mai1........ 12.60 Single Coplea 1 cents Advertising rates made known 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 Adams Circuit Court WILL 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. o— ■ . ■ WHAT THEY HAVE DONE: — ‘‘What has Shively done? What have the democratic congressmen from Indiana alone?” These are questions asked by the leaders of the opposition, and they dare not answer their own questions honestly. William Jennings Bryan, speaking for President Wilson and himself, answered these questions directly to the point: "These men. and men like them, lieve made it possible for Woodrow Wilson to give you the things that you have. “The president has kept congress in session from just after his inauguraaion until now. In all the history of our nation no congress before has ever served so long, and it has been busy all the time, and yet he has not been able to carry out all the program to which he was pledged and which he has outlined, and if the people of Indiana follow the advice of these republican newspapers and defeat the democrats who have stood with the president and stood by him, and if enough other states do the same thing, to change the political complexion of either the senate or the house, the president's hands are tied, the president’s powers are paralysed, and then the men who have advised you that it will have no effect on the administration will mock you and laugh at you because they fooled you. That is the situation, my friends, and having shown you that the president and these democrats - BALMACAAN __TOP—-COAT—-i An overcoat medium light weightin a range of fancy nubbed patterns. Showerproof—sl2.so to SIB.OO THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

• must stand or fall together." 1 SOME . "WHOPPERS:”— I When wo wore boys and some one told an extrn big lie, we called It a "whopper.” In their desperation to ; find a campaign Issue, the republicans are insulting the Intelligence of the i public by telling “whoppers.” I The moat prodigious falsehood 1 thrust into politics for some decades 1 I* that which rests upon the assertion , that there would be no need of levy--1 Ing the emergency war tax if the Payne-Aldrich “robber tariff” were > still a law. Consult, the facts: The customs revenue collected during the first nine months that the Underwood tariff was in effect —from October 1 to July 1, 1914 —amounted to $206,500,000, or $22,900,000 a month. The customs revenues collected during the full fiscal year 1913, the last year that the Payne-Aldrich law was in effect, amounted to $‘.>18,891,396, or $26,600,000 a month. Customs revenues fell off somewhat: therefore the republicans argue enough money would have piled up in the treasury during the last fiscal year to tide the government over the present crisis, if the old tariff were in operation. But the democratic administration equipped the government with another revenue producer—the income tax. During the ten months of its operation up to July 1, this tax, eliminating the returns from the corporation excise tax enacted under the Taft administration, produced $42,189,268, or $4,000,000 a month. Receipts from customs and income tax, $26,600,000, a month. If normal import conditions existed, it is estimated officially that the new | tariff and the income tax would yield over $27,000,000 a month this fiscal year. So successful in operation was the joint customs and income tax plan of taxation that at the end of the last fiscal year there were a surplus in the treasury of $33,000,000 above ordinarv expenditures. The reactionary republicans (and they lead and control the party) want to repeal the income tax. They op-

Republican Misrepresentations. The Republican papers throughout the State, at the request of the Republican State Committee, published the following: “DEMOCRATIC 'ECONOMY' IN INDIANA." The cost a year of the State government under four administrations —two republican and two democratic—follows: Administration. Cost Per Year. Durbin, republicans2,3B9,7o9.4l Hanly, republican 2,805,163.29 Marshall, democrat 3,673,812.03 Ralston, democrat (one year) 4,433,879.70 THE FACTS. The actual cost a year of the State government under four administrations—two republican and two democratic—follows: Administration. Cost Per Year. Durbin, republican $3,725,856.84 Hanly, republican 4,724,253.39 Marshall, democrat 4,625,005.63 Ralston, democrat 4,528,295.15 The last figures are taken from the records in the Auditor of State’s Office, 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 ©The democratic candidate for sher'ff is Ed Green and his popularity was proven in the primary last December, when, with two opposing him, he wen by a large majority, receiving almost two thousand votes, nearly enough to insure his election this fail. Ed wrs .born a “Buckeye,” first seeing the light of day in Crawford county, Ohio, November 2, 1866. He came here in 1882 and has since been a well known man in the county. He served throb years as marshal of this city and three years as deputy ■sheriff, and ir. each place lie made good. He is a nu.n of that nature that he never loses h's temper, always has a cheering word lor friend or foe, politically speaking, Ed Green. tor he lias no other kind ot enemies. He is picked by many as among the leaders of the democratic ticket as to size of majority and will lose his competitor in the race on November 3rd. Mr. Green has served as a conductor on- the Fort Wayne & Springfield traction line for several years, and by his courteous manner, his desire to always accommodate has made many friends and has won a place with the company. He does not boast of a large amount of this world’s ' goods, though he has always been industrious, and his friends stick just as tight to him as though he were rich in purse. Ed Green will win on election day and you should give him your vote. 1

