Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1906 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY kKW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHES n.OO PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. watered at the poetofflce at Decatur,lndian! aa Mcond-cUM mail matter. IHICIM PAPER OF ADAMS COUNT? A new trust There is a new trust in town, the members thereof being the four husky Doctors of Dentistry. Readers of The Democrat will no longer see the usual cards which courteously announced their office location. They have combined against publicity, and each agreed with the other that the newspaper publisher was rolling in too much of their wealth. So they cut it out. We are not particularly grieved over this loss of business, but it has certainly come to a pretty pass when even a dentist can not control his own business. It is this sort of thing that gives the farmers a right to suppose that merchants and business men in all lines are combined against them. It is all right tocurtail expense, as it is a necessary evil, and the Lord konws the business man makes little enough for the time, energy and money commanded and expended. But this curtailment should not be along the lines of an understanding or combination. The evils of mail or Joy buying c?.l •"’ever be r'ured in this way. There must be a legitimate competition and an effort to show the buyers that the merchandise wanted is as cheap, or if not as cheap, that it is superior in quality and well worth the price asked. The American people are not close fisted, and they are firm believers in the theory of “live land let live.” Who ever heard of a Decatur merchant boldly advertising that he will meet any mail order price. Yet they declare, and it is a fact, that they can and do meet these prices and meet them with better quality. Why not make the open declaration ? Why not boom your own business instead of decrying that of the mail order houses? Decatur merchants can get all the business coming to them by instilling a little of the elixir of life, and stop grumbling.

A WORTHY TICKET. The delegates in the Democratic state convention did not labor in vain, for if success does not come to the party this fall they will have the satisfaction of knowing that their nominees are worthy and capable men. The strength of the ticket does not lie at the top, in the middle or at the bottom, .but all the way through. Cleaner men were never before nominated for state offices in Indiana. While each man was named by acclamation, yet there is no machine favor to the ticket, for among the nominees are Bi-yan men, Parker men, Hearst men ,gold men, silver men and muicipal ownership men. The surprise is that one state convention could have so harmoniously agreed upon such a ticket. Analyzing the nominees, one by one, nothing can be found on which to question the ability of each to safely and capably fill the office for A.hieh he has been nominated. It is a ticket that will appeal strongly to the' independent voter. The strongest feature of the,platform is the endorsement of Mr. Bryan. Our great admiration for President Roosevelt does not blind us to the fact that Mr. Bryan possesses many of the qualities which we admire in the president. If the Democrats are to be successful in 1908 the people, we believe, woult rather spe Mr. Bryan in the White House than any other one of his party h, now, prominently before the country. Indiana Democrats have made a fine beginning. They are to be congratulated on their choice of leaders and their evident intention to restore confidence in the party’s purpose to serve the nation.—lndianapolis Bun, Rep. ’ A delusion There are doubtless many Reprldicans who believe that their party will change its spots, reform itself, and then proceed to correct the abuses in the natipn which are directly traceable to its policies. But these persons are

hugging a delusion. Henry Watterson who “flew the coop,” so to speak, in 1896, but who now is a stalwart supporter of Mr. Bryhn, tells why nothing good can be expected from the Republican party. “The’Republican party,” he says in his recent pronouncement, “is a mammoth trust. It is the greatest of all syndicates. It could not, if it would, mend any of the abuses whch have grown up under its adminstration, and which appeal in every, department of the political, commercial and economic arena. It is responsible for the conversion of the public highways to private uses; for the diversion of the taxes from the purpose of revenue to purposes of emolument; for the consolidation of all official power to a few hands in Washington; the concentration of all financal power to a few hands in money centers; for the elimination of the spirit and sense of accountability from the party fabric; for the corruption of the very sources of the legal fabric in the legislatures and the electorate from onte end of the land to the other. ’ ’ The Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks —well, to say the least, he looks upon the great Bryan movement with distrust.. And here is the Lafayette Journal, stalwart Republican, advancing the fear that Mr. Bryan “has become too conservative” to please some voters. My, but it is hard to satisfy some of thee Republican papers! John C. Billheimer, Republican candidate for auditor of state, was head deputy under Sherrick, the defaulting state auditor. Billheimer may be all right, but how does it look ?—Colum)ia City Post. The Republican managers are struggling with the greatest problem that las faced them in many a long year. They are trying to find out “how to ieat Bryan. ’ ’ But they will never find out. It< is not on the cards. Bryan can’t bb beaten. Another trust senator appears in Washington. It is Henry A. Dupont, the head of the powder trust, and he hails from little Delaware. And he is a Republican, of course. How the iepublican party is “busting the trusts’ - ’ to be sure!

