Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1905 — Page 4

jispa cwn w. f. f. HIM, HUM HD fflllffil to.. V.»*s.. U Official Damaoratle Paper of Jaapar County* - 11.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rate* made known on application ' Catered at the Poet-office at Beneeelaer, Ind as second class matter. Office on Van Ranpaaiaar Street, North of Murray’s Store. SATURDAY, OCT. 21,1905.

The Democrat has always fought football, as a dangerous game to life and limb of our youths, and because of the spirit the game engenders. It is glad to note that public sentiment is growing against this brutal sport, and welcomes such distinguished gentlemen as President Rooseto its way of thinking.

The democrats of Indiana have lost two of their most prominent members during the past two weeks. William H. Hawkins, of Indianapolis, former U. 8. Marshal under the Cleveland administration and former secretary of the democratic state committee, died suddenly at Anderson one day last week in a traction car while there on business. The direct result of his death is said to haye been from headache powders which he had taken; to relieve a severe headache. Hawkins was a radical Bryan man in 1896 and 1900, but in 1904 yielded to the Taggarts and SimsJlbut at the close of the campaign he was one of the first to advocate a return to the principles of Bryan. Albert Gall, another prominent democratic business man of Indianapolis and twice treasurer of state, fell dead last Saturday from heart disease.

Is it not time to call a halt on football in the public schools of Rensselaer? With the record of accidents here and another about to die as a result of games played, it would seem that a sentiment would be aroused that ought to put a stop to this dangerous game, at least in our high school. Another thing against the game is the spirit that might make right that it engenders, and the diverting of pupils’ minds from their proper studies. Also, The Democrat personally knows of at least one instance wherein the high school faculty— or the manager of the football tesm, at least—has connived with one of the players whose parents did not wish him to play, and encouraged the boy in disobeying and deceiving bis parents in this matter. It was known that the latter had told the boy when sending him here to school that he must not play football, and if he did play he would be taken out of school and brought back home. Yet he was encouraged to play and the high school faculty assisted him in deceiving his parents. If your boy—whom you h ave clothed and fed for years, and who in numerous instances parents are denying themselves that he may have an education and the advantages denied them —gets seriously injured or crippled for 1 ife in football, who is it that'pays the doctor bill and perhaps in after years takes care of him and keeps him from being a public beggar or an inmate of some charitable institution? Is it the high school or college to which you are sending him? If their brutal football cripples him so that he is made an invalid for life, or is unable to make his living, does the college dr high school faculty who permit and encourage this deadly game oome forward and take care of the promising young body they have crippled? Well, hardly. That is left for poor old dad, who, fortunately, when he went to school a quarter or a half century ago, did not know what this deadly game was, and whose frame though bent per-

haps with life’s burdens, must take np this additional one and carry it as long as he io able. The parents wishes in this dangerous game should be respected, and The Democrat is old-fashioned enough to believe that it io wrong for the faculty of any school or college to aid, abet and encourage any boy to disobey and deceive his parents in thia or any other matter, notwithstanding the "team” may need the boy to win games from their opponents.

MRS. TAGGART SEES PREJUDICE

Divorced Woman Says Money Was Used to Hurt Her Cause—He- .:. ceives Friends. Wooster, 0., Oct. 19.—Attorneys sot Mrs. Grace Taggart filed the following amendment to the motion for a new trial of the famous divorce case: That money was ured to mold public opinion against defendant; that evidence was submitted to the court and accepted which was not given tn open court at the trial; that the court was prejudiced against defendant and wholly disregarded evidence offered by her. A gathering out of the ordinary assembled at night at the house of Mrs. Taggart. Tne assemblage, which was informal, numbered more than a hundred of the leading residents of the city, with their wives. Resolutions expressive of sympathy were adopted and regretting the finding and decree which robbed her of her boys. Those present pledged united effort in helping her in every way to secure complete control of the children.

Wooster, 0., Oct. 19.—That Mrs. Grace Taggart will make a long fight for the custody of her sons, Culver and “Tiddies,” is apparent Captain Taggart, who was awarded control of the boys, “Tiddies" to remain as a visitor wlht the mother indefinitely, sent word that he wanted Culver to be ready to leave by night. Captain Taylor, attorney for Mrs. Taggart, gave notice of an appeal from Judge Eason’s finding as to the boys, and citizens furnished the $4,000 required to take the matter up.

