Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLINQHAM. Publisher. 11,00 PEE YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 4. COUNTY TICKET For Congress. J. E. TRUESDALE. 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. H. SCHENK. For Commissioner—First Dist. DAVID WERLING. For Commissioner—Second Diet. WILLIAM MILLER. STATE TICKET. For Secretary of State. ALBERT SCHOONOVER. For Attorney-General, W. E. STILLWELL. For State Auditor, JAMES R. RIGGS, For State Treasurer, JEROME HERFF. For Clerk of the Supreme Court, ADAM IIEIMBL'RGER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, SAMUEL L SCOTT. For State Statistician, MYRON D KING. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT. Forjudge of Supreme Court, Fifth District— Timothy E. Howard. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern District—John r East, W. H Bracken. John D. McGee. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District — Richard H Haiteord. James T. Saunders. Henry C. Zimmerman. It is observed that the president has appointed Dr. Lung as his special physician. The president is evidently intending making prolonged speeches and may need assistance. There is a neat little split in the rock-ribbed republican ranks in old Vermont. The situation is deemed so serious as to warrant the sending : of a great republican national spellbinder to help out the “regular" republican candidate. State Chairman O’Brien is swinging around the circle, looking into the county organizations being effected j by the democrats. He invaded this ■ city yesterday and laid down some! wholesome advice for the precinct committee to follow in the campaign I at hand. The state chairman is the best that ever happened. He is politically shrewd and before the shouting is over will give the g. o. p opposition something to keep them guessing. The unterrified everywhere are showing him unalloyed support.

= FULLENKAMP’S = Fall Goods ARE NOW IN—REMEMBER WE KEEP A FULL LINE OF CLOTHING M. Fullenkamp, GASS & MEYERS, Managers

The president is fast learning the art of diplomatic speech in which his predecessor was a past master. "Teddy” is not the “bull in the china shop” that his critics expected him to be as president of the United Stales. Judge Truesdale has broken the ice and it is now up to Congressman Cromer to show his smiling face in Adams countv. There are a few explanations demanded by those who received a gold brick in the wav of a postoffice promise Brace up George and come along. Mayor Coffee’s inaugural address to the council Tuesday evening, was quite the feature of the session. He said some very good things and said them well, and as the head of our city government he can be depended upon to give us an administration to conform therewith. —. • The beef trust announces that the distributing company about to be organized will save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by abolishing branch houses. This might be of some interest to the people if they were given anv reasonable assurance that they would receive any share of the benefit. The Eagle Club, anti-Cromer, had another meeting Tuesday evening at which time plans were made for an anti-Cromer campaign in this county. There is no mistaking the fact that they have genuine red blood in their eye, and will carry the fight to the open. The Cromer machines are pleading for a suspension of hostilities, but to no avail. The republican party has been compelled, by irresistable pressure of 1 public opinion, to accept the trust issue. but every fair minded and unprejudiced man knows that this issue has been accepted by the party managers with a large mental reservation, merely as a measure of expediency. The masses every where demand its solution. The classes, of course, will defend their special privileges to the last ditch. The Witness is indebted to Congressman George \V. Cromer for a new 74 foot U. S. map sent from Washington. It is the finest and most valuable map now to be found in the town of Berne. We are proud of it and extend many thanks to Mr. Cromer.— Berne Witness. The Eagle Anti-Cromer Club would like a map George. Please forward by first mail. The tariff controversy goes on in republican ranks. Chairman Cannon of the house appropriations committee. a man who can largely influence legislation, stated the other day that "The tariff will be revised some time, but not at the next session of congress or by the succeeding congress unless there is a check in the present prosperity.” Some of our republican statesmen should make their stories coincide more nearly if they are to have harmony in the party. The democratic party may not be entirely harmonious as the republicans charge it is not, but republicans can find enough lack of harmony in their own camp to occupy all their attention without spending time gunning around outside.

