Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVKRY THUHHDAY MOUSING HY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. JI 00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice st Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mall matter OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, APRIL 2,1903. The worst of it is, the president’s plea for big faimiles will be generally followed by those who don't need tha t sort of advice. And to think not a Scratch of a pen came to Fred Roher, editor-in-chief of the Cromer press bureau. A few’ breaks like this and the light w’ill go out. That the Decatur Democrat is enjoying a season of prosperity is evidenced by the fact that a Simplex type setting machine has been installed in that office, and the old time method of type setting lias been discarded.—Warren Tribune. The wayward Decatur Journal comes gallantly to the fore and is the first newspaper to propose George W. Cromer for a fourth nomination for congress. Thus the salve is spreading and the Berne Witness will have to look to its laurels. The acts of the legislature are all in type, proof has been read the first time and the index is about half made. Daniel Storms, secretary of state, thinks the proclamation of the governor, declaring the acts published, can be issued about May 1. Two years ago the proclamation was issued May 15. Good roads are doubly important just now. They will assure us a complete system of rural delivery, besides aid in the comforts and time in travel. We can not afford to treat this subject with indifference. Instead, we must show a spirit that will not only talk, but improve" every road in the county. A movement is now on foot to effect a clerk's union in this city. Arrangements are being maeje for an assembling of all clerks some time this week, for the purpose of being addressed by an officer of the National Clerk's Union. The promoters seem to be met with much enthusiasm and it is almost beyond a doubt but that their efforts will be successful. United States Senatoi- Frederick Dubois of Idaho, in an interview, declared for Alton B. Parker of New York, for president and Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana, for vice-president. He said that he believes that it is necessary to carry New York a,nd Indiana to win and that Parker and Shively will be a winning ticket. This sort of an arrangement w’ill be highly satisfactory to the Indiana democrats, many of whom already hope to see such a foremost cast successful in the next ntaional convention. If it cannot be said that Decatur is another w’prd for opportunity, put it that Decatur is full of advantages. Here’s a single instance. This city not only has the best electric light servicees to be found anywhere but prices -for bulb and Other lights stand for favorable comparison with rates in other cities. At one time the people of Decatur paid but twenty-five cents for incandescents, now’ they pay by the flat rate, fifty cents. In Huntington the charges are eighty cents per light, at Fort Wayne, "one dollar, while in the gas belt cities such as Marion, Muncie or Anderson, the prices range from seventy-five cents to one dollar. That the Decatur Democrat is one of the best county papers printed is evidenced by the fact that new improvements are Constantly being made. During ye editor’s recent visit to Decatur he dropped into Editor Lew'Ellingham’scozy office and walked over- the plant with the affable Deeaturite journalist. The Democrat is making great strides in improvements, having recently installed a Simplex type setting ma chne that does the work of five com ■ positors. The paper as published now looks neat, clean and interest ing. The News congratulates Mr Ellingliam upon publishing the best. county paper on our exchange list. Keep up the good work.—tfe sian News.

A law passed by the late legislature' and signed by the governor, provides that where married woman hereafter executes her promissory note, Ixmd or other evidence of indebtedness and delivers the same, and the loan is paid to the woman herselffby ash’ check or draft she shall be [estopped from claiming that such loan was made for the use or benfit of any one else. Dr. Willets may be considered a model man and a close approach to the ideal. Possessed with delicate sentiments that would hardly ]X*rmit him to do anything wrong, he throws the tide of his power with all his force in the opposite direction and tries to overcome the prevail-, ing evil with "good. His thoughts are not directed toward the renumerations which he may receive for himself, but toward lifting the burdens from other blighted lives. And his viewjof ourselves, our fellow men. and the world, is the way that all should see it, that is, in un ideal light, which is the only [way that the world and its people can become tranquilly established within bounds of the moral, spiritual and physical law. This Willits view and if approaches ideality, it can be said that he is an ideal man.

