Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 3 November 1904 — Page 7

HOW TO JOIM READ THIS COLUMN CAREFULLY £ W The device at the head of the Democratic ticket la 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 la in the first column, the Republican ticket (i in the second column, and so on. '•“.net Below is a sample of the Democratic and Republican tickets with tha respective party devices. In the order in which they will appear on the offi. ballot. ~ , “ L SAMPLE BALLOT b- .»»XWIU f jSSEN f-sraA •V. “I Ji K J/ - DEMOCRATIC TICKET. REPUBLICAN TICKET.’ ~ or Presidential Elector, |“ ~~j For Presidential Elector. pax. State-at-Large, RKp State-at-Large, __ HUGH DOUGHERTY. GEORGE A. CUNNINGHA34 J/-' INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS FIRST. Ton must get your ballot and a blue pencil from the polling tclerks in the election room. Remember that a blue pencil is now used ijnstead of a stamp. SECOND. If you want to vote a straight ticket make a cross, thus: X, (Within 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 ttralght 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>aot 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 not be counted. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot ex■cept as before mentioned. FOURTH. After marking your ballots, and before leaving the booths, fold them separately so that the face of each cannot be seen, and so the Initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the back thereof can be •seen. 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 to that effect, ( »nd 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 canmot read English or cannot mark your ballot, if, in fact, you can; and in no lease shall the ballots be marked by the poll clerks if the voter can read the English language or Is physically able to mark hi’ ballot, and ttffcn not tintil 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 offense to have such a ballot in your possession, whether you attempt to vete It 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 handed to you by the polling clerk In ■narking your ballot. If you mark with any other pencil your ballot is Told and will not be counted. TENTH. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot ■xcept as before mentioned.

SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT. W r W'ft / - v?ffiZ>■ jgr, fw^TE^ 3 * $ .» *” —lndianapolis Sentinel. J

When Senator Beveridge went to Alexandria and addressed the people on the subject of “good” trusts, he ought to have cast his eye in the direction of vhe dismantleu plant of the Big Four Window Glass Company. The trust bought it and abandoned It, and 200 men were forced into idleness. Or he might have turned his eye toward the plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, another “good" trust, that has been idle for nearly a year in order to reduce its product. Possibly some of the 750 men that this trust forced into idleness might testify that it belongs to the Senator’s list of “good,” exceptionally “good' trusts. « Increase in land assessments <s> ♦ in 1903, $27,952,101. ♦ ♦ Reduction in railroad assess- ♦ ments from®B94 to 1904, sl6,- <?> ♦ 297,989. ♦ Reductions in ' assessments <? ♦ of telegraph, express and transA portation companies in 1904, ♦ $931,265. ♦

Os course the Republicans would try to ape the Democrats In the features that attended the tour of Indiana by Mr. Bryan, but they are reckoning without their host in one important particular. The outpouring of the people to hear the distinguished citizen of Nebraska was spontaneous; the tribute paid to him was to him and to the eternal principles which he represants The enthusiasm that will attend Charles W. Fairbanks, if' indeed there is enthusiasm at all, will be o the manufactured brand the.trustv - rtety that is made up by hiring ra Joad trains and taking people without charge to his meetings. Fairbanks never had a genuine crowd in his life Hil very presence chills the atmos nher* Jor rods around, and people don't like to run the risk of rheumatism, bad colds and the like a the beginning of winter. Don’t forget that a Republican board of state tax commissioners has in_ creased the assessment* on. tends an® improvements on lands and reduced the assessments of cormore than SWOO.m ■■ ■ 0

