Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1908 — Page 4

DEMOCRAT BVKBTTBUBBDAYHOKNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. — 1 ' ' -~‘*~T = aJX PSB YEAR in advance Batirsti al »be po-taHire m Decatur.lndians sa MJcoad cIAM mall matter. ■w.rr —— — •-= OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. TRYING TO “ SAVE UNCLE NATE The Muncie Star, through its receiver, is taking' up the cause of Uncle Nate. That newspaper recognizes that in order to boost the republican candidate for congress, it is first necessary to tear down the excellent congressional record of Congressman Adair. To accomplish this, the aid of the congressional committee and one Sulloway the partisan and political chairman of the committee on invalid pensions has been brought into play. He was first introduced into eighth district politics through a letter written to and for the polftical purpose of helping Nate. That letter simply tried to rob John Adair of the credit due him and t,ransfer it to Mr. Sulloway as chairman of the committee on invalid pensions, i Every soldier in the eighth congressional district is conversant with the excellent record achieved by the distinguished congressman from the Eighth Indiana district. It was a record of service to his people; a record of accomplishment; a record that made every partisan, be he Democat or Republican, glad that proper recognition was being given the district through its able representative in congress. Now comes Mr. Sullo-, way and the Muncie Star in an effort to discredit that record. Why? Pol. itics. It is worthy of note here, that the Muncie Star never in all the congressional life of Cromer, uttered one word derogatory to his record of eight years in congress. Every one js familiar with that tecord.. Now, however, the Muncie Star tries to belittle the record of John Adair. The pe> pie are also familiar with that record. These political bucaneers may labor long and late, but the congressional star of John Adair still shines resplendent.

ABOUT THE VICE PRESIDENT The Denver convention could have done no one thing to send a greater ! thrill of delight throughout Indiana than it did when it nominated John Worth Kern for vice president. Thsre ' is a peculiar quality of simplicity, I earnestness and manliness about John Kern, an unfailing good humor and I cheerfulness under political defeat' and personal ill health, a frankness in his speech and an impulsiveness in his acts —all of which endear him to every man who comes to know him, whether as a public character, as a true friend and comrade, or as the devoted husband and father jn a happy home. How hisnna e upon the ticket will affect its reception throughout’ the country, where he has some such limited and disappointing acquaintance as was revealed in the newspaper on Sherman’s nomination at Chicago, or even here in Indiana, where with all his popularity his vote-getting faculty seems unaccountably Ineffectual, it is yet too early to say. But it is perfectly certain that many Republicans who may go so far as to say that his nomination will weaken the ticket will nevertheless rejoice at th e honor that has come to him, to his state and to his city, as in the good fortune of a family or personal friend. Among the reasons which actuated his family and Mr Kern himself in hoping that this nomination might co elsewhere has been the consideration of his physical strength, which is not of the greatest and has at times seemed precarious. Th e matter Is certain to be one of solicitude on the part of his friends regardless of party, and possibly of public significance as the campaign wears on. Political honor is of doubtful value, if it develops to have been purchased at the price of health and happiness. At any rate Mr. Kern will ornament and make acceptable the Democratic tick-

et in Indiana, and whether he is elected or not the memory of his recognition at Denver will always be a pleasant memory.—lndianapolis Star, Rep. , I THAT CONVENTION With the nomination of Mr, Kern Friday, the Democratic convention of 1908 passses into history. It was a remarkable gathering, remarkable in ' many ways. When the convention j met there were few to believe that it would be able to achiev e any degree of harnjony in the Democratic party. Yet that result has been brought to pass. To be sure the harmony .’s ' not complete. On the contrary, as th e days go by, we shall no doubt find that there are many dissentients. The New York Sun, the New York Times, the New York Evening Post, will dj no doubt maintain their old attitult of opposition to Bryan. Even the Springfield Republican, which has always been rather tender toward the Nebraskan, speaking before the nomination had been made, predicted the I choice of Mr. Bryan, and added that ; he "will likely go down to defeat again 'at the polls.” But all this does not alter the fact that the Democratic party is today in a healthier condition than since 1892. It will have support in sections of the country and from many men that gave it practically no support in sections of the country and from many men that gave It practically no support either in 1896 or 1900. This result Is due entirely to the more conciliatory temper of Mr. Bryan, and to his great ability as a political manager—a newly developed quality in him. Ther e can be no doubt that the ticket will make a strong appeal to the masses. And so will the platform. No one can talk even casually with his neighbors without being impressed with that fact! It is known |thai many men who have not voted the

