Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — Page 7
Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ,'• RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Judson J. Hunt, Law, Mods, loons and M M. RENSSELAER. IND. Office ap-tuira In Leopold block. Brat ■tain west of Van Rensselaer street. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney For The N. A. AC. By, end Renneleer W.L. A P.OA over Chicago Bargain Store. fisnuslMFi Indiana. D. M. Baughman. O. A. Will lama. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. i, Lew. Notary work. Loan,. Real Estate and Inaurance. Special attention given to collections of all kinda. Office over “Racket Store.” Thone 899. Rbnmblabh, Indiana. J. 9. Irwin S. C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Collections. Term Loan, end Eire T more nee. Office la Odd Fallows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Practice*, in all coarta. Special attention given to drawing np wlUa and settling decedent’s estates. Office in county building, east side of court bouse square. •mki mm s. a. smut sun a. ram Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Beal Estate. Inaurance Absracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books In tbs County. RENSSELAER. IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, * • Indiana. Lew. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block.
Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. X. B. Waahburn will g-i ve ipecial attention to Dlmum of the Eye, Ear, Nome, Throat and Chronlo Diseases. Ha also teeta area for glasses. Ornea Tnjnaeaa No. 4a. RatiHMOi Phomi No. 17, Rensselaer, - - Indiana, E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Office overlmes' Millinery store. Ran seal as*. Orvics Phoms 177. Mssibsmcb Pmohs, US. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON. Rensselaer, - • Indiana. Office np-stalrs In Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night Ofu"~r ooJ ' W. W. MERRILL, M. D. wic Men «surgeon. KBNSSKLAER. . INDIANA. Chronle Diseases • Specialty. Office 'Phone SOS. Reeldence 'Phone 84S Dr. Francis Tnrfler. Dr. Anna Tnrflea. Drs. Turfler 6t Turfler, OSTBOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, Ind. Hourai StolSm; lto4:Sop. m. H. O. Harris. K. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer, Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit Issued on time, Exchange Bought and Sold on principal cities, Notes Discounted at current rates, Fans Loans made at B per cent We SoHctt a Share of Year Business. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store miuyu i HSf Cww *> Bar and Bridge A Work. Teeth Without TJg I NfW Plates, Without Pain. . • J. W. HORTON ~ •S YEANS IN siawiui* Tssth oarsfullr stopped with Ibid and ether filings. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide flea administered dally. Charges within the FMfliefclL eews iMjwn sewer uswss.
POLITICS OF THE DAY
AMlag Well Street. The tax payers of the nation are paying a good steep bonus to keep Wall street from bankruptcy. The high price that la being paid for many of the necessities of life Is caused by the high tariff tax and the large monopoly proVt that the trusts are, through the tariff, allowed to exact. The tax paid through the customs duties and the Internal revenue collections are about sixty nlllllons a year In excess of what it costs to run the government and this vast sum Is withdrawn from circulation and Is added to the surplus in the United States treasury. During the last six years over $160,000,000 of the surplus has been loaned to the national banks without Interest and the Secretary of the Treasury Is now taking extraordinary measures to distribute the addition to the surplus that Is constantly accruing. The refunding operations—that Is, exchanging new bonds for old ones and paying a premium to the holders has been one way to distribute this surplus and as most of the bonded debt of the United States is held by the banks, they have been the recipients of the bonus amounting to millions of dollars. It is now proposed to redeem the balance Of the 6 per cent bonds outstanding amonntlng to $19,685,050 and pay a premium of 2% per cent, as these bonds are due next spring, this premium is equal to paying the six months’ interest In advance, another very comforting bonus to the bondholders. The Secretary of the Treasury also offers the further advantage, to the banks that have any of these bonds on deposit as security for their circulation, of taking State, city and railroad bonds and other securities in place of the United States bonds and thus release them for final redemption. How kind Uncle Sam Is to his creditors, paying them Jong In advance of the maturity of his obligations with full interest; but, then, these bondholders are bankers and rich men.