pose ’he plant of placing a fair share of the expense of maintaining the government upon those best able to pay — the well-to-do. They would have the government utterly dependent upon a tariff under which, first, the trusts tax the general public by charging more for their products in the domestic than In the foreign market; and second, the government taxes the general public, chiefly the poor, to raise its necessary revenues. It is a clever scheme by which the government’s necesity is made the bulwark of monopoly's graft. If such a system were in effect now. what would be the result? Would the European nations stop fighting in order to provide the United States with its normal flow of imports? Not a chance. Imports would be shut off or reduced in volum no matter what sort of tariff this county had. The consequence would simply be that the loss of revenue would be much greater, the predicament of the United States much more distressing, and a much large: sum would have to be raised by emergency taxation. The tax rate in Adams county is fif-ty-seven cents for all general purposes, including turnpike and bridge expenses. Remember that when the antis are representing it to be from three to five dollars. TOM TAGGART IS COMING FRIDAY AFTERNOON. EVER HEAR OF HIM? EVER SEE HIM? COME AND SEE AND HEAR THE MOST TALKED ABOUT AND MOST ABUSED MAN IN THE MIDDLE WEST. “A democrat is a man who votes the democrat ticket,” says Mr. Bryan, and that is true this year in Adams county. If you really love the principles of the old party, and believe in a fair deal, you wil 1 vote the democratic ticket straight through this year. Only two weeks more for the candidates and then the election. There is plenty doing in the meantime and with the proper finish the old democratic party will roll up a majority m Adams county that will exceed evn

that of former years. Take your coat i off and help do it. Those who are attacking the county administration in speeches over the county are comparing the appropria tion of other counties for legal advertising with tl*at in this county. II should be understood that the entire appropriation for that purpose in tills county this year and f#r next year Is $1,600 and that amount is never us id. This is but another of the mlsrej resentations being made. GOVERNOR RALSTON, TOM TAGGART, W. H. O'BRIEN WILL SPEAK HERE NEXT FRIDAY AFTERNOON IT'S A PROGRAM WORTH HEAR ' ING AND WE WANT YOU TO COME IN AND HEAR THESE GREAT MEN YOU WILL FIND THEM GENTLE MEN OF THE HIGHEST CLASS WHO WILL ARGUE THE POLITI CAL ISSUES IN A FAIR AND IMPARTIAL MANNER. COME IN ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND HEAR THEM. The independents are using every effort to fool the voters of this county into voting for them. It should be remembered that these men were slated for nomination and picked out days before the little convention was held at Berne, that it was dominated by such politicians as Al Graham, Fred Rohrer, Lee Walters, E. Fritzinger and others who have always opposed the democratic party. Their action was approved by seventeen republican precinct committeemen. It is not a ticket selected by the people and not deserving of your support, whether you are a democrat, republican or bull mooser. Several orators for the so-called in dependent party held a meeting at Linn Grove Saturday night. They made their usual attacks upon the men and officials of the county whose reputation for honesty we believe would compare favorably with most of those opposing them. They did not *xplain any of the various charges made against them or their men had nothing to say about the “little red wagon.” nor did they explain how a man with ten or fifteen thousand dollars’ worth ■ of personal property can make a return to the tax assessor for S6O. Aa honest reduction of taxes. Bosh! The independents refuse to make oath to their statements that they have handed out so frequently during the past six months. They reply through the Herald that the word of Simon Brandyberry and Frank Heller is as good as an oath, but you never heard of any body being convicted on such an evidence. Further than that these men as we understand it simply verified certain figures. So far as the meaning of those figures probably they did not even investigate, in fact they could not in a few hours. If the men who make these statements do not care to back them up by tlie official seal, by their sworn statement or by any thing that will i show their good faith, they have no right to ask you to do so. The progressives held a meeting nt the court room Saturday afternoon, with Albert J. Beveridge as the headliner. Harry Kitzclman, the nran who says he can prove that John Adair has not voted on more than a third of the important measures during his career as a congressman, and who insists that Judge Smith used unfair tactics to prevent the citizens using the court room for a speech that was intended I for all the people, was the first attraction. When the former senator arrived the court room was well filled wit’: people, men and women, and voters of every party. The senator made a good speech from a progressive standpoint and claimed that they would win in a walk in Indiana this year. Os course we doubt that and we do not agree with the senator on all things. While he made an interesting statement concerning the bull moose idea of a tali!! commission he failed to offer a single objection to the Underwood-Overman tariff law now’ in effect. But at that it was a good, clean speech that would hurt, no one who is interested in politics and affairs of the government. As

