Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 1, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. fl 00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered nt the nnstnfflceat Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mall matter OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, MARCH 12. The appointment of Clark J. Lutz as county attorney for another year was recognizing the ability of a good lawyer and rewarding the merits of one who has studiously labored to comply with his obligation given in accepting the responsibilities such a place imposes. It is now Senator Gorman in fact. Notwithstanding past deeds that were not entirely odorless, the democratic party will welcome to the senate the member from Maryland. Senator Gorman can be of great service to the country in general and the democratic party in particular, and it is hoped he will use his talents in the right direction. Major May Post G. A. R. and the Woman’s Relief Corps of Anderson, will each have a candidate at the state encampment of the G. A. R.. which will be held in May, for department officers. Jerome J. Musser will be the candidate for the G. A. R. department office and Mrs. Lydia Cook will be the candidate before the W. R. C. There are some yellow streaks about Governor Durbin and there are some that are not. His veto of the Clark statue act is a commendable act, although it was perhaps designed as a slap in the face to those of the majority who have publicly hung the governor's scalp up to dry. What ever may have been the caus*», he committed a right royal act, and for it is to be congratulated. There is some fight in the governor, anyway. The Gard county officers' bill which has passed both legislative houses, will be a real handy thing for Recorder Galloglv, The receipts of the recorder’s office are in excess of 82.000, and according to the provisions of the new act, giving these officials thirty per cent., it will mean an increase in salary of from §3OO to 8600, which added to the present salary of §1,300, makes the office a highly favored one. This is the only office in which the Gard bill affects, the amendments which raised the perquisites in about every office in the court house being defeated. The Indiana assemblyjhas been the most extravagant that the state has ever known. It is estimated that the expenses of the session will be nearly §125,000, which is in excess of any previous legislature. The session two years ago cost §115,000, and it broke all former records. The appropriation of §115,000 which was made at the beginning of the session and which was §IO,OOO more than bad ever before been appropriated at the outstart of the assembly, has already been spent and Auditor Sherrick held up warrants until the second appropriation was made. By limitation of law the session will comt to an end tonight. Not a minister of the gospel, a member of the W. C. T. U., or anyone else holding a first mortgage on the morals of the country, was present to raise a note of alarm or protest against Senator Smoot, the Utah Morman, being sworn in as United States senator. It is even said that when he advanced to take the oath of office the ladies in the galleries applauded. Such disgusting scenes, coming from the dignified senate is enough to make a poor cuss in the country feel that all efforts at decency is a rank old fraud. We suppose that when he takes his multiplicity of wives to Washington, the society of rank will do double duty in order to pay them due homage. During the year 1902 two men in America were killed in prize-fights; and, in a season of three months just passed, twenty-one men have been killed playing football. Fifteen of these died from broken necks or broken backs. How many men have been ruptured and permanently injured in various other wavs no’ man can say. “I know,” says Elbert Hubbard, in the March Cosmopolitan, “that two young men with whom I am personally acquainted are now in a lunatic asylum as a result of football, and their ravings are the cries and signals of this game. If you still think that football is manly sport, you might interview the parents of these young men.” County sheriffs over the state are happy over a new law just signed bv the governor which gives them their salary whether the fees collected are sufficient or not. Under the old law if their fees did not amount to sufficient to pay the salary the sheriffs lost and it seems that nearly every one of them in the state were short. Under the law just passid iboy get the full amount of their salaries, and if the fees are insufficient, the remainder is paid out of the county officer’s fund. In this county it is a battle royal for the sheriff to make his slaary, but now all uncertainties cease, and Sheriff Butler has the assurance that at the end of the year he will have made his stipulated salary.

