Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 29 September 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT LtW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER K.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. •atereC at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. "OFFICIAL PAPeToF ADAMS COUNTY? THURSDAY SEPT. 29, 1904. NATIONAL TICKET For President ALTON B. PARKER of New York. For Vice-President HENRY G. DAVIS of West Virginia FOR CONGRESS Eigth Congressional District. EDWARD C. DeHORITY. COUNTY TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor C. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK Pct Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING Pot Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN POLITICAL CALENDAR. Sept. 39. Preble School house. Preble township, Judge R. K. Erwin and Jesse M. Kelley. Election School House. French township. David E. Smith and J. C. Moran. Monmonth, Root township, James T. Merryman and S. A M Butcher. „ Geneva, Judge James D. Ermston, of Anderson. Sept 30. Monroe, Clark J. Lutz and Dore B. Erwin. Sept. 30. Pole raising 4 miles south of Decatur, and 1| miles east. St. Paul Church 6 o’clock. Speaker, Judge R. K. Erwin, at H. L. Smiths. Oct. 1. Knapp School House, Root Township. D. E. Smith; D. D. Coffee. Oct 1. Monroeville, Allen county, Judge R. K. Erwin Oct 4 Salem. Blue Creek township, David E. Smith and J. C. Moran. District No 4 School House Monroe township, J. T. Merryman and A. P. Beatty. Oct. 6, Prairie School House, Blue Creek township, C. J. Lutz and W L. Thornhill. Oct. 6. Washington School House, Washington township, D. E. Smith and J. C. Moran. Brandyberry School house, Washington township, R. K. Erwin and Jacob Butcher. Oct. 7. Court room, Decatur, Ind. C. A. Windle, Chicago. Oct. 10. Booher Schoolhouse, Jefferson township, D. E. Smith and J. F. Fruchte. These meetings will begin at seven o’clock, and should be well attended. Every panic in the history of the country occurred under a republican administration and republican laws. Tom Taggart says that of ninetytwo per cent of the democrats vote, Indiana will record a democratic victory of fifteen thousand. A thorough and systematic organization will get this vote. The g. o. p. leaders are getting scarced about Indiana and are now importing a few colored orators, with a view of lining up the fractious colored voter. They argue too, that they will draw better crowds than a cabinet officer. The speaker for the opening of the campaign at Geneva has been changed from the Hon. Dan Sims to Judge James D. Ermston. of Anderson, who by the way is a cracker-jack. Geneva democrats are fortunate in having Judge Ekmston. According to the New York Herald there is every enoouraeremen t for the democrats in the doubtful states. That enterprising and influential newspaper prints reports from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia, Indiana and Wisconsin. These reports are not based upon hot air, but upon conditions as they actually exist in these states. The tide is toward the democratic ticket and the thing to do is £ get into the swim and make the result decisive.

HE ACCEPTS Judge Parker has again spoken his letter of acceptance giving a clear and logical emphasis to the issues. It is not an empassioned appeal to glittering generalities or , intended for dress parade with I brass buttons, but instead is a sober and sensible discussion of policies as they are. His assault upon republican extravagance is vigorous. showing that the expenditures of the government has increased from $242,000,000 in 1886 to $582,000,000 for last year. In this connection he adds ' This draft upon the revenues of the country has had the effect which might have been anticipated, and now we have presented the of the situation, which led to the famous observation,‘lt is a condition and not a theory which confronts us;’ for although the present incumbent found at the close of the first fisca year, during which he assumed control of the administration, a surplus of receipts over expenditures of more than $91,000,000. there was an excess of expenditures over receipts at the close of the last fiscal year of $41,000,000, and the official monthly reports made by the treasury department show that the expenditures are continuously and rapidly increasing while the receipts are diminishing." An excellent point is made on the decline of American shipping, which in the last one hundred years has declined from eighty per cent to a very beggardjy fraction. Philipino independence is advocated, as is also a tariff revision and a trust restriction. The letter is a commendable document, and demonstrates beyond any preadventure that Judge Parker as president. will never be carried away from his constitutional privileges and duties by sentimentalities. THE TRUST BUSTER Charging the democratic party with inconsistency, Mr. Roosevelt ssys: ‘‘lt is doubtful if they (the democrats) venture resolutely to press a singe issue. As soon as they raise one they shrink from it and seek to explain it away”. Mr Roosevelt adds: ‘‘Such an attitude is the probably inevitable result of the effort to improvise convictions; for when thus improvised, it is natural that they should be held in a tentative manner. ” Mr. Roosevelt ought to be an authority upon “improving convictions.” He certainly has had considerable experience in that line. When he was vice president. Mr. Roosevelt had the conviction that the trusts must be suppressed and he delivered an address at Minneapolis on Labor day. He said: “We shall find it nescesary in the future to shackle cunning, as in the past we have shackled force. - ’ In that address, Mr. Roosevelt went so far that the Kansas City Star, a republican 1 taper, printed an editorial commenting upon Mr. Roosevelt's speech, in which the Star said: “William Jennings Bryan, with all his professed hostility for combinations against trade has never said anything in relation to trusts so emphatic and unequivocal as the utterances of Vice President Roosevelt at Minneapolis. To the notable political epigrams of the day must be added the declaration of Mr. Roosevelt that we shall find it neessary in the future to shackle cunning as in the past we have shackled force.” The whole range of modern democratic literature might be searched in vain for a pronunciamento more courageous than that on the tyrannical centralization of capital.” As soon ;as he became president, however. Mr. Roosevelt seems to have have “improvised ’ his convictions; at least, he has done nothing to “shackle cunning as in the past we have shackled force.” fie has not undeitaken to enforce the criminal clause of the Sherman anti-trust law, nor has he attempted to wage a serious campaign against the trust sysem”.—Bryan's Commoner.

