Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1908 — Page 2

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DEMOCRATIC TICKET

Governor MAS R. MARSHALL. leutenant-Governor FRANK J. HALL. Secretary of State JAMES F. COX. Auditor of State lARION BAILEY. Treasurer of State HN ISENBARGER. Attorney General 'ALTER J. LOTZ. »orter Supreme Court BURT NEW. idge Supreme Court M. B. LAIRY. ige Appellate Court E. W. FELT. State Statistician ?. J. KELLEHER. >t Public Instruction 10BERT J. ALEY.

ISTRICT TICKET.

Teniber of Congress ILLIAM DARROCH, if Newton County. Senator, Counties of Jas- . Newton, Starke and White, ALGIE J. LAW, >f Newton County, jentative, Counties of lasper and White, GUY T. GERBER of Jasper County.

COUNTY TICKET.

Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marion tp. Recorder ARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. Sheriff ILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. Surveyor FRANK HARRIOTT of Union tp. Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. nnmissioner. Ist Dist. lOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. jmmissioner 3rd Dist. GEORGE B FOX of Carpenter tp.

OWNSHIP TICKETS.

penter—GEOßGE BESSE >e; JAMES H. GREEN, tor. hiii JOHN W. SELMER ee. rion EDWARD HERTrustee; SAMUEL 'T, Assessor. ion—ISAAC KIGHT Trus3HARLES U. HARRIOTT, sor. nging Grove—WM. R. MTT. Trustee: CHARLES jER, Assessor. tlker—-DAVID M. PEER, ee: JOSEPH FENZIL. sor. •dan- WAI. WORTLEY, ee; FRANK NESS H’S. ssor. wton— E. P. LANE. TrusJOSEPH THOMAS, As>r. vrkley—THOMAS M. CALAN, Trustee; JOHN NOR- , Assessor. heat field- 8. D. CLARK, tee; HENRY MISCH, As>r.

AMPAIGN PUBLICITY.

een states of the Union have squiring publicity for camontrlbutions. It was not to these States that the Demosnt for a treasurer for their i. committee* The Republiliberately put their campaign r under the strictest law of t of New York. —Buffalo Exls what one might call ope ) crass, regulation, routine, party arguments that surely *

must assume an awful stupidity in those to whom they are addressed. No; the Democrats did not go to any of the nineteen States that have publicity laws for campaign contributions to get a treasurer. They could and did provide for such publicity without being compelled to do it by law. The Republicans peremptorily refused In their platform to make any such provision. The Democrats not only did so, but have carried their declaration Into effect and will make public all contributions before' the election. More than this they will not receive contributions from corporations nor accept from any one any more than SIO.OOO. After this—do not forget this — the Republicans chose a treasurer from one of the nineteen States that have laws compelling publicity for campaign funds. But they chose the State where such publicity is compelled only after the election, which for the practical moral effect that it may have might as well be never. If the party Is defeated, nobody will care who gave to It nor how much. If It wins, It can afford to laugh at anything and everybody. So we have the Republicans simply crawling into New York State to do what the law compels them to do as to publishing campaign funds, while the Democrats did all, and more, voluntarily in advance, and by so doing compelled the Republicans to imitate them to jome extent at least. All this is the very a b c of events, and ohe would think that a Republican organ would be highly content to let it fall Into oblivion. The Republican record on this publicity matter is so distinctly discreditable beside the Democratic that the least said the better. But you can never guess the shallows of the party intellect or imagine in what foolish things it may think it thinks it has an argument.—lndianapolis News.

INSURING AGAINST BUSINESS LOSSES.

It is quite likely that the panic will be well over before Bryan succeeds President Roosevelt next March. Business will resume normal conditions shortly after Bryan's inauguration and another era of prosperity will be ushered in. Some British underwriters are ready to insure business men against losses in case of Bryan’s election. Had they insured against losses under the Roosevelt administration, the Lloyds would most surely have gone to the wall. “It is a pity," says an exchange, that the British underwriters did not begin to insure against losses a year ago, just before the Knickerbocker trust company "busted” with liabilities of over 870,000.000. Just before the Hamilton bank with deposits of more than $7,000,000 went to the wall. Just before the twelfth ward bank with deposits of over $3,000,000 suspended payment. Just before the Empire City bank with deposits of over $4,000,000 put up its shutters. Just before the Borough bank in New York with deposits of $3,000,000 was up against frenzied finance. Just before the Brooklyn bank with deposits of $1,000,000 suspended, uaymeiitt, -

