Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 1 October 1908 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VKaYTHUBSDAYMOBNIKG BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. R.OO YEAR IN ADVANCE Kai*.-ed at the poatofl)ee at Decatur. 1 ndiaaa ta eecoaS-chiM mail matter ~ - ■ - OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. HE IS JUST STANDING As the congressional campaign wears on the voters of the district are becoming more and more anxious to know jus t where candidate Hawkins stands on the many questions the; are before the people. So far, UncL> Nate has confined his camca'gn to bitter and false attacks against his ponent, Mr. Adair, but has not said to the people where he strxad upon a solitary question, except to say in the Muncie Star that he stands on the tepublican platform. Is that enough say? Isn’t it a fact that all candidates for congress, an office so important, should go before the people and help the party and his own cause by fairly discussing the issues of the campaign. Probably not another candidate for congress in the whcle United States is acting as i s Mr. Hawkins. They are all out helping in the campaign of their respective parties. Why not Hawkins? No doubt as a candidate for such an important office he has opinions on at least some of the questions that confront the people of the country at this time, and the people should, and would like, to know what the opinions of the senator are. Simply issuing bulletins accusing Mr. Adair of all the crimes in the calendar, when everybody who knows Adair, and Hawkins, know the charges are not true, will not help the cause of the republican candidate. Mr. Adair hag Ju&t finished two speeches in this county and instead of abuse and vinification of his opponent has been telling the people what he has done in their behalf, what he thinks of the things that are before the country and what he will attempt to do if re-elect-ed. Hawkins has only said, and that ia print that he "will introduce a dol-lar-a-day pension bill/ and that he “stands on the republican platform." And the pigeon hole in the committee on pensions is already stuffed with dollar-a-day pension bills, with no hope of ever having one passed by Sulloway and his crowd. The same way the senator introduced a bill to repeal the gravel road law in the legislature the other day. He knew it had already been agreed that there would be no legisltion on the gravel road law at the special session. Take the stump, senator, tell the people why you want to go to congress.—Bluffton Banner. THE DEMOCRATS ARE UP AND DOING The Democrats of the east are showing more signs of life than they have ever shown before. Conservative writers tell of the united action o’ all elements of the party, especially among the Cleveland wing, al! of whom have lied dormant during the last three presidential campaigns. They are now lining up with their party organization, and are showing an interest and zeal that Is surprising It New Jersey, a state that was considered safe for Taft by one hundred thousand plurality, is now in the doubtful column, and is made doubtful by the united action of the Demcerats and also by the factional strife and lack of interest in Taft among the Republicans. The same story comes from New York, Rhede Island and every other eastern states that ever had a tendency to at times look with favor upon the Democrats. In Ohio the political fortunes of the Republicans is causing them endless worry, and there are those who want to wager that Hamilton county and Cincinnati goes for Bryan. So the story goes. From east to west the story relates disaffection and discouragement to Republicans and unity of action and encouragement for the Democrats. In five weeks more the campaign ends, and at this time there Is much to encourage every Democrat and urge him to personal action. Be up and doing. Help the organization.

I The time is at hand when precinct or- ' Igsnization work should cutrival all J other methods, of campaigning. Get , busy. GIVE AN ACCOUNTING In the course of an editorial headed i I “The Country Will Be Warned,” the I i St. Louis Globe-Democrat says it will be the duty of Taft. Cannon, Hughes. I Shaw and other Republican leaders to take special pains when they go on the stump to point out the disaster which would come on he country if by any mischance Bryan should be elect-. ed. We do not, of course, know what would follow such a program, but we believe that any such calamity howling as that would meet with such a j rebuke that there would have to be in- j stant and complete shift again of the issues—which is about all that the Re- i publicans have been doing since the ’ Chicago convention. The country is in no mood to stand calamity howlers. Think of the proposition—leaders of the Republican party, the party that has had uninterrupted control for twelve years, getting up in the midst of a panic that has been pinching us new for nearly a year and telling the people that if they elect the Demo- ■ crats disaster will overtake them* What is it that has overtaken them now? What are we suffering from? Who is responsible for it? A nice program. Indeed, a calamity program would be! What the Republican leaders want to get busy with is not seeing visions and interpreting dreams of what may, migSit, could, would or should happen if the Democrats should be elected, but what has happened while the country has ben in the exclusive control of the Republican party, and what that party proposes to do to bring relief. It is a time for an accounting of stewardship, not the bringing of railing suppositions. • • The people understand this campaign perfectly. They know precisely what the Democrats propose. There has' rarely been a platform incisive than the one adopted at Denver, and no one could be clearer or less equivocal than the candidates have been. On the other hand, it is true, as Mr. Bryan says, pertinently, in his comment on the president’s letter of indorsement of Mr. Taft, no one knows just what the Republican doctrine is. Mr. Taft has amended the Chicago platform several times, and there are signs of another movement in that direction.