Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 3 September 1908 — Page 4

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THE DEMOCRAT ■ , ■." — ■ ~ —— l ■VBAYTBUMUATMOMUNe BY LEW G. ELUNGHAM, Publisher. ■LM PBR YBAJt IN ADYANCB. Battred M the pmtoklee *» Decatur. I adlna aa eesaa d-cla*« mall matter —l ' ' ’ ' OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. TAFT MAKES DEMOCRATIC VOTES Ex-Governor James E. Campbell, of Ohio, who will be elected United States senator from Ohio by the Democrats aided by the Republicans who are tired of Taftism and Coxism, in a speech last Saturday at Cincinnati, is quoted as saying: “All the Democratic orators in the country are not doing as much for the success of the Democracy as one brilliant Cincinnati man has done and is doing.”’ said the former governor. Some people in the crowd evidently thought he was referring to Judge Harmon and they began yelling for, the gubernatorial candidate. “I don't, mean Harmon —I will come to him before I am through. The man I have reference to has been an eminent j judge, secretary of war, and is now a candidate for the presidency. “He made one speech in Akron a few years ago and Ohio went Democratic by 40,000 plurality. He went , to New York and the heavens wept, J The old soldiers who followed General Grant during the civil war will re-; member his remarks on the habits of the great warrior. Then he made a speech in the front yard of the, Taft residence a few days ago, admit-: ting that the Democratic platform was right and gave evidence that he was doing all that he could to get upon it. That speech, with the coalmens upon it by Mr. Bryan, will elect the Democratic standard bearer.” Butler county, Ohio, gave Bryan 3.000 majority each time he was a candidate and ex-Governor Campbell; says “and this year they will not only j vote for him but will pay for the privilege. They are giving a dollar apiece to the Democratic campaign fund.” | —- Business men who complain of hard times should advertise. It bears the same relation to your success as does axle grease to the old wagon. Try it.

Mr. Lane says that Stephen Fleming's family life and record as a citizen is such that he is entitled to respect, two first class qualities for a candidate. The republicans nominated a county ticket this morning without much effort. Its doubtful if a half dozen of those present could tell you offhand who the nominees are. Ten shadows on Taft's path to the white house may call to the minds of some over-confident people a belief that the third defeat of Bryan is not going to be as easy as the proverbial “falling off a log.” “Uncle” Nate is not making a howling success of his sham investigation of Congressman Adair's records during h’s incumbency in the county clerk's office. The anonymous notes being handed out alleging that Adair charged excessive fees is fooling no one for the reason that they recognize it as a political trick and not for the benefit of those who paid fees. They know, too, that all fees taxed by Adair as costs In estates and court cases had to be approved by the judge of the court. —Portland Sun. The Louisville Courier-Journal says that Wall street and the trusts are satisfied with Taft; that Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, Herriman and the rest of the nest-featherers are satisfied with what they will get out of’t in return for their contributions if Taft should be elected. “But,’’ asks the Courier-Journal, "what will the plain, good and honest people in the churches and in the schools, on the farms and down by the purling streams of truth, what will they say to the confidence game of these sanctimonious hypocrites to steal the liberties, whilst corrupting the elections •nd debauching the morals of the country? What will they say?

ANO COLLIER’S TOO Collier’s Weekly had a significant editorial this week entitled. “The Republicans and Money.” It is given herewith: “The election and subsequent death of Mr. Taft would mean the occupancy of the white house by an official fat-fryer who has during several years past approached, with i ( deferential hat tn hand, the president or treasurer in the country. It was in the course of this official function that Sherman was profanely turned down by Mr. Harriman, with bitter denunciation of the Republican party and reeking messages for the head of that party, that the party and the head of it had not been grateful for the 1250,000 which Mr. Harriman collected and gave in 1904. Penrose, as one of the executive committee of nine which is to do the actual work of the Republican campaign, is in error of taste and judgment but not a great deal worse. With T. Coleman Du Pont, of Deleware, however, the case differs. Among the combinations now being prosecuted by the federal government is that aggregation of companies known as the Powder Trust. Mr. Du Pont is president of the fifty-million-dollar Du Pont Powder Company, president of the ten-million-Jollar International Powder Company, director of the International Smokeless Powder Company, and vice president of the holding company, the Delaware Securities company, which owns a majority of the stock of the Laflin & Rand Pow-

