Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1904 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER HOOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Intered at thepostoffieeat Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter WciATPAPEMf ADAMS COUNTY. THURSOXY NOV. 3, 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 O. D. LEWTON For Treasurer JOHN F. LACHOT For Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER r For Coroner JOHN S, FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District martin laughlin

POLITICAL CALENDAR. Nov. 3. Gerke School House, Root Township. R. K. Erwin and D. D. Coffee. Nov. 3 Koer School House, Union Township. J. T. Merryman and J. F. Fruchte. Nov. 3 Barger School House, Kirkland Township. D. E. Smith and Dore B. Erwin. Nov. 3. Berne, Indiana. John XV. Tyndall and Dr. J. W.Vizard. Non. 4. Yager School House, French Township. John C. Moran and Dore B. Erwin. These meetings will begin at seven o’clock, and should be well attended Get out the vote. This is the battle cry. Every democrat to work. Now let’s finish the tight which up to this time we have won. With a full vote out the deed is done. Begin your labors for election day. See all your neighbors and arrange to spend election day in getting all the democrats to vote. Get out the vote. This the feature that counts and shows to a certainty as to whether or not vou are doing your duty as a loyal and patriotic democrat.

Tne votes are what count after all. The democrats with diligence can get these votes and the work from this on should be along the lint of individual efforts. The g. o. p. wreck in this state can not save themselves if each and every democrat will spend his time in assisting the organization in getting to the polls the democratic vote. Get busy. Let’s put in the remaining days of campaign in personal work. Spend the time in seeing that there are no laggards in your neighborhood, that every democrat intends to be in the line of duty on election day. Indiana is now conceded to be a home racehorse. That true the democrats can win the fight by getting out their vote. This is important and should concern every individual democrat in the state. Four great democratic meetings •were held in Adams county Thurs day night, one at St. John’s school house in Preble township, one at Election school house in French township, one at Monroe and the last at Geneva, where General James B. Weaver spoke to four hundred voters. Never in the history of the county were better meetings held or the interest mani tested. Adams county democrats are thoroughly aroused to the im portance of this political contest, and an old time d ’mooratio majority will be the result.

Do your duty as a democrat by devoting your energies from now i until election day, in helping to roll iup a good old time democratic majority. Make it so . large that it will be the pride of every individual democrat. This the last week before election should be devoted to hard and efficient work by every democrat in the county You, each and every one owe allegience to the political organization of your choice, and you owe the best efforts of your life as well. Get real busy and do your duty. Among the campaign documents that has made its appearance in behalf of the g. o. p. is the Western Christian Advocate. While its support is of that cowardly, mystified kind, yet it is support just the same, and is no doubt paid from the same barrel that satisfies other shady transactions ot the God and morality party. The Indianapolis Star, republican, contained a column editorial which proclaimed Indiana in doubt, and proved its right to think so by a careful analysis of the situation. This is the true condition. The democrats are*coming to the finish with the best organization in their history, and will clean up the g. o. p. opposition which is founded on hot air and a rank case of bragadocia. The Adams county democrat who thinks Tom Taggart not capable of coping with the Indiana situation, loses sight of the fact that Mr. Tag- , gart always makes good. There are many reasons why this year, t above all years, he desires success, 1 and he will not lay down until an old time democratic victory is won. 1 Help him make it certain by per--1 sonal work. Get your vote out, that is what counts.

“Let no man think he can help the cause of democracy by helping to elect a republican president. Let no friend of mine be deceived by the republicans that he can help ne by defeating Judge Parker for president. I have no interests that can be subserved by four years more of the Roosevelt administration— at least not in this world and 1 think not in the world to come. ’’William Jennings Bryan.

The Brooklyn Eigle has just flushed a carefully conducted postal jard voting contest, the same cov■ring every section of New York state. It is the most exhaustive and accurate system ever inaugurated and from the returns at hand it shows that Judge Parker will •arry New York by 97,863. The Eagle is the most reliable of all th< ■astern newspapers, is independen’. in all its editorial policy, and much ■redit is given for the statement now made by that fair and impartial newspaper. The republican national committee are sending out anti-Parker litertature under the name of the Anti Parker League. It is the same old dodge by the same old people—an eSort to deceive the voters. Several hundred have found their way to Adams county, where they will have about the same eSect as pouring water on a luck’s back. The 'democrats are on to the cheap skates who have to resort to such methods to save the political hide of that grand old morality party. George Knox, colored of Indianpolis, wanted to run for congress ind secured nine hundred and twenty-five signatures to his petition, but two hundred being required by law. The republican county clerk of Marion county and the republican member of the election board have ruled against Mr. Knox, and up to this time have refused to permit his name to be printed on the ticket. Both these republicans have for years been preaching about the revolutionary methods of southern democrats. They have been loud in their professions of love for the negro, yet there is a sample copy of their devotion. The fact is, it is all nice to talk about and theorize upon, but to practice is another song. The republican party is as hyp critic >1 as hades when it comes to practio - ing equality with the negro.

