Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1910 — Page 4

— —— | THE DEMOCRAT BP’ t ■VaBTTBUMBBAT MOKNIHS BY •*.IW O> ELLINGHAM, Publisher. •MO FSB YBAB IB ADV AMOK. ~ , -— — ■ GF Entered nt the postoffioe at Decatur, limL, as second class mall matter. .■ h’t: - OFFICIAL RAPER OF ABAME GA lit-.- ■' 11IUJ THE OLD R ; , , SOLDIER’S VOTE Realizing that the old soldier of InI ' dlana as wen as of every other state in the Union has tired of waiting for fe* the republicans to enact pension laws that will In some small portion repay them In their old age for the days 1v; spent in battling for their country and -nights spent In beds of dampness, - when their bodies were infected with k ' germs of disease that has shortened their lives and racked them with pain ‘ and suffering for the fifty years since ? ' the Civil war closed, the republican ' spellbinders have this year, in a fran- | tic effort to save themselves and their | party from the defeat that will come as sure as November 8th t have been ? ’ arguing the pension question and arB going it falsely. A favorite question . of theirs is: “What can you old solS > diers expect from sons of Confeder- | - ate soldiers?” The inference that K; : southern representatives have voted i against pension legislation is as false as it is contemptible. During the last |i -ten years over 20,000 pension bills have been passed by congress and | not a single democratic member, either from the north or south, ever voted against these bills. Two years J* ago, when tne widows’ pension bill : was passed, every democratic member, from both north and south of the I A Mason and Dixon line, voted for it. the democrats favor pension taws •. that will help the veteran or his wid- |// ■ ow? <“ - x /c Another statement that republican | speakers are making is that every line | of pension legislation on our statute I? books was placed there by the repub- • licans. This is another one that ' Roosevelt would use a “shorter and I. v uglier” phrase to deny. The list of pension bills passed by democratic i congresses is a long one, and they sire good laws that have always been satis|p factory. Before the election we exK pect to call the attention of the sol* g® diers and their friends to some of H these. With reference to the dollar-a-p day pension law we wish to say that unless the congress how being elected is overwhelmingly republican, which does not seem likely at this p time, that law will be passed, for the ‘ democrats have always favored it, do so now, and if the republicans had been half as sincere, it would now be | , a law. No man “who is honest can < * say that otfr congressman, John A. M. Adair, with his splendid record, | has not voted with the soldier, and done all in his power in his behalf. He is entitle to your support. Bl? mr. F BRYAN’S SPEECH Mr. Bryan made a great political speech in this city Wednesday night. V He dealt with all the national issues that are in the present campaign, | B dealt wltb them fairly, honestly and Ki effectively. There was little mere oratory, but a great deal of sob'er find extraordinarily clear reasoning. On b/ z most of the new—or supposedly new —questions, the speaker showed that . the democratic party had been far in ' advance of its great rival. And that . is true. Direct election of senators, campaign fund publicity, the income p tax, railroad regulation, had all been urged in democratic platforms and by democrats on the floor of congresses f long before the republicans or Mr. Roosevelt took them up. Indeed, K most of these policies have been opposed by some of the republicans who are now most clamorous in their support No one knows even yet what B are Mr.' Roosevelt’s views on the income tax or campaign fund publicity. E Two years ago when the democrats Were making public their contributhnui prior to the election, Mr. RooseE. vett opposed such publicity. A few • wagiw ggo he declared for it as though it were some new thing. His Naw York convention met and whob

