Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1910 — Page 4

p.nil m Mll I .III, U j, I, A ii - THE DEMOCRAT nWHNVAT MOHMIJie BY •JTW O. KLUW4HAM* PMMteIMC. 11 ' > 1 MHB m* IM' aBYAMOB. Catered at th* pottoffloe rt Decatur, lad., ha second class mail matter. BPFICIAL RAPER OF ABAMS CO. THE SENATOR * ■ 18 TOO OPTIMISTIC Senator Beveridge is credited with having returned to Washington from Indianapolis and given out a statement that Indiana will give 50,000 republican majority in the next election. The senator is too optimistic. Were the election to be held early in June instead of early in November, the state would go democratic by a large majority. r Every republican knows that there is great peril in the present condition of political affairs, and every republican knows that Senator Beveridge is largely responsible for it Insurrection has been followed by ostracism until there is hardly a prominent republican whose activity is in evidence in republican circles. Fairbanks, Watson, Hemenway, Durbin, New, Gowdy, Goodrich, Landis, Cheney, Steele, R. S. Taylor, W. L. Taylpr, Fpulke, Bookwaiter—all have been relegated in the rear and in their place we have “Baron” Rothschild and a handfull of Senator Bever- • idge’s appointees at Indianapolis in control of the party. The near democratic press of Indianapolis is constant and persistent in its attacks upon the administration and its supporters and studiously suppresses all testimony in its favor. The papers of the state, outside of a small 'circle, are snubbed in every way ahd only mentioned,to ridicule or distort their utterances. Preaching' insurgency, they demand that all republicans shall sumbit to their interpretation of party policies under penalty of being read odt of the party. All this does not presage victory and Mr. Beveridge, must be peculiarly misled as to political conditions in Indiana. The republicans of Indiana are in the same condition as the democrats of Indiana were in 1896. Unless a different spirit is manifest toward eadh other bs* tween now and November—unless harmony can be brought about within the party—they stand about the same chance of carrying Indiana that the democrats did of carrying it in 1896.—Huntington Moraiiig Times, The candidates oh the republican state ticket finding that the organization in this state is intending to devote itself -exclusively to saving the hide of Senator Beveridge, is raising f ■ a lively howl. They jiow propose an organization of their own. Thus the organization in this state, like the party in Washington, is split into two hoptile camps, each clawing at the A throat of the other. This is the harmony of which the republican press boasts. The Dally Times of New Castle has r> just issued a handsome illustrated edition showing the progress and growth of the Rose City. In the MaxwellBriscoe automobile factory fifteen hundred employees are helping to make that city the best ever. Other manufacturing institutions are doing their part and in all New Castle has shown more real growth and prosperity than any other Indiana city. The illustrated edition is a compliment to the ability of that newspaper to do things, and do them well. Mr. Webster M. Samuels began at the bottoni in the Trenton Iron works at Trenton, N. J., one of Andrew Carnegie’s foundries, when he was twenty years old. By desperate application and working day and night, he arose in six years to the secretaryship of the concern and was aiming for a still higher position. For more years he redoubled hts efforts, and when his ambition seemed within his grasp overtaxed nature collapsed and he suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Although his physicians told him that with three years’ complete rest he mirht. recover, in a fit of despondency he committed suicide a few days ago.

