Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — Page 6

OUR STATEMENT TO THE BUYING PUBLIC. We want you to become acquainted with the new and large stock of Fall and Winter Goods now being received at . . . “THE TWO STORES” SURREY, IND. PARR, IND. \ Our prices for the usual high grade of goods we always handle will be slightly advanced over last vear, but yet cheaper than other stores in this county. We do not want to mislead you therefore tell you the exact truth about price.—THEY HAVE ADVANCED OVER THOSE OF LAST YEAR. • Conditions which are uncontrollable haved caused this and we want our customers to be warned so as not to be misled by flaring advertisements of Blow-hard Stores. * We will Guarantee you Lower Prices on Good Goods than others. We handle more kinds of Goods than any Firm in this County. G. n. WILCOX & SON.

BEVERIDGE’S PREDICTION.

Senator Beveridge, that manifest destiny statesman who once discovered some “good" trusts, has been to see the president. He was fresh from the Maine woods when he called on the chief magistrate, and when he reached New York the next day he announced that Indiana would give 25.000 Republican majority this fall. As the senator hadn't met anyone from Indiana for two months he must have gotten his information from the president. It is supposed that the president got his tip from Chairman Goodrich, who declared, when the boom for Hanna was about to sweep over the country, that Indiana would he a doubtful state if Roosevelt was nominated. And what Goodrich told the president, if he told him that 25,000 Republican majority yartn he probably got from Charley Hernly, who was one of the promoters ol the Hanna boom at the December love-feast, and who was certain then that Roosevelt couldn't carry Indiana at ail. It Hernly gave Goodrich that ■valuable pointer, he probably got it from Judge Brownlee, who called Roosevelt a "bronco-buster” whom the people would not again trust with office.

WARDER W. STEVENS.

Warder W. Stevens, Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor, is a practical and, therefore, a successful farmer. He is a Kentuckian by birth and is fifty-nine years of age. He came to Indiana when a child, attended the public schools and later graduated at the State University at Bloomington. His real ambition in life was to be a farmer, and hie work as a lawyer and afterward as an editor was all with a view to saving money enough to buy a farm. How well he succeeded is shown by the fact that when he went *to Salem, Washington county, In 18*7, he had but twenty-five cents is his pocket, while now he owns 400

acres of well-stocked farming land in that county. Everything about his farm gives evidence of the thrift and energy of the possessor, and many of the farmers who have heard his lectures will bear testimony to the progressive ideas which he has followed in the management of his business affairs.

A REPUBLICAN RECORD.

The Republican party came into i power in Indiana in 1895. Its promises for retrenchment and reform had been fair and doubtless some people believed that they would redeem all the promises they had made. But the in- j stinct to prey upon the people' is so deep-rooted in Republicans that* it. cannot be long resisted. This has' been demonstrated particularly in the record the party has made in the leg- j islature. Session by session the bur-: den of .cost has been increased till it; has risen from $99,723.04 in 1895 to j $120,999.71 in 1903, with even a high- j er altitude in 1901. Here is the record ! for the five years in which the party ' has been in control of the legislature: 1895.. 99,723.04 ! 1897 105.817.29 1899.. 114.705.25 1901.. ......... 125.791.94 1903 120,999.71 The feeling that President Roose-| veil is not a safe man for the highest j office in the gift oi the people grows j with each day of the campaign, and it | becomes more and more certain that j the personality of candidates as well as party principles will have much to do with the result in November. Judge Parker is a man of peace, calm, quiet, dignified, conservative and safe, while the president is his opposite in all these essential characteristics of the statesman. The natural tendency of Republican administrations, whether national, state, county or tow'nship. is t’oward extravagance, Since the party went into power at Washington in 1897 there has been a constantly increasing record of expense, and the same is true of the Republican state administration in Indiana since 1895. “The men who object to what they style ‘government by injunction’ lire, as regards the essential principle of government, in hearty sympathy with their remote skin-clad ancestors who lived in caves, fought one another with stone-headed axes, and ate the mammoth and woolly rhinorceros.” —Theodore Roosevelt. The steel trust is shutting down its mills, the textile industries are closing. and the great railroads are constantly reducing the number of men in their employ. But in spite of these conditions the Republicans are preaching prosperity and attribute it to the tariff.

