Decatur Democrat, Volume 47, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORSISG RY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER. HOOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the pr^tofficeat Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mall matter OFFICIAL PAPES OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 10, 1903. The Chicago Chronicle testifies that Grover Cleveland is the most popular American of the day, and urges him as a candidate for president. People become impressed with something in an advertisement, and make up their minds that nothing but the article mentioned in an advertisement will suit them.—Progreseive Advertiser. The Willshire Herald is favoring the project of bonding their town for waterworks and electric light plants. It is a good way to get them and by the way, Willshire could well afford to own them. Now comes the progressive little town of Berne who have granted an electric light franchise, and propose to have light and lots of it. Such a progressive spirit deserves especial praise. The citizens of Berne are right up to snuff, and usually have the best there is on tan.

Some of the colored brethren at Indianapolis have the brazen effrontery to announce their intention of voting for the prohibition candidate tor mayor. This outburst of independence is causing the Bookwaiter machine a very bad headache. Brvan has forgiven John H. Clarke for opposing him in 1896. A igorous support in 1900. on the issue of imperialism, atoned for the offense of 1896. This generosity on the part of Mr. Bryan ought to secure forgiveness for the Hon, Richard Olney end several other prominent democrats. —South Bend Times. Senator Ulrey one of the distinguished minority members of the last state senate, was in the city a short time yesterday. Although somewhat new in politics, yet Mr. L Irey has shown remarkabe ability and gives plenty of evidence that with age he grows better. In the next legislative session we expect to see him leader of the democratic forces, and a mighty safe one he will prove too. Mayor Johnson was addressing an audience in Cleveland the other night when a man arose and proclaiming himself a “socialist” proceeded to indorse the democratic nominee for governor. Turning upon him fiercely; Mavor Johnson declared he was not a socialist, did not believe in socialism and did not want the indorsement of | P.e jyd (le.njncrat; and stood for democratic principles. Fori Wayne Journal-Gazette. Much praise and credit is due the Decatur Commercial Club and the citizens of this city in general for their patriotic spirit displayed in raising the subsidy for the Springfield Traction Company. The labor that accompanied the subscribing of this capital was so comparatively light, ■ Ba ' ne I£j charge, hardly knew they were working. All this is encouraging and shows that the business men of Decatur realize and appreciate that generosity and good will toward new capital invested among us, is the only way to grow and expand. It will be remembered that at the beginning of the postoffice department investigation the postmaster general, Mr. Payne, said with a lofty air that there was “nothing in it,” and dismissed all the charges of exCashier Tulloch with disdain. Well, the general public now knows howmuch there is in it, and how the deeper they dug into the muck heap the nastier it got. The postoffice department investigation in now nearing the end and the report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow will soon be ready for the public, but the chances are that general public will soon forget all about the postoffice matter because it will be entertained with another investigation that is now about to be pulled off. The noise of which will reverberate from Tadmor-in-the wilderness to Yuba Dam. It is now up to the interior department to take a turn at the , investigation grindstone, and the storm center of this investigation will be in the Indian Territory.

The mention of Charles A. Towne for the democratic nomination for president does not sound bad, and in fact would be very acceptable to a large number of people. The Albion Daily Record has turned its toes to the daisies, after a skirmish lasting five months. The Record was a model little daily and the people of Albion ought to be ashamed for permitting it to die for want of the necessaries of life. It now looks like no Madison county republican dares to contest the congressional nomination with Mr. Cromer. He has licked them so often that they are a little warv of again trying him. He will probably have a clear field in this county. —Anderson News. The g. o. p. city campaign at Indi anapolis, is getting desperate. There is now serious consideration being given the idea of drawing on both United States senators for a gifted suppl v of oratory which is thought necessary to catch the '‘nigger” vote. The complete downfall of the notorious Bookwaiter machine is not improbable. Preble township distinguished herself Saturday in declaring by popular vote for the building of a certain macadam road. This is right in line with their record • for the last few years in the line of road building. They have been building roads and knowing the benefits thereof, had no hesitancy in so recording herself in favor of the one voted on Saturday.

