Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1910 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ‘’■ 1 ' ■▼■BTTnDMBAY MOBNIMO BY «.KW & ILL’NGHAM, FiibHMw. r ■■ — •••■ ■ B 0.00 PBB YBAR IN ADV ANOB. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, ' Ind., as second ciass mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. CAN NOT ENDURE HALF STANDPAT AND HALF INSURGENT Senator Cummins stated a fact when, paraphrasing Lincoln, he said that the republican party could not

endure half standpat and half insurgent. There is>a strong and natural effort to “get together” for the coming campaign, and it may be successful. But it will be meaningless for results, beyond success where this may occur at the polls. It will establish no principle for future harmony. One or the other idea must be given up. Either the insurgents are to go on and compel the adoption of their doctrine that a tariff must justify itself, or the standpatters must be able to prevail with their way of deciding in the counsels of the mighty what the traffic will bear and laying duties accordingly. Nor will it do to cherish the feeling that the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill will suffice to postpone the question. Events have shown that the people, not merely in the west, but in other parts of the country, are dissatisfied. Moreover, fin engine has been set in motion that will render acquiescense impossible, it is the tariff board. Although a makeshift, and originally meant to be a preventive of a real tariff investigation, events before congress adjourned forced its recognition as a real force and gave it means sufficient to do its work. It will" report results, and, although it reports to the president alone, it is not possible in these days of publicity for the moral weight of its report to be ignored. So it is difficult to escape Senator Cummins’ conclusion. Something will happen. The republican party will either modify its attitude and return as the champion of popular rights, or it will harden still more as the special agent of the privileged few. The line of cleavage is clear, for it runs on a principle, and that is government for the many with equal rights and opportunities, against government for the few with special privileges for them. There is to be, in short, either a reconstruction of the party on principle so that it shall stand again for the people, or the organization is to„ become still more bourbonistic. —Indianapolis News. The harmony existing in the g. o. p.

is becoming pathetic, and is best told by.,the Fort Wayne News: “The Taggart Press Bureau, with a persistence as sinister as it is adroit, continues to quote the heretical and 0 frothy flapdoodle of the Ind*^^^ j., j 9 V te If&fel H thfl Sentiment o£ C r„'. . . f B'ev'eridge b’rgan.’ Now the truth * is that Senator Beveridge is no more responsible for the calf-Kke clamor of ‘ the Indianapolis Sun that he is responsible for fleas, lice, wood-ticks, chiggers and other pests of a similar ‘ character. To charge that he is so responsible is tantamount to an indictment pf his sanity and not even his most radical critics have ever mentioned him as a fit subject for the madhouse. One of the penalties of greatness is the acquisition of undesirable camp-followers — demagogic ciackers, who fasten themselves like leeches upon the entourage of some popular leader and who through the astensible advocacy of his cause seek either to advance'their own selfish, interests or to promulgate and promote their hair-brained vagaries by the impudent insinuation that they have their leader’s sanction and endorsement. Senator Beveridge has especially suffered from newspaper inflictions like the Sun and from the ' representations made by certain halfbaked politicians in every community that they are his advisers and the local custodians of his interests. Senator Beveridge will win handsomely at the November election but it will be despite the terrible handicap placed upon him by the barnacles and blatherskites of z a pretended friendship.” The primary electioif in’ Kansas on

Tuesday shows on overwhelming victory for the progressives. The candidate for governor, W. R. Stubbs, has a phenomenal majority. Madison and Murdock, the progressive congressional leaders, had scarcely, any opposition to their renomination, and in four other congressional districts the progressives are triumphant. In only two is the result in doubt, and there may not be a single standpatter on the ticket in November. The issue was squarely drawn on the tariff in general, the rubber schedule in particular, Aldrichlsm, Speaker Cannon and the rules. It had been better for the standpatters

had Uncle Joe kept out of the state. The importance of this result upon current political action can hardly be over-estimated. Party conventions and nominations are now at hand. The progressive spirit is abroad in the land, and the Kansas victory will encourage it, and will also lead party leaders to heed the tendency of the times. For, if progress is not made at time of nominations, it may become marked at the elections. —South Bend Times. The Chicago Tribune prints an interesting item about one of the leading business men of that city. Samuel W. Allerton, at the agb of eightytwo, has relinquished his allegiance to the republican party and has become a democrat. The antagonism of the veteran ranchman, packer, banker and capitalist has been aroused against the republican party oh account of what he terms its tendency toward paternalism and meddling. Mr. Allerton has a controlling interest in the Chicago stockyards, and in the years past has been a heavy contributor to the republican campaigns. It is evident that he has given serious thought to his course, as men do not lightly ' change their party allegiance at the 1 age of eighty-two. ____________ J Senator Cummins certainly made a great Speech at the lowa state con- 1 ventiOh—the best and most conservative presentation of insurgency that has yet been uttered —but it was not a republican speech any more than Vallandigham’s speeches during the Civil war were Union speeches. His prediction that “the republican party cannot endure permanently half pro- 1 gressive and half standpat,” is probably" true, but the premises are not I stated correctly. It cannot endure half insurgent and half republican, 1 and if it so continues in that attitude I there will undoubtedly be a realignment of political lines in the not distant future.—Huntington Morning Times. Rep. ’ r / =- »■

