Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — Page 1

No. 186.

Bargains in Good Second Hand Furniture 1 round dining table, 44-in. top, 6 ft. SIO.OO 1 round dining table, 44-in. top, 8 ft. 12.00 1 square dining table, 8 ft. 12.00 1 extra good quartered oak table, 8 ft. extension, all in good shape 22.00 1 kitehen table 2.50 1 stand table in birds-eye maple 3.00 1 iron bed, full size 5.00 1 iron bed, full size■ - 6.00 1 iron bed, full size, brass trimmed .U.pO 1 pair springs for iron bed 4.50 1 pair springs for iron bed-- 2.00 1 steed cot 3.00 1 oak dresseri 12.00 1 oak dresser 10.00 1 dresser, extra large, with good mirror 18.50 1 good oak combination bookcase 18.00 1 combination buffet and china closet 12.00 1 large hall rack, with good mirror 1 extra good oval library table in golden oak 12.50 1 Sideboard 12.00 1 cupboard (a good one) 8.00 1 Commode- 4.00 1 commode 3.00 1 kitchen cabinet 5.00 1 set dining chairs 8.00 1 rug (7-6x9) 8.00 1 rug (grass 9x12) 8.00 A few rocker* and straight chair* worth the money. W. J. WRIGHT

A SHOW-DOWN FOR THE PRESIDENT.

The senate interstate commerce committee has very promptly and very properly pajssed the railway “buck” right back to the president where it belongs. The report of -the committee explains that “the president and director general have ample power to adjust both wages of the employes and rates and that a special legislative wage board is neither necessary nor desirable.” The report of the committee was no mere partisan shot fired by republicans, but was unanimous. The democratic members aire Senators Smith, Pomerene, Myers, Robinson, Underwood, Wolcott and Stanley. Congress conferred on the president authority to do practically anything he sees fit to do with the railways. That power was granted to him as a war measure and is, still' in force. The federal control bill stipulates that his authority over (the railways and their affairs shall i continue during the war and not I exceeding one year and nine months 1 after the ratification of the treaty of peace. , He is authorized to initiate rate advances and to do practically anything necessary to meet' conditions that may come up in the operation of the nation's transportation system. Congress was not asked when, I on December 28, 1917, the roads were taken over by e executive proclamation. Nobody, not even the owners, knew until 'the government ( seized the roads. Congress was not: consulted when the freight ratesj were advanced 25 per cent a tittle later and passenger rates were put up. There was never any anxiety about congressional' opinion when I Wages were advanced before, and I the senate does not propose to be made the “goat" at this stage of the proceedings. _?_X-L From the time the president got behind the Adam Son wage law in the fall of 1916 and that bill was forced through Congress, there have been evidences of catering to the railway men and of the hope of bringing about a government own-' ersihiip program. McAdoo set about frankly shaping a five-year program to demonstrate the advantages of the adminßstration’s theories. The results of government control had been so expensive and so thoroughly unsatisfactory that they contributed

PRINCESS THEATRE —TONIGHT—Mitchell Lewis “Jacques of the Silver North” She was white; he was a halfbreed, but he loved her with a wild, impassioned love. The result was not as disastrous as might have been expected. See “Jacques of the Silver North.” Smiling Bill Parsons Comedy.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, Famous Player»-L*»ky Corp. Prason*i "Ths Sliver King” Also Mack Senpett Comedy “The Village Smithy” " MONDAY Mae Murray “The Modren Love” Curroat Events from All Over the World. Also Comedy

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more than any other factor to the election of a republican senate and ; house (last November. j The president and his advisers can not Ibe unmindful of the unpopularity of the experiment dm socialism they inaugurated. They are confronted now with the necessity of either displeasing the radicals among the railway workers—and it ds doubtful if even a majority of thoughful railway employes favor nationalization of our industries—or of incurring the wrath of an overwhelming majority of the people of the United States. In their embarrassment (they called on congress to do something. The senate committee replied, in effect, very logically: “You asked for authority to handle the railways as you saw fit. We gave you that power, now use it and do not try to saddle on congress responsibility for your own muddling."—lndianapolis Star.

PLACE FERTILIZER ORDERS NOW.

Farmers desiring to use commercial fertilizers this fall should place their orders at once with the Farmers’ Grain company. Please give this matter your immediate attention so we may be able to care for your wants in this line.—H. H. Potter, Manager Farmers' Grain company. Orders now being taken for fall delivery from the Guaranteed Nursery company. Stock failing to live replaced free. Charles Pefley.

NOTICE. i We will continue repairing automobiles under the big tent just east .of the old garage. After the new garage is up, our i tent will be for rent for the use of public sales and other public meetings.—Kuboske & Walter. ATTENTION, LAND BUYERS! I am making regular trips to South Bend and wool be pleased to have persons interested in buying land in that part of the state accompany me.—HARRY SWARTZELL, 'phone 947-1. 4 Trespassing and swimming upon my property will not be allowed. Violations will be prosecuted. CONRAD KELLNER.

