Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1904 — Page 4

TH E DEMOCRAT BVBRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER n.OOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Watered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-class mall matter. "official THURSDAY SEPT. 1, 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 O. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S, FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN Congressional Convention. The democrats of the Eighth Congressional district of Indiana will meet in delegate convention at Portland, Indiana, on September 7, 1901, at 11:30 o’clock a. m for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress for said district. The basis of representation will be one delegate and one alternate for each 200 votes and for each fraction of 100 or more votes cast for the Hon. John W. Kern for governor at the election of 1900. On this basis each county will be entitled to the following number of votes: Adams 17 Delaware 23 Jay 17 Madison 41 Randolph 12 Wells 18 Total 128 Necessary to a choice.... 65 J. A. M. ADAIR, District Chairman. The campaign in Adams county will soon be on. The headquarters are being arranged, and before the end of another week w ill be ready to entertain every mothers’ son who wishes to aid the cause of democracy in winning a victory. The retirement of Hon. David B Hill from political activity is a distinct loss to the democratic party, and to the nation. He is a great statesman, and during the last fifty years has played a prominent part in the political history of rhe country. The Adams county democrats will be numerous and plenty at the congressional convention next Wednesday. Plans are being developed to furnish the banner delegation, and head the same with a brass band. Everybody should make up his mind now to join the procession. Indiana is showing every symptom of a democratic victory this fall. It will be a battle ground, and the democrats will fight long and hard to redeem lost laurels. The outlook is exceedingly encouraging and with every democrat doing his duty as a democrat, success is assured, Tom Taggart says the way to win it is to get the votes. Let’s get them. The congressional convention at Portland next Wednesday will sig. nal the opining of the otm paign in the eighth district. Many noted speakers will be there and the occasion will be’made one of state importance. There are two candidates seeking the convention honors, and the contest bids fair to be real and exciting. Adams county will be well represented, they being disp ised to furnish the largest delegation. ' Reliable person with SSOO can secure manufacturing business in this town that will pay from 100 to SCO per cent, per annum. Cement or marble dealer prefered. Address, G. T. Bouslog, Winamac, Ind. 26 1

Court Notes. The September term of oourr whicn opens next Monday will have a larger amount of business to dispose of than usual. Besides the many criminal oases the civil suits have_been coming in rapidly during the past two weeks. Five new ones were filed this morning and several more will come in before Monday. A. P. Beatty, as attorney for Della Cowan, has filed a suit in circuit court against her husband, William Cowan, asking for a di vorce and SI,OOO alimony. The complaint alleges that the parties were married November 2, 1902, and lived together until October 9th last, when Mrs. Cowan returned to the home of her parents. She alleges failure to provide also accuses her husband of being intimate with other women and v,f being the cause of her contracting a loathsome disease, as a result of which she is still in feeble health. She asks for the custody of their only child, Frank, born May 31, 1903, and for a judgment of ten dollars per month for his support. Schurger & Smith filed a new quiet title suit Tuesday entitled Sylvanus Wood vs William Wood rufi and six others. The property in question is a 120 acre farm in Blue Creek township. —o— Another suit to quiet title was filed in circuit court yesterday D. D. Heller & Son, attorneys. The plaintiff is Charlotte Catherine Schoch and the defendants Jessie and Samuel Deihl. Lucy, Robert and John Brown, Pearl and Christena Schoch. The land in controversy is forty acres in Washington township, of this county. —o — A case was filed Tuesday by Attorneys Erwin & Erwin entitled Margaret Koenig vs John Scheiman, complaint for damage to real estate, demand SBOO. The defendant is accused of cutting down trees and destroying property of the plaintiff to the above mentioned amount. —o— John Tisron vs James N. Fristoe. suit to foreclose a mechanics’ lien, demand $35, is the title of a new case filed with the clerk of the Adams circuit court Tuesday. Schurger & Smith are attorneys for the plaintiff and the suit is the result of a controversy over some work done by Tisron on Mr. Fris toes property, lot 352,Decatur. —o— Another quiet title su ; t filed in the Adams circuit court is against John W. Watson and sixty-fivf others defendants, John R. Clen denen being the plaintiff. Thsuit is to settle the ownership of a forty-acre