“What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose hie own ' life?”—South Bend Times. . * Thomas Everett, a * Ucan of Scottsburg, cards the Scott ’ County Journal as follows: '1 want it distinctly understood that lam a republican—an Abe . Lincoln, William McKinley, Roosevelt re- ’ publican, but not a Beveridge repubd- ' can, a man who has no regard for promises or who has never done any thing far (the party, but for ten years has given the boys in the trenches hot air and salve, and when I assist in 1 defeating him for the senate, I will . have performed a great service for the party.” This pemtiment is held by many leading nepafifiicans all over the state and the truth is they are justified In It The New York Gldbe (republican), alluding to the fact that the “regular”, and “insurgent” republicans are calling each other “Mack-flaggers,” and even worse things, then sgys: “The. cleavage among nominal republicans is like unto that which existed among nominal democrats during the last Cleveland administration. The republican outlook is dark. If things go on as they are going the session is Ukefly to end in fiasco.” The same paper adds that “there are three parties tn congress—not two.” This means that there are two so-called republican parties, the democrats making the third. When Napoleon succeeded in splitting the army of the enemy—and he usually did—he found it easy to whip the fragments in detail. And when the enemy’s army has split itself into two hostile and fighting camps, it is hardly worth while to do more than watch them destroy each other. ■ y It has been charged against Chairman Lee of the republican state organization that he lacks political shrewdness. Ke nas published a first page article in the Indianapolis Star, which seems to justify those of his party who scoff at his methods. In the article he tells how the party is to catch the voters both wet and dry, coming and going. In the wet counties the liberals are to be told that it is better to have local option by counties, than the thousand dollar license and ward unit of the democrats; in the dry counties the drys are to be told that the republicans made th© county option law and they should stay by It, But all that was done in 1908 and the republicans met defeat. And Mr. Lee uses a column article to advise “skookums” of th* publicity squad and at the same time tell the voters just how they are} to be fooled. Riealiy it does look as if the republican chairman was in need of a private secretary, who wears hair on his breast and has met people. j ft . - ’ • ■ Congressman Foss, that new boy from Massachusetts, says .that the people,want protection from the .tariff. How is that for a hot one, and right in the face of the declaration of the president that the present is the best tariff law ever passed. Congressman Adair is-busy trying to get an action from the congressional committee looking to a reduction' of the mileage grab. While he will likely be unsuccessful, yet it but shows the voters of the district that he is on the job as usual looking after the , people’s interests. Now Uncle Joe is busy with his printing grinding out tariff speeches made by Senator Dolliver » and other Insurgents, in which they , in the good old days of the McKinley and Dingley tariffs said thpse laws were the personifications of tariff ; righteousness and under them the i government and the people would ■ ever prosper. Uncle Joe is a mean > old thing. I ' — - ■ TTy~ i It republican state conven- [ tion is held, as has been suggested by [ members, of the “regular” party, and > another candidate for the senate »s i indorsed. —Watson or Hemenway or i Fairbanks or Durbin, for instance — ■ the people will doubtess be treated . to a stump debate as to the relative : merits of Insurgency and regularlsm. i A debate of this kind might enlighten the general public as to just how much of the tariff graft Mr. Beveridge

i is willing ,to legalize and how i much the other fellows want. The principal point of difference seems 0 be, not as to whether some of the ; .graft sbOuld.-be imposed ‘ upon O' t people, but merely how much. And while this debate is in progress Mr. 1 Kern and' the democratic congression-, al candidate* are telling the public that they stand opposed to the graft . in toto and will vote to abolish it " osssmaaasaßmaasms i And now comes the telegraphic t wires from Washington telling us that 1 some of the republicans in the state ' are advocating another republican state convention. There seems to be • widespread dissatisfaction over the i Beveridge convention, which failed signally In representing the true spirit of While another convention may not materialize yet it is among the political jpossibllities of the year. • "* 1 '*•" 1 '■ '"F Suppose a democrat congress should De elected' in November, how much tariff reform would result? That th© democrat party cannot be trusted to carry out its platform declarations on this proposition has been demonstrated many; times during the present and. the last session of congress.—Times. - ' By the way, which wing of the republican party are you trying to defend? Is it Senator Beveridge, the rank insurgent senator from Indiana, who is trying to gain fame because he voted against nineteen of the schedules in the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and who is going to make his campaign on th© perfidity .of the republican party in failing to redeem its campaign pledges on toe tariff. Or are you 'for the president, who says the Payne-Aldrich bill is toe best tariff law ever passed. Are Vou for Speaker Cannon, who says shooting is too good for every insurgent member ot congress; that they ought to be hung. Come out of it, and tell us which one of "the republican parties you are for, or whether you are trying to “back-scuttle” It on both wings in the hope that you can drop into the one'that gives evidence of being the most popular about ©faction time. - ■ dssiiMHi I i nr J;'* “The proposed appropriation of $250,000 per annum to support 's tariff ' commission should be entitled ‘an action to postpone the verdict of toe • - •’ people on toe Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff to a season mote convenient for the stand-pat leaders.’ It is another effort, a> desperate effort, to hoodwink the voters of the land. The creation of such a commission would be only another startling illustration of how far the legislative branch of the government has surrendered its constitutional rights to the executive, branch, a process that has gone bn for a quarter of a century.”—From a speech 'by Champ Clark. Senator Beveridge yesterday at Lebanon was given another knife-thrust under the fifth rib. The resolutions indorsed President Taft and his sincere desire and determination to secure legislation conforming to the last republican national platform. The resolutions also say that the work of th© senior senator commends him to the people of the state, and that ha has been honest in championing what he believes to be right. There is certainly room for lots of good solid reading between the lines, and the only inference to be drawn is that while Senator Beveridge believes he is right, he is’inost infernally wrong. And this is to be a Beferldge cam- ’ paign. I “Candidates on the republican i displeased because in some ■ quarters it ha,s been urged that Senator Beveridge’s re-election be made tbe one issue of The campaign, contemplate the tor1 mation of an organization of their own to look after’the interests of the state ticket and work in conjunction with the state commitI tee.”—lndianapolis Star (Rep.) 1 This "organization gs their own" • which the republican state candidates propose is for self-preservation, which ’ is toe first law of nature. The “onei man-campaign”—meaning a Bever-

