Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BYBBY THURSDAY HOBSISG BY LEW a. ELLLNGHAM. Publisher. n,di PER YEAR IX ADVANCE. Entered at the postofiee at Decatar. lodiana as second-ciass mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. =.. — ===== j THURSDAY. OCT. 2. county TICKET For Congress. J E TRUESDALE. For Representative HENRY DIRKBON For Prosecutor JOHN C. MOR AX. For Treasurer J. H VOGLEWEDE. For Clerk DAVID GERBER. F r Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER. For Recorder CLINTOX C. CLOUD F rSurveyor GEORGE E. McKEAX. For Coroner C. H. SCHENK. For Commissioner—First Dis*. DAVID WELLING. For Commissioner—Second Dist. WILLIAM MILLER. STATE TICKET. For Secretary of State. ALBERT re HOONOVER. For Attorney-Gen erat W. E. STILLWELL For State Audit, r. JAMES R RIGGS. For State Treasurer, JERuME HERFF ForCierk of the supreme Court. ADAM HEIMBURGEE. For Superintendent cf Pa c Instruction. SAMUEL L -OTT. For State Statistician. MYRON D. KING. F: r State Geel ogre*. EDWARD BARRETT. ' For Judge r.f Supreme Court. Fifth District— Timothy E Howaes. Judges of the Appellate Court fir the Southern Dwtriet—JoHS H East, w h Bracked, Jobs D. McGee Judges of the Appellate Coart for the Northern District — Richard H Hartford. James T Sacxpers. Hex by c Zimmzbmax. 1~V) NOT MOVE from your pre*"'cin«t after Saturday. October 4, as by doing so you would loose your residence and right to rote November 4. The Eagle Club is already doins valiant service in the field of polities. Their organization is receiving new recruits every dav and they labor with an earnestness that can bring nothing short cf success. Keep your eye on the Eagle Club. M hv not have a joint discussion on the issues of the campaign between Judge Truesdale and Congressman Cromer. The judge is an able and logical speaker and no doubt would i quickly put Cromer on the run. Let there be a joint discussion. A lot of! people in the district would like to hear the two gentlemen in such a dis cussicn.—Muncie Herald. Chairman Goodrich of the republican state committe is billed for a conference here this week, in which the situation will be canvassed in behalf of Cromer. In the interest of the state ticket in which Mr. Goodrich is vitally interested we advise the state chairman to be duly cautious. The Eagle Club will support the' re publican tickets entire with the exception of Cromer. But thev will not | be bulldozed and if the state chair-. man is wise he will not seek to ruffle their good intentions already formed. At a meeting of the Eagle Club held Monday evening Barner Kalrer was elected Supreme and’ Exalted Chief of Decatur branch. This order is. limited to the eighth congressional district and its object is to defeat the congressional aspirations of one Gorge H. Cromer. The cause is a worthy one and in many parts of the district this order outnumbers those of the Cromer machine. It is an honor for any republican to affiliate with this branch of their party, as thev seek clean politics and better states men.

‘--LXXXX.XXXXX XXXXXXXX4XX XIXIIIII 111111X1 POLITICAL CALENDAR. — October 7—Monmouth. Hons. John C. Moran and D. D. Coffee. £ October * Election School House. Preble township, one mile • °f Preble. Judge R. K. Erwin and Hon. £ Henry Lankanau. ►- October B—Linn Grove. Hons. James T. Merryman and John U - v. Moran. r* October Pleasant Mills, Hons. John C. Jbran and D. B. Erwin. H October 10 Election School House, Kirkland township, two miles* t Tt th w f if e r rsO0 ’ Dand E Smith and •“ John n . McKean. October 10 School house at Steele, Blue Creek township, Hoss. £ James T. Merryman and D. D. Coffee. »- October 11 Monroe, Hons. Clark J. Lutz and D. B. Erwin. £ October H Election School House. French township, Hous. £ David E. Smith and E. Burt Lenhart. October 11 Geneva, Hone. Clark J. Lutz and W. L. Thornhill. ►' October 15 Buckmaster School House. Jefferson township, Judge £ R. h. Erwin and Hon. John W McKean. £ These meetings will be held in the evening, beginning at 7:30. . —a-

