Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1906 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVERYTHURSDAYMORNING BY * u<W G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHED •1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. watered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second-clus mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY. Hon J. A. M. Adair is now campaigning, in Adams county and presenting to the people the opportunity to divest themselves of the unfair machine methods that rule with a tenacious grip in the Eighth district. He is going direct to the people, and it is their confidence in which hg relies wholly for his 'support. If the Republicans are in earnest they can effectively clean house three weeks , from Tuesday. It is a golden opportunity for them, and while doing it can send a man to congress who will represent the district with that credit to which it is entitled. John Adair is-that sort of a man that any voter can support and ever afterwards feel proud of the ballot cast. His life is clean and his career in social - and business life open and honorable. He is our neighbor and friend, having lived his entire life in Jay county. He is everything that reflects credit to himself and just the man to entrust to public life. Adams county voters can do themselves proud in this election by giving to him such vote of confidence and esteem, as was never given to any other one man by the elective franchise in the county. He is worthy of such a confidence. Think it over. 1 ■ As the day approaches when William Jennings Bryan shall invade Indiana the Republican papers increase their efforts to convince the 'Democrats that he is not available as their eandidae for the presidency. This is a ihatter that can safely be left to the Democratic party. Democrats may be relied upon to nopiinpte the man they want. »Under the circumstances Republican solicitude for the Democratic party is suspicions. The strenuous efforts to create Democratic opposition to Bryan indicates that Bryan is the man above all others they fear.— Hartford City Times. to favor any legislation that is for the people, no matter who favors it or who opposes it; he agrees to be in his seat in congress every day congress is in session, unless sickness or some unaccountable reason interferes ; in fact, he agrees t,o be in congress more days the first session than Mr. Cromer has been there during eigth years; he agrees never to begin the erection of a political machine for the purpose of continuing himself as congressman of the. Eighth district. Let’s try him. It would be a revelation to the voters of this district to see the polities of the old fashioned day. The polities, that permits an honest expression -’ol the individual. The politics that perlaitted the Republicans of Adams county to say who they wanted and what they wanted. The politics that is not labeled from Muncie or Washington—mostly Muncie. The Republicans of the district have this last opportunity. If George Cromer is again elected,’ there is no denying the fact that he will again be nominated, and never again will the Democrats he able to secure a candidate who will make the effort to be elected, as is now being made by John Adair. This is no hot air campaign argument, but the gospel from the book. It will pay any Republican and Democrat as well, to give this matter careful thought and due consideration. A DELUSION. Colossal fortunes in the hands of a comparatively few is John jCßocke-. feller’s idea of a country’s greatness and glory. No greater delusion ever found lodgment in an American mind, definitely tetter it would be if this country did not have a single individual whose possessions amount to one hundred million dollars, or even half that vast sum. No good is subserved by such concentration of wealth. On the, contrary, great harm is sure to result therefrom. It is against public policy and the general welfare, and inevitably leads to a lowering of the standard of.public morals and business integrity. There is no real advantage in pushing a country along too rapidly;-pur large cities would be vastly better if they La l one-fourth less of the population that today constitutes the greater part of their slums. In ihes? slums vice reigns supreme. Within their confines are bred people who, as a whole, are a standing js i.ace to sccui Soupled with the continuous additions from the slums t.f Europe the life-blood of the nation is being polluted in a manner that is certain to bring evils upon the country far greater than those resulting from the importations of negroes from the jungles of Africa a hundred years ago.

