Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — Page 4

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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION.

The Democrats of Jasper County are hereby notified that the County Convention for the nomination of Candidates for various County offices, to be voted for at the November election, 1906, will be held at the East Court room, Rensselaer, Indiana, on. SATURDAY. MAY 26, 1906, at 11 o’clock a.’ m. There will be nominated at said convention the following officers: Clerk of Circuit Court, County Treasurer, County Sheriff, w » County Auditor, County Assessor, County Surveyor, County Coroner, <)i>e Commissioner front Second District. One Commissioner froth Third District, County Councilnieii for the First. Second. Third and Fourth Couucilmuuic Districts, respectively, Three County Couiicilmen at Larue. The several precincts will meet at their usual voting places, on Saturday, May, 19, 1906, at one o'clock p. m., and choose delegates to said convention. The basis of representatiion at th's convention will be one delegnu for each ten votes, or fraction thereof, cast for the Honorable Edward J. Fogarty for Secretary of State in 1904. Upon this basis the various precincts will be entitled to the following number of delegates: Hanging Grove 4 Newton 6 Gillam 7 Keener 3 Walker V Kankakee 6 Harkley East 8 Carpenter South.. 5 Barkley Went ... 7 Carpenter East.... 7 Marion No. 1 8 Carpenter West... 8 Marion No. 2.... 10 Milroy... 4 Marion No. 3 8 Union South 9 Marion No. 4 9 Union North 7 Jordan..... 8 Wheatfield 9 At said Convention there will be chosen delegates to the State, Congressional, Judicial, Senatorial and Representative Conventions. Lucius Strong, Chairman. Geo. E. Hershman.Secretary.

CALL FOR STATE CONVENTION.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 12, 1906. To the Democrat* of Indiana and all those who desire to co-operate with them: In accordance with an order of the Democratic State Central Committee, the Democrats of Indiana, and all who desire to co-operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall in the City of Indianapolis, Ind., on Thursday, June 7, 1906, at ten o’clock a. m., for the purpose of adopting a platform for the Campaign and the nomination of candidates for the following offices: Secretary of State Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instructin')!. State Geologist. State Statistician, One Judge o the Supreme Court for First District. One Judge of the Supreme Court t -r Fourth District. Two Juagee of the Appellate Conrt for First District. Three Judges of the Appellate Court for Second District. The convention will be composed of 1,371 delegates, appor. tioned among the several counties of the State on a basis of one delegate for every 200 votes and for each additional fraction of

more than 100 votes cast for John W. Kern for Governor at the November election in 1904, Jasper county being entitled to the representation of seven delegates. The delegates from the respective counties composing the sev eral congressional districts will meet in the city of Indianapolis at 7:30 p. m., on Wednesday, June 6, 1906, at the following places: First District—State House, Room 45, first floor. Second District—State House, Room 11, first floor. Third District—State House, Room 12, first floor. Fourth District—State House,Room 83, second floor. Fifth District—State House, Room 91, third floor. Sixth District—State House, Room 93, third floor. Seventh District Criminal Court Room, Court House. Eighth District—State House, Room 102, third floor. Ninth District—State House, Room 85, second floor. Tenth District —State House, Room 120, third floor. Eleventh District —State House, Room 29, first floor. Twelfth District State House, Room 15, first floor. Thirteenth District—State House, Room 112, third floor. At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected: One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. One member of Committee on Order of Business and Permanent Organization. One member of Committee on Credentials One member of Committee on Resolutions Tickets to the convention will be distributed by the District Chairman at these district meetings. The members of the committees thus chosen will meet at the following places at 8 o’clock p. m., of the same day: Committee on Resolutions—Room No. 77, Grund Hotel.

Committee on Credentials—Room No. 26, Grand Hotel.

Committee on Permanent OrganizationRoom No. 3, Grand Hotel.

The County Committees of the several counties wherein delegates have not been selected, will make the necessary arrangements for the selection of delegates, giving at least two weeks notice by publication in the Democratic paper of the county, of the time, hours and place of holding such election for delegates. All railroads will allow reduced rates to and from Indianapolis for the convention. W. H. O’Brien Cn’m. Joe Reiley, Sec’y.

We wonder that our republican friends don’t deny that the McCoys ever lived in Jasper county or affiliated With that party.