ly Ignored the subject. And now the hat is being passed as uaual in Wall street. It is largely true, as Mr. Bryan bald, that the democratic party has been in power for fourteen years, though it has not been in office. It has influenced, political thought far more than most people have realised. And today insurgency is only demotk racy writ small. . . - ■ Mr. Bryan spoke strongly against national incorporation of railroads, and trusts, a central bank, the tariff commission and the new nationalism, and his argument was impressive. The whole scheme, as he showed, was to concentrate power at Washington, then to consolidate power in the president at the expense of the legislative and judicial departments, and then to have the president “stand as a sort of earthly .father and take care of us.”—Indianapolis News. VOTE FOR KERN “No democrat has any excuse for voting for Beveridge Instead of Kern to get progressive legislation,” said Mr. Bryan. “There are many kinds of progressive republicans, and some progressives have many kinds of progressiveness in them. I tried for a long time to locate Roosevelt in this matter and at Osawatomie I thought I had found him. But then he went to Saratoga and slipped away.from me and I haven’t found him yet. Here in Indiana he tells you to vote for Beveridge because he is a progressive. In Nebraska he saye vote for Burkett, a standpatter. Now he is in Massashusetts telling the people to vote for Senator Lodge, the king of standpatters, who was the principal aid of Senator Aldrich in the senate. “When he gets in his progressive automobile in Kansas he is a joy rider. But in New York he slows down until you have to get behind the automobile if you want to be run over. “When I want to criticize a standpatter I quote what an insurgent says about him. When I want to criticise an insurgent I am ashamed to quote what a standpatter says about him.” Mr. Bryan said that the republicans for years had been thinking that they were in power. They arp mistaken. They are holding the offices, but the democratic party is in power, he said. It has created public sentiment which has forced the republicans to adopt the doctrines of the democrats years ago. “I would rather belong to a minority that leads the majority than to a majority that is led by a minority,” said Mr. Bryan. He said that the progressive republicans have taken all of their progressive ideas from the democratic platforms of former campaigns. The democratic platforms (have declared for the election of senators by direct vote of the people; an income tax; railroad regulation and publicity of campaign contributions, and have contained all of the planks which were of interest to labor, he said. ' To vote for John W. Kara tor United States senator? cast yoar ballot for Jacob Butcher. Ex-Senator J. B. Foraker of Ohio is the latest statesman ,tp assail ex-Pres-ident RopsaveU iltqd his new nationalism, and-ho? did'ft ft! old-style Foraked fashion. r -- - ■ 1 X-J * < ■ ' ■ I “ ‘4“'" . »<«***—i**»— John W.JCern |s making the great? est campaign, .of £is life, and deserves the success he has- earned through thirty years of battling for democratic principled. Indiana will be proud of his record In congress.,. John W. Kqrp, that splendid citizen, thorough gentleman, Able lawyer and ■ fighter for the right, Is deserving of your support. The vote for represen--1 tative in Adams coun,ty should be so large that he will know we approve ; him. ?.-. >,r: '.'.a 1 John A. M. ’Adair has written ani open letter to the voters of this coun- ' ty 1? wbicb he asks the support of • every citizen.. He deserves ft. His ' four years in congress have been i spent in the interests of the people i of the Eighth district It has been a' • pleasure for him to fight for those

views he believes in and they have. always been to the interest of the peo-' pie. He will continue to do so if returned and his four years hate given , him the experience necessary to do things. His illness has prevented him from meeting all the voters as is his usual custom, but he will appre- ; elate your support the more. Special articles in the Indianapolis News, the Chicago Intqr*Ocean and > the Cincinnati Enquirer of Sunday practically concede the state of Indiana to the democrats, including from eleven to thirteen congressmen. Maion county will go to the democrats . they say by 3,000, clinching the state. ..' ■ ? The republican politicians are , grasping at straws jufit now-in hbpes of warding off the defeat that is sure to come on November th. They are making every effort to cause a rupture in the democratic ranks, but are leaking little progress. Don’t let them fool you? It’s politics and noth: ing else. ■ ~ ’ Jacpb Butcher, the democratic nominee for representative, Is one of the pioneer citizens of the county. He is highly respected by his neighbors and acquaintances. He will represent this grand old county in the halls of legislature ably and honestly and fearlessly and will vote for John W. Kern for United States senator. Mr. Bryan denounces the republican theory that we could make the people prosperous