Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. * 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAUpAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY JULY 14,1904. NATIONAL TICKET For President ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vice-President HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN' C. MORAN For Auditor 0. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S, FALK Snr Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN THE CONVENTION. The democratic national convention, just closed, was one of the most remarkable national conventions ever held by any political party, and it marked the beginning of a re united democracy. This fact was commented on bv all the speakers from Bryan in the west to Hill in the east. In fact when William Jennings Bryan and David B. Hill can append their signa tures to a platform and signify their approval thereto, the millennium is here. The followers of each may well congratulate themselves upon such partv unity and good sense. W hat they can do, their followers need not hesitate to do also. The silence of the platform is an open admission that the money question is not an issue in the campaign, and only live issues should find a place in any party platform. Silence on that subject is also an acquiesence in the establish ment of the gold standard, and that Judge Alton B. Parker as president of the United States will maintain it with integrity. To this the leaders of the party in convention agree, and that agreement settles for all time to come party rancor and strife, and gives to the country a re-united demo cracy. It was a great week fuY the democratic party. William J. Bryan joins the leaders of the other states, and approves of the platform adopted and promulgated, and in addition says that in 1904 he is more interested in the success of the democratic ticket than he was either in 1896 or 1900 This is the sentiment as expressed by the twice defeated standard bearer of the party, and his sincerity is not open to [question. He is by far a greater man tian he ever was before, and his power of greatness will increase. The nominees. Parker and Davis, are a combination of men and sentiment that will greatlv aid in moulding the party together and making it a force for partv success. They embody all the elements of conservatism, and they already enjoy the confidence of that element of the political body who look to men more than to party to carry forth the affairs of a nation so that the greatest good mav come to the greatest number. Their nomina tions. both on the first ballot, in a convention numbering more than one thousand delegates, shows the almost unanimous sentiment in their favor. This personal tribute shows the gettogether sentiment that predominated at St. Louis, and which should now spread to every voting preciect in the United States, and there cement the party workers in one solid phalanx for the struggle that is to come. If you have felt in’ the past that success aeemed impossible, the events of last week are sufficient to dispel that feeling of doubt The country is ripe for j a supremacy of democracy, and with Judge Alton Brooks Parker, of New York, for president, and Ex-Senator Henry G. Davis, of West Virgin*, for vice-president, the democracy will aweep the country. Get ready to ratify.

' David Bennett Hill is a great demo- _ crat, and those who are taking his measure otherwise, are a little prema- ’ ture. At St. Louis it was the guiding hand of Hill that so completely held i the Parker forces in line, allowing the . opposition no opportunity to break the combination that won for the nominee _ on the first ballot. While Hill never made any declarations in public, yet . he was the most conspicious figure at the St. Louis convention. The Indiana delegation was a conservative body and their conduct at St. Louis was one of credit to the individuals comprising that delegation, as well as to theentire party of the state. They were there to render a service, and they did it with a dignity that was commendable to say the least. At a meeting of the democratic national committee, the Hon. T. Taggart was indorsed for national chairman. His election was deferred to a future meeting of the committee which will be held in New York, at a time to be designated by Judge Parker. The friends of the presidential nominee have stated that the committee should settle the chairmanship, and in that event Mr. Taggart's selection is assured. All Indianians will rejoice. At one session quite an ovation was paid the distinguished head of the national committee. (GOOD PLATFORM. Geneva Ind.. July 11, 1904 L. G. Ellingham. Decatur, Ind. Friend Lew: The great struggle at St. Lonis is now over. I thank God and William Jennings Bryan for a onoe more united democracy. I like the platform bully. Please retain for me a reserved seat in the Parker wagon and oblige Yours Truly Jacob Butcher. This is the kind of sentiment|rhat is high in favor right now. As Mr. Butcher well says the platform is “bully" and the ticket is comprised of the kind of salt that any and every kind of a democrat can rote for and support with a clear conscience. This will be a speaking campaign and we expect often to hear Mr. Butcher defend Uie principles of democracy from the platform. Judge Parker opened the campaign a little prematurely, but he did it well and grew some in the eyes of the country.