Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT — „ ■ ... - BVBRY THURSDAY MORNING BY VEW G. ELLINGHAM; PUBLISHER •I.OOPBR YEAR IN ADVANCE, ■iitered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-clans mail matter. "OFFICIAL PAPER oFADAMS~CmfY. THURSDAY OCT. 13, 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 For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District MARTIN LAUGHLIN POLITICAL CALENDAR. O;t, 12. Pleasant Valley School House, Monroe Township. R. K. Erwin and J. C. Moran Oct. 14. Bryan’s Day, Decatur, Wm. J. Bryan, at 10:30 a. m. Oct. IS. Monmouth, Root Town ship Judge R. K. Erwin and J. C. Moran. Oct. 17. School House at'St. Johns’ Church, Union Township. F. J. Reinhard, of Rockport, Ind. Speech will be in German.

Oct. IS. Hardscrable School House, Union Township. C. J. Lutz and A. P. Beatty. Oct. 12. Freidheim, Preble Township. F. J. Reinhard, of Rockport, Ind. Speech will be in German. Oct. 18. Linn Grove, Hartford township, David E. Smith and D D. Coffee. Oct. 18. Magley, Preble township, James T. Merryman and J. M. Kelley. Oct. 19. Berne, Ind. F. J. Reinhard and C. J. Lutz. Oct. 19. Rodabush School House. Washington Township. Jas. T. Merryman and A. B. Beatty. Oct. 19. Hardscrabble School house. Monroe township, Mayor D. D. Coffee and D. E. Smith. Oct. 1 9. Rheineker School House, Washington township, John C. Moran and John W. Tyndall. Oct. 21. Buckmaster School house. Jefferson township, R. K. Erwin and J. M. Kelley. Oct. 22. Pleasant Mills, St. Marys township, D. E. Smith and C. J. Lutz. Oct. 25. Huey School house. Jefferson township, C. J. Lutz and D. B Erwin. Oct. 25. Preble School House, Preble township, D. E. Smith and J. C. Moran. Oct. 29 Pleasant Mills, St. Marys township, Dore B. Erwin and John C. Moran. Nov. I. Linn Grove, Hartford township, Judge R K. Erwiu and A. P. Beatty. These meetings will begin at seven o’clock, and should be well attended. The Indianapolis News, republican, gets back to earth and sounds a note of warning and g. o. p. wail to the members of his flock. The News emphasizes a caution that’the over-confident republican who already saw a thirty or forty thousand majority in Indiana had (better get busy in saving the state from a democratic victory. This is the true situation, and it behooves every democrat to save every vote for the democratic tickets. The opening of the cam paign at Berne last night was all kinds of a suoess, the speeches being made by Judge Erwin and David £ Smith, Attorney Henry W. Warram. of Indianapolis, was to have spoken, but train connections interfered. The crowd was large, the interest all that could be desired and the speakers did themselves proud. Enthusiastic meetings were also held in Kirkland and Union townships, where James T. Merryman, Jesse Robinson, John W. | Tyndall, John C. Moran and Dore B Erwin were the speakres.

