Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1908 — Page 4

THE. DEMOCRAT ■ VE*YTSUMI»ATMOSNIN6 BY (» G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHED AjOOPaR TBAK IN ADTABCS. Sa«*rs4 at »a« po*«u»ce at I«Bcaiut.’u<Jiaaa as save* a-cla>« via!! matter sag: ~-- -- OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. ■ .■- ■■ aw u ■ ip I-" =L= NO FLIES ON FLEMING The democrats of Allen and Adams counties made an important and a wise choice yesterday in nominating the Hon, Stephen B, Fleming, to represent the district as joint senator. He will add strength to the local tickets in both counties and prove a most aggressive and active campaigner, a vote getter and a triumphant leader. He will do these things because he will command the respect and adherence of the discriminating and patriotic voters of the two counties. They have confidence in his in- , tegrity and they know he does not , violate confidence. They recognize his intelligence and his qualities of leadership, and know that he will reflect credit upon them by an honest and able fulfillment of every duty. Mr. Fleming is a man of progress. More than any man of his age in Indiana he is typical of the aggressive, enterprising spirit of the times. Accustomed to dealing with large affairs and to viewing men and events broadly; fitted by nature and education for coping with great questions, and possessing a keen insight into and a comprehension of the fundamental things underlying movements of great import, he is a man of the stature so much needed in the lawmaking bodies of the states. His business connections have always been large and conducted on a broad scale. From his boyhood, almost his ability has been recognized by the builders of great enterprises and his executive ability has given him rank with the masterminds of modern business life. Mr. Fleming's political creed is democratic and it is firmly grounded in faith in and sympathy with the people. The son of one of the greatest popular leader's Indiana ever knew, the faith is his by inheritance, but it is strengthened by personal experience and contact with men and affairs. He believes in the people, in the justice of the rule of popular majorities. He believes the people are honest, that they can be trusted, and that they are usually sound in their views. In private life Mr. Fleming has been faultless, in public life scrupulously exacting of the fullest measure of justice to the common people. He has no apology to make in going before the people. He has nothing to hide in his career. His opinions are known to the world, for frankness and candor are

among the predominating traits of his character. What he appears he is; what he believes he proclaims, and there is no tendency to hypocrisy in his nature. He has been successful from a material standpoint, and his accumulation of this world's goods was the fruit of years of toil that would have prostrated most men; of energy such as few are capable of, and of extraordinary talents such as few are gifted with. There is no stain on his life, nor taint on his estate. — Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. THEIR PLATFORM It will take the people of Indiana a long time to find out just what the temperance plank in the; Republican platform means. It starts out by telling of the passage of the Nicholson law, and the subsequent adoption of the Moore amendment to It, and the sustaining of both by the supreme court. After reciting these well-known historical matters, the Republican temperance plank gets down to its local option provision, which, is that, as supplementary to the existing law "we favor the enactment of a county local option law extending to the people of the respective counties of the state, the right to exclude the saloon herefrom by vote at a special election.” Just note the language—"the right to exclude the saloon.” Nothing is said about the right to vote by counties or otherwise on the question as '

to whether the sale of liquor shall be licenced. or whether other places of sale besides saloons shall be permit- ’ ted. Only the "saloon" apparently is ■to be excluded or retained by vote. What does it mean? What is the purpose of making the declaration so evasive and indefinite? There were five men on the resolutions committee- it is said, who were opposed to any local option plank at all. As there was no minority report it looks as if these men were satisfied with the wording of the plank as adopted by the convention. “Uncle Nate” speaks of his deal at Andersen, as a battle. Oh but Uncle Nate is a sly dog. Uncle Nate certainly wears goggles, Advance sheets of his blue book says “I see no factional venom, and believe I will head a united party in the district.” The subsidy election on May 14, should carry overwhelmingly. The amounts involved are five thousand dollars for Washington township and Decatur ,and three thousand dollars for Monroe township and Berne. The main question that bothers the leaders of the Republican party is to know how to get around the unusual difficulty of having two Republican candidates for congress from the same town, since John A. M. bolted. —Bryant Independent.