We never hear of the Secretary of the Treasury ordering the payment of pensions six months In advance, though that course would relieve the money stringency in all parts of the country and make many hearts glad, but the pensioners poor and cannot afford to contribute large sums to the Republican campaign funds, and that makes a striking difference. Wall street Is like the horse leach—the more money It gets from the government on such favorable terms the more it cries, “Give!” It Is officially stated by a “high authority” at the Treasury Department, that Secretary Shaw has not yet exhausted the aid be will render the bankers if greater necessity arises, and from the continued slump in Wall street securities and the difficulty business men have in securing loans and the rapid decline in stocks and bonds, there still seems urgent need of more assistance. It is a long way to the cash in the United States Treasury, from the money in the pockets of the people, and yet every cent in the treasury has been paid In taxes. It is the people’s money and the law requires an act of Congress before one cent -of it can be expended. Yet in practice millions are paid out by stretching or evading the laws and always these vast sums are disbursed for the benefit of the national banks and never in the interest of the taxpayers. The Republican leaders have a complacent idea that the taxpayers are satisfied with any financial or other policy they deem fit to inaugurate and that the Republican voters are more than content with the way their political leaders are administrating affairs of the government. The majority of the Republican voters may be satisfied, but there is a strong minority that are friends of honest, straightforward and economical management of the financial and other executive departments of the government and will vote to inaugurate It. This large minority Is loudly calling for tariff reform and protection from trust extortion. In one State they call it the lowa idea, in others reciprocity and 4n some free raw materials, but everywhere the housekeeper is saying how much more it costs to live than It used to do. For the past six years the name complaint has been made, gradually growing louder. Some of the Republican politicians have promised reform after election, and are still making the same reply. Others say, "Let well enough alone;” wc are doing well, why upset business by prosecuting trusts or reducing the tariff? To reduce taxation instead of piling up an enormous surplus is the last thing these “stand-patters” will listen to. The inquiry, however, is pressed by the people, “Why make us pay taxes that you cannot spend, even under the most extravagant administration we have ever known?” The Republican leaders answer, “You do not know when yon are well off; continue to let well enough alone.” "If the tariff is too high it should be reduced, if it is too low, it should be increased.” That is the latest expression from a Republican convention. Is there any promise of reduction of taxation or of any covenant to control the trusts? Flasactal Isiislstiss. When doctor* disagree tt 1* generally disastrous to the patient. Ae the
Wall street financial'Specialists cannot unite on what financial legislation the next Congress should enact, it may be disastrous to the overloaded stomach of the stock market. The Wall street doctors appear to be divided Into two camps—those who have the cash and those who have the undigested securities. The cash crowd are pretty much confined to the Rockefeller interests and their allied banka, the opposing faction are known as the Morgan interests; they hold enormous blocks of the watered stocks of railroads and industrial or trust corporations, and the banks back of them have loaned to the limit on such securities. Of course the Morgan crowd are constantly demanding that* Congress inflate the currency by what Is known as the asset plan. The Rockefeller Interests are more conservative, and their agent in the United States Senate, Senator Aldrich, Is preparing a bill to meet their views, which Is to legalise and make permanent the present enorjnous loans which the Treasury Department has made to the banks without interest, and to make the present plan more advantageous to the banks of Issuing currency based on bonds. To the great middle class of people and the farmers and the artisans end workingmen, who have no Interest in Wall street or the fluctuations of stocks and bonds, any of the proposed legislation will be disastrous. ~!t will, as it is intended to do, give the money kings a more firm hold of the manipulation of the money of the country and overtax the public to pile up a large surplus for the benefit of the Tew. The policy pursued by the present and last administration of the retirement of the greenbacks and the refunding of United States bonds with the large premium paid to the banka, has about exhausted the resources of the United States Treasury to aid the banks. Secretary {shnw has indeed exceeded his lawful powers by accepting other securities than United States bonds to secure the loans to the banks of the surplus, which loans now exceed $150,000,000, and upon which enormous sum th# people receive no interest.
