Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1904 — Page 6

CONVENTION NEWS I FIRST DAY’S SESSION I St. Louis, July 6.—When Chairman James K. Jones called the Democratic national convention to order today the great St. Louis Coliseum was crowded almost to the point of suffocation with an enthusiastic crowd bent on witnessing one of the most interesting contests in the annals of this historic party. The very air seemed charged with W>fl 'k JAMES K. JONES. the feelings of the great multitude and seemed aquiver with the excitement of the hour. It was electrical. Enthusiasm neglected no opportunity for free vent and many were the incidents seized upon as a signal for cheers of the most stimulating character. The entrance of conspicuous figures in the party never failed to elicit cheering commensurate with the estimated importance of the one thus greeted, while the marching to their allotted places of some of the more important delegations produced the wildest excitement. When Hon. John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, minority leader in the national house of representatives, was introduced as the temporary chairman, the applause became simply deafening. The popularity with his party of this conspicuous figure in national politics has long been conceded, his wise leadI JOHN en.AKP wtlliams. ership in the lower house having given him a firm place in the hearts of his fellow-partisans, and the great party’s public attestation of this feeling today •will be marked as one of the striking incidents of the convention. The gavel that was wielded by Mr. Williams in catling the convention to order is of historic material. The Erie (Pa ) delegation had it constructed of timber of Commodore Perry’s flagship, Niagara,-which took such a prominent part in the notable battle of Lake Erie. It is a handsome article.When Mr. Williams entered upon his notable “keynote” address the quiet which succeeded the previous tumult was impressive. Not one of the thousands gathered within the sound of his voice but was anxious to hear his every utterance and rarely in a national convention has any speaker been given a more attentive hearing. Mr. Williams began bis address as follows: “This is an appropriate place and time for a Democratic convention. The place is St. Louis, the chief city of the most populous state carved out of the Louisiana Territory acquired by the father of Democracy. The time is tne centennial anniversary celebration of the acquisition of that territory, a vast area of contiguous territory whose possession was necessary for self-detense and which was fitted in climate and soil for homemaking by the sons and daughters of the republic—the anniversary of real and not pseudo expansion—an expansion of our population, our industrial life, and our tree institutions, over uninhabited lands, or lands sparsely settled by savages, whose tribal independence we recognized by trading with them or settled in spots by white men easily and willingly assimilated; not a so-called expansion by mere superimposed force of our flag and our military authority. The Democratic party afterward guided the country to further expansion of this real, free character in the acquisition of Florida, the admission of Texas as a state, and the acquisition from Mexico of a magnificent far West fit to be made stat°s Ir the Union and governed under the constitution. “The most important event in the world is the election by the American people of their chief executive. Before the great elevation takes place, at which all men are supposed to arrive at —a choice by ways of honesty and intelligence—would to God they did—at least two minor elec-