by making a few men at the top prosperous in the hope that they would pass the prosperity along. He insists that we should begin at the bottom and make the masses prosperous by enacting wise and fair laws framed in the interests of the whole people. NO ONE MAN IN THE UNITED STATES HAS GIVEN MORE THOUGHT TO THE GREAT MORAL QUESTIONS AS WELL AS ALL THE REST OF THE BIG PROBLEMS OF INTEREST TO YOU THAN- HAS WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. HE COMBS TO INDIANA AND TELLS YOU TO SUPPORT KERN. DO IT FOR YOUR OWN GOOD. / William J. Bryan says that if he lived in Indiana he would support John W. Kern. He says it advisedly after much study of the question. He would not hhve come here to say so, had he not. conscientiously believed it right Don’t sidetrack on any other theory. It’s a simple case of politics, in which those who hate been against you and your interests want you <to help them further their schemes. • L ,HWB. From now on it will be a( hot finish.. The democrats of Adams county are always good .finishers and the time from this until two weeks from tomorrow will be taken up constantly in speaking, precinct meetings and the completion of an organization that Will get out the vote. Let’s give the old ticket the biggest majority we 'ever did. . ...... . . Do you want the. cost of living reDo you believe it *rotag ! to protect the big tritats at yoiir exwnsaV, j Do you wgnt .great state of Indianarepresented in the senate by clea?, strictly, moral and Uprigtt man, a Griess the P«>pie, wjbo is JuSfas comihbn as you are?> ■ ■ If you d& ;3fdjl®?-roß' JAOOB BUTCHER,. who stands pledged to vote .for, <Kqr»- ■’tor'' United, States senator. Mr. Bryan’s popularity in this state wanes none. The people go to heat him and becomb almost as wildly‘enthusiastic over him as they did back in the strenuous days of the campaign, when he began the crusade against wicked Interests and founded! the platform that has been so deftly appropriated by the colonel, Albert Jeremiah and other reformers, progresives and insurgents. Mr. Bryan has just concluded a remarkable series of speeches in Indiana in behalf of his friend, John W. Kara, and he j has been the biggest feature of the Hoosier campaign SO ftr/aot even making exceptio^' ojf Colonel Roose-vett.-Eort Wayne Senttort. ..

I Mr. Henry of Texas, In opening his ! address at the court house Wednesday evening, said his only regret was that he could not lend us about 100,000 of their democrats to vote in the northern states this fall, thus fully assuring a sweeping victory everywhere/ While we appreciate the offer. we cannot help feeling that the votes are not needed in Indiana or Ohio, much as they would have benefitted us a few years ago. Don't forget that the people of lndiana need John W. Kern in the United States senate worse than any r«fortn' that has been talked of in recent years. He will serve six years if elected, and will, do more toward beneflttlng mankind than is imagined by the ordinary voter who does not study public (questions. A vote for Jacob Butcher means a vote for Kern. John A. M. Adair, democratic nominee for congress, has again started on his speaking campaign, after a six weeks’ siege ot .typhoid’ fever. Os course *he cannot show the vigor of old, but the fact that he returns to work, almost as soon as he Is able to work, is conclusive proof of his indomitable energy. He is just this persevering and industrious in congress. Vote for him. If any democrat happdns to say that Roosevelt called United Stated* Judge A. B. Anderson, a “damned jack-ass and a crook,” the republican press will probably call it mud-sling-ing. Still it has been used from coast to coast, and Teddy ■-the great has not even denied it. In fact he refuses to deny it Fine language for an ex-president to be using. ■ ~f . ' John W. Kern, the able lawyer and the man ? whom more people of Indiana would like to see wearing.the senatorial toga than any other citizen of this great" state, will fully appreciate every vote cast for a man who will vote for him and will prove it by giving all, hifif time to .accomplishing those “ things which will be • W io\ir ffreatost ißffirest ' SSSggBSsWHgMU'c . WHEN SUCH ABLE, CONSCIENTIOUS, CHRISTIAN MEN AS GOVERNOR MARSHALL AND WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN ADVISE YOU TO VOTE FOR MEN WHO WILL SUPPORT JOHN W. KERN FOR THE YOU MAY FEEL SAFE IN DOING SO. HIS ELECTION TO THE SENATE ' AT JCHIB TIME MEANS MUCH FOR. EVERY CITIZEN OF INDIANA. DON’T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE MISLEAD. VOTE FOR JACOB BUTCHER FOR REJE»RESENTATtVE -'Ar-T•: > ' 'M^wff'«ar.. | r=ee» : ■ There are those who criticize any person who dares to shy aught against Albert J. Beveridge, or even repeat; stories told jn the republican press—that’s called mud-slinging. «But there was a time when it was perfectly proper to call any man who evmi thought of supporting the democrats .ticket and Mr, Bryan, an qr any other old name. If the senior maator is all right it cap, be uasife prpv.eft" by a Httftt investfgatien; agd it he is not it's his own fault, and he should itoMM his actions?" r * ; ’ V ,. .... ' . | The Teal rally ta this - nbe Aeld Fort.' on. 4e bef ore election, When Goveraqc# Thomas R. Marshall and . several other elbquetit speakers wJH addreFL’fffie fcrowd iirhfclx gathers there. Two /wars ago Mr. Marshall clpsed the campaign in ■■Aim. county with a monster Twelfth district meeting. This year it will be a northeastenj Indiana rally and delegations an'.ovdr thid WV'wlß attepd, ,Decatur ands Adams county will w ( eU rapGet ready,to, .'•> • - r --*.<ll < * .Z . | 1 ..L.'TrTTrrW.. ..WAT Mr. Kern stands for constitutional government as, established by the fatherp.J jae. stands for tariff net*' as provided by the constitution, which will take away from- tile powers of pillage the privilege and favor given by the republican and deprive them of the fix both the purchase and sailing price of their product* Mr. Kern stands for farMnnad hoaawjr and economy. He stands tot 1 the rights of the people as .Jaj. seitan. ? Ho ta ' ( 4 ft*

an honest, upright and sincere man; a good neighbor and a gooff citizen, and will represent no special interest but the common good.—From Speech by ex-Mayor Holtzman, introducing Mr. Bryan at Indianapolis. « !i.Bii!.j .qtotoffto John Kern will be the ..next United, States senator from Indiana. Jacob Butcher will vote for him. We believe those two facts as firmly as we believe anything, but we want such a majority for Mr. Butcher that there will be no doubt in the minds of any man, as to the endorsement of Mr,- Kern, Get to work. Organize. Roll in a vote that will do this. You democrats have been, fighting this batr- 4 ' tie for half a century. Don’t let any slippery politician fool you. either by his words or those of some one'he sends to you, to do otherwise. Our time is at hand. Jacob Butcher, a pioneer of the county, a veteran of the Civil war, a respected citizen here long before most of us voters were born, is the democratic nominee for representative, and we know of nd man in this great county who has a better right to ask the suffrage of the voters of the county and get ft. He is a jovial kind-hearted, splendid man, whom everybody likes and who has the necessary ability to represent us in/the lawmaking halls as we should be, He has practiced law for many years and knows good laws from bad ones. He should be elected by an overwhelmljig majority.- * / “A damned crook and a jackass” is the very complimentary term applied to Judge Anderson of /the United States court by Theodore Roosevelt on his recent visit tp Indiana. Coming from the ex-president of the United States, we might ask why he appointed such a man to such a high office. The truth is that Judge Anfierson is an able judge and the vituperation heaped upon him by Roosevelt, because be did not'agree with him in the persecution of Delpyan Smith J editor of the Indianapolis News, was utterly uncalled for. When an ex-presi-dent is permitted to do such things, what respect may be expected from the every-day citizen for the courts of our land? Declaring that it would be a calamIty to the nation if Senator Lodge should fail of re-election, Theodore Roosevelt spoke in Boston Friday night in behalf of the republican party of Massachusetts. Re said,., the senator was a friend of progressive legislation, and that there were nd differences of opinion as to the basic principle of protection, as the republic can party stood solidly on the tariff commission plan as contained in its last national platform. ■ ■ *< ; The colonel made no reference to the Payne-Aldrich bill, confining his remarks to an Indorsement of the tariff plank of the republican state platform an< of the tariff board scheme. He said he'wae advocating the same ■ political principles in his speech that’ 'he. had advocated in all his speeches during the summer from jhe Rpcky mountMt to the eastern seaboard. i li e y<rti* are a democrat and have fioufht M principles you bellete righty, the Mg principles of ment; it you ord cenoj ’Wlb