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der Company. Suppose that Mr. Taft being successful, should be approached by Mr. Du Pent thus: "I am one of the ten men, including Chairman Hitchcock, who have put you over the plate, i don't want to be reminding you continually of the obligation; there is one small piece of patronage I should like, and I shan’t speak to you about patronage again during your administration. There is a deserving young friend of mine whom I should like to have appointed to the position lately held by Mr. Purdy, in charge of that bureau of the Department cf Justice which is seeking to break up my company, deprive me of seme of my property, and deciare me a violator of the law.’” Something analogous would have been the presence of Harry Thaw two years ago on a committee of ten to collect funds and promote the election of Jerome as district attorney. A minority plank, calling for a statute providing for publicity of campaign expenditures, was thrown out of the committee On resolutions by a vote of 52 to 1, and was rejected on the floor of the convention by a vote of 880 to 94 —Nebraska and Idaho and parts of Wisconsin and Indiana favoring it. The amount of Bourbonism still left in the Republican party is far too large.” C. G. Egley would have liked to have been the senatorial candidate, but the roller from Allen county ran him down, so he was sweetened up with the chairmanship at the convention.

“Uncle Nathan” attended the county convention here this morning and in a concentrated effort of six minutes' duration apologized for not being told of his wonderful work in the state senate. There ca n be no doubt of the popularity of the deposit guaranty plank of the Democratic platform. It has even converted the Republicans of the west, the Republican party of Kansas having made the same declaration. It is believed that the Republicans of other states will adopt this Democratic device. If they do, it is hard to see how Mr. Taft, who has committeed himself strongly against it, will be able to dig himself out of a hole. It is cjuite possible to maintain two separate and distinct literary bureaus, one for the east and the other for the west. But Mr. Taft cannot make two sorts of speeches at the same time. Nor can he deliver a speech adapted to one section of the country that will not be read throughout the land. If he opposes this bank guaranty the Kansas Republicans will know it If he favors it he will have to take back Ahat he has already said. —lndianapolis News.

THE PEOPLE’S HEAVY BURDEN !(From Mr. Marshall’s Salem Speech.) Twelve years ago, under a Democratic administration, there was appropriated out of the state treasury tor salaries and expenses of certain state offices a little over $431,000. In the year 1907 there was appropriated out of the same state treasury, for the same offices, in salaries and expenses, more than >925,000. The taxable property of the state of Indiana in twelve years has increased 40 per cent, but : the total state and local taxes have increased eighteen to thirty-six million dollars. During the last year the state i debt has likewise increased. The state board of tax commissioners has reduced the assessment of telegraph, steam railway and express companies nearly three millions of dollars. The last congress of the United States appropriated more than a billion of dollars, although we were running behind at the rate of seven millions of dollars a month. The people are groaning under the burdens of taxation. Useless and unnecessary salaries are being paid in some instances, and in other instances men who are doing wonders for the people of Indiana are living at pauper wages. Offices have multiplied. Petty officials are running around annoying the people and drawing their salaries. Depression js abroad in the land, and the hour is at hand for retrenchment, reform and a general overhauling of the financial affairs of the people. This has been found true in many of the counties of the state and lends support to the necessity of an overhauling of expenditures everywhere. I have not time even to mention the

unnecessary offices that have been cre- , They will arive involuntarily in ; your minds. They may be covered in I general by the language cf the average i sale bill: “They are too numerous to mention.” It is not an unusftal thing in Indiana to see the officer himself citing no work, while the people are paying him a salary, his deputy likevise being paid a salary.' The officebelling craze has grown so serious that the average officeholder imagines that his duty consists in drawing his salary, saluting the flag and calling for an additional appropriation. It’s time to advertise if you want any of the fall business. Do you? Fair week is over. Nothing exciting until rally time. Let’s do a little business in the meantime. Try advertising in the Dally Democrat. It will help all around. "The Campbells are Coming.” ExGovernor Campbell of Ohio, who is the Democratic nominee for senator in the Buckeye state, predicts that Ohio will go democratic by 50.000 in November. The New York Staats Zeitung, the great German paper published by Herman Ridder, says: “It is conceded even in Republican circles that the election of a Republican governor in Ohio is more than doubtful.”

