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SHOW UNFITNESS FOR GOVERNMENT

Democrats of Taggart Sciiool In Nation and State Are Mike.

BETRAY PARTY AT WASHINGTON

Saturnalia of Plunder in Legislature of Indiana in 1909 Proves Incapacity of Taggart Democrats Tuberculosis

Hospital a Monument to Asininity of the Spenders of the People's Money.

What did the Democrats In the last congress do to earn your praise, Mr. Voter?

What did the Democrats of Indiana do in the 1909 legislature to gain your confidence, Mr. Voter?

What reason can Democrats give today for turning the national house over to them? What would they do -with it if they had it? The record is open for every citizen to read.

The fact is. in national affairs. Demoorats, elected on a tariff for revenue platform, voted in large numbers for the highest tariff schedules and for the most marked inequalities to be found In the present tariff law. When they were needed to carry over an especially stiff schedule, Democrats were herded and driven like sheep to be counted for extortion and for the big interests, and against the people. Is this the sort of record that inspires respect? Is this the sort of men who ought to be sent to congress to represent you? Study the record of Indiana's Democratic members and act accordingly.

In state affairs, Democrats in the legislature, being in control of the house, yelled "economjr," and then proceeded to fill doors and windows, lobbies, committee rooms, chairs, desks and benches, alcoves and nooks, anterooms and wardrobes, with Democratic plunder-hunters. There were so many pie-grabbers around the Democratic house that there were not enough jobs or titles to i?m around. Doorkeepers fought for the risrlil to usher lobbyists into the sacred portals.

Prominent Democrats forced their entire families, and their brothers' households into salaried jobs. It was a saturnalia of extravagance and plunder, nepotism and greed. 3t cost $196 a day more to run the Democratic house of 1909 than it cost to conduct the Republican house of 1908 This much for Democratic economy shout ins'.

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And when the appropriations were mf le un and the Democratic governor, in a wild effort to save his party from itself, tried to force a cut in expenses, what happened? There were right and slashes, without regard to humanity equality, good government or honee1 management.

As one oi the infamies of this reckless policy there stands the tuberculosis hospital at Rockville, built and equipped irom end to end, and yet standing empty and useless for months while hundreds ol white plague victims plead for help and for life. Why?

Because the reckless and extravagant Democrats who had been spending the people's money for riotous and unreasoning loot, cut off, in the name of "economy" the $40.0v0 needed to maintain the hospital.

How many lives lost how many deaths hastened how many hopes and homes shattered by this recklessness and imbecility? The estimate of the experts declares that the delay means something like 500 deaths in Indiana. These deaths could have been prevented if the tuberculosis hospital had been opened at the proper time. The amelioration of suffering would have been great enough in other cases to justify ten times the appropriation asked?

Thousands for plunder, but not a cent to save human lives, should be the slogan of the 1909 Democratic hc/H8e, where appropriations originated, and where extravagance on one hand and recklessness on the other, brought about a disgraceful and sickening situation. .And Taggart Democrats, the same crowd, are asking to be given control again.

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The tariff commission idea is very popular in the Second district and Senator Beveridge is very strong with Second district people, according to reports made at Republican state headquarters. Oscar E. Bland, of Linton, the congressional candidate, is proving strong, and is believed to have a good chance to win. He is arousing interest by making a vigorous canvass, and wherever he goes his personality and political ability win him frJenda.

From Orange county comes the report that Republicans are in good shape, with the legislative ticket running strong.

Parke county Republicans predict that county will go from 300 to 500 Republican this year. .............

Sixth district Republicans are making a strong effort to increase Congressman Barnard's plurality over that ol two years ago.

DEMOCRAT JOINS BEVERIDGE ARMY

E. T. Shubrick, Who Fought With Gordon, Greeted As Recruit.

BELIEVES IN GOOD MEN FIRST

Stands For Roosevelt And Beveridge In Indiana, And Honors Hoke Smith And Progressive Democrats of

South—Visits State Republican Committee And Offers His Services.

E. T. Shubrick, life-long Democrat, and a veteran under General Gordon in the confederate army during the civil war, has joined the forces of Republicanism and is helping the cause of Senator Beveridge.

