Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVERYTHUHSDAYMORNING BY iW G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHED (LOOPER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Eat radatthepoatofficeatDecatur.lndlan* m eeoond-ciaaß ma.ll matter. O : FICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS WUHTY <■« 1L MHi————— W—FRIGTHENED MANUFACTURERS. A delegation of Illinois manufacturers called on President Roosevelt and implored him to make a speech in the near future outlining his policy. They want him to explain his position and restore business confidence. After the conference the delegation gave out a statement, which in part is as follows: “It was urged upon the president that very great good would come to all interests alike if he would signify lis willingness to express in a public address, as, soon as possible, the keynote of his creative constructive policy. The president was informed by the committee, that, though the country’s prosperity was very great, it. would seen become seriously impaired by the creation of uneasiness on the part of banks and investors and would lead to such distrust as to prevent the supply of the necessary moneys to satisfy existing wants, as well as to meet the unparalleled development of the manufacturing and tranportation interests of the country.” Mr. Roosevelt, it is said, was much impressed and promised to give the matter his serious consideration. It it doubtful, however, whether the course pursued by the Illinois people was wise. If tjhere really is a shrinking of credit, due to a lack of confidence in the future, it will not be restored by frightened appeals to the president, thus calling wide attention to and accentuating the danger that it is desirable to avert. —————■* The report that Governor Hanly is to appoint John R. McCardle to the position of state tax commissioner is not surprising to those familiar with the relations of the men. Both of them are members of the famous K. of P. x coterie that has figured so successfully in Hoosier officialdom in recent year. Indeed, Mr. McCardle, Mr. Hanly, James E. Watson, Union Banner Hunt

and Dan Storms were the bright and shining lights therein. Poor Storms, to be sure, fell by the wayside, but the close relations of the others still obtain. The cement of brotherly love and affection remains soft and plastic and Brother Hanly is spreading it.— Fort Wayne News. Whether or not the president summoned Mr. Harriman to Washington to make personal appeal to the railroad magnate to raise funds to save the Republican party in 1904, it is a matter of record that the insurance and other corporation went deep into their strong boxes for contributions to the Republican slush fund. Judge Parker openly charged it at the time and was scored by the president. Judge Parker’s charges have been repeatedly proved and time continues to add to the accumulation of evidence that he knew what he was talking about when he made the charges;— Fort Wayne Sentinel. ’Twas Representative Wells of Allen county, who first Introduced the law requiring railroads to pay the state of Indiana >I,OOO a year for the privilege of selling liquor on their, trains within the borders of the Hoosier commonwealth. Already the New York Central company has taken out a license for three of its leased lines—the Big Four, the Lake Shore and the Michigan Central—paying >3,000 into the public treasury and is therefore free to sell liquors on the Central dining and buffet cars on the lines mentioned.—Ft. Wayne Journal-Ga-zette. Thomas Taggart has made a semiofficial statement that he will not be a candidate for re-election to the chair manship of the Democratic national committee. Tom finds that he has all he can do to attend to his business interests. —South Bend Times.

THE PROTECTED STEEL TRUST. It is a pleasure to agree with the Indianapolis News when one can do so without offending one's political conscience. Usually such a happy circumstance is based on one of the same tariff articles which the News prints between campaigns .and then forgets about election time. And so it is now. The esteemed News doesn’t understand why that amiable infant, the more than billion-dollar Steel Trust, should longer be fed with the tariff spoon. No more do we, and no more does any other person who is not in a fever from the sacred “protection” bacillus. Apparently the New has only just now discovered that the Steel Trust made a net profit last year of more than 1156,000,000 —a net profit, mind you. That is equal to 10 per cent net on a billion and a half dollars. It is equal to at least 20 per cent on the Steel Trust stock with the wind and water out of it. In concluding an astonished review of the trust’s operations the News says: "Much more might be said, but perhaps this is enough to show the natture of the corporation that is being protected by the people of the United States. We protect its ore, its pigiron, its tinplate, its steel rails, its Iron and steel products, and its cement. It makes hundreds of millions of dollars, controls and fixs prices, is so efficient that it increases its income without Increasing prices in a marked degree, takes care of all its indebtedness, pays interest on bonds and surplus, yours millions into extensions and improvements out of the earnings and makes >156,000,000 —net earnings—in one year And yet the American people are taxed to ' protect this infant I And we are told that there is to be no tariff revision, but that we must stand pat. The Steel corporation is indeed a wonder. But it is not one-half so wonderful as the fact that the people of this country are being taxed heavily for its benefit.” But there is to be tariff revision. More than that, there is to be tariff reform. The Democraic party is not standing pat on the existing tariff, but ii is standing very pat on the proposition that tariff robbery must be wiped out. The trouble in Ohio between the factions of the Republican party grows worse very gratifyingly. Hardly had the candidacy of Secretary Taft for the next presidential nomination been announced when Senator Foraker put himself in -the race. Taft’s friends had declared that

