Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1910 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■vbhyvmbbbday mobnib© by fc«W o> ELL»NGHAM, FiibUoher. U.IOPBR YBAB IM ADYANOB. Entered at the postofflce at Decatur, Ind., as second class mail matter. effWM. WOTR OF ABAMS CO. HARMONY IN THE G. 0. P. RANKS Henry Sherman Boutell, Cannon champion, and standpatter of the old republican school, will be an independent candidate for congressman in the Ninth Illinois district, where he was defeated for renomination, and denied an indorsement by the insurgents Thursday. Yesterday Mr. Boutell took the words used by John Paul Jones on a historic occasion and said, “I have just begun to fight" Then he said: “I will run as'an independent cancudate and I will beat my rivals on the basis of the simple principles of representative government” I no reliance in a verdict of the people expressed through a direct plurality primary. In my district less than one-third of the republican voters went to the polls. This is a time in government when we face a crucial condition; when the professional insurgents seek to lead the people to believe that the one way to right wrongs which we recognize are existing is by taking a step in the direction of pure democracy. Pure democracy always has been a failure. The iniative and referendum, the direct selection of senators by the votes of the people are vagaries. The idea of a hundred million people acting together to legislate' upon matters which individually they do not understand is an absurbity. I stand for the principles of representative republican government as expressed by Washington, Hamilton, and Madison. The only thing which might make me hesitate to run is that I am a party man. I am rpady to accede to the wishes of my party where they are honestly expressed, Yesterday they were not honestly expressed. The voters were misled by the statements of paid professional liars. ' I am going to continue the publication of bulletins. In them I propose to tell,the truth, and, if necessary, the unpleasant truth.” — Fort Wayne Journal.

Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, made a ' speech in Indianapolis last week in 1 which he urged the election to the leg- ’ islature of Jahn J. Keegan and other ' candidates. Mr. Keegan, who is a ’ democratic nominee, spoke at the ' same meting preceding Mr. Gompers. He declared that if elected he would i vote for John W. Kern for United 1 State senator He said that Kern had i always been the friend of labor, and i that while he was a member of the : state senate in 1893 and 1895 he i brought about the enactment of several laws that were beneficial to the working man. He recalled that Mr. Kern introduced #nd had passed the first child labor bill ever passed in Indiana, and at his instigation, also, the legislature passed the first employers’ liability law that Indiana ever had/ “His opponent (Beveridge) says sow," added Mr. Keegan, “that we ought to give him our support because he introduced a child labor bill which has never been passed.” And that tells the whole story so far as Mr. Beveridge and labor legislation are concerned. . His interest has been , a pretense or a bluff. It is either that or else he had no influence in congress (which has been continuously republican during all the twelve years of his service as senator) or his party was opposed to legislation in the interest of labor. At all events it has been made clear that Mr. Kern and the democratic ticket are entitled to the support of labor in this campaign. JThe real state campaign will be opened by the democrats in Indiana on Saturday evening, October Ist, when Senator Shively speaks at Laporte and Hon. John W. Kern will be the orator at a big meeting to be held .at Evansville. On the Monday evening following Governor Thomas R. Marshall will deliver the keynote speech at Tomlinson Hall, Indianap-

