Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1907 — Page 2
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The fellows who cuss the newspapers are those who fear the limelight of newspaper publicity. The man who cusses the newspapers is a man to be watched.
And still, how strange it is that the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt never thought about getting mad at Harriman until told that the railroad gambler had refused to make another boodle-fund donation.
It possible that Harriman told the truth about Roosevelt’s anxiety concerning a campaign fund, but all of the truth has clearly not been told yet about Harriman. A thorough investigation of the sources of the Republican boodle fund of 1904 is desirable and so is a deeper digging into the railroad and public land operations of Harriman and bis pals.
Governor Hanly "reformed” the state auditor’s office so effectually that it now costs $50,000 more to tun it than it did when be became governor. He "reformed” his own office at a cost to the people of >6,000 extra, and in a manner to greatly lessen his own official work and give him time for outside employments (for pay). Every Hanly "reform” that received the approval of the late legislature amounted to nothing except to transfer taxes paid by the people to the pockets of Republican office-holders.
Harriman wants the country to understand that Mr. Roosevelt once was not above associating with him on very friendly terms. And Mr. Roosevelt admits it, for in a letter to Harriman in 1904, when he was-a candidate, he declared gushingly that "it has been a real pleasure to see you this year.” In another letter Mr. Roosevelt begged his good friend, the great Harriman, to come and see him after the election and talk over bis message. And now, according to the president, Harriman is a liar and corruptionist and a lot more besides. Dear, dear these Republicans are the limit.
K If the full truth could be known ah to the amount of the tremendous corruption funds raised by the Republican party in past presidential campaigns, and the uses to which the money was put and the . price paid to the contributors, the Republican party, as now organized and led, would be tri ped out of existence. The scandals revealed by the New York insurance investigations and by the Harriman squabble are mere indications of the nauseous mess still under cover, There needs to be a house-
cleaning st Washington, even ■if the country does have to hold its nose while it la going on.
Fred Landis, late congressman from the Eleventh district, is going to lecture at the Obautauquas this summer. Perhaps he means to tell exactly what be thinks of the said Eleventh district.
11 comes from Washington that President Roosevelt’s “ire” is particularly aroused because Alton B. Parker, the Democratic candidate in 1904, has quietly remarked “I told you so." Parker did tell the co no try so and it was so, though Roosevelt denied it. The insurance revelations and Harriman’s revelations all prove that Parker’s charge that the big corporations and special interests had contributed an enormous fund to buy the election for Roosevelt was true. Roosevelt does not now deny that the money was given, but be says that lie did not ask that it be given. The fact remains, however, that be is enjoying the usufruct.
Just how much the Republican papers and politicians fear the candidacy of Mr. Bryan is shown by the frantic effort that is being made by them to “bring out” other candidates. If Mr. Bryan wants or will take the nomination for president the Democratic national convention will give it to him with such enthusiasm as no national convention in this country has seen. Mr. Bryan is not now posing as a candidate and has not posed as a candidate, but he is a Democrat through and through and will, without question, yield to the voice of bis party. The Democratic party is full of able men. It has many who would make good presidents. But Mr. Bryan is the recognized leader who has the heart of the people with him. Indiana has declared for him. Dozens of other states have declared for him. All be has to do is to say the word and the thing is done.
NOW AND LAST FALL.
When the Hon. Samuel M. Ralston made his speech at Greenfield, opening the last campaign, he took occasion to strip the mask from the face of Governor Hanly. He did it decently, but be did it most effectively. And then the Republican papers cf the state set up a great howl and began abusing Mr. Ralston for showing that the holy Hanly was not as holy as the Republicans wanted the public to believe he was. Well, what has happened since the election? Only this, that a majority of the Republican papers are now saying meaner things about Hanly than any Democrat ever said. Now, jere is the Portland Commercial Review (Rep.) saying that the governor has “taken leave of his senses,” and speaking of "his conceit, his intolerance, his attempted domineering rule.” The same paper says that "His arrogance in assuming an incarnation in himself of all the virtues, and his unworthy suspicion and distrust of honest men, who happen to differ from him in matters of public policy, are rapidly earning for him the dislike of all classes of people,” and much more to the same effect. Most of the Republican papers go even farther in their criticism. A book could be filled with their red-hot articles about their governor. But then, just now, it is a Republican fight.
For Rent: Fourteen roomed house, suitable for boarding house. Austin & Hopkins. Light Brahma Eggs for hatching, $1 per setting of 15 or 15 per 100. Mrs. Al Peters, R-4. Rensselaer, Ind. Come and see me for Osborne mowers and binders and get my prices on a general line of implements. Vance Collins. Seed Corn For Sale—l have a quantity of Reed’s Yellow Dent selected kiln dried seed corn for salt; price $2 per bushel. Call on or address, Moses Sego, Remington, Ind. ’Phone Independent No. 79-1. ■
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Political and General Ooaeip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat. Thia is not yet the real “silly season,” as summer politics are known in this latitude. But there has just been sprung a political sensation that would do credit t? the weather with the thermometer at one 100 in the shade. It emanates from the inside of the ReSublioan party, and most of the Republican papers seem inclined to take it seriously. Whatever there may or may not be behind it, the mere currency of the story shows the deep rooted distrust that the Republican leaders have of each other and the strong under current of opposition that is known to be running against the President and his policies in the financial world.