Ohio Republican sentiment was overwhelmingly for his nomination. Foraker challenges the truth of that statement and wants the question settled by a primary election throughout the state. The proposition is that if Taft fails to get a majoriy of the votes he is to get out of the way and give Foraker a clear field as Ohio’s candidate. Taft is to have the delegation if Foraker fails to get a majority. This looks like a fair proposal and a free fight all along the line. A Washington newspaper letter says that Cortelyou, the new secretary of the treasury, wants to “divorce” the United States treasury from Wall street. “It is a notorious fact,” says the letter, “that for years there has been what ought to be designated a penumatic tube connection between the high financiers in Wall street and the treasury.” It has been the custom of the said “high financiers” to get help trom the government whenever they got in a pinch through overspeculation. Secretary Shaw was notoriously their friend and so was Secretary Gage before him. There would be fewer panics in Wall street if the gamblers knew the government would not come to their relief with the people’s money. The strongest man that in the past served as mayor of Chicago was the senior Carter H. Harrison. He was elected five times. His son had four terms, and was on the lookout for the fifth, but suffered a repulse. Perhaps the best mayor Chicago ever had was Francis Sherman. But in his day Chicago was not a large city and not near as wicked as it is now.—South Bend Times.

OTHER ’ WASHINGTON ITEMS Os Special Interest in Indiana—Char-1 les Denby Named as Consul to Shanghai, China. Washington, April 9. —The next dramatic event in the presidential preliminaries is scheduled to be pulled off at Canton, 0., tomorrow. The >5,000,000 conspiracy was forgotten today while all eyes watched the Ohio develpoments. Senator Foraker left Washington for Canton with blood in his eye at 7 o’clock this evening. He had put in a busy day answering long distance telephone calls Find giving counsel to excited admirers out in the Buckeye state. • Charles Denby, of Indiana, at present chief clerk of the Department of. State, has been selected tp succeed, Linn Rodgers, of Ohio, as American | consul-general at Shanghai, China. ‘ Mr. Rodgers will be transferred to Havana as consul-general there, to succeed Frank Steinhardt, this change being in the nature of a promotion, although the salaries of the two posts are alike, namely, >B,OOO. Mr. Steinhardt’s resignation was announced at the State Department several months ago, but it was stated that the change would not take effect before July 1 next. Mr. Denby is the son of the late Charles Denby, who was at one time minister to China, and for a number of years was secretary of the legation at Pekin, so that he is thoroughly conversant with the Chinese customs and is acquainted with the language. Mr, Denby’s appointment is credited to Indiana, but it was not made on the recommendations of the Senators. It was an appointment on merit alone. It is Senators were notified that the appointmen would be tiffed that the appointment would be tion.

.The Postal Commission, of which Representative Overstreet is vicechairman, will meet in New York to arrange for the investigation of the Postoffice Department, ordered by Congress at the recent session. The commission has >150,000 at its command and unlimited authority to employ experts. Many applications for service under the commission have been made. First of all, the commission will employ some expert accountants and bookkeepers, who will make a careful study of the business methods of the department, with the view of recommending the adoption of modern business methods. Its inquiry is to be of the expert sort, and will be conducted quietly. William L. Niles, of Indiana, has been appointed a special agent to col-' lect statistics of marriage and divorce. The Controller of the Currency has approved the National Bank of Commerce of New York as a reserve agent for the Farmers’ National Bank of Edinburg, Ind. Walter B. Sage has been appointed postmaster ■ at Ewing, Jackson county, in the place of I. W. Shields, resigned. Earl Shaffer has been appointed postmaster at Flint, Steuben county, in the place of J. D. Benninghof, resigned. James Cossey has been appointed postmaster of Gessie, Vermilion county in the place of Truman Hay, resigned. The postoffice at Boxley, Hamilton county, now supplied by rural delivery, will be discontinued on April 30, Main to Sheridan. o — Kentucky is going prohibition as rapidly as advantage can be taken by the counties of the new local option law. We may live to see Pennsylvania go Democratic and Texas go Republican. Nothing is impossible after Kentucky’s going “dry.”—Muncie Press.