I hanly against the soldier. -I ’ — At the last session of the legislature a bill known as Senate Bill No. 48 was pased by both houses, practi- - eally without opposition. It provided 1 that any honorably discharged sol- : dier, sailor or marine of the United States, who a resident of Indiana, , and who made application for appointment and who served in the civil war, the war with Spain or the war - in the Philippines and who “is hon- - est and competent, shall be given the f preference for appointment to be r made by whatever administrative i authority conferred by the state of . I Indiana, to any position paying not 1 more than ninety dollars per month - in any penal institution, benevolent J institution, public building, benevolent i institution or employment maintaned 5 or conducted by the state of Indiana.” But this bill in the interest of solt diers, sailors and marines did not 1 become a law because Governor Hanly t vetoed it and killed it. r Mr. Cromer has said by w’ay of der sense for his absence from eomrress 1 that his opponents at home have kept 5 him so busy that he had to stay m I bis district building political fences. J If he were a congressman of sufll- - cien worth his constituents would see 3 that he be re-nominated. He is not > elected to build fences at the expense t of his constituents. The fact that he > must absent himself from his duties ■ in order to -be renomjnated is one of ■ the best arguments against him. In ’ the same connection, he says that he ! is paired with a Democratic eongress- ■ man. If the object of electing legislators is for them to pair, why should it not be good business for the government |q cut down expenses by pairing all the Democrats in congress with an equal number of Republicans and , allow the Republicans remaining to transact the business? If pairing is • the object of business why should not ; all the dry goods Merchants of Muncie pair with those of Anderson and all of them shut up shop? If a congressman is away from congress, whether paired or not, he disfranchises all the voters of his district far as national legislation is concerned.— Muncie Press (Rep.) Bryan is not a man who goes about with a big club. He is liberal minded. He believes he has a right to form and express opinions of his owri. He concedes the same rights to every other man. It is expected when a man has an opinion on any question that he has some reason for having the opinion and that be can tell why he thinks that way. Bryan always gives his reasons for his views upon public questions, but asks no one to accept his views. He is not a man who condemns another because they do not agree, He condemns wrong and wrong doers and opposes organizations which, in his judgment,; seem to .be oppressive or unjust in dealing with the public. He is, not a man who abuses another for opinion’s sake; nor does he criticise a man who is affiliated with some other party. His' policy is to strive to show them the error of their way.—Columbia City Post. • • 17 ...... The crowded court room last evening and the manifested interest demonstrated beyond a peradventure that John Adair is sure enough running for congress. He is not only in the running, but it is really no wonder that Congressman Cromer is shuddering in his sleep these days. He has grounds for fear that he and his machine are running amuck. Mr. Adair h'as made his first and perhaps only speech in Decatur, and a crowded court rcom filled with determined voters heard the best speech of the . campaign. He spoke with candor and , earnestness and could not help but , be impressed with the fact that any ■ voter in the district can well afford to entrust him with the legislative . authority of a congressman. He agrees . with the reformers in the matter of > t;ie platform. In the case of the peo- • pie versus the bosses the people are [ winning everywhere.—South Bend t Times. t 1 proke ’ ’ again. That, reminds us that in 1898 Cromtg began his congressional camuaieu career by assert- > ing that he needed |o go to Congress. ! In 1900 he wanted vindication. In i 1902 he was still poor, and in 1904 he was so poor it hurt. • Now he ■ comes bobbing up as the poorest po- ■ litical beggar that ever came down ‘ the pike. His friends assert that he > is fifteen thousand dollars worse off i than when first elected, and that too, 3 after serving eight years and receiv--3 ing $40,000 for his services. Now he r says that John Adair is going to 3 spend fifty thousand dollars to defeat him, and John refuses to permit s any of his friends to spend any of the m m Gy. Talk. about youi . hard luex stones, this is the limit,

