Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT STKRYTHUMDATMOMGRG BY .<W G ELLINGHAM, PUUUGMED BjOOPXE TBA.B IM ADVANCE. B>t *red at the poetoffice at Decatur. Indiana aa second-cl aee mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CSUMTY As the last congress gave Mr. Roosevelt $25,000 for traveling expenses, he should be able to cover a good deal of ground between now and his finish fight in the Republican national convention. Louisville has begun an active fight for the Democratic national convention of 1908. Several cities will ask for the great gathering, but Louisville believes in getting an early start in the race. . If the Republican ticket in 1908 should be Taft and Hughes the writers of campaign songs will be up against a hard proposition. About the only thing that approaches rhyming with Hughes is booze and that word is not very poetical.—Columbia City Post. Mr. Bryan says he believes that lawyers can be prevented from selling their services to corrupt clients. If he will run for the presidency on that platform he will have a good chance for election. The enforcement of such a principle would be a long step toward the millenium. —Muncie Star. John W. Gates is going to get out of Wall street. The game there is too fierce. Poker, faro and similar devices for separating the unwary from their moifey have no terrors for John W., but when he “bets a million” on -a Wall street proposition he finds that there are others more nimble-fingered than himself. According to ex-Senator Marlon flutier of North Carolina, former Populist t leader but now a very loud Republican, the reactionaries and conspirators are spending money like water in the South to secure anti-Roosevelt delegates from that section. And Mr. Fairbanks’ agents, Jim Goodrich and Joe Kealing, have been down there, too. Where does all the money come from? It looks very much as if Persident Roosevelt is “playing horse” with some of his Republican Vallers. Elmer Dover, secretary of the national committee, comes from the White House and asserts positively that Mr. Roosevelt will not under any circumstances accept another nomination. A day later Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota, comes from the White House and gleefully declares that Mr. Roosevelt will accept another’nomination. So there you are. But really, what difference does it make? The Philadelphia Record notes the constant third term talk of men .holding the njost confidential relations with President Roosevelt, like Senator Bourne, while the Washington correspondents, who receive much of their

Inspiration at the White House, are industriously propagating a story that President Roosevelt will “in due time and once for all” put at rest the talk of a third term. It thinks that this presents a curious contrast and goes on to say: It is not easy to reconcile this apparent conflict of one class of President Roosevelt’s friends with the other and more intimate class who are unceasingly making propaganda for the third term. If the president wished to discourage the movement what more easy than to have conveyed to his most intimate adherents a hint that their course is distasteful to him? Instead of being in the least discouraged, they are becoming more active and persistent every day. Official and personal agents of the president are scouring the country to ascertain the drift of public opinion and bring back their reports to the White House. The only rational exp’anation of the problem is that the tbird term has already entered the dom tfr of jractical politics, to remain there for the ratification of the Republican national convention of 1908.

WHO PAYS OUR TAXES? One of the best possible lessons in connection with the catalog houses hight have been learned at the eourt house during the past few weelfs. The citizens of this county, the property owners both big and little marched up to the treasurer’s office and paid their taxes. In the list was the local merchant who, with other taxpayers, helps to maintain the schools, public highways, streets and other public institutions. All of these expenses - must be paid by the people * who reside ih the state. As remarked above in the list of taxpayers was the loc<l merchant but not a single mail or Catalog house was there to pay a cent of tax. In other words these leeches on the trade of town and country do not contribute one cent to the support of the Institutions that are maintained -at