TUESDAY Vivian Martin “Little Comrades” Ford Weakly a WEDNESDAY Charles Ray “The Girl Dodger” Two-Reel Elko Comedy v

RENSSELAER, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919.

MONON TIEUP BEGINS TODAY

WALKOUT, AFFECTING ENTIRE p MONON DIVISION, BEGAN THIS MORNING. Following a meeting of the Mbnon I crafts representing the Monon shops I Thursday evening at Lafayette, (the I Monon shop workers started striking I ithis Friday morning, following in I the footsteps • of thousands* of other railroad employees throughout the I United States in the beginning of I what probably will be the most serious and disastrous strike in history. Unless some powerful force is brought to bear immediately to disI suade the trainmen in their deImanids, all train service will be dis- | continued on all roads within the next few days. (The action taken at Lafayette (last night will the entire Monon system, with the possible exception of passenger traffic. The crafts affedted by the walkout this morning include the machinists, boilermakers, pipe fitters, 'blacksmiths, electricians, stationary firemen and car shops men. Late hour bulletins Thursday showed the following conditions in various parts of the country: --■o New Haven, Cohn., Aug. 7.—The discontinuance of 102 passenger trains on the New York, New Hayen wind Hartford railroad because of 'the strike of (shopmen and mechanics was announced at the local offices of the railroad late tonight. AU 'dining and parlor car service is discontinued and the present time table is suspended.

Embargo Certain.

Chicago, Aug. 7.—No railroad embargoes have been issued in Chicago tonight as a result of the shopmen’s strike, and 756 cars of livestock, the approximate daily supply, arrived today and all trains were running, although R. H. Aisbton, federal director of the northwestern region, sand that “an ultimate embargo and tieup” were certain to come unless the shops were manned. Officials of the Chicago district I council of the Federated Railway Shopmen’s union, who called the strike, asserted (that about 300,000 men were out in defiance of their grand lodge orders and would remain out until the demands were I granted. —o—(Chicago, Aug. 7. —Representatives of forty-two union locals of stock yard employes voted tonight for a general strike tomorrow unless militia, policemen and deputy sheriffs, ion duty to prevent race riotin, are .withdrawn from the yards. More than 100,000 persons are employed in the yards. A strike was virtually begun today when hundreds of white- men quit work after 3,000 of the 15,000 negro workers returned to the yards under troop protection. They had been Compelled to remain at home because of last week’s race rioting. The union men said they objected to negro non-union workers and not the workers simply because they were negroes. They claimed that about 5,000 white men walked out today.

Freight Embargo.

Cincinnati, Aug. 7. —Reduction of passenger service due to the strike conditions among the shop and yard mechanics was announced today by the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. A freight embargo is already in force (throughout that system; Altogether thirty-four passenger trains will be drifteontiinued * until fuifther orders. Part of the reductions are effective today and the remainder will be in effect (tomorrow. Four Cincinnati trains are among those to be ehminated. The others discontinued are chiefly in West Virginia. A freight embargo to Columbus, 0., and all points east was announced by the Pennsylvania railroad today. The only exception is food for human consumption to Columbus proper. In addition to the freight ban on the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Pennsylvania railroads, embargoes also are in effect on the Louisville & Nashville add the Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western railroad.

700 Men Out.

Richmond, Ind., Aug. 7.—Practically 700 employes of'the six divisions of the mechanical crafts apd car repair men of the Pennsylvania railroad here will go on strike tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, it was decided at a meeting of the men last night. Failure of division officials to obey orders sent them by govemmen railway officials was given as one reason for the strike, while the other was the demand for higher wages. The men here are Making for 85 cents an hour for experienced mechanics, 60 cents for helpers an<| an increase of 10 cents an hour for apprentices.

Is Payday.

1 Logansport, Ind., Aug. 7.—-Meet-ings of all crafts connected with the Pennsylvania railroad terminals and dhops in this city were held tonight, all of the unions voting to go out on a strike, the car department, boilermakers, maintenance of May nxen and blacksmiths voting (to a,

CONGRESSMAN WOOD BOOMS McCRAY FOR GOVERNOR.

Washington, Aug. 7.—Representative Will R. Wood, of Indiana, yesterday declared in favor of Warren T. McCray for the republican nomination for governor of Indiana. Some other members of the Indiana delegation (privately expressed themselves as favorable to McCray, but most of the thirteen representatives, exercising their usual caution on aS matters, are noncommittal at this time. ■ Mr. Wood, however, did not hesitate to Say that he is both “for and fer” McCray. “Mr. McCray would make a fine governor,"'" he said. “He is a good business man and a highly successful farmer. He is a citizen of high ideals and is clean. He is a republican of conviction and is known in politics, yet he has no political entanglements and represents no faction. He would win the support of farmers throughout the state. Many farmers of the Democratic party would vote for him almost as freely as republican farmers. I hope he is the nominee.”