Mr. Shubrick says: "Indiana Republicans, with Beveridge at the head, are in a great, big fight for the right. They ought to win, and I am ready to do my part to help in the victory. "We must keep up the struggle. I can be for Senator Beveridge because he has proved he is for me. He is for the people, and I am one of the people. "I can be for Senator Beveridge with all my heart because he is a good fighting man. I fought with Gordon four years. I know what fighting means. And I say that in these times it takes courage to fight for principles and for people just as it took courage to fight for your convictions in the 'sixties. "Good Democrats and good Republicans alike are judging men and the principles men represent, rather than the parties they stand for. I take a good man where I find him. I believe in getting the best public service out of the most efficient public servants. So I am for Beveridge because he is not only efficient and honest, but absolutely fearless and aggressive. That's what we need today, fearless aggressiveness coupled with clear vision, sanity and justice. "My conscience guides me to the support of the progressive movement. I am the kind of an American citizen who listens to his conscience."

BRAVERY OF BEVERIDGE.

Roosevelt Points Out Indiana .• Senator's Efficiency And Good Sense.

Honesty is just as indispensable to good citizenship as patriotism is to the soldier.

The timid honest man is not worth much. I do not want to see the honest men timid while the trickster is dead game.

The public man must have honesty and courage. The citizen must be both honest and brave.

Senator Beveridge possesses honesty, courage and common sense.

Senator Beveridge has trusted entirely to the people for his support.

I fought for a good many things while I was president, and I found I could not get them by appealing to the men who claimed to be especially the leaders in congress, but by appealing to the people behjnd them.

It wasn't necessary to appeal to Senator Beveridge in that way.

Senator Beveridge trusted to the people and tried to do what they desired and what they needed.

I found I could always simply consult him as to how we could wake up somebody else.

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TO PROVE STORY

Senator Shively Bliintly Declares John Kern a Falsifier,

REPLIES TO BRIBERY YARN

Beneficiary of Secret Ballot Trick of 1909 Caucus Defends That Action And Asserts No Evidence of Sinister Influence Has Been Offered—

Now Up to Kern to Make Good His Charges cf Criminality.

Senator Shively, Democrat, speaking at Seymour-the other night, gave it out cold that John'W. Kern, the Democratic candidate for United States senator, bore false witness against Shively and his friends, and against the Democratic legislative caucus of 1909 when he charged bribery and fraud against the men who elected Senator Shively to office.

Of course this is an issue between two Democratic leaders. So far as the charge and the denial go, the matter is an issue of veracity between Shively and Kern. The people are interested in so far as Kern charges crime. The public is concerned in punishing bribers and bribe-takers wherever found. But as to the bribery charge of Kern and the charge of falsehood made against Kern by Shively,— that is a bone of contention which the two distinguished Democrats may pick between them while the voters look on with eager interest.

Shively says that up to this time there has never been any evidence that sinister influences had been at work in any Democratic legislative or senatorial caucus in Indiana.

Mr. Kern, as is well remembered, asserted in an interview December 26, 1909, that eight Democrats were "bought up" for Shively. He added that he believed he knew the names of the eight. Senator Shively, by bluntly charging, in effect, that Kern lied, puts the matter sharply up to Kern.

Kern never has retracted his serious accusations. He has been silent. He has eulogized Shively. But he has never withdrawn his slanderous attack.

Incidentally, it is interesting to find Shively defending the secret ballot caucus and comparing that trickery to the secrecy of the Australian ballot system. It is well known that the "secret ballot" trick was at the bottom of the whole disgraceful trouble.

The charges of bribery and betrayal were made by Kern. But the secret ballot trick was played by the friends of Shively.

Mr. Kern may be responsible for the bribery charges, and he is roundly censured for making such damning accusations without going to the limit in the name of the law. But after all is said and done, it was the Shively crowd that paved the way for treachery, for suspicion and for the embarrassing denunciation which followed.

BOOSTS

The South Bend Oil company, a competitor of the Standard, is completing a storage tank, with a capacity of 10,000 gallons.

Henry Fort, until recently of Indianapolis, now living near Greenfield, has just sold a lot of hogs which brought him $1,386. The hogs were from seven brood sows which he bought in October, 1909, and he still has the sows left, together with fortyone pigs.

Clinton is up against a stiff proposition in trying to supply houses for ail who want to rent. The Weekly Clintonian says that the growth of the city is limited by the number of available houses.

