Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1908 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT UVEBYTHUHSBAY MORNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. z~ ~ . - M.OUPBB YEAR IN ADVANCE. •I, “■ ' Entired at tbepoetnff.ee at Decatur, Indiana u eeoon 4-claaa mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. THE PEOPLE DO NOT RULE After all the excitement over the publication of the Standard Oil letters, showing that trusts control legislation, has reached the stage where the voters sift the wheat from the chaff of sensational publications, what will be the logical conclusion in the mindg of the voters? It will be: 1. That the people do not rule, because the national law-makers legislate to suit the trusts. More trusts exist today than ever, the people suffer more from them, and they practice more extortion. 2. That the party in power is the party through which the trusts rule. The Republican party is now in power. It writes all the national laws. In a speech in the last congress, Mr. Sherman (candidate for vice president) declared that the Republican party assumed full responsibility for everything that has been done and for what has not been done. That is right. The trusts write the tariff laws passed by Republican votes. If the magnates are not punished criminally, it Is because Republican officials fail in their duties. For eleven years the Democrats have had no power to frame federal laws or to execute a federal statute. If everything in America Is all right, as to federal laws, for eleven years, the Republican party deserves the credit. If “evils have crept in” the Republicans are responsible. The only hope for a change lies In the election of Bryan. Suppose some individual Democrat has been employed by a trust. He could not get a law passed, he could not give “immunity bath,” he could do nothing effectively for the trusts unless a majority of the Republican congressmen favored the trust measures. The Republican orators cannot escape responsibility by trying to pick • out seme Democrat who has been employed by a trust. Recent disclosures prove that the people do not rule, but that the trusts owe their existence and fatness to Republican laws and Republican officials. THAT BANK GUARANTEE Two more Ohio banks have “gone Republican” and Ohio depositors are left in the lurch because they had no protection or guarantee on their deposits. The First National bank of Niles, Ohio, closed its doors September 3 with a capital of $300,000 and deposits ameunting to $680,000. A receiver has been appointed, and the usual notice posted that it was thought depositors would be paid In full! How much more satisfactory it would have been to depositors if a bank deposit gaurantee law had been in force. Mr. Bryan and the Democratic party is in favor of such a law while Taft and the Republican party are opposed to such a law, on the ground that it would place all banks upon an equal footing, large or small, one as safe as another to the depositors! The The private bank of C. S. Strong at Prairie Depot has also made an assignment. This is coming nearer home, being right over the line in Wood county. The liabilities are over $90,000 and Mr. Strong thnkg he can pay about 90 cents on the dollar! If a bank guarantee law, as advocated by Mr. Bryan and the Democratic part, was la force, how different would be the result, and how much more satisfactory It would be to the depositor. Within a few hours after the closing of the doors of the bank he would be handed bis money In full! No thinking or quibbling about It. Every bank depositor, be he Democrat or Republican, should vote with the party advocating a band depositors l guarantee law. Mr. Bryan advocates such a law, and It was the Democrats who Inaugurated the guarantee law in the new state of Oklahoma, where the results are most satisfactory to the

I banks and the depositors.—Napoleon j Northwest News, Sept. 10. HOW TO VOTE Four weeks from next Tuesday and the election will be on. While most people are acquainted with the manner of voting in this state, yet it will possibly do no harm to remind them again how to mark their tickets. This year the voter will be given three ballots when he enters the voting place. The national and state tickets will be on one ballot. It will be red tinted, and will contain the names of the presidential candidates, the electors and the candidates tor state office There will be squares before the name of each candidate for state pffice. The county ticket will be printed on white paper and will contain the names of the candidates for congress and the candidates for the various district and county offices. There will be squares before each of these names. The township ticket will be print© on yellow paper, and will contain the names of all the township candidates, with squares before the name of each. If you wish to vote a straight democratic ticket you will simply put a cross or X in the circle containing the rooster, and you must make this cross in the circle of the state, the county and the township tickets. You must also fold up each ticket separately. If you wish to vote a mixed ticket, do not put a cross in the circle, but mark the square in front of the name of every man for whom you desire to vote. By being careful you can do this without mutilating your ballot. If you do not understand how to vote, or if you are iu doubt about any particular part of marking your ballot, consult some one in whom you have confidence and get posted. AND STILL MORE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES Republican—l9o7. State geologist’s salary $ 3,000 Clerk's salary •, .720 Messenger’s salary 720 Expense fund 3,800 Oil inspector’s salary 2,500 Office expenses 900 Mine inspector’s salary 1,800 Asst, mine inspector’s salary.. 1,200 Asst, mine inspector’s salary.. 1,2b0 Clerk's salary 900 Gas inspector’s salary 1,800 Deputy gas inspector’s salary. 1,000 Expenses of inspector 1,500 Total $21,040 Democratic—lß92. State geologist’s salary $ 2,000 Department’s expenditures .. 2,500 Mine inspector’s salary 1,200 Asst, mine Inspector’s salary.. 1,000 Mine inspector’s expenses.... 600 Natural gas inspector’s salary. 1,200 Inspector’s expenses 600 Total $ 9,100 FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER Republican —1907. Commissioner’s salary $ 1,200 Expenses 7,500 Traveling expenses 800 Total $ 9,500 NOTE —The report of the Fish Commissioner for 1906 shows allowances for deputies and expenses of $20,710.89. (See Documentary Journal for 1906.) Democrat ic—lß92. Commissioner’s salary $ 300 Expenses 500 • -• Total $ 800 THEY ALL GET MORE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. Republican —1907. Secretary’s salary $ 3,000 Chief clerk 1,500 Office and other expenses.... 10,000 Laboratory, employes, etc.... A,OOO Total $28,500 Democratic —1892. For all salaries and expenses except publicatioi} of report.! 5,000 STATE BOARD OF FORESTRY. Republican—l9o7. Secretary’s salary $ 1,800 Stenographer’s salary 600 Salaries of members of board.. 400 Forest cultivation 3,600 Field cultivation 900 Buildings 1,200 Total $ 8,500 Democratic—lß92. NONE.

