Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 16 October 1902 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. »1,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postofllee at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, OCT. 1(5. COUNTY TICKET. For Congress, J. E. TRUESDALE. For Representative HENRY DIRKSON. For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN. For Treasurer J. H. VOGLF.WEDE. For Clerk DAVID GERBER. For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER. For Recorder CLINTON C. CLOUD. For Surveyor GEORGE E. McKEAN. For Coroner C. IJ. SCHENK. For Commissioner—First Dist. DAVID WERLING. For Commissioner—Second Dist. 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 HEIMBURGER. For Superintendent of Public Instruction. SAMUEL L. SCOTT. For State Statistician, MYRON D. KING. For State Geologist. EDWARD BARRETT. For Judge of Supreme Court, Fifth District— Timothy E. Howard. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern District—John R. East, W. H Bhackbn, John d. McGke. Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District — Richard H Hartford, James T. Saunders, Henry C. Zimmerman. Fy) NOT MOVE from your preJ “ / cinct after Saturday, October 4, as by . doing so you would loose your residence and right to vote November 4, Time was when old King Cole was a jolly old soul. Time is when old King Coal is a stingy old soul —a mercenary soul is he. Mark Hannb says “stand pat!” That is the word the coal barons sent down the line a few weeks ago. The chorus from all the trusts is “stand pat!” There are two republican newspapers in Muncie neither one of which is supporting Cromer. Still the Winchester Herald insists that Mr. Cromer is popular. No prosperity can be endured that does not spring up among the great industrial masses of the jieople. To add to the fortunes of the millionaires of the country cannot bring relief. When the republicans say that protection lowers the cost of living, ask them how it is that the cost of living vas less in 1897 under the Wilson bill than it was in 1892 under the McKinley bill or in 1902 under the Dingley bill. Tin: tide has turned and Cromer is I blandly staring into the unhappy i countenance of defeat. The three southern counties in the district have turned their forces to the interest of Mr. Truesdale, and the friends of Cromer have lost all hope. That moral degenerate the Berne ' Witness, a paper that refused to j print saloon advertisements in a fair ■ catalogue because of the immoral in- ; fluence it might create, is again ’ pleading for the election of George W. Cromer for congress. Shades of hades deliver us. The Witness is a great Christian journal when it does not pay better not to be.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXIIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 3 POLITICAL CALENDAR. d r 2 H d H October 11 Ceylon school house, Wabash township, one o’clock in £ afternoon, Hons. D. D. Coffee, S. A. M. and Jacob H H Butcher. £ October 17 Decatur court room, Judge R. K. Erwin. £ d October IN Hardscrabble schoolhouse, I nion township, Hons. J. t T. Merrvman and D. D. Coffee. H M (>ctol»er 21 Broadbeck schoolhouse. Union township, Hons. C. J. £ Lutz and Henry Lankenau. h d October 21 Fravel school house, Wabash township, Hons. D. E. h d Smith and J. C. Moran. H c H October 2.3 Kinney school house, Jefferson township, Hons. D. E. h Smith and J. C. Moran. ►“ d L m October .30 Aber school house, Union township, Hons. J. T. Mer- h ryman and D. D. Coffee. r d t m November I Luckey School house, Union township, Hons. R. K. h d Erwin and D. D. Coffee. ►; 3 H d h h These meetinrs will be held in the evening, beginning at 7:30. H TTTTTTTTTTT7TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT T TTTTT7