Republicans are urging demo - orats to vote for Roosevelt, 'saying that a jianic is likely to come upon the country in the coming four years and it will be better for the democrats to be out of power thanin. Queer logic, isn't it.—Colum bia City Post. The political situation in Indiana is encouraging to democracy, and if every democrat will now put his shoulder to the wheel and assist in organizing Adams county as it was never organized liefore. The state poll shows tha’ we have them licked, and the way to make them stay licked is for united individual effort. Five democratic meetings were held in Adams county last night and every one was a hummer. Every one was largely attended. Everyone was enthusiastic an added courage to thos3 seeking to make Adams county's majority the largest in her history. We have the votes and let us go to work to get them all in the ballot box on election day. Hon. C. A. Windle, of Chicago, met all expectations injhis address at the court room last evening. He is an orator whose beautiful word painting is rich in tone and conception, and during the two hours he held the large and appreciative audience spell -bound and'enraptured by his eloquence and logic. He is a hard hitter and the blows fell thick and fast, leaving not a fragment for the g. o. p. to bolster up a lost cause. The Hon. Dan W. Simms, of Lafayette, spoke at Geneva > and all those who heard him are up on their toes today. It was by I far the best democratic speech of the campaign, and we are free to say that Mr. Simms measures up with the best of the n when it comes to talking democracy for democracy’s sake. He told the burning truth and it sunk deep. He is of fine voice, an orator that orates and a magnificent man all the way through. Adams county and especially Geneva will welcome him back at any time. The administration organs are calling down maledictions upon the head of ex-senator Towne for declaring that Abraham Lincoln, were he alive today, would be a democrat. Ex-Senator Towne, of course, nas no means of knowing what Lincoln would be were he alive today, but a study of Lincoln's life and public speches and writings afiords strong evidence that he would not be a republican as the republican party is today made up. The Commoner defies any adinistration organ or leader to find anywhere in Lincoln's utterances one word that can be construed in an argument in favor of the republican party’s Philippine policy. It challenges any republican leader or organ to find anywhere in Lincoln's utterances, one word that can be construed into an argument in favor of the republican party's attitude towards the trusts and monopolies. In short, the Commoner challenges any republican organ to quote Abraham Lincoln at length upon any subject. —Colonel Bryan.

Judge Akon B. Parker has been a consistent democrat all his life. Even when the party was divided he adhered to majority rule and supported the candidates of his party, fie is a democrat from conviction and is a student of the fundamental principles of American institutions. He comes from the ranks of the plain people in and such high esteem is he held by the people of his own state—the Empire state of the Union—that on the one occasion he was chosen to the highest judicia position in the state by acclamaiton and at another time by more than one hundred thousand majority. The people of that great state have confidence in his integrity ana his abilities, otherwise such a vote of confidence would not have been bestowed. It is well to remember also that the judiciary of the great state of New York has always been regarded as the purest and ablest in the land. Judge Parker is a man of peace. He is a just man. His ancestors fought for liberty and independence. If elected to the presidency he will seek to preserve and perpetuate the rights for which they contended, one of which is that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.—Logansport Pharos.

A SHAME If a demccrat were president of the United States and were running for election for another term, he would be criticised, if he took his Secretary of Commerce from that office, which insures to him power over all corporations, with secret knowledge of their resources, their interts, their fears and their combinations, and made that Secretary his collector of campaign contributions! If a democratic president did that, republican criticism upon ' him for doing that would be relentless and would be just. A repub-j ‘ lican president, Mr. Roosevelt, a candidate for election for a second ; 1 term, has done just that. Demo-, cratic criticism of him for doing ; that is relentless and is just. That 1 ; criticism which reppubicans would I not resent, if made by them against | a democrat, republicans should not resent, when made by democrats against them. The action referred to is monumental fur hardihood. It is pregnant with possibilities of I scandal and shame. It is signifi- ' cant of the burial of sorouples and 'of ideals in American politics.. It 1 is suggestive of a courage of doing j and for daring, in directions of danger and of wrong, that has nevei 1 been shown before. It ought to arouse the morality and the manhood of the people of the United States. We do not know whether it will or not. It will, if those people aie vitally and vividly honest. It will not, if those people have become sodden and shameless. All 1 suppositions or comments aside, the thing is a fact in our present history. No other government under the sun among men has ever presented such a fact. Our own government never before among men presented such a fact. Were Mr. Cortelyou the best man in the United States, that would not affect, except to his discredit, the conditions in which neither the best man nor the worst man in this country should ever be found. To throw up a cabinet office, to become a campaign collector, under the admitted promise of a greater and higher cabinet office, k in case the campaign collections work successful results, is a statement, and involves a programme, that ought to be impossible—but which,miserable to tell, and h meful to record, are actual, evident, dreadful, horrible, hateful and visible and not only undenied, but applauded, today. There is no propriety of government which this does not violate. There is no security of decency in politics which this does not flout and attack. There is no precedent for it in the pre-existing history of the woild. There should be no precedent for it in the history of the world hereafter. The act itself has in it that quality of moral monstrosity, which should smite it with the iinpctency that can be rewarded neither with prosperity nor with propagation.— Brooklyn Eagle. YES WHICH?

