Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1906 — Page 4

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THE TICKET.

Far Bacratary of Btata / JAMES F. COX. For Traaaurar of Btata ’ JOHN ISENBARGER. Far Auditor of Stata— MARION BAILEY. > Far Attorney General— WALTER J. LOTZ. Mr Clark of Supremo Court— BURT NEW. Far Superintendent Public Inatruetto*— ROBERT J. ALEY. For State Geologist— EDWARD BARRETT. For State Statistician— DAVID N. CURRY. Far Judge Supreme Court, First District— EUGENE A. ELY. For Judge Supreme Court, Fourth Dirt.— RICHARD ERWIN. For Judges Appellate Court, First DtsVMILTON B. HOTTEL. G. W. FELT. For Judges Appellate Court, Second Dlrt.RICHARD R. HARTFORD. HENRY G. ZIMMERMAN. HENRY A. STEIS. t Mr. Rockefeller is at least to be compliment as rich man whose wealth never led him into any vulgar scandal. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has made the painful discovery that packers do not always live up to their smooth and artistic line of conversation. President Roosevelt has declared his desire for strict seclusion at Sagamore Hill. This 1 means a hard summer for Mr. Loeb. Still if the gentleman gets elected, who is running, or is going to be running, for governor on the democratic ticket in lowa, it may put a crimp or two in the Bryan boom. Rear Admiral Rojestvensky’s acquittal on the ground that he did not know what he was doing Vhen he surrendered the Russian fleet to the Japanese, is a new variation of the ‘emotional insanity” plea in defense. One of the active bosses of the Republican party in Indiana is the Hon’ble "Tobe” Hert of Louisville, Ky. What sort of a mop is be carrying in this campaign? He has not, so far anybody knows, ■ established a as reputation as a “house-cleaner. People who are talking about restricting wealth and keeping those who have an unlimited amount of it out of the U. 8. Senate. should remember that under our benign and thoughtful constitution we cannot enact class regulation against the downtrodden millionaire or any one else.

The following fervent prayer appeared in the editorial columns of the Omaha World-Herald some time ago: “We are beginning to need rain out here in Nebraska. We have no complaints to make over republican management of the sunshine. It has been all the most captious could desire and the spring showers were fine. But we do feel that we are entitled to a few gentle summer rains. And so we appeal to the republican party, source of rain; oh! great and good republican party, source of all our blessings and bane of all ills, give us rain!”

BRIGADIER GENERALS IDLE.

Our top heavy army is to again be recognized to give employment to the large number of Brigadier generals who have nothing to do. Seven posts are to be established at once, and two more if the funds bold out, and in each of these is to be concentrated enough troops to form a brigade with a general in command. This will necessitate the dismantlement of most of the smaller forts with accomodations for one regiment or less. This is the Roosevelt-Taft plan and the appropriations made by Congress of 1800,000 for army posts and $3,000,000 for barracks and quarters and $12,000,000 for transportation of troops are to be manipulated to carry out the scheme. It might cheaper and better to retire a few brigadier generals, or for Congress to reduce their number, but such retrenchment could not be expected from a Republican Administration.

SOME KINDS OF LYING.

The Republican leaders are so worried over the outlook of their party that they are causing to be printed in the party newspapers all sorts of cock and bull stories about Mr. Bryan. Usually these stories start off with a positive statement that Mr. Bryan has agreed to do this, or is going to do that, or has concluded a dicker with this man, or has formed an alliance with that one, and so on through a long list of improbable and silly things. The purpose is, of course, to make capital for for the J Republican party. A careful reading of most of these fake stories will show that their authors become ashamed of the positive character of their lies before they finish them and taper off by using such modifying phrases as “it is believed” that such and such a thing is so, or “Mr. Bryan is expected” to do a certain thing, or “an inference is drawn to that effect,” and like form of dishonest prevarication. But it is hardly worth while to bother about such things. Every intelligent person knows that Mr. Bryan can be depended upon to do what is right, and nothing else.

COERCING THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA.