public expense. As a straight out business proposition would it not be a good plan to do all trading at home and help the merchants who help you pay the taxes, in place of sending away for goods? There is not a merchant in the city who will not cheerfully order anything you may need or want if he does not have it in stock. The price he charges will be no higher than those of the merchant of Chicago, New York, Buffalo or Cincinnati for goods of similar quality. The chances are that it will he less when you figure cost of carriage and trouble in ordering. Did it ever occur to you? Bluffton newspapers are using * big headlines on the telegraph liar —that is, they say he is a liar. A Montana man is waiting for the world to come to an end May 13. But with everything so backward this spring, he is likely to be disappointed. Meantime it is to be presumed that Mr. Harriman didn’t lose a cent by the flurry his 1136,000,000 stock issue caused in Wall street. —Indianapolis News. / •• I- 1 ■! ' "■ * Now that Marion Butler, once a national leader of the, Populist party, is whooping things up for Roosevelt, why isn’t it in order for the Republican editors to say something about the “Poporeps” or the “Repopops?” “So long as there is a woman who wants a vote and it is denied her, so long you have a civilization that has not reached its highest plane,” said Mayor T. L. Johnson, the other night, In introducing Rev. Anna Shaw, president of the National Woman Suffrage association, to a Cleveland audience. Have you noticed how; insignificant a mere dollar is in these days of unexampled, unparalleled and underfed prosperity? Perhaps you have not thought much about it if you have been able to make two dollars grow where only one grew before. The high cost of living makes that extra dollar necessary. Congressman Crumpacker hastens to announce from Valparaiso that, under no consideration, will he seek the Republican nomination for gavertior, and has notified his Washington friends who started a boom this week to that effect. He is a candidate for renomination for congress, he says, and evidently believes in letting well enough alone.—Ft. Wayne JournalGazette. Os all the erratic and unstatesmanlike things President Roosevelt has ever done, and it must be admitted he has gone off half cocked a good many times, his hot headed denunciation of the western miners’ officers, who are accused of being responsible for the murder of an ex-governor of Colorado, is the unfairest of all. The men are soon to be tried in a court of justice and, guilty or not guilty, it is an unusual and an alarming thing for the

president to “butt in” and try to prejudice public sentiment against them. Every man is entitled to a fair trial in this country but Roosevelt seems to think it his privilege to convict the accused in advance and he is trying to do it.—Rochester Sentinel.

FROM THE COMMONER. President Ingalls of the “Big Four” railroad, evidently has seen a great, light. He is now giving the railroad managers some advices that should have been given and heeded long years ago. In an address before the Pittsburg Traffic club he said: “This is what all railroads must do—submlt to the law.” Had this been done years ago the railroads would not now be complaining so bitterly. Mr. Cortelyou may as well come to the front with the facts about the contributions to the republican campaign fund. The public is getting them one by one. There was the >50,000 Mr. Perkins took from the insurance money, the 150,000 that Mr. Harriman gave, and the $200,000 that Mr. Harriman raised among bis friends. That accounts for about flue per cent of the total slush fund. to A Philadelphia shipbuilder replies to a congressional charge of fraud in the building of government ships by private contract by declaring that it is “an infernal Jie.” With even shipbuilders engaged in forcing men into the Ananias club the chances are that the organization will soon be one of the largest in the country. “Infernal liar” is a new addition to the list Even the proverbially slow Philadelphian seems able, now and then, to give even the White House pointers on- adjectives. The New York Herald does not pose as a humorist, but it at lea4t laid claim in that line, when in a recent issue it said: “Early in the fall one of two twin brothers living ini Madison county, Kentucky, became demented and was sent to the insane hospital. The other twin accompanied him to the institution. Shortly after the two brothers arrived the sheriff of Madison county received a telegram from the superintendent, saying “Two men who look just alike are from your county—one. fdr confinement. One is talking of building a railroad, to the moon and the other says the republican party is opposed to trusts. Which is the crazy ffian?”