The difference of opinion of the Republican factions on the financial question will probably be harmonized by the coming Congress, but it bodes ill for the taxpayer that President Roosevelt, who Is trying to arrange a program that will be satisfactory, Is taking council with George W. Perkins of the banking firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and with H. C. Frick of the steel trust. The recommendations of these trust magnates at their late visit to Oyster Bay are hardly likely to be for the welfare of the taxpayers The only hope for the people is that, “when thieves fall out honest men get their dues,” but even then they have to fight for them.
A Strang* Republican Dostrlse.
The plutocratic press are especially enamored of what Governor Durbin •f Indiana said the other day, that “the man who violently assails, by word or deed, the laws of the country such as ours commits a crime not only of Infamy but of Insanity.”
As Governor Durbin has refused to boner the requisition of the State of Kentucky for one of the alleged murderers of Goebel, when the law and the constitution requires the perpetrators of such crimes to be delivered up to justice; because Powers, who has been indicted for the said crime in Kentucky, happens to be a leading Republican politician of that State, is hardly a fit man to read lectures on what is right or wrong. To violently assail a law that is robbing the people of the United States, such as the Dingley tariff law, Is a crime to the trust magnates who profit by It. To denounce the laws in several States, that tax the small home and the little personal property of the poor its full value, and let the corporations and the millionaires off with paying only 20 or 30 per cent, is insanity according to Hanna and the Republican leaders in Ohio. To all such the law of their own making is too sacred to be tampered with, and Governor Durbin only echoes the cry of the trusts and corporations, who in most cases have paid for the unrighteous laws they bold so sacred.
It is a strange doctrine that the Republican leaders are preaching in these days, that to denounce a law is a crime. How are bad laws to be repealed unless they are violently, assailed? How Is the iniquitous and unjust tariff law to be reformed or repealed unless its robbery of. the poor man and its aid to the trusts and the plutocrats are exposed? All laws that created monopoly and unjust taxation, or that donate to corporations, are as the apple of their eye to such Republicans as Durbin, and to attempt to repeal such Is to them “a crime not only of infamy, but of insanity.” But when the shoe pinches their own foot and the law is in their way, these plutocrats not only assail It bat disregard It, and have even purchased perjurers and hired repeaters to commit the greatest crime against the American commonwealth by stealing Presidencies and Congresses and Legislatures and defeating the will of the sovereign voters. ,-
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
John H. Clarks of Cleveland, Ohio, Who to Mark Hanna’s opponent in the race for the United State* senators'll ip,
JOHN H. CLARKE.
er. The line of demarcation between one who handles business for another and one wbo controls the same business in his own right is not a radical one. Mr. Clarke is now 45 years old and is one at the prominent lawyers of Cleveland. Years ago he sat in the State Legislature, but with this exception has not held public office. He has been active, however, in Demofratic politics and to regarded as one of the best speakers of vlther great political party in Ohio today. In the Chicago convention which nominated Bryan be opposed free silver. *# ••
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the President of the Confederacy, who was reported to be seriously 111 at Buffalo,
N. Y., was born at Natchez, Miss., May 7, 1828, and waa married on the 25th of February, 1845. Since her huiband't death in 1889 she has written nu-, meroue criticisms and articles for newspaper*, and in 1890 published “Jefferson Davie:
Wife.” Mr*. Davis is accounted to b* a delightful couversatienalist, and her extensive knowledge and charming manner of expression are said to be a source of pleasure to all. She had five children, but one of whom to living, Mrs. I. A. Hayes of Colorado Springs. Mrs. Dsvls took up her residence in New York State because the Southern climate did not agree with her.
Gov. Thompson B. Ferguson of Oklahoma ia making for himself a national reputation. For the first time in its hto-
GOV. FERGUSON.
who believe that a public office is a public trust, and criticism from those who believe that activity and success In party work should be the basis of award in the distribution of patronage. Gov. Ferguson- demands honesty and capability in his' appointees and these are the only qualities which appeal to him. —:-
Joseph EL Choate, American ambassador, is now dean of the diplomatic corps In London. This is the first time
that America’s representative has won such an honor, having been compelled heretofore to yield diplomatic precedence even to the envoys of Spain and of Turkey. The advancement of Mr. Ohoate Is gratifying to the English people, who feel that because of their close commercial
rfhd racial relations with ths United States the American representative should have precedence over all other foreign envoy*. Mr. Choate’s immediate predecessor in the deanship was Count Deym, who died recently and who for sixteen years hull represented AustriaHungary at the Court of St. James.
