Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1906 — Page 3

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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANLY AND MATTHEWS. When Claude Matthews, a Democrat, was governor of Indiana he not only wiped out the thieving race-track which Chicago* gamblers started at Roby, telt he smashed the “Columbian Athletic club” which undertook to have p-ise fights in Indiana. But Governor MatJbews did not go over the state and throughout the country bragging about what he had done. He was not like the present governor. Mr. Hanly is understood to be a member of the Columbia . club, an aristocratic Republican organization at * does not promote prize fights, like the Columbian Athletic club did, but it is charged that it sells liquor without license and has a beautiful assortment of poker chips in stock. Governor Hanly does not go after it nor has he attempted to suppress the prize fights whith have been numerous in Indiana since he has been governor. THE STATE TAX INCREASE. Has it occurred to you that no Republican speaker and no Republican newspaper has said a word about the last legislature increasing the state tax levy for current expenses three cents on the $100? That is precisely what was done and it means an additional tax of a half million dollars a year for the state’s expenses. Every tax payer knows that with the enormous increase in the taxable property of the state there should be a big reduction and not an increase in the levy. But then it is only the people who pay the taxes and the Republican politicians who have been running the state’s business for twelve years think the people’s money is only to spend. When you go to vote remember, that the Democratic party is pledged to an economical adminis•tration and a reduction of taxes. On the other hand the Republicans guarantee to spend all the people will stand —and then some. LOOTERS OF THE PUBLIC. • fa The attorney-general of Indiana again declares that there is no effective law in this state against the trusts, and he is saying on the stump that that is the reason why he has taken no steps against the Standard Oil, company, the bridge trust and other despoilers,of the people and the tax payers. And why ig there no lair In Indiana agafhst the tfrusts? What has the Republican party been doing in Indiana for the past twelve years, during all of which time it has been in absolute control of the state government and the legislature? Why has this party left the people at the mercy of men who combined to swindle individuals and to loot the treasuries of whole communities? The answer is easy. The men who have been and are now managing the Republican party in this state would not allow an anti-trust law to be passed. Republicans Never Did a Thing. Ohio has downed the infamous bridge band of boodlers: and looters Ahd perjurers. And it was in Indiana that the doings and methods >of this robber gang were first exposed and fully described. But Indiana never did a thing!—lndianapolis News. Certainly Indiana never did a thing, and what is. more, never will do a thing until--the Republican machine now state and controlling legislation Ts driven out of poweK Hanly is hand in glov§ with ,this machine. His almost teagu ful «ppeal for votes for the Republican state and legislative tickets is .merely a request that the machine be • continued in power by the people- who have been deceived and robbed. In many parts of the state the Republicans refuse to join the Democrats in clean election agreements. The Democrats, therefore, will find it a good rule to keep a sharp eye on their opponents. And the fact that an agreement has been signed by the Republican managers is not absolute evidence of good faith, as much depends on circumstances. The Republican party heretofore has had plenty of money to use and bM «s«4 shametosly. No one it has Pkaaged it* spok all tt MM, ot even Wits to do so. R wUI W pßwOnly wen It is made to be gett. Perhaps Attorney - General Miller didn’t know that his kind and considerate friend, Governor Hanly. was hiring extra lawyers to assist him in inmnlhg bls office and paying them big fees out of the contingent fund. But it is true, just the same, and the people have to foot the bill at u time when the tax levy for general expenses has been boosted up a half million dollars a yew.

