Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ✓ IVIMTTI VBIDAYMOBMIRe BY .<W C ELLINGHAM, PUMaeMEb ■-M MB YBAB IB AJJVAMCB. tat trad at l*« jvttottce »t DkCktur.lndlkkk M»e«<»d-clku mall matter n /i ismity While wheat and corn are going up in price, industrial and other stocks are going down, writes William E. Curtis. “The farmer is getting richer and the speculator poorer—which many people will agree is in the line of eternal justice. Stocks axe lower now than they have been for several years. They are now down practically where they were at the time of McKinley’s election, when “the era of prosperity" set in. The decline has been general, affecting almost everything in the list of securities available to the public, and Wall street statisticians declare that the total shrinkage amounts to at least 13.500.000,000. But the value of the property these stocks represent, and their earning capacity has not been impaired. In most cases the dividends will not be affected; the shrinkage only represents water that has been squeezed out and the speculators are practically the only sufferers. The permanent investor who has locked his certificates up in a tin box and put them away In the safe deposit vault Is not likely to suffer from the present shrinkage. His property is worth just as much as it ever was, but the certificates no longer have the fictitious value given them by the gamblers.” For the quarter ending September 30 the big steel trust was able to show a net profit of nearly $44,000,000. They say it was the most prosperous third quarter in the history of the institution. It brought the total net earnings for the nine months of 1907 up to $130,000,000, and that is a record breaker, too. Now it does not require any hard thinking for a man to realize that these enormous profits come out of the pockets of the consumer. That is exactly where they come from. And it don’t require any extaordinary mental effort for a man to reach the conclusion that the profits are excessive and unreasonable, considering the actual investment. The steel industry in this country is a great one and everybody is glad the country has such an industry; but when amonopoly takes unreasonable or excessive profits from the consumer it is doing the people of the country an injustice. No one will object to a fair dividend for the stockholders in the steel trust, but what the people do object to is the concentration of something like $150,000,000 a year in comparatively few hands. —Columbia City Post. This talk emanating from some source or other of making Lawyer E. G. Hoffman, of this city, democratic chairman of the Twelfth congressional district is entirely misleading. Mr. Hoffman’s relation to the next campaign in this district beyond question will be as the candidate of his party for congress. The brilliant young lawyer and orator fills the bill to the last nicety. He is not only such a man as the party can elect in splendid triumph, but would make such a congressman as not only his own party but the entire citizenship of the district would be proud to own as represenative in the national congress.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel.

Philadelphia has long been “corrupt and contented.” Indianpolis is developing gangs of looters, who, if not checked, will make that city a rival of Philadelphia. The street patching rottenness that is now being uncovered there shows how recklessly the thieves have worked to get the people’s money, but no one believes that this is all. On the contrary it is the prevailing opinion that there is yet an immense amount of fraud to be brought to light. J. Pierpont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller were acclaimed as the “saviors of Wall street” There is

still some doubt as to whether Wall street was saved and there is greater doubt as to whether it was worth saving. but there seems to be no doubt at all that Morgan and Rockefeller and their “peol” were given $25,000,000 of the public money and that they loaned it to Wall street speculators at a big rate of interest. The five classes of domestic ex- * ports known as breadstuffs. animal products, animals, cotton, and mine:nl oil totaled $618,527,512 for the nine months ended September 1907. This is over $100,000,000 larger than the exports for the like period of 1905 and 1903. and $46,000,000 larger than the exports of 1906 for these five classes. The man who can not see a wholesome condition in all this is a hopeless pessimist. With such a wonderful sale of American products abroad certainly should strengthen the faith of every American in the stability of his country and cause him to feel that it cannot be many years until the word "panic" will be no longer needed in the business vocabulary of the country.—Muncie Press. The Aurora National bank in Dearborn county has failed. A few small banks in Kansas have also been obliged to close their doors. It is very probable that there will be other failures before the present trouble is over. There are always weak sisters in all lines of business and when anything unusual takes place they must totter and fall. It is a good thing to get rid of such institutions. They are a detriment to a community and the sooner they go the better. A business that is not :nm on business principles should not survive and usually does not. —Columbia City Post.