Something of a sensation was created by the arrest of George E. Green, formerly Mayor of Binghamton, N. Y., and
GEO. E. GREEN.
International time recorders, and the second alleges that he offered Beavers a bribe of 10 per cent on clock sales to the government. Green is president of the International Time Recorder Company. Upon being arraigned before United States Commissioner Hall he pleaded not guilty and was released on SIO,OOO ball.
London Is soon t» have a dally newspaper for women which will print the general news. It will be illustrated and the essentially feminine featuree are to be hi the hands of well-known women joornattsta John Blake, postmaster at Kramer, a ■tattoo on the Santa Fe, near Baistow, Cal., shot and probably fatally wounded M. FUher, Santa Fe agent at that place. Bubonic plague has broken out hi Marseilles, Francs. Energetic efforts are bsteg suds to quickly stamp tt out
waa bom In the same city where Senator Hanna first saw the light of day —New Lisbon. In another particular they are alike. Mr. Hanna In the field of business and Mr. Clarke in the legal profession have been allied with big interests and have bandied broad business problems with pow-
A Memoir by His
tory Oklahoma has a Governor whose sense of duty has caused him to ignore partisan politics in the conduct of his administration. The novelty of such a course in Oklahoma, where Governors Jiave attempted to strengthen themselves and their party by surrounding themselves with professional politicians, has provoked both praise and criticism; praise from men
JOS. H. CHOATE.
now Stats Senator from that district, on the charge of conspiracy and bribery in connection with the postal scandals. Hs is jointly indicted with George W. Beavers. One indictment charges him with conspiracy to defraud the government in bribing Beavers to purchase
GENERAL TYNER INDICTED.
Jointly Held with M. J. Barrett tar Pest a! Fraud*. The return of fifteen new indictments by the federal grand jury practically winds ap the investigation of the Post-
JAMES N. TYNER.
conspiracy to defraud the government. The authorities have been especially anxious to obtain indictments against Barnett, who is held responsible for admission to the mails of the get-rich-quick turf schemes. Tyner, it is said, gave Barrett a free hand in arranging and passing upon these coses. W. D. Doremus is also indicted ia connection With sales of the Doremus stamp canceling machines. There are additional bills against George W. Beavers and State Senator George A. Greene, of New York. Harsy C. Hallenbnck, of New York, whose firm formerly held the contract for supplying money order forms, is also among those indicted to-day. He to charged with conspiracy to defraud, in connection with John T. Metcalf, former chief of the money order division, nnd his son, Normal! R. Metcalf, both of wbom have been previously indicted. An additional bill wns found against August W. Maehen. Other bills were not made public, pending service by the officers. General Tyner is paralyzed at his home in Washington. He has been connected with the postal service for years. He was Postmaster General in 1876-77, afterward First Assistant Postmaster General and Assistant Attorney General. He is nearly 80 years old and in serious physical condition. Barrett, who is indicted jointly with him, is his nephew, and came from North Carolina. He was assistant attorney until Dec. 31, when he resigned. There are two indictments against Tyner and three against Barrett. Bond was fixed for Barrett in the sum of SIO,OOO and for Tyner for $5,000, furnished in both cases by a Scranton, Pa., surety copipany. Postmaster General Payne is new awaiting the report of Fourth Assistant Bristow. The next steps will be the trial of Maehen in Washington and Attorney Johns and Darnel Miller in Cincinnati.
PRESIDENT ESCAPES ASSASSIN.