■ X “tX > are the ones who Wi put up the > money, and they > ifor it.dtiSuch a thlffy’ts .posslble. The* i fact that they have determined to . have an “organization of their own,” -. shows very clearly that they have : very slight, if any, confidence in Mr. t Beveridge’s personally created state committee. Indeed, they do not appear to regard it any more highly : than do Messrs. Hemenway, Watson t and other regulars wbo are—at least > temporarily—out of the fold. Isn’t it 1 awful? ussw '' ; ' The magazines devoted to the cloth- \ ing trade, with their chapters showing ’ how the retail dealers in tailor made and ready made clothing are forced to sell half shoddy goods for the same price that all wool suits were sold for a few years ago, will not be .quoted by any of the defenders of the Taft-Aldrich-Payne-Cannon tariff bill. These trade journals state that sine© the new tariff law went into effect the manufacturers of Wbblen goods have cut off four ounces of wool per yard of alleged woolen goods to make up for toe increased tariff tax. The

manufacturer makes the cut, the dealer- is expected to deceive his customer and toe last named gentleman, otherwise toe ultimate consumer, has to stand the ultimate means that the farmer, the shopman, the clerk, th© laborer, are all getting less than money’s worth at the rate of tfbout four ounces of wool per yard, and about four ounces per yard of shoddy , more than before this new tariff law went into effect. This Is no campaign argument, either, be it remembered. It is the statement of a trade journal recognized by the dry goods and clothing merchants all over tfie z country, and the mouthpiece of a grbat class which is race to face with the Conditions brought about by the republican tariff law. The argument is obe of business, not of politics, anil the consumer is toe sufferer and the retail clothier toe unwilling agent of th© imposition.—Fort Wayne Jc\rnalGazette. ' . Miss Flossie Bolinger will clerk the remainder of- the Week at the Bteele M Weaver racket store in the absence of Mrs. Sadie Cowley. f"' t ; .. • Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brandt of Willshire, Ohio, transferred here on their way to Fort Wayne, where they Wlh ylMf with relatives. . .\ An inspiring and impressive scene was that at the Presbyterian churCja ■Bunday evening, when the sixteen graduates from the Decatur high school, appropriately attired in regulation caps ahd gowns; the junior class, tRe high school faculty, the school board, the parents of the graduates and an innumerable host of friends, assembled at the Presbyterian church, taxing toe seating capacity of the large auditorium, the Subday school room and the gallery to the - utmost, the occasion being toe baccalaureate services opening .the week’s program that will be of so great moment to the young people who have finished the course prescribed by the city schools. The church had been appropriately decorated for the occasion with the high school dolors—purple and the senior class colors —crimson and gold. These were arranged in a beautiful way. streamers of the colors being wound about the columns, and draped about the pulpit, pennants and knots of the blended colors, fastened here and there, While the colors were carried out in the floral decorations as much