tract of land located in Hartford township, Adams county. The plaintiff is represented by D D. Heller & Son and D. E. Smith as attorneys. —o— Jury Commissioners H. R. Moltz and David Manlier met at the county clerk’s office Tuesday, and assisted by Deputy Clerk Baumgartner proceeded to select the petit jury for the September term of court. The list includes the following: John C. Augsburger, French township; Henry Rodenteck, Root; Frederick Bultemeyer, Root; William Roop, Blue Creek; James M. Archbold, St. Marys; Joseph Dailey. Blue Creek; B. J. JTerveer, Decatur; Charles E. Bollinger, Monroe; Wiliam Annen, Root; Amos Buckmaster, Jefferson; A. F. Thieme. Union, and Mart Shady, Kirkland. The jury will report for duty the third Monday, September 19th, criminal week, and from present outlooks they will have a mighty busy session, as there are many cases to dispose of and several of them are of importance. The September session begins next Monday. Wawassee Lake Ind. tickets on sale until September 30. Return limit October 31st 1904. $3.10 for ’•ound trip. Rome City Ind. Season tickets good until October 31st $2.30 15 day ticket’ll.9s. Northern Michigan has never been so beautiful as it is this summer. Your vacation is due and when looking over the map for a nice cool place to rest would be pleased to have you decide that some one of the many resorts suit you then ’’look up and talk it over” regarding rates, time of trains, etc. Yon know the G. R. & I. is the way to get to Northern Michigan real quick. J. Bryson Agent.

RICHTSJtfLASGR Several Important Cases In Which Judge Parker Stood Consistently For Labor’s Rights. A number of important laws affecting labor were before the courts of New York for adjudication while Judge Parker was on the bench, and all of his opinions asserted the right of the state to legislate for better conditions among its wage-earning classes. The Republican i bis criticised some of those id has inti rated that they ■ ■ ' effect, but t’ ■ i it legal thought of the country las inl irsed them, both on account i t their consistency and their just and equitable conclusions. One of the first and most important cases t :at cane 1 ' ' ' Judge Parker s court was in relation to the law which required that contractors on public work should pay their employes not less than the prevailing rate of wages. A street improvement contractor in the city of New York had failed to comply with this provision of his contract and the comptroller refused to issue a warrant for the amount due, holding that he had not complied with his contract. The court of appeals held the law. so far as it related to such a case, unconstitutional, but a dissenting opinion was written by Judge rarker in which he defended the law as a proper exercise of legislative power. In 1896 the so-called “convict-made goods label act” was passed. It required all goods made by convict labor in any penal institution to be labeled “convict made” betore being sold or exposed for sale within the state. The law was undoubtedly aimed at convictmade goods of other states, since the products of convict labor of New' York could not under the constitutional provision be placed upon the market. This law was held by the court of appeals to be unconstitutional, because it was an attempt to regulate interstate commerce and thus violative of the commerce clause of the federal constitution. Judges Bartlett and Parker wrote dissenting opinions, insisting that the act was a proper exercise of legislative power. The true purpose of the law was tersely stated by Judge Parker in the following language: “This statute neither prohibits nor attempts to prohibit other states or citizens of other states from putting prison-made goods upon our markets, nor does it prohibit our own citizens from buying or selling them; if it did, then, concededly, the statute would be in violation of the commerce clause of the federal constitution and void; it simply requires that prison-made merchandise shall be so branded that our citizens shall know where the goods they are buying were made.” Another case before the court grew out of rivalry between two labor organizations and has led to much comment. Charles McQueed, a member of the National Protective Association of Steam Fitters and Helpers, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, brought an action on behalf of himself and his fellow-members to restrain the board of delegates and certain individuals, members of the board of delegates and of the Enterprise Association of Steam Fitters and of the Progress Association of Steam Fitters and Helpers, from preventing the employment of the plaintiffs, and from coercing their discharge by any employer, through threats, strikes, or otherwise, and to recover damages. Judge Parker wrote the prevailing opinion of the court and in it he lays down in the most comprehensive terms the rule that members of a labor union have not only the right to refuse to work with others, but that it does not affect their right because the reason given does not seem adequate to other people so long as the object to be attained is a legal one. He says: “Stated in other words, the propositions quoted recognize the right of one man to refuse to work for another on any ground that he may regard as sufficient, and the employer has no right to demand a reason for it. But there is. I take it, no legal objection to the employee’s giving a reason, if he has one, and the fact that the reason given is that he refuses to work with another who is not a member of his organization, whether stated to his employer or not. does not affect his right to stop work, nor does it give a cause of action to the workmen to whom he objects because the employer sees fit to discharge the man objected to rattier than lose the services *f the objector.” ROOSEVELT AND THE QUAKER. In bls life of Thomas H. Benton, page 37, Theodore Roosevelt thus expresses his opinion of that quiet, peace-loving people, the Friends, who have done so much in every community in which they reside to foster sentiments of brotherly love: “A class of professional non-com-batants is as hurtful to the real healthy growth of a nation as is a class of fire-eaters, for a weakness or folly is naturally as bad as a vice or worse, and in the long run a Quaker may be quite as undesirable a citizen as a duellist No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community.” When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.—Spanish Proverb.

A PARKER CONSTITUTION CLUB Republican Disregard of Constitution Leads to Formation of a Notable Club. One of the most important clubs of the campaign has been formed in New York. It is projected by men who are devoted to principles and who have determined to do ail they can to stay the aggressions of the Republican par- 1 ty upon the constitution, both at home and abroad. If there is one thing more than another which lias caused thinking men to turn to the Democratic nominee for the presidency it is the disregard of President Roosevelt and his advisers for the restraints that the constitution imposes. It has been overridden time and again by the administration at Washington, and there is a whole-. some fear throughout the country that | the precedents set by Mr. Roosevelt will lead to even worse conditions should he be elected. I Out of this fear has come the Parker Constitution Club, an independent organization formed in New York, and whose object is to provide the Demo- ( cratic campaign managers with authentic information bearing upon the disregard of precedents and legal limitations of authority of which President Roosevelt and the Republican leaders have been guilty. A permanent organization has been formed with the following officers: President—James C. Carter. Vice Presidents —Wheeler H. Peckham. John E. Parsons, Joseph Larocque, John G. Carlisle. Secretary—William C. Osborn. Treasurer —William E. Curtis. Executive Committee —William B. Hornblower, Francis L. Stetson, John G. Milburn. Howard Taylor, James W. Gerard, Jr. The declaration of principles arraigns the present administration for disregard of the constitution, refers to t£e policy of the chief executive, and says: “This venerable and beneficent policy President Roosevelt has undertaken to reverse, and in its place to set up a policy of autocratic force. He has shown that a president who has the will to usurp legislative functions. to exalt the power of the executive above the constitution and to commit our n«tion to violations of international justice, easily finds away. His course, while filling the vacancy made by the death of President McKinley, can only be taken as an earnest of what he will do if the American people, by electing him president, shall approve bis tendencies and methods. “Here is the issue which every citizen must now decide. The statesman who until recently was chief justice of the higlxst court of New York is the leader of those who stand for constitutional government of this country. strong and enduring In the union of liberty and law.” Judge Parker had eight years yet to serve on a >17.000 a year job. but he resigned. Senator Failbanks has only two years to serve on a >5,000 job, but he is hanging on like grim death. The judge feels certain of his election, w'hile the senator feels equally certain of defeat. Mr. Fairbanks is losing heart early in the game.—Winchester Democrat. Alva Green, editor of the Otwell Star, the only Republican paper in Dubois county, has renounced the Republican party and will support the Democratic tickets. He says that he is still a Republican, but President Roosevelt is too erratic to be intrusted with power, and the best Interests of the country demand his defeat. “Nine times out of ten,” says a philosopher, “trouble is what we blame the world for when we did it all ourselves.”—Atlanta Constitution. Th* Rite of the Snake. In Vai di Rosa, Italy, the serpent is a traditional terror, and the place is celebrated for a curious religious custom known as the rite of the snake. On ascension day the priest solemnly immerses a harmless water snake In a huge antique basin, dug up on Monte Bruno. The mountaineers believe that by reason of this ceremony all the other snakes that Infest the country will perish.—Chicago News.