Bro. Carr of the Fowler Leader resents the imputation.of a Rensselaer paper that he has squandered in the newspaper business the patrimony of $75,000 left him by his father, and is a candidate for the county house John says he still has over 1100 acres of tine land, some 500 of which he acquired by purchase.

AMUSING DENIALS.

It is all very well now —they talked very different a few years ago—for the republican politicians and ward-heelers here who have lived off the McCoys—or the bank depositors, rather—and the taxpayers of Jasper county for a score or more of years, to refer to “Tom” as “lunk-head,” etc., and deny that he or “Old Mac” had any influence in their campaigns; to deny that they nominated and elected “Doc" Nichols to get square with him, etc., but the people know very well that the statements made by W. H. Blodgett, the Indianapolis News’ correspondent in bis reports of the trial, are essentially correct. The McCoys were political bankers in the fullest sense of the word, and the writer personally knows that they did take great interest in electing public officials who would have public funds to deposit, and esifecially in the election of Nichols as treasurer of Jasper county. All this blow and bluster, denial and calling Blodgett h liar, will not alter facts in the least.

Uncle John Makeever told the writer of a certain republican that “Old Mac” wanted elected to county office some twenty years ago, and came to him (Mr. Makeever) and talked about it. The latter told “Old Mac” that the man was not fit for the office, had made a failure of managing his own business, etc. To this “Mac” replied: “I don’t care a ; we want him; we can ‘use’ him ” And

the man was elected and no donbt the McCoys “need” him. The McCoys have run the republican political machine in Jasper county for many years, and it was necessary to get their consent in many instances before any republican ventured to ask for the nomination for office.

In reading the testimony of the McCoy bank victims, wherein they tell of efforts made to draw money from the bank weeks and months before it failed, and were begged by “Tom” and his man Walter White, to let it remain there, or were put off with drafts on some other city bank where the McCoys had no deposits; of drafts issued that came back protested to business men as early as Dec. 1903; of Tom’s frequent running of an afternoon to business men who carried accounts there, and asking them for what currency they had, as “the bank had failed to get a remittance of several thousand dollars from Lafayette,” or some other place, and was short of cash to run through the day; all this, it would seem, should have warned those who had this sort of experience with the bank that it was mighty shaky, and instead of continuing to do business with an institution of that sort and telling others they thought "it was all right,” they should have gotten out and stayed out. As we have before remarked, the “Fool Killer” has evidently been neglecting his business in Rensselaer for a long time.

--The Indianapolis News, in a lengthy editorial on~the McCoy bank wrecking trial, closes with the following: We all need to realize that even private banking is a public business, and as such must be strictly regulated and controlled. And we should also insist that a banker shall be a banker and nothing else. He has no business to be meddling in politics, no business to incur political obligations or to confer political favors. If he gets the public deposits in the ordinary course of business, and without buying them with bonds furnished to the men that make the deposits, no one will complain. But to support for nomination and election a man in order to get his deposit, to furnish him a bond in return for his deposits, and to interfere in polities in any wayall this is something that must not be tolerated. The political bankers must go. And private banks must be brought under rigid control. Only so shall we be safe. The McCoys are tine specimens of the political banker. And their failure furnishes as conclusive an argument as could be asked for the enactment of a law for the regulation of private banking.

Railroad Mint Stand Trial.

Kansas City, Mo., May 23. The demurrer of the Burlington railway denying the Jurisdiction of the govern nient in export freight nites was overruled in tlie United States court here by Judge Smith McPherson, of Red Oak, la. The decision is of great importance to many railways and shipping interests, and of ]»articular weight in the present instance liecause it destroys the contention of the railways that export rates need not be made public. It means, too, that the Burlington railway and other railroadsand other corporations and persons indicted here last December must go to trial for granting rebates. The trial of the Burlington was set for May 31.

Fire Dew troys Fairbanks, Alaska.

Seattle. Wash., May 24. —The entire business section of the town of Fairbanks, Alaska, was destroyed by a tiro which started In the Fairbanks building, a three-story frame structure, at 4 o’clock In the afternoon. Details of the disaster are very meager, but it is feared that the food supply of the town has Iteen destroyed and groat suffering may result. The loss Is estimated at a million dollars and it is announced that the heavier business interests of the town are already planning to rebuild. No lives were lost.

Farmers in a Quandary.