as possible. The pulpit was banked with ferns and potted plants, while here and there in great profusion were vases of carnations, crimson peonies, snowballs and other spring flowers, which seemed to have opened their petals In anticipation of the happy occasion. I i' The services were prefaced with a musical program that added much to the beauty and impressiveness of the evening, opening with the organ prelude by Miss Edna Hoffman, and the .congregational rendition of the Doxology. The noble song, “Holy, Holy, Holy," was sung by the choir and the cotigregatron, after which the Scripture lesson, abounding in words of wisdom was read by the Rev. I. Imler of the United Brethren church. An anthem, “The Springtime Hours,” one most appropriate to the occasion, was rendered by the choir of the Presbyterian church, with a solo by Miss Marie Patterson, and the chous by the other of the choir, including the Misses Bess Schrock, .Florence Sprunger, Messrs. Will Schrock, Fred Patterson, Wilson Lee and C. J. Lutz.

which was given by the Rev. D. 0. Wise, pastor of toe Evahgelical church. The Rev. Wise began by complimenting toe class which had arrived at the first pinnacle of success in completing the course prescribed by the schools; rejoicing with the superintendent, Prof ,E. E. Rice, in his success, and with toe faithful staff of teachers, and with the school board on their splendid executive management; all pf whom are responsible for the high standard of the schools of Decatur. This sermon was a most masterly, eloquent and forceful one, rich in thoughts and suggestions, which, if carried out, will bring to a noble standard the lives of the young people who have spent a season in quiet preparation and study, and are thus . Maying the quiet, guarded school doors to enter upon the world's life, wherein that which they have learned must be applied with .wisdom and strength if they will win. The Rev. Wise chose as his subject, “The Key to Human Possibilities,” and word by word, step by step, brought out toe great thought that toe 'great key of human possibilities is the divine Spark of life, breathed in the clay of man by toe great Creator which is capable of being fanned into a flame of unlimited possibilities. “What is

man that thou shouldst magnify him? • • ♦ For Thou hast made him a little lower than toe angels. • * ♦ Covered him with glory and honor.” Man has tried in vain to define man. Only God, toe Creator, knows our being. “Man is one world and has another to attend Mm.” While our bodies are different and subject to changes, “like toe waters that change but toe rivers that remain the same,” wo are our bodies changing ever, but our personality remains the same. The personality is the divine spark —eathed into us, God's image, by God, himself, and taken by us and fanned into the .great flame of Possibilities. Our development is dependent upon our ability to grasp—-or in spine cases to make—opportunities. Here, the speaker brought into use toe motto of toe class, “Climb though the way be rugged ” He said that attainment was the most prized, or toe greater, because of toe difficulty. Those who have a rugged way to climb, those who stumble often, appreciate the attainment the mere. All great achievements are brought about by skill, by elimbing over rocks, or thorny ways, and named as examples of those who climbed to heights inthis way—Napoleon, Hannibal, Lincoln, Peary—toe perfecting of the printing press, the cotton gin, electricity, radium, etc. Too often we fail to realize th© opportunities lying near, in becoming over-ambitious. For illustration, *ue told m u man who sold his productive farm in Pennsylvania for 833 that he might enter toe ‘coal oil business in Canada with his brother. Before doing so, however, he made a thorough study of kerosene, its development, and every feature of the case. Some time; after he sold his farm for themeager sum, the new owner struck a rich oil well on the place that brought in millions of dollars, while the former owner; who had gone ter away to seek success in the same business, and had overlooked tho great possibilities lying ih his own barnyard, was meeting with indifferent success. Courage is another thing required. A carpenter who had been out of work for some time, and who had been sitting around waiting Ing for opportunity, was driven from his home by his impatient wife. Despondent the man picked up a shingle and began to whittle. A little chain that delighted his children was the result, and he thought that what would please bis children would please others, and this beginning, to which he had been wriven, was the beginning of the numerous toys that have become so large a factor in tbe commercial

