Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1913 — Page 1

No. 239.

Rex theatre TO-NIGHT You Owe It To The Sense Of The Beautiful In You TO SEEMaude Fealy The Broadway Star and National “Legitimate” Favorite IN “Little Dorr it” Remember, Miss Fealy, who during her stage career has supported Sir Henry Irving, E. £ Willard, William Gillette, Richard Mansfield, William Collier, Nat C. Goodwin and Robert Hilliard, is in this film supported by a notable Thanhouser cast that includes James Cruze, William Russell, Riley Chamberlin, Mrs. Rapley Holmes and the Thanhouser Kidlet. ' This subject is the first to follow Miss Fealy’s “King Rene's Daughter”—lt’s a THANHOUSER.

Milroy Township Young Man Severely Injured Arm Last Week.

Claud Fisher, 21 years of age, son of William Fisher, of Milroy township, while working at home with a circular saw, almost had his left arm cut off last Thursday afternoon. According to information received here the arm was just hanging by a part of one bone and a little skin and muscle. Drs. Spencer and Blinkenstaff, of Wolcott, dressed the arm and it is believed will be able to save it. Young Fisher was removed later to the home of a married sister in Goodalnd, so that he could be near a doctor.

The new winter suits and coats shown this season by Rowles & Parker are by far the most beautiful ever brought to this city. Every one a beauty. The styles are new and possess a charm not shown in other garments in this city. Materials most prominently shown are bouohles, Astrakan, brocaded velour, chinchilla, Persian Lamb, Zlblllnes, and all pile fabrics. We have them priced conservatively from $5 gradually up to $35.00. We want you to come and see, whether you buy or not. We will be pleased to show you these new garments.

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KEEPING UP FIGHT AMONG DEMOCRATS

Babcock Either Writes or Inspires , Article in Indianapolis News Attacking Murphy. Editor Babcock, defeated candidate for the Rensselaer postoffice, a position that he had no claim whatever for, is proving himself the prize bad loser of the decade. The Indianapolis News of Monday made a front page article of Babcock’s wail, republishing an article Babcock printed which alleged that Congressman Peterson was controlled by District Chairman Charles J. Murphy, and was a victim of the Tom Taggart-Crawford Fairbanks’ machine. The article places Governor Ralston in the corrupt machine and indicates that every wire was pulled to keep Babcock from getting the postoffice. The article was so ridiculous to any person familiar with the local democratic fuss as to prove quite conclusively that the sensational “Billy” .Blodgett had permitted the Babcock-Honan crowd to put one over on him.

The article deliberately misrepresents Babcock’s attitude toward the dominent men in the party; It says: ( “The first victim of Murphy and the machine was Frank E. Babcock, of the Jasper County Democrat. Understand, now, there is no question of Mr. Babcock’s. Democracy. He is a real Democrat—a Woodrow Wilson-William Jennings Bryan Democrat—and personally and in his paper he has fought the cause of Mr. Bryan since 1896. He was one of the original Woodrow Wilson Democrats in Indiana.” • On Jan. 21st, 1912, Babcock printed an editorial as follows: “The Democrat is publishing some political matter relating to the candidacy of Woodrow Wilson for the presidency, bi|t Woodrow iS not The Democart’s choice for the nomination by any means. Governor Harmon, of Ohio, has been our choice since the last general election, and still is our choice. A man who can carry the rock-ribbed state of Ohio, the last time by over 101,000 plurality; who has. given the Ohioans a splendid business administrationand can carry the state for the presidency over any candidate the republicans can name, by more than a hundred thousand votes at least, whose experience in state-craft pronounces him safe and sane candidate who would sweep the entire country next November, should not be overlooked in choosing candidate to head the democratic national ticket.” That shows - where Babcock stood as a candidate booster only a few months convention. On Feb. 14th the only editorial in The Democrat was a column article boosting Governor Harmon and copied from The Indianapolis News. The Woodrow Wilson plate service -seems to have been entirely discontinued. A careful examination of The i Democrat up to April 17th divulges no mention of Wilson or Bryan. In the issue of that date the editorial columns of The Democrat tell of the Jefferson day banquet in Indianapolis, and ‘ quotes from Bryan’s speech, which scorched Taft and Roosevelt, but it has nothing complimentary to say of Bryan and does not mention Wilson. In the same issue is printed a press dispatch’ from Omaha which was complimentary to Governor Judson Harmon.\ On April 24th, 1912, The published an editorial based upon an article in The Cincinnati Enquirer and headed: “Wilson Has Little Strength In Indiana.” It says in part: “Only two members of the delegation are for Governor Wilson. They are the ninth district delegates— Goodbar and Gifford. Governor Marshall does not favor Wilson for second choice and most of the organiaation men are now leaning toward Champ Clark. If there should be a break in the line-up it is regarded now as likely that fourfifths and probably more of the Indiana delegates would vote for Clark. At no stage of the game does it appear that Wilson can ever get more than four Indiana votes.” All the “editorials” in the issue of April 27th -told of a big Are at Ambia and another dispatch from Lafayette saying that locomotives are too large. Not a word about WoodTow Wilson. The next mention of either Harmon or Wilson is in The Democrat of May 29th, which says: “There has been no change In the democratic standing in Ohio. Harmon holding 31 to Wilson’s 11.” It also mentions the line-up of delegates chosen: "Clark 328; Wilson 202; Harmon 46; Underwood 83; Marshall 30; uninstructed 183.” No support by The Democrat of Wil-