STATE BOARD OF TAX COMMISSIONERS. Republican —1907. Salaries, three ccmmissioners.s 9,000 Expenses of members 3,000 Total $12,000 Democratic —1892. Salaries and expenses . .$ 6,000 Hon. E. O. Wood, member of the National Committee from Michigan, has been at national Democratic headquarters for several days. Michigan is another state generally Republican,where the Republicans are having trouble. The Democrats are united and aggressive. The Terre Haute Tribune, an independent newspaper with Republican proclivities, manifested quite a disposition (during the past week |to support Bryan for the presidency. Whether it will hold out in making friendly allusions to the Nebraskan will be watched with keen interest. — South Bend Times. Creditors of Abe Brubaker, who was cashier cf the Kosciusko county bank at Warsaw when its doors were closed by the state authorities last June, have filed a petition in the federal court asking that Brubaker he declared a bankrupt. The complainants are the Indiana Loan and Trust company, $4,000; the Lake City bank. $6,000 and Ellen Elwocd, $175, all indebtedness on notes. Mr. Roosevelt has not yet discharged himself. It he held a smaller office, his “pernicious activity” would cause him to lose his job. Just suppose a president had packed convention with officeholders and was prostituting his high office to elect his “Me Too” to the presidency when Roosevelt was a civil service reformer —my, my, how blue the air would be with denunciations of such, usurpation by Civil Service Commissoner Roosevelt!!!

Wm. T. LaFollette, a brother of Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, has come out strongly for the election of William J. Bryan. Mr. LaFollette emphasized his decision to vote and work for Mr. Bryan by traveling, with the Democratic candidate on his trip through Wisconsin. Mr. LaFollette informed Mr. Bryan tha the knew the senator was at heart wholly in sympathy with him and his platform, several of the chief planks of which have been and still are advocated by the progressive Wisconsin statesman. Francis S. Monnett, former Attorney General of Ohio, who has fought Standard Oil with a vigor and earnestness not surpassed by any individual in the nation, is going to take the stump for Bryan and Kern. Although a Republcan fcr years and elected to the office of attorney general in Ohio by the party of the Republican candidate for the presidency, Mr. Monnett will support Bryan and Kern in this campaign. The inveterate foe of Standard Oil called at Democratic headquarters to arrange speaking dates in the states of the middle west, where he will make a vigorous campaign for the Democratic national ticket from now until the date of election. A Washington dispatch to the Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle, a Republican paper, says: “David H. Graves, a file clerk in the pension office and a brother of John Temple Graves, candidate for vice president of the Independence League ticket, is rejoicing over an increase of salary from SI,OOO to sl,400. The Hearst ticket is supposed to be of help to Taft and Sherman, and to that supposition Mr. Graves attributes his good fortune. The pension clerk is telling hi s good friends that after he failed to get a promotion based on his record, his brother Temple went to see the president, and that soon after the increase was ordered by direction of the president. The alleged order came from Oyster Bay while David was away on his annual leave. So urgent was it that he was recalled and promoted before its expiration. Then he finished his annual rest in peace. More than $1 has been added to his daily wage. Now he gets as much as the chief of his section. File clerks seldom get more than $1,000.’ The foregoing dispatch is self-explanatory and shows how Wil-

