Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1918 — Page 2

p AIL Y DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except, Sunday by | The Decatur Democrat Company JOHN H. HELLER Preaident ARTHUR R. HOLTHOUSE, Secretary Subscription Rates By Government Order, Cash In | Advance. One Week, by carrier 10 cents One Year, by carrier 15.00 One Mouth, by mail 35 cents Three Months, by mail 1100 Six Months, by mail 51.75 One Year, by mail 53.00 One Year, at office 53.00 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the poatuffi'.e in Decatur. Indiana, as second-class matter.

DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Secretary of State HERMAN L. CONTER For Congress. Eighth District WILLIAM H. EICHHORN For Judge 26th Judiciad Circuit JOHN C. MORAN For Prosecutor 26th judicial District E. BURT LENHART For Joint Senator JOHN F. DECKER For Representative. Adams County JOSEPH W. WALKER For Clerk Adams Circuit Court JOHN T. KELLY For County Treasurer FRED W. STUDLER For County Recorder ANDREW J. CASE For Sheriff SEPHUS MELCHI For Coroner D. D. CLARK For County Surveyor ORVAL HARRUFF For County Assessor WILLIAM FRAZIER For Commissioner, Second District C. C BEER For Commissioner, Third District ROBERT SCHWARTZ - -- —--- And Governor Goodrich wants ’lie power to appoint the state officials. Wouldn't that be the fine organize tfcn, that would make the old Good-tich-Watson frame-up look like tt Sunday school convention? The United War Workers campaign is on. a great big campaign for a gr ti big cause. Here in Adams county we must raise $30,000 for the boys rh make them happier and more comfcrtable in seven different ways. The state is having a hard time "i keep the state institutions going and yet we have three million dollars i„ the treasury. Where do you get this stuff? Are the voters of the state expected to swallow a lot of red ink when they know it is poison? The truth is that even lasi year it cqst nearly a million dollars more to operate the state than it did in 1916 under Governor Ralston and any e- - to show different is an insult to the people of the state. Didn't i cost you more to live this year than it did two years ago? It did if yo ■ tried to live the same way and keep the same number, it’s a cinch. It also cost the state more and yon know it no difference how hard they try to make you think otherwise just before election. Voters of Adams county should re-

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member that the re| bulican politicians who appear so friendly just al this time are really not so suixio.is about your welfare us they are about behig elected to the particular office for which they are candidates. After all if you are square alrout it you know ihe democratic party has always been and is now the party of the people, the one which lights all the time for the best interests of the common folk. Just remember this whi n these fePows are trying to pots on you on some point which is really small when compared to the great principles for which the democratic party is < (instructed We were perfectly content to let

the people vote as the.' ueemed best this year when we have <» many dtt’ies which take our attention away from politics but the republican candidates are trying to take advantage of that fact and are slipping out ov* r the county, telling tales of different kinds in different communities Th* y are working it Ixrth ways from tin middle and the voters are warned h take what they say with several grains of salt. Remember the biggest part about their campaign is the job they want Adams county ila democratic stronghold, and It will continue to lie so after the election November sth for the voters of this county are too wise to be fooled Io the smooth talk of the willy politician. Adams county made a record during the Fourth Liberty ixian that w '1 stand for years, exceeding the quota by more than SIOO,OOO. Now we ha-e another great and imiiortant work, that of meeting our share for the United War Work campaign which includes the various societies all under one head. We must give $30,000 and while that looks like a big sum it can and must and will done After ail it's not such a big job. four per cent of your Liberty Loan quota. If you Irought 5500 worth of bonds you are expected to give $20.00 for this cause, if your quota was SIOO you are expected t give $4.00. Make it five just for even money. Let's give fifty thousand for this glorious cause of making the hoys hapi ier and more comfortable Take yiur coat off and help do the work. It’s the real service. Enlist today. Democratic workers of Adatacounty. you are called to the colo's. You are asked to give the next two weeks to your party, to stand for the men who will stand by President Wilson. You have been asked during the past year to perform many services for your country and you have done ft splendidly. Now you are asked to devote a part of your time dur ing the next ten days or two weeks to the interests of your party. In 1898 Roosevelt. Harrison and other grear men of the. time argued that every voter should support the president by electing to congres*. men oi 'the same political faith as the president, that he would be assumed of