Now comes Judge R. S. Taylor of Fort Wayne, who gives the “'standpatters” a blow that makes them siek. At the Columbia Club, where ' everything is usually labeled, he spoke his mind about the trust ridden “standpatters” wjio are doing things for the g. o. p. I ' | Notwithstanding his defeat in the state convention, Representative Burton of Ohio, is keeping up a sturdy fight for reform in the Republican party. His friends claim that the peo- ! pie ’ are with him in his efforts to smash the old Hanna machine. It was only by combining forces that Senators Diek and Foraker could out-vote him in the Dayton convention, and even then they had to compromise John Adair had another rousing , meeting, his reception at Geneva being of the sort that warms the heart, especially the heart of a candidate. He ! again completely riddled the congressional record of Congressman Cromer, jand appealed for support and votes, pledging to devote himself to his duties and to make a record/ that would be a credit to himself and every citizen of the district. His appeal was well received. He is gaining ground at a rapid pace and will finish his campaign in away that will overwhelm his opponent and completely rout him. This is the year. Hon. Samuel M. Ralston got busy last night and made answ’ers in a speech delivered at Greenfield, to severa Iclaims of Governor Hanly, as the chief reformer of the present age. Mr. Ralston was in fine fettle and made the dry bones rattle. He took the mask off the Sherrick, Storms and Ward defalcation cases) and held up to scorn and derision many bf the weak defenses now made by Governor Hanly. He scored the governor all the way down and, denounced him for his action in the Sherrick case, declaring that he could not understand how the chief executive could stand in the pulpits of the state, preaching civic righteousness while Sherrick is in prison and not hear the rattle of the ball and chain attached to his own ankle. Further on he denounced the governor for taking something to which he had no. right in drawing his full allowance for bouse rent and living at the Claypool hotel for less money than this allowance, pocketing the remainder. A YOUNG MOTHER AT 70. “My mother has suddenly been made young at 70. Twenty years of intense suffering from dyspepsia had entirely disabled her, until .six months ago, when she began taking Electric Bitters, which have completely cured and restored the strength and actitivy she had: in the. prime of life.” writes Mrs. W. L. best restorative medicine on the globe Sets Stomach, Liver and Kidneys right, purifies the blood, and cures Malaria, BiHiousness and. Weakness. Wonderful Nerve Tonic. Price 50e. Guaranteed by Blackburn Pharmacy, ft / ' 1 , ~; ;■ ■——— : ——/d- ———' Probably not many of tf&r citizens have noticed it, but this year they, can say that snow visited us before we have had a frost. This unusual occurrence happened Wednesday when snow fell to some extent and was in the air more or less all day. No general frost had visited this section up to that time, but the night following i heavy frost appeared. It is doubtful if our “oldest citizen” can tell you of a like freak, and the fall of 1906 will be noted once by the weather prognosticators. * : ,

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{“Fretty” By Nancy Hazlitt Copyright, 1906. by W. R. Cui dwell i Alfaretta ran about the garden sing r ing shrilly; 1 "Dear, dear, what can the matter be? Dear, dear, what can the matter be? Dear, dear, what can the m-a-t-t-e-r be—- > Johnny so long at the fair? Be promised to bring me a bunch of blue ribbon, • He promised tp bring me a bunch of blue , ribbon, . He promised to bring me a bunch of blue I ribbon, > To tie up my bonny brown hair." "Fretty, I really wouldn’t call him out of his name—you know it isn’t A Johnny,” Cousin Langley said provok- j j ingly from the leafy depths of the grape arbor. “Besides, your hair isn’t brown, not in the least. Instead, it’s pure carrot color, also mighty pretty. If I were a painter person I might call i it something else, but being what I am, , a stickler for truth” — “Would you know the truth if you met it in the road?” Alfretta flung at him. “I don’t believe so,” she went on disdainfully, shaking her glowing waves at him. She was bareheaded, and the sun struck out high lights from the Titian mass above her, white forehead, then fell down to waken greOn gleams in her long lashed eyes. Slim as became seventeen, tallish, light on little arched feet, with a long neck upbearing ber face, she was distractiugly pretty, especially to eyes jaded with artifice and sick of fashion—more specifically, Langley Madden’s eyes. Laugley was only a third cousin, but assumed that the tie of blood, entitled him to take an attitude so critical it was more than brotherly in its candor. He had come to Alderbrook farm for six blessed, idle weeks after the stress of a long fight and the triumph .of a, big legal victory. He had not been there in years, although the belonged to him. ’lts present occupants, tine Lanes, had lived in it to oblige him. Therefore he had had but a falut memory of Alfaretta as a solemn young person who had disdained to be friends with him, choosing rather to make companions of the dogs, the kittens and her pony, Snap. He recalled that she had barely tolerated Susatte Barlow, whb, in spite of being bigger, came sometimes to frlay with her. Susette had been a famous f" 4 - HSPa ' 1 V I ' f" •*< / I I n I \ vr n|\\ J z \ 1/ ... 