When it is figured out to every voter in Washington and Monroe townships the insignificant tax required to pay the E’ort Wayne and Springfield right-of-way subsidy, there should be few who will fail to advocate it by their vote. Will Governor Hanly take the stump against Goodwine, the Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, as he threatened to do if Goodwine were nominated? Will he compel the Republican state central committee to remove Goodwine from the ticket? If not, what will he do? Palm Sunday at the St- Marws church last Sunday was all that Rev. Geo. Angermaier told our readers it would be. The ceremonies were solemn and impressive, and the congregation was one of the largest that has ever worshiped in that historic church. The day is one that will long be cherished in the minds of those composing this mighty parish, Steve Fleming has called the Indianapolis News and it is up to that sheet now to either keep mum or accept the challenge of Mr.” Fleming. The issue has been squarely drawn and the veracity of the News is either to be impeached or sustained. It is up to the News to move.—Columbia City Post.

Anderson is in the throes of a lot sale, nearly six hundred being sold Tuesday just half the number they proposed to sell their patriotic citizens at three hundred dollars per lot. The money is to bring new factories to Anderson and to boom what is already one of the best and most prosperous cities in the Hoosier state. Uncle Nate, the reputed twelve thousand dollar Cromer congressional candidate is said to be working on another blue book. Uncle Nate is long on blue books, and they usually say some mighty clever things about Uncle Nate, who also is the editor in chief of this famous blue book. Uncle Nate is a sly dog, but not very fleet of foot. Sixth street residents propose to get up high and dry, and were so persistent about it that the city council gave them a brick street. Thus ♦ again is it demonstrated that our people are progressively progressive. The council had about decided to taboo street improvements for this year, but our enterprising people will not permit them. "Uncle Nate” has again broken the ice and in an interview gives the public another patriotic discourse about I his superiority and greatness. He ■ says "I will endeavor to show not

• only the Republicans but the DemoIcrats and others in the district as well that they have made no mistake in selecting me." Show us, Uncle Nate, show us. We are from Missouri, and blue booked pedigrees don't go. The Republican state platform indorses the insurance bill passed by the last legislatute over Governor Hanly g veto. In his veto message the governor declared that the passage of such a bill was party “perfidy," and now the perfidy is approved by the state convention. The same convention also approves Hanly’s administration. Now, ho* much sincerity is there in the whole business? n ■ "Uncle Nate" is certainly the limit. Listen to the song of the siren: “I do not believe I can ever make the Republicans of this great district fully understand how much I appreciate receiving the nomination, following so intense and interesting a battle as was waged at Anderson.” “Uncle Nate" is right. The absolue truth of his deal with Boss Cromer is the only means with which the public will ever understand his appreciation. Governor Hanly. after he had found that his bullyjng methods bad further widened the breach between himself and a large element in his party, attempted in his speech before the Republican state convention to restore himself to some degree of favor by coarse abuse of Democrats and by vindictive perversions of facts, but ue failed to make the impression that he intended. Instead, he lowered himself even further in the estimation of

every fair-minded man who heard him. Now that the Hon. Jim Bingham has been re-nominated for attorney general. why can’t he take a day off from his political labors and look after the trusts that are bleeding the people of the state? A year ago he issued a fierce pronunciamento against grafting constanbles and some months since he helped to convict a lonesome whitecapper—but not a word about the trusts. Perhaps, like the Republican tariff revisers, he thinks it is “folly" to prosecute a trust on the eve of a presidential election.” Quite a lively interest is being manifested in the coming right-of-way subsidy election for the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway. The voting of this small sum is but an evidence of good will ,and means the extension of the lines to Berne during this year. This in itself should encourage every legal voter to earnest work in behalf of this road extension. Let’s get busy and in our oid time form, make the election so near unanimous that it will hardly be worth while to count the opposing vote. Let’s again demonstrate our true spirit of progress.