YOUR UNCLE JOE L’ncle Joe Cannon, who is touring the country for the republican party in a sjiecial car provided by the railroad corporations, and hauled free of charge because he is censor of laws in congress, is nowsaying pleasant things of Colonel Bryan. That to our mind is the vilest sort of demagogy. Four years ago this same Cannon went about the country den< uncng Colonel Bryan and his supporters a? nation wreckers, telling the people that Bryan’s election would bring ruin and repudiation to the .and. while the republican newspapers pictured and cartooned Colonel Bryan as a chained dog, the symbol of “calamitv.” Now the same newspapers and the same orators are throwing bouquets at Colonel Bryan, hoping to wean some of his friends away from the democratic party. Will any man be fooled by i such palaverr Can the friends of 1 Colonel Bryan forget the cruel abuse and endless calumny heaped ion him by the republican newspapers and speakers? We give them credit for more self-respect, ' for more pride, for mere patriotism. I for there isn't a man in the land I who followed William Jennings ' Bryan that doesn’t hate a hypocrite and despise a coward. — Van Wert Times,

G O. P. PANICS I In his letter of acceptance. Mr. ; Rosevelt said: “It is but ten years I since the last attempt was made by j means of lowering the tariff to prevent some people from prospering too much. The attempt was entirely successful. The tariff of that year (1894) was among the causes which in that year and for some time afterwards effectually prevented anybody from prospering too much and labor from prospering at all.” This statement is in 'line with the declaration in the republican national platform for 1904 that “a democratic tariff has always been followed by business adversity a republican tariff by business prosperity.” Neither the statement of Mr. nor the declaration in the republican . platform is justified by history. As a matter of fact, every panic during the last thirty years originated under republican rule and devel- ' oped under republican legislation. The gold panics which gave history “black Friday” occurred during the month of September, 1869, j when the republican party was in power. The great panic marked by the failure of Jay Cook & Co. occurred in September, 1873. Then the republican party was in power and eleven months prior to the time of that panic, the republican party had been re-elected to power. It is true the Wilson bill was passed ten years ago. That was in 1894. But that: panic did not originate in 1894 it did not originate in 1893 it began long prior to the presidential election of 1892. That panic originated and reached its worst under that famous tariff law known as the McKinley bill. The republican party was restored to power March 4, 1889. The McKinley bill became a law October 6, 1890. November 11. 1890, the reports showed financial distress in New York. The New York clearing house associations voted its certificates to banks in need of assistance. The Boston clearing house association did the same thing November 17. Parker Bros. & Co., big bankers in Philadelphia, suspended at that time, with liabilities placed at 5.000,000. November 19, 1890, there was a run on the Citizens’ Savings bank of New York, and a receiver war appointed for the North River bank. November 22, 1890, the United Rolling Stock company of Chicago assigned with liabilities at $6,851,000. November 28. 1890. B. K. Jamieson & Co., the Philadelphia bankers, (failed, with liabilities at $23,000,000. December 6, 1890, the Oliver iron and steel mills of Pittsburg shut down, discharging 2,000 employes. On the same date the cotton firm of Myer & Co., of New Orleans, failed, with liabilities at $2,000,000 January 3, 1891, the Scottdale rolling mills and pike works and the Charlotte furnace and coke works in Pennsylvania closed, throwing 10,000 employes out of work. January 18, 1891, the American National bank at Kansas City suspended. with liabilities at $2,250,000. May 8, 1891, the Spring .Garden

