Daily Democrat, Volume 1, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1903 — Page 2

'IOCRAT. _____ BDNDA- , BY X ’ N O M A rvi . n* jCRIPTION RATES, per week 10c j carrier, per year $4 00 •By mall, per month 25C By mall, per year £2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application Entered In the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana, as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. * 1 Congress meets in extraordinary session Monday, after which time any one having a hankering for fermented garden seeds, can have their wants satisfied by application to George W. Cromer, Esq. It is true that George B. McClellan was not born.in the United States. His parents were traveling abroad, and hie birth was registered from Dresden, Saxony. The courts have always held that the son of American parents born abroad during their temporary absence from home does not lose any of his rights of citizenship. This being true Mayor McClellan’s presidential boom may go right along without fear of serious molestation. It is said that Fred Rohrer, editor of the Berne Witness, is expected soon to announce himself as a candidate for the congressional nomination. *'There are already two candidates in Adams county and very creditable ones at that, namely: Philip Andrews and Barton W. Quinn but the announcement of Editor Rohrer would etrike most people, even the enemies of Mr. Cromer, as carrying the thing just a little too far. All’s fair in love and war and it is perfectly permissible to throw mud in a campaign at the man you don’t like but when it comes to slinging rotten cabbage -oh no. Portland Commercial Review.

MAJOR STEELE MAY BE A CANDIDATE

inaianapons, isov. 6. — lie impres- i Bion is rapidly gaining ground that ! Major George W. Steele of Marion •will be a candidate next year for con gress in the Eleventh district. He has been very quiet so far regarding his intentions. All summer adroit newspaper men have tried to get an expression from him. but he dodged them so successfully that not a one knows what he intends to do. But | few of his intimate friends have had any definite idea from him. but during the last few days it is hinted that he has shown a disposition to come out of the woods. Major Steele failed of renomination last year because he "‘overlooked his hand." to use a poker phrase. He remained at Washington calmly believing he could come home at the eleventh hour and win out. but ■while he was asleep his opponents perfected one of the greatest combi- ' nations in the political history of the : state. It was too late for him to win then, although he made a wonderful fight. It is believed now. however, that he has been carefully trimming hit sails throughout the summer, so that be will enter the race on even terms cr better. One of the most amusing things In the local labor world is the strike of the messenger boys at the Western Union. It is as serious, however, as It is amusing, for the beys mean business They have gone about the matter in a systematic manner. Pickets have been posted around the offices so that It has been impossible for “strike breakers” and boys who would take their places, to ge* in. The boys have shown a fierceness that only the street arab of a big city can show when he is threatened with a loss. Several hoys who tried to take the r’'l - f ||. - -■ ' . ..."

SECOND CONSIGNMENT OF TOOLS AND HARDWARE Direct from one of the best and largest Toe 1 Factories in the country. All goods of the first quality THESE GOODS WILL BE SOLD AT MANUFACTURER’S PRICE THE SCHAFER HARDWARE CO.

An invitation is at hand to spend December 23 and 24 at French Lick Springs as a guest of T. Taggart. A similar invitation has been received by every member of the democratic and republican editorial associations, I and it is predieted that many will go. It is generally a social affair. Now that Boss Rohrer has an opportunity to go to congress it is hoped that his comments upon his own candidacy will be more generous than they were when commenting on B. W. Quinn and P. L. Andrews, both Adams county residents and for many years the patriot saints who have waved the bloody shirt until they were black in the face. The Decatur Democrat calls George B. McClellan “a new Mis’s” to lead the democracy out of the wilderness next year. It is to be hoped that McClellan will be made the nominee of the democracy against Roosevelt. The result woud be such a search light of investigation by the whole country upon the ways of Tammany that something permanent would result in municipal reform. The country needs only to realize all that Tammany is to force through reforms which will remove the power from the vicious elements of that great city. The lime-light of a national campaign is the last thing the Tammany leaders should court. The country cannot now bem.ide to believe the facts about Tammany with which the democratic leaders seem so keen to identfy themselves. A presidential campaign would change all that.—Fort Wayne News. The News does not need to feel unduly alarmed about Tammany. The republican party will be so busy* next year with the stink of their own creation that they will not have any time to finger the

licked. No one is seriously injured, but the messengers know how to fight. The clerks and officers of the company have been compelled to deliver the messages under great difficulties. The boys want all of the excess fee collected for delivering a message outside of certain boundaries in the city. Senator C. C. Lyons of Fairmount has become a bona fide candidate for the secretaryship of the Republican state committee. He was chairman of the speakers’ bureau last year. Senator Lyons is well known and well liked and will probably give a good account of himself in the race. His friends have asked Chairman Goodrich to appoint him to the vacancv caused by the resignation of W. H. Whittaker, but Goodrich does not want to make the appointment, as he prefers to leave the place open until the committee is reorganized in January. Frank Bowers, former keeper of records and seals of the Knights of Pythias, is also regarded as a candidate for the secretaryship. It Is generally believed now that Chairman Goodrich will be re-elected without much opposition. The October record for the Lawrenceburg revenue district, comprising about half the counties in Indiana, was broken this year. Ambrose E. Newlin, collector for the district, who was here lest night, says the collections for the month reached the enormous total of $1,200,000. nearly $200.000 more than October last year, which was rhe record to that time. The collections for the Lawrenceburg district will probably approximate $12,000,000 this year. The Terre Haute district may be seven or eight million more.