The two United States senators from Illinois —Shelby M. Cullom and A. J. Hopkins—are said to favor the nomination of Uncle Joseph G. Cannon for the presidency. This preference, however, is subject to revision. They are not of the hide-bound type when it comes to a presidential nomination.—South Bend Times. In the state of New York Democratic papers representing conflicting views with reference to party policy are exchanging left-handed compliments at a lively rate rate. In some respects this is interesting and instructive. But the question that naturally arises is whether such indulgences will lead to unification or to getting the brethren farther apart?— South Bend Times.

'AN INDIANA APPOINTMENT Charles Denby, Counsul General to Shanghai—Senator Hemenway Has Gone Home. I : Washington, April B.—lt will be disappointing all around if the president does not take the public into his confidence and give it the full details of the “conspiracy” to prevent him from controlling the next Republican national convention. So far he has only, whetted the appetite. The public wants I the details. It wants to know thej names of the men who are in the conspiracy, and it wants all the facts j about the raising of the t >5,000,000,i which the White House says has been ; subscribed for use in carrying on thej conspiracy. Up to this time the only > definite information given out is that the White House learns through a friend of the president that Senator Penrose had, at a dinner, talked of i plans for controlling the next national convention and had said that a fund of >5,000,000 had been raised for this purpose. The president asserted in the first of the town meetings of news-! paper men that Harriman, Rockefeller. and Hearst were behind the conspiracy. Washington, April 8. —It has practically been decided that Charles Denby of Evansville, now chief clerk of the state department, shall be appointed consul general to Shanghai, China. Mr. Denby spent many years in China while his father was minister, to that country, and is looked upon as the best posted man in he state do- 1 partment on affairs in the far East. His present position pays >3,500 a year. The consul generalship will pay >B,OOO. Washington, April 8. —Senator Hemenway called bn the president to say good-by. He left for Indiana this afternoon, but will be back this way toward the latter part of the month as a member of the senate committee appointed to attend the opening of the Jamesown exposition. The Brownsville investigating committee, of which the senator is a member, Will not meet again until the latter part of next month. o HOAGLAND-ORCUTT WEDDING j Celebrated Sunday Evening in This City. evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jams H. Smith, on Ninth street, occurred the wedding of Mrs. Eva Orcutt to Dorsie E. Hoagland, the ceremony being performed by James H. Smith, the father of the firide. The wedding had been kept a secret and no one was present except the immediate relatives of the contracting parties, the ceremony being performed at nine o’clock. Mrs. Orcutt is well known in our city, having made this her home for years and has a host of friends who wish her much joy and happiness. The groom, Mr. Hoagland, is a son of Mr, and Mrs. William Hoagland and is a hustling young farmer. The young couple will leave in a week on a tour of the west, looking for a location and in case they find no desirable place, will return to this city and make their future home.' The Democrat extends congratulations. o DENATURED ALCOHOL PLANT Indiana to Take First Rank in Its Manufacture. Preparations that are being made for the manufacture of denatured alcohol in Indiana lead internal revenue officials to Relieve that the Hoosier state will i,..ke a place in the front ranks in the development of this new industry. Plans have been completed for the establishment at Terre Haute of the largest plant of this character in the United States. The United States Industrial Alcohol company is the name of the new concern, which will also have a plant at Peoria, 111. Denatured alcohol already is made at two places in Indiana —by the Commercial Distilling company of Terre Haute, John E. Beggs, manager, and the Hammond Distilling company of Hammond. - _o _ . ! “Preventics” will promptly check a cold or the grip when taken early or at the “sneeze stage.” “Preventics” are little candy cold cure tablets, and Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis., will gladly mail you samples and a book on colds free, if you will write him. The samples prove their merit. Check early colds with Prevetlcs and stop pneumonia. Sold in 5c and 25 c boxes by W. H. NACHTRIEB. o FOLK'S MESSAGE IS READ. Jefferson City, Mo., April 9. —Governor Folk’s message to the extra session of the legislature sounds the stages rights slogans. It is believed he has launched his Democratic presidential boom by so doing. ’ o — ? — These April showers, condensed, don’t exactly please the average Adams county farmer, but no remedy has been ottered by either Hicks or Foster. .

