Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1910 — Page 1

No. 81.

tIK Princess Cbeaire WttUPS, Proprietor. Watch fhli Space Hvery Day

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. IS Read pages two and three today. All home print today. * Oil 10c, gasolene 16c. Let us deliver them to you. The Home Grocery. , , Mrs. Rebecca Porter went to Lafayette today for a short stay. Every day is bargain day with us. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. L. H. Hamilton is building a one room addition to his residence dn Scott street. Everybody in Rensselaer and Jasper county should see the line of Oxfords at The G. E. Murray Co’s. Britt Marion has completed the erection of an addition to his residence on Cedar street. Take a look at our showing of men’s and ladies’ Oxfords in show window. THE G. E. MURRAY CO. Charlie Ross, who has been employed in the Fair store in Chicago, it visiting Earnest Zea and other friends. A few 9 by 12 rugs left, selling at less than cost to clean up, at The Cash Store. £- G. B. PORTER. Judge Thompson is making very satisfactory recovery, having gained much strength and is showing improvement in every way. This is the week we are selling ladies’ washable dress patterns at a bargain. The Cash Store. G. B PORTER. James G. Overton left this morning for Winnebago, Minn., where he will join George and Hugh Hurley and work at ditching. Best line of Men’s Oxfords ever shown at our store. All guaranteed, at The Cash Store. G. B. PORTER. C. G. Spitler is another Rensselaer citizen who is attending the state convention and whose name was omitted from the list published Monday. Special sale on ladies’ washable dress patterns all this week, at The Cash Store. G. B. PORTER. We have the work shoes for men, which combine comfort with durability. Every . pair guaranteed. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. W. H. Collins, who has spent the winter at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. R. Parkison, west of town, left this morning for his home in Covington, Ohio. He is 80 years of age and well preserved. Mrs. Felix French and daughter, Miss Elizabeth, went to Delphi today and from there will go to Greenfield to visit relatives. They will return here before going to their home in Hutchinson, Kans. We still have some girls’ good shoes, sizes 8 to 1 at 85 cents. Ask to see these, when in our store. _ Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Mrs. Eva Greenlee has returned from Chicago, where she recently underwent an operation at the Presbyterian hospital. She is greatly improved and seems on the road to complete recovery.

Here Is another record breaker. 100 mens’ and young mens’ suits, sizes 28 to 36, of good materials and patterns. They are hot up to the standard for Btyle. 1 want to turn them into money. This will do it. Choice per suit,' $3.78. , MODEL CLOTHIERS. S. LEOPOLD, Mgr.

The Evening Republican.

TONIGHT'S PROGRAM —♦ — PICTURES. A Bear Hunt in the Rockies. SONG. I’ll Be Bight With the Girl that Tries to Be Right With Me. The Harter Family.

We pay cash for what you have to sell. Home Grocery, The total receipts at the boys’ band concert last Wednesday night was $42 instead of $35 as previously announced. It don’t require much wind to sell a good flour like A. & K’s. Best. One trial will convince you. $1.50 per sack at the Home Grocery. Don P. Warren, who has been work ing as a woodsman under Orie Yeoman on the Kankakee river, arrive! home today. He cut his left fool auit€ severely with an ax, necessitating a lay off Remember an exclusive shoe store always has those things you want and can’t find elsewhere. Inspect our lines before you despair. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House -Block. Van Grant closed his restaurant Sunday night and yesterday and today has been packing it up preparatory to shipping it to the northwest, probably to Glendive, Mont., to which place he and his brother Glenn will go on a prospecting trip in a few days. We have just received a fine assortment of Oxfords for boys and girls. We have the new things for them. Inspect our line before purchasing your children shoes. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.

H. A. Allen and sons Jay and Bert and several others from Brookston, passed through Rensselaer Monday enroute to Saskatchewan, Canada. The Allens have owned land there for several years and have succeeded so well that they want others to know something of the advantages in that country.

Special flyer for this week. $1.50 boys’ knee, suits, sizes 4 to 16 years, of good, all wool materials. The coats are just as good stuff as any. The trousers are straight knee pants. Therefore I wish to close them out. See the price, $1.78 per suit. See the show window. MODEL CLOTHIERS. S LEOPOLD, Mgr.

Emerson Coen, the Rensselaer youth who is now serving in the U. S. Navy, is now at Hampton Roads, and enjoying life as a sailor. He was recently in Washington, D. C., and spent considerable time sightseeing in the nation’s capital. He is expecting orders almost any time for his ship, the New Hampshire, to start On a cruise and as to whether he gets home for a furlough in May or not, depends largely on whether moving orders come before that time.

y. J. Crisler, the land agent, and Dr. I. M. Washburn left this morning for Jamestown, N. Dak. Dr. Washbum expects to return Friday and has Dr. H. J, Laws looking after his practice during his absence. Sam Pullins also left for the northwest, going first to Bowman, N. Dak., where he has a farm, and then to Townsend, Mont., where he has 400 acres of irrigated land. He expects to be absent from a month to three months.

