Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1904 — Page 3

am hitt mm. (. t. 8«, tBITOtI lIP PBBLISBEB UM PW0«T«»»0»» 1 >ll. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. •1.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rnus made known on application Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. Office on Van Ranasaiaar Street, North of Murray's Btora.

Of Interest to Advertisers. An examination ot the latest Issue el the American Newspaper Directory, the recognized authority on circulation ratings ot newspapers In the U. 8. and Canada, reveals the (act that In Indiana THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT has a higher circulation rating than Is accorded to any other paper published In Jasper County. Jordan Township Convention. The democratic voters of Jordan township will meet at Egypt school house on SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1904, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to be voted for in November, and to select delegates to the county convention. Frank Welsh, Chairman. W. D Bringle, Secretary. Candidates’ Announcements. TRUSTEE MARION TP. Geo. W. Goff is a candidate for Trustee of Marion Township, subject to the decision of the Republican nominating convention.

THE NEXT LEGISLATURE.

Indianapolis News: Although this is a presidential year, the people of Indiana will have no more important work to do than that of eleciing a Legislature. For what they will have to decide is whether they are going to choose men who will represent them or men who will be the pliant tools of the brewers and the corporations. Already much progress has been made in the direction of taking the Legislature out of the hands of the people. The brewers are at work all over the State pledging candidates of both parties to vote for an amendment of the Nicholson law eliminating the blanket remonstrance feature. Some men have already been nominated who are thus pledged. Others will be. It makes no difference to this brewer combine whether the Legislature be Democratic or Republican, and so it is trying to control the nominations of both parties. The men behind this movement are rich, and they will contribute liberally to the campaign funds, and will be glad to pay the expenses of candidates favorable to their program. The fight is one between the brewers and the people, and the people should nnderstandthe situation. Of course, there is no use in offering adviee to the men engaged in the liquor business, for their only idea is to grab everything in sight, without any regard to the feelings of the people. We think the policy is a mistaken one, The sentiment is already strong against the saloon. Many a man wno is not a Prohibitionist has been disgusted by the lawlessness of the liquor dealers and by their vicious activity in politics. There is no limit to their greed. And what is true of them is equally true of the brewers. Not content with selling their beer as other commodities are sold, they insist on making a market for it by establishing saloons all over town and by keeping those saloons open through the forbidden hours. And now they propose to take away from the people a proper power to keep these saloons out of their neighborhood. In other words, at the very time that people are seeking methods to curb the liquor business, the brewers are pushing a campaign to rob the people of the powers that they now possess to limit its scope and activity. Will the people of Indiana al- . low their Legislature to be captured by these men? No man, no matter what bis politics, ought to be nominated, or, if nominated, elected, who will not pledge himself to stand by the Nicholson law, and to support it both by his vote and his influence. The issue has been made and it should be met. No dodging should be allowed. The question is very simple and can be easily answered. It must be answered. The choice is between the people and the brewers.

No man can serve both. What is true in this particular is true in regard to other corporate influences. The people should see to it that those who are Bent to the Legislature are free to serve them, and are wholly free from railroad and corporation entanglements.

NEW SHORT STORIES

la U>« “Mountings.” Professor George Lincoln Burr of Cornell, who toured New England last summer on hl» bicycle In order to gather facta about witchcraft, la an authorlty on the history of superstition and persecution, and he la also an indefatigable wheelman. Professor Burr, with bis bicycle, has penetrated many primitive and secluded parts of the United States. From these Journeys he returns with little stories that are now quaint, now strange, now humorous. A story of the latter sort concerns a visit to Tennessee. j *T arrived one night at a mountaineer's cabin," said the professor, “and aßked for shelter for the night. The good people were very hospitable. They gave me a comfortable bed and an excellent meal. "While I was eating the meal my host watched me narrowly, to see that I had everything I wanted. He kept ordering his wife to fill my glass, to bring me more bread, etc. Finally, when I began to eat u piece of apple pie, be exclaimed In an Indignant tone: " 'Jane, why don’t you bring the gentleman a knife? Don’t you see him here trying to eat his pie with a fork ?’ ** An Improvement Saggeated. The late John It. Procter, the president of the civil service commission, was a student of the University of Pennsylvania In 1863 and 1864, and an old Pennsylvania man said of him recently: “Procter was a great walker In his college days. He liked nothing better than to set out early on a frosty morning and to walk twenty-five or thirty

