Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1906 — Page 6

THE REPUBLICAFTOirai LAW Something About the Odious Measure Passed by Last Legislature. The last Republican legislature has fnany sins to answer for, but perhaps So measure enacted by it has caused Such a storm of indignation among the farmers of the state as the ditch law, approved by Governor Hanly March 6, 1901. Under this law, in many localities land-owners have been put to heavy and unnecessary expense for making repairs which, under the old method, were made at a trifling cost. The entire matter of repairing drains is left with the county surveyor who, it is provided, “shall keep the same in repair to the full dimensions as te width and depth as is required in the original specifications.” This is broad authority and vests in the surveyor the power to order Impairs whenever, for any reason, •the original specifications” as to width and depth have been changed even in the slighest degree. In order to find out about these original specifications the surveyor can, apparently, make surveys as often as he pleases, with such assistants as he desires, and at a heavy preliminary cost before a shovelful of dirt has been thrown. From all parts of the state come reports of abuses perpetrated under the new law. In a late issue the Lebanon Pioneer prints more than a page of facts relating to the working of the new law in Boone county where assessments for repairs and expenses already exceed eleven thousand dollars. In more than one drain the surveyor’s preliminary costs were wore than the contract price for doing the actual work of repair. In-all •uses the preliminary expenses were large when compared with the cost •f repair. The whole system aa it was fixed up by the Republican legislature is enormously costly to the farmers and doubtless will grow worse until the law is amended er repealed. No man is allowed, as formerly, to clean out the ditches running through his land at actual coat of time and labor, but must pay an exorbitant price for things that must be done before a spade or a scraper touches the ground. Both Governor Hanly and the Republican state convention praised the legislature which was guilty of this great injustice to land-owners, and which, besides, was guilty of passing other objectionable laws and refusing to pass bills which would have been of general benefit to the people. -— ——«**m4BP THE PROSPEROUS MNATOR. In his speeches Senator Hemenway is talking about the “groat which he says the Republican tariff “has brought so all of us.” Bvery man doubtless will hMs for himself just how prosperous wail as the cause of his condition. Mr. Hemenway appears to hare tone pretty well in congress, but uffiat ph©s* er »tage of the tariff affected hi* j* nri known. Last spring the I*dtaaap*Bs •tar, Republican state organ, printed the following from its special Washington correspondent: "Senator James A. Hemenway is making good use of the yacht which his wealthy Baltimore relative recently placed at his disposal. Yesterday evening he gave an outing on the yacht to a number of distinguished people. They enjoyed a cruise far down the Potomac. Speaker Canaan was the life of the party. The yacht is a model vessel and fitted out with all of the accessories of the most modern pleasure craft. The Indiana senator is planning a similar outing for a number of correspondents before congress adjourns." A few days later the same paper printed the following J tem in its spe•eial Washington correspondence: "Controller Tracewell of the treashas been confined to his home for •everal days as the result’of 400 luxurious living on Senator Ptometomy’s wacht. Me is now aMte to be ffbeut, although his stomach to etill ve*Ftore *On the yacht," said he, "♦* kM an •Hltratlve mean, ciastoßag es dtabs, gaenmbers, cherries Urf dftlsfcen. the tonator's hospitality fib* toe powerful, and it overcame me. I helped fcyself plentifully to the alliterative •111 of fare, and it put me out of commission.” Thus it appears that Mr. Hemenway’s lines have been cast in pleasant places since he has been in Washington. He naturally feels “prosperous.” Most people fool that way who hav« private yachts "fitted eut with aM the a****e*riee of the most modern plea* we craft.*

•tfMETHTNG' ABOUT AEiflEflWAt. A man who Is fit to be a member of the United States senate should be both intelligent and truthful. But there are men in that body who are both ignorant and mendacious. James A. Hemenway. of this state, is one of these. His public speeches would not be considered as entitled to the least attention if it were not for the fact that by some strange fatality he has crawled up into a seat in the sen ate of the United States. Mr. Hemenway, in the campaign speech that be is delivering, tries to < take credit for his party for the passage of the railroad rate bill. Along with the other corporation senators Hemenway would have voted against any rate bill if he had dared to de so. As it was he voted against every amendment calculated to make the measure better and for amendments that made it weaker. Senator La Follette, of Wisconsin, himself a Republican, read Hemenway’s record in Hemenway’s presence from a public platform in this s<ate and offered proof of the above fact*. And then Mr. Hemenway alludes—he does not dwell on it —to the pur* food bill as another Republican performance. When that bill was under consideration in the senate, Hemenway was the special representative of a large group of lobbyists who were trying to cripple it in some of its essential features or defeat it if possible. He was openly charged by leading journals with urging amendments that would have made deception easy, and the Congressional Record of February 20 shows how hard he struggled to befriend the lobby. When he comes to the tariff Mr. Hemenway is even less regardful ot the truth of history. Facts with him count for nothing. The point that he tries to make is that a