a campaigner the distinguished Indianian has fed superiors. Somebody who purposely or otherwise left their name off the slip, has taken the trouble to mall us from ; Berne a heading from the Daily Demo- ; crat bearing the words, “War in the ; east, peace in the west, Thank God for Wilson," and asking us to remove it for a few days as it doesn’t look good to him. We are surprised that any person, regardless of politics, would object to that phrase. Whether or not you believe in the protective tariff, free trade, low taxes, are against improvements, no difference what your opinion may be on other affairs, if i you are a good American citizen, you I will not object to thanking God for Wilson during these days of international trouble, when the battlefields of Europe are red w ith the blood of their best youth and when our splendid president is wearing out his life that your home and your boy may be safe. The line you mention will not be taken out as suggested. If there is one reason in the world why the voters of this nation should this year aid President Wilson by giving him genuine supporters in congress it is for the same reason that Abraham Lincoln was re-elected in the civil war crisis. Vote for Shievely and Adair and remember that the supporting of every democrat, big or little, this year, is a duty you owe your president and your neighbor and yourself. ——^l——■ One of the points made by the independents in their speeches over the county and one that they discuss more than any other is the fact that the county surveyor draws more than four dollars per day. He has not drawn a cent that does not belong to him as you will find if you really investigate and none of them have made a very large sum that we have ever heard of. But be that as it may, doesn't it look just a little queer to you that they don’t object to the county treasurer drawing all the salary that the law allows him? For instance, Mr. Archbold will draw for this year’s work a salary of $2,300 and in addition to that he is also allowed S3OO for collecting the city tax and he is the first treasurer to draw for that, will also receive approximately SSOO for collecting delinquent taxes, and is allowed S7B for his work as a member of the board of equalization, making a total of $3,178. There are 313 working days in the year, making his average over ten dollars per day. His office expense is a. sala:y for but one clerk, leaving him a net balance of at least nine dollars per day. He will not refuse any of the money. Neither would you. Mr. Voter, if you were in his place. Why should the county surveyor do so? Doesn’t it appeal to you as the smooth work of

I Governor Ralston | -- • - ----- ■■ Tom Taggart | 1 W, H. O’Brien | Will Speak at the Court House DECATUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 SURE Iro HEAR THEM„

