Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1904 — Page 7

HDW ID VOTE CORRECTLY r ; READ THIS COLUMN CAREFULLY & ——————— jf- The device at the head of the Democratic ticket is a rooster The device at the head of the Republican ticket is an eagle “ Other tickets on the ballot have different devices The Democratic ticket is in the first column, the Republican ticket in the second column, and so on. Below is a sample of the Democratic and Republican tickets with th® respective party devices. In the order in which they will appear on the offiflal ballot. . j SAMPLE BALLOT ' // -X, v »! r *1 \\ 112 «t\ 2/ni \\ 12. ; VX A s\\ fS DEMOCRATIC TICKET. ~ REPUBLICAN TICKET. For Presidential Elector. For Presidential Elector bem. State-at-Large, rep. State-at-Large, HUGH DOUGHERTY. ‘ GEORGE A. CUNNINGHAM } INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS FIRST. You must get your ballot and a blue pencil from the polling (clerks in the election room. Remember that a blue pencil is now used 'lnstead of a stamp. SECOND. If you want to vote a straight ticket make a cross, thus: X, IWithln the large circle at the head of the ticket containing the device of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket, you must not make a cross in the large circle containing the device of your party, but you mast make a cross, thus X, on the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on whatever list of candidates it may be. If the large circle at the head of the ticket is marked, and the ballot is marked at any other place, it is void and cannot be counted, unless there be no candidate for some office in the list printed under such marked device, in which case you may indicate your choice for such office by making a cross, thus X, on the square to the left name of any candidate for such office on any other list. The cross must be placed within or on the circle or square or the ballot is void and can•*ot be counted. THIRD. Do not mutilate your ballot, or mark It either by scratching a name off or writing one on. or In any other way except by marking in the circle or on the squares as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will got be counted. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot except as before mentioned. t FOURTH. After marking your ballots, and before leaving the booths, fold them, separately so that the face of each eannot be seen, and so the Initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the back thereof can be teen. Then hand your ballots to the inspector, the pencil to the polling clerk, and leave the room. FIFTH. If you are physically unable to mark your ballot, or cannot read English, so inform the polling clerks, and make an affidavit io that effect, and tell them how you wish to vote, and they will mark you ballot for you. But neither you nor the clerks must permit any other person to hear or see how your ballot is marked. It Is a penal offense to deciare that you eanr got read English or cannot mark your ballot, if. in fact, you can; and in no ease shall the ballots be marked by the poll clerks if the voter can read the English language or is physically able to mark hl» ballot, and then not Mntll the voter has made the affidavit. SIXTH. If you should accidentally, or by mistake, deface, mutilate or •poll your ballot, return It to the poll clerks and get a new ballot. SEVENTH. You must not accept a ballot from any person outside of ■the election room. Any ballot outside is fraudulent, and It is a penitentiary effense to have such a ballot In your possession, whether you attempt to vote ft or not. EIGHTH. You must not attempt to hold any conversation In the election room except with members of the election board and poll clerks. NINTH. Use only the blue pencil banded to you by the polling clerk In marking your ballot. If you mark with any other pencil your ballot is iYoid and will not be counted. ... TENTH. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot •xcept as before mentioned.

A Bird In th* Hand. Th* Republican candidate for vice ♦resident still holds on to his seat in the United States senate. He and his political associates have good reason "to fear that the Democrats will carry the legislature of Indiana along with the electors for president. In that case the Democrats would elect two senators from Indiana should Candidate Fairbanks resign, as the term of Senator Beveridge will expire on th* 4th of next March. If Senator Fairbanks had th* confidence which he pretends In regard to Indiana he would have resigned hl* seat long ago. But with him a bird ’n the hand is worth two in th* bush.—Philadelphia Record. When the Republican board of State Tax Commissioners Increased the assessments on lands and other private property $27,000,000, it evidently counted upon the forbearance of the people to a greater extent than •ver before. But there is a limit to patlencn, and the protests that have come up from all sections are long and loud. It was bad enough to let the corporations escape by refusing to assess their Increased mileage, but it was worse to place the additional burden upon the people. The officers of Fountain county have taken an appeal to the supreme court in the case involving the right of the State Board of Tax Commissioners to Increase the assessment of improvements on lands in that county 50 per cent. The arbitrary action of the board In this matter naturally aroused the farmers of that county, and it is Well that the matter be decided and proper limitations placed upon the authority of the board. It would be interesting to know who made the figures for the state tax board and demonstrated that the increase In the assessments on j?nd and improvements on lands would Just about balance the reductions made on corporate property. When such a nice balance is reached the conclusion is Inevitable that there was some figur lug done to attain it.