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A SHORT SESSION HELD TODAY State Had-One Witness and Defense Rests at 10:51 —Evelyn Has a Quarter Million. IV . - New York, April 8. —The defense rested in the now famous Harry Thaw case at 10:51 this morning. Immediately after court opened Judge Fitzgerald announced that he had confirmed the report of the lunacy commission. He directed that the trial should proceed and Dr. Alexander McLain, who testified that Thaw was insane when he shot White, was called and was asked a few questions. The state has also rested and evidence in the longest case in history is at an end. Freedom or death now awaits Thaw. With Fitzgerald’s confirmation of the lunacy commission report and with both state and defense resting, at the command of the'court, Delmas began this afternoon summing up of the case for Thaw. He will be fololwed by Jerome and then the judge will instruct the jury. Fitzgerald surprised everybody by saying that from now on he will keep the jury locked up together until a verdict is reached. The “present indications are that the case will go to the jury by Wednesday evening. Delmas should finish by "Tuesday noon and Jerome by Wednesday noon. Pittsburg, April B.—The report from New York that Mrs. William Thaw has settled >250,000 on her daughter-in-law, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, has been confirmed. She did it, it is said, because she felt that both Evelyn and Harry have turned over a new leaf and are doing well. o How to Avoid Appendicitis Most victims of appendicitis are those who are habitually constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. - < COMMITTEE AT CLEVELAND Investigating Factory Which May Come to Decatur. The factory committee of the Decatur Commercial Club are at Cleveland, Ohio, today consulting with capitalists concerning the esablishing here of a large factory. It is believed they will be successful and the papers clinching the industry may be signed before they return. Those who formed the committee of investigation are F. M. Schirmeyer, H. R. Moltz, L. G. Ellingham, Judge R. K. Erwin, Will P. Schrock and C. C. Schafer. They will arrive home today some time, time. I- r> Mr. S. L Bower, of Wayne, W. Va., writes: “I was a sufferer from kidney disease, so that at times I could not get out of bed, and when I did I could not stand straight. I took Foley’s Kidney Cure. One dollar bottle and part of the second cured me entirely.” Foley’s Kidney Cure works wonders where others are total failures. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. -

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’ YOU WILL NOT DOUBT The Following Statement If You , Make a Personal Investigation “To my mind the greatest discovery of this the most marvelous century is the iKeeley Cure for inebriety, be- ; cause its results are more far-reach- ' ing than all other discoveries which have been made.” Ex-GOVERNOR jbHN. P. ALT- ’ GELD, of Illinois. Dr. W. V. Daniels, Marlon, Indiana, ( has been conducting the Marion Keeley Institute .since 1894 and has cured , hundreds. Write him for information. - NO ASSEMBLY AT ROME CITY r G. R. & I. Refuses to Give Rates and dhautauqua is Off. i 1 5 Rev. J. Frank Snyder of Lagrange, i who, for years, has been the moving J spirit in the Rome City assembly, is r authority for the statement that there - will probably be no chatuaqua this 1 year at this famous resort, oldest ini the country, excepting the one at - Chautauqua, N. Y. The G. R. & I. J railroad has refused to make any spes cial rates on account of the two-cent r fare law- and consequently no big - days are possible The dates were set T for July 1 to August 9, and splendid talent had been secured, but these , have all been cancelled. It will seem i a queer Rome City without the assem-. s bly and just what effect it will have - on the place will be watched with ini terest by many who for years have ■ spent their vacation there. I ■ -o For catarrh, let me send you free, \ just to prove merit, a trial size bos of*' Dr. Shoop’s Catarrh Remedy. It is a . snow white, creamy, healing, antiseptic balm that gives instant relief to ; catarrh of the nose and throat. Make ; the free test and see. Address Dr. . Shoop, Racine, Wis. Large jars, 50 ■ cents. Sold by W. H. NACHTRIEB.

Weak Women To weak and ailing women, there is at least one ' way to help. But with that way, two treatments, must be combined. One is local, one is constitutional, but both are important, essential. Dr. Shoop’s Night Cure is the Local. , Dr. Shoop’s Restorative, the Constitutional. The former—Dr. Shoop* s Night Cure—is a topical ’ mucous membrane suppository remedy, while Dr. Shoop's Restorative is wholly an internal treat- ■ ment. The Restorative reaches throughout the 4 entire system, seeking the repair of all nerve, all tissue, and all blood ailments. The “Night Cure”, as its name implies, does its work while you sleep. It soothes sore and infiam- . ed mucous surfaces, heals local weaknesses and discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervous excitement, gives renewed vigor and ambition, builds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed strength, vigor, and energy. Take Dr. Shoop’S Restorative—Tablets or Liquid—as a general tonic. , 3 to the system. For positive local help, use as well Dr. Shoop’s Night Borf,