Box. Bird S. Coles has been nom- i inated by the New York democrats for governor, at a convention too, that was harmonious to the end. The party there are once more united, and the democrats of the country rejoice. The talk of boodle in this campaign | does not need to alarm any one. As j usual the democrats will have none and what will come to the Cromer machine in this county will never be used to any alarming extent. The . Eagle Club have all the money they need for legitimate uses and can get more anv time thev whistle. _L_—— Cromer’s speeches in congress are I among the most commonplace ever delivered in that bodv. being so devoid of animation as to evacuate the chairs in his immediate presence and awaken sympathy among his republican friends. His speech on the Chinese exclusion bill was mainly devoted to a , routine review of the history of our treaties with China. The rest of the speech was made up of the usual stock arguments. The only argument worth mentioning was one in which he favored the amendment prohibiting the . employment of Chinese sailers on our ■ vessels. Any republican can rote against George \V. Cromer for congress, without violating any confidence of their partr. In fact no better services could be dpne the republican party in this district than by bringing about his defeat, and thus remove from active operation a machine that will manipulate nominations as long as their power lasts. A historical survey of the last four years is sufficient' to convince the most skeptical that party unity can never prevail underl the present leadership. That being true it would be good politics to lay him up to dry. That highly moral and boastful truthful paper, the Berne Witness comes to the front with a few choice bits of praise for George W. Cromer. The Witness professes such a highclass of morality that all applications for liquor licenses are excluded from its columns, yet it sees tn George W. Cromer all the marks of statesmanship and moral worth. If the Witness editor were half as honest with his politics as he professes to be in shaping the destines in other walks of life, his tale now would be different. Hypocrisy is not a desirable quality any place you find it. The voters of the eighth congressional district have a nominee in the person of James E. Truesdale who is in every way worthy of their support because he would-make an ideal con greesman. He is a man of demonstrated administrative ability, is personally equipped for the duties which appertain to the congressman, and would make a record in that body that would reflect credit upon the district and the state. His life is an open book, and all who knew him will admit that he possesses all the traits which would respond to a congressional environment and enable him to make a creditable record in that body. I The campaign has advanced far enough when you mar expect to hear much about rural mail service and the establishment of routes every which war. You have heard it before. It is the only slogan left for the Cromer machine to stand on. and they can be relied upon to work it to per section. It is a rank bumbug. No i routes will be established unless good macadam roads abound the ?ntire length of the route. A postoffice inspector was h?re two weeks ago and put a quietus on the rural route bus- ! mess unless the roads are macadam. I But this fact will not stand in the way jof those looking for rotes for Cromer. I Their stock in trade for the last four years has been promises, and as a result there are many evidences of misplaced confidence abroad in theeighth congressional district and not a few in Adams county. And another fact is that the rural route service is not an asset of your congressman. It is now managed and controlled by the post- : office department, and if you wish a route established the application goes to this department. Many congressmen Cromer included—have been given considerable cheap newspaper advertising about their especial fitness to maoage this department of the government. But-it Is the cheapest kind of statesmanship and the farmer who bites will be wiser as time goes : bv.

CROMER A Man With a Record For Absence From Washington and Presence In His District Looking After His Own Fences. Congressman George W. Cromer of the Eighth district, compose! f #me of the most enterprising ciu.es in the state and having a constituency largely made up of the laboring classes, has done less in congress than almost any other man in that body, and what he has done has been conspicuous for want both of forensic ability and evidence of those talents that are recognized at the nation s capital and reflect credit upon ones constituency. At home Mr. Cromer is recognized as a man of considerable energy when it comes to setting up the pins for a renomination or for forwarding his own interests in any direction that he may desire, tut this energy seems to be lost when he reaches the capital and stands in the presence of men of ability. Some men feel awed in the presen - of their intellectual superiors and confess by their actions that they are in an environment which saps the foundations of their energy by reason of this fact; and it is more than possible that the Eighth district is unknown in congress because its representative is .n---scious that his talents are of a kind that cannot be exercised among men pf real ability and learning This, no doubL accounts for the meager record which Mr. Cromer has made for he has taken absolutely no part in the debates in congress, has appeared to be at a loss both for words and ideas when debates were in progress, and his services have been limited practically to two speeches on the flocr and ‘ leaves to print" two speeches in the Congressional Record which were not delivered on the floor. One of the speeches delivered was on the Chinese exclusion bill and an ’her on the rural free delivery system, and the two "leaves to print” were speeches also on the rural free delivery. Mr. Cromer was a member of two committees in the Fifty-sixth congress and of three in the Fifty-seventh, but he never made bn: one report from any committee, and his record has been practically uneventful. Those who know Mr. Cromer as a “hustler" when a political game is to be played will find a strange contrast between his do-nothing record in coogress and his e atesen ess and energy at home, and may be surprised that he should fail so utterly in egress. But w run more in the direction at manipulating conventions and providing for his henchmen than in getting down to the serious business of a congressman among men of real ability for legislation and in an atmosphere where a man s talents must be conspicuous if they are to be made valuable to his constituency Certain it is that Mr. Cromer has done nothing in congress that deflects credit upon his constituency. and if he were to remain there for ten years there is no probability that he would ever reach a place cf conspicuous influence. It is undeniable that some men are not shaped for contact with men who overshadow them in ability, and Mr. Cromer seems to belong to this class. It is also true that such men do not reflect credit upon their districts, for they feel their impotence in debate, their want of ability to grasp important situations, and their days in congress are one monotone us record of voting with their party on all questions regardless of what the questions may be. The contrast between Mr. Cromer's success in securing party nominations and his failure to make anything like a creditable record In congress does not constitute a political anomaly by any means, for his very activity and Influence at home and among his friends require a different order of talents and these he seems to possess in a marked degree. Among his own people he is bold and agger-ive. bandies men by the force of a dominant will, and does not hesitate to invoke any means to gain the end in view; but he is among men in congress whom he cannot command, and he there sinks to the level of a very inferior mind and is accorded the place that be is thus compelled to take. The Portland convention furnished a very significant insight into his character, for among the ‘rixHers' whom he took over on a special train from Muncie was a large body of policemen. wearing uniforms and badges, and so distributed about the conren tion hall that their presence indicated that the purpose was to overawe the convention.

