Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 29, Decatur, Adams County, 21 July 1910 — Page 4

■▼anmVMiuT MOMiriiai'r*' *.KW < ELL'NQHAM, PnblMMr. «M» PNB YNAM IN ADWAMU*. Entered at the ppstoffice at Decatur. IxuL, assecond class mail matter. NfInCIAL PAPER OF ADAMt CO. THE CAMPAIGN IN INDIANA THIS YEAR the chief Beveridge organ in Indiana, to-wit, the Indianapolis Star, says that “In no Intelligent quarter is any hope of expectation of democratic sue-1 cess in Indiana based upon any other ground than republican disaffection.” , This doesn’t half state the truth. It Is true that there is a tremendous re-, publican disaffection, but there is like*j wise a tremendous democratic solidar--sty, The history of political struggles shows that under normal conditions Indiana is close; it is fighting ground. When one party has ceased for any reason to be normal while the other j remained compact, the latter invaria, | biy has won. Jiist now the democratic party is as solid as a rock. It has no internal troubles of any sort. On the other hand the republican party is affected with unbearable dissension due not only to ordinary factional differences (of which there are many) bat to their causes which go to the root of things. The mere fact that there is insurgency and rebellion in the republican party is proof that large num-, bers at the rank and file have lost confidence in it and instead of being interested in its success, as in former cam* paigns, are hoping for its defeat , In addition to the loss of this support from its own membership the republican* party has lost the support of many thousands of independents who have been beguiled into voting the republican ticket by various pretenses which have been proven false. In the pending campaign the democratic party will have the strength of its own solid membership, swelled by accretions from these other sources, and naturally will be invincible. 1 THEY NOMINATE CONGRESSMAN ADAIR Tffe nomination of the Hon. John A M. Adair for the third time as democracy’s nominee for congress in this district is no surprise to a democrat, republican, or any one else. It it the reward which was due to an honest, capable, hard-working, conscientious and honest official, and the democrats are entitled to no particular credit for having named him as their standard-bearer, but rather they are to be congratulated upon having such a man in public life whom they can honor. In the language of the street Congressman Adair has long ago made good * and the democracy ■■!■ ■ l.n A. of the district simply voiced public sentiment which is paramount in a'! parties* by again naming him as their candidate. Four years as congressman had broadened and finished him in many ways, and it has also fitted him to better represent the people in

the national hal Is of congress. There is-no departmental business in Washington in which he is not familiar in every detail. In fact he has now reached the place when his, real worth counts* tfnd where he is able to give even better service both in and out the halls of congress. Congressman Adair intends io make the same aggressive campaign, and after the first of August until the last vote *3 registered in the ballot box, he will devote himself Industriously to the congressional campaign. The Democrat congratulates the democrats of the district—upon the splendid tribute paid Congressman Adair.in the Muncie convention, and we congratulate Mr. Adair upon his record during the four years he has represented the Eighth congressional district in j the national halls of congress. LODGE AND THE RAPACOUB FARMERS After five months of investigation Senator Lodge finds that the high prices ate Caused by the farmers. He charges them with rushing up the > , ■ - r >•'<• CM price of eggs 100 per cent, ,of taacon 70 per cent, of ham one-third* pt floqr: half as much again. Mr.xfcpdge, Mr. ■i if —• • —■< i»i fgya

