Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 25 June 1908 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVEBTTHCBSDAYMOBSIHG BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. RjWPK YIJ.B IM ADVAJ4C*. t*< wad M th* pottoAe* m Decatur.ladlaaa M weaad-elaM Mil bil» H I ~ OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. THE TEMPERANCE ISSUE Why has the Democratic party declared now for local option by townships and wards? To kill the good remonstrance law now operative. —Berne Witness. The above from the pen of Fred Rohrer, clearly shows that he is first a republican and then if it doesn’t hurt, he is in favor of temperance. The democratic state platform says in plain English that their pledge of local option is supplementary and in addition to the present Moore remonstrance law. What does that mean? Does it mean death to the “good remonstrance law now operative?” Get down j to brass tacks now, Fred, and if you are going to be a republican for the sake of policy, be it; and if you are going to advocate temperance in the interest of temperance, do that. Do not try to play that double cross game by assuming that all the goodness, all the morality, all the achievement and greatness is in the republican j party, and all the base immorality and rank cussedness is known under the title of democratic party. It is not only deep water, but it beneath the, dignity of either cause you decide to advocate.

A vote for a Democratic or Prohibition candidate for the legislature next November will be one for the saloon.—Berne Witness. Now, isn’t that great. How does it come that the anti-saloon league have openly and above board endorsed the Democratic candidate for representative from Wells county? Is the league, too, for the salcon? Editor Rohrer is also for Jim Watson, a member in good standing of the Columbia Club, the most notrious blind tiger in Indiana. The Repub'i-. can state platform was written in the Columbia Club, this same notorious blind tiger. The Republican state platform says nothing about restricting the sale of intoxicating liquor in any place only saloons The inference is drawn that nothing shall b e done to restrict the privileges of Indiana's Republican home —the Columbia Club. Another thing. Editor Rohrer gives the Republican party credit for the present temperance laws. Nothing is farther from the truth. The Nicholso 1 law and the Moore law were both passed because Democrats in the legislature voted for them, and they would not have passed had no Democrats ?o voted, notwithstanding the fact that both branches of the legislature were strongly and overwhelmingly Republican. The truth Is that no poliitcal party has a mortgage on the temperance sentiment now so prevalent in the state. There is but one thing that will retard It’S growth, and that is for short skate politicians to try to rile their party into public favor through misrepresentation of the temperance issue

ON ' THE PLAFORM A great part of the republican platform adopted at Chicago is devoted to self-praise. The achievements under the Roosevelt administration are pointed to with traditional pride as proof of the party's devotion to the people. The hisory of these is not so old as that many Informed persons will have forgotten the desperate, unceasing combat the president has waged with his party to get those things which consume the panygerics of the platform. Rate legislation, anti-trust acts, currency measures and the whole catalogue of "benefits secured' are the direct and indisputable fruits of the fight made by th e man In the white house to keep congress "doing something ’ worth while. The republican party in congress has in large part been out of sym-'

pathy with the president. Its congressional leaders have been implacably hostile to his policies and yielded action upon them only because they feared contrary courses. There will be no great or radical difference between what the Chicago convention has enunciated and what the Denver convention will pronounce. The republicans promise tariff reform: the democrats will pledge an overhauling of the tariff with a view specially to giving the trusts and monopolies a body blow the republicans present a modified utterance upon restraint of the abuses of federal Injunction; the democrats proclaimed against this abuse in the first Bryan campaign .twelve years ago and will reiterate at Denver the views it has held and proclaimed In three national campaigns. Upon the subject of trusts, railways and the like the platforms will not greatly differ. The vital thing I for the voter to determine will be the question as to which party is most Ito be trusted with the procedures of government. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. POLITICAL BARGAINING Tuesday the steel trust, by its representatives, Gary and Perkins, Morgan's man, appeared at Chicago, as an advocate of the antl-Injunction plank which it is proposed to force into the platform. As the plank means little or nothing, it will not be objectionable to the steel trust. And vet its natural attitude toward the antiinjunction plank would be hostile. It is being opposed by manufacturers and employers of labor all over the country. And the lines have been sharply drawn between capital and labor. Therefore it is somewhat startling to see the greatest trust and the greatest banking house in America actively at work to limit the powers of the courts to give them redress or to furnish them protectian if they should ever need either.

Clearly there is some son of deal on. In the first place it is to be remembered that the steel trust has always enjoyed the favor of the Roosevelt administration. It has never been disturbed. On the contrary, it was permitted by the President to absorb its only formidable rival, the Tennessee Coal and Iron company, thus strengthening very greatly its monopolistic features. But, of course, there is more to it than appears on the surface. It is known that the steel trust is favorable to the proposed amendments to the Sherman antitrust law, on which the president has set his heart. The effect of those amendments would be to give any trust that enjoyed th e favor of the administration practically a free hand would establish a sort of statute of limitations with complete immunity in its favor. At any rate the steel tract wants the amendments adopted, and