A good many of the warm administration organs have, with great frankness, been] discussing the possibility and propriety of seizing the strip of land through which it is proposed to build the Panama Canal. They argue that if Columbia will not grant the concession that the United States cannot afford to be balked from the great enterprise by the constitutional obstacles that the Columbians say are in the way of the ratification of the treaty. In about six months Union B. Hunt, late secretary of stnte, will announce himself as a candidate for goverr r ~. In the meantime he will do what he can to line the boys up, so that the announcement will be a formal affair. Hunt claims that when he was nominated for secretary of state he announced his candidacy but three months before the convention, all of which is true enough, but the fact is. he was working the boys pretty hard for a year or so prior to that time .—Columbia City Post. The republican veterans who are talking of A. O. Marsh of Winchester as their candidate for nomination for governor have overlooked an important point. There is a constitutional inhibition which prevents a man who is elected to a judicial office from Accepting a Constituildnal'Afijee ing his judicial term. Although Mr. Mr. Marsh resigned the circuit judgeship some time ago to become pension agent, his judicial term will not expire for a few years yet, and he would be prevented by law from accepting the governorship even if I nominated and elected.—-Indianapolis i Sentinel. »———i ' . Th®. hasty action of President Roosevelt in dispatching warships to Turkey on false information is causing numerous smiles. The prompt- | ness of the Turkish government in promising reparation for the supposed murder and punishment to the ofi fenders did not mollify our strenuous I president. The opportunity to do a stunt to the galleries was too good to be overlooked, and the fact that it I was learned the next day that ViceConsul Magelssen was unharmed made no difference. Foreign subjects have been murdered in our own counj try, for instance the lynching at New Orleans some years ago of a number of Italians, but the government has never been accused of abetting the crimes and bullying tactics have never been employed to force settlement. One republican citizen declared in our presence that the president should follow the advice of Davy Crockett, “<3e sure you are right and then go ahead.” Our republican | friend was correct enough, but he failed to remember for the moment that rulers of today have got out of the habit of looking to the men of ' yesterday for guidance. They are the ! “wise guys” and look upon all who go back to an earlier day for their wisdom as “mossbaeks.” Our republican friend is a mossback.— Miami County Sentinel.

I H AS THE RING. The statement given out by Mr. Brvan at Columbus. Ohio, commending the nomination of John H. Clark of Cleveland, for United States senator, has the right ring to it. As Mr. Brvan says, the democrats of Ohio stood for the Kansas City platform in 1896. and is they who have nominated Mr. Clark, and for this reason the nominee deserves the confidence and support of the party. Mr. Bryan raises but one objection to Mr. Clark s candidacy, and that objection is now untenable. It is Mr. Clark s position on one phase of the money question metallic money. Mr. Bryan believes that Mr. Clark was wrong in 189 b. but since that time money matters, as to volume, have so shaped themselves that conditions are such as the party wished to bring about in 1896. While Mr. Bryan has given to the party many words of wisdom, he has said nothing that will serve to unite all factions of the party more than in his statement endorsing Mr. Clark for the senatorship in Ohio. The party needs no reorganization, it simply needs reunion in its fight against wealth and trusts, and in its struggle , for the common people. There are but two sides—republicanism represents the one, and democracy the other and those who oppose the inroads of combined wealth can make no other choice, concientiously, than to espouse the cause of and work for the principles of the democratic party. Mr. Bryan’s advice is sound and it should be followed, not only by the citizens of Ohio, but those of every state in the union. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Seven more indictments have just been returned for complicity in the Washington postal scandal. The mention of W. H. Eichhorn for governor still continues to agitate many democratic slatemakers. Such a nomination would be a happy solution of a problem that is always more or less vexatious. Mr. Eichhorn would make a model governor. More and more we are losing our democratic simplicity and becoming servile imitators of the effete and oldworld monarchies. By the alterations in the white house the milkman must now deliver his goods in the rear and not at the front door, as has been his immemorial custom. —Sentinel. Among those mentioned by Louis Ludlow as having been suggested as suitable democratic candidates for governor, are Jo Jin W. Kern. B. F. Shiveley. W. H. O’Brein, S. M. Ralston, Prof. H. B. Brown, W. W. Stevens, George L. Rheinhart. Robert W. Meiers, John L. Forkner, Hugh Dougherty, Stephen B. Fleming, D. W. Simms and J. W. Fortune. This list is daily growing. “Mr. Bryan’s notion in endorsing a gold democrat for senator of Ohio, has surprised and somewhat disconcerted those of his friends who have been -preaching and practicing the doctrine that all such democrats should be forever ostracized. But it is admitted by the politicians that Mr. Bryan has made a very shrewd move. In showing that he will forgive and forget, he has softened the animosities that were felt toward him in certain quarters and has paved the way for the reuniting of the party.” More than a baker’s dozen Indiana democrats have been mentioned as suitable and available candidates for governor. It is a noted fact too, that after every new list is threshed over, the name of Hon. Samuel M. Ralston always looms up a little brighter. Mr. Ralston’s democracy is the kind that sticks to the ribs. His public utterances are always temperate and modified by the straight and narrow truth. Unlike John W. Kern who flops from extreme to extreme and who is radical and severe in everything he says —ana unreliable in everything he does —Mr. Ralston is square-toed. He is a brilliant, brainy man and a leader of the right sort. We need him not so much as a candidate as we do fur a leader a man whom we all can rally around the flag and stir the boys for a victory. The company is erecting a fine display hall at the fair grounds in which they will exhibit the machinery which they ; handle. The building is being constructed just north of the racing | horse stables.