THANKS, BROTHER. Francesville Tribune: The! Jasper County Democrat will this week install a new cylinder press. The editor, F. E. Babcock, came to Rensselaer seven years ago and launched the Democrat with advantages decidedly against him for success. He immediately gained notriety by exposing the crookedness of the gang that was robbing the county of its funds, which eventually caused him more or less trouble. His perseverance and untiring energy won for him success and he now publishes one of the best county papers in northern Indiana. The people over there are now begin- j ning to realize the true worth of a j paper that dares to publish the truth. TWO 810 DAYS AT MEDARYVILLE. Sept. 10 and 17, the old settlers of Pulaski and Jasper oountieo will hold a meeting at Medaryville, Ind., in Horners Grove. No expense or work will be spared to make this meeting a grand success. You are invited to attend. The town is yours these two days. Come and take it, good music, sjiorts and amusements of all kinds. Ballon ascention, base ball, good bands, free dinner to ( all. Free shows all the time, and a big shoot given by the Medaryville Gun Club. N. F. Thomas, Sec. EASY nONEY. We can furnish you money on first mortgage security on good City property in Rensselaer, or improved lands in Jasper and adjoining counties on the best terme obtainable, and better pre-pay-ment priveleges than ever before offered. It will pay you to see us if you desire to renew your loan or make a new one. Time, two to ten years; amount S2OO and upward. Rate of interest sto 6 per cent. Baughman & Williams, Attorneys & Loan Brokers, Rensselaer, Ind, ’Phone 329. ST. JOSEPH ON THE LAKE. The 1.1. &I. Ry., will continue to run their justly popular Sunday Excursions to St. Joseph for a few weeks longer this year. Take advantage of the delightful autumn weather and have a ride to that popular resort. Good I fishing, boating and other attracl tions. 1 St. Joseph is at its best in tb»

fall when the fruit season is in fall swing. Take home a basket of grapes and peaches. Special trains going and returning. For further particulars, see small bills, call on ticket agent, or address Geo. L. Forester, D. P. A., South Bend, Ind. Many of the Indiana Republicans look upon Speaker Cannon’s coming into the state as a part of a plan to boom Congressman Hemenway for the senate, and the utterances of the speaker in several places 'indicate that* the charge is not unfounded. Friends of Charles B. Landis and supporters of Governor Durbin feel particularly aggrieved at the manifest attempt of Speaker Cannon to boom the First district congressman. Harper’s Weekly says that “there can be no denial of the fact that the strongest independent journals of public opinion are lining up for Judge Parker.” Real Estate Transfers. Catherine Campbell to France M. Hayes. Apr. 7. pt ne sw 21-30-6, Barkley. $125. Salome Weurthner et ai to Christian Nathan Weurthner. Aug. 29. n*4 ne se 27-29-7, pt nv se 27-29 7. Newton, sl. Mary Christena Weurthner et al to Salome W’eurlhner. Aug. 29, pt w l J ne 27-29-7, Newton. sl. John C. Frazee to Barkley school tp.. Aug. 29. pt se se 29-30-8. 1 acre, Barkley, SIOO, Frans Fenzel to Walker school tp., Aug. 28. pt sw se 4-31-5, Walker, $25. Katie Worden to Charles J, Deichel. Aug, 30. pt n* sw 30-27-6, Barkley. $450. Ella G. Gordan to George E. Aldrich. Sept. 1. pt ne 19-29-8, Marioti. $75. John Greenfield to Emory S. Mills. Sept. 8. ehi ne 10-29-7, 80 acres, Newton.sl. Emory S. Mills to Sarah E. Greenfield, Sept. 8, same lands, Newton. sl. Franklin J. Johnson to Simon Cook. Aug. 25, se ne 28-29-5. sw ne 28-29-5, wH sw sw $2-29-5,100 acres, Hanging Grove. $4,000. Nathan J. Reed et ux to William W. Reed, March 23. pt out It 4,6, nw 30-27-8, Carpenter. S4OO. Wm. W. Reed to Maud L. Reed. Apr. 2. same lands, S4OO. Etta Nichols to George A. Williams. Aug. 6. lta 7,8, bl 27. Rensselaer. Weston’s Sec. add. «800. John J. Swartz et al to Charles F.Mansfield, Aug. 30, stt ne 1-28-0, ntt se 4-28-6, nH stt se 1-28-6, Marion. $12,000 Same to same, Aug. 80, a4k s H se 1-28-8. ne 12-28-6, Marion, $12,000, Cora DeVault to Eli Gerber, Sept. 12. It 5. bl 84. Rensselaer. Weston’s add. S9OO. Ebon H. Wolcott to Robert F. Dobbins, Sept. It, ptlts 4,8, *. bi 8, out It 20. Remington, Western add- $5,000. Sold by A. F. Long. s

FAVORING CORPORATIONS.