TORNADO IN ILLINOIS

GREAT HAVOC DONE AT SORENTO Eight Persons Killed, Thirty-Five Injured, Forty Honses Wrecked— Torrential Kain Falls. East St. Lonis, 111., Oct. 19. Mrs. Thomas File, Mrs. William Stewart, William Mann. Harrison Maun and four unidentified were killed by a tornado which struck the town of Sorento, thirty-two miles northeast of here. The wounded number thirty-five, three of whom may die and forty houses were wrecked, wholly or partly. The wounded are as follows, so far as known at this writing: Mrs. William Mann, Frank Shields and two daughters, Mrs. I. J. May, Charles Miller and wife, Henry Hays and wife, Henry Harlow and wife, William Kirkland and wife (latter probably fatally), William Stewart (probably fatally). Thomas File (fatally), Mrs. Phoebe Moore, Mr. and Mrs. George Root, Mrs. John Griffith, Joseph Mann, E. F. Jestes, Mrs. Lila Hays (of Litchfield), Thomas P. Moss and wife, Lizzie File. John L. West, T. J. Barker (internally), Mrs. T. J. Barker (will die), Grace Barker. Ethel Barker (internally). Urea Barker, Mrs. Griffy (internally), George Shaw and wife. At St. Louis, here and all over this section there was a furious downpour of rain. Forest Hill park at St Louis was unindated, and SIO,OOO worth of damage done. At Celton,lll., the streets temporarily were rivers, and all towns in the rain area had similar experiences.

Ten miles north of Alton a Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis freight train struck a washout and plunged down an embankment Into Branch creek, containing six feet of water. Two cars contained cattle and horses and only a few animals in the ears escaped death. Several tramps seen on the train are believed to have perished. Engineer Frank Drew, Fireman H. Ballard and Brakeman Albert Patton were on the engine and all had to awlm for their lives.

Canal Commission Returns.

New York. Oct. 18.—Members of the isthmian canal commission and the I>oard of consulting engineers, returning from n tour of inspection of the Panama canal have arrived here on the steamer Havana from Colon. Gen eral George W. Davis, chairman of the consulting engineers, said that although the party had made a careful inspection of the proposed route for the canal no decision had been reached as to the sea level plan. He said that the board might report its opinion ou the best kind of caual In two or three weeks.

Fleet to Awe Castro?

Cherbourg, France. Oct. 18.—The armored cruiser Desaix, with Admiral Bevoe de la Peyrere on board, left for Martinique. The second class cruiser Jurien de In Graviere and the third class cruisers Lavoisier, ChasseloupLaubat and Troude will join the Desalx during the voyage. It is understood the movement of the vessels is in connection with the Venesuelan troubles. .

FOR A PURE BILLOT

Party Leaders Arranging to Banish Skullduggery from the Polls. USB Or MOKBY IS LIMITED Also No Promises of Jobs or Threats of the Grand Bounce Are Al lowa ble—l terns. Columbus, Ind., Oct 19.— A meeting of a committee composed of Republicans and Democrats, appointed to draft an agreement w'hich will be effective for the coming city election, was held in tbe mayor’s office in the city ball when three drafts of the proposed agreement were submitted. These drafts came from Judge W. C. Duncan, Republican, and James F. Cox and W. H. Everroad, Democrats, and Clarence E. Custer, Democrat, were appointed to go over tbe three and take out the best portions of each. Use of Money in the Election.

This work has now been completed and tbe revised agreement will be presented to the Republican and Democratic city committees for the signatures of the chairmen of each commltmtee. If the agreement is accepted, as both committees say it will be, the provisions will go into effect at once. The agreement provides that no money shall be used at the coming city election, except to pay legitimate expenses, and to determine what these expenses are each city committee is required to make a sworn statement on the 3d of November showing each cent collected and also showing to what use the money was put. After the election another statement must be made and sworn to. Where Cash Is Ruled Out.

The use of money Is not construed to mean the buying of votes alone, for it also prohibits either committee from sending transportation to absent voters or from paying house rent to keep a man from moving from his voting precinct. Candidates arte prohibited from promising voters positions and “jobs” or from threatening to depose a laboring man in case he does not vote for |he candidate who may be talking to him. Any form of Intimidation is prohibited.

Assessment Is Limited.

Another clause of the agreement prohibits the assessment of candidates, except for the payment of • legitimate expenses, such as taking the poll and paying poll-book holders and challengers.

GREAT DAY FOR “UNCLE JACK"

Ex-Consul General Gowdy Is to Have a Warm Reception When He Gets Home. Rushville. Ind., Oct. 19.--A reception committee consisting of a hundred men and women, headed by a band, will meet "Uncle Jack” Gowdy and family at the train on their arrival here Saturday afternoon, and will escort them to the hotel. A smaller committee, composed of members of the leading literary, musical and social clubs of the city, will receive at the public reception, to be held in the court house next Tuesday evening. Ex-Governor W. T. Durbin has chartered a special traction ear, and has invited a numtier of his friends, including Governor Hanly and Chairman Goodrich, to accompany him to this city, to join in the welcome to Gowdy. The invitation committee has issued no invitations. Any of Gowdy’s friends in the state will be cordially welcomed. It is the purpose to give “Oom Jack” and his family an oldfashioned welcome, informal and nonpartisan.

