Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1908 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVEBYTHrBS»AYMO*NING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. n.OO PBK YEAB IN ADVANCE. KaevreJ at the poatoflee at Deca tor. ladl&aa i» seeca U-citM sail matter. MBgS', ■■ .J." — XS3MKS OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. AFTER THE COIN A fond author once put out a novel which he called ‘‘Brewster’s Millions.' But as fiction it could not hold’ a candle to the Indianapolis Star’s shrieking serial about the “Brewers' Million.” This narrative has neen relating tn frills and thrills how divers and sundry drink manufacturers had raised one million and twenty-five thousand dollas —count ’em —to be used in helping to elect the Democratic state ticket The reason for printing this weird story was at first a mystery. Most persons thought it merely a hot weather diversion. But not so. It is now stated on the authority of a prominent Republican that the story was printed as part of a plan to scare the Republican national organization and force it to dump an extra-big share of the campaign fund in Indiana. It is also said that a letter was sent to Mr. Taft telling him that as the matter stands Indiana will give 20,000 or more plurality for the Democrats and that the only way to save the state to the Renublicans is by spending an enormous amount of money. And there the matter rests for the present Readers of the \luncie Star have failed to notice anything in that subsidized sheet about the I, corruption or extravagance in the administration of the state’s affairs. The Star isn’t looking after the interest of the over-burdened taxpayers of Indiana. It cares but little, if anything, for their troubles, but when it comes to “temperance” the Star is a reformer of the first water, yes-sir-ee—Jim Watson and all the other politicians belonging to the Columbia Club blind tiger at Indianapolis are the kind of “temperance” people the Star like's to see—Portland Sun. John Adair has many things to commend him to the Eighth district voters, but nothing better than his record during the last congress. But three roll calls were missed during that long session beginning the first Monday in December and continuing until the last days of May, nearly six months. Was there ever such a record as Well as devotion to duty? Not a vote recorded in all that time but what indicates the sincerity of his purpose to serve the people, regardless of party or any interests. And what a record when compared to the eight years when Cromer was out of congress more than he was in it. Congressman Adair has well earned >. re-election. We are under the impression that _ the Rev. Somerville Light, of Marion, who has declared in favor of county local option as presented by the Republican party, has always supported the Prohibition ticket. This year he will support the Republican ticket because he regards the Republican platform as a step in the direction of temperance advancement and civic progress. —Winchester Herald. Rev. Light is a Methodist minister, therefore a Republican. Rhody Shiel said that twenty-seven breweries contributed to the Republican campaign fund in Indiana two years ego. The Herald alluded to both the breweries and the ministers as patriots at that time. They now lament the probable loss of one. Too bad. Louis Ludlow, staff correspondent of the Indianapolis Star, has made a careful study of conditions in Indiana, and he knows just about what he’s talking about. Mr. Ludlow is a Democrat, but this year he will support the Republican state ticket. —Winchester Herald. True, Mr. Ludlow is a Democrat, but is working for and under instruc-

tions of the Republican state committee. His acoount /of the Berne situation was a glaring misrepresentation of facts, hardly even one truth in two long columns. This likely is a fair sample of his ear burners in other parts of the state. Mr. Ludlow told the writer two weeks ago that he would much prefer to write Democratic dope, and from this we take it that he will vote his party ticket There is lots of them this year, though. IT DID NOT WORK A few weeks ago “Uncle’’ Nate was using the first column in the Muncie Star almost every day in an effort to belittle Congressman Adair and his excellent record in congress which is a decided nightmare to his envious opponent. Os course “Uncle” Nate paid for every line published in the Star. There was a whoop and a hurrah over the discovery of Sulloway who contributed to the mudslinging. Then “Uncle” Nate had his “Washington special” letters running every week in such country papers as would use it. But all at once, and that too with a sudden jar that most took one off his feet these abusive articles ceased. Why, do you suppose? “Uncle” Nate knows why. So does the Muncie Star and almost everybody else —there was absolutely no truth in any of these paid articles and the machine suddenly woke up to the fact that instead of injuring Mr. Adair with the voters they were actually making him more votes. The same people who read these articles had read the Muncie Star during the last session of congress when the Star was publishing a newspaper instead of a paid organ and they remembered that the Star, had recounted much of the good work Adair had done in congress. They remembered that at that time the Star had said that in one short session Adair had made a reputation for himself and had become one of the leaders in congress. And the Star readers were not timid in telling their disapproval of such tactics. Hundreds of former Star readers have found it out and quit a paper whose influence can be swayed by a few dollars and at the same time they have shown their contempt for the man who seeks their votes by such methods. —Portland Sun. A BIG DAY IN INDIANAPOLIS August 25 will be a big day in Indianapolis and a great day for the Democratic party. Mr. Bryan will be theie to see Mr. Kern notified of his nomination for vice president and to make a speech on the trusts —probab.y ihe only speech he wi” deliver in the state during the campaign. Myron D. King of Indianapolis, chairman of the general committee on arrangements, hts announced the committees which will look after the details of the work of preparation. These committees ar a as follows: Salute —August M. Kuhn and Chas. Schmidt Colosseum Arrangements—Myron D. King and Parks Martin. Kiser and Gus Keevers. Officers and Ushers —Captain Tom Colbert and William F. Moore. Press Tickets —Millard F. Cox ahd J, L. Reiley. Finance —John E. Hollett, treasurer; Bernard Korbly, W. A. Pickens, D. P. Williams, William A.Wlolt, Nelson.J. Hyde, John F. Darmody, August M. Kuhn, Robert E. Springsteen, Emil Fertig, Joseph A. McGowan, Ridgeley B. Hillery, Frank Bridges. Reception—Thomas Taggart, chairman; U. S. Jackson, vice chairman; David Turpie, Hugh Dougherty, and 100 other prominent Democrats of the state. William F. Moore, Chief of Ushers, with thirty assistants. Mr. King and Parks M. Martin of the general committee on arrangements, with the aid of the various subcommittees, are working day and night on the details of the big meeting, and no pains will be spared to make it the greatest affair of the kind ever witnessed in Indiana. Seats will be pro-

