Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1910 — Page 4

PoiocaAT ~ namniMT by ■MWt' elungham, PnbiiaMr. mtry** 11 1*—* 1 *". ***' - ini ■■ i' ———~ UjOOPSB YBAB IM ADVAMOB. Entered at the poetofflce at Decatur, md t m second class mall matter. ItylCtAL RARER OF ADAM* CD. IT 18 DANGEROUS TO GIVE MEN TOO MUCH POWER Mr. Roosevelt favors a graduated income tax, and in that we think he is right. He would enlarge the powers of the bureau of corporations anti the interstate commerce commission, require the utmost publicity in the management of all insterstate corporations, forbid corporation contributions to campaign funds, provide for a physical valuation of railroad property, establish the direct primary and require the publication of all campaign contributions in advance of election. But his idea is more control and regulation. We mean no disrespect when we say Mr. Roosevelt himself, while president, proved how dangerous it is to trust men with too much power. He says, for instance, that, “all officers, and especially the directors of corporations, should be held responsible when any corporation breaks the law.” And yet he himself refused to allow Paul Morton to be called to account for the Santa Fe rebating. Judge Harmon, special counsel for the government, took precisely the view.now held by/ Mr. Roosevelt, saying that guilt was always personal. But Mr. Roosevelt refused to. permit any inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Morton,.at that time a / member of his cabinet. Again Mr. Roosevelt says, and With- perfect truth, that corporate expenditures for poiftX ical purposes “have supplied one of the principal' sources of corruption in our political affairs.” Yet ft. was he who asked the Ute Mr. Harriman, the biggest corporation man In the United States, to raise mone/ to be used in the campaign in Ney. York state in 1904. No one has yet. been able to unravel the relatione between the sugar trust and politics which endured through the whole of Mr. Roosevelt’s administration. , We refer to these matters simply that we may emphasize the extreme danger of making the government too largely responsible for the management of the business of the country. It may be that the effect will be rather .to get business into than outof politics. There is no great difficulty in getting legislation. But that is only the beginning. Then we must see that it is enforced, and not only that but. enforced with utter fairness and impartiality. We can never be sure that those in authority will not regard the laws as things to be dispensed with whenever it is thought that “the larger good” can thus be served. As things are, we feel that there is danger that we have too much regulation, and that as a result of it we may find, not that the government is regulating corporations, but that the corporations are regulating the government—as they have been doing for years in relation to tariff legislation. But we have now this latest statement of the Roosevelt policies. It is interesting, and much of it sound. Mr. Roosevelt has for the present at least ranked himself with the Insurgents, though we think that his tariff views lack somewhat of fervor and clearness. —Indianapolis News.

THE EIGHTH DISTRICT RESOLUTIONS The platform adopted Tuesday by the republicans of the Eighth district is an extraordinary pronouncement. 4® • • The Taft administration was warmly approved. The president is characterized as “wise, prudent and conservative.” We fear that there is a sinister and covaj-t significance in the following words: “He stands for" the supremacy of the law and the integrity of the courts. He has succeeded in causing to be enacted into law more Important measures In the, same length of time than any president in our history, and we predict that hir administration will • mark a most prosperous and progressive era in the nation's development.”

The Beveridge plank, though eulogistic, is rather indefinite. The man is praised, but not his services. * • • The Contrast between the language used with reference to the state ticket and that used with reference to Mr. Beveridge can hardly fail to be noted by the people. Still the convention no doubt did the best it could. It had to say something, though it might have followed the precedent set by the Seventh district convention, which adopted no platform. But if it had to speak the Eighth district Convention went as far as it could, “under the circumstances, attending” its performance. But we think that the standpatters had rather the better of it? As far as we know, the candidate, Mr. Rollin Warner, who is a prominent attorney, has never committed himself to either side. Doubtless he will make his position clear before the campaign closf-h—lndianapolis News. DIFFERENCES \ OF OPINION President Taft has presented to the republicans of the country a keynote summary of the reasons sos supporting Mie republican candidates in the congressional contests that that will be rated the clearest, most convincing statement of its kind ever issued by a president—Baltimore American. It to undoubtedly conciliatory in' tone, but it goes over too familiar ground,' dwells on matters long .since : r i '"discounted,” contains unconvincing tributes to the tariff and irritating praise of. the corporation tax, and emphasises points that in the interest •f harmony and unity should be passed over.—Chicago Record-Herald. The |IB,OOO launch bought a'few months ago for use during Mr. Taft’s summer cruise is now sent tothe junk heap. What’s >IB,OOO anyway to » prosperity, high-protection administration? Uncle Joe Cannon said recently that “Beveridge would make an ideal peacock with just the addition of a few feathers.” Which doubtless, will not commend Uncle Joseph to the peacock constituency. ■» ■ ll " 1 The Chicago Record-Herald says that Lloyd C. Griscom appears to have usurped the place formerly occupied by William Dudley Foulke. But as Foulke just now has the Beveridge campaign to look after and must keep both eyes on Watson, Hemenway, Fairbanks, Durbin, and other regulars, he will not mind.