The slurs in that body against George F. McCulloch. clearly charging that he had seen" certain delegates tn Jay and Weils county, who refused to vote for Cromer, clearly indicated the spirit with which Cromer had Imbued his following, for they went to the convention det- rmined to override the minority and, feeling that the district was Republican and admitting no possibility of change or reaction of sentiment, they did not hesitate to insult the delegates and charge a member of their party, who had made a fight against Cromer in Delaware conn ty. with attempts to bribe delegates These scenes are still fresh in the minds of the people who attended the Portland convention and they are referred to here only to show that Cromer is aggressive at home where he ought to be conservative and Impotent in Washington, where real ability cquuta. * ■* «• M MW n . «-M>-

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THE RETIREMENT OF HENUERSON. The declination of the Hon. David B. Henderson to run for congress in j his cld district in lowa, is extremely' significant. There was evidently a multipl. itv of reasons that he could nave assigned for this action, but so ’ far as the public knows he gives only one. namely. the growing tan? revision sentiment in his district. In the first place Mr. Henderson was out ’ of tune and harmony with repub- 1 licans of his state, as well as many of; them in the entire northwest, on the ■ question of tan? revision. He has unfortunately contended that the trusts were not fostered by the tariff, while every thinking man in the United States is convinced of the fact that without the tariff, trusts of an abnormal character would not be able to prey on the resources and productive energy of the American people. When the same American trusts are able to compete in the markets of the world and undersell all other producers in other countries on the same article that they manufacture in the United States, ft is manifest that ther seer no foreign competition. These same corporations. not only control the American market, but dominate the commerce of the world. They do not bring one penny of revenue into our national treasury, but by the proteetiotf afforded them under the schedules of the present Dingley tariff law, they are enabled to plunder cur people at home and make millions by the sale of their product abroad. Mr. Henderson, in stating his reasons for withdrawal assumes that the demo crats want to destroy these industries rather than* to" curtail their rapacity. The Speakers praise being ’ wrong as to the former, his conclusions, of necessity, are erroneous as to the latter The democrats do want effective legislation that will take away from the trusts the privileges they now enjor that enables them to accumulate unearned millions at the expense of the American producer and wage earner. The democrats are pledged to control the trusts by taking away from them .he protection of the Dingh y tariff law. The democrats want a tariff for revenue and not a tariff for trusts. The democrats and the republicans and the trusts know that the only way to handle these obnoxious combinations ofcrim inel cajatalists is through the tariff. Il is for these reasons that Speaker Henderson retires, because he knows the trusts and republican party can 1 not exist if the one is divorced" fiotn the other. There is but 'one conclusion that the America! people will come to concerning the action of Speaker Henderson. and that is that be was facing defeat because be re fused to carry out the expressed wishes of his constituents. It is highly probable that Mr Henderson'

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would have been defeated anvway. The republican party,divided as it is, refuses to revise tie Dingley tariff and place on the free list monopolies selling cheaper abroad than at home, owing to this their at the polls this November is as certain as two and two makes four. Speaker Henderson has a happy faculty of knowing when to retire in saietv from the active field of politics. The congressional fight in this district is not one in which the democratic and republican parties are lined up against each other. Instead it is a C ronu-r and anti ('romer encounter. It is the intention of the democrats to get busy with their own organizeI tion, complete it with everv degree of thoroughness and have every democrat vote on election day. By doing ( this we assure those republicans who are in earnest about ridding their party the Cromer machine, that that they hav<rremedy and can do their own party a service by supporting the democratic nominee. It is now the duty of every democrat to look after the organization in his precinct. Let it not tie said after election day that i Cromer’s election was due to democratic inactivity. Get busy.

Deliberate misstatements of disputable facts is neverpolitie. while it may be excusable for a partv organ to ignore or dodge such facts, it never pays to misrepresent them To state that which is the reverse of true as to the proceedings of a congress of s® recent a date as the fifty-sixth is 1 display something more repreLeosio than unwisdom. Nothing in the proceedings of that congress, with tn single exception of its badly botcu gold standard act, attracted wider a tention or is more distinctly remembered than the farcical treatnieu accorded the trust question. It as the Post has heretofore expla |U > and as every live newspaper 10 United States understands, a " _ comedy in two acts under the nianag ment of the house judiciary conm tee. Washington t’ot. liep.l Tte democrats open in this county at Monmouth nw Tuesday evening. The president and his ‘’ abl . ne i t been in session trying to revol ' scheme to end the coal strike, yet have no definite plans 11 that will bring the desired 0111 |t situation is unchanged from . has been for several weeks P®?' j it looks as though the eml «» >