Just before the Harlem savings bank and hundreds of other banks took advantage of the sixty days notice law and refused to pay its depositors. Just before the First National bank of Brooklyn “hit the wall” with deposits of (4,200,000. Just before the four Westinghouse companies of Pittsburg with liabilities of more than (50,000,000 went into the hands of a receiver. Just before the Iron City trust company with liabilities of about (4,000,000 suspended and went into innocuous desuetude. Just before the Southern Steel Co. of Birmingham, Ala., capitllized at $25,000,000 went into the hands of a receiver and was declared bankrupt. Just before the Chicago InterOcean, a republican newspaper, said said: “Union labor officials estimate that one-half of the two hundred thousand union men of the city are out of employment and start move-

ment to relieve the situation.*’ Just before the American Car and Foundry plant employing 160,000 men posted notices that they would close in ten days, owing to a lack of orders. Just before a staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News writing from New York, as late as May 30, 1908, said, “New York state army of unemployed will have to be reckoned with at the election next fall; the size of this army is variously estimated from 500,000 to one million men. Just soup houses were started in Dayton and Chicago and other large cities. s Just before hundreds of thousands of railroad men and factory men were laid off throughout this country. If this concern had commenced business soon enough they would probably have had their hands full by this time paying the losses. Yes, and to bring this a little nearer home, how nice it would have been If The Democrat’s “who had deposits in bank had been “insured” by the Lloyds against loss under this same administration. For example: Just before the McCoy political sheepskin bank of Rensselaer went “busted” and after 4 % years Its creditors have received but 40 cents on the dollar; Just before Fred > Gilman’s bank at Goodland went to the wall; Just before the Baldwin & Dague banks at Goodland, Fowler and Ambia closed up shop; Just before “Bob” Parker’s bank at Remington went all to pieces. How nice it would have been for the creditors of these nearby banks if the Lloyds had only started this insurance scheme before. Perhaps they would have felt safer, too, when practically every bank in the entire country refused to pay depositors’ checks—the first time such a thing ever occurred In the history of this country with a solvent bank. Under no democratic administration this country has ever seen was there a time before when a man having money in bank could not get it on demand z if the bank was a solvent one. “Insured against loss in the event of Bryan’s election" forsooth! We should not think that a republican newspaper in the country would have the eternal “gall” to give space to any such things as this in the light of what has happened under the reign of Teddy I.

BRYAN AND TAFT PUBLICITY.

Mr. Taft calls attention to the fact that the treasurer of the Bryan national committee, Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, hails from a state which has no law requiring publicity for campaign contributions. The point is urged in behalf of the Republican publicity program that Treasurer Sheldon comes from New York, where the law requires the publication of campaign contributions. But this is of no consequence. The publicity provided by the New York and other State laws is not before election, but after election. The publicity provided by the Bryan program is before the votes are cast. But so far the Taft plan does not contemplate the opening of Treasurer Sheldon's campaign books until after the ballots are polled. So it makes very little difference to the voters whether Mr. Sheldon’s publicity is voluntary or compulsory, so long as in either case it conceals the contributions from the public until after the votes the contributions are meant to influence are cast and counted. Nor does it matter whether the treasurer of the Democratic national committee is acting under a State law requiring publicity after election if he publishes an account of his funds during the progress of the campaign. An ounce of publicity before election is worth a pound of it afterward. But the Bryan treasurer also promises to publish a detailed account of his expenditures after election, and this is just as good as if he did so by compulsion of law, because‘there is no doubt that the promise will be kept.

There Is no use denying that the Bryan program of publicity is better than the one so far outlined by Mr. Taft’s managers. It would not be possible for them to satisfy the voters with concealment of their con-’ tributions until after election If that policy should persisted in while the Bry*an accounts were open to the eyes of the world.—New York Evening Press (Rep.)

CAMPAIGN CONVOLUTIONS.

