Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ YURY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, FEB. 7. Richard Olney and Charles A. Towne have been mentioned as the democratic standard bearers in 1904. Representative Miers has presented a resolution to the committee on public buildings, which asks that the Indianapolis postoffice be built out of Bedford stone. Washington gossip has it that Senator Fairbanks intends that Joseph Kealing shall succeed Judge Taylor on the Mississippi river commission. Such base ingratitude can hardly be realized. Ex-Senator Towne has been retained by a New York business firm, and will act as their lawyer at a salary that beats the senatorship at least eleven to one. After all, there is not much in politics from a financial point of view. Mr. McKinley signed the army bill Saturday, and the hunt for the thirteen hundred odd commissions it places at his disposal, is now in full cry, and he is already finding it several times worse than the grip. Gen. Miles has been promised the lieuten-ant-generalship. In an opinion handed down last Friday the supreme court holds the amendment to the state constitution voted upon last November, providing that lawyers might lie compelled to take an examination before their admission to the bar, was not adopted. This also annuls the other amendment voted upon at the same time. The jingo Fort Wayne charter bill, will lie recommended for passage by I the house committee. The bill is intended to give the republicans control of the police of that city, by l placing the appointment of the police I board in the hands of the governor. llt is decidly peanutty and unworthy lof any consideration at the hands of ■the legislature. | The will of the late Philip D. Ar•J ’our having been probated, it is a atter of general interest to note that e county of Cook gets a probate fee 61 $15,003; the state of Illinois gets an inheritance tax of $299,600 and the United States gets $350,000. If Armour had been a resident of Indiana the $299 ,600 would have been saved to the estate. Indiana needs an inheritance tax law. South Bend Times. H enry County, Indiana, claims the distinction of being the first home of Mrs. Carrie Nation, the Kansas saloon smasher. Her husband Daniel Nation was editor of the New Castle Courier tong before the civil war. It ;as’at Holden. Missouri, twenty-five ears ago, over the grave of her husand who died of delerium tremens, lat she made an oath to God to deote the remainder of her life to the •mperance cause. At present writ g she is doing a fairly good job of it.

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' Carrie Nation met defeat Monday when on her regular hatchet brigade. : She was arrested and later liberated upon her own recognziance. The ship subsidy bill has been sidetracked for a few days to make room t for the army reorganization bill, which carries an appropriation as long : as the moral law. An evening edition of the Indian- : apolis Sentinel is again being mentioned as a possibility, but we have heard the tale so often, that a sight of the infant is essential before we • determine that the project is real. The legislature dug up a few sensations last week, such as cruel and I I inhuman treatment at the woman’s . prison and deficits at the Jefferson- , ville reformatory. Legislative eomf mittees are investigating the charges. News comes from Albany, New t York, that Senator Hill has no inclination to again enter politics, even ' as the leader of his party. He is deeply engrossed in the practice of ‘ law, is a happj - old bachelor and wants nothing here below. The bill to elect county superin- ■ tendents by popular vote, has been • sent to the grave yard while the sub- ' stitute providing that the presidents 1 of school boards shall sit with the t trustees in the election of county I 1 superintendents, may pass. A bill will probably be introduced ' in the legislature asking for an ap- ’ propriation of $50,000 with which to ■ erect a governor's mansion. Along ' with this same legislation will lie a recommendation for an additional ap- • propriation for the completion of the soldier’s monument. The republicans will this week try to hold night sessions of the senate to > force the subsidy bill through. The ; i opponents of the bill are not particu- • larly opposed to night sessions but i they insist that at all sessions when this bill is being considered a quorum , should be present. Justice Harlan has declared, in an afterdinner speech, that the constitution follows the flag. His opinion ; when the matter is passed upon by , the supreme court will decide the interesting psychological question as to which is the more potent in its influence upon the judicial mind a good dinner or a good appointment for a relative. Sentinel. — Some time ago when it was announced that Senators Petigrew, Ailed and Butler had formed an alii anee, offensive and defensive, to fight 1 the subsidy bill to the death, it was : whispered about Washington that ’ Senator Hanna had threatened to have 1 an extra session of congress called if ’ i his pet bill was killed by the trio aforesaid or by anybody else at this • session. In reply to that it was said ' that no administration would dare to call an extra session for the sole purposeof passing a ship subsidy bill. Now it is hinted that in order to avoid • 1 that unpleasant and hazardous situa- ’ tiou and at the same time to force an i extra session of the next congress in the spri n g (so tba t i t ma v be as f a r a head > of the next election as possible, in order to let people forget), Senator Han- > na is now so engineering thing's in the senate that some of the necessary , great bills will fail, and that the extra session will lie called ostensibly to 1 pass them, but really to pass his ship subsidy bill. There’s cuuuiug for . you, also strategy.