The facts or the oanard, as one chooses to class it, are that at a recent dinner either in Washingr ton or Philadelphia, Senator Penrose dined not wisely but too well and boasted that there was a plot on foot to block the Roosevelt policies for the next four years by nominating a man not of his own choice for the Presidency. Senator Penrose declared, so the story went, that there had been a fund of $5,000,000 started by high financial interests in New York, including! he Standard Oil Company, E. H. Harriman, Jacob Schiff, H. H. Rogers and a number of others, as the nucleus of an immense corruption fund wherewith to secure the nomination in the next republican national convention of any man, so long as he was a man whom the corporations could handle and who was pledged against all of the Roosevelt doctrines.
It was said that there were a number of real supporters of the President at the table who listened with astonishment to this recital, and regardless of whether the narrator was responsible for his utterance or not, they at once' told all that had occured to the President, Then as a sequel came a prompt denial from Senator Penrose that he bad ever attended the dinner in question, or that be had ever made any such statement as was attributed to him. At the White House on the other hand, while it was not denied that the story bad been told to the President it was distinctly stated that the name of Senator Penrose had not been mentioned, and outsiders were left to their own speculations as to how much faith the President and bis advisers put in the tale. Senator Penrose has always been counted as one of the loyal if not warm supporters of the Administration and it is known that the President helped him substantially in his fight recently in Pennsylvania. The name of Senator Scott of West Virginia and of Senator Elkins are also mixed up in the story of the plot and the dinner, but there is not enough tangible stuff to go on except to suggest that there are things doing underthe surface in the Republican party, and that however calm and cordial relations may appear to be there are developments ahead that will bear close watchjog.
The railroad policies of the Administration have not crystalized far enough to say what sort of legislation may be recommended so the next congress, bnt the attitude of some of the big interests were brought outin the further bear* ing of the Harriman case before the Interstate Commerce Commission this week. There has been an argument before the commission with the Harriman attorneys on one side and the special government attorneys on the other, to decide whether the Commission will press for answers to some of the questions that Mr. Harriman on the advice of counsel refused to answer recently in New York. John G. Milburn for the Southern Pacific road boldly announced that the Commission could not proceed against Mr. Harriman for the violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law as Mr. Harriman had bought the Southern Pacific outright, and, being his own property, he could suppress competion between them or manipulate them in restraint of trade if he chose without any interference from the government. But in an earlier stage of the hearing, a remarkable situation was developed by Lawyer Paul Cravath of the Harriman lines talking a little too freely. He was assuring the commission that whatever might be the present moral view taken of Mr. Harriman's manipulation of the Chicago and Alton railroad, that it was wholly in accordance with railroad practice at the time the reorganization was effected and Mr. Harriman and his associates pocketed about $40,000,000 of unearned increment. In illustrating
bis point, be said that times had changed so that the railroads themselves were in favor of federal supervision of the issue of securities. This was a nice' little boquet to the Administration. But Commissioner Lane took the cue more quickly than was meant, and said as solemnly as an owl: “Ob, please don’tstop, Mr. Cravath, seeing you have touched on the subject, won't you extend your remarks a little and tell ns just what you would recommend in the. way of federal supervision of stock and bond issues.”
There was just a suspicion of a smile around the bearing room and Mr. Cravath swallowed bard as though he was taking medicine. He said that be was only speaking personally and be did not know that as a lawyer be ought to give an opinion, but he thought there ought to be some sort of government supervision of the issue of railroad and other corporate securities, and perhaps government supervision also as to the application of the money so raised. This was a very remarkable statement, coming as it did from one of the most astute and high priced railroad lawyers in the country. But the gentleman is on record whether he intended to be so or not, and bis little admission is likely to bear fruit when the president is recommending further railroad legislation to Congress.
Walter Wellman, the arctic explorer and ex-newspaper correspondent, was in Washington this week, the last visit be will pay to the city before starting for the pole in an airship. He talked a little about the preparations that bad been made for the trip, and said that be has almost ready to entrain for Spitsbergen, a dirigable balloon that will lift 19,500 pounds and carry a car 115 feet long suspended beneath it. This is one of the most novel and daring attempts that has ever been made on the pole, and from the careful preparations that have been made, may meet with success where so many others have failed.
RIGHT BREATHING CURES CATARRH.