The defeat of President Roosevelt’s scheme by the Democrats to force Arizona into partnership with New Mexico, appears to have enraged him against the people of that territory. He threatens then that “if they let this*chance go by they will have to wait many years before the chance again offers itself, and even then it probably will be only the present terms—that is on the condition of being joined with New Mexico.” Arizona is Democratic, New Mexico is Republican and the great majority of the voters are Mexicans and the Roosevelt scheme is to force the two territories together, and make a Republican state. This plan is very obnoxious to the people of Arizona, who are largely Americans and prefer to remain as a territory than to be ruled by the Mexicans. Thanks to the Democratic amendment to the enabling act the people of Arizona have the right to vote, for or against, the joint statehood plan. The federal office-holders are already engaged in an active campaign to induce the voters to accept the statehood with New Mexico. They should be attending to their official business.

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FIGHT FOR DOMINANCE

Latest Development of thp Mutual Life Insurance Company Dispute. ILICTIOB OF THUSTIXB IS XKAB Four Men Decline Nomination by the Management Peabody and Untermyer Are at Loggerhead*. New York, July 19.—Four of the members of the international policyholders’ committee of the Mutual apd New York Life Insurance companies, who were included in the new board of trustees nominated by the Mutual Life Insurance company trustees as an “administration ticket,” have declined to permit the use of their names In this connection. On their behalf a protest was forwarded to Otto Kelsey, state superintendent of insurance at Albany, by Samuel Untermyer, counsel to the policyholders’ organization. Despite this protest it was stated by counsel for the Mutual that the trustees have a right under the law to nominate whomsoever they choose, and that requests for withdrawal cannot be considered once the nominations are announced. Men Who Refuse io Serve. The four members of the policyholders’ committee affected are Judge Geo. Gray, of Delaware; General Benjamin F. Tracy, of this city; Colonel Alfred M. Shook, of Tennessee, and Harlow N. Hlglnbotham, of Chicago. All of these gentlemen sent telegrams to Untermyerdeclaring they were nominated without being consulted and without their consent. Acting for the policyholders’ organization Untermyer also sent a protest to Albany against the manner In which the lists of policyholders in the various Insurance companies have been filed. He says the companies have failed to give the proper addresses in many Instances and have been guilty of “wilful evasion.” Points of Untermyer’s Protest. Untermyer's protest says in part as to the lists of policyholders filed by the insurance companies: “They are a wilful evasion intended to disfranchise a large proportion of the policyholders, and to secure unfair advantages to the administration ticket in the impending election. Section 94 of the insurance law’, as amended by the last general assembly, distinctly requires the lists to contain the last known postoffice addresses of all policyholders. That phrase has a recognized meaning in legal construction. It means that the street and street number as well as the name of the postoffice shall be given. A list giving the addresses of numerous ‘John Smiths’ as New York is a palpable violation of the law. The addresses of a very large proportion of the names ot policyholders in large cities are thus given without street or street numbers.”

ROAST FOR UNTERMYER President Peabody Says That He Is After Control Himself. When Peabody, president of the Mutual Life Insurance company, was ■hown Untermyer’s protests, he said: “I am not surprised, but I am afraid the gentleman has let the cat out of the bag. Perhaps his solicitude that there shall lie a good board is not so great as his solicitude lest the control of affairs shall pass out of bis hands. I certainly shall not go to him for instruction upon the subject of the proprieties. We believed that Judge Gray, General Tracy. Colonel Shook and Mr. Higinbotham, notwithstanding their criticism upon our administration, were men well fitted for trustees. • • • “The truth is that Mr. Untermyer, In my Judgment, is not altogether the disinterested public benefactor h e would have the policyholders understand. He made up a list of gentlemen of excellent character, calling them by the high-sounding name of the ‘international policyholders' committee’ and asked them to meet in New York. It is absurd to say that they were delegated to this work by the policyholders. No one could, by any possibility, have reached the policyholders in such numbers as to secure any proper mandate from them. “We know perfectly well that their commission came direct from Mr. Untermyer, who personally solicited them to accept places on the so-called committee. The 'gentlemen upon the committee uihiaubtedly were moved by high purposes, and felt that they were doing their duty; but when I tell you that of their twenty-eight members who constituted the committee not more than eight were policyholders in the Mutual Life Insurance company It Is clear that they are subject to the charge of attending to some one else's business.