vided for an Immense crowd, and it is believed that everybody will be comfortably taken care of. Cromer has made his bow into twelfth district political circles. It’s a safe statement that more people will have promises for jobs than was ever known there 10 to 1. The Fort Wayne authorities in ordering the Decatur fair banners from the interurban cars have given the business men of this city an inkling of their real feeling toward the smaller towns of this locality. It’s a case of all coming in and nothing goes out for that city. “Uncle” Nate Sias “cut out” his paid dope in the Muncie Star. The advertising rates in the Star is very high and Hawkins wasn’t getting very much in return. The Great Northern Fair banners again adorn the front of the Decatur Interurban cars. The officious policeman at Fort Wayne who ordered the fair banners from the interurban cars, didn’t boost himself any in the opinion of the wholesale dealers and others who had to take the consequences. There is one way and only one whereby Fort Wayne can prove to Decatur that the act ot ordering our fair banners from the interurban cars was unintentional by those in authority and that is by sending good delegations here for the fair, thus making up the damage. To make use of the classic language of the Hon. Joe Cannon, there was a “wide space between the government*'; waistband and the bottom of its vest” for the month of July. In other words, the government spent during that month $24,800,000 more than it took in. And that is going some, even for this extravagant administration.

There is one thing that politicians should learn to understand. It is that the average citizen doesn't want to be bored with politics during the month of August and not very much in September. The month of October affords ample opportunity for getting off about all the political bluster that an obliging electorate cares to endure. —South Bend Times. If Tom Marshall is elected governor of Indiana, and he will be, there is one thing that the people can expect, and that is, he will be the governor and will enforce the laws of the state. He will not become the tool of a lot of good fellows or do the bidding of those who are looking for favors from the executive head of the state. — Columbia City Post. When Samuel J. Tilden was before the country as a presidential candidate, he flatly refused to be interviewed. When he had anything to bring to the attention of the American people, he prepared with deliberation r whatever he deemed necessary to say on that particular subject. He did not speak or write often, but when he did either, all the people listened attentively and digested fully every word emanating from his forceful pen. The teachers’ institute is in session. Two hundred men and women are here in whose hands rest great responsibilities—the foundation for those who in future years will manage affairs. To them we owe respect May they receive many new thoughts from the able instructors and the splendid program as arranged by our ever progressive superintendent. Prof. L. E. Opliger, to whom is due the successful meetings now in progress, declared by all the best ever held here. Surely these be prosperous days for Governor Hanly. The state is paying him SBOO a month for carrying about over the country his title of governor. And while he is going about over the country he is raking in money from other sources. It is s aid that he was billed for forty-eight Chautauqua addresses during the months of July and August. As each of these means as much as S2OO he will make in these two months $9,600 by his outside em-

ployment. Add to this the $1,600 that he draws from the state treasury and you get (or rather the governor gets) the tidy sum of $11,200. Hon. Geo. W. Cromer, the man who has the Eighth district tn his sack for sale, trade or barter, together with Ancil Alexander, the deputy state treasurer, was a visitor in Bluffton Saturday night. He didn’t stop to tighten up the spokes in his Wells couny machine, fpr George never wastes any time on things he don t need, and besides his henchmen always come to him at Muncie when they are sent for. He had been in Fort Wayne showing the republicans how to run machinery, and when he got through they were willing to agree that he wa s as good a man as ever grabbed the throttle. He had been engineering for ten years and still holds his license i n this district to get in at his trade any old time he wants to. Bluffton Banner. Now, what’s the trouble? James E. Watson was billed to speak the other day to a “big meeting” of negroes at the state fair grounds. When he arrived on the spot he found, according to the Indianapolis papers, about “30 men and as man ywomen and children.” The following week Senator Hemenway was to speak to the colored people at the same place. And here is how it was, according to a dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer: An Emancipation Day celebration advertised for the negroes of Indiana at the state fair grounds this afternoon, with Senator Hemenway as the principal orator, failed to materialize. About 35 negroes were present. Senator Hemenway, being informed of the situation, decided not to make a speech. It is tradition that September 1 'S soon enough to begin the general work of a presidential campaign. This year it would be well to bgin at once. Two visible facts indicate the wisdom of such a policy. One is the demoralization of the Republican organization in several great states whose electoral votes are indispensable to Mr. Taft. There is no longer a Republican organization, in any real party sense, in Wisconsin. Other demoralized states might be named. And the situation in Illinois is not ideal. Another visible fact is the steady series of intimations that come from thousands of Republican farmers in lowa, in Kansist, in Nebraska and elsewhere. It it too widely assumed by these Republicans that Mr. Bryan represents the Rosevelt policies more fully and truly than dees Mr. Taft. This is an ominous impression to have exist ; n the public mind. —Chicago Inter-Ocean.