To the credit of the press be it said that its attitude during the financial flurry in Wall street was praiseworthy and commendable. Even that class of papers which regards carping criticism to be its first duty manifested unusual discretion and rare good sense in speaking of the great shakeup. For once the newspaper fraternity seems to have realized that the country was facing a crisis and that it devolved upon every knight of the quill to put on its thinking cap. Had the press been less discreet, and unmindful of its duty to the public and to the general welfare, there is no telling what might have happened.— South Bend Times. It may be safely assumed that the enemies of President Roosevelt will not bully him into a third term race by their caustic criticism. It is manifest that they are assiduously laboring to this end in the hope that the president, roused to anger, will eventually discredit himself by entering the contest. By only some such break on Mr. Roosevelt’s part could their aspersions be justified and color given to the mean estimates they have placed upon his judgment and his motives. —Fort Wayne News. Mr. Bryan says the money stringency will not last long, that the little touch of depression will be shortlived and that there is an abundance of cash in the country, due to enormous gold production, to keep prosperity up to high-water mark. That Mr. Bryan thinks so makes it neither more nor less so, but his opinion has value because than Mr. Bryan there is no closer student of events and conditions in the country.—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

That Governor Hanly is in no sense a hidebound partisan of his own political party is proved by his address in Columbus, Ohio, when he urged the people of that city to vote for Judge Duncan, the democratic candidate for mayor, who is standing on a straight out law-enforrement platform with specific application to the saloon business. The incident will not be complete, however, until some howling dervish of a red republican Indiana' editor savagely reads the governor out of the party.—Fort Wayne Sentinel.

IMPROVE WATERWAYS Many Bills for CongressDef ends Father of Our Country. Washington. Nov. 6. —Represents* tive John H. Foster, of Indiana, who is here looking after living accommodations for the coming winter, declared that he favors the enactment of legislation that will tend to give elasticity to the currency and insure against money stringency. “It is very patent,” said he, “that there is something wrong with our financial system. That . fact is self-evident to those who have watched the developments of the last ' few weeks, it is a situation, too, that demands legislation. I am not prepared to say what sort of a bill should be passed. We will need to proceed with the utmost caution and conservatism, for. while many remedies are proposed, quite a number of them would be subject to misuse and it is questionable whether they would not be worse than no legislation at all.” Washington, Nov. 6. —That there is going to be systematic and aggressive agitation for legislation to improve the waterways of the country is now evident. A flood of bills providing for specific improvements of his character will be introduced at the opening of the coming congress. Preparatory to an onslaught on congress the advocates of waterway appropriations have arranged to hold conventions in various parts of the country in order to get their forces in as well drilled a condition as possible and to outline their plans of campaign in an intelligent way. Washington, Nov. 6. —Capt. S. R. Donahue, of Fairfax. Va., who disclosed from musty volumes the copy of George Washington's presentment for tax dodging, has had no peace of mind since the extract was printed. Every mail has brought to the captain a flood of angry and protesting letters. “The naiked truth seems to have offended the patriots who looked upon the Father of his Country as molded from finer clay than his fellow mortals.” said Capt. Donahue. *Ttey all seem to take my discovery as a personal offense instead of a new fact of history.” Schmuck and Miller, proprietors of the Electric theater are making a decided hit with the people of Decatur for the reason that they show none but the very best films to their patrons. Last night their room was crowded with people who greatly appreciated the excellent performance. The subjects were all good and every one present declare the show the best they ever saw.

THE ANNUAL EYE INSPECTION Will Soon Begin on the Grand Rapids and Indiana. “I am sorry, sir, we will have to ask foj your resignation. You see it is this way; your optics are bsd. You see green for white, and white for red.” Similar to this will be the statements made to several Grand Rapids and Indiana trainmen on the southern division soon, if their eyesight is not just right. These job-losing blows are always administered on occasion of the annual eye sight inspection of the road. One optician from each of three cities, Richmond, Fort Wayne and Grand Rapids, has been selected to give the annual color test and eye examination. Great care has to be taken by railroad officials in employing railway trainmen whose sight is of the best and whose color discernment is perfect, for if such is not the case, the road stands good chances of being the victim of many wrecks, all due to misinterpretation of signals. Mistaken idea as to color is frequently the cause of serious catastrophes. If precedents are again followed this year, there will undubtedly be many railroaders on the Grand Rapids and Indiana system who will not pass the examination and consequently will lose their positions. This examination period is always one of trial to trainmen and particularly is this true of enginemen and firemen, on whom falls a great duty in distinctly catching all color signals. O' ■ — - The average temperature for October was 49.8. This was 3.5 degrees below that of one year ago and- 4.1 degrees below the normal for the last seventeen years. The normal for the month is 53.9. The highest temperature for the month was 84. recorded on the 2d, and the lowest was 25, recorded on the 19th. The range for the month was 59 degrees and the greatest for twenty-four hours 39 degrees. The mercury dropped below 32 ion seven days. I A number of Decaturits expect to go to Fort Wayne tomorrow, Thursday, evening to attend the performance at the Majestic theater of “A Night for a Day.”

