Daily Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1904 — Page 2

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. ■ VIRY EVENING. EXCEPT BCNDAY, BY LEW O. ELLINGHAM. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. B, oarr’er, per week 10e B, carrier, per year $4 00 Sy mall, per mouth 25c By mail, per year $2.50 Single copies. Two Cents. Advertising rates made known on application ■ntered In the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana. as second-class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager.

THE TICKET For Joint Senator JOHN W. TYNDALL For Representative JOHN W. VIZARD For Prosecutor JOHN C. MORAN For Auditor C. D. LEW TON Fcr Sheriff ALBERT A. BUTLER For Surveyor L. L. BAUMGARTNER For Coroner JOHN S. FALK For Commissioner First District DAVID WERLING For Commissioner Third District JACOB ABNET THE CITY TICKET. The city ticket lias been named and the same is headed by the old stalwart democrat and the present Mayor David D. D. Coffee. His present administration is sufficient guarantee that the next one will be safe, conservative and all right for the business interests of the city. The clerk, treasurer, marshal and each of the six nominated councilmen are men of good standing and repute and deserve the vote of every democrat in the city. This is the year when all democrats should vote the democratic ticket. Lay your personal grievances on ice and do your whole duty as a democrat. Any of the nominees will come nearer meeting your approval of what our city adminstration should be, than can a divided house. The new city committee will soon begin making a safe and effective organization and in this every democrat should lend a helping hand. Let it not be said that in this year 1904 the democracy of the city of Decatur were not aggressive, or appreciate the importance of party duty.

CONVENTION TIPS. Before and after the convention there were rumors that Senator S. B Fleming would, at the con ven tion next Thursday, be a candidate for renomination and although there was seemingly no ground for such a story and Mr. Fleming himself declared that he would not seek the nomination, the guessers continued at work. Last evening a Journal-Gazette man talked to Mr. Fleming about the rumors and asked him whether there was any truth in them. “Not a semblanccof truth,” he replied. 1 am not and will not be a candidate. I want to see the Hon. John Tyndal nominated, and will work to that end, if my efforts are needed, which I do not think is ilkely, as the genera] disposition is that he shall be the candidate. I think Adams county should have the place this year. It rightfully belongs there and you car say that I am for Mr. Tyndall. Allen county will keep faith with loyal old Adams county. —Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

We eonrgatnlato the democracy of Adams county upon the good sense displayed by them in disposing of the contest over the joint senatorial nomination before coming to the convention in this city. Hon. J. F. Snow, who was a candidate, has withdrawn from the contest, leaving the field clear to his competitor. Hen. J. W. Tnydall who will come to the convention here with a solid delegation. It has been recognized and conceded that our Adams county friends are entitled to the honors this years and the only disposition to dispute it with them sprang from the one time prospect that Adams county demo crats mi.'ht come to the convention with an internal struggle that would deprive them of what is their due. So far as we now can gee Mr. Tnydall will be nominated

unanimously for joint senator from 1 Allen and Adams county.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. The Dunlap meeting at the court' room this evening is worthy of; your presence. The speeches of both Hons. Theo. Shoekney and Frank H. Snyder will be well seasoned with choice English. Both chairman of the democratic and republican state committees, are carding their r jspective county organizations, recommending that no nominations for county assessor be made this year. This will end this controversy. There is no use trying to run the national congress without Major George W. Steele, and knowing full well the need of his magnetic presence, he announced Saturday, his candidacy from the eleventh ditsrict. He will now proceed to take out a few handsfull of Fred Landis’ spring curls and his chances : for success are brighter than they were two years ago.

