Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1908 — Page 2

m cm mi. I.’t. UKM. MM 111 NIUfIEI. *1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. Published Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Ind., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Office on Van Rensselaer Street. Long Distance Telephones: Office 315. Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1008. .

STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Governor THOMAS R. MARSHALL. For Lieutenant-Governor FRANK J. HALL. For Secretary of State JAMES F. COX For Auditor of State MARION BAILEY. For Treasurer of State JOHN ISENBABGER. For Attorney General WALTER J. LOTZ. For Reporter of Supreme Court BURT NEW. For Judge of Supreme Court M. B. LAJBY. For Judge of Appellate Court E. W. FELT. For State Statistician P. J. KELLEHER. For Supt. Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY. DISTRICT TICKET. For State Senator, Counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White, ALGIE J. LAW, of Newton County. For State Representative, Counties of Jasper and White, GUY T. GERBER, of Jasper County. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marion tp. For Recorder CHARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. For Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. For Surveyor FRANK GARRIOTT of Union tp. For Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. For Commissioner, Ist Dist. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. For Commissioner 3rd Dist. George b. fox t of Carpenter tp.

GILLAM TP. CONVENTION.

The Democrats of Gillam township and all who wish to affiliate with them in the November election, will meet in mass convention at Center School House on Saturday, July 11, 1908, at tw i o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to be voted on in the November election. C. F. TILLETT. Chm. J. W. CULP, Sec.

Tenth Congressional District Nominating Convention.

The democrats of the Tenth District will meet in delegate convention on Wednesday, July 22nd, 1008, in the city of Monticello, Indiana, at lijfo p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress to be voted for at the November election in 1908. The delegates from the several counties will be selected in such manner and at such time as the County Central Committee of each county shall designate. The several counties of the district will be entitled to the following number of Benton . 7 Jasper ........... ....... 7 Lake 14 Laporte 22 Nemton 5 Porter 7 Tippecanoe 21 Warren . White 10 Total... ....... .... 98 JAMES K. RISK, Chairman. JAMES W. SCHOOLER, Sec.

The Republican national platform not only proposes to give steamship subsidies and to amend the antitrust l«w so that railroads may organize pools, but It promises to guarantee “reasonable profits” to the trusts. Everybody knows what the trusts’ idea * “reasonable

profit” is—everything that can be squeezed out of the people.

That "prosperity” wave what was scheduled to start out on its political mission July 1 seems to have met a counter-current somewhere. At any rate it hasn’t arrived anywhere yet.

In 1/9 07 the state tax board assessed the-Western Union Telegraph company $3,328,362. This year the same company was assessed at only companies were assessed at $980,189. This year they are assessed at only $551,619. The common taxpayer, however, will make up the difference.

When the Republican state committee and the state candidates met in Indianapolis the other day a “batch” of them were photographed in the attitude of "laughing,” and they were so pictured in the Indianapolis Star, the official court Journal. The picture was accompanied by a carefully prepared diagram, which explained that they were “laughing over their prospective prospects.” Without that explanation no one would have guessed it and certainly no one believed it. It was all too obviously painful.

The non-partisan New York Realty Journal says: We have contended, as reference to our editorial columns will prove, that there no longer exists any antagonism in the ranks of legitimate business men of the country to Mr. Bryan, who has won the entire confidence of the business community. Mr. Bryan is only opposed by the members of the special privileges party, as is President Roosevelt. The special privileges party is made up of a membership that thrives on Illegitimate business interests, as opposed to the legitimate business interests of the country.

A number of farmers are talking of buying automobiles, probably not to hitch up to the breaking plow but to raise a cloud of dust just like city folks, and then when it conies to paying taxes on them they are a great deal cheapen than horses { But here is a little friendly advice: Don’t sell your horses, as you might need them occasionally to hook up to the family chariot when you want to be sure to get there, or you want to be sure to keep an appointment. The engine of these animals does not give out or the tires bust, as they frequently do on autos, or if they do you usually know it before you leave home.

The Marion county grand jury is still grinding out new graft indictments. In the last batch Is one against the Republican county treasurer who went out of office last January. The grand jury charges that he forgot to leave behind him something over $20,000 which belonged to the county. Marion county, like the state, is “great and rich,” and has “grown in wealth and populaition,” but the people of that community object to being robbed, nevertheless. When you hear anyone trying to justify public extravagance on the ground that the people can stand it, you can just set it down that the people are being skinned somewhere along the line.