Entered January 1, 18»7, aa second clan man matter, at the post-o See at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of Ifareh 8, IST*,

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1913.

CHICAGO MAN SAYS HE KILLED TWENTY

Henry Spencer, Held as Slayer of Dancing Teacher, Confesses to Many Crimes. Chicago has another terrible murder case to deal with. The finding of the body of Mrs. Mildred Rexroat, a dancing teacher, on Sept. 25th, led to the arrest of Henry Spencer, an opium victim, who has confessed to the murder of twenty people. It is believed by the officers, however, that opium has given Spencer a vivid imaginatioh and that his number of victims is not nearly so great as he claims. Several of the crimes, however, he has evidently comnjitted, and every murder was for the purpose of robbery.' ' Spencer’s story of the killing of Mrs. Rexroat practically had been confirmed and He had been indicted for the crime by the grand* jury. Seach of police records in many cities has revealed that many of the crimes confessed by Spencer had never been committed, or if they had the bodies of the victims had never been found. Persons listed as victims by Spencer in his confession have been found alive, so a great sharq of the “confessed” killings lie only in Spencer’s opium distorted brain.

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son had yet developed. There was not a. word of praise for Wilson in all the issues of The Democrat from Jan. Ist up to the day the convention named him, and in an article in the same paper that told of Wilson’s nomination was the following scathing criticism of Bryan, whose work on the convention floor defeated Clark and nominated Wilson. The Democrat of that issue said: “The democratic .convention at Baltimore seems to be going the recent republican convention one better in damfoolism, and, as in the case of the Chicago convention, one man is causing all the turmoil and dissention. .The public is getting awfully tired of this sort of thing of one man bossing or trying to boss an entire convention. It is time we had a new set of party leaders on both sides who will set down on this one man domination. Although it has been the custom for the past seventy years whenever a candidate for the presidency in a democratic convention received a majority of the votes of the convention for the convention to ratify his nomination by enough of the delegates to go over and give him the necessary two-thirds, yet through Bryan’s influence the nomination was withheld from Champ Clark although he received a majority vote of the delegates on eight consecutive ballots.”

At about the same time Babcock met W. R. Nowels in the postofflee. Nowels was a Wilson democrat and approved Bryan’s course at the convention. Babeock assailed Bryan and the two had a very heated argument and The Republican was informed by a bystapder that Babcock said he would not support a Bryan candidate. Babcock denied that he made any such statement and Mr. Nowels said that he did pot, but that the criticism had only to do with Bryan’s course at the convention. This disproves the claim that Babcock was an original Wilson man or any other kind of a Wilson man, and also that Babcock was not a Bryan man. Surely Blodgett, of The Indianapolis News, has permitted Babeock and Honan to put one over on him and if The News prints an article sCnt by Chairman McFarland, of the local democratic city committee, it will show just what Babcock’s position was toward both of these men. It is very probable that Charles J. Murphy, of Brookston, did not even know who the local postofflee candidates were. This was a framedup excuse by Babcock to he used by him in an effort to prevent the democrats of the city and county from the facts In the case. The facts were simply these: Mr. Littlefield has been a hard-working and consistent democrat: he has given much of his time to the support of the party: he is a citizen of the highest standing: he Is- qualified for the office: he had the endorsement of life-long democrats who were voting the democratic ticket when Babcock was considered a republican In Goodland. Babcock had built up a prosperous buisness because of party patronage and the party owed, him nothing that had not been repaid as it went along. The belief we have tried to hold for many years that Blodgett was as honest as he tried to make himself appear, has suffered a severe jolt at this time, for evidently he has accepted the statement of Babcock’s loyalty to Wilson and Bryan from some very unreliable source and thus weakened himself while accomplishing nothing for the Bab-cock-Honan faction of local democracy. , •

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BANQUET OF CLUB A SPLENDID AFFAIR

Beautiful Dining Rooms at Presby terian Church Scene of Annual Van Rensselaer Banquet. The new and exquisitely arranged dining room in the basement of the Presbyterian church Was the scene of the third annual banquet of the Van Rensselaer Club Monday evening and the affair was one of the most enjoyable ever held by masculine banqueters in this city. Fortyone of the fifty-one members, active and inactive, partook of the splendid spread, so excellently prepared and served by the Presbyterian ladies.