Democratic ticket since 1892 are going to do so'this year. It has been the fashion to say that the gold Democrats were simply Republicans in disguise —and this has been the view of Mr. Bryan—but it is a great mistake. Most of them have maintained an entire detachment. Most of them, too, have grown weary of voting with the Republicans and have longed for a chance to return to their old all 3glance. Others have felt that the only wa to strengthen th e Democratic party and to make it fit to govern the country was to trust it and to give it a chanc e to learn by experience. These have argued that to exclude it permanently from power would be to weaken it so as to make it forever unfit for administrative functions. Finally, there are others who have begun to suspect that they are more critical of their own party than of the opposition and to feel that when there is nothing to choose between the two parties it is wiser to give their own party the preference. All these motives are operating, and they will have their effect. It is to see how any man that is a Democrat should, as a properly practical man, prefer the Chicago to th e Denver ticket. The country, in our opinion, may well rejoice at the growing strength of the Democratic party. For years th e people have suffered from the lack of an effective opposition. If there had been one the Republican party would have been saved from many mistakes, and the country would have profited in many ways. We think, therefore, that the convention served, not only the great party, which it represented, but the whole country. All this is quit e without reference to what the result of the campaign may be, as to which it would be foolish to make any prediction at the present time. We firmly believe that though the Democratic party may be defeated in November, jt will not be overwhelmed as it has been of recent ytars, and that, whatever the result, it will come out of the campaign stronger than it has been at any time since 1892. It was a great convention, and the influence of its work will be ,felt for many years. We believe, too, that the influence will b e good, both for the party and for the nation. —Indianapolis News, Rep.

SHOULD HAVE A POLITICAL GUARDIAN “Uncle Nate” Hawkins should have a political guardian appointed. Some one about like "Uncle Doc’’ Sharpe, who has charge, ’tis said, of Nate’s plans jn Weils county, should take him over completely and see that he quits spending money that will later come back to blight his chances of election. The Muncie Star, always for sale, hag another long article this morning very similar to the one used last week, both from the facile pen of "Uncle Nate,” harping the same old story about Congressman Sulloway and what he said about John Adair. What Sulloway says is true, that Adair's pension bill did not become a law, but who said it did? Nobody but Hawkins. Congressman Sulloway was furnished information by Hawkins, and Hawkins knew’ he was not telling the truth when he addressed Sulloway. The funny thing about it is that Hawkins don’t apparently know that he will be caught in all these stories and continues to spend his money in the Muncie Star telling them. Read again what Adair DID say: "On the first day of the session I introduced a bill increasing the pensions of all w idows to the sum of sl2 per month, and time and time again I went to the members of the committee and urged a favorable report on that bill. I kept up the fight for its passage until finally the committee reported a committee bill containing all the provisions of my bill, except that it applied only to widows who were married prior to June 27, 1890. This provision I did not like, I believed it should apply to all widows who were married prior to the passage of the bill; but it was a long step in the right direction and I went to every democratic member of the house and asked them to vote for the bill, and I now call your attention to •the fact, that although two-thirds of the democratic members were sons of Confederate soldires, every one of them voted for the Itill and it became a law.”

The old soldiers who are going to vote for Mr. Adair know what he said about the pension bill, and know that he made it very plain that his bill did not become law; but they do know Mr. Adair had a whole lot to do with the committee bill, which did become a law. One more such simple break from you, Uncle Nate, and you’ll, be sent to the new epileptic village.— Bluffton Banner. CLEVELAND ON THE TRUSTS Twenty years ago Grover Cleveland told some truths about the operations of the tariff and depredations of the trusts that will only bear repeating but are worth remembering. Mr. Cleveland was speaking at a tini e when the trusts were few as compare dwith the present and of a tariff law that was a Sunday school tract compared with the iniquitous Dingley law. The following will show Mr. Cleveland’s position: ‘‘He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich ahd that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.”—From the fourth annual message to Congress December, 1888. “We believe that these trusts are the offspring of a market artificially restricted; that an inordinately high tariff, besides furnishing the temptation for their existence, enlarges the limit within which they may operate against the people, and thus increase the extent of their power for wrong doing.”— From letter accepting renomination in 1888. “As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear, or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters. This i s not equality before the law.”—From the fourth annual message to Congress Decmber, 1888.

"Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government. But the communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrowth of overwhelming cupidity and selfishness, which insidiously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil, which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wild disorder the citadel of rule.” — From the fourth annual message to Congress. December, 1888. The Democrats of Indiana have just cause for satisfaction at the action of the Denver convention. jThe honor conferred on the state by I the nomination of John W. Kern was I not misplaced. me Democracy of | the state will never have occasion to apologize for the candidate for vicepresident. He is a man of ability j and withal a clean man, one who will at all times be able to give a good account of himself. Men of j all political faith in the state can conscentiously honor John Kern. — I Muncie Press. It’s Billy H. or Billy J. for president now, and either one of them will be acceptable to the American people. Whichever wins will do so by a close margin. The Republicans nominated the best man - they could get for the place, and the Democrats the best man they had. If President Roosevelt has accepted another nomination, the Republican victory on the national ticket would have been assured. But next to Roosevelt William Jennings Bryan has the strongest hold on the common people today. Therefore the national campaign is going to be a close race. —Berne Witness.

The dastardly attempt made by “Nate’ 1 Hawkins to besmirch the record of Congressman Adair, on pension legislation, during the last session of eoagress, will fall utterly, and only serv e to cement the soldier vote more closely to Mr. Adair. The congressional record will back up Mr. Adair in every particular, and that is good enough for any one who wants to know the truth. Besides, the people are too well acquainted with the ruperb record made by Mr. Adair, through the published accounts given in th e newspapers of the country during that session, soy their confidence in him to be shaken by such a mean, dirty attack. Every strike that Hawkins makes proves a “boomerang” and puts him in the hole all the deeper. — Winchester Democrat. A Nebraska dispatch to the St. Louis Republic says: Nebraska unquestionably will be carried by Bryan next November by a large majority. The belief of the Democratic politicians in this section is that th e entire tier of grain states will flop as a unit into the Democratic column. Kansas, lowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas, besides Nebraska, are th e states in question. The reasons for the bold confidence of the Democrats hereabouts are general in character. Dissatisfaction with the work of the Chicago convention Is intense and bids fair to grow more and more intense. Summarized, the proposition is that a large percentage of the Republican vot e is thoroughly disgusted with the Republican platform, displeased at the nomination of James S. Sherman for vice president, and not enthusiastic over William H. Taft. r— it an j i m .i ■» Judge Erwin’s point against the extiavagance of the republicans in power was well taken and exceedingly well put. In the past twelve years the appropriations of congress have increased 233 per cent., as against an increase of population of about 25 per cent. And yet it will be remembered that the appropriations of 1907 were denounced as excessive. Judge Erwin propounded a conundrum, too, when he asked how the republicans could be expected to revise the tariff downwards while their expenditures are constantly mounting higher and higher. The fact is the republican promise to revise the tariff schedules is confounded by their own estimates for the fiscal year just begun. In the face of a deficit this year, in spite of the high tariff, how are they going to lower rates next year, when still great-

I er appropriations are provided for?— Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. THE PARAMOUNT QUESTION In an editorial in the Louisville Courier-Journal, Henry Watterson says: "Hurrah for Bryan and Kern! It is a strong ticket. It is an honest, sound and Democratic declaration of principles. The party will accept both the ticket and the platform with enthusiasm, and the voters will ratify them at the polls in November. Henceforward th e word shall be, ‘Faction to the rear —united we stand.’ "There is but one real underlying and paramount question in this campaign and that is, Can the people by their own unaided strength change their government against the marchig army of federal officeholders supported by unlimited supplies either wrung from or contributed by the corporations? Is the money devil an over-match for the American voter? Can the administration at Washington successfully employ upon the country at large the ruthless agencies which were successfully employed at Chicago upon the Republican party? “Flying the flag of Roosevelt the Republican leaders have already made their peace with the System, that is with perdition, Pittsburg and 'Wall street. From Rockefeller to Carnegie, from Harriman to Morgan, every chieftain of lawless riches is well content with Taft and Sherman. They foretoken and imply the old order of special privilege to the few, imposition of every sort to the many; high finance rampant; high tariff, ‘revised by .’ts friends,’ rampant; the end of Rooseveltism and agitation ‘for the good of business' —business only organized capital and licensed monopoly; the same old story, the same old song, the same old gang, slicked over with goose grease from the Roosevelt larder, but meaning four years more of the rascality which Roosevelt has unmasked ,but not downed; which Roosevelt has exposed, but left intact; which, in spite of Roosevelt and all his works, stands today as impudeit and as defiant as ever it stood, a gray wolf lording it over the senate, a gray wolf lording it over the house and a gray wolf giving tone and effect to the ticket.

