Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1912 — Page 1

No. 233.

BULL MOOSERS WILL NAME COUNTY TICKET

After Long Discussion They Determine ■To Place Ticket in the Field to Defeat Republicans. The Bull Moose organization in Jasper' county has decided to put a county ticket in the field and have decided on next Thursday, Oct. 3rd, as the time for doing it. A mass convention is to be held in Rensselaer for the purpose. The leaders of the party in Rensselaer have been counseling with some of the men about the who were Bull, Moose sympathizers because of their admiration for Roosevelt and it is understood that they have by no means met with unanimous endorsement in the matter of placing a ticket in the field. They have determined to do it, is the common belief, not with any expectation of electing their ticket,'"’but with the belief that they will strengthen the Roosevelt and Beveridge vote in the county. It is Sincerely believed that their action will serve as a boomerang and that it should have this effect. Many who are allied with the Bull Moose movement participated in the selec-

tion of the delegates to the Republican county convention and some were delegates in the convention that placed the ticket in the field. It is a good ticket, composed of clean men, the very best citizens in the coihity and it is worthy the support of every good citizen. It is certainly worthy the support of the men who helped to' name it and it is a disgrace upon the name of every one who aids in its defeat by following the very tactics which they claim to condemn. iWe believe that the good people of Jasper county, irrespective of party, will condemn the plan of the .bosses of the Bull Moose organization, and we believe that some men who have been inclined to vote for Roosevelt or Beveridge will stand firmly on the square deal proposition and refuse to have a hand in naming a ticket. The Republican has maintained an attitude of perfect neutrality a 3 regards the local Bull Moose organization. Not a word in this paper has criticised them, not a line derogatory to them has been published. This' paper has given support to the Republican tickets and has its readers to stand by Taft and good times and honest government. It has published a number of articles in support of Winfield Durbin 4 or governor. It has criticized their opponents on the Bull llioose ticket, but- it has never given any local application that could have offended the leaders of the Bull Moose movement. The editor of The Republican has been in consultation with leaders of the Republican party organization and with Republicans all over the county and all have agreed that it was best not' to stir up any local animosities. The leading Republicans of Rensselaer and throughout Jasper county have followed the same plan. The candidates od the Republican ticket have maintained the same attitude and have given no occasion for offense to Bull Moose leaders The third party managers by implication have held a club over the heads of the candidates and almost dared them to express themselves. Many of the Bull Moose leaders have spent much of their time in buttonholing every person they met and in trying to imbue them with the third party proposition, but it has been understood as a matter of honor that they were to support the Republican county ticket. The Republican has rather consid-

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PRESBYTERIAN S. S. RALLY DAY TOMORROW

Superintendent Urges That Parents es Children Attend and 3%at Every Pupil Be Present * '"■ ' ' ~ P~ : ' '• ' '• ~~ ' ' Rally Day will be observed at the Presbyterion Sabbath school tomorrow morning. The officers and teachers are especially anxious that every parent who has children attending this school should be present. Won’t you encourage us in our work for the, moral welfare of your children by your presence this one Sunday, at least Come and see the work that is being done. Every pupil is urged to be present. The roll will be called for perfect classes. Try to have your class in the list. Every class should have new members enlisted tomorrow for the year’s work. / Members of the Home Department and all members of the church are earnestly asked to be present. 1 _ SUPERINTENDENT.