THAT BOODLE The word is being passed around in republican circles that the campaign fund of that party is now in prime condition and that everything is “ail O. K.” in that essential particular. This pleasing information is not at all calculated to surprise the public. All who are observant enough to reflect that, up to the time of his selection as chairman of the National republican committee Mr. Cortelyou held the cabinet place of secretary of the department of labor and commerce, which of necessity Drought him intimately in touch with the heads of the greatest industries and corporations in the country, realized that he would have made poor use of his opportunities had he failed to secure all the funds necessary for the prosecution of the republican campaign. Some trusting may believe that Mr. Cortelyou was taken from a cabinet position which gave him an inside knowledge of corporation affairs and placed at the head of the National committee solely on personal grounds and because he was a favorite with President Roosevelt. But this view of the situation is not held by shrewd business men of the country who realize the advantages which his former position affords him for the prosecution of his present work for the party. Men of wide business experience who know how things are done in matters of this kind realize that the head of any big corporation would hesitate to deny a request from the former secretary of the department of labor and commerce for a contribution to the campaign fund. And In order to make such a request effective it is not at all necessary that it should be accompanied by the slightest suggestion of anything beyond the need of the National committee for funds with which to prosecute the campaign. The impropriety of the whole situation lies in the selection of the head of that department of the government having jurisdiction over corporations and corporate interests for the position of chairman of the republican National campaign committee. It is well known that the chief duty of the chairman of a National campaign committee is to raise the funds for its work and it msut also be patent to every > patriotic citizen that it is a violation of the proprieties and of good ethics to select for that task a man who, because of the knowledge and power gained through his official position, is able to give to a simple request for a campaign contribution the force and effect of a demand not to be denied. When Mr. Cortelyou was first selected for the place he now holds many republicans were in open revolt and held that the post of commandermchiei of the republican forces should go to a veteran politician and an accomplished party leader. Now however, the siirewdness of President Roosevelt’s choice is clearlv apparent. Nothing could better demonstrate the fact that President Roosevelt is a politician of the first order and that he understands underground politics as well as the art of making picturesque appeal to the impressionable and the unsophisticated. But, no .matter if this cunning move has resulted in a fat republican campaign fund it will not have its desired effect. This is distinctively a campaign tn which the cool, deliberate and patriotic judgment of the citizens will be the deciding factor and the size of the campaign fund will cut little figure.

THEY ARE GOOD It has remained for the closing weeks of the campaign’to bring out in clear relief the significance of Mr. Cortelyou’s appointment as head of the Republican National Campaign committee. The opposition from the rank and file of republicans provoked by the announcement of his appointment as National Chairman has completely subsided; not a word of oomplaint is now heard on the score that he is utterly inexperienced in politics and that some veteran party leader should have been chosen for the place. Satisfaction and serenity regarding the republican command-er-in-chief is apparent in all the counsels of the party and the expression is heard that “Cortelyou has certainly made good.” What is the meaning of this sudden change of sentiment? Why this wave of partisan satisfaction with

' the work of the National chairman ? | |ls not this interesting phenomena intimately connected with the fact the word is now going the rounds that the republicans have had an influx of “the sinews of war;’’ that the corporations have put up,” that fatness and plenty have now supplanted the fear of a lean campaign fund? We are entirely willing to credit the rumor of this change In the fianancial condition of the republican national committee. When it is remembered that the depaitment of commerce ami labor, of which Mr. Cortelyou was formerly the head, has jurisdiction over the corporations of the country the secret of his success as a solicitor of campaign funds is easy to be seen—and the beauty of his situation is that a request for a contribution has the force of a command and does not need to be accompanied by even the remotest suggestion of a threat. For a corporation to be asked by the former head of the department of labor and commerce for a contribution to the campaign fund is to write the check and ask no questions. There is no room for argument and no need o{ ulterior suggestions in a like this. In the language of the ward worker all there is for the corporation to do is to “cough up’’ and leave the results take care of themselves. President Roosevelt’s choice of a National chairman is certainly justified. No man could possibly be handier in a position of this kind than one who has been taken directly from the head of the departmentjif commerce labor to serve his party in the delicate and difficult roll of collector of the campaign fund. THEY FEAR TRUSTS

