Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1914 — Page 4

DAILY DEMOCRAT PubleshMl Bvary ■vsnlng ■wctpt Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW G. ELLINGHAM JOHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates, Per week, by carrier........ 10 cents Per Year, by carrier 16.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mai1...... 12.60 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postofllce in Decatur, Indiana, as second elate matter. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For Representative ' R. C. PARRISH. For Prosecuting Attorney, TwentySixth Judicial District. J. FRED FRUCHTE. For Clerk Adams Circuit Court WILL HAM MELL. 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 — FORMER SURVEYORS:— Few former surveyors were experienced engineers when they stepped into office. Mr. Macklin didn't have much previous experience when he started. Men who are acquainted with Mr. Zerkel, the citizens’ candidate for surveyor, say, that he is the best qualified man that lias run for the surveyor’s office for a long while. — Berne Witness. We doubt the statement that Mr. Zcrkle is the best qualified man who lias run for the office of surveyor. We <’o not know what his educational ad-

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vantages have been but we do know that this is one office where some I reparation is absolutely necessary vnless the man elected expects to employ experts to do his work which would certainly be rather expensive. For a good many years the men who held the office have prepared themselves either by working in the office or taking special college work u’ong the lino and sometimes both. John Tyndall was a student ut Valparaiso and other schools and had a splendid common school education 1 elore he did that, besides being naturally adapted to mathematics; Will 1 ulk was a graduate of the Valparaiso engineering school; George McKean had six years’ experience in the office and (’. C. Ernst had four years; L L. Baumgartner was a teacher and took special work in college, and Phil Macklin, who had taught mathematics f.ve years, went to college several months after his nomination. Each of of the men who have served in the office since we have known anything about it were well prepared and well qualified. 9 P E R H A PSITS YOUR BOY:Somewhere a boy Is rising to manhood who will one day hop on the back of a great opportunity and ride into prominence as dramatically as William Jennings Bryan did in 1896. He will be to the politics of tomorrow as were Lincoln, Garfield and Blaine to the politics of yesterday or as are Roosevelt and Wilson to the politics of today. Can you locate him? No, and very likely it’s well that you can’t for that would take away the novelty of tho surprise. Hut be sure that he will come with his occasion, for history teaches that the needed man always does. The m,Htary experts tell us that modern conditions have made war anonymous; that we need not look for the skyrocket rise out of the present battling armies of a new genius comparable with a Marlborough,, a Napoleon. a Grant, a Sheridan or a Lee. With due respect, we don’t believe it for a minute. The one thing that can’t be kept down is human personal

Republican Misrepresentations. The Republican papers throughout the State, at the request of the Republican Stato Committee, published the following: “DEMOCRATIC ‘ECONOMY’ IN INDIANA.” The cost a year of the Stato government under four administrations —two republican and two democratic—follows: Administration. Cost Per Year. Durbin, repub1ican52,389,769.41 Ilanly, republican 2,805,163.29 Marshall, democrat 3,073,812.03 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 Dr. D. D. Clark, present coroner of 'billy. 'aiidiila ■■ lor • I'slim. i: i:u w:.-<- a polil i( ii;... iias a,wa > K ’*>o busy with NKfcgftll ois own affairs to both<r with vol”H getting, though he has always proven ’ajlgy r-• *' •' 1 strength to the ticket. He wqs .... mat"d la ' 1 ><■. ember without opt* .a* iMIwH Position and will be elected easily on jj|aß|||Ba > ' oven ‘* jer ' sr d- * s at ’ official. Vt *■ *7, M ' v. ho looks after the duties of his oflce in a most satisfactory manner, always paying strict attention to the gflfe;V" icquirements of the law and no one Bp* ’ *’ tan offer serious or honest objections 10 l' l * 3 career as an official. He was Ijfxfe VVjjL.'' 1,11:1 in Madison county, Ohio, January 16, 1866, and his boyhood days Dr. D. D. Clark. were spent there. He is a graduate lot the Angola Normal college and attended school also at Fort Wayne and Chicago, wher he obtained his education in the profession of medicine. He began practice in Ottoville, Ohio, hut nineteen years ago he came to this city and formed a partnership v ith his brother, Dr. C. S. Clark, the irm having enjoyed a splendid practice. Dr. D. D. Clark is a live wire, always active in public affairs, clever and likable. While we doubt if he has; taken time to ask you to vote lor him, we are sure he will appreciate it if you do. He will continue to serve you efficiently and you should cast vour ballot for him on election day.

