Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVBRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW O. ELLINQHAM. Publisher. •1,00 IN ADVANCE. Entered at the post office at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY,'JULY 25. Many twelfth district democrats are already predicting the renomination as well as the re-election of Hon. .lames M. Robinson, to congress. This is as it should be. .Nearly every editor of Northern Indiana has told in plain words his opim'-m of Rev. Miller, of Bluffton, for his effort to gain notoriety at the funeral services of rion. A. N. Martin which occurred some two weeks ago. M. J. Bryan, the Nebraska statesman, is the drawing card at Rome Cit v today and thousands of people will listen to his brilliant oratory. Other democrats of fame will also be present and the entire day is to be devoted to democracy pure and simple. Quite a number from here left for the scene of action. Several attorneys here have received letters from a committee of Goshen citizens urging them to write to President McKinley in the interest of Francis M. Baker, a candidate for I nited States circuit judge. Mr. Baker is now holding a position as a supreme judge and the feeling here is that he ought to be satisfied. Last week's issue of the Decatur Democrat contains nearly two columns of ditch notices. In addition to this, a large mileage of gravel roads is being built. Adams county is coming rapidly to the front as one of the liest counties in Indiana and we are proud that “old Adams” is part and parcel of the Eighth congressional district. Winchester Journal. Dr. Chaincy Depew, who speaks by the book, says that after-dinner talking in this country consists of a lot of stories funny but perfectly extraneous “prefaced and threader! together by other remarks whereof it is easy to acquire the knack.” The method has not even the merit of novelty. Depending upon the memory for the wit is as old as turning to imagination for facts. But there are Americans who can talk on their feet without faltering for either illustration or epigram and who. like the French, whom Depew . admires, have an inmate sense of style which professional American talkers lack. It is hardly necessary to state that' there is absolutely no truth in the announcement sent out from New York that David B. Hill declared himself a candidate for the presidency immediately after the Ohio Democracy had decland themselves in favor of live issues and against the resurrection of dead ones. He was, of course, greatly pleased over that pronouncement, but that he told his immediate friends that he is a now eandiate is a fabrication, pure and simple. There is perhaps no doubt that Mr. Hill would like to be president some day, but that he is now bothering his head about a nomination in 1904 is simply a stretch of the imagination.- South Bend Times.

Emphatic protest is made in various parts of the state, by leading republicans, against the proposition to make Supreme Judge Francis E. Baker the successor of the late Judge William A. Woods. It is contended that Judge Baker ought to be satisfied with his present position and that there is such a thing as one family wanting just a little too much of a good thiug. - South Bend Times. It now develops that Charles Neely will never be brought to trial because of the stupidity of congress in failing to enforce the attendance of witnesses at the trial. No one ever seriously believed that he would be brought to trial. No one ever believed that the ' administration intended to punish him. The case of Neely has amoral: If you ever embark on a career of crime, first make sure that you have some friends at court. The bar association of Adams, Blackford, Huntington and Wells counties has decided to hold a mem orial meeting to pay the tribute of love and sympathy to the memory of Ex-Congressman Martin. This idea was suggested as a fit protest against the heartless philippic which was delivered over the dead body. Mr. Martin was subject to frailties of flesh like human beings, but those who knew him best know that he had a lovable disposition, a tender heart, a bitter loathing of injustice. Sentinel. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland has taken a fall out of Mark Hanna that must have causeda serious sense of injury. Cleveland has a city board of equalization appointed by the mayor. This board equalizes assessments up or down according as facts appear to its members. In revising the recent valuations in that city they found that the property of the Cleveland City railway, owned by Senator Hanna, and better known as “The j Little Consolidated” system, was assessed at $595,000. The board with but little deliberation raised the assess- 1 ment to $6,000,000, over 1000 per cent 1 increase. Os course the action of the board will be contested in the courts 1 and the biggest legal battle that - Cleveland ever saw. with the mayor fighting a colossal alleged tax dodger. j will occupy public attention until it is settled. Is a lengthy editorial reviewing the action of the Ohio Democratic convention the Sentinel promulgates these i B‘ntiments: Now our advice to demo- , crate of all sorts Bryan democrats and anti-Bryan democrats especially -is to keep cool. Be courteous and tolerant ana considerate. Don’t get excited. Don’t call each othei bad names. There has been enough democratic foolishness to last for a couple of generations to come. Any democrat who flouts Bryan or makes faces at his friends is doing his best to keep his party in a perpetual minority. He is committing the same sort of incredible folly that the Chicago convention of 1896 perpetrated when, not content with expressing its dissent from Mr. Cleveland’s financial policy, it repudiated his whole administration If the democratic party is ever to become anything more thanadisorganized and impotent mobit must stop this infernal nonsense, let by-gones be bygones, shake hands all around and go! in strong for harmony at all times and under all circumstances. Every democrat should consider himself under bonds to keep the party peace, and the first one who breaks it should be given 1 a dose of (“something lingering with ' boiling oil in it.