Among the newly elected senators who began a six wars’ career, was noneTther than Charles Warren Fairbanks, the senior Indiana senator, prospective candidate for president and owner of the g. o. p. machine of his home state. Long newspaper accounts portray the dignity, ease and grace with which Senator Fairbanks subscribed to the constitution and agreed to draw his salary during his second term as United States senator. Outside of this nothing much can be said. Senator Arthur P. Gorman, of Maryland, was tendered the leadership of the national democratic organization by the democratic caucus by a unanimous vote. He accepted it with his usual quiet, inscrutable smile, and from this time on the eyes of the democrats will be turned toward the Maryland statesman. Gorman was authorized by the caucus to appoint all the nine members of the steering committee and to frame a program to be followed by the democrats during this extra session of the senate. In other words, the frame work of the whole organization was turned over to him, and the democratic party expects good results. The patrons along mail route number one from Berne are so pleased with the service, that even the democrats are now glad that the Witness supported Congressman Cromer last fall in order to get this route established. One man said that he would much rather pay a three-cent postage than be without the service.— Berne Witness. Pray deliver us from anyone who is greeu enough except the Berne Witness to suppose that the faint efforts of that newspaper are solely responsible for rural route one; and if it was. it does not justify a person being a political hypocrite in order to better his personal condition. Principle should count for something even in this day and age of the world. The pious Berne Witness should harmonize himself along this line. The democratic filibuster in the senate has been productive of great good in that it has resulted in the death of the Aldrich financial bill. That bill was designed to give the national banks of the country additional advantages, and in fact to establish a national bank trust, bvt the action of the democrats has killed the measure for this congress. They contended that the ostensible objec. of the bill, which was to get the money now congested in the national treasury, out into the hands of the people, could be done in another and in a much better way, and that was by reducing the .tariff on many articles and stop the flow of the money into the treasury. In other words instead of having the money go into the treasury and then sending it back to the people through the medium of the national banks, whick would get a profit out of the people, they would reduce taxation and keep the money in the hands of the people in the first instance. This Aldrich bill, in connection with the tariff, would have been a veritable nigger’s coon trap. It would have caught the people coming and going. That, however, is the essence of republican legislation. There was no meeting of the republican steenng committee of the senate Saturday, the leaders deciding to leave matters as they stood at the conference Thursday, not finding in the action of yesterdav’s democratic caucus any reason to change their plans. The program in the senate is to put forward the Panama canal treatv and in four hour sessions daily give Gorman and his supporters full opportunity to discuss the treaty. When it is disposed of the Cuban pact is to be taken up All this sounds very simple, and appears to be easy with a majority of the senate unquestionably in favor of both treaties. But should Mr. Gorman, the new democratic leader, think there is any capital in opposing the treaties for party reasons the obstructions he could raise would be formidable and much time would lie required to surmount them. If the democrats insist it is probable that they can secure the amendment of the canal and Cuban treaties io suit them. Mr. Gorman has told several colleagues privately that he is opposed to the canal treatv, though in interviews for publication ha reserves judgment on the ground that he is not familiar with the treaty. The Brooklyn Eagle publishes an article declaring that former Senator David B. Hill has been secretly organizing a movement to oust Brsanism from the democratic party. The issue is to be carried iuto the south and west, one of the principal battlegrounds being Nebraska. It is purposed to crush Bryan’s influence in his own state and prevent at all costs his control of the Nebraskan delega tion in the next democratic national convention. Since Mr. Bryan’s eastern trip the last chance for amicable adjustment, it says, bus disappeared. Associated with Mr. Hill in the undertaking are said to be former Secretary of War Daniel S. Lamont, former Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney, former President Grover Cleveland, Hugh McLaughlin, leader of King’s county; Senator Gorman, of Maryland, and former Secretary of State Richard Olney, of Massachusetts. The reorganizers look to the south, they say, and the movement is in the interest of Judge Alton P. Parker’s candidacy. Conferences have been planned with Mayor Harrison of Chicago, in the hope of taking Illinois out of the Bryan column, and a vigorous fight will be made on Tom L. Johnson in Ohio.

