Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLINGKAM, 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, MARCH 28. The Chicago Times-Herald have purchased the Record and will now publish the Record-Herald. W. J. Gilbert suicides because his friend Charles R. Johnson absconds with 8100.000 belonging to the bank, in which he held the important position of cashier. The disfranchisement of the ignorant Marvland voter simply means that he shall be able to correctly read the names printed on the ticket. Me think this test none too severe. Senator Burrows has dressed up the bugaboo of a reduction in the congressional representation of those states which have disfranchised illiterate voters, and is coddling it as earnestly as though it were a bran new baby and he were its daddy. Andy Monahan for congress in the twelfth district, is announcement sufficient to warrant that occasional democratic paper, the Fort Mayne Jour-nal-Gazette, to engage in its present bitter warfare against Congressman J. M. Robison. Andy is a noble bird. Mayor Taggart declines a fourth nomination to the office of mayor of Indianapolis to which he has three times been elected. Mayor Taggart is the most popular Indiana democrat, and could again be elected mayor of our capitol city, should he so desire. _________ Bryan and his Commoner are ferninst the democratic nominee for mayor of St. Louis, because the latter did not warm up to the former during those trying periods in 1896-1900. Thus the' standard of national politics is lowered and in the end but little gratification is to be gained. The formation of the Indiana Club gives evidence of being a real live project. and we believe should receive the endorsement and support of every Indiana democrat. However, we want no twin sister of the Columbia Club, which furnishes the brains and manipulates the policies of the g. o. p. The object of such a club is a worthv one as long as not machine made.

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Japan is serious in her war cry against Russia, and such a declaration may be made public at any time.; When it come to lighting Russia has slight!v the best of it, but that fact does not always amicably settle these national difficulties. The Indiana State Sentinel boasts of a weekly circulation that exceeds j 101,000 copies, a record of thrift and enterprise that is not excelled by any newspaper in the state. Os the. above number more than 1000 reside in Adams county, and are subscribers through the agency of the Democrat. ' which is also a record not to be sneezed at, even in this dav of newspaper progress. The Indiana State Sentinel is a mightv good newspaper and entitled to all the glory attained. Governor Odell of New York, who has jumped into notoriety by his casting off Boss Platt’s colar, is being groomed, according to inside M ashington gossip, as New \orks antiTeddv candidate for the republican presidential nomination in 1904. Senator Fairbanks continues to bo spoken of as the administration candidate,. but the man the administration really ! wishes to see nominated and will get | nominated if there is the slightest chance of doing so without splitting the party, is Marcus A. Hanna. In 1897 a daily pupper. called The Dispatch, was started in the city of I Louisville to break down The CourierJournal for refusing to support Bryan and 16 to 1. A good deal of money was put into the enterprise, but. though ably edited, the paper failed to prosper' It lost about 8600 a week. Its owners finally got tired of thus pouring good money into a rat hole, and The Dispatch is now as dead as a door nail It was permitted to die on the 21st dav of this month. The Courier- j Journal,on the other hand, is in a very I flourishing condition,—South Bend Times. The Hanna-McKinley crowd realize that they have no cinch in the state campaign in Ohio this year, so they are trying to placate all the hostile elements within the republican partv. They throw a sop to the anti-saloon league by letting it become known that Lieut. Gov. Caldwell, who is counsel for the state liquor dealer's association, would not be renominated. and then to prevent any dis- , gruntlement among the liquor men. , promised Caldwell that be should receive a good federal appointment. In addition they have made sure that I Senator Foraker's friends will do no kicking, bv promising him that his candidacy for re-election should be endorsed bv the state convention. Still, with all that, they seem to be afraid that the democrats will carry the state.