Alton Secures a Stay.

Chicago, July 17.—Judge Peter 8. Grosscup, In the United States circuit court, granted the Chicago & Alton Railroad company, J. N. Faithorn and Fred A. Wann writs of supersedeas staying the execution of a fine aggregating $60,000 assessed against the three defendants a short time ago by Judge Landis.

Great Fire at Nizini Novgorod.

Niziui. Novgorod, July 16.—A fire which broke out here raged for six hours before it was checked. When it was finally extinguished 275 houses had been destroyed and more than 3,000 families had been rendered homeless. The loss is placed at $400,000.

BUGLES SOUND TRUCE

Warring Central American Republics Are to Cot Together and Negotiate. ' BTOZY OF A TRIPLE COMBINK IMHIIH I I . • Guatemala the Obnoxious Party Trouble Began Last March— v Assassination Advocated for Cabrera. Washington, July 18.—The evening of July 18 (today) probably will be fixed as the time for an armistice In Central America pending the settlement of the dispute involving Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. The state department has received dispatches from the City of Mexico, from Guatemala City and from San Salvador, indicating that all the powers involved in the war are willing to agree upon an armistice, -but some difficulty in fixing the time when it shall begin has been encountered because of the scattered condition of the warring troops and the scarcity of means of communication between the parts of the various republics. It is stated by state. department officials, however, that this seems to be acceptable to al) the powers. Combined Against Guatemala. New Orleans, La., July 18. —An alleged coalition of the Central American republics against Guatemala is reported in a dispatch from the city of Mexico. The dispatch, which quotes a friend of General Barillas as authority, says: “Some time last March Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua entered into an offensive and defensive coalition against Guatemala, agreeing that the moment there was an infringement by Guatemala of territorial rights of either of the three confederates a declaration of war against Guatemala should follow.” Trouble Began Last March. The dispatch also says that John Jenkins, of Omaha, Neb., consul general of the United States at San Salvador, Is on his way at the request of the Salvadorean government to present to President Roosevelt a copy of a diplomatic circular Issued by Salvador, alleging that the present troubles began last March, when Dr. Fortin, charge d’affaires of Salvador at Guatemala City, found that his mall was being tampered with. Boers to Help Raise Cain. “Later.” it Is alleged that the circular says: “Dr. Fortin reported to his government that President Cabrera, of Guatemala, had secured sixty Boers at Chicago. St. Louis p.ad New Orleans to go to Salvador t»nd join malcontents there in an attempt to disrupt the government. In the circular are quoted also copies of telegrams from President Cabrera to the minister of the Salvador foreign department charging that General Regalado and President Escalon, of Salvador, conspired with the end of procuring Cabrera's assassination." Assassination Is Called For. A copy of this circular Is said by the dispatch to be now in the hands of Mexican department of foreign affairs. It is further stated that posters have been placed about In Guatemala City calling for the assassination of President Cabrera, and some of these missives have even been placed opposite the walls of the president’s res dence, which is guarded by about 2.0<>0 picked men. Cabrera is said to be practically a prisoner in his residence, and to have his food tested sot poison before eating it.

LIVELY FIGHTS REPORTED Cabrera Said to Have Violated His Word in Two Hours. Ban Salvador, July 18. Notwithstanding President Cabrera’s agreement with the president of Mexico to cease fighting pending peace negotiations in Central America two sharp engagements have occurred in Salvador just across the Guatemalan border. One was at Platanar and the other at Metapan. The Salvadoreans were victorious in both enggements. Within two hours after Cabrera agreed to suspend hostilities his troops yesterday morning attacked the Salvadorean anny at Platanar, only to be defeated by the latter. The fighting at Metapan occurred Monday afternoon. Both Platanar and Metapan are objective points in the march to Santa Ana, the summer capital of Salvador. Never In the history of any country has there been such a patriotic spirit shown as in Salvador at the present time. Rich and poor are served alike, as was shown in the «ngagement Monday. In the battw column Adalberto Gulrola. son of the millionaire, Angel Guirola, lost his life. He was a graduate of West Point and when the war broke out enlisted with thousands of his countrymen. He was about 30 years old and worth $500,000 in bis own right. This is not the only case of rich men enlisting. There are members of almost every rich family in Salvador now at the front.

