Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 209, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1916 — Page 1

Volume XIV. Number 209.

SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE PRESIDENT WILSON ACCEPTS NOMINATION IN WONDERFOL ADDRESS AT SHADOW LAWN TODAY. *

(United Press Service) Shadow Lawn. Asbury Park, Long Branch. N. J.. Sept. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson this afternon formally accepted the democratic nomination for the pres idency and in outlining the achieve nients of the administration scored the republicans. President Wilson discussed the promises of his party, pointing out definite legislation that redeemed the platform pledges given in 1912. He compared the record of the present administration with the indefinite promises given by the republicans and believes the people are standing pat to resist a. change. He brought out the fact that the democrats ere giving the people con crete results, setting free the initiative and energy of the nation. He discussed his foreign policy and gave an analysis of his methods of reaching his decisions on policy. He advanced his Mexican policy as an issue upon which he would stand in the fact of any criticism while admitting the possibility of mistakes "in this perplexing business.” In formally notifying the president. Senator Ollie James assured him that a record of peaseful prosperity and happiness while the old world staggers beneath a load of sorrow would assure his re-election. President Wilson's reply follows: Shadow Long Branch. N. J.. Scpf.2—(Special to Daily Deraocrat)Overhend clouds with an occasional sjatter of rain created President Wil sen today when he arose prepared to begin his fight for re-election. A land breeze from the southwest indicated the day would be warm. A low mist bung over the ocean. It forcast possible showers to mar the notification ceremony scheduled for four o'clock this afternpon. Senator James. Gentiemen of the Notification Committee. Fellow Citizens : I cannot accept the leadership and responsibility which the national democratic convention has again, in such generous fashion, asked me to accept without first expressing my profound gratitude to the party for the trust it reposes in me after four years of fiery trial in the midst of affairs of unprecedented difficulty, and the keen sense of added responsibility with which this honour fills (I had almost said burdens) me as I, think of the great issues of national life and policy involved in the present and immediate future conduct of our government. I shall seek, as I have always sought, to justify the extraordinary confidence thus reposed in me by striving to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party motive and devoting every energy I have to the service of the nation as a whole, praying that 1 may continue to have the counsel and support of all forward-looking men at every turn of the difficult business. For 1 do not doubt that the people of the United States will wish the democratic party to continue in control of the government They are not in the habit «f rejecting those who have actually served them for those who are making doubtful and conjectural promises of service. Least of all are they likely to substitute those who promised to render them particular services and proved false to that promise for those who have actually rendered those very services. Boasting is always an empty business, which pleases nobody but the boaster, and I have no disposition to boast of what the democratic party has accomplished. It has merely done Its duty. It has merely fulfilled its explicit promises. But there can be no violation of good taste in calling attention to the manner in which those promises have been carried out or in adverting to the interesting fact that many of the things accomplished were what the opposition party had again and again promised to do but had left undone. Indeed that is manifestly part of the business of this year of reckoning and assessment. There is no means of judging