The amount of the right-of-way subsidy to be voted the Fort Wayne & Springfield railway is $5,000 for Washington township and Decatur, and $3,000 for Monroe township and Berne. This is the exact amount. Do not let any one talk you into thinking it is one cent more or less. The levy to raise this amount will be about onesixth of one per cent and amounts in dollars and cents to about $1.66 on each SI,OOO valuation. Surely there is no one so poor that will fail to vote for this improvement, and thus aid one of the best improvements ever undertaken. The Fort Wayne & Springfield railway extension is an important issue and should be approved by every progressive voter in 'Washington and Monroe township. The building of this line will increase farm values along the line, it will make travel accessible to every one and means the making and saving of many dollars to every individual in the two townships. The election fox the right-of-way subsidy is May 14, and it deserves to carry by unanimous consent. Talk St up. Preach the gospel of progress and let’s encourage this extension in this small substantial way. So far just two newspapers in the whole Eighth district are doing anything in the interest or "Uncle” Nate's candidacy and they are the Pendleton and Redkey papers. When Cromer

was a candidate he openly stated that these papers were paid line rates for everything said about him and that he furnished the copy. Hawkins, evidently, has taken up Cromer's cue and is sending out notices to these two papers and the bill is. of course, honored when it comes in. Hawkins realizes from the start that his advertising will come high, and has begun on the cheaper grade to start out with.—Bluff-’ ton Banner. May 14 is’lheday designated for the casting of your little ballot for farther progress. It is the day when the voters of Washington and Monroe townships will decide to help in the extension of the Fort Wayne & Springfield lines south. This extension is important to every one along the line, and still mo’-e important to every business man and property owner in be.: Decatur and Berne. The amount of assistance asked is trivial when the benefits are compared therewi'h. They ask but for their right-of-way. and are entitled to it by every law of business right. Get ready to boost this railway project.

When Benjamin F. Shively first entered upon his congressional career, to fill the unexpired term of the late Major Wm. H. Calkins, he was by law entitled to draw the salary of that office from the date on which Calkins’ resignation took effect, Oct. 20. But he declined to do this, though he never got any thanks or even public recognition for this action. He drew the salary from the date of his election in November. 1884. Major Calkins made it known that he would resign his seat in congress shortly after he was nominated for governor, but the resignation did not take effect until Oct. 20.—South Bend Times. The local option elections in Illinois with the township and ward as the unit, won greater victories for temperance than did the local option elections in Michigan, with the county as a unit. The latter voted on Monday and the former on Tuesday and the two states produce a result that makes certain that the Democrats of Indiana have a better temperance platik in their platform than have the Republicans. Over one thousand saloons have been put out of commission in Illinois, while In the whole state of Michigan but nine counties were made dry, and they were counties comparatively dry before their- local option election. While the address of Governor John Johnson at the Minnesota ceremonies on Shiloh battlefield seems clearly to have been designed to serve at least in part some obvious purposes, that fact can in no wise discount the sound, thoughtful doctrines of government that he took occasion to announce, it was a dignified and impressive discussion of certain principles of government that thinking men in every part of the land, in every pursuit and in every political party of sane tents are more and more coming to believe are being widely and dangerously departed from. Governor Johnson's address will make a very wholesome and, so far as it relates to himself, helpful impression on the country.—Fort Wayne Sentinel,

It will be remembered that in March 1907, the Democrats in the senate killed the ship subsidy bill, which had passed the house by Republican votes. Senator Carmack, of Tennessee led in the filibuster which resulted in the defeat of this iniquitous measure. Now the Republican senate has passed a ship subsidy bill and the measure goes to the house. It seems that the Republican party has ample time to pass measures demanded by the financiers, such as the Aldrich bill, and measures demanded i>y the subsidy grabbers, such as a shipping bill. But when the people demand tariff revision and other important reforms they are expected to be satisfied with the assurance that if they will again trust the Republican party with power they may have such tariff revision as the "friends of the tariff” think the people are entitled to —after the presidential election. —Commoner. It costs a mighty little sum to pay