Between sweats T. Roosevelt is fighting a newspaper dual with r the New York Evening Post. It has reached the point where the lie has been passed. Mr. Roosevelt is a good advertiser if nothing else, and this is expected to add several thousands v of subscribers to the Outlook, the Roosevelt magazine. Business is strenuous these days. Writing from Indianapolis to his paper the Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer says: “It is admitted that there never has been such a variety of views regarding the situation from a republican standpoint Never before has there been as much talk of factional disturbances ancTTdcal troubles.” The admission, be it understood, is made by republicans themselves. But it contains nothing new. The fact has been known many months. John Hays Hammond, president of the National League of republican Clubs and a friend of the president of th,-* United States, is charged with being interested in a scheme to sell the government some kind of newly mounted gun at the modest “little price of >2o,ooo,ooo—twenty-five millions, count ’em. The disinterested (?) patriotism which characterizes some of these “higher up” republican politicians is the marvel of the new century. A meeting of the Adams county central committee today began the real work of organization, and from this time on this and other features of the campaign work will be carried for-

J . J . tl z - I were in better humor than at present. | They have no local dissension, their county locket is satisfactory to all and the brifcht prospects of success and victory in the district and in the state gives them every reason to feel enthusiastic and encouraged. Perhaps there is no democrat in the state with more and better friends among the Adams county democrats than has the Hon. John W. Kern. His candidacy te the United States senate is the signal for S°°d hard work from the •organisation and encouragement from every democrat in the county. County chairman D. N. Erwin has opened headquarters and will be busy from thia time until election x The election laws of Indiana requires a residence of sixty days in the county and thirty days in the precinct to entitle one to the right to vote. The election this year will occur on the eighth of November, and that means that after Thursday of this week one cannot move -from one county to and that after October Bth, one cannot move from his precinct. Every Voter in Adams county should remember this Tact It is no secret that this year the Indiana democrats intend to organize as they have never organized before. In is no secret that they intend to bend their energies toward getting every democrat to vote and to vote a democratic ticket. In fact the bulk of their ~time and political, skill'Will ' * M * Va; f be given to perfecting an organization of the democrats of the state. Adams county should lead in this great work. While they have done much up to this time, yet we hope that there will not be; a precinct organization in tike county that will not know every voter in the precinct, and we hope that they will know to a certainty where every democratic .voter will h® rtn election day. This may be a'little early'to talk seriously Os the work to be done on election day, but it is a poor prednej . committeeman and a poor precinct organization that does not thoroughly known hiAown party vote- and know, too, their intentiops onelection day. / 11 “No man should make a promise before election that, he does , not Intend to keep after election, and if be does not keep it, hunt him oUt"^—rneodone, in Kansas. It was thus that he Impressed upon the Kansas the shortcomings of Mr. Taft But Mr. Taft, if he so minds, can show a multitude of promises made by Roosevelt which he did not keep, whatever may have been his intent. f

' Doubtless Charles 8. Hernley, former chairman of the republican state committee, -who has come out as an independent candidate for representative in Henry county Against the Beyeridge candidate, thinks it no wofse for him td be independent than It is for the Etheridge candidate to be insurgent. Mr. Hernly may also consider himself much the more “regular" candidate of the two since be stands by the party record while the other merely stands for Beveridge. There is no good reason why >tr. Hernly’s example should not be followed by other stalwart republicans. Under its present leadership in this state there is no chance tor the republican party to succeed next November and the time is propitious for settling all of those little disagreements between the factions that have ben so much in evidence. The* best way to have a test of strength is for a regular to become an independent candidate in every legislative district where there is an Insurgent candi* date and an Insurgent to run indpendently yhereever a regular was nominated. This suggestion is offered r ith a view to determine which faction really is to be the republican party in Indiana. rtj ■■ Dr. J. C. Graodstsff of Preble was a business visitor here yesterday. C. O. France of the CommercialMail will move his family to this city this week from Decatur and reside tn the pan Meyers residence, Smith Chauncey street, to be vacated by H. 8. Thomas and wif< who will take rooms and board tor toe winter.—Columbia City Comtoercial Mail.