While the banqueting progressed an orchestra, from Chicago, had been concealed from the sight of the diners, discoursed pleasing music andjthe courses of the banquet were interspaced with a number of impromptu toasts that added to the merriment of the occasion. After the banquet the club members, to which the spread had bem limited, took their lady company to the armory, where an exclusive dance furnished pleasant pasttime until after the midnight hour. The armory had been very tastefully decorated with autumn colors. The gold and purple of the forests shed their most pleasing effect from the branches that, had been- tastefully placed about the walls. Shocks of corn and pumpkins upon which the frost had painted the fascinating yellow were placed about the hall, while the rural scene was made more-realistic by a number of taxidermized animals and birds that peeped out from the shocks of corn or perched upon the branches of the limbs that composed the realistic woodland scene. The danee was very much enjoyed and the affair in every respect was declared the best of the many social tuns-, tions undertaken by this popular social organization.

JORDAN TOWNSHIP TO HOLD ELECTION

Commissioners Set Saturday, Nov. 1, as Day for Holding Stone Road Election. Attorney W. E. Harry, the Brook good roads attorney, who is beiflnd the latest effort to bring Jordan township to a higher standard by voting for some much needed stone roads, came over from Brook this Tuesday morning and remained until after the county commissioners had set Saturday, Nov. let, as the date for holding the election on the petition filed some tw r o months ago. Mr. Harry is seeing that the proper notices are being given and that everything will be in readiness for this very desirable improvement. Jordan township has done some scrapping at times past because the road projects did not seem to meet the demands, but this latest plan seems to get away with much of the objection existing in the past and it is believed that the progress of Jordan township in the matter of stone roads will not be further retarded. The election should show that Jordan township Is for progress and does not propose to permit any little jealousies to cut It out of this system of roads which will prove a great boon to every acre of land in the township. Over at Brook Mr. Harry is known as the "good roads” attorney. He Is well posted on highway laws and Ls a great booster for road improvements. At Kentland Monday he met with the commissioners and stayed with them until three road petitions had been advanced on the docket. Tn the Jordan township project he Is assisted in this county by Attorney Geo. A. Williams, .

Will Spend Part of 70th Birthday at His Old Home. Today, Tuesday, Oct. 7th, is the seventieth birthday of Shelby Grant, and he accompanied Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Hemphill on ah automobile trip to Peru, where Mrs. Hemphill will visit her mother, and then go to LaFountaine, Wabash county, where Shelby was born. They will be absent only a few days. About Electricity. For several ,months I have been making a study of electricity and am now prepared to do electrical work, wiring houses, putting in extra lights, switches, etc. Have taken the agency for the Hot Point line of supplies and will very much appreciate your patronage. WM. BABCOCK, Jr. REPUBLICAN CITY TICKET. For Mayor, CHARLES G. SPITLER. For Treasurer, CHARLES M. SANDS. For Clerk, CHARLES MORLAN. For Councllmen-at-Large, REX WARNER FRANK G. KRESLER. For Councilman First Ward, H. RAY WOOD. For Councilman Second Ward, FRANK W. TOBIAS. For Councilman Third Ward, H. FRANK KING.

SATURDAY, OCT. 11 AT 3.00 P. M. Is the hour the chest of silver will be given away at RHOADES' HARDWARE STORE DON’T FAIL TO BE THERE WITH YOUR COUPONS Entitling you to keys

ISTOTTCHII TO BE OVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE BY THE MODEL GLOTHING CO. Each Week, ■■til farther aetice, we will give away a Five Dollar Gold Piece A coupon will be given with each 500 cash purchase. Come in for particulars. The first gold piece given away will be Monday evening, October 20, at 8 o’clock. •■*■ ■ .nt ■■■■l.. ■ , x m Model Clothing Co. SIMON LEOPOLD, Manager

Funeral of Mrs. J. W. McEwen Will Be Held Wednesday P. M. The funeral of Mrs. J. W. McEwen, whose death occurred Monday afternoon, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the late residence on Weston street, being conducted by Rev. J. C. Parrett, of the Presbyterian church. Burial will be made in Weston cemetery. Bottled sunlight sold and Installed -in suburban homes by the Watson Plumbing Co, Phone 204.

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