President Baer, of the anthracite | trust, says if it yields to the miners’ j demands, it will lose money. God help the trusts; the miner can beg! Postmaster Brittson himself says that the Union township rural route has no't been established. Don’t you think there is a little bunco business going on? The Philadelphia Press, which holds undisputed sway as the recognized organ of the Roosevelt administration, admits with refreshing candor, that “it is wrong that American goods should be exported and sold for less than at home.” At a widely advertised Cromer meeting held at Geneva Monday evening, but a beggarlv dozen was present. The Muncie Pink and Winchester Herald will please again announce the striking popularity of their candidate. The congressional fight still looks good. Candidate Truesdale is gaining ground in every precinct in every county in the district and his election is only a matter of majority. The Cromer machine in this city is badly crippled and are now contemplating saving their money. A tariff for revenue with incidental protection, a tariff on life's luxuries while leaving the necessities which the poor must have, a tariff that will not violate the good old doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, that is the sort of tariff revision the democrats stand for. Cromer is known in Washington as the Chinese congressman. This title comes from the fact that tho only public utterance Cromer ever made tn the halls of congress was upon the Chinese exclusion bill. Think of such a record. Four years in congress and the only thing he can talk ..bout is a Chinaman Isn’t he a beaut? Do you not think that Cromer is in sad need of votes, when he turns his machine into making rural routes that have never been established, and then tries to convince the farmers along these routes that he is the postal department of our government, aud can hand out rural routes at his will. A successful candidate for congress must have something more substantial than such cheap political steering. When you vote on election day do! not forget the macadam road ques I tion, and register your vote in favor of them. Better roads means much to the owner of farms, to the owners of city property, to the merchant, bankers and laborer. No one can afford to turn their back upon the improvement of our public roads. Their cost is comparatively nothing as compared to the benefit derived. Vote for the macadam roads. OrR own Judge R. K. Erwin will open the speech making campaign in this city tomorrow Friday evening. Judge Erwin is one of the best speak ers in the state and an old campaigner from away back. He is always entertaining and on tomorrow night will have something to say that will prove interesting to say the least. Crowd the court room and hear some thing of the issues of the campaign of 1902. There is no excuse for any democrat voting for Cromer. A man that j is being repudiated by two-thirds of bis own porty is certainly not a man to encourage the hopes of any democrat to vote for. The opportunity is excellent and the signs point to Mr. . Cromer’s defeat. Every democrat I should now help to make this defeat 'as decisive as possible. Do not be ] hodood by ant' gold brick schemes i that may come from tho wails of anguish in the Cromer can.p. The miners in Pennsylvania are not striking either for fun or for meanness. They are striking for more money, for more breathing time for ; a chance to keep acquainted with their ! families. Their demands aie entirely reasonable. The wage-earner is somej thiug more than the tool he uses and ' the mule he drives. He knows how to appteeiate the philosophy of Josh Billings when he said: “A man you ' cin hire to work on a farm for noth- ' iug and board himself, will just about I earn his wages.”

Cromer is sick. The prospects of | defeat have already settled badly on ; his stomach aud the brave lion has I meekly laid down, sore at heart,j weary and sick of the job. Congressman CftOMifri has written a letter to every soldier in tho county in ; which he says that he voted for the bill giving every soldier a pension of sl2 a month. If Cromer will produce the congressional record showing such a fact to exist, we will pay him well for his trouble. The fact is Cromer did nothing of the kind, this simply being another sample of the wholesale trickery in which he is now en | gaged. _________ The republicans of the eighth congressional district are actively working for the defeat of Congressman Cromer. The reasons assigned are that it will be good party policy, aud will rid the district of a machine that has all the elements of chicanery. The party can never unite under the leadership of Cromer and iu defeating him they strengthen their party and rid themselves of an ulcerating wart at the same time. Let no man be elected to congress from Indiana who is unwilling to pledge himself to vote iu favor of placing hard coal as well as soft coal on the free list. Since the bituminous mine operators have shown themselves as greedy and grasping as the hard coal operators, there is no longer a reasonable excuse for protecting them by the tariff. Let coal of every description be placed on the free list. —South Bend Times. The congressional fight still looks good. Cromer and his machine forces are on the defensive and are loosing ground every day. The tide has turned against Cromer and his defeat is certain. It is now the duty of every democrat to work earnestly for the success of Mr. Truesdale. Get every democrat to the polls on election day. Success depends upon a full democratic vote and to this end let every democrat bend his energy.

