Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 3 October 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT «—« i ■num ' L—! s 3VK*TTBVMDATMORFI!»a BY £W & ELLINGHAM, RJOPBB YBAH IN IDVANCI, Xnt,i-»d at tfce >o«tolMce at Decatur,lndiana aa aecnad-cjaaa aiatl matter. PAPtR OF ABAMS CBUMTY PRAISE FOR BRYAN The platform adopted Tuesday by the Democrats of Nebraska is Important chiefly because it is known to be the work of Mr. Bryan, or at least to be entirely satisfactory to him. In many respects this declaration of party faith is admirable. Os course, there is nothing partisan in the demand for a law forbidding corporation contributions to campaign funds, for that is a Roosevelt reform. Neither party has or can have a patent on it. The Nebraska Democrats not only demand such a law. but they insist that there should be before each election a publication of the names of all individual contributors to campaign funds. This, too, is sound doctrine. For almost four years there have been efforts to get the names of those who contributed so liberally to the campaign fund of Mr. Roosevelt, but it has been impos- • sible to get, except from outside sources, any information on the subject, The people have a right to know to whom, if to any one, their public servants are under obligations. Therefore, there should be the widest publicity in regard to the business of financing campaigns. Whether tljis is to be the prevailing type of platforms with Democratic conventions is hard to tell. Mr. Bryan is undoubtedly the most influential man in his party, and he will do all in his power to prevent it from being captured by the ‘■reactionaries.” Many states will undoubtedly follow the Nebraska lead. It seems likely that the national convention will not lag far behind. In many respects the platform is excellent. And taking it as a whole it does not sound nearly so radical as it would have sounded ten years ago. Many of its utterances will be accepted by hundreds of thousands of Republicans. Even the tariff plank will cause slight apprehension. Indeed the most objectionable of the f principles favored, those involving a large measure of control over business are precisely the ones about which there will be the least dispute. For are we not all devoted to the policy of regulating everything?—lndianapolis News. THEY ARE GOOD FELLOWS When we read newspapers of neighboring cities and see the bickering and backbiting, and crimination and recrimnation gong on there, it is easy to understand why Rochester is so much admired by all who visit us. There are a few trouble makers in Rochester, nut they are so few in comparison with the progressive, peace loving, populace that ours is a city remarkably far from ill-feeling. Os course we have here and there a tight wad who opposes every public step that costs a cent; we have here and there an envious soul that wants to fight every man who tries to get on in the world and succeeds. We have a few who would strike down every enterprise that helps the town if it makes any money for its owner; we have about one in every hundred who would have streets and houses ramshackle, we have an occasional saloon keeper who would rather violate the law than not, and we have some gossippers who delight in scandal talk, but notwithstanding these few unpleasantries Rochester is the most hospitable and circumspect town to be found hereabout. The great majority gets along happily and at peace with all the world and that is why Rochester is as pleasantly remembered by those who have been within its genial precincts. Let us all keep on being good fellows. —Rochester Sentinel. Ex-Congressman Cromer, of Muncie, who was so badly beaten at the last 1 election by Mr. Adair, a Democrat, is getting busy in politics again. It is suspected that he will try for a renomination, but it may be that he simply proposes to see to it that the Republicans who beat him are not allowed to dictate the nomination. —Plymouth Democrat

!ATTRACT ! ATTENTION I St. Louis will have a gathering on September 30 and October 1, which the Globe-Democrat thinks ought to attract fully as much attention throughout the country as will be exI cited by President Roosevelt’s visit ! to that city a day later, and possibly i it will have still more important consequences. This will be the meeting of the attorneys generals of the various states to consider the general issue of the trusts in all the phases which have thus far revealed themselves. According to Missouri's attorney general Hadley, who was one of the promoters of this gathering, fully two-thirds of the states will be represented at the St. Louis meeting by their law officers. Attorney General Bonaparte and one or two of his leading assistants are expected to attend. The program covers a wide range of subjects bearing on the general tendency toward combination among the great agencies of production and transportation, and among employes as well as among employers. Among the subjects which are booked for discussion are the Standard Oil trust, railroad rate regulation, state regulation of public utilities, the Sherman anti-trust act. and the trust laws of the various states. SEEING THE LIGHT The Democratic party has contended from the beginning of our control of the Philippines that the sooner we turned them over to the Filipinos and were quit of them the better off we would be. And now others are doubting whether, after all. there is such a “divine destiny” requiring us to hold on to them as some persons once thought. That great Republican organ of “sweetness and light," the Indianapolis News, says that “we are beginning to look at the Philippine question in Its true Ight.” And then the News adds: "We noted recently the statement of an eminent Spanish statesman that wq had better be quit of the Philippines as soon as might be; that the Malay hated us, and was instinctively against our institutions and our ways, and we should simply find ourselves repeating Spain's experience. So far it has been so. The cost to us in blood and treasure the American people do not accurately know. Moreover, it is becoming constantly more apparent that there is “nothing in it for us.” In these ten years of occupancy we have gradually come to see that we have a greater obligation to ourselves than to the Filipinos. So far as Arne loans are concerned the islands are a cipher; Americans will not go to them voluntary to live; they are a source of weakness rather :han strength in a military sense and a great and constant expense. At home and abroad the “Philippines” are becoming more and core a living question; and there will be great searching of hearts among us to determine what we shall do with them.”