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the future except by assessing the' past. Constructive action must be. weighed against destructive com-: ment and reaction. The democrats ' either have or have not understood ' the varied interests of the country. The test is contained in the record, : What is that record? What were ' the democrats called into power to' do? What things had long waited to I be done, and how did the democrats ' do them? It is a record of extra- i ordinary length and variety, rich in ( elements of many kinds, but consistent in principle throughout and susceptible of brief recital. The republican party was put out of power because of failure; practical failure and moral failure; because it had served special interests and not the country at large; because, under the leadership ot its preferred and established guides, of those who still make its choices, it had lost i touch with the thoughts and the needs of the nation and was living yi a past age and under a fixed illusion, the illusion of greatness. It had framed tariff laws based upon a fear of foreign trade, a fundamental doubt as to American skill, enterprise and capacity, and a very tender regard for the profitable privileges of those who had gained control of domestic markets and domestic credits; and yet had enacted antitrust laws which hampered the very things they meant to foster, which were stiff and inelastic, and in part unintelligible. It had permitted the country throughout the long period of its control to stagger from one financial crisis to another under the operation of a national banking law ot its own framing which made stringency and panic certain and the control of the larger business operations of the country by the bankers of a few reserve centers inevitable; had made as if it meant to reform the law but had faint heartedly failed in the attempt, because it could not bring itself to do the one thing necessary to make the reform genuine and effectual, namely, break up the control of small groups of bankers. It had been oblivious, or indifferent, to the fact that the farmers, upon whom the country depends for its food and in the last analysis for its prosperity, were without standing in the matter of commercial credit, without the protection of standards in their market transactions, and without systematic knowledge of the markets themselves; that the labourers of the country, the great army of men who man the industries it was ' professing to father and promote, car- ; ried their labour as a mere commodity to market, were subject to restraint by novel and drastic process in the courts, were without assurance of compensation for industrial accidents. without federal assistance in accommodating labour disputes, and without national aid or advice in finding the places and the industries in which their labour was most needed. The country had no national system of road construction and development. Little irttalligent attention was paid to the army, and not enough 'to the navy The other republics of America distrusted us, because they found that we thought first ot the profits of American investors and only as an afterthought of impartial justice and helpful friendship. Its policy was provincial in all things; its purposes were out of harmony with the temper and purpose ot the people and the timely development ot ! the nation's interests. ( l So things stood when the detAocrat- .' ic party came into power. How do i they stand now? Alike in the domes.l tic field and in the wide field of the ,' commerce of the world. American bus- , iness and life and industry have been f 1 set free to move as they never movf 1 ed before. 11 The tariff has been revised, not on i the principle of repelling foreign -I trade, but upon the principle of eni couraging it, 'something like a footing t of equality with our own in respect t -of the terms of competition, and a i-' tariff board has been created whose y function it will be to keep the relao tions of American with foreign buss iness and industry under constant ob,f servation, for the guidance alike of i- our business men and of our cong'gress. American energies are now

| directed towards the markets of the world. The laws against trusts have been clarified by definition, with a view to making it plain that they were not directed against big business but only against unfair business and the pretense of competition where there was none; and a trade commission has been created with powers of guidance and accommodation which have relieved business men of unfounded fears and set them upon the road of hopeful and confident enterprise. By the federal reserve act the supply of currency at the disposal of active business has been rendered elastic, taking Its volume, not from a . fixed body of investment securities. ' but fronr the liquid assets of daily I trade; and these assets are assessed and accepted, not by distant groups 'of bankers 1 in control of unavailable : reserves, but by bankers at the many I centers of local exchange who are | in touch with local conditions everyi where. Effective measures have been tak- ' en for the re-creation of an American ' merchant marine and the revival of the American carrying trade indispensable to our emancipation from the control which foreigners have so long exercised over the oportunities, the routes, and the methods of our commerce with other countries. The interstate commerce commission has been reorganized to enable it to perform its great and important functions more promptly and more es- : ficiently. We have created, extended and improved the service of the par cels post. So much have we done for business. What other party has understood the task so well or executed it so intelligently and energetically? What other party has attempted it at all? The republican leaders, apparently, know of no means of assisting business but “protection.” How to stimulate it and put it upon a new footing of energy and enterprise they have not suggested. For the farmers of the country we have virtually created commercial credit, by means of the federal reserve act and the rural credits act. They now have the standing of other business men. in the money market. We have successfully regulated speculation in “futures” and established standards in the marketing of grains. By an intelligent warehouse act we have assisted to make the standard crops available as never before both for systematic marketing and as a security for loans from the banks. We have greatly added to the work of neighborhood demonstration on the farm itself of improved methods of cultivation, and, through the intelligent extension of the functions of the department of agriculture, have made it possible for the farmer to learn systematically where his best markets are and how to get at them. The workingmen of America have been given a veritable emancipation, by the legal recognition of a man’s labour as part of his life, and not a mere marketable commodity; by exempting labour organizations from processes of the courts which treated their members like fractional parts of mobs and not like accessible and responsible individuals; by releasing our seamen from involuntary servitude; by making adequate provision for compensation for industrial accidents; by provididng suitable machinery for mediation and conciliation in industrial disputes; and by putting the federal department of labor at the disposal of the workingman when in search of work. We have effected the emancipation of the children of the country by releasing them from hurtful labour. We have instituted a system of national aid in the building of highroads such as the country has been feeling after for a century. We have sought to equalize taxation by means of an equitable income tax. We have taken the steps that ought to have been taken at the outset to open up the resources of Alaska. We have provided for national defense upon a scale never before seriously proposed upon the responsibility of an entire political party. We have driven the tariff lobby from cover and obliged it to substitute solid argument for private influence. This extraordinary recital must sound like a platform, a list of sanguine promises; but it Is not. It is a record of promises made four years ago and now actually redeemed in constructive legislation. These things must profoundly disturb the thoughts and confound the plans of those who have made themselves believe that the democratic partv neither understood nor was readv to assist the business of the country in the great enterprises which it is its evident and inevitable destiny to undertake and carry through. The breaking up of the lobby must especially disconcert them: for it was through the lobby that they sought and were sure -they had found the heart of things. The game of privilege can be plaved successfully by no other means. This record must equally antonish those who feared tha tthe democratic (UontiuuecTon page ?)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday Evening, September 2, 1916.