oils. ;From that time on for gve weeks the battle will be a hot one, with speeches practically every evening at various places over the state. The democrats have been busy for weeks with thjßlr organization, whioh is now in trie best shape in twenty years in twenty years. Every candidate is confident and the result, it is generally agreed, is to be democratic—a sweeping victory. • < Ex-Governor Hanly is making campaign speeches, and from a glance at the one delivered at Hartford City Sunday, he was pot sent out by the republican committee. He is opposed to the re-election of Judge Montgomery who he says, while an honorable man, has the wrong ideas on certain questions. The Indiana campaign will open with a speech by Governor Marshall on September 29th, followed by Hon. John W. Kern on the first day of October. The later opens his senatorial campaign in the city of Evansville and it is expected that during the month of October much will be doing in the Indiana campaign. Hon. John A. M. Adair has typhoid fever and may not be able to take a personal part in his campaign for reelection. His many Adams county friends regret this, but they hasten to assure Congressman Adair that they will make a personal effort to help him, while he is unable to help himself. The campaign In Adams county is now a reality. The splendid meetings held the past two nights tell the tale of democratic enthusiasm that is rampant in this campaign. There is no discounting the fact that the Adams •ounty democrats are fully alive to party duty and party prospects, and that this c&mpaign will be a live wire from this time on until the election. It is all very well for the govern-’ ment to announce that it will seek to dissolve the sugar trust, but in the light of past performances at truStbusting by the lawyers attached to the legal department of, the national government, the general public will be wise to restrain any bubbling manifestation of glee until the thing is over and the sugar combine is really disintegrated. Results in previous attempts along similar lines have not been fraught with results either permanent or beneficial to the man who is wrestling with the problem of the high cost of living.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. The democrats of Indiana have been unusually active up to this time and have completed one of the best organizations ever had by the Indiana democrats. District and county meetings have been held in every county and the enthusiasm at these meetings is a true index of the complete harmony of the party and its leaders. The democrats are embued every place with the fact that they are going to win an overwhelming victory and this has made their organization work both easy and pleasant. An organization meeting in Fort Wayne Saturday with five hundred sturdy democrats present but shows the interest being manifested all over the state. The Fort Wayne meeting has been duplicated in nearly every county in the state, and in all the Indiana demo- . crats are in a good position to take , every advantage that comes in the ; game of politics. I “ T. R. Roosevelt, once president of c the United States, American embas- ' sador to King Edward’s funeral, ani- • mal hunter and bearer of numerous 5 other honors, but who has been en- } gaged in ward politics for a month or ® two in his efforts to control the New York state convention, has veered off on another track. After denouncing e Taft around the circle, he has sudden--1 ly discovered that he needs him. At > a meeting Monday Teddy offered a 1 ‘ truce until after the November elece tion, and it was accepted in a so-so manner. It seems to be a quarrel as l * to which will take the nomination in •• 1912, and It is not a Gaston-Alphonse 6 ( affair either. Perhaps after they read K the papers of the morning of Nevem*

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1 ber 9th. nelthac gent win be so aux-! ious about the c •Id nomination. The| republican party has been mighty; has grown to huge proportions, but it’s not so big that the men who formed it can fight and abuse each other until a month before an election, then call it off temporarily—and win. THE I • CAMPAIGN OPENING It is announced that the democratic, campaign in this state will be formally opened by Governor Marshall in a speech at Indianapolis on. Monday, October 3rd. On the Saturday preceding that date John ’fc. Kern will speak at Evansville and Senator Shively at Laporte. From that time on until election day, November Bth, the contest will be waged continuously. There has been already, however, much firing on the picket lines, and this wHI go on until the pickets and advance guards are swallowed up in the grand sweep of the regular line of battle. The democratic party is compact and aggressive. And what is more, it is everlastingly right on all the great questions of the day. Its delegation in congress has stood solidly for the Interests of the people. Governor Marshall has administered the affairs of the state in such a splendid manner as to win commendation from -good citizens of all parties. On all hands the party has shown itself clean and capable and to be thoroughly abreast of the best spirit of the day. The people are awake to their interests and they naturally look to the democratic party for the doing of those things which need to be done. No hope lies in any other direction. The republican party is wholly disrupted and discredited. Nothing will give such emphasis to the protest against the misgovernment of the republican party as complete and decisive democratic victory throughout .the state. So, therefore, when the campaign is opened it will be opened, in earnest. The New York Sun, republican, has made some figures since the Maine election tpat are decidedly encouraging to the democrats. It figures thllt on November Bth the senate, as well as the house, may be lost to the republicans. The senate now stands 58 republicans to 34 democrats with thirty senators retiring. To gain a majority of one in the senate, the Sun figures, the democrats will have to elect thirteen senators. One of these has already been gained in Maine. Assuming that democrats will be elected from states now sending democratic senators to Washington where the remaining twelve are to come from is wnat the Sun is trying to .figure out. The Sun calculates that the democrats have a fighting chance or better of carrying the legislatures of Delaware, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska and Nevada. This would insure six of the remaining twelve. After eliminating what the Sun concedes as safely republican states it says: "There remains New York, New Jersey, Ohio, and West Virginia. It would be idle to deny that the democratic party In these four states nurses the hope of a landslide that will give it the legislatures and additional United States senators." If this hope should come true the Sun figures they would still be two short But the unexpected might happen as it did in Maine and prior to a week ago the Sun might nave regarded Maine as safely republican as Penn”rlTa“la‘ - K. OF C. MEETING TONIGHT. A special meeting of the Knights nf Columbus has been called “for this ev* ening and something out of the ordinary is In store for all those who attend. During the evening they will be addressed by Frank Sherlock of Chicago, national counsel of the order. He is an orator of much ability and whose words always prove to be of much benefit to those who chance to hear him. It is the express wish of those /n charge that all who can will be on hand to take part tn the meet- ' ing tonight. <- . Q ’l' ** Miss Bessie Boyers left yesterday I afternoon for Jacksonville, 111., where | she will continue her studies in college. She was accompanied to Fort Wayne by her father, Dr. 3. 9. Boyers.