high pro-tective-tariff —in. other words, high taxes —are responsible for all the prosperity the country has ever known. His exact language is as follows: “This was clearly demonstrated in 1892, when, for the first time since 1880, the Democratic party secured complete control of the government and enacted a tariff for revenue only, or a free trade bill, which resulted in closing the- factories and turning an army of laborers into an army of tramps, and in bringing upon the country one of the most disastrous panics we ever have known.” If Mr. Hemenway knows enough and is honest enough to be a United States senator, he knows and will admit that the McKinley high protective tariff law was in force from th* first of October, 189 Q, to the first of September, 1894. What he speaks of as the “free trade bilT’ was the Wilson bill, a moderate tariff measure. It took effect when the McKinley bill stopped, that is, on August 27, 1894. The panle started in November, 1890, within thirty days attar the McKinley law went into force. It grew worse right along during 1891 and 1893. Banks failed, mills shut down, strikes and lockouts occurred, thousands apon thousands were thrown eut of work and the slaughter of strikers at Hogtfiestead took place. During all this time a Republican president was in the White ftoue*, and the MbKMey high protective tariff law was hi fierce. Everything that Hemenway speaks about in the paragraph quoted from his speech took place while the same law was -in force. Hemenway knows all this to be true, but he has not the courage to admit it. The Republican state committee brought Leslie M. Shaw, of lowa, secretary of th* treasury in the Roosevelt cabinet, into the state to talk to a certain class of the people aa a “standpatter,” a high tariff-taxer and a trust defender. Governor Cummin*, of th* same state, is to be brought to Indiana to talk to another class ae a tariff reformer. It waa as a .tariff reformer that Cummins was recently renominated for governor by a convention that hissed Shaw from-the convention hall. The Republican state managers are playing thimble-rig politics. But the trusts don’t care by what method Republican congressmen are i rieeted, for they know by experience *at they can handle them after they ■ B*t to Washington. i . REMEMBER * It should be remembered that aH t certificate* of nominations for office i —whether congressional, Judicial, **n- - atorlal, representative, county or township—must be filed with the clerk es i-1 each county where the nominated p*rt | son or persons are to be voted for, at least fifteen days before the elee- " tion. * | Where a person is nominated by pe- * | tltlon the signature of each I- must be acknowledged before a notary I public.

GOVERNOR" HANL'TS' EXTRAVAGANCE. Governor Hanly is making an effort to defend the extravagance of his administration of his office by asserting that he gets more back than he pays out. This assertion has no substantial basis. It is mostly imaginary and speculative. When it is not that, ft is untrue. The Sherrick indebtedness was of record. It had to be paid, either by the corporation which bonded him or by himself or friends, and there was no chance for the state to , lose. Storms’ indebtedness was also a matter of record and easy of calculation, and his bond secured it to th* > state even if be or the influences behind him had not made the amount good. The claims made against ex- ( state officers are based upon disputed questions now before the courts. i There is an army of bookkeepers 1 and clerks in the state house drawing j regular salaries from the treasury. * who were capable of investigating ( all of the things to which the governor i refers if they are capable of earning 1 what the people pay them for their ’ services. But Governor Hanly had , some friends who “needed the money” j and he gave them the job at $25.00 a I day each, and In less than a year 1 paid out over SIO,OOO on this account i alone, He posed these men as “ex- , perts” though they had no such rep- < utation. It has never been shown that their services had any special < value whatever. Besides, Governor Hanly has paid ( out unknown amounts for special ( < “legal advisers,” "secret agents” and ♦ such like. It has been shown time and ’ again that the attorney-general’s office t is equipped with a salaried force large r enough to handle the state’s business. < The employment of other “advisers” * t by the governor is without justifiestion. It is, indeed, reprehensible ex- { travagance when it is remembered ] that the finances of the state are in a ’ deplorable condition because of the , 1 gross wastefulness of the Republican | state officials, and that the state is ( compelled to draw Immense advance t sums from the counties in order to pay ( its obligations without issuing bonds, * and was driven to the necessity of | adding a half million dollars to the t tax levy for general expenses. | < When Governor Hanly took his of- * flee the state government not only ( had a deficit of a half million dollars, j but within a few months had to draw , £ nearly a million dollars in advances 1 from the counties. And yet in the * face of this condition, which the gov- j erpor spoke of as “embarrassing,” I|* < had the legislature appropriate for th* i use of his office, $97,400 a year where | 1 Governor Matthews, the last preced- j ing Democratic governor, had found , $12,000 sufficient. 1 < Th* High Tariff Rani*. 1 < The McKinley high proteetiv* tariff ( law wewt into fere* Get 6,1890, sad ] continued in force until Aug. 27, M 94. 