your assessment to the Fort Wayne t Springfield rightof-way subsidy. The benefits to be derived cannot be sung in a few words. The line traversed a thickly populated country, and it means lots of travel and lots of business for every or,e - Tbe fUb ' sidy election is May ,14. Get ready to stamp the emblem of progress and ,! prosperity. A comparison of the temperance planks in the Democratic and Repubi iican platforms will satisfy every reasonable person that the Democratic declaration is the fairest, squarest, clearest and most honest statement of the two. No Democrat, certainly, can find fault with the position taken by his party. It is definite, straightforward and fully abreast of the times. The Republican declaration is indefin--1 ite and evasive in at least one essen- ; tial respect, and leaves a doubt as to what it really means.

The candidates who opposed Watson, the machine candidate—Charles W. Miller, W. L. Taylor and Hugh Th. Miller —went from one end of the state to the other telling the people that he could not be elected if nominated. They declared that he was a corporation candidate, that he had the support of the breweries and saloons, that he was discredited in his own district, and said many other things about him to prove that it was folly to put him at the head of the ticket. Organized labor opposed him from the beginning and will to the end. Uut the machine a-nd the “in; -’eet-’ had promised him the nomination and they delivered it according to program. The movements that are now on foot for Governor Johnson and Judge Gray, both of whom are admirable men, indicate that after all there may be a contest for the Democratic nomination. There is nothing as yet to show that the contest will be specially severe. For as things now stand the chances are that Mr. Bryan will be nominated without great difficulty. But with these other candidates in the field, the delegates who go to Denver will have a ehar.ee to consider somewhat the question of availability, that the convention will after all be a deliberative body, a great council of the party meeting to consider with care all questions which are connected in any way with the welfare of the party. If. after having an alternative, it still decides that it wants Mr. Bryan and concludes that he is the strongest man that could be nominated its action, taken thus deliberately, will tend to strengthen Mr. Bryan’s can didacy.—lndianapolis News. LEWAL ADVERTISING. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE OF REAL ESTATE. Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned William M. Meyer, administrator ci the estate of Henry L. Buuck, deceased, by virtue of an order of the Adams Circuit Court, of Adams county, in the State of Indiana will offer for sale at private sale, for not less than the appraisement, and including the widow’s interest therein, on

Friday, toe 15th day of May, 1908, between the hours of 10 o'clock, a. m.. and 3 o’clock p. m. of said day, at the law office of J. C. Sutton over the Old Adams County hank, in the City of Decatur. Adams county, Indiana, the fee simple of the following described real estate, situated in Adams county, in the State of Indiana to-wit: Inlot number five and the north half of inlot number four in the original* plat of Preble. Said sale to be continued from day to day without further notice, if said real estate is not sold on said day. Terms—One-third purchase money, cash on day of sale; one-third in nine months and one-third in eighteen months. Deferred payments to bear six per cent interest from day of sale and to be evidenced by notes of the purchaser waiving relief from valuation or appraisement laws, and to be secured by freehold surety and mortgage on the real estate sold Or the purchaser may pay all cash on day of_sale. Said real estate to be sold