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Roosevelt and the Farmer, President Roosevelt once lived in the west end he afterw-.rd conceived I the idea of glorifying the cowboy and j bronco-buster in a book. That was a thing about which no one need concern himself, for it was merely a matter of taste, hut when the writer took occasion to make invidious comparisons between his heroes and the quiet, sober and Industrious farmer and workingman. he presented an entirely different question. Here is the way he pictured the bronco-busters and far-; mers, mechanics and workingmen in his “Ranch Life and Hunting Trail, pages 9 and 10: “They are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers; nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath.” With our own vast continent to be developed; with political and business corruption gnawing at our national life; with the gravest social and political internal problems pressing for solution ; with the foundations of the constitution undermined by lawless unions on one side and lawless combines on the other; with law and order and prosperity threatened by labor wars; with the yeast of socialism and anarchy fermenting in the public mind; with 9,000,000 negroqs to be educated and fitted into some sort of tolerable living relations with their white neighbors. you propose to divert the nation s thought and energy from the duties that crowd upon it at home to a career of rowdy adventure abroad.—From Pulitzer’s letter to President Roosevelt Among the visitors to Esopus during the week was George Foster Peabody, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. He said incidentally, that the first campaign contribution he received as treasurer was from an Episcopal clergyman over eighty years old. The clergyman wrote that, while be did not know whether he would live to vote .or Parker and Davis, he wanted to send a dollar bill, all he could afford, with the hope that the campaign fund would be made up of the dollars of a million voters, rather than the larger gifts of rich men. Among the salient features "'of the campaign, as it is seen today, is the action of the Parker Constitution club of New iork, organized under very high auspices, many of whose members were supporters of McKinley, but are now accentuating the demand for “Constitutionalism versus Imperialism.” This is but one of many signs of a rising tide of popular enthusiasm for a return to the historic principles and traditions which lie deeply imbedded in the hearts or the American people. The great newspapers of the country are flocking to the support of Judge Parker and there is little doubt but the independent press of the country will be largely for him before the campaign closes Among the Influential newspapers which supported McKinley but are now for Parker, are the Washington Post, the Baltimore Herald, the New York Herald, the New York Times, the New York Staats-Zei-tung, the New York World, the Brooklyn Eagle and many other equally Influential publications. New Brttnin Currency. Dewarra, a currency of New Britain, is an instance of bow the spoils of the chase may be turned to account as the outward and visible sign of wealth. Dewarra is made by stringing the shells of a dog whelk upon the ribs of palm leaves. These strings may be retailed at so much a fathom—usually i the price is equivalent to about three shillings a fathom length—or they may ; be made into various articles of peri sonal adornment to be worn on great ! occasions. In New Britain the dewarra hoarded up by a rich man is produced : at his funeral and divided among his heirs in much the same kind of way as personal property is divided among us. Look For the Man. “Bess and Mabel have ceased to speak as they pass by,” said the girl in the tailor made costume. “Indeed!” exclaimed the girl In the home made gown. “What’s the man’e name?”—London Tit-Bits.