The department of commerce and labor has already begun to get out doctored statistics tor use in the next campaign. Its latest exploit Is to pu out a lot of juggled figures trying to prove that wages and sala ies have Increased faster than the cost of living The man who labors for wages or a salary can work the problem out for himself. The answer that he gets is the answer that counts. President Roosevelt's son-in law, the Hon. “Nick" Longworth, says that his father in law “will not become a can didate for renomination unless the entire country demands it.” The Hon. “Nick” adds that Mr. Roosevelt has “firmly made up his m'nd to stick to this course and that only a more wide-spread dtmand fcr him to accept the nomination will alter his determination.” If Long worth speaks with knowledge and authority it i 3 evident that Mr. Roosevelt has a hankering to hold his job and that he will expect another nomination. It will be easy for him to persuade himself that there is a “wide-spread demand" of proper size to justify him in breaking his pledge not to seek a third term.

A MAN OF GOOD SENSE Our Washington dispatches have predicted that a “boom" for Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, would be launched within a monft, provided he would consent to the use of his name. Like Governor Hughes, of New York, Governor Johnson is not bothering himself about the future. It is even doubted whether he will permit his name to be used in connection with the Democratic nomination. It is said that he wll certainly refuse to become a candidate against Mr. Bryan, and that he will not allow himself to be made the candidate of any faction of the party. He no doubt feels, as many others feel, that if the Democrats do not get together very soon they never will get togeher. But wi’hout reference to what the future may have in store for this man. and judging him solely on the record that he has thus far made, it must be said of him that he is in every way worthy of the respect and confidence of his party and of all the people. Governor Johnson is a reformer, and yet he is at the same time a man of good sense and sound judgment, leaning perhaps a little to the conuserva-

tive side. He has been confropted with the same situation as that faced by Governors Glenn and Comer, but he has not indulged in any violent talk, or threatened to resist the process of the courts of the nation. Minnesota's interests will be as well projected as those of the two southern states in which such an outcry has been raised. There is nothing spectacular about Johnson. He is a plain man whose only aim is to do his duty. His honesty is above reproach, and his ability is good. It is not surprising that many Democrats should be looking to him as the man to lead their party out of the wilderness. He has “made good" as an executive officer. He is a genuine Democrat, both in creed and life. He is popular in his own state and throughout the northwest, as is shown by his carrying Minhesota in the very year in which Mr. Roosevelt was elected. Minesota cast her vote for Rosevelt and Johnson. Finally he represents no faction. and is involved in none of the quarrels which have so long distracted the party. We should say that, with Bryan out of it, Johnson's chances would be bright.—lndianapolis News. Strong efforts are being made to induce the vene - le Henry G. Davis, Parker's running mate in 1904, to stand for the governorship of West Virginia. Mr. Davis is a very strong man, highly esteemed by the people who have known him for so many years, but there is no probability o his consenting to make the race. In the first place, he doesn't win: the office; cecondly, he want? to spend lite temaindcr of his years in peace and comfort.. —South Bend Times. Now, just for instance, what would Decatur do for sensations if the all-star ball should flash in the pm, and it were not for Bily Froueflt-ld?—Willshire Herald. Should Decatur lose these star acmes we would be compelled to ask the Herald to bring over a few of its choice ♦w storiee. Talk about high ife, they have it in Willshire any cld time, in any old way.

An American girl Is to wed an Italian duke, who, according to her father, has no bad habits an 1 no debts. This sounds too good to be true, and we cannot help suspec iag that ihere Is a bogus phase to the title somewhere. For an American heiress to marry an estimable nobleman woo d be breaking all precedents —Baltimcre American The promoters of the Decatur interurean trection line have abundant faith in their project and the future of the line will make good their hopes. I: is a fine p epertx—Fort Wayne Journai-Gazetta. X — —-u -j. Bryan's Commoner says: "Texas has just stacked up <35,900 she raked In as a fine from the harvester trusts. The trust feels pretty well thrashed