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in all things subject to the approx of said Adams Circuit Court. WILLIAM M MEYER, Admr. of estate of Henry L. Bum J. C. Sutton. Atty. PETITION FOR STONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adams, s Before the Board of Commlssione of the county of Adams. May Ten 1908. We. the undersigned freeholders ai voters in Wabash township. Adan county. Indiana, petition your hon< able Board to build and construct free macadamized stone road in sa Wabash township over and on tl public highway, situated on the foil® Ing route, to wit: Commencing for (40) rods west of the center of sectii twenty (20) township twenty-five (2 north range fourteen (14) east Adams county, Indiana at the stat road known as the Joel Hirschy vt cadamized Road, thence to run ea over and upon the public highwi five-eights (%) of a mile more or le and there to intersect with the G neva, Ceylon and Wabash townsh macadamized road. The said improv meet prayed for to be supplemental to and a continuation of said Jo Hirschy macadamized road. Adclph Schug. Josephus Martin, .In A Anderson. W. C. Glendening. a. Shoemaker, Josie Johns. A. J. Juda Eli Krause, James Christman, D. ; Teeple. Jacob Pitts. E. S. Calliha J. S. Wheeler. Aionzo Burdg. Naths Shepherd Aaron Bricker, John \ Kelly Sr., W. D. Cross, James H. K< ley, John M. Wells, F. M. Sullivan, N Viley. Thomas Dunn. Jerry Swan H. T. Kimball. W. B. Hale. Wm. J wood. John W. Pitts, J. H. Hardiso P. F. Burke,F. J. McWhinney.J. H. Ru yon. Fred Am, John Brand, Dav Kauffman,W. M. Striker, David Stuck W. J. Heeter, George Jahn. Euget Kneuss. Emil Pluess, Samuel Egly. E Stahly, C. Burghalter, John H. Asp Clem Michael. R. R. Bradford, F. I Laßue, Daniel Barley. Ed Larue. Phil mon Cross. John Brown. D. D. Ha obdker, Joseph Chrisman. John Felty, A J. Miller. J. T. Burley. G. 1 Fink, Homer Charleston. J. F. Mes berger, P. A. Macklin. Albert Smit Tho. E. Mann. John Meril, Ardon Burley, W. L. Thornhill, John W. For This petition will be presented the Board of Commissioners on Monday, May 4, 1908,

at which time the taxpayers of Wabas township may appear and make sue objections as the law may provide so 15- C. D. LEWTON, Audita APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LI CENSE. To the citizens of the Incorporate town of Geneva, Adams county, Ii diana: Notice is hereby given that the u derslgned. John W. Pitts, a male il habitant of Wabash township. Adam county, Indiana, foi a period of moi than three months for a period of mor ing over the age of twenty-one yeai and not in the habit of becoming ii toxicated, will make application to th board of commissioners of said count •at the.ir regular.-May season in 19C for a license to sell spiritous, vinou and malt liquors In less quantity than a quart at a time, to be dran on the premises where sold Tin my place of business is in a room o the following described real estati to-wit: Commencing 20 feet east of th northwest corner of in-lot No. 11 in said town, thence running eai along Line street 22 feet, thence sout parallel with the line of said in-lot 11 feet; thence west 22 feet, thenc north 132 feet to the place of begii ning. being 22 feet out of said in-lo The room where said liquors are to b drank and sold is a two-story brie building, situated on in-lot No. 11 fronting on Line street. Geneva. Adan county, Indiana. Building is 80 fei long and 20 feet wide. I desire to ca; ry on my business in the lower frot room, which is sixty feet leng to part tion and twenty feet wide from part lion, twenty feet long and twenty fee wide used for store room. Notice is further given that the ui derslgned will ask the said board ( commissioners at the sajne time alsi — c> — NOTICE OF ROAD PETITION. Notice is hereby given that a pet tion has been filed and the same wi! be presented to the Board of Commii sions of Adams county, Indiana, an will be heard by the said board of con missioners and action taken thereon a their next regular May term. 1908, c said board, the said petition being fa the location and establishment of public highway on or as near to th following route as practicable, to-wit Commencing at the southwest col ner of section seven. Washington towi ship, in said county of Adams, thenc east on the section line between sa “tion seven and eighteen to the soutl east corner of section seven, and the! to terminate, passing by through an upon the lahds of Sarah J. Andrew; Adam Pease, Charles Nyffler, Joh Langerich, Bernard Meyers. Wilso Meyers whose Christian name is m known and Arthur Fisher. C. D. LEWTON, 16- Auditor of Adams Count' — q. — Mrs. David Rice and daughter, Si loma, of Monmouth, were the guest of Millard Rice and family yesterda] They returned to their home last e ening.