Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — Page 4

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THE TICKET.

She Secretary of State— JAMES F. COX. cr \ ; / Jttr Treasurer of State— “«f JOHN IBENBARGER, tier Auditor of State- • MARION BAILEY. 1 Per Attorney General— WALTER J. LOTZ. Par Clark of Supreme Court— BURT NEW. Per Superintendent Public Instroetieo— ROBERT J. ALEY. Btta State Geologist- . EDWARD BARRETT. BUr State Statistician— DAVID N. CURRY. Per Judge Supreme Court, First District— EUGENE A. ELY. Per Judge Supremo Court, Fourth Dirt.— RICHARD ERWIN. Pm Judges Appellate Court, First Dirt— MILTON B. HOTTEL. G. W. FELT. Par Judges Appellate Court, .Second DISCRICHARD R. HARTFORD. HENRY G. ZIMMERMAN. HBNRY A. BTEIB. COUNTY TICKET. For Member Congress WILLIAM I) AR KOCH of Kentland. For Prosecuting Attorney GEORGE B. HEKSHMAN of Rensselaer. For Clerk of the Circuit Court Ft r Auditor For Treasurer WILLIAM A. LOCK of Remington. For Sheriff CHARLES HARRINGTON of Keener Township. For Assessor * FRANK PARKER of Gillam Township. For Surveyor For Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. For Commissioners, Second Diet. JOSEPH NAGLE of Marion Township. For Commissioner, Third Dist. MOSES SIGO of Carpenter Township. For Councilman. First Dist. S. D. CLARK of Wheatfield Township. For Councilman, Second Dist. SMITH NEWELL of Barkley Township. For Councilman, Third Dist. JOSEPH LANE of Newton Township. For Councilman, Fourth Dist. JAMES E. LAMSON of Jordan Township. For Councilman-at-Large C. F. TILLKT, of Gillam tp. JAMES CARR, of Newton tp. GEO. P. KETCHUM, of Marion tp. President Roosevelt once said that “political economists have pretty generally agreed that protection is vicious in theory and harmful in practice.’’ And, as a matter of fact, it was never so “harmful in practice’’ as it is now. Mr. Roosevelt knows this to be true, and yet he stands with the “standpatters,” the most discredited bunch of tariff grafters the country ever saw. George B. Cortelyou, postmaster general and chairman of the Republican national com. mittee, went to Naw York last week to “settie some Republican troubles.” But he did not pay back to the insurance companies the money stolen by their managers from widows and orphans and given to the Republican national committee to help elect Roosevelt. He clearly means to “stand pat.”

If the Dingley tariff - passed in 1897—made the price of wagon wheat in the Indianapolis market f 1.00 a bushel op Aug. 10, 1904, why couldn’t the same sacred enactment make the same price on Aug. 10,1906? On the latter date

WHY?

it was 68 cents a bushel. Will some Republican tell why? If the Dingley tariff fixes the price of the farmer’s cattle, why did they sell at 14.50 per hundred bn Aug. 10, 1898 and in 1906,. while in 1904 on the same date, they brought $7.00 per hundred? If the Dingley tariff fixes the price of corn, why did corn sell at 61 cents on August 10, 1902, and at only 48 cents on the same date in 1906? If the Dingley tariff fixes the price of oats, why did oats self on August 10, 1901, at 38 cents and on the same date in 1906 at 28 cents?

THE PRESIDENT’S LETTER

The Indianapolis News, independent republican, occasionally says something good, early in the campaigns, though usualy being whipped into line for “theold flag and an appropriation” shortly before election. Here is something regarding Roosevelt’s “stand-pat” letter that contains some good things: One can hardly read Mr. Roosevelt’s stump speech, put in the form of a letter to Congressman Watson, without feeling that there never was such a complete conversion—as in this case—of a free trader to the doctrine of protection. Up to 1885 Mr. Roosevelt was a member of the New York Free Trade Club. In that year he resigned, and in his letter he said that he was a “a Republican first, a free trader afterward.” And his most sympathetic biographer, Mr. Leupp, says, of him that he is still “a tariff reformer within Republican lines,” and that while “protection as|a policy commends his support * * * it never has held nor never can hold the place of a fetish with him.” Mr. Leupp says that be does not believe the President “would condemn as a heresy the honest belief of a Republican that the party would be better without the protection clause in its creed,” The statement was made only two years ago. Yet in his letter of yesterday he says:

We stand unequivocally for a protective tariff, and we feel that the phenomenal industrial prosperity which we are now enjoying is not likely to be jeopardized; tor it would be to the last degree foolish to secure here and there a small benefit at the cost of general business depression. But whenever a given rate or schedule becomes evidently disadvantageous to the nation because of changes which go on from year to year in our conditions, and where it is feasible to change this rate or schedule without too much dislocating of the system, it will be done, while a general revision of the rates and schedules will be undertaken whenever it shall appear to the sober business sense of our people that, on the whole, the benefits to be derived from making such changes will outweigh the disadvantages; that is, when the revision would do more good than harm.

