Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — Page 2

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Senator Beveridge thinks it will take us one hundred years to fit our island subjects for self-govern-ment, But at the end of that time what does he think we will be fit fori 1

Some of the Republican newspapers have laid aside their troubles long enough to pick out a new chairman for the Democratic national committee. In the meantime, however, they graciously allow Chairman Taggart to hold the reins until they have agreed upon bis successor.

The spring frosts and freezes have doubtless injured the fruit crop. But the sacred tariff was not responsible. If the frosts and freezes had not come, however, and the yield of fruit had been phenomenal-in quantity, quality and market price, then the blessed tariff would have been given the glory by every Republican stump speaker in the state. And these same observations have a bearing son other things, too

Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock, who has been traveling around some, says that it is only the "discredited and disgruntled men who are organizing against the administration.” All other Republican, he declares, are standing by Roosevelt. If this is so, what show will any candidate have who does not carry the Roosevelt brand unless the "discredited and disgruntled” Republicans outnumber the others?

The steel trust says that if an independent maker of steel rails can sell its output at $29 a ton, it is his good fortune, but if the independent concern sells at $27.75 a ton it “will hear from us,” meaning the trust. The trust has fixed the price at not less than S2B a ton, and as it is the boss, S2B a ton goes in tbe United States, even though it is $lO a ton too much and several dollars more than the trust charges foreigners for its goods. wonder the trust made $155,000,000 net profit last year.

President Roosevelt has not only declared war on all Republi* can reactionaries, mollycoddles and conspirators, but be intends to use all of his power as president of the United States to prevent them from getting control of the next Republican convention. He is using the patronage of bis office to confound his enemies and encourage his friends, and old Civil Service deform is likely to get many blows belo w the belt in tbe next year nr so. Roosevelt is a rough and tumble fighter and is not going to be too particular

about what sort of a brick he picks up.

The Republican newspapers of high and low degree are apparently greatly concerned just now about | “Democratic principles.” They are dreadfully afraid that the next Democratic national convention will make a mistake and nominate a candidate who does not understand the principles of bis party. Of course it is very considerate of the trust and monopoly organs to take such an interest in D< moo ratio affairs, but they should not worry so much. It is quite likely that the delegates to the national convention will know as much about what their party stands for and what it wants as the opposition editors know. At any rate, and in the meantime, the Republicans seem to be in a state of dire confusion over theirowa principles—if, really, they have any to be confused about.

The Fairbanks organs have made much of the statement of Senator Beveridge’s secretary that the senator will not oppose the election of a Fairbanks delegation from this state. It doesn’t take a great deal to satisfy one of the machine organs. There is such a dearth of. enthusiasm for the V. P. that the least crumb of comfort is accepted with thanks. But Beveridge himself has not spoken. Perhaps be cannot speak until the grip of the machine about his throat is loosened. And perhaps he does not want to speak until the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt makes up bis mind whether it is necessary to have two presidential candidates in Indiana in order to defeat the "reactionaries” and "conspirators,” with whom he classes Fairbanks. But whatever is said or not said, there is the bitterest possible feeling between the Republican factions in this state, and the "unity” for Fairbanks is a farcical pretense.

JOHN SMITH AND GOV. HANLY.

In the spring of 1607 three small wooden vessels, the "Susan Constant,” the "God-Speed” and the "Discovery,” arrived at Old Point Comfort, carrying about 100 colonists and adventurers. Among the passengers was one John Smith, who was described as a planter. Smith was a man of energy. Although he was under a cloud when the party reached the James river, he soon managed to make himself the real bead of the colony. He it was also who established Jamestown 300 years ago. No one who has read his wonderful tales can have the least doubt as to the quality of John Smith's imagination, but even he could not have dreamed that 300 jears from the landing of his party, a governor of Indiana, J. Frank Hanly by name, would slur his own state by denying it Official representation at a Jamestown exposition, participated in by all tbe world beside.

But while we have no official part in the celebration gotten up by Indiana’s old Virginia mother, we know that the scene at the opening of the exposition shows that things havs changed since the days of Captain John Smith. From a hundred English-speaking inhabitants, America has grown to nearly one hundred millions. And those three little wooden ships! How would they look alongside of the great liners, to say nothing of tne 25 or 30 immense U. S. battleships and cruisers now anchored in tbe water where the "Susan Constant,” the "God-speed” and tbe "Discovery” ended their westward journey on that day in May, 1607? Such things as these may interest the school children, but not the present governor of Indiana.

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THE YOUNG VOTERS.

The young men of to-day who are just reaching their majority should remember, in making choice of a party with which to affiliate, that they owe it as a great duty to both themselves and the country to make no mistake. The choice when once made should be the result of patriotic thought. Ours is a government by parties. It has always been so and will continue to be so as long as the republic is maintained along the original lines. There are two great parties now in existence which divide the bulk of the country’s vote in nearly equal portions. The Democratic party is the oldest of the two. It has lived more than one hundred years, and during that time it has beenin control of the government as long as all of the other parties together. It was founded by Jefferson on the theory that the people could be trusted. The Whig party and its successor, the present Republican organization, followed the view of Hamilton that the people could not be trusted. True to its life-long policy, the Democratic party is today appealing to the people to assert themselves and re-claim in their own interest the government, which has fallen into the hands of political self-seekers and commercial mercenaries. On the other hand the Republican party is asking for votes, but only to perpetuate existing conditions, which are evil to the very core, A great struggle will take place in 1908. The result of that struggle will have much to do with the welfare of the nation and its people The success of the Democratic party will mean the restoration of rule by the people. The continuance of the Republican party in power will mean the continuance of trust and monopoly domination, tariff extortion and the rule of greed. Where will the young voter stand? Is he going to be a patriot or mercenary? It is for him to answer and in giving his answer he should make no mistake.