Several national banks in Oklahoma are surrendering their charters and reincorporating under the state law. They do this in order to hold their business. Mr. Bonaparte. President Roosevelt’s attorney general, decided that national banks could not avail themselves of the deposit guaranty feature of the Oklahoma law, and as this decision would put them out of business as national banks, they are becoming state banks. The Dc/nr* cratic party in both state and nation is in favor of guaranteeing depositors. That the people of Fort Wayne have only the friendliest feelings for the great Decatur fair is evident from the size of the delegation which went from here to attend the gathering this morning on the opening date. And it is doubtful if a more friendly greeting to a visiting delegation was ever offered than that which the Decatur people extend to the Fort Wayne attendants. Anyway, this little misunderstanding was a sort of lover’s quarrel, which will end in alt of us being more thoughtful of each others feelings in the future—Fort Wayne News.

INVESTIGATING THE FARMER Writing to the Chicago Inter Ocean a Republican paper, Thomas Fletcher of Newark, 111., criticises President ' Roosevelt's appointment of a commission to investigate the farmers. Mr. Fletcher says that he has always been a Republican, but that he will vote for Bryan this year. Speaking of the investigation of the farmers, he says: As a Republican farmer and landowner, I am not especially pleased with the president’s idea of appointing a commission to investigate the sanitary. moral and financial condition of the farmer The commission will undoubtedly be instructed to count the farmers’ children and to make a report on “race suicide.” We have no idea that congress will pay the slightest attention to this report. This is a move on the part of the president to cateh the farmer's vote. The president has something over 200, 000 federal officeholders under him. These holders of office draw upward of $200,000,000 in salaries from the pockets of the people. For the president to have used this great body of men to further the interest of Taft as a candidate for president against the wishes of the best heads in the Republican party is entirely wrong. Roosevelt might better have kept his hands off. Os course it may have been done in the interest of “my policies” and yet it is not what any single individual wants, however high a station he may for a little time occupy, but it is what the public wants. Any other president could have done this, but no other president has ever done so; no other president has ever appointed his successor. The farmers are not savages and they need no investigating by a president. We make the statement that there are plenty of farmers and stockmen in these United States who could give our president valuable advice as to what are the proper duties of the president and what are not his duties.

Decatur merchants should awaken. Right now is the time to advertise, if you, don’t want your fall (business to go to other cities. Each of you should help to hold it here. Advertise. Speaking of Mr. Hawkins’ failure to arrive here Wednesday, the Portland Sun said: It hasn’t been so very long since “Uncle” Nate was a base ball fan for your life, going a great distance to see the Portland team play the naional game. He made these trips in his automobile and was never known to be tardy or absent. The indications -are that a large delegation of Fort Wayne and Allen county republicans will go to Decatur Saturday to attend the republican mass meeting, which will nominate a candidate for Jpint senator from Adams and Allen counties. The Fort Wayne party will leave in a special car on the Decatur interurban line at 1 p. m. Saturday.—Fort Wayne News. A political item in the Indianapolis Star, the Republican state organ and official court journal, says this: "Fred A. Sims, acting chairman of the committee, is giving all of his time to the work.” Mr. Sims is acting chairman of the Republican state committee, to which he “is giving all of his time,” but the people are paying him 86,500 a year on the theory that he “is giving all of his time” to his duties as secretary of state. Other Republican officials are doing no more than Sinae to earn their salaries. > Any 12 Yoar Old Girl Can make those delicious Lemon, Chocolate and Custard pies as well as the more experienced cook if she uses “OLR-PIE” preparation, which is now sold by nearly all grocers at 10 cents per package. Just the proper ingredients in each package. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Tettman have returned heme from a short visit at Rome City with friends. While there they made a visit with Miss Bertha Hart, who s taking treatment at the Kneipp sanitarium.