After the senate adjourned a number of democratic senators met®in* formally in Senator Gorman’s room for a general discusssion of the political situation in the senate and the country at large. Senator Gorman talked at some length about the necessity of party unity and pointed out the necessity of harmony in the party in the senate at this time, because of its possible bearing on the fortunes of the democratic party throughout the country. A number of other senators expressed similar views, but no action was taken, as the meeting was in no sense official. The governor signed seventeen bills . Tuesday and vetoed four. The vetoes will not be announced till the time limitation has expired, to avoid being I bothered by lobbyists. He has twenty bill to act on yet. Those signed include Senator Burns’ South Bend bill which he asked to have passed on his i death bed; the juvenile court bill; for fire escapes on all buildings over two stories: amending the militia law re- ; moving the fine for non-attendance at drill; creating a state board of pardons consisting of three appointees of the governor at a salary of §3OO each, to meet quarterly at the state \ house. The first member of the last Gen-I eral Assembly to announce himself as ; a candidate for another office is Will- 1 iam A. Kittinger, of Anderson who has authorized the announcement that | he will be a candidate for congress of the Eighth district to succeed Con- . pressman George W. Cromer. Mr. I Kittinger would have been a candi- ! date during the last campaign but for the fact that he wanted to remain in the senate in order to vote for Charles | W. Fairbanks for United States Sen- I ator. The district is largely repubh- j can and Kittinger’s fight will be to I get the nomination. And if the present 1 representative in congress succeeds in I placing Adams county in the list of, complete rural mail service, Mr. Kit- I tinger will have a long and rocky road to travel. Congressman Cromer i can make his fight easy and certain by fortifying every county with this service. As a matter of politics and as a matter of justice to his entire < district, he should proceed to make I himself solid for a fourth nomination. Representative Cromer, Monday, secured a promise of complete rurrl 1 mail service for Randolph. Jay and i Wells counties and Inspector Hut- | ches will be ordered to go over the I counties next May. Mr. Cromer is trving to get an increase of salary for ' all the postoffice clerks in his district j and he is succeeding in a rather re- j markable degree. He received a promise that all the clerks in postoffi- J ces at Winchester and Decatur will be | increased §IOO a rear each. Incident- I ally Cromer is adding great strength to his political machine. We are inclined to think that Representative Cromer will not have the hardness of heart to omit Adams county from the list of complete rural mail service. With Adams included it would mean complete mail service for every county in the eighth congressional district, as both Delawrre and Madison now enjoy this sacred privilege. With Adams county omitted, as the Washington special indicates, it would mean that we alone would nurse a grief that looks unnecessary and premeditated. Complete rural mail service would in itself give Mr. Cromer a victory within his own party, and assure him of continued security as the representative of the eighth congressional district in congress. We credit him with more political sagacity than to leave one sole county out of this list of extravagant public favors, and are candid enough to say we do not lielieve the story of omission. Should it betrue, it is time the hustlers for Decatur and Adams county were getting busy. It is an easy matter to land this needful addition, and an effort will do it. The time is rij>e for the effort, and it should be the business of everyone to set to w’ork to convince Congressman Cromer and the postal department that Adams county is on the map. A hand full of live ones got their heads together last evening and dispatched to Congressman Cromer a lengthy and pleading message to Ire included in the list of counties announced to be given free rural mail service. It is hoped the message will bear the fruit of success, as it would be both seandelous and humiliating to be the only county in the eighth congressional district, to be cut out of this favor, which is being so promiscuously bestowed. Congressman Cromer remained in Washington after the close of congress, os tensibly for this purpose, and while he is dealing so generously and with such a long line of good luck, the addition of Adams county to that of Jay, Randolph and Wells will be easy of accomplishment. It is to be sincerely hoped that his endeavors will be secured and that Adams county will not be permitted to stand disgraced. Our highways compare favorably to those of the other counties named, and the service of the routes now in vogue, is unexcelled. So it would be, should a complete service be established. Every patron along every route would receive his mail on schedule time, and that is the only object of the service. It is not the government's intention to survey the roads and subject them to a critical test, because if they did, there is not a county in the United Kingdom that would get the service. Assurances that the delivery will be made and that is what the government desires, and is all the postal authorities should require, and can in fact require, if the establishment of complete rural service continues.

