Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■T**TTHUm*DAYMORFIHe BY .IW • ELLINQHAM, PU»U»HI* RJOPW TUI IM AOTAMCB. kUn4 a* lk< pmtollc* at Dacatur.lnAtaaa aa aaeoad-elaa* nail natter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. OUR OWN JUDGE ERWIN Os all the gubernatorial candidates that attended the Bryan meeting at Lafayette—and the list was as long as the moral law —there was none of them that measured up to our own Judge Richard Kenney Erwin. While the democrats of Indiana are giving consideration to organization and to Issues, they should not overlook the men who will represent the organization and issues upon the state ticket. Especially is this true of the one who will head the ticket as the democratic candidate for the highest and most important office wihin the gift of our people. Judge Erwin has long been a student of state finance, and in campaigns past, presented arguments and facts suggesting that the time was at hand for a return to the simple life as prtcticed by the be-' loved Governor Claude Matthews. Then it was that the total expense of the governor’s office was but twelve thousand dollars. How different now when sixty thousand dollars is necessary for the governor and his official family to live at the expense of the people. Here is a chance for reform

that should be heeded by the democrats, and in heeding the cry make the appeal earnest and sincere by nominating a candidate that has no use for the fancy frills of extravagance, especially official extravagance. Judge Erwin has all the requirements and would serve Indiana faithfully and well as governor, and the democrats could notbetter honor themselves than by making him their candidate. Like Bryan, he has ever been faithful to every trust reposed in him and they have been both important and many. And best of all, he is a democrat at all seasons of the year and at any place you meet him. And for this reason and at least one hundred thousand other reasons, the Indiana democrats should nominate him for governor.

HERE IS A REAL ANARCHIST A man went into a Muncie store and after making a purchase asked the clerk who was waiting on him how business was. The clerk’s reply was that he had never known business to be so “rotten.” He also volunteered the information that a neighboring store, which he mentioned by name, had sold on Saturday only one suit of clothes and two overcoats. This clerk is a type of many who, through criminal ignorance or wanton malice, spread damaging stories as to the truth of which they have no knowledge. As a matter of fact both stores he mentioned had done that month a larger business than in the corresponding month of 1906. It is as wrong and cruel to defame the soundness of a firm’s financial standing as to spread baseless slanders against a woman’s name. Timorous souls are quaking at disasters that will never come, and trembling at terrors that do not exist. They may be likened to a nervous woman, who, in a perfectly safe and firmly constructed house, lies awake through the night in momentary expectation tha.t the storm without is about to bring down the walls and roof, carrying all within it to destruction. Every flash of lightning, every clap of thunder, every gust of wind strikes terror to her soul, until she makes sure that each moment will be her last. When morning dawns, the returning sun dispels the gloom and shows her the folly of her fears. It is a very thoughtless and miscievous person who goes about peddling false stories of loss and danger to Muncie institutions and establishments that are sound as a dollar and doing more business than ever before. They who talk themselves and friends into a frenzy of hysterical fear of

evils and dangers that do not exist should reflect that the sun of prosperity will soon come out from under the cloud and make them ashamed of their faint hearts and addled brains. —Muncie Star. IT IS A GREAT PROFESSION The meeting of the Adams County Bar association on Saturday evening, not only marked an important event in the life of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit, but it also brought into social 'contact the men wno honor the greatest profession under the sun. The duties and responsibilities of the lawyer as well as the few who construe the law and the rights of men and 1 i property, are such that test the honor and integrity of the best manhood as- . forded by American citizenship. The ! courts of our land are simply what the 1 I I ! men comprising the profession of law make them, and to the credit of this ! great profession be it said, that but few if any courts become grossly contaminated with influences contrary to. the constitution of our country and the people of our land. The Adams County Bar association have had and now have some great lawyers, and that means the best of ( citizenship. Men who have risen high . in their profession and were and are' leaders in state and national projects are identified with the membership of the Adams County Bar association.

