Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 24, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VIRY rHUHSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLINQHAM. Publisher. *I,OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. Governor Dcmtn has issued his Labor Day proclamation, which comes upon Monday. September 2, according to the document as issued from the governor's office. Governor Durbin has decided to instruct sherriffs in every county in the state to attend all “sparring matches” and arrest all participants when the least brutality or unfriendly feeling is displayed. The Muncie News has been purchased by George McCollough who will consolidate it with the Star, his private property and bv this means endeavor to place himself in command of things political in Delaware county. Report has it that Mayor Jones of Toledo will support Col. Kilbourne the democratic nominee for governor in Ohio. Two years ago Jones was a candidate upon his own party platform. and polled to exceed 100.000 votes. Hon. David B. Hill, the great New York statesman, has accepted and will be one of the noted democrats who will open the Ohio campaign. The date has not yet been decided upon, big will most likely lie some time the first part of October. Charles Maguire seems to have the inside track for a democratic nomination for mayor of Indianapolis. His nomination will head the ticket with strength and start them off with high hojies of success in their municipal election which is due in October. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette is again wasting considerable space trying to defeat Hou. James M. Robinson for a renomination to congress. While things political are slippery as a gnats heel, yet the Journal-Gazette may find it as difficult to defeat his nomination as it was to defeat his election last fall. November 24 this year Judge D. D. Heller will have served twelve years as judge of the twenty sixth judicial circuit, and at that time will step aside for Judge-elect Richard K. Erwin who will liegin his judicial career. Bothjare citizens of the verv highest rank, about which we will dwell in detail when this event takes place. County politics in Allen county is beginning to boil. While in Fort Mayne the other day our very eloquent and worthy friend Hon. Henrv Colerick introduced us to John G. Bauer as the next auditor of Allen -county. There is no disputing the fact that Mr. Colerick is dead in earnest and when that state of thing exist, the boys simply have to stand aside or they will get dust in their eyes. Mr. Bauer is a very clean, clever and accomplished democrat, one that ever and always stands by the declarations of his party, and that counts much.

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The Portland Review says that Representative John A. Bonham has the appointment of a military cadet from each of the counties of "his disdrict, Blackford, Jay and Randolph. Thanks to Jimmy Robinson the twelfth district congressman, tor the 1900 year book, department of agriculture. We will read it carefully and then turn it over to Dick Erwin, who is about the nest best farmer in the county. With three days racing by the famous Decatur Driving Club, a real, genuine agricultural county fair, Wallace's celebrated circus, surely Decatur is in it and that right. If Mark Hanna had anything to do with bringing this about let him speak up. M any newspapers are now using considerable space in noting the downfall of the Heath's as apolitical factor in politics, their last influence, the Muncie News, now being in the hands of a receiver. There may be somethingin this line of argument and then again there may not. Judge Hench broke out in print in the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette the other day. It was a very heavy addition to the literary side-show of the present day. and we are reading it in sections. Will conclude about the day following the next congressional convention when we expect another colicy production along with the triumphant victory of Congressman Robinson. According to the’Blackford County Gazette the itch for office has broken out in Hartford City, and as a result A. G. Lupton is laying the wires for the nomination of joint senator for Blackford. Grant and Wells counties. James W. Sales of Bluffton, is also troubled with a hankering for the same place. A. W. Tracy editor of the Hartford City Times, wants to succeed John A. Bonham as joint representative of Blackford. Jay and Randolph counties. Senator George G. Vest of Missouri. in an interview savs the principal planks of the democratic platform of 1904 should be: First, a declaration for a graduated income tax: second, an unrelenting opposition to trusts: third, a declaration against imperialism and the colonial system. “It would be suicidal." says the senator. “to thrust the silver question forward again.” Senator Vest was a staunch silver man from the beginning of the agitation of the question. —South Bend Times. The scheme of State Superintendent Jones for a longer term ami consolidation of rural schools has merit and should be tried. If experiments prove it good, a few years will see it extended in all parts of the state. Briefly, he proposes schools eleven months of each year, younger pupils to attend in pleasant weather and older in winter when farm work is least. The scheme reduces the number of recitations heard each day and allows more time for hearing each subject. Whoever has attended the rural schools of thirty pupils or more may recall the hurry to finish the recitation within tne prescribed time. This ten minutes it is the A grammar class and the next ten the bruinracked teacher must be transformed to a kindergartner. Too much superficial skipping is done where time is not allowed to present a subject

