Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 11, Decatur, Adams County, 18 March 1909 — Page 4

LEW a ELL'NGHAM, Publlshsr. ■ SI.OOPBA YKAB IK ADVAMOB. — a nrtd at the fnt ®f»l< e al Becatua as Secoa elass mail matter WFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. GIVE US ENLIGHTENMENT The Huntington County Medical society has expelled Dr, J. R. Hunter from membership because he violated the "ethics’* of the profession by advertising. Mr. Hunter sent a letter of tlon in which he declared that advertising paid him better than the rules of the society, but the organization declined to accept j his resignation, and insisted on j expelling him. ' ■ <9* The above was clipped from a newspaper exchange, and while we do not have the pleasure of the personal acquaintance with Dr. Hunter, yet we must admit that there is a few thingsl about him that entitles him to our j admiration. While we can readily see that if Dr. Hunter advertised that he I could’ saw a man’s leg off and then * grow it on again, or if he advertised that he could cure a case that was languishing in the last stages of consumption, the profession would have have a right to feel not only humiliated but degraded. But the, medical profession are not the only living beings that would know that Dr. Hunter was ..a d—d liar, and an unprofessional hypocrite. „But if Dr. Hunter would advertise that he was skilled in his profession, and a graduate of a recognized medical school and was open for profession engagements, the Democrat wculd like for some of the medical" profession to not only enlighten us, but the public through the columns of the Democrat, as to their cause of complaint against such an announce- , ment, and why it would be unprofessional. We are not trying to raise any arguments with the doctors, and we will admit too, that we are a little partial to good advertising. But we would like to know the honest truth about the merit of. such exclusion. In. the meantime we will have to stand with Dr. Hunter, that “advertising pays better than the rules of the society.” i ‘■■W— Republican statesmen are bemoan- ] ing a loss to the state inhaving a con- 1 gressional delegation composed most- < ly of Democrats. It is pie they lost j and not standing, and any time that ; a Republican loses pie, it hurts. Indiana has the honor of representing both extremes. One judge fixed the fine at 129,240,000 and the . other fixed it at nothing. The odd : part of it is the public seems to be ■fperfectly satisfied with both decisions.—Columbia City Post. 1 1 II. 1 !!.. '.HI*! - I|l H ‘ :■ The Gary News is in |he hands of a receiver, another evidence that all is not gold that glitters. The Gary News has the company of five or six other Indiana newspapers, that number being edited and published by the grace of a receiver. Here comes inquiries from every which way seeking a corner on the city building bonds that will be offered for sale in this city. All this shows that we are gilt edged and that those with money in their sock are casting gluttenous eyes upon us. Wp are glad of it. A coffee tax is said to be good for a revenue producer to the extent of forty millions yearly. This being true, together with the fact that the administration stands in actual need of the money, what chance or perhaps we had better say, what right has the common people to protest As another evidence that the southern Democracy has no sympathy with their brethren of the north, Is found in the fact that three of them in congress voted for Cannon and his rules, and against the caijfljns of the Democrats upon this question. The average southern Democrat is such only in name.