.' 1 “A ROYAL SLAVS” .A ywyAU UuAVU. ( A big audience witnessed the production of “A Royal Slave” at* We Bucklen last evening. The play was -of five acts and gave great satlsfac l • tion. The company carried all their : own special scenery for the production and the costumes were of the latest. The company was the best that has ever appeared here In this bill. Numerous specialties during the performance added greatly to the evening’s entertainment.—The Daily Truth,\ > Elkhart,* Ind., Sept. 18th. Opera . house, Wednesday, September 21st. A motion to quash was filed by the defendant in the case against Homer E. Sowers for practicing without a license and was overruled. t A motion to quash was pverruled in the case of C. D." Murray for selling liquor. The case is set for trial Tuesday. 4 / The case against Dan Straub for selling liquor withqut license and the one against Ollie Ward for grand larceny, aet for trial today, were continued until Friday, because their attorney, L. C. DeVoss, is sick and unable to appear in court to defend them. The case against L. H. Corbin for selling liquor has been filed in court on appeal from the mayor’s court. It was ordered by the court that Curtis Johnson be. released frdto parole and he is now fully discharged. Three new jurymen were chosen to take the place of men who could not serve. They are Joseph Branyberry, Decatur; George Roudenbush, Washington township, and J. M. Archbold, St. Mary’s. Five were released, being John Custer, James Higgins, Courtney Heller, Samuel Simison and Ed. FOx. The case of the Bank of Berpe vs. John Townsend et al., suit on note, was dismissed and the costs paid. William J. Heeter vs. Alive Heeter, divorce, set for next Monday, September 36th. • A marriage license was issued to Roy Carter, 33, farmer, Monroe, and Lillie Strahm, 33. The bride was married once before, her husband having died. ( . . , . O'"—' —■ —— Violet, wife of Thomas'Perkins, one of the best known and bast beloved ladies of the city, passed away Tuesday morning at 9:ob o'clock at the family home on Mercer avenue jafter a five weeks’illness from typhoid fever. The news of the passing of, this good lady spread rapidly more universal sorrow has been caused than by the death of this lady, who was beloved as a good and noble woman, as a good wife and mother, ah a neighbor in every sense of the word, and as airactive church worker, being one of the most prominent workers in the Presbyterian church in all its departments. Mrs. Perkins had enjoyed excellent health until a few weeks ago when she was stricken with the fever, and her death, coming as it does, in the prime of life and health, is the greater sorrow. > A trained nurse had been in attendance for the past four weeks, and ; the very best of care was given, but to no avail, her condition gradually becoming worse. The deceased was but forty-three ' years and one week of age, having ' been born in this county, September i 13, 1867. She was the daughter of , Mr. and Mrs. Xyman Blossom, the father still living, making his home in Willshire. Miss Blossom was-mar- • rled in 1888 to Thomas Perkins, mak- ■ ing their home on a. farm in ttyis, counj ty until a few years ago, when they I came to this city to reside. The unt ion was a particularly happy one, and the husband, with their three children, b- » ■

Hugh, Stella and Olive, are heartbroken over their Joss. Mrs. Perkins is survived by one brother, Prof. O. H. Blossom, of Pittsfield, Il£j two half brothers, Pearl, of Wauseon, Ohio, and Frank, of Clayton, Mich.; three half Sisters, Ainilla Burkheart, of Clayton, Mich.;’ Alida Lammlman ol Blue Creek township, and Ada Stogdill of Monroe. , The funeral will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock from the Presbyterian church, the Rev. Spetnagel -officiating. -v "-T * New York, N. Y., Sept. 20—(Special to Daily Democrat)— Apparently unmindful of the fact that the entire country iftut alarmed for the safety of hie balloon, tbe New York, which had not been reported since it started in tbe Indianapolis races, list Saturday, Captain Thomas Baldwin appeared at the Aero club of America today and reported that the New York landed near Portsmouth, Ohio, Sunday morning ats o'clock. Baldwin says the New York was in the air fourteen honrs and had a hard light with adverse winds. It is reported that the smith n>fi* landed ta West Virginia , • i ■ ...