WAS MURDERED IN ARKANSAS. Ed Kennerk Formerly of Allen County the Victim. Attorney Harry F. Kennerk received word yesterday that his uncle. Edward Kennerk. for many years a prominent Allen county farmer, had been murdered in Clay county. Ark., by a tenant on his farm. The murier was committed last Tuesday aid it seems strange that the notice to the local relatives was so long delayed. The message merely stated that Mr. Kennerk had had trouble with a tenant on his farm, four miles from Pigott, and , the tenant shot and killed him. Mr. i Kennerk telegraphed to the sheriff of • Clay county last night, but Pigott is a small town and has no night teleI graph office, so the message cannot be i sent until today. He will leave as ■ soon as he receives more definite inj formation from Arkansas and will ■ probably have the remains exhumed and brought home. Edward Kennerk was fifty-seven • years of age and was born in Pleasant i township. There he lived until about i three years ago. when he went to Arkansas and purchased a farm. Recently he retired, selling his personal property and renting the farm. The deceased was a brother of William Kennerk. of Wayne township, and John Kennerk, of Marion township. There are four sisters —Mrs. Mary Beeler, of Perry, Iowa; Mrs. John Koons, of Ossian; Mrs. Hanna Glass, living east of Fori Wayne, and Mrs. Catherine Lakey, of Whallen. —Fori Wayne Journal-Gazette. o George W. Cotton, who has been in the city from Elkhart for the past few days, left this morning for his home. Next Monday he will go to Portland to visit his son, Frank Cotton. at the county jail, where he is awaiting the action of the Jay circuit court on a motion for a new trial on the perjury charge upon which he was convicted last week. —Bluffton Banner.

PRIMARY RULES. Your Committee begs leave to submit the following: The Adams County Democratic Central committee in executive session assembled, adopt the following rules for the control and regulation of the democratic vote to be polled in the nominating election of said party, of candidates to be voted for in the general election of 1908. Section 1. —The democratic primary election on Friday the 6th day of December. 1907, shall be held under the Australian system of election laws of the state of Indiana, with the exception that there shall be one inspector, one judge, two clerks and one election sheriff, and except as hereinafter set out in section seven and eight. Section 2. —That the interest and purpose of the nomination at a primary election is to secure a full and free and fair expression of the whole democracy of the county. Provided, that all those who voted the regular democratic ticket in 1906 be considered democrats. Section 3. —The qualifications other than heretofore given of voters of such primary, shall be, that he is a citizen of Adams county. Indiana, and a legal voter therein, or will be a legal voter before the next general election. That he be a bone-fide resident of the township. town or city, and of the precinct wherein he offers to vote. Section 4.—The eligibility of a candidate shall depend upon his compliance with the foregoing requirements, and paying the assessments for the campaign purposes, upon him as a candidate for the office to which he aspires. Such campaign assessments shall be paid at least fourteen days before the said primary election. Provided, that if a candidate neglects or refuses to comply with the requirements of the Adams County Democratic Central Committee as are provided for in the rules and regulations herein contained, the name of such candidate shall not appear on the tickets used in said primary election. Section 5. —That the County Central Committee shall meet on the day following the next democratic primary election in Adams county, in Decatur, Indiana, at 10 o'clock a. m. and receive from each inspector or committeeman of the townships or of the respective precincts of townships, town or city, the returns of said election and proceed to compare the votes cast for all the candidates who have complied with the rules and regulations of the committee aforesaid and the person having the highest number of votes cast for any given office, shall be declared the nominee of the democratic party of said county and state of Indiana, for office sought. Provided, that no County Central Committeeman, whose name appears as that of a candidate on the election tickets of such primary or who has any relative whose name appears as that of a candidate on such election ticket, shall be eligible to serve as inspector of such election, nor shall he be allowed to select any election officers to serve in said primary election. In case of