TRYING TO HEDGE Republicans Endeavoring to Evade the State Platform. WON’T TACKLE THE TRUSTS Whatever Is Done Will Be WishyWashy and Non-Effective In Character. Legislative Investigation of the State Institutions Will Be a Job of Partisan Whitewashing -Thus Intimates Louis Ludlow Whose Weekly Comment From the State Capital Is of Its Usually Entertaining Character—How the Able and Talented Minority Is Causing the Majority Nights of Sleeplessness. [Special Correspondence.) Indianapolis. I'eb. 6.—The legislative session is now nearly half ended and a good prognosticator can predict with some accuracy the fate of the important measures. The anti-lynching bill probably will become a law There will be no important change in the general adjustment of fees and sal-

aries. Temperance legislation is being systematically smothered, and there will lie no changes in the liquor laws. Bills looking to cheaper railroad fares are having a stony road, and probably will meet the usual fate of such measures. although if the people would flood tile legislature with petitions demanding the passage of the Neal bill requiring railroad companies to sell .MMJ-inile mileage books for $lO, good for the purchaser or any member of Ins family, that bill might run the gauntlet and become a law. Unless there be such pressure it will surely be defeated. There will be a congressional gerrymander, but it is impossible to predict at this time how the state will be redistricted, owing to the conflicting interest® that are at war with each other over the proposition. In any event Marion county will be made a district by itself. The bill substituting electrocution for hanging, will become a law. When it comes up in the house Mr. Passage will move to amend by substituting morphine as the legal mode of enforcing the death penalty, iiut this amendment will tie defeated. The Republicans are hedging on the anti-trust law proposition and trying to find some way to circumvent the last state platform, which [dodged the party to enact an anti-trust law. Some sort of anti-trust bill will pass, but it will be wishy washy and non-euforcable. It looks as if the investigations of state institutions will be mere farces, as the committees chosen to make the investigastions have too many interests at stake in the legislature to give confidence of very thorough probing, and the fact that no questioning of witnesses is allowed to la- made by the minority lends color to the suspicion that a general white-washing is contemplated. X—X—X David Sherrick of Noblesville, one of the best known Republicans in the state, is temporarily out of polities. “1 am busy chasing the nimble dollars," he said, "and while 1 am catching some of them 1 do not have the faculty tliat some of my friends possess of sitting on them and holding them down." From this mixed metaphor It is Judged that he i« prospering and living well.