The Baltimore Sun has espoused Taffs cause. We notice that this is hailed in Repuoican papers as likey to carry Maryland for the Republicans.” We doubt it, for several reasons. First, a paper “carries” less than prejudice supposes, and particularly in these modern days, where there is more than one paper. There was probably never in any country a more brilliant company of newspapers than those that espoused the Liberal cause in 1872. Not to mention the small ones, there was the New York Tribune, whose editor, Horace Greeley the mainstay of the Republican press, was the candidate himself. There was the Chicago Tribune, edited then by the briliant Horace. White; the Cincinnati Commercial, with Mixrat Halstead at its head, then in the heydey of his powers, and the Louisville Courier-Journal, with Mr. Watterson. Last and greatest of all in journalistic power, was the Springfield Republican with Samuel Bowles. On the other side was Grant and the charges of corruption that so soon were to find “confirmation strong as proofs from Holy Writ.” What followed ’s a matter of history.—lndianapolis News. Judge Alton B. Parker, in a speech before a large audience in Los Angeles last week, paid this tribute to Bryan and Kern: “We have at the head of the Democratic ticket two men of character well known, one of whom is especially well known, and who, in season and out, has fought against the relations be-

tween government and corrupt corporations. And with him is associated a man whom I have known personally since 1895, and who in my judgment, is in every way worthy of his associate and who in case of emergency of any kind should arise, which God frobid, would be in position to take up the standard and carry it on.” This reference to the candidates was j received with great cheering^ln a ’previous interview in the same city Judge Parker had said: “The Democratic party must win. It has the winning cause, the winning | platform and the winning men. It pre- | sents to the enemy a united front. The Democrats are alive and very much , alive. Their position is defined with • great clearness and excellence in the ' platform of the national convention. I hope every Democrat has committed that platform to heart, and if we can persuade the Republican voters to read R-*-well. they won’t remain Republican voters. The Republican platform is a thing of shreds and patches. It is cobbled work and fiimsily cobbled at that.” SELECT TEACHERS S. E. Kramer to be Principal of the South Ward School OTHER SELECTIONS Miss Schrock. Music—Grace Walters Succeeds Miss Sellemeyer The board of school trustees met yesterday and concluded the work of selecting teachers to fill such vacancies as have occurred since the selection last spring. S. C. Kramer, of Union township, will succeed Arthur Suttles, however taking the South Ward principalship, Mr. John Parrish going to the central and Mr. Worthman to the West Ward. Mrs. Grace Walters was chosen for the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Emma Sellemeyer. Miss Bessie Schrock was appointed as instructor in the mesic and drawing department and Mrs. W. A. Lower was again selected as the supply reacher. This concludes the force of teachers for the year. They begin duty on September 7th. o — The of Sam Henry Post G. A. R, are urgently requested to meet at their hall this (Thursday) evening for the purpose of completing arrangements to attend the national encampment which will be held August 31 and September 1,2, 3 and 4 at Toledo, Ohio. Daniel Shackley, commander of Sam Henry Post has been chosen as one of the three alternates from the Eighth district and he informs us that about thirty members of G. A. R. from this city will attend the national meet, among \vhom are T. R. Moore, Jacob Railing, S. B. Fordyce, George B. Kline, Andrew Teeple, E. Cutting. F. F. Freeh, John Oswald and several others. A rate of $3.40 for the round trip will be charged. The parade which is scheduled for Wednesday, September 2nd, promises to be the most gorgeous event in the history of the country. Officers from the posts of every state in the Union will participate in the parade. The Indiana delegation will have its headquarters in a downtown hotel. The Eighth district sends three alternates and three delegates to the encampment. o— —■— D. E. Smith has returned from a business trip at Monmouth. Miss Maud Cowley left this morning for Ossian, where she will make a several days’ visit with relatives and friends. George C. Steel arrived home last evening from a several days’ stay at Toledo. Ohio. While at Toledo Mr Steel purchased his great amount* of Xmas goods.

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