loyal support. If it was good then it is good now. You have a real duy right now and that is to “how 'he proper interest in th- coming election. If you do the result in Adams county will be a majority of 1.500 o r more. Help to reach that goal. I The cheapest mode* of campaigning we have ever heard of is that now being used by Albert Vestal, republican candidate for congress. He hasn’t been able to create even a I ripple in congress and now he has -ent out at the government's expen-e'. four page circulars concerning the in-1 fluenza and its treatment, thus try-’ ing to take advantage of the terrible epidemic now prevalent to create a stir of popularity for himself. And this too when every item contained in the circular was printed in nearly ,every paper in the country two weeds ago. It's wonderful what a great interest some candidate* have in the health and welfare of the iteople a week or two before election, and it's almost pitiful to learn the idea some 1 have of the duties expected by their constituency, This is the same man who voted for the war and then vot-

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ed against the appropriation bill to pay the men in the army ami navy. Swat him. ++++++++ + + + ♦ + + + ♦ WHO’S WHO IN * * LOCAL POLITICS ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ JOHN T. KELLY John T. Kelly, the democratic candidate for clerk of the circuit co’llt was born December 31st, 1862. on a farm in Jefferson township H p ■* a son of Isua< B. and latura A. Kell'.. His early education was completed in the public schools of the township, work which he supplemented at the normal school at Portland later. He then spent sixteen years teaching school In 1*94 he was elected representative to the state legislature where he served two terms satisfactorily. In 1908 he was elected trutee of Jefferson township, an office he held for six years. Coming to Decatur he has served as deputy cle’k since 1916. He is married and has one daughter. SEPHUS MELCHI Sephus Melchi. born in Van Wert county. Ohio, near Convoy, on Jan nary 19. 1872. came to Adams county in 1888 aud settled near Rivarre where he worked on a farm and in t sawmill for several years. He married Nettie Ehresman and moved t Decatur where he followed the barber trade until he received the appointment as night policeman eight ears ago. He served in that place four years, then receiving the appoint inent of chief of police from Charles N’ Christen he served four years suclessfully in that capacity. Making the first race for public office in his career he was nominated tor sheriff of Adams county last May. He is married and has five children, three boys and two girls. He has be n a resident of this city fourteen years. GREAT BATTLE IN VOUZIERES TODAY (Continued from Page One) of - the new German government to see whether it measures up to requirements set by the president at Mount Vernon. If the reply stands the test, peace maneuvers will pass from diplomatic to military control and Marshal Foch will take the wheel from the president. President Wilson's course has been to determine Germany’s acceptance of America’s terms laid down if; his several speeches—and then turn the whole job to Foch to conclude. A pause in the next step is necessitated by the need for carefully checking upon the German declara tlon of intentions —to preclude any trickcry Also exchanges of opinion —already under way—must be carried on between this government and the allies. And further, the reaction of the American people to the latest German note must be Taken into account. It is denned likely, however, that alter the president has an opportunity to study the official text of the German note some indication will be given as to his attitude. Meantime many in -congress and the press of this and allied nations demand an end to the,parly and application of 'unconditional surrender.” Intimates of the president see in Germany’s latest move an abject contession of defeat and culpability to which that government would submit only in the hope of obtaining a

tolerable peace or. failing that securing intense popular determination of her people to tight against' "extermination.'' President Wilson’s labors during the present peace drive have been to prevent the pan-German junkers from convincing the German people that military leadership alone can enable Germany to survive. This idea on 'he president s part will figure in the forthcoming action. London. Oct. 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat i —British troops are now within less than a mile of Tournai. Field Marshal Haig announced today. The Germans in that region were driven out of Oreq and the wood near I Froyennese. * The left bank of the Escaillon was reached south of Thiant. five miles I southwest of Valenciennes. With the American Armies it) France. Oct. 22—(Special to Dally I) mocratt The Germans continue 'to strengthen their forces opposing the Americana in the Argonne-Meuse region by rushing in units of new divisions. A captured order issued by General von Der Marwitz appeals t v the German soldiers to hold their sector at all costs, which he declares is the most vital to German military movements. Prisoners report their officers are determined to hold ba k the Yankee push. • In clearing out the Rappes wood,! which the doughboys accomplished yesterday afternoon in three hou-s. despite heavy machine gun and artillery fire, they have removed out