The most able and talented members . of the legislature are to l>e found on the Democratic side. This is admitted | by even casual visitors at the asseiu ] bly chambers. In the senate the i Democrats more than hold their own. ' and. notwithstanding their lesser num ' bers, keep the Republicans continual ( Iv on the defensive. Senator Epb . Inman, the minority leader in the upper branch. Is alert and a splendid parliamentarian, who makes the right moves at the right time and lias the Republican members continually guessing. Senator W. E. Stilwell, who is just now a thorn in the flesh of the Republicans, has won an enviable reputation for shrewdness and for his ability to [>ut the Republican members "In the hole.” He Is the author of the resolution demanding that W S. Taylor ami Charles Finley be sent back to Kentucky. He will not admit that there is such a word as "defeat" and the Republicans fear him more, if possible. than they do Senator Inman. X—X—X Senator Wampler, the physical counterpart of W. .1. Bryan, has made some very creditable speeches that surprised his friends by their perfect rhetorical construction and oratorical effect. Among the bright )>artleular stars in the house is L. Ert Slack, a young man and a sterling Democrat of Franklin. Ind. His speeches are replete with sound logic and are forcibly delivered. It is predicted that he Inis a bright future. Cyrus E. Davis, the minority leader in the house, is one of the strongest meiflbers of the assembly and has already shown that he is honest as the day is long. Another brainy Democratic member who has the natural characteristics of a leader is Representative John H. James of Greencastle. Among th* stars in the legislative firmament are John W. Cravens and James A. Cotner and there are many others, showing that the Democrats have decidedly the best of it as far as talent is concerned. X—X—X A new Democratic paper will make its debut, in Indianapolis in a short time. It will be the evening edition of I The Sentinel, and Its Journalistic part i ent will be that skillful and able newspaper man, Samuel E. Morss. The paper will issue its salutatory from a new and modern edifice on Illinois street near Washington, the [dans for which have been prepared. Mr. Morss has the energy of a locomotive with a full head of steam and unerring Judgment in the handling of news. He was one of the founders of the Kansas City Stai and it is due In no small measure to the self-sacrificing efforts that he made to build up that plant that The Star is today one of the best newspa)>ers on the continent. Courage is one of his cardinal qualities and he does not hesitate to champion a genuine reform whether or not it is popular. It is whispered that he has ambitious to succeed Charles W. Fairbanks in the United States senate two years hence. X-X—X Charles F. Kennedy, formerly secretary of the state board of agriculture, and an old Rush county citizen, is very much interested in a measure or two before the hgisiature. and he has been such a constant visitor in the legislative halls that the newspaper men concluded to have some fun with him. One of them went to him and said: "Mr. Kennedy. I am sorry that I have to deliver this message, but the speaker asked me if 1 knew you and

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when I said I did he requested me to , come to you and tell you that the ‘third house’ is not allowed around the legislature and ” Mr. Kennedy caught on immediately. "You tell the speaker to go to hades, ’ he said with a smile. X—x-x The newspaper caricaturists have been doing splendid work in this legislature. Some of the cartoons, especial-. ly those of Artist Sidney Smith, could ( not be Improved. Representative Andrew J. Lopp of Harrison county was cartooned in away last week that did not strike his fancy. Some of the Democratic representatives immediately after the cartoon was published prepared a resolution absolutely forbidding carrtoonists the privilege of; appearing in the legislature, signed it "Lopp” and handed it to him. “It ought to lie introduced." he said emphatically, "but 1 don’t believe I'll introduce it.” x—x—x Some Evansville Republican leaoers are undertaking a smooth political game of securing an amendment to the Evansville charter to provide that the terms of councilmen and mayor shall be four years instead of two and the Incumbents made ineligible to reelection. It is claimed the bill is in the interest of Charles G. Covert of Evansville. a very strong Republican lender, who will probably l>e the nominee for mayor this year. His friends believe that if the mayoralty prize be made 1 bigger much more effort will lie put' forth to get it. The Democratic nominee probably will Im- John J. Nolan, who has long l>een a popular Democratic leader In the First district. It is said tliat more men will pull off their coats, figuratively speaking, and work for him through friendship and without hope of reward than for any other Democrat in the First district. x-x-x The jok<- is on Representative George W. Burkhart of Cass county. He has introduced the most stringent anticigarette bill ever seen in this or any otter legislature. Just after he introduced It some of the legislators made an enforced search of his clothing and found a large bunch of cigarette paper. Now they are declaring that he should practice what he preaches. x-x—X Senator Kittinger of Anderson is the wag of the senate. His wit Is abundant and genuine and he is fond of exercising it to the great delectation of the senate. Sometimes his shafts of sarcasm make the Democratic members wince. In a speech last week he created great applause on the Republican side by saying: "The Democratic party was founded by Jefferson and foundered by Bryan." The senator’s favorite wearing apparpl adds to his bearing as a man of affairs. He wears a Prince Albert suit, silk hat and tie of Immaculate whiteness. Half of the senators do not know that Mr. Kittinger was once a preacher. The news was broken to them by Senator T. Halleck Johnson of Dunkirk after the two bad dined together at the Columbia club the other day. “We had a right nice meal," he said, "and my quondam ministerial friend didn’t drink water, either.” A novel addition to the repertorlal working force In the legislature this year Is a young lady Journalist who has the privilege of the floor the same as the gentlemen pencil pushers and wh* Is even more aggressive than they are in digging up the news. She Is Mias Mabel Beeson, whose home formerly was at Vincennes, and she prepares letters for a syndicate of papers Her charming personality and ladylike Itearlng are much In her favor but her “nose for news" is what makes her success as a newspaper woman. She knows where the nows Is to found sod how to get ft. and her abilities In this line completely nut in tiu. shade the less brilliant faculties of some of the masculine reporters. Henntor A. 11. Wampler of Gosport n writing his motions, resolutions and bills uses a gold pen that la th,. „ hJ( .,. t of admiration und envy In the senate My wife gave this to me for a Christ’ mas present. I say this so that you won’t think It is a gift f roiu lllP printer,” he tails the senators. LOUIS LUDLOW.