J. Pierpont Morgan had a long private conference with Senator Han na in M’ashington a day or two ago. It was given out that the conference was in regard to a new annex to the big steel trust, to control al! '-•!> engaged in carrying iron ore on the great lakes. Mr. Hanna being heavily interested in the traffic. It is also highly probable that Mr. Morgan issued a few orders for the administration to follow in dealing with his trusts and other interests, preferring to give those orders to the man to whom he gave his big campaign contribution rather than directly to Mr. McKinley. It is said that Congressman Cromer will make his decision in the Ander son postoffiee today, and then he will put on the belt with the candidates at Elwood, Union City and Portland. The republican syndicate, which had made extensive and expensive preparations to loot the Philippines, under public land and timber concessions. are making things warm for the administration and demanding that promises made to them are kept There is one obstacle the Hoar amendment which was added to the j Philippine amendment to the armv bill. Although that amendment specifically prohibits the granting of concessions. the representatives of the looting syndicate are demanding that it be ignored, and some of them are claiming that Secretary Root favormeeting their demands. The traditional bull in a china-shop did not create more consternation than Representative Babcock of M isconsin. is creating among the trust bound republican bosses by talking up the merits of his anti-trust bill, which he introduced near the close us the last congress, mid which he will re-introduco. It will be remembered that the bill, as introduced, provided for the repeal of the duty on all manufactured steel and iron, its avowed purpose being to prevent the big steel trust making our people pay extortionate prices for its products. Mr. Babcock, who is now in Washington, has received so much encouragement of support for his bill, that he has announced his intention to broaden it. so as to hit two more trusts—tin plate and plate glass by adding clauses repealing the tariff on plate glass and tin plate. He has also served notice on the trust bound republicans that the bill shall not be pigeonholed in committee, and upon republicans in general, that if they do not join him in curbing the trusts, they will see a party put in power that will. It is certain that the democrats will supI port the bill in the next congress, and if Mr. Babcock can get as many republican votes as he thinks he can. I all the power of the trusts cannot pre--1 vent its passage by the house.

Legislative AtUrmatb. The recently adjourned session of the legislature is still a subject of ridicule and abuse. It is common talk that it was the worst general as-1 I seniblv that ever sat in Indiana, "ns ■ crooked as a dog’s hind leg. A prominent Louisville railroad attorney. | who attended this session as a .obvist. said in conversation the other day, that this was the worst he had ever seen here, or in any other state; that usually he had to approach members cautiously and ask what they would take, but'that the rule of the members he did business with here was to ask at once what he would give. The democratic members appeared to a decided advantage in comparison with the republican majority. both in ability and integrity. For the most part the democratic members went through with clean hands. This may have been due to the fact that the republicans had such a complete and easy working majority, both in the, committees and on the floor. It was enough to get the republican leaders lined up for or against a measure; and not infrequently the active support of democrats proved an injury to a bill,' as was the case with the Agnew anti {trust bill. In any event, all the out-1 rageous measures were of republican | origin, and depended wholly on re- j , publican support. The Joss railroad consolidation bill t ' had the Support of some few demo-; crats, but its opposition was all from ’ democratic source. Senator M infield vigorously opposed its passage in the , senate, and but one republican (Neal) i j opposed it in the house. The speaker i declined to entertain any discussion of the measure, but took the floor and • defended it and then refused to allow its opponents a hearing. Itwas“rail- ; loaded’, through, Frank B. Burke i deserved the credit for the defeat of i this measure. He was the first to | draw attention to its purpose? and el , • sects; in monopoliling the railroads of I Indiana: in removing competition I from railroad business; in taking them from state control; and in removing . damage suits against them from the | ,' state to the federal courts. His open | t letter to the legislature, published ■ ? after the bill had slipped through the . senate, appeared before the newspa-1 > pers had commented on the measure s at all. There was every evidence of a 1 carefully arranged plan to enact the ? bill without notice to the public. Folt lowing Burke's letter, protests comi menced coming in from all over the i' state, regardless of politics, until i Governor Durbin could not withstand a the pressure and vetoed same. By s this veto he probably saved his party, - as it is doubtful if it could have carI ried a dozen counties after two years - operation of such a law. However, i. the fight is not over. Senator M infield of Cass county, is authority for .the statement that from now until