Connersville is building a new water plant.

Jacobson-Peterson and Company, South Bend, are selling so much of their product that they are to erect an addition to their paper jobbing and woodenware plant, at a cost of $15,000.

The Light. Heat & Power company, of Richmond, increased its earnings twenty per cent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1910.

Godfrey & Monger, of Elkhart, are harvesting 4,500 tons of hay from their 1,500 acre farm in the Kankakee lowlands. They have already sold the crop for $6.75 per ton, a clear profit of $3.75 per ton.

Geneva is to have a new bank, the Farmers' aw# Merchants' State Bank being almost ready to occupy its new quarters, just built. Geneva and locality are prospering to the extent that the new bank was considered a necessity. It will start with a paid-up capital of $25,000. Martin Laughlin will he the president

Herman S. Worm, of South Bend, has just purchased a 475 acre farm Just north of Laporte, for which he paid Mary A. Hodson $22,000. He will establish a stock farm.

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27. 1910. r"j,:

TEXT BOOK BILL BOLDLY OPPOSEB

Labor's Urgent Demands Ignored By Democratic Leaders.

IMPORTANT REFORM DEFEATED

Friends of Free Text Books Now Look to Republicans For Enactment of Sensible Law to Relieve Fathers of

Large Families of Tremendous Burden Now Borne.

T' free text-book law' is an important_ and popular reform plan which many states have adopted. Labor men of Indiana and educators who have studied the situation, favor and urge a law to provide for free textbooks in Indiana free schools.

House Bill No. 47, at the 1909 session of the Indiana legislature, was offered by Representative Furnas, Republican. It called for free text-books. The bill was approved and pushed strongly by labor.

The bill went to the proper committee. Representative Coahran, Democrat, was chairman of the committee. He reported the bill for indefinite postponement. The Democratic house killed the measure. Labor was disappointed and chagrined. An important reform was thrown aside.

The men and women who continue to demand a free text-book law in Indiana will not ask a Democratic legislature for any further consideration. These reformers now know better than to expect help from the Democratic reactionaries.

It is needless to say that friends of the free text-books idea are working for Republicans for the legislature, with high hope of furthering their important reform at the ensuing session.

The workingman who has several children in school knows what textbooks cost in the run of a dozen or more years, or in the run of a single year. Even in good times, with steady employment at good wages, the laboring man is hard put to it to buy books, shoes, clothing and food for his children. But the youngsters must be educated.

Free education is the American idea and the hope of the future. It is a serious commentary on Indiana Democrats that they failed to see this truth.

WITH TIE DEMOCRATS

E. T. Shubrick, life-long Democrat and confederate veteran, comes out for Senator Beveridge.

Tom Taggart presides at Alton B. Parker's Indianapolis meeting. Same day Bryan speaks at Burlington,—off the railroad.

Senator Shively defies John Kern to prove bribery charges. Mr. Kern, he still "lay low."

Kern and Taggart attend night meetings behind closed doors in effort to rally Taggart workers for Kern.

Kern tells rural Democrats he is against Taggart. Democratic organization in Marion county falls to pieces.

James L. Keach, prominent Marion county Democrat, says he is for Senator Beveridge.

Keach followers out hustling for Republican candidates. Hancock county Democrats demoralized and fearful of losing that stronghold.

Gibson county startled by bolt of E. B. Funk and some 50 other Democrats, all for Beveridge.

Governor Marshall still waits for those Kern pledges from Democratic legislative candidates.

D. D. Rodibaugh, Elkhart Democrat, says Kern is a "yellow hammer," and refuses to vote for him.

Thousands of Bryan Democrats hear Roosevelt appeal for Senator Beveridge.

Bryan makes hide and seek tour arranged by Taggart. Taggart's picture displayed in Marshall meetings.

Taggart loses nearly half his Marion county committee. Senator Shively congratulates Senator Beveridge on his courage.

THE SAME OLD KERN.