Let no democrat be led astray. Cromer will be defeated on election day, and the promises he makes now are but clanking outbursts eminating from the depths of desperation. He is a tricky politician and not a statesman. He has fooled some mighty smart people before and will fool you if lie can. What Cromer and his postoffice machine here may say at this time can sa ely be taken with several grains of salt. The democratic meetings held throughout the county during the past week were enthusiastic gatherings and showed the democrats to be in fine fettle and ready now for election day. Encouraging reports come from every precinct, and the thing looks good. The only proposition the democrats have to face, is to get their vote out on election day. Organization and systematic work will do this. It was stated the other day that President Roosevelt was short of fuel. The president, like the average citizen, is very anxious for the strike to end, and it is said that he will use “moral suasion.” When the rights of humanity are trampled upon, the only moral suasion that will promise to do any good is the common law. If that fail, revolution is justifiable. Moral suasion indeed! Tell the beatitudes of Mount Olive to a band of robbers and just see how gleefully they will give away their plunder! The only straw left for the Cromer machine to stand on is the proposed rural mail delivery scheme. They are long on promises, even promised two fellows from Chattanooga, Ohio, free delivery, provided they use their infitsence on this side the line for Cromer. They promised four routes to Union township, every one of which will conflict with the other. Cromer himself promised the postoffice here to three different applicants and gave it to the present incumbent. Cromer promises were never made to keep, especially his before-election-promises. Opening the Ohio campaign Senator Hanna and Senator Foraker declared against tariff revision. “Let the trusts alone," said Senator Foraker. “Stand pat” said Senator Hanna. This is the answer of the Ohio republican leaders to the president. They are with him in opposing tariff revision but against him in his proposition to curb the trusts through legislation. It does not look as though the president would receive that hearty support from his party which is so essential to the accomplishment of success in important legislation. As the democratic leaders cannot be expected to uphold the hands of a political opponent, it looks as though there is little hope for any relief from the evils of monopolies. Tie Democrat will give a very handsome reward for a photograph of the order now supposed to be held by Postmaster Brittson for the establish ment of free rural routes in Union township. The fact of the matter is if the people along this proposed route will have to get something more substantial than promises from Postmaster Brittson and Congressman Cromer's man Friday who is said to hail from Muncie, and who sells the Indianapolis Journal, and throws in a mail box provided the route is established. While this innocent trans action is taking place votes for Cromer are solicited upon the pretense that Crotnei is the whole postal department, and carries rural mail routes around in his vest pocket. The scheme is a gold brick bunco game ■ and is so rank it smells bad.

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The Cromer meeting at the court room last evening was a pretty slim affair, there being present none of the ' familiar old-time republican faces to cheer a speaker and create that neces-1 sary enthusiasm so essential to success. Mr. Cromer's reception in this county is of that cold blanket sort, that it is no wonder he feels bad. As an oratorical effort the speech was a failure, it resolving itself into nothing but a plea to every republican to vote the republican ticket in order! that Cromer may be returned to congress. His pleadings failed to arouse any sympathy and he is just as far from being elected as ever. Candidate Truerdale is making a winning race. Fresh news from Delaware, Madison and Randolph counties tell of the utter dilapidation of the Cromer forces there, and in their hopelessness they have turned to the northern part of the district in the hope of winning back part of their loss in the counties mentioned. For the benefit of our southern neighbors we will say that the northern brethren are Johnny wise on this subject. They know a thing or two about the congressional situation and will support Truesdale without a disentiug voice. Postmaster Brittson has owned the corn and acknowledges that the UNION TOWNSHIP R U R A I ROUTE HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED. This being true, the Cromer push who have traversed this proposed route and told every patron on the road that the route had been established have deliberately im posed upon the confidence of the people there, in away that deserves rebuke. The whole business has been a scheme to get voV s for Cromer. They thought how easy it would be to establish a route themselves and then to convince the farmers, they would sell them a mail box, the same to be delivered and paid for when mail began to circulate on the route. The scheme looked good on its face, but now comes thisacknowledgement from one of the chief priests, and the whole plot is shorn of its ornaments. The Democrat would like to see the ]>eople living along this route be given free rural route mail deliverv, but we do not propose to see them’ imposed upon by a lot of schemers who care for nothing but votes for Cromer. The democrats and republicans uh well, who live along the proposed route and who have lieen worked up over the probability of receiving mail at their front door, will please remember that POSTMASTER BRITTSON ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE UNION TOWNSHIP RURAL 1 ROUTE HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISH ED. The Democrat will g?adly substantiate this fact to any one at any time.

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