y ■ — . lowa is evidently just about as i tolerable to the of Uncle J6e, Jim Watson, President Taft and ethers tqp Numerous to mention as a Summer resort is to Hades. Not only did the insurgents follow the stumping campaign of the standpatters with big gains in the congressional and state primaries but they take a stand in their platform which ’s a left-handed jolt to the president. They endorse such efforts as he has made to fulfill the party pledges. The lowa people are showing their displeasures with the regular republican, the kind of republican who is in the majority among the leaders.—Columbia City Post. The First congressional district held an enthusiastic organization meeting at Evansville, at which the ground work of this feature of the campaign work was thoroughly outlined. The meeting was largely attended, the leaders and porkers were enthusiastic and it is already conceded that good results will attain from the pocket district. Similar meetings will be held in every district in the state, and in but a few weeks more organizaion work will be under way in every district and every county in the state. . < The republicans in the Tenth district are becoming alarmed for fear that Edgar Dean Crumpacker may also have to walk the plank. In order to bolster up a bad cause, the republican congressional delegation started a bqom for him as speaker of the next house of representatives. They hope , thus to avoid Cannonlsm as an

ttK but oiicb camvalgb tHckb .lv not fool a voter in the state, unless It be those who put up the job. ♦ SSeSSEESHHSSHB Roosevelt, when he speaks in Indi ana this fall, doubtless will utter the same bld things that some people think he believes. But as the Pitts burg Post says, he is a rank Cannonite. He prates of the people; he served the special interests. His deeds and his preachments collide. Later, when party warmth increases, he will utter a panegyric over Aldrich, fall on Taft’s neck and for a time uplift will be kept in the attic. HS_ LJJ!'L!."""l!!'!a l "B!

Os course papa was too busy settling the troubles of state and of nations to devote much attention to the raising of his family, and the Christian Endeavor society of Falroury, Nebraska, is going to try to induce Alice to give up cigarettes. How are you bettin’?—Columbia City Post. “As a matter of fact, nothing is further from the intention or desire of the progressives, in case they come into power, that an immediate and violent attack upon tariff schedules.” — Indianapolis Star. . All right, let it go at that, but put the padlock on some of the insurgent kickers who are burning midnight oil in editorial sanctums and proclaiming that “this is a h—l of a country, the republican party a h —l of ,a party, and President Taft a h—l of a president,” If we are going to have harmony let us at least abandon the use of profane adjectives.—Huntington Morning Times, Rep. The republicans have created a tariff commission which is useless and which will not amount to anything, Where will the commission go to get the information it seeks? “Thsre is a department of the government that already is authorized to gather information needed for the purpose of making tariff laws, and it was not at all necessary to create a new symposium of salary grabbers to do the same work. The department .could get all of the Information available by sending letters to the United States consuls in the various manufacturing centers of the world, and at little or no cost No matter what else a tariff commission may do, it will be compelled finally to go to the consuls for the information it seeks. The consuls are commercial representatives of this government; their functions are commercial. This makes them the proper source of such information. The tariff commission idea is not new. Thirty years ago a tariff commission" was created and it went all over the country and took evidence. The com-

mission was Composed of able men. They came back to Washington and made a report, recommending reductions in the tariff, and congress immediately made large inCtehsek instead of following the advice of the commission. This shows what a tariff commission amounts to. —Senator Shively. POLITICAL AUTHORITY • 4 In discussing certain rather strange mutations of fortune affecting such famous men as President Taft, Governor Hughes, Senator Root and Mr. Roosevelt, Dr. Albet Shaw, writing ta the Review of Reviews, says: There was a crucial moment In New York politics, several years ago, when Mr. Roosevelt’s decision made Mr. Hughes the republlcan nominee for governor. It was Mr. Roosevelt’s decision, also, that made Mr. Taft the republican nominee for president. ♦ ♦ * Mr. Roosevelt refused a third term, and by the supreme exercise of his political authority he succeded in putting another man in. So at last the case is admitted, and by one of the closest and warmesl friends of the former president—by , one of the inner circle. The idea thal Mr. Roosevelt made Mr. Taft presi ■ dent has been indignantly repudiated 1 by Mr. Roosevelt’s friends, and ol course by those of Mr. Taft. Bui now Dr. Shaw admits that this is just what was done, done through “the su preme exercise of his political author ■ ity. It was Mr. Roosevelt’s “decis ion,” and not at all that of the na 1 tional convention of the republicar

