Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — Page 1

The Evening Republican.

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TONI GHT AT THE PRINCESS The House of Features 2nd Installment “The Million Dollar Mystery” And an amusing comedy [in connection. 3 Shows Each Night 7,8, 9

Health Board Notice.

Governor Ralston has ploclaimed Oct. 2nd as “Disease Prevention Day,” a,nd directs that each city make a sanitary display in the haye a public meeting. Taking into stores, put on a float parade and consideration the conditions in Rensselaer, the city health board has decided to ask the merchants to make a window display demonstrating sanitation in all its phases and the citizens in general to clean the premises of all trash. It is likely that inspectors from the school will Inspect on that day. Any information desired concerning the window display can be obtained at the office of the secretary of the board. By order of the Board, M. D. GWIN, Secretary. Typewriter ribbons for all makes of machines for sale at The Republican office

THE FOWLER OIL COMPANY RENSSELAER, INDIANA PHONE 158 .-Jw //jAHI MBMM Having bought grounds adjacent to the Standard Oil Co.’s plant and having secured the right to pipe oil from the railroad right-of-way to the tanks, we have completed the erection of our tanks and pumping station and are now ready to supply the public. We claim a of product, gasoline, kerosenee and auto oil and hope to be given a trial. Prompt deliveries made by autotruck and courteous attention given to all orders; in fact, we pledge the very best of service. Orders may be telephoned to our station, No. 158, or given to the local deliveryman, Ross Ramey. CALKIN BROS. & CRAWFORD H.J. Crawford, Mngr. Fowler Plant

DEMOCRATIC PARTY SENDS SOS CALL

Urgent Appeal Made to Washington to Send Spellbinders Home to Save State This Fall. ~ r ’Washington, Sept. 28.—That ginger from the Woodrow Wilson ginger bottle is badly needed in the Indiana democratic state campaign is the report that reached the Indiana congressional delegation from leaders at home, who are sending an S O S call to the salons at Washington to come back to Indiana and supply the much-need?d pep. The call is causing a great deal of mental distress in the delegation, for the congressmen realize that a one-leeged man has as good a show in a marathon as they have getting home until President Wilson says the word. A sensation has just been created in the congressional delegation by a letter just received from a prominent state officer and appointee of governor Ralston, who sends an urgent appeal to Senator Shively and the Indiana members of the lower house to bet back to Indiana just as soon as they can break away from Washington. This official says that undoubtedly the candidates of at least eight Indiana members of the house are in a bad iway and he holds out the danger of a slaughter in the delegation unless something is done. He declares that the republicans are more active than they have been for ten years, enthusiastic and well organized and that a great deal of dissatisfaction exists among the rank and file of the democratic party in Indiana over" the candidacies of Homer L. Cook and Donn M. Roberts. He mentions the candidacies of Representatives Korbley, Barnhart, Gray, Morrison, Peterson, Cullop, Cline and Moss as being in jeopardy. He says that St. Joseph county is in the worst shape for the democrats it ever has been and. that democratic fences are in a bad fix in Marion county. Us« our Classified Column.

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30, 1914.

RUSSIAN REFUGEE RETURNED TO CHICACO

Woman Who Advocated SodalhLO in Russia Has Been in Jasper County Several Months. Stella PetrovHz, a Russian woman 32 years of age, who has for several months made her home' with Mrs. Sarah L. Jordan, of Bark* ley township, went to Chicago today, where she will meet her brother, who recently came from Russia. Miss Petro vitz is a remarkable woman, a' graduate of the St. Petersburg hospital and a cultured woman in every respect. She claims that a price had been placed on her head and that- she found it necessary some fifteen months ago to flee from Petrograd. The discovery of Polish socialist literature in her room caused her to be in danger. After arriving here she wks taken ill and for several months was a patient in’*the hospital of which Miss Nettie Jordan is the superintendent in Dlinois. Miss Jordan found so much to be admired about her that she arranged for her to come to the Jordan home to remain while regaining her health. In the seven months she has been here she has endeared herself to the Jordan family and they pronounce her one of the grandest characters they have ever known. Her plans for the future after meeting tier brother were not fully established. She claims to have been of a wealthy family in Russia and that thousands of acres of land belonging to the estate of her people is now being sold and that she will receive copsiderable money from there before long. Miss Petrovitz has not kept Informed about the war in which Russia is engaged, but expressed the hope that it would result in a changed map of Europe.