. THIRTEEN CARS RUN AWAY (United Press Service) i Lafayette, Ind., Sept. 2 (Special to 1 Daily Democrat.)—Thirteen Lake Erie • freight cars which broke away from their engine struck the rear ot Big ■ Four passenger train number 43, Chi1 cage bound, today, doing considerable 1 damage to the two rear passenger cars which were empty. No one was injured and the passenger train con- ' tinned toward Chicago. The Lake Erie uses the same tracks as the Big Four through Lafayette. Four of the wild box cars were demolished. The sleeper of the Big Four train and two empty cars were derailed. All throe were of steel. Had the sleeper been the last car instead of the third many lof the thirty-seven passengers would) t have been injured, it was said. The , cut of freight cars raced through Lafayette at a rate of about fifty miles , an hour. OECAfOEfS - DISTRICT MEET Vice President Thomas R. Marshall Will Speak Here September 18th. OPENS THE CAMPAIGN Will Deliver One Speech in Each District—This City Selected for Eighth. Vice President Thomas R. Marshal: will open the political campaign for the Adams county democrats and the eighth district speaking, in this citj on Monday. September 18th. The vice president is to make a speech in each district in the statt and this city has been chosen as the right spot for the eighh. Detail) have not been worked out as yet but will be announced within a few days At a meeting of the state committee at Indianapolis teh matter of selecting the place for the meeting in th< eighth district and through W. A. Kun kel. the district chairman, this city was given the honor of welcoming the vice president. It will be a big occasion, attended also by many of the state officials and candidates and will be a splendid on ening for the 1916 campaign in old Adams county. Plan to attend the big event. LOVE’S DREAM Shattered by Ruthless and Unfeelinc Caleb Smith. Beaver Falls, Pa., Sept. I—Love’s1 —Love’s young dream was almost shattered today for Roman Williams, 92, and Miss Cynthia Smith,7B. And “papa" did it Caleb Smith, this is. When Cale! heard that his blushing daughter “had went off with that smart Williams fellow,” he threw off the kinks of !)f years, loaded up his squirrel gun with rock salt, mounted an old mule and was off for the court house. He persuaded young Williams, with two loads of rock salt in the flanks and a right smash to the jaw to call off the ceremony. Cynthia’s still in hysterics. BABY IS DEAD. John, the one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bucher, living east of the city, died Thursday afternoon at one o’clock from summer complaint. The child had been ailing for about two weeks, and at first it wa.thought that it had infantile paralysis. but later this was proven not to be the case. The funeral was held this morning at the St. Peter s Lutheran church at nine o'clock. This ' was the second child in the family. ;—_i SCHOOL BOARD MEETS The school hoard met last evening; allowed bills and attended to minor I business. Nothing of importance was done. No teacher has yet been sel- • ected to fill the place of music and ' drawing teacher made vacant by the . resignation of Miss Bess Schrock who i goes to Wabash. No suitable appli- ! cant, it is said, has yet appeared. i • GOES TO MINNEAPOLIS t John Baltzell. son of County Audi- ’ tor and Mrs. T. H. Baltzell a graduate 3 of the high school last spring, left ’ this morning for Minneapolis. He will I I visit there a while with his brother. ,i Walter Baltzell. before entering the r , University of Minneapolis, for a gen i oral course.

