Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 23 June 1910 — Page 4

THE DEMOCR AT irmniiMDAr mobning by <IEW CL ELL»NGHAM, Publisher. (LOS FIB YBA-K IN ADV ANOB. Bntered at the postoffiee at Decatur, Ind., as second class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. CONFESSIONS Now comes Hon. Charles S. Hernley, former state chairman and a leader in the republican party of the state, and predicts that before autumn rolls around the republicans of the state will hold a real, genuine, blown-in-the-bottle state convention—imitators need not apply. Upon this occasion and at this time President Taft, the Payne-Aldrich tariff law will be praised and commended. At the same time Beveridge populism will be comdemned to the fiery furnace below. Such a convention would prove entertaining to say the least, and it would go a long ways in proving that the standpat republicans were honest in their beliefs. Come on, boys; let’s have ’er. Senator Aldrich, the real leader of the republican party, says that the |250,000 appropriated by the combined vote of the standpatters and insurgents for the support of Mr. Taft’s tariff board will be used to “justify’ the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. In other words, the people’s money will be 1 » taken and used not in behalf of-the people but to bolster up a law made especially for the favored interests. And this is done, too, in the face of the fact that the Payne-Aldrich law is so drawn that for every.dollar of public revenue produced by it five dollars of private graft are levied upon the people under its protection by the trusts and monopolies that procured its passage. It is to the lasting credit of the democrats in congress that they voted against appropriating ■ T i that $250,000. It is evident that the principal issue ' In the approaching national campaign will be, not between republicans and A democrats, but between standpatters and progressives. The congressional ( committee’s plan involves a fight be- , tween the two elements of the party , which on until one side or ( the other wins. No other result than , this is possible. It is said that Pres- , ident Taft looks with favor on this program. We thing it quite likely. For wherever he has had a chance to make a political mistake he has made. , it. So, too, his associations have been almost exclusively with the Aldrich- ( Cannon wing of the party. He himself has defended the tariff l?w and i condemned the insurgents. But the only effect will be still further to alienate the people from him, and so still further to weaken the party. The situation is, no doubt, extremely emharassing. But a worse way out could hardly have been chosen. The people are as determined to get business out of politics as they ever were to get slavery out. They agree with Mr. Plnchot that morality has broken into politics, and feeling thus they will hardly follow the lead of men who stand for methods which they believe to be inconsistent with the new political faith. —Indianapolis News. Uncle Joe Cannon has Issued his ultimatum to the effect that Indiana will hot hear him during this campaign. We are sorry for this. While we do not agree with him or his methods of congressional proceedure, yet we are willing to admit that he is the greatest character in public life. He is perhaps the last of that old ■ school of public men who can swear by note, play poker and then talk about it in public as well as in private. He is candidly candid, as was evidenced in his New York speech when he said that hanging was too good for an insurgent, that they ought to be shot. He is a standpatter that glories In the fact that the trusts and monopolis get the fat of the tariff grind. He pretends to be nothing, only what he is. While he is dead wrong, yet we like him because he is what he is, and not a pretender of what he is not. Right here we could make this appear personal, but in Indiana this year it is hardly necessary.

The campaign itself will draw its own parallel, aa those in charge of the destinies of the g. o. p. are with Uncle Joe, only on the surface they are trying to make it appear that they are against him. In the long run we believe it will pay them to be as candid as Uncle Joe. If the statehood bill passes, the result will be a great achievement for the administration. If it fails, the fault will be that of Beveridge.—lndianapolis Star. Another conference has been held with the president. This time it was Vice President Sherman and James E. Watson, and they discussed the “gospel” they would band out in the congressional campaign this year. Senator Beveridge was not in on this conference. The republicans of the Twelfth distrist are feeling their oats just now. Judge Heaton has finally answered the call of Senator Beveridge and has made the public declaration that he will accept the nomination for congress. Judge Heaton may be stronger than his party, the Beveridge part of the republican party hope that he is, and that he will be able to save some of the close district candidates for the legislature. This is all Judge Heaton will get out of the run as Cy Cline will eat him up Jake. agMsaßasasaaßMi Chairman Lee o' tiie republican state committee is wearing out lots of sole leather. He is covering the state and meeting the faithful from all four corners. He administers ginger by the use of the latest medical process and is really doing his best to make a showing of life. The Lord knows that he Is doing his best, and we sympathize with him, because we know how. We have been in his shoes so often that we know exactly how he feels about it. It it is worth anything, we do not mind suggesting that the case is. hopeless and that the best thing he can do, Is to make proper arrangements for the obsequies. If the Indianapolis News, Star and Sun could be suppressed until after thfej election Senator Beveridges chances of re-election would be very much bettered. They are pretending to support him but not an Issue of either is printed but that the president and the regular republicans are openly assailed. That may be good politics in Indianapolis, but it is a mighty poor way of securing votes for the senator in the couptry where the administration is upheld by 90 per cent of the republican voters. If continued in it spells political disaster with a big D next November.—Huntington Morning Times (Rep.) The grand old party In the Keystone state Is quaking in Its boots and? loudly calling ''tor Philander C. Knox, the premier of the Taft i cabinet, to pull them out of the mire by the heels. They want him to head their ticket for governor, stating that unless ho consents old dyed-ih-the-WOol Pennsylvania will lose several congressmen to the democrats. Think of this tale of woe, and then just think what other states will do, where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness count for something. The chief recommendation for Knox is the fact that he owns no personal views, has no policies and because of this fact •he is the least offensive to the citizenship of the Keystone state. Thursday, July 14th, is the day set by the organization of this district for the renomination of the Hon. J. A. M. Adair for congress. Twice before the democrats of the district conferred a like honor upon this distinguished citizen, but never before, have they conferred it when an election looked so much like a certainty. Congressman Adair has long ago made ' good, and his return to congress will . be a matter of pride in the district, irrespective of politics, or anything I that looks like politics. • , The republican party has been in I control of both houses, of congress for i sixteen years and of the entire govs ernment for fourteenryears. During 1 that time monopolies and trusts have - enormously increased and all special . Interests favored by the government