tions of a different character are neic. There have always been two great parties which since the first national political conventions have elected delegates to conventions for the purpose of selecting a candidate and promulgating a platform. One of these parties has gone through its party election of delegates and selected a candidate and announced a platform. It was one of the quietest and most unanimous occasions that the muses of history have recored. Everything seemed to have been fixed beforehand. There are some conveniences about a convention of that sort. One of them is that the temporary chairman knows six or nine months beforehand that he is going to be temporary chairman. He also knows what he is wanted to say, compared with what ~he wants to say. I could appreciate that, I assure you.” Despite the fact that he had no such period of preparation, Mr. Williams’ address was a remarkable piece of oratory. He proceeded with an analysis of the speeches of the temporary and permanent chairmen of the Chicago convention and of the platform adopted by that body, his incisive and caustic comments on those utterances exciting the enthusiastic applause of the convention, which was accentuated as he then took up the history of the Democratic party and its achievements and predicated upon these a prophecy of the future greatness of the party. For two hours Mr. Williams held his great audience in the spell of his oratory, which was broken by a perfect thunder of applause as he closed. SECOND DAY’S SESSION. St. Louis, July 7. —The Democratic national convention is this afternoon engaged in making up a platform of principles upon which the party will wage its fight during the campaign thus opening. That there will be a contest over the adoption of certain planks agreed to in the meeting of the resolutions committee this morning is - ——— J brf ■ wFS&t __ L _ _J || ,1,11 ■ MUM —I TlirT-— CT, ARK. certain, and much oratory will result. Mr. Bryan will lead his forces in the debate on the floor, while Senator Bailey of Texas will lead the forces of the "conservatives.” To Mr. Bailey had fallen the choice of the executive committee for permanent chairman, but in view of his preparation for the platform debate, his declination to accept this important position was accepted and Hon. Champ Clark, congressman from Missouri, the only other man considered by the committee, was elevated to the chairmanship. Mr. Clark’s address on opening the convention today was given the most earnest attention. THE PLATFORM Principles Upon Which Democrats Will Stand in the Campaign. St. Louis, July 9. —The platform upon which the Democrats will fight for success in the coming campaign was adopted without debate and by viva voca vote, the delegates accepting the unanimtiy of the resolutions committee as a guide to its conduct in this important matter. As soon as the convention had been called to order Chairman Clark announced that the report of the committee on resolutions was ready. Sen- ■ SENATOR DANIEL. ator Daniel read the report as chairman of the committee. The confusion was so great that not a word could ba heard ten feet irom the platform. The great climax of the convention —the nomination of a candidate for

president —followed immediately upon the adoption of the platform. The adoption of the platform was taken by a viva voca vote and without debate. It had been r gned by every members of the resolutions committee. Including David B. Hill the leader of the conservatives, and William J. Bryan, the leader of the radicals. The platform ne’ther repudiates nor reaffirms any former principle of the Democratic party. No reference was made to either the Kansas City or Chicago platforms. The money question was not mentioned. There is a tariff revision plank and a strong anti-trust nlank _ "TOLEDO BLADES. those of Modern Make Not Coni parable Willi the Ancient Ones. Toledo blades are still made in the government weapon factory, but those of modern production do not compare with the ancient work. It seems to be a lost art. The genuine Toledo blades made by the Moors,, were so elastic and tough that they could be curled up like a watch spring. You can see them in the armory at Madrid, but only ordi nary swords and bayonets for the army are made there today. The secret seems to have been forgotten. The steel came from England. It is the same as is used for ordinary purposes, and, as in Japan, where the art reached an equal degree of superiority, the difference in the product lay in the skill of the armorer and the process he used. In the secondhand shops of Toledo and of the bric-a-brac dealers you can buy old swords for reasonable prices, but genuine ones, made before the sixteenth century, when the best were produced and the art began to decline, are very rare and are promptly picked up by connoisseurs whenever they are offered. The names of the old mak ers are as weil known as those of the painters of great pictures, and a sword made by Nicholas or Dune or Don Isio or Correnties in the fourteenth and sis teenth centuries is worth several times its weight in gold. Each armorer of Toledo in ancient times as in Japan, had his cipher, which is to be found on his blades, and there was as much rivalry among them ns there is today among the opera singers. Julian del Rei, the most famous of the Moorish swordmakers, always cut the figure of a dog on the blades of his swords near the hilt, and MorriHo. who was also famous, used a wolf for bls coat of arms. The sword makers of Toledo had a guild for mutual protection, but they worked separately. Each had his own secrets tor refining and tempering steel, which he concealed from his rivals, but transmitted to bis children, who inherited the business.—Chicago Record-Herald. It Warn Just PoßMible. “I don’t understand,” said Mrs. Youngmother, “why it is that baby won’t go to sleep. Here I have been sitting and singing to him for the last hour, and yet he keeps crying and seems just as wide awake as ever.” “Well.” said her husband thoughtfully, “I don’t know, of course, and perhaps I am wrong, but it may be that baby has a musical ear.” Where Man and Dor Differ, “Pedigree in a dog makes E.m valuable. doesn’t it?” “Certainly.” “Funny, isn’t it?” “What’s funny?” “Why, it’s my experience that pedigree makes a man pretty darn neat worthless.” —Chicago Post. Few Prayers. Yern—Now. if all men would vote as they pray this would truly be a happy world. Dem—But if thsd should ever happen you wouldn’t get the average man to the polls once in ten years.— Catholic Standard. Their Good Offices. “I see they're advertising twenty-five cent lunches. What do they give you?” “An appetite for your dinner.”—Philadelphia Ledger. Chance is a word void of sense. Nothing can exist without a cause.—Voltaire. GOOD SPIRITS. Good spirits don’t all come from Kentucky. Their main source is the liver—and all the fine spirits ever made in the Blue Glass State could not remedy a bad liver or the hundred-and-one ill effects it produces. You can’t have good spirits and a bad liver at the same time. Your liver must be in fine condition if you would feel buoyant, happy and hopeful, bright of eye, light of step, vigorous and successful in your pursuits. You can put your liver in fine condition by using Green’s August Flower —the greatest of all medicines for the liver and stomach and a certain cure for dyspepsia or indigestion. It has been a favorite household remedy for over thirty-five years. August Flower will make your liver healty and active and thus insure vou a liberal supply of “good spirits.” Trial size 25c; regular bottles 75c. At all druggists. Farmers Take Notice. Are your hogsand chickens healthy and in as thriving condition as you would like to have them, if not, feed them Egyptian Hog and Chicken Cholera Remedy. Put up in gallon and half gallon cans. For sale at the old ’■eliable drug store. Smith, Yager & Falk. 48tf Low Rate of Interest. Money loaned at five per cent, interest, payable annually or semi-an-nually, at option of borrower, with privilege of partial payments at any interest paying time. No delay in making loans. F, M. Schirmeyer, Decatur, Ind. 9tf

