Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1904 — Page 2

THE ISSUES What the People of Indiana Will Be Called Upon to Decide on Tuesday, November 8. Tha issues In this campaign have not been manufactured, but have come to the people as a natural outgrowth of Republican policies. The Democratic party has met them freely and has taken the side of the people against corporate power where that power has been exercised to the injury of the masses, and, now that the vote is about to be cast and another verdict rendered, every thinking man should calmly and honestly review the facts presented in the campaign and reach a conclusion that will be his justification for the manner In which his suffrage is cast. When one stops to consider that the elective franchise is of all franchises the most important and that when his vote is cast it should represent the highest of human Ideals, the suffrage becomes the best and dearest privilege that he enjoys, and as such should not be lightly esteemed. Some of the questions which the intelligent voter, the true patriot, should ask himself before entering the polling booth are found in the following: Shall this country be ruled by a President who has traduced its statesmen. bullied its distinguished Generals and advanced an underling to the highest of military positions, ignoring the constitution and setting the law at defiance, or shall it elect a man who will bring the government back to Its honored position as a peace-loving nation, proud o. its past and glorified by the example of liberty which it has set to the world? Shall corruption continue in the executive departments of the government, men in high places be protected from the just consequences of their corrupt acts and Congress refuse to Investigate and lay the facts before the people, or shall a congress be chosen that will probe all corruption, wherever it exists, to the bottom and thus justify the confidence reposed in It by the people? Shall constitutional government be denied to the Filipino people on the specious pretext that they are not prepared for independence and an example of tyranny set abroad to be later invoked at home, or shall the American people, following the theory of their honored tathers and carrying into practice their noble examples, make the American flag the symbol of liberty wherever it floats and thus loved and honored rather than feared and hated by these unfortunate people? Shall the trusts continue to prey upon the people of this country through license given by a national administration, eating up the hardearned substance of the poor, trampling into the dust the laboringman and his family, and growing richer and more arrogant each year because of contriburions to the Republican campaign fund, or shall they be bridled Iby the law. their iniquitous combinations broken up and competition with all its benefits to the consumer restored ?

Shall the Dinrley tariff law continue to rob the people and feed the corporations by enabh’.g them to sell in foreign countries the products of American labor at prices lower than Americans can buy them at home, or shall these tariff charges be reduced to the actual needs of the government for revenue, thus putting the manufacturer. the farmer, the tradesman, the la borer, all upon that equal basis that was designed by the framers of the government ? Shall the ship subsidy bill, which once passed the senate, but which has been permitted to lie dormant because of the nearness of a national campaign, be revived and the people robbed of aeir substance to enrich owners of steamships, or shall the merchant marine stand upon its own merits as the individual must stand •when he goes out to make his own ■way in the world? These are a few of the questions ■which every intelligent voter should ask himself when he enters the polling booth and receives from the election officers the official ballot on which are printed the lists of Presidential electors. Then, turning to the state, congressional and legislative ballot, he might with profit ask himself these questions: Shall the legislature be again Republican in the face of the fact that every session in which it had a majority has increased the expenses out of all proportion to the benefits received by the people, or shall it be controlled by a Democratic majority that has always kept expenses down to the minimum and at the same time has enacted every law of importance that is now on the statute books, including the new tax law. the schooltook law, the sinking fund law. the Australian ballot law and many others whose benefits the people now enjoy? Shall the state of Indiana be longer represented in the United States senate by men who have voted for the ship subsidy bill, who have favored the trusts and defended them openly whenever they dared, who are in favor of perpetuating the tariff and whet are notoriously not in sympathy with ■the people whom tb«>y thus misrepresent, or shall they be dlsolaced by conscientious guardians of the public ■weal, men who have proved themselves both honest and fearless in the I’ischa'ge of duty? Shali a state board of 'av cor ttist'oners which has increased the assessments on farm lands and farm land Improvements |27,000,000 and re-

