Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 7 July 1910 — Page 7

PEOPLE'S FIGHT MM POLITICS

Each Citizen Must Be Sentinel of Good Government.

BATTLE GALL BY BEVERiDGE

Fourth of July Oration at Anderson

Outlines Duty of Citizen to Country,

and Purpose of Republic—Organized

Greed and Misuse of Partisanship

Two Great Forces Which Wrong

People, According to Senior Senator.

Declaring that the purpose of the Republic is to give every man, worna.?: and child beneath our flag "a better chance, and a more equal opportunity," Senator Beveridge, in his Fourth of July speech at Mounds Park, Anderson, Ind., made a strong plea for the cause of the people in their fight for popular rights.

Twenty thousand peop'e heard the oration, and the cheers and applause •were frequent. The speaker emphasized especially the child labor evil, and the demand for citizenship rather than for partisanship.

The address was given at the annual Independence Day celebration held nnder the auspices of the Associated Charities of Anderson and the Industrial school.

In part Senator Beveridge said: "The struggle whose supposed triumph our nation represents was not new. It will continue while time lasts.

Clety would have been strengthened. "The great corporations were working their will by rebates, by watering etocks, by favoritism to other corporations, and by a hundred methods were swelling their unjupt and dangerously vast profits. These profits came from the people. "We established the Bureau of Corporations to investigate the great cor porations. We found what the railroads were doing and publicity ended their practices. "We found what the Tobacco Trust was doing and stopped its burglary of the government's treasury. We have stopped or we are trying to stop the mighty interests in their pillage of the people. In every instance we have been met by violent resistance on the ground that we were injuring business, destroying the con stitution or imperiling political parties. "Each time one reform has been achieved, other interests have said. 'Yes, that reform is a good thing, but •we have that now, so let us stop where we are Let us have peace.' Yet the next reform came forward because the next evil had to be ended. And after it was ended again we heard the familiar cry: 'That is good, but now let ns end this thing: agitation injures prosperity. Give business a rest.' "That cry never comes from any business or from any man who is doing right. The interests or the man •who is doing right has nothing to fear from any reform which accomplishes nothing more than honesty. Every honest business is helped by every law that stops dishonesty in any other business. "Every honest bur-mess man in Indiana knows he would be better off if the mighty interests which he himself dare not resist were compelled to do what is right and just. "Child lebor is the crowning infamy of our American civilization. It is unthinkable that in this republic, in 1910. hundreds of thousands of little children are driven to labor in factory.

Jt is the eternal struggle of the people mine a.nd sweatshop for ten and twelve tions than any other living American. to get their rights from entrenched power the eternal struggle of the people against those ho exploit them, and the eternal struggle of men and "women to make their own and their children's lives happier and better. "American history furnishes the highest example of human effort for liberty. May American history furnish the highest example of effort to preserve liberty. "Unless every citizen is a sentinel our government will fail of its purpose. For there is always danger that wicked and corrupt power will work its will in some way upon the people. "Nobody can protect the people except the people themselves. Always the people have risen to their own defense when they knew the dancer and how to reach it. Each age has its danger and in overcoming this danger each age has its glory. "Not. only are the forces the people must fight powerful, but they are stealthy and furtive, vet bold and audacious. Thoy employ attractive men to plead their cause with the people—to plead an apparent cause, but never tt avow their real purpose. "Mighty financial interests liavr grown up. These migh'v interests, rightly used, could be made to serv» the people. Greed causes them to oppress and wrong the people. These interests invade the people's legislation to secure laws for their own welfare and to fight laws intended for the people's welfare. The influence of these Interests is felt in all political organisations. They try to make the voter a mere automaton. "Organized greed and the misuse of partisanship are the two great pres ent-day forces which wrong the people and from which the people must free themselves. "Partisanship must be intelligent and pure if our political parties are to serve the voters instead of serving corrupt interests. "Whenever the corrupt interests do wickedness they must be fought with the law and the ballot as bravely ay our fathers fought the same interests 1n another form with the bullet and the bayonet. And remember always that the hired servants of the interts pretend that they are the rea' friends of the people. "Wrongs against the people, which wrongs are defended in the name of party and constitution, even in the name of Liberty itself.—are doing more for socialism than all the ora tors and writers socialism puts into the field. Both parties are guilty equally. It is a question between partisanship and citizenship. Partisanship is worthy only when guided by citizenship. "The Beef Trust was selling diseased meats to the people and thousands died of ptomaine poisoning. Ye* when we tried to stop that villainy we were told that it M'ould be bad for the party that tried it. But we put throurh a mcnt inspection law and i* proved to be the best argument tha' party had. The very business which fought tins humane reform has found that this right ^IS law has meant the welfare of ih business. If we had not put throufrh that law, socialism would have had a new argument for Its cause. "The manufacturers of food were adulterating their product and poisoning those they p^et^nded to feed. The people suffered. The strength of the men was not equal to their labor: the health of their wives was strange ly poor their children languished. And when we stopped that, party politicians said the welfare of their parties would be imperiled. The lawyer politicians said, 'he constitution is telng destroyed.' The makers of poisoned foods said 'You are ruining American business.' "Had all these men had their way forces of revolution against all a» '^st4S