Simple Way to Kill Catarrhal Germs In Nose, Throat and Lungs. If you cut your finger, you don’t attempt to heal it by swallowing a pill or a dose of medicine. It is just as foolish to try and cure catarrh of the nose and throat with pills and stomach dosing, for catarrh is a local disease, and needs special local healing treatment. The only natural and common sense method known for the cure of catarrhal troubles is Hy-o-mei. It is breathed through an ingenius' pocket inhaler, so that its medicated air reaches the most remote air-cells of the nose, throat and lungs, killing all catarrhal germs, soothing the irritated mucous membranes, and restoring a healthy condition. - If you suffer from catarrhal troubles, such as offensive breath, raising of raucous, freqdtent sneezing, husky voice, discharge from the nose, droppings in the throat, loss of strength, spasmodic coughing, or a feeling of tightness across the upper part of the chest, you should begin to use Hy-o-mei at once. It will destroy all disease germs in the nose, throat and lungs, and provide the blood with additional ozone. The complete Hy-o-mei outfit with inhaler costs but >I.OO. So strong is B. F. Fendig's faith in the power of Hy-o-mei to cure all catarrhal troubles, that with every dollar outfit, he gives an iron-clad guarantee to refund the money unless the remedy gives satisfaction.
ALL KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.
In no business does experience count for more to both the dealer and the customer than in the implement business. Experience enables the dealer to know the value of goods. He can see at a glance whether they are artistic and will please a discriminating customer; in a word, whether they will satisfy buyers by giving first-class service. The same experience enables him to BUY RIGHT. Then he can SELL RIGHT, It is his larger experience, coupled with his thorough knowledge of the business, that has made C. A. Roberts, the Front street buggy man, so deservedly popular with the discriminating buyers of sightly vehicles. He served his time in a carriage shop way back in the 60s, when an apprentice had to know his business before be could begin work for himself. He put in seventeen years of his life building and repairing wagons and carriages, and can make every piece in them. He began to sell implements in 1882, and every customer gets the benefit of this long experience every time be shows an article. That is worth
— ■■ ' " ! CLARA A PETRPS Doctor op Optics Baohclor of Opthalmoloqt £■ f H 's|s \ Mastkr or Opthalmology E}>ES TESTED FHEE. ■ ‘ Frames fitted and adjusted. O” „ Full line of supplies for repairing. yt. t Price* reasonable. Over Chicago Barga.n Store ■ ’ ? K3K ’ S3OOa IH IWffl ■ Don’t buy your Implements until you have seen our large stock of the best makes of j implements. We handle the world-famous I* Oliver Chilled Gangs and Sulkys, “Sure Drop” Planter, The Brown Riding and Walking Cultivators* . ■ ■ „■ "■ :?i . g Disks, Spike Tooth Harrows, Seeders and in fact everything in the way of farm tools. - Come and see us at Rensselaer Feed { Store, % t A. L. BRANCH, Propr. • STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OP RENSSELAER. IND.. MARCH a 6. 1907. RBSOUBCXS. LIABILITIM. L°» n » ----- -.5325,964 72 Capital Stock:» 30,000 00 U. Band County Bonds 39,100 00 Surplus and Profit* 22.496 81 -i- C- B’oooi° 8 ’ 000 i° Circulating Notes7,soo 00 Cash andduefrotn bank* 93,074'68 Deposits 406,442 59 $466,439 40 $466,439 40 DIRECTORS. A. PARK ISON, JOHN M. WASSON. B. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, President. Vice-President. Cashier. JAMBS T. RANDLE, 080. B. HURRAY. | Fara lshb a Sfleafliff. 11 Siwe tw four Rnnmoae is BWiciiai~| Irensselmrlumbercol S Everything in the S (• Building Material Line m •) and at the Lowest Possible (• V® - Prices. Let us figure on your W. Jx bill before placing it elsewhere. - cj—■ (• w) -9 ■ ’ ; •), ■' ft g North of Depot. no. 4. Rensselaer, Ind. g
something, isn’t it? He sells Studebaker and Page Bros’. Carriages and Buggies, and there, are no better, and he has some other makes and styles. Studebaker Wagons, he claims, there are none so good. SUCCESS Return Apron or Litchfield Endless Apron MANURE SPREADERS. They are both all right. McCormick Binders and Mowers. YOU ALL KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, and Grain King Shoveling Boards, and there are more of them sold than any other make. You are going to need some of these articles this year, and you will always regret it if you do not go and see Roberts and see his goods before you buy. Paste this in your hat so you won’t forget to go. He will do the rest when you land. Don’t forget the place on Front street and the name. 0. A. Roberts, the Buggy Man. - When renewing your farm loan or making a new one, it will pay you to see Baughman & Williams. They are making a spe-
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jqOTICE TO CREDITORS, AN -, In the matter of the etrtate of John P. Ga riott. deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Com April term, 1907