The city council at their meeting Tuesday evening did the very sensible thing of creating the office of night police with instructions to the Mayor to fill the office. They went further and instructed all gambling resorts closed by the officers of the law, if such a method was necessary. They rightly propose that every questionable vice shall be stopped. Generally | speaking, the citizens of the city will applaud the council for the outspoken determination. Senator Jones of Arkansas, doesn't allow his regret for the failure of the democratic senators to act as a unit in a programme of opposition to republican legislation, and especially to the ship subsidy bill, which the whole power of the republican machine is now trying to force through the sen ate. to prevent his express.ng his own opinion. In reply to an appeal from Senator Frye, for a vote on the bill. Senator Jones said: “It is a remark able fact that this subsidy bill should be pressed upon congress during the closing days of the session, when fourteen appropriation bills, the bill which looks to a decrease of the bur dens of taxation, the Nicaragua Canal bill, and other measures of far reaching importance, remain unacted upon. There must be no limitation of debate, and until the minority has had ample opportunity to consider this subsidy bill in all its phases, I will not give my assent to any agreement for a 1 vote.” Senator Teller indorsed the remarks of Senator Jones, and added a few sarcastic words for those inclined to raise a fuss because the right of debate still existed in the United States senate. This does not indicate an early vote on the bill, even if the republicans have nerve enough to keep it before the senate at the ex pense of all other legislation, as its steering committee hasdecided to do. Army Joke* With a Moral. “During the civil war.” said an exarmy officer, “the authorities for some reason were anxious to move troops up the Tombigbee river. Word was sent to the engineer in that district asking what It would cost to run up the Tombigbee. That official got gny and reported that the Tombigbee ran down and not up. a joke that promptly landed his head In the basket, as the matter was serious. "At the bombardment of Charleston it was extremely desirable to bring to bear on the city an extra heavy gun called by the men the Swamp Angel. The gun took Its name from the swamp In which it stood, and to move it through that boggy morass was an engineering feat of extreme difficulty. However, the commanding officers were determined to have the gun brought within rauge of Charleston and Issued orders to that effect. At the same time they sent word to the engineer having the matter in charge of requisition without regard to trouble or expense for anything necessary to accomplish the desired object. His first requisition' called for men 2<J feet 6 Inches in height Another officer promptly took the matter In charge, from which It can readily be deduced that It Is not a paying Investment to make jokes in the army at the expense of your superiors.” Two Conatltotloo*. The Prince of Wales, even from his eo.rly year*, was thoroughly "dosed" In English coust'tutiomii history, says a London correspondent. When quite * boy. be was daily "ground" In this branch of education and consequently grew to dislike It most cordially. The prince, tractable as be always was. once openly rebelled at this constant "grinding" and said to bis tutor: "1 hate this study, sir! It is so dry!" “Ob.” replied the tutor, somewhat shocked, “but it Is most imperative i that you should know all about the constitution of tin? country you will oue day navo to rule and govern, most Imperative.” “Yes. sir,” smartly replied the prince, "the English constitution Is Important. I know. Rut what about my constitution Warning tn Other Itnah lonM Meo. “He told her he would give all he hail In the world to make her happy,” s®' l * Miss Cayenne. "And what did she do?” "She married nlm and held him strictly to bls promise.”—Washington Star,