Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1902 — Page 4

Z DEMOCRAT KVIHY THURSDAY MORNING BY’ LBW Q. ELLINGHAM. Publisher. .1 11.00 PER YEAR TN ADVANCE. tered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, NOV. 6. HOW IT HAPPENED. The election is over. We are lickbed to a fare you well. Defeat in all its glaring magnitude stares us in the face and sweetly smiles while we are taking cool comfort from the election returns, which piles up higher the majorities for the eagle as revised returns come in. The latest cheers us in the knowledge that dear old Texas is still ours by right of majority vote. By the decree sent forth the earth is still retained by the custodian of i prosperity and the party whose t statesmanship was measured by the crude standard of “stand pat.” En ' dorsement in unmeasured terms is given the trusts whose magnitude of capital simply dazes the seven senses of mankind. They are all right and —back of them stands the national treasury ready to help them captalize and float the markets with watered stock and whenau impending crash appears Mr. Shaw opens the vaults and everything is lovely.

Indiana which is always in doubt emphasizes that doubt by giving the republican state ticket 25,000 plurality. The Democrats elect four representatives in congress thus retaining and holding what they already had. New York and the east come nearer getting us back to those good old democratic victories then did any section of the country, but they lost by a Blonder majority of a few thousand. In Adams county we tip our hat to those new flash lights in local political management, Chairman Walters, Postmaster Brittson, John M. Frysinger, John E. Kern and J. E, Beeler. They stepped into the local arena, snatched the fire works from the musty shelf and against lowrumblings and great odds made a fight that won plaudits from their admirers. They won it by getting the republican vote to the polls, building paper rural routes, paying court to the saloons and whiskey element and doing all the business they could upon the unlimited campaign funds furnished them. To aid them was a few willing democrats and a large number of others who could not be prevailed upon to manifest even a smattering of interest in the success of their party. But it is all over. At a late hour Tuesday night, amid a smattering of disconcerted returns, the demo cratic campaign for 1901 was begun. The fight ends pot until victory is perched high and dry upon .he democratic banner, and to this end our energy this early is consecrated. To this cause and at this time let every democrat in] \d ims county pledge his unfaltering devotion and begin the struggle that is to bring victory to the party as well as peace, plenty prosperity and happiness to the greatest country on the face of the earth. It is pleasing news to announce the election of the Hon. J. A. M. Adair to a seat in the Indiana general assembly. He was one of three democi >ts to win out in Jay county and his legiou of friends here join the Democrat in congratulating him. Mr. Adair has many qualities worthy of praise. By a tabulated vote on first page it will be seen that Adams county is on deck with but a slightly reduced majority for all candidates on the county ticket. The candidates are Henry Dirkson representative, John C. Moran prosecuting attorney, David Gerber clerk of the circuit court, J. H. Voglewede treasurer, C. C. Cloud recorder, Albert Butler sheriff, George E. McKean surveyor, Dr. Schenk coroner, David Werling and Wm. Miller commissioners. The ticket elected iscomposed of men of affairs and will make admirable county officials. The first two succeed hemselves, the clerk will go into office one year from Jan. 1 next, the treasurer succeeds himself at the same time, «nd the sheriff next t «'n>i«rv. y

THE EIGHTH DISTRICT. Congressman Cromer (liven an Unp<ecedented Vote The Cromer vote in the eighth congressional district was somewhat of a surprise even to the close friends cf the congressman. He increased his vote over any previous record while his majority goes skyward by the large stay-at-home vote that was so prevalent among the democrats. His estimated vote is: Truesdale. Cromer Adams 1271 Delaware 3500 Jay 100 Madison .»..., 1100 Randolph .... 2000 Wells 800 2074 6700 Cromer’s plurality 4623 It was all a crude joke about defeating him. It is estimated that 3800 democrats in the district failed to vote, while many of those that did vote failed in finding a democratic candidate for congress on their ballot. It was a complete surprise both to the supporters of Cromer as well as his opposition. Three weeks ago Mr. Cromer saw defeat staring him blandly in the face, and the democrats saw it too and took ou a fresh supply of hope and courage. The unprecedented majority is a double-jointed political corker, about which explanations are out of order. 35,000 REPUBLICANS INDIANA AGAIN GIVES EVIDENCE OF BEING DOUBTFUL. CONGRESSMAN First —Hemenway, Rep. Second Miers, Dem. Third Zenor, Dem. Fourth Griffith, Dem. Fifth Holliday. Ren. Sixth Watson, Rep. Seventh Overstreet. Rep. Eighth Cromer. Rep. Ninth—Charles B. Landis, Rep. Tenth Crumpacker, Rep. Eleventh Frederick K. Landis, Rep. Twelfth Robinson, Dem. Thirteenth Brick, Rep.

