Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1908 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT KVEBYTBUWEAYMOB.NIKG BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. PK TEAS IS ADTASCK fcntsrad M th* peuoAce M Decstur.lnAlMS m weaa 4-eltH mat! matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. mmunsira.ij —■' ■ "» ONE SIDED The Chicago Tribune has been obtaining a vote of Democratic party workers in different sections of the country in order to ascertain their preferences as to the presidential nomination. As the Tribune has no reason for showing partiality for Bryan, the result of its vote can be accepted as some indication of the prevailing sentiment. The canvass in Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland. Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia shows Bryan with 371 first choice votes; John Johnson, 162; George Gray, 75; W. L Douglass. 14; Joseph Folk. 10: Judson Harmon, 8. These are the states in which it is supposed that the greatest opposition exists. Massachusetts has since instructed for Bryan. In the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, the vote shows 1.363 for Bryan for president and 173 for John Johnson; Gray gets 59, Culbertson, of Texas, 58; Daniel of Virginia, 26, and others in small lots. The vote in the north central states of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansis, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska. Ohio, Oklahoma. South Kakota and Wisconsin is almost wholly for Bryan. The summary of ballots for first choice gives Bryan 1,200, J. A. Johnson 160, Folk 26, Harmon 18 and Gray 7. The summary of second choice gives J. A. Johnson 440, Bryan 167, Folk 117, Tom Johnson 79, Harmon 47, Douglas 31 and Gray 26. Ohio and Massachusetts Democrats have instructed their national delegates to vote for Bryan’s nomination. The president is busy giving congress and the senate to understand that he is the head, shoulders and front of the United States army. The fight between the president and congress is the real thing. The Portland Dialy Sun looks like a daisy, and has all the appearances of a bright and healthy youngster with a promising future. The Sun is giving the news like an old timer and with the proper nerve will succeed. The publisher of a Chicago newspaper went before the house investigating committee at Washington and

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testified that the paper trust was costing him 1100,000 a year; or, in other words, he was paying tribute to the trust to that extent. But Uncle Joe never batted an eye or turned a hair. —Columbia City Post. Our ambassador to Great Britain has announced the engagement of his daughter to a “brother of the Earl of Dudley.’’ The future son-in-law is said to be “a favorite with King Edward,” to whom he is “an equerry-in-waitfag.” It is further said that he is a “wellknown racing man and an enthusiastic sportsman.” And so it goes. The Kentucky Republicans have instructed their national delegates to vote for Taft. And it was Fairbanks who carried that state for them, too. according to the claims of his friends. Besides, it was his state that had given refuge to fugitive Taylor. If this isn't base ingratitude, what is it? As the case stands Mr. Fairbanks has only the votes from Indiana —and he is not so dead sure about some of them. To Union City falls the honor of entertaining the convention that will nominate the next congressman from the Eighth district. They have promised to do honor to the occasion and to that end will make it the greatest event that ever happened in Randolph county. Besides Congressman Adair, the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall and State Chairman Jackson will grace the occasion with their presence. Every county in the Eighth district should send large delegations to Union City on Wednesday, June 10. It is about time that some one should give the weather man a good calling. He seems to think* that because some counties have voted to get on the water wagon that the people are short of wa’er. It his nibs really wants to do the right thing he will vote it dry long enough at least to let the farmers plant their corn and the good aoueewi’e have an opportunity to dust the carpet—Muncie Press.

Now comes the Anderson Bulletin, one of the greatest of the many great Indiana newspapers, with a thirtytwo page industrial edition giving in detail the beauties of Greater Anderson, and its half million dollar factory fund This achievement of their thrifty and enterprising people is really wonderful and means the establishment of ten large factories and twenty thousand population. While always good, this particular edition of the Bulletin was a gem of newspaper excellence and could not be excelled by any other newspaper in the state. “Uncle Nate’’ brought his august presence to Decatur and enjoyed a few back room private consultations with a view of seeking a remedy that would give him physical strength and endurance to withstand that awful slaughter scheduled for November. He is working the political game over the same system that one George W. Cromer worked it, and that leads many to inquire which of the two will draw the salary providing lightning strikes “Uncle Nate” and George W. Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, is getting himself in readiness for a vigorous campaign. He met with the state committee on Tuesday and mapped out a program that provides for the part he is to have in the political contest to be fought out in this state during the summer and fall. The fame of Mr. Marshall as a forceful, persuasive speaker is widespread and will insure him large audiences wherever he may go. His pleasing personality will attract to him a goodly number of men who ordinarily take but little interest in political discussion.—South Bend Times. In spite of the fact that the government faces a deficit of at least S6O.- ■ 000,000 this year, congress proposes ■ to spend $150,000,000 more than last i year. It is probable that its increas»ed expenditures will be even larger than the sum stated, as it is proposed to appropriate a total of $4,800,000 as subsidies to ships (mostly foreign)