711 V **X BBGABDED IT AS MY DUTY TO MABBY ■,.4> . .. YOU.” comrade. He had kissed her often, called her his little * sweetheart and actually gone the length of sending down to her from the city after be was back there a birthday ring. Notwithstanding, be had found her married and happy, with a baby as round, rosy and dimpled as he remembered her. Ten years, he had reflected, made big changes every way. Still be was not quite prepared for the change they had wrought in Fretty. •The name was of his own coinage; iB all other mouths the girl was Alfa. He had been quite taken aback to find that she did not resent his version of the baptismal mouthful. ' Indeed, she had said, with a little hovering smile, ‘"Hie one comfort about my name is, no. matter what people call me, they can’t possibly make it worse than it Is.” The saying had in away startled him; he Lad not thought to find philosophy at seventeen in the rural regions. But as time went on 'he discovered that the philosophy was the least of Pretty’s surprises. Young as she was. unformed and inexperienced, she hau away with her, also a poise quite wonderful to see. He did not wonder that she had taken captive his artist friend Vernon; it was Vernon’s habjt to fall fitfully in love with every girl who was In the least out of the common. Fretty had not. a single usual fiber in her. In proiof, take the fact that Vernon’M'adoratlon had not in theslightest degrQS. turned her head. , J "What have we to s»y to the paintar I person, Fretty?” Cousin Langley aak-. ed, coming out and laying hold of her hands. “Are we going to tell him to go about bls business or are we going . to say, ’Yes, and thanky, air,’ when he ’.asks”- ' 1 "He wOTi’t ask.” Fretty said, nrttryl ing to take away her hands. “You see, I told hiin at the very first I regarded lit as my duty to marry you. OtherI wise yon would waste all your money r —besides, it was the only way to keep Alderbrook in the family. He agreed i with me, although I think he was sor- I ry; it must have seemed a shame to i Mim to miss such an opportunity. He

, ’ admitted that flirting was a necessity ' to bim. That is why, I think, he is i away just now.” “Indeed?” Langley said, his tone an j Interrogation. i Fretty nodded, echoing: “Indeed! Yes; Mrs. Wortham—your divinity—has opened Grasmere—came herself the day before yesterday. So Mr. Vernon ’ couldn't stay away longer.” [ "Who says she is my divinity? And i 1 how do you like it, seeing you havfi i appropriated me?”. Langley asked, coli oring in spite of himself. He felt all a» I once young and raw and ridiculous and was in a temper over it. He wanted to shake Fretty—shake ber hard. She was jesting, of course, but bow beautifully she had turned the tables on him. Quite unaccountably be found himself trembling, bls bauds moist, his face, he knew, high colored, and all without any reason. It could not be that the bare suggestion of Fretty—the child, the plaything, the creature he loved to tease—as his wife, the mistress of his home and heart, had thus overcome him. For five years at least he had thought of Georgina Wortham in that position. She fitted it so beautifully and was quite evidently ready to accept it. “I always answer mother’s letters for her. Remember you wrote her about Georgina two yehrs back at least,” Fretty said, smiling sweetly, with the

faintest touch, of malice. “As to my liking her, what does that matter? I have nothing to do with her, only with you.” “You are quite resolved—to take me, I mean?” Langley asked, his eyes downcast. Fretty looked pensive. “It seems—one must do one’s duty, however disagreeable,” she said, with a little sigh. Langley erected himself. “In that case, suppose you kiss your crown of martyrdom,” he said, putting his face close to her lips. Fretty sprang back as far as their clasped-bands permitted and said, with dancing eyes; “Next year will be quite time enough for that. You see, I am going away in the fall to be finished at the Winslow school. Mother insists upon it. and I We&. tbink it best. J shall come' ’ back a fine lady—fine enough, I hope, to do the family credit. May. J. trust you not to marry Geprgina in all that time?” "Certainly not,” Langley said promptly. “You will have to take me now or risk losing me altogether. And I hate finishing schools and all their works. If you go through the mill I won’t have you—that’s flat!” Fretty snatched away her hands, laughing heartily. "What an actor was lost in you, Cousin Langley!” she said “You had such a ring in your voice! I wish Tommy Hartwell had been within hearing.” “So! You want the heathen to rage, you minx!” Langley, said, again imprisoning hter hands, then the ring coming back to his voice stronger than ever: “Fretty,! know you were in fun, but, please, dear, let's' make it earnest. I want you—nobody else. I have been wanting you ever since I came, without having sense enough to know it” “How about Georgina?” Fretty murmured, turning away her head so Langley might not see ’the mounting color in her cheeks. Langley