Dr. H. J. Laws came from Crown Point yesterday afternoon. He reports that there was a very heavy rain in the north part of the state both Sunday and Monday and he was surprised on arriving here to find that we had had only a sprinkle. At Indianapolis and over the south and central part of the state there was also a good rain but up to today, Rensselaer and Jasper county has had but little. Today looks favorable for rain, however, and the forecast is for rain and we are hoping it comes. Wheat, oats, pasture, jfruit and gardens all need a good, soaking rain. o Try the Classified Column.

Bntwd January 1, 1887, a. sscoad-ou- mall mattsr. at the port-offle. at Rensselaer, Indiana, nnffr the act of March a, 187 S.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1910.

BEVERIDGE GIVES KEYNOTE TO PARTY AT CONVENTION

Arouses wild Enthusiasm Among the Republican Hosts. > 4 —■ - ■ i THE TARIFF IS CHIEF SUBJECT Defines His Position and Demands Further Revision. THE PARTY WILL KEEP FAITH Says Republicans Can Be Trusted and That Action of Democrats Show They Are Not Sincere—lnsists Upon Rariff Commission. .

INDIANAPOLIS, April 5, 1910.—The speech of Senator Beveridge before the Republican State convention today was undoubtedly one of the most ' Important political declarations of recent years, "and was considered by : those who heard it as a clean-cut dec- : laration of his own and his party’s , policies in Indiana. It was given the j very closest attentiop by every one in the great audience and every telling point which he made was cheered to the echo, there being difficulty at times to still the enthusiasm of the delegates and visitors sufficiently for the Senator to proceed. He said: The cominff battle Is not so much bebetween political parties as such as between the rights of the people and the powers of pillage. In this struggle the Republicans of Indiana stand for the people. Our appeal Is not to partisans be- , cause of partisanship but to citizens because of citizenship. It Is another phase of the conflict as old as the Republic. It was so when i Washington fought to lift from the people’s neck the yoke of British oppression; j and the people who were patriots supported him and won. : It was so when Jackson defied secession and broke the power of arrogant apd unwise wealth; and while men of his own party left him, other men of all parties In overwhelming majorities held up Andrew Jackson's hands. ' : f It was so when Abraham Lincoln sought to save the Nation and end slavery ; and loyal men of ail parties forgot ancient party lines and gladly marched to death for the Republic and human rights | It was bo In the last ten years when another President attacked the country’s organized greed which wSs fattening on I the labor and lives of the masses; and again the masses forgot their partisan, ship and in overpowering numbers rallied around Theodore Roosevelt. t The people were for these men because these men were for the people. Defines a Political Party. A political party is not a group of politicians, each with his following, combining to win the spoils of place and power. Such an organization is not . a party—it is a band of brigands, and its appeals In the name of the party are mere attempts 1 to beguile and defraud the voter for its selfish purposes. Such organizations and men are the tools and agents of lawless interests which kn6w no party, attempt to use all parties and practice only the policies of profit. i From such a conception of a political party the Republicans of Indiana must and will forever remain free. The Republican party consists of millions of citl- , zens; and at their firesides sits the only ! council that determines the party's principles and purposes. The Republican party Is the' chlid of the Nation’s con- i sclenoe; It was bom of the mightiest moral Impulse of history; and always its appeal must be a moral appeal. It would be well for the people as a ' Nation and Republicans as a party If , there were a sincere, compact opposition party In the Republic. But there is not i The aggregation of politicians who control the Democratic party today mtsrepre- ! sent honest Democratic voters, and is not i a party at all. but a group of opportunists who repudiate their platform. Disproves democratic Sincerity. Recent events prove this. 'The Democratic party's last national platform declared for free lumber; yet half of the Democratic senators who voted at all voted for the highest duty proposed—a duty Increasing the House rate—on this common necessity for building the homes of the people. That platform pledged them to put on the free list articles competing with trustcontrolled products; yet nearly twothirds of the so-called Democratic senators who voted at all voted sos the highest duty proposed on iron ore, of which we have the greatest deposits on earth, controlled by the steel trust. Exoesslve duties which even protectionists could not tolerate many Democratic senators voted for: and nearly every increase of rates got a Democratic vote. The Democratic ■ platfom declared for postal savings banks; yet every Democratic senator but one, voted against this p6or min's banking bill, even after It had been, amended so as to keep the money collected by the postal savings banks in the communities where It was gathered for the uses of local business. So flagrant has been Democratic betrayal of party pledges that the last Democratic candidate for President. Mr. Bryan, has publicly denounced In scalding words these repudiators of blighted faith In our day, just as Grover Cleveland, the only Democratic President In fifty years, denounced in scalding words the betrayal of Democratic party pledges in his day. For example, a Democratic senator proposed and fought for a heavy duty on tea which would have taxed every table In the land because we must Import our tea. A Democratic senator proposed fend fought for an Increase of one hundred and twehty-elght per oent. over the Dingley rates on pineapples, which would have excluded this product from the table of the masses and the sick-rooms of the poor. Nor Is this the worst. The record shows that on May 18th, when the debate was hardly one-third over, a Democratic senator, speaking for his Democratic colleagues, proposed that a final vote should be taken on the bill Itself on the first of June. No Democrat objected to that proposal. But a Republican senator did object. That Democratic proposal would haye ended the fight, stopped the discussion of the schedules, and prevented such reductions as determined battling by progressive Republicans finally secured.