The policy of favqring the corporations at the expense of the people, while keeping the expenses of the. state government constantly up to the high-water mark, has been one of the cardinal points in the Republican administration of the board of tax commissioners. Though new railroad lines have been built, second raaiq and Bidetrack increased and rolling stock augmented, the assessments remain practically at the figures at which the Democrats placed them in 1894. There have been changes since that time, but no matter what the starting point, the Republican board has managed to round up without any substantial increase in the assessments. A sample of the peculiar manipulations of the board is given in the report for 1903. Compared with the year before there had been a marked increase in main, second main and side track and rolling stock of the railroads, the whole aggregating 262,27 miles. Of this aggregate 45.91 miles was main track, 80.31 miles second main, 68.80 miles side track, and 67.33 miles rolling stock. The average assessment of main track is $19,251 per mile; of second main, $10,884; of side track, $3,622; and of rolling stock, $2,565. And if this' ratio of assessment had been maintained and the amount added to that of 1902, the total railroad assessment would have been Increased $2,184,802.50. But the Republican board pursued its policy of reducing the railroad assessments and, notwithstanding the large additions of trackage during the year, the total assessment shows an Increase of less than should have been added for the increased trackage; for. the increased trackage should have been valued for assessment at $2,184.802.50, though the actual increase of the entire assessments of all the roads was but $2,037,113. In other words, the Republican board assessed the new i trackage and rolling stock and then reduced the entire assessment $147,689.50, making on the face of the totals an increase, but in reality a reduction. W. H. Smith has written a laudatory life of Charles W. Fairbanks which has been ppt on sale at 50 cents a copy. It certainly isn’t worth any more, for Its purpoes is to glorify the subject, and the book throughout bears the impress of a hand that is moving simply for pay. According to the author, Mr. Fairbanks has always been right, and to make it so appear to the reader everything in his record that would invoke criticism is sedulously suppressed. In dealing with the speech of Mr. Fairbanks as chairman of the state convention in 1892, the author ignores the speaker’s denunciation of the new tax law, but quotes from the eulogy of Harrison. But the silliest and least excusable statements in the book are those which seek to make Fairbanks appear as a friend of Harrison in 1888. It is notorious that Fairbanks was for Gresham, that he led the opposition to Harrison in Indiana and went to Chicago as the manager of the Gresham forces. And it is equally notorious that the Republican managers at that time —Chairman Heusten of the state central commiuoe, Louis T. Michener and others —denounced Fairbanks for his attitude toward Harrison and even the author of this feeble literary effort was among those who criticised him.

The Springfield (Mass.) Republican is one of the old organs of the party that is tiring of protection. It thus comments on a recent speech of Senator Fairbanks: “The time is rapidly drawing, near when this narrow and ! boorish treatment of the tariff question will not pass as adequate or tolerable in New England. The subject is beginning to assume hereabouts a vitally different aspect from what has been the case in times past. Old theory in this respect clashes mote and more sharply with new conditions. * * * It may do for this campaign to bring to the New England stump the familiar and unchanging treatment of the tariff issue which Mr. Fairbanks is content tp give. But Republican statesmen like Mr. Lodge, who live nearer at hand, are beginning to discover that industrial conditions here are changing from former times,' that public sentiment is changing with them, and that the old tariff speeches will not much longer “go” in this part of the country.” And this is what Roosevelt said In his book on Thomas H. Benton concerning the Quakers, a class of people who believe that strife, whether between individuals or nations, is barbarous and whose exemplary lives have won for them the respect and confidence of all right-thinking people: “A class of professional non-com-batants is as hurtful to the real healthy growth of a nation as is a class of fire-eaters for a weakness or folly Is nationally as bad as a vice or worse, and in the long run a Quaker may be quite as undesirable a citizen as is a duelist. No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living In a free community.” Now that the price of coal, flour, beef and some other necessities is advancihg, Secretary Shaw is feeling Wter politically, for according to his Idea high prices are a sure sign of prosperity. The man who is called upon to pay the advance is not feeling so jubilant, especially he who is still working for the same wages. And then there are thoee who have had their wages cut and those who are out of a job or on a strike. Their idea of the prosperity caused by high prices must be entirely hostile to the Shaw theory.

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