hours a day. Yet it is so. "You sent your best and your bravest to die to end black manhood I slavery. Vill you not then work and vote and fight and pray to end white childhood slavery? "Again we hear the cry that to end child labor will interfere with business,

But we hear that^cry only from those who profit by child labor, or from their agents who handle their corrupt money. "On this day of our nat on's birth we are fond of saying that the purpose of this republic is to develop human beings. But we say it ignorantly. stead of developin today permit a brutal system which kills human beings—a system which not only kills, but which does far worse, ruins the lives and destroys the souls of human beings. I "The one immortal truth in the DecI laration of Independence is that the inalienable right of human being is the right of liberty and the life-pur-suit of happiness. Yet that right is denied and forever made impossible to hundreds of thousands of little AmeriI can children. And it is made impossible by greed. "The curse of this age is greed. We hear too much of the worth of the purse, too little of the worth of the soul. We hear too much of politics, too little of patriotism. We hear too much of wealth, too little of character.

Yet character is the purpose of human life. "One Emerson is worth more to the American people than all the senators they have sent to Washington in a generation. One Lincoln is a better asset to the nation than all the millionaires ever produced.

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PUBLIC CITIZEN IN PRIVATE LIFE

The Fifth

"In every citizen soul I would en- declared his own personal fear throne intelligence, ideals and patri- Vigo county was on the way to otism: in every citizens soul I would Republican ranks. dethrone servility, sordidness and partisanship. "Partisan politicians of all parties ask you to care for your party I ask yon to care for-your country. They ask you to care for your party's welfare: I ask you to care for humanity's welfare. "I want to see this nation live forever. but ir will not live forever nor live long if it live not for ideals. Only ideals endure. Only ideals are immortal. "And what are the ideals for which I won'rl have this nation live? They are

tvr-f which the Master

taught—the idea1? if brotherhood, justice and m^rcy: ideals of equal opportunity. equal rights. "1 want the great business organizations to ••#rve the people for a fair profit—more than a fair profit if wrong. "1 want

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chance in l,'r°—'ess than that ic w^on-*. "I want this people to be pure and brave pnd '-lean and free, its men and women strong, comfortable and independent. 'heir children protected 'r. the sacred rights of childhood, their homes filled with honorable comfort. wprt the purpose of our flag to br realized. want the sacrifices of Washington and his Continentals tr continue to bear the immortal fruit of human wel'nro. ., "I want "-.e prayer of Lincoln—that the nation's heroes shall not have fought and died in vain, to be answered with increasing richness. "I want partisanship to be kept noble and intelligent by patriotism. want the nation to be the first public thought of every citizen.

Whether these blessings shall be ours depends upon the people ar upon the people alone. Your fate is 'n your own keeping. Let every citizen think, act and vote for his family and bis country, and the republic will not only be secure, but will increase in the happiness of its millions, aadln the respect of .all mankind."

A* HARRIS AHBEWWC

Latest Picture of ex-Vice President Fairbanks as He Appears Today.

"The public man in private life" is a phrase recently used in speaking of Charles Warren Fairbanks, who is living quietly at his home in Indianapolis. The former vice president of the United States, just returned from a tour of the world, is doing some writing on timely topics, greeting friends from afar who visit him, a.nd making occasional public addresses. One of the subjects frequently used by Mr. Fairbanks before religious bodies, is the work of the American Y. M. C. A. in foreign fields as he saw it. Mr. Fairbanks has met more rulers of na-

At this time there is much talk of Mr. Fairbanks as the probable successor to Ambassador Whitelaw Reid at the court of St. James. It is whispered that the Indiana man may decide to accept the post, and that the change is to come before next November.