National bank at Philadelphaia closed its doers, and the Pennsyiva- ■ nia Safe Deposit and Trust com--1 pany made an assignment. The Homestead strike and other ■ strikes during 1892 are well remem- ’ bered by the people. Grover Cleveland was inaugur- * ated March 4, 1893. 1 In May 1893, S. E. White and others suspended in New York. The Chemical bank of Chicago anil ■ its branches suspended. Other ’ failures followed and finally the famous raids on the I nited States ’ treasury were made. January 17. 1891. the Cleveland ’ administration ordered a $50,000,00 - bond issue. i August 1, 1894, the Wilson tariff law went into effect. ’ It is admitted by everyone fa--1 milar with the facts that President s Harrison’s administration had plates prepared for the bonds and ’ Mr. Harrison's secretary of the ■ treasury made a visit to New Tork 1 for the purpose of negotiating the 1 bond deal. He was wired by Mr. Harrison to return to Washington. ’ Mr. Harrison said that he had concluded not to have any bond issues under his administration and in ■ order to avoid the stigma the Har- ' risen administration warded off the ' bond issue and unloaded it on the incoming Cleveland administration. It will be observed that the Cleveland administration ordered the $50,000,000 bond issue January 17, 1894, . That was seven months

before the Wilson bill became a law. Perhaps it is not significant, but in view of Mr. Roosevelt’s claim, it is at least interesting, that the first indications of the panic occurred Nov. 11, 1890, a little more than 30 days after the McKinley tariff bill became a law. From that date the panic raged, and while its effects were felt for sev eral years, it reached its worst stage in 1893 and during the early days of 1894. during all of which time the McKinley tariff law was in «ffect. It may not be out of place to point out that .vhen the democratic administration surrendered the reins of government, Match 4. 1889, there was in the federal treaury the largest surplus in history. When the republican party went out of power, March 4, 1893, there was a large deficit and the incoming administration was finally persuaded to make the bond issues which its republican predecessor had at one time thought to be necoessary. but had skillfully avoided. —Bryan’s Commoner. Judge Ermston left at noon today for Winemac where he addresses a democratic meeting tonight with Hon. John W. Kern. The judge, who is an able speaker, will be activly engaged from now on in the state campaign. He has been billed up until the eve of the election.—Anderson News. Col. W. J. Bryan will come to Indiana about the of next month, his Indiana engagements being at Auburn, Portland. Ply. mouth, Sullivan. Linton and Washington. The date of these meetinerc will be announced later. It is safe to say that,the major portion of Adams county will see and hear this brilliant democrat at Portland. “It called to the office of president. I shall consider myself the chief magistrate of all the people and not of any faction, and shall ever he mindful of the fact that on many questions of national policy there are honest differences of opinion. I believe in the patriotism. good sense and absolute sincerity of all the people. 1 shall strive to remember that he may serve his party best who serves his country best. —Judge Parker’s letter of acceptance.” The republican Dress of the country is absolutely without any line of argument to present to the public in support of Roosevelt. The trusts are proving.a big burden to the party. The scandals of the administration like a millstone aoout tne necK of the party and the antics of the president adds to the load the party is carrying. So the republican papers have just about abandoned the campaign in the way of presenting argument and most of „i -- —WLiiaxg aUUUI dissensions in the democratic fold, all of which is founded on fiction or else saying that Taggart has been sat on. The latter is a thought father to the wish, for there is any one man the republicans fear it is Tom Taggart, and Tom is national chairman spelled with big-letters.--- Muncie Herald.

There are two things in the present campaign that are conspicuous for their absence namely, the full dinner pail and the ‘‘rough riders. Can you tell why'-Columbia City Post. ________ The meetings held at Pleasant Mills and the Diehl school house were record-breakers, s; leaking as nothing else can of interest for the success of the democratic ticket. It is now in order for individual effort in the precinct organizations. Get to work. History bears out Col. Bryan m his charge that every panic came under republican rule and under republican tariff law. The panic of 1890 came and raged under the McKinley tariff. The Wilson tariff law did not go into effect until August 1894. at a time when the panic ceased. Governor Durbin is mad. He is going to make the democratic organization rich by contributing one thousand dollars thereto, providing any one of his appointees will publicly say that the governor who appointed them, is not on the square. The governor is championing a very bad cause.