I earnestly desire the immediate return of all cases and bottles. Win. Mersman. 14 d ~ . ])R. P- L. FRITZ Dentist Office above Holthouse, Schulte & Co.’s clothing store. DECATUR, INDIANA. _ Special Low Excursion Rates Via the Clover Leaf Route Seasen 1904. Homeseekers to west and souM west, Ist and 3rd Tuesday in each month. Triennial Conclave Knights Templar. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. sth to 9ih. Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. San Francisco, Cal., Sept. 19th to isth. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, (World’s Fair) St. Louis, Mo., April 30th to Nov. 30th. Stop-over Privileges at St. Louis on all tickets to and from the west. Write for rates to GEO. H. ROSS, Gen’l Traffic Manager. Toledo, Ohio. T. L. Miller, Agt. World’s Fair Route To St. Louis via Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad, Clover Leaf route. Low round trip fares from Decatur as follows: $16.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit December If. §13.35 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 60 days from date of sale. $12.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 15 days from date of sale. §7.30 round trip. Good only in coaches. Going any! uesday or Thursday. Seven days’ limit. Commencing May 17. Pullman palace sleeping cars, case and free reclining chair cars and through day coaches on all night trains. Buffet and free reclining chair cars and through day coaches on all through day trains. Meals served a-la carte on through trains. See T L. Miller, agent Clover Leaf route a Decatur, or address George H. Ross General Traffic Mgr, Toledo, Ohio.

THE GREAT SOUTHWEST. MANY SEEKING HOMES WHERE LANDS ARE CHEAP AND CLIMATE IS MILD. Low Rates for Homeseekers and Colonists Twice a Month. Many farmers in the Northern and Eastern states are selling their high priced land sand locating in the Southwest —in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Many who have been unable to own their homes in the older country are buying land at the low prices prevailing in the new country— S 5, SlO, sls per acre and up. These lands are mostly cut-over timber lands, some of them possessing a deep rich soil producing corn, wheat, oats, clover, cotton, fruit and vegetables. Well improved farms are scattered throughout this country. Many places with small clearings and some improvements can be boughLvery cheap. Our descriptive literature gives a fairly good idea of this country. It tells about the soil, crops, climate, people, schools, churches, water and health. It contains maps showing locations of counties, towns, railways and streams, and gives names and addresses of real estate dealers in the towns. Reduced rates for homeseekers and colonists are in effect first and third Tuesdays of each month, byway of St. Louis, Cairo or Memphis and the Cotton Belt Route. Let us send you our literature and quote you rates. Address E. W. Laßeaume, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis, Mo.