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REPUBLICANS HOLD STATE CONVENTION

Enthusiastic Gathering in Session in Indianapolis. GREATEST MEETING IN YEARS Tomlinson Hall Crowded to Its CapacIty With Cheering Throng—Senator Beveridge the Center of Interest. ‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April s.—lndiana history is being made today at one of the most wildly enthusiastic gatherings of Republicans ever held * tills State. Not even In presidential years has there ever been shown a greater enthusiasm on the part of the Republican hosts. Much Of the preliminary work of the organization of the convention! was done last night, such as the se-! leotlon of district vice-presidents, members of committees and the like, so that when the time arrived to open these was a clean cut program for the ■ Important business of the day. Every seat in Tomlinson hall, which holds more than four thousand persons, was taken before Chairman Lee swung the gavel to call the cheering throng to order. Scores of women were In the crowd, most of them occupying the boxes la the front balcony. As the party leaders from over the State entered the hall and #ere recognized they were greeted with Cheers, the women joining in the demonstration by waving their handkerchiefs and clapping their hands. This was especially the case when ex-Con-gressman James E. Watson, Congressman Crumpacker and Congressman Barnard entered. But when Senator Albert J. Beveridge stepped out on the stage there was an outburst of enthusiastic cheering that lasted several minutes. It was one of the most remarkable demonstrations with which any Indiana statesman was ever greeted. Will H. Hays, of Sullivan, one of the best known young Republicans in the State, was selected for secretary of the convention, with an assistant from each congressional district, chosen by the district caucuses. Joseph H. Barr, of Bruceville, former member of the Republican State committee, was selected for sergeant-at-arms, with plenty of assistants to maintain order, and J. A. Kautz, the well-known Republican editor of Kokomo, was given the important position of chief usher. He had a large number of assistants, and their work was well done. There was much regret over the fact that ex-Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks was unable to deliver an address at the convention. It was the plan to have the convention adopt a resolution conveying the regards of the Republicans of Indiana to Mr. Fairbanks in case his illness prevented his attendance. Ovation for Senator Beveridge. Chairman Lee pounded for order at nine o’clock. It was some time before the vast assemblage ceased its talking and cheering. Late arrivals among the delegates were seated and the buzz of conversation finally subsided, and the chairman succeeded in getting order. He told the delegates what they were there for. John Hays, secretary of the State committee, read the official call for the convention, the call containing the list of nominations which were to be made. The report of the committee on rules and the committee on organization were then read by the chairman of the committees, and when it was announced thaft Senator Beveridge had been chosen to act as temporary chairman of the convention there was a fresh outbreak of cheers. Chairman Lee again pounded for order, and when quiet had been restored he introduced Senator Beveridge as the temporary chairman of the gathering. When the Senator stepped forward to assume his duties he received an ovation that was simply magnificent. The crowd arose almost as one man and yelled and cheered. Arms were waved, hats were thrown into the air, handkerchiefs were waved, canes were flourished. Delegates left their seats and crowded into the aisles. They marched back and forth cheering as they went, and shouting “Beveridge,’' “Beveridge.” All this time the Senator stood at- the front of the stage waiting for the outbreak to cease that he might begin his speech. It was.a magnificent scene, one that could not help but effect any man In whose honor it was given, and at the same time Inspire fresh zeal in the hearts of those who participated in or witnessed It. After several minutes of this kind of pandemonium the crowd gradually settled down and comparative quiet was secured. As soon as he could make himself heard Senator Beveridge began his speech, and he had not spoken a dozen words before the crowd was giving him the closest attention. At times, however, when he made a telling point in his address, fresh cheers broke out and he was interrupted. This happened many times during the progress of his speech. Upon the completion of the speech of Senator Beveridge the convention adjourned until afternoon. When the delegations again assembled, the permanent organization was quickly completed with George-Cunningham, city attorney of Evansville, as permanent chairman. The report of the resolutions committee was read and the D«rtv plat-

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Senator Beveridge’s Speech In Full in the Republican.