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. „ It is unofficially stated that Sam Ralston has a real boom on for governor. If such is the case it will bear cultivation, and should thrive and grow into a nomination. At Fort Wayne this afternoon will occur a great political event, in the naming of a candidate for joint senator for the district of Adams-Allen. The solitary form of J. M Frisinger represented the Adams county g. o. p. The Chicago Chronicle's republic’inized announcement yesterday, contained more contradictory idiocy than anything that was ever conceived in a human mind, and condensed for consumption through the medium of a newspaper. In short the Chronicle says that because William J. Bryan was too big a democrat to bolt his party, the Chronicle will. The Chronicle has always been worse than a populist disturber, and it is good riddance of bad rubbish. In answer to many anxious inquiries we will say that the Hon. Henry G. Davis is estima'ei in wealth at twenty million dollars. He is an able man and will help along the good old ship of -irate with his influence and incidentally will slip in a few cords of gilt. It has bean estimated that from two to five hundred thousand dollars will find its way into the national campaign treasury. Were Senator Hanna alive, even he would note with alarm, etc. The Chicago Chronicle has at last had honor enough to get over the fence and publicly proclaim its allegienoe to the party it always supports. Heretofore it represented itself as being democratic but not onoe in the past several campaigns it not only opposed the democratic nominees but it reviled and vilified them as well as the party they represented. I* now undergoes the formal change of being republican in name as well as in policy. There is not a thorough or died-in-the-wool democrat wno will not rejoice in this announcement.

• JOINT SENATOR. 3 FORT WAYNE IND., July 12— , The republicans of the Adams-Al--1 len county joint senatorial district met in convention here this afterb B noon and nominated Dr. H. on r Sweringen for senator. A great ' outpouring of the faithful were present, twelve being the number when the first prayer was offered, t this number swelling to fifteen at ’ the close. John M. Fiisinger was the only Adams county representa- , five present. t — —— A number of republican papers claim that it is impossible to tell - where Parker is “at.' Well, if they - will be patient they will find him at • the White House, Washington, D. C., k after March 4.1905. He will be there i at least four years. — Muncie Herald. > , Our townsman Dr. J. S. Boyers , has a personal acquaintance with [ Henry G. Davis the West Virginia s vice pjesidental nominee. He claims for him the vitality of a man of sixty, well preserved, both , physically and mentaly and one , of the most beloved, solid and substantial citizens in that part of the country. This tribute from one we know, will be appreciated by the many readers of the Democrat. Walter Wellman covers two and one-half columns in the Chicago Record-Herald in which is gracefully written many commendations for Judge Parker. He also speaks with some authority about how the eastern wing of the party intends to play some practical politics. The south have one hundred and fifty-three electonal votes, and they propose to add to that New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, which would only leave them six less than enough to elect, and these six may be had in Montana or Nevada. To make up for possible failure to carry New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, they will wage an earnest tight in Indiana and Illinois, but thev will avoid the silly efforts of wasting time and ammunition in Kansas and other states where democratic effort would be regarded as rainbow chasing. The scheme is practical, and with the Hon. T. Taggart as national chairman, will be carried out with all the fine finish and frills of this advanced age of political kiting. The newspaper writers who have been busy naming the next democratic national chairman in case Indiana's favorite son is not so honored, have been doing some bad guessing. They have named Belmont and Shehan as sure winners, even "Walter Welman having oeen caught napping. The Democrat will enlighten the boys by saying that should the Hon. T. Taggart fail, the chairman will be Mr. Maurice M. Minton whose home is at Flatbush, New York’s prettiest suburb and in whose mind was first conceived the idea of making Judge Alton B. Parker a presidential nominee. Not only that, but it was Mr. Minton who laid the plans and who was the leader in carrying them into effect even after the arri val of the Parker forces at St. Louis. Belmont. Shehan and even the mighty Hill took their cues from Maurice M. Minton. That being true who will be national chaiman perchance our own dear Tom T. is not favored. Use a little logic and as Dale Crittenberger says “figger”. The democracy have to look to the east for success at the polls, and for the loss of the Chicago Chronicle —if it is a loss —we have gained a dozen newspapers in the east who have, especially in the past two campaigns, supported the republican ticket. Among them the New York World now says: “In Alton B. Parker the democratic party has a leader who leads. A thousand letters of acceptance discussing a thousand political issues could not have revealed Judge Parker to the American people in so favorable and convincing light as he himself did in that crowded hour of Saturday when he sent to William F. Sheehan the telegr am that emancipated the democratic paaty. The party can now enter upon the campaign with courage and hope. It has a candidate who is the amtithesis of in temperament and opinion, and quite the equal of the strenuous