1 What the Republicans speak of to j the “panic of 1892” began in Novem- |, ber, 1890. Harrison waa president, < and the Republicans were tn control of th* government It was ta 18911 that the great Homestead lockout and I ( slaughter occurred. T*ns of thbna- ; ands of men wOre out of rinployment everywhere. Banks suspended, business houses failed, manufactories shut down and hard time* settled upon the country.' And it was all under 1 the Republican McKinley law — the highest protect! v* .tariff law th* country ever saw except th* present DingUy law. Neither the Democratic par- ' ty nor any Democratic saw had ■lightest thing to to with bringing about the panic. It wa»<* Republican calamity from start to finish. How RrojH>firove *ro Yous ri/Thepeople are (being told by the Republican campaign speakers that | they were never so prosperous in all lheir bora days and that it is all due to the sacred Dingley tariff which add* | so much to the cost of living . The question is, are you prosperous? If so, how much? And why? And tow long can you stand the same sort of prosperity? Think about It apd look around you. And then think of the prosperous trusts. Figure R gat, If yen oaa, whether y*u bar* •sen getting pnur fate share. Take into account year family expenses—feed, clothing, fuel, house rent, school ' hooks for the children and aH the necessary odd* and end*. Ar* you ' getting your fair share of this wonder- ’ ful “prosperity?" If not, who is get- : ’ ting It? i The Democratic party in this cam- • palgn stands for honesty in effie*, r economy 1? public expenditure* and • reduction of tax**. • • I

KUMW oorouhCEo ; Former Republican Editor Will Support Democracy. * • It Is said that the Republican state 1 committee* is now engaged in sending •ut “cartloads” of the speech delivered in congress by Charles B. Landis in defense of the trusts’ private tax law, known commonly as the Dingley 1 tariff law. Soon after that speech was made, Albert G. Small, formerly editor of the Logansport Journal and 'a Republican, wrote a* letter to the Logansport Pharos in which he forcefully expressed the views of thousands ! of other Republicans. Mr. Small said: “The time has come, I feel, when thoughtful Republicans—those who have at heart the interests of the people rather than those of the special interests —are called upon to forsake the party that has betrayed them and to resist with their might a policy which has delivered us bound and well nigh helpless into the hands of the trusts. The tariff is the issue. The theory of protection which has sc long deluded us is no longer that beneficent thing which we were taught was necessary to the upbuilding of our “infant” industries. Those “infants’” have grown up—giants,they now are and our masters. And worse and woe! If not shorn of their strength they will destroy us. '“lt is to this cause—the reduction of the trusts —that thoughtful Republicans should address themselves in the coming campaign. The way to do this is to return a Democratic congress. The fatuous “standpatters” that at present dominate and override our government cannot be expected to do anything for our relief from the burden of taxation we are bearing. Their only desire —all forgetful of th* duty they owe to the people who sent them to Washington—is to protect themselves and the special and grossly fat interests which they serve and at whose bidding they thus “stand pat.” They seemingly forget that their ultimate fate is in the hands of the people. Now the people must not forget the power they possess. Shall w* permit the men whom we have sent east to be our servants to turn masters and dictate to -us a policy not only inimical to our own best personal interests, but subversive of the greater interests of the nation? “When Mr. Charles B. Landis made that amazing “stand pat” speech in congress the other day he forgot his elective and representative errand on that floor. He was speaking for the trusts and not for the people who employed him to stand as their representative in that high body. Surely the Ninth district does not stand for the principles he thus unblushingly enunciated. Nor does Indiana at large stand for this shameless policy of protection to interests that are now gloating over and fattening Upon the people that created them. r "Th* time has com* for ancient political friendships to cease. The Republican party, false to the traditions that made it great, can no longer claim our allegiance. Its present fictitious greatness, based upon apparent majorities secured through circumstances in no wise related to the party 'at' large, 'merits* a sobering shock. The party in this stat*H grown overgross—needs the staying stose and realisation of a strong and powerful party of opposition. That opposition should b* felt thta flail. For one, with the interests of my beloved state dearly at heart, I shall consider it my duty to support the opposition. Nor am I alone among Republicans to thus protest" THE HASTY STATESMEN. It is said that Secretary Root, who has just made a tour through the South American republics, has warded the Roosevelt administration . against the hasty annexation of Cuba. ( For a long time the republics south of us have suspicious of Mr. Rposevrit’B fqretgn policies and our trade with them has suffered. As we treat Cuba, .** they think we will treat them. Mr. Root seems to have made an impression on the administration for w* are told that talk of annexation has been suppressed. j Th* order of suppression did not reach Indiana in time, however, and Senator Hemenway and Congressman I Watsen and one or two other of the statesmen —the tremendous fellows who ar* assuming more pressure these days than ever afflicted the “Immortal J. N." —had already annexed the unfortunate Island. It is this class jaf * *tat*smen to whom the Indian -'polls News refer* when it says: “Some statesmen, on the other hand, may not regard. Mr. R*ot’s return from Ms highly en>yable , visit to our South American neighbors just at this time las altogether fortunate.” . Sine* th* Republicans hav* had control of the state the school book trust has managed to gqt a firm grip on ' the children at Indiana, and the cost Os school books and supplies has boe»me an enormous burden»to Utoir parent*. If you have children in to* public schools you know tbto } te to true.

