Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MOBSTSG BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM. PUBLISHER. 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoSceat Decatur. Indiana. I as second-class mail matter OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. AUGUST 13,1903. Schwab has resigned the presidency of the steel trust, which also carried with it a salary of one million dollars a year But we guess he does not need the money. Governor Durbin is now being boomed for vice president, and if there is any merit in running a governor's office on cheap political lines, he should be chosen by acclamation. He is the smallest large man that ever occupied the governor’s chair.' There is a girl in Chicago who has worked thirty-one years for the same family. Why should a girl like that have to work for a living? She ought to be able to get big money from the museums. — Chicago Record Herald. Governor Durbin took the Marion police board in on the carpet and gave them a regular reformatory jacking up. for not exercising their powers in putting a full stop to the labor agitations now brewing in Marion. The governor likes to show off better than anyone we can call to mind. As the time approaches for the nomination bf a republican candidate for congress in this district. Congressman Cromer is found on hand advertising his claims in his usual modest way. He is now going to secure complete rural mail service for his district —when he can—and we hope he can at a very early day. This done his re-nom-ination is a fore-gone conclusion. A lively municipal campaign is in progress at Indianapolis and the democrats claim to be confident that they will elect the next mayor. However, the republicans think they have the most votes and their leaders profess to believe that Mayor Bookwaiter will | be easily re-elected. The News which has great influence among the independent voters is supporting the democratic ticket, and this is the feature which makes the situation look dubious for the republicans.—West Baden Journal. It is noticed that when the trusts raise the wages of employees they usually in consequence increase the price of their products. A little study of the several advances, however, usually discloses the fact that the advance in cost of the pr~ duct to the people has been several hundred per cent above the advance in wages. At the same time the people are supposed to believe that the reason that they have to pay more for the things they use is because the laboring man has demanded an increase in wages. Charles Martindale, an Indianapolis republican of considerable prominence, predicts that John W. Holtzman. the democratic nominee for mayor, will be elected by a plurality of between three and four thousand. He says are fully six thousand republicans who will ■ not vote for Bookwaiter, the republican candidate. It is generally believed that George Hitz, the nominee of the prohibitionats. will poll a larger vote than has ever been cast in that city for a candidate on a prohibition ticket. He is a business man and personally exceedingly popular.—South Bend Times. “The policy,” “of affecting from the earnings of the people something like S7.SiXK>,OOO more than can be spent, even with the most reckless extravagance, i is an iniquity and a wrong which ' the Democratic party should endeavor to right. The revision of ■ the tariff should, therefore, be before I a great issue in the presidential' election. In order to win. the democratic party must have the the confidence of the business in- \ terests of the country. The lack of that confidence caused the defeats of 1596 and 1900. To secure that confidence now, there must be an explicit pledge that in the revision of the tariff it is not the purpose of party to wreck industries, many of which were established under the existing law. The pledge should be similar to the one upon which the democratic party elected its ticket jn ISM.—Senator Gorman. s — —

A Michigan astrologer has read the stars for the next president of the United States, and he names him Grover Cleveland. It is a great feat. Daily specials now say that the postal department has suspended the complete rural postal service for Jay county, but that Congressman Cromer had it restored. You may expect to hear these things every day, and as a matter of fact they are written from whole cloth and are the personification of truth. Hon. Theodore Shockney. of Un- ■ ion City, was in Redkey Wednesday . night on legal business. His re- ; publican friends over Indiana are urging him to make the race for nomination as governor, and political fences are now being laid that ‘ will probably influence Mr. Schock ney to conceal to the wishes of his constituents. —Redkey Times. The postoffice investigation can hardly yet be called