president in moral courage and political sagacity. The World salutes Judge Parker and congratulates the democratic party upon this happy deliverance from a grave danger. CONRT PROEEDINGS. B. W. Sholty has been »PP ointed guardian for Blanch and Daniel W. Elzey and filed his bond which was duly approved. —o— Marriage licenses have been is sued this week, to [Jarnos L. Wagner and Pearl D. Brandi berry, William W. L Butcher and Malinda Grace Rape. —o— Another new r ise filial in court is a suit to quiet title to land located in Blue Creek township. The plaintiffs are James K. Martz ana J itnes Tyn tail and the defendants Altha A. Beatty and twenty six others and their heirs. —(l—- -— Amos Reusser, Dr. R. D. Wilson and Town Clerk Chris Stengel of Berne formed a board of in sanity who adjudged Mrs. Jennie McCune, of Monroe township, of unsound mind and recommended her to the E ist Haven hospital. She is thirty three years old and was an inmate of the hospital eight or nine years ago. -o--A highly sensational divorce case has been filed in circuit court in which Jacob Roop asks for a decree of seperation from his wife Mattie C. Ro<p. The papers were filed last evening by Attorney L. C. DeVoss and the complaint shows that Jacob and Mattie Roop were married in this city December 26, 1890 and lived together until last October. Since that date they have lived in the same house but have not cohabited together as husband and wife. Mrs. Roop is charged with infidelity and adultery ana the language used is too strong for publication. The names of several well known men are mentioned.

SHOT BY POLICEMAN. FORT WAYNE IND. July 7— Policeman John Greer, who on Tuesday afternoon shot and killed Henry Schmidt was placed under arrest yesterday on an affidavit filed by William Schmidt, father of the dead boy and he was relaesed under a "bond of 110,000 for his appearance in the circuit court on the first day of the September term. The funeral of the dead boy will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the family residence, 1119 Erie street. Young Schmidt was confirmed at St. Paul’s Luthern church though he had not been an attendant for some time. Many requests have poured into the office of Superintendent of Police Gorsline that Officer Greer be put back on duty at once and the members of the force from the superintendent down are anxious that he do so. For the present, however, Mr. Greer will rest up from the trying ordeal through which he has passed and the propriety of his reinstatement will be taken up by the mayor and board of safety. W. E. Smith the popular young musician was quite badly injured and bruised up Wednesday, becoming tangled up with a runaway horse. Will was delivering some articles to a family on the short street that runs parallel with the Erie railroad near Dr. Coverdales residence and was getting ready to get back into the wagon and as he endeavored to step into the same his weight caused the seat to tip up, throwing it over against the horse, which became frightened gave a lunge and threw Smith to the ground, the front and rear wheels running over his body and dragging him quite a distance. The horse kept traveling at last freeing itself from the wagon and part of the harness and ran up Winchester street where it was captured by € layton Carroll near the residence of Jacob Shaffer. Smith in the meantime was picked up and taken to his home where he now rests. Dr. E. G. Coverdale was summoned and dressed his wounds stating that Will was badly bruised and skinned up but no bones were broken. It will be some time before he will be able to get about. Fritz Koenig the renowned wife beater and the man who has for the last month caused his neighbors blood to run cold by his cruel and inhuman treatment toward his wife on Tuesday 'received a part of the reward promised to

him by his neighbors. He still presisted in treating his wife tn this shameful manner and got a good hard beating lor his past troubles. Henry Erhart who is a next door neighbor to Fritz on last evening about nine o’clock met Fritz and told just what the neighbors had decided to do to him and after being warned in a friendly manner Fritz became abusive and Mr. Erhart decided that he would give him a little of his own medicine and proceeded to thump Fritz good and hard. Fritz soon cried enough and departed swearing vengeance. Daring the evening Mrs, Koenig's parents arrived from the country and took their daughter home with them thus affording her protection something that her husband refused to give her. More trouble may follow soon as the neighborhood is indignant over his brutal actions The cement block and roofing manufactory is now an assured fact and Decatur will have an interprise that will offer some inducement for our laboring people. Thursday evening articles of incorporation were drawn by this concern "s attorneys Hooper & Lenhart and duly signed and filed. The concern is to be known as the Decatur cement Roof and Block Company and has a capital stock of ten thousand dollars all of which has been sold. The following stock holders were elected as officers and directors to hold for one year John Everett president J. S. Evans, secretary ; John B. Holthouse treasurer and John D. Meyer, general manager and John ts Holthouse, Heury Hite, John Everett. S. B. Fordyce, J. D.Meyer, J. S. Evans and John Dutcher as directors. Tnese men are all thorough business men and fully competent to take charge of and run a plant of this discription. Tue plant is one that will no doubt prove a money maker as there is only one similar in the United States that being in the east. These men are certainly booming the interests of our city and we wish them all manner of success.