th e election of 1902 the energies i of railroad companies would be directed to securing passage bv the nex legislature. There is no doubt, with the manifest attempt of all ri ‘ ito consolidate and get away from state control and state courts, that ! this act will be kept tn mind by those whose business is to manage politics and legislation in the interest of railroad corporations. Promised Taritl Reform. Congressman Babcock of the republican congressional committee assures the public that he was entirely in earnest in introducing bis bill last session removing the duties on certain manufactures of iron and steel. Furthermore, be announces that he will introduce the bill when the new congress meets. And not only bo, but he promises to introduce other bills, one abolishing the duties on the plate and another abolishing the duties on plate glass. And, what is more, he gives us to understand that he does this not so much in a spirit of tinI friendliness to the great combines as ,in a spirit of tariff reform. To be ' sure he says that the subject of tariff 'in its relation togigauticcombinations 1 of capitals one which the republican party must deal in a manner which i will "leave no doubt in the public mind 1 that it is acting in good faith; other - wise the people will sweep that party out of power. But that may mean merelv that ‘‘the tariff should be revised ’by “its friends," to borrow a form of words which has served the republican party well in the past. IHe savs himself that many of the beneficiaries of the tariff, especially I such of them as have been successful iu selling their products abroad in open competition against the world, are willing to surrender the advan tages they are supposed to enjoy under the Dingley tariff. And he specifies the producers qI lumber, farm machinery and railroad and structural iron and steele. M'e may infer that he would limit his tariff reform to the abolition or reduction of 'those duties which the beneficiaries I themselves are willing to dispense I with. Still, to do him justice, it should be said that he is quoted as saving in substance that tariff reform legislation will engross much of the time and attention of the new con - I grass and that the changes which will ■ be made in the Dingley law are likely | to be even more radical than the most 1 ardent free trader could hope for. It i i may be that such radical changes will i be made by the fifty-seventh congress. • but we mav lie quite sure they will , not be made without a fight such as has not been witnessed since Cleves land convened the fifty-third congress , in extra session to repeal the Sherman - silver-purchase law. While some of r the protected interests may be ready 1' to dispense with the assistance of tariff

laws others are not. The latter w strong enough in the senate durin McKinley’s first administration to d 8 feat every one of the reciprocity trZt ies negotiated under than )ingl ev ]?, Unless the newcomers into the , entertain very different views fro 6 those of their predecessors the resist anceto Mr. Babcock’s promised r ' forms will be tremendous. Tb e t,erests which still demand protection are powerful and they will dw han? And if the Sampsons of reform in pulling down the tariff temple the republican partv will not come wfofo out of the ruins. Chicago Chronicle. Fun. fast and furious, is the keynote of the great success of the R av \ big eastern “A Hot Old Time,” which will be seen at Bosse’s opera house on Tuesday, April 2. It begins with the rise of the curtain and grows i D Vo ], time and speed until just before it« final fall. Nothing just like it has been seen before, every tnemlierof the large company is busy every minute and so continual is the merriment that the audience almost gets tired of laughing, if such a thing is possible liefore the end. “A Hot Old Time' 1 may well lie called a carnival of mirth. New specialties, new music, new cost times, new situations and new everything except the title, are featnmof the present season, which has thus far proved! even more successful thanite remarkably prosperous predecessor > J jseph Eicher, an Atnishman of near Berne, and his friend, Frank Ruby, are in jail charged with forgery. Ruby was arrested Monday and Eicher Tuesday afternoon. Theboye. if all stories are true, have been going a pretty fast pace. The indictment . was made upon information sworn to by Barclay Smith of Berne, and way filed in the circuit court Monday. It > is claimed that several days ago Eicher aud Kuby went to Geneva aa-1 became intoxicated. They were arrested and fined and to keep from going to jail they produced a note for 8110. signed by Mr. Smith of Berne i which they gave to Michael McGriff > as collateral and he in turn paid their fines amounting to eighteen dollars. i The paper was a promissory note 1 dated December 20. 1900. and due in » three months, or March 20,1901. It - was written with a lead pencil u.t I bore a two-cent revenue stamp iusaead of a four-cent as it should. When t the note became due and McGriff pret sented it for payment he was informed II that it was a clever counterfeit. Smith , | at once came to this city and filed in--1 formation for the arrest of the two s boys. Eicher, the Amishman, seems ■ to have wandered entirely away from s; his earlyjteachings for he bears a bail i i reputation and was last Sunday exf | pelled from the church. He says.ss r does Ruby, that they will be able to T prove their innocence.