TO THE TARIFF REFORMER. | Ccngrsssmcn Watzon in an interview in the Indianapolis Star, the state Republican organ, says that he thinks “the tariff is not a real issue in this campaign.” Following this he says that “tariff revisionists are awak ening to the fact that the greatest hope for revision is in the election ol a Republican house of representatives.” And then this statesman adds that “the Republican party can not name an exact date when it will be in favor of revising the tariff.” With these views of the astute Watson before them tariff revisionists will "hardly-took to the Republican party for relief from the robberies of the Dingley law. Not only does that party not know when it will revise the tariff, but it does net know when it will “favor” revision. It will not know its mind until it receives Instructions from the trusts, which control its legislation. When the trusts speak they will order an increase in the tariff taxes, not a reduction, as they did when the Dingley law was passed. If the tariff reformers want to accom plish any thing they will vote with the Democrats. Its Object Is “Graft.” Felix T. McWhirter, who vzas the Prohibition .candidate for governor two years agd, said in a speech at Indianapolis the other night: “Do not take the word of a man who says he is the whole thing.” He was speaking of Governor Hanly. And then he said something about Mr. Hanly’s par ty and its position in this campaign. We quote the following from the Republican state organ: “No party is great unless it has a great job to do,” he contended. “What has the Republican party of this day for its object? To get into office ” “To get a salary; to have nothing to do; to graft,” came the end of the sentence, which was completed by persons in the audience. “You’re right,” answered Mr. McWhirter. “If there is as much dirt in the state house as we have seen sent otit —it’s not all done, at Jeast we think not —ye will be inclined to disbelieve the statement of the Republican party that if it were in power politics would be comparatively clean.” From all this it is clear that Mr. McWhirter has a deep and justifiable suspicion about Hanly’s “house cleaning” professions. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL FLUTTERS. Attorney General Miller is devoting a large part of his speeches to a feeble defense of his management of his office. It has been charged that Governor Hanly employed special assistants for the attorney-general in the face pf the f£ct that his office is filled with salaried assistants and deputies whose duty’ it is to attend to the state’s law business. Mr. Miller tries to make it appear that this charge is not true. But it is true, and the records in the state house show that it is true. Among the lawyers who have been hired by the governor and paid out of the public treasury are ,ex-Attorney-General W, A. Ketcham, J. *W. Noe! and the firm of-Smith,"Duncan & Hornbrook, all of-Indianapolis. Mr. Noel has been paid various amounts > at-different tiineq,. the other firms have been paid sef far S6OO each. Be sides, the governor during the last sVßHner kindly made an Allowance to Mr. Miller of $78.85 out of his contingent frfnd and paid a stenographer Wholly unconnected with the attorneygeneral’s pffice $109.52 for taking down one of Mr. Miller’s court speeches. The question is, therefore, whether ‘ Governor Stanly doubted the competency of Attorney-General Miller and his salaried assistants or whether the governor has been squandering the people’s money just for the pleasure it gives him. The two can fight this out between them but the people will hold both of them responsible. Governor Hanly is still talking about a “six mills” reduction in the tax levy of the state. This is absolutely without warrant. The levy for the general expenses of the state was increased by the last legislature three cents on the SIOO, which is 30 mills. This increase means an additional tax of a half million dollars a year for the ordinary expenses of the state government. It should be rememberedin connection with the tax levy, that the assessed value of the taxable prop"erty of the state has enormously, increased and that the levy should ?«qve been cut The fact that the general expense levy has not been cut down but has been-raised three cents on the SIOO is in itself proof of the reckless extravagance of the Republican state officials.

f f Nurse Helen By IZOLA FORRESTER Copyright, 1906, by Ruby Douglas ' 4 The first recollection Derrick had of her was very hazy. There had been the fight outside of Kid Murray’s. He remembered that, every detail of it. For nearly a week he had been waiting for it to come off, on a tip from the union secretary? And it had all come true. The very night that Barker had lauded from Pittsburg they had prepared his reception in memory of the speeches he had made before the coal barons. He had been faithless. Barker had. He had dallied ’and parleyed and dined and hobnobbed and, as Murray said, played the fool generally, and the wine of it all had made him heady, and this while thousands of strikers waited on his word and their children and wives waited for daily bread.