tty. It will appear. It Is bound to. Otherwise the philosophy of history would have to be discarded. It's this never-failing Biipply of vital young blood that insures the continuity of human progress. - Fort Wayne Sentinel. THEY ARE ALL ON THE JOB It would be a mistake to think that the republican party can ever hone for success on the old stundpat lines. As between such a party and the present democratic party all men of progressive principles would undoubWly choose the latter. The republicans we believe understand this. If tliey do not so much the worse for them and their party. —Indianapolis News Editorial, December 5, 1913. Here are the standpat managers of the republican state campaign. Omy a few of them are named here for there is a whole flock on the job all the time at the top of the Severin hotel from where the campaign fiction is being sent out for the people to laugh at. But read this list of managers: Jim Watson, dictator in chief and spender of the money from the big interests; Jim Goodrich, Jim Heinenway, Jim Fesler, Joe Kealing, Charlie Bookwaiter. Delavan Smith, Will Hays, Will Wood, W. T. Durbin. These and a few others who have organized in the hope that some republican may be elected for them to boss. HEAR GOVERNOR RALSTON, THOMAS TAGGART AND STATE AUDITOR O’BRIEN AT THE COURT HOUSE TOMORROW AFTERNOON. Governor Ralston, Auditor of State W H. O’Brien, Thomas Taggart, national committeeman, here tomorrow. Hear these great men at the court house, tomorrow afternoon. • Did you notice that P. L. neglected to count the number who attended the Vestal meeting? Os course it make no great difference except that we were anxious to know, and supposed since he was so careful to give the exact number at the democratic meetings he would certainly

not fall to do so on this important occasion. Ten days more in which to take off your coat and do you share for the good old demcratic party which has an unbroken record of victories in Adams county and will roll up a tanner one this year. Get in the game, boys. YOU HAVE NEVER BEFORE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR THOMAS TAGGART MAKE A POLITICAL SPEECH. FOR HE IS TOURING INDIANA FOR THE FIRST TIME. COME TO DECATUR TOMORROW AND HEAR HIM AND ALSO HEAR GOVERNOR RALSTON ANb AUDITOR OF STATE OBRIEN. You have been urged to vote the democratic ticket straight for the sake of Wilson and Bryan. Let me tell you that Wilson and Bryan opposed democrats who were traitors to their party.—Extract from one of Billy's speeches. Well, that fixes it so several of these independent candidates can’t expect the support of Wilson and Bryan in the future.

Hon. Herbert S. Bigelow, who recently made several speeches in this county for the “citizens,” has come cut in a statement whicli was recently published in the Enquirer, against state-wide prohibition in Ohio end in favor of city option, his argument being that it would be impossible to make a city like Cincinnati ■ dry.” It is likely if Fred Rohrer l ad back some of the nice things he said about him they would not be repeated. Every vote that is cast for the straight democratic ticket in Indiana will be taken as an indorsement of the Woodrow Wilson policies and progressive legislation by the administration for tlie people's benefit. This was the statement of William Jennings Bryan, and in addition lie urge-1 especially that voting the democratic ticket is the only means of assuring that there will be a majority of democratic senators and representatives to support the administration. THE BERNE WITNESS SAYS THOMAS TAGGART IS THE DEADLIEST BOSS OF ALL OF THEM. CAN THEY POINT TO A SINGLE ACT HE EVER DID IN HIS LIFE THAT WARRANTS SUCH A STATEMENT? COME IN AND SEE AND HEAR HIM TOMORROW AND WE VENTURE YOU WILL CHANGE YOUR MIND ABOUT HIM IF YOU HAVE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE AS THE WITNESS DOES.

