Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 12, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1914 — Page 4

DAIL Y DEM OCR AT Fur.icM* Bvsry Ivanina ■■•• pt Sunday By TOE BECATUR DEMOCRAT COMPANY LEW Q. ELLINGHAB JOHN H. HELLER Subscription RatM, Per week, by carrier........ 10 cents Per Year, by carrier ....... 15.00 Per Month, by ma 1125 cent* Per Year, by ma11....,12.50 Single Copies 2 eente Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice In Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For Representative in Congress, Eighth District of Indiana. JOHN A. M. ADAIR For Representative R. C. PARRISH. For Prosecuting Attorney, TwentySixth Judicial District. J. FRED FRUCHTE. For Clerk Adams Circuit Court WILL HA MM ELL. For Treasurer, GEORGE KINZLE. For Recorder, Aa. C. AUGSBURGER 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 VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRATS:— There are a good many reasons why you should not vote the "citizens’ ” ticket at next Tuesday’s election. A few of them: It is not a party that is held responsible by any state or national organization. It has no demand that its officials make good. It will end its career with Tuesday's election. Its candidates do not in any way excel the democratic candidates in ability or in citizenship. Not a single charge made by its supporters has been substantiated. Not one of its charges has been supported by an oath nor any of the records published have been attested to or the seal of the office from which claimed to have been taken used. The charges made that the surveyor drew frem $7,000 to SB,OOO and that the Democrat drew more than. $5,000 are absolutely false. They have made a campaign of pu' e bluff and the records of those of th ■ “citizens’” candidates who have held office do not show that th- y have made any effort to r duce taxes or expenses. Republicans were given no chance to vote for a ticket of their own but they were forced by the action of seventeen committeemen to swallow the “citizens’ ” ticket as doped out by a few politicians who thought only of- - ' Progressives have no ticket and the endorsement by their party was not even endorsed by seventeen. Because you know that the democrats have given good clean administrations, that they try their best to IrelandT I GUARANTEED GLOVES For Men Moc’ha, Cape, Glace, SI.OO pr. upward ■i -j i ( : i THE MYERS-DAILEY COMPANY

1 serve you. You take no chances with them in office. There are a hundred more that you have heard of. Any one is enough to cause you to vote the democratic ticket. Let's make it 2,000. ROAD REPAIRS:— A question more or loss discussed during this campaign has been that of the road superintendent and the cost of maintaining that office as compared with the results therefrom. We believe that within a very short time everyone will admit that this office is one of the best in the county in point of benefits derived and we are sure that it is maintained at a less cost than under the old system, though certain “pop-gun orators,” as they term themselves, have been trying to prove otherwise. Under the old system the county commissioners looked after the repair of roads and the average cost to the county was about S9OO per man or $2,700. Each of these commissioners looked after the roads in his district and each had his own idea of liow it should be done. As a result there was no uniformity in repair work. Each of these commissioners had their assistants, employing them as they saw fit and this cost would offset the cost of the assistant superintendents now. The road superintendent draws not to exceed five dollars per day or about $1,500 for 300 working days. He pays strict attention to the roads and a man is blind indeed who cannot see that the repair work is much better now than before and the man who does not understand that the county is saving money under the present law simply DOES NOT WANT TO. This ought to be clear and should explain one of the features being used by the "citizens' ” orators. ANSWERING EACH OTHER:— The Evening Herald says: "There has been no wasting of the people's money” when the county surveyor has been allowed to draw four dollars' pay on different jobs in four different parts of the county at the same time, and all his work on the four jobs was done in one day? Os course not. Look up the records and see.” An the Berne Witness on the same day thus explains it: "If Hubert Zerkle could not become well enough acquainted with the various surveyor’s duties by January 1, he could still hire three dupities at the rate of $4 per day.” BE SURE TO HEAR THE CLOSING SPEECH OF THE CAMPAIGN BY JUDGE DAVID E. SMITH AT THE COURT HOUSE THIS EVENING. The tax rate for general purposes in Adams county is less than fifty-seven cents. The rest of your tax is for local improvements which you probably favored when they were asked for. In closing the meeting,' Mr. Nussbaum said: “Investigate the men wro are supporting the ring ticket; look up their records and you will find the reason. —Herald. It would take so long to look up the three thousand who belong to the Adams county "ring,” and we suggest that the committee first look up why

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. Coat Per Year. Durbin, republican —42,389,709.41 Hanly, republican 2,805,163.29 Marshall, democrat - 8,673,812.03 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. Coat Per Year. Durbin, republican $3,725...°,56.84 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.