Being a candidate for United States senator has not brought to Mr. Kern any additional political wisdom. He still depends on the old tactics which ho\l to the theory that when in doubt it is advisable and always safe to pound the Republicans. The Democratic party doesn't stand for anything more in this campaign than a party of protest. Mr. Kern, in his keynote, advanced no new or direct policies. He spent his oratory on a desperate attempt to break down the popularity of Col. Roosevelt and Senator Beveridge. Mr. Kern's keynote is pretty good evidence tnat the Democratic party is lacking in material and that its onlyJhope is based on a supposed prejudice against Republicans.—Lafayette Journal. ft Mf ft tt flf tt

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EXPOSiTlDN FIGHT INTERESTS COUNTRY

San Francisco Oatelassos fliv Orleans In Eiaty Respect

The great fight that is being waged between San Francisco' and New Orleans for the honor of celebrating the completion of the Panama canal is attracting the attention of the entire country. The fight is d.o longer a contest between the two cities, but between California and Louisiana, the legislatures cf which have each authorized a state tax to raise funds in aid cf the proposed international exposition.

In financial standing California is so far ahead of Louisiana that its superior ability to finance the fair must be conceded, and if the question of selecting a site for the exposition were to be decided on a basis of the relative wealth of the contestants, congress would have no option, but would be forced to award the coveted honor to San Francisco.

To the unprejudiced observer it is difficult to see wherein New Orleans has any legitimate daim to recognition as the logical point for the exposition, aside from the mere fact that it is located nearer to the center of population. In beauty of surroundings, climatic advantages, ability to handle the hundreds of thousands of prospective visitors, general progressive spirit of its people and record of achievement, San Francisco stands head and shoulders above its rival.

According to the report of the national monetary commission on April 28, 1909, the population of California was 1,732,000, and that of Louisiana 1,642,000, while in the amount of savings deposits California ranked fourth among the states of the Union and Louisiana twenty-fourth, the exact figures being as follows: California $281,228,437 28 Louisiana 21,356,288 90

Callfornio had 625,438 depositors, averaging $635.00 Louisiana 163,814, averaging $264.00.

The total resources as represented In bank deposits were: California, $842,969,880.00 average per capita $486.70. Louisiira, $158,642,502.00 average per capita, $96.61.

The following figures are taken from the report of the reports of the California comptroller of currency:

San Erancisco—Total savings deposits, $153,792,186.05 total individual deposits, $248,927,437.47 average, $740.00.

New Orleans—Total savings deposits, $16,856,783.49 total individual deposits, $42,979,077.18 average $300.00.

Increase In resources of National banks, year 1909-1910: San Francisco, $103,820,82S.96 New Orleans, $2,370,226.74.

In the face of such a showing New Orleans and Louisiana do not appear to be in the came class with San Francisco and California, financially. And California is as much superior to Louisiana in every other respeot as she is financially. Just as San Francisco is immeasurably superior to New Orleans in all that goes to make a great and beautiful city.

San Fiancisco is the ideal site for the Panama-Pacific International exposition in 1915. Let congress make no mistake.

BURDEN TOO HEAVY FOR NEW ORLEANS

City Already Struggling Under an Indebtedness of $40,916,913.13. New Orleans is far from being a unit in favor of the proposed ktate tax to raise a fund of $6,500,000 in aid of th« World'B Panama exposition.

The New Orleans Taxpayers' Protective association has adopted a •trong resolution, which is being widely distributed in the form of a circular letter, advising its mecibers to oppose the levy, principally oa the ground that the city is already taxed and bonded to the limit of endurance and that the taxpayers are not able to bear the additional burden.

The letter quotes the comptroller's report of Dec. 31, 1909, to prove that the present bonded debt of the city Is $32,521,040, on which the annual Interest amounts to $975,740. In addition to this the water and sewerage board is attempting to sell $7,000,000 of bonds, bearing interest at 4 per cent and the unpaid ordinances and unfinished contracts for paving amount to $343,168.33 and $852,709.80 respectively, bringing the total indebtedness of the city up to the enormous sum of $40,716,918.13.

To the above must be added more than $5,000,000, which must be paid by the city on state bonds now due the courthouse commission carries a debt of $750,000, the dock board $3,000,000, and the levee board $3,000,000.

Continuing, the letter says: "Remember, also, that if the city of New Orleans succeeds in selling her $7,000,000 of bonds, the water and sewerage board will compel every property holder, to the number of 66,000, to put in the sewerage and waterworks 1n their promises at a^ cost of not less than $250 per residence, thus making the enormous cum of $16,000 000 "Where is all this money to come from? "The taxpayers feel that the Interest on the outstanding indebtedness Is now over $1,400,000 and will absorb all the revenue if the debt 16 toraitted to accumulate."