What is Grover Cleveland up to? Eastern politicians, democrats and republicans alike, are asking the question without getting a satisfactory answer. They hope to have more light after the former president takes his trip to the middle west the last of April. If he is really anxious to be regarded as a possibility in connection with the presidency the trip, it is believed, will bring out the fact. The details of the trip have not yet been made public. They have not all been agreed on. This much is known definitely: The former president is to be one of * the speakers at the dedication of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at St, Louis, April 30. He has received a cordial invitation to extend the trip on through Missouri Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado to Denver. Whether he accepts this'invitation or not, he will meet the people of a large section of the middle west in keeping his engagement at St. Louis. The politicians are all wagging long and loud. No town will become a good business center so long at she majority of its business men rely upon a few merchants to make the effort to bring trade to town. Too often the men in a few lines of trade are about the only ones that reach out after custom. Other merchants wait until these business men in duce the people in town and content themselves with the trade that naturally drifts to their places. A public spirited man should ask himself if he is doing his part to attract people to come to town. He inay be holding his trade well and even by fair dealings and popular ways’ getting his full share of the trade that naturally belongs to tqe ’place, but he is not doing his part as a member of the business community if he is not helping to extend the business of the town. Any merchant who induces the people to come to town to trade is helping the entire business community and no town is a success unless all lines are working to extend the trade as far as possible and trying to bring a larger territory in the circle in which the town is the businessreenter.

Undoubledly Cuba will, sooner or later, become a part of the United States. Annexation must come through commercialism; it cannot come in any other way. We are in duty bound to wait until the people of the island understand that it will be to their advantage to come to us. The possibilities for the future of the island are great. The island now has a population of 1,600,000. It is capable of sustaining seventeen million people. The tide of imigration is bound to set in toward the island. I regard it as the garden spot of the world. It is now, and will continue to be, if the proper precautions are taken, as healthy as the United States. It will command the Panama* canal when that waterway is completed. It is the natural outpost of our southern coast.” This’is the substance of what Gen. Leonard Wood, forerly military governor ofC üba, said the other night, before the Mt. Pleasant Men's club. It was the last and only public utterance he made with reference to the future of Cuba before leaving for the Philippines islands, where he will be stationed for the next three or four years.

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Louis Ludlow, the Washington correspondent to the Indianapolis Sentinel, talks politics: In expressing their private opinions on the national political situation many prominent republicans whose observations are usually very accurate admit that they have serious doubts whether President Roosevelt can be re-elected. They are practically of one mind in thinking that the president will be re-nominated next, year. They believe that he will have practiaclly smooth sailing until after the national convention and that then his troubles will begin. There is a surprising amount of talk in republican political circles here to the effect that if the democrats can meet with even a halfway measure of succcess in getting together the rooster will crow next year. One of the best known financiers in the country who is a republican, made the remark the other day that, if necessary, $15,000,000 can be raised to defeat Roosevelt. The president has not only chilled the republican national organization, but he has chilled the financial interests as well. His followers console themselves with belief that he has the people with him, but' it is a question as to whether they are not reckoning without their host. The south is a very considerable section of the country and the people there, republicans as well as democrats, are a unit in desiring to see some other man in the white house. Republican politicians who are doing a great deal of anti-Roosevelt talking compare the present outlook for Mr. Roosevelt with the situation in 1892 when President Benjamin Harrison was defeated at the polls. Harrison had chiled the organization much the same as Roosevelt has done and that year for the first time in a long while the republican party learned what it is to undertake to run a republican campaign without money. The financial interests refused to donate. Money could not be procured anywhere and the campaign lagged fniserably from the start. The ‘ ‘ Who, What When ’ ’Minstrels are scheduled to play here Tuesday, Aprl 7. There wiill be something lively doing then, no doubt.