President Rosevelt is more than a millionaire. He was born amidst luxury and has never had to give a thought in the matter of maintainance. His environment has always been that of the very rich. Judge Parker, on the contrary, was born of poor parents. He like all other young men. had to make his own way in the world. He began as a country school teacher and with his savings managed to educate himself and prepare himself for the law. He succeeded in his profession, because of diligent application to his profession, though he. as other young men, encountered many difficulties and made personal sacrifices at the beginning. His environment has always been that of the plain people. President Roosevelt has never known anything except rich and fashionable life, except while rusticating in the far west seeking pleasure and indulging an inclination to hunt and fish. Judge Parker at present lives on a farm, eighty miles north of New York City. His nearest neighbor is a quarter of a mile distant.. His surroundings are that of the plain farmers of Indiana. Which of these two men do you think would most likely be in smypathy with the common people I*—Plymouth Independent. Bryan Day Friday promises to furnish the largest Crowd that has been in Dceatur for many a day. Reports from ever corner of Adams county finds every one coming to see and hear the magnetic Bryan.

It will pay every Adams conn y demccrat to remember that the apparent apathy amorg the repub-j icans is n< t a'l real. I' is ar * their method of Camp ign, and should not be misunderstood. They have their dark lantern meeting behind closed doors and drawn blinds. These meetings are being u held all over the county and their method is to mislead the democrats and get them to misunderstand the situation. These little games are not new to the Adams county democracy. Let every demoert be up and I d ling. Be active and alert and help , make the democraic majority the largest ever. Senator Beveridge is deeply grieved. Some one told him tnat \ the democratic campaign fund was |so large that cash was paid for all : postage stamps used, and that the unterritied actually intended to use the thirty cents on hand to corrupt the balot. and purchase the whole bunch of United States senators, congressman and|a few other statesmen. The deal was so brazen that war is declared upon every son of a gun that votes the democratic ticket. The senator believes only in that patriotism that buys at two dollars a head the defenseless oolored'and white brother who furnish the only plurality the republicans ever had in Indiana. COURT NEWS Robert Carpenter, the man charged with burglarizing the Baumgartner hardware store at Berne, was arraigned in court this afternoon. He was granted a few days in which to se. are aid fr om relatives at Columbus, Onio. Howard Chapman, one of the men charged by Mrs. Della Chapman of Bobo, with stealing a Bible and banjo of her was arrested at Huntington yesterday and brought in. He appeared before Judge Erwin this afternoon, plead not guilty, and was allowed his liberty, after signing a bond for $; 0. He is a brakeman on the Erie, as is his brother. They claim the bible and banjo they took were family heirlooms.

John F. Tisron vs James N. Fristoe, foreclosure of mechanics’ lien, defendants demurer overruled. —o — Christopher Byer vs Elmira Garwood et al, default as to defendants, proof of publication of residency filed. Richard B. Johnson et al vs Minnie Waller etal, partition, appraisement filed, report of sale, deed or dered. Final report filed and al loweud. Commissioner discharged. An order to sell real estate was granted upon petition by Emanuel Wanner administrator of the Frederick Dreyer estate. Clara Shimp vs Valentine'Shimp, complaint for divorce, default as to defendant, rule against prosecuting attorney to answer, and same filed. —o—- — F. Albertson, owner of New York Granite Co. vs W. S. Hughes, suit on account, demand $175, demurer filed to complaint. —o—- — A. Coolman et al vs Charlie Coolman, partition, report of sale, deed£ordered, reported, approved. Plaintiffs attorney allowed $lO, taxed as costs. —o — Margaret Koenig vs John Sohei man, motion to make complaint more specific overruled except to mention of growing timber. The suit is one for SBOO damages for removing timber from lands of plaintiff. —o— John F. Tisron vs James N. Fristoe, answer filed in four paragraphs, ruled to answer. John M. Baker vs Emanuel Tricker, replevin, demurer to answer overruled, reply filed set for trial Thursday, Oct. 20. Sidney Chapman, charged with his brother Howard, who appeared in court yesterday, with stealing a bible and banjo from Mrs. Della Chapman, their sister in law, was before Judge Erwin this morning. | plead not guilty and was released after signing a bond for SSO to ap--1 pear when notified. • I But little business of importance