a “closed incident,” there is danger yet for some of the gentry. It has been remarked that those postal officials who have passed through the statute of limitation have not clamored for a i vindication investigation. They I have been highly content it seems ,to sneak off with their tails between their legs. Hon. John G. Shanklin of Evansville dial Thursdav morning, after suffering for a long time with Brights disease, heart failure and asthma. For many years Mr. Shanklin was one of the most prominent of Indiana democrats, a public speaker of national prominence and several times has appeared in this city and discussed political issues. He was a brilliant and entertaining speaker and had many admirers here. His ambitions to be a leader in official life were never realized, owing to his blunt and honest way of dealing with men as well as political issues. In all Mr. Shanklin had many admirable traits of character and none more prominent than his J honesty between man and man. Many republican leaders who, in ! the recent erstwhile, were going about wearing a worn, haggard and hunted expression are now walking ' the streets < f the {nation s capital j wearing a broad and expansive smile that somewhat resembles a crack in frozen liver. Wherefore? Simply because on the 31st of July last the statute of limitation ran out and they are forever barred from prosecution for the misdeeds and peculation they indulged in while holding positions of honor and trust under the national government three years ago. There are many men who ought to have been indicted and would have been had no? President Kdosevcft roia ??>uri* Assistant Postmaster General Bristow not to investigate any of the cases where the statute of limitation would run this year. It was known here also that Perry S Heath, the secretary of the Republican National Committee, would have been one of the first to ne indicated, along with Machen, if the republican leaders had not steppedin and put a veto on the thing. Another sample of how easy it is to disgrace women with common rumor is seen in the trial of Prof. Hamilton, superintendent of schools at Huntington. Ind. Prof. Hamil ton was tried before the _ school board on a charge of immoral conduct and Mrs. E. E. Griffith, of Indianapolis, and Miss Mary B. Cox, a teacher in Huntington schools, were named as the other parties. The evidence wholy and clearly failed to prove any of the charges and the board so decided, completely exonerating both women. Because of the agitation and controversy that had been stirred up. Prof. Hamilton has been dismissed from his position. The school board is republican. A little coterie of republican politicians of local influence filed the | charges and attempted to prove j them. Prof. Hamilton is a demo- I crat. Os c< urse. a republican will be appointed to succeed him and thus the dirty polities of the whole affair will have been carried out. I Prof. Hamilton is thrown out and therefore unquestioned characters and unblemished reputations of two innocent women have been damaged and dragged in the dirt of filthy scandal. But it only goes to show that politics and the greed for jobs count more in some places and with some people than reputation and character.—lndianapolis Sun.

Durbin’s vice-presidential boom clearly leads all other political interests now launched. M. M. Duulay of Anderson, adds a little excitement to the present dull political season, by the announcement that he probablv will enter the congressional race against Congressman Cromer. In a few weeks he will know definitely. It is said that Theo. Schoekney of Union City, is already a candidate, so bright and exciting davs are coming. This dullness is I stagnant and unhealthv. Union B. Hunt is now credited | with aspirations to succeed Congressman Cromer in 1906. We do not wish to throw cruel dampness on such worthy aspirations, but Mr. Hunt has a whole lot to learn about rural routes before he can expect to match up to the statesmanship as practiced by the present representative from the eighth congressional district. I I — Those Bluffton women who followed their erring husbands to Decatur, beat the men’s paramours over the head with umbrelles and whips and | then returned home and filed suits I j for divorce, evidently believe in do-1 ing a job up right when once thev j set about to do a thing. They fell I short of their opportunity in one respect. They should have plied the i lash vigorously over the backs of I their unfaithful mates. Muncie Star. - Governor Durbin's vice presidential I boom has gone upward several points by the receipt of a long personal let-| j ter from the president of the I nited ■ States, in which praise flowed thick and fast for the governors brave stand I in sending the state militia to Evans- ’ ville to put a quietus on a race war. I It is now evident that the president. j looks with much favor upon Indiana s | i chief executive as a running mate in i ! 