which carry American mail. The postoffice department has been making an apparent profit of $3,600,000 on the ocean mail service. But such a congress as we have now cannot allow such a thing to stand. So, therefore, the whole profit with $1,200,000 added is to be set aside as a gift from a generous and tax-burdened people to ship owners (mostly foreign). Ever since Tom L. Johnson has been a factor in Ohio politics there has been strife and contention in the Democratic camp. He is pre-eminent-ly a factionist, a faddist, a demagogue and a 'disturber. Never in accord with the fundamental principles of Democracy as expounded by Jefferson, Jackson, Douglas, Tilden, Thurman and Groesbeck, he has embraced every fad that had in it the elements of temporary popularity. Having an abundance of means, he has been able to rally around his standard all the fag ends of mixed society and unstable political affiliation. Without millions he would long ago have sunk into political obscurity.—South Bend Times. William O. Barnard, Republican nominee for congress, was a visitor at the Banner office on Monday, Mr. Barnard thinks so much of the Banner that he left a dollar in our possession.—Knightstown Banner. Whar! a whole dollar? ’Well, that is not so bad after all. It’s at least a hundred per cent more liberal than the present member of congress, Hon. James Eli Watson, ever was toward the writer while he was editor of the Republican organ in this city. Why, the distinguished “Jeems” was one of the most faithful subscribers we ever had on the list to the Daily Republican. He took it from the time he was first a candidate for congress in the old Fourth district until the 21st day of September, 1905, twelve years or more, and during all that time to our knowledge he never missed a paper or paid a cent. —Shelbyville Morning News.

Uncle Nate is grasping at the last straw. Realizing that his record as compared with that of Mr. Adair is as a greasy doughtnut to a snowflake biscuit, he has, at his own expense, employed Bert Patterson, an ex-clerk of Muncie, to go over the books of the Jay county clerk’s office during the term of Mr. Adair from 1890 to 1894. As Mr. Patterson is an expert his services, no doubt, comes high, but Uncle Nate knows full well that if anything can be dug up against Mr. Adair it will be in the clerk’s office books. Probably no official ever went out of office but that some little irregularity could not be traced against him, as the laws governing officials are anything but plain, and Uncle Nate is after the last straw. Adair’s friends are not afraid of Uncle Nate’s expert, but me, oh my, suppose some officious individual should take a crack at Unde Nate’s past record. Or even his very near record. It would stink. —Bluffton Banner. The Philadelphia Record says of the paper trust and the editors: A large proportion of this association of newspaper publishers are Republicans who have hitherto sustained the tariff system with all its iniquities, of which the schedule of paper duties is, after all, among the least. When it comes to a thorough revision of the tariff such as the country demands, these Republican newspaper publishers should have a care lest they in turn make themselves liable to the same charge of “bad faith” which they have brought with so much justice against such distinguished representatives as Cannon, Payne and Daltzell. They are fully aware that the paper trust does not materially differ in its methods from the other combinations of the same kind that are nourished by the tariff. If the paper duties artificially maintain prices, do not the steel duties, the tinplate duties, the sugar duties, and the lumber duties accomplish the same iniquitous end by obstructing importations, and despoil the American people in a much greater degree? The Indianapolis Sun, which, under its present management, is independent. in politics, says this about Mr.

Bryan: “There is one man in the Democratic party who is in full accord with and who was the original advocate of many of the most popular things that Mr. Roosevelt has undertaken He is the choice of the masses of ail parties as well as the Democratic party, and for this reason William Jennings Bryan is going to be nominated at Denver in July and elected at the polls in November by a repetition of the popular vote which was accorded Mr. Roosevelt.” Not only the Indianapolis Sun, but most of the other really independent newspapers express the same opinion. Such hold as Mr. Roosevelt has had upon the people of the country has come from his espousal of certain policies put forth by the Democratic party and Mr. Bryan long before Roosevelt became president. To the extent that he has steadfastly adhered to such policies the president has been approved by the people. Mr. Bryan stands for all of the great reforms which the people are determined to bring about. He is supported by his own party and will receive the votes of hundreds of thousands of persons from other parties. He is, of all the men in the United States, the one who can be absolutely trusted by the people to do the things they want done and in the way they want them. The Democratic idea that the bank deposits of the private citizen are just as much entitled to be guaranteed as are the deposits of the government is approved everywhere throughout the country. It is very evident that the Republican leaders are becoming alarmed for their party because of thei.- own opposition to, and the people’s support of, the Rosevelt policies. They perceive that if Taft is not nom-’iiat-ed, Roosevelt will be, and thev ie?ognize that the spirit of independent voting might easily elect Roosevelt and give him a Democ-at’c congiess to support his reforms. —South Bend Times.