laughed triumphantly. “May I be vain enough to speak the frozen truth?” he asked, his lips very close to Fretty’s ear. She turned a little more away from him, saying very low: “No! I can guess it Georgina won’t have you; .therefore you want me to salve your broken heart.” “Os course. But how did you guess it?” Langley asked, his heart thrilling at thought of her care to save another woman from slurring. He had meant to tell her what he knew for truth—that while Georgina Would accepted him for his position and potentialities and given him comradely help throughout their joint career her heart was by no means engaged, she being of the equable temperament that spends its wildest devotion upon itself. Moreover, there was Vernon. All along he had suspected some kindness, even more, between the pair. They might have each other and welcome. Fretty, sweet, slim, red haired Fretty. was the one wife in the world for him. Impulsively he caught her to him and said between kisses: “I see it all now. You’re, a witch. You saw Hbw I needed comforting and proposed to me right off the reel. Henceforth I shall live to keep you- from being sorry for it.” !| x . • “And I’ll make you sorry for it as long as you live if ever you dare say that again,” Fretty interrupted. Again Langley laughed. He could afford to. Fretty, in spite of her brave words, was nestling to him like a happy child. What Teacher Said. Last Sunday Benny made his debut as a Sunday school Scholar. When he came home his relatives and frieqds were anxious to hear a report of his experiences. “Well, Benny,” said his mother, “did you say the text?” '“Yes, ma’am.” ' “And did you remember the story of the lesson?” I “Yes, ma’&n. I said, it all off by heart.” . “And did you put your penny in the basket?” “Yes, ma’am.” , Benny’s mother grabbed him up and hugged him ecstatically. “Oh, you little precious!” she said. “Your teacher must have been proud of you, I know she just loved you. She said something to you, didn’t she?” “Yes; ma’am.” "I knew it,” said the fond parent. “Come, Benny, darling, tell mother What the teacher said to mother’s little than.”, | “She said,” was the startling reply, , “for to bring 2 cents next Sunday.” —New York Post

REVIEWED CROMER’S RECORD I John Adair Made a Great Appeal for His Election and the Appeal Was Not in Vain. The court room was crowded to the door,?. Monday night to see and hear Next Congressman Adair and judging from the many expressions of approval and delight, we rightly con-* elude that he is the most popular candidate in the congressional race. He spoke for one hour and thirtyfive minutes, and during all that time he held the strict attention of the audience, and at his "conclusion the speaker was stampeded with a handshaking bee, during which the promises of support were many and they were given with a hearty will. Mr. Adair reviewed the record of Congressman Cromer, and he did it as •genteelly as the law would allow. The text for this record was taken from the congressional record, whose authenticity is undisputed. That record shows not a speech delivered upon the floor of the house and but two

I printed in the congressional record 1 “by consent.” Mayor Guthrie, Republican’mayor of Muncie, says that ' of’the 17,000 bils voted on'in the house during the eight years of Con- . gressman Cromer’s life, his vote is . recorded on 178 of them. But in getting back to the record it shows that t during the eight years Mr. Cromer t has been in his seat less than one 5 full term, he being absent over five , months in one session of six months. L This is ..about all the congressional > record in congress. Out of qpngress i he has been more diligent, succeeding t in erecting in all modern beauty and ! durability a political machine that '■ works with fine clock work precision. ' The machine nominates himself, and ’ places his friends—and you know what is meant by friends—as candi- . dates on the county and township ■ tickets, sends them as delegates to ’ alt conventions, and all that is expected or permitted of the rank and file of Republicans is to be regular and vote the Republican ticket. It is . very easy, but must be tiresome to the individual who possesses a mind ! and the average American independence'. Mr. Adair’s speech was temperate in the extreme. He dealt in no harsh tones, but took the advanced ground that the election of a congresman was a clean cut business proposition. That you would pot employ anyone to work in, your s ,stQre, olß’e, factory or farm and pay them full time for short time service. He took the ground that when a man was paid five' thousand dollars to do a certain thing he should do it. He contended for honesty in politics and honesty in elections. 1 'His entire speech was of the kind that tends to make men better ’ and to raise higher the .standard of morality and good citizenship. It was a good argument, and added not a little to the standing of Mr. Adair, both as man and as a candidate for congress. . ■ ''' . — , .. o—

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