Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1908 — Page 4

Till. DEMOCRAT BVEBYTHURSBAYMOBFIBe BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. ■BBPSR TBAM IM ADYAFCS ■ntared M th* pwtoffiee M Decatur.lßdlsn* ae «eeMd-ci*M Btll matter « ? '■ , OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. THAT CLERICAL ERROR Congressional dispatches are again busy praising the courage of Con-1 gressman Adair. He deserves the ’ praise, as this time he not only de- i seated the Cromer machine, but he i held up to public ridicule that mighty and powerful congressional machine at Washington, including Uncle Joe Cannon, the wielder of more power , than the president of the United States. As a result of all this defeat ’ Elwood will get fifty thousand dollars for a postoffice building, and will get it too, after it was knocked out by a dirty trick of politics, and was perpetrated for the political purposes i of injuring Mr. Adair in his campaign ! for re-election. The perpetrators of this daring deed of high-handed political boot-legging are many times alluded to as statesmen. Think of It. The chairman of the committee on “pork” reported on the floor in open session of congress that the omission of Elwood was a “clerical error.” But this same chairman never offered to right the wrong of a “clerical error.” The voice of Jim Watson was never heard proclaiming against the injustice of this “clerical error.” In fact Jim was so fearful that he might have to show his hand as one of the rank conspirators that he resigned as a member of the committee on ways and means and left Washington before the protests got too fiery hot. But Congressman Adair cheerfully took his medicine, and when the “pork bill” reached the senate, he put up such a game and daring fight that he won the day. Elwood was restored to the list, and the eighth district is more certain than ever that it has a congressman who d. es thing-:. It takes Something a little larger than the national ta lay up the eighth district congressman. ABOUT THE UNIT Is it right or just that any town or township should have the liquor traffic thrust upon it. Is it right or just that any town or township should be made helpless and placed at the mercy of a county or city that does not care to throw off the yoke of intemperance? Should home rule, which is enlarged in the constant, claim of champions for state rights, be denied the smallest hamlet or the most spasely settled township? These are all important questions just at this time when political parties are trying to solve the liquor problem. A short time ago the little town of Lyons, Cook copnty, Illinois, was pointed out by an Indianapolis newspaper, through its staff correspondent as a horrible example, in its efforts to secure prohibition by the means of the ballot. At the election held last month Lyons was given prohibition and all of its many saloons wiped out by the voting of one day. Could this have been possible under county local option, as advocated by tjhe Republican state plat.'orm of Indiana? Far from it. The big city of Chicago would have squelched every ambition of the little town of Lyons, and the home rule that its citizens praye 1 ’ for would have been denied. But, come nearer home. Allen county, in Indiana, has at least ten dry townships. Would this be possible under county local option with the city of Fort Wayne voting in that election? Are there not many towns or townships in Marion county that would be denied prohibition tinder county local option? Does not the same conditions hold good in many counties and in many states? And, after all, is not county local option contrary to home rule? Does not city, ward and township local option meet all requirements, guarantee home rule to the most insignificant settlement and make it possible for it to have exactly what it wants and when it wants it.

[cant BE ELECTED The Republican national convention will be composed of 980 delegates. All of these have been chosen. Taft’s nomination seems to be assured. His managers claim 584 delegates under instructions and indorsements and declare that their man will have at least 100 more when a vote is taken in the convention. In view of the practical certainty of Taffs nomination, the following opinions of a distinguished Republican leader are interesting. In a i letter addressed to the New Hamp- ' shire delegates to the Republican naj tional convention, former United States Senator Chandler, of NewHampshire, says: "Seriously and to serious Republicans I call renewed attention to the dangers which will attend the nomina- | tion of Secretary Taft. They were , classified as seven in number. I was i ready to submit them to the New ; Hampshire convention of April 21, but I refrained when it became apparent that the resolution of prefernce for , Taft would be laid on the table, as it , was by a vote of 700 to 25, or there- , abouts. “The seven reasons still remain and have grown stronger as the facts appear. They are: "The hostility to Taft of the negro voters. “The misconduct of federal officeholders. "The vast expenditure of Taft money. “The local troubles in Ohio. “The abandonment of the anti-trust and anti-pooling laws. “The hostility of the labor organizations. "The combination of Taft supporters with the racetrack gamblers in New York against Governor Hughes.” THE PEOPLES’S MONEY When the exact amount of the money spent by the present congress is footed up it will be found to be enormous. In the meantime, please read what Congressman Tawney, himself a Republican, has to say about his party ag a business manager for the people. In addressing his brethren the other day he said: “With a deficit of sixty or sixty-five millions at the close of the present fiscal year, and with a prospect of a deficit of 150 millions at the end of the next fiscal year, our entire surplus in the treasury threatens to be wiped out and it is almost certain that an issue of certificates of indebtedness will be necessary to meet our obligations. With this unpleasant prospect this congress is appropriating more money than any of its predecessors, and it is time for the members of this body to stop and reflect what we are coming to.” If your business is affected with “that tired feeling,” one good dose of advertising in the Daily Democrat will (straighten out the kinks and make it as frisky as a spring lamb. The corn crop in Indiana has been planted, thanks to a wise weather man and a kind Providence. Watch for a record breaking yield in every staple crop in this section, one that will keep old hard times away from Adams county for a while at least. Memorial services were held at the Methodist church Sunday, the G. ’ A. R. and W .R. C. attending in a body. Rev. Stangle's sermon was an appropriate one and the thoughts sank de>ep into the minds of the soldiers and their friends. Decoration day next Saturday should be sincerely and devoutly observed. A member of the Republican congressional committee says that the Republican party will need from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000 to make its national campaign “if we are to have a real fight.” He added that $5,000,000 might be needed. The managers are thinking about how they are going to get the money. Adams county presents a class of 147 graduates ready to enter the business and higher educational work after their graduation June 11th. It’s the biggest class in history and their diplomas have been well earned by