The Chicago News takes as a foregone conclusion that the Denver platform will' have a publicity plank as to campaign funds. The deliberate rejection of such a plank at Chicago, it thinks will be heard of often during the coming campaign. It goes on to say: The American people, during recent years, have taken long strides in the direction of real political sagacity. They have caught glimpses of the workings of the financial machinery of national through revelations In the life insurance inquiry, and those brought about by the pique of Harriman. Next fall, when the political fighting gets hot and the voters exhibit curiosity as to the sources from which come the sinews of war, if Mr. Bryan dexterously shall pry open the secret of campaign revenues he win place to his credit a notable achievement of permanent value to the nation. .• ’1 ' '

The same departments of the state government which cost $431,000 a year under Governor Matthews’ adminßtrations cost last year, under Governor Hanly, $925,470, which is more than double. This bears out the claim made by the present custodian of the statehouse when he asked the last legislature to raise his salary from $1,500 a year to $2,000 a year. He declared that his salary should be increased because “the official force in the statehouse had doubled.” The legislature not only gave the custodian the lift he asked for, but made a lot of new jobs about the statehouse so as to force him to earn it. Although the state was desperately hard up, the legislature was so free in making new offices and raising the salaries of old onCe, that the amount of the cost, according to the Indianapolis News, a republican paper, footed up $320,000. And this was in the state government alone. t

NO HESITATION WHATEVER.

The next president will be either Taft or Bryan. Should you hesitate a moment as to how to vote for the safety and soundness of the business interests of the country?—Corydon Republican. Not a moment. To hesitate is to be lost. Then there is no reason to hesitate. In order to vote “for the safety and soundness of the business interests of the country," the only thing necessary to do is to vote the democratic ticket. . That will insure safety and soundness; it will insure equal and exact justice to all men. A vote y>r the Republican national ticket would ■ mean that Wall street and the trusts and combinations in restraint of trade will rule this country with an iron hind; that money panics will be frequent; that all the wealth of this country will soon be in the hands of a few men and that the poor may do the best they can with all the odds against them, or beg. It means that the laboring man and the mechanic will .soon have no rights if he votes for Taft, the man of putty in the hands of Wall street. i Oh no, “we” do'n’t hesitate; “we” will vote for Bryan, and in so doing help to put all men on the same basis with equal opportunities, efiual rights, equal privileges; and with the same protection from the law.— New Albany Public Press.

TROUBLE IN THE FAMILY.

The Richmond Dally Item, a Republican newspaper, printed in Mr. Watson’s congressional district, in an article referring to a (premature) report that the Republican state managers are going to take Watson off the stump,” says this, among other things, concerning the Republican candidate for governor: ‘‘For years he has carried water on both shoulders and succeeded in staying in congress through the work of a well-oiled machine. Last year he came very nearly being defeated because for the first time in his career the voters of his district began to pin him down to facts and to his record. He had to abandon his ‘‘spread eagle” and “rally around the flag” style of talking and tell why he voted the way he did. In a desperate effort he tried to defend himself by deliberately lying, but the records had been kept and this lame defense of his only lost him more votes than if he had told the truth and offered no defense. “This year his campaign is bound •o be the same. He is on the defensive, and must confine himself to facts, not ‘‘hot air.” His oratory in behalf of temperance is being met with question about how he secured his nomination through the influence of the liquor interests in the large cities of Indiana. The temperance* people 4.0 know about that before they suppofthlm. On the other hand, the liquor forces are wondering where they come In, as they supported his nomination with certain promises regarding what he would do in the way of appointing “wide open” police boards! who would not enforce the laws which he advocates enacting. Both sides distrust him, and both sides are demanding a show-down. Jim's only safety 1? in getting off the stump.” ■ t j . .. : |n Rocking chairs, high chairs, dining chairSz baby walkers, combination high chairs and go-carts. In fact we are running a furniture I store. D. M. WORLAND.

BRYAN’S STRENGTH WITH THE PEOPLE.

Walter Wellman, the noted correspondent of the Chicago RecordHerald, a republican j>aper, writing from Denver July 3, said: Bryan in complete possession of the field, master of the situation. The convention is his, to do wbat he likes with, and hardly a possibility of breaking down his rule. The national, the broad, the historic, the hopeful significance of it is this: Plutocracy has been overwhelmed by the tenaciousness with which the people have stood by the man who in their belief represents principles. Men have beaten dollars. The idolatry of the Democratic hosts for one man has proved a greater power than organized and aggressive wealth, with all its Resources and There is a lot to think jibout in this. Mr. Bryan was backed by no machine. He had no organization; There were no officeholders to do his bidding. No powerful "interests” were helping him, but on the contrary they were all opposing him. Most of the so-called “big newspapers” owned and used by selfseeking corporations, were fighting him. But he was nevertheless “in complete possession of the field, master of the situation” at Denver. And why? Because the people believed in him and have stood by him. That’s it. He is the people’s candidate and not the candidate of the predatory interests represented by Rockefeller, Morgan, Harriman, Standard Oil, Steel Trust, the other trusts, the stock gamblers and thimbleriggers. On the issue of the people against plutocracy Mr. Bryan should win by a majority so big that the question as to whom the government belongs to will be settled for all time.