Their coming together in this city was both elevating and helpful alike to those who follow the profession and those who do not The meeting and banquet was given in honor of a long I established custom of doing honor to a retiring and incoming judge of the twenty-sixth judicial circuit. That evening marked the retirement of Judge Richard Kenney Erwin and the succession to his place upon the bench of Judge James Thomas Merryman. As both are ideal citizens and able lawyers, the event simply means that one steps down and the other steps up. Law and justice will be administered with but little thought as to who administers it, but with the knowledge that justice in all the word implies, will be given. The tone of the speeches that graced the occasion were lofty in character and free in sentiment. Decatur is proud of the Adams County Bar association, and proud to do honor and entertain the distinguished visitors who graced the occasion with their presence.

BRYAN A CONSERVATIVE In his Lafayette speech Mr. Bryan I paid his respects to the cause of the 0 present stringency in the money mar- * ket. His argument was identically 1 that urged by a banker in conversa- c tion with the writer a few days ago. c The story is short. In a few simple " words many stocks have been inflated * with unholy water and sold to unsus- ( pecting buyers. The recent investi- 1 gations have revealed such a deplor- f able state of scandal and rascality 1 among the pious deacons of high fin- ' ance that these self same unsuspect- ' ing buyers of watered stocks become * panicky, placed their stocks upon the 1 market and took for them whatever 1 they could get. In.this way two hundred million dollars was taken out of : circulation among the New York banks in a few days. This was the beginning. Mr. Bryan urged every one to keep cool. He said that the man who would withdraw his money from the small banks in this crisis was no better than the man who refused to shoulder his musket and fight for his country in times of war. This from Bryan, the conservative Bryan, and a true representative of the business interests of this great country. TIME TO GET BUSY The local pogtofflce is at present doing a land office business in delivering voluminous catalogues from Sears, Roebuck and Co. Those catalogues contain charming accounts and prices of everything under the sun. The best descriptive writers in the country are employed to write alluring accounts of the great value of everyl thing printed in these catalogues The I

Sears, Roebuck and Co., like every other large Chicago mail order house, mske their catalogues the best part of their business. People should be skeptical about putting good money against catalogue allurements as practiced by mail order houses. Merchants should also begin early their campaign for holiday business, thus putting a crimp into inducements now ; offered by such business institutions as the one mentioned. In commenting upon the difference between ate attitude of Mr. Bryan and that which wouia have been taken by the republican politicians toward a panic under a Bryan administration, the Indianapolis News of Wednesday says: “We all remember how it was in 1893. Even respectab’e republican organs, and representative republican leaders, instead of trying to minimize the scare, did all they could to. exaggerate it in order that they might hold the democratic administration responsible 'for it There was a most determined effort to make political capital out of a panic that had really begun long before the inauguration of President Cleveland. No consideration of public welfare weighed with these men. To them it was a Cleveland panic, and therefore their play was to make it the worst that had ever come on the country. In this particular, at least, there has been a great change for the better. As a rule the papers have exerted themselves to the utmost to restore public confidence.”

A magazine writer enlightens us as to what "Wall street” means. He says that the term means “the system of money, exchange, credit, finance, promotion, enterprise, corporations, investment and speculation which center there.” He declares, furthermore, that "Wall street and the country are one and Inseparable,” and that unless both recognize the partnership as a practical working arrangement, both will "be swept by a devouring fire of panic and revolution." Most of us did not suspect that it was as bad as this. Nor do we believe it Is. The country could, In a pinch, struggle along without Wall street, but Wall street could not get along without the country. If Wall street doesn’t want a dissolution of the “partnership” it is high time that it was reforming. The country is getting mighty tired of its periodic jim-jams as well as of its tyranny and its swindling confidence games. -

Some of the metropolitan newspaper correspondents are long on “hot air,” and fictions and mighty short on facts. For instance, one energetic fellow in Muncie gave a vivid account of a meeting of Eighth district Democratic editors —which never occurred. The Democratic editors of the Eighth district are not in the habit of making candidates, but if they were, every mother’s son of them would sing the song of praises for Judge Richard Kenney Erwin for governor. He possesses the elements which newspaper men like. He is one of the people—a plain, old fashioned Jackson-Bryan Democrat identified with nothing but the sort of Democracy that make men great. He is the sort, too, that will be recognized when the Democrats assemble In state convention.