it cares little about the innocuous declaration which it is proposed to make on the injunction question. Here is a beautiful basis for bargaining.— Indianapolis News, Rep. PLATFORM COMMENTS Probably no one expected that Mr. Bryan would find much in the Chicago platform to commend. He is a good fighter and a thorough party man, so that his hostile view of that document need occasion no surprise. And yet it must be admitted that he presents his objections to it with cogency and effect. We should say that Republican politicians will be very loath to tackle the job of answering the points tnat Mr. x>ryau makes. In the first place he says the Chicago platform contains no reference to enforced publicity for campaign contributions, notwithstanding Mr. Taft had declared in favor of this reform. The proposal came befo-e the convention, moreover, just as Mr. Bryan says, and a vote was forced ■ upon it by Wisconsin and Indiana delegates. We have no means of knowing how many voters are greatly interested in this question or regard ' ■ the publication of campaign fund acI counts as a thing of vital or pressing concern. But there is no answering what Mr. Bryan says about it. For convenience we may group the other points made by Mr. Bryan

against the Chicago platform under one head They ar e the determination of the physical value of railroads, the extreme^ anti-injunction plank offered by Mr. Gompers and Mr. Fuller, the income tax. the inheritance tax. the alleged 15.090.000 conspiracy against the Roosevelt policies and the election of senators by popular vote. This makes a total of seven declarations which have commanded some support in Republican circles, but which somebody or other succeeded in keeping out of the Chicago platform. We do not see how any one can successfully controvert or cavil at Mr. Bryan’s assertions. It is interesting also. and perhaps significant to note that every one of these seven measures is supported by Mr, Bryan and will doubtless form a part of the Denver platform. As for “government by injunction” he would destroy it entirely, and as for the trusts, or what he calls “predatory wealth," he would show no quarter whatever, but would pursue the railroads with physical valuation 'and federal incorporation, and swollen with income and inheritance taxes, while the trusts he would eradicit utterly if possible. —Indianapolis Star Rep. WATTERSON ON CHICAGO CONVENTION “A mess of pottage and a man of straw. “Upon a platform of imposture, largely constructed out of timbers stolen from Mr. Bryan's back yard, the republican party has set a man of straw, a very portly and pleasing

man of straw, and said to the voters: " ’Behold in William H. Taft the counterfeit presentment of Theodore Roosevelt/ “The answer which the voters are likely to make in November may be found in the first chapter of the HornBook of common sense, which, translated from the original Vulgate into modern English, reads: ‘The voice is Rosevelt’s voice, bik the hands are the hands of Rockefeller.’ “Thus after many centuries we have the recurrence of a famous passage of holy writ made political and brought to date in the last instance as in the first, a great fraud and a mess of pottage, playing the leading parts. “ last the Republican. party has had to disguise itself as a populist and to join in the cry of ‘Stop thief,’ in order to escape the consequences of its own acts. "We mean no disrespect to the secretary of war. He is a gentleman of noble character, an official of signal service and more, a citizen of unblemished reputation. He was a typical republican of the school of Sherman, Garfield and McKinley until he began to temporize with Roosevelt and got the presidential bee in his bonnet. "The platform on which they have placed Judge Taft contradicts his rulings as a judge on the bench. His party in congress has falsified his attitude toward our insular dependencies. He is put forward as the star performer of an enterprising and spectacular manager, who has succeeded in adapting rag-tim e music *o the serious business of the state and of turning the government of the country into comic opera, the white house his theater and the federal officials his "scene-shifters. "Civil service reform, though sadly torn and tarnished, is the fantastic drop-curtain relied upon to conceal but not concealing the mechanism of the stag e carpenters and the meaning of the stage settings. “We are promised a change of policies. Os which policies—the policies of the republican president, or the policies of the republican congress? The republican party cannot be true to the one without repudiating the other. It cannot at one and the same time keep step with Roosevelt theatricals and Cannon stand-patters; with tariff reform and the gospel of protection; with the trusts of- the east, and the farmers of the west; with the people and the system. Republicanism for all it® arts and resources cannot serve both God and Mammon.’’ | Congressman Adair visited Elwood

»yesterday, and the second city gave him the warmest reception ever accorded any one They showed their appreciation of the new poatoffice he se ! cured for them. Elwood is an Adair stronghold—Anderson Bulletin. By the appointment of Gen. Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, as secretary of war, to succeed Taft, the Rcos-?-velt cabinet now contains three Democrats or ex-Democrats —Bonaparte, Straus and Wright. Hidebound pa--tisanship never had much cf a hold on the present occupant of the White House. —South Bend Times The Indiana special train for Denver is just now an attraction for many Indiana Democrats. It will leave Indianapolis on the afternoon of July 4, over the Big Fcur. From Chicago to j Denver the Rock Island system will Ibe used The trip includes a nine ■ hours stop at Lincoln, Nebraska. Ju.-- | ing which time the party will be en- ■ tertained at Bryan's beautiful country home. Editor H. Clay Metsker of the PI7mouth Independent, is the possessor of a lately born boom for the democratic nomination for congress in the Thirteenth district. The democracy of that, section might go farther and fair worse. Mr. Metsker possesses all the qualifications of a good campaigner and in personal popularity ranks equal, at least, to his republican opponent, C, W. Miller. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. .