1904. General Miles, the greatest war i ! general of at least the present time, j I has been retired from active service ■ I by the age limit, sixty-four years, i I His army life has been crowded with j j activity, and in all of which he ever' ‘ displayed his superior knowledge of I I discipline and courage. His record j j and popularity are unquestioned, and in the public eye he is easily one of 1 the foremost figures in military history. His pay on the retired list will be -55.250. President Roosevelt ought to have bidden General Miles a kindly goodbye on his retirement from the command of the army. The President has repeatedly written 1-rrers i of effusive regard to officers J min r rank and of limited service when they were retired or were changed to other assignments. The president of the Unites States, the com-mander-in-chief of the army and ness inspired by personal or officiali spite against any officer in either I branch of the service. It > peculiarly unfortunate that the president—himself claiming crec:* as a soldier of inferior rank in the -mall Spanish war—-h:nli find it in his line of alleged duty “snub" by non-recognition the last surviving great soldier of the •inior war on his retirement frc m ffie command Miles has every claim on the prescient and on the Anwimn pubEe for it least the usual honors of his rank ind term of service. His civil war record is conspicuous and brilliant. His services after the civil war in restorinz peace along the Indian border were of the greatest value. In the command of the army since he became lieutenant general, his administration has been above criticism. During the Spanish war he acquired possession of Porto Rico almost without firing a shot and his peaceful victory, notwithstanding the expectations of the administration, was the most brilliant of all the campaigns. President Roosevelt could not afford to snub by cold formal dismissal through Corbin ■ this model soldier and patriot. It | is inexplicable that he should make i I so serious a mistake in the discharge • lof his duties as the commander-in-i chief of the army as to permit one 1 ■of the greatest of its officers, the I contemporary, associate and sucI cesser of Grant. Sherman and Sh-ri dan to retire from his command as if • he had been kicked out of office. The 1 Chronicle regrets that thefpresdent otn the United States could, under any circumstances, be accused of meanness. Great men have held that office anil great men will bold it hereafter. Theodore Roosevelt ought t>be ashamed of himself — Chicago Chronicle.

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Alexander Johnsen, superintendent I of the Feeble Minded Institute at Ft. j Warne, has resigned and will engage in business. His resignation will be I i source of regret to many of his friends who know his superior knowlin chanty work. Senator Gorman talks in a very sensible way—as he usually does — and the rank and die of the demo■rat’e party will relish the sentiments expressed. It sounds much more be-; /cbfiHAg XaiikAliaei-Jlas 'fhj.** I nursts that for a year or more hare seen making the individual members ■ st the dem<xratic partr rery sick at | -.eart There is no mortgage on the jcrtnan idea of making the demoiratie party a useful and successful ooi-tieai organization, and we suggest , shat John W. Kem get in the band i | ~ igoe and give us a few yards of ■ visdom along the Gorman line. ~ ■ < V .- j “..res of New I Jersey and Connecticut. Then we -hould carry the battle in the I zreat business centers of the west. I That means a contest in Ohio,! which will keep the Republicans 5 fully occupied in that state. “Indianapolis and Illinois are are hopeful fields. I think we can carry several of the mountain states— Colorado, Idaho, and p^sibly1 others. We have a good fighting chance in California, and Oregon is close. I therefore regard the outlook as exceedingly hopeful.—Senator Gormna. A farmer in Rush county has a notice posted on a large tree in the corner of his woods which reads asi ; folows: “Plenty of squirrels here.. 1 take an easy chair and wait for them to come down out of the trees. Be sure and come to the house' when he dinner bell rings." A fine Norman horse belonging to the firm of Frysinger and Sprunger fell in the road Saturday white being taken from Bluffton to this city. When about seven miles * out of Bluffton the horse suddenly weakened and fell Dr Connell ■ of this city found the horse to be suffering with kidney trouble. The horse was removed to an adjoining field where it still lies in a critical condition. The animal is valued at three hundred dollars, and its death means a heavy loss to the owners.