The supporters of Mr. Roosevelt will gain little by showing errors in Judge Parker’s figures about Philippine adminstration. He is quite as likely to be correct as those who are interested in showing he is not. They have the figures. ’Judge Parker no sooner stated what he understood them to be than an executive order was issued forbidding officials to give to citizens access to or knowledge of the records. No party in temporary possession of power, could well do a harder thing than forbid to citizens access to its records of expenditures or knowledge of those records. We are assured that the facts are made public every month! Those capable cf forbidding access to records, between monthly issues, can well be suspected of a capanility of “cooking” the records of rheir monthly publications. A partisan may not care who makes rhe songs of a nation, so long as he is permitted to “make its statistics.” The books of a free government should be as open to the opposition as they are to the party in power. The interest of an opposition to magnify is not greater than chat of a party in power to minimize the figures. To be sure “figures cannot lie,” but they can be made into fearful and wonderful lies and those whom the truth would indict have a tremendous interest to falsify it. Judge Parker and his supporters have been treated to severe lectures on their “errors” by those who have forbidden to them access to the records! That is what Napoleon HI and his officials were wont to do to Thiers and his friends in the empire days. Facts showed why after a while, and facts showed that Thiers and his friends understand instead of overstated the truth. A party in power should be turned out of power when it abuses the trust of possession by refusing access to the records of expenditure. The refusal is itself sufficient cause for its expulsion from place. “Only they fear the truth whom the truth would indict.”—Brooklyn Eagle. WHEN cortelyou PASSES THE HAT As a hat-passer, George B. Cortelyou, personal agent and political campaign manager of Theodore Roosevelt, is the greatest success of modern times. This is not because of Cortelyou’s personal persuasiveness. Its because he is for the time the head of a “system” for promoting political fortunes on the one hand and private ’wealth-get-ting on the other, through the cooperation of the two. The republican party passes a tariff glaw enabling a few protected interests to prosper at the expense of the many. The representatives of the republi-

can party then go out among these j protected interests, hat in hand, i and ask for contributions of money ; with which to conduct campaigns < having for their object the keeping i of the republican party in power. ; Cortelyou, as the representative of President Roosevelt, is able to col- i lect more in this manner than ever before because the present tariff rates are so outrageously high as to , make the value of the privilege they afford greater than ever before. In addition, Cortelyou is reaching out after new interests, the trusts and the railroads and any other concerns upon governmental favoritism for the augmentation of their business. Natur-| ally, when Cortelyou passes the hat, these interests vie with one another in their anxiety to contrib-. ute and thus curry favor with the j men who may be in control of the . government during the next four years. To make Cortelyou’s work easier in this respect, President Roosevelt has let it lie known pub- | lioly that on the tariff question he is a stand-patter. Thus the protect-1 ed interests can be urged to con- j tribute the more liberally. Not long ago Cortelyou was head of the ; department of labor and commerce, within which was the bureau of corporations. Through this bureau of corporations Cortelyou was able to ascertain for future use facts relating to trusts and corporations that might have value. Now, when Cortelyou passes the hat among the trusts and big corporations, he is not likely to meet with any less success because he is supposed to know the weaknesses before the law of the concerns he is soliciting. It has already been announced that Cortelyou will be postmastergeneral in the next cabinet, in the event of President Roosevelt’s reelection. The value of thi,s announcement to Cortelyou as a hatpasser among the railroads is thus indicated by the Brooklyn Eagle:

“The postmaster-general has control of the mail contracts with the various railroads, and payment for the service, a matter of concern to any railroad. These facts have not prevented Cortelyou from appealing to railroad companies for subscriptions to the republican campaign fund. Last week presidents of two great western railroads said to a man of prominence, also identified with railroads, and which presidents had not contemplated making any contribution to political funds, that they saw no escape from yielding to the solicitation for the reason they could not afford to antagonize Cortelyou, if be were to be postmaster general, for they could not, in the interest of the corporations in their care, afford to see the mail-carrying contracts go to their competitors over the way, and so would make their contributions. Thus the fat-frying goes on, and the far drips continually into the republican pan.” Cortelyou no doubt is a great success as a fat-fryer, but his achievements in this direction ought not to commend either him or the can- ■ didate and party he represents, to the American elecorate. FULL DINNER PAIL Word is now out that the republican dinner pail is now full and that the faithful worker need no longer fear the terrors of an empty stomi ach. This cheerful rumor is uni doubtedly correct we see no occasion to question it. Every element of the situation is such as fully to confirm this agreeable information. When it was announced that Mr. Cortelyou had been chosen to command the army of the republicans