There is no question as to Bryan’s popularity in the Democratic party. No one dare challenge his supremacy. But among J the people we doubt his strengths His nomination it seems to usj[ means another defeat for iJ&e Democratic party.—Winchester Herald. J As the Herald has never in/its life beheld a Democrat that w|as strong enough with the people to the entitled to the right of public officer we move to indefinitely postpone th le ir objections of availability. j The Bluffton Banner is printed from a brand new high speeqi, two revolution Whitlock press, just installed. The new purchase is among the best country ne cvspaper presses on the market, and 1 he Banner shines forth like a daisy. \ The event marks the passing of years as a daily

’and a mighty good one, too. The | Banner Is pacing a clip that is gratifying to Its friends and they are many. The Inter-Ocean is lambasting Roosevelt for further orders. It holds him responsible for all the trouble now brewing in the country. Well that is just as sensible as it was to give him credit for the good times and good crops the people enjoyed during the past six years. He had about as much to do with the one as with the other. The Inter-Ocean claims he has upset things by fighting the men who are doing things in this country. That may be so, but while they have been doing things they have also been doing the people, and as they boosted Roosevelt into office they thought he ought to be grateful enough to stand off and let them have full swing. A great many of the rank and file of the republican party are with the Inter-Ocean in its war on the mighty Teddy and they want to see him knocked completely out of the political ring.—Columbia City Post. J. Pierpont Morgan has been down to Washington to "save the country” once more. It may not be deemed polite to say so, but it is nevertheless a fact that if the country is not saved from Mr. Morgan and his gang within the next ten years, it will not be necessary for him to go to Washington to “control the situation.” He and his trust associates will be the "whole situation.” —South Bend Times.

The Republican state platform of 1906 contained the following plank: “The great prosperity which prevails throughout the state and nation Is largely due to the continual supremacy of Republican policies and Republican administration. We firmly believe that Republican ascendancy is essential to the continued maintenance of prosperity among the people of the entire country.” Speaker Cannon comes out in a long Interview and joins the president in the statement that “confidence alone is lacking.” It must have required great efforts to have solved this complex economical question at this time so completely. We have the Dingley tariff, the gold standard, a republican administration and a million republican office holders and a panic all at oae and the same time. It is hard to beat a combination like that. —Columbia City Post. With over $200,000,000 of 4urplus, resulting from excessive taxation, the government borrows $150,000,000 more on Interest-bearing bonds and “certificates of indebtedness.” If this is not “frenzied finance,” what is it?

no hay or Sawdust. Breakfast Foods arre All Right, Says Food Ccirnmissioner. H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner,, while not admitting all that the manufacturers claim for the various breakfast foods, says there is no foundation for the jocular assertion that th»ay are adulterated with hay, sawdi/st or anything else. “The lover foods may let his appe/ute run riot without fear of harm," said Mr. Barnard. “There is no truth in the frequently repeated statements that certain brands contain arsenic or morphine. Arsenic would be of no value as a food and morphine is too expensive to be used by even the most unscrupulous manufacturer in his desire to breed a breakfast food habit in bis customers. B. W. Sholty made a business trip to Geneva this afternoon. o ■ NOTICE. All person assessed in either of the following ditches: August Heusellman H. L. Smith, Frank C. Wechter oi Ghas. Kurber will take notice that ten per cent of your assessment is due and payable at the county survey or’s office on the 21st day of Decern ber, 1907, and one installment ofter per cent on each month thereafter un til said assessments are paid. L. L. BAUMGARTNER, Idlw Supt. of Construction.

let IN SEPTEMBER Julius Haugk is a Hustler in the Contracting Business. Tuesday night when the twon clock struck six the last brick that was to be used in the Seventh street improvement was laid by a big dark complexioned man and this brick spelled the word finis in so far as that street was concerned, and the property owners who so recently petitioned for the same and urged that it be constructed this fall are more than satisfied with the result. The contract for this street was let to Julius Haugk about the 17th day of September, and shortly after he started in making his excavation and putting in his foundation and curb,which was completed thirty days ago. The cbipment of the brick and sand then held him back and on last Friday at noon the brick arrived and were placed along the line of improvement and the eighteen colored men from Marion started in on laying the same and last evening just three and onehalf days the last brick was laid and the street finished. Mr. Haugk rolled the same today and the street is nowready for acceptance. The contract signed by Mr. Haugk called that the street be completed by December first and he has complied with that contract in every respect and Seventh street is now one of the best in Decatur. The feat of laying four squares of brick in three days and a half was no small one and Mr. Haugk is to be congratulated upon his success.