THAT FAIRBANKS ENDORSEMENT.

Harry Strohm and eight other editors met at tbe Lahr House at Lafayette one evening last week with Jim Goodrich and endorsed Fairbanks, Beveridge Hemenway and Billy Crumpacker. They choked on Hanly and the Indiana legislature although a Methodist conference set tbe pious example. —Fowler Leader (Rep.) We regret to read in some of our local exchanges the statement that the Tenth District Republican editors in Lafayette last Friday night, "unanimously” endorsed the resolutions endorsing Charles Warren Fairbanks for the presidency. We thought all tbe editors at this meeting claimed to tell the, truth, but it looks as though some sold their political birthright and veracity for a mess of pottage. —Oxford Tribune (Rep.)

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A CHURCH LEGEND

While Peter Smltz, mayor of Aix-la-Chapelle, was brooding, bow to find funds with which to finish the cathedral his daughter Gertrude announced Hendrlc Staufman. ' Heudrlc was a goodly fellow, a Uttka wild perhaps—but, then, he was the Captain of the city guard, and much > might be excused in a soldier who ventured blood and life as freely as though he had ample store of both. The little fat mayor guessed the errand upon which the youth had come and was not sorry to have an opportunity to deliver bls mind upon the matter. “Your daughter, wbrthy mayor,” said the soldier ■ briskly—“l love her and would ask your consent to woo her.” Now, although Peter Smltz had not the slightest intention in the world of favoring the suit of the young man, yet so versed had he become in the arts of diplomacy since his service as mayor that he did not openly tell the suitor that his suit was hopeless, but he returned an evasive answer. “I have no objection against you, my gallant captain,” the mayor said, caressing his fat chin and smiling upon the soldier as if he fully intended to say yes at once and have done with it, “but affairs of state require me to hesitate before deciding such a weighty matter. You know that our cathedral is unfinished, to the great scandal of our town.” “What has that to do with your daughter?” exclaimed the soldier In astonishment “Surely you do not expect that she can aid in finishing it!” The soldier’s words gave rise to a bright idea in the mind of the mayor. “Exactly!” he cried. “My daughter’s husband must finish the cathedral.” “By my faith, then, she is apt to go husbandless for awhile!” the soldier cried bluntly as he withdrew. The mayor chuckled with delight upon getting rid of his visitor so easily and Immediately resumed his study of the surrounding country, planning how he might best attack, the insolent neighbors who had dared to scoff at the unfinished church. The soldier quitted the mayor’s mansion In disgust, and as he walked down the street, brooding moodily over the utterly impossible conditions that old Peter had imposed, he became conscious that there was a stranger gliding by his side. Young Hendrlc glared at the stranger in wrath. He felt in the humor for a quarrel, and here was a chance. The man was tall and thin, with a nose curved like an eagle’s beak, deep sunken eyes glowing like balls of fire, a long, drooping mustache and a sneering smile, and he was wrapped from head to foot in a long black cloak. Upon his head he wore a little hooded cap, and a single slender red feather curved in the air like a tongue of fire. Hendrlc was hot with rage when he glanced at the stranger, and then all of a sudden be became as cold as ice. “Our fat little mayor made strange conditions,” quoth the stranger, his voice as metallic as the ring of steel upon steel. Hendrlc could only stare, not speals. “You see, I know all about it,” the stranger continued, with a confident nod, “and I take quite an Interest in your case. It is a shame that two young hearts should be kept from each other, and if you say the word I’m the man who will give you the maiden.” Hendrlc shivered, and as he glanced •round to see if any one was near hh gaze fell upon the unfinished cathedral. The two had halted right in front of the ill fated church. “There you are!” cried the stranger as he looked at the vast pile with the air of a man who considered himself a judge about such things. “The finishing of that is but a mere trlfie. I’ll help you myself. It is a little out of my line to build churches, but opposl-, tion is the life of trade. I’ll aid you cheap. Just sign me this contract. The purport of it is that the first who shall enter by the open door when the cathedral is finished shall belong to me, skin and hair, body find soul.” As it Is generally very easy in this world to give away what does not belong to us, Hendrlc gladly signed the contract, and then the dark stranger agreed to deposit a certain sum amply sufficient to finish the cathedral In a lonely spot upon the grounds belonging to Hendrlc’s dead father, accompanied by a will purporting to be signed by the old man bequeathing the money to his son. This was so arranged that none might have a suspicion as to wto furnished the money. All went well. Hendrlc found the money, devoted it to building the cathedral and married the girl. But before the cathedral was finished Hendric had confided to his wife the bargain he had made with Satan, and she, womanlike, set her wits to work to cheat the fiend. , The contract stated that the first to enter should fall Satan’s prize, but did not stipulate whether that first should be human or beast And so the opening day came and a 'vast crowd assembled. Two men placed a large box close to the cathedral door, the portal was opened, the box was shattered and a huge welf ran into the church at headlong speed. The fiend In waiting gripped the beast fast, but, when he saw how he had been tricked be vanished with a howl of rage. The contract had been strictly kept. The fiend had completed the cathedral.

An Outside Opinion.

“So you don’t think Solomon wuz a wise man?” “Well, suh, he wuzn’t so pow’ful wise, kaze he spent half his lifetime gittln’ married en de ynther half in wonderin’ what he could ’a’ been a-thlnkin* of at de time.”—Atlanta Constitution.

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