HEALTH NOT GOOD An Affection of the Lungs Weakens His Condition and is in Serious Shape. I After five months of Intense suffering -from consumption in its worst stage. Clifford Vogle has returned from the oil fields in Kansas to be in the 1 fond embrace of his loving parents I before his spirit is taken to the great ‘ beyond The boy left hs home six j I miles east of Geneva the fifteenth of . i last June and went to Kansas, where > he engaged in worKing in the oil fields., At the time of his departure his lungs were affected but his manj friends did not anticipate that that dread disease consumption was creeping upon him. After working in the oil fields for some time his condition became so serious that he was required to abandon this vocation and since that time he has grown weaker and weaker until he can scarcely move about. Realizing that the end was near he planned to return to his home to have the care of a loving father and mother among his last hours, so without notifying his parents he left Kansas City last Sunday morning for old Adams County, reaching this city Monday afternoon. His parents were not aware that he was here and since his arrival he has been at the mercy of the people in the vicinity of the G. R. and I- railroad. The boy's condition and whereabouts were learned of by Marshal Bohnke this morning and he at once conveyed the sad news to his parents, who drove to city Tuesday afternoon and took their son with them to enjoy the hospitality of his home during the closing chapter of his short life. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Vogle, the boy's parents, are grief stricken over the pitiful condition of their son. and they are joined by a large number of people who have learned of his condition. o HOPE IS ABANDONED Well Known Young Man. Formerly of this City But Recently Living at Berne. Edward Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Rice, of this city, and who for many years lived with his parents in this city, is lying at the point of death at his home at Berne. He was married several years ago and accepted a position with the P. W. Smith Co. who own a saw mill at Berne, moving to that place to make his future home. He has been troubled with an affection of the throat for some time, which became so painful that he was required to cease work. During the past few weeks he has had many hemorrhages, which have weakened hi condi ion so much that death is inevitabe. Rev. E. E. Bergman has made regular trips to his home for a few weeks pest and Mr. Rice is content to die. Not until one week ago today did th'- afflicted man give up hopes of recovery but since that time he has expressed himself as being wiling and ready for the death angel to some. He has instructed his wife how he wants, the child brought up and has talked intelligently upon other bu- Ines* matters about the mill of which he is overseer. It will be no surprise to the many friends of Mr. Rice should be die at any moment. TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE. Reported by the Decatur Abstract and Loan Company, abstracters and oan agents. Office rooms, 3 and 4 Traction Terminal Building, Decatur, Indian z. Farm loans made at 6 per cent William H. Hyrrs »n Harvey Lee, part outlot No. 70, Decatur, Ind., *2.200. Wm. F. F’lme to Berne Grain and Hay Co.. part I t No. 123, Berne, *l. Hamh W S’x aidner to Jennie Wol- • ford, part s ion 21, Monmouth, JI. Lu Ila Su '.lvan to Charles B. Wilson, ' part lot zv, Decatur, *250. i Sadie E. Gi'.lig to John Gillig part 1 lot No. 7, Decatur. *foo. Albert Egley to Mary Riff, ialot No. 193, Berne, Ind., J 1.300. A. J. Peoples to Clark Hinderlang I pa t section 2S, St. Marys township. $2. John Spuller to G. R. and I. R. R. Co., part section 4, Washington tp, J 450. Venora Ashcraft to John Hamrick, SE ’4 section 8, Blue Creek tp., $2,253 Wonderful how many different talts can ba told when anything unu'ual occurs, an-d how often ths people that retail them have any ground for making statements. A newspaper man is compelled te spend more time running down anauthentic stories than he does in getting the truth, yet some people have been known to pnrpoeeiy aet a

