Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — Page 2
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NATIONAL TICKET.
For President WILLIAM J. BRYAN. For Vice-President, JOHN W. KERN.
STATE TICKET.
Governor THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Lieutenant-Governor FRANK J. HALL. Secretary of State JAMES F. COX. Auditor of State MARION BAILEY. Treasurer of State JOHN ISENBARGER. Attorney General WALTER J. LOTZ. Reporter Supreme Court BURT NEW. Judge Supreme Court M. B. LAIRY. Judge Appellate Court E. W. FELT. State Statistician P. J. KELLEHER. \ Supt. Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY.
DISTRICT TICKET.
Member of Congress WILLIAM DARROCH, of Newton County. State Senator, Counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White, ALGIE J. LAW, of Newton County. Representative, Counties of Jasper and White, GUY T. GERBER of Jasper County.
COUNTY TICKET.
Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marion tp. Recorder CHARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. Surveyor FRANK GARRIOTT of Union tp. Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. Commissioner, Ist Diet. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. Commissioner 3rd Dist. GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp.
TOWNSHIP TICKETS.
Carpenter—GEOßGE BESSE Trustee: JAMES H. GREEN. Assessor. Gillam— JOHN W. SELMER Trustee. Marion EDWARD HERATH. Trustee: SAMUEL SCOTT, Assessor. Union— ISAAC KIGHT Trustee; CHARLES U. GARRIOTT, Assessor. Hanging Grove— WM. R. WILLITT. Trustee: CHARLES LEFLER, Assessor. Walker— DAVlD M. PEER. Trustee; JOSEPH FENZIL, Assessor. Jordan— WM WORTLEY, Trustee; FRANK NESSIUS, Assessor. ■■ . ■ / Newton— E. P. LANE, Trustee; JOSEPH THOMAS, Assessor. Barkley— THOMAS M. CALLAHAN, Trustee: JOHN NORMAN, Assessor. Wheatfield —S. D. CLARK, Trustee; HENRY MISCH, Assessor.
CROOKED POLITICS.
It is a safe proposition that the political trick that is too crooked to be turned by honest methods is too crooked to be for the good of the people. There is too much of the pumpkin vine in it., ... If the Republican party in Indi-
ana expects to carry the state on the temperance fight as it is now being made. lt started about three months too soon. If the people of Indiana can be fooled into voting the Republican ticket by having their credulity made the plaything of such conspiring patriots as Jim Watson and Frank Hanly, they deserve all they will get. The'entlre program so far followed by the Republican campaigners is based upon g false premise. The condition Jmplied in every campaign argument'advanced is that the democratic party stands for the repeal of the present temperance laws and the Republican party stands for making them more severe. The truth of the matter is that the Democratic platform stands out more plainly than the Republican platform for the strengthening of the present laws, so as not in any way to interfere with the remonstrance rights and so jeopardize the results already accomplished in the cause of temperance. A blind man ought to see that if the Republican plan of county option is carried out, an election to decide whether a county shall be wet or dry will settle the matter for the whole county. The townships already dry will become wet if the county election goes wet, and there is no way to frame a law to prevent it. On the other hand the Democratic plan of voting by townships will in no way interfere with townships already dry. Those townships must first propose, themselves, to hold an election, under the Democratic platform, and no change can come about from an outside source. What will be the result in counties having large cities, if the whole county is forced to vote upon the question, because the large wet district is able to force an election whether the dry townships want it or not?
There is no use fan, any party to make glowing promises. There is just one to look at the matter. The temperance people must either vote the Democratic ticket and so keep what they already ✓have in the way of dry territory, with a chance to get all they can by elections, or they must gamble what they already have against the saloon power with the possibility of losing if they try out the Republican plan of county option. There is no half way ground. And while the temperance people are deciding, they must not forget this fact: The most selfish and corrupt political machine that has ever tried to keep a hold upon the treasury of the state of Indiana is the very machine that is now making this grandstand play against the same saloons that have contributed the money to carry every state election which the Republican party has carried in Indiana during the last twenty years. The Democratic party has nothing to fear from an honest discussion of the temperance planks in the two platforms.—The Hoosier.
It is a curious conception that reckons the surrender of a national bank charter as a defiance of the Attorney-General. If a national bank wants to quit being a national bank and turn itself into a State bank, wherein is the •Attorney-Gen-eral defied? He has made a statement that in his opinion it is not lawful for a national barfk to comply with Oklahoma’s law guaranteeing bank deposits. This is only his opinion and not law. But if it were law, how could it be a defiance of him for a national bank to cease being a national bank? It. is singular how politics will color things. Several national banks in Oklahoma have ceased to be national banks and become State banks for the simple reason that they can not compete in business with State banks, whose are guaranteed, while national bank depositors must take their chances. But if State laws are operative only within a State their Influence is not so limited. Kansas banks are feeling the pressure of competition and it has been said that it can not be a long time until Kansas also passes a guarantee-of-deposits law in order to stop the drain of money from her banks to Oklahoma’s. Is it possible that so “loyal” a State as Kansas, acting thus, might cause a change of “opinion?” And is it possible that there has been here started something that may take the country? See?—Republican Exchange.