Evidence that the President is running the Republican campaign is quite as plain and pointed as that he nominated the Republican candidate, and it is of the true Roosevelt variety, the kind with which we have been familiar for years and which when first Indulged in filled or thrilled the country with a new sensation, tonic to a degree. As Robbert Louis Stevenson said, the country exclaimed, "Here’s a fellow!“ But fater more followed and the fount seemed inexhaustible a slight spirit of weariness overcame the spirit of our dreams, and now the Republicans ungratefully enough are pleading for their candidate (whom the President gave them) that he is to be taken by opposites. He is easy, he is smiling, he is unstrenuous, he is a soother, he is good for that tired feeling, he is “Bill.” This is ungrateful, but that does not matter to the President. He is still the biggest “I” in the country. He started in with the upsetting attempt at the Standard Oil decision. At once he announced the criminal character of the Standard Oil* Company, and the rough and ready “Department of Justice” was called into conference while the air reverbrated with the presidential threats of vengeance and slaughter. The President has been much blamed for this, and Judge Grosscup improved the occasion to snub him with severity, showing how little he knew of law and how helpless he was in the face of the judge’s decision. But the President was right for all that, from his point of view. This is, as always, practical. The President is no vague theorist, he is no mollycoddle, and he felt with the swift instinct of the able politician that a thing worse for the Republican campaign prospects \than this Standard Oil decision could hardly happen at this time. So he laid

about with him the “big stick” to counteract its effects if possible, to drive into the popular mind, if so it might be, that this decision was no sign of the reaction which the platform and the Wall street complaisance With the candidate had argued. From the point of good practical politics the President was right. If he can convince the plain people that the Republicans still stand for popular hurrah against corporation domination, it will mean votes. If not, the Republican campaign will be “Grosscuped” to that extent. And now comes another demonstration of the same kind. The good old “Department of Justice” gives an “opinion” that national banks in Oklahoma can not share in that State’s plan to protect deposits. Not improbably if the Democrats, in their platform, had notkapproved a guaranty of deposits, the “department” would not have been dragged from its summer vacation to give a hot weather decision that such a guaranty was a device of the evil one. It was probably z because the Democratic platform adopted the guaranty of deposits as a principle that this last move has been made. It was adopted, it will be remembered, as an alternative to getting a postal savings bank system. The Republicans have declared for a postal savings bank and as deposits therein are guaranteed by the Government, prudence might dictate that there were rather a slim edge here on which to rest a campaign' assault. If this sort of thing keeps on the Republican national committee will have its hand so full nullifying the zeal of the President that it will have appreciably less force tp apply to a nullification of the Democrats. For it is apparent to everyone that this “cutting in” is disastrous politically. Bryan and the Democratic leaders see it at once, and chuckle approval.—lndianapolis News (Rep.)

President Roosevelt has appointed a commission to Investigate and report means to Improve the general condition of the farmer. This scheme recommends itself from several points of view. Ist. It gives the commission appointed jobs. 2nd. It puts money in circulation. 3rd. It will bring the home conditions oLthe’farmer to the attention of the city folks and the stock brokers, a fact tharc should not be overlooked because in this way these board of trade men who have been taking toll of the farmer have never been sure whether they have got their share or not. But by being put next to the farmer’s true condition by this Roosevelt commission they will be able to determine the matter with accuracy and govern themselves accordingly. The farmers themselves are disposed to frown on this commission business, and to assert that it is not only unnecessary but astually presumptuous on the part of the President to assume that they are not in just as good condition as other people.We have great respect for the farmer and are inclined to the opinion that they should go slow In this matter, as it may be of great Importance to them. Suppose this commission should discover a way by which noxious weeds could be eradicated, utterly anihilated as It were, by employing a sleight of hand performer to exercise his magI 1c on them, wouldn’t that be worth while? Suppose it should discover a way of doing the chores while lying abed, even on cold mornings, wouldn’t that beat the present day way of doing them? Suppose they would happen to discover a way to plant, harvest and get the crops to market, while the farmer and his hired man lay in the shade of a tree and smoked 50 cent segars, wouldn’t that be something? Many other great reforms that are needed may be ferreted out by this commission, and thereby place the farmer in the millionaire class along with the stockbroker, the railroad magnate, and the manufacturer.

IT’SNOPICNC Getting Ready for a Day’s Outing. Too much work for the women folks. Too much wondering what to bake and take. Too much cooking. This store can • help you a whole lot, if you will let it. This, that or the other thing, ready to eat. Biscuits, just about no end to the varieties, dainty and appetizing. Potted Meats, Potted Fowl, Canned Fish, Pickles and Olives, and so on. The idea of what to take on an outing is furnished by seeing the goods. You know our position on the quality question, and you ought to prove our price promises. THE RELIABLE GROCERS McFarland & son. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT For Supplies County Asylum. Notice is hereby %Jven that on Monday, September 7th, 1908, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will, until 12 o’clock noon, receive sealed proposals for the supplies for use of County Asylum for the quarter ending Nov. 30th, 1908, for groceries, dry goods and meat. All blds to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. ~ By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