THS COLORED VOTER. An interesting illustration of the high consideration which Republicans feel for the colored man was given at Indianapolis last week In the effort of George L. Knox to get his name on the ballot as an Independent candidate for congress in the Seventh district. Mr. Knox Is a colored man who has twice been selected as an alternate delegate to Republican national conventions. He is also the proprietor of a couple of barber shops and is in every way prosperous and progressive. As this would indicate, Knox reached a point where he saw that his race was being used by the Republicans without profit to them or to the country, and he determined to break loose from his party affiliations to the extent at least of inviting his people to assert their Independence at the polls He was willing to lead them, and when this became known he was Importuned to announce his candidacy for congress. One reason why his people wished this office selected was because Congressman Overstreet had become very unpopular with members of their race. Under the Australian ballot law it was necessary to file a petition containing 200 signatures, asking that Knox’s name be printed on the official ballot, and his friends went to work and secured a total in excess of 1,200 names. When the petition was filed the Republican managers sent special delivery letters to each one of the signers, urging him to come to headquarters and sign a petition withdrawing his name from the Knox petition. Where this failed to bring in the signer, a special agent of the committee was sent out to see him. By these means, which included threats, intimidation and bribery, some 600 names were stricken from the petition. Then the Republicans on the election board took the astounding position that, as one name had been fraudulently signed, the petition was tainted with fraud and Knox must show that every name left on it was genuine. In other words, Knox was required to show that frauds had not been committed, thus reversing the rule of evidence that the presumption is in favor of Innocence and that if fraud is charged, the burden of proving it rests upon the accuser. But the Republicans don’t hesitate to reverse all rules of law and right to gain a purpose. They set out to prevent Knox from being a candidate, and, being a majority on the election board, they determined to accomplish their purpose. HURRAH FOR KERNI Some two years ago a convict addressed a letter to John W. Kern, the Democratic candidate for governor, asking his aid in securing a pardon. Mr. Kern had defended the man and believed he had suffered enough, but advised him to interest some wardworker or small politician in his case, as such a man would have more influence with the governor than Kern himself. The letter was sent to the governor by one of his henchmen, and it is more than likely that the convict never saw it. holding the letter nearly two years and waiting till the eve of the election, Governor Durbin gave it out for publication, accompanying the act with the declaration that a man who would write such a letter to a convict is not fit to be governor. Thereupon Mr. Kern came back at the small-fry governor, admitted that he wrote the letter to Convict Fleming, and that he stands by every utterance it contained. Then he added: “I do not believe that John Fleming ever saw that letter. If he did he would be quite likely to deliver it up promptly on the request of the prison officials, who acquired a reputation for abusing insane convicts. When Governor Durbin Insinuates that Fleming gave up that letter voluntarily and without request, if he ever saw it, he utters a deliberate falsehood.” Mr. Kern can find ample proof that Governor Durbin is not over-particular about the truth when he wants to make a point. Every newspaper man who has had anything to do with him knows full well with what ease the governor can make a statement and then, when it appears in print, utter a circumstantial denial of having used the language. One Indianapolis paper had occasion to call him a liar once, and the executive did not come to bat. It is like him to carry such a letter around for two years and then give it out on the eve of an election when the man who wrote it is a candidate. The man who trusts to luck to make him rich is generally a strong belie\er tn bad luck by the time he is forty-flva. -Somerville (Mass.) Journal. is there road work to be done, the farmer needs a heavy road plow. He pays for it $10.20. Roads in South Africa are made with the same plow, for which the owner pays $8.50, a difference of 20 per cent. The New England chilled two-horse plow, for which the American farmer pays $8.40, is sold to the farmer in South Africa for $7.90, a difference of 17 per cent. Rope, for which the farmer has much use, is sold at 11 cents per pound in South Africa, while 13 cents per pound is charged for it in New York state, where it is manufactured. The difference is 22 per cent Aiterican-made axes and hatchets, which are sold in this country for $7.50 Der dozen, can be purchased in South Africa for $6.75, a difference of 11 per cent. Crowbars. sell here at . the , rate of 6 cents per pound. are sold in South Africa for five and four-tenths of a cent a pound, another difference of 11 per cent.