Sam went to Indianapolis to have his salary increased and why Sam said Billy Hammell could go to the poor house if he couldn’t make a living. We are still willing that you compare the men on the democratic and "citizens’" tickets man for man. and We are not afraid that you will find from that course one single reason why y,ou should vote against any man on the democratic ticket. Yes, look them over carefully. Milkie Miller has about concluded his job of advertising himself and w'H soon be ready to look after tha* vast number of clients he has secured in his defense of such democrats as C. L Walters, E. Fritzinger. Fred Rohrer, Cal Kunkle, Ed Ahr, and P. L. Can you beat it for real Wilson and Bryan democracy ? A traveling man who went over this county the past week told us today that he couldn't imagine why an Adams county farmer would complain about his taxes. He inquired as to the rate in the various townships and was surprised, for he had taken special note of the handsome school houses and the splendid roads. It is time to hire another set of officers —and county officers are only hired men, anyway—and it is for you to say whether the old set shall be hired again or whether you will have a new set. —So says C. L. Walters. Why. Lee, that leaves your friend, Archbold, out. He is one of the only two present officials asking a re-elec-tion. The “citizens' 'are sending out their final appeal for votes, a reutterance of the same statements heretofore made and which they refuse to substantiate. They are appeals for jobs by defeated candidates and professional office seekers and not deserving of consideration at this late day. If one of their charges had been true they would have proven it beyond any question before this time. The campaign in this county W’U soon be over. The last speech announced for the year in Decatur will be that of Judge David E. Smith at the court room at 7:30 o’clock this evening. Judge Smith is a fair and square man. who says what he believes and has the courage of his convictions. He will discuss the various local questions and if you are honestly interested in knowing whether any thing is wrong or not, or whether the contest being waged by the "citizens” is just a job-hunting expedition, you should hear the judge this evening. Concerning his stand on legislative matters, he said he favored a better auto license law, one that will keep the money in the county where paid, for use on the roads in the county, instead of sending it to Indianapolis to be disbursed for salaries. —From a Herald report of a speech by Walter Thornhill. The Lord preserve us from such statesmanship! If this learned gentleman will have Bill look up the rocords he will find that the present auto law more than kept the money in Adams county, for in the first six months of tliis year we received over S7OO more than we paid in. If he can open

