Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — Page 4

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Fowler Republican: One more saloon closed this week. The drunk factories in this place are going one by one. In February the last will shut shop and Fowler will be a dry town. After that time if a man is so far gone that he must have swill, he will have to drink and puke in his own wash pan or go to some other town to do it.

The proposed carnival at Danville, to be given by the aggregation that recently held forth here, has been declared off. There was much opposition to the project. The promoters were calling it a business men’s carnival, while the legitimate lines of [business resented the imputation and said they had nothing [to do with it and didn’t want it.

CRAW-FISHING.

The editor of the Republican has received so many callings down for his comparing the “line up” of the late carnival with that of the Methodist conference of last year, that be has become very tender on the subject and now attempts the craw-fish act by saying it was a “playful comparison.” The facts are that the better element of the people have generally condemned his “playful comparison.” He attempts to make it appear that the The Democrat’s reference to it was because we are “sore” at the carnival because we got no printing from it. This is a falsehood pure and simple, and the Republican editor knows it.

In reply to the reference he makes to The Democrat’s having “favored a carnival last year until the printing was given to other printers, when it turned against it,” we will pay one dollar per line for any item or article that ever appeared in The Democrat that is any way, or by any stretch imagination could be construed as J favoring a carnival here last year or at any other time. The files-of our paper are open to Mr. Marshall to prove, if he can, the truth of this bare-faced falsehood. The facts are The Democrat editor has always opposed carnivals, not so much for the carnival shows proper—although if the local management will permit these are often very immoral—but because of the following that all carnival shows attract, the utter demoralization of legitimate business and for the general license that is given for raising h— in every conceivable way. Last year The Democrat advocated the holding of a good, free 4th of July celebration —something Rensselaer by reason of its central location could hold every year, as well as a good old settlers’ meeting, and bring the people in from a radius of many miles and give them a day, of good, clean enjoyment. But no. The gamblers and sports who never want to see a dozen people in the city unless they can devise some way to fleece them, wouldn’t have this, and the

carnival was projected under the cloak of an order founded on much better principles than gambling dens and schools of prostitution, that of Friendship, Charity and Benovelence. *By having a carnival the saloons could keep open, the gamblers and short-change men, pickpockets, et cetra could all get in on the ground floor, and the “country Jakes” could be robbed of their hard-earned dollars and everybody in the ring would get a rake-off. Therefore, no observance of Independence day was had.

Commenting on this The Democrat of May 31, 1902, said: The prospects now are that Rensselaer will not “4th of July” this year, but that the K. of P’s. will give a street fair in August with “all the objectionable features eliminated.” This was the first reference to the carnival that appeared in this paper, and the reference made therein to the “objectionable features” precludes all attempts to make it appear as favoring the show.

The issues of June 21, 28, July 19, 26—a1l before any printing was given out or probably considered —told in plain English “where The Democrat stood,” and when the printing was finally distributed, The Democrat pointed out that it was in every instance given to republican papers—a fact that has never been denied. Read the following from our issues of June 21 and 28, before it was even decided to hold a carnival:

AGAINST A CARNIVAL. The pastors of the various churches of Rensselaer have joined in a letter to the K.. of P. lokge, asking the lodge to reconsider the matter of holding the proposed street fair and carnival. The letter sets forth, we are informed, that from both a moral and financial standpoint these affairs are a damage to a city, that they mean a wide-open town with .all the undesirable concomitants the term implies, and that so far as bringing business to the town is concerned they are an actual damage to nearly every legitimate business, the “fakirs” and carnival followers taking away about all the money that is brought in by the visitors. No action has as yet been taken by the lodge in reference to the letter, except to read it in open lodge. We understand, however, that quite a good many K. of P’s. were much impressed with some of the points made by the preachers against the project

THE KOKOMO CARNIVAL. As a carnival or street fair has been seriously talked of by the K. of P. lodge here, to be held sometime during the month of August, perhaps the following dispatch from Kokomo, in Sunday’s Indianapolis Sentinel, regarding “carnival week” there, may be of interest to our readers: The police commissioners last night issued an order closing all gambling rooms in the city. This swing of the pendulum was brought about by the “wide open” week of the catnival just closed, in which all kinds of gambling appliances were operated to the limit. As a result of the order the gamblers are leaving town. The slot machines and other devices are being boxed for shipment to other towns. Kokomo will try a period of “closed town.” The Kokomo carnival closed last night. The Pythias realized about 52,000 from the week’s revelery, but they were the only winners. Trade was practically dead with the merchants and the eating and drinking houses are disappointed at the small patronage. Several shows went broke and are stranded here. The army of pickpockets were also disappointed. They got little and eighteen of them are in jail to await trial. Nobody is sorry the racket is over and it will be a long time before Kokomo again indulges in a street fair.