We have not raised our prices on flour and still’have plenty of old wheat flour in stock. We guarantee every sack to please you In every detail or we cheerfully refund your money.

ROWLES & PARKER.

Replying to Democrat Lies About Republican Contest.

The Republican has waited for more than a week for L. L. McCurtain to put in an appearance and register any complaint he might have because chocks aggregating $136.50, which he sent to this office along with names of alleged subscribers, were returned to his wife. Mr. McCurtain has not come in, although he has been in town and has evidently talked with and made misrepresentations to Editor Babcock, who has been extremely anxious to cast reflections upon the contest, without any grounds for doing so.

Mr. McCurtain’s wife, Mrs. Blanche McCurtain, was a candidate. She has made no complaint,- in fact, stated that she had none, and was very grateful, as she had just dause to be, that she received back checks as above stated. The Republican owes no apology to any person, no explanation to The Democrat, but does owe a statement of facts to the public to controvert the fabric of lies which the ever-snarling Babcock has framed in his effort to cry out “fraud” and “graft.” His snarls, it may easily be judged, are occasioned by the solar plexus blow he had received right in the middle of his fast-dWindling subscription list. The contest coming right at a time when Editor Babcock, claiming his as the official democratic organ, was engaged in roasting about all the prominent men in the party, criticising the candidates, tearing into the last legislature and attacking the local* organization, proved too much for him to pass without employing his cowardly practice of trying to create suspicion. Now for the explanation. •

The evening the' contest closed a number of the candidates were in and about The Republican office. Each was trying to get a line on the amount of subscription* business that was being turned in. The McOurtains, Mrs. McCurtain and Len, were here. They did not leave until after 10 o’clock. Shortly before they left one of their friends called Shelby Comer aside and asked him confidentially how many votes he had. Shelby them about 700,000. ’

The condition of the contest was that the* ballot box closed at 12 o’clock Friday night, and that votes and subscriptions received by mail up to noon of the following day, provided the envelope in which they were mailed bore the postmark of Friday, Sept. 18th, would be accepted. The last mail made up and sent out of Parr in the daytime is the milk train in the evening. The MeCurtains did not return to Parr until between 10:30 and 11 o’clock on Friday night, some five or six hours after the last mail was made up and sent out of Parr for that day. On Saturday morning, however, a letter came from Mrs. McCurtain. It contained one unsigned check for $lO5 and three cheeks for $10.50 each. A list of names to whom The Republican was to be sent accompanied the cheeks. Mrs. McCurtain was called and told that the check was not signed. She came to Rensselaer and to this office. Leslie Clark, one of the publishers of The Republican, waited on her. He told her that he- did not like to have her invest her own money* for she might be disappointed. He told her that he would sooner give her the money out of his own pocket than to have her lose it. She was determined to have the subscriptions counted, however, and signed the check which had been left unsigned when it was mailed. Later in the day Mr. Clark and Mr. Longworth decided that it would not be right to accept the votes for the prime reason that it would have been impossible for the letter, which bore the postoffice mark of Friday, to have been delay-

ed •until Saturday morning in reaching here. Investigation showed that the envelope bore the stamp of Friday a. m. The stamp is the official method the government has ot checking the leaving time of the mail. If the letter had actually been mailed Friday A. M., as the envelope indicated, it should have, been received at The Republican office at 11:05 Friday. There was another chance for it to have arrived at 6:12 Friday evening, but it actually did arrive Saturday noon, 24 hours after the time stamped on the envelope. The McCurtains, as a matter of fact, must have prepared the cheeks after they reached Par® well along toward midnight of Friday, or on Saturday morning. How the letter got in the postoffice (and was stamped with an outstamp on the envelope which registered it twelve hours back, and the letter was mailed twelve hours later are questions for the McCurtains to answer. This contest does look crooked, don’t it? But who was it tried to be