I “■i ■ * * I morning. i KMBHdM to Daily Democrat)—lnquiry into the method by which William Lorimer qbtairied'hls seat in the United- States senate was commenced today by the senate committee on investigation. The committee will get down to real work tomorrow A card stating in brief the death of a distant relative, Mrs. Fidele Kern, of Delphos, was received in the, city Tuesday by the Charles Ervin ’family. The lady had visited here on different occasions while making her home at Delphos, but recently ehe had been staying at Canton, where her death occurred late Saturday afternoon. The following clipping was taken from the Delphos Herald: “Mrs. Kern was. a former resident of Delphos, having resided in this city for thirty years. Five years ago the family moved from Canal street, this city, to Canton. Mrs. Kern had attained the age of sixty-eight years at the tirqe of her death. She is survived by the husband and' two children, Mrs. J. H. Kuhns of Canton and Mrs. Alfred Kern of Marlon, Ind. , _ “The remains will be brought to Delphos Tuesday afternoon, the funeral party arriving here at 2:58 > m. over the Pennsylvania, on train No. 9. The cortege will proceed at once to the West Side cemetery, where the remains will be given interment. “Mrs. Kern is well remembered by Delphos people, and the sympathy of a large circle of friends goes out to the bereaved husband and children in their affliction.” t ■ —p '■■ — ■ BIG MUSICAL SATURDAY NIGHT. The Gebrgettes Coming Under Auspices of the Pythian Sisters. i Nicely colored lithograph window show cards, representing the Musical Georgettes, in colonial costumes, depicting scenes from their musical show and announcing the date of same Are being placed in the business -rooms over town by the Pythian ladies, under whose auspices and for whose benefit the show will appear at Siturday evening, September 24th. This company is firstclass and,The attraction is guaranteed to please or yonr money will be cheerfully refunded. The friends of the Pythian Sisters will not be disappointed in attending this musical, as the fame ofthis company of musicians is hation wide. This entertainment lasts an hour and a quarter, and in order that all may see and hear them at least two shows will bp given, beginning at 7:15 and 8:45 p. m. This company usually plays for a 50c admission, and makes all the larger cities, and it was only due to the fact that September 24th was an open date on a tour already dated two months In advance. that they were secured for an entertainment here, so don’t imagine it is a cheap vaudeville act, for it is positively the best that ever came to town. -— ~ *<>■■— — A very pleasant social gathering was held at Maple Grove farm, at the home of C. A. Standlford, six and onehalf miles east of Decatur Saturday, when Mr. G. W. Standlford and children and grandchildren gathered for a little reunion. The day was a very beautiful one for the occasion, and a bounteous dinner was served at noon, which consisted of all the, good things in season, with friend chicken and : cake in abundance. After the dinner ■ hour was over the afternoon was pleas- ' antly spent in speaking and singing, with Artie Jackson feting as organist, i Five of the six children werp present and later in the day organized for a • reunion to be held next year. The • organization is as follows. President, ■ F. Standlford; secretary-treasurer, ■ Mrs. E. W. Jackson; committee on I program and arrangements, C. A. , Standlford, Mrs. Leonard Fisher and • Artie Jackson. Those present were i G. W. Standlford and wife, and F. M. . Standlford and family of Wren, Ohio; E C. A. Standlford and family, E. W. 1 Jackson and family, Vernon Shlfferly t and wife, Mrs. Otis Shlfferly fthd , daughter, Mr., and Mrs. J. W. Shlfferly j of Decatur; Leonard Fowler and famf ily of Ohio City, W. L. Standlford and wife, Mrs. Walter Koos and son, and f Mrs. Lena Anderson of Fort Wayne, - numbering forty-two in all. i ——