NO PUBLICITY WANTED.

The republican meeting at Chicago voted down a resolution to make public all contributions to the fund to carry on the national campaign by an overwhelming majority, and is it a wonder that it did? Of course this points as straight as the needle to the pole to the source |from which the republican party expects to get (,he sinews of war with which to defeat the plain people at the polls in November. The corporations expect to furnish them, and does anyone think that they will do this without they are certain the g. o. p. will give them another lease of “four years more” to loot and pillage the people as they have done for the last eleven? Its spellbinders may rave and tear their hair in denunciation of the robber corporations, but will that change their past records? Is there one that can be made to believe that a spellbinder with Standard Oil money in his pockets, not only as a retainer, but also to pay for special trains and all other luxuries, is going out of his way to help secure legislation that will in any way interfere with the beautiful monopoly that it enjoys in this land »f the free and home of the brave? Would he say anything that would in any way lead his hearers to believe that the Standard Oil was anything but the best behaved corporation on earth? Does anyone suppose that he would advocate breaking up this most criminal of all the brood of corporate thieves that now infest this land? On the other hand would it not be natural for him to plead for his clients, and to impart to his hearers that this corporation was one of the greatest benefactors this country had ever seen? And, by the way, haven’t you become familiar with that argument already? Haven’t you heard how this great philanthropic corporation has reduced the price of oil and kept it down in spite of these noseing, would-be competitors, to break into the market and boost the price? Now, honor bright, don’t you think it would be a good thing to post every contribution to the campaign fund in a conspicuous place so that we may know who is paying the bills when we hear these corporate thieves defended from the rostrum? Don’t you think that it would be a capital idea? This is the democratic position, i and it is the right position. . , - Rugs from 11.25 to |3O at Williams*.

LEEDS FOR ILLUSTRATION.

How His m Multi-Millionaire Was Made by the Tariff. As a sample of the tariff-made millionaire, Leeds will do as well as any of them. ;6f course, he*is referred to as "the American financier,”' although he was little* more than a pocket into which vast sums of money flowed through the tariff funnel. It can ndt be claimed that Leeds btiilt up a great business, or outm'aneuve&d competitors, or devised a superior article of commerce, because the facts would not substantiate such a claim; but it can be asserted that the little struggling business he owned came under the special care and protection of the Government, the people were turned into the channel that ran through his place of business, and all he had to do was to pile up the coin. Get that well fixed in your mind—he was a tariff-made millionaire; the Government ordained that users of tin should pay their money to him, just as directly as if he had been a customs officer at the port of New A tariff wall was raised to com'pel the foreign producer to pay admission at the gate and so help nourish the Government treasury. The foreigner thereupon stopped coming, and instead erf his paying our Government, this wall operated to compel our own citizens to make millionaires out of Leeds and a score of his associates. It operated to saddle another giant trust on the backs of Americans. So that Mr. Leeds, now dead of excesses, was made a millionaire by law just as truly as if the Government has voted him the customs receipts of New York. His $1,000,000 home for his new wife was given him by this law; her $700,000 yacht was paid for through this law, and hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of diamonds were gifts of the McKinley tariff. The law decreed that the housewife purchasing a dishpan, or a can of vegetables, or sardines, or a tin of baking powder, or a tin rattle or toy horn for the Christmas stocking, should drop a few sheckles tribute into the lap of W. B. Leeds and his second wife. The tariff, imposed “for the benefit of the American workingman,” for the “stimulus of American Industry,” for the “protection of the American public,” was in reality a decree creating a few more members of our American nobility. When the millions of consumers of tin, that is, those who use tin or buy articles that are packed in tin, are compared with the few thousands employed in the industry, and compared again with the score of millionaires created through a tariff monopoly, all is said that need be said concerning a revision of the tariff. When it is further shown that the tin industry has been made a part of the steel trust, it need not be asked whether this “Infant industry” needs the nursing bottle any longer. One' need not be a political economist nor know the history of the tariff from the beginning of the republic until now to form a very clear estimate of what the tariff is and what needs to be done to it. All one needs to do is to consider the career of a very mediocre man, barely an average man as a business men go, who was made a millionaire by grace of the tariff. The “protected workingmen” didn’t become millionaires. The users of tin can not show a bank account representing their savings through the home manufacture of tin, can they? Where, then, is all this tariff advantage—in the increased Government receipts? No, these receipts show a decrease. Leeds, his associates and the steel trust got it, and what’s more, they are getting it to-day, and will get It to-morrow and the day after and the next—and until some one takes hold of the tariff to make it equitable.—Detroit News.