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YESTERDAY’S RESULTS. National League. Chicago, 6; Boston, 2. New York, 5; St. Louis, 4. Cincinnati, 13; Brooklyn, 0. Philadelphia, 5; Pittsburg, 3. American League. Chicago, 2-2; Philadelphia, 1-3. St. Louis, 6-2; New York, 3-8. Detroit, 4; Washington, 3. Boston, 8; Cleveland, 7.

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THE WEATHER. Forecast for Indiana: Fair tonight. Saturday, fair and warmer south portion.

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man to strike. The machinists voted 317 to 13 in favor of the strike, while the other crafts voted to strike, Ibult a larger number of ash pit 'men, metal workers, tinners, plairik men and alerks were opposed to going out than in the other crafts. Tomorrow is payday on the Pennsyh vania lines.

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BRANCH MENTIONED FOR PLACE ON TICKET.

Emmett F. Branch, of Martinsville, is (being mentioned as a probable candidate for the republican nomination for lieutenant governor. If he announces for the place it is understood he will have strong support. Mr. Branch was formerly a speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, and has a long war record. He has been prominently connected with the Indiana national guard for many years and served as an officer in the Spanish-Ameri-can war, in the (trouble at the Mexican border, and as a colonel in the world war. Since his discharge from the service he has been practicing law in Martinsville.

PRESIDENT WILSON THINKS WE STILL OWE FRANCE.

President Wilson says we owe St to France to enter the new triple alliance (because of the part she played in helping this country during the revolution. Do we owe more to France now, after we have spent thousands of lives and billions of dollars ridding her soil of the invader, than we did during the period when we were “too proud to fight,” and the issues of the European war did not concern us, according to no less an authority than President Wilson? Do we owe the French so much more now than we ■ did before we came to their rescue, that we are willing to tie ourselves up in an alliance whereby we agree to fight for France again, if attacked, but impose no corresponding obligation on either of our associates in the partnership to come to our rescue should our soil be invaded?

MARRIAGE LICENSE ISSUED.

i August 6, Charles P. Porter, born 'Parr, September 28, 1895, occupation farmer, and Lillie Bessie Broutihard, born Fair Oaks, July 12, 1897, occupation housekeeper. First marI riage for both parties. Ceremony ! performed by the Rev. C. W. Postill |in the office of the clerk of the circuit court on Wednesday, August 5.

TEMPERATURE. The following is the temperature for the‘twenty-four hours ending at i 7 a. m. on the date indicated: Max. Min. August 8 91 61

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P. M. KENT IS APPOINTED

NAMED CENSUS SUPERVISOR FOR THE TENTH DISTRICT. Phineas M. Kent, of Brookston, has been named by Secretary of Commerce Redfield as supervisor of the census enumeration for the tenth district .of Indiana. A supervisor has been named in each congressional district in the United States, and the appointments have all gone to “deserving democrats.” The appointments are supposed to be made under the civil service and an examination .was recently held which tested the applicant’s ability. Then another examination was held which tested the applicant’s politics, and after consultation ‘/with the person who controlled democratic patronage in the district, the appointment was made. Wherever republicans were applicants they failed to get sufficient rating in the examinations—— that is, the second examination, the one which referred to their political standing. Mr. Kent will name enumerators throughout this district, probably one from each township, who will do the active work of the census baking. No doubt Mr. Kent will be more liberal in his appointments than the secretary of commerce and will name a “few” republicans to assist him. Harry E. Reed, of Delphi, former clerk of the circuit court, and prominent as a democratic politician in the ninth district, secured the plum in that district.—Monticello Herald.

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LOCAL MAN BRINGS SUIT AGAINST WARREN McCRAY.

Kentland, Ind., Aug. 7.—Warren T. McCray, prospective candidate for the republican nomination for governor, was made defendant in a sensational suit to quiet title brought in (the Newton county circuit court here. Herman Messman, a farmer, is the plaintiff and alleges fraud, conspiracy, and gambling with Messman’s money on the Chicago Board of Trade. The complaint, which covers eight typewritten pages, was filed by W. H. Parkinson, of Lafayette, and H. L. Sammons, of Kentland, attorneys. It alleges that through certain manipulations, McCray obtained a title to 258 acres of land owned by the plaintiff. The most serious charge contained in the complaint is that the plaintiff, who avers he cannot' read', went to McCray to borrow $5,000 with which to make a payment on a farm in Jasper county; that McCray had the plaintiff and his wife, Anna Messman, sign four notes and a mortgage which, it is averred, the plaintiff believed were for the $5,000, but which have since developed to be one note for $4,870.10 and the other for $4,195.94. -

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