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THE SLANDER OF SCHLEY. The Sampson-Schley controversy, which agitated the nation immediately after the battle of Santiago, has ! been reopened by the publication of a naval history which attempts to reverse the popular verdict as to the respective merits of the two contestants. During the lamentable contention the suspicion that the real hero of that memorable action was to be deprived of his well-earned laurels as the result of official favoritism, gained gen oral credence. The records show that Schley bore the brunt of the battle and distinguished himself by the valor of his action and the brilliancy of his strategy. Either because of his political opinions, or in consequence of Sampson’s superior influence in the department al Washington, it soon became apparent that the latter offi cial was destined by the naval department to wear the laurels of victory. Then, ever alert to guard against injustice, the people spoke, and Sehlev was accorded that consideration which he had won. The ease, however, has been reopened with the apparent purpose of reversing the verdict of the nation. Now comes Edgar Stanton Maelay, and in the third volume of his naval history impugns the courage and ability of the popular hero with a bitterness and acrimony that makes his history unreliable as to facts and hopelessly undignified in tone. Os course the government cannot be held responsible for every libel that is traced by the pen of prejudice and envy. There is nothing to prevent the most ignorant nonentity from as sailing as false that which time and investigation has established as true. Nor can the government be charged with the responsibility of having con verted a heretofore brilliant and impartial historian into a passionate prosecutor. The responsibility of the government consists in this: The 1 slanderous work of Mr. Maelay has been adopted as the official historical interpretation for the National naval academy and thereby accorded the sanction and approval of the navy department. This means that the naval cadets are to be taught that Admiral Schley was a miserable coward, a professional mediocre and a shameless prevaricator. It means that the gallant officer whose ship courted the destructive fire of the Spanish fleet is to go down to posterity as an arrant pretender. It means that no American officer who does not court the special favor of naval politicians can ever be sure of recognition even for the most valiant service. It would seem that the historian went to his task with the deliberate intention of defaming the character of Admiral Schley. Let the following quotation suffice to show the spirit of the work: In his report about the coal supply of the vessels under his command Schley exhibited either a timidity amounting to absolute cowardice or a prevarication of facts that were intrinsically falsehoods. (Vol. 3, p. 296.) Schley on May 28, 1898, * * * turned in caitiff flight from the danger spot toward which duty, honor and the whole American people were most earnestly urging him. Viewed in whatever light it may be. the foregoing dispatch cannot be characterized otherwise than as being, without exception, the most humiliating, cowI ardly and lamentable report ever penned by an American naval officer. (Vol. 3, p. 298.) Do the American people indorse the above sentiments? If not, the gov- ■ ernment has no right to officially poison posterity against one of the | most admirable characters of the late

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war. Now that the agitation has been reopened and the secretary of the navy has been acquainted with the character of the work, it is up to the administration to either publicly sanction or repudiate it. The Army and Navy Journal states the issue when it asks if the government proposes to indorse the work in which “a high officer of the service, against whom no charges have been filed, and who has received the direct commendation of the department in his recommendation for promotion is called, in plain terms, a liar, a coward and a caitiff.” If Mr. Long answers in the affimative then the people through a