The senatorial convention at Fort Wayne Thursday should lie attend-1 ed by a large crowd. The democ-1 racy of Adams county owes the convention this mark of respect, because it is the understanding at this time that Hon. John W. Tyndall is to be the nominee. The con- : vention will be composed of seventy i three delegates, fifty six from Allen and seventeen from this county. The friends of the Hon. Steven B. Fleming would like to see him a delegate at large to the democratic national convention at St. Louis, July 6. This is a worthy ambition of a very worthy young democrat, whose past services are entitled to this slight tribute of honor. He would reflect credit upon the great Indiana democracy in this position ■ and would render good service in the making of the next president of the United States. Things will be red hot in congress this week over the proposition of; the committee recommending that I the privilege be taken away from ; the rural mail carriers, of acting as | agents for newspapers and doing ' express package business. The ; matter will be threshed out and I settled on the floor of the house, and in this connection Louis Ludlow, the Washington correspondent says that in this critical time the carriers greatly miss the service of Congress man Cromer of the Eighth Indiana district. They were led to believe that Mr. Cromer would be here, but they have had to plan their battle and marshal their forces without his assistance. This has caused a good deal of complaint and not a little speculation as to whether Mr. Cromer has deserted the carriers. Early last fall F. H. Cunningham, president of the National Association of Rural Letter Carriers, who formerly lived in Delav are county, Indiana, placed in Mr Cromer s hands the bill increasing the salaries of rural carriers prepared by the national association and Mr.Cromer promised to introduce it. Speaker Cannon, however, against Mr. Cromer’ wish, left him off the coin- [ mittee on postoffices and Jpost roads and Mr. Cromer did not introduce the bill. Since then he has spent till of his time at home in Indiana and the carriers feel the need of his , assistance, are disappointed.

Are you sick? If so stop at F. V. Mill’s grocery and get some of the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium Health Foods, eat them according to directions. We are making special low prices on monuments to be erected by Decoration Day. We have all the latest designs, and invite you to call and see them. Wemhoff's Monumental Works, Decatur, Indiana. Leaders of North-eastern Indiana. Farm For Sale.—l3s acres in Jenings county, only |35 per acre, limestone soil, 20 acres bottom, good house, orchard, large burn, living water, 20 acres timber, balance in cultivation, 20 acres growing wheat, on pike,3 miles from Pa. railroad, 2 miles from Big 4. Cull «n or address, D. A. Hendrickson, yuoensville, Ind. Hot Claret a’ Bnrt Case Niblick & Co. will show the newest novelties in ladies’ suits at the opening Friday.

KU 111 ACCORD Uncle Sam’s Plan to Localize the War Well Received by the Czar. St. Petersburg Government Convinced That the Proposition Was Made With Unselfish Motives. Count Cassini Talks Entertainingly of American Feeling Anent the War. Washington. Feb. 22.—“ Russia gladly and willingly favored the suggestion of Secretary Hay that as far as possible, the belligerents in the far Eastern war localize hostilities and respect the neutrality of China in the Interest of a continuance of peaceful intercourse of the rest of the world. My government expressed the conviction that Mr. Hay's suggestion was prompted by motives of the highest humanity and was mutually advantageous to the belligerents.” This statement was made by Count Cassini, the Russian embassador, in the course of a conversation at the embassy Sunday night. The embassador spoke in general on the far Eastern situation. Although the negotiations on the neutrality proposition ’ have been carried on almost entirely i between the several foreign governments addressed, and ae American envoys accredited to them the weight of the word of the Russian embassador at Washington in the counsels of his majesty was strongly influential in the shaping of Russia's reply.

As soon as the note was addressed to the Russian government, Count Cassini was advised of the fact by Secretary Hay and a long and earnest conversation followed on the motives of the Washington government in initiating this move, unique in diplomacy. To the frankness of this conversation, a frankness made possible by the cordial and intimate relations which Mr. Hay and Count Cassini have enjoyed at Washington, is largely due, it is said, the prompt response of the Russian government, which is naturally ■ concerned with many matters of the I gravest importance, and some demand-; ing the most speedy attention, such I as war measures. “It is fortunate.” continued the em- ’ bassador, “that whatever mr.y be the! feeling here and there in the United States of sympathy for Japan, the traditional, and so far as Russia is ecu-1 corned, the highly prized friendly relations between the Washington and St. Petersburg governments in no way ■ have been interfered with. Every mail j brings to the embassy some fifty to j one hundred contradictions, in thei form of offers of assistance, medical I and military, of the statement that ! Russia is without friends in this coun-1 try. It is so in this country, as in every other, that the small nation in the struggle can count on a certain amount of sympathy, arising solely from the fact of its minority, but it is a tribute to the fairness of your government that the official conduct of your government certainly has been all that either belligerent could expect in the preservation of the strict neutrality which the president directed shall be observed by his people. “So numerous have these offers of medical and other aid become, that I have felt it my duty to bring them to the attention of my government. It is possible that in recognition of the kindly spirit of humanity and friendliness which is evidenced by the American physicians offering their assistance that my government may find a way to accept some of them, and that American physicians and nurses may aid us In caring for the wounded in the far Eastern war. I am daily expecting an answer from St. Petersburg on this point. “In the interests of the world's hu manity.” concluded Count Cassini. “I am confident all nations will hope for the success of Secretary Hay's effort to limit the deplorable war to the belligerents now engaged.”