ered all who were not Democrats in Jasper .eounty as belonging to the same family; differing perhaps on some things, but united as we have been for many years in accomplishing the defeat of Democracy and its plan for managing the government. We had believed that the present differences might be minimized by not aggravating the differences existing between present and former Republicans. We had hoped that the men who believed in Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Beveridge would vote for them and at the same time stand by the Republican county ticket, just as Republicans with mighty few exceptions would have done had Roosevelt been the nominee of the Republican party. Ht is well knovyn that Edwin M. Lee, Bull Moose state chairman, has adopted the boss style of dictating to the county organizations, and that he has urged that county tickets be put out. In several counties of the state the Bull Moose organization has been in the hands of men honorable enough to refuse to heed Lee’s cry. It was hoped this was the case.in Jasper county. If this element is lacking in the ring" leaders, who have submitted to the scheme of a few bosses and to Democratic hope, we still have confidence that there are many men identified with the Roosevelt party who have the personal honor not to participate in a plan to defeat the splendid county ticket named with their consent and their action by the Republicans of Jasper county. The action is unworthy the • men who have taken it. It is unworthy the lofty purpose which they claim is the real cause of their withdrawal from the Republican party. It will prove their lasting shame if carried' out The Republican has nothing but the highest personal regard for many of the men yvho are active in the Progressive party movement in Jasper county. They have always been treated with entire fairness by this paper. But we believe their enthusiasm has led them into the commission of a grave error that their better judgment and their later calm consideration will cause them to regret. Looking to the maintenance of the most pleasant relations between the Republicans and the Progressives in Jasper county The Republican during the past week leased to the Progressive county organization two columns of each issue of the Semi Weekly Republican and two columns of the Monday Evening Republican. These columns will be used by the Organization from now until election day. It seems

that there can be little if any cause for , the nomination of a third ticket and it Is certain to have but one end, that of aiding the Democratic candidates and we feel sure that it is not going to meet the endorsement of many men who 'have always been Republicans, who are Republicans now at heart and who have" simply gone visiting In the Bull Moose movement. It looks like a step toward dark politics and will open political wounds that it will take many years to heal. We believe that had the/question been submitted .-to- a of those identified with the party it would have mpt summary disapproval. No person should miss seeing one of the biggest dramatic sensations' presented in years, when ”A Girl of the Underworld” will be produced at the Theatre, on Satnrday night, Sept. 28. A beautiful story of tenderloin rife which holds its audience spellbound from the opening act to the finale.

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Leaving the doors closed, the firemen, directed by Chief Montgomery, entered through the basement and crawled beneath the floor and made .their fight from there, succeeding with difficulty in conquering the stubborn 'fire. The damage is estimated at S3OO to S4OO. During the time the house has been undergoing remodeling Mr. Murray and family have lived in the Dr. H. L. Brown property acrosk the street. They had hoped to get into their own home within a week. The fire will considerably delay them, however. The loss was covered by insurance in S. C. Irwin’s agency.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, IM2.

FINE RESIDENCE OF G. E. MURRAY DAMAGED

Fire Discovered ait Night Caused S3OO Loss to River Street Property Being Remodeled. The fine residence of , Postmaster George E. Murray on River street, which has recently undergone extensive remodeling and which was not yet occupied, was discovered on fire at about 10:45 Friday night. The fire /department was soon on the scene and by means of chemical engines succeeded in extinguishing the flames, which made, a stubborn fight before they relinquished their hold. During the day had been started in the fire place and it is presumed that the fire started from this, although workmen were quite certain that the fire was in a perfectly safe condition, when they left the house in the evening. The fire started in the dining room, the hardwood floor being burned through and the rafters. beneath being burned. When discovered smoke was issuing from the house in about every direction and it was feared the entire building was doomed. The doors to the house were all securely locked, which prevented anyone from entering an# doubtless had the good effect of keeping a draft from fanning the smoking timbers into a flame that hardly have been mastered.