Students at Purdue. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 19. Professor A. M. Kenj on, registrar at Purdue university, has completed the count of enrolled students, and it is officially announced that Purdue has, exclusive of the medical college, at Indianapolis, 1,524 students, which is an increase over last year of 148, and a 10 per cent. gain, the largest in the history of the institution, Terre Haute Man Suicides. Indianapolis, Oct. 19. A dispatch from St. Joseph, Mo., says: “G. R. Bookout, a vaudeville actor professionally known as Raymond Zel, committed suicide in a hotel here by shooting himself through the heart. Bookout’s home was in Terre Haute. Ind., where his mother lives.

Deal in Telephone Property. Indianapolis, Oct. 19. A special from Toledo, 0., says: Toledo capitalists have formed a syndicate to buy a controlling Interest in the Indianapolis Telephone company and the New Long-Distance Telephone company, capitalized at $1,400,000 for $710,000. Found Guilty of Murder. Bluffton, Ind., Oct. 19. Ernest Sanderson has been found guilty of being Implicated in the murder of Preston Sanderson, near Hartford City, Ind., a year ago, and given a life sentence. The Jury was out twelve hours. Productive Patch of Corn. New Albany, Ind., Oct. 19. From ten acres of land In Georgetown township, James Thornton, of Edwards ville, has gathered 1,100 bushels of corn, an average of 110 bushels to the acre. Has the Bom Radish. Peru, Ind., Oct 19. Jacob Whist-' ler has on exhibition a radish that weighs eight pounds.

FINAL PEACE ACT NOW COMPLETED

Emperor and Mikado Affix Their Signature* to the Treaty of Portsmouth. CZAR DOBS A GRACEFUL DEED President Roosevelt the First to Hear of the Imperial Signature. Official Declaration of the Ratification Is Made at St. Petersburg?— Japs Prepare to Evacuate Manchuria. Toklo, Oct 16. The peace treaty with Russia went into effect today. The text of the treaty was published this afternoon.

St. Petersburg, Oct 16. —The ratification of the treaty of peace is formally announced this morning in the Official Messenger, which says that its operation began yesterday. The text of the treaty is not given. Paris, Oct. 16.—The following official statement was issued z here on Saturday evening: “His majesty the emperor of Russia today signed the treaty of peace between Russia and Japan. He has charged the ambassador of Russia in Paris to communicate this fact to the knowledge of the French government and to request it to Inform the Japanese government.” Premier Rouvier, acting on behalf of the Russian government, cabled M. Harmand, the French minister at Toklo, to inform the Japanese government that the emperor of Russia had signed the peace treaty, thus completing Russia’s part In the conclusion of peace between that country and Japan.

Uncle Sam Notifies the Czar. Washington, Oct 16.—Minister Takahira called at the state department Saturday with a message stating that the emperor of Japan had signed the treaty. A cablegram was sent to Spencer, Eddy, in charge of the United States embassy at St Petersburg, who was instructed to inform the Russian foreign office that the emperor of Japan had performed his part in the conclusion of the treaty of peace. St. Petersburg, Oct. 16. Spencer Eddy, the United States charge d’affaires, at 3 p. in. yesterday officially informed the foreign office that the emperor of Japan ratified the Russo-Jap-anese peace treaty Saturday. The French minister at Tokio at the same hour informed the Japanese government that Emperor Nicholas bad signed the treaty. Japanese Evacuation Begins. Tokio, Oct. 16.—1 t is believed that the government has sent an order to Manchurian headquarters to commence the evacuation of Japanese troops Oct. 16. It is expected that Japan will effect a complete withdrawal of her troops in six months.