is going on in court this week and what was expected to be a busy term seems to be developing into an unusually light one. A new case was filed this m »rn ing entitled The Unon Trust company, receiver for Mutual Life Insurance company of Indiana vs Sylvester and Eliza J. Peterson suit to quiet title. F. M. Schirmeyer was appointed ! city commissioner in place of Thomas Gallogly, who resigned. . —o — Christopher Byer vs Elmira Garwood and ten others, suit to quiet title. D. B. Erwin appointed guaij dian for minor defendants, cause submitted and title quieted. John i Schurger appointed commissioner |to make deed. Judgment against plaintiff for costs. Jesse Smith charged by grand jury indictment with conducting a gaming house plead guilty and was fined fifty dollars —o——D. Krick, administrator 'of Jacob Krick estate reported sale I of personal property and same was : approved. —° — Merryman & Sutton as attorneys for the plaintiff, has tiled suit entitled Eva Delle May vs Shaffer and M try L. Peterson, suit to collect note and foreclosure of mortgage, demand. S7OO. —o— B W. Sholty, assignee of C. M. France vs William A. Bowman, rule to make pleading more specific within five days. —o — The case of Aaron P. Knowles vs Indiana Consolidated Oil & Gas company to collect $l5O for a horse alleged to have been sold to the manager of the company, went to the jury at 1:30 this afternoon, the arguments having closed at noon. The plaintiff was represented by Attorneys William Drew and L. C Devoss and the defense by Jacob Butcher and D. D. Heller. —o— Joseph H. Voglewede vs W. D. Roe, administrator, claim $49.05, is the title of a new case tiled in court today.

L. C. Devoss has entered his appearance for Oscar Shaw, defendant in a divorce case recently filed. —o— Kerr F. Albertson vs W. S. Hughes, demurer filed by defendant was overruled. —o— W. J. Baughm et al vs W. R. Banta'et al, injunction suit, evidence heard and submitted. —o — Aaron P. Knowles vs Inidana Consolidated Oil & Gas Co., suit on account to collect $l5O for house sold to manager of the company, is being tried by jury this afternoon. —o—- — Koenemsnn vs G. R. & 1. Ry Co., damages S2OO, apjiearance by Zollars & Zollars and A. P. Beatty for defendant. —o——O. Juday et al vs Prospect Oil Co. et al. rule against defendant to answer complaint within ten days. Margaret Koenig vs John Scheiman, amended complaint filed, rule to answer. —o—- — in the case of Aaron P. Knowles vs Indiana Consolidated Oil and Gas company, which were sent out just after dinner yesterday are still deliberating , having so far been unable to agree. —o — Workmen are busy putting arch lights in the court room this wee*. Three incandescent archs will be used and the work will be completed tomorrow. Mrs. Anna Worden, who at one time resided in this city, but re cently at Marion, Ind., died October 4th, after a long siege of sickness. She was 65 years old and was a member of the Baptist church and a strong spiritualist in faith. She 1 was buiied October 6th at 2:30 I o clock p. m., in the Manon ceme- , tery, by the Martha W’ashington 1 society, of which she was a promi- ; nent member. The services were held at the house and were largely I attended. She leaves a husband and son, aged m >ther and two j brothers, Enoch Cox, of Williams county, Ohio, and Elijah Cox of ■ to mourn their loss.