John A. Johnson, governor of Minnesota, was nominated for the third time Wednesday., notwithstanding the fact that he has repeatedly said he would not take the nomination if tendered him. When his name was presented to the convention thb cheering, lasted one hour and five minutes, something never heard of before in a state convention.
GUARANTY OF BANK DEPOSITS.
Indianapolis News (Rep.). We think that Mr. Van Cleave is unnecessarily excited over the Bryan plan for guaranteeing bank deposits. There are objections to it undoubtedly, but that it would have any such disastrous effects as those spoken of by Mr. Van Cleave we do not at all believe. In all probability it would make all banks more careful, and lead them to de. mand a much more searching eramination than is now given. With a mutual guaranty there would be a closer co-operation among the banks, and each bank would feel that it had the right, and was in duty bound, to exercise through association a closer supervision over all the others. Instead of the honest banks carrying the dishonest ones, the honest banks would work to make all banks honest. At least this Is the way the matter presents itself to us. Further than this, as proving that this is no wild scheme of Populistic finance, we remind the people that a guaranty of deposits was proposed in the Fowler blll,| a bill that has commended itself to many students of finance, men whose soundness and orthodoxy can not be questioned. In neither case is it proposed that the Government insure the deposits. In both cases the plan is for the banks themselves to insure them. There is thus no paternalism in the suggestion. Nor does the plan seem strange when we remember that the Government has itself for years demanded absolute security for its own funds when deposited in national banks.
Speaking of the republican nominee for vice-president’s speech of acceptance, the Indianapolis News, which thus far in the campaign has shown a disposition to speak the truth about the political issues, notwithstanding it has always heretofore supported the republican ticket, says among other good things: Mr. Sherman declared that/a Democratic revenue tariff always brought reduced wages and lessening demand for American products. Since when? The “Cleveland panic" came, it is true, after Cleveland had been inaugurated, but before a single law had been altered. It came while the McKinley tariff was in full force and effect, just as the present panic came under - the Dingley tariff. Really, is not it about time to stop this hoary absurdity about panics as due in some way to the malevolence of Democrats? Panics come and run their course whether Republicans or Democrats are in authority, whether tariffs are high or low*. We all agree with Mr. Sherman that what the laborer wants is to exchange his skill for good pay in good money; but how can he say that a protective tariff and the gold standard bring both of these when we had them both at the time of the panic of 1893 and of the present panic? The rest of Mr. Sherman’s speech glitters with generalities, except when he, says that the issue of this campaign is, Shall the administration of President Roosevelt be ajiproved? Well, people ar© asking how they can best show their approval—by supporting the . candidate whom Wall street and the interests, denounced and attacked by Mr. Roosevelt, are supporting; or the candidate whom Wall street and the Interests bitterly oppose. Beyond supplying some more tariff ammunition for the enemy we do not see that Mr. Sherman has contributed much to the gayety of the campaign.
The meaning of hard times to the wage earners is afforded by the statistics of the New York savings banks, which the Philadelphia Record thus presents: The number of accounts closed exceeded the number opened—each of which is a little less than half a million —by 18,792. The depositors drew out $66,000,000 more than they deposited. The interest credited provided them with $50,000,000 of this, and $16,000,000 is the amount by which the total sums to their credit decreased during the year. With interest bringing in fifty millions, the depositors ought to have found the amount due them at the end of the year increased seventy or eighty million dollars; instead of that it decreased sixteen millions. The number of open accounts is 2,719,596, and we doubt if this army of depositors, men and women, can be imposed upon with the old Republican pretense that the ascendency of their party means prosperity.
If the right that the state, county, township and town and city deposits shall be guaranteed safe and secured by banks, why isn’t it doubly important that individual depositors be made safe and thus avoid panic scares and panic runs on banks? Much of our financial trouble is scare brought about by the masses fearing their money Is not safe in bank, and when one depositor gets scared and tells it, the bank is In trouble aild disaster frequently results from unfounded rumors. Make bank deposits safe and we will have financial and Industrial peace.-—Rochester Sentinel.
The Monon is offering a round trip rate to Denver, Colo., Sept 16, 17 and 18, final limit Sept. 30, at $31.35. W. H. BEAM, Agent.
DEMOCRATIC SOLDIERS.