Joint Afllietion. When the Halliday twins were babies their mother always referred to them collectively. This was natural enough, for they shared everything, from their t*by carriage to chicken pox. As they grew a little older, however, there were slight differences between Elnora and Eudora, but Mrs. Halliday took no account of them. When they had reached the age of seven, she still referred to them in away which struck casual listeners as amusing. "Where are Elnora and Eudora?’ asked a cousin, who had come to spend the afternoon. "The twins have gone with tneir father to have one of their teeth out," said Mrs. Halliday calmly. — Youth's Companion. No Queill.mi Asked. Old Brother Cooley is a colored philosopher, but he is superstitious in the extreme. He tells this story: "I once wuz in a house that wui haunted, but I didn’t know it. Dar wuz a bright fire burnin’ in de room 1 wuz in, w'en all era sudden de do* opeaud, on a man with his throat cut shuck his head at me! Now, I knowed right well it wuz a ha’nt en de only thing ter do wuz ter ax him, Tn de came er de Lawd, what does you want?’ ’’ “And did you ask him?” "No. suh! Bless God, I wuz tn« feared dat he'd teh me!”—Atlanta Cot stitution. Mortified to Death. Os course, doctor, German measles are never serious.” "I never met but one fatal cast” “Fatal?” "Y'es. It was a Frenchman, and when he discovered it was German measles he had mortification set in.”— Philadelphia Press. Stuck on Hirnelf. Kate-Charley and Bessie are very fond of each other. Bertha— Rather say they are both very fond of Charley. It is a case of two souls with but a single thought, you know -Boston Tran•cript. Ab to the New Family. Suburbanite—You don’t think thsy ever lived in the suburbs before? His Wife—Oh, no. When their cook threatened to leave they treated the matter as indifferently as though they could get another one without any trouble.Exchange. A Bad Fit. The Girl—What would you do, doctor, if you saw a man have a bad fit in the street? The Doctor— Advise him to change his tailor —Yonkers Statesman Handicapped. “He can't tell the truth if he tries.” “Oh. yes. he can. But he tells it in Buch away that it seems to be a lie.”— Exchange. A man’s success does not depend so much upon bis environment as upon the man himself.-Maxwell's Talisman.