up a department at home and beat that he will be going some! The “citizens' ’’ big stir inaugurated at Berne last March when that young statesmen proclaimed so loudly and with such fine Websterian gestures that he could place ids little finger “right on the spot,” has fizzled out and by next Tuesday there won’t be enough of it left to bother about and it is not to be wondered at. The movement supported in this county by the Evening Herald and the Berne Witness has licked itself by its inconsistency. In one edition they say there is no shortage and in the next they ask why we don’t explain it. Can you beat It for foolishness? Get on the band wagon. Let’s make the majori’y 2,000 and wind up this independent monkey business for years to come. He had not been speaking long until lie boldly launched into a defense of the Wilson administration and told how complacently he had obeyed the will of the master and crouched beneath the Wilson big stick. —P. L. in the Herald, reporting the Adair speech. Terrible accusation. Mr. Adair defended the Wilson administration, approved by everyone in the United States excepting tlie Evening Herald and the Fort Wayne News. P. L. has heard so much about the Roosevelt "big stick” and worried so much about it and hates the progressive Teddy so much that he thinks every president uses the same methods. You know that somehow or other we can't get much alarmed that P. L. will injure Mr. Adair's chances in Adams county greatly. P. L. likes it. If he can just get ’n where there is a democratic' speech he loves to take a few notes and then write any old thing he can think of that will sound like anti-democratic literature. He usually features the number, but recently the court roo n has been too well filled for him to do so, and he has had to dig up something else. In his report of the Adair meeting he ridicules Mr. Adair. Think of it, P. L. making fun of the ability of a man like Congressman Adair! No wonder his paper has lost its influence and the cause they have been espousing has weakened. After the election next Tusday P. L. will awaken as he has the day after each election for a long time, he will be “real grouchy” for a few days, as he has been after each election —and J. A. M. Adair will go back to congress and continue to represent the Eight district in an honest and conscientio ts manner as he always has. And why do the county commishave to borrow SIO,OOO the day after election to pay county expenses?—The Herald. The gentleman recently emigrated to this city and state, and he perhaps does not know that In 1913 this county suffered from a severe Hood which among other things destroyed a river bridge near Ceylon. The county does not keep on hands a fund with wliica to meet such expenses and it was necessary to borrow that money. It was done and a levy was made to pay that loan. The first payment will be ma la. out of next spring’s taxes and the rest the following year. If there is anything wrong with the proceeding half the counties in Ohio and Indiana are likewise wrong, and in some of those counties the amount borrowed was many times that amount. However, we are glad to give the stranger this Information which we are sure he can corroborate by looking at the records of which he has talked much during his short career as a citizep of Adam* county. “Fight bossism—boost non-partisan-ism—Wilson would do likewise” is the new slogan which heads the Berne Witness (that paper which thinks the old soldier is assisting in graft when lie draws his pension) and which we presume is trying to parody the Daily Democrat’s line, “War in the east, peace in the west, Thang God for Wilson,” which seems to worry that paper considerably. Now, you haven't heard just whom the Berne Witness thinks is the boss of Adams county, have you? Do you suppose they mean »

County Chairman Henry Heller oi | some one of the candidates? K there is a boss in Adams county we don t know who it is. There haslieen more lamsism in the “citizens'” party than ever was known in the democrat.c party in its fifty years of successful history in Adams county. So far a* President Wilson favoring that party, it's an imaginative dream. About the time he heard that Billy Archbold had said “that lie didn't know that Shively or Adair wanted him to ask support for them,” he would make up his mind as to the brand of real democracy back of the job-seekers’ party and vote as the other three thousand are going to do in this county next Tuesday—the old democratic party ticket straignt.

. 11 v MISSIONARY PROGRAM. The following program will be given by the Missionary society of the Pleas ant Grove U. B. church to be held Saturday evening, October 31, 1914: Song. Responsive Reading. Song. Prayer. Song. Recitation—Lilah Mumma. Reading —Bertha Welty. Duet—Mabel Mumma and Marie Lebrun. Reading—Golda Nidlinger. Essay—Mrs. C. E. Chupp. Duet —Irene and Tena Bittner. Recitation—Marie Lebrun. Address by the Pastor—Rev. C. E. Chupp. Duet—Edna Welty and Golda Nidlinger. Reports. Offering. Benediction. I VOTE FOR V JU V. Benj. F. Shively Democratic Candidate For UNITED STATES SENATOR

NORMAN HACKETT In "The Typhoon” Coming to the Ma jestic Theater, Fort Wayne. Few plays endure more than a season, and one which lasts two. is looked upon as a phenomenon. Such a drama is “The Typhoon.” which will seen in Fort Wayne. This time with Norman Hackett in the famous Whiteside role of the young Japanese diplomat. Mr. Hackett will be the attraction at the Majestic theater Sunday, and his engagement promises to be one of the banner offerings of the season at that popular play -house. It will be recalled that “The Typhon” is a powerful play of Japanese life, depicting the dang rs of "the yellow peril” to the world.at large, and revealing In a remarkably faitiiful manner the cold, calculating, subtle characteristics of the Japanese race. It tells a thrilling story of a young Japanese diplomat’s downfall by a beautiful woman, and keeps the spectator thrilled and intensely interested to the final curtain. Norman Hackett has been steadily climbing the ladder of fame, and his present ambitious effort has -advanced him many rounds in artistic worth and sound achievement. The magnificent Whiteside production, with its wealth of tapestries and Japanese trappings, has been secured for Mr. Hackett’s use and a fine supporting company engaged to faithfully portray the other difficult roles in this remarkable play« Prominent amoqg them are Miss Marion Nichols, a beautiful young actress, who is said to be Florence Reed’s double, and who is regarded as one of the most promising of the younger women in the emotional field.