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The Social Bucaneer.

By Frederid S. Isham, author of Half a Chance, Under the Rose, etc. Illustrated by W, B. King. Cloth, $1.50. The Bobbs-Merrill Company.

In abandoning the Old World and historic times for New York and today, Mr. Isham has distinctly advanced his art. The new story has made far greater demands on its'author, but these have been amply met. It is more complex, more delicate, better written, equally interesting in a more elusive, suggestive fashion. Its hero is a wholly engaging, indeed irresistable Raffles or Lupin, but of a new sort altogether.. Charming Chatfield Bruce, a young man of "first family blood," of large inherited fortune which he whimsically declines to touch, of keen ability in affairs and generous in charities, is suspected of stealing a famous rope of pearls belonging to the daughter, of his plebeian millionaire employer. Whether or not he did steal them is for Mr. Isham's readers to find out. But Marjorie Wood, beauty and belle, who has been attracted to Bruce both by the mystery surrounding his personality and movementsand by his large gifts to her charities, and whose life he has saved, comes to believe that he has stolen them and keeps on loving him just the same. The author advances on behalf of his hero the ingenious theory that what is taken from the rich expressly to give to the poor is not theft in the ordinary, reprehensible sense, but a quixotic kind of justice. One can foresee as a result that the story will not only entertain but that it may provoke discussion of its decidedly novel ethics.

The characters that Mr. Isham has used have, with the exception of Bruce, been chosen from familiar types. Goldberg, the rich merchant for whom Chatfield Bruce whimsically works Page, the wealthy miser whose bonds are reported missing Flossie Burke, a greeneyed girl a la Clyde Fitch, who makes mischief for Bruce, who no longer dangles after her Marjorie Wood, the young society girl who has preserved a fresh beauty and spiritual ideals through late hours and the pressure of convention Sir Archibald Bamford, heavily English, recalling the bad lord in Haifa Chance his secretive half Oriental secretary, —we knowjthem alias quickly as they are introduced. But the familiarity is pleasant, nor does the reader object to the setting and accessories of wealth and leisure, the motorcar and and the country-house, amid which he finds himself.

THE GOLD BRICK

By Brand Whitlock, author of The 13th District, The Turn of the Balance, etc. Cloth, $1.50. The Bobbs—^Vlerrill Company.

These new stories by the Mayor of Toledo represent—if the pun may be pardoned—the best of the Brand. They embrace the masterful portraiture of The 13th District, the winning charm of The Happy Average, the impressive reality of The Turn of the Balance and they show how well justified is Mr. Howells in pronouncing Mr. Whitlack the best American writer of political fiction. There is ah even dozen of them and all are excellent, though naturally some, like whisky of which we have all heard, are better than others. Half the number, at least, are, however, so evenlymatched for live characters, interest of plot, good writing and lofty aim that it would be a difficult and an ungracious task to single out any one as notably better than the other five, since such a selection would probably, after all, be based more on personal taste than on actual superiority. The Gold Brick, however, is certainly one of the half dozen best and because of its capital title and also because it possesses a sentimental, as well as a political, interest, which all of the stories do not, it justifies its selection as the initial story and the one to give the title to the volume.

The stories are graphically written with a firm touch that invariably carries the reader forward into sympathy with the authors's characters and their situations. Humor predominates, although there is not a little pathos, too. The author is fully alive to the absurdities in the game of politics and brings out sharply the inconsistencies of such persons as the church member who would not "buy votes," but who candidly admitted that money "ought to be used so as to produce votes." Idealist though he is, Mr. Whitlock sees the weak points of new brooms. Of the older ones, self-deceived, he remarks amusingly, "They did their reforming chiefly at banquets." ifet-

In this case the buyer of a Gold Brick will for the first time in history not find himself "sold." On the contrary he will consider it one of the best investments he ever made.

The city council of Shelbyville has passed an ordinance prohibiting roller skating on the side walks. At the last council meeting there, a petition for such an ordinance, signed by several hundred citizens was presented and the above action taken.

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