ALL FIGHT LAMB

Democratic Turmoil in Vigo County

Gives Hope to Republicans.

Terre Haute, Ind., June 30.—Vigo In

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human beings we

looks

good to Republicans,

listiict situation is clearing

up amazingly. Not only are the Republican workers getting together, but the Democrats are breaking apart very seriously. The bossism of John E. Lamb and the revolt of the Crawford Fairbanks crowd and other anti-Lamb men have conspired to dishearten Democrats at a time when they were supposed to be in a fair way to win.

The Republicans came out of the county primaries in good shape, and with a good ticket. The Lamb-Foley machine which tried to manipulate the Democratic primaries is "shot full of holes." One member of the L^mb machine crowd was disciplined because of his failure to rally around the slate. Don M. Roberts was the object I of the machine's wrath. His chief clerk—Roberts is city engineer—was discharged for working at the polls in behalf of a non-machine candidate.

Now it is said that Roberts and Judge Batt, anti-Lamb leader, will join Crawford Fairbanks.

As for Crawford Fairbanks, as far back as the Democratic state convention, speaking of John E. Lamb's fight against Taggart, Mr. Crawford Fair

Speaking of Chances*

One Democratic editor complains that

"reiteration of the Kern charges against Shively" has been "trumped up" by Republicans to "injure Mr Kern's chances." If a "reiteration" is "trumped up." what about the original charges? Surely Mr. Kern did not "trump up" the bribery allegations made against the Shively supporters. And speaking of "chances," who said Mr. Kern ever had any "chances"?

GOOD REASONS FOR TAFT SMILE

1 am elated at the legislation 4 4 which has been enacted by this congress. It has fulfilled the pledges of the party. It is a great satisfaction to me that we have accomplished so much. It has been the custom in the past to try to fulfill party pledges during the term of the president elected we have secured what we set out to get during the first regular session of congress.

We now have the best railroad regulation law we ever 4 had. The provisions for the 4 supervision of capitalization 4 were omitted, but this does not 4 4 mean that they have been abandoned. Renewed effort to enact them will be made at the next session. |I think the party in power 4 has enacted legislation which 4 4 will inure greatly to its benefit.. 4 4 It has kept its contract. The 4 4 congress which is now closing 4 4 its first regular session has 4 4 done what it promised the peo- 4 4 pie to do, and the Republican 4 4 party has a good record to take 4 4 to the people in the coming 4 4 elections..—President W. H. 4

Taft.

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BITTER ACCUSATION GIVE WAT TO A

4 BY JOHN W. KERN. 4 [From interview witfi Jas. B. Mor 4 row published Dec. 26, 1909.] 4 Brewit-'g is one of the special in4 terests that assumes the function 4 of lawmaking for its own benefit. 4 That is true. (In answer to a 4 question whether the brewers pre4 vented his election to the United 4 States senate.) The Democratic 4 newspapers and voters of Indiana 4 favored my candidacy—the files of 4 the newspapers are open to any 4 one. and the voters can be seen 4 and questioned. Forty-four Demo4 cratic members of the legislature 4 openly gave me pledges of their 4 support. Forty-two votes were all 4 I needed. 4 When I seemed sure of the nom4 ination the brewers suddenly man4 ifested a lively interest in the sit4 uation. It was proposed that the 4 Democrats, meeting in caucus, cast 4 a secret ballot. I understood what 4 that meant—pledged members of 4 tae legislature could vote for the 4 brewers' candidate, whoever he 4 happened to be, and no one would 4 know it. 4 Eight men were purchased, and 4 the secret ballot went through. I 4 received thirty-six votes, and Ben4 jamin F. Shively. attorney for the 4 brewers, was nominated. 4 And yet there are forty-four men 4 who will make affidavit today that 4 they gave me their support. I can 4 not prove bribery on any one, but 4 I think 1 know the names of the 4 eight men who were bought up.

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The people are glad to see President Taft and his party win the fight for progressive legislation, for the people know they share in the triumph.

The Shelbyville Republican says the Kern indorsement of Shively at French Lick is "calm, deliberate effrontery." It looks more uke an apology forced out of the abject Mr. Kern by hydraulic pressure, applied by the Taggart machine.