Man for man, the Democratic nominees for state offices are superior to their opponents. Besides, when elected, they will have no partisan reason for not giving the statehouse a thorough overhauling—a thing that it needs and must have. Vice President Fairbanks will make a speech this summer at Pike’s Peak, Colorado. Quite appropriate. There’s always snow on Pike’s Peak and hence small danger that Mr. Fairbanks will thaw out sufficiently to release an opinion on any vital public question. Secretary, of the Treasury •? Shaw, who wants the Republican nomination for president in 1908, has six toes on each foot. Os course that settles it. No man who has twelve toes can ever hope to be president of the United State. There are too many chances for- sores. A meeting, of, tbp state Democratic committee will be held in Indianapolis some time within the next two weeks ' to formulate the plan of campaign and organize for work. It is expected that at this time each district committeeman will be able to have such information as may be of service to the whole committee. Still further, there are indications that outside of the Democratic party people are considering Bryari as the proper and logical successor of Roosevelt. a It is, of course, unsafe to prol phecy two years ahead on a political I campaign,. but stranger things have i happened than that the Democratic ' slide to Bryan in 1906 should become ! in 1908, a national avalanche that will

overwhelm the greed, corruption and vices that so long have made the people a prey. —South Bend Times. From present indications the conferences on the railroad rate bill will not reach agreement until some tune next week which, in all probability, will be the last week of the session. The purpose of withholding their report, it is said, is to avoid a repetition of the long debate iu the senate which followed the recent report of the eonfersee. This debate resulted in sending the bill back to conference. A dispatch from Anderson says that Charles K. Bagot of that city has advised his friends that he will not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Eighth district. His declination is regarded as practical assurance that the Madison county vote will be cast for the Hon. J. A. M. Adair of Portland. The belief prevails that Mr. Adair will be named by acclamation on the 28th inst., at Alexandria. According to information at State Democratic headquarters Mr. Bryan will arrive in New York from his world’s tour July 29. He will come west almost immediately, and it -is possible that he will make three speeches in Indiana. He has consented to speak in Ft. Wayne, Indianapolis and Evansville, if it be possible to arrange his time. The state committee will endeavor to secure his assistance later in the campaign and induce him to make a tour of .the state. —The Hoosier. Regret is universal over the sg(ith of Governor Pattison, which oceipTed at Milford, Ohio, last Monday afternoon. Governor Pattison has been practically an invalid since his inauguration as governor of Ohio, being “a sufferer from Bright’s disease, and which caused his death. He is fiftynine years old and was really a great and a good man, and it is io bet regretted that he could not live to s|i*vfc the people as governor. He will be succeded by Andrew Harris, lieuten-ant-governor, and a Republican.

“Uncle Joe” Cannon who hajs a presidential boom of his own, accuses the Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks of trying to puncture it by of attacks through the Indianapolis News, which is the vice president’s personal organ. The same paper has taken shots at Secretary Shaw, Secretary Taft and other possible candidates, not excepting Mr. Roosevelt himself. The Cannon boom is not particularly loud, but what there is of it belongs to “Uncle Joe” and he means to defend it, regardless of what the other candidates do. Altogether there is much quarreling and snarl/ijig. In the meantime the people are getting ready to elect Bryan. That the tremendous acclaim' for Bryan is creating consternation at Washington is well indicated ip the following, by the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star, reputed a Republican paper: “jt is with considerable interest and; no slight degree of anxiety that the men who are devoting their whole thought and eriergy in behalf of Mr. Fairbanks’ candidacy note the tendency of the times. The masses df the people—Republicans and Democrats*—are drifting more and more away from the rock-bed of conservatism. It is already apparent that the Democrats are going to nominate a radical for president—William J. Bryan—if he will take it, and if not, some one who thinks in the same channel and wears the 'O. K. ’ of the Nebraska leader. ’ ’ .X Some of the Republican papers of the state grumble because the Democratic platform contains no endorsement of the debt-paying policy of the state administration. Just how the Republicans are entitled to any credit for paying off the state debt it is hard to see. The Democrats passed the tax law which provided the fund for: paying the debt. The Republicans voted I against it in the legislature and de-