dark smells of Tammany, sweet though it will be alongside the corruptness and the graft of many’ of the departments of the national government. The News along with the rest of the republican hosts of prosperity, will be busy, very busy. If the time should ever come when they can look a democrat in the face without being paraliz.ed with their own party’s nastiness, we will be glad to publicly discuss Tammany, and her relations to the business and political interests of Greater New York. Tra la. Amusements. A new drama of the mountains of Colorado is entitled “At Cripple Creek’’ and will be presented at the Bosse opera house Wednesday, Nov. 11. Strong a play of the life of the far West has not been given to the American stage since Bartley Campbell’s “My Partner.” The piece is by the well known playwright, Hal Reid, and outrivals Mr. Reid’s former success, “Human Hearts" in the esteem of the public. ‘At Cripple Creek" tells a simple story of pure heart interest, absorbing, dramatic and powerful. Many novel effects are introducted and sensation follows sensation with breathless rapidity. Clever and wholesome comedy abounds and so cunningly is the plot unfolded and motives blended that laughter comes in the wake of every tear. In engaging a company for “At Cripple Creek" the management determined to secure the best talent afforded by the American stage. Handsome and elaborate scenery has been provided with lavish hand and each a<’t of ‘At Cripple Creek’ ‘ is a feast to the eye. Miss Krohn Weds. A wedding ceremony that was of great interest to the Freeport friends of the bride was performed this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Kuehner, in Adams street, when Miss Edna Krohn, of this city, was married to John R. Moore, of Fargo, N. D. The ceremony was performed by Judge C. E . Heard, and was witnessed by only a few intimate friends. The bride was attired in blue traveling suit. After the ceremony a fine luncheon was served. Miss Krohn is well and favorably known to a large number of the jieople of Freejxirt. She is the youngest daughter of the late Jacob Krohn, who was a pioneer banker and business man.—Freeport, Hl., Daily Journal. Mrs. Moore is a sister of Mose Krohn of the Burt House. Found—Year old Berkshire sow, weighing 200 pounds. Inquire at jail. 257d3 Entire Village Destroyed. Ashland. Wi»., Nov. 6. —-Bibon. a little village on the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad twenty miles south of here, was destroyed by Are last night. The village, which Is without any fire protection, wired this city for help and engines were sent on a special train. The fire started in the mill of the Chicago Ccal and Lumber company, which it completely destroyed. burning all the lumber piles and tramways and spreading to the houses of the village, rapidly enveloped the entire village in flames. The mill is owned by J. H. Kreuger of this city. The loss will reach $75,000. Laporte's Annual Wolf Hunt. Laporte. Ind Nov. fl.—The annual wolf hunt in the Kankakee marshes, in the southern part of this county, will take place the day before Thanksgiving. and will be ti e greatest event of Its kind ever held in the Kankakee district. All the hunters and dogs in this county, with many from other counties, will participate. The wolves are unusually plentiful this year and the ground is unusually dry.

LONG BUM OUT Probability That Special Session Will Lap Over 'nto the Regular. Cuban Reciprocity Legislation Opens Up a Question of Procedure of Large Possibilities. It Is Not Improbable That the Whole Tariff Issue Will Be Revived. v Washington, Nov. 6. —Th're are some interesting developments as to the method of congressional procedure on the Cuban reciprocity treaty. That treaty was amended by the senate adding the words: 'This treaty shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved by the congress.” It has been generally supposed that a joint resolution or a bill approving the treaty would be all that was necessary. but members of the house and rome senators take an entirely different view. They say that a bill must be passed reducing the duty on the products nf Cuba and that every provision effecting duties must be enacted in the legislation. Representative Tawney of Minnesota, who was leader of the Republican minority that opposed the reciprocity bill in the last congress, says that the prevision requiring congressional approval when inserted in the treaty was known by him to be defective and open to constitutional objections. The treaty of 1854 with Great Britain for reciprocity with Canada, and the reciprocity treaty of 1878 w ith Hawaii, he added, both contained a provision at the very beginning stating that when suitable legislation was enacted by congress to carry out the provisions of the treat s. then the president should issue . proclamation an nounclng the fact, and the treaty thereupon should become effective. Both these treaties were followed by legislation in the form of a bill reciting the articles that were to be admitted duty free. Mr. Tawney contends that to approve the treaty by a simple resolution would be void, and asserts that the sugar provision of the treaty is nothing more than pledge of the good faith of the government that the duties on sugar shall not be changed during the life of the treaty. Any tariff bill, he contends, can abrogate this provision of the treaty or the treaty Itself. The finance committee, which met today, took up the subject of the form of legislation necessary to carry the treaty into effect. Generally the senators believe that a simple resolution of approval will be all that Is necessary. but some senators, notably Senator Teller of Colorado, thinks that If approval is attempted in any such form It will raise a constitutional question which will cause a long debate in the senate. Senator Teller expeots that the whole tariff question will be opened up for discussion by the Cuban measure, and that ft will be Into the regular session before action on the matter is taken by the senate. Mr. Cannon says the matter will be determined by the ways and means committee. Mr Payne, who is to be chairman of that committee, aaid he could make no definite statement about the form of the legislation until he had consulted all members of the committee, but it was his opinion that the measure in form would be a bill rather than a resolution, as he did not ace how the house could do otherwise. Cause of Attempted Suicide. St. Ixtuis. Nov. 6.—Elroy S. Platt, the St. I.ouis contractor who attempted suicide at Pittsburg. Pa., is charged with being a defaulter to the extent of over $20,000 by the stockholders of the George Platt Contracting company in a petition which they have filed in the circuit court asking that a receiver be appointed for the company. Palma Will Veto It. Havana. Nov. 6.—The senate took ftp the national lottery bill and passed the first article. It Is believed the bill w ill pass both houses of congress, but the majorities In its favor will not be sufficient to override the certain veto of President Palma.

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