Crazy Anarchist Attempts to Force Way Past White House Guards. President Roosevelt Monday narrowly had a narrow escape from death At the bands of a crazy anorchkt who is now locked up in the government insane asylum. Only after a desperate struggle was the man, who gave his name as Peter Elliott and his home as Minneapolis, overpowered by the police and removed from the White House. He had come from Minneapolis to “take control of the government,” and it is believed he had planned to assassinate the President Sunday morning on his way home from church. Elliott occupied a seat in the gallery overlooking the pew in which the President sat and left the building just before the conclusion of the service and took up a position on the sidewalk a few rods away. When the President came out and walked briskly down the street Elliott stepped suddenly forward, held out his hand and said: “Roosevelt, shake hands with Elliott.” Without slackening his pace the President raised bis hat and held out his hand, saying, “I am glad to see you,” and passed on. It is believed the man was disconcerted by the President’s manner and had not the nerve to put his plan of murder into execution. A little before noon Monday Elliott entered the vestibule of the White House and demanded to be admitted to see the President. It was evident that he was crazy and the attendants denied him admission. He attempted to force his way in and it was only after a bard struggle that he was overpowered and carried to a police van that had been summoned. He was placed in the van in the custody of two officers. Seeming to realize then for the first time that he was under arrest, Elliott began the furious struggle with his captors for liberty. He drew a revolver from the right side pocket of his trousers and attempted to shoot Officer James Cissell. The officer grabbed his band and wrenched the weapon from him. In the struggle in the van Elliott had broken a glass panel with his head, severely cutting his head and face. Officer Cissell Mist'aincd a serious cut on bis right arm. The van was burned to the emergency hospital, where the injuries of both Cissell and Elliott were dressed. Elliott Is undoubtedly violently insane.
Brief News Items.
Muskogee, I. T., is to have a new $65,000 hotel and theater combined. Missouri is going to break another record this year with a bumper nut crop. The collection of the collateral Inheritance tax in Mtaeoori since the first of the year has been $75,074.09. Motormsn Jacob Kreidler of Cincinnati was fstally injured by a collision of his electric car with a lumber wagon. Henry Steers, formerly president of the Eleventh Ward Bank of New York, was drowned at Westport Harbor, Mass., while fishing. Frank Hammond of Topeka, Kan., and general foreman of the iron bridge works of the Santa Fe road, was killed by a fall at Elk Falls, Kan. Judge H. Tyler Campbell of Bristol, Tenn., has resigned his position as assistant to Attorney General Knox. The work has kept him too much on the road. In the Circuit Court at Salisbury, Mo., Jasper Coleman was sentenced to twenty years In the penitentiary for killing Rufus Cox at Dalton, five weeks before. Harmon D. Wilson, for several years past the “Kansas Notes” man of the Topeka Capital, and one of the best known newspaper men In Kansas, died at his home in Topeka of typhoid fever. O. P. Dexter of Norwalk, Omul, a T«i«n of wealth, was shot and killed while riding along the road near Santa Clara, N. Y. No clue as to his slayer has been obtained, lmt tt is believed be was killed by poachers.