MAYOR OF SURREY WRITES FROM KANSAS

er L. Thornton and Wife are Visiting Former Jasperltes in Southern Fart of Kansas. ♦ , *777 Ashton, Kansas., Sept 28, 1912. Publishers Republican: We started from Chicago Sept. 10th and arrived at Greensburg, Kansas, at 11 o’clock the next night. We stayed that night with W. L. Fleener, a former, Jasper county man. The next morning went up town and was greatly surprised to see the old town bo greatly improved. Some 15 or 20 new brick buildings have been greeted and some are as nice stores ns you would see in any town in Indiana. Mr. Fleener has a new brick building 50x100 feet antThas it stocked with a SIO,OOO furniture stock and is doing a fine business. There are five elevators in the town and all are full of wheat of an extra fine quality, testing from 60 to 66 pounds to the bushel Farmers are very busy getting their seeding done. There has been an abundanoe of rain this fall and the ground is in fine condition and they are putting everything to wheat again this fall. They are too busy to talk bull moose out here any. Visited F. W. Sparling. Frank is a standpatter. J. O. Sparling is in the insurance and land business and is doing fine. On the 18th we went from Greehsburg to Coats, visited Aunt Mary Porterr Fred Hammond and family and many other former Jasper county people in that locality. From there we went to Ashton, Kans., where we are visiting Bert Sparling and his mother and Harve Miller. This is a nice country, the same as Kiowa county. There are large trees in the lawns, hedge fences all around the farms and everybody here seems prosperous and happy. There are some beautiful small cities in this part of the state. Arkansas City, 12 miles east, has 8,000; Windfall about 11,000. We gre going to visit the Cherokee Indian reservation across the Oklahoma line and also the Indian school and think it will be very interesting. We go from here to Colorado Springs. H. L. Thornton and Wife.

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AUTO BANDITS MADE GOOD THEIR ESCAPE

Secured ‘ssoo From Elevator at Dyer and Went East Pursued by Sheriff Grant and Volunteer Posse. —.—— ’ ... - _ ■ __._i_i.L_ The details of the robbery at Dyer Friday were printed in the Hammond Times. Five masked men in a big black automobile stopped at the L. Keilmaa grain elevator and implement store and robbed the safe. Mr. Keilman, 75 year® of age, was alone in the store an< * be was drawn out of the office by a ruse. He rushed into the office just as the bandits were leaving. The three men in the rear seat had shotguns or rifles. He hastily spread the alarm and soon all Dyer was excitement. John Keilman, son of the aged elevator man; August Stommel, cashier of the First National Bank; Nicholas Austgen and Dr. J. A. Chevigny set out in pursuit. By the time they had procured firearms, however, the bandits had a ten-mile lead. Sheriff Grant was telephoned to at Crown Point and he manned an auto with men and rifles and set out north, hoping to head off the burglars. The burglars had passed before the sheriff got along, however, and they set out in pursuit. Trace of the men was received occasionally by telephone but the men were not apprehended. It is one of the boldest holdups that has taken place in this part of Indiana in many years.

HAD LIVELY SCRAP IN REMINGTON FRIDAY

Ed and Tone Kanne Engaged in Fisticuffs JVith Man Named Alexander —Unadvertised Event. While attending the street fair at Remington Friday night Ed and Tone Kanne became involved in trouble with a man named Alexander. According to Tone Kanne, whose story is vouched for by others who saw the trouble, Alexander threw .some confetti on Eld Kanne, who retaliated by clapping him on the back with a carnival contraption sold for the purpose. Alexander then called him a foul

name and Kanne invited him to fight. They started for an alley but did not get there and the fight began on Ohio street, just north of the railroad. Alexander was throwh or knocked down and some reports were to the effect that he was severely beaten up. The bnjy injury Kanne received was on his left breast, where a chunk of flesh was almost severed and Kanne thinks Alexander bit him. Tone Kanne says that Alexander struck at him after getting up and that some one else struck him. Stewart Moore had taken a load of the band boys to Remington in Kanne’s auto bus and as they were leaving town some one heaved a brick at them and it struck Don Wright on the arm. Stewart was making a hasty exit, it seems, and upset a baby rack in turning the bus around and it is presumed the brick was heaved by the irate owner of the rack, although some think that it was thrown by some friend of Alexander’s who presumed that Kanne was in the bus. It is understood that liquor was dispensed at Remington in blind tiger fashion and it is said that this was at the bottom of the trouble. Some report that Alexander was considerable under the influence.