Real Estate Transfers. Josephine Beck to Simon Bowers pt sec 10 Kirkland tp $457. John Ayre to Jeff Leichty lot 23 Berne $llOO. J. B. Bichel to J. H. Habegger pt sec 10 Wabash tp S3OOO. Christian Stoppenhagen to Conrad Stoppenhagen pt sec 15 Prenle tp ♦ 100. R.B. Gregroy to E. B. Adams lots 935 and 510 Decatur and pt sec 32 Blue Creek tp 72 acres SI.OO. E. B. Adams to R. B. Gregory, same lands as mentioned, 11.00. Fresh fish at all times at Fred Scheimun’s Meat Market. Suit display for ladles’ spring styles at Niblick's Friday. Lowest Rates ever made from Chicago to the southwest, via Chicago Great Western railway. One way for round trip tickets on sale March Ist and 15th; April sth and 19th. For further information apply to J. p. Elmer, G. P. A., Chicago, Hl.

DOINGS IN CONGRESS Members Hear Washington's Farewell Address Read Today. Washington, Feb. 22. —Washington's birthday was observed today in both branches of congress by the reading of Washington's farewell address. In me senate the immortal document was /T ?.---" * WILLIAM P. HF.PBVRN. read by Senator Hepburn of Idaho. Following the reading of the address In the lower branch the house adjourned for the day. The Order for the Week. The house has the house naval bill under debate and at the proper time it is probable that a rule will be brought in making the item in the bill providing for a training station on the Great lakes in order. It is expected that a contest will ensue over the location of the station. Notice has been given by Mr. Hitchcock (Neb.) that he will' propose an amendment to the naval : bill providing for the construction of a i government armor plate factory. The | Indian and the district appropriation bills will follow the naval bill and i there is some expectation that all of I them will be pass >d by the house, ' Following the Indian and district bills will come the postofflee appropriation bill, but it may not be ready for con- ! sideration before next week. If the I appropriation bills are all out of the ■ way by Friday, the private claims or I pensions may have a show. The Panama canal question contin-! tied to hold exclusive attention of the senate today. On Tuesday voting will begin on the treaty. The doors of j the senate chamber were closed the greater part of the time the treaty' was under consideration today. With I the Panama question disposed of. the senate will take up appropriation bills, giving precedence to the agricultural bifl.

Didn't Make Its Corner. Mexico City. Feb. 22. —The sugar trust organized here a year ago and comprising in its membership the largest planters in the various states has fa ’ed to corner the sugar products successfully and finds itself with liabilities of $7,200,000 and with assets.taken on a liberal estimate, of $7,770,000. These assets include the stock of sugar on hand. Broken Frog Causes Death. Chicago. Feb. 22. —A passenger train on a branch of the Big Four railroad was wrecked near Wauponsee, 111., resulting in the death of one passenger and the injury of five others. A broken frog is said to have caused the wreck. His Love Was Unrequited. Hammond, Ind., Feb. 22.—Walter Scheuneman of Indiana Harbor committed suicide because of unrequited love. Scheuneman was the son of wealthy Tolleston pepple. Guantanamo. Cuba, Feb. 22.—A dozen United States war ships are here preparing for the maneuvers.

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