—lndianapolis News. ARE YOU A BILLIOUSITE? Yes, that's a new word—just out of the foundry, coined today. It means a man who belittles everything that uplifts, no matter how small that thing is; who would rather wear a frown than a smile. His full title is The Business Billiousite. He has some good points, but he files them off with his constant looking on the dark side of events: He scents disaster twelve months in advance, and his greatest joy is to be able to say “I told you so.” The country, according to him, is on a greased toboggan slide,, and so is business. Everything is going to the devil, and he was the first to see it. He has occasional lucid moments, when he keeps still, at least; but they don’t last long—and he grabs his grouch-megaphone and works it overtime when he starts again. Let’s (refrain from being a Business Billiousite. Let’s be cheerful. even if we have to force the smile a bit. It’s unhealthy to grumble all the time. The Business BillLcusite likes to get in the sunshine —just to see how black a shadow he can cast upon others! IT ALL COSTS MORE SUPT. OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Republican—l9o7. Superintendent’s salary $ 3,000 Asst, superintendent’s salary.. 2,000 Deputy superintendent’s salary 1,500 Clerk’s salary 1,200 Stenographer’s salary 720 Office expense 1,000 Traveling expense 1,000 Total f 110,420 Democratic —1892. Superintendent’s salary $ 2.500 Clerk’s salary 900 Clerk's salary 900

’clerk’s salary 900 Traveling expenses- • 600 Office expense 800 Total $ 6.600 CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES. Republican—l9o7. Salaries of Judges $218,700 Democratic —1892. Salaries of Judges 8145.000 SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. Republican —1907. Salaries of Judges $52,400 Democratic —1892. Salaries of Judges .....$7,000 PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS. Republican —1907. Salaries of prosecutors $30,500 Democratic —1892. Salaries of prosecutors $28,000 COURTS FARE WELL APPELLATE COURT. Republican—l9o7. Judge’s salary ....$6,000 , Judge’s salary 6,000 Judge's salary 6,000 Judge’s salary 6,000 Judge’s salary 6.000 Judge’s salary 6.000 Stenograhper’s salary 720 Stenograhper’s salary 720 Stewgrahper’s salary 720 Stenograhper’s salary 730 . Stenograhper’s salary 720 Stenograhper’s"salary 720 Messenger’s salary 720 Expense fund 2,000 Total $43,040 Total $43,040 Democratic —1892. Judge’s salary $ 3,500 Judge's salary 3.500 Judge’s salary 3.500 Judge’s salary 3,500 Judge's salary 3,500 Expense fund 2,000 ' Messenger's salary 720 Sheriff's salary 250 Total $20,470 IT ALL COSTS MORE CLERK SUPREME COURT. Republican—l9o7. Clerk’s salary $ 5,000 Deputy’s salary 1.800 Assistant deputy's salary 1,200 Record clerk 1.200 Copy clerk 900 Fee clerk 750 Office expense 850 Total $11,700 NOTE —These salaries were fixed by Republican legislature of 1895. Democratic —1892. Clerk’s salary $ 5.000 Deputy’s salary 1,500 Second deputy’s salary 1.200 Stenographer 600 Record clerk , 600 Total $ 8.900 REPORTER SUPREME COURT. Republican—l 997. Reporter’s salary $ 5.000 Assistant reporter’s salary.... 2,000 Second asst, reporter’s salary 1.200 Third asst, reporter’s salary.. 1,200 Stenographer’s salary 800 Office expense 150 Total $10,350 Democratic —1892. Reporter's salary $ 4,000 Assistant reporter’s salary.... 1,500 Office expense 200 Total .»$ 5,700 IT ALL COSTS MORE BUREAU OF STATISTICS. Republican—l9o7. State statistician’s salary... .f 3,000 Chief Dep. statistician’s salary 1,800 Stenographer’s salary 720 Stenographer’s salary 720 Clerk’s salary 2,500 Agents’ salaries and expenses. 3,250 Office expense 1,500 Special clerk hire 450 Special for agents .... 500 Specail for stenographer .... 720 Total $15,160 Democratic—lß92. General appropriation for all salaries and expenses—including blanks. stationery and postage $ 9,000 ADJUTANT’S GENERAL’S OFFICE. Republican—l9o7. Adjutant general’s salarys 2,250 Quartermaster general’s salary 1.200 Clerk’s salary 1,200 Stenographer’s salary 600 Special 5,000 Indiana militia 75,000 Total $85,250 Democratic—lß92. Adjutant general’s salarys 1,200 Quartermaster general’s salary 600 C.trk’s salary 720 Indiana militia 37,000 Total ....$39,520