THE NEW CATALOGUE OF LYON & HEALY PIANOS.

This handsome book, which is just off the press, gives illustrations and net prices of the four new designs of Lyon & Healy upright pianos that are creating such a stir In musical circles. It offers proofs for every claim made, and it differs from other piano catalogs in many other ways. The Lyon & Healy Piano leads all others as the popular home piano of America. It Is preferred by good judges of tone and also by all longheaded purchasers who realize that should they eve* want ,to sell their piano again (they could more easily sell a Lyon & Healy piano than any other make. ■ , " J Drop a postal for this catalog to Lyon & Healy, 77 Adams street, Chicago, 111. You will save money by buying your furniture and rugs at Williams*. the leader in low prices.

OR. ROSE M. REMMEK, 'S REGISTERED OPTICIAN, is making a specialty of the fused bl-focal lens. This lens combines the reading and distant vision in an invisible manner and positively never gets air bubbles in the reading correction. We also supply the Perltorlc and Opifex lens. Most careful examination of the eyes in' every case. Special attention given to muscular imbalance, such as a tendency of the eyes to turn in or out Office at Clarke’s Jewelry store. r Don’t Wear Any Kind and All Kinds of Glasses And do your eyes harm, when you can have your eyes tested by latest methods by p permanently located and reliable Op tometrist. Glasses from $2 up. Office over Long’s Drug Store. Appointments made by telephone, No. 232. DR. A. G. CATT OPTOnBTRIST Registered and Licensed on the State Board Bxaminatlon and also graduate of Optical College. t

Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect June 14, 1908. SOUTH BOUND. No. s—Louisville Mail (daily) 10:55 a. m. No.33—lnd'polis Mail (dally).. 2:01p.m. No<S9 —Milk accomm. (dally) 5:40 p. m. No. 3—Louisville Ex. (dally) 11:05 p. m. No.3l—Fast Mall 4:49 a.m. NORTH BOUND. No.+—Mail (da11y).......... 4:30 a.m. No.4o—Milk accomm. (dally) 7:31 a. m. No.32—Fast Mall (daily) 9:55 a.m. No. 6 —Mail and Ex. (daily).. 3:28p.m. •No.3o—Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:36 p. m. No.3B—Cin. to Chi. (Sun.only) 2:57 p. m. •Dally except Sunday. No. 3 will stop at Rensselaer for passengers for Lafayette and South. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from pointe south of Monon, ana take passengers for Lowell, Hammond and Chicago. No. 33 makes direct connection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen’l Mgr., CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr., Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.

CITY OFFICERS. MayorJ. H. S. EUU MarshalW. S. Parks Clerk.... Charles Morlan Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer...H. L, Gamble Fire Chief.J. J. Montgomery Fire WardenJ. J. Montgomery Councilman. Ist ward...H. L. Brown 2nd wardJ. F. Irwin 3rd ward Eli Gerber At large..C. G. Spitler, Jay W. Williams COUNTY OFFICERS. C1erk........ Charles C. Warner Sheriff.. John O’Connor AuditorJ. N. Leatherman Treasurer.J. D. Allman Rec0rder....................J. W. Tilton SurveyorMyrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools.. Ernest R. Lamson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health OfficerM. D. Gwin Commissioners. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District.. Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees. Townships. Washington Cook Hanging Grove M. W. CoppessGillam Grand Davisson....Barkley Charles F. Stackhouse.Marlon Charles E. Sage. Jordan W. B. Yeoman Newton George L. Parks..Milroy Fred KarchWalker Henry Feldman Keener Charles StalbaumKankakee Robert A. Mannan.....Wheatfield Anson A. Fell Carpenter Harvey Davisson.Union Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt.... Rensselaer E. C. Englishßensselaer James H. Green........ Remington Geo. O. Stembel...Wheatfield Truant Officer. .C. M. Sands* Rensselaer JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge........ Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorneyß. O. Graves Terms of Court.—Sedond Monday ia February, April. September and November. Four week terms. Jordan Township. The undersigned, trustee of Jordan township, attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month: also at the Shide schoolhouse on the east side, on the third Saturday of each month between the hours of 9 a. m. and 3 p. m. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Goodland, Ind. R. F. D. CHAS. E. SAGE, Trustee. -. ha ■ . ... ■ . ■ Newton Township. The undersigned, trustee of Newton township, attends to official business at his Residence on Thursday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address Rensselaer, Indiana. m... Union Township. The undersigned, trustee of Union township, attends to official business at bls residence on Friday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice, address, Rensselaer, Indiana, F- HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee. MM PAgKER’B HAIR BALSAM ■K: * inxunam growth. IK3— An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.