Aldrich- and their- manufacturer friends who have done all they could tp ald ,consumer py raising the. tariff and enabling him to pay more for everything he buys, are indignant at the way the farmer has acted. To read the Lodge report you would judge that the farmer is rolling in wealth. He must have been piling up his ill-gotten gains like hay mounds in the fields, while the poor New England manufacturer and the struggling New York railroad owner must worry along with a few million dollars apiece, and have to ride in automobiles and private cars; tho farmer mocks them ad he rolls along by in his * palatial one-horse wagon on his way * to the village store, where he sells ten dozen eggs at a profit of 8 cents a dozen. The average farmer is now I ' ■ - ■ * ■ ■ ■ '■ piling upwealth at the rate of >372 a, I year. He will be shocked and aur- ' prised, will gnash his teeth in rage, when he finds that Lodge has exposed him as a malefactor of great wealth. Or, the farmer may be like the uli timate consumer and consider the : Lodge, report as the political joke of the season.—Baltimore Sun. The republicans or the First congressional district are certain that Senator Beveridge is a good orator, and they say so in their convention resolutions. How very kind and considerate this all is. However, they fail to endorse him as a senator, but this of course cuts no ice as long as they love him as an orator.. Oil, you harmony. ... The trustees of the state are to be pardoned for the feeling that many of them hold toward the public accounting 1 law and its relation to them. This feeling of resentment arises from the fact that the law has come into prominence through the discoveries of shortages that have been .made possible by the visits of the examiners acting under it and the resulting inference that all the law does is discovered fraud. This is not true. The great benefit of the law to the taxpayers of the state lies not in the amount of misapplied or even stolen public money that can be recovered, but in the saving of leaks in the future. A newly elected trustee comes into office with little or no specific training along the lines of his public duties and any trustee will gladly state that he has frequently been puzzled to know just what his duties were in a given case. The methods introduced by the new law give a uniform system all over the state and the little losses made necessary by inexperience will in a measure be avoided, to the immediate pecuniary advantage of the public corporation affected. In this respect the law in the main is a great advantage. It may have and no doubt has many matters of detail that ought to be changed and improved, but in course of time this will be done.—Columbia' City Post. The chief Beveridge organ in Indiana is the Indianapolis Star.. The Star is in the hands of a receiver while a quarrel is being adjusted, but

” — * ~~ ” the ownership of the paper, from latest accounts, rests between that eminent Wallstreeter, Dan Reed, of New York, and that eminent street railway magnate, J. C. Shafer, of Chicago. At any rate the Star is controlled by Beveridge and it sneers voluminouscly at the other republican faction. One of its latest sneers is as follows: “It' may be learned from certain of our contemporaries that, while the Beveridge camp in Indiana is delighted with the announcement of Roosevelt’s coming, in other quarters, ‘friendly to Taft,’ the news is received with symptoms of alarm. ♦ • All there is to this false and ridiculous cry of alarm consists of personal and factional opposition to Senator Beveridge. These worthies are not animated so much by passionate devotion to President Taft, for most o f them opposed him at Chicago in 1908.” And there was more t< the same effect and to tjje further effect that a republican legislature ought, to be elected so that Beveridge could be sent back to the senate to support Taft’s administration, which is rather remarkable. If there is any honesty and straightforwardness in the Beveridge candidacy his friends and newspaper organs are taking great peins to conceal the fact.

“The gigantic monopoly of this day have representatives iu , £ 'the. halls of-congress, whpqs'sele purpose is to protect their interest and to keep open the opportunity they now have to plunder the American public. This was forcibly demonstrated in the tariff fight a year ago.”—Senator Bristow, of Kansas. (Insurgent Rep.) In making the above statement Senator Bristow only admitted and repeated the truth of what the democrats have been telling the people for years upon years. As the republican party has been in control of congress, in both branches, for sixteen years, and as all the. evils that the insurgent republicans now talk abdut have grown up in that time, it must be clear that the entire responsibility < rests upon that party. These evils > will never be cured by that party. ' On the contrary, they can only be 1 cured by the party which warned 1 agairist 'them and opposed their perpe- ' tration. Having tarried in Indiana long ; enough to put forth the flamboyant i statement that ue win carry the state ( by “50,000 majority," Senator Sever- i idge then hiked out for the “New j Hampshire hills.” Mr. Beveridge does not stay long-at a time in Indiana. When congress is hi session be has 1 an official excuse for being in Wash- < ington. When congress is not in ses- 1 sion he has to go to the “Jdaine < woods” or the “Atlantic coast” or the ’ ‘‘New Hampshire hills" to recuperate 1 from his arduous labors. He cannot I recuperate in Indiana —not with Jim 1 Watson, ex-Senator Hemenway, ex- i Governor Durbin, ex-Vlve President i Fairbanks and Joe Kealing about. 1 For one reason or another— usually < another—the “senior senator’ does 1 not stay in Indiana long enough to become used to the climate. After the fourth of next March it will not ma:- I ter much where Mr. Beveridge lives. ’ “An old-timer in Indiana politics,” i says an Indiana correspondent of the 1 Cincinnati Enquirer, “asserts that the 1 republicans, with their varieties of views on state and national issues, wil conduct one kind of tarnpaign in one county and another in another, and so on down through the entire line. He believes that the ora- 1 tors will have their hands full keeping in touch with the local conditions so that the won’t make any mistakes.” All this, of course,, is merely in keeping with the policy of trying to Aim- , flam the people all the time and in all places. But the day of the political shell-worker is past. The people want to know what they are voting for. They will want to know what the republican party stands for generally. Every community knows what its local opinions are, but a party must stand for something definite in the state and nation, or it is entitled to no confl--1 dence, whatever. A campaign of false pretense is a sign of fatal weakness. “There is a sense in which the preeence of W, D. Foulke and Lucius B. Swift at Oyster Bay, ae- . curing from Theodore Rosevelt the promise of his help to Sena- ’ tor Beveridge in this campaign', is . an impressive circumstance. —Indianapolis Star (Chief Beveridge organ.) - - s - - . \v' • / Indeed it is. It is even more than that; it is an opressive circumstance. It is more yet; it is an ominous circumstance. Foulke and Swift are po- ’ litical soldiers of fortune. They have ! attached themselves to more losing causes than any other two men in Indiana. Whenever either of them has “some out” for a democrat —anflalI ways without the democrat’s knowl--1 edge or consent —that unfortunate 1 candidate wad just about done for. So, therefore, what can Beveridge expect? Now comes the republicans of the First congressional district in congres- ! atonal convention assembled, and en--1 dorse President Taft, the Payne-Al- ■ dridh tariff law and refers in high ’ complimentary terms of the oratorical • ability of Senator Beveridge. We all know that Senator Beveridge is an unusual speaker, and we know too that such silly guff is no endorsement of him or bis official life as a senator, representing Indiana in the U»n fted States senate.