“FAITH, AN’ I DO THAT.”

miles through the country. He would start alone, as a rule, but If he fell In with a teamster, a laborer, a tramp—any one—he was well pleased. He would bring home many an odd bit of talk that he had gathered In this way. “I remember how he once met an Irishman on the road to Norristown, ne and the Irishman plodded along together a matter of six or seven miles. They stopped and read each milestone, as walkers always do, and Procter said: *’ T think that milestones cheer a road up wonderfully, don’t you?* “ ‘Faith, an’ I do that,’ said the Irishman. T find them a great comfort. It would be an improvement, though, if they was nearer one another, wouldn't itr ” . MONEY, MONEY, MONEY. Parties desiring to borrow money and to offer farm lands as security will do well to see us before placing their loans. We have the best facilities for placing loans and we believe we can save you money. Our contracts are from two to ten years with privilege of paying at any interest paying time. While others have either raised their rates or quit business, we still have an unlimited amount of cash at 5 per cent interest. See us, we will do you good. Baughman & Williams, Attorneys & Abstracters, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 329.

Tourist Cars to Los Angeles

New Service via the St. Paul and Union Pacific Line. Experienced travelers, who know how to travel comfortably and save money, select tourist sleeping cars for their trips across the continent. The St. Paul and Union Pacific Line offers daily tourist car service from Chicago to San Francisco. Tourist cars for Los Angeles leave Chicago on Mondays and Saturdays. Berth rate all the way only $7. Folder free. C. C. Mordough, Traveling Passenger Agent, 12 Carew Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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CANTEENS IN HOMES

Will Be Prohibited if Action in the House Is Finally Carried Out. BOMS CHARGES BY STATESMEN Against the Management of Some State Soldiers’ Homes Lead to the Move. Washington, April 1. When consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was resumed by the bouse and the provision relating to state or territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors was reached Bell (Dem.) of California assailed’ the policy In force at these institutions regarding the disposition of the inmates. He strongly urged the holding of their pensions by the home officials In trnst. Referring to the home In his own state he said Its officials had degrade the state to the position of ing a saloon and grogshlp. Under the rule now existing, he declared, the officials compel the soldier to surrender his pension and then pay It back to him in canteen checks. Home Corrals All the Cash. He asserted that the result of this system is a complete monopoly of nearly every dollar that goes into that home in the form of pensions. Instead, he said, of being an instrument and means of temperance the home offers inducements for the old soldier to march up the adjutant’s desk and get his canteen check. He offered an amendment to the bill in terms along the lines of the law applying to the Soldiers’ '’Home In this city. New Charge" A gainst State Home*. Hemenway, in charge of the bill, opposed the amendment because it was new legislation on an appropriation bill. In the course of the discussion which followed Hemenway declared that state homes not only secure from the government SIOO a year for the care of each soldier but withhold a part of the soldiers’ pension, thereby speculating on the generosity of the government. ATTACK ON THE HOME CANTEEN Result* In Prohibiting It if the Home Wants Government Money. Bell interrupted to Inquire If the state was not speculating on the pensions of th.' old soldiers when the money was spent in canteen checks. “I am ashamed of any state that would do that,” remarked Hemenway. “And I am ashamed to say my state does it,” Bell declared; “and I am here to stop It.” Hemenway replied that he would be ashamed to represent a state that robbed old soldiers. No such conditions, he said, existed in Indiana or in any of the states where such homes are maintained. Bell protested that he was proud of his state, but ashamed of the board of governors of the home. He vigorously protested against the canteen at the California state home and urged the adoption of his amendment, which provided that no part of the appropriation shall apply to any state or territorial home into which the wives and daughters of soldiers are admitted and maintained: nor shall any part of it be apportlonedi to any state or territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold. Sherly (Dem.) of Kentucky offered an amendment to theamemdment striking out its anti-canteen feature. He was, he said, as deeply grieved over the condition of affairs In the California home as was Bell, but he emphatically declared against “that species of paternalism which undertakes to legislate the morals of people.” He was, he said, opposed to any anti-canteen law. His amendment was lost, and Bell’s amendment was agreed to—<69 to 31. FRAUDULENT LAND GRABBING Alleged as s Result of the Administration •- of the Laws. Washington, April 1. While the senate was considering the bill for the repeal of the desert land, timber and stone and homestead commutation laws Gibson of Montana declared that there had been great frauds in the administration of the land laws in the west, while Clark of Wyoming insisted that there was a lobby here working for the repeal of the laws. Patterson agreed with Gibson and expressed the opinion that eight out of ten acres of land In Colorado and Wyoming had been secured through fraudulent means, to which Clark replied. “I know nothing about conditions in Colorado, but what the senator says of Wyoming Is unqualifiedly untrue,” The debate on the postoffice appropriation was largely devoted to allegations by the Democrats that congress was under the domination of the White House, and denials of the aseertion by the Republicans. REGULAR DELIVERY WAGONS What the Government Carriages Are to Appear Hereafter. Washington, April 1. While the house was considering the sundry civil bill Mann made a point of order, which was sustained, against the last paragraph in the bill, providing that government carriages used for public purposes shall have painted thereon the name of the department to which they belong. Hemenway evaded the point

