Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1908 — Page 4

DEMOCRAT BVEaYTHUHSBAYJ4O»NIS6 BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. UJK PBK YKAH IN ADVaMCK. Entires *t she poaroffiee »»Decatur.lndian* ** smcou d-elasa mail natter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. HAS A BAD RECORD Watson will work for the retention of that law and the additional measure. The county is as he says, is the real political unit of the stare. “The Republican platform means local self government applied in each county. 1 believe in home rule. I believe in local self-government, and I belive that the time has come when the people of each county, by a majority vote, should be permitted to determine precisely what they shall or shall not have with reference to the presence of saloons. —Berne Witness. “By retention of that law’’ the Witness means the Moore remonstrance law. The Witness and Mr. Watson, their candidate for governor, should get together. Mr. Watson says that the people of a county should be permitted tp determine precisely what they shall or shall not have. In other words if they vote dry it's dry; if they vote wet, it’s wet. The Witness is apparently staking much on Watson, and here is what the Richmond Item, republican, thinks of Watson: The Republican campaign managers

In Indiana are going to take Watson off the stump, and let other speakers wage the campaign. It has been demonstrated this early in the campaign, that Watson cannot successfully campaign this state. His hypocrisy and duplicity is against him, and the more he talks the worse he “gets in'- with the voter. For years he has carried water on both shoulders and succeeded in staying in congress through the work of a welloiled machine. Last year he came very nearly being defeated bcause for the first time in his career the voters of his district began to pin him down to facts and to his record. He had to abandon his “spread eagle” and “rally around the flag” style of talking and tell why he voted the way he did. In a desperate effort he tried to defend himself by deliberately lying, but the records had been kept and this lame defense of his only-lost him more votes than if he had told the truth and offered no defense. This year his campaign is bound to be the same. He is on the defensive, and must confine himsjelf to facts, not "hot air.” His oratory in behalf of temperance, is being met with questions about how he secured his nomination through the influence of the liquor interests in the large cities of Indiana. The temperance people want to know about that before they support him. On the other hand, the liquor forces are wondering where they come in, as they supported his nomination with certain promises regarding what he would do in the way of appointing “wide open’’ police boards, who would not enforce the laws which he advocates enacting. Both sides distrust him, and both sides are demanding a show-down.” Jim’s only safety is in getting off the stump. It is said that the republican managers have decided to let the burden of the speaking campaign fall on Attorney-General Bingham and Governor Hanly, who are consistent in their temperance record. One of the state leaders said the other day, “Instead of finding Watson a record breaker as a campaigner we find he is losing the ticket votes. His record isn’t right. People don’t have faith in his speeches. They like to hear him, but they don’t believe him.’’ Another weakness of Watson is his record in congress as one of “Uncle Joe’s” right hand men who fought every policy advocated by Roosevelt. The more Watson talks on the stump about supporting the administration, the more things are unearthed about his opposition to Roosevelt, and the more his speeches are discredited.

On both national and state issues the situation may be summed up that Watson’s is squarely against I the professions of his party. He ' cannot get away from his record and 1 associations. He has never worked with the temperance forces in Indiana and he has never worked with (the administration in Washington. If he supports ’hem now he convicts 1 himself of insincerity; if he does not ! support them be is out of harmony ; with the party declarations. The safest thing foi Watson is to keep In the background, and this sickness will be taken as the excuse for his nonparticipation in the coming campaign. IT IS REVISION UPWARD All that was needed to prove that the Republican tariff plank is a delusion and a snare, as far* as the tariff reformers are concerned, was the commendation of the American Economist, the high tariff organ. This it now has. The Economist is fairly jubilant over the victory won in behalf of extreme protection. "The Republican party,” it says, “in national convention assembled, has de-