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crooked? It looks as jf Len McCurtain, whom The Democrat says is doing the kicking, knows who pulled off a little stunt that was actually crooked, in an effort to make his wife’s vote exceed that of Miss Mary Comer, whom he had been told had only 700,000 votes. - Oh, yes, the money was returned. Mr. Clark, observing the trickery, hunted up Mrs. McCurtain, and forced the checks amounting to $136.50, on her, Checks which The Republican might have retained had we been as crooked as some of the interested parties appeared to be. Mrs. McCurtain was grateful'and almost cried when she said that she had worked hard to save the money, that it was her own money, and that she could not afford to lose it. Mrs. McCurtain is a lady of refinement and intelligence and The Republican treated her In a manner so honorable that it naturally can not be appreciated by a character of Babcock’s type. But Mrs. McCurtain appreciated it, and Len would probably if it was his money and he had worked for it as Mrs. McCurtain did.

Queer world, isn’t it? Return checks amounting to $136,50, which you might have kept, thus protecting the person who received the cheeks back from a loss of that much money and from an ©cposure in the crooked stamping of a letter, which is doubtless a federal offense, and then have some one call you a “grafter” for doing it. That’s idea of a grafter, a fellow who don’t keep the money. Imagine Babcock giving back cheeks amounting to $136.50 or even 50 cents; it is an act that would require a lucid imagination. Babcock held a piano contest; a merchant on the night before claims to have bought all the trading checks Babcock had left and to have voted them straight out for ode of the candidates, when they were presumed to be issued only for legitimate trade. Babcock did not have a committee count the votes. He was the committee, thus making it possible to smuggle through any crooked schemes which he desired to pull off and to conceal the alleged purchase on the night the contest closed of the trading votes. And then the poor girl got a “Banner” piano, a cheap piano which The Republican was offered for $145 and which Babcock had advertised and influenced thQ girl and her frieads to believe, was a $350 instrument, and which the girl planned to sell in order that she might get an education,

A Few Of Our Headliners For the Grate—Our Brite-Light Cannel. For the Heating Stove—Our Ky. Belle Lump and Puritan White Ash. For the Range—Our Ky. Belle Egg, B. B. and Jackson Hill. We carry a full staple line of hard and soft coal. All that we ask is one trial. Phone 7. Harrington Bros. Co.

Harvey Casto Pronounced Insane by Board of Doctors.

Harvey Oasto, the unfortunate man whose case was mentioned in this paper Tuesday, became so threatening in his conduct Tuesday that it was found necessary to place him in jail, where he kept calling out for aid about all night. He pounced upon the clothing of the prisoners there, Pat Miller and Eggleston from Mt. Ayr and tore their wearing apparel into shreds, riddling their shirts, coats and breeches. An insanity inquest Was held by Drs. Kresler, English and Gwin and he was found of unsound mind and an effort will be made to have him accepted at Longcliffe at onceowing to his rather violent tendencies. It is not probable that he will ever be restored to mental health.

REGISTRATION DAY, OCT. 5.

You cannot vote at the approaching election unless you register Monday, October sth, will be your last opportunity to register. If absent from home or prevented from visiting the place of registration by reason of sickness, registry may be made by sworn application. Keep date in mind, Monday, Oct. sth.

and to get which she was to sell the piano. Oh, yes, Babcock has pulled off a number of highly honorable contests, measured by bis dwarfed idea of honesty, and proclaimed with his brazen egotism of personal purity, but he never before heard and is now probably unable to comprehend so generous an act as returning to a good woman $136.50, which might have been kept. Poor old Bab; it’s a long jump between your estimate of yourself and your integrity and the estimate of the public concerning you, and it is greatly to be hoped that you never wake up, for you seem to enjoy the pseudo-notion so intensely. It is probable that a postoffice inspector will be asked to investigate the manner in which the McCurtains procured a postoffice stamp dated back twenty-four hours, and Babcock may have another ehanee to lie and quibble and falsify. We have refrained some times for a year or more at a stretch from mentioning The Democrat and its peewee editor and we hope not to annoy our readers with such pigmy topics much in the future.

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