The Vincennes Sun (Dem.) quotes Senator Dolliver's remarks on "offices as bribes." But the esteemed Sun says no word about .John W. Kern and the purchase of Mr. Kern's silence with the promise of an office. Nor does the Sun say much with reference to Senator Shively and the Kern charge that Shively's office was "bought up" in the Democratic legislative caucus of 1909. Democratic editors have reached a point where they do not dare even to refer to the Lorimer case, fur fear of the deadly parallel.

The Tipton Times (Dem.) says Mr. Kern "is doing the wise thing by keeping his lips hermetically sealed, thereby refusing to be led into a trap." As Mr. Kern set, the trap himself, and as he did not become "hermetically sealed" until lie had received a senatorial indorsement, there is some qustion as to the quality of his wisdom. And bei::g "wise" in politics is not always being "right." Would it not be a better ev dence of strength and manhood for Mr. Kern to try being "right" rather than merely "wise"?

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South Mend Times (Dem.) de­

mands a thorough investigation of the charges made by Senator Gore that he was offered a bribe. No doubt the esteemed Tinies also demands an investigation of the Kern charges against Senator Shively in connection with the secret ballot caucus betrayal of 1909 Let's get nearer home with our de mands for the. relentless probe.

When Senator Shively goes on the stump the voters will ask him and his "revenue-only" friends why the Democratic senator from Indiana was found "not voting" 62 times in the making oi the tariff law. Senator Shively is th tariff talker for Indiana Democrats For some unknown reason it is as sumed that Senator Shively knows t.hf tariff question. He was expected tt have a shaping hand in tariff legisla tion. At least half the time he so fa: withheld his hand as to refrain fron voting one way or the other. The vot ers will demand to know how a legi lator can make a law by failing to vot on it. The people like a man who ready to go on record for his convictions. The "revenue only" Democra is likely to quiz Senator Shively as the meaning of the Indiana Democrat! tariff plank, which declares in favor o. tariffs "for public purposes." This Jo Baileyism was slipped into tb^ :a form by Senator Shively. Governc Marshall, who demanded a "tariff fcr revenue only" plank, was shrewc enough to say in advance that S:i: tor Shively must be held accountabb for the tariff declarations of Indians Democrats. Now the Democrats ar trying to tell the voters that the pla form calls for "tarifT for revenue only. This is a falsehood and a deception Shively put his party men in the tarii hole where they now And themeelver helpless. It will not

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be surprising It

Shively Is asked to explain

Why he failed to tiifce a Democratic atand on the tariff in writing tfia Intflaaa Democratic platform.

AND CONDEMNATION FLATTERING DEFENSE•

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BY JOHN W. KERN.

[Speech before Democratic editors 4 at French Lick. June 24, 1910.] 4 One of the crowning features of 4 the victory of 1908 was the election 4 of a legislature. Democratic on 4 Joint ballot, which made possible 4 the election of a Democratic 4 United States senator. 4

There may have been, and there 4 were, before the Democratic cau- 4 cus older sobers than Benjamin 4 F. Shively, but there was none bet- 4 ter. His election to the senate by 4 the Democratic members of the 4 legislature without a single dis- 4 senting vote secured to the people 4 for six years the services of a man 4 ripe in scholarship, rich in experi- 4 ence and eloquent and convincing 4 in expression—a man of unques- 4 tioned integrity and commanding 4 ability.

And I stop to say here that, from 4 the hour of his election to the 4 present time. I have never failed 4 whenever opportunity offered, to 4 express my appreciation of the 4 character of the man. and since he 4 entered the senate my approval of 4 the splendid record made by him in 4 the exalted position to which he 4 was called. 4

I shall not speak of my present 4 candidacy for the senatorship, 4 which came about by the unani- 4 mous demand of my party in state 4 convention assembled, further than 4 to say that it is my ambition to 4 serve the people of my native state 4 in that great legislative forum by 4 seconding the efforts of Benjamin 4 F. Shively. 4

BOSSES ON TOP

Taggart Gets Decision and Recent Democratic Primary Frauds

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Will Stand.