nounced it in their next state platform as unjust to the railroads and other corporations. Charles W. Fairbanks and other Republican orators attacked it on the stump. It was assailed in the courts, but Attorney General Alonzo G. Smith fought for it clear to the United State Supreme court and sustained'it. The law, as the Democrats intended and provided, has paid all of the state debt that has been paid. If the Republican state administrations are entitled to any credit it is because they did not steal the money put in their hands, but applied it as the law required. WAS A GOOD BALL PLAYER But Makes a Bad Official—Old Pop Anson. Collier’s Weekly takes a rap at Pop Anson, formerly famous as a ball player and now notorious as the city clerk of Chicago: “Ti’p.3 was ind'-ed when the name of Anson was on every lip. Nobody since baseball was invented has occupied a place in the imagination of bleacher humanity equal to that held by Chicago’s famous captain. His bat at one time was the mightiest in the world, and the team which he headed was the most interesting as well as the ablest of its day. What, then, shall the philosopher say . when old Pop, hero of victories so many and so famous, is investigated by the law as to his conduct of the city clerk’s office in Chicago? We cannot think too ill of Pop. He injured his vote greatly by the speeches he delivered during his campaign, and he made extremely silly statements about w’hat he deemed the duty of a public functionary. He was, and is, about as fit to be city clerk'of Chicago as Admiral Dewey or Mr. Hobson is to be president of the United States. A grateful people ought to have found some office more fitting this hero’s laureled brow. Bad, however, as his administration may be, we are strong in hope that his political silliness will appear to have been free from anything worse than ' misunderstanding of his dutes. To have dishonor fall upon a figure as heroic in proportions, as, to all true lover of the game, the figure of Anson must forever be, would cast a shadow on one of the brightest annals of our land.”

ORGANIZATION NOW COMPLETE Many Planning to go to the State Convention at Marion This Week. The Sunday school convention held at Beulah Chapel on Sunday afternoon was well attended and the peo'ple of that community are very much interested in the work. The program was carried out in full as advertised. Excellent addresses were given by Rev. A. B. Haist, Hon. J. T. Merry; man, of Decatur, and Rev. I. A. Sommer of Berne. The Round Table con-: ducted by Jese Rupp created a good deal of discussion and much interest was manifested in questions pertaining to the Sunday school. The collet tion amounted to $3.10. The Convention voted to organize Preble and Kirkland townships into a permanent .organization and the following officers were elected: J. Frank Allen, president; Joseph V. Pease, vice president; Jesse Kelley, -secretary, and. Ed Fruchte, treasurer. We feel people that were present at this convention appreciated our efforts and we believe interest in the work will continue to grow r”l -the sclr-As of these townships will be benefited-ac/ cqrdingjy. As the time approaches for the great , state convention at Marion this week, (June 19-21) interest is increasing, and a large number of people from all over the county are planning attend. ' THE BOLDS TRIAL THIS WEEK Being Heard at Portland—Decaturites Attending. The case of Adams county vs, Daniel P. Bolds, ex-treasurer of this county, to collect money alleged to be due to the amount of about $4,000, is being tried at Portland this week. The case began yesterday and the defendant, Mr. Bolds has been on the stand continually since. Auditor Lewtori and Deputy Clerk Baumgartner went to Portland today, being summoned to appear as witnesses. Attorn rieys C. J. Lutz and Peterson & Moran, are also there, being attorneys in the case. JUNE SALE. I will offer my entire stock of •millinery at 25 per cent, off during the month of June. This sale Twill be strictly cash. A'lY - : MRS. M. BURDG, »’ l .y.-