COMPLIMENT TO ROOSEVELT

Russia Gives Graceful Evidence of Her Appreciation of His Work. St. Petersburg, Oct. 16.—As a graceful mark of appreciation of the part he took in bringing about the conference at Portsmouth and the resultant peace President Roosevelt was the first person to lie notified by the Russian government thatEmperorNicholas had ratified the treaty. As soon as the emperor’s signature had been affixed to the instrument, and before the treaty had been brought back from Peterhof for the counter-signature of Foreign Minister the news was sent directly to the president Official notification of the French government. according to the foreign office, followed several hours later, when Count Lamsdorf had completed the ratification by his signature.. The government took no steps to make known to the people of Russia the fact that the emperor had signed the treaty until the receipt of the official notification that the instrument had been ratified by the signature of the emperor of Japan, and the first news, therefore, was communicated through the Associated Press dispatch from Washington. As soon as the treaty had been fully ratified the foreign office communicated the fact to the war, navy and other ministers, and the necessary orders were immediately issued to bring home some of the ships interned in neutral harbors. The date for the exchange of prisoners of war has not yet been fixed. Thomas Smith, United States vice consul at Moscow, has sent to Medvid several thousand roubles which had been received from Japan for the Japanese prisoners there. Komura Arrives at Tokio. Tokio, Oct 17.—Baron Komura, the foreign minister, who acted as chief peace plenipotentiary for Japan, arrived here from Vancouver, B. C. His reception at the railroad station was not enthusiastic, those present being principally government dignitaries. The streets were strongly guarded by police and gendarmes. The baron drove to the palace in an imperial carriage.

HO! FOR THE SOUTH

President Starts on a Tour of Dixie and I* Greeted at Richmond. WHOLE TOWN IS THERE TO SEE Speaks to a Big Crowd in Capitol Square and Is Banqueted—Reception to Mrs. Roosevelt. Richmond, Va., Oct. 19. President Roosevelt began his tour of the south at 8:30 a. m. yesterday. Tbe party included Mrs. Roosevelt, who will stop off in Georgia while the president proceeds farther south. The first stop was made at Fredericksburg, Va., where about 200 persons had gathered whom the president briefly addressed. At 12 noon, when the president’s train reached Richmond, practically the W'hole population was on the streets and at the station. The line of march of the president’s escort was packed with people on both sides of the streets and the windows of the houses were crowded with people, all giving the president a hearty welcome. Escorted to Capitol Square.

The president was received by a committee, including Governor Montague, and formally welcomed before he got off the train. Then the line of march was taken up for Capitol square, the escort being the Virginia military cadet corps, Seventeenth regiment Virginia volunteer Infantry, Richmond light infantry Blues, Citizens Mounted escort, and a special escort to tbe president, consisting of mounted howitzers. When the procession arrived at tbe Capitol square the president and party called at the executive mansion and paid their respects and then repaired to the speaker’s stand, which was faced by one of the greatest multitudes ever assembled in Richmond.

Reception to&Mrs. Roosevelt. Mayor McCaruiy introduced the president, who was thunderously cheered, and applause was frequent and hearty all through his speech, and rose to a whirlwind at the end. After the speech the president was escorted to Masonic Temple, the procession passing between thousands of school children, banked on either side of the street—whites on one side, negroes on the other—the first view of the “color line.” At Masonic Temple covers were laid for 400 and the hall was elaborately decorated. While the president was being entertained here Mrs. Roosevelt was at a reception In her honor at the governor’s mansion.

HIS KIN IN THE SOUTH

President Refers to Them in His Banquet Speech—lncidents of the Visit. In his speech at the banquet the president said in part: “Coining today by the statue of Stonewall Jackson, in the city of Lee, I felt what a privilege it is that I, as an American, have in claiming that you yourselves have no more right of kinship in Lee and Jackson than I have. There was an uncle of mine, now dead, my mother’s brother, who has always been among all the men I have ever met the man who it seemed to me came nearest to typifying in the flesh that most beautiful of all characters in fiction. Thackeray’s Colonel Newcome—my uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch, an admiral in the Confederate navy. In short, gentlemen, 1 claim to be neither northerner or southerner, or easterner or westerner, nothing but a good American, pure and simple. Next only to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man’s having worn the gray, as entitling him to honor in my sight.-” After the president had finished the party was posed for a flashlight photograph. Roosevelt having given his consent. and standing while the photographer took the picture. The president then hurried out and with his military guard and special mounted escort of citizens proceeded to visit points of interest about the city. The party first drew rein at the Lee monument, where the Confederate veterans from It. E. Lee camp soldiers' home were gathered to greet him. The president addressed the veterans and was heartily cheered by them. The party then drove to the old home of John Marshall, chief justice of the i United States, and to the Confederate' museum, where many of the ladies of the Confederate Memorial and Literary association were present to welcome him. He was presented here also by the ladles with a bunch of red andj white roses, tied with the Confederate' colors. Proceeding eastward the party visited St. John’s Episcopal church in which Patrick Henry made his famous “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, and the president expressed great interest in the old church and the adjacent burying ground. Shortly after 6 o’clock the president joined Mrs. Roosevelt at the governor’s mansion, and a little later the dlstin-l gulsbed visitors were escorted to the' station, whence at 7 o’clock their ’ train departed for Raleigh and the far south.