Dreyfus in Crack Regimeut.

Paris, July 17.—Major Dreyfus has been assigned to the Twelfth regiment of artillery, stationed at Vincennes. Thia Is a crack regiment. Brigadier General Picquart Is to sene on the staff of the military governor of Paris.

Philadelphia Gets Elks in 1907.

Denver, July 19,—Philadelphia was chosen by the grand lodge of Elks as the convention city for next year. Philadelphia received 495 votes, Baltimore 265, St. Joseph withdrew.

JAP HILL IS REFORMED

Tough Character Who Wont West and Grew Up Straight While Out There. “HE NEVEB SHOOK HtS MOTHEB” Schlatter the “Healer” Reappear*— Now with the Spiritualist* at Chesterfield Camp. Frankfort, Ind., July 20. When Jasper Hill, after several years’ absence from the city, returned and introduced a comely-looking woman as his wife, with the remark that he had settled down and was leading an upright life, there was a murmur of surprise and approval. The life of Jasper Hill, more than that of any other man that ever lived tn the city, reads like a romance, and few men in the state have taken part In as many escapades as he. A perfect athlete and without fear, he was known and feared all over the county, and he was constantly at war with the authorities. S How He Got Out of Jail. Once while serving a jail sentence here he wasp’lsited by some of the women of the family and he changed clothing with them and walked out of the jail door, past Sheriff Hill, and made his escape. He -was free for several weeks before being recaptured. A few’ years ago, In company with his brothers, he was at work near Browns Valley, when the Hill boys became engaged in a pitched battle with the citizens of the town, a number of shots being fired by both sides. Both Got Prison Sentences. The brothers were hunted with bloodhounds. Jasper was arrested by the marshal of Crawfordsville at the point of a pistol, the officer catching him while he was sleeping on the ground. For his part in this affair Jasper was sent to prison at Michigan City, while his brother went to jail at Crawfordsville. Jasper was taken to prison in irons. Gets a Parole and Goes West. He had an ex-banker for a cell-mate, and the banker, taking a fancy to him. agreed to send him to the state of Washington to manage his ranch in the event the prison board would grant a parole to him. D. A. Coulter, of this city, a member of the board, was instrumental in obtaining for him a parole, and Hill went west. He made a report to the prison officials each month and a year ago he was discharged. Knew What She Was Getting. The woman of his choice, though knowing his past history, was married to him and she says she is proud of him. She owns 800 acres of land in Washington, has a large general store and is well off in this world's goods. Hill’s trip here at this time is for the purpose of taking his aged mother home with him. where she will pass the remainder of her days in peace and comfort. REAPPEARANCE OF SCHLATTER Alleged Dowie Healer Who Created a Furor at Denver Years Ago la with the Spirit ualiats, Anderson, Ind., July 20. Francis Schlatter, who attracted considerable attention as a “divine healer” at Denver, Colo., and other places several years ago. is among the new arrivals at the Chesterfield camp of the Indiana Association of Spiritualists. Schlatter’s appearance in camp w’as unexpected. He said he had stopped at the camp for a few days' rest while passing through Indiana. The “divine healer” said he had been resting in seclusion for eighteen months and had decided to renew his practice of healing ■ ' He offered to give a demonstration of bis alleged healing powers in camp, and he may be permitted to do so next Sunday. Schlatter no longer wears his hair long nor clothes himself with a mantle, as he did during his career in Denver, and his general appearance at this time does not differ much from the average man of bls age in manner or dress. Schlatter does not say where he lives o/ has his headquarters since coming from his retreat Freak from a Corn Field. Princeton, Ind., July 20. J. M. Scantlin has an ear of corn from the top of which is growing a fully matured blade of wheat the head of the wheat being well filled with solid grains. From thg_ head of .wheat a small nubbin of corn, perfectly formed, is growing. The freak was .rtlucK'ed from a com field west of this cwy.. Dean of the Law School.. Indianapolis, July 20. Enoch G. Hogate has been elected dean of the law school at Indiana university to succeed George L. Reinhard, who died at Bloomington last week. This is a promotion for Hogate, who’ was second man in the law school faculty. Grief Drives Him Insane. Charlestown, Ind., July 20.—Charles Hulse.an Englishman,6s years old, one" of the wealthiest farmers in the Runyantown neighborhood, Jias been Jfeclared of unsound mindJth^resuliT of Intense grief over the/derth of|his daughter Gladys. Two Poisoned by Ptomaine. Milton, Ind., July 20. —Miss Martha Baker and her nephew, Harry Ward, living on her farm near this place, are U 1 of supposed ptomaine poison.