each. Prof. Opliger s efforts and sucI ceSs certainly deserve the highest J commendation. Harry Thaw is still crazy according to the verdict in his habeas corpus case. Those judges down in New York seem to be wise to the fact that public did not want Thaw electrocuted, hut don’t want him free to kill some one else and then appeal to bis crazy moments for a defense. Now what will Evelyn do to keep the reporters busy? The prediction is made that at an opportune moment Senator LaFollette will deliver a speech in the Chicago convention placing in nomination Theodore Roosevelt. It is expected that the effect of this speech will be a stampede in which the anti-Taft element may join. A contingency of tljis sort may be provided for by nominating Taft by acclamation. —South Bend Times. The Muncie Evening Press, following the lead of the Star, of the same city, has gone into the hands of a receiver. This leaves George W. Cromer's Observer as the only Muncie newspaper not in bankruptcy But Cromer was more fortunate than his competitors and has and probably will be able to get enough political rake-off to tide it through the campaign. “Uncle” Nate Hawkins already has the credit of bestowing a liberal endowment to that end. — Portland Sun. Dan G. Reid and George F. McCullough are quarreling over the interests each alleges to have in the Star league. Their separate claims have been set forth in court papers and a persual of them must impress the reader with the fact that both gentlemen have sacrificed heavily for the education of the public. However, they were educating themselves at the same time. It is safe to assume that in future neither of them will go a-Maying with a newspaper plant. — Fort Wayne News. That “your sin will find you out” is again proven in the case of Mae Wood in her attack on Senator Platt. Her forged marriage certificate was filled out on a blank form that was not printed until a year after the date that she swore she had received it. So she rests under the charge of forgery and perjury. The aged senator in the money he has paid and the unpleasant notoriety he has attained may reflect also that his follies have found him out. His experience with Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Janeway must also suggest to him the elder Weller's warning—"Bevare of Vidders.” Here is a true to life wool story. Last year Ike Hendrickson sold his wool clip for $58.70. This year from the same sheep he sheared wool that sold for $17.30 —a slump in wool prices under that dear Republican protective tariff of $41.40. The sheep were in practically the same condition as last year, but Mr. Hendrickson sold his wool at 32 cents last year and 12 cents this year. Os course there were not so many pounds of wool on the sheep as last year but why not say the Republicans are responsible for this? That is the way they “soaked” the Democrats in the other panic a few years ago.—Rochester Sentinel. The Anderson Bulletin publishes the following news item, which is a pretty good illustration of the way rhe protective tariff affords protection to the American workingman against the “cheap labor of Europe:” A sister of Charles O’Crowley, of this city, living in Ireland, wanted a typewriter such as her brother here uses. It is a well known make and cannot be bought anywhere in America singly, by the dozen or by the hundred for less than SIOO each. Yet Miss O’Crowley bought a new and latest and best pattern of the same machine in Ireland for S6O. The machine she bought was made in America by 1 the same people and of the same material that the machines sold here for not less than SIOO are made of. A lesson in tariff, says Charlie. Judging from the meager outline given the public about Decatur’s prob-

