Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — Page 2

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After the way he has been treated in the house of his friends, will the Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks ever have the courage to look an honest, hard-working cocktail squarely in the face?

Subsidy Jim Watson’s effort to make it appear that he is running for governor “on his own responeibility” is absurd. Everybody knows that he expects to be nominated by the crowd who have parcelled out state nominations for years.

In the recent municipal elections in Connecticut the Democrats made substantial gains throughout the state. Next month six states will elect governor, viz., Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Mississippi, In many other states elections will be held which, may throw some light on next year’s probabilities, though local issues and conditions will cut a large figure.

In less than ten years the Republican party has increased the cost of the state government two millions of dollars a year. And even at this it has been compelled by the extravagance of its expenditures to obtain advances every year from the county treasurers. Without these advancements the state could not have met its obligations Republican “business administrations” come high.

The taxpayer who digs down into bis pocket for his part of the expense of the new jobs created by the late legislature for Republican politicians will have a hard time to see where the value received comes in. The state auditor’s office alone, cost $19,000 a year two years ago, now costs over 150,000 a year since it was “reformed." And other offices were “reformed”’ in the same way.

Surely these look like imperial* istic days—these days of Theodore the First. One member of the cabinet is sent on a mission to Mexico. Another one goes to Ja£an and the Philippines. A third is hurried away to the Pacific coast to personally investigate the troubles with the Orientals, Then Theodore the First hikes out for the Mississippi valley and makes a triumphal trip down the river accompanied by the governors of seventeen states and a gorgeous fleet of steamboats. And finally the president, with a select of gentlemen and hunting dogs, takes to the forests in quest us bears and boars. What more could Emperor Billy do?

- - ; ■ . ■ Everybody except the gigantic “infant industries” and their paid defenders knows that the tariff ought to be reformed, but the Re* publican party, which has the power to reform ft, refuses to do so. Why? Because it receives, io the way of campaign contributions, a part of the money which the tariff allows “its friends” to steal from the people. How much longer are the people going to submit to this sort of thing?

Many of the Republican papers of the state are still “taking pokes” at Governor, Hanly. They say that his support of any Republican candidate will hurt the candidate, and that if he favors any particular person “he bad better not say so out loud.” But if Hanly is the tighter that his friends say be is, he will be pretty apt to say lots of things "out loud”—but hardly all the things he thinks about some of his Republican brethren.

The football season is now “on” in earnest. Last Supday’s and Monday’s papers contained brief accounts of three deaths on the gridiron, while broken beads, arms and limbs were numerous. And hundreds of cases of bad injuries, no doubt, never got into the papers at all. And the rules of the game have been revised recently to make it less dangerous to life and limb, too! The only way to make football a safe game is to abolish it altogether.

The friends of Candidate Taft are beginning to smell a large political mouse. At least they are making a noise like it. They are afraid that their man is being “double-crossed” by the Roosevelt forces. they ask for a delegation in some state they are met with the suggestion, “Oh, let’s get an administration delegation, and then at the proper time we will turn it over to Taft.” This doesn’t look good to the Taft people. They are fearful that “the proper time” will not arrive and that “an administration delegation” will never be able to see anybody but Roosevelt.

NOW BLAMES A WOMAN.

The methods that are being resorted to by Vice . President Fairbanks and his friends to explain the cocktail episode are very much worse than the presence of liquor at his luncheon for President Roosevelt. What purports to be the latest authorized and official explanation appears in a leading religious publication printed in Chicago. It lays all the blame on a woman—a neighbor of the Fairbanks’ and a friend of the family —who was assisting in the preparations for the presidential entertainment.

According to the account this woman ordered the cocktails while the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks "was occupied with greetings to the visitors.” The order was given to the club of which the woman’s husband was 8 member, the "club steward” prepared the drinks and sent them to the Fairbanks .home “in great haste.” The account says that “the first that Mr. Fairbanks knew of the violation of his Methodist habits was when he came to the table with his guests.” This method of trying to “get from under” is not only ungallant, but it is the next thing to silly. It is well known that there was an abundance of other drinks at the table besides cocktails. It is not pretended that the friendly feminine neighbor ordered them—doubtless, because nothing has been said about the presence of the other liquids at the feast. Women have had to bear a great deal in this world, but it is a queer sort of a presidential candidate who will try to make one of the sex a scapegoat in a case like this.