All of which nieans that the President has been swallowed to the middle, as it were, by the standpatters. This old freetrader now looks on protection, not as a policy, but as a principle—as the normal thing, and not as the exception. He was once “a Republican first, and a free-trader afterward.” Now he ; s a Republican first, last and all the time. Mr. Roosevelt is one of the few men who ever got hold of the freetrade principle to be converted to protection. But his conversion seems to be complete. True, he promises reform for tariff schedules where it can be done "without too much dislocating of the system” and this perhaps is something, though it baa a familiar stand-pat air—but the “system" must stand. The President is unable to see any connection between the tariff and trusts, and he sapiently warns the people against those who do see such a connection. It is, in fact, of the closest sort. The power of a trust to establish a monopoly is increased many fold by the high duties which free it from the fear or the possibility of foreign competition. And there is another connection between the tariff and the trusts. Our Republican friends may find out what it is when they are asked to defend the policy of protecting the steel trust, Standard Oil monopoly, the sugar trust, the tobacco trust, and the rest. It is the trust influenod which has made it impossible to grant any tariff concessions to the Filipinos. The President saya that if there were “any partisan issues involved in this contest” be “should hesitate to say anything publicly in reference thereto.” Yet his whole f)lea is for the election of a Repubioan House because of its attitude on certain questions—one of them the tariff, which is certainly

partisan—and he claims credit for the Republican organization of the House for having carried through certain measures, which will undoubtedly be treated during the campaign as Republican measures. Mr. Roosevelt might at least have recalled that without Democratic co-operation in both Senate and House he would have been able to accomplish but little. He knows that some of the bitterest opposition to his policies was shown by the Republican members of the two Houses. The Senate and the House did very well, but for the work accomplished the country owes much to the Democrats, who refused to play politics. If they could not get the best from their point of view, they patriotically accepted the best they could get. Nor do we think that the Panama canal enterprise, of which the president speaks, is in any way involved in this Mr. Roosevelt has been President almost five years and yet the digging has not really begun yet. When he talks of “speed,” therefore, it seems to us that a fair answer is that there has been no great speed thus far. Congress has given him everything he needs or has asked for. -It is for him to push the construction through. Nor is it fair to say that opposition to the acquisition of territory from the new Panama republic, or to the ratification of the Santo Domingo treaty, are indicative of opposition to the canal itself. The canal will be built, no matter who is President, and no matter which party controls the House. Into the President’s discussion of the good work done by Congress we shall not go. It is enough to say that, though he says there is nothing partisan in it, he appeals to it as something that entitles the Republican party to victory. That may be true, but it would have been franker and more like Roosevelt to have out all claim of nonpartisanship and to issue the letter frankly as a campaign document —which is precisely what it is.

TO ALL DEMOCRATIC VOTERS.

Orncz or Chaihman ) Dzmocbatic Congbzsmonai. Committzb. }■ Washington, D. C., Augcbt, 15,1906. ) If there ever was a time in the history of the democratic party for the manifestation of loyalty and patriotism on the part of its members, it is right now. If we are to win a victory and elect a President two years hence, we must first elect a House of Representatives this fall. A democratic house can and will investigate every department of the government. With all of them honeycombed by “graft,” the edges of which, only, have been touched by recent exposure and prosecutions, there will be a revelation of rottenness that will astound the country and create a demand for a democratic administration to clean the government workshop. To win the House we need money to defray legitimate expenses and get out our vote. We have no protected monopolies from which to draw to fill our coffers, as they do those of the republican party. Wmuet, therefore, appeal to loyal democrats for contributions. Will you send us SI.OO at once, and in return for this we will send you copies of our campaign literature as issued by the committee. You will have the thanks of the entire democratic party, for your favorable response to our request. Address all remittances to J, M. Griggs, Ch’m. Munsey Bld’g

Tariff Reform Needed.