DUELING IN GER fcw ' ■ | It l> « Tn.ton, n r „, ly K Amonit th.- Stu dvilt / b - ! »>«M « In every German mm,,- rsi ,.. B still dueling. ami 1; , as German ,:m,. ... ■ has its quota us v ,” ' M K correspond to om- EH Every stmle..: is ..., x . ‘ ■ to join one of these G ;1 . ‘“'M ■ been initiated, it is n,, ( M <s assigned to a dm . Th,, , ■ these various ■ guished by their ,■ b H caps, as our 1» tt-imim IllPn ■ their Greek letter n, b? M aristocratic of the B the Borussia at Bonn, m which ail W B llohenzollern prim es « „., ■ Saxo-Borussia at ii. „|. ;1 „ ra . us " “*• ■ most of the German prm es ou ts T ‘ , B the nohenzclJerns ar.- members 0 ., ■ prominent lighting :lrt . u ■ uania of the University of \Vu rt7 | * ■ Normania of Berlin. I rmmaiia of jE I nieh and the famous corps of Hanno. vera, in which Bismarck v,a s 8 tam ■ fighter, of Gottingen. Every corps hai ■ its own officers, its own i aws> ru , ■ regulations, but ail are imuud by a unl [ I versal "code of honor." <■ The customs and ceremonials > nci I dent to these student duels are q' uew I and peculiarly fascinating, the cot ■ tumes and fighting attire unique and I Interesting. The duels are of two I kinds—the one an “honor duel,” where I one student has insulted another, and I honor has to be satisfied by a little I blood letting, but these are often n\t I infrequently the result of purp 03! I rather than of actual insult just for the sake of a little fighting. The German * student, like I*at. is often "spoiling for • a fight” The other kind of duel is gen- ' erally a more serious matter and is known as “by agreement." It is br i challenge from one corps to another and partakes of the tournament order. A list of dates is drawn up. and cn a certain day 3' each week a member of the one corps meets a member of the I other for "die mensur."—Fritz Morris In Illustrated Sporting News. FRIENDSHIPS. Those of I.oiir Stand Ins and Those Made In Later Life. People make friends later than they used to, or at least so it seems to us, probably because they grow old in general later than they did. Friendship must change its nature with advancing years, but whatever makes later life full of activities and new beginnings causes friendships also to begin at even the later stages of the journey. Os two old men early friends who had quarreled Coleridge said: They stood aloof, the scars romalnlng. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder. Such an image of course gives power fully the sense of fixity, the opposite of the fluid potentiality of youth. Yet in the same poem we have the hint that not all is glorious in youth: And consiancy lives In realms above, And life is thorny, and youtu Is vain. Friendship becomes rid of some van. ity, it becomes more noble and satisfying to the deeper thoughts and ideals when the roots of it grow back into t long distant past, and if we can keep the power of making a few new friends in age as we need them to suj> plement those inherited from youth, which grow fewer with the years, but riper and more select, friendship should play a satisfying role far along toward the end of life, the best role indeed of Its career, if. as Emerson thinks, a lifetime is needed for Its completeness, while an hour or a day is enough for toil or play. The late friendships of tbs unmarried, the childless and the widowed have a special necessity and pathos of their own. for mates and children to a large extent at certain periods naturally take the place of other friends. —Collier's Weekly. An Intereßted Juror. An Instance of an interested juryman was reported not long ago. A jury had been impaneled, when a man stepped forward and explained that, having been summoned to serve, be wished to be allowed to do so at once, as he had to attend a funeral at a distant place in the latter portion of th® week. A place was therefore made for him in the jury box. The case was tried, and owing to this man's obstinacy a verdict of acquittal was secured. It was subsequently discovered that the man had never been summoned to serve at all and that the pris* oner was his friend.—London Tit-Bits. Both Died as They Wished To. Tennyson, who was a shy. reserved man. could never understand Robert Browning's love of society. He i> a been heard to remark that Browning would die In a white choker at a dinner party. The two poets died as they would have wished to die—Bo ert" Browning in the grand raiazw Ressonicco, with his son by his o side, and Lord Tennyson in bis belo'® Surrey home, surrounded by bis ones. Less Tiresome“Miss Chatterton? I think I'll seM her word that I’m out” h “Won’t the stilt, small voice reproaca you?’ x “Yes, but I'd rather listen to ® still, small voice than to Miss cna terton."—Puck. Surprise For His College Bnr ' , Mr. Meddergrass—Who yer sen ‘ the sheep to. Bill? Mr. Bagw Why. my son Zeb’s up to college tr. fur a sheepskin, be says, and I ® ter surprise him with a bull cruChicago Post Ask no man's advice, but people you meet and avoid the and manners which you find •° no - , to yon In others and cultivate the q j Ities you find are helpful and pl ea I --Detroit News-Tribune.