Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1898 — Page 6

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINQHAM, Publisher. *1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur. Indiana as Second-Class Mail Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, DEC. 15. McClure’s Magazine announces that on January I. 1899, advertising rates will be increased to 5384 per page. The Democrat will take them at/the same old price, so do not be alarmed at the boldness of Met hire. j T. D. Armour says he .got rich by | keeping his mouth shut, being liberal and advertising in and out of season. Some Decatur merchants could profit by advertising eternally anti always, but otherwise they are all right. Ihe Democrat's yearly contracts are money makers that you read about. Some of the eastern newspapers are making merry over the somewhat picturesque name of Mr. Royse s sue eessor Hon. A. L. Brick of Elkhart. The Baltimore Sun suggests that Mr. Brick ought to have "plenty of sand.” and that something ought to drop when Brick goes to bat. It does not say that the new member is a gold brick, but as he was elected on the republican ticket, the allegation would have been a natural one. One of the interesting incident s of the session has been the effort made to unhorse Mr. Bailey as Democratic leader in the house, but the young Texan manages to stay in his seat with the persistency of a broncho buster from the staked plains. Mr. Zenor is an ardent admirer of Mr. Bailey, and considers him one of the ablest parliamentarians and debaters ever in the chair at a democratic caucus. In fact, all four democratic members from Indiana are counted with the Bailey element in the house.

General Garcia the distinguished Cuban warrior and leader, died in Washington Sunday morning after a very’ short illness with pneumonia. At the time of death he was at the head of a commission elected by the Cuban Assembly to visit this country. The sudden change from the warm climate of Cuba to the wintry weather of New York and Washington, was the prime cause that brought on the attack that resulted in his death. The life of General Garcia is truly an interesting one, and his death will be greatly deplored by his many fol-

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The Sentinel applauds Representa | five Eiehhorn’s’determination to stand for an anti-trust law that means something and that can Ire enforced. The one passed by the last legislature is a confessed fraud on the people. Sentinel. A vast majority of the fellows who periodically delight in expatiating on the "distribution of wealth” are of a kind that never created any wealth, either for themselves or anybody else. They know all about the distribution, or at least profess to know all about it. but when it comes to creating wealth they are otherwise engaged. The honest truth about these fellows is: They are mere deciaimers and arrant humbugs. South Bend Times. Col. Wit.liam j. Bryan has forI warded to the war department his resignation, and will quit armv life, j This step was taken after the. treat v of : peace had been signed and all dan I ■ .gers of actual war ceased to be. This

course is in harmony with the dignity 1 that characterizes this great states- : man and of which the public is so familiar. He served his country faithfully and well, and did it in his humble wav. thereby discharging to the fullest’extent his duties of citizenship. There is a good deal of speculation just now as to the size of the fee that will probably be paid General Harrison as chief counsel for \ enezuela in the Venezuelan boundary litigation. Former Secretary of State John W. Foster was paid nearly 8800,000 for serving in a similiar capacity, for the Chinese government, and it is understood that General Harrison’s fee will amount to quite, if not entirely, that much. He has made more big fees during his professional career probable tbnn am- lawver in the United

Div mail an\ «• States. 1 The lawyers of the state have formu- 1 lated important measures which they , ’ will ask the legislature to pass. . One i of them is a joint resolution providing.; for a constitutional amendment to in- ; crease the number of judges of the( i supreme court to eleven. There is b every prospect that this resolution • will pass, in which event the proposi- i tion will go before the people for ratification. The present number of judges (five) is entirely inadequate for the immense volume of business. | and the purpose in increasing the number to eleven is to provide that * they shall sit in sections. The State j Bar association is earnestly chain-. I pioning this measure. Another bill i that will be championed by the law- i vers will be one establishing a professional qualification for lawyers. Now) the only necessary qualification in this state for lawyers anti saloonkeepers is I a good moral character, while minis-1 , ters are not required to possess anyj 1 such qualification.