Greenfield, Ind., May 25.—Farmers in this county are puzzled to know what to do with corn planted. They saj they must plow It up and plant again or trust to the coining of a heavy rain that will sprout the grains. Jx'ss than half the corn that hqs been planted has sprouted, but a rain would bring It up.

Old Age and Youth Try to Suicide.

Terre Haute, Ind., May 25.—William Patterson, aged 70. and tired of life, attempted suicide on the court house steps, and at the same time May Pat terson, a young girl, but no relation to the aged Patterson, quarreled with her sweetheart and also attempted suicide. Neither attempt was successful.

FOREST FLAMES DO TERRIBLE HAVOC

One Hundred Square Miles Are Swept, Including Five Counties in Michigan. DIBABTEH HAS SPENT ITSELF Four Persons Known To Be Dead, Three of Whom Are Children. FATE OF SCORES IS YET UNKNOWN Foor Towns Completely Wiped Out and a Dozen Partly Destroyed— Many Prosperous T'arma Burned Over. Escanaba, Mich., May 22.—Out of the chaos resulting from the widespread forest fires of Friday order Is gradually being restored, the towns and isolated settlers are all preparing to repair the damage done, and all danger is now over, because the rain has extinguished the last smoldering fires.

Escanaba, Mich., May 21. Four known dead, a score or more persons missing, hundreds of families homeless, several millions of dollars in property burned, four towns wiped out entirely and a dozen more partly, five counties devastated and 100 square miles of territory fire-swept. This is the dreadful pieturethat the northern Michigan peninsula presents after the worst forest fire since the Peshtigo disaster in 1871 has spent itself. General Superintendent W. E. Wells, of the Escanaba and I.ake Superior road, along which right-of-way the greatest loss occurred, has returned from a trip of inspection over the fire-stricken area and says that the flames have gone down and for the time being the danger is over unless a new gale arises to again fan the embers into flames. Summary of the Havoc. The following summary briefly tells the story: The dead —Peter Lafond. a cook, smothered in a lumber camp near Katos; three unknown children dead at Quinnesec, Mich., separated from their parents while the village was burning, and perished. Scores of homesteaders and woodsmen missing, and many have probably i»erished in the flames. Territory devastated—five counties, Marquette. Menominee, Delta, Alger and Dickinson. The territory fire-swept is 100 square miles. Towns t«Xally_burned—Talbot Mich,. 300 population, only a few houses left standing: Quinnesec. Mich.. 400 population; only one house remains; Saunders, 150 population, all wiped out; Niagara,Wis., 300 population, all wiped out. Towns partly destroyed: Northland, Cornell, Antoine, Spring Valley, Kingsley, Woodlawn, Foster City, Sala. MetrojKilitan. Many Brave I>eeds Done.

Details of the fire are gradually coming out of the burned territory. All day long refugees and trainmen have been coming in telling tales of misery and suffering, as well as heroism and brave deeds, that were enacted while the fire was at its height. The burned over district extends from a point ten miles out of Escanaba to Talbot, on the south to Channing, and to Quinnesec on the west. Sands on the north and back to Escanaba. While this territory has not been swept over entirely the major portion of it north of the Northwestern line has. South of the line it burned in spots. The flames were fiercest along the Escanaba and Lake Superior line.

BEEN SMOULDERING LONG

But No One Thought of Danger - Then , a Big Wind Caine Up. It is in thi§ district that 1.000 or more of the small fires have been smouldering for weeks. Nothing was thought of these fires because they were not dangerous, but It only needed a wind to fan them Into a mighty sheet of flame. This wind came on Friday afternoon. Toward noon the wind began to blow from the west at the rate of thirty miles an hour. By 2p. m. the velocity was forty miles, and by 4 p. m. the small fires seemed to have united Into one large one that extended over a tifty-nille stretch and swept along with a fury that no human hand could stay. Throughout the territory hundreds of woodsmen were put to work to stay the fire, but It could not be fought. It marched on and it was only by diverting its iwths that some of the towns were saved. First to l>e driven out were the woodsmen in camp and the homesteaders. Hundreds of small and properous farms were in the territory, and the occupants of these hurried to the nearest towns for shelter. Cattle and stock and houses ami l*ams and their contents were left for the flames. Wagons were hurriedly loaded with personal effects, ami the race against the flames began.