IT IS OF INTEREST State Does Not Charter Corporation to Commit Crime —Must Act. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 27. —The French Lick Springs hotel and the West Baden hotel cases were reversed by the appellate court yesterday. Judge Roby wrote the opinion. The appeals were from judgments by which Judge Buskirk held the complaints of Willard H. Voyles, prosecuting attorney, asking a forfeiture of the hotel companies charters to be insufficient Judge Roby said: “The averments of the pleading show that as a part of its enterprise appellee constructed or acquired a large building called a casino, to which men, women and children had free access, and in which gambling in many forms was systematically conducted. “It is averred both generally and specifically, that the general law was habitually and perniciously violated; that the resort has been widely advertised through the United States as a place where gamblers may he lavishly entertained and engage in their unlawful practices without fear of molesfation and that the local authorities are unable to enforce the law. “The state does not charter corporations to commit crimes. The institution of a proceeding on the relation of the prosecuting attorney puts it within the power of the state to enforce the duty owing to it by its creature and to forfeit franchises for acts which in many instances are not punishable by Indictment. “The prosecuting attorney was a proper relator, and the judgment is therefore reversed and the case is remanded with instructions to overrule the demurrer and for further proceedings not Inconsistent herewith.”

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w e Sell Ytnol on the positive guaram S (li that if it does not give J faction we will return M ) entire amount of moneyed us for it. We mean thyl bo and ask all those who >.■ sick and need strength to tjl it with this understanding# *2 SMITH. YAGER & FAIK If f Judge Roby, it will attended the banquet given hereTH is urday evening for Judges Erwin*|f g« Merryman. | 1 EVERY ONE ~lNvn* 1 Also Special Services at tht|B| St. Marys and German I Reformed Churches. The usual Thanksgiving day eenfel will be held at the Prebyt'-rian this morning at 10:30 o clodH when union services will be par, cipated in by the Methodist, Preb; J, y terian. Evangelical, United Breths, Baptist and Christian congregation H The program as it will be render* H will be as follows: wa Doxology. AH Invocation and Lord’s Prayer. roi Hymn “Seed time and harvest* Scripture reading. .Rev. E E. Bergrm I • on Hymn ‘‘Thankßgiviag’ ■ Prayer.. Rev. C. B. Wilcox ai Anthem. m Sermon Rev. L. A. Staagfe Ijfl Hymn... .God Crowns the year with F Goodness. Thanksgiving Offering. Hymn “America" a1 Benediction. f , — li At the St Marys Catholic church the # usual appropriate services will be cob- H conducted at the usual hours. v Special services in German for the H day will be held at the German Re- I formed church at tbe usual hour. , THE ROYAL STAMP OF SUCCESS U Has Been Placed Upon “The Royal H Slave.” Clarence Bennett’s attractions are I so well and favorably known in De- I catur that it i 3 with great pleasure Mr. Bosse manager of the Bosse opera house, announces the coming of one of their standard successes “A Royal I Slave,” w-hich is booked to play here I Tuesday, December 3. The author, who wrote that other phenomenal success, “The Holy City,” which we hope to see this season, has cho en for the action of the piece the mo ; t romantic period in the history of Mexico, the brief reign of the unfortunate Maxi-Ilian. The character of AS* the descendant of the Montezumss, the last of a race now extinct— is a poetic creation which appeals to our Imagination.. The other characters of a long and interesting cast are equally strongly drawn. The spot ialties introduced by the comedy cement are strictly in keeping with t e atmosphere of the surroundings an the bit of sword-play in the scene, second act, is as pretty aj exhibition as one could witness Re member the date. Seats on sale a the Holthouse drug company. TRY DEMOCRAT WANT ADS.