Hon. S. W. Hale of Geneva, favors us with a report of the trustees of the Eastern” fosahe Hospital, of which board tie has been a valued member. For eight years he has served as a member of this board, and many of the improvements and reforms there inaugurated can trace their origin to the business methods championed bv Mr. Hale. His term as trustee will expire with the end of this year, but the Democrat believes that Governor Mount will have no hesitency. in recognizing the importance of his re-, appoint ment. Some time ago the statement was made in an Indianapolis paper that Indiana members of the Fifty-sixth congress would likely join in a combination to reorganize the house on a new basis at the next session, because,., in the the distribution of places in file Fifty-fourth congrees continued in the ’Fifty-fifth, few Hoosiers had been I favored. This is a mistake, as twelve I of the thirteen members from Indiana, i AT.. 1M,.,. i'L>z>lnn<r hv biniCpll \V4>.T( ‘

1 Mr. Johnson flocking bv inniseli, wen* I members of the famous "hog combine." which carried everything before it in 1895. and Indiana received about twenty good places in the south wing of the'capitol, niore. tljiln she has had during any one congress for years. The general assembly of Indiana that is to convene Jan. 5 next will fpr the greater part be composed of lawyers and farmers, but there will be present here and there a banker, with a few manufacturers, a minor portion of doctors, two or three skilled work- ‘ ingmen, about as many teachers and 1 as many retired business men to complete the rolls. A fair proportion, not counting the hold-over senators, has had experience in legislating either in the last or previous assemblies. The ages of 150 members of both houses

run between twenty-four and sixty ( i five years, the most noticeable fact r i being that the teachers, lawyers and ; { workingmen with the exception of one | i miner are the younger members, the j i average being thirty-three years: the ; i physicians, farmers, merchants bank- | ers and retired business men. the. . elder, whose average is between forty- : five and fifty. There exceptions, of course, to both rules, but they are so | few in either case that the age de-; nominations prevail as thus classified. ■ One of the subjects that will come ’ before the legislature will be the ques- | tion as to whether Indiana shall fol- ( low several of her sister states in i adopting the plan oi voting by ma-1 chinery. There is a feeling among a I good many of the legislators that the ' adoption of this reform would be a i proper step in advance. It was notired. for instance, at the recent elee J ; tion that the returns from nearly all ' ■other states were obtainable before. ■ those right at home. When a machine ' is used the vote is tabulated and in |

complete form before the eye when the _ sheet is removed at the elose °f ‘he = polls. The cost of conducting an = election would be greatly redneed. is claimed, as one voting plait suffice for each ward, it being a matter of record that six persons can OK in a minute by use of the p machine. This would do away «dh the army of precinct election office ■. Mistake’s, it is claimed are impossible when the voting machine is use< . Voting is accomplished bv the. pres-' ing down of buttons on a keyboard. The conspicuous feature of legislation the coming session as,ascertained will be reforming county and township business methods, this will bring out a variety of propositions, no matter how carefully the republican 1 caucus bill may be prepared. These ■ propositions will express nearly eiery degree of the scale from rigid copser vatism-todangerousradicalism, lhere iis no telling .what this almost unani- | mous effort at a, much . demanded re . 1 r,,will brine about. Another Jaw

( form will i>rmg .ivom. . .. ■ • that will surely be enacted will be | that for conducting primary elections, j Along with this demand is another j i onlv a little less pronounced for voting | machines. Other laws desired ana given in order of importance, according to the numbers of legislators desiring them, relate to changes mthe I school.system, including the reorgan-, I ization of the hoard of education, le-. •! striding and placing justices of the l peace on salary, abolishing trusts, reI pealing the truant section of the com- I i pulsory education law, abolishing | • county’ as. essors. repealing the indeI terminate sentence law, reduction of ! taxation, legislating for pure food, regulating pharmacy, strengthening I insurance laws and providing for reg- ■ istration of voters. In addition to this i i enumeration bills will be introduced . _X.. X 1

in reference to street railroad compan-. ies. reduction of fares thereon as well I as on steam railroads, reduction of the , terms of office in county, townshipand cities, as well as increasing tenure in them and the state, repealing the Met ropolitan police law, changes in judicial circuits and in road and ditch laws, amending the election bribery ( laws, and prohibiting legislators, judges, attorneys and state officers from accepting railroad passes, occupation for convicts, constitutional amendment to provide for increasing legislators’ salaries and making the i . sessions indefinite as to duration, giv- > ! ing boards of health greater power. I preventing marriageof the insane, (criminals and those afflicted with ' sphilis and hereditary tuberculosis. : establishing fences along highways, i erection of a hospital for incurables, strengthening the anti-prison contract ! prison law, legislation for labor in I further regulating pluck-me stores, amending the arbitration law and that •of factorv inspection, and providing | for reports as to campaign expenses.

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