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liam Randolph Hearst is being favored by the Republican machine. Next to a woman scorned, Hell hath nc fury like a party balked of its prey. (The Republicans take the cue from their chief. They, too, are in a rage. Whichever way they turn defeat stares them f in the eye. The Democrats will carry New York by a hundred thousand majority. There is little less than Republican chance in Ohio. In Indiana the elephant is hopelessly down of Asiatic cholera. Already Democracy, beginning with Illinois, sweeps the west like a prairie fire. How could it be otherwise in the face of what the president is doing? Foor Taft! Poor Taft! ■‘lnjuns on the upper road, And death upon the lower.” z —Louisville Courier-Journal. If Speaker Cannon is re-elected in his district, he will be elected Speaker in the event that the Republicans win in this election. He destroys popular governments in what was once the popular branch of congress, and the only way to restore rule by the people is to defeat Cannon and the Republican congress. It is not a personal fight against Cannon that is being waged, but a fight against Cannonism. The Republican party has approved the Cannon rules and stood for suppressing legislation. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Taft’s stumping experiment has fallen flat; he has produced absolutely no enthusiasm among the voters, and he has said or done nothing which will improve his chances. Republicans are unable to conceal their feelings of disappointment over the poor showing which their candidate has made. Mr. Taft’s progress thus far, and the manner in which he has been received is complete vindication of those Republican leaders who from the first opposed the plan of having him take to the rear platform. They advocated a front porch campaign wherein the candidate should be kept in the background, and others allowed to make his canvass upon Roosevelt’s record. The advocates of a stumping campaign prevailed, however, and now they are sorry it was ever begun. In an address before the Bankers’ convention at Denver, Woodrow Wilson, president of Princeton, used this expression: “The most striking fact about the actual organization of modern society is that the most conspicuous, the most readily wielded, and the most formidable power is not the power of government, but the power of capital. Men of our day in England and America have almost forgotten what it is to fear government, but have found out what it is to fear the power of capital, to watch it with jealousy and suspicion, and trace to it the source of every open or hidden wrong.” The reason capital is a “more formidable power than government” is because capital organized into trusts controls congress through Cannon in the house and through Aldrich in the senate by reason of their big contributions to the Republican campaign fund and control of that party. With Bryan in the white bouse, .capital will have every protection but then President Wilson will not be forced to say that capital is a "more formidable power than government” The trusts must abdicate.

Hon. John W. Kern, the Democratic nominee for the vice-presidency, has developed into one of the best speakers in this campaign. It was the result of his speeches on the occasion of his recent eastern trip that Dupont, the powder trust magnate, was forced to resign as chairman of the speakers’ bureau and member of the advisory committee of the Republican national committee. Mr. Kern’s speeches have not received the publicity they merit, but they are having a telling effect in this campaign, and are making a lasting impression wherever heard or read. Before undertaking his southern trip Mr. Kern spoke strongly in opposition to the presidential habit of bossing the job of succession in the white house. In other words, Mr. Kern has endeavored to convey the impression that the average American i s not

bereft of intelligence and self-respect. In his Kalamazoo speech, the Democratic candidate for the vicepresldency said: 'The people of America will, in my judgment, demand the right to choose their servants free from official influence and effort of a president who goes almost to the point of violence in insisting that he be allowed to name his own successor.” ■ < LLI .JWLU- II I A dispatch from Cincinnati shows why well informed people in Ohio are confident of carrying the Buckeye state. Here is a straw: “Evidence that has been accumulating at Democratic headquarters is that Bryan will receive a tremendous accession from the railroad men. There is at Dayton, for instance, a Bryan Railroad Men's Club of 158 members, 72 of whom are Republicans, At the meeting at Mansfield yesterday the superintendent of motive power of one division of one of the big Ohio railroads, reported that of the 1,500 engineers and firemen under his supervision, more than three-fourths would vote for Bryan and Harmon. This is, of course, five weeks before election day, and even at Democratic headquarters they admit that there may easily be a change in the situation before November 3, but just now they are feeling well about it, and it gives the Republican managers something to think about, as well as an incentive to activity. The Democrats have also been taking stock of the feeling among the miners, and as a result are asserting that this year they will have five times as many votes in the mining district as they have had heretofore. As to the vote in the manufacturing centers they are not so confident, although they claim to have satisfactory information from this source too. Reports come from all parts of this county that the people are anxious to vote on the saloon question. Business men at Decatur say that even the county seat will cast its majority vote for prohibition. In the southern half of the county many poeple are just like war horses with the bit between their teeth, ready to run off into battle. They will have to be held in check until next March* or April.— Berne Witness. Our esteemed republican contemporary informs us that Judge Vesey was drafted into the race for joint senator, undoubtedly he was. and the republicans of Fort W’ayne, outside of two or three leaders, did not serve the papers. The draft was organized in Indianapolis and the papers made out at a quiet meeting at which a select coterie decided that Judge Vesey should be the candidate and the republicans should dutifully vote for him in accordance with the orders from tbe state capital. The fact that Charles G. Egly, of Berne, wanted the nom ination badly cut no figure with the bosses, and if Judge Vesey was an unwilling subject of the draft no one ever heard that he made the slightest resistance.—Fort Wayne JournalGazette. A careful review cf the political situation throughout the country convinces Democratic managers that William J. Bryan is practically assured of election to the presidency. In a dozen cr more states running from Connecticut in the east all through the middle west and even to the Pacific coast, the Republicans are confronted with factional fights within their own lines, while everywhere from ccast to coast the Democrats are united as they have not been since 1892. The trend of sentiment is unmistakably for Bryan, while the popular planks of the Democratic platform such as the guarantee of bonk deposits, tariff ; revision, anti-injunction, publicity of campaign funds, the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, the prohibition of Asiastlc immig-ation, and many others are , bringing thousands of Republicans and Independents to the support of the ' Democratic ticket. President Roosevelt declared in a ' public letter to Mr. Bryan that he op ’ poses the'publieation of campaign contributions before the election because the people might give the sources of the contributions an undue importance