The election of the Entire republican state ticket by a plurality ranging from 20,000 10*25,000, bothjbranches of the Legislature end nine congressmen, is claimed by Chairman Goodrich, of the Republican State committee. Secretary Reiley, of the democratic State committee, has conceded the election of the republican State ticket by about 25,000, but he will not give out figures on the legislative and congressional candidates until the returns are more complete. Chairman Goodrich’s estimate is based on the returns of ”00 precincts outside of Marion county, showing an average gain of over four votes to the precinct over 1900. If this ratio is maintained, it was announced that the entire State ticket has been carried by at least 30,000 with a possibility of 10,000 more. The republican victory is attributed by Goodrich, Senators Fairbanks, Beveridge and other leaders to a desire of the people generally for a continuance of the present conditions. The fact that there was a large stay-at-home vote among the democrats is regarded by Goodrich as an indication that many democrats are satisfied, and rather than vote against their own party and the existing conditions, that they refused to go to the polls. Secretary Reiley said he could not explain the cause of the democratic defeat until he has had opportunity to analyze the returns.

The state of New York is getting its bearings again and gives evidence in the course of time of turning out a democratic majority. At the election Tuesday the republican candidate for governor won bv the narrow margin of 5000 to 8000. ' The boom of Senator Fairbanks for president is now being groomed by many of his Indiana friends. He is pointed out as the logical candidate, due to the success of the republicans in the Indiana elections, and there are many here who hope the political cards will so turn. Congressman Robinson for the fourth time is elected to congress from the twelfth district, thus breaking all records. Heretofore two terms was the limit, but Mr. Robinson has shown his qualities as a congressman and a politician by electing himself for the fourth time. From the tune sung in the twelfth district we dare say that any other nominee on the democratic ticket would have been defeated. Estimated pluralities by counties received at state headquarters indicate the election of the republican state ticket by 26,000. The congressional pluralities estimated are: Hemenway republican, 1,350; Micro, democrat, 650; Zenor, democrat, 3,300; Griffith democrat 2,450; Holiday, republican 2,950 Watson, republican, 3,500, Cro mer republican, 4,200; Landis, republican, 3,100; Crumpacker, republican 5,100; Fred Landis, republican, 5,200 Robinson democrat, 700; Brick, rep üblican, 1,800. The republicans in the legislature will have a plurality of sixty-four and possibly sixty five. The senate will probably stand thirtyfour republicans and fifteen democrats and the house seventy-two republicans and twenty eight democrats. The republicans have elected sixteen senators, and the democrats nine senators who hold over two years, and will form the nucleus of the legislature that will elect a successor to Senator Beveridge.

And the next day it lained. The democratic vote in Adams county was short—but there were others. The campaign is over and now the Democrat will settle down and be good. If during the short time that we have been indulging in the farcia. imitation of carrying something for the democrats, we have by word, act or deed said anything offensive, we are glad of it. At this writing this is mild language for one who has been liked until he is black in the face. Governor Benjamin B. Odell and the state republican ticket were reelected in New York by a plurality of from 10,000 to 15,000. The state legislature will be republican on joint ballot by about thirty. This is a falling off of fifty-four from the status of the present legislature. This will insure the election of a republican United States senator, and means the return of Senator Platt, HOW SOME VOTED FIFTY.EIGHTH CONGRESS, HOUSE Republicans • ■ -°3 Democrats ’79 Not reported • Republican majority 24 Republican loss from 57th Congress 1 7 SENATE. Republicans 53 Democrats .. 37 Republican majority 16 RESULTS IN THE STATES. California (Republican) 20,000 Connecticut (Rep.) 10,000 Colorado (Democratic 15,000 Delaware (Dem.) 2,200 Indiana fßep.) 20,000 lowa (Rep.) 60,000 Hassachusetts (Rep.) 36,000 Hichigan (Rep 60,000 New York (Rep.). 5,000 Ohio (Rep.) 10,000 Pennsylvania (Rep. 175,000 Wisconsin (Rep.) 35,000 Missouri (Dem.) 35,000 TWO GRAVEL ROADS.