!no favorite ie members a pay their own has no heart, and Instead of writing poetry, should be in the banking business. Congressman John A. M. Adair,who has been here several days this week, left Saturday morning for Washington, D. C., where on Monday he will represent this district at the special session palled by President Taft to revise the tariff. The session will probably last until June.—Portland Sun. The enterprising space writer is now touting T. Taggart as a probable candidate for mayor of Indianapolis. Os course it is all moonshine, but it fills the space for the spacer, I hurts no one, and likely helps those great metropolitan journals to Impress themselves with the fayt that they are printing hot stuff. The lobbyists have moved on Washi ington and during the special session i they will be busy saving their special 'interests from getting it in the neck. I There should 1 be a ban put on the professonal lobbyist They are fast becoming the whole thing, and soon it will be a government by the lobbyist and for the lobbyist They have picked on ex-Govemor Durbin as a harmonizer for the dlsccrdiffit elements in the Republican ranks of the state. Well, he will be a busy Indian all right and it would not be a bad idea to call into service a whole militant of assistants. The job is a many cornered one, and will require diplomacy in job lots. Nothing but bouquets are being hurled at the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, governor of Indiana. If he were an ordinary mortal he would already show: the distress sign, and begin to become enlarged from the gills up. He refuses to swell, all of which shows that he is a mighty big, brainy, Independent man and about the best that ever happened around the governor's" office. President Taft, our tariff revision president, has done some good team work with Standpat Cannon and his manager, James Ell Watson of Indiana. Up to date the work of the president 4s certainly satisfactory to the many great interests which have controlled the government and the political party in charge thereof. A few more stunts and President Taft will be just as good a standpatter as the trusts might wish for. It is truth and not fiction that Decatur is about the best town that is located on the map, and that being true why not help along the good news by making it also the most beautiful. All it takes now is for the public spirited and progressive ones to get busy with the agitation for a cleaning up shower. A digging out, and a cleaning up will do the only thing needed to make Decatur the sweetest smelling roee in the bunch. There is real and genuine rejoicing in Adams county over the refusal or the failure of the general assembly, in repealing the three-mile gravel road law. It has been a blessing in disguise, and has added much to the comfort in living and more to the value of the real estate holdings the county over. We surmise that if the many who sought to have it repealed would test it out, they would find that they came near losing the best law on the statute books. Bluffton officials are jollying themselves into the belief that they are great financiers. In fact they are blowing their false teeth out over the fact that after keeping gravel road bonds for ten months and permitting the interest to thus accumulate, they are now offered par and in some cases a little premium. These sort of securities have been going right off the reel in this county at 96 and that is better than a year’s wait at par. «==e=-=aBB ' If Theodore Roosevelt will “let

» Is now one of the editors, Ills edmi ment on the result of the re-trial of. * the Standard Oil octopus in Judge > Anderson’s court will be read with , lively Interest. Mr. Roosevelt is in possession of information that perhaps no other individual to the land > could have obtained.—South Bend * Times. • * ■II ■.■" ' ,. .'IILUBgegB I- Richmond has a candidate for the I nomination to the office of mayor * who has made a unique proposition on which he will act if elected. He I is J. B. Gordon, editor of the Richmond Item, and he proposes to step down and out of his office any time 30 per cent of the voters of the city sign a petition saying that they believe he has not lived up to his ante- , election pledges. There are several , other candidates'for the nomination i on the republican ticket and the race I will be a hot one. Gordon is the edli tor who led the fight for the saloons in Richmond—Columbia City Post. Representative Gottschalk is home from the legislature, and it is now meet and proper that We congratulate him on his excellent record and good deportment as a member of the Indiana general assembly. He was fearless enough to stand for that which he believed to be right and he permitted no lobby to lambast him into changing front His vote upon every measure showed that he considered every measure presented, and gave it that deliberation to which it was entitled. His record justifies the people of Adams county in the congratulations they are now bestowing upon him. The real world question, to be solved by nations in due course of time, is the equitable distribution of wealth. The poor we shall always have with us, no matter how favorable