it was Mr. Roosevelt who put himself out of power and "another man in,’ 1- and this by “the supreme exercise oi e his political authority." This hai e been the opinion of many people all J- along, but never before have we had i* so frank an admission of the fact—indeed we have had no admission at s all—from those near the throne. Dr. Shaw is an honest man, and one fall miliar with the facts, and with the a official interpretation of them. While 1 no new evidence was needed to prove a case that had already been proved —indeed that proved Itself—this bit of testimony from one of Mr. Roosef velt’s most admiring friends is at ’ least an interesting contribution to 3 the hlstoijr of a great and superbly ■ conducted campaign. r A man less ingenuous than Senator . Gore and of purpose to expose a bribery plot would have led the briber along until corroborative evidence had been secured. The Oklahoma senator’s mistake was in assuming that all the information Imparted to him by the man who sought to play upon his cupidity was true. A more adroit and wordly man would have ascertained how much of it was true, procured the proof and then started the fireworks. Not any one will doubt that an attempt to remoye opposition to the bill ror giving congressional approval to certain contracts with Indians was made and that Senator Gore was one solicited. But that some of the men implicated hy the word of the “fixer” could not have been interested in the boodle conspiracy is, equally clear. It looks as though Senator Gore’s ingenuousness had spoiled a really fine opportunity to throughly expose a precious nest of rascals.—Fort Wayne Sentinel.' Mr. Taft has surrendered Ohio. Ohly one question remains to be determined in the campaign—the size of Governor Harmon’s majority. When the republican state convention nominated a Foraker candidate on a standpat platform, Ohio was formally presented to the democrats. It is apparent that neither Mr. Roosevelt nor Mr. Taft has my expectation of republican success in‘the president's own state next fall. Mr. Roosevelt’s personal friends abandoned the fight

before it had fairly begun, and Mr. Taft’s managers were concerned chiefly with an unqualified endorsement of his administration. Thus the Ohio republicans enter the campaign without an issue, without a definite principle on' which to appeal to the independent voters, and with a platform that is only an excuse, an apology, a defense.—New York World. TRUST MADE TARIFF SHOULD BE ABOLISHED > Howard Campbell of Richmod, president and general manager of the GaarScott company, one of the largest manufacturers of threshing machinery in the country, has Come to the conclusion that the trust-made tariffs, which the republican party has been , imposing upon tne people of the Un- ( ited States should be,abolished. Mr. Campbell, who is a republican, expresses views to which a large and increasing number of manufacturers wtH assent. Among (Jther things he says:

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>-|they are the fellows who. fraipe the d tariff. If /‘The special interests have been go- " Ing to Washington and framing their if own schedules. At least, that is what s it Hhs amounted to. The steel interll ests, the knit goods interests, the d leather interests and the glove Inter- - ests practically make the tariff. t "It requires only one good eye to see '. that the steel trust has been an enori- mous beneficiary of our system of tarb Iff-maklng. This trust, in which some b of our good people of Richmond are a interested, was organized a few years 1 ago with property of a real value of t |250,000,000. It capitalized at nearly - 11,600,000,000 and the melons it has t been cutting ever since have been > simply prodigious in size. There is no r doubt that tariff schedules have been specially adjusted for the benefit of the steel trust, and that it has become, • largely through the fostermg care of • the tariff, the greatest engine of op- ' pression in our industrial life, “Manufacturing concerns like ours, which are large consumers of iron and steel, have to pay tribute to this tarifffostered trust We have noticed that the price of steel keeps edging up a little higher all the time, and there is no relief in sight. We are simply at the mercy of the trust and have to buy at its prices. Even the so-called independents sell at the trust’s prices, either because they have the chance and the inclination or aye afraid not to do so. - “What this country needs is a market abroad for its manufactured products. That means a stream of gold to this country, and that is what always makes times good. If we are levying a tariff for the benefit iff the government instead of for private interests, why do we not lower the duties so as to get the revenue? “At present we cannot compete with foreign manufacturers in foreign countries. The simple reason is that the tariff makes us pay so much for our raw material that when our finished product leaves our shop it is so load** cd down with dollars that we cannot meet the low prices charged by foreign competitors without losing heavily.- - '.A ' .. “We are forced by the steel trust’s tariff to charge as much as the farmers can pay. The farmers, in order to pay for these and other tariff-taxed goods, must charge the wage-earning

population that much more for the I products of the farm.” Senator Bristow of Kansas would I be a good one for Beveridge to get! to campaign in Indiana. He spoke I , for LaFollette in Wisconsin Monday I and gave the Payne-Aldrich-Cannon I tribe an awful drubbing, and pro-1 nounced the tariff law enacted by I the last congress a repudiation of I the pledges made by the republican I party In its platform. Senator Bris-1 tow is more severe in condemning I - the work of his party than Beveridge I - and it would stir things in Indiana I t if be were to tour the state during I r the campaign.—Columbia City Post. I Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Vance and I -t daughter, Lee Anna, and Miss Adelle | SellemCyer, wlio were called home I from Rome City by the death of their I ■ grandmother, Mrs. Christena Selle-1 meyer, returned last evening to their 1 cottage at that place, where they will s spend the remainder of their vacad e tlon. They were accompanied by their mother, Mrs. Fred Sellemeyer, who has been In poor health for some

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