in the present campaign a howl of , disapproval went up from every quarter of the party camp. Old . and trusted leaders bluntly declared . that Mr. Cortlyou was a boy in ! politics; that his training was that of a first-class stenographer and that to place him in charge of the National campaign for the republi- , cans to the exclusion of veterans who had played’the game in. a big way, for a quarter of a century or more was nothing less than suicidal. Suddenly, however these wails of warning and dissatisi faction have died out and given , place to the hum of compliment and approval. The forks and i. spoons in the republican dinner, i pail no longer rattle loosely and the laborers in the vineyard are already smacking their lips with contentment. Why, let us ask has , this significant change come over , the spirit of republican dreams? Is it possible that the shrewd and inexperienced manipulators of re-

publican polities made a mistake in their first estimate of Mr. Cortel you? They certainly did. They overlooked the simple fact that Mr Cortelyou, as secretary of the department of commerce and labor was the official custodian of the secrets of the great corporations of the United States and that, for this reason, he has only to ask of the corporations in order to have his requests promptly and unquestiongly granted. There is no need for Mr. Cortelyou to go beyond a simple intimation that a contribution to the republican campaign 1 fund would be acceptable no need for him to entangle himself by any ' implied threats or suggestions. Because of his knowledge of cor--1 porate affairs gained through his ■ former positon he is able to keep I his skirts clear and still have his ; work as a gatherer of “the sinews of war just as effective as if he implicated himself in all sorts of disagreeable entanglements. , VOTE FOR PARKER | Every man is responsible for his | influence, be it great or small, i Every democrat who votes for Par- | ker votes to defeat Roosevelt. Every democrat who does not vote for Parker contributes toward the election of Roosevelt. On every question upon which Judge Parker’s position is open to criticism, President Roosevelt’s position is worse; where they differ, as they do on many important questions, Parker is right and Roosevelt is wrong. Roosevelt favors a high tariff; Par. ker favors tariff reform. Roosevelt favors a standing army of 60,000 at the minimum; Parker favors a reduction -of the army. Roosevelt has brought the race ’ issue into national politics; Parker would remove the race issue from politics. Roosevelt stands for a colonial policy; Parker favors inde * pendence for the Filipinos and would make the promise now.

Roosevelt took in the white house a spirit of war, Judge Parker would substiute for it a spirit of peace. Four years more of Rooevelt would make economic and industrial reforms more difficult; Judge Parker’s election would clear the way for economic issues. Let ni, democrat, by voting against Parker or by refusing to vote, take upon himself responisbility for four years more of Rooseveltism. —William J. Bryan. HIS FINISH “C mditions are such that I have resolved to look out for my own end” is what Mr. Beveridge is quoted as having said at republican headquarters at Muncie. "I will not go through the state with the Fairbanks special train. In my ■ opinion Indianapolis and Marion county are lost. There will be at least 1,000 majority for the demo1 crats It may be more than that. ■ Continuing, Senator Beveridge is reported to have said: “Organized ■ labor in Indianapolis is working hal’d for the entire democratic > ticket. The cause of their opposition is the fact that Hanly, our candidate for governor, has aroused their antagonism, and unfortunatly the opposition to Hanly affects us ’ all. It is now a case of each man ’ for himself, and God for us all. I have made up my mind that oondi- ■ tions impose upon me the necessity ■ of looking strictly after my own ■ interests for the few days left in ; this campaign.” Great things can be accomplished by presistent efforts. The democrats of Adams county can' turn up * the largest majority in her history

by working every minute from now until election. Three of the best meetings’oi f h o campaign were pulled off last night Williams could hardly hold the people who turned out the gospel of democracy as propounded by James T. Merryman, Dr. J- "• Vizzard and L. N. Grandstatt. At Friedheim more than half the voters of north township listened to Clark J. Lutz and Dore B. Erwin. Linn Grove has had some excellent meetings, but the one Tuesday night oapped“the] climax, when Judge R. K- Erwin spoke. This feature of the campaign is about at its close, and we must confess that never before have such well attended meetings been held. The whole democracy of Adams county are thoroughly alive and will turn up a record breaking majority for the nationa ticket. Let’s make it the banntr majority. «