appoint such officers aforesaid, the chairman, secretary and treasurer of the County Central Committee shall appoint sucn election board in such precinct at least one week before the primary election. Section 6—Each board of election shall keep a poll book in which shall be entered the name of every person who votes at such primary election, and after the polls are closed, said election board shall count the votes or ballots cast and make out a tally sheet properly signed by such election board to the election inspector of such voting precincts, who shall deliver such tally sheets and poll t>ooks to the chairman of said Adams County Democratic Central Committee on the day following such primary election aforesaid. The officers of said election board shall at the time of making out the tally sheets make out and sign three certificates of election showing the vote in such precincs as shown by the poll and tally sheets and place one of said certificates in the possession of the inspector, one in the hands of each election clerk to be held as authentic reference should any controversy hereafter arise. Section 7.—A1l voted ballots shall be by said election board placed in a paper bag. tied with a string and sealing wax melted and pasted over the knot of the string and delivered to the inspector and by him returned to Democratic headquarters in the city of Decatur, Indiana, on the day mentioned in section five. In no case shall any voted ballot be destroyed by the election board, but all such ballots so sealed shall be kept for the period of thirty days by the Chairman of the Central Committee, and such sacks so sealed shall not be opened except by order of the committee i» session regularly called and !■ case of contest by any candidate voted for, contested ballots shall be placed in a sack with tally sheets as hereinafter set out. Ail unvoted ballots shall be destroyed by the several election boards by entirely consuming the same by fire before any votes are counted and no votes shall be counted or ballot boxes be opened until the polls are closed and all unvoted ballots destroyed as hereinbefore provided. Section 8. —Any voter who declares that by reason of physical disability or inability to read the English language. he is unab' to mark his ballot, may declare his choice of candidates to the election board, and the poll clerks in the presence of said voter and in th* presence of said election board, stall prepare the ballot for voting, and on request shall read over to such voter the names of the candidates as marked. X* Section 9. —No person being a candidate for the nomination to any office and to be voted for at said primary shall be decla’ed the nominee of the Democratic party of said county, who loans, pays or gives, or promises to loan, pay or give either directly or indirectly, any money or other thing of value to any elector, or to any other or any other person; for the purpose of securing the vote or influence of such elector or person for his nomination. nor shall any such candidate offer or promise to lean or give any money or other thing of value to any elector for the purpose of influencing or retaining the vote of such elector, or to induce such elector to work or labor for the election or nomination of such candidate, or to refrain from working or laboring for the nomination or election of anv other candidate, or to any person to secure or 1 retain the influence or vote of such elector in his behalf as such candidate. or to be used by such persons in any way to influence the vote of any elector, or electors generally for himself or any candidate. And no candidate shall hire or'otherwise employ for a consideration any elector or person to work at the polls on the day of such primary election for the nominaion of such candidate and should any candidate violate any of the provisions of this section he snail be dealt with

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as provided in section eleven of tb rules. * Se Section 10.—All contests anj di putes arising out of the canvass aw counts following said primary elect/ shall be settled by a majority vt? of the County Central Committee un der whose directions such prm, ar ' election was held. Section 11.-Should any candidate violate the rules and regulations of the Adams County Central Committee and thereby fradulently secure the ination to the office which he may & pire, the candidate for such office shall have received the next highesnumber of votes provided such can. didate shall not have also fraudlently secured his nomination, shall by j majority vote of said County Central Committee be declared the nominee of the party aforesaid to such office Section 12—Should there be a vacancy occur at any time by removal resignation or death, or should there be a tie vote of any candidate, or of any candidates nominated at such primary election aforesaid, the vacancy shall be filled by a majority vote of the County Central Committee at such times as it may then and there agree upon. Section 13.—That the contested ballot and tally sheets shall be placed in a paper bag tied with a string and sealing wax melted and pasted over the knot of the string and delivered to the inspector, and by him returned to the chairman in the city of Decatur, Indiana, on the day herein before mentioned in section five. Section 14. —The names placed on the tickets used in said primary election as referred to In section one, of the rules and regulations shall be arranged in alphabetical order. Section 15. —The Chairman of the Adams County Central Committee shall have a notice printed for two weeks in the Decatur Democrat giving names of offices to be filled by candidates to be voted for in November. 1908, and voting places in the next democratic primary election. Section 16. —That, if at any time within ten days, any three persons residing within any precinct of said county shall make affidavit jointly that each of said persons voted in said pre cinct at said Primary Election, and that they believe that the vote of said precinct was not counted or returned as same was cast, or that the same has not been correctly counted, and request a recount of said precinct, a recount shall be made as follows; A committee of three persons, legal voters of the democratic party shall be appointed one by the County Chairman. one by the petitioners, and one by the two thus appointed. The committee thus appointed shall make the recount and certify to the result there of to the full county central committee which shall be called together by the chairman for the purpose of receiving such resulst, and of taking such action as it may deem proper in the premises. Section 18. —The chairman, secretary. and treasurer of the Adams County Central Committee, shall constitute the election commissioners of this election. The chairman performing the duties that are performed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court, in general Elections—the printing, preparation and distribution of the ballots, shall be done in conformity with the Australian Election Lgws of the State of Indiana. Section 19. —The voting precincts in said county shall be the same as was established and agreed upon by the Adams County Democratic Central Committee in November, 1905, with the exception of Union Township and Kirkland Township, which townships shall have tw;o voting precincts and votes shall be received at the places in both of said townships as fixed by the Board of Commissioners of Adams County, Indiana. Respectfully submitted. ,F. C. FOREMAN. AUSTIN O. STRAUB, F. V. MILLS. ERNST DOEHRMAN, J. M. DUFF.