politicians. <»< ee wl '° 1,11 1 wunclng Ini TI..C. «'• •”* ’ .HI "» day of pb'ctlon. POLITICAL CALANDAR Li nn Grove-Monday. Jucfge D. E. Smith and Lew G. Ell flham. Migley. Monday evening. Octolier kX. Il i:r«l '> O- C °"“- Bobo. Monday. October 19-John C. Moran and J. F. Fruchte. Court house, Decatur, October 23rd. —Samuel M. Ralston, governor of Indiana, speaks at 1:30 o’clock. Tuesday, October 20—Salem school, Blue Creek township, speeches by D. B. Erwin and J. F. Snow. Tuesday. October 20— Knapp school house, Root township—John C. Moran and Will Hammell. Wednesday, October 21-Brushwood school house, R. C. Parrish and Jesse Kelley. Wednesday, October 21—Debolt school house, Washington township, J. C. Moran and D. N. Erwin. Thursday, October 22-Meyer school house, French township, D. E. Smith and J. F. Fruchte. I I —• Thursday. October 22—District No. 1 Monroe township, D. B. Erwin and R. C. Parrish. Thursday, October 22, Geneva, John C. Moran and J. F. Snow. Saturday, October 24,—Erwin school house, Union township, Judge D. E. Smith. Saturday, October 24,—Hondorus, Kirkland township, Dore B. Erwin and J. F. Fruchte. — oPOLICE COURT In the case of State vs. Mrs. Dayton Steele, charged with assault and battery upon Mrs. Jess Schwartz, October 12, and which was held before Mayor Christen this morning, the de-, fendant was found not guilty on account of the lack of evidence. Dick Burdge was arrested this morning by Marshal Melchi on an affidavit filed by Roy Miller and which charged Burdg with cruelty to animals. The trouble grew out of a, shooting affray Saturday morning [ when Burdge shot MilleFs coach dog ■ at the corner of Third and Monroe streets. Four shots were taken at Ihe dog only one of which struck him and so badly injured the dog that it died an hour later. The case will probably be heard before Mayor Christen late this afternoon. o- - A lady with two children would like to rent two rooms in which to live during the winter. If you have such rooms for rent leave word at this office 242t3.

COURT HOUSE NEWS. Bluffton attorneys were hede today and before Special Judge D. B. E rwl _ argued demurrers in the ease of j olla Mock et al. vs. County Clerk F erdt nand Bleeke. This is the B<iuabbl® of attorneys for the possession of In the Studahaker-Faylor case j»| d into the hands of the county clerk, A demurrer by the defendant wa s 8ug _ talned. Plaintiff asked and was grant, cd leave to amend, and l*ie amended complaint was filed. Demurrer by t| le defendant to the amended compi a | nt on the grounds of defect of p art)e| was overruled. Demurrer by defend, ant to amended complaint for want of facts. Simons & Daily and C. J. Lutz have filed a new suit entitled J. E. cig rl( Oil company vs. The Cliffton oil company, Harry Maxon, damages, demand, SB,OOO. The plaintiff alleges its <sil lease in Jay county was damaged by the pumping station of the defendant, which filled its oil wells with foreign substance. This i s t h ß second suit of the kind against the defendants. The case of E. Burt Ixmhart vs. Ollie Chronister, foreclosure of chattel mortgage, was dismissed and costs paid. The Studabaker Bank vs. Nelson K. Todd and R. D. Patterson. Judgment for $888.78 against the defendants. As Patterson is surety on Todd’s note, Todd's property is to be first exhaust, ed before proceeding against that of Patterson. The appearance of Attorney Sharp for Todd was withdrawn and he defaulted. A cross-complaint was filed by Patterson. A marriage license was issued to Elmer W. Jackson, railroad operator, born April 7, 1885, of Kentland, to wed Margaret Frances Beery, stenographer, born February 12, 1886, daughter of Reuben Beery. Real estate transfers: Minerva A. Worden to Sabra Bouse, 40 acres. Monroe tp.. $6500; F. M. Schirmeyer, trustee, to Ward Manufacturing Co., real estate in Root township, $1000: Clinton L. Simpkins et al. to G. C. Moore, lots 405-406, Berne, S3OOO. oWANTED —second nand ron top desk. Leave word at Democrat of- | fice. 204tf FOR SALE —Lot of dirt, will be delivered, or you can get it on Madison street. —Julius Haugk. 245t3 WANTED —To rent, farm, from SO to 120 acres, by two men. Good farmers, with A-No. 1 reference. Inquire at this office. 246t3* Fruit Trees Sprayed I have the best power sprayer in the country and will do your work right. Will spray down the tree as well as from the ground, getting both top and bottom of the branches. See me or drop me a card. A. W. BAXTER. 619 Elm Street.