The strike situation remains unchanged, both making losses and gains in about the same proportion. Time alone can but tell the outcome, but it is pretty hard to buck a trust, especially a billion dollar trust. The continued silence of our republican brethren regarding the low price of wool is growing painful. Wool is now selling at about 16 cents per pound, notwithstanding the fact that the Dingley "protects" it by the highest duty ever levied. It is strange that our protectionist friends do not make some explanation or apology for the situation. For years they have assured wool growers that goal prices were made and maintained by a high tariff duty. Do you think wool growere such fools that they do not see and understand the falsity of the as surancet—Plymouth Democrat. Billy Blodgett, the windy mind reader for the Indianapolis News, stirred the amimals in Ft. Wayne the other day. by writing to his paper that Senator Fleming would likely be the new member of democratic state committee from the twelfth district. We surmise that this little piece of bumcomb was as much a surprise to Senator Fleming as it was to William Kaough. the present member of the committee and who wants and expects to be retained. Senator Fleming has valued work to do as a member of the next legislature, as we understand the straw board manufacturers have no intention of going out of business. With this cn his hands he will not burden himself with additional honors where there is no salary attached. Members of the Grand Army expect an outburst against Pension Commissioner Evans at the national encampment in Cleveland, and the force of it will lie felt at the white house. Evans has been the object of attacks of many department encampments, and only through diplomacy, it is said, have they been kept out of national encampments. This diplomacy is what angers members of the Grand Arm". The purpose was to save injury to McKinley. The Grand Army was given to understand there would be a change at the close of the first Me Kinley administration, or. at least, at close of last fiscal year. June 30. Prominent members called on McKinley about a change. They say he promised to retire Evans. Gen. Dan Sickles, now a candidate for com-mander-in-chief. declared a few weeks ago that McKinley promised him to make a change. Teddy Roosevelt's presidential boom arrived in Washington this week. It was brought by republican members of the Kansas congressional delegation, who declared that the Kansas republicans were for him and intended to do everything they could to get him nominated. When it is considered that the administration is dead opposed to Roosevelt and that those congressmen were in Washington asking administration favors, it will be seen that they had their nerve along with them. It is true that none of the big guns of the administration were in town, and that the small frv. such as assistant secretaries, were afraid to tell those congressmen that they were treading on forbidden ground, but the telegraph lines were in good working order and some of them found it out before they left, and they will probably hear more about it before their applications for administration favors are acted upon.

CANADIAN ANNEXATION The question of Canadian annexation has been a mooted ope for , over half a century. In the I nited States its possibilities still form the topic for political speculation. The probability of forcible annexation is so exceedingly remote as to lie unworthy of consideration. If the two conntrit's do merge their destiny it must be voluntary on the part of both. In a recent article urging the expediency of annexation. Prof. Henry Davies of the sociological department of Yale university has verv plausibly stated the case of the annexationists from the American point of view. There arc, of course, no natural reasons why the two nations should go their separate ways. Geographically they are one. They speak practically the'same language, have the same literature and almost the same laws. They enjov the same blessings of individual liberty. They look forward to the same period of commercial supremacy. They are equally capable of self-government. Their assimilation would not necessitate the suspension of a solitary sentence of our fundamental law, nor would they endanger one iota of American principles. The erasure of the artificial boundary line would assuredly have a favorable effect upon the commercial life of both nations. In fact every natural law points to the ultimate annexation of our northern neighbor. Davies makes the dogmatic assertion that the mass of the Canadian people look forward to the annexation. He believes that the rapidity with which American methods and manners are supplanting those of England is preparing the wav to a favorable consideration of the subject. The aggressive commercial policy of the Americans is displacing the slow conservatism of the English. Despite a tariff barrier, which is of itself an affront. American products are flooding the Canadian market and binding the commercial classes of two nations. American|capital is developing Canadian resources. Everything is contributing to make the two countries one in sentiment. While annexation has not as yet become a political issue in Canada. Prof. Davies believes that the unpopularity of Mr. Chamberlain's plan for representation in the English parliament will force the issue at no distant date. Then will follow annexation. In connection with this, however, we have an article from John Charlton of the Canadian parliament, which does not entirely bear out the statements of our Yale professor. He claims that when in 1849 au annexation manifesto was issued over the signature of Canadian statesmen, the two nations were closer together than they | are today. From that time on up until after the conclusion of the civil war the feeling spread and grew in popularity. The fact that 40.090 Cannadian soldiers fought in the northern army may be taken as an indication of Canadian sentiment toward the American republic. But. he adds: Thirty-four years of American tariff legislation, calculated to reduce to the lowest possible scale the volume of Canadian imports, has caused the state of feeling that led to issuing the annexation manifesto of I'49' to fade from public recollection, and today no annexation sentiment exists in Canada. Such being true would it not be the part of wisdom to pull-down the absurd tariff laws and permit unlrammeled commercial communication between the two nations? The narrow tariff policy now pursued is not calculated to recommend American rule to the Canadian.—Sentinel.