In some instances whole families came In. Many, however, reported that some of the members had been separated and left behind and it is the fate of these that concerns most everybody. The flames came in as fast as the refugees. The latter then, with the people of the towns, turned out to help save the villages, and a desperate fight it was. Some of the towns were hemmed in on all sides, and it wan either save the towns or burn up. Maty

were saved, but some were not Talbot and Quinnesec are the most notable examples . At both a hard fight was put. up. but In the end the places had to be abandoned.

CURIOUS FHEAK OF THE FIKE Burna a Home; Leaves the Fences Un-touched-Wild Animals Scared. Milwaukee, May 21. —A staff correspondent of The Sentinel who made a tour of the district In the upper peninsula of Michigan covered by the forest fires in a special train, the first train to go through the district since the catastrophe, telegraphing to his paper says that the Are appears to be practically out in all of the district. Many curious things happened. One man who carried a coffin, with the corpse of his dead babe thirty miles to Escanaba in his escape from the fire, went back on the special train and found his home gone, but the picket fence surrounding the house untouched. The ashes of his home had been blown away by the gale, and the fence was the only evidence of human habitation. A remarkable feature of the fire is the fact that nearly all the refugees are not disheartened, but are determined to return and begin over. They have only the clothes they wear, but say this is the fortune of the frontiersman, and that if their homes are lost at least the fire has cleared the land for them, and this much labor is saved.

Win. Wells, general superintendent of the Escanaba and Lake Superior road, said* “The losses will not be as heavy as I had anticipated, but they will be serious, nevertheless. The woodsmen throughout the region have done noble work, and I cannot sjieak too highly of their efforts. I had rather an exciting time of it at Cornell. I had taken a relief train out there and the moment the train arrived men, women and children made a rush for it and deserted their efforts to check the fire. “There was almost a riot. The men and women almost stormed the train, but I told them that it was either save the town or let the train bum up with it. When they saw I meant it they went back to work and the town was practically saved; only half a dozen houses were burned. It goes to show under what strain the fires were fought.” The fire drove all the wild animals out of the woods and many of them took shelter on the right of way of the road, where the fire usually was checked.

One Death at Cobalt. Cobalt, Ont., May 21.—Fifty-seven-houses are burned and a dozen others are wrecked as the result of the forest which swept through the northern part of the town ns it passed the Ontario Powder company's dynamite magazine. Seven and a half tons of dynamite explode.] within fifty feet of tlje main ponicnr of the town, tearing bUiHiii gs from their foundations nnd spreading ruin in all directions. Only one fatality is so far reported, that of a child.

PRINCESS ENA OFF FOR SPAIN

Will Be Met at the Frontier by King Alfonso, Her Future Husband. London, May 24.—Princess Ena and mother. Princess Henry of Battenberg, left London for Spain, at the frontiei of which King Alfonso will await his future bride. The departure of the princess from Victoria station was the occasion for an enthusiastic demonstration on the part of the Spanish colony here. The platform also was crowded with English friends, who gave the future queen of Spain a hearty send-off. King Edward, Queen Alexandra, the prince and princess of Wales, the duke and duchess of Connaught. and other members of the royal family and the staff of the Spanish embassy were among those present. The king conducted princess Ena to the royal saloon car, which was filled with flowers. Loud cries of “Long live the queen of Spain" were raised as the train left the station.

Ex-Preacher Seeks Hitt's Seat.

Freeport, 111., May 24.—1 n announcing that he will enter the race for Congressman Hitt's seat in the house against Colonel Frank O. Lowden, W. P. I/andon of Rochelle, a former Presbyterian minister, stylos the latter a plutocrat and intimaitee he Is trying to buy up the district with his money, and for that reason many prominent men are afraid to oppose him.

Pennsylvania to Investigate.

Philadelphia, May 24.—At a meeting of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad comimny, a committee was appointed to Investigate the allegations recently made before the interstate commerce commission, tlmt certain officers of the Pennsylvania railroad hold stock in several coal companies.

Three Killed; One Paralyzed.

Hammond. Ind., May 24. Three were and one fatally injured hy lightning during a storm. The dead are John Mlchow, West Hammond; Louis Steinbach, Hammond: Mrs. Ludke, Whiting. The injured Roy Witter, paralyzed. Farmers report great damage to the crops by the heavy rain.

Marines Rushed to Isthmus.

Washington. May 23.—Acting on Information which is not given to the public, the administration has ordered a large number of marines to jtoints near Panama in expectation of revolutionary outbreaks on the isthmus at the coming elections, early In June.

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