clared anew for the policy of pro-tection-protection that shall be adequate —and has rejected the demands of the tariff agitators for a revision of the tariff downwards.” Which, of course, means' that the party has declared, either in favor of leaving the tariff as it is, or of revising it upward. We quote from the Economist, which, be it remembered, is the uncompromising champion of Dingleyism: “The free traders and advocates of tariff revision downward will not find a word or syllable in this tariff plank that tends to furnsh them the slightest crumb of comfort. There is no promise in the platform of tariff revision downward. » » « After full consideration of the whole subject, the Republican party in convention assembled did not declare for revision of the tariff downward, nor did it give the slightest intimation that the belief is entertained by the great body of Republicans throughout the land that the tariff rates of the Dingley law -fe too high.” Even the maximum and minimum tariff plan which is advocated contemplates, according to the Economist, making the present rates —or other “adequately protective rates” — the minimum, and the imposition of still higher rates to force fair treatment from other nations. We do not often find ourselves in agreement with the Economist. But it seems to us that what it says about the amazing plank adopted at Chicago is true. Every one knows that there are hundreds of thousands of Republicans over the country demanding tariff revision in the drection of lower rates. Manufacturers who are held up by the trusts feel very deeply on the subject. When the convention met it knew just what it meant. It knew that it could not be silent on the tariff question, knew that it could not refuse to pretend to promise a real revision. And yet this convention put itself on record as favoring sufficient pro-

tection to put our manufacturers absolutely on a level with those of other lands, and then to give them “a reasonable profit” besides. This can mean nothing else than what the Economist says it means. It is no promise of revision downward. The proposition is not to equalize conditions here and abroad, not to make up to our manufacturers the excess of the wages they are supposed to pay over those abroad, not to help them out in the matter of raw material, but after having done all these things, after having removed every obstacle, and taken off every handicap, we are to tax ourselves to give the manufacturers —such as the steel trust —“a reasonable profit.” So it is a great victory for the standpatters. The Economist is quite right For once it is absolutely right. The party has thrown itself into the arms of the standpatters. Taking this plank in connection with the refusal of the convention to demand publicity for campaign contributions, and also in connection with the great activity! I of the agents of the steel trust at ChijCago, it is hard to see how any tariff reformer can get much hope from the

tariff plank of the Republican platform. There is less comfort than ever to be got from it now that the American Economist, a besotted high tariff organ, has commended it with such touching enthusiasm. —Indianap|olis News, Rep. MORE THAN A MILLION The appropriations mad e by the last session of congress for one year’s expenses of the national government amounted to more than one billion dollars. To get some idea of what this means it is only necessary to remember that the total taxable property in Indiana was assessed in 1907 at one billion, seven hundred and sixty-seven millions. It appears, therefore, that an extravagant congress spent in one year nearly two-thirds as much as all the property in Indiana is worth. One billion dollars would buy homes costing $2,000 each, for five hundred thousand families. It would pay for ten million acres of land at SIOO per acre. It would pay the total expenses nf 100,000 families for ten years, allowing SI,OOO a year to each family. And the only “defense” that the Republican leaders make against the charge of extravagance and waste is, that "this is a great and rich country.” The non-partisan New York Realty Journal says: We have contended, as reference to our editorial columns will prove, that there no longer exists an? antagonism in th e ranks of legitimate business men of the country to Mr. Bryan, who has won the entire confidence of the business community. Mr. Bryan is only oppdsed by the members of the special privileges party, as is President Roosevelt. The special privileges party is made up of a membership that thrives on Illegitimate business interests, as opposed to th e legitimate business inter, ests of the country.

When the friends of Abram Simmons succeeded in electing him as a delegate at large to the Denver convention they did not consider the great responsibility they were placing upon his shoulders. Being a delegate at large confers quit e an honor upon any man, but at the Denver convention it has been practically decided that the delegates at large from Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois shall meet and determine as to who and from what state the vice presidential candidate shall come from. This will put Mr. Simmons in the spot light for sure at Denver, and he will be a much-sought man when the candidates get busy.—Bluffton Banner. The Hartford City News tells of a fellow who purchased wall paper from a mail order firm in Chicago. He paid 7% cents per roll for same and forty cents freight, H e made a miscalculation jn his order and did not have suffi. cient paper to finish the work. He went to town to see if he could match the paper. Fortunately for him he found just what he wanted, but the price was only 6 cents per bolt instead of 7% cents. Here is a good lesson on the mail order business. The purchaser paid twenty-five per cent more for hi§ goods, paid his freight and advanced his money sight unseen for the mere experience of trading away from home in the city of Chicago. Only the advantage of a big stock of paper saved him from having to make a second order or have a room spoiled by putting on two kinds of paper. — Bluffton Banner.