) ' The guaranteement of bank deposits is one issue in this campaign that interests every voter. There is no - ! j earthly reason why the government, national, state, county, township and city should be guaranteed their de- • posits and the small depositor have to take his chances. It is not right. The Demccratic platform is pledged ita this reform. I ■ The Hen. James M. Robison, for1 mer congressman from the twelfth district, made a splendid address up--1 on the issues involved in this campaign. at the court house last night. 1 He illustrated the inner workings of the trusts, the forming of combinations. the stock market and other feaures that have now made it possible for twenty men to own half the wealth of the nation. The guarantee of bank deposits was also thoroughly explained. Mr Robiscn is a polish- ' ed speaker and his many friends here were more than pleased with his ad- , dress. 1 'JUS. .. More spice and ginger was added I to the campaign by the addition of ' a red hot reply and retort by SenaII ( • tor Foraker to the charge of Hearst 1 and the counter charge of the presi--1 dent The senator was in good form. 1 and answered his defamers in the characteristic Foraker style. There ! is evidently more to follow and before the campaign progresses much 1 further, more dirty linen will find its 1 way to the political laundry, which ' will likely be working overtime be-. 1 ' sere election day. It is expected that , the campaign contributions of four 1 years ago. will play an important 1 part, and Alton B. Parker will have his inning. In fact every one has a show this year, and as a result the public will knew much that has heretofore ben mysteriously talked about in parables. Foraker seems but the victim of circumstances. The Republican woeds are still left full of Standard Oil “attorneys," both in and out of congress, of sugar ring “attorneys," of steel trust "attorneys,” posing as t statesmen. What is Cannon but a trust “attorney?” What else is Aldrich? They have syndicated the government. Why balk at Foraker? Through forty years the Republican I party has ben she .“attorney’’/ of, every ring and ringster, of every job and jobber, which has appeared at Washington having a graft big enough to tempt the steering committee of the senate; the rules committee of the house, from high tariff, , always at the front, to high finance, 1 seeing monopoly in every known 1 commodity—sugar, steel, iron—en1 riching Republican statesmen and making a mockery of popular interests. The senate is crowded with 1 trust attorneys. It is too late for the Republicans to make a scapegoat of ' Foraker.—Henry Watterson, in Louis- ' ville Courier-Journal. 1 1 Congressman Adair is in Madison county this week, speaking every night and meeting the voters every day. He mates a plain statement of what he stands for, and how he will represent the people if re-elected to congress. How different this is 1 to the method of his opponent. “Un- • cle Nate” is a candidate by paid ex--1 perts. He i s trying to drag down I the character of the Democratic can- > didate, and in the meantime says ' nothing in his own behalf. He is a ’ bootlegger. The sort of a candidate 1 that would hold up his political partv 1 and use it to advance himself com- • mercially or otherwise. It is always 1 safe to trust a man in politics that is not afraid to go to the people. That one man not afraid to take the public into his confidence is Adair. I “Uncle Nate” has greatly aided in making plain the duty of the voter. 1 It is being demonsetrated daily that ’ Roosevelt is making use of Taft as a • chess player makes use of a pawn in > the game of chess. Roosevelt does ) not consider Taft capable of answer- - tug Bryan's arguments, and therefore > be has taken up the task himself, and the indications are that he will be ’ kept pretty busy for the balance of ; the campaign. Bryan’s latest anj swer calls upon Roosevelt to explain ) bi 6 attitude with regard to the Stan-

dard OB SIOO,OOO contributed to the .!«publican campaign fund four years J ago; also the $260,000 raised by j Harriman. >ho wes solicited by Rcosevelt to help him out; likewise .' the large sums that were taken from . insurance companies-money that belonged to widows and orphans. He is also asked why he permitted a i panic to come upon the country and paralyze business at a time when there should have ben general prosperity, for Foraker says Providence was not to blame, as the crops were abundant—Columbia City Post. Rev. E. A. Allen, former pastor of the First Presbyterian church here, has come out strongly against Cummins, the republican candidate for governor in ICwa, where Rev. Alien now resides, being engaged in the banking business. Recently Rev. Allen wrote the Indianapolis News, saying among other things: The main objection to Cummins is not his progressive views, but his unbridled ambition and unscrupulous methods. Against all precedents he forced himself on the party for a third term for governcr. In order to get the nomination he entered into a written obligation not to appear against Senator Allison. Yet he threw his obligation to the wind when he found it convenient to do so. He has been the lifelong friend of the whisky element. In a word, he has advocated anything and everything that he thought would give him power. He has shown much ability of the Quay and Croker order. It will be a thousand times better to put a respectable Democrat in the senate than a man of the unscrupulousness of Cummins. Thad Butler’s Huntington Times, one of the stalwart republican papers of this part of the country, truthfully says the emperance issue is now out of politics. While it was passed as a republican issue, a few democratic votes made its passage possible. The Times has the following: Whether the calling of the legislature to pass- a county local option law meets the approval or disapproval of the individual voter is no longer a matter of discussion. The legislature has enacted the law, and