The incompetency of the present congress to deal with the financial situation hae been plainly demont etrated. Three distinct currency bills have been introduced, viz, the Aldrich, Fowler and Vreeland bills, and each of them has caused violent opposition. With all of their boasted “genius for finance,” both hign and low (and mixed), the leaders have shown their miserable incapacity. They have not been able to frame a measure that any considerable number of persons are willing to accept. Republican leaders who hav-j net “been for” Taft and want to be sure of a ride in the band wagon are Seeking to frame up a harmony for the Chicago convention whereby events unpleasant will not transpire. In other words, it is proposed to hand the heavyweight candidate something nice without making him dance for it, The reason given out is that there exists a fear of a Roosevelt stampede in the convention which would greatly endanger the republican chances. Wise, far-seeing, foxy leaders. No trouble at all to take your medicine if you know how-. —-Fort Wayne Sentinel. IN SUM OF SIO,OOO The Owners and Purpose Will Do a General Supply Business Articles of incorporation were filed at the office of County Recorder Steele Tuesday, for the Geneva Supply Co., which was organized April 29th, those E. Hamil and 1 Vernon Pontius, all of Geneva, w-here the main offices will be located. The articles provide that after the first year the board of directors shall consist bf five members. The company states their purpose to be to deal in new and second hand oil well supplies, own real estate and do a general merchandise business. The incorporators are all well known in the vicinity of Geneva and the concern will without doubt enjoy a thriving patron«sg|e. The articles do not state the list of officers.

died last night The Deceased Had Passed Her Seventy-Second Mile Stone—Funeral Tomorrow In the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Fon *ner, of Root township, which occurred Tuesday night at six o'clock, another of Adams countys estimable residents has been called to the great beyond This aged lady, who was the surviving 'widow of Jacob Fonner. was taken ill | last fall from stomach trouble, which j ! eventually developed into a cancer-j Lus growth, causing her much pain ' during the closing chapter of her life. However painful was the ailment, the aged lady withstood it gravely and net until forced to, responsive to the infirmities of old age in connection with the dread disease, did she take to ! her bed. The last few weeks of her life were strenuous ones. Intense pain was suffered constantly and death seemed a relief even in the demise of such a noble woman. The deceased lived a long and useful life. She was born in Carroll county, Ohio, moving with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Auten to this county, when but a mere girl. On May 21, 1861, she was united in marriage to Jacob Fonner, to which union were born three children, Martha J. and W. A. Fonner of Adams county, and J. 8., of Indianapolis. The deceased had lived tc be seventy-two years of age. The funeral services will be held from the Concord church Thursday afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. Poot, of Hoagland, officiating. A multitude of sorrowing friends survive to mourn the loss of this most estimable woman. o IMPORTANT QUESTION Os Dividing Eighth Grade Was Discussed—Project is Favored

The members of the school board and the high school faculty held a meeting at the central school building Tuesday for the purpose of discussing the nil important question of the divston of the eighth grade. Several ideas have been p csented in regard to the diviu .i. j.t .he , .‘sen' time the seventy-four pupils who constitute the eighth grade are divided into two rooms. The high school teachers have teaching and reciting periods in these rooms as follows: C. Hocker, arithmetic; Baumgartner, history and geography; Frazee, physiology; Jonas Trltch.writing and spelling and Miss Johnson, grammar. The idea of securing permanent teachers for each of the rooms has beer advaned and met with favor while othv. s suggest that the eighth grade be divided into two classes, A and B, the B class to have a permanent instructor and the A class be taught as heretofore. Either of these propositions are feasible and from appearances would bring desired results. The eighth grade is one of the most if not the most important grades in the schools and the fact that of seventyfour pupils, not more than thirty-five will pass the county diploma examination is a perplexing feature that demands some sort of revision. While jthe high school teachers are of the best and any one of them would make splendid eighth grade teachers, their time is divided in away that they cannot pay the attention to the eighth grade that it demands, hence the school board and faculty are in league in the effort to solve the eighth grade problem. It is conceded that pupils when doing eighth grade work are planning the foundation proper of their educational career, and too much attention cannot be devoted to them. The movement is a creditable one and the school board are deserving of no little credit for the excellent standard upon which the Decatur public schools are maintained. Another meeting will be heid In the near future and a decision will be reached in the matter at that time. —- The one-year-old child of Mr. and , Mrs. Dyonis Schmitt is reported as being somewhat better today, and hopes are entertained for its ultimate I recovery.

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