general conditions may be. But their condition may be ameliorated by the application of humane principles, socially and governmentally. The great barrier to equitable distribution is the possession of colossal fortunes in the hands of the relatively few. If these were acquired through cunning, fraud or favoritism, away must be found to effect at least a partial re-dlstrit, button through the operation of just and humane principles. —South Bend Times. - The big metropolitan newspapers, or many of them, have tackled the proposition of prosperity. They all admit that there should be a revlyal of this much needed boon to business Ills, and they all admit too, that there is nothing in the way, and that the blamed old fossil should be coming down the pike in a canter that indicates good blood and speed to burn. We know some people that are not complaining—John Dee for instance, and some of the other highly favored ones. And as long as these big fellows are happy with the kind of prosperity we are having, the common herd have nothing to say. Go away baek and sit down. The republican senate refused 4 to agree to the bill passed by the democratic house repealing the laws giving the in-and-out fees to the sheriffs, and the transcript fees and many more to the county clerks. These bills were passed early in the session over the veto of Governor Hanly. The house, recognizing its mistake, passed bills repealing the fee laws. The senate refused to put the. repeal bills through, though It had no difficulty whatever in driving the Sanday baseball bill through without allowing any time for debate, But these fee bills are, of course, of a different sort Every one understands that. They were wholly >to the Interest of the people, their purpose being to stop a grab for fees. Only the people wanted them, end the people hardly count—lndianapolis News. «■* <£ There was a big deal to pie pulled off at Indianapolis onMonday. The Republican members of the legislature hated** to do it, but they finally oM' seated to fcltogleaafo rikludljKlß state taxes, provided they were Wff- ' ileged to retain their grip on filling »J1 the places armind the state & /

F" 1 ® F "5 1 , of 4..U0, 10 baodlng t large portly looking jobs to the boys . who helped them save the country. You may ialk about your fealty and your patrotlsm, your statesmanship and your love of state and country, but the pinnacle of them all is the pie. It was .perhaps the biggest deal to pie that has ever been recorded in one sitting, and thanks to the Democrats —all of whom are beastly hungry,but whose hearts do not beat to their stomach—they saved the money and turned up their hose at the pie. John W. Eggeman, one of the biggest Democrats in Indiana, and one of the best as well, has been chosen as chairman of the city committee to Fort Wayne. The selection is such as will demand the confidence and success of the Democracy of the city of Fort Wayne. . It is better understood now why Jim Watson remained in Washington to aid Cannon in his fight for the speakership. It was the fight of his life, and it is believed if it had not been for the aid he received from President Taft he would have been defeated. WatsOn did his share toward retaining Cannon, of whom many prominent republicans to and out of congress are heartily tired. The rules were amended and in future there will be some show for the minority to get a squarer deal.—Columbia City Post. - - The eleven Indiana democratic congressmen met in Washington at the beginning of the session and resolved to place themselves entirely in the hands of Champ Clark, “willing to go any length to embarass the republicans.” This action ought to tickle nearly to death those strong republican districts of the state that sent democratic members to congress at the November election—Fort Wayne News. Cannonism is like the local option question to Indiana, there is not much politics to it. The eleven Democrats who voted against the Czar of congress and a standpatter of standpatters, voted the sentiments of about as many Republicans as Democrats. The News will have to dig up another mare’s nest, one too, that has more stingers. I Sa Twelve city bonds whose face value is one thousand dollars each, brought in the open market under a sealed bid, four hundred and fifty dollars premium. That is" going some, and is cause sufficient for every citizen of our city to touch off a little of the red light in celebration of our good standing in the money markets of the world, dt was not always so. To make it all the stronger there were twelve blds, seven of them from Chicago, while Cincinnati, Indianapolis and other money markets were represented." There is no use to knock any longer, Decatur is on the map, and she is there good and strong. Her note is as good as old wheat in the bin, and that means everything to a city, the same as it means everything to an individual. Let every one cast aside dull care, and with reverence, give thanks to an Allwise bower—not forgetting our good business city council. . eSSBSSSS-SSHSSB Cornelius Taylor, the Ossian man who was located at Warren, 0., after a year’s mysterious absence from his home, is again missing. He disappeared from Warren a few days before the arrival of a daughter to visit him. . j 1 —o— -4— AN INVALUABLE REMEDY. Chas. Stephenson, Clintonville, Ky., says: “I cured my chickens of Cholera with Bourbon Poultry Cure and cannot speak too highly of it as an invaluable remedy for fowls.” Bold by H. Bremerkamp, Deoatur, Indiana