Mr. Ahr is a good stout man, muscular and well built, honest and square. The public can well afford to support him. The Witness. And so these are the requisites now. Well, how’s his feet? Can he run rapidly? Has he good wind 7 Has he corns? etc., etc. We supposed he belonged to that class of reformers who would agree to give back half his salary. And talking about muscle and build, what’s the Ciatter with Ed Green? Hilly Archbold, who, according to the Herald, has advanced to that stage in his political career where he can discuss “Constructive and destructive forces,” says that a man who was convicted for stealing shoes, and another who pleaed guilty to manslaughter each received sentence of two to fourteen years. Os course one got from one to eight years and the ether, two to twenty-one, but little misstatements of facts such as these w'ould not. make any great difference with a constructive stateman. “I have been accused of saying that Mr. Yager was short when county treasurer,” said Mr. Archbold, "but 1 never said he was.” —Decatur Herald. Os course he knows it. The Herald also said it in one bf its issues that they did not refer to Mr. Lachot’s term and that the investigations only

go back six years. Tho of these office-seeking gentlemen and the papers backing them ure most conflicting. H they are not careful they will figure that shortage out under tlie Archbold term. Mr. Archbold is criticizing Judge Smith for sending a man to prison lor stealing a pair of shoes. He did. He sent several men, but you uegle< ted to tell your audience, Billy, that those men stole several pairs, and that tliey broke into n freight cur to do It. You also failed to explain that before the judge passed sentence on these men they had been tried ar.-1 convicted by a jury of thier peer. . You will have to dig up something stronger than that to make the people of Adams county believe that th’ jjzdge has gone very far wrong. Tlie Berne Witness questions tho right of local men to go out and fight for democracy and insists that they are frightened. Yet we have been doing it for’a good many years in Ad urns county and expect to continue it. There has never ben a campaign during the last half-century in which the democrats have not made the same stubborn fight they are making now and it has been a good many years back that John Moran and Dave Smith were not on the firing line .They have the right certainly to fight for those principles In which they b lieve just as much as Bill Archbold, Walter Thornhill, Lee Walters, Fred Rohrer and the others have. And still the independents have failed to substantiate a single charge they have made. They have not even used the official seal of the office from where they obtained tlie information. They will not do so, either. The campaign from their side has been on? of misrepresentation and tlie people w’ll not be fooled. Each day the demo crats are declaring their intentions to remain faithful to the regular ticket, republicans are saying that tliey will repudiate tlie action of the seventeen committeemen and progressives are suggesting that since they have 'io ticket they will vote for the democrats on the ccunty ticket. Let's make it unanimous. Therefore, in Adams county that man is a democrat so far as local issues are concerned wiio votes not the county democratic ticket, but the citizens’ ticket— Feme Witness. We presume this includes .ucb sialw-art fighters for democracy as Fred Rohrer, E. Fritzinger, Lee Wai ters, Al Graham, Ed Ahr, Cal Kim kle, and the rest of them, who would just about as leave lose their right arms as vote for a democrat on a dem

Governor Ralston Tom Taggart W. H. O’Brien z Will Speak at the Court House DECATUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 BE SURE TO HEAR THEM

