Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT «vkry Thursday morning by LEW G. ELLINtIHAM. Publisher. »1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffiee at Decatur. ludiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, APRIL 17. THE TICKETS. CITY. For Mayor. DAVID D. COFFEE. For Clerk. DALLAS M. HOWER. For Treasurer, W. .1. ARCHBOLD. Fort Marshal, HARVEY H. HART. For Counclliuen. First Ward - ALBERT Hl I! LER, W. B SETTLES. Second Ward—HORACE PORTER. HENRY STETLEK. Third Ward- W. H. MBLICK. CY .1. WEAVER. COUNTY. For Representative HENRY DIRKSON. For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN. For Treasurer J. H. VOGLEWEDE. For Clerk DAVID GERBER. For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER, For Recorder CLINTON C. CLOUD. For Surveyor GEORGE E. MCKEAN. For Coroner C. 11. SCHENK. For Commissioner—First Dist. DAVID WERLING. For Commissioner—Second Dist. WILLIAM MILLER. Vote the straight democratic ticket May 6. To vote a straight democratic ticket make a cross within the circle that surrounds the rooster. It is dead easy. Congressman Robinson had the attention of congress yesterday in a w delivered speec h in opposition t - the annexation of Cuba. - Os the six Indiana citie’ who get new federal wammond gets 5125,000, while the *oier five will have ; to be content wi lll ©75,000 each.

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——— II ■ Vote a straight democratic ticket and let the other fellow scratch. Do not be an easy victim to the one conn eilmanic candidate voting. It looks good but like the shell racket, it will beat you every time. Dec atur men of means can well -f---ford to help the infant cause of developing an oil field near this city. Should fortune smile on their efforts the benefits to the man of money, property or business will be marked. Get in the band wagon. From statements eminating from the editor of the Indianapolis Sentinel, we note that no rivalry exists between the Hons. Samuel E. Mores and John W. Kern as to who is who when it comes to presiding over the democratic state convention June 4. Governor Durbin’s whitewash brush is in good trim aud is working overtime on the dirty job at Michigan City. But what else could you expect of a governor who harbors fugitives from justice, visits Neeley at Havana and appoints no one to office unless he wears the Durbin tag. In order that no misunderstanding may arise we desire to state that all mortgage exemptions must be filed with the auditor before May 1. Mortgage indebtedness to the amount of 5700 will lie deducted from the assessment of any taxpayer who files with the county auditor a mortgage exemption. The Hon. John \V. Foster will be the speaker at the dedication of the Indiana solldiers and sailors monument which will occur on May 15. The speaker is an Indianian and his selection is much more in keeping with the temper of the people than it would have been, had Mr. Hay been chosen. The meat trust is getting in its work at a lively gait. An advance in prices from twenty to fifty per cent, are now in full force and effect, and now the rank and file of the g. o. p. who eat meat, will have the blessed fact again impressed upon them, that the foreigner pays the tariff tax and that concentration of capital likewise reduces prices to consumer. The demoenje congressional committee as a of consultations with leaders in different parts of the coun-try-has --’oreed on the following executive committee to be formerly announced at the next meeting unless some hitch occurs. Ben T. Cable, Illinois, chairman: Lewis Nixon, New I York, chairman of the finance committee: David Overmeyer, Kansas; Thomas Taggart. Indianapolis; Rich arc! Olnev. Massachusetts and Daniel Lamont. New York.

V FOR CONGRESS. Hon J. E. Truesdale of Alexandria Enters the Eighth District Contest. HIK * w w Mrs ’• - ■ -• (By courtesy Muncie Star.) The above is a very striking resemblance of the Hon. J. E. Truesdale, at present the city judge of Alexandria. Mr. Truesdale seeks the democratic nomination for congress in this district, and as will be seen possesses ail the elments of a formidable foe to the ambitions of Congressman Cromer. He is young, ambitious, bright of mind and as a member of congress will stand up with the best of them. Back of his candidacy is the support of the amalgamated association of iron workers, aud • "’Lose support hy will demand and the goods will be- delivered. It is no idle boast to say that the democrats have an opportunity to elect their candidate. Here is to Mr. Truesdale aud if he will consent, we will call him Congressman Truesdale after the fourth of November. The mid-summer meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association will take place May 22 and 23 at French Lick Springs, Tom Taggart’s new hotel. The program as arranged will afford the members a very gay time to say the least. Ex-Gover nor Stone of Missouri, will probably be one of the speakers.