THE FRIENDS OF THE TRUSTS. ——— u Attorney General Bonaparte- .upon having his attention directed to a rumor that he would resign, promptly said that he belonged to the class that might die in office, but would never resign. Mr. Bonaparte, it seems, also belongs to that class of reformers who are active only when out of office. He gives little attention to his duties. It is, his practice to spend two days a’.'Week, in Washington and ‘the ’test of the time, looking after his private affairs in -Baltimore. The public has been told a good deal about Mr. Roosevelt’s’trustbusting” administration, but the appointment of Bonaparte) as attorney general settled that mattor. A Washington dispatch says: c “The report widely circulated that he is preparing to resign from the cabinet was the outgrowth of the* complaint, public and private, that he was not giving the affairs of his department much attention. Since Mr. Bonaparte became attorney general the trust litigation* of which there .isvaov^ 1 a great deal pending, has bedri Ctftnmitted tp. the care of. Assistant ’Attorney General.Purdy. The eral apparently 1 ’ has not been' deeply interested in thb various trtts| prosecutions.” - '. ’ , • It is not strange that Bonaparte takes no interest in trust prosecutions. He is a friend of the'trusts. He publicly said so a long time ago. Mr. Roosevelt must have known that lie had said so when he made him attorney general. If Mr. Roosevelt sincere in wanting the trusts prosecuted why did he appoint Bonaparte? And being a friend of the trusts, why did Bonaparte the office? It appears very clear that conclusions can be drawn which reflect no credit on either one of them. Up to the present time if President Roosevelt favors the nomination by the Republicans of any man except himself that man is the Hon. “Bill” Taft of Ohio. Perhaps he never heard about the Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks approving his “policies?’

EDITOR TONER FOR CONGRESS According to Hit Story Madison County is to be Given the Nomination Hands Down. What is declared to be the very latest bit of political gossip from the turbulent Eighth is that Ed C. Toner, editor of the Anderson Herald, is going to be a candidate for the Republican nomination. While he has made no public announcement to this effect, yet the fact remains that he has held a good many conferences with Republican leaders and workers from various parts, of the district of late, these! same leaders and workers being friendly to him and willing to help him out in anything that he undertakes in a political way. He is now burning midnight oil figuring out the best way to go after the plum. Toner’s entrance into the race gives Madison county three aspirants. Months ago former state senator E. E. Hendee said that he would be glad to carry the banner if liis fellow Republicans ’frould bury the hatchet with which they slaughtered one another last year and agree to give him their united support. His declaration carried with it the broad intimation that he preferred the nomination being handed him on a platter. Along about the same time Albert Vestal, former prosecuting attorney of Madison county, announced that he, too, would seek the nomination, but his position was somewhat different from that taken from his friend and neighbor, Hendee. Vestal declared hat he was the man who could unite the warring factions and bring harmony out of chaos. He didn’t care particularly whether he got the nomination on a platter or whether he had- to go out and scalp a few of his fellow Republicans to get it. Now comes Toner, the fighting editor of the and says that he wants it himself. • Toner and his friends have the situation all figured out to suit themselves. First of all, they count on the nomination being given to Madison county. This conclusion is arrived at by a system of elimination. According to their “dope” it Will be out of the question..for a Wells or Adams county man to land;under the wire for the reason that both counties are too strongly Democratic to admit of such a big plum being thrown their way, aud anyyay, say the Tonerites, there are at this time no aspirants in either county. They dispose of Jay county by saying that Frank Snyder, the one most likely to want the congressional toga, is entirely out of the notion of entering the race, as is alw; the two who is assistant United Stlttes attorney, and Judge LaFollette, who is now on the bench in Jay county. In Randolph county, according to what the Toner people are saying, Judge Macy wants a try at the quiet life when his term on the bench expires, and James S. Engle, who looms up pretty big, in the poliical firmament, prefers to succeed to Judge Macy’s position rather than to go to congress. That narrows the situation, down to Delaware and Madison counties, as Toner and his friend! see it. They figure that the Cromer and anti-Cro-mer factions in Delaware have carried on their warfare with such bitterness for the last ten years, that practically every Republican of any influence has taken a position one way or the other, and that one faction would not agree to support a man whp had been identified with the other side. There would be nothing left but to nominate- a. Madipon county man, they think., . . After every county has.bpen put out of the runqhjg., exeppt Madison, it devolves on Toner and his friends to put, away pt, disposing of Hen. dee and that-it wouldn’t do for Madison to go to,the convention with more than one Candidate. Assuredly, -however, neither Hendee nor Vestal will quit the rave Just. Jo keep peace in the family and make'-Toner feel good, Their past records show them to be fighters who received their training in the! knock-down-and-drag-out school of politics. Just now the Toner men are shouting from the housetops that Hendee is the very man to bp United Stated district attorney .when the present term of Joseph B. Kealing expires in l a few years. There is an understanding in some quarters that Hendee has < been given a promise that he’ Js to j have the place, and this gives Toner and his friends a chance to encourage him in the hope. If Hendee thinks that he can land in Kealing’s shoes, he won’t care to mix up in a hot fight for a congressional nomination, but rather he will try to get the district solid for him for the attorneyship. Albert Vestal is still very much in the notion of being a candidate for the nomination. For a while no thought that he would have only Hendee to fight for control of Madison county, but now he is beginning to see that Toner is certain to be in the mix-up, too. All three men are posing as “neu-