The sewer pipe trust Is to be dissolved, being threatened by an indictment of the grand jury In New York. This trust controlled about all the manufacturing concerns making earthen piping, which were bound together by an agreement on prices and territory. The trust Is protected by a tariff rats of 35 per cent, so the abandonment of the association will hardly aid the buyers of its products until the tariff Is revised. All over the country glazed drain tile Is used, and ths high price charged has been a great tax on every community. Reform the tariff and protect consumers Instead of, as now, protecting the monopolies.

Turn the Rascals Out.

We people of the United States have had a big job of political house cleaning, and. the Republican housekeeper that allowed things to get into such a rotten mess will have to be dismissed before a thorough reformation can be expected. The scandals, corruption and grafting are a stench in the nostrils of the nation, and there is nothing else to do but “turn the rascals out”

Hard on the Congressmen.

It made Republican congressmen green with envy when they were compiled to vote $26,000 a year for the traveling expenses of the president and bls friends and did not dare to add a dollar to their own salaries.

WARIS REALLY RAGING

Cuba Making Up for Her Long Peace by a Season of Revolution. OFFICIALS VERY OPTIMISTIC Inclined to Think That There Is Nothing Much Doing. Facts Show That the Rebs Are Increasing in Numbers and Boldness Capture of San Luis—Two Engage- ; merits. Havana, Aug. 23.—The Insurgent forces commanded by Pino Guerra have captured San Juan De Martinez, the terminus of the Western railroad, and have occupied the town and railroad station. Havana, Aug. 23.—General Quentin Bandera, the famous negro leader of Havana province, who recently headed an insurgent band and began operating against the government, was killed early in the morning in an encounter with rurale guards. Havana, Aug. 23.—An attempt was made last evening to assassinate General Emilio Nunez, gvernor of the province of Havana. A man had a revolver leveled at the governor as he was entering his home. Another man who was passing by saw the would-be assassin and cried out, whereupon Governor Nunez turned and drawing his revolver fired over the miscreant’s head. The latter was so surprised that he dropped his revolver. He was promptly arrested. His identity is not known.

Havana. Aug. 23.—Gen. Rodriquez, commander of the rural guard, after relating the incidents of the day, said to the Associated Press: “You can tell the American people that Cuba is entirely competent to cope with l the Insurrection. The flood of rumors fn all directions about the organization of insurrectionary bands in great numbers is not borne out by our reports, or, so far as can be learned, by the facts. The result of the encounter at San Lui' is still not known definitely, but it is known that we inflicted some losses on the enemy in that vicinity. The much-talked-of movement in Santa Clara province has not been encountered. and no insurrectionists have been seen there by our forces. Plenty of War Material. “We have today equipped and sent out in various directions 300 volunteers under competent officers. We have plenty of Remingtons, and ammunition for all who enlist at present, and more has been ordered from the United States. Besides we have thousands ol old but servicable guns. We believe the loyal people are taking up arms for the government faster than the insurgents are increasing.” Rodrlguez Too Optimistic. While the foregoing is typical of the utterances of governmentofflcials there are evidences of threatening increases iu the numbers of the insurrectionists, lu the province of Santa Clara the disaffection is widespread, and in the province of Havana a great many people are In sympathy with the insurgents. In some cases Whole communitit's appear to have been carried away by the recrudescence of insurrectionary times. The extent to which this will lead to open rebellion is still uncertain. Many Rebels Riding About. A gentleman who has returned from Agnncate, where he spent several days, stated to the Associated Press that as many as KOO men, most of them armed, were riding about the vicinity proclaiming insurrectionary ideas.

REAL FIGHTING AT SAN LUIS Rebels Concentrate and Defeat the Rural Guards—Two Fights. The principal event yesterday was the fighting at San Luis. The reports of the commanders of the rural guard are to the following effect: The bands of Guerra, Pozo and others, aggregating about 400 men, concentrated yesterday morning In the vicinity of San Luis. Seventy rural guards, under command of Major Laureut, were to attack the insurgents from the east, and thirty men under Lieutenant Azcuy were to attack from the west. Azcuy arrived first, and got into an illtimed engagement with a far superlot detachment, with the result that he was forced to retreat hastily to San Luis, pursued by a portion of the enemy. The rural guards took refuge in their quarters, and Guerra’s men remained in possession of the town. In the afternoon Major Laurent had n hot fight with the insurgents under Guerra and other insurgent commanders, and reports that several were killed or wounded. He pursued Guerra. but so far as known did not retake the town. According to other fragmentary reports the Insurgents continue in possession of San Luis. Railway trains have not been interfered with. A detachment of 100 recruits on the way to Guinea had a slight encounter with Insurgents; but no one on either aide was hurt. An attempt is being made with 200 mounted rural guards aud regular- “* «omer Quentin Ban-

dera, who with 150 men Is contlnutaff his dodging tactics in the western part of the province of Havana. Three large bands of Insurgents are out In the province of Santa Clara. The Insurrection appears to be growing, but the loyalists of the towns allege that they will be able to resist the movement