Secession Is Now Complete.

Stockholm, Oct. 17. —The union Between Norway and Sweden, existing since 1814, has been discovered, both houses of the riksdag having passed the government bill repealing the act of union and recognizing Norway “as a state separate from the union with Sweden.”

SPLIT ON THE TARIFF.

latenae Peelin* Between Rival Re- , t pabllean Faetieaa. The two tariff factions of the Republican party do not seem to be uniting for the newly proposed dual tariff, judging by the actions of their respective champions. The advocates of the lowa idea—that the tariff fosters trusts and therefore should be revised —were pretty effectually smothered last year, as far as political results are concerned, though the ardor of its defenders, revisionists, does not Appear to be dampened. Governor Cummins, who Is the most prominent Republican tariff reformer, has just 'fallen foul of Secretary Shaw and has demolished that economic charlatan by quoting him out of his own mouth. Secretary Shaw challenged a statement made by Governor Cummins in an address delivered before the national reciprocity conference at Chicago, in which he said the secretary of 'the treasury in a speech at Des Moines declared that the refusal of the senate to consider the French reciprocity treaty was because “it gives everything to France and nothing to the United States.” Secretary Shaw denied that he said the words quoted, “or anything that could be so interpreted.” But Governor Cummins comes back at him and quotes from an editorial in the Des Moines Capital, a Shaw stand patter organ, which substantially proves his contention. Secretary Shaw will probably try to creep out of the mess he is in, for that is his usual method.

But the main point is the fact that this intense feeling between the leaders of the rival factions id lowa is equally rampant elsewhere and cannot be smothered before the campaign for electing congressmen is under way next summer. That will be the golden opportunity for the Democrats. They should nominate their strongest and most able champions of tariff reform and make tariff revision tbe main issue. There will be quite a percentage of Republican and independent voters who will welcome the opportunity to read the Republican stand patters a lesson and give the trust magnates and their tariff fostered high prices a dig under the fifth rib that will let daylight in on their preposterous profits. A good many people besides Democrats have become tired of the greatly Increased cost of living without any compensating advantage.

FARMERS SHOULD. PONDER.

Voters of the Repablieaa Ticket Have Food For Thought. Hon. E. N. Foss, the Boston manufacturer and tariff reformer and a former Republican congressman, said something at the Chicago reciprocity conference that every farmer that votes the Republican ticket should ponder over before he casts his next vote. The problem stated by Mr. Foss was: “Has there ever been a time in the past fifty years, if in the history of the United States, when the American farmer could afford to sacrifice his foreign outlet? Yet that is what his pretended friends among the stand patters of the country are asking him to do. They have asked him, for their sakes, to submit to a high tariff on everything he buys, and he has done this cheerfully. Now, made bold by monopoly, they ask him to withdraw from the markets of the world.” The result of our high protective tariff wall has been that Germany and other countries of Europe have also erected a tariff wall, much higher than our own, for the evident purpose of preventing a bushel of American wheat or corn or a barrel of pork or beef from entering those countries. This new prohibitive tariff becomes operative March 1 next and will soon have a disastrous effect on our exports to those countries. That result will, perhaps, not much affect the price of our agricultural products for the crop of this season, but is certain to reduce the price in the future. The high firice of trust products here will be still higher, so the farmer will be the sufferer both ways. This Is the result of the Republican policy of protection.

The Big Stick In China.

It is rather amusing to notice the administration’s threats to the Chinese government “that al) negotiations for a new convention to discuss the Chinese exclusion act will be discontinued until the anti-American boycott is stopped and that China will be held responsible for losses sustained by American citizens.” The Chinese authorities state they have taken energetic steps to stop everything of an illegal or disorderly character, but they cannot stop the boycott. As China does not want an exclusion treaty and the people of China do not want our goods, it is difficult to see what we can do*about it, short of forcing them to swallow both of our demands at the cannon's mouth, and the use of force would hardly be indorsed by the American people and would only further disrupt our trade with China. The “big stick” policy will hardly work in the orient.

The Price of Coal.

The anthracite coal commission reports the average selling price of coal at tidewater as $4.64, which fixes the miners’ wages as 2 per cent over the basis fixed by the strike commissionera* award. The price at the mines is about *2, so you can figure what the railroads are charging you and if you think the charge is reasonable.

Lost Prestige.

The Dallas News declares that ‘‘President Roosevelt has lost more prestige by backing down from his position on the special session to reform the tariff than he can ever recover by talking of the necessity for curbing carefully selected trusts.”