Carl Schurz, the noted German independent, has written an interesting letter to the Parker Independent Club of New York, in which he points out the dangers that confront the country and will be accentuated if Roosevelt is elected. Speaking of the necessity of curbing the trusts by withdrawing protection from them, as suggested by the late Senator Sherman of Ohio, he says: "When President Roosevelt publicly professed similar sentiments a significant spectacle presented itself. At once, as the newspapers elaborately reported, political magnates, champions of the high-protective system, swooped down upon him. as was generally believed, to convince him of the politically and otherwise perilous character of such a heresy. Whether the stories told were true or not, certain It is that President Roosevelt has become a convert to protectionism of the highest kind, "standing pat on the tariff as it is, to be revised only -by its friends." The surrender is complete, and this surrender has led Mr. Roosevelt to abandon—no, not only to abandon, but positively to oppose and denounce —the policy which of all policies proposed would be surest to hurt the trusts in their really vulnerable point. And he covers this surrender with an argument which, I regret to say, looks like a subterfuge. Senator Beveridge has been unable to redeem his promise to bring a great number of speakers of national fame into Indiana during this camnaizn The Senator handed out a list before the campaign opened which he said represented men who bad promised to speak in Indiana. It now appears that the National Republican committee is rushing all these great lights to New York in the hope of sav-Ro-even- Tb.r. —r. , n f 4fs larger electoral vote, ffort is being concentrated thera.,

$27,952,101 Increase on Lands, Improvements on Lands and Lots and on Improvements by Republican Board ol Tax Commissioners. No g-eater outrage was ever perpetrated on the people of the state of Indiana than has come through the policy of the Republican Board of Tax Commissioners in fixing the assessments of lands and improvements on lands in 1903 under its assumed power to “equalize” assessments. Fifty of the ninety-two counties in the state have had their assessments on this class of property increased, and the aggregate reaches the enormous total of $27,952,101, the burden falling largely upon the farmers, whose taxes are necessarily increased in proportion. When the Republicans in their state convention in 1892 denounced the tax law as “odious” and Mr. Fairbanks, as chairman of that convention, declared that it ought to be “radically revised,” it was not supposed that the Democrats would deviate from their policy of forcing the corporations to bear their just proportion of the tax burden of the state, and until 1895 they adhered to the policy which was inaugurated by them when the law was enacted. But the Republicans have ignored the demands of the people and have steadily reduced the assessments of railroads and other corporate property till the net reduction, when the increase in main, second main, side track and rolling stock is considered, amounts to more than $16,000,000. But the board recognized the necessity of keeping up the payments on the state debt, and, in order that these should not be decreased, the specious policy of making other classes of property pay it was adopted. Ther* teing but the two classes of property—private and corporate —in the state, of course the only place to put the assessments was on the former, and this has been done at the expense largely of the farming or agricultural sections. In the effort to carry out this policy the judgment of the local assessing officers had to be ignored, but the Republican board was equal to such an emergency. County after county had its assessments increased till in some of them the values were raised more than $1,000,000. It is a remarkable coincidence that the total reduction of corporate assessments In nine years, when the Increased mileage is considered, aggregate hbout $23,000,000, while the Increased assessments on lands and improvements on lands reach a total of $27,000,000. If the board had been trying to make the Increase in the assessments on private property compensate for reductions in corporate property it could hardly have struck a nicer balance. That, these results have not been brought about by accident is plain when all the circumstances ara taken into consideration. Everyone knows that the value of corporate property has not decreased In the past few years, and It is equally true that farm property in the state has not Increased in the proportion that the assessed valuation would make it appear. And thus, while the corporations are paying on less than the value of their property, the private citizen Is paying on a valuation that Is purposely padded to make up for reductions in other values. In Allen, Gibson, Greene. Lake, Laporte, Marion, Posey and Vigo the Increases exceed $1,000,000 to the county, and in many others they are in excess of $500,000. The following table shows the counties In which these increases were made in 1903 and the amount of the increase in each: Counties. Increase. Adams $ 101,429 Allen 2,129.374 Bartholomew 410,660 Benton 304.103 Boone 345,086 Cass 245,743 Ci a y 66,915 Clinton 431.940 Dearborn 135.525 Decatur 364,597 Dekalb 44,336 Dubois 405.336 Elkhart 932.883 Fountain 458,029 Franklin 56.944 Gibson 1,191.058 Grant 690,143 Greene 1.040,016 Henry 187,631 Jackson 811,360 Jasper 839,069 Johnson 170,198 Lagrange 149.886 Lake 1,746.392 Laporte 1,260,594 Lawrence 494,.>94 Madison 120,762 , Marion 1.264.365 Marshall 670,648 Martin 40,188 Monroe 271.754 * Morgan 445.404 Noble 376.808 Orange 291.988 Parke 686.477 Perry 22.833 Pike 246.639 Porter 758,045 P.ey 1,541.849 ® Putnam ... .i 153.209 Rush . A - 956,907 Starke & • 446.769 Steuben 248.998 St. Joseph 360.559 Tippecanoe 669.733 Tipton 312,601