The Star hag always contended that the Democratic party will nominate Mr. Bryan at Denver, for the verygood and sufficient reason that he is the strongest candidate that can be chosen. It has based this view on the following Mr. Bryan has in the rank and file of his party, far and away greater than that of any other living Democrat. The nomination of Johnson or Gray, for example, would be largely a repetition of the fiasco made with Parker in 1904. There is little chance of the Democratic party’s making that mistake again. That the I Star is not alone in this belief is shown by the fact that Mr. Bryan is

regarded as the strongest possible Democratic nominee by no less capable a political observer than President Roosevelt himself. —Indianapolis Star, Rep. The remarkable “reasonable-profit’ tariff piank of the Chicago platform ought to satisfy every patriot that thinks it right to compel the people to help him pay the cost of carrying on his business. It goes stand-pat one better! But what will those manufacturers think of it who, are being held up to the last penny for their raw material? What will those think of it who are paying higher prices for goods made in this country than are paid for these same goods by consumers in other lands thousands of miles away? An entirely Roosevelt convention, Mr. Rocsevelt himself, and Mr. Roosevelt’s candidate are all agreed that we ought not only to start our industries fairly in the race for supremacy, not only to remove every obstacle and handicap, but also to adjust tariff taxes so as to give them “a reasonable profit” after everything heretofore deemed necessary had been done. In thinking about this we fear that many people will have to revise their views as to who are the reactionaries—lndianapolis News, Rep. ■ Liu —lj A threat to make public the campaign contributions and other political financiering has had a good effect in Pittsburg. The city and the state of Pennsylvania lost $2,000,000 by the failure of the Allegheny National Bank and William Montgomery, cashier of the wrecked institution, was arrested. Last week Mr. Montgomery calmly informed Mayor Guthrie of Pittsburg and State Treasurer Sheals that the whole amount would be forthcoming. Montgomery is without funds and there was some speculation as to the source from which the money was to come until it was made known that the Republican state machine was going to disgorge. The connection between the party organization and the crooked bank officials threatened to make trouble for Senator Penrose, and the* word was given out quietly that the state machine would pay over the $2,000,000, It looks like a useless expenditure at that, for exposure would hardly work injury to the Republican party in Pennsylvania, whose people seem to expect grafting as an inevitable accompaniment of public service. In fact, they appear to like it—Marion Leader.

A Republican member of congress, Charles E. Littefield, of Maine, told the Illinois State Bar association that there have been only seven convictions under the Sherman anti-trust law since Roosevelt has been president. And then he added: “Senator Lodge, in the national Republican convention, said that President Roosevelt had enforced the laws as he found them on the statute books. The Republican platform congratulates itself on the enforcement of all the laws. In th© light of cases I have cited to you it would seem that proclamation and not performance constitute enforcement of the law.” In view of this, it is no wonder that the trusts are all for Taft and Sherman. They hav e no reason to be afraid of “Peaceful Bill” and “Funny Jim.” WILL PREACH NEXT SUNDAY Rev. Williams, of Portland, at Pleasant Valley Church. Rev. Thomas C. Williams, superintendent of Portland quarterly meeting of Friends, and pastor of Portland meeting, will preach at North Pleasant Valley Friends church next Saturday night, Sunday and Sunday night Mr. Hollingsworth will fill the pulpit at Portland in Mr. Williams steal. Mr. Hollingsworth has served a greater part of the tlm e for the last twelve years as pastor at North Pleasant Valley, and it is possible that Mr. Williams will expect to find out who the people in the valley community will want the coming year so as to look after it at the coming yearly jneeting. Everybody 1 is cordially invited to attend all these services. Miss Marie Bates, who is here on a visit from points in Pennsylvania, went to Huntington this morning for a short visit.

WHAT THE CHURCHES DO They Are Great Benefit to th e Communities. The best way to support churches is one of the questions of the day, and it affects every community in the country, Bays an exchange. Every commuity that amounts to much has churches and they are supported in some way by th e community in which they are located. As a matter of course the largest part of the burden of each church falls on the congregation of each particular denomination. Yet, business men in every town help to support, as a geeral rule, all the churches. The theory on which the churches have a claim on the community is that they aid by their teaching and their influence in good governmet and in maintaining a high standard of morals and good behavior. A community of church goers always ranks high in those qualities that go to make good and desirables communities. o —— QUESTIONABLE REGULATIONS. Why Are Japanese Maidens Refused Admittance to U. S.