Vote a straight democratic ticket on May 6, and thus not only show your loyalty to your party but insure for the city a safe and economical administration for the next two years. It is your duty to be loyal to' your partv, especially when that party loyalty means economy in public affairs. There is only one way of doing the thing and doing it right, and that is vote ’er straight. Comptroller of the Treasury Tracewell has completed his decision as to the amount of money to which Indiana is entitled on her war claim. The sum which he will certify to congress as the correct legal balance is $635,684.02. A bill or an amendment to a pending bill appropriating this amount will be introduced at once in the hope that the money may be appropriated at this session of congress. The death of Dr. T. DeWitt Talmadge will touch the heart and be mourned by every Christian nation. He was a great man and his masterly eloquence flowed from a soul that was pure as the life he lived, While much of his pulpit eloquence verged on the sensational, yet it is true that he believed what he professed, and generally said what he believed. It was his sincerity as much as it was his eloquence that has made his name a familiar lousehold word all over the civilized world. He was a great and a good man and perhaps did more for Christianity than any other man living. The second invoice of garden seeds have begun to arrive for which due credit should be given for the bold and fearless statesmanship of Congressman Cromer. The eighth district representative is fast learning the needs of his constituents, and ere long we expect him to outrival Major Steele, who is termed the “garden seed statesman from the eleventh.” If there is any merit in the garden seed racket, statesman Cromer is certainly, a four time winner. From the color of the smoke in ibis corner of the district we are lead to believe that not even garden seed will save the wily congressman from ignominous defeat. One lone solitary delegate is all that Major Steele the dean of the Indi ana delegation in congress, gets from the Blackford county contingent to the next eleventh district convention. The contest for delegates in that county ended Friday evening, and the anti-Steele forces there certainly deserve a good sized chromo for the good work done. Dr. Good the Hunt ington county candidate will practically get the Blackford county vote. The Gazette, one of the republican newspapers in Hartford Citv, makes the assertion that the Steele forces squandered SS,(XX) in a loosing fight. It now looks .is if an anti Steele combination will head the g. o. p. ticket in the eleventh.

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The Chinese exclusion bill passed the United States senate yesterday. Senators Fairbanks, Lodge, Quay, Carmack, Dillingham, Dolliver, Patterson and others made themselves solid with their constituents at home by pounding the air in favor of putting up the bars against Chinese emigration. The vote on the final passage of the bill was seventy-six to one. Dcring the time the republicans have been in charge of the state institutions several scandals have cropped out. The first was at the Jeffersonville reformatory, the second at the woman's prison. But both of these scandals were properly whitewashed by a committee from the last legislature. Now comes a scandal from the Michigan City prison wherein chare’es of inhuman and cruel treatment are made. And it looks like another job of whitewashing will be in order.— Muncie Herald. The g. o. p. state convention is booked for Indianapolis next Tuesday and Wednesday, and many of the faithful are already gathering there in order to get a front seat. As arranged in Washington more than two months ago, the junior Senator Beverage will preside, at which time he is expected to sound the keynote which will lie used later for a <‘ampaign slogan. Byway of suggestion we invite the attention of that august body to our governor, and who deserves especial platform mention as a whitewasher of no mean caliber. Words of good cheer should also be given Neeley an Indiana administrative representative at Havana, and a loving embrace for Taylor and Finley, the pair of Kentucky fugitives whose guilt cannot be questioned, should be thrown in. It will be a busy week.

Congressman Miers made a ringing speech on the Cuban reciprocity proposition, in which he tore off the mask and exposed the hypocrisy of the republican promoters of the 20 per cent, reduction bill. “It is not real reciprocity they propose,” he said, "but simply a little take off in favor of the beet sugar trust. They have no desire to help the Cubans, and it is in keeping with the policy of the republican party toward Cuba to refuse to start them in an independent career without first tying their hands by legislation affecting their labor and immigration. The bill, in my judgment, will not give the Cubans any relief, but is intended to help the bankers and monied people who have loaned money on their crops. Mr. Miers said he will vote for the bill, but would much prefer a 50 per cent, reduction or free trade.” The Indiana democratic and republican members will vote as a unit for this bill, which is a yery unusual circumstance.

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Coban reciprocity has been taking the time of the lower house of congress this week. The friends of the bdl are feeling jubilant over the prospects of its passage. The political complexion is divided there being thirty-three republicans who will vote against the bill and thirty-two democrats will vote for it. Its passage is assured according to this diegnoisis. The majority have spent much time in lining up their vote aud were it not , F, ®'nority assistance the bill would fail in passage, 1 he city election is due in less than three weeks and the time is at hand for the democratic organization to lie perfected. Every ward in the citv is to the good with a substantial democratic majority, and that is reason sufncient for the triumphant election of every democratic candidate. To insure this result let every democratic voter do his duty by the shortest route. Mar'; within the circle that surrounds the rooster, as that is the only safe guarantee that your ticket is marked correctly and your vote counted. To vote a ticket otherwise is bound to be more or less confusing Every candidate on the democratic ticket will make a good official and is deserving of your support, and the best way to do this and to also show your loyalty to your partv is to vote ’er straight. 1

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