It was not wise of Barker. Even Derrick could see that, and Derrick was merely reporter for what Mlirray called the “pink sheet.” So the night that Barker retained to make his explanatory address in Central hall Der- ; rick was on hand to see the fun. He . saw it. Not only that, but he was right down in the middle of it, and when the boys made a dash for Barker : as he tried to glide out the back win- ! dow he went with them, qot knowing . exactly why, bus crazy with the sight ; of the running fox, like the rest of the hounds. They caught • him outside of Mur- . ray’s, and those who could not get . their hands on him began to throw things. Some of the things went astray, and when the melee was clcar--1 ed and Barker had been thrown up by t the tide into an ambulance Derrick, ’ the “pink sheet” reporter, was* beside ’ him with a battered cranium and a ! faintly riotous sense of victory, as he ! dropped into unconsciousness, of hav- ' Ing got a “beat” on the other papers. But the “beat” never came out, be- ■ cause for days the “pink sheet” ret porter lay up at Bellevue, and the i world spun round him in gray circles t like a view of the fifth heaven. Then > gradually out of the circling grayness • he distinguished one shape that came r and went with more tangibility- than i the other dreams. And one morning he opened his eyes and Aaw two . real objects clearly, without the gray film. They were Nurse Helen and Barker. ! Barker lay a couple of beds away • from him. He could see the face on the pillow. . The redness had left it, and some of the unctuous mlldhess. . The outline of the profile looked harsh and almost forcible against the white pillow. And he was asleep. Derrick glanced up at the nurse. She ’ was dressing the on his head 3 swiftly, deftly, easily, Impersonally. A ! ward surgeon In white came by, stop- . ped and bent forward to examine the wound. “He -can leave tomorrow.” he said ! briefly and went on. 1 And suddenly Derrick changed his , mind. He did not want to leave. He wanted to stay there forever and let 5 this girl tn gray and white pat him ’ and wrap him ii;> :-.:t;l ease him. 7 Then I he thought of Barker. “Is he badly hurt?” he asked. The nurse looked startled for an instant. At least her eyes lost their im- # personal look and met those of Der- i i rick. Then she understood. I (. “Yes. He will not be out for several weeks,” she said quietly. ‘ Derrick remembered swiftly. Sev--1 ertil weeks! That would carry him past c the-.loth, and the 10th was the decisive , day in'Pittsburg. Arid if Barker were not on hand at that arbitration meet3 Ing to dally and parley and fool around i generally something definite might re- . suit. There was only one man to send t In his place, Strogund, and if Strogund went there would be no parley, no fool3 fng. He would win the strike. “Have I been here long?” he asked., r The nurse was clearing the table be-' ( side the bed of bandages and bottles. Derrick noticed that her hair was red- & 1 dish brown beneath her cap. He could Mee the little curls around the edges. . “Two weeks ago yesterday you were brought in,” she replied. “It is the 9th.” 1 Derrick tried to sit up in bed. » “Two weeks!” he gasped and dropped , heavily back on his pillow. 1 ’ “You must not do that,” said the girl ! severely. “You have had a high fever > and are still very weak. Don’t you sit 1 up again.” She went on, and Derrick closed his eyes. The grayness swept around him, circling, wheeling, waving, until he ’ could not stop himself and was lost in ! its void. When he awakened it was ■ night. There were two figures stand- , tag beside him, the girl nurse and an - a older woman. 1 “He is worse,” tlie girl was saying. 1 “Dr. Ingrahftm.said he might leave to- . morrow. I will be on again sit 7. You I had better not let them take him be- , tore Ingraham sees him again.” : “Nurse.”. It was barely above a whisper, but I' she heard and came to the bedside. “Will you send a telephone message , for me?” « | 1 “To your friends?” The nurse was | used to such requests, and this partic- I ' ular patient had seemed particularly t .friendless, —- “Yes.” Derrick tried to think clearly, to ke ( ep his grip on things before the ' grayness should come again. “Call up : 3008 Main, ask for the “City” room—for Yates. Tell him that Barker is laid up in Bellevue with a smashed head

and can’t go to Pittsburg tomorrowTell him—oh, hang it, if I could only get ou the wire for half a minuter* “You must not excite yourself,” said the nurse calmly. “You could not possibly travel to Pittsburg tomorrow. .You must be quiet and not worry.” ’- Derrick stared at her. She thought he was Barker. And her eyes were dark blue, almost hazel, and she was young.

