Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 24 May 1906 — Page 6

THE DEMOCRAT ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING RY LIW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER 11.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE, ■atered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana x as second-class mail matter. SFFICIAt PAPER OF ADAMS COUHTY All a bluff It is given out that Attorney General Miller of this state has written to the Washington authorities offering his aid so far as he has power to act under the Jndiana laws. But he says in an interview in the Indianapolis Star that he has little power ‘‘as compared with the authority of attorneys general in various other states. In his connection I ought to say that there is a wide difference in the laws of Indiana and many of her sister states; a wide difference in the powers and authority and facilities of the attorneys general.” Mr. Miller concedes that the Indiana laws are ineffective as they stand and that they need amendment. The last legislature refused to pass a better law. The Republicans have been in the control of the' state for more than ten years,' and have refused to respond to the demand of the people for anti-trust laws that will amount to something. Does anything in the last Republican state platform give any hope for the future? Not a bit of it. Here is what it says on the subject: “We favor the enforcement of all laws enacted to protect the people against the encroachments of combined capital. We realize that capital must combine in a lawful way successfully to conduct our modern industries and commerce, and wc believe in protecting it in its legitimate functions. ’ ’ There is no promise to enact any law better than those we now have in this state, and these laws, according to the Republican attorney general, are practically useless. It does not take a careful reading of the above plank to show how farcical it is ; The Republican state conventiclu merely said to the trusts, “we tell the people that we are opposed to your encroachments, but we don’t blame you and will not hurt you.” This is the exact attitude of the Republican leaders of Indiana with reference to the trusts, and shows that that party eannot be depended on. -

Called the bluff We all know that not lone; ago the president came out in a brave message to the Congress and proceeded to cuss out the Standard Oil Company in the most approved fashion. He did not eare so much about hurting the Standard Oil Company as to show up the iniquity of the rebate system which has been the basis of the Rockefeller millions, and which have been handed him by the railroads. He though by this play to help along his railroad rate bill and help get the very amendment that he and Tillman and Bailey had agreed on. There is no doubt it had some effect and that the message would have helped to get some Republican votes that were wavering, but just then something happened that Teddy was no.t looking for. That night two men came over from New York arid called at the White House., They were closeted with the President for several hours and then they took the ' midnight train back to New York. Those men were two of the Standard Oil Company’s chief magnates, Mr. John D. Archbold and Mr. H. H. Rogers.' They told* Teddy in no equivocal language that unless he called a halt right then and there and took the back track on tjjis whole rail* road rate business and saw things as the senators who had been fighting PILES CURED IT HOME BY NEW ABSORPTION METHOD. If you suffer from bleeding, itching, blind , er protuding Piles, send me your address, ana I will tell you how to cure yourself at .home by the new absorption treatment; and ■will also send some of this home treatment free for trial, with references from your own locality if requested. Immediate relief and permanent cure assured. Send no money, but tell others of this offer. Write today to Mrs. M. Summers, Box P, Notre Dame; Ind.

for the unlimited court review, that they would open up on him‘and tell the whole story to the country concerning the campaign contribution to the Republican campaign fund made by the Standard Oil Company in the last campaign. That they would tell that he knew when it was given and why and how much it was before it ever reached the hands of Mr. Cortelyou, thus proving that Alton B. Parker told the truth in the last campaign. That’s what made him shiver and turn traitor to the people. Adams county Democrats will Rejoice lo that di.dgo Riihaid K. Er* in is receiving encouragement in his race i/r judge of the supreme court, from eveYy nook and corner in Indiana. His nomination is predicted, and this is but as it should be. While President Roosevelt is.hitting the trusts he should remove his -pilow-mits. and go bare-knuckled after their father, the tariff. That is what the country wants and needs. Give the Dingley monstrosity a knockout blow and the trusts can be reached and controlled. If President Roosevelt keeps right at it until congress adjourns, the Republican members who want to be reelected will have nervous prostration in its worst form. He is knocking all sorts of holes in the cardboard platforms on which they have been accustomed to “appeal to the people.” Under Republican rule the cost of living advances day by day. Not only do the official statistics prove it, but every man and every housewife knows it without reference to the statistics. But the “sacred principle of protection,’ ’as exemplified by the existing tariff law’ will not “be tampered with” if the Republican party has its way. Isn’t it about time fjr the people to have their w r ay for aw’hile ?