trals” in the fierce fighting that has been going on in the Eighth for so long. All three v ere f r Horace Stilwell for the Republican nomination against CA?mer last year, but they declare by all that is holy that they supported Cromer after he had defeated Stilwell. o — . APPROVED ■y a Clergyman With a World Wide Reputation. "The Keeley Cure has saved where nothing else under Heaven would. * • ♦ Ithas on it the mark of approval of the Lord God Almighty?’ REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE. Write to Dr. W. V. Daniels* Man- • ager, of the Marion Keeley Institute, I Marion, Indiana. MARRIAGE AT CLERK’S OFFICE Sale Ordered in E. Woods Surviving Partnership—Other News from z the Court Room. For a time yesterday it looked like a battle in the Adams circuit court, the case called- being State vs. John Wilson, venued here from Wells county. What added to the general looks of a real fight was the appear ance of Dr. Sharpe and Frank W. Dailey, lawyers for the defendant, and Prosecutor Emnswiller and J. B. Merriman for the state. To help these’ gentlemen with the intricacies of the law, Sheriff Lipkey, Clerk Plessinger and Court Reporter Ormsby were also on hand. The defendant was charged with perjury in testifying falsely before the grand jury. The work of empaneling a jury began when the defendant weakened, plead guilty and Judge Erwin sentenced him from two to twenty.cgie years in the Jeffersonville Reformatory with a recommendation of a parole at the termination of one year. He was also, disfranchised and fined $lO. Judge Erwin put on his official robes yesterday and performed a ..wedding ceremony.. The event occurred in the clerk’s office, the contracting parties being Charles F. Rieggie and Carrie J. Sutcher, the former. from New Corydon and the latter from Geneva:. 1,; •v In the surviving partnership of E. Woods & Co. a sale was ordered with, same terms as a public sale. „ William L. Keller vs. Higgins et al, proof of publication filed, default heard and title quieted in plaintiff against defendants. In the estate of George Es. Hart, an inventory was filed and approved. State vs. George D. Allen, a change of venue case from Jay county, was set for trial May 16.

Eli Meyer vs. Julius- Haugk, judgment was rendered against defendant foF sls, plaintiff to pay the court costs. A marriage license was issued to C. F. Rieggie, aged thirty, and Carrie Jane Butcher, twenty-three. THE OPERATION A SUCCESS Her Family and Friends are Encouraged Over Her Condition and Hope for Recovery. C.' T. Rainear returned Tuesday from Ft. Wayne, where he was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Rosenwlnkle, wlio was operated upon a few days ago for a tumorous growth, at the Lutheran hospital. Mr. Rainear stated that his daughter was resting some easier, and that she seemed to be gaining some in strength, but very at that He says the doctors are much encouraged over her condition, and predict that if nothing unforseen sets in that she will undoubtedly ‘recover. Mr. Rainear, however, seems somewhat discouraged, al. though he is trusting and hoping for the best results, but from what he says, he can see no material change in her condition. The crisis, however, ’ Will not occur until the expiration of a week and he hopes to see her battle i through this ordeal. Mrs. Rosenwinj kle has many friends here who wish her a speedy recovery.