have thrived. On the contrary the income of the masses—wages and salaries, the returns of toil—have decreased about one hundred per cent when compared with the cost of living. Who is responsible? Here is what Gifford Plnchot, a noted republican, said about It June 11th in a speech in St. Paul: “Because the special interests are in politics, we as a nation have , lost interest in congress. This is a serious statement to make, but it is true. * • The people of the United States believe that, as a whole, the senate and house no longer repre-. sent the voterij by-whom they were elected, but the special interests by whom they are controlled. They believe so because they have often seen congress reject what the people desire, and do instead what the Interests demand. And of this thete could be no better illustration than the tariff.” The rank and file of the republican party are at last beginning to see that what the democrats have been telling them about these things is true—so true that they can no longer be denied by honest men or men who make even a pretense of honesty. Now the story goes that President Taft is in receipt of a letter from one Theodoroe Roosevelt, and while its contents was not made public, yet the president is reported to have smiled a happy smile. It is a cinch that if Mr. Taft smiled that the insurgents will have no smile coming. “I do not know what to think of the Indiana situation. I be-, lieve, though, that insurgency is on the wane.”—Ex-Governor Durbin. There has been so much of that sort of thing said by members of the “old guard” that it must be getting on the nerves of the men now in charge of the republican campaign. The partisan republican press has been printing the shry that the blends of Senator Shively were sore to the core on Kern, and before the ink had time to dry here comes Senator Proctor, perhaps the most intimate friend of Senator Shively in his home district, and a hold-over state senator at that, andpledges his vote to Kern. How’s that for handing it back at these disturbers of the peace. The fact is, there is no trouble in the democratic camp, and what is more, there is no chance for any. Chairman Lee’s platform of republicanism will not down m Indiana this year. Senator Beveridge made the platform and he will have to succeed or fail thereon. His platform pays the president but passing notice, kicks the stomach off the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and in general raises rukery with the staid old principles of the republican party. Chairman Lee cannot cover up that platform,Wnd while he may try to jolly all the republicans into good fellowship, yet the task wih prove hopeless. • ■ i. • ■'* • ■ ■ ■’ . It is neither surprising nor unfitting that Senator Beveridge should desire Judge Heaton to represent the Twelfth district in congress, Very naturally the senator desires in the lower house men of his own quality, who can . be relied upon at all times to stand firmly for that which they consider right. In the next congress there is going to be some great team work performed by . the Indiana delegation.—Fort Wayne News. We will have to refer this matter to your friend, Senator LaFollet-te, for confirmation. If he o. k’s Senator Beveridge’s Judge Heaton, all is well. Speaker Connon asked and was granted unanimous i consent in the house of congress Saturday, and then he proceeded to make the air blue In his characteristic way he punctured insurgency before and aft, saying that it was but the work of demagogues. While no personal reference was made, yet the form of Senator Beveridge loomed up life-size. Uncle, Joe likes to discuss this subjOJt, and it is not improbable that he will say much about & before the campaign ends. Now comes Colonel Durbin, durn his pesky hide, and sorter shatters