congressional investigation, will reserve the right to reverse the verdict of the department. Sentinel. The bitter tirade against the life of Ex-Congressman A. N. Martin by Rev. Miller has certainly been vetoed and right justly to by the press of Indi-‘ ana. Scarcely a paper of anv promi- I nence has failed to take a fall out of i the little pastor. Clerk Hatfield of Bluffton, ac , companied by Hon. N. K.Todd were in i the city last evening. The former is ; a pronounced candidate for the nomi-1 nation for clerk of the supreme court and gives out the pleasing in formation ; that his chances are hopeful and pros-. pects bright. He is a very pleasing gentleman and will no doubt cut a good sized figure eight in next g. o. p.' convention. i The only issue not settled by the conference between the emplovers in i the steel industry at Pittsburg’and the ! union, and the one which the presi- ! dent of the union ordered a general 1 strike in the mills of the three corporations, was the refusal of the employers to compel men to join the union who did not wish to do so. There is no room for doubt that this is the sole matter on which 75,000 men are laid idle. Both sides agree in the statements. The employers state that they were ready to come to terms as to do all else. The union replies that all else is of no consequence. The employers did not oppose the right of those of their men who are not now in the union to join it if they chose. I They simply declined to force them to do so. They were ready to deal with the representatives of the men in the union. They could not recognize these as the representatives of those not in the union. \\e do not see how, in justice aud prudence, with regard to the interests of their shareholders or with regard to the rights of the free men in their mills, they could reach any other decision. From the standpoint of the true interest of the organized work 'ngmen. also, it is plain that their officers have made a serious mistake. l New York Times. Sam E. Morss, editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel and ex minister to 1 ans, was here last night on a short visit with Hugh Dougherty. The two have been friends since Mr. Morss was a reporter on the Fort Wayne Sentinel years ago and earned his livinggetting locals at the trains and writing about people who came to town. ()ther peo pie do that for him at Indianapolis now, and he has been a foremost fig ure m Indiana polities, ami in national < ireles for the past twenty years. Mr. Morss is known as a great plat < f Jvhf H r ‘ He . ha ’ written last nTrtlSft® 8 for , thp democratic party in Indiana, and at the national nk»fr?m OnS v‘ H tllP co ®m'‘teo on platforms. lor that reason his views

AMOS P. BEATTY. ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pensionxlalms prosecuted. Odd Fellows building. * I on what will compose the issues of 1904 have some weight. He lielisves that the national democratic platform will not endorse the 1896 platform r even mention it. Mr. Morss stated that the platforms of the proceeding years should be dropped and only the living issues confronting the party should be fought. For 11*04 fie says that two and only two important issues present themselves. Those are the foreign policy of the administra tion and the question of protective tariff and its relation to the formation of trusts. He wants either Chief Justice Harlan or David Bennett Hill nominated for president. Mr. Dougherty expressed his preference to Mr. Morss last night. He believes the ticket should be Richard Olney of Massachusetts, with Carter Harrison of Chicago, as vice-president. Wheth er his opinion will cause the Sentinel to advocate them remains to be seen. Bluffton News. In a recent address before a ciass of Indianapolis law students, Hon Augustus L. Mason wiselv said in part: “Again the consolidated con trol of monopolized industries in the hands of a few men gives those men a dangerous power with resjxvt to government. Trust managers have such vast revenues at their disposal as to give them alarming influence by the I use of money in the choice of cauJi dates for office. Political parties need money, which is often difficult to raise. Which is the more likely to be chosen as a method of raising funds, the collection of small contributions from the masses of the party, with its trouble, its notriety, its inadequate results, or the offer of one man of a single mammoth private contribution, adequate to carry on the campaign • Will this not affect the policy of the successful party? Will not monopoly i trusts, with their enormous resources, their thousands of employes, more than ever dependent because of the growth of monopoly, exercise an tu>wholesome influence upon elections Wiil not orders be issued from beau quarters to defeat candidates who nave shown a disposition to oppo ß ** trusts? May not this influence !*• come sufficiently great to affect tne choice of members of the iudicit*’.'' that last bulwark of popular rig' ll- ’ and free institutions.” The delivery horse at the < 'ity N e *s stand got tired of standing on the streetsTiicwlay morning, nu , ' cided to go home, putting said notw into execution by a lively run. was headed off by Prof. Fred 1 ' who succeeded in leaping into th'' and a slight pull on the rein* l ” l "‘ the animal to slacken his speed-