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip ot the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat There has been renewed effort in the last few dayo to dig up a Japanese war scare. This is based on nothing more specific than the temper of the people on the Pacific coast where it is said that there is an increasingly irreconcilable antiJapanese race feeling that is bound to break out afresh as soon as the battleship squadron arrives in the Pacific. In conjunction with this, it is said that there is being a night shift worked in most of the navy yards and that war material is being accumulated as rapidly as possible. There is just enough truth in these statements to warrant a denial. The most of the navy yards are working a night shift to try to get up work that has been long in arrears, War material is being rushed to the battleships preparatory to their cruise for they are not likely to start on such a cruise empty handed and there is not much time left to get them ready. Also there is a deep anti-Japanese ‘feeling on the Pacific coast that is liable to show itself in another outbreak sometime in the course of the next ten years.; But in the Navy Department there is about as little sign of activity as could be displayed. The President is off on a hunting trip, the Secretary of the Navy is out of the city on contract business, the assistant secretary of the Navy is away on an unusually late vacation and the chiefs of the Bureau of Navigation and the Bureau of Equipment are both away. It would take quite a gathering of the clans to put the Department in position to do business on a very active scale.

Just supposing there should be anything in the way of a war however to call forth the ability of the navy, it is a satisfaction to know that we have just made a record for straight shooting that considerably surpasses anything done bv any of the other navies in the world. In target practice off Cape Cod, the battleships have just made an average of 30.7 per cent hits under battle conditions. The target was the regulation navy target, a floating canvass frame 30 by 30 by 60 feet. The ranges were unknown to the gunners and varied from 5,000 to 9,000 yards, the latter a little over four miles. All the shooting was done while steaming at 10 knots an hour. These were as near service conditions as could be arranged in time of pease and lacked only the single disconcerting element of having some other gun crew shooting back. The greatest number of hits with the 10 inch and 12 inch rifles was made by the Maine which ran up the surprising string of 67 per cent. There were 50s and 47s made by some of the other ships. It was estimated that had the target been the size of an apposing warship, the Maine, would have registered over 100 hits in the space of eight minutes. Comparing this with the performance of foreign navies, it is wonderful shooting. The average of foreign squadrons in similar’practice has never run over 25 per cent and all the damage done by Togo’s fleet in the battle of the Sea of Japan was with a percentage of only four. The average with the secondary batteries aro not so high, but these guns, running from 7 to 4 inches are not supposed to be effective at such a range.

There was h surprise in store for most people who knew them by the marriage of one and the engagement of another of the retired navy veterans this week. The engagement was that of Admiral Seifringe of Civil War fame. He is 74 and is known to every school boy as having been immortalized in the poem "On Board the Cumberland.” Admiral Melville is 66 and fias been on the retired list for three years. He was m .rried to a lady he has known for forty years Admiral Melville is one of the most picturesque figures of the old navy and one of the originators of the new navy. He was for years the Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, and enjoyed the reputation among the jackies in his prime of being the “top notch scrapper” of the whole service. He is about five feet four inches high and about four feet five inches broad without any superfluous flesh. He was the chief engineer of the ill-fated Arctic brig, the Jeanette and was the hero of the fight between the Ohio and the Confederate vessel the Florida in the Harbor of Bahia during the civil war. The Confederate vessel had come into the harbor and refusing a challenge to fight, it was

proposed to ram her. It was almost a certainty that the boilers of the Ohio would not stand the shock, and Melville who was one of the engine room force said that he would go below and run the engines himself just before the collision so that there would be only one man sacrificed. One of the warrant officers vowed be should not take the risk alone and the two of them went through the adventure together, coming out with hardly a scratch. This is an official narrative, bnt there is another story of Melville that is told in the ward room with even more relish and does not appear in the official archives, He was on the old Narraganset when he was a lieutenant and had incurred the enmity of some of the toughest members of the crew. The vessel landed in Cuba for water, and Melville went ashore with the boatscrew when the casks were filled. Four of the sailors decided it was a good time to kill him and desert if they could get him alone for a minute, and Melville, getting wind of their plan, decided to - give them a good chance, As soon as they landed, he strolled off along up the beach and around a bend out of sight of the boat. Three of the four sailors followed him in the bushes and met him on the beach out of sight of the boat’s crew. After a short interval Melvillestrolled back nonchalantly as be bad gone, and remarked to the boatswain that there were three of his men up the beach lying around and acting as if they were drunk,” and he certainly did not see how they had managed to get the liquor. This was all the mention that, was ever made of the affair, but it established the lieutenant’s reputation as a man of his hands.

The four Central American republics of Honduras, Nicaragua, Gautemala and Salvadore have notified the State Department of their selection of delegates to the Central American conference that is to be held in Washington in November. ——.

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REPRESENTATIVES OF INDIANA

James Ell Watson, Republican, of Rushville, who represents the Sixth congressional district, was born in Winchester, Ind., Nov. 2, 1864; graduated from the Winchester high school In 1881, entered De Pauw university the same year and remained in that institution until the year 1885, when he studied law and was admitted in 1886. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and has been grand chancellor of the order; was elected president of the State Epworth league of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1892 and re-elected in 1893. He was elected to the Fifty-fourth congress over the veteran William S. Helman, to the Fifty-sixth, Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth congresses and re-elected to the Sixtieth congress.

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