office Department, during which approximately thirty persons have been held for trial. Among those indicted to-day are General James N. Tyner, former Assistant Attorney General for ths Postofflce Department, and Harrison J. Barrett, who was his assistant. Both are charged with
RECORD OF THE WEEK
INDIANA INCIDENTS TERBELY TOLD. Ttro Young Slen Commit Shields by . # ■booting— I Temperance Lecturer Gets Bruuk—Numerous Thefts at Muncie —Little Girl Kills Herself in Clinton. George B. Williamson, of Chicago, and Marvin Welch, of Janesville, Wis., recently of Chicago, clerks in the auditor’* department of the Central Union Telephone Company, in Indianapolis, committed suicide by !hooting themselves, each in tlhe head. The two young men were brought there from Chicago by ths company four months ago and were close friends. Williamson shot himself at 851 North Jefferson avenue, where he bounded. He had complained recently because the parents of his sweetheart in Chicago objected to hhn. Welch killed hi®self at his boarding-house, 515 North Delaware street. It was said at the hout* he had been acting strangely for several days. The officials are investigating in the belief that the two friends planned the double suicide. Preacher Yields to Drink. The audience at the Congregational Church in Elkhart was surprised the other night to note the rambling expressions of the Rev. Henry Barney, of New York, who was Jiving the last of a series of temperance talks in Elkhart churches, under the aunpices of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. The pastor, the Rev. Mr. Ogilvie, and others concluded he was intoxicated and brought the meeting to an abrupt close by suddenly announcing a hymn in the midst of Barnsy’s talk. After the crowd dispersed Barney was followed to saloons. Barney was once a light comedian and “reformed” twenty years ago. He drew crowds to the Elkhart churches. Thieves Busy in Muncie. While the members of Joseph Lindsay’s family in Muncie were attending the cireuri, thieves entered the house and stole $25 worth of old coin and a number of other articles of value. While hundreds of people were passing in the street, and while the clerks were busy inside, a thief carried away everything he could find from the front of Itingo & Son’s department store. Among the articles taken were a set of bed springs and a mattress. A number of other robberies were reported. Little Girl Takes Her Life. In Clinton, Anna Eans, 12 years old, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. The little girl was taken to Terre Haute the previous day and placed in. the children’s home. She left the institution during the night and walked to Clinton. When Mrs. Crossley, who took the girl to Terre Haute, returned home she found the girl dying.
Twelve Building- Burned. A fire, supposed to be incendiary, destroyed twelve building?, including eight business houses, in Montgomery. The total loss is estimated at $25,000. Letters threatening to burn the town were received several weeks ago and nearly all the insurance was canceled. Mate Items of Interest, John Stevens, an escaped convict from Michigan City, was captured at Marion. John Keiger, a well-to-do farmer, was caught on a railway crossing near Chase and instantly killed. * New Albany police have again been instructed to confiscate every slot machine found operating. Nellie Parrot, a school girl, eloped from her home in Princeton and married Arthur S. Books in Vincennes. David Goodwin, of Richmond, has been acquitted of the charge of attempting to poison the family of Joseph Myers. Mrs. Arthur Swope killed herself in the presence of her baby in Kokomo, using a revolver. Her motive is unknown. Samuel Cunningham, of Hammond, a brakeman on a Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train, was killed while making a coupling at Marion. 111. The hat of George Ward, who disappeared from Marion, has been found in j the river. A reward of SIOO is offered I by Mrs. Ward for the recovery of the body. The annual “tank-.scrap” between the sophomores and the freshmen of Purdue University raged all the other night, and the sophomores won at 4 o’clock in the morning. During the fierce fight John Stevenson of Chicago, a first year student in the mechanical engineering department, was injured and taken to St. Elizabeth's hospital in the ambulance. It was found that his spine had been wrenched and he died of his injuries. One of the most unique legal complaints on record was filed in the Circuit Court at I.aPorte on behalf of James Povlock, who asks Judge Richter to enjoin his neighbor, Hamilton Hoover, from swearing at the former's children. Povlock is the farther of five children, all of whom refuse to attend school for the reason that they are compelled to pass the Hoover house and are forced j to listen to profane language ni which he is said to indulge. While at play in a woods pasture, near Hutsonville, Voorhees Crow, a 12-year-*old boy, found a die for coining dimes. A thorough search was made and a 5eent die and a number of counterfeit quarters were found hidden at the base of a hollow tree. The find recalls a discovery of counterfeiting in the early 80’#. j David Lewis and William Bailey were suspected of counterfeiting and secret service men investigated the matter. When arrests were about to be made Lewis and Bailey disappeared. Bailey was never heard of again. Lewis enlisted In the regular army in Colorado and is now supposed to be dead. For the first time in eighty-two years women have been permitted to sit with men In the sessions of the eighty-sev-enth yearly meeting of the Society of Friends at Marion. It was voted that men and women should meet together at all sessions. Thirty-fire former students and teachers of the old Sugar Grove school, established in Hendricks County In 1826, when the county was covered with forest, ware present at a reunion in the {Mends’ church In Plainfield- Several handled persona attended the school during its. existence. Of theee 110 are living.