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mX f iiS. ktty8 ' ’ Xb-8t " i" ' -■■i"" o' ..j ■'*!*>■ - ;■ '"i PETITION FOR BTONE ROAD. State of Indiana, County of Adajns. Bt: Before the Board of Commissioners of the county of Adams, April Term, - 1909. We, the undersigned, each and all of whom are resident freeholders and voters of Washington Township, and the City of Decatur, situated therein, in Adams county, Indiana, respectfully petition your honorable body that you construct a free macadamized stone road in said Washington Township, over and upon tbre public highway, situated on the following rouse, to-wlf Commencing at the northeast corner of section 28, township 27, north range 14 east, in Adams Indiana, running thence west\>ver and upon the public highway on the line dividing sections 21, and 28, and 20, and 29, township and range aforesaid, and terminating at the northwest corner of said section 29, township and range aforesaid. , . Your petitioners further show that said improvement is less than three miles in length an dconnects at both ends with a free macadam road in isald township, and that a United States Rural Mail Route passes over a part of said highway. Your petitioners further ask that said highway above described be graded and that broken stone be placed upon the grade, and that upon such broken stone there be placed stone screenings, and that said highway be improved to the width now established in Washington township ■ Your petitioners further ask that said highway ss above described be graded to a width of twenty-four feet and that broken stone be placed thereon to a width of 10 feet and to a depth of eight (8) inches at the sides thereof, and to adepth of ten (10) inches in the center thereof, and that crushed stone screenings be nlaced thereon to a depth of three (3) inches, upon such broken stone, that said road be constructed as a double track and that the name of said road be The Joseph Helman Macadam Road. We ask that said improvement be paid for by bonds issued by the county of Adams, in the State of Indiana, payable in twenty semi-annual Installments or series, and for the payment of which we ask that a tax be levied upon the taxable property of said Township, Adams County, Indiana, lii a sufficient amount to pay the interest and pridpal of said bonds as they become due. That said road be built and that said bonds be issue dand sai dtax be levied upon said property, of said township, in accordance with the Acts of the legislature of the State of Indiana, passed in the year 1905, beginning on page 550, and as amended In tfie Acts of 1907, and as amended in the Acts of 1909, fiow in force, providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads, and any other or all amendments thereto. V a We further ask the Board to take all the necessary steps required by law, to have said Improvement constructed and made, as .pmyed for herein, that the same be constructed without submitting the question of building the same to an election of the voters of said Washington township, and that they instruct the same under the laws of the State of Indiana! now in force providing for the extension of free gravel or macadam roads. ♦ Jos. Heimann; Theo. Henry Lengerich,Robert H. Gallforalth, E. B. Boothe, John P. Braun, J. F. Keifer, Edward Chlronister, Frank Heimann. Bernard Lengerich. John Lengerich, Leo. G. Kobne. Anthony Kohne. Bernard Kohne, Julius Kohne, John S. Meyer, George Hessler. Ber- , nard Meyer. Julius Heideman, Henry Heqpler. Eli Engle. Fred Busche, Chas. Estell, Michael Miller. J. H. Hahnsrt, G. W. Andrews, Frank Coppess, Frederick Hahnert, Joe H.. Andrews, Harry C Andrews. F. M. Andrews. L. F. Miller, G. G. Owens, Perry Andrews, J. A. Barnhart, George Brown, Henry Barkey, William E. Kintz, J. M. Frislnger. J. N. Burkhead. T. H. Baltzell. J. E. Smith, E. L. Carroll. Andrew Miller, John Hessler. John Baker, Ellas Crist. Joe Ruschlag, Peter J. Heimann. C. S. Clark, D. D. Clark, Josh R. Parrish, Mev J. Butler, H. W. , Sellemeyer, H. Voglewede, George Geels. Joseph Meyer, C. B. Poling, x B. F. Breiner, Peter Braun, Peter Hess, Geo. W. Everett. J. W. Robinson, John D. Enger, David E. Spiith, H. J. Ysger, Fred Hoffman. J. F. Laehot, David Gerber. Fred Scheimapn, t Martin Miller, L. G. Elllngham, Cf C. Schafer, H. W. SchrOll. J. Q. Niptune, C. J. Weaver. C. A. Dugan. Alphonse Kohne,. J. W. Johnston, T. Xx Durkin, George Colchin, J. H. Bremerkamp, W. A. Lower. Dan Erwin; W. A. Bowman, Jos. D. Beery, C. F True, Alfred Elzey, T. R. Moore, Edward. H. Johnson, C: B. Andrews. This petition will be presented to the Board of Commissioners on -* r 4 •• •. \ ■ Monday, April 5, 1909, j at which time the taxpayers j>f Washington township may appear and make such objection as the law may provide for. 11-3 tH. S. MICHAUD, Auditor. | ■ Olivsff Schug returned to Berne yesterday afternoon. t'M. L .1' ..SBSSgffiS