fiuced the assessments on corporations 116,000,000, be indorsed at the polls and continued in office, or shall there be a return to the original purposes of the law which were to make corporations bear their just proportion of the burdens of taxation and in which spirit the law was administered by the Democrats till the Republicans dame into power? The man who esteems his suffrage lightly, who is controlled by prejudice rather than principle, who is a Republican because someone else is a Republican. whose ideas of existence are comprised in mere meat and drink and clothing for the body, may turn away from these questions as he would from anything that would evoke a serious thought, but the man who loves his country, who despises wrong regardless of its source and loves and recognizes right and defends it against whomsoever would debase it, who stands for high ideals in citizenship, in government, in law, should take them and ponder on them, for they represent in part the issues of a campaign whose result on November 8 may mark a new era either for good or bad in our country. FAIRBANKS AND THE JOURNAL. When the Indianapolis Journal was absorbed by the Star and its publication discontinued, Republicans over the state were very indignant over the sale and Senator Fairbanks, who was known to be interested in the Journal, was roundly abused for selling out the party. He caused it to be circulated by his friends that he had nothing to do with the sale of the organ. and thus the whole blame was shifted to the shoulders of Charles R. Henry, who was associated with Fairbanks and who was actively engaged in publishing the paper. It develops that Mr. Henry has written a history of the deal in which he charges that he had very little stock in the paper and that Senator Fairbanks was the principal owner; that, when it was found that the paper was losing money in its competition with the Star, he advised that money be put into it and a fight made for its lost prestige; that Fairbanks refused to spend any more money on it and opened negotiations with George F. McCulloch, through which the transfer of the paper was finally accomplished.

When it became known that Henry had written such a statement and proposed giving it to the press. Republicans besieged him on all sides and begged him to withhold it till after the election, ft was urged that, while the facts as he stated them were true, Fairbanks would be injured if publicity were given them, and he Anally consented to hold the matter in abeyance till after the election. Thus, while Fairbanks is posing as the man who tried to save the paper to the party, Henry is regarded as the real betrayer of the party, and the man who deprived it of an organ on the eve of an important campaign. More Prosperity. Steel workers employed in the rail and sheet departments of the Illinois Steel company’s plant ar South Chicago have been notified that when the present agreement expires, January 1 next, it will not be renewed. The workmen understand this to mean that they will be asked to accept the same reduction in wages and the same lengthening of hours as were recentlyenforced in the company’s plant at Joliet. The Joliet steel workers accepted a cut of 15 to 43 per cent in wages and the work day was lengthened about two hours. Nearly 4,000 men will be affected at South Chicago. No one supposed that Fairbanks and Beveridge would prove to be the drawing cards that Mr. Bryan was when he went over the territory which the two Senators have traversed. Indeed, there is little room for comparison between them and him. Mr. Bryan represents the people, the Senators the corporations: Mr. Bryan spoke as one of the masses, the two Senators speak as men having nothing in common with them; Mr. Bryan was inspired by the justness of his cause, the two Senators by fear of the weakness of theirs; Mr. Bryan found the people in sympathy with him and coming out voluntarily to hear him. the two Senators know that the Republican state central committee has chartered trains to carry people to their meetings. These are the differences found in the tours of the representatives of the two parties, the one being a spontaneous uprising of the people and the other being an outing on the part of Republicans whose expenses are borne by the state organization. It only remains for Democrats to do their whole duty on election day to insure the state for Judge Parker, and for the state ticket and Democratic control of the legislature on joint ballot. Every help has been afforded by the state and local organizations, and tliere is no question but the state will be Democratic if members of the party come out and vote. Do what the party organizations may. it still remains for the people on the final day to say what the result shall be. No Democrat should prove recreant on that day. Every vote should be polled and every honorable effort made to carry the state. Let there be no laggards. Let everyone vote and work as though the result depended upon him alone, and Indiana will be redeemed from Republican rule.

We appeal tq Senator Fairbanks to define his position on the ship subsidy bill. He voted for the measure, but bere we are at the close of the campaign «nd not a word has he said on the subject. Have the people no rights la this campaign?