nic at Maple Grove park next Monday. The exercises proper will oj>en promptly at 10:80 o’clock khd continue in the following order: Concert by Woodmen Orchestra. Address of Welcome-Hon. D. B. Erwin. Whistling Solo—Miss Vic Stone. Address—J. D. Volz of Indianapolis, state deputy. Selection—Woodmen Orchestra Address—A. F. Hoffmeister of Fbrt Wayne, district deputy. t P Vocal Solo—Hugh Hite. Address—Hon. C. L. Walters, t Music—Woodmen Quartet. Address—W. F. Capeland of Lima, Ohio, Ohio state deputy. Following this there will be a number of contests, especially for children, who, as there is no school, will doubtless attend in large numbers. -DftlWty. Everybody -is invited to come and bring their dinner and join in a sort of reunion about the table. A concert will be given by the Woodmen orchestra, beginning at 1 o’clock, and at 1:30 there will be fancy drills —one Ity the Fort Wayne Woodmen, who will enter the national contest at Buffalo,»and another by the Decatur Royal Neighbors. At 2:30 there will be a ball game, and in the'afternoon also, the dancing pavilion will be thrown open, continuing through the evening also, for which foere will be special -music. The shooting gallery and bowling alleys will also be open all day, and there will be amusements of all kinds for all people. Everybody come. A special invitation' Is hereby extended to all other lodges and the churches of the city ip Attend. • .iA .y. .■ . ii o ■.■ii.n-MRBftyZ' ' ■" ■« • e " '■ <• ■ 4 ■ •» Indianapolis, Ind., Sept s—(Special to Dally Democrat)—lf Senator Beveridge ha» looked the situation fairly and sqdarely in tire face since bls re-, cent return from a summer. in. New Hampshire, he must admit to himself that Indiana %as failed by A thousand miles to follow the lead which he set in the republican state .convention early.list spring. . _ ~ It is a matter of fact that not one slngfo district has affirmed the radical utterances of the state platform which' were by Senator Beveridge./ The district, conventions of the republicans aren practically completed, and in not one of them have there been adopted resolutions along , the lines laid.dpwnj)y th ® Btate con ‘ vention. the state district by »dis-' trict, Indiana is not ih eridge)B class as an "insurgent” It is a remarkable situation that Senator Beveridge has come home to face. The state convention is usually held early in the year, so that it may set 'the. pace for the district conventions and by its platform may indicate tp them the proper lines to follow.’ This was done this year. The convention was Senator -Beveridge's Own little party just as much as if he had sent out the invitations for an informal .meeting in his home. He controlled it absolutely. His convention speech was radical from first to last, and he flayed the real republicans and the Payne tariff. It was after thia speech that he telegraphed to fritends in Washington that he had “kicked the stomach off the Payne bill.” Then the senator hurried out to New Hampshire, where he has remained ever since. In his absence every district in the state, with the exception of the Third and Fourth, which are hopelessly democratic, has held its convention and adopted resolutions. But there have been no more republican feet planted in the stomach of the tariff bill. The only Imprint thereon is that of a senatorial boot and it stands out lonesome and conspicuous as far as Indiana is con-

crrueu. . *• w - Tie Seventh and Eleventh congressional districts have always been regarded as peculiarly Beveridge districts. What’a the matter with them? The Eleventh is for the tariff which Senator Beveridge derided with his boot—anekthe Seventh has not had the courage to declare Itself. The Seventh is in an embarassihg position. It is the alleged home of Senator Beveridge and the onjy explanation can be offered for its silence is that its voice,-should it speak, would be raised against the senator. Linton A. Co* of Indianapolis is the congressional nominee. He has never indicated his personal views. There is nothing but silence—of the kind that Is more painful than words. In other districts there have been good hard fights over the resolutions, but the tariff, either directly or indirectly, Was always indorsed. On the other hand the words of praise accorded Senator Beveridge were carefully framed and never, in a single case, have they referred to His votes on the tariff. He has been indorsed as a "splendid and eloquent speaker,” and in many other meaningless phrases, >hile there have been ringing econiums of' Resident Tait—who *• «« ~ ■ 3* -7 ' • xis'