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The governor will be besieged with applicants for the places the legislature created. The most profitable are memberships in the commission to codify the corporation laws. There are two places that will pay $4,000 a year each, and one, a secretaryship, at $2,500. Frank B. Shutts, of Aurora who was a republican candidate fcr lieutenant-governor two years ago, wants to be appointed to the commission. The term of John Wingate as state tax commissioner expired yesterday but Charles E. Wilson, the governor's private secretary, said his successor might not be appointed for some time. Wingate has been generally indorsed by mauv of the governor’s close political friends, and it would not be surprising if he should lie appointed. Acil Alexander, of Marion, is also regarded as a candidate for the place. The governor has appointed J. B. Homan, of Danville, to succeed W. R. McClelland, of Dan ville as a member of the board of trustees of the reform school for bovs at plainfield. While Bluffton has long been famous as a dangerous place to go to it is seldom that an offer of ten dollars and expenses to any one who would take the chances of a trip there has been refused. However such an apparently glittering offer was turned down by many of our citizens who heard it.’ A wagon containing 820 quarts of nitro glycerine arrived from near Lima yesterday. The rig was enroute to Bluffton and the driver was suffering with the grip. Feeling unable to go further he made the offer to give any responsible person ten dollars and all expenses to make the trip which he talked of as being a real excursion to any one in good health. No one accepted the job and the fellow finally made the trip himself. Six real live dirty tramps of the old school, who have completed a ten days sentence in jail, were released last evening and they were the happiest crowd of people in town. Life in Decatur has not been one long, sweet dream by any means and not even as pleasant as the usual jail life for they had to work on the streets and if there is anything that worries a real tramp, its work, actual work with a hoe and shovel. Upon being released the boys came down town, purchased some necessary eating supplies and dug out south along the G R & I. railway tracks. They went within a mile of Monroe where they broke into a school house, cooked’supper and eat their fill, smoked their pipes and retired to sleep the sleep of the free. They wore discovered by citizens of that neighborhood this morning but were allowed to go on their wav unmolested. They have promised not to return for a year at least and to tell all their comrades that Decatur is a tough place for weary waggles. •

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The jury was dismissed yesterday for the day after entering their verdict in the Gregory case. Today the case of State vs. Burley will be tried. During yesterday morning business was transacted before Judge Erwin as follows: Andrew J. Leedy vs. L. G. Botkins, judgment on verdict for $105.10 and onleS paid out of the assets of the estate lanthe Gregory vs. A. (J. Gregory t7ff oh ‘ iD favor of PUin tiff. Otty Bolds vs. Geneva Oil company, default of defendant noted e! a !J' v d „ AUg,lst Tierneyr E. Patterson, lien of dismissed and costs paid George Haines vs. Louisa Haines et al, demurrer by defendants, apitar ance entered bv D F l u Charles Barber vs. John (' Glendenmng et al, finding for pfainNancy v° f ‘A «■ John’pitts ‘ nal Manual'.

the state any of the game fowl or ani' mals, including the Mongolian, English, Japanese or other pheasants. Any person who shoots, destroys or pursues, or has in his possession for the purpose of destroying any squir rel from the first day of Jaunary to the first day of August of the san* year can be finer! not less than fW and for killing deer, wild turkey and pheasants will be fined not less than ?50, if convicted. This holds good every day in the year. Any person oyer fourteen years of age may nun wild duck and other water fowl fro® the first day of{Octol>er to the tenth <lay of November each year but tnu® first secure a license from the state fame warden for which he must p*f 1 fee. Ou the license must I* 3 tacbed a photograph of the person al’ plying for the license together* 1 a description of the age. heig > • weight, complexion, color of eye*> any distinguishing marks that holder of the license can be 1,891 • identified and the person having • license or permit must carry it * B * hunting. Non-residents of the st must pay $26 for a license. Tne pe alty for being caught without y° ur _ cense ia $6 to $26 fine. All he® l . issued heretofore are revoked. * also made unlawful to hunt any other game with ferret*, new law ia now in force.