INAUGURAL ADDRESS. "layor Coffee Addresses the Council I pon His Induction into Office Gentlemen of the city council and officers of this municipality: It gives me pleasure to meet you I here at the beginning of my mayorJ ality of the city of Decatur, and I feel that our duty involves on us thegreati est consideration of the city’s interests. When I was elected to this po- : sition I felt as though I had contract- ' ed with the majority of the citizens of ' Decatur to represent their beat inter ests at all times, and to receive in remuneration the mayor’s salary , and 1 nothing more. When I solicited this I position and entered into this contract. I did so with the intentioh of doing riv whole duty by representing the ’>est interests of the greatest number jf taxpayers at all times, and if, by so doing, the selfish interests of some individuals are not wholly satisfied, remember, I would rather have a clear conscience in having done my duty than to have purchased the friendship of any person at the city’s expense, detrimental to my oath, bound by obligation, or to the disadvantage of the humblest taxpayer within the limits of the city of Deca tur. We were not elected for the purpose of satisfving our selfish interests, but for tne advancement of the greatest interests of all partiescon cerned, who, by taxation, are required to liquidate the indebtedness of the citv of Decatur, which at present is sufficiently large, according to the treasurer’s report. Economy should ' be our precept and should be put in 1 practice everywhere, without destroying progress or delaying necessary improvements. Every investment made for the city should be made with as much precaution in getting I value received for the city’s money as if we ourselves were to assume the obligation of paying the same, and more so, for if we were to invest our own money recklessly it would be no affair of the citizens but if we were to invest the city’s money without getting value received it would be everyone’s business who, by taxation, was to help pay the same. Likewise in making appointments, the city’s interests should be first considered, ahead of personal friendship, unless both will combine. It has been frequently said that no man can fill a city office without making enemies. It has also been truthfully said, he that has no enemies has no good friends. But I look at city matters as a good surgeon does bis patient, believe in performing the operation successfully and saving life, knowing that the pain will subside as the patient convalesces. So let us work in unity for the accomplishment of all the good possible in the next two years, exercising our best judg ment in matters of economy and honestly and accurately iking known the standing of the city annually for the information of the taxpayers, and let matter pertaining to the city’s interests be publicly known and not privately conducted, and let each one of us assume our part of the responsibility. and share our part of the blame, if any blame exists, and instead of blaming each other for doing wrong. Let us all do the right thing, at the right time, and in the right way. so that after our two years of hard work have been honestiy and faithfully carried out, to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, the tax pavers and citizens of Decatur can truthfully say, well dona thou kind and faithful ser vants. And by exercising fairness, justice and honesty, I have no doubt but what all matters can be satisfactorily conducted without marring the neighborly friendship that now exists among us; for where there is unity there is strength, and strength of action is necessary if we expect to remove the burden of debt very speed,iiy. I will conclude by offering my earnest co-operation in all matters of importance, assuring you that though my judgment may be criticised on municipal matters, my honesty of purpose shall be kept above reproach. Thanking you all for favors received, and the voters iu general for having the confidence in me to elect me mayor, an honor I appreciate and a confidence I shall never betray.

Judge Truesdale spent a few hours with us yesterday and went away happy with the thought that Adams county has no political lines and are for him unanimous. The many voters paid him every cordiality. He is a fine looking and promising congressman, and if he saws plenty of wood and keeps up the good work already done, he will come under the wire a four time winner. It is hardly necessary to here state that A'dams county will do a handsome thing by him. Whatever is thought of the “slopping over” of the republicans on the trust question, it must lie con rnded that the president in his speeches in New England is taking very sensible and conservative ground. In the first place he discusses the subject freely in that great industrial and manufacturing community. He frankly announces that he has no cure-all for the trust trouble and he doubts if anybody can produce an effective and comprehensive remedy. State Chairman O’Brien, District Chairman J. A. M. Adair, Judge Truesdale, candidate for congress in this district, Albert Scoonover, eandi date for secretary of state, and R. H. Hartford, candidate for appellate judge, all democrats were here yesterday and spent an hour or two in session with the county central com mittee. Their reports from the state at large are encouraging in the extreme. It now’ tiehooves the democrats everywhere to buckle on the armor and uo their duty and that well.

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The republican speakers are insisting that the tariff does not foster trusts and the evils that grow out of them. If one will pause to take a careful look at the theory of protection as held by the republicans themselves, and then apply it to the conditions that exist today, he will find that be yond all question of doubt that the tariff is a shelter of monopoly, and that it does hold up the consumer while the trust which is t he beneficiary of the schedule fixes an arbitrary and exorbitant price. It has been known that General Miles has desired to go to the Philippines on a tour of inspection of the army. In fact he made direct application for such an assignment. Now, just about the time General Miles is most in demand for speeches and orations at the Grand Army encampment at Washington, which is to be one of the biggest things the country has ever seen, and which would bring General Miles before the public in great prominence, his application to go to the Philippines, after a slumbering for many months is granted by the war department and he is instructed to sail at a date which will make him just comfortably miss the G. A. R. celebrations. The wise ones are looking especially wise at this apparent move to keep General Miles as far in the background as possible while at the same time apparently according him good treatment and granting his official wishes. The spirit that has created, and the methods that are employed to keep the trusts in control of the machinery of the republican party are as soulless and unscrupulous as ever animated the rnoet despotic form of government the world has known. It is the same thing manifesting in a more civilized age and on a different plane; but, still the same spirit that has in all governments resulted in the overthrow of all nations and civilizations. They pursue their obiect of greed and avarice under various disguises with infinite art and endless activity. They have moved under the cloak of religion and called themselves holy. They have clamored for so-called social order, and leagued many of the quiet and peaceful under their lianner. They have strenuously defended whatever existed, in the form of special privileges, and arrogated to themselves the epithet of conservative; while aristocratic traitor and mushroom rich civilians have sheltered themselves beneath their legis. They have called self-defense an insult and punished it by the confiscation of many people's freedom. Has any kingly crest or coat of arms sullied its professions with deeds more terrible than these of the trusts t

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