Is this "the land of the free and the home of the brave” when it refuses admittance to fifty Japanese maidens who arrived at Seattle, for whom some of our Japanese residents are anxiously waiting to espouse them? Surely wives are as much a necessity to thes e industrious people as they are to the Russians and Italians, who also send for their sweethearts when prosperous enough to support them. Under what law or regulation these Japanese are denied admission is not clear to any on e out. side of the immigration bureau, for as the Japanese men are here legally or they would be deported, one can hardly se e good reasons for the denial of allowing them the civilizing influence of wives and children. —Albion Democrat. 0 Y. P. C. U IS A GREAT ORDER Young People of U. B. Church Doing Much Good. A business meeting was held by the Y. P. C. U. of the United Brethren church last night an<| a most interesting session was enjoyed. This organization is a strong one, thirtytwo members having their name on the roll and Decatur can well be proud of the work thes e estimable young people are accomplishing. That young people band together for the good of the community and themselves, is a fact that should inspire every citizen in Decatur, The Y. P. C. U. have a great mission and the members of the local organization are leaving nothing undone that would tend to advance the Christian cause. o THE JULY DISTRIBUTION. The Township Trustees are Drawing Their Money. Auditor Lewton has completed the July distribution, and the same is Being taken up by the various township trustees. The Amounts are as follows: Union $2,828.29.; Root $4,922.55; Preble $4,507.25; Kirkland $3,551.10: Washington $3,800.79; St. Marys $3,092.03; Blue Creek $2,739.28; Monroe $4,591.97; French $2,511.45; Hartford $4,041.37; Wabash $4,547.77; Jefferson $2,939.02; Decatur schbol board $11,222.49; library $645.78; cor. poration $18,924.79; Geneva school board $2,778.02; town treasurer $2-, 079.88;Berne school board $2,554.50; town treasurer $3,538.05. o— THEY MADE A TRADE. House and Lot in Monroe Traded on Realty Deal. Through the Brown & Summers real estate agency John Rickard parts with a house and lot in Monro e to Lee Johnson, the former getting thirty acres of Kirkland township realty belonging to the latter. The consideration was not made known. Brown & Summers have several other important deals on tap, which they expect to bring to a focus before long.

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BUY HALF INTEREST P. H. Wagner Becomes Half Owner of the Reynolds Coal Yard THE DEAL IS CLOSED Wagner Resigned His Position as Night Operator at Clover Leaf Station P. H. Wagner who for more than one year has been employed as night operator at the Clover Leaf station, resigned a few days ago in favor of D. E. Hart. Mr. Wagner closed a deal yesterday afternoon whereby he became half owner in the coal yard which has been operated by Girt Rynolds for some time. It was for the reason that Mr. Wagner anticipated going into business that he resigned the railroad job. The deal has been hanging fire for some time and both parties came to an agreement yesterday, the consummation following. Mr. Wagner is a business man of ability. He has fulfilled the duties of operator at th e Clover Leaf station with credit to himself and company. However, he preferred being in business for himself, hence the change. Th e new firm will be known as Reynolds and Wagner and they start on their business career under the most pleasant auspices. oTHEIR ANNUAL PICNIC. M. E. Sunday School Goes to Robison Park, July 23.

The Sunday school officers of the M. E. church are planning for their regular annual picnic which is to be 1 held at Robison Park the twenty-third day of July. Accommodations will be had for seven hundred people anj free transportation will be furnished all members of the Sunday school. Five hundred people enjoyed the excursion last year and a great time was enjoyed. All teachers of classes in the Sunday school are requested to hand jn a list of th e names of their pupils next Sunday morning. - -w Many applicants have secured blanks to try the civil servic e examination which will be held at the postoflice the eighteenth day of this month. The examination will be held in the morning of above stated day with George Everett, the local secreta r y in charge. — o FRANK HITCHCOCK IS CHAIRMAN Republican National Committee Elec 1 - ed Officers Today. Hot Springs, Va., July 8. —(Special to Daily Democrat)- -Frank Hitchcock was unanimously chosen as chairman of the Republican national committee, at their meeting held here today and George R. Sheldon, of New York,was elected treasurer of the committee.