“I will send the message tonight,” she said and walked away. And Derrick smiled for the first time in many days and went to sleep without the gray void around him. > She would keep her word. Yates would attend to the rest. Ihey would be able to follow "up the tip. He *wondered vaguely which of the boys would be sent to Pittsburg to cover the barons’ end of the story, and then he smiled again, remembering the little nurse with the close curved lips and dark blue eyes who thought that he was Barker. The next day Yates came to see him, Yates himself, clean shaven and cold blooded, but with the glimmer of appreciation in his eyes as he saw Barker two beds away. “It went in this morning,” he told Derrick. “There has been a general

kickup over Barker’s disappearance. Some said he was dead. But they thought he»was simply laying low, to turn up high and drj- at the meeting. Now they’ve sent Strogund since the extra came out." Derrick grim.ed happily. He had had an idea it would be that way. And Barker. was watching them, grimly, understandingly. his face looking oddly incongruous in its halo of white bandages. Yates nodded to him. x • “Badly knocked out, Barker?” he asked pleasantly. “But not done for yet,” muttered Barker. When he rose to go Yates gripped i Derrick’s hand. “It was a very decent, timely thing to do, Derry," he said. “The old man will appreciate It.” That was all, but it left Derrick radiantly joyous. When the nurse came - around ne couldn’t help it. He had to tell some one, and he told her while she dressed his head. It was after (k then. At 7 she went off duty for the night. When he had finished she was smiling, too, and her eyes were bright. ’T am glad for you. Yesterday I thought that you Were Backer, and I didn’t want to send the message. I am from Pittsburg, and we know about Barker there,” she added seriously. / “But you sent It?’’ “I knew it didn't matter so long as he couldn’t go." • , Derrick laughed. The dear, delicious, foolish denseness of her. Didn’t matter! He looked oyer at Barker and rejoiced over the smashed head that did not matter. ' - “They had an extra out again tonight,” the little nurse was saying. . “The strike has been settled by arbitration, but the-strikers won." “God bless Strogund!” said Derrfck_ fervently, and Barker heard him. The > nurse added gently: - “You are to leave in the morning, perhaps before I come on. Don’t work hard at first and you’ll be all right Good by.” “What’s your name, nurse from Pittsburg?” asked Derrick, looking up at the dark blue eyes. She flushed, it Is against the rules for nurses to flirt with fellow nurses or doctors in Bellevue, but they have , not passed any rule barring patients as yet , She said—“ Helen Hayward.” . '' v " “Mine’s Derrick—Wilfred Derrick.” He lowered his voice so that Barker could not hear. “I’m going to see yoh, Nurse Helen, after I get out of this place tomorrow, because you and I broke that strike. You don’t knowhow we did it, but, 1 do, and I think you’re a brick. May I, Nurse Helen?” “Yes.” said Nurse Helen under her breath. And Derrick held one of the slim white hands close to his lips and kissed it. There was no one to deity him. for Bellevue had not barred loye . from the patients yet. and Barker was looking the other way. The Power of • Rin*. She was homely and to most persons unattractive, yet as she entered the train a sort of halo seemed to surround her as one set apart from common mortals. There was no indication of exceptional talent, ability or endowment about her, no evidence of superiority, but a certain indefinable distinction. It was not quite an air of conquest, though suggestive of satisfactory achievement. She bore her head high and wore a Buddha-like expression of proud serenity. Only a moment was she settled in her seat when off came her gloves, and then the key to the problem was evident. The long. Joyous look bestowed upon the sparkling ring on the third ♦ finger of her left hand told the story. That left hand had a busy time. It Investigated the lingerie bat poised coquettishly over the face of one no loniger young, it made sure that her brooch was fastened, it pulled her silken skirts closer about her, it tightened the straps to her traveling bag sitting Tn thfe aisle, and so on indefinitely, occasionally . pausing for a caressing glance from the tired but beaming eyes. TJbe, gay little scintillations from the diamond flashed ?ut the song. “Engaged, engaged, engaged!”—New York Press., .... .. | That Happen Only Abroad. • ‘ •Bte- was an obvious American, and she brought a breath of hominy into the coiffeur’s tn Hanover street. Said „ she. “I want you to send a man. right away, down to the Cecil to shingle my daughter’s bang.” M. Toupet—Madam, I am a coiffeur, not a building contractor. —Pall Mall Sazatte.