r JUDGE FRANK E. GAVIN. Judge Frank E. Gavin, nominee for Judge of the supreme court for the Third district, Is one of the best-known lawyers in Indiana, having been a practitioner at the bar and a judge on the Appellate Court bench for many years. He was born in Greensburg. Ind., in 1856. He received his early education ■ ■>" “ ’ ' ’W.. ■ ’V' ■ s ?’■ FRANK E. GAVIN. in the public schools of that city and later went to Harvard University, where he was graduated in ’7B. On graduating he returned to Greensburg, where he practiced law with great success until he was elected to the Appellate bench in 1892. Retiring from the bench in 1897, he moved his family to Indianapolis, where he has engaged in the practice of law ever since. He is the senior number of the firm of Gavin, Davis & Gavin. Judge Gavin has always been very active in Masonry and is a grand mas ter Mason. Since ..ving in indianapo lis he has been zealous in everything pertaining to the city’s welfare. He is prominent in the working of the Indianapolis Commercial Club, and served the club for two years in the capacity of president. A GOOD WORK. Mr. Bryan continued his good work for Democracy in a two days’ tour of Indiana cities last week, and his appeals to the people were all full of party loyalty and good advice. His work in the state for the ticket has been admirable and he deserves and receives the thanks of every patriot who honors Democratic principles. Mr. Bryan well says that victory at the polls will not be a Parker victory alone, but a victory for every Democrat and a victory for good government as well. “Parker and Davis supported me in 1896,” said he in his Kendallville speech, “and in 1900, when it required courage for men in the East to support me. They supported me though they differed with me on the money question. Why should I not support them now when they stand for so much that we all desire to see accomllshed? Roosevelt stands for nothing that promises any reform of existing evils. Parker's triumph will not be a triumph for Parker alone. It will be a triumph for me, for he stands just where I stood in 1900 on this question of imperialism. In his triumph there will be glory for the republic, glory for those who believe in the principles of the fathers, glory enough for all.” Roosevelt a Peril. In the course of his address before the Connecticut Democratic convention Henry Wade Rogers, dean of the Yale law school, had the following to say about Roosevelt: “Since he became President he has shown not only by his treatment of Panama and by his action in the pension matter as well as by his dictatorial assumption of authority in every department of the government such a disregard of the limitations of power as to lead many thoughtful men to distrust his wisdom. It is this distrust which perhaps more than any other reason has led the independent press of the country almost without exception to pronounce against him in this campaign and to regard him as ’a dangerous pilot for a great ship.’ ” Senator Beveridge did not like the idea of being sent on the trail of Mr. Bryan in a special car with Fairbanks and said flatly that he would not go But the Republican state central com mittee so arranged the itinerary that Fairbanks would appear at places where Beveridge had previously arranged to speak, and it was either appear with Fairbanks or disappoint the Republicans who wanted to hear him. Os course he surrendered the point. That Beveridge does not like Fairbanks and that the sentiment is reciprocated with interest is one of the things that has been manifest for some time