A HERO’S U-qCTMENTi Captain Richmond p n,,v hero of Santiago harbor w number of speeches in’ i„ rt i make ’ fall. He is outspoken in hi, nation of the attempt of ths cans to appeal to race preju^? I ’ ll, attributes the recent unhaunv * Bi tlons in the South tion of the president. After J ? to the lynching of two neSj Georgia. Captain Hobson cS ’ nize the fact that this wave of , 8 lessne?s in Georgia and in other aha has followed upon the heels of th ’ cent action of the president in the race question upon the Chical convention and the Republican „ form. In fact, the whole unhapnv nation in the South that has I’’, worse and worse with the course <! the Roosevelt administration i s fl , to the flagrant violation of fundamen tai laws of nature, whether intentional or unintentional on the part of th. president. “The accepted Interpretation of jj t Roosevelt’s position on the race q Ws ' tion means negro political domination where negroes are in the majority « a return to the unhappy conditions of the reconstruction era, and means th, mingling of the races in blood relatlons. By the laws of nature where two races differing in sociological status are found together in a political organism it is the higher and not the lower that should be intrusted with the grave questions of governing, and it is suicidal for tbe higher race to intermarry with the lower.” Judges, college presidents, manufaj turers, business men, railroad men, bankers, solid farmers and men of all avocations and callings in life are for Judge Parker because they know he is a safe, cautious and conservative man. one whose judgment is sound and whose mind is clear and well trained. With him in the presidential chair, there will be no jack rabbit business or wild west strenuosity connected with the administration. The solid men of the nation are for Judge Parker. —Columbia City Post. Statistics designed to show that wages have kept pace with prices and for this reason the cost of living is not relatively greater than it was ten years ago may satisfy the theorist but the consumer knows that the statement is false. A ten per cent increase in wages here and there does not balance a twenty per cent increase in the cost of living throughout the country. It Hems strange in this "era of Re pubHean prosperity" to find the New York Tribune, the only out-and-out Roosevelt paper in the city of New York, advising laboring men not to jo on strike because “there are so many idle men to take their places at the same wages or less than they art receiving." Explaining It. “His great contention is that all men are born equal.” “That’s all right.” “But be seems to think be’s better than most men.” | “Well, be means all men are bora equal, but some are equal to a hundred others.” —Philadelphia Press. Definition of Genins. So far is genius from being “a transcendent capacity for taking trouble, first of all,” as Carlyle has it. that it is rather the capacity for doing without trouble that which other people cannot do with any amount of trouNe.Pall Mall Gazette. great day The Jay county fair is o at p or* Portland next week, and the deEcratic congressional convention is a on the cards for Wednesday, one o the best days of tbe fair. Excuriona rates will be in vogue. Adams county people can attend a convention an the fair all in one day, and should take advantage of the occasional goon Wednesday, September 7. COSTS NOTHING UNLESS CURED A FAIR OFFER MADE BY THE ’J’* COMPANY TO ALL SUFFERS FROM CATARW ~ The Holthouse Drug Company a « selling Hyomei on a plan , caused considerable talk their customers. The P !a “ 1 ‘^ e . ent from that followed by o • dies, but the remedy itseif f also. This treatment for the curej catarrh has such an untisu of cures to its emht tha-th Ho« house Drug Co., offers to money if it does not give | benefit. This is certainly fairest offers that that can ,^ g and any one who has catarr not take advantage of it is doing self or herself an injustice- . . o f } The Hyomei treatment cons small hard rubber inhaler s carried in the vest Bymedicine dropper and a omei. The complete treatwen‘c but SI and as the ‘ D . haleß espenlifetime the medicine is very i give. Many people who ha write that for the & L V1.,,- n giy pay done them they would w thousands of dellars , proExtra bottles of cured for use with the ff jtb cents. Do not suffer any ‘ Ratertickling, smarting, bunU* ha re ing troubles that afflict u catarrh. «Hyomeiwilou^ t 0( if you should not find q,, your case the Holthous will return your money-