S. S. CONVENTION HAS BEEN POSTPONED

Was to Have Been Held This Week— New Hate Is Oct. 28-29—County Convention in Rensselaer.' The Jasper county Sunday school convention, which was to have been held in Rensselaer during the coming week, has been postponed until Oct 28th and 29th. Sunday school workers all over Jasper county are asked to keep the dates in mind and to jnake plans to have representatives attend the convention. These meetings have been growing each year and It is hoped to have this one the best and largest ever held In the county. -

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DR. DENT ATKINSON’S REPUBLICAN SPEECH

College Professor Spoke to Fair Sized Audience Friday Night and Told Mnny Plain Truthg. ..... " - i - Dr. Dent Atkinson, of Oberlin, Ohio, where he is a professor in the university, and who was sent here by the Republican national committee, spoke to an audience of about two hundred people at the Princess Airdome Friday night. Dr. Atchinson discussed the three leading candidates for the presidency and the effect that the election of each would have upon the business of the country. He said that the democratic tariff plank was identical with the plank of that party in 1892, the enactment of which into law created a depression that is fresh in the minds of all who lived through it. He made a comparison of the prices of farm products during the lean years of Cleveland’s second administration and also a comparison of wages. He showed conclusively that the farmer and the laboring man is much better off today He showed the dangers of experimenting with the policy again. He spoke of the campaign of Roosevelt to procure the Republican nomination for the presidency and of his disappointment. He said that Roosevelt was no longer the dignified man of a few years-ago. He quoted the language of J. Adam Bede, who said at Oklahoma €i,ty Thursday that Roosevelt was now giving “daily exhibitions of the St. Vitis dance on a ragtime platform.” He told of the high endorsement that Roosevelt had given Taft and of his desertion from his own endorsement because of his ambition to again become the president. He recounted the statement of Taft following the passage of the PayneAldrich tariff measure that it was the best tariff law the country ever had. He also stated that the president had said that certain schedules were too high. He told of the president’s loyalty to principal and his devotion to the right at all times. Taken all in all the speech was a very able one and it served to put considerable vim into his auditors, especially with his central thought of letting “well enough alone.” And this is the keynote of the campaign, not from a standpat standpoint, but meaning that the Republican party has made such a success in prompting prosperity that it and edCTusted with enacting into law the demands of the people. 'Dr. Atchinson speaks at Monticello tonight.

WON FIRST PRIZES REMINGTON SHOW

Frank King and D. T. Halstead Won Ob Best Surrey and Best Matched Team, Respectively. Persons who attended the Remington horse show Friday speak highly of the exhibits, saying that the show is a very meritorious one from the standpoint of the horses. The free attractions also are reported good but there was not much outside of this. Frank King exhibited his surrey horse in competition with some other fine animals and was awarded the first prize. He defeated a share from Montieello that cleaned up at a number of'horse fairs last year. D. T. Halstead also won first for the best matched team of driving horses. He exhibited hie dnn mares which won first here last year; this is a mighty fine team.

Does a Man Love a Woman Like a Woman Loves a Man?

This question is asked and answered in a new play of New York, entitled “A Girl of the Underworld,” by the well known author, Jack Gorman. The play is full of good comedy situations with plenty of dramatic situations and good heart interest. A splendid acting company, headed by Miss May Manning, together with a complete scenic production is carried. At the tjjllis Theatre this evening.

Special Meeting of the Masonic Lodge.

There will be a special meeting of Prairie Lodge No. 125, P. A A. M., on (Monday evening, September 30, at 7:39 p. m., for work in the Masters degree. ~ J. C. PAKRETT, W. M.

WISEMAN GUILTY IS JURY FINDING

Jury Took Six Ballots in Arriving at Decision That Fastens Paternity Charge on Earl Wiseman. _ =: The jury in the Peek vs. Wiseman case was out about two hours Friday afternoon and took six ballots before coming to an agreement in the paternity case filed by Mildred Peek against Earl Wiseman. The first ballots stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal. Those who favored acquittal held out for some time but finally agreed to the verdict of guilty. The penalty will be fixed by Judge Hanley, who will give his decision Monday. It is understood that the Peek girl has offered to settle for 3500.

Church of God.

Elder S. J. Lindsay, editor of the Restitution Herald, wul preach at the Church of God next Sunday at 10:46 a. m., and 7:30 p. m. Everybody cordially invited. Country and creamery butter is getting scarce and higher, and for a substitute try our fancy butterlne, only 20c a pound. JOHN EGER.

WEATHER FORECAST. Unsettled; probably rain in north portion tonight or Sunday; continued cool.

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