world. ' He told of the equality of man and woman, and that God’s thought is spoken in various ways —in cathedrals, in pictures, in books, the divine spark fanned into flames of various forms—the human soul rising to God. The standard must be the Perfect Man. Get a vision of life’s opportuniand then “climb upward though the rocks be rugged.” Take as a standard, the Greatest Man .in ages past. An eagle was once-hatched and lived with chickens on the earth for some time, before it realized its eagle’s privileges and jaoared tn t.|ie skies. Do not live below yoar privileges, and 1 the divine spark will develop into beautiful character. He who thinks the most, feels the noblest will act i the best In whatever field of life i you enter, the commercial, the edu- ■ cational, the religious, develop the di- > vine spark into the brightest flame. » A vocal solo by Miss Florence ; Sprunger, highly appreciated, was i followed by. the benediction by the i Rev. Imer, closing the impressive . service..

willvbe In readiness for the work of the board ot review, which this year is composed ot the idounty assessor awtitor. treasurer. James H. Stone of this city and Joseph Winteregg of Bern* the latter two appointed by toe judge of the circuit court. They, will begta> their s©»zlons on Monday, the sixth day us June, and will be In session for thirty days, and during that time they will review and adjust all the assessments made by the township assessors. At the June session of commissioners' court three or four macadam roads will be sold, those advertised for sal© at that time being the W. Raudubush, the G, C. McAlhaney, the A. J. Sipe and the John J. Soldner roads. Part of them aS least will doubtless be built this summer, . The auditor’s office is busy with their settlement for the spring tax collection. It will soon be completed and then a settlement with the state will be made. This is one of the big jobs around toe auditor’s" office, and no doubt a breath of relief will be noted when s the job is completed. The state board of charities have undertaken to tell Adams county, that

she cannot build an orphans* home unless they issue a permit, giving the county the privilege of spending her own money for the care and comfort of her own poor. This is 1 about the size of ft. The board of children's guardians ot this county have asked the commissioners for such a home and a petition signed by several hundred Adams county citizens and taxjpayers has been filed with the board, and many of those interested in the project have appeared in commissioners’ court and plead with them for such a home. The board -were impressed to the extent that they placed the matter up to toe county council, and they will wrestle with the proposition whentoey meet in annual session In September. The board of children’s guardians are anxious for such a home and advance the Idea that it can cate for its own poor and care for them better and with little or no more expense than at present The state board wants all these county homes abandoned and the homeless given to one central home, where they will be under state control, ahd from there farmed out as they see fit Some see in this deal expensive buildings by Uie stato and more pikces and more boards for the people to keep -up. What the county council will do fa their meeting in September is not known. ~ , , . Q.— — I U. 8. Drummond of Pleasant Mills was here Saturday on business. i n '■-» i ■■ in' A REGULAR TOM BOY was Susi©—climbing trees and fence* Jumping ditches, whitllng, always getting scratches, cuts, sprains, bruises, - bumps, burns or scalds. But laws! Her .mother just applied Bucklen’s Ari nlca Salve and cured her quick. Heals everything healable —boils, ulcers, eczema, old sores, corns or piles. Try it 25s at all druggists. O LION FONDLES A CHILD. In Pittaburg n savage lion fondle! the hand that a child thrust into his cage. Danger to a child is sometimes : great when least regarded. Often it , comes through colds, croup and whooping cough. They slay thousands that Dr. King’s New Discovery could have saved. “A few doses cured our baby Os a very bad case of croup,” writes Mrs. George B. Davis'of Flat - Rock, N. 0. “We always give it to him when he takes cold. It’s a wonderful medicine for babies.” Best for coughs, , colds, lagrippe, asthma, hemorrhages, weak lungs, 50c and $1.00: Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. k > v — o —

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