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~ AT THE CLOSE The F ght Won If Democrats Will Do Their Whole Duty on Election Day and Get Out a Full Vote. The Democrats of Indiana have made a winning fight and the state is assured for Judge Parker, the entire state ticket and control of the legislature if the closing days of the campaign find every Democrat doing his whole duty. No faint-heartedness should be encouraged now. The party has met and vanquished the Republicans on their own ground, has forced admissions from Governor Durbin that the payments on the state debt have been made through a tax law and a sinking fund law that the Democrats, over Republican opposition In the leg islature, passed, and has presented candidates for the suffrages of the people who are in every respect superior to their opponents. No campaign in the state was ever begun or continued under more favorable auspices. All meetings have been well attended, the arguments advanced by speakers have sunk deep into the minds of the people, the issues have been presented calmly, dispassionately and effectively and it remains only to see that every voter is at the polls on November 8. This is the work that now lies before the party and the organization should be pushed with direct reference to that important duty. Some may be physically unable to get to the polls, some may be indifferent and some may have business of importance that would render the casting of their votes problematical. In the one case means should be provided for overcoming the physical disability, in the second the voter should be importuned to do his duty and in the third the voter should be made to realize that no business can be more important than the redemption of the state and nation from Republican rule. The first and greatest duty of every Democrat to himself and to others is to exercise the elective franchise in the contest with extravagance and Imperialism. The Democrats have presented ideal candidates for president and governor and from top to bottom of their tickets there is not one who is unworthy the suffrage of a patriotic citizen. Many Republicans, realizing that their party has wandered away from the early principles of government, that it has subordinated the constitution to greed, and has invoked tyranny abroad while preaching freedom at home, have determined to vote with the Democrats this year, and they should be welcomed cordially wherever they appear. And when the victory is won. as it will be on Nov. 8, every Democrat can feel that he has contributed to it. Mr. Bryan’s closing speech in Indiana was an appeal to Democrats to do their duty, and every man should treasure his words and apply them directly to himself. At Hammond, where the last speech of the ten days’ tour was delivered. the great Commoner made this appeal: As this is my last meeting in Indiana and the end of my ten-day tour of the state, I desire to make this farewell appeal to those who voted for me when I was a candidate. Let no friend of mine hesitate about the support of the ticket. Let no friend of mine imagine that he can help me by contributing toward the election of President Roosevelt. Judge Parker’s election will hasten every reform in which I am interested by removing from the arena of politics the questions which now divert public attention from economic and industrial problems. A victory for Parker will not be a victory for the gold Democrats alone, for they could not win the election without the support of the silver Democrats, so that those who voted for me can claim a share in the victory this year. And the Republicans who voted against me and who are going to vote with us this year, will also be entitled to an honorable part in our victory. If we can only overthrow the doctrine of imperialism there will be glory enough In the victory for us all. And this is just such an appeal as Democrat should make to Democrat in the effort to get out every vote. The party is enthusiastic, militant and strong in the right. Each individual of which it is composed is an important factor in securing victory. Get out the vote. The son of the postmaster of New York city is a candidate for the Assembly and Is under arrest for colonizing voters. It appears from confession of a man whom he employed, that some twenty rooms were rented by the candidate and men were domiciled in these just before the day of registration. The cashier in the general postoffice was also charged with conspiracy to import, voters. Here is a chance for the authorities of New York to make some shining examples of the equality of justice. We suggest that when Senators Fairbanks and Beveridge speak at Muncie and praise the policies of the Republican party, that they call for testimony from tome of the Muncie merchants. They will tell the Sena tors that the dosing of trust factories in that toW has cut down the Werchants’ sales $8,000,000 a year, and yet it is a part of the Republican policy to foster trusts. Nay, Senate- Beveridge has even declared that there are “good” trusts.

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...Legal Advertising... OTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS The State of Indiana, County of Adams, ss. In the Adams Circuit Court. September term, 1904. No. 6807. Sult on Note and Attachment. James S. Boyers vs. Clarence L. Ayers, It appearing from affidavit filed in the above entitled cause, that Clarence L. Ayers, the above named defendant, is a non resident of the state of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given the said Clarence L. Ayers that he be and appear before the H m. Judge of the Adams Circuit Court on the 21st day of December. 1904. the same being the 27th Juridicial day of the next regular tmm thereof, to be holden at the Court House in the City of Decatur commencing on Monday, the -Ist day of November. A. D.. 1904. and plead by answer or demur to said complaint, or the same will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, my name, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this 21st day (SEAL) of October. A. I).. 1904. DAVID GERBER. Clerk. By Paul Baumgartner, Deputy. Merrvman & Sutton, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 34-3 V OTICE OF MACADAMIZED STONE vN LOAD PETITION. Notice is hereby given that one. .1. P. Johnson, together with numerouse other persons. resident, freeholdersand voters of and lathe township of Monroe and „he town ot uerne. Adams county, Indiana, have filed their joint petition in the auditor’s office, ot said Adams county, Indiana, asking and praying in their said petition that the board of commissioners, ot said Adams county, Indiana, bull i and construct a free macadamized stone road in said Monroe township, over and upon the public highway situated on the fo.lowing route, to-wit: Commencing at the northwest corner of section twelve (12), township twenty-six (26) north, range fourteen (14) east; running the ice east on the section line between one (1) ind twelve (12), connecting the Oak Gr>ve an I Pleasant Valley macadam road with the to > nship line between Monroe and Blue Creek townships, terminating at the northeast corner of section twelve (12). Said road being, one mile in length. Said road to be an extention ot the Oak Grove auu Pleasant Valley macadam road. The said improvements prayed for in said petition to be a continuation or extension of rhe Oak Grove and rleasant Vaby macadam road. And that Monday, November 7, 1904, >as been set and fixed by endorsement upon <»d petition as the day and date when said •etition will be heard by said board of comni«sioners. in their room and office in said luditor’soffice in the court house in said Adhms county, Indiana, and of the pendancy of said petition and of the hearing thereof ail persons interested will take due notice. _, _ ABE BOCH. Auditor. Adams County. Ind.

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