Tne price of hardwood lumber is still advancing and mill operatores | are all holding their stock for the high price mark. Fort Wayne reports that the stock on hand is very light and that the demand I cannot be met at all. Seasoned timber is very scarce in all western markets. Henock Hoile, the eldest son of i William Hoile, who li zes east of ; the city left for Guthrie, Oklahoma. \ i charge of aGermanLutheran church, j Mr. Hoile has been a student for I ! j eight years preparing himself for this i work and is recognized as a very I strong man. He studied for five I years at the Concordia College of j Fort Wayne and for three years in a St. Louis school of theology. Wallace shows exhibited at Bay I City. Michigan, Monday that being their first exhibition since the '’" W.< at Durar d. It wa rumored at the time that the show was too i badly crippled to resume business I but such talk was unfounded. ■ Through the kindness of Mr. Bailey I j of the great Barnum & Bailey shows 1 I experienced men were secured to take the place of those killed and other replacement will be made as the show progresses. At twenty, when a man is young he thinks he knows it all: he likes to wag his active tongue and exercise his gall; he struts around in I noble rags—the world is all his j own: he laughs in scorn the world ! iof age ; and lists to self alone. He wears a window in his eye to see I his moustache grow; he thinks I ladies pine and die because they i love him so. At forty as vou mav 1 suppose, he buckles down to biz; tis not till sixty that he knows how big a fool he is. T. R Moore. J. Smith, George Cline and T. H. Andrews all member of the G. A. R. post of this city left on the Cllover Leaf Sundav for San Francisco where they will attend the National G. A. R. encampment. Their trip takes them over a number of different roads some of which extend through the most picturesque parts of the great Rocky mountains. On their return trip they come over a different route and make a belt journey through the interesting part of the

OBITUARY. Mathias Longenbacher was hi in Tennenbroma Baden, derail on Nov. 23, 1823. In 1848 I emigrated to the United states I company with a brother and fit to Liverpool, O . and went op Lake Superior where he worked j the mines five years. On Hard , 1855 he was united in holy w lock to Henrietta Spangler. Inli I the family Longenbacher moved I Fort Wayne where they lived years. ]lr. JuimgenDacner M tired from business and he and? came to Decatur where for live they lived among the relatives! friends. His faithful wife, I two daughters, Amanda, the v lof Mat Kirsch, and Sarah, the« lof August Sellemeyer of this fl ' their families and a large circle friends mourn their loss. On Si day morning Aug 2. he prepffl to go to chun h. but feeling too fi he remained at home, grew « and worse till the end came Thursday morning Aug. 6- at in past five o’clock. His age was years and 13 days. v'oTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT) a V ESTATE Notice is hereby liven to heirs and legatees ol Simeon ceased. to appear in the Acar. su.t held at Decatur. Indiana, "n the St-ptemb ?r. 1 OH. and sb->* '-■ause. . the final settlement accounts of said decedant should not beapp said heirs are notified to tl.- n and proof of heirship, and receive tnei tive shares. Prosts Schmitt. ' ExeeuWl Thom as Dckki v Decatur. Indiana. Aug. S. Istß. Merryman A Sutton. Alt ys. \ DMINISTRATOR S SALE. .he underf Notice is hereby given, t At ■ ed. administrator ot the estat Jt , ley. deceased, will >ffer ™r ' J |f ~,, 4 auction, at the latere; • . nUtt] ~u d dent, three and one-l a . o ,,riw. and one-half mile ■ »'>, Ininine miles northeast of 1• ( fll( i Union township. Adams county- ‘ Friday. September 4 the personal property of said esta ing of One horse, one cow and s ’■ eleven ewes. *> ve wagon-““Te stock bogs, seven pig-. ; r ons Mf’ wagon, one buggy one 111 . jn rollen cue drill, one half intere- 1 " lever harrow, ene brea«.--- • finlf |e * plows double set "" table * harness one OPP-r aadW farming implei: < nt- - - arl ieles. furniture and various on tehmsoi ■ SAI- 1 * For all amounts net ■ UP «a« hand: for amounts i . g.,eti credit of fine st after “’■» bearing »i.v percent ot'r aalvmj .J with approved secur. be rm*" Hon or appraisement :a JOSEPH = Erwin * Erwin. Att y-