J the hopes of an insurgent by stating - that when Colonel Roosevelt does i- speak his mind on the political situat tion he will stoutly defend the poslI tion of the standpatters. The worst 3 of it is there is ground for fear that - Mr. Durbin is speaking by the card, i — -• ANY OLD THING 3 19 CHAIRMAN LEE’S PLATFORM t ■» The republican state chairman, Mr. ’ Lee, announces that the sole issue in j Indiana this year is “republicanism." * There is nothing else to be considered . by the republicans of the state. Our friend, Judge Heaton, who is to be i named for congress next week, may ■ be a Cannon advocate or he may be 1 a Beveridge clansman, he may be for ' a high tariff or for tariff reform; a standpatter or a progressive; he may be anything or everything but according to the program he must be a votegetter, regardless of principles. He may repudiate the tariff with the Beveridge element, or he may support it or be in harmony with ex-Vice President *W»banks, ex-Senator Hemenway and « hip James E. Watson. He may be this, that, or the other thing. His ideas may wonder hither and yon or pursue any wilful course they will; but he must get the votes. The word has gone out that the candidates on the republican ticket in Indiana this year may maintain any ideas they please, but they must get the votes. They may represent principles the. people like or be devoid of principles; but they must get the votes. They must be popular and make themselves popular and above all get votes. They must be silent on the temperance question; they must be reticent on the tariff question; they must get the votes and play the political game in any and all ways. do not believe the voters this year are going to indorse any such campaign. The voters, democrats and republicans alike, are thinking this year as never before. They have studied the issues and are prepared to make their candidates declare themselves one way or the other on the questions that are agitating the people. It is campaign of reason and common sense as nb campaign ever was before; a campaign of the people against special privileges, and no “glad hand” and no issue of personal suavity will count against the thinking of the people.—Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Senator Beveridge is a busy Indian. Hajis not only busy with the patronage, can, but he is running for senator and making candidates for congress. His latest production comes in the announcement of Judge Heaton, who Is now running for congress in the Twelfth district. The Indiana republicans have been put in a most humiliating position. After a somewhat sensational appearance of boldness in their state contention, the insurgent leaders in this state have since gone down on their knees to Mr. Taft, as the head of the "regulars,” and begged him not to Interfere with their game. Both Senate? Beveridge and his state chairman have, according to Washington reports, gone to the white house with representations that it would not dp to have cross-flring by the two factions. What promises they made or offered to make in return for Mr. Taft’s aid has not transpired. But the mere fact that Beveridge and his organlzatlon, so defiant in their state convention, should now be slipping in ' at the backdoor of the headquarters ' of the "regulars" and begging for fa- ■ vors, is sufficient to discredit their whole campaign. It is not only humil- ' iating those republicans who stand > for genuine reform, but it proves to i the people of Indiana as a whole that > those persons now in charge of the • republican machine are trying to trick ; the public, by false pretense, into giv- ■ ing support to the Beveridge pros gram. , The Cincinnati Enquirer has taken I a test vote in Ohio similar to the one ■ recently taken in Indiana. It shows t that the Taft administration and the Payne-Aldrich tariff law are immensely unpopular. It further shows that i the republican party is blamed for the i increased cost o' Jvlng. By a vote ' ...- <■

. which stands about two to one it also i declared that the political trend fa- ■ vors the democratic party. Doubtless ■ a similar poll taken in other states ; would produce the same general re- ; Sults as those taken in Indiana and . Ohio. There is considerable talk of a second state republican convention. The object of it is alleged to be to line up the regular republicans by the adoption of resolutions approving the administration and the work of congress in enacting the Payne tariff law. Any purpose to make nominations is disclaimed as it la believed the regulars will be satisfied to accept the candidates if given an opportunity to express their opposition to Insurgency in a formal manner. So far as the accomplishment of any. good is concerned a second convention is bound to be a failure. ■lt can only be a protest, and heaven knows there is enough* of that without the formality of a state gathering. -'However, sore the regular republicans of Indiana are over the treatment given the administration by the political bosses at the state convenion, no good can be accomplished this year in attempting to correct the false impression sent broadcast throughout the country. The only thing to do is to preserve the organization of the party by electing its candidates, and when the next campaign rolls around make an open fight for the good old principles of the party and place its leadership in the hands of men who believe in principles.—Huntington Morning Times (Rep.) Constant illusion to high prices may not cater to summer enjoyment, but certainly high prices do not. Before the sultry season arrives, it may be profitable Tor all to gather some of the facts and figures connected with current exorbitance that reflection may operate to bring some conviction regarding its cause and its remedy. • • The national bureau of labor has just published a report of wholesale prices based on an inquiry in 2&7 commodities. The impressive fact is officially stated that during March, 1910, wholesale prices were'7.s per cent higher than in March, 1909; 10.2 per cent higher than in August, 1908 ; 21.1 per cent higher than the average yearly priqp in and 49.2 per cent higher than the yearly price of 1897. That was the year of the Dingley law installment These figures are supported by the experience in the average household. If, therefore, tariff revision apepars to the vast majority of people to be the direct and proximate remedy, why not attempt it honestly and not suffer the continued burden, and seek surcease by ascribing high prices to some occult, ghostlike world influence, luxury, etc. If lower rates prove not the cure restoration of the higher will be easy—Pittsburg Post. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gottemoller and children, who were in attendance at the wedding of Mr. Gottemoller’s brother at Celina, returned home today. o-— ■■ ’ OBITUARY. Emma Harmon was born in Harrison townsnip. Van Wert county, January, 28, 1843, and departed this life May 8, 1910. She was 67 years,’ 3 months and 11 days old. She was married to John Harmon September 8,1867. To this union were born eight children, five boys and three girls, two having preceded her to the great beyond. She leaves a husband, five sons and one daughter, one brother in the state of Washington and a host of friends. In her last days she told her loved ones that she was ready to go. She was a kind and loving' mother and will be missed by her many friends, but their toss will be • her gain.

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