IN A FEW WEEKS — Her Engagement to Mr. Dallas F. Reed, of Huntington is Announced. The following from Monday’s Huntington News-Democrat, may prove a surprise to many of the friends of Miss Bertha Fullenkamp of this city: Some time late in October Miss Bertha Fullenkamp, of Decatur, will become the wife of Dallas F. Reed, pro- ' prietor of the Richelieu restaurant in I this city. The exact date has not yet 1 been set, but Mr. Reed s frequent trips to Decatur recently leave no doubt that it will be held in the near future. Mr. Reed is conducting one of the best business places in the city. He came to this city about a year ago from Wabash where he had charge of the Wasman cigar store. He is a native of Kosciusko county and is widely known in Wabash and Huntington. Miss Fullenkamp is the daughter of a former promnent merchant of Decatur. She is one of the leading members of society in that city and is prominent in church affairs. Nothing is known about the plans of the couple further than that after the wedding, which will take place in the St. Marys Catholic church of Decatur, they will come to this city to make their home. o— WITH MRS. DORWIN Mrs. Burt Owen Entertains Euchre Club—An Impromptu Party. Mrs. Burt Owen, formerly a member of the Euchre club, delightfully entertained the members of the cluS Monday night during the evening hb|Ts at euchre, at the home of bar mother, Mrs. Mary Congleton on south Third street. Fall roses were used to make the rooms appear more attractive to the guests. When the dainty tally cards were handed over, the highest score among the club members was won by Miss Minta Acker, .and the guests’ score was won by Mrs. F. W. Brittson. After which a deliciwaajuncheon was served. The outside guests besides the members were: Mesdames John H. Heller. Roy Archbold. Geo. Kinzel, Frank Alwein, of Cleveland. A small impomptu birthday party was the one given by little Miss Hazel the daughter of Mrs. Geo, Smitley, of Russell street, Monday night,to crowd : of her girl friends. This was Hazel's unlucky birthday anniversary, which was the thirteenth, yet they celebrated it by having an old-fashioned taffy pulling which proved very jolly and entertaining for the evening went like a flash and soon the girls parted from rheir hostess, wishing her many happy birthday anniversaries in the coming future. —o HAD THEIR PICTURES “TUK.” The Huns who are employed on the pipe line were unable to work yesterday on account of the wet weather, and they came into town to take in the sights, says the Montpelier Herald About twenty-five of them landed in he Harding Photograph gallery and then Lew's trouble began. They divided off into groups of five or six and proceeded to be “tuk.” They were a motly looking crowd, a number of them dressed in outfits that a modern tramp would be ashamed of The one necessary thing was that all of them should have on something flashy, and they gave Mr. Harding to understand the picture was to be just as "loud” as possible. This gang of men has been In America longer than those who were in Montpelier before, and the greater number of them can talk English. However, they all follow one leader, and the bunch was in town last evening still following the same man. he so drunk he could hardly walk, and .his companions trying to follow his example. Mr. Harding expects to have a Hvely time with his new class of patrons until the pictures are finished, and ; they are the oddest group he ever had to handle. Even if the pictures do I seem strange and comical to us, they will be eagerly welcomed by the relatives in the cld country.

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AFTER THIRTY y • — —— Formerly m Busin essl He Sees Many Chang Declares Us Mo* D. J. Aber, of TucuneM J arrived Monday nig:it for J his sister, Mrs. Isaac Erod relatives and friends, ago Mr. Aber conducted dj cash grocery in Decatur, J frame building on the pJ tion of the Dailey Myer, clothing store. This [j his here for twenty-two years a greatly surprised at the He misses the mud, the and says Decatur is equal the cities he has visited improvements. During h is this office. Mr. Aber inquire* ing many of the old citta day, a large number of w ceased their • arthly number of years Mr. Aber engaged in contract and eagi in the south and west and pered. He will be in this & several weeks. THIS SOUL OF MIN Rev. D. B. Record, The though; is most glorio soul of mine, and stirs nr nothing else could; that tau the lost to redeem, and ’Jut I of his purchased blood. The thought is most svtet soul of mine; to knowthatsj God's book is written, tin heir with the saints abort beautiful home so bright d Oh, the joy it gives tok mine: To know that thek ing near, when I shall hen billowy tide, to that beaal of the glorified. I The ferryman comes ftl« of mine. I hear his oarsifl in the deep. I am r-adylfl for my transit across Toifl of time to • - est I Farewell, dear world. tifl my soul, where I've dweitfl went, mid j'>y ar,d fl now for my h<>::;>■ in :h-.-difl amid angels and saints O. glory to this soul of fl pearly gates open. I bcafl the loving Christ who (fl died. To redeem from fl of mine. K Composed by the late Reckard some time befMlfl and the words - f this most beautiful thoughts. » Little Miss Helen, thefl L Mr. and Mrs Frank ■ twenty dainty mate: for them to come a:J ’ birthday ■ "sri- -'fl little retro no : .mess ■ Helen, and d-’liciJUS >fl were served the .isl e Gass. TL-> ; • - ■ birthday p; . w rs: Bertha 1" ■ "fl| lott. Irene io. Celesta Coil'". Catharine '- p -' t fl| Ka'hi'en: li - - fl| ger. Marc- la IN--' “- Margaret Kiizel ‘-’ cll Ks Cleveland. Ohio. « : “ e K guest. I - — w Mr. and Ms. H i: “*fl at Sunday dinr. r Mrs. George Ho:.:-? Wash, Mr. and Mrs -fl Mr. and Mrs. ’A Mrs. Frank Reed, cf Mr. and Mrs. J- B- BWfl Mr. and Mrs. sse Elzey. Misses He en Etta and Eda Mallon*fl man. Tishie Sing fl Dessie and Vor.a Bu*'fl Singleton. Sidney ar-d fl Harve Kitson. Chas. a« ■ Milton and Josie Ftc* fl Francis Fuhrman. “’“I Butler. Dr. B. H. B Gray-'to’O the Erie this after: • ence Baldw in a ' ■ badiv scaid-d fiery liquid a..-- ■ and ankle of : Jfl ston dressed t‘. 'patient J Harris