EAST. No. 6. The Comm'l Traveler, daily. 5:25a. m No. 2. Mail, daily, except Sunday...Jl:so a. m No. 4. Day express, daily 6:43 p. m No. S. Local freight 1:10a. m WEST. No. 3. Day express, daily 5:25 a. m No. 1. Mail, daily except Sunday ...11:25 p.m No. 5. The Comm’l Traveler, daily.. 9:19 p. m No. 23. Local freight 12:05 p. m RAILROAD CHICAGO & ERIB. In effect June 19, 19C4 WEST, ’o 7— Kxnreea, dally 2:00 a m No 9—Buffalo and Chicago limited 3:02 am -o 6—New York and Chicago Limited through coach Columbus and Chicago dally 12:44 p m <0 13—Wells Fargo Express except Monday 5:50 p m So Sl—Marion-Huntington Acc’m.. 10:10am EAST No. 48- Chicago and N Y limited 11:21 p. m. o—veatiouie Limiten lor ft X »:47ani <0 23—M arion and Columbus except Sundav 6:58 a m <0 4—New York and Boston Limited through coaches Columbus and Chicago 4.51 pm No. 13 will not carry baggage. 3 and 4 has i»rourh coach Columbus to Chicago. No. 14—8:20 Carry passenirers bet ween Hammond and Marion.

Grand Rapids & Indiana. (n effect June 26. 1904 TRAINS NORTH. 11:09 p m No 5-L«aves Decatur - fort wayne g . - a m “ id. • »«•“ Arrives Grand Rapid »» •• Petoskey -••■■■ ii u »>•. .. Mackinaw City H-oam . .. 7:59 a m No, "—Leaves Occatur ’ s:soam - Port Wavne «B:l6pm - Arrives Grand Rapids m :: :: L®*wciv NO. 3—Leaves mwt; -- ":’ : 6:«Pm Kalamazoo . P ™ ” Arrives Grand Rapds ..■■■■■ -- # m " Mackinaw Ciiy 7:35 a ni TRAINS SOUTH “ Winchester AaS :: i :: - > .. « st, Louis 1-dupn. .. •• Winchester S.’S.m Arrives Richmond. • • ■ - Cincinnati. - ” .Indianapolis -on!’?, .. - s.. Louis 7:10 pm No. 2—Leaves Decatur 2-11 p“ •• P irtland *■“ 0 " Winchester , .17 p m - Arrives Ki rhinond Cincinnati s..>npn> •• . •• Indiananolis - St. Louis 7:23 am No 30—Leaves Decatur 7:51 p m ° Arrives Portland b:so pro No. 16—Leaves Decatur....» 5:46 p m • ■ •• Portland 9:45 ujn .. Winchester......... 10:® pm •• Arrives Richmond 11:1° P m Nos. 4,5 and 7 daUv. - j 3 and Id daily except Sunday. ; . excel I Bunday io Portland. 16 Sunday only. No 5— Sleeping car to Grand Rapids. Trayise i tv Northport and-Mackinaw City, inning car Gsand Rapids to Mackinaw City: No. 7—Parlor car Grand Rapids to Mackinaw City—except Sunday. , a „ a No. 3—Parlor car Richmond toGrand Rapids Sl< uDin — cur to Miicktnaw Citj • lis. L uisville and St. Louis. No. 2 - Parlor car Co Richmond. J. Bryson. Agt. C. L. Lockwood G. P A. Gr. Rapids Mich.