I Four notable addresses upon temperance was made in this city Sunday by that noted orator, Hon. M J. Fanning. He upheld his well earned reputation as a speake rand orator, and as a matter of course, stated many truths, about which there little or no argument. His speeches embraced none of that old-time harsh critcism but in its place were well modulated but convincing arguments, the son of arguments that will win friends and votes to the cause of Prohibition As Joseph B. Foraker's star goes down, that of Wade Hampton Ellis goes up. The latter is an uncommonly bright young man. He is of Democratic stock and was named after a famous South Carolina statesman, warrior, governor and senator. As attorney-general of Ohio Mr. Ellis has Been, unswerving in his warfare < against violators of anti-trust laws. His literary style is excellent. As a platform builder h® has become justly famous.—South Bend Times. As far as the press dispatches tell us Uncle Nate Hawkins has not yet sent his congratulations to either Candidates Taft or Sherman What a serious oversight this is on the part of Nate. Doesn't he realize that both gentlemen are awaiting words of cheer from the candidate from the Eighth of Indiana district? And wasn't it Nate who telegraphed to Senator Hemenway about the public building bill at Elwood, and didn’t that telegram bring forth fruit almost before it had been received? The senator’s words fairly bum when sent over a telegraph line, and he should hasten to send his very warmest regards to Messrs. Taft and Sherman—Bluffton Banner. A few weeks ago when Bryan wrote Taft, asking him to join him in an effort to induce congress to pass a publicity bill, and the latter replied that he bad already urged Senator Burrows to work for the passage of a measure of that character, the republican papers of the country all said Taft had forestalled one of Bryan’s grandstand plays. But it will be observed that congress did not pass the bill and it will be observed that the republican national convention voted down the proposition to put a publicity plank in th® platform by an almost unanimous, vote. Now how much of a publicity man is Taft? If he is for publicity, why was it he did not have his 702 loyal men put it in the platform? Do you believe Taft want® it to be known where the money is to be spent and how? There will b e no doubt a s to the attitude of democrats on this proposition or that of their candidates.-Columbia City Post.

Congressman John A. M Adair, always a prime favorite in Adams county, seems to be even more of a favo, ite this year. Col William R Nelson, of the Kansas City Star and Times, one of the most influential newspapers in the west, says that the Chicago ticket won’t do. The humble Indianapolis machinist who was fined »l.? 00 for violation of the anti-trust laws has been dispossessed of his home in order that the fine might be collected. The Standard Oil company has not yet paid its fine.—Commoner. A NEW DYNAMO Fort Wayne Electric Works Bags Contract —Henry Stevens Low Bidder Regardless of the extreme hot weather the council met in special session Tuesday evening at the council chambers. Mayor prance presiding, and every councilman being present and answering to roll call. The first

matter of business to be transacted wag that cf receiving bids for the new dynamo, and switchboard, which is commonly called in electrical circles as a three phase machine. Four representatives, representing four of the largest electrical houses in the country, were present, and filed bids with the council, which, when figured out were as follows: Westinghouse Electric Co.. .12,508.00 Ft. Wayne Electric Works... 2.365.00 Allis Chalmers Oo 2,584.00 Western Electric Co 2,400.00 The Ft- Wayne Electric Works being the lowest bidder, the contract was awarded to this company, and according to the terms of the same the machinery is to be shipped in fifteen days and will at once be installed after which Decatur can boast of one of the best equipped plants in th e state. This meeting also having been set aside for the receiving of bids on the John Christen sewer, the clerk was requested to open and read the bids filed which were as follows: Henry Stevens $1,050.00 Meyers & Mjeyers . 1,098.24 Stevens being the lowest bidder,

the contract upon motion was awarded to him, and he will no doubt commence work at once and push the work to completion as rapidly as possible. A notice to the council from Dr. H. E. Keller in which he condemns the sewer in the alley between Jefferson and Madison streets and First and Second strets, was read, claiming the same to be in an unhealthy condition and too small to meet the demands of the public, was read, and upon motion was referred to the street and sewer committee, who will (investigate fie statie 'of affairs and report’ back at the next meeting. Upon motion a number of old orders, some of which had been signed by the mayor and not the clerk and vice versa, and dating back as far as the year 1904. were ordered destroyed and a number amounting to the sum of $950.58 which upon investigation were found to be honest accounts were ordered reissued and will be paid immediately, which will close a matter that during the past year has been causing the council considerable annoyance. No further business coming before the council, they adjourned. —— —- T. W. Shelton, of th e Fort Wayne and Springfield railway company, went to Fort Wayne this morning to accompany the jobbers and manufacturers of Fort Wayne to this city. - ? hlDk of Indigestion vhink of Kodol, for Jit Is without doubt the oaly preparation that comple.ely digests ail classes of food. And that is what yon need when you nave indigestion or stomach trouble —something that will act promptly but thoroughly; something that will get right at the trouble by digesting she ,ood that you eat and that is Kodol. xwr “ ,i - *

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