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A VISITOR IN DECATUR TODA® He is a Slick Politician and May Fool the Boys Before the Candl- | date is Named. g Another Moses has come to life and! to sacrifice himself for the! good of his country. Senator Haw-fl kins, of Portland, is willing to heal J that has existed in this congressional district for so idhg. He is willing to take upon himself tha—. burdens of a congressman, and is a receptive candidate for such honors from his party. He spent Tuesday in | Decatur quietly feeling the pulse of 1 the Republican brethren. He had previously visited Wells, Madison and other portions of the bloody Eighth, and now looks like a man who is ready to get right into the thick of the fight. He is a foxy politician, jmd while he wears an innocent and ministerial bearing, yet he will show some of the veteran politicians some new fangled tricks before the congressional nomination is closed and the standard bearer named. He is and has been for thirty-two years, cashier of the Citzens’ Bank at Portland, and while always up to his eyes in politics, yet he never held an office until the present, being joint state senator for the Jay. Randolph district. One of his main cards is his authorship of th®« anti-trust law passed by the last legislature. Another card used is that he has been on both sides of the Cromer congressional fight, being twice for him and once against him for the nomination, but as a matter of habit*" always supporting the nominee at the general election. ] As a matter of fact, in a congressional convention,, a candidate from this end of the district will cut some ice, and may stand a good chance to land. That being true, and Senator Hawkins is our neighbor, it is but fair I that we help the infant boom into a I creature of action, activity and im. J portance. :—■—o ;—-- A RACE TO PITTSBURG. '■ ■ f: ‘.(j ■ . I two Children frying to Outwit Their I Father. ♦ • ■ ■ I Linton, Ind., May 14.—-Eugene Vo- I guet, aged eleven, with his little three I ’year olcT sister, is flying toward Pitts, I burg' and theii- mother from whom I their father had became estranged. I The children’s father is following on t I the Pennsylvania flyer in the race I across states to Pittsburg, to prevent I the mother from getting the children. I The mothers’ love is the prize and I Linton people hope to see the children I win. Sympathizers with the children I sent a telegram to the mother to meet I the children and as both trains ar- I rive in Pittsburg this afternoon, a I scene is expected. Recently Voguet I left his wife and brought the children* I to Indiana. The children pleaded to I go back to their mother, but the father I only laughed. Yesterday the children fl got into their father’s pocketbook and fl got some money. Eugene inquired ll how to get away, bought a ticket to Terre Haute and upon arriving there I purchased a ticket to Pittsburg and I left there last night. The father I Linton, heard of thip and went ti> I Terre Haute and boarded *th£ follow- fl ing train. Linton people fiope Hhelfl children will win. Voguet is a coal® miner. ® o — PURE FOOD LAW WORKING. New Albany Witnessed an Unusual I Proceeding Saturday. fl New Albany, Ind., May 11. —Scores fl of kegs and pails of white fish, at more than SSOO which have been® condemned under the pure food law,j| were dumped in an alley by a whole-l l sale firm, and for more than an hourgl a wild scramble followed in which fulflß ly one hundred men, women and boyflfl were engaged. Within a few minute* ■ after the kegs and pails had been I rolled out, the alley was swarming# I with whites and blacks. Farmers who I happened to be in town backed thein fl wagons into the alley and loaded ups I andw heelbarrows and express wagons I were pressed into service. Whitt I fish promises to be the leading article I on the bill of far in many homes dur- I ing the next few days. f o Ask for Allen’s Foot-Ease, A Pojvder t ® It makes walking easy. Cures Corns,’'® Bunions, Ingrowing Nails. Swollen and I Sweating feet. At ali Druggists and ■ Shoe Stores, 25c. Don’t accent any K substitute. Sample FREE / rldress, ® Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N/Y. jk®

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