Indianapolis. June 30.—Judge Chas. Remster, a Democrat, refuses to recount the ballots of the Democratic primary in Marion county. Two years ago there was a re-count, but Judge Remster does not see how it can be had under the law this year. The court has succeeded in putting down the anti-Taggart revolt by nipping the re-count demands in the bud. The next problem is to induce the antiTaggart men to take an interest in the candidates who despoiled them and in the boss who overrode them. There is no way to adjudicate the anti-Tag-gart votes into the November box. Several prominent candidates charged fraud against the makers of the Taggart slate. Those charges still stand. Judge Remster holds out encouragement only to the Taggart crowd.

If any citizen desires to know what Taggart ism is and what it means to be bullied and overborne by the boss, he may learn from these outraged victims of the Taggart system. The story may not be told in court, but it is none the less important as showing the things Marion county Democrats of the decenter sort have been called on to fight for many years. Needless to sav, these men have not given up the fight.

REVENUES ADEQUATE

Receipts For Fiscal Year More Than Equal Government Expenses.

Washington, D. C.. June 30. The fiscal year closing today has been very satisfactory to Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh. Internal revenue receipts have exceeded estimates by more than $10,000,000. The tariff law has proved to be a producer of revenues in adequate measure. Ae a result the expected deficit of $3-1,000.000 has been avoided. Revenues equal disbursements and a littie bit more. Which is gratifying to the administration. More than $33,000,000 have been expended during the year on the Panama canal. Bond issues are to cover some of the canal cost. The ditch is for the use of posterity, and is to be paid for in part by that same posterity. One of the notable achievements is a cut in the estimated postal depart ment deficiency of $7,000,000. With the payment of the incorporation tax, amounting in all to about $15,000,000. a

substantial surplus is shown today for the fiscal year.

ft STILL IN THE GAME ft 1 am ready and eager t.o do Mf my part so far as I am able in It helping solve problems which It & must be solved if we, of this, Uf the greatest democratic repub- Xf & lie upon which the sun has ever & shone, are to see its destinies It it rise to the high level of our US ft hopes and its opportunities. ft This is the duty of every citizen, but it is peculiarly my VI Vt duty for any man who has It It ever been honored by being made president of tho United X? ft States is thereby forever after tif fit rendered the debtor of the iif

American people and is bound ft tig throughout his life to remember 11 this as his prime obligation, ft and in private life, as much aa ft it in public life, so to carry him- Mf it self that the American people ft may never have causc to. feel ft regret that once they placed ft ft him at their head. Theodore ft

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Possible That Mrs. Nadie Day Goodwin

Drank Water Containing Dis­

solved Match Heads.

Mrs. Nadie Day Goodwin, colored, sixteen years old died Sunday at the home of her father Wilson Day, on Sixth street.

There appears to be more or less mystery connected with Mrs. Goodwin's death. She had been married only a few weeks and was living in Indianapolis. When her father went to see her last week he found her weak and sick. He brought her home and she died two days later. The circumstances of her death induced Coroner Allen to hold an autopsy Sunday night in Morrison's morgue which was witnessed by most all the physicians in this city, and the stomach was sent to Indianapolis for analysis.

The dead woman was only sixteen years old but very large for one of her age, being five feet nine inches tall and weighed 175 pounds. She was a beautiful colored woman and favorably known in this community.

It has developed that the coroner had a suspicion of suicide and the same question prevailed in tiie minds of the physicians. The woman was unconscious some time before her death and it is understood that there were reasons for the opinion that she had dissolved match heads in a glass of water and had drunk the mixture. The autopsy revealed some symptoms of the poisoning on the liver.

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DEAIH TUESDAY OF

Oldest Justice of the Peace in the

Concty and Member of Distin­

guished Family.

Adam Brown, one of the old citizens of this county died Tuesday at his home in Brandywine township.

He had been in poor health for some time and his death was not surprising. Mr. Brown was widely known over Hancock county.

He was Justice of the Peace for thirty years and engagped in farming most of his li»fe. In his yonnger days he was a Star Route mail carrier and had numerous experience at that wo:'k when the country was new.

He was a member of a distinguished family, but was himself possessed of some peculiar chai-acteristics. Mr. Brown was a first cousin of Admiral Brown, the retired naval officer of Indianapolis. He leaves a widow, and was 71 years old.

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One Motion for New Trial. Gen. William A. Ketcham, of Indianapolis, and Ralph Kane, of Noblesville, were in the circuit court Saturday afternoon to present an argument on behalf of the defendant in support of a motion for anew trial in the case of O'Donnell vs. Holliday & Wyon, of Indianapolis.

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