IHE FIRST CASE Os Infantile Paralysis in County Said to be That of Little Child of GEORGE MATHESON Thirteen Months’ Old Girl’s Right Leg Completely Paralyzed. The first case in the county, pronounced by the physicians to be iu- 1 i fantile, is that of the thirteen month i old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George . Matheson, living on Janies Hendricks farm a mile north of Monroe. The little girl, it is said, has not been feeling ill at all, but her right leg is completely paralyzed. It is believed that she will live, but whether she will recover completely from the effects of the |>aralysis. is, of course, not known. It is not known how the child con'racted the disease, as she has been in no position to contract if from others. There are two other children in the family,-but neither is ailing. Effective measures have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease, the home being under both county and state quarantine. PUBLISHER’S WILL FILED Fort Wayne. Ind., Bept.—The will of E. A. Hackett, owner and publisln r of the Sentinel, was filed for probate in the Circuit Court today The will provides for division of the estate between the widow and children. The Sentinel is left to the widow, with the provision that after a certain percent of the profits has been set aside she shall divide the earnings into six par's among the children. The real estate also is divided between the widow and children. STATE JCHOOLS Superintendent Greathouse Issues Interesting Statement OF STATE ACTIVITIES In School Work — Hundreds of New Teachers to Begin This Fall. (United Press Service) Indianapolis. Ind., Sept. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —“Indiana schools will open September 11 to 18 under more favorable conditions than they have ever opened before," stated State Superintendent of Public Instruction Charles A. Greathouse. “All is in readiness in the schools over the state for the entrance of about 95,000 new pupils and about 3,600 new teachers. This will make a total of 625,000 pupils, who will be | taught by a total of 18,000 teachers in 8,516 school buildings, which are valued at 51,131,981. The teachers will receive approximately $9,170,000 for their services during the year. "Instructions and work to be used in the institutes before the opening of schools have been sent to the various school superintendents over the state. “There will be about 4,000 new stu dents enter the colleges in Indiana," continued Mr. Greathouse, “and they will be taught by approximately 1,000 professors.” FORD STRUCK BICYCLE Kenneth Tucker, son of George Tucker, had the misfortune of having the front wheel and fork of his bicycle demolished yesterday afternoon at four-thirty o’clock in front of the post office. Kenneth was riding the bicycle and in turning around, on account of the slippery pacement, he skidded i and the bicycle fell directly in front ■ of a Ford touring car, the front wheel and fork were demolished. The Ford did not stop to see what damage was done, nor did Kenneth notice who the - owner was. and now the bicycle is in » the shop for repairs. o GOES TO COLLEGE Herbert Gunsett, son of Joseph Gune sett of Willshire, went to Ft Wayne i- today where he will enter the busij ness college to take a complete course.

FATTY AND MABEL ADRIFT | Os course you enjoy the fun and merriment of a Triangle Keystone Comedy. Everybody does. You sim-i , ply can't help shrieking with laughter at the comical antics and thrilling experiences that are flashed on the screen And when the chance Ih offered to see "Our Mabel" the popular Mabel Normand of Keystone fame, and "Fat i ty" Arbuckle, the famous Comedian I together in such ripping rearing, riot -| ous comedy as "Fatty and Mabel Adrift," there are few who will fall to take advantage of this opportunity. A visit to the Rex today to witness this wonderfully amusing anil entertaining picture will cause more j< y , and laughter titan you've seen in c. , week. STILL GOING ON Roumanians Still Rushing Through Transylvania in Great Advance. TAKE FIVE CITIES — Greece in Throes of a National Revolution —Martial Law Declared. (United Press Service) London. Sept. 2 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —The revolution in Greece is spreading rapidly throughout Thessaly and Epirus, said a Rome wireless dispatch today. Martial law nas been proclaimed at Athens and Piraeus, the dispatch said. The condition of King Constantine, who is ill, is reported serious. BULLETIN Berlin, Sept. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —Hermannstadt, a city ci thirty five thousand twelve miles from I the Roumanian 1 frontier and formerly the capital of Transylvania and two towns have been evacuated by the Austrians before the Roumanian advance. it was officially announced n a statement from Vienna today. Bucharest, Sept. 2 —(Special to the Daily Democrat) —Roumanian troo, s have occupied Kronstadt and fi. other Transylvania towns it was cf daily announced today. Roumanian artillery is now dominating the pre cipal railway supplying the Austria. ; near the Serbian frontier. The Roumanians have taken 1890 prisoners including fifteen officers and have captured one hundred cars f war material. o————— GOURI HOUSE NEWS. The Adams circuit court will open its September term Monday, after a long summer vacation. The Warren Refining & Chemical Company vs. Julius Haugk, et al. on account, demand $75. is a new cas 1 1 filed by Hooper & Lenhart. Real estate transfers: Albert Spoiler et aj to Elizabeth S. Kern. 80 acres of Wabash township. $12,750. C. E. Bolinger secured a fisher;'; license. Licensed to marry Osie Beitler, milliner of Berne, born September 27. 1891, daughter of Samuel Beitler. to marry Victor Albert Eichenberger, grocer and baker, born June 15, 1893. ' son of Frederick G. Eichenberger. HAS TYPHOID FEVER Clarence Weber, the eighteen year! old son of Mrs. Mary Weber, living on West Nuttman avenue, was suddenly stricken ill with typhoid fever Thursday evening. Although his case is not a serious one. he is very sick, but it is thought that he will be up and around again in a fe v -- weeks. FOUNDATION COMPLETED The foundation of the new Evangelical church has been completed. A slight delay is occasioned in waiting for the face brick for the body of the church. Owing to a strike at Brazil, the brick will be gotten from Zanes- ; ville, O. A BALL GAME TOMORROW I _ ' The Decatur Shamrocks will play their first game of hall tomorrow at the Shamrock hall park at 3:15 o’clock sharp. There will not. be any out-of- » town team here hut but a good aide ■'will be picked and will have a good game. ,