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by offering a substitute, and this was agreed to. The use of public carriage* for private purposes Baker characterized as “graft.” He wanted the letters put on carriages to be two and a half Inches In length. During the consideration of the provision for the geodetic survey Robtoson of Indiana made a violent attack on that bureau, in which he openly charged malfeasance In the conduct of this offlae. He declared) that the allowance for commutation of subsistence to officers of this service had been abused simply as a means of increasing salaries. Hemenwify declared that Robinson’s information came from a man who had a claim for jilkxwance in the department which would cost the govern, ment $200,000.

IN SKIRMISH CONTACT

RTJSS AND JAP EXPENDING LEAD * Many of the Mikado’s Man Killed—Armies Must Be Getting Into Fighting Distance. London, April I.—The eorrespoadtent of The Dally Telegraph at Seoul reports. that there Is continuous skirmish-

$50,000.00 Cash Given Away to Users of LION COFFEE We are going to be more liberal than ever in 1904 to users of irioii Coffee. Not only will the Lion-Heads, cut from the packages, be good, as heretofore, for the valuable premiums we have always given our customers, but In Addition to the Regular Free Premiums the same Lion-Heads will entitle you to estimates in our $50,000.00 Grand Prise Contents, which will make some of onr patrons rich men and women. Yon can send in as many estimates as desired. ihere win ne TWO GREAT CONTESTS The first contest will be on the July 4th attendance at the St. Lenin World's Fair f the second relates to Total Vote ForPreaident to be cast Nov. 8, 1904. $40,000.00 will be distributed in each of these contests, making $40,000.00 on the two, and, to make it still more interesting, in addition to this amount, we will give a Grand First Prize of $5,000.00 eonteata, and thus your estimates have two opportunities of winning a big cash prize. Five Lion-Heads Pr,nted b,anks cut from Lion vote on found in Coffee Packages and a every Lion Coffee Pack--2 cent stamp entitle you a 2 e » The 2 cent stamp (in addition to the reg-covers the expense of ular free premiums) our acknowledgment to to one vote in you that your eseither contest: timateis recorded. WORLD’S FAIR CONTEST PRESIDENTIAL VOTE CONTEST What will be the total July 4th attendance at the St. LonU What will be the total Popular Vote cast for Preildentbrotea World’s Fair? At Chicago. July 4.1893. the attendance was 283.273. for all candidates; combined.) at the election November 8.19047 IM For necrest correct estimates received in Woolson Spice Com- 1900 election, 13.959.653 people voted for President. For nearest corpany’s office, Toledd, Ohio, on or before June 30th. 1904. we will rect estimates received in Woolson Spice Co. s. office. Toledo, 0., give first prize for the nearest correct estimate, aecond prise to the on or before Nov. 5, 1904, we wIU give first prize for the nearest cornext nearest, etc., etc., as follows: rect estimate, second prize to thenext nearest,etc..etc., as follows: 1 Second Prize 1,000.00 1 Second Prlae .... .... 