fining insurgency*. (*nou& experience as an Insurgent to | tell what it means. He insurged against General Harrison in 1892, and helped elect Cleveland president, Mr, Foulke does not hesitate to urge the creation of a few more offices—a bureau of corporations to preserve the industries of the country/tand, incidentally, give himself and a,few of his other fellow reformers a chance to > get their hands in the public treasury, I '—Morning Times (Republican). , ■—■* ■: When a good-looking woman from 1 the country climbs into a buggy, the I stockings she shows do not fit as < trim as those shown in muddy weath < er by the town Woman. Tfie Teaapn is that the country woman has roils of bills stuck in her hose that she as received for her chickens, eggs and produce. You don’t see any such wads under the town woman’s hose. They fit close and trim, for she has a few dimes and coppers, a lot of goods, samples, a powder rag, all in a thing she calls a purse, which is about the size of a man’s suit case, 1 that she carries under her arm for a ’ bluff.—Rochester Sentinel. ' ■ "T * At the republican convention at. J Evansville Tuesday to nominate a < candidate for state senator, William ’ P. Eigemann defeated the temperance « candidate. Eigemann is a liberal and will vote to repeal the county option law. The republican candidate for ' the state senate from Howard and Miami—Mr. Jenkins—is also a liberal, ‘ and in many countiee of the state the 1 republicans are playing both ends ' from the middle and nominating anti- 1 county option candidates.—Huntington News-Democrat. 1 II Uli .11111 1 The .word has been given out that ’ the republicans of the Eighth district ’ will pattern alter tneir brethren of the First district when it comes to making a platform for their congres- ( sional convention. As the First dis- 1 trist lauded Taft,-the Payne-Aldrich 1 tariff and former Senator Hemenway, 1 and feelingly bragged about the oratorical ability of Senator Beveridge, the resolutions will be found rather, 1 conflicting when compared to their state platform declarations. The closing hours of the debate Vonight were enlivened by the antiCs of one of thp insurgent senators, who, outside of Washington, is regarded as a paragon of virtue. He had imbibed too freely of the flowing bowl, and insisted on making a speech. It was with great difficulty that his colleagues were able to keep him under reasonable control. —New York Tribune (Republican). Speaker Cannon, is out in Kaijas, making standpat speeches and grilling the Beveridge-Bristow-Dolliver-CHm-mins insurgents without mercy. When both standpatters and insurgents get busy at this grilling what will, be left of the grand old party? > • _■ ■miMji.aiuiiiijj.. - " If/the heavens had fallen after Uncle Joe had got well launched upon his. standpat speech in Kansas few Kansans would have been .surprised, but to be witness to the spectacle of the Uncle Joe himself collapsing like a leatherette trunk was almost too much for the nerve bred in the heroic air Os the sunflower state.—. Fort Wayne Sentinel. With those prideful "mugwumps” Lucius B. Swift and William Dudley Foulke running tne republican campaign, what use is there for the aid of Hons. Jim Watson, Jim Hemenway, W. T. Durbin, C. W.' Fairbanks and , other war-worn and battle-scarred veterans of that sort? ' Never has there been such a catching at straws by drowning people as ■ ftiat exhibited by the republican state ' candidates, from Beveridge down—or up, as ybu pteaae. Just now Roosevelt is the "straw." And he will be as efficacious In the emergency as other ' straws—and no more so. ,Jhe Indianapolis Star evidently has the political situation in Indianr i steed up aoout aa follows: K the Atenocrata looe, it tt an insurgent vie-