I WI GOVERNOR’S "CAUSED A leading Republican paper of the state, published in Richmond, and representative of a considerable par: •f the citizenship of that city, recently has said that Governor Hanly is "a sham and a fraud, a political hyp- | ocrite, a thorough-going machine politician” and “a consummate demagogue.” This was said in view of the t fact that x Mr. Hanly has been appealing to the people to support his ( "cause” —whatever that may be —by voting for the candidates on the Republican state: and legislative tickets. The governor says that h* wants his "cause” sustained at whatever cost to hi* own “twlitlcal future." He would have everybody understand that this thing which he calls his “cause" includes, among other things, what he speaks of as “law enforcement.” Now what has Mr Hanly done in th* way of honest law enforcement? As a matter of cold fact he has done comparatively little. He has actually not done as much as sortie of his predecessors. But he has bragged more than all of them put together. He has kicked up and made a loud noise . He was determined to attract attention to himself. Before the chautauquas and In the churches and at religious conferences he has talked with vast solemnity and tearful egotism about his meager accomplishments as though they were the sum and substance of all things moral and righteous. He did all this believing that he could deceive the good people of the state and intending to deceive them. But what has Governor Hanly done that entitles him to ask the support of the citizens of the state for the candidates on his party ticket. The Richmond paper above mentioned says that In that city he “stood for a polluted home, legalized and blackmailed prostitution and political corruption, and stood there knowingly, defiantly, insolently, because he had an alliance with the machine.” Many similar charges have been made in other localities and they have been made loudly. But Hanly whistled them all down the wind. He rattled his poker chips and shouted “French Lick” but did not breathe the nam* of the aristocratic “Columbia Club” of Indianapolis nor the protected dens in Lafayette and other cities where hfs own police boards have full sway. He declaims from the stump that he stopped betting on horse races in the state, but brutal prize fights take place without Interference right under his nose after long public advertising. Governor Matthews drove the prize-fighters from, the state and suppressed the Roby iniquity, and did many other things, but he,was just a plain Democrat and not—well, he was not a professed saint like the Hon. J. Frank Hanly So, after all, what is this “cause” that Governor Hanly is talking about? : Secretary Shaw has been in th* stat* making “stand pat” speeches for the Republicans: While he is an lowan he has a different sort of “idea” from the one which bears the brand of Governor Cummin* of the same state. Cummins is for tariff revision. The convention which renominated him for governor hissed Shaw from the hall. Cummins is .earning to Indiana to make Republican speeches. He' and Shaw k have tom* together and held r joiat debate *a tto tariff and the othqr tkinga which hav* split the Republicans of Im into twp camps. It would esting to Democrats and frurtrotov*— and embarrassing—to th* Republicans. The fact that both are bring used separately shews that the Republican campaign managers *ut their game of tariff .slim-slam. ~; The Indianapolis Star, th* state Republican organ, says that “Indiana’s statesmen seem agreed on one thing—- ! the annexation of Cuba — and that’s some comfort.” Yes, but they dis--1 agree with the present view *f th* Roos*velt administration ev*a *n that. A* to all other questions, and •specially th* tariff, these Indiana “statMteto" art only disagre* amos« themariv**, task *n* class of them—th* stead pan***—disagree radiaaHp with a larg* part *f their party. There never was a tim* when they w*** so totally at sea about their issues. And in the meantime governor Hanly is saying that he is the “issue.” i , •— t If you want to indorse political hypoerisy, official extravagance and rescality, Increased taxes and shameless slander of the citizenship of Indiana, then you will vote a* Govern*r Hanly ask* you to vote. But if you want to vote against such thing*, you will repudiate th* governor’* advice aad vote , ! Bto WMiniii Mckri.