AT GENEVA * A Wedding Early this Morning THE GROVES-TAYLOR NUPTIALS Geneva Band May Disorganize— Heavy Rain Last Night—G. A. R. to Hold a Picnic. Geneva, June 20.—The wedding of Miss Anna Taylor to Mr. Grover Groves, two well known young people of this place, occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Briggs this; morning at seven o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Mower in the presence of a few intimate friends of the bride and groom. The happy couple left on the seven thirty train for their future home in Huntertown, where Mr. Groves is employed by the Geneva Grain and Hay Co. It was rumored on the streets last ’evening that the Geneva Cornet Band was just about, to be a thing of the past and that the boys were making ready to disorganize. Several reasons were given for this move, one that the bass section could not be properly filled and another that too many members were leaving town. It will be too bad if the band does die, for that’s about the only thing that is left now i to give any amusement. Here’s hoping it may have v a new lease on life. \ ' ’ ’' .’ '\4, 1 The heavy rain last night has made the grounds at the ball park unfit to ' play on and unless the sun gets in some good work this morning it is 1 feared that ths game with the Muncie 1 Oyamas will be declared off. The local team is getting in some good practice - this week in readiness for next Sunday’s game with Decatur.

The members of the G. A. R. and S. of V. orders are making preparations for a big picnic to be held in the grove west of town one week from Sunday. A special program is being arranged for the day and although all arrangements have not bqen completed, the people may be assured that the picnic will be a splendid affair and should make preparations to attend. Geneva, June 16. —The marriage of' Miss Bertha MacWhinney to Mr. Guy Ricketts was solemnized Saturday noon at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. arid Mrs. F.<J. MacWhinney. Rev. J. S Kane of New Haven, performed the ceremony- in the presence of only the immediate relatives and a few of the most intimate friends of the bride and groom. Following the ceremony, a luncheon was served. ; The newly married couple left on the north bound train at two forty and from here went to Fort Wayne, where-they will spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pontius. Monday they will go to their future home in Kendalville, where Mr. Ricketts is employed in the G. R. & I. offices. Both the bride and groom are well known here and were prominent* i|i- social circles. The send-off given tlrem at the station only went' to show -their popularity. May it be a long life and happy life for both. Geneva, June 18.—The annual memoral services of the K. of P. lodge were held- at the U. B. church Sunday morning. Rev. Wells of the Methodist church delivered the sermon, arid his address was a splendid one. Special music was furnished by the choir of the church, by Mrs. O. M. Graham and a quartette composed of Mesdames E. F. Walsh and W. W. Briggs, and Messrs. H. O. Butler and Fred Patterson. The church was completely filled by the members of the order and their friends. The lodge, before the services, marched to the cemetery, where the ritualistic service was held. ' , ...... ■ 1 • i?'? * The members of the U. B. church are to have the interior of their place of worship changed and beautified by the use of paifits and paper this week. The officials of the church will expend some S2OO in making the improvements and when completed the church will present a very attractive appearance. Rev. Mower will act as chief decorator and designer. Geneva defeated the Winchester base ball team in a decidedly listless game here Sunday, the score being 9 to 1, in favor of the former. The locals, had a walkaway and the visitors played no ball at all until the fifth inning, when they made a change in l--A ' ■ ih b-A: A. '' .-..A “ r j