HtSSon ViMorn. That Uncle Joe Cannon has lost : whatever of level-headedness he may once have possessed is evident from his trip to Kansas, and his stronuous speech of two hours’ length with the mercury at 105 >ln the shade, In an effort to justify the iniquitous tariff of last summer and other highhanded proceedings of the standpatters. Prudence would dictate that the less said on % those subjects the better, especially to an Intelligent, independent electorate like the people of Kansas.—South Bend Times. “The country owes-a debt of gratitude to the insurgents in congress' who made the fight against the domination of special interests, and who placed the common good high above party regularity.’’—James R. Garfield (Ipsurgent Republican). But as it, was the democratic votes in both house and/senate that counted for anything, it seems that the country dwes much more to the democratic party. If the insurgents are honest and mean business they wiH come over into the democratic camp and abandon the pretense that they are still republicans. The apeparance of William Dudley Foulke of Richmond andfLucious B. Swift of Indianapolis as the real leaders of the republican campaign was foreshadowed by their presence at Oyster Bay as a special embassador at the Roosevelt court of the Hon. A. J. Beveridge. Sinoe then there has been confirmatory evidence of their selection as chief advisers and directors of the republican state organisation. Just why these "dyed-in-the-wool” mugwumps—these heroes (and victims) of other fierce revolts from the regularly constituted republican authority —should be put at the helm now, it is hard to say. But it is probably because Senator Beveridge felt it necessary to furnish concrete evidence that he is a sidion-pure insurgent. Foulke and Swift, aided by the HoU. John Overmyer of North Vernon—who also has had a varied -experience with several parties—-should be able to put it over Watson, Hemenway, Durbin and others of that class quite handily. The Elks lodge of this city has a handsome Memorial Tablet, just received from Rome, New. York, from which place ft had been ordered by the lodge in thiycity. she names of the deceased members will be engraved thereon. It has-been planned to hold special memorial services at their lodge room of Friday evening, and at this the memorial tablet will be fittingly dedicated for its future use. A program is being arranged and the memorial services on Friday evening will prove to be the most elaborate ever, given by the Decatur lodge. They now have twWeceased members, R. J. Holthouse and Anson VahCamp, and at the services on Friday evening the members will lally remember them with these special services. The memorial is for the members of the lodge and visiting members only, but this fact will not in the least diminish, their merit; so every- Elk in Decatur should be present- St that time. ■ — o'~ ■■■— ■■■ i Miss Iris Robinson of Winchester, who has been visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Dallas Hunsicker for some time, left today for Geneva to make a few rays’ stay before leaving for her home. " ■ i Mrs. William Shout arrived today from Warren, Ohio, to join her mother, Mrs. William Double, in a visit at the John Rex home. They will leave tomorrow for Mt. Pleasant,. Mich., for a visit. ■ — »>, • Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORI A ’ IL. _ll 11,1, I 'f ißgasFagggsm EPILEPSY St Vitas Danos, Stubborn Norvous DlsordoiSv Fits 4 nipoad immediately to. fte wmat»ibte tmrtmm AA mwww wronsa, itiapnocribed SZaUU eepeciaUy lor time dlacaaee awl is UAWU oot a cure-all. IM beaeScial dfate wtassWF isMMdtata nsd tastiss* 1 Ya ctass thetasoie®d> it mmC deuesfsta' tall m 1 Its woadcrful ilftmi vt will Atty mad, wtthimt rterre, aRU SMS WHtt. c>: WVMMta nW** WSWMf SWW . i .a V... ,-v

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