Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1913 — News and Editorials From The Monticello Herald. [ARTICLE]

News and Editorials From The Monticello Herald.

There was an auction sale of sec-ond-hand automobiles at the Clifford garage Saturday, at which four machines were knocked off to the highest bidders as follows: A Buick to Thos. Spender at $250; a Ford to Wm. McCorkle at $225; an Overland to Ben Demary at $225; a Krit to Wallace Atkins at S4OO. All were five-passenger cars except the Kritt, which was a roadster. Misses Avallne and Geraldine Ktadig have had as their guests the past week five college mates from Northwestern University. During their visit they enjoyed a two days’ outing at Edgewater, where they had the time of their lives. The visitors left for their homes Monday afternoon. The class just graduated from the Monticello high school has left to the school a souvenir by which they will be remembered while time lasts by all who come after them. It is a hall clock purchased through EL H. Bowman, the jeweler. It has a beautlful mahogany case standing about six feet high and a set of West-, minister chimes which strike the quarter hours and plays a tune at the end of each hour. A more harfasome and appropriate gift could hardly have been selected. And now comes that Gary primary, which seems to be the limit. On the face of the returns several hundred more votes were cast in the democratic primary alone than were cast by all parties combined at the November election, and Tom Knotts himself got more votes in the primary than Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson combined in the presidential election. And yet people are clam; oring for the primary as a protection against fraud! Indianapolis, Terre Haute and Gary ought to be convincing proof that the primary Is a will o’ the wisp a means of political reform. After the tariff bill is passed then comes the currency question, and from the preliminary rumbling something is going to break loose when that question comes up. President Wilson has been regarded as a discreet man-thus far, but even some of his best friends'think that to flash the money question at congress right In dog days and with the “crossof-gold" orator sitting in the cabinet will be like striking a match in a powder mill. The president seems to think he can push his plans through without any disastrous consequences, but it is safe to say that if they go through without friction they will go through in Mr. Bryan’s way. The bulk of the democratic party believe yet that Mr. Bryan was right in 1896, and on any monetary* issue he ean swing congress as easily as he swung the Baltimore convention. With this condition of things President Wilson is a bold optimist if he really hopes for any salutary currency legslation at the present session. Shakespeare was a wise old bard but who would have thougth he could forecast so accurately the attitude of those present day statesmen who are clamoring for free trade on everything except the products of their own districts! Yet that is what he did in the play of Hamlet, as the San Francisco Chronicle points out: “Take the ease of those Louisiana democrats who are stark, staring mad for free trade as applied to all the industries of the north.and the northwest and yet want safe and sane protection tor the southern sugar industries. Are they not as Hamlet, who said: “I am but mad north-northwest; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.’ **