The Republicans have put out a pamphlet ‘■,. , vi-<F to coir inee first voters that they should cast their political fortunes with the Republican party. Very few youpg men will be deceived. The great majority of them are intelligent enough to know that the Republican party stand for and lives upon the things that are evil in our government and “that the people are going jto drive it out 'of power. Educated and thinking first voters will vote with the Democrats. —Huntington News-Democrat. The claim is made by some of Mr. Roosevelt’s admirers that he has accepted most of the Democratic doctrines except revision of the tariff. Os course it will be recalled that he once declared that while he was a free trader, he was a Republican first. That being the .case, he is side-step-ping on the revision question. If anything is plainly proved by this it is that, as Democratic prnciples are unquestionably popular throughout the country, the only sure way to put them in operation is to turn the government over to the Democrats. In this way, and in this way only, can genuine reforms be assured. i President Roosevelt’s vacillating course with reference to the .railroad rate bill is discouraging. It proves thlft he lacks staying qualities. It also proves that he either does not know what he wants or does not know how to get it. At the critical stage of this bill in the senate, he “compromised” with the senators representing the railroad interests and agreed to the insertion in the bill of the Allison amendment. That amendment makes it about as difficult for the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish and maintain a just rate as it is now. No wonder that the Democratic ~senators and other real friends of effective rate legislation felt that they were enticed into the president’s support only to be wantonly deserted at the crucial moment. No wonder that Senator Bailey said: “Let us hear no more about this man of iron; he is clay, and very common clay at that. ”

The aged Deacon Rockefeller may have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skin, but he is still the brains of the Standard Oil company and Senator Aldrich of Rhode Islad is its father-in-law. As Aldrich is the Republican dictator in the senate and the protector of corporate interests, President Roosevelt’s recent trumpet blast of. defiance of the octopus will probably result in some confplications. But the fight with the Standard must be pushed to a finish. The question at issue is whether the people shall govern themselves, as they have a right to do, or whether the Standard Oil company and its ‘allied interests shall continue to govern them, as has been the case for the past ten years.

There was a time when the cry, “the foreigner pays the tax,” fooled some voters into believing that Republican -high. protection was a thing of beauty and a joy forever. It was nonsense, of course, and could not bear analysis.' The Muncie Herald disposes of it in this neat way: “Bills are being introduced in congress providing for the remission of the tariff duties on structural iron and, steel and other materials necessary for the rebuilding of San Francisco. We have all along been told by our Republican friends that ‘the foreigner pays the tax.’ Why, in the very moment of their affliction, deprive the people of San Francisco of the great advantages of a high protective tariff? Why not ask the foreigner to ‘pay the tax ’ for the benefit of San Francisco ? ’ ’

If President Roosevelt would act as he talks he would be in many respects one of the most effective political reformers of the day. He has done something, of course ,and may do more before he is through, but he shows that he is not unmindful of the party lash. The thing for him to do is ,not only to fire his messages, but to plant himself on the “deadline” and fight the battle out with his fellow Republicans. The Democrats in congress have been willing to help him as far as they could, but some of his “compromises” with the fyends \>f affected interests are a little too much to stand. As Senator Rayner of Maryland expressed it in speaking of the president’s acceptance of the Allsion amendment of the rate bill, under which a broad court review will be allowed, “he is So constituted that he cannot look at a trap without, fooling with the spring.”

Can this be true? It is said at Indianapolis that the ex-Mayer John II«? izmaris’ reorganization <?.isorganizn'ibrr of the Democrat state comtee is a Fairbanks' play and when the facts are sifted to the bottom claim has some semblance of truth in it, some merit. Fairbanks, to insure his having even a ghost of a show in the cooping presidential race, will need to keep Indiana in the Republican column. To that end it is to the interest of Fairbanks to resort to anything that will tend to stir up strife in the Democratic pary. Fairbanks and his nephew, Delavan Smith, o n the Indianapolis News, which while a Republican paper, has always supported Holtzman in his campaigns. It is now that Fairbanks needs the compliment returned. The connection is clear to any thinking Democrat and no one should be mislead by this Fairbanks trick.—Portland Review, rep. A Spencer county farmer who has heretofore. been a Republican writes to the Rockport Democrat that he will hereafter support the Democratic party because he believes it to be “the only party that represents the best interests of the common people.” In his communica.tion he says: “This sort of Republican protection we hear so much of—Republican boasts of protecting American labor —has built up the all-powerful trusty in this - O A guaranteed cure for piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or ProtrJdining Pies Druggists refund monev if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case, no matter of how long standing in 6 to 14 days First application gives ease and hasr t sentl 50c in stamps and it forwarded postpaid by the Paris Medicine Co., a Louis, Mo. ■J. . c .