r Vermillion 268.05 S Vigo... 1,764.672 Wabash 630,519 White 388,676 Total $27,952,101 The foregoing increases in the valuation of property property become especially significant when placed side by side with the reductions that have been made in railroad assessments since the Republicans came into power in Indiana nine years ago. Between 1894 and 1904 the following increases were made by the railroads in Indiana: Main track, 682.02 miles; second main track, 357.57 miles; side track, $1,107.89 miles; rolling stock, 910.81. This increase called for an assessment of $23,390,054, if the mileage ratio fixed by the Democrats had been maintained, but the increase in the nine years by the Republicans was only $7,092,065, showing that there was an actual reduction in favor of the railroads of more than $16,000,000. When the railroad assessments are thus reduced and the assessments on farm lands increased $27,000,000, the tendency is certainly so obvious that it ought to be checked before the law is acutally made “odious.” Protection Not Needed. A Republican organ points with pride to the record showing that “in the three months of May, June and July of the present year this country exported $120,789,769 worth of manufactured articles and $106,503,133 worth of agricultural products.” This is a fine showing. It would be still finer if the cost of many of our manufactured articles were not enhanced beyond the exporting point by tariff duties on their raw materials, a handicap to which no foreign competitor is subjected. But the question before the people is why, if our manufacturers are able to export their goods at the rate of nearly $500,000,000 a year, do they need a 50 per cent tariff to “protect” them from competitors whom they are underselling in the markets of the world? Are these hoary-headed monopolies to be forever coddled and fed on tariff pap? The Clark County Citizen, one of the influential Democratic papers of Southern Indiana, was an earnest, supporter of Mr. Bryan and was opposed to the nomination of Judge Parker. As a Democratic paper it had a right to its choice, and it expressed itself fearlessly and earnestly In the campaign preceding the St. Louis convention. After declaring that it has nothing to fake back, the Citizen concludes a very sensible editorial as follows: "If any Democrat who may read this editorial has concluded to bolt, or remain away from the polls, let him stop a moment and consider what that step may mean. We have a splendid state ticket, made up of men who stood loyally to Mr. Bryan and the party principles as enunciated at Chicago and reiterated at Kansas City. Shall we sacrifice these brethren who have fought side by side with us during the past exciting contests, simply because we do not agree with Judge Parker on the money question? Certainly not. And yet. In Indiana, the national and st„te tickets, being on the same ballot, must stand or fall together. The Democrat who remains away from the polls only assists the Republican party and its trust owners in retaining power." The work of organization is In progress In every county In the state and the efforts that are now being put forth are certain to bear fruit in November. But there Is still room for others who are not engaged in *he work to enter and take part in securing the triumph that present efforts Insure. The ranks of earnest workers are never full to repletion but. on the contrary, there is always room for all that wish to join In the effort with fhose already engaged. There should be new additions in this county and In every county in the state. The township and county organizations need the assistance of every Democrat for It is recognized that there is something that every man may do that no other man could do quite so well. Senator Beveridge seems to he assuming that the people are credulous and that his extravagant statements in his speeches are all being received as gospel truth, but there is hardly a county into which he goes that Republicans are not put on the defensive. His statements regarding the wages of laboring people at Brazil, are a fair sample of the utter recklessness with which the “manifest destiny” senator deals with the questions of the day. Even Republicans are advising him to tone down a little and not presume too far on the people’s credulity. Mr. Bryan’s trip through Indiana has demonstrated the high regard that the people have for him, and this is not confined to Democrats alone. Republicans admit that he is honest, fearless, brave and manly. Life Is too important, time too precious to carry a load of revenge.—William Jennings Bryan.

Increase in land assessments <3> $ In 1903, $27,952,101. G Reduction in railroad assess- & ments from 1894 to 1904. sl6,- <?> <s> 297,939. Reductions in assessments <•> of telegraph, express and trans- <S> % portation companies in 1904, <s> $931,265.