'of the most serious obstacles to their continued progress. Paris. Oct. 22 ■ (Special to Daily I Democrat) Resuming their progress I on the Serra front, th>- French have' 'advanced to within less than a mile] 'of Crecy-sur-Serre. from the sou'h'ward. the war office announced today ( German ijninter-at tacks in UW| Vouziers region have diminished in I violence. There is great artillery, activity north of the Oise and in tin ( I'.ateau-Pori ien region. Urudon. Oct. 22— (Special to Daily D niocratp— London morning news papers reject the German reply to president Wilson, pointing out that I it contains no offer of unconditional surrender, which is the only terms upon which the allies can afford an armistice with the unscrupulous en?my. Claims of Germany’s democratization are not believed. Copenhagen. Oct 22 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—A revolution has broken out Bulgaria according to a Vienna dispatch received today. Fighting is going on in the streets of Sofia between laborers and troops Three thousand persons have bean killed. London. Oct. 22 —(British Admiralty Wireless)—The German method of conducting international discus-. sion makes it difficult to believe ini her sincerity or profession of sincer- ■ it; Examination of the original German of the second note to President Wilson shows customary German i subterfuge in pretending to accept I what she certainly does not mean to j accept. The second German note said Germany accepted the president’s “the sis." the German word used being ■'satxe." What the president asked was whether Germany accepted his “terms." The answer was a deliberate intention to avoid acceptance of the terms. London. Oct. 22—(Special to Daily Democrat i—While the allies continue to drive the Germans hack on the west front from the Dutch fron tier to the Verdun region, French troops have reached the Rumanian border. The French war office announces that just thirty-four days after the Balkan offensive was launched French detachments arrived Sunday at the Danube near Vidian, in Bui garia. ninety-five miles north of Sofia, and only forty-five miles from Hungarian soil. This represents an advance of about 200 miles northward from the Lake Dorain region.

Further progress all along the Balkan front was reported . in official statements. Serbian troops are in contact with the Germans who are strongly entrenched north of Aleksi natz and Krushevatz. north of Nish. British troops, driving ahead in the Valienciennes region, have ap proached to within two miles of that important city and have rendered useless the Valienciennes-Hirson rail way, a vital enemy supply line. Tournai has been flanked from, the north and south, the British reaching the Scheldt river on a five-mile front north of that city. The Schipdonck canal, on a front of nearly fifteen miles, from the Dutch frontier southward of Meerende. only five miles west of Ghent. Between Ghent and Tourna. the allies are approaching Au lenarde. British and Americans are across the Sambre and Oise

canal in force and are reported to be pushing eastward.

Between the Oise and the Serre. the French have made further progress, capturing Mesbrecourt and Richecourt and reaching the outskirts of Villers-I ,e-See. French and Americans have brok en up repeated enemy counter-attacks in the Vouziers region, where tierce fighting is still under way. In the Argonne region the Americana have captured Rappen wood and Hill 299. Isondon. Oct. 22 (Special to Daily Democrat.) British troops hare reached the Escaut (Scheldt) river on a tive-miie front north of Tournai, Field Marshal Haig announced in his special Belgian communique early today. The British advanced about a mile between the Escaut and the Lys while the French improved their positions along the latter river. The Germans, it was announced, abandoned all their coast defence guns. London. Oct. 22 (Special to Daily Democrat)- Fnivefsa! approbation >1 President Wilson's reply to Austria is reflected in editorial comments in* Lonon newspapers. His attitude is generally praised tut that of a cham-l pion of appressei nationalities. ■‘lt is a charter of liberty for the ■Jugo-Slavs and a permanent liar to Germany's eastern aspiration " s>id! the Mail. '"The president's reply reaffirm), the British attitude that the sword' cannot bo sheafed ttn'il the rights oi small nations have been made unissatiable,'' is ths opinion of ike Times, j