country, and instead of protecting American labor has made the trusts so strong that the laboring men have had to band themselves together in unions against the tariff-made trusts. That’s the only protection the lairing man has in this country, what he makes for himself Jby organizing.” Not only the farmers and laboring men,_but the masses of the people, generally, are realizing now as never before that “this sort of Republican protection we hear so much of” means the protection of the trusts and special interests- which Republican tariff laws have created and fattened at he expense of the rest of the people. HAD BEEN HERE ONLY A WEEK

Boy From Greentown and Girl From Kpkomo—lmpose on \ f .Relatives. v """ ■ A young couple giving their names as Charle Pumphrey and Gladys M. Stromberry, appeared at the county clerk’s office Tuesday and asked for a marriage license. .. The boy claimed to be twenty-two years old and the girl eighteen, bqt the license was refused because of the fact that they had resided here only a few days. Pumphrey’s home is at Greentown, Indiana, while Miss Stromberry hails from Kokomo. They came here a week ago, claiming to be married and have been visiting among rela--ujora siqjr -übui SunoX aqy jo saap ing these relatives telephoned to Sheriff Butler and told him to arrest the parties as they have been living here as man and wife. A little later an uncle of the boy, named Coppotek, arrived and filed an affidavit with the clerk that the boy was less than nineteen and not entitled to a license. The relatives are opposed to the match and say the woman is simply out for a good time apd is * working” young Pumphrey for his money. y THIRTY-FOUR FOOT PAVEMENT Plans and Specifications Filed and Adopted—Cemetery Association Must Pay for Water.

The City Council met in continued session Tuesday evening Mayor Coffee presiding and every councilman an- 1 swering to. the.roll. The plans and specifications for paving Second street as filed by City Civil Engineer Vogt were read and some alterations were made, the principal one being the cutting down of a portion of the street in width from Jackson street to Marshall street that square now to be thirty-four feet instead of forty feet as was originally agreed upon: Upon i this motion the mayor called for the. yea and hay vote, all councilmen voting for the motion with the exception of Chronister. This being the only change in the plans and speeificatons, Martin moved that the council adopt the same, which carried. Christen then moved that the Cemetery Association be allowed to get water from a hydrant at Fifteenth street at two cents a barrel. The yea and nay vote was called upon this question and the motion was lost. This leaves the matter in such a manner that the Cemetery Association must put in a meter and use thf water if they so desire by meter rate. Van Camp moved that the street and sewer committee be empowered to put in a shute at the outlet of the Monroe street sewer, so that the waste wafer might be carried into the river. This motion carried and the commit? tee requested to proceed with *the work at once. Van Camp then moved that the council adjourn in regular continued session until next Tuesday., when the matter of granting the Indianapolis, Decatur & <’hio Interurban Railway a fru-chise, will be taken up. . A Certain Cure for Aching Feet. Shake into your shoes Allen’s FootEase, a powder It cures Tired, Aching, Callous, Sweating, Swollen feet. At all Druggists and. Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmstead, Leßoy, N. Y. THE FRIDAY NIGHT CLUB MET Mrs. John Peterson *was at home Tuesday, evening to the F. iday Night Euchre Club and a few of their friends. Progressive euchre was played, at which Mrs. T. M. Miller scored the highest number of points. A very dainty lunch was then served by Masters Robert and Dwight. The visitors were Mesdames -D. M. Hensley, H. T. Gregg, J. H. Heller, T. M. Miller, F. G. Christen, of Chicago, and D. F. Quinn, of Paragould, Arkansas.

• IN THE INTEREST OF DECATUR I ♦’ J”" A Cordial Invitation is Extended the Public to Attend and Participate. , At the Commercial Club board meeting Tuesday evening the standing committees for the year were named. The factory committee, from whom something good is expected this year, lire Clark J. Lutz, H. R. Moltz,' C. C. Schafer, W. H. Fledderjohann and C. D. Lewton. The board completed arrangements for a meeting at the club on Thursday evening, May 31, at which time discussiotns will be made upon subjects that will interest those who want to see a more progressive Decaur. The program proper consists of A. Van Camp, who will discuss the subject of “Our Possibilities and the Duties of Our Citizens.” Clark J. Lutz and pay his respects io “ The fcnocker. ” Informal speeches will follow, the speakers to be Henry Krick, J. 'T. Merryman, Judge R. K. Erwin, J. M. Frisinggr, and others. David E. Smith will preside and the meeting will contain much that will interest every merchant, property owner and citizen. The club will throw open wide its doors and invites every one to' the meeting, and invites them tt> participate therein. Should the weather permit the front porch will be decorated and made presentable for a stand, the yard will be illuminated with Chinese lanterns and

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