<i /ticket It’s no ÜBt ’’ yoU Catt l ocrutic ticket. put lt oV er in Admns county und will vote the democratic tkk straight. in addition to these. you men wh o attempted to deliver the m publicans and progressives and them out without a ticket to support inay just as well reaiiw that a Urge number of voters from these parries wl ll join the democrats in doing it. A well known republican told US today that he had definitely decided to vote the straight democratic couutv ticket as a rebuke to County Chairman Fritzinger. C. L. Walters and the others who had “sold out the party. at a time when he felt that it could have been placed on a better footing than at any time in the past. -The opportunity,” he said, "was here, but because a few committeemen, headed by Fritzinger and Walters, wished to do so, for some reasons of their own we were handed over. 1 am not in sympathy with Archbold Thornhill and the others, and shall not aid them to get an office.' He also recalled the fact that the .conntv chairman did not look after the appointment of republican clerks on the registration boards, neglected to see that even the township tickets were properly certified to the county clerk and had tried about as hard as lie could to prevent the old party from making a showing. We have an idea that a good many others feel pretty much as does this gentleman. HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? Sheriff Durkin received a card this morning from tlie officials at Van Wert, Ohio, asking him to be on the icckout for thieves who broke into the Van Wert Clothing Company', store and made a get-away with tlie following articles: One black Kersey, fur-lined overcoat, three black fur overcoats, several other black mixed overcoats, site 36 and 37, a number of four-in-hand ties, latest style dark hats with light bands and with Young Bios, and Van Wert Clothing Co. names inside, a black-grained traveling bag and several suit cases. o GENEVA MERCHANT ARRESTED Geneva. Ind., Oct. 22 —Homer Pontius, a piominent oil operator and merchant of Geneva, was arrested there Tuesday, alleged to have operated an automobile without a license. On being brought before Justice of the Peace Dickerson a change of venue was taken and the case will be heard in the circuit court. CENSUS REPORT. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Frisingi r ; Ninth street are rejoicing over the birth of a fine girl baby who arrived last evening. o Don't forget “The Million Dollar Mystery” at the Crystal tonight.

POLITICAL CALANOAkI Wednesday, October Brushwood, Jefferson rish and Jesse Kelly. ' Di boll, Washington- j ( ,i, tl ( , ,/ und D. N. Erwin. ''** Thursday, October 22. Meyers, Freneh-D. E. Smith «..., F. Fruchte. ’M Monroe, Dist. No. I—Dorey,. ! und Will Hammell. Williams—R. C. Parrish ami & & Coffee. ' a Friday, October 23. Decatur— Ralston, Taj-i-ufl. 1 Berni! —Dore B. Erwin. Saturday, October 24, Erwin, Union—D. E. Smith. Honduras, Kirkland |i lirt , t! „ J and J. F. Fruchte. Pleasant Mills—John c. Moran Monday, October 26. Decatur--John C. Moran. Brodbeck. Union- -D. N. Erwin R. C. Parrish. Freidheim—Judge D. E. Smith Tuesday, October 27. Woods School House, Blue CreekJ D. N. Erwin and J, F. Fruchte. Cottonwood School House, FreucU J. C. Moran. We a nesday, October 28. Decatur —John A. M. Adair. Monroe —John A. M. Adair ju Judge Smith. Jefferson —John C. Moran. Thursday, October 29. Geneva —J. A. M. Adair and Juj. D. E. Smith. Berne— Dannel N. Erwiu and Join! A. M. Adair. Peterson—John C. Moran. Friday, October 30. Decatur—Judge D. E. Smith. Williams —John C. Moran. Saturday, October 31. Berne —Judge D. E. Smith. ADAIR SPEECHES. Wednesday, October 29. Kohr school house, Union township, 9 a. ni. Williams, Root township. 10 a. m. 1 Freidheim, Preble township, U a.nj Preble, dinner, 12 m. Preble speech, 1 p. m. Magley, 2 p. m. Honduras, Kirkland township,3p«] French, 4 p. m. Supper, 5 p. in. Town of Monroe, 6.30 p. m. Decatur, 7:30 p. m. Thursday, October 29. Bobo, St. Mary’s township, 9 a. a Pleasant Mills, 10 a. m. Salem, Blue Creek, 11 a. in. Dinner, 12 m. Hisey school house, Jefft:i ■n. 1 p.il Linn Grove, 3:15 p. m. Geneva, 6:30 p. m. Berne, 8 p. ni. o—_ FOR SALE—Heifer, 2 y-i.rs old lit May, % Jersey, % Hob'i::. will flesh in March. Gave 4 gallon <■ 8.1 per day when fresh last .-q no - Tie mother of this heifergave o to ? gallons of good, rich milk pi r y vsa fiesh and this one promi: to bt - : good.—D. I. Weikel, ’phon- 39. jrl FOR SALE —Hard coal burnt:. IS A fire pot, good as new, and a WilrZ heater. Both at a bargain.-U® l Gehrig, 118 No. Bth St.