tn casting their votes—in other words, that they might be Influenced against a man who was being financially supported by the trusts and other mercenary and suspicious interests. This i was an amazing position for Mr Rcosevelt to take, but when Roosevelt had given him hts cue, Taft took the same ground and undertook to fortify himself by the statement that there is no law in either Europe or America compelling he publication of contributions and expenditures before the election. Mr. Taft ought to know that when a thing is right it should be done whether there is a law compelling it or not. The trouble with Mr. Taft and his campaign managers is that they do not dare publish the names of the men who are furnishing them with money. They are determined that the people shall not know who are making the fight against them. Congressman John A. M Adair spent Sunday in this city with his family leaving Monday for Adams county, where he has several speaking dates to fill. Before leaving the city Mr. Adair announced that he will speak at the Auditorium in this city at 7:30 o’clock on Thursday evening, October 15, the only open date he will have before the last week in the campaign, in this spech Mr. Adair will take up the alleged investigation of one J. Earl Patterson. Tax Title Hawkins’ eight-dollar-a-day “expert, and show his old neighbor? and friends in Jay county how ridiculously false and misleading this hired report really is. He will also take up the Sulloway letters and sift them to the bottom. Every man in Jay county whom Patterson says has been "overcharged” by Mr. Adair whie serving as county clerk eighteen years ago. will learn just how this man Patterson has attempted to deceive them if they attend this meeting and go through the records with Mr. Adair. All soldiers are also especially invited to turn out and hear Congressman Adair’s exposition of these false statements against his congressional career. Mr. Adair will make some plain statements of facts without stooping to dirty politics or mud slinging such as have ben indulged in by his opponent and his army of paid agents. Those who like fair play and clean politics, regardless of party should turn out to this meeting and hear our able congressman upon this occasion. —Portland Sun. As has been previously announced a series of revival meetings will be held at the Christian church, commencing Wednesday evening. These meetings will be conducted by Addison Willard Crabb and wife, of Brazil, Iniana, and Rev. T. A. Cooper, the pastor cf the church. These evangelists come to ug very highly recommended, he as a preacher and his wife as a soloist and leader of song. It is urged that every member of the church be present at the first service. The public is very cordially invited to participate in the meetings. The Christian Woman's Missionary Society will meet on next Thursday p m. at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Arthur Fisher on north Fourth street The program is a rather informal one each member is to respond to her name at roll call with a verse of Scripture. The usual opening exercises will begin with singing “All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name.” Prayer and reading the 96th Psalm. It is desired that every member be present and take some part in the programtell what missionar ywnrk has done for you, read an appropriate pcern. suggest new methods of work. etc. This meeting is to be of a social nature. Our evangelist and wife will meet with us and will doubtless present semething interesting. If you are not a member of the society come and enjoy the afternoon with us. and all please remember that our evangelistic services begin tonight at 7:30 and you are earnestly requested to be at the first meeting to greet the minister and his helper. Come all Refreshments served. Messrs. J. D. Meyers and John Everett are at .Woodburn in the Interest of the Decatur Cement Block and Roofing company. They sold one hundred square feet of rosing there but are unable to furnish all at one time on account of the vast number of orders ahead, so the object of their trip is to gee if they cannot furnish it in two shipments. The funeral cortege of the late Harrison Sudduth left the heme at 9:30 o’clock this morning and services were held at. the Honduras church at 11:00 o’clock.