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MILITARY NOTES Body of Ralph Miller Arrived Today Noon from Pittsburg. Penna. FUNERAL THURSDAY No Word as to Arrival of Body of Jesse Christen from Delaware. The body of Ralph Miller arrived on the 11:35 train over the Clover Leaf this morning from Pfttsburg where his death occurred and was taken to the home of the parents. Mr and Mrs. Martin Miller, corner of Ninth and Monroe streets. His brother-in-law. Doyt McCrory, who had been with him in miitary service since leaving here August 14. accompanied the body as military escort and with them also were the widow. Lucy McCrory-Miller, and the mother. Mrs. Martin Miller, who had left Sunday to be at his bedside on receiving the message that he was seriously ill. The funeral service will be held at the Decatur cemetery at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon when an openair service will be in order. The Liberty Guards, the Elks. Moose. Knights of Pythias and Maccabee lodges will have a part in the service. No word had been received this aft ernoon as to the time that the body of Jesse Christen would leave Wilmington. Del., where his death occurred yesterday morning in the military hospital, from pneumonia The bodies are always held twenty-four

hours for thorough disinfection and preparation for shipment, hence the delay in receiving definite word. A co-incidence is that in yesterday morning's mail, soon after the death telegram came, was another letter ■written by the Rev. Breckinridge. Y M. C. A. secretary., who had kept his family informed on his condition during his illness of Spanish influenza. The letter was written Friday and stated that his condition was favorable and he was getting along well. The sudden turn for the worse, when pneumonia was contracted, was made between that lime and Satur day night when the telegram was sent that he was seriously ill. In a letter of Octolier 3 lie spoke of hoping to be home on a furlough for Thanksgiving, the furlough having been delayed for several weeks He also spoke of helping the Red Cross hand out supplies to the soldier boys at the depot one day when the members of his old company of the 139th division from Camp Shelby passed through on their way to France, and the unexpected pleasure of meeting them there. He stated that he would have liked to have gone with them, bitt he had been retained here in limited service on guard duty on account of his health. IZWr 1 ' — ; The Express says: "It is an affirmation lijut the Austio-Hungarian 'empire is out ot date so far as geographical expression is concerned." "Tim reply is like a hummer blow and informs .cus.tria she is too late to accept the 14 points." says the Tolegraj h. A~ LITTLE WANT Al) NOW AND THEN, WILL ALWAYS HELP THE MOST PROSPEROUS 01 MEN.

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PRIZE ESSAY The following won first prize among grade students in the recent Liberty Loan Essay contest The writer was Miss Josephine Suttles, of the seventh grade, this city. The essay: "Why My Family Should Own Liberty Bonds." We are now having the Fourth Liberty Loan when all the people of the United States should lend a helping hand to their country. We are living in a free country where every man. woman and child has his own rights. If you would go down the streets of th? town or city you live in one could not told there was any war going on “Over There." Some of our families do not have to sacrifice their father or brothers. They may stay at home, but even if they may <tay at home there is much work to be done. All of our familywish to help their country carry on this war . We can do this by helping the Fourth Liberty Loan. We. as children, can help carry on this war by saving our clothes, not going tn picture, .-hows, not eating so mu h candy and ice cream and by not

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spending our money foolishly. IVe cught to do this so Germany cans: carry the terrible acts of torture s has been doing to the people it France and Belgium. Our soldiers have laid aside impersonal advantage at home to b their country and endure the hi ships of soldier life. A soldier in ? field is no more important than Liberty Bond which provides lor h General Foch says, "We are over . crest and are going down the otita side. If we have force like a rollin; ball so much the better." T; Fourth Liberty laran is $6.1)00,OHO."" It will give the force "like a rollini ball." and shall be “so much the l« ter.” Some iteople say they can not . ford a Liberty Bond, but they woul' lose their families and homes. Im-: ness and freedom, if the kaiser « this war which is precisely «l> would happen if every one refused make a little sacrifice. Ami the kai f.r would not give it back with lon and a quarter (ter cent inters either. Whom are you for?