W. J. Bryan has lengthened his time for the Indiana campaign to ten days and the state committee are figuring on thirty speeches in those ten days. Adams county will have to content itself by going to Portland to hear this great democrat discuss the issues. The time will be about the middle of October. Judge Ermston, of Anderson, speaks at Geneva Thursday evening. C. A. Winde, of Chicago, will entertain an andience at the court house in this city Oictober 7th, and Senator Joe Black ourn, of Kentucky, has been secured for sometime later. The Berne democrats have secured a large tent and will have speaking perhaps next week. Besides these the school house campaign is waging warm with large and enthusiastic meetings. Hon. John W. Kern's keynote was the best we have heard. It was so good that the Chicago Record Herald eulogized it with a very handsome editorial. It measures Mr. Kern in a new way and the standard used is a credit to the man and candidate It will be a source of much congratulation to the southern Adams county citizens to know that Mr. Kern will address a day meeting at Geneva some time next month. "General apathy is not bothering the democrats or the democratic meetings this year. At Williams Friday nght Clark J. Lutz and John C. Moran addressed the largest meeting ever held there, and this was the first one for 1904. Every one was inter-sted and will work for democratic success. At the headquarters Friday night the room was comfortably filled to hear J. A. M. Adair talk organization, all interested in the work. Other speakers were Judge J. M. Smith. James T. Merryman, David E. Smith and Mayor Coffee. It is al a forerunner of victory. There is not a sentence in the republican platform recommending a reduction in the expenditures of the government not a line suggesting that the increase in the cost of the war department from $34,000,000 in 1886 to $115,000,000 in 1904, should be inquired into; and not a paragraph calling for a thorough investigation of those departments of the gvernment in which dishon esty has been recently disclosed. Reform in expenditures must be had in the civil, military and naval establishments in order that the national expenditures may be brought to a basis of peace and the government maintained without recourse to the taxes of war.— Judge Parker s letter of acceptance Speaker Cannon sounds a note of alarm: “Why, I found that the democrats have been carrying on an intensely active and efficient campaign in each of those states, and that, as a result, the sentiment for Parker has been gaining and spreading until the Roosevelt contingent seems to have shrunk away almost to the vanishing point. The fact of the matter is that unless our republican national committee wakes up and puts more ginger into the campaign Roosevelt will be snowed under. What’s the use of our closing our eyes to these facts. Bluff is all right in jokes, but- in politics it don t work. The people are too intelligent.”

Another plan the leading crats have under consideration <’ to send Judge Parker out on a t ’ sjeeches and holding reception , that vast numbers of the ? may meet him face to face Th? who favor this idea believe ,j ud °* Parker is a man who wij] many admirers through jiersonal , contact with the people. l n belief they are right, and I ? this after a pleasant visit with the democratic candidate. Judge p ar ker is a charming man. it ig rea || a great pleasure to sit down and chat with him. His eyes a , 6 bright and good humored. He looks straight at you when he talks. His ruddy faec bespeaks good health and good blood. He is companionable, at his ease, simple and dignified with a dignity that knows how to smile and crack a joke and not take itself too seriously; it is far from being the dig. nity of the owl. fie is not narrow or suspicious or constantly afraid someone is going to abuse his confidence. He talks frankly. He has a true politician’s excellent memory for faces and names. He never strains for effect either of cordiality or wittiness. He is natural. Men instinctively like him. In persona] contact he is not unlike McKinley The more people he meets the more friends and admirers' he will have —Walter Wellman in Chicago Rec-, ord Herald. (Rep.) COURT NEWS The case against Luther Collins, the Chattanooga man, charged with procuring an abortion upon Malissa Smitley. his sister-in-law, causing her death and which case was set for trial Monday, was postponed un til Monday, October 17th. on account of the absence of the Coroner C. H. Schenck, who is at Petoskey, Michigan. D E. Smith has beenappointed to assist Prosecutor Moran in the state’s interest, and the cause has been assigned to Judge Smith, of Portland, for trial. Some new and very important evidence has recently been discovered for the state, and the case promises to be the most interesting during the present term. —o— Attorney S. A. M. Butcher filed a motion for a new trial in the case against John Jones, Bert Webb, Bert Votaw and Marion Winstead, and filed written reasons therefor. Judge Smith ordered the evidence in the case written out in long hand, and will give his decision Wednesday. He rather intimated that he was disposed to free Winstead. In the case of the State vs Ray Miller, charged with robbery, the prosecuting attorney entered at nolle pros. —o — Jacob A. Coleman et al vs Charlie Coolman et al, default as to defendants, finding for plaintiffs; lands ordered sold. Jacob Butcher appointed commissioner. Ora Andrews vs Chauncey Andrews, divorce, cause dismissed by plaintiff, judgment against plaintiff for costs. —o — Leota Hilpert vs }filton Hilpert, divorce, motion filed to modify order of court. B. W. Sholty assignee vs W. A. Bowman, defendant. Ruled to answsr within five days. John M. Baker vs Emanuel Tricker. replevin, plaintiff ruled to reply within five days. Jesse C- Sutton et al vs Benjamin Ferrell, deed reported, approved and commissioner discharged. Joseph P. Johnson et al vs Ira Waggoner appealed from justices court, dismissed. William D. Roe vs W. D. Roe. administrator, claims $44.64, cause submitted. Jacob Butcher filed a new divorce case Thursday , the parties thereto being Clara and V alentine Shimp. Mrs. Shimp accuses he husband of cruel and inhum 0 treatment. He is a school teacat at present, holding a position Ohio. The parties resided atj' . neva and have been married ab> four years. William P. Bartling vs William C. Cochran et al, foreclosure 0 mechanics’ lien; answer to i° tcr rogatories filed by plaintiff.