In addition to the"state, congressional, county and township tickets that were elected Tuesday, this township and Root voted on two gravel roads, both of which carried. The Decatur and Preble road carried by fourteen majority and the West Pleasant Mills by sixty-seven. DECATIB AND PREBLE. Yes. No. East Root 16 101 West Root 50 84 East Washington 61 44 West Washington 82 68 Decatur, Ist Ward A.. 69 55 Decatur, Ist Ward, 8.. 51 60 Decatur, 2d Ward, A.. 118 78 Decatur, 2d Ward, 8.. 61 56 Decatur, 3d Ward, A.. 76 52 Decatur, 3d Ward, 8.. 95 67 679 665 Yes prevailed 14. WEST PLEASANT MILLS. Yes. No. East Washington 68 12 West Washington 59 97 Decatur, Ist Ward, A.. 70 61 Decatur, Ist Ward, 8.. 54 57 Decatur, 2d Ward, A.. 113 79 Decatur, 2d Ward, 8.. 58 56 Decatur, 3d Ward, A.. 71 62 Decatur, 3d Ward, 8.. 93 65

586 519 Yes prevailed by 67. BIZET AND HALEVY, The Story ot the Origin of a Popolar Air In •‘Carmen.” Bizet, the composer of the world famous opera “Carmen,” and Halevy, his librettist, once occupied apartments whose outer doors opened on the same landing. As soon as he had finished an air Bizet would hasten to submit it to his neighbor, who subjected it to the most severe criticism. From morning to night the piano resounded in the composer's apartments. One night Bizet finished a dramatic bit in which he flattered himself he had successfully sketched the pride of a triumphant toreador after a successful bullfight. But Halevy listened in silence and showed but a moderate enthusiasm. Bizet, somewhat piqued, asked the cause of this coldness. “It’s good, I admit,” said Halevy. "In fact, it’s too good. It lacks move-ment-it lacks snap—in short, It's not popular enough,” “Not popular enough!’’ shouted the piqued composer. “Do you want to write for the slums?” He went out in a huff, but soon relented and in an hour returned with another air. "Lis ten to tills,” said he; "here is my toreador idea written down to your popular level.” It was Indeed the song of the toreador, and the only one which on the first night received an encore and seemgd to move the first night audience from its torpor.-Chlcago News. The Rnrrnese (lame ot Cheas. The Burmese game seems to be rath er n heavy variety of chess, the pecul larity of it being that a pawn "queens” when it stri®>‘s an imaginary diagonal i line drawn from the »Jpver's left hand '

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corner to the right band corner in front of him—his opponent’s left hand corner. The pieces are massed on the player's right hand, but the three privileged pawns—there are only three allowed to "queen”—can only "queen'* when the queen has been taken. We should say here that no piece equivalent to our queen really cxißits in eastern chess, the most powerful piece being equivalent to our rook or castle. In the Burmese game th* privilege of translation confers :.o higher hand on a piece than that of “chekoy”—called queen in European equivalence by virtue of its being unique—a piece possessing scarcely more power than a pawn. The usual move of the piece called "qMeen” In all oriental varieties of chess is one square diagonally and it is never one of the superior pieces.—London Spectator.

IT MADE LEMAITRE SIGH. A Gesture and an Accent That He Could Not Reproduce. The Figaro relates the following anecdote about Frederic Lemaitre: “He had acted with marvelous success in a play by D’Ennery and Marc Fournier when oue evening after the second or third performance he was suddenly addressed by a stranger, ‘How much will you take to be ill tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and for a month?’ “Lemaitre dragged the unknown under a street lantern and looked at him. He was a'well known writer. ‘lt is you!’ said the actor. ‘Why do you wish me to be ill?’ “The other hesitated slightly as he explained his strange proposition. He was inspired by an insane hatred toward Marc Fournier and had sworn to avenge himself on his enemy by all conceivable means. ’Help me to wreck his drama,’ he concluded, ‘and I will make you rich. 1 have the means to do it. You earn a great deal. I will give you ten times ns much for six months longer than your piece will last. Will you agree?’ Lemaitre had quickly recovered himself. He seized the man by the collar, shook him hard for a minute and then, with a vigorous kick, thrust him away, crying: ‘How much will 1 take? Thirty pieces of sljver, Judas!’ “An old actor who told the story added, ‘How often has Frederic la>maltre s'ghed in my presence when he recalled the episode, “Alas, I shall never be aide to reproduce the gesture und the accent of that moment!”’”