In this issue of the Republican it published in full the speech of Senator Beveridge at the republican state convention today. The senator in a well studied speech sets forth his position on the tariff question fully. He declares for a protective tariff high enough to accomplish what he deems to be the needs of the manufacturer and the needs of labor, but not high enough to foster trusts or illicit combinations of capital in restraint of trade. He insists on a commission for the adjustment of tariff schedules, which plan he has long advocated and which meets much approval all over the country. Democrats will get little consolation out of the Beveridge speech, for he points out the position that democratic senators took in favoring high tariff on a number of articles for which there was a popular demand for reduction or free admission. The speech is calculated to harmonize the republicans of the state who have been at variance largely with the belief that Senator Beveridge was too liberal in his views for tariff reduction, and in the belief that democratic newspapers, including the Indianapolis News, had endeavored to create a sentiment throughout the state for radical reduction, in opposition to republican doctrine. In this connection, republicans of Indiana should not forget that the Indianapolis News has for years been a radical free trade paper and they should not be influenced by its clatter about either the manner in which the present bill is working nor about its arguments against the schedules of the bill.-

There are no serious differences with Indiana republicans and the >■ i cech of Senator Beveridge and the platform adopted at the state convention should be the working basis for all true republicans even though they no net in every respect meet the approval of individuals. Let us not set ourselves up as greater than the party and let us not be influenced by the scheming of democratic politicians who have influenced some of the weaker party papers as well as having inspired to an effort to deceive republicans all the democratic papers and many of the commercial papers that are always on the market. Read the speech, then read the platform, inform yourselves as is your duty, but don’t accept the argument of democratic .or mugwump newspapers that are inspired for your deception. We have started in on a great campaign and we can win if we will be fair with ourselves and study conditions with impartial clearheadedness

Cheap Potatoes For this week we will sell our Fancy Home-Grown Potatoes at the ridiculously low price of 10 Cent 4: per *PecK. ==" = With thousands of bushels of nice potatoes in this vicinity, we have not found it necessary to ship any in, and can therefore guarantee home-grown stock. Don’t complain of high prices when you can buy the main-stay (potatoes) at 10c « peck. Home Grocery

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM —-♦ PICTURES. On the Reef, a drama. . SONG I Remember Yon.

WEATHER FORECAST.

Rain and colder tonight. 'Wednesday fair. Baby Bitten by Dog and Saved by Timely Discovery. Johnnie, the 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Van Wood, hacL«a close call from being killed by a Scotch collie dog at the home of his grandparents,” Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wood, Sr., this Tuesday morning. As it is, the little fellow is quite painfully, though not seriously, injured by being bitten about the head, face and arms. Mrs. Wood and her children were at the Harvey Wood house, southeast of town, and the family were eating breakfapt, when the baby’s screams attracted attention and when members of the household reached the yard, the family dog was on top of the child, biting and shaking it. The child was rescued from its perilous position and brought to town, where the wounds were cauterized and dressed by the family physician. It is not probable that there will be any disfiguring marks as a result of the wounds which did not prove to be very deep, although there were abrasions on the head, face, one arm and the body. It is probable that the dog would have soon killed the baby had it not been for the early discovery. •f 9

D. E. Tanner and Elizabeth Moosemiller Married by Father Daniels.

Father Christian Daniels, of St. Augustine’s Catholic church, performed the ceremony Monday morning at the parochial school building that united in marriage Daniel E. Tanner and Miss Elizabeth Moosemiller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Moosemiller. Until recently the groom was in charge of the Thompson ranch, east of Rensselaer. He moved to Chalmers a few weeks ago, where he is in charge of a large ranch and where they will make their home. A. L. Padgitt has purchased Acrobat A, a finely bred driving stallion, which will make the season at the stockfarm under the management of June Henkle. Alt bid the horse in a few months ago at a Lafayette sale, but at that time there was some difference in the domestic relations of the seller and his wife, and after the horße was sold, the man’s wife levied on it. Ault did not want to get mixed up in that sort of a deal and he withdrew, but he had taken such a fancy to the horse that he kept close track of it and last week bid him in. He is a classy appearing animal and should do a good business in this country where there are so many fine driving as well as draft horses.

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