WHY NEGLECT THE DEPOSITOR? In support of the plank in the Dem- ■ ocratic platform in favor of the pas sage of a law guaranteeing deposits tn banks. Mr. Bryan, in his speech at Topeka, August 2S, called attention to the following facts: Why not make the depositor secure? The United States government requires the deposit of specific security when it entrusts money to a national bank, although it can examine the bank at any time; the state requires security when it deposits money in a bank: the county requires security and the city requires security; even the banks require security from the officials who handle fn»ney. Why should the depositor be left to take his chances? Not only is the depositor without protection, but the security given to nation, state, county and city lessens his security. They are preferred creditors; they have a mortgage on the gilt-edged assets and the depositor must get along as best he can with what remains. W’hy are the interests of depositors thus neglected? Can any unselfish person think of any reason why the individual depositor is not as much entitled to the protection of his money as the nation, the state, the county or the city? Is there any reason why the individual depositor should be discriminated against by such practices as now exist? The Democratic party thinks not. The Democratic party is pledged to the passage of a law which will secure all depositors. Mr. Merchant, let us again appeal to your good sound business sense by calling attention to the fact that if you don't advertise —now—Tigflit now—that a large portion of the fall trade that belongs to Decatur, is going to go to other towns in this vicinity.

Ben Hur lodges in all parts of Indiana have been invited to become guests of the Queen City court of Ma rion at a field day to be held at Goldthwait park September 17. Marion Ben Hur members are preparing to entertain a large crowd since snecial rates are provided on all traction lines centering in that city.—Bluffton Banner. Mrs. Michael Smith has returned heme from Montpelier where she attended the funeral of a brother-in-law. The drug stores are preparing for the rush of the students for school books next Monday, when school will take up again. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Christian church will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Harvey Lee Friday afternoon. A large attendance is desired. The Misses Minnie and Clara Fuelling. of this city, and Miss May Furst of Michigan, left on the 8:30 car for Fort Wayne, where they are spending the day with friends. All the members of the Epworth League cabinet should be present this evening at 8:30 p. m. at their regular meeting as business of importance will be transacted. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Graham, of Preble, passed through the city yesterday. enroute to Toledo, Ohio.where they are attending the G. A. R. encampment being held there. John Prillaman, footer operator on the C. & E. road here, is making a visit at Bluffton with his mother before leaving for Chicago, where he has accepted a similar position. A number of good horses are already entered in the races at the Van Wert fair, September 8-11, and it is predicted that the track record will be materially lowered this year. Jchn Smith, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Edge and Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Grandstaff are among those who attended the G. A. R. encampment at Toledo. Mrs. Fanny Cole left today for Warren, Ind., where she will visit for some time with friends and relatives. She will return home the first of next week. o Democrat Want Ads. Pav

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es Work on the Yager Bros, and Reinking furniture building is progressing rapidly and in a short time will be completed. The brick work is going on as fast as possible at the present time. Messrs. Carl and Walter Klausinger have left for Fort Wayne where they will enter Concordia college and study for the ministry. E. C. Stemen, of Ohio, was here last evening talking business with D. E. Studabaker, both being dealers in Duroc-Jersey swine. Mrs. John Christen is making a several days’ visit at Kenton, Ohio, with friends. She will also visit other points in Ohio before returning home. A good show was presented at the Pictorium last evening and was enjoyed by large .audiences. Nothing but the best are Being put on by Mr. Stoneburner. The season for the laying in of the winter's supply of coal is coming on. and many people are availing themselves of the opportunity before the price advances. A gentleman is hunting up the city ordinances in order to find if there is a municipal law compelling picture shows to change their phonograph music at any certain Intervals. He swears the same tunes have been played all summer. —Bluffton Banner. Mr. Jack Spindler. of Cleveland, 0., was in the city yesterday on a special business trip and returned last evening. Mrs. O. B. Shively has returned to her home at Valparaiso, Ind., after a visit of several days in the city with relatives. The Columbian Club will entertain its members this evening at a social affair and a most delightful time will be enjoyed. Mr. aud Mrs. Spetnagel will arrive home the last of this week from a several days’ visit Des Moines. la. with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Hobrock and his mother of this city are making a several weeks' visit at Denver, Col., and other western points. Oscar Shaw is making a visit at j Fort Wayne.

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