HEMENWAY. Os course the present tituatir* M the Indiana Republicans In respect t senatorial candidates is the nat u . a * outgrowth of the boss rule that t as been inaugurated under Mr. p ar banks. Years ago ’he began to con tribute to the campaign fund, and for the purpose of advancing his own in . terests and it was not unnatural that he should be rewarded with a mort gage on his party. This mortgage not only covered his own claims on th. party, but was construed by him and his backers to cover any claim that he might put forward in behalf of his friends. It is well known that the tnachi-e was loaded against Beveridge in 18'*/ when tne “manifest destiny” statesman was chosen by the caucus, and that choice was made only after it was demonstrated that it must either i, 9 Beveridge or Hanly. Now Mr. Fairbanks comes forward and. in spite of the unwritten law of parties that all candidates shall have an equal show within the party, he and his friends are openly advocating the nomination of Hemenway for the senate. And this is being done in the face of the fact that Governor Durbin. Charles B. Landis, Edgar D. Crumpacker and others of less note but equal versatility are aspirants for the senate The open championship of Hemenway by Speaker Cannon in recent speeches in Indiana was in direct defiance of every law of courtesy and of every rule of right. If there was but the one candidate and no prospect that others might enter the race; if the Republicans as a party were agreed that Hemenway should go to the senate in the event that the legislature Is Republican, then the case would be different, but the bringing Into the state of a man of Cannon's prominence in the party for the excress purpose of booming Hemenway was an insult to the party and an outrage upon other candidates. But the Fairbanks machine has tome to regard itself as invincible, and there is probably nothing which It will not dare to do. even in the face of party law. to reward a favorite and perpetuate Itself in power. Do They Pay for Protection? The New York American on August 29th published an astonishing story concerning the contributions of the trust to the campaign fund of the Re publican party. That newspaper asserted. upon what it claimed was unquestionable authority, that the Standard Oil company had donated SI.JOG, 000. and J. Pierpont Morgan had given $250,000. It also announced tint the members of the Union League Club of New York had contributed $100,00.') to the fund. In regard to these trust contributions. alleged to have been made, the American quotes its informant as saying: “Morgan’s enmity to Roosevelt ended with the appointment of his banking firm as fiscal agent for the purchase of the $40,000,000 Panama canal. The $750,000 pledged by the steel and iron trust was not difficult to exact a'ter the Chicago convention, with the approval of the president, promised no tinkering with the tariff ‘except by Its friends.’ ” Chairman Babcock of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee has issued another statement in which he declares that if the election were held today the Republicans might elect Roosevelt and lose the lower house of congress. Os course this statement Is Issued in order to get Republicans at work, and it ought to have the same effect upon Democrats. When the Republicans issue statements under "scare" heads, it is for a double purpose: first, to awaken members of their own party to effort, and, second, to lull Democrats Into repose. The opposite should be true of all Democrats. If they have a chance to control congress they should go In to make that chance certain. There Is no doubt but, if the election were held today, the party would both elect Parker and a majority in congress. But this is not the day for the election, and it is incumbent upon all Democrats to see that what is tru* of conditions now shall be true on November 8. Collier’s Weekly, a Republican paper. expresses the hope that if Roose velt is elected the Democrats will at least control the lower house of congress. And here is the reason it gives: “There is no doubt that the President would be a better President with a Democratic house to criticise and sometimes thwart him than he would with a Republican house subservient to his impatience and to his lack of respect for certain principles and distinctions that have been among the soundest elements of American democracy.” If the Democrats in this county will organize from election precinct to county and be ever watchful that Republicans do not have the opportunity to poll illegal votes, there will be marked gains In November. Republicans are restless under the present “strenuous” administration, and hun tjreds of the patriotic, thieking class would hail a return to "first principles” as enunciated by Republican an Democratic Presidjnts*alike and fr n ™ which President Roosevelt has made tha only serious departure. It wss President Roosevelt who <. clared that a cowboy is a better co . panion than small mechanicor laborers, but Mr. RodSevelt wa» n<. * candidate then.