that is the end of the subject on that point. It is now up to the voters to determine the question in each county of the state, if they desire to do so whether the license system shall continue or the county shall prohibit the licensed sale of liquor. Huntington county cast 7,700 votes at the last general election. It will probably cast fully as many in November. The county local option law provides that a special election shall be ordered when twenty per cent of the voters sign a petition requesting it. In this county 1,540 petitioners will be necessary to order the election. The action of the general assembly eliminates the question from politics. The law wa s passed as a republican measure, but the six democratic legislators who voted for it are responsible for its enactment Without their votes it would have been defeated. This being the case, it is doubtful, even if the democratic party controls the next general assembly if any effort will be made for its repeal. With this issue disposed cf the voters of each party will now support the candidates who represent their political sentiments at the next election, and whatever differences there were among republicans on the temperance plank should have no influence on their votes. Charles G. Dawes was comptroller of the currency under Mr. McKinley. Since 1902 he has been president of the Central Trust company of Chicago. Writing in The Public, Louis F. Post calls attention to the fact that several years ago Mr. Dawes wrote a book enitled “The Banking System of the United States.” The following is taken from Mr. Post’s article: In describing in that book the “present need of our national banking system,’- Mr. Dawes distinctly argues for the insurance idea that Bryan advocated in congress and upon which his campaign i B now advancing in the west. Referring to a proposed law, advocated by Bryan m congress, which would have levied

a tax upon national banks for the 1 purpose of creating a fund for the insurance of deposits, Mr. Dawes wrote: "National banking statistics show that a fund of the necessary amount would soon be created by a comparatively small tax upon each national bank. It must certainly be admitted that the establishment of such a fund would have a tendency to prevent the mad rushes of small and large depositors during times of panic, for money which they hoard away in safety deposit boxes or other biding places. * • If the effect of 'such a law would be to render bank deposits more stable under all conditions, as In our judgment would be the case, no law could be of more value and importance to the debtor, or to the creditor, or to the com munity at large. * • Besides the great importance of the Taw, as related to the general prosperity of the : country, it is meritorious as preventing the keen suffering in those localities where bank failures occur, and where the hard-earned savings of the community, under our present laws, are often swept away. By such a law, losses are distributed as by insurance, the beneficial effects of which need no argument To the passage of such a law in proper form, we trust the efforts of congress will be directed.” AND STILL MORE BUREAU OF PUBLIC PRINTING. Republican—l9o7. Salary of clerk $ 1.500 Salary of assistant clerk 900 Office expense 250 Printing, stationery, etc.. .. 65.000 Printing reports 8,000 Legislative deficiency 12.000 Total $87,650 Democratic—lß92. Salary of clerks 1,200 Printing, stationery, etc 45,000 Court reports 9,000 Total $55,200 STATE LIBRARY. Republican—l9o7. Librarian’s salary $ 1,800 Reference librarian’s salary.. 1,100 Cataloguer's salary 1,100 Assistant cataloguer’s salary.. 900 Custodian’s salary 720 Bocks and binding 4.500 Copyist’s salary 600 Cabinets 300 Office expenses 1.500 Additional service 2,700 • Total ....’515,220 Democratic —1892. Librarian’s salary I 1.500 Assistant librarian's salary... 1.100 Second asst. librarian's salary 900 Office expenses 500 Books and binding 1,000 Janitor 720 Total .$5,720 Jim Watson was taken sick while speaking at LaFayette and the physician has ordered him to quit public speaking. Jim always enjoyed excellent health until Tom Marshal!) began making campaign speeches. Oh, of course, there have been a few times while attending sessions of the Columbia Club that Jim has been unable to speak but he always got better in a day or two. —Portland Snn. ■ Holthouse Drug Co., IS THIS the Druggists, will A Give You Your MonSQUARE ey Back if M,oNA DE AL? Does Not Cure Dys—pep si a. That’s the squarest kind of a square deal as every fair minded man knows. But Holthouse Drug Co. can afford to make this offer because he knows that M’-o-na tablets are a worthy stomach remedy, and that the makers will back up the generous offer. And so we say to all readers of the Democrat suffering or ailing with any stomach trouble, try Mi-o-na. It has such a mighty and powerful influence on the stomach that it immediately refreshes and relieves, then invigorates and cures. It strengthens the stomach walls, puts the stomach in such perfect condition that it can digest food without pain or other distressing symptoms It cures by removing the cause, and it removes the cause 96 times in 4 hundred. A large box of Mi-o-na tabets only costs 50 cents, and relief will come in 24 hours. "Mi-o-n a tablets are truly great so s any one that has stomach trouble. I cannot praise them too highly f° r / what they have done for me. —Mrs. V/. D. Bennett, Bucksport, Me-