The annual reunion of the Kunkel and Kleinknight families at Tocsin Saturday was attended by a goodsized gathering, nut not as many as had been expected, and this was felt to be due in large measure to the lateness of the season and the fact that the reunion coming on Saturday made it impossible for many to attend. For that reason it. was voted that next year the reunion .will will be held the first Thursday' in August, which will makejit more than a month earlier and will’ make It a day of the week probably to jority of the family. The program Saturday was carried out as lv nnblished and the affair was a very

| enjoyable event in every way. Tbei was a splendid and bounteous dlnm I spread at the noon hour. Thereunto •I association for the ensuing year wi • perfected by the election of officers s ■ follows: Charles Kunkel, president i John Heckley, vice-president; Willlai • Kleinknlght, treasurer, and N. , Kleinknlght, secretary. The reunio l next year will be held at the saw place, in the grove at’Tocsin.—Blfil ton News. -——- Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 23—(Spe lai to Daily Democrat)—One of Ind ana’s veneraoie and dlstlnguiahe democrats who was a recent caner t ' state headquarters, is confident tbt a democratic house of representative • Will sit in Washington next year. “Everything points that way,” sai Judge McCabe, “and I believe I wi be spared to see the deniocrats swee the country. “Why, I see that even Jim Watso believes the next house will be dem< cratic. That’s the way most everyon feels. There is nothing so demora izing to a party as a broken premia Prior to the last national electla affairs had reached such a state ths even the republicans admitted ths the tariff was too high. Chey agree with the democrats on this. And the went before the, people with a promts that if the republicans carried th election the tariff wovld be reduce< In the face of this promise they d< llberately turned around and legists ed contrary to their promise. “They have broken faith with th people and I believe the voters hav , made up their minds to turn them oi of power. Why, I believe that in a own district Congressman Crumpac) er will be defeated. He has not kei his promises individually, Just as th republican party, as a party, has n< kept its promises—and I believe h will pay for it as will the party. J “It’s not such a wild theory aft' all, to believe that she next house be democratic. It is no wilder thaii have believed that the Fourteenl congressional district qf Massachu etts would go democratic as it dl Why shouldn't Massachusetts go dm ocratic, too? , ’’ ■-•New York state, ig which a sped election has* bean held in one d trict, has also illustrated the tide j opinion that is/setting toward s , democrats. Hundreds and thousate of republicans who are convinced th . the republican party is not living ! to its promises intend to vote i democratic ticket “This is what happened to Mat Mr- Dingley, a brother to the auttM ! of the Dingley tariff bill, is the pi . Usher of the Lewiston (Me.) Jourt i a republican newspaper. He sa . that the greatest factor in the d£le . of the republican ticket in Maine w ; the broken promises oi the republic i party, Thousands of lepublics; i there voted the democratic ticket, b I they had made up their minds t| . the time had come when the only w ■ to teach the party a lesson wos > turn it out of power. “From Maine to California this the situation. A broken promise ; not a lovely thing in the minds > the American people and in this ca . it was so flagrant that a stern rebu , is certain.’ 1

■ 0 THEY ARE STILL HERE. Dorcas Daughters of Reformed Chui to Conduct Public Sale. / The Dorcas Daughters of the G| man Reformed church of this city a going to conduct a public sale on m urday, September 24,1910, in the nJ formerly occupied by Baughman’s fl and ten cent, store on south Secol street, near the interurban station, I 1 o’clock p. m., consisting of furnit J household goods and other value] and numerous articles, such as stov] large iron kettles and other articl that farmers and townspeople can! do without. The public is invited] attend this sale. The proceeds J go to the building funds for s| church, and for which the ladles I working hard. If you wish to sell I article at this sale you are request to have it brought to the place ,abl mentioned not later than 11 o'cll Saturday morning. We will chai you ten per cent commission for J Ing It, * We already have a large consfl ment of valuable articles that you I buy at your own price. For furtl information call 'Phone No. 284. ■ | Terms cash. | t, tAf 1 FRED REPPERT, Aucl - 0 —I The shoe stores are not the cl ones pestered by the boys who I invading them in hosts for si strings from which to make wcl fobs, a hobby which is Just now- gel the rounds and which seems « more catching than the measles, fl shoe firm so pestered told every I that came inv-and they came by ■ and fifteens in bunches—that || hardware store had just gotten 11 carload and was- giving them avl that hardware gtflFA S overrun. .