“Can any thoughtful Democrat, can any patriotic American, balk of his duty before a lay-out so menacing and obvious?’’ As it is now confidently stated that the “prosperity movement” is well under way, perhaps it would be wise for us to prepare ourselves as well as possible for the impact.—lndianapolis News of June 30. - And three days later, viz., on July 3, the highly watered and bonded United Box and Paper company, a $28,000,000 corporation financed six years ago in Chicago went into the hands of a receiver because it could not pay interest on Rs bonds out of its profits and could not get the money from the banks. The directors of the concern gave “the general business depression of the last several months” as the cause of the failure. This is merely one instance of the "impact” that followed the “prosperity movement” launched July Ist, for campaign purposes, by a few Republican papers that tried to make the country believe that the nomination of Taft would “restore confidence.” Confidence will come back when there is some assurance that conditions are all right, and it will not come before. The social held at the M. E. church on the parsonage lawn was a good success, financially as well as social-1 ly. A good crowd was in attendance I and thoroughly enjoyed themselves.' Several similar events are scheduled to come off in the near future and no doubt they will be attended by large crowds.

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Commissioners Werling and Miller held a short session of commissioner’s court and signed the contract with. Samuel Yost for the WashingtonKirkland macadam road. Contrac $ will likely be signed in a few days with Julius Haugk for the Bucher road, and the Bears & Co., for the Geneva, Ceylon and Wabash township No. 4, Wheat & Sisk tor the Hendricks road in Monroe township. The board of commissioners were in south Adams county Monday and as a result of their visit may order a ditch widened and otherwise improved. The only thing in the way is the consent of the county council, and this may be accomplished in a few days. Transcripts are being prepared on several macadam roads thus showing that the farmers of the county are not losing any Interest in macadam road building. This year will witness many new roads macadamized and otherwise improved. Miss Charlotte Ruth, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Van Camp, who last Saturday was taken ill from catarrhal fever, is reported as being no better. Her condition is indeed serious which has caused alarm among the members of the Van Camp family. ; According to Cleveland dispatches [ there is again under way a plan for a merger of independent telephone com- ! panies from the Mississippi to the Atlantic saboard, and embracing properties worth $100,00 u ,000. If it goes through independent companies in this section may be Included. William Russell, for many years a resident of this city, has removed his household goods to Bluffton, wher e he will make hhs fu’ure home. Mr. Russell left today for that place and he will assume duties as solicitor for the Prudential Life Insurance company next Monday morning. Theodore R. Gilbert, for many years a prominen tresident of Angela, died Sunday morning after an illness of but a few hours. He was the father of Hon. Newton W. Gilbert, former congressman and now members of the Philippines commission. Mr. Gilbert had been in impaired health for the past two years, but recently seemed to be considerably improved and was walking about the street Saturday afternoon. He was taken ill Sunday morning at 5 o'clock and passed away three hours later. A. G. Kelley, auditor and general passenger and freight agent of the Fort Wayne and Springfield electric road, is authority for the statement that during the one and a half years in which his road has been in opera tion sls would cover all claims for damages to freight, express or baggage handled. H$ believes that with care, every electric read can do as well. Mr. Kelly believes -|he newt Central Electric Traffic association will assist the electric roads in the middle west to make the most of their opportunities and that prospects for increased business are bright. He insists that with the interurban roads working together they will afford the best transportation facilities ever of- ■ sered. —Fort Wayne News. Two of the prettiest races in base ball leagues are now occurring daily in the American and National leagues. The respective teams are so closely bunched together that it is a ha"d subject, to pick the pennant winner.