powers In the hands of lie lower pos| <?t, ll vl hg f titat permits you to live and keep your family comfortable; if you are opposed to the tariff laws that build up a few mighty fortunes at the expense of the many; If you are for the People, w against the big interests, which do thl; they please when in control; then it’s your duty to vote for Jacob Butcher for yepreeentatite ’find" in" doing, so jote for Johh W. Kern. This IS no. little local question. It Is a big, broad and important one, wherein rests a vote fojr a man who will battle for the right, for your real interesta for six yearn to come. Don’t be mislead. Don’t stake a mistake. /’ * Speaking of Mr. Bryan’s speech, the Indianapolis News said: “It was /rarest of things, a voto?making ■peach. Mr. Kern is fortunate in havW such fift advocate. It wm a sym* • pi** sod

the election of Mi*. Kern, a plea in which all the great issues were discussed, and as such was in striking contrast with the speech delivered last week from the same platform in advocacy of the election of Mr, Beveridge. There were no dodging and' no mere generalities, no homilies in praise of virtues which all. admit to be admirable. Mr. Bryan, unlike Mr. Beveridge’s champion, discussed controverted questions. And he carried his audience with hint Those who were not fortunate enough to hear the speech should read it. The man who begins it will (hardly find it possible to lay It down till he has finishedit.” * ■ Conrad Brake dead, seems impossible to the many who were used to greeting him each day. He was one of the best known men in this city, and we believe honestly that- he had) not an enemy in the world. Still he was an active man until very receirt yean and served the public in various official capacities. He was one of those ffien who always had an opinion and to whom every one seemed to grant that privilege ,without question. An ardent democrat he took an active part in every campaign and was especially Interested in the questions ot this year. He was in this office Thursday morning seeking Information as to the progress of the campaign. Os him ft may well be said, he was ihon,est and upright, both in private and public life, a good neighbor and citizen, who had fought'his own way,, through life, and wbq leaves it without stain of any kind upon his name. , - 1 . . x - A brilliant speech by a-I>rainy man, was the general verdict of those who heard- the speech Wednesday evening by Congressman Robert L. Henry of Texas. He abused no one and accorded to every man the right he claims for himself to believe and vote as hp think# right. Ilis §peech was on the tariff and was one of the ablest addresses along that line ’evei* heard here. He described and told/how tile tariff was reduced upward instead of downward as promised. He announced himself in favor of tariff for revenue with which to conduct the government, and plead for the election of John A. M. Adair to congress and for John W. Kern for the senate. He told of the valiant work in congress by Mr. Adair and at each mention of the latteris name he was applauded liberally. Mr. Henry Is a big man and Jiis visit herb was appreciated. Under the caption, “The Roosevelt Incubus;” the Buffalo Commercial (Rep.) denounces Rooseveltism and declares that Mr. Roosevelt is “queer-, Ing and demoralizing the republican party. Ths Commercial Is owned by William C. Warren, erstwhile republi- . can leader in Erie county.. The, edl- • torlal which caused a sensation- in / Buffalo, bays: “The Commercial idea dbout the J eclipse?,of President Taft and Os the-' republican party by velt and tire sUb«tftu|ipn .Qt fcla per*? sonality ijt the all other is--' 'sues :in ttat it is a prepffttiwcAiS aW able situation. It is a situation, that discredits the repujbWn. party >and / theratens it with overwhelming dis;ftster/’* • • was no A and there is no sense dr debbrum in ,a ; -retired president's acting, as Jtr., Roosevelt litas done since h|s return from his travels. His head has been turned by his success in exciting popular interest and by the endless roar and glare of publicity. “The eruption of Roosevelt is queering and demoralizing the republican state campaign in the most helpless manner. He has unquestionably . made himself and the government tendencies he advocates and embodies the main issue in this campaign. ‘Thd "new nationalism,* Mr. Roosevelt declares, ’demands es the judiciary that it shall be interested primarily in human welfare (guided by th# spirit of the times) rather than in property,’ and the *new nationalism’