LIBERAL GOVERXOK DISLOYAL lie Joins the Insurgents—Some Details the of San Luis Fight. Havana, Aug. 23.—Luis Perez, the last Liberal governor of the prorvince of Pinar del Rio, has joined the insurgent forces in that province. Vice President Mendez Capote returned to Havana and had a conference over the situation with President Palma. Cuban, Spanish, United States, Canadian and German bankers visited President Palma and offered him their assistance. The government later reports from San Luis, which significantly are dated: from Pinar del Rio, are to the effect that Major Laurent, in the afternoon engagement, killed four insurgents and captured a few horses and munitions. The major has not yet arrived at Pinar del Rio. A telegram to the government stated that Major Laurent, with his detachment of rural guards, fought Guerra and his 300 men for three hours yesterday afternoon, completely defeating him, killing or wounding many insurgents and taking three prisoners. The dispatch adds that the rebels dispersed in all directions, being chased long distances. None of the rural guards was hurt. Anotherportionof the insurgent forces continues in ocupation of San Luis. There is an unconfirmed report from Pinar del Rio that Lieutenant Azcuy was captured and that only nine of his detachment reached Pinar del Rio. General Jose Miguel Gomez, who was arrested Tuesday, was formerly governor of Santa Clara province, and was the Liberal candidate for the presidency last year. He is expected to arrive in Havana today. The act nearest insurrection In Havana province was the seizing of several horses which were being loaded on a train of the Western railway at Salud, a suburb of the city. Eight veterans prominent in the last revhition at a meeting have passed a resolution declaring that they will endeavor to end the present strife without bloodshed by their personal influence.

LATEST FROM VALPARAISO

Earthquake Damage Now Reduced to $25,000.000 u> $60,000,000 Number or Dead. London, Aug. 23. —Latest news from Valparaiso, Chile, reduces the loss of property to from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000. The number of dead remains, according to estimate, at more than 2.000. but no details are given. D’fepatches from the stricken city today are largely repetitions of the dispatches of yesterday, and contain little that Is new. Provisions are coming into the city, and water is supplied. It is believed that 80,000 people will leave Valparaiso as a result of the quake. All the churches but one, all the hospitals and all the theaters were destroyed. Telegraphic communication with Santiago has been re-established. Santiago de Chile, Aug. 20.—1 tls known that at least eight lives were lost In this city by the earthquake, but it Is believed that many persons were killed by the falling buildings, and that their bodies will be discovered later. Several persons became so panic-strick-en during the tremblings of the earth that they threw themselves from the balconies of their homes and were killed. The fires which followed the earthquake in this city were promptly extinguished, but w-hlle they lasted they added greatly to the terror of the people. Advices have been received to the effect that the towns of Virlage and Casablanca were entirely destroyed and that San Felipe, Rausagua, Melipllla and Llaillai were severely damaged. At Concepcion the shock was severe and a number of persons was killed or Injured. The towns of Rengo, Sanfernando, Quillltta and San Antonio, and many villages, are in ruins. In the city of Santiago much damage was done. Many public buildings, particularly churches, were dismantled. The buildings of congress, the municipal buildings, the normal college, the courts, the Peruvian legation, the residence of President Rlesco, the Central market, the prefecture of police and the National telegraph office all were seriously damaged. Buenos Ayres. Aug. 22.—The Nachion published a special dispatch from La Paz. Bolivia, announcing that 2.000 persons lost their Ilves as a result of the earthquake shocks and fires at Valparaiso, that 170 deaths from the same causes occurred at Llmache, forty at Quillotta, thirty-five at Conchall. eleven at Pateroa, ninety at La Placilla and six at La Cqlera. On Sunday last, Aug. 10, there was a strong convulsion nt Valparaiso, which produced a further panic.

Three Men Killed by Gas.