their line-up and placed Fink in the box instead of Durham. During the rest of the game, they put up a little better article in the ball line. The attendance was very small and much 5 grumbling was heard because of the weak teams being brought here. It is impossible for thq management to get a fast team every Sunday -and the people ’ihust •'e'tpefet 'weak ’grfnie ■sometimes, but the management should make those times few and far between, else they will soon be losers when it comes to attendance. B • IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER ” Ugly Charges Made Against George E. Spoke, Secretary and Others. William Smith and twelve others interested in the company began pror ceedings Monday against the Monroeville Home Telephone company for " the appointment of a receiver and an 3 - Recounting.. Simon Meuer, president; Joseph Clem, the vice president ; Geo. r E. Spake, the'secretary and treaurer, i and J. Emmet Whitney are made defendants. The complaint prepared by I 7 Attorneys Olds and Neizier, covers sixteen pages and makes serious charges against the men in charge of the telephone company. It is alleged that since January 1904, there has t not been an accounting of the re- [ ceipts and expenditures of the com- > pany; that the books do not show the ; receipts and expenditures since Jan- ; uary last. Becoming suspicious in t May last the complainants say they r employed an expert to examine the . bo'oks of the company and that he > found a discrepancy of $1,541.99 be- ; tween the receipts and expenditures ■ and that the officers promised to make . restitution. The complainants ask : that Mr. Spake pay back $930; due the company. It is claimed that the books and accounts of the company are improperly kept; that expenditures are made without warrant, that notes amounting to $4,450 are about to come due, and the plaintiffs declare that the company can best be served . I by the appointment of a receiver. The Monroeville Telephone company is capitalized at $75,000 and has a large constituency. ..... I The Brotherhood at Pleasant Valley, seven miles south of Decatur, I will give an ice cream . festival on ■ Saturday evening, June 23. The pro- I ceeds are for the purpose of charity. The churches will conduct another I union evangelistic service opposite the Library next Sunday evening, leommencing at 7:00 p. m. Good music. I Good singing. Please keep this in * mind. ■ ft The German Lutheran at I Steele’s Park today attracted * large I crowd and a most enjoyable time was I I had. The day was an ideas-one. for I the event and everyone was in a ft happy ftame of mind and nothing marred the occasion. The proceeds ■ from this event will go to the,benefitof the church. " .. IT’S ‘ YOUR KIDNEYS - • 4 . Ki Don’t Mistake the Cause of Year Trou- I blea—A Decatur Citiaen SSarwa 1 How to Cure Them. I . Many, people never suspect their, kidneys. If suffering from a. lame, Weak ? or aching back they think it js qnly a muscular weakness; when urjnary < trouble sets in they think it will soon correct itself. And so it ;s with all the other symptoms of kidney disorders. That is just where the danger lies. You must cure these troubles or they lead to diabetes or Bright’s disease. The 4 best remedy to use is Doan’s Kidney Pills. It cures .all iljs which are caus- , ed by weak or diseased kidneys. Decat- I ur people testify to permanent cures. Sam Ruggels living about three miles south of Decatur on the road to Will- . shire, says: “I suffered for several J years with what I thought was rheumatism. At times, I thought , that every bone in my body ached and it was with difficulty that I could get around. I was so sore right across the small of my back and so weak that I was in constant misery. At times it became so severe that I could not leave the house. Stooping caused agony ahd when I straightened again I suffered more. I consulted several doctors and used ij their medicines and applied liniment ’’ without benefit and I continued to get ; worse and worse. One day While in ■ Decatur, I was complaining to a friend of mine and he advised me to get t Doan’s Kidney Pills, saying .they had 1 cured him of severe trouble 3t got a ,• box' at the Holthouse Drug Comany’s store and before-I had used all of them, I could walk arOund without a support .• ■ and I continued using the remedy un- r ■ til all the Aching, weakness and sore- i I ness was removed and I felt well and ■ strong again. I have not had any'Mh ■ trouble with my kidneys since I used 111 Doan’s Kidney Pills and I can go out I H and work as well as I ever'-'could. I r H feel like a new man.” - • 11* ■ For sale by all dealers. ' Price 50 B cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ■ H Y., sole agents for the United States. I B| Remember the name—DQAN'S —and j take no other. L ft DEATH FROM LOCKJAW never follows an injury pressed with I Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. Its antisep- I I tic and healing properties' prevent |I ft blood poisoning. Chas. Oswald, jner- I Ij chant, of Y., 1 writes: “It cured Seth Burch; of this 1 Is place,' of the ugliest sore on his neck lif I ever saw.” Cures Cuts,'. ’Wounds, L B