Railroad Notes. On the first and third Tuesday of every month the Erie railroad will sell one way and round trip excurson tickets to the west, northwest and southwest at very low rates. Further information, call upon Erie agents or write, C. L. Enos, T P. A., Marion Ohio. Russia-Japan war altas 10 cents Three fine colored maps, each 14x20; bound in convenient form for reference. The Estern situation shown in detail, issued by The Chicago & North Western R’y, mailed upon receipt of ten cents in stamps by A. H. Waggener, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago Ills. Spacial concessions in World’s Fair rates via the Clover Leaf route during the balance of the fair. Coach excursion tickets on sale every day in the week except Friday and Saturday, at one cent per mile each way. These tickets are good seven days, including date of sale. Round trip tickets good 15 days are on sale daily at one fare plus $2; and round trip tickets good 60 days are on sale daily at one and one-third fare. Write nearest f.gent or address W. L. Ross, Toledo, O. A beautiful map, valuable for reference, printed on heavy piper 42x64 inches mounted on rollers; edged bound in cjcth, showing our new island per sessions. The Trans-Siberian Railway, Pacific Ocean cables, railway lines and other features of Japan, China, Munchuria, Koorea and the Fai East. Sent in receipt of 25 cents in stamps by W. B. Kniskern, P. T M., Chicago & North Western R’y, Chicago. 111. Specal Homeseekers’ excursions to : the Southwest. Sept. 20, Oct. 4to : 18, via Clover Leaf route. On the above dates special round trip tickets will be sold at all agencies of ti e Clover Leaf to points in Arkansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, Territory, Louisiana, and Texas. See nearest agents for particulars or address W. L. Ross, Toledo, O. World’s Fair Route World’s Fair St. Louis, Mo., Very low round trip rates in effect daily via Clover Leaf route. Excursion fares from Decatur as follows: Round trip on sale daily 17.30, except Fiday and Saturday, good seven days, including date of sale. sl2 on sale daily good 15 days, including date of sale. $13.35 on sale daily, good 60 days, including date of sale. sl6 on sale daily, good during the entire sea son. Get information from the nearest ticket agent, Clo'er Leaf route, or address W. L. Ross, Toledo, Ohio.

AT PROPER PRICES the Snow Agency 7A ur^r^ r /, ty E^ r be advertised or not. just as you prefer. YOU ILL ai.> <r'Drq property is le't with the avency for the time listed. W e »rem>w offering 15 000 ACRES opimdiavi farm I AM)< for sale In tracts of from six to 1(1) acres eacn oMe moons’ to A be?ound r on th! market To the proposed traction line, near the corporation line of Decatur, on stone road ami tree n a route The improvements consist of a two-story six room brick house ».ith g< odee tla . lot of bearing apple, pear and other fruit trees windl pump. S^den\. t ’ on .k e stone road and tlonand can be bought lor*l.W; or No 353 which is a acie free mail route, within one mile of district school or two mi es from graded school enuren logand plank buildings to the best mod. rn frame or b lek strutim. city with 30 acres unde! cuhlvatton. The lu'pro* ements’conslHt of a >" u -, ) e, ’'’ d V loom son" I '!^’ farm is amply fenced. Is one ami a half mre from lhe coll. ’ » seat, in a pub m >ao near a . bar erties put upon the market each week. Phone 230 J. F. SNOW Decatur, Ind. FREE.GUIDE TO CITY AND WORLDS st. loui s ~ FAIR ■ - PUB.dis.HEISBY THE CLOVER LEAF ROUTE ( T~CS> L__ EZ CD O * CD I—l 10. Send Six Cents Postage For l”T“ FREE RECLINING AND CAFE CARS ON - — ifer ALL THROUGH DIR ECT LI N to st.louis: — — n

THE GREAT SOUTHWEST. MINY SEEKING HOMES WHERE LANDS AR CHEAP AND CLIMATE IS MILD. Low Rates for Homesetkers 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. Manv who have been unable to own their homes in the older country are buying land at the low prices prevailing in the new country — 35, $lO, 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 bought very cheap. Our descriptive literature gives a fairly good idea of this country. It telle about the soil, ciops, climate, people, schools, churches, water and health. It contains maps showing locations t f 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, end Ticket Agent, Cotton Belt Route, St. Louis, Mo. To California Tourist Car Service to California. On August 11th the Missouri Pa- ■ trifle Railway established a daily 1 through tourist sleeping car line, i St. Louis to San Francisco. Train | leaves St. Louis daily 11:59 p. m. The route is via Missouri Pacific railway to Pueblo, Colorado, thence via Denver and Rio Grande to Salt Lake City and Ogden and Southern Pacific to San Francisco and Los Angeles. This is the famous scenic line of the world—through the picturesque Rooky Mountains. The service and accommodations are up-to-date and personally conducted. Very low rates will be in effect from August 15 to Sept. 10th via Missouri Pacific railway to the principal Pacific coast points and return. Also low rate Colonist one way tickets will be sold from Sept. 15 to Otctober 15. For rates 1 information and reservtion of berths, apply to G. A. Deane, Jr., Special excursion to Toledo, via ;' the Clover Leaf, Sunday, October 30. Visit the parks and theatres in Toledo.