REFUBLiCAN MEETINGS. ‘ ’ It was declared even by the papers •riendly to him thaf Governor Hanly’* opening meeting of the campaign was “cold” and “unresponsive” and now comes the Indianapolis News’ special report of Senator Hemenway’s Shelbyville effort. The News said: j All through the meeting Senator Hemenway was acting as a sort of a "booster” for “Uncle Joe” Cannon. It was “Uncle Joe” said this, “Uncte , Joe” did that and “Uncle Joe’s” name did not cause the hats to go in th* air, even when Mr. Hemenway said that the. Republican congress had ried out the “policies of Roosevelt $ and Cannon.” There was only a feeble, response when Hanly’a. name w>« mentioned, and Roosevelt’s name, worked up to a climax, fell flat. Referring to Mark Hanna, Mr. Hemenway exclaimed, “God bless his' memory, that grand ©ld Republican! ” and the audience gav* a few exclamations of approval, but even that did not make much more than a rippl*. The senator’s eulogy of Congressman Watson was given just scant recognition, and most of that came fiom the postmasters and office-holders appointed by Mr. Watson. The above appeared in the noon* edition of the News, but it was cut out of the account of the meeting as It was printed in later editions. It waa written by a staff correspondent long connected with the paper, but he evidently stepped on too many corns at one stride. Authentic reports of all of the Republican meetings thus fa* held indicate that they are not only slimly attended, but that there is to painful lack of interest and enthusb’ asm. ' • Republican Farmer Become* a Dent- ‘ ocrat. • • ' -.7 A Spencer county farmer wh© haa heretofore been a Republican write* . to the Rockport Democrat that he will hereafter support the Democratic party because he believes it to b* “th* j only party that represents the best is- - terests of th* eommoa people.” Ink his communication h* says: “This sort of Republican protection -< we hear so much of—Republican ? boasts of protecting American labor —• f has built up the all-powerful trusts | in this country, and instead >pf pro-v tecting American labor has made th* f trusts so strong that the laboring m*n , have had to band themselves together in unions against the tariff-mad* I trusts. That’s the only protection th* ? laboring, man has in this country, | what he makes for himself by organizing." Not only th* farmers and laboring men, but the masses of the people are realizing now, as- never before that “this sort of Republic** protect!©* we hear-do much of ’ mean* the protection of the trusts and ape- ; cial interests which Republican tariff laws have created and fattened at th© expense of the rest of- the peopl*. The tariff does not add a cent to th* price of anything the farmer sella; but it adds to th* oost of everything he is Compelled to buy. Th* machinery that he uses on his farm 1* sold to ' him by the trusts at a much higher f price than the same articles are sold ’ for to farmers in foreign countrla* and the same thing is true, as to ’ other things. And yet the standpatters think they can fool the farmer© all the time. MANLY AGAINST THE SOLDIERAt the last session of the legislature a bill, known as Senate Bill No. 48 was passed by both houses, practically without opposition. Xt provided that any honorably discharged soldi®©, sailor ,*r marin* *f th* Vnltefi Stated who,was a resident ts Indiana, and who made application for appolntm*nt and who served in the civil war, thewar with Spain or the war in th* Phil-' . ippines.and who “is h*n«st and com-F petent, ,*hal I be given tee preference ,fpr appointment to be made by what- . e,v*r administrative authority conferred by the stat* *C Indiassa, to any position paying not more than ninety dollars per month in aqy penal InstL tutioa, benevolent tasffitaMen, publte building or other instituting *r employment mhfntahMd or edMateed by th* state of Indfitesk” But this bill in th* tatagtet gs soldiers, sailors aad iMMteg| got become a law because Swerhor Hanly vetoed it and killed It. —--V'• - 1 ; ; . Governor Hanly ASto* fib* penpie Jo vote for his “caus<—whatever thfit may be—but he make*,.** promise t<> cheek official extravag**** or to redud* th* heavy taxes imposed upou people by the Republican afcmi iistration. It should not ba forgotten that Hanly, is annually spending mqre , of-the public revenues, : qngte return, <h* ( state ever had—many thousands of dollars mere