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Chicago to Northwait, Indianapolis ®° Uth - Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. L . In Effect June 14, 1908. ' SOUTH BOUND. No. 6—Louisville Mall (dally) 10:56 a. m No.33—lnd’polls Mall (daily).. 201 pS’ No.39—Milk accomm. (daily) No. 3—Louisville Ex. (dally) 11:06 p m No.Bl—Fast Mall 4:49 a m NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail (daily) 4:30 a. m N 0.40 —Milk accomm. (dally) 7:81 a. m N 0.32 —Fast Mail (daily) 9:65 a m No. 6—Mail and Ex. (dally).. 8:26 D.m. •N 0.30 —Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:36 p. m. No.3B—Cin. to Chi. (Sun.only) 2:67 p. m. •Daily 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 points south of Monon, and 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.

COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. _ . Townships. Washington Cook ...Hanging Grove M. W. Cqppess Gillam Grand Davisson..... Barkley Charles F. Stackhouse Marion Charles E. Sage Jordan W. B. Ye0man.................. .Newton George L. Parks. Milroy Fred Karch Walker Henry Feldman Keener Charles Stalbaum Kankakee Robert A. Mannan Wheatfield Anson A. Fell Carpenter Harvey Davisson .union Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt... .Rensselaer E. C. English.... ...Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfield Truant Officer..C. M. Sands, Rensselaer 1 , JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney R. O. Graves Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor J. H. S. Ellis Marshal W. S. Parks Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Moses Leopold Attorney.. Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief ......'.J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery Councilmen. Ist ward H. L. Brown 2nd ward. '. J. F. Irwin 3rd wart L..... EH Gerber At large..C. G. Spitler, Jay W. WlHlams COUNTY OFFICERS. C1erk.................. Charles C. Warner Sheriff John O'Connor Auditor J. N. Leatherman Treasurer J. D. Allman Rec0rder...,................ J. W. Tilton Surveyor Myrt B. Price Coroner Jennings Wright Supt. Public Schools. .Ernest R. Lamson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer M. D. Gwin Commissioners. Ist District....,., .....John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners' court—First Monday of each month. 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 Shlde 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. 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. Phone 26-A, Mt. Ayr Exchange. W. B. YEOMAN, Trustee. Union Township. The undersigned, trustee of Union township, attends to official business at his residence on Friday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer,- Indiana, R. F. D. 2. HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. No. 8338. Notice Is hereby given that on Monday. September 7th, 1908, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will, until 12 o'clock noon, receive sealed proposals for the construction of 6 wooden pile bridges on the DemotteHebron grade. In Keener Township. Jasper county, Indiana, each bridge to be about 135 feet In length. Said bridges to be built according to plans and specifications to be submitted by the bidder, subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners. AU bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Jasper County, as: Jasper Circuit Court, September Rudolph J. Bcnwab 7 . vs. Duluth-Indiana Oil & Asphalt Company, a corporation, et al. Complaint No. 7346. Now comes the plaintiff, by Judson J. Hunt, one of his attorneys, and flies hte complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants James McGee, W. H. Dean, L. M. Jegeft Charles F. P. Pullin. John J. McGrath. Edgar L. Wood, I. J. Rosenberg, J. D. Budd, M. D. Kelly. F. C. Clifford. Julius Wechselberg, The American Lubricating Oil Company John J. McGrath, President, M. D. Kelly, Vice President, and F. C. Clifford, Secretary of said American Lubricating Oil Company, the Duluth-Indiana OU and Asphalt Company and J. D. Budd President, James McGee Secretary and W. H. Dean, First Vice President of said Duluth-Indiana Oil and Asphalt Company: The Crown Lubricating Oil Company and Julius Wechslberg. President, L. M. Jeger, First Vice President, and James McGee, Secretary of said Crown-Lubricating OU Company; Edgar L. Wood. Trustee, are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants that unless they be and appear on the 29th day of September, 190$, the same being the fourteenth day of the next term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the second Monday of September, A. D. 1908, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, for the foreclosure of a mortgage and the appointment of a receiver, tne same will be heard and determined in their absence. In Witness Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Rensselaer, Indiana, this Ist day of August A. D. 1908. [SEAL] C. C. WARNER, Clerk. Jqdson J. Hunt, Atty, for Plff. An armload or old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.