<3 > U «y. » O M U I from the crumbs offered him there afld his starved soul will groan at the nice things that have been said about everyone and anything else. It revolves Itself into this: The tariff has been praised in every dis* trici convention and' there has not been a sylable of praise for Senator Eeyerldge as an “insurgent.” This is what Senator Beveridge found- last week when he camo “home.” And frond this situation he drew, in some manner known only to himself and his. “cabinet,” the strength to repeat a former declaration that Indiana Will go republican by 50,000. His friends wonder when. Even the Indianapolis rfews, consciously or unconsciously, gave him «, Jtttie foci for thought along this line on the vgnr day he returned. On that afternoon, in a dispatch from its staff correspondent, James r. Hornaday, dated St Paul, Minn., there was a startling “omission.” The first paragraph of that dispatch reads as follows: 1 “In this state the republican organization is conservative, and the voters of the party are progressive. Lacking an aggressive leader, such as LaFollette, is in WiscOnson, Bristow, in Kansas, and Cummins and Dolliver, in lowa, , tite insurgents are rathdr quiescent” How does ft happen that Senator Beveridgte is not Earned among these “Sggressive leaders?” ' ■.■, l .iii, —■ o f EARLY DAYS IN OLD ADAMS. A Sketch of Pioneer Deys of French and Runyon/Famltlee. This meeting is held as the FrenchRunyon reunion because the families were the pioneers and intermarried to quite an extent. > The Frenches were me first settlers in this neighborhood. They came in 1836, settled by the Wabash on the farm now owned by David Runyop. The first to come were Joseph French, er.; and jr., and thdlr families, being my father and grandfather. Knowing nothing about the overflow of the Wsbash they built theft cabin on the bank at the edge of the water. , During the tint year they raised com and vegetable* mostly. These grew to great size; Owing to the fertility. of the soil. Mother planted the apple seed for a ntrrsery;.and this waa thefbOginniag -of most Os the orchards between BlufftSn and Portland, as the newbomerk came to father for tree*.' ' All went well until the third spring when the Wabash began to rise. I was born on the tenth of March, 1838, being the first white child born in French township. The cabih wds surrounded by water at this time and still rising. When I was three days old, the floor, which was made 4)f puncheons began to float Father was alarmed and got our Indian canoe, rowed in at one door, placed mother and myself'in the canoe and went out .at the other door. We went through the woods in the canoe almost half a mile to grandfather's house on the place now owned by A. J. Reynolds. Here we remained until the water subsided. Now, young friends, just think of a mother with a babe three days did taking a boat ride on the raging Wabash in a-bollowed log. However, no harm came of it, and we got along very nicely. The woods were full of Indians, who were quite friendly. When I was about four months old a squaw with her pappoose visited mother. The babies were about the same age. Mother asked the Indian woman how she would trade babies. She looked at me for some time, then asked, “Is he a man baby?” Mother Said,'’"No.” The squaw said, "Ugh; Me no trade. Majinic like man baby. He no like woman baby." So I didn't get traded, for an Indian" baby because I was not a man baby. My father, being the first comer, suffered the most hardships." Ip a few years, George afid Smith' fathei* brothers, and Grandmother Holdbrook, Grandmother " Dunbar and Grandmother Sheldon, their sisters and, families came and settled' her*. As these families came they camp with us until they had their house ready, so they missed many of the pioneer hardships. In the course of time John Runyon and family settled in Hartford township. My sister, Sylvia, married Joseph Runyon of that family, and Unde George French’s daughter, Ada, married David of the same family. They still seem Inclined that way in the second and third generation, as two of my children married descendants of the family.. At this time the woods were foil ?of deer, and -the Runyons 'developed a'race of strong, sturdy men, fond of hunting. A few incidents might be mentioned. One time Granfather Runyon and