1.000.00 2 Prizes-$500.00 each 1.000.00 2 Prizes— *500.00 each DgOO.OO 6 Prizes— 200.00 ’’ 1,000.00 6 Prizes— 200.00 " 1.000.00 lO Prizes— 100.00 “ 1.000.00 lO Prizes— 100.00 I’RRS RR 20 Prizes— 60.00 “ ~,.,,1,000.00 20W«t»- 60.00 „ I.o^oo 50 Prizes— 20.00 “ 1,000.00 60 Prizes— 20.00 1,000.00 250 Prizes — 10.00 “ 2,500.00 250 Prises— 10.00 2.500.00 1800 Prizes — 5.00 “ 1. .9,000.00 1800 Prises— 6.00 “ 9,000.00 2139 PRIZES, TOTAL. *20,000.00 2139 PRIZES, TOTAL, *20,000.00 4279—PR1ZE5—4279 Distributed to tho Public—aggregating 145,000.00—1 n addition to whloh wo ahull give $5,000 to Sreoera’ Clarke (aaa particulars in UOO COFFEE oaata) making a grind totil of $50,000*00. COMPLETE DETAILED PARTICULARS IN EVERY PACKAGE OF WOOLSON SPICE CO., (CONTEST DEP’T.) TOLEDO, OHIO. -- - , __ . . I : : - ——^

Ing between Ping-Yang and Wijn, and that many Japanese have been killed. St Petersburg, April I.—ln official circles the action of some of the newspapers here In attempting to revive hostile feeling against the United States on account of the Vicksburg Incident (at Chemulpo) Is sincerely deprecated. The Associated Press is authorized to announce that the government has nothing to criticise In the action of Commander Marshall, of the Vicksburg, at Chemulpo. Moreover It does not sympathize with The Novoe Vremya’s editorialof Wednesday pointing to the United States as the real commercial and) political foe of Great Britain and Russia.

NOW THEY WANT BOAST DOG

Igorrote* from the Philippines Are Giving the World’s Fair People Much Worry. St Louis, April 1. —When the members of the Igorrote and other savage tribes of the Philippine islands arrived at the World’s fair several days ago they speedily developed pneumonia and gave those in attendance much worry. Now they are recovering from pnemonla and demand that dogs shall be served them dally as a part of their bill of fare,

Not since they left Seattle have they tasted roast or boiled dog, and a formal demand for their favorite food has been lodged with M. R. Healy, who looks after their comfort Healy has applied to the city authorities to furnish him with dogs from the dog pound, and permission has been grant. etL

Trophy for Naval Gunnery.

Washington, April I.—A trophy which will be competed for each year by the vessels of the navy has been received by Secretary Moody. It Is in raised gold and bears the Inscription: Trophy for Excellence in Naval punnery,” and is to go to the vessel making the best score at the annual target practice.

Settle It In Iowa.

Des Moines, la., April 1. Propositions for a settlement of the mine strike have been submitted by both the operators and the miners. Both propose a board of three arbitrators, the miners desiring the scale arbitrated and the operators limiting the question to the acceptance of the. Indianapolis scale.

And please remember The Democrat office is especially “it” when it comes to horse bills.