Pittsburg. Aug. 22.—Three men are dead, two are in a serious condition and nine others were rendered unconscious by a blow-out of accumulated gas at the Elka furnaces of the Jones & Laughin Steel company. The dead: George Marsley, Andrew Marsley, Michael Boise. The men were engaged in dumping* ore and coke into the furnace from the top, when there was an explosion of accumulated gas. Flames shot up and enveloped Andrew Marsley in the deadly fumes and he fell over unconscious. His brother, George, went to his assistance, but he too, was overcome, and Michael Boise, who followed him, was also rendered Insensible. i

JEWS ARE IN A PANIC

They Fear Another Bialystok at a City Only Sixty Miles from That Place. SIGNIFICANCE IN SIMILARITY Outbreak Has Occurred and Is Laid to Hebrews—Will the Long Reign of Terror Follow? St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. —The Russian government has definitely decided to proceed with its original plan of settling the agrarian question by the distribution of land, regardless of parliament, and to go to the country upon the issue at the coming elections. St. Petersburg, Aug. 24. —There is great alarm in Jewish circles in Russia over developments at Siedlce, Poland, where events seem to be shaping up for the outbreak of a “pogrom” similar to that at Bialystok. The developments parallele almost exactly the preliminaries) of the Bialystok massacre. A long series of revolutionary •nd terroristic signs has been attributed by the police to the Jews, culminating—as was the case of Bialystok in the assassination of the chief of police, Goltseff. The funeral of Goltseff yesterday was the occasion of a great demonstration by the Russian population. The condition of feeling is shown by the refusal of Goltseff’s widow to receive a wreath sent by a Jewish society as a mark of its disapproval of the assassination. Very Much Like Bialystok. A similar incident occurred at Bialystok. It now develops that after the explosion of a bomb in a street of 'the Hebrew quarter, which, according to the official explanation, was accompanied by revolver firing from fqur Jewish houses, the troops opened a general fusillade in which seven Jews and one Christian were killed and many wounded. Thirty-three Jews were arrested on the spot on suspicion of com u plicity in the bomb throwing and firing. The Jews in a panic are now fleeing from the city. Siedloe is In the province of the same name, which adjoins the province of Grodno, in which Bialystok is located, and the two cities are about sixty miles apart. Peasantry Goes on the Rampage. Aside from the province of Stavropol the northern Caucasus agrarian situation is now more serious in the provinces of Poltava and Vladimir, where the peasantry is indulging in the customary pillaging and destruction of estates and Incendiarism, employing for the latter purpose phosphorous, with which they have been supplied by the revolutionary organizations. Premier Stolypin has sent a circular to all governors ordering them to employ the most energetic measures to prevent the peasantry from taking possession of private estates, to which they are being incited by the revolutionists. “Red” One Has Nerve. The manager of the Odessa branch of the New York Life Insurance company has received a letter demanding a contribution of SIO,OOO to the revolutionary cause and threatening him with death if he refuses. Instead of paying the money the manager notified tbepoiieeand informed Governor Kaulbars that be demanded protection, • which was furnished.

IMPORTANT LEGAL DECISION

It Will Revolatlonize the Future of Strikes in Germany—Strikes and Boycotts Legalized. Leipsic, Aug. 24. —The supreme court of Saxony has decided that boycott and strike in a wages war are not punishable by law, and that employers cannot demand compensation for losses caused by strikes or boycotts. The court also holds that there is no offense against the law when strikers through the press or by pamphlets appeal for public support. The verdict Is the result of the case of the boycotted bakers of the town of Klei, who claimed $2,000 damages and the punishment of the proprietor of a local newspaper. The decision is likely to revolutionize the future of strikes.

Done Under the “Higher Law.”

New Orleans, Aug. 24.—Peter Manale, a butcher, who killed his wife and shot Addle Rowe, a paper hanger, when he found them together In the Manale home, was acquitted at his preliminary hearing, which was Intensely dramatic. The judge could not control his feelings, and sobbed at the conclusion of Manale’s recital. Manale was overwhelmed with congratulations by the spectators. Rowe had been in the habit of visiting Manale's house every morning about 5 o’clock, when the butcher was at market.

Young Roosevelt After Bear.

Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 24. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., passed through this city en route to the bear country around Glenwood Springs, where be will hunt and fish for several weeks, He is the guest of Lieutenant Emory Lamb, of Montrose.

Fire Endangers Lives.

Chicago, Aug- 24.—Fire on board a merchandise lighter in the Chicago river endangered the lives of twenty men, constituting the crew of the vessel. Several leaped into the water and were rescued with difficulty. The property loss was SOO,OOO.