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Frank A. Jackson, of Ossian, is re- j ported missing and is believed to be in this city. He has a blacksmith shop i in Ossian and is well thought of. He j is the son of John Jackson, a blacksmith of this city, whose place of I business is on Columbia street. Young Jackson came to this city last Friday morning, getting off the train at ' Spiegel’s place on Broadway .-Journal I Gazette. Frank formeely lived here. Business in circuit court was transacted as follows: Grace Hautgon and Francis Kizer vs Israel ''HeiiU'er’eiai'answers lljecf,’ fiiiui'iig i I ■ that parties are the owners of the ; shares as set out in the complaint. Dore B. Erwin appointed commissioner and land ordered sold at 1 public sale. Marry M. Brcwn vs Charles Brown et al, default as to William and Emma Roth. An exchange speaks of the game of “gossip” which is having a run in some localities in the east It ;« played with photograph. They are shuffled and dealt out like cards. Eery one in the part receiving a photo. It is then the play to tell every mean thing that can be thought of about the party photographed. We know of localities where that game has been played for years without photographs. Miss Carrie Thomas will leave the 28th of this month for Evanston, where she will enter Northwestern Academy. Evanston is a beautiful suburb of Chieagp. situated on Lake Michigan. Northwestern Academy ranks among the very best, and if any one of its departments is better than the other, it is the school of music and fine arte. It is this department that Miss Thomas will enter, and her training will certainly be the best. Paul Blackburn, the six year old son of Page Blackburn, fell Sunday and broke his arm. He was playing with some companions, and while playing near the barn fell from a door on which he was swinging and broke both bones in the lower left arm. A few months ago he had the same arm broken I and this makes the injury all the , more painful. Dr. Coverdale reduced the fracture and reports his j ient as improving very nicely.

NEWS FOR THE FANS. WHAT THE ROSENTHAL CLUB IS DOING ON THE DIAMOND. Playing Good Ball But Drop a Game to Fort Wayne Nationals and Two to Shamrocks at South Whitley. The Fort Wayne Nationals played a bad game Sunday and defeated margin of one run the score resulting in 11 and 10 Although Decatur batted almost as heavily as did the visitors, she failed to hit at the critical time. Not so with the Nationals who managed to bunch their hits and showed several instances of opportune batting such as Stahl's three bagger which occured when three men were on bases. The game was played without any sensational stunts but was interesting throughout. The local team played better in the field than the visitors and made their opponents earn the greater number of runs which they secured. Rosenthals: R. B.H. P.O. A. E. F. Peterson, 3b 1 2 12 0 C. O. France, c 2 0 9 11 Mercer, lb 10 13 0 1 Marty, 2b 3 0 13 2 C. Peterson, If 11 0 0 0 DeVinney rs 2 3 10 0 Pennington ss 0 2 0 2 0 B. France p 0 1 12 1 Coffee cf 0 110 0 Totals 10 10 27 10 5 Nationlas: R. B.H. P.O. A. E. Ehle, 3b 10 4 13 Nolan ss 112 5 1 O’Connel lb 2 16 0 2 Eggerman If 2 10 0 0 Hicks p 2 10 11 Stahl cf 13 10 0 Faloey rs 12 0 11 Harrod 2b 1 2 4 0 3 Boseker c 0 0 10 0 1 Totals 11 11 ' 27 8 12 The score by innings: 1 2 3456789 Nationals— 30402002 o—ll , Rosenthals— 40131001 o—lo Two Base Hits: Nolan 1, F. Peter-

son 1 Pennington 1, B. France 1. Three Base Hits: Stahl 1. Strike outs by France 9, by Hicks 8. Ba-es on balls off France 2, off Hickel. Umpire Bayes. Attendance 500. Decatur lost two games at South Whitley, Monday the score of the first game resulting 11 and 1, of the second 1 and 0. Both games were played in the afternoon as the morning game was called on account of rain. The first game was pitched ... .■ .’IT’. - ... ijj 'ilik A. Oxi ' • ‘ clever bunting and a few hea-.> drives, the Shamrock- secured ? n hits to their credit. The Fort Mayne team tried hard to shut the Ro*mthals out but a clean single by DeVinney scored the only run that Decatur made. The second game is one that will go down in history and always be associated with t ® basso. .by ll tes.m of P | Bart France did the twirling for m' Rosenthals and let the heavy toting Shamrocks, down with six ms He had six strike-outs and sere of the heaviest hitters were inc ed in that number. The only r of the game was made by a slide at the plate and in the - inning the score came near ■ tied when Ehle made a similar• s 1 to honM>. About 800 people atte ed the game and were well pto as the following from the J ”-- . Gazette correspondent at Whitley goes to show: The - 1 game was the best exhibition put up on the South - gounds. Both teams played ball, the game rep e > sensational plays. t ' r " hrS 3 n France were opposing P' 1 1 I both picthed gilt-edged • i scored the Shamrock > °n . . a great slide at the plate • and Romary made senate’^-* esta the outflow. i catch by Somers of a . ball to first and his l>S htDl | -of the ball to bpears at > cutting off a runner, was a to of work. Spears 1 when he caught tin 1,1 g l| _1« ); Shamrocks - ' . 0 ’ - Decatur I