BRIEF AND BREEZY.

Not a sou! has arisen to suggest four years more of Grover.” ~Jp°V a ß®rson has resumed political predictions at the old stand. It just like the Phillipinea to go as bad 1 cho^®ra or something just The most of us will have to be shown a picture of those Toledo ice men in jail before believing it. Tom Johnson is to figure as the hero of a novel. Tom Taggart is already posing as the victim of a plot. • The Shaw boom couldn’t look much flatter if Secretary Taft were to absent-mindedly sit down on it. On the question of a presidential candidate the Democratic party is the greatest standpatter of the age. ~. Ohio is charging John B. Rockefeller with conspiracy, but you can’t make his hair stand on end with charges. •v Even if Pennsylvania employes cannot keep their stock, they retained it long enough so that it will keep them. In his role of schoolmaster, the President will probably give Willie Taft a mark of 100 oh his latest composition. Probably Harry Thaw would like to lose his past or trade it for anything of little value or what have you to offer? Castro has Venezuela so well trained that it lets him be president whenever he can think of nothing more to do. King Edward has 100 new suits every year. If he bad to try each one, it is safe to say he wouldn’t have quite so many. Speaking of courts, the court of Publicity now seems likely to acquit White and find Thaw guilty of an unprovoked act. Ha! That New Zealand gentleman who said President Roosevelt is the greatest man in the world, had an ax to grind after all. About the newest thing in monopolies is the effort of Harry' Thaw’s counsel to corner ail the insanity witnesses in the market. The ice trust professes that it can’t see what business it is of anybody else if it does squeeze a. cool million out of the consumers. Secretary Taft tells the South that it needs two parties. Certainly it heeds them just as much as Pennsylvania needs two parties. An Indiana girl shot her father to keep him from getting married again. Some parents are more difficult to manage than their children. Reports from St. Petersburg indicate that the Czar has not yet learned bow to control the douma. The Czar should write for Speaker Cannon’s recipe. We are informed that every bad man in Pittsburg isn’t a millionaire, and every Pittsburg millionaire isn’t bad, which is a fact well worth knowing. Up to the present time it has not been alleged that Thaw ever ran over anybody with a devil wagon, but about every thing else has been alleged. Grover Cleveland boasts that he has never had a manuscript rejected, and yet he hesitates to send a communication to the literary department of the Bryan boomers. In some cities they are just standing around waiting with a big stick to see how the ice trust prosecutions turn out in some other cities. The thing is quite catching. Thejfc is an epidemic of triplets in Texas, at present, and only a short time ago Senator Bailey tried to convince his hearers that the president’s speeches were of no value to the country? Gov. Folk says that best democrats are such men as Bryan, Roosevelt and'LaFollette. But as Roosevelt declares that lie is out of it, the democrats will have to chose between Bryan and LaFollette. In regard to the proposition that he is the greatest man living, the President has heard from almost everybody but the Japanese who still think that some of their war heroes answer to the specifications. It was rather unfortunate that just as they were both climbing onto the Bryan band wagon, Messrs. Bailey and Hearst found it necessary ttx notify the country that each preferred the other’s room to his company.