' DON'TS. Don’t be late at the polls. Don’t go away early. Don’t let any man vote whose name la not on your poll-book. Don’t forget that the Republican state tax board is trying to make ths tax law odious. Don’t take any chances with voters. If they don't come to the polls promptly, send after them. Don't forget that Charles W. Fairbanks and Albert J. Beveridge voted for the ship subsidy bill. Don’t forget that your vote may be important in determining the result In county, state and nation. Don’t forget that the Democratic party is depending upon you to do your whole duty on election day. Don’t forget that these are prosperous times only to the trust magnates who own the Republican party. Don’t appoint any but simon-pure Democrats to act as watchers of the count on the night of the election. Don’t forget that November 8 will determine whether tyranny or the constitution shall rule in this country. Don’t let Republicans bulldoze you out of any of your rights. The law defines them and you should assert them courageously. Don’t stay away from the polls on election day, but vote early and remain to help your election officers in emergencies. Don’t fail, if election judge or watcher, to scrutinize every ballot, and don’t take a Republican’s word for anything in counting the vote. Don’t forget that Governor Durbin has admitted that the payments on the state debt have all been made from money raised through a Democratic tax law. Don’t forget that the Republicans expect to vote negroes who are not legal residents of the state, and when such things are attempted stand squarely for the right. Don’t forget that eternal vigilance Is the price of liberty and that the Democrat appointed as watcher on the night of election should be a man wholly above suspicion. Don’t forget that Charles W. Fairbanks voted for the Dingley bill, which enables the trusts to sell their products abroad for less than they charge the home consumer. Discussing the state debt in hfs Anderson speech, Hon. John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for governor, showed conclusively that the money comes from a law enacted by the Democrats and that the Republican state officials deserve credit only as agents of the people for paying the debt when the money comes Into the treasury. He likens the officials to a bank cashier who receives deposits and pays out money on the checks of the depositor. “These Republican officials," he declared, “are entitled to the same credit as the cashier, and no more. You paid your money Into the state’s sinking fund. They paid it out the state’s creditors because they were compelled by the law to do so.” The biennial convention of the National Republican League at Indianapolis last week was a -eritable frost on the party. Seven hundred delegates were expected and there were just 175 present. And, strange to relate, the managers said the small attendance was due to the general apathy in the party. But why apathy, when there is such a strenuous man at the head of the ticket? Senator Beveridge appears to be letting his enthusiasm get away with his judgment. Some of the statements that he is making in his speeches are so contrary to facts that one stands appalled at the nerve of the speaker. He ought to remember that he is speaking to intelligent people, men and women who read and think, and that his utterances challenge their credulity and awaken distrust. Mr. Beveridge has discovered unexampled prosperity among all classes of people, and tells his audiences that they were never better off than they are today. Yet there were in his audience at the time many men who were employed by trust factories and who have been idle for months. According to Bradstreet the number of business failures in 1904 were | greatly in excess of the number for a 1 torresponding period in 1903. A"1 this, too, when every Republican is ■touting prosperity in our ears. <» THE TRUSTS <9 <s> FOR ROOSEVELT. <& <?> Mr. Armour, the head of the <S> <s> beef trust, in an interview <s> <s> says: “We are going to sup- <B> ■s> port Mr. Roosevelt most em- <s> <s• phatically. We have been sat<S> isfled with his administration, <S> <s> and will be well satisfied to <•> <s> have him continue in office.” <s> <s> To be sure, Mr. Roosevelt is ■s> <s> good enough for any trust. <s> <s> They are all satisfied with him <s> <s> and will support him most <s> <s> emphatically. •$> <s■■£><£><»<•>«> Protection for the Farmer? The steel beam plow, for which the American farmer is asked $11.50, can be purchased in South Africa for $10.35, a difference of 11 per cent. The churn which the farmer uses, manufactured in Boston, costs him $2.47. In South Africa he could buy 1 it for $2.00, 23 per cent less.

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