“ t able new city hall and fire department the scheme looks good. Such a building is so badly needed that its erection ?s a matter of public need and utility. The city’s offices at present . are not only beneath the dignity of the best town in the universe, but they are inadequate in every way for the transaction and safe deposit of the i valuable papers and records of our cornorate citv. This is likewise true of i the means of protecting life and property by fire. This is $ serious defect and the present council could do nothing that would pay a better per cent, on the investment, than by improving the fire protection in every way possible. While all these weighty problems are being dissected, the street and sidewalk improvement should not abate. There is nothing that gives a town that dashing look of reliability , and progress as good streets and cement walks. Reckoning from the year 1852 every Democratic presidential nominee up to 1896, except Stephen A. Douglas in 1860, lived east of the Alleghany ! mountains. Franklin Pierce hailed ' from New Hampshire, James Buchanan from Eastern Pennsylvania, Geo. B. McCle’llan from New Jersey; Horatio Seymour, Horace Greeley and 1 Samuel J. Tilden from New York. General Winfield Scott Hancock, the nominee in 1880, was credited to ' Pennsylvania, but at the time of his 1 candidacy he was stationed in the ' state of New York. Grover Cleveland, nominated three times in succession, was a New Yorker. The Republicans. on the other hand, during the entire existence of »heir party, dating from 1854, chose their presidential candidates only twice from the east—Blaine in 1884 and Roosevelt in 1904. On these two occasions they k took the vice-presidential candidate from Illinois in 1884 (ohn A Loganand from Indiana in 1904 (Charles W, Fairbanks). —South Bend Times. t There is no use talking, you will 1 have to thaw out and build a house. While quite a number of new houses have been and are being built, still the daily cry is house, house, house. It has become a sort of a nightmare 5 io the real estate men, until there is ’ serious talk among them of going ’ on a strike. Every house built this ’ summer has been rented before a nail was driven in the new structure. ' Twenty-five houses could he rented f within the next ten days. Who will build the twenty-five? Any supersti- ' tious person can rent his house be--1 fore the contract is given for its erec- ' tion. If those agreeing to build a 1 house will leave their names at this 1 office, the Democrat will find a renter, S and it will not cost a cent for the trouble. Daily inquiries are being made for houses, and these dally inquiries are coming in such number that the problem is beginning to look serious. Build a house and join the agitation for homes to shelter those 3 who want to deposit their residence in 3 Decatur, i _ 1 The state platform of the Demo--3 cratic party in Indiana is clear on 5 this question and in its demands for ’ city, ward and township local option; 3 it but applies the old principle that " it has ever stood for, and that is, • home rule. 5 Back through a half century of poli- '' tical history the Democratic party has pleaded for the rights of the states against the encroachments of 8 federal centralization. Down through the cities, towns and counties of the - state it has continued the same fight ’ for home rule. For two legislatures 5 it has assailed the Metropolitan police law for the reason that it wiped out ‘ home rule. On the temperance ques--1 tion it takes the same stand. With ! city, ward and township local option 1 every -community has an opporunity to get what it wants and local rule in its (fullest meaning is assured. 5 Indiana Democracy takes no new stand when it asks for such option for it is only pleading again for home * rule that it has advocated for half a century.—Hoosier. NOT ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT At the time Thomas R. Marshall i was . nominated for governor it was ■ freely stated that he would receive a

large number of republican votes be-| cause of his high personal character., Doubtless quite a number of his re-j publican admirers have thought of supporting him, but as he has begun, his campaign by attacking President ’ Roosevelt it is pretty certain that by the time election day rolls around they will all decide that it will not pay to rebuke the president of the United States by giving aid and en-i couragement to one of his ablest detractors. —Crawfordsville Journal. In the beginning Mr. Marshall stated that he would make his fight on principles, not against men. and that is what he has been doing. He has acattked the policies of President Roosevelt, not all of them, but some of them. He has not attacked Roosevelt. Leading Republicans have attacked the president, and are still attacking him, but Mr. Marshall is not doing so. To differ in opinion with Roosevelt Is not attacking him. and Mr. Marshall tells why he differs with him. It is up to the voter to determine whether Mr. Roosevelt is right or Mr. Marshall is right. That is all there is to it. There is no abuse about it and no attack about it. Democrats could not make a campaign if they did not oppose many of the policies of the republican, party and show- up the shortcomings of that party. —Columbia City Post. It pays to be kind even to animals. A horse properly cared for and kindly treated will last five years longer than one misused, according to statistics gathered by the president of the Connecticut humane society. The same evidence shows that a cow’s productive life can be prolonged two years. Estimating the labor of a horse at 25 cents a day net and the milk at 3 cents a quart, kind treatment would add nearly S4OO to the value of every horse and SIOO to every cow. It pays to be kind. MARRIAGE LICENSES i Brandyberry Partition Suit Submitted—Robison Case Tomorrow A new case filed by Hooper & Lenhart was entitled Bessie L. Davies et al vs. Clarence Williman et al, suit • to partition real estate and to quiet the title. Belle Johnson vs. Frank R. Johnson, divorce, affidavit of non-residence filed and notice ordered published. Frank Berger vs. Chicago and Erie Ry. Co., damages $2,000, rule to an swer made absolute in five days. A marriage license was issued to Clem Yarger, aged fw(enty-three, a farmer of Wells county, and Miss Bertha Shady, twenty-one, of Kirkland township. Another license was the one issued to James T. Shaffer, a telegraph operator at Monroeville, aged twentythree, and Esther Schlemmer, aged twenty, of Union township. Victoria J. Wilson has deeded inlot 196 at Berne to Richard S. Wilson, the consideration being $2,000. William L. Raudenbush vs. Andrew W. Scales, quiet title, default of all defendants, cause submitted, finding tor plaintiff. P. G. Hooper appointed commissioner to make conveyance of the real estate to plaintiff. In the matter of Andrew J. Robinson, a person of unsound mind, his guardian, E. W. Steele, filed a petition for an order to furnish a home for his ward. The hearing was set for nine o’clock tomorrow morning. — o -— Mrs. John Giem, of Fort Wayne, visited her brother, Herb Major, of this city. She returned home this morning accompanied by her niece, little Miss Cleora Majors.

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