Some little business was transacted in circuit court yesterday which may be told as follows: Julius Haugk vs. Mary Brown-et al, report, of commissioner filed, finding that land is undivisible, ordered sold’, publication ordered, distribution of funds not to be made until after final hearing of the cause. John Pitts, ex parte, demurrer filed and sustained, judgment against remonstrators for costa, appeal granted to supreme court. Samantha Cassel vs. Joseph D. Beery, ordered that defendant be permitted to take examination of plaintiff at office of D. D. Heller & Son April 7. The relatives of John Butler of Van Wert, received a telephone message at ten o'clock yesterday from his physicians which said that hemorrhages of the bowels had set in and there is absolutely no hope for his recovery. Death may result at any hour and it is believed he can not possibly live through the day. His relatives went over today, with the exception of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Butler, who will go this evening. John is still a young man and it is hoped that his constitution would be strong enough to stand the ravages of the disease but todayfe report proves the contrary. His family consists of a wife and one daughter aged thirteen. His father is Jesse Butler of this city. a & The Fort Wayne newspapers are devoting large chunks of news space and writing long-winded eulogies of the New Haven oil field and the gushers being tapped there. The last one is pronounced good for 150 barrelsand the activity prevaling there is something to behold. It is said that the Hardisons of Geneva, have seen something good and will try their luck on some leases there, and it Is all wind wind that is being written about the flattering prospect of New Haven oil. Tins territory is just a few miles north of the Deca-tur-Willshire field, and it is good news to those interested in the prospects of this field. The advance of three cents in the price of crude will greatly stimulate operations, which for so long lias been at a stand-still, owing to the extreme unfavorable weather. Activity is again prevailing anti in a few weeks things will behooving at a rapid pace.

DEFECTIVE EYES! Oftimes cause disturbances of the nervous system and produce functional disorders which are taken to be diseases, but are relieved entirely by Spectacles Properly Fitted, DP PANADA ophthalmic U L. /I IN /I JL7 SPECIALIST At Dr. Coverdale’s office, Decatur, Indiana, on Tuesday, April 7, 1903.

The interurban situation is still encouraging and everything seems to slowly shape itself to satisfactory ends. Engineer Coleman’s report on the possibilities of a road as proposed by Dr. George has been filed with the eastern capitalists and it is undeerstood as being favorable toward the construction of the road. Since the capitalists sent out this engineer to determine whether or not it was a safe investment and since it has been determined that it is not only safe but an exceptionally good investment, no thing can be seen that stands in the way. When Dr. George is summoned to New York, then and not until then, can the final answer of the monied men be expected, and thus it stands. With few exceptions the entire force of teachers in the city schools, a number from Monroe, Berne and Geneva and other places over the county will leave tomorrow morning to Attend the annual meeting of the Teachers’ State association. They leave on a sjjecial over the G. R. & I. at 9:45 and will reach their destination in time for dinner. As a consequence the schools hcrewere dismissed this evening and there will be no further work until next Monday. The meetings begin tomorrow and continue until Saturday noon. It is believed that over three thousand teachers from different

parts of the state will be present and the convention is to be the best ever held. The instructors are able and learned men and the work will be very instructive. Curt Johnson and Ed Touhey, charged with forgery, appeared before Judge Erwin yesterday and plead “not guilty.” Their bond was fixed at SSOO, but Touhey, Who declares his innocence, stoutly said he could give a smaller bond and it was reduced to S2OO. The fact that Jolinson plead not guilty was rather a surprise as he had admitted his gilt several times. When interviewed lie said: ‘‘lf I can get bail now I can get out and make that balloon ascension Saturday. After that I don’t, care much what they do.” Curt is charged with forging the name of A. C. Gregory to a check Saturday and cashing it at the Winnes Shoe Store. Touhey is charged with being an accessory. They cannot be given trial for a month or more. Mrs. Charles-Helm was greatly surprised Mondayevening when about 30 of the Rebecca Lodge, completely masked, walked in upon her. Mrs. Helm was equal to the occasion, however, and a high order of amusement prevailed. Refreshments were served and the entire affair passed off complete in every detail. Mrs. Schlegel of Marion, was the guest of honor.