hunting for deer. They spent tie night, got home near the morning and lay down to rest. They overslept and did not awaken till near sundown. Grandmother Runyon was the first to arise. She saw the’ sun and called the others/ saying in her excitement, “Get up, John, quick, theworld is coming to an end; the sun is rising in the west.” Some of the boys decided they could hold a deer. Their father allowed one of them to try the experiment. The canoe was allowed to quietly to the side of the deer. Thp young man caught the deer. Next he found himself in the water and the deer gone. Another time one/of them tried to hold a mounteSHßD them tried to hold g wounded deer; he came dub second best. In fifehunting a light is placed in the prow of the boat with a screen back of it. The deer can see* the fire, but not tub hunter. They approach to examine it on account of their curiosity pnd become a mark for the hunters. Many mdre incidents might be related regarding the two families, but let this suffice. Os the Frenches whofirst settled, I am the only one left. I am now seventy-two years of age, and have enjoyed much pleasure and many hardships, and many heartrending tplals in my seventy-two years Os Hfe. I have lived to see sli p of my father’s family laid tn the/ grave, and am left alone, the only branch of the family tree, and at the present time (as you can see) a very * much broken up branch. However, I enjoy being with you today, afid hopeyou may enjoy many more reunions in this life, and may we all meet in the gnat reunion above. ' I, ... ..1.1 ~,,,1, I■ I,■ —..., > A very.happy bltybday surprise was given last Sunday. September 4th, for Mrs. Wbsley Lawson, everybody com- 7 ing with wep filled baskets, from which an appetizing supper was served. Instrumental musfc and singing passed the evening hours. Mfs. Lawson win presented with many find presents by her friends, who wished her many more happy birthdays, and many more just like this. Those present were Mr. wttd Mrs. William law- ’. son-and daughter, Violet, Mr. and Mni. WilUs Slusser and family, Mn- ' vey ‘ Lawson, z Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Myers and family, the Misses Ora, Amy, Ada and Myrtle Click, Mr.’ and Mrs. Ben Morningstar and .don, Henry ;Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Swartzentrup,’ My. and Mrs. Adam Swartzentrup, Mr. and Mrs. David Passon and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Heir and don, : Chester; Mr. and Mts. Wesley Enans and familyi .M?\ and -^n t t ans and daughter, Halle ; thp Misses Nancy, Laura and Golds Riffle, Messrs." Dick Morningstar, Martin Carmack and Jasper Ireland. Mr. and Mrs. Horner Lower pleasantly entertained a company of rela-. tives and friends at dinner and supper in compliment to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Ricketts of Van Wert, Ohio, and Mrs. Wash Gilpen of Cardwell, . Mo. Other members of the party ta atendance, who spent a very o happy day were Dr. and M«- J- M. Miller, .- Mr. and Mrs, Ed Beery daughter, Jeanette, Mrs. Jane Butler and daughter, Ethel, Alph Gentle,-and Mrs J Gilbert Jack of Willshire, z Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Steele daughters, Edna and Zelma, Forest Steele of Newcastle and Mrs. Charles Barnhart and babe of Attica in, Fort Wayne Sunday, where they at-., tended the annual reunion of the Middleton family, which was held at Robinson park. Mrs. Steele is a descendant of the Middleton family, and the reunion last year was held at her - home here. | ‘ The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Peoples was the scene bf a happy gathering on last Sunday, when a number of friends, gathered there to be entertained by Mr. and Mrs, Peoples. An elegant dinner, including, all the delicacies of . the season was served, and was one of the many enjoyable features of the day. The,tlme was spsnt socially and all enjoyed I -the day to ’the utmost. The invited •guests were Mr.»and Mrs# S. A. Peoples, S. E. family, Miss Lola Houck and the out of town guests included Isaac Brown of Swinger, 111., and Mr, and Mrs. Peoples and daughs ter, Vera, of Carpenter, Kansas. Miss Margaret Weldler entertained the Misses Emma and Ella Mutcbler and Emma Schlickman at dinner in compliment to her brother, Carl Weldler, who leaves for Sheboygan, Wiß-'i consln, to enter’ the Mission House, college. Our mistake is in supposing that some men are "good” and - others “bad” and that a sharp 5 line can be drawn between them. |! The truth is that every man has | both qualities in him and in very _ few does the evil overbalance the good.—Ford’s “The Hon. Peter Stlrtlng. > X i..- $