Do Not Sleep on Your Left Side. . When a patient complains of a Lad taste in bls mouth every morning ou 1 waking up, says a physician, the first ‘ question 1 ask him is ng to the position he assumes when going to sleep. An Immense number of people sleep on the left side, and this Is the most common cause of the unpleasant taste Which Is generallx attributed to dys- 1

pepsin. If a meal has been taken witnin two or three hours of going to bed, to sleep on the left side is to give the stomach a task which it is difficult in the extreme to perform. The student of anatomy kuows that all food enters and leaves the stomach on the right side, and hence sleeping on the left side soon after eating involves a sort of pumping operation which is anything but conducive to sound re;>oso. The action of the heart is also inter sered with considerably, and the lungs are unduly compressed. It is probable that lying on the back is the most natural position, but few men can rest easily so, and hence it is best to cultivate the habit of sleeping on the right side. It Is very largely a matter of habit, and the sooner it is acquired the better for the sleeper and the worse for the physician. The Bucket Shop. The name bucket shop is said to have originated in Chicago when legitimate brokers would not handle an order for less tban.i,oUo bushels, and a lot of places sprang up Where men of small means could speculate on a trifling capital, as small as a dollar, and these speculators were spoken of contemptuously as buying and selling wheat by the bucket full. The term was eventually applied to all brokerage In stocks und grain when the amounts dealt in were smaller than legitimate dealers or brokers would handle and more particularly to places where there were really no legitimate transactions, but where the proprietor and customer simply !>et on the market, the proprietor allowing the customer to tnke either end of the bet in consideration of n commission, which in reality Is his jiercentagc in the game. Men and Salutes. A recent writer says: “The Chinaman bends to the very ground when he salutes; the Ilussian, farther west, takes off his hat and scrapes with It his very path; In Prussian Konlgsberg, always farther west, the passersby salute each other by taking off their hats or caps very low; in Berlin the head covering is raised but little; In Paris still less, In London not at nil or with a difference. The American keeps his hat on immovably and never bends, but all civilized nations, of course, take off their bats to the iadlas.”

A Plant 1,000 Years Old. In the town of Rlldersheim, Germany, is probably the most unique plant In the world. It is a rosebush 1.000 year old nnd sprouts from its branches have realized fabulous sums. Some years ago n rich Englishman offered $250,000 for this entire tree, but the sum was indignantly refused. This wonderful plant clings nmid thickly grown moss against the side of the famous old Church of St. Michael. It la claimed that It has bloomed perennially since the days of King Alfred, and

this statement lias t lieen disputed, for its record ha as carefully kept as the ped : ■ f the bluest blooded family in kingdom. It is supposed to ha . < ren discovered by some mysl i !1S the medium of Kin ' nis of Hilliersbeim as far back its : .2. Madilenins. The wife of an E -h journalist said to a young m idea fnend: “Fannie, take my !v>e anil ne«t ‘ marry a newspaper m .a.” “But your husbai '! is a new«MP man, and you seem to get along very 1 well.” . “But we don’t. Every evening w brings home a big I ■ ndle of papers from all over >.e country, a : it nearly drives me <i "How so?” . “I read about the bargain sales b - London, Manchester and other a hundred miles off. where I J to them.” —Scottish vnivrican. Rather Diieonrasins- j ‘‘She told me she la.d made a , of palmistry.” “Well, she offered to read my P al *| and 1 let her." “Naturally.” „ "And then she told me that ■ Ing to suffer a disci ! •'•• , but would get over 11 an 1 poor girl.” -What did you: rlfh . al4 “What could I say ■ ' fe[l , J intended to prop- to her ■ evening.” j ■wuaniufc w»»»- _ Alg y-Wio: , ‘. , ‘- be stopped smoking-Maud-Why? „ n her »*** Algy—Well, she gave’ for him, and be gan U P tier. - Certainly a Clever w * r “Is he n good '.. M y, I'" “A good lawver. ■' o( known him b it""' trv isn’t so and not bait t /• Post. __ — K A Heathen'. A Chinaman « h<> ■“ ” to a former <'>— " ±>>'l land has publish"! a b -■ M “There is enu won't say ,lil " aU ■ an Englishman g th ,re ■ nothing an Itnimb no measure t 0 " J, won’t dance, nnd the ■ dans won't cove l ■ A «yiio n ’ m uked '■ ' “Whet I® n sy‘ iOns '“ teacher. „ |flA "lt'» ••Please, str, ’aid 1 thef |li ■ you can use in l’ ,ul ' e p t j H>« ■ don’t know bow to H .<■ one/ 1 ■