We also refer to issues of August 2 and 16, all against the proposed carnival. The Democrat also opposed the turning over of the best streets in town for these shows, and the special priveleges granted by the city council, to the great expense of the general tax-payer no matter whether he favored or opposed the carnival. When the carnival came it proved just as The Democrat had prophesied, and the advertisements in black-faced type under the promise of the Knights of Pythias that “gambling and all immoral features would positively be prohibited” showed that advertisements sometimes say one thing and mean another. Gambling

was everywhere, and the frequent and general imputation that the K. of P’s. received a rake-off from the gambling machines has never been denied. It was a case of prostituting a noble order for gain. No language is too severe in condemning such acts in the name of the Pythianism, and the writer is and has been for nearly twenty years a member in good standing of this order —but not of the Rensselaer lodge. Three saloon-keepers plead guilty to permitting gambling on their premises during the carnival last year on grand jury indictments, and among the names of the witnesses that appeared on the back of those indictments and on whose evidence they were returned were two members of the lodge for whose benefit the “show” was being given. Not one word of condemnation for the turning the city over to the gamblers ever appeared in any paper in Jasper county other than The Democrat. This year The Democrat, remembering the experience of last year, again opposed a carnival. When it became time to advertise the affair The Democrat' was waited upon and asked what it was going to do for or against the carnival? We gave the committee no encouragement, and they left without saying anything about the advertising they had come in to let us have providing we were willing to sacrifice principles for pelf. It was just as well, for from what we know and have seen of carnivals our advertising rates are fixed very high for matters of this nature, so high in fact that we have no fears of any carnival promoter reaching them. ’ Now, as to the carnival recently held: It is true, no one was killed and gambling was not carried on in the brazen manner that it was last year, thanks to The Democrat. The shows were generally poor, there was much drunkenness, a few persons were robbed and the morals of the people were not elevated by the show — especially the exhibition of the hootchie-cootchie in minus the fig-leaf —which Bro. Marshall finds it convenient to ignore altogether, without one word of condemnation. And who benefitted from it in any way except the K. of P’s. and the saloonkeepers? Not the business men, surely, for Marshall himself says they are practically a unit in saying it was of no benefit to them. Why, then, should the city—the treasury of which the carnival element has bankrupted, and protested city orders are now seeking buyers—be pqtfto the expense of several hundred dollars each year, her streets torn up and disfigured all for the sake of benefitting the few at the expense of the many ? We are not surprised at the Republican editor’s not criticising or failure to mention any holdups or the nude hootchie-cootchie of carnival week, nor his partiality for such entertainments. When we remember the ecstasies he went into over the charms of the flesh colored, tight bedecked nether extremities of the “handsome snake charmer” of the Wallace

circus, and his saying that the “hootchie” is “good enough and clean enough for any one to see,” we have only pity for his judgment apd sorrow that any editor’s tastes should run in that direction. In conclusion we wish to say that we are not opposed to innocent sports and amusements, and we do think that it is right and proper to have “something doing” in Rensselaer once in a while on these lines, but the element that never wants anything going on unless they can fleece and debauch the morals of the visitors are not good people to follow. Get up good, clean entertainments for the people and the crowds will come, and they will go away with a much better opinion of the city and its people than they would if entertained by nude dancers and old Hyronemous.

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Real Estate Transfers.

Gertble Voorhees to Robert A. Paulson, Aug, 81, Its 8, 8. bl 14, Renaaeiaer, Leopold’s add, 81,600. Robert A, Parklson to Frederick M, Snyder et ux, Sept. 1, It 3, bl 14, Renaaeiaer, Leopold’s add, 81,800. Wm. R. Rayburn to John C. Parker et ux. Aug. 7. sw"aw 2-80-5, 40 acres, Gillam. 81,600. Sheriff Jasper Co., to Charles W. Hanley, Sep, 8 pt Its 5. 8. 0, bl 48, Rensselaer, Weston’s add. $824.45, S.D. James P. Overton to William E. Overton, June 20, pt nK nw 80-29-5, und K ne nw sw 22-29-5, Hansing Grove, 81. James P. Overton to Henry P. Overton, June 29, nH sw se 19-49-5, n% se sw 19-20-5, 40 acres, and W ne nw sw 22-29-5. Hanging Grove, sl. James P. Overton to John A. Overton, June 29, sH sw se 19-29.5. se sw 19-29-5, und % ne nw sw 22-29-5, Hanging Grove, sl. James P. Overton to Henry P. Childers et al, June 29, nw aw 19-29-5, Hanging Grove. 81. James P. Overton to John O. Nowels et al, June 29, sw sw 19-20-5, Hanging Grove, 81, Samuel A, Dutcher to Peter Nomenson, Sep. 8, ne 21-82-7, nw nw 22.85-7, 200 acres. Keener, 87,000. Mary E. Spitler to Andrew J. Potts, Aug. 26, It 22, Owen’s Sub nw 19-29-6, Rensselaer, SSOO. William J. Piatt to John F. Garriott, Aug. 28, pt out Its 17,18, Parr. SBSO. Maria Vondersmith to JameeClowry, July 8. Its 7, 8. 9. bl 7. Remington, Chambers & Morgan’s add. SBSO.

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