IsasEl Friday. October 30. Decatur— Judge D. E. Smith. Williams-—J°' in C. Moran. Woods school house. Blue < reek Daniel N. Erwin and J. F. Truth’ . Magley-B. C. Parrish and J. F. bl ß*’r achol house. Diet. No. 4, Monroe township—D. B. Erwin and D. D. Coffee. Saturday, October 31. Berne-Judge D. E. Smith. Preble school house—John C. Mo'"Linn Grove—R- C. Parrish and Jesse Kelly. - o LEGAL NOTICE. ■ I *“

Notice is hereby given that assessments and interest on public improvements in the city of Decatur are due in November and must be paid before December Ist, on the following: Assessments and Interest Due in November. Weikel sewer. Third and Madison streets, Atz alley brick, Sixth street, Mylott sewer. Merryman sewer, West Monroe street brick, Ninth street brick, Madison street sewer, East Adams street brick, Jefferson street sidewalk, South Third street brick. Interest Due in November. Elm stret sewer, North First street. North Second street, Seventh street brick, Adams street, Mercer street, Rugg street, Indiana street, Ninth street stone. j. d. McFarland, 254t30 City Treasurer.

fitsafitststststs:® I HEAR | ifi f flf| VITI 11 fiUUulbO * n i£ AT THE S 5 s. I Court House | I TO-NIGHT | g AT 7:30 Give Jewels to Red Cross. London. —A St. Petersburg dispatch to Reuter's Telegram company says that in response to an appeal by the dowager empress, who is playing a prominent part In the organization of a relief fund to which she says any offering, great or small, will be equal in the sight of God, jewelry of all kinds is being sent to the Red Cross society. Wedding and other rings, watches, bracelets, gold and silver purses, orders of all kinds and silver utensils are arriving by every post. Grand Duke Constantine, one of the first subscribers, sent~three rings, ona containing a relic of St. Barbara, the patroness of warriors.

We have some new and second hand Top Buggies, Carriages and Storm Cabs at Prices that are Right. New Buggy Tops—different sizes ready to set on, at the DECATUR CARRIAGE WORKS CORNER Ist. & MONROE STS. PHONE 123. Upholstering and Feather Cleaning 1 located in th e Gregory building, corner o Madison and Third streets and am prepared to do all kinds of UPHOLSTERING AND FEATHER CLEANING WORK Let me make your old furniture look like new. 1 lie best satisfaction guaranteed. Work called tor and delivered. F\ HELM Back of Wear-U - Well store. Cor. 3rd. and Madison St.

NEW PICTURE OF THE iIM This la u new photograph of emperor of Germany in full diddle of Workmen's Compensation, An English miner was injured ii tn accident and received his weekly sompensation payment in the usad :ourse. He recovered, but the e» breed rest made him so fat that tn :ould not resume his work. The legal problem then was whether or not ths invalidating fatness was the direct •esult of the accident, and wheths, f it were so, the man was entity itill to be compensated so long aa tin invalidity lasted. The Court of don decided in the miner's favtr, which meant that while the obesity •ontlnued the compensation must bt said. The House of Lords, howeve, iecided the other way, and the mu vlll have to set to work to reduce th weight.—Westminster Gazette. fly Mayer Edgar Saltus j Barribal Lawson Wood James Huneker De Casseres John Kendrick Bangs WUIfM , J 0 Cent5 _ • I Every when