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INTEREST LAGS Gallery Crowd Leaves Senate Chamber as Strike Crisis Passes. VOTE AT SIX O’CLOCK — Ratification of House Eight Hour Day Bill Practically Certain. (United Press Service! Washington. D. Sept. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat)—Just as soon as the eight-hour bill unamended—becomes a law the railroad brotherhoods will cancel their national strike l order. A. B. Garretson, spokesman for I the brotherhoods, announced today. When the president signs the bill the strike order will be cancelled. In the senate a bitter debate greeted the house bill. Senator Sherman of Illinois denounced "rushing the bill into legislation in a few hours when there should be days of deliberation,” declaring that "we are doing I this under threat.” I “I would rather be a dog and bay the moos,” lie said, "than be a senaj tor enslaved by such dictations and threats.” Assurances that the eight-hour legislation will be enacted as it passed the house became doubly sure this I afternoon. The senate vote on the weasure was scheduled for six o’clock, i Interest lagged in the proceedings. , The gallery crowd left and the senators themselves paid little attention . to the speeches. Chicago, 111., Sep.. 2 — (Special to - Daily Democrat) —J. W. Higgins chairman of the general managers association today issued a statement in which .he said that practically all central .; and western railroads have lifted .: tneir embargoes on jierishable freight ; shipments. "Barring the unexpected 1 the railroads expect to move all freight nomally.” said Higgins. Rail- , road circles this afternoon accepted . as certain the calling off of the strike. Leng Branch, New Jersey, Sept. 2, (Special to Daily Democrat)—President Wilson was informed, in telegrams from democratic senators today, that the eight hour law for railway workers will pass the senate by an overwhelming majority before night, averting the threatened railroad strike. WHEAT SOARS AGAIN 'United Service) Chicago, Sept. 2(Special to Daily Democrat) — Optomistic reports regarding the settlement of the railroad strike shot wheat prices up from 3'4 cents to 4V4 cents over night in Chicago’s grain markets today. Heavy , buying orders fl<|uied the market just i before the closin,” causing it to jump I five cents. September closed at $1.45 !21 ~ cents up above the opening. De- , cember gained three cents at $1.48 ! while May advanced 2% cents to $1.49%. FORD WIRES WILSON (United Press Service) Washington, Sept. 2- (Special to Daily Democrat)—A message to Presi- , dent Wilson today from Henry Ford I announced his plant would shut down Monday if a strike is called by the railway brotherhoods. Ford praised the efforts of the president in attempting to avert the nationwide strike and ’expressed hone of a successful outcome. He said all of his forty-nine ■ thousand employees would go off the ! pay roll with the closing of his factory. SHORTEN QUARANTINE. (United Press Service) Fort Wayne. Ind.. Sept. 2—(Special to Daily Democrat) —The infantile paralysis quarantine which closed the city schools, movies, churches ’ and parks, will be lifted September 11 instead of October 1, as originally announced, it was stated today. All the cases have recovered. o TO BE NURSES 31 The Misses Bertha and Lillian Kel- ’ ler will leave tomorrow evening for !■ the Hope hospital. Fort Wayne, where '■ they will enter the nurses’ training school. They are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. George Keller of Marshall street. I' —————— —I ' I- - — PYTHIAN SISTERS’ NOTICE. ' Beginning next Monday night, the Pythian Sisters will meet every Mon- ■ day night again, instead of every two I! weeks as they have during the sum--1 mer months.