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The labor organizations of the state I have their blue book printed, in which ' they size up the members of the last, legislature. The senate is cited as the most unfavorable and Brooks,' Wood, Wolcott.Binkley. Crumpacker, Dausman. Goodwine, Guthrie, Johnson of Jav county, Ogborn, Joss, Keeney, Kell, Keyes, Parks, Whitcomb, Conlogue and Fleming, are held responsible for the defeat of all measures in that body. Especial mention is made of Senators. Ball. Burns. Wampler, Inman, Heller and Stillwell who did their best but failed to carry the majority with them. The house was spoken of with more favor. The book makes frequent reference to the railroad lobby. The committee says it heard senators remark that it was the most corrupt legislature in years, and it concludes that the representatives of the labor organizations could expect little from the senate, as the majority seemed bent on killing all labor measures unless amended to suit the railroad lobby. The book enters into discussion of the relief bill a pet measure of the labor men- and it quotes from a speech made by Senator Wood of Lafayette, in which he said the bill was agitated by “labor agitators and human vultures,” who had swooped down on the legislature and who should be cast out of the chambers. Attorney R. S. Peterson was at Celina Monday ap[>earing for David Flanders in their case against L.Gray. charged with grand larceny. MARKETS. CORRECTED BT E. L. CARROLL, GRAIN MERCHANT, DECATUR, IND. Wheat, new j (57 Corn, per cwt, yellow (new).... 75 Corn, per cwt. (new) mixeu.... 75 Oats, new 34 Ry*. 45 Haney 35 (ft 40 Clover seed @5 50 Timothy 2 00 Potatoes, per bu new 1 20 Eggs fresh 12 Butter 15 Chickens ot; Ducks ()6 Turkeys ()R Geese 05 Wool, unwashed 13 to 16 Wool, washed 20 and 22 Hogs 5 00 TOLEDO MARKETS AUG. 21, 1:30 P. M. Wheat,new No. 2 red,cash....J 724 Sept wheat 731 Cash corn No. 2 taxed, cash... ss| Sept corn 53

BEWILDERED SHOPPERS. ' Japnnear I'eaaants TA ho Are Kept Track ot by Label*. When the Japanese peasants get themselves up for a pilgrimage to a city for the purpose of laying in a stock of finery, they present the quaintest appearance imaginable. The women generally tuck up their petticoats well above their knees, either leaving the legs bare or else swathing them In white bandages which form a kind of leggings. Their hair is done in the usual elaborate Japanese style, and generally an artificial flower is stuck in at the top. It does look comic to see the wizened face of an old woman with s large red nose hobnobbing over It And this floral decoration is not confined to the women. When you meet a party of pilgrims, you often see the old men also with a flower stuck coquettlshly above the ear. At Nagano It appears that many of the poor old dears from the country get so bewildered by the magnificence of the places they go to and the distractions of shopping that they quite lose their beads and consequently their way. So the ever thoughtful Japanese police have insisted that every party of pilgrims Is to have a distinguishing badge. At Nagano It was the commonest thing possible to see some ancient dame rustling about walling: “Where Is my party? Where Is the purple irl» party?’ or “Where Is the yellow towel round the neck party?' And then she would be told that "yellow towel round the neck party" was on Its way to the station or that the "purple Irises” were still saying their prayers In the temple—Kansas City Star. Even Rata Have rnetr tara. Life’s monotonies are a blessing, and not In disguise, for they contribute directly to longevity, health and happiness. The long lived man Is not the adventurer, the explorer, the plunger, the man who has worries, but be who takes the world as be finds It and s!'P 9 along through life with as little friction as possible, forms easy going habit*, sticks to them and cares not one straw for the opinions of men who say th* he is In a rut He is healthy because he has peace of tnlnd and regularity 0 life: be Is happy because he is healthy ’and In a good, smooth, comfortable ru . which be prefers to the macadam ° n the sides of the road. Goldsmith's pastor, who had spiritual charge of th c Ul ' serted village, who ne'er bad cbang nor wished to change hl* place. I’ * excellent example of the man w makes the most possible out of the l " . notonles of life.—St Louis Globe-vcw-ocrat