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ROY ARCHBOLD DENTIST I. o. O. F. BLOCK ’Phones-Office 164, residencf D. D. HELLER & gQjj ATTORNEYS AT LAW. ’ Offica over Blackburn 4 DORE B. ERWIN ATTORNEY AT LAW. OrriCß.—Corner Monroe and General practitioner. N„ . barge tation lor consul. AMOS P. BEATTY ATTORNEY AT LAW And Notary Public. Pension ruin, euted. Odd Fellows building. ““ ns Prose. MERRYMAN & SUTTON.' " ATTORNEYS AT LAW. DECATUR. IND. Office-Nos. 1. 2. 3, over Adams Co. Bank We refer, by permission to Adams Co B ank SCHURGER & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW Notar’es. Abstracters. Real rotate Air™. Money to Loan. Demis H m) y,, ra ,£***• ti non short notice. Office in Allison Wk' lS d u^« r Fr ' St "— “ < J ’ Q ’ ? I f’ > ? un t, r) ' D ’ B ’ CE - I tune. D.D s rDoue za. 'Phone 236, Neptune Brothers. DENTISTS. Rooms 1,2, 3. 4, Spaigler Building, Decatur, Indiana. Office ’Phone 207. Lady Attendant English, German and Swiss spoken. FRED REP P ERT? Sale Crier and Auctioneer. DECATUR, ... INDIANA Speaks EnglishJGertnan. Swiss and Low.Gern.au. MANN & CHRISTEN, Architects. Are prepared to do an- kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can e ave times, trouble and money by consulting them. Office— MANN S CHRISTEN, Bowers Block. Monroe st. Ai hitect LIN N & P ATTON Carpenters,'Contractors and Builders Slate Rooters and Gal vanized Gutters. Shop. Corner Ruggand Market Streets. Linn i Patton. AUCTIONEER For Good Service See L. H. GAGE (Speaks German and English) Auctioneer and Sale Crier. Rates-JIA) Sales over SSOO 80c per SIOO. Leave address at Berne Witness I ifflee, Berne. Ind.

J. D. HALE, DEALER IN Seeds, FFay, Wool, Oil Salt, Coal, Lime, Cement Fertilizers. Office and retail store store southeast cor, ner of Second and Jefferson streets. tyyour patronage solicited. 1 H. O. WELLS. M. D„ SPECIALIST. 723 CLINTON STREET, FORT WAYNE Cures Piles, Fistula, Fissure. Strictui* o’ the Rectum. Itching. Bleeding I Constination and all diseases of • Rectum. Also Rupture. Dr. Wells w> be at tM Murray hotel, in the forenoon and st t" Shamrock hotel in Geneva in the afternoon, on the first Tuesday in every n' l > nt h. “ order to introduce bis painless • r '‘t'sent. will give one treatment free to aJ wliocai see him. ■CBk ■ ■ f"r*Dr. Willlan . Indian Pile Oil HE p ! Lpiles 1?..--■V I I allays the iwbno | fclas a poultice, gi' - ’ n p t , a e o iat . I lief. Dr. Wil iams 1:. 1 gT ■ mentis prepared for 1 ■ i 3 ■ Ing of the private part>. < e . ” warranted. By druggist- aiiHilHS ceipt of p r iee. 50 cents and . 1 (it a MANUFACTURING CO.. Props.. Cleve-and. u Nachtrieb 4 Fuelling. doctor E. J. Beardsley, General Practice and Surgery. But Special Attention given to Bye. Ear Nose, Throat and Chronic Diseases. Expert in Fittiuo Classes. Thoroughly equipped for treating J e Throat and Catarrhai ca»ee CALLS answered, day or night. OFFICE—over postoffiee. HN .j nt hßtl RESIDENCE—cor. Monroe and Office Hours--9 to 11 a. m. 2 to tp. m ' $250,000 to loan on provedjfarms’at lowest rate of interest, we can your loan at a lower rate o interest and less expe DS than any other Agency in the city. The Decatur Abstract & Loan Compaq Rooms 3 and 4,