Not infrequently do Republicans make the absurd statement that it was theft party that fought the battles on the Union side, and that very few, if any, Democrats were in the army. Sometimes these statements are made ignorant of the facts and sometimes they are known to be false. It was the duty of the governors of the states to keep a record of all soldiers furnished by the several states, of their ages, politics, religion, residence, nativity and pursuit in private life, and from that record we gather the following political facts: Maine 29,592 40,005 New Hampshire... 16,406 7,440 Vermont t ... 8,461 24,327 Massachusetts 52,220 .75,510 Rhode Island 6,745 13,522 Connecticut 27,645 ' 28,210 Total New England 144,050 229,122 Alabama . 2,576 Arkansas J..*....... 8,280 Delaware 8,400 3,815 District of Columbia 9,283 7,251 Florida 1,918 Indian Territory 19,981 1,548 Kentucky 74,396 1,363 Louisiana 5,224 Maryland ................. 44,344 294 Mississippi ..... 545 Missouri ................. 92,083 17,028 North Car01ina............ 3,156 Tennessee 31,092 Texas 1,995 The Virginia 5.;........... 31,130 1.928 Total South 341,832 85,230 California 9.345 6,386 Colorado 5,762 2,151 Dakota % 115 91 Illinois 136,094 154,001 Indiana /. 140,398 82,695 All other States 998,035 967,708 Total Volunteers: 1861 to' 1865 1,456.907 1,222,060 Democratic majority of Union Volunteers 234,847
An army of 234,847 more Democratic soldiers that Republican soldiers engaged in putting down the rebellion, in these official figures. There were fully as many Democratic generals and important army officers as Republicans, men who were Democrats before, during and since the war. The military record of General Geo. B. McClellan, General Winfield Scott Hancock, General "Pap” Thomas,.General Meade, General Rosencranz, General Franz Sigel, are but a few of the Democritic hosts in command of the armies fighting for the Union. Not infrequently during the campaign we hear from the rostrum occupied by one of these old political prostitutes, charge the Democratic party with disloyalty, as seeking the destruction of a government established by them and in which they had a greater numerical interest and at least an equal property interest with the Republicans. In the light of these facts how absurd is the claim made by Republicans that the Republican party put down the rebellion. If the party furnishing the greatest number of loyal men in the late war is to be given the credit of preserving the Union that honor belongs to the Democratic party for 234,874 more Democrats than Republicans responded to President Lincoln’s call for volunteer troops —-The Hoosier.
TRUE STORY OF MAUD MULLER.
Maud Muller in the hay field stood. The rake her arm was propping, The Judge rode by upon his horse With admiration stopping; Then paused, considered, and went on Without the question popping. Maud married then a farmer bronzed. A bright existence knowing. For Roosevelt made their dally life With pleasure overflowing. As balls and games replaced the work. Her joy kept right on growing. The Judge went home and found his life Was truly not elysian. For every time he handed down A learned, wise decision • The President denounced It loud And heaped on it derision. , —New York Sun.
WHO WANTS A LYON & HEALY PIANO?
We have learned of an unusual bargain in a Lyon & Healy Piano. This Instrument is one of the regular style instruments. It is of the very latest design, semi-colonial, and the case is of exquisite mahogany. The musical portion of the instrument is fully up to the high standard of all Lyon & Healy pianos. This particular instrument was in the possession of a private owner for a few months only and shows no trace of wear. If you are Interested, write to Lyon & Healy, 77 Adams street, Chicago, for an illustration of piis piano and also for the low net price they are willing to name on this and other special bargains In slightly used pianos. Ask for their special sales list of such bargains and their offer of sales agents’ discount for 30 days. Uprights from SIOO to $175 that were, originally priced for more than double these prices.
FULL BLOOD SHORTHORN BULLS FOR SALE. One excellent 2-year-old and two yearlings. Also farms to rent, possession given either fall or spring. / S. P. THOMPSON, ’Phone 37. Rensselaer, Ind. An *rm load of old papers for * nickel at the Democrat office.
Campaign Contributions. The Democrat is authorized to act as agent for the raising of funds for the legitimate campaign expenses of the democratic party this year, and solicits contributions in any sum over 50 cents. All moneys received will be receipted for and the names of the contributors published in The Democrat, unless otherwise requested, and every penny of the amounts forward to the proper headquarters. This, remember, is a people’s campaign, and the people who seek relief from existing political evils should respond and pay the legetimate expenses thereof. This popular appeal for funds for financing the campaign should meet with a liberal response. Few people are too poor to spare a dollar or two for so Worthy a cause, and many can and will give much more. ' . Send or hand in your contribution at your earliest convenience.
Notice of Filing Estimates for 1909. 'Mi Notice is hereby given that the Estimates of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, and the various County and Township officers of the expenditures for the year 1909 are now on file in the Auditor’s office of Jasper County, Indiana The amounts of said estimates being as follows: Total estimates of County Commissioners for the various expenditures of the County ; 820,685.50 Payment interest Court House 80nd5...., . 5,737 50 Expense Circuit Court 4. 6,827.20 Expense Juvenile Court 100.00 Insanity Inquests 565.00 Epilepsy Inquests 240.00 Salary Clerk and office expenses 1,825.25 Salary Auditor and office expenses 2,726.00 Salary Treasurer and office expenses .V, 2,484.65 Salary Recorder and office expenses 2,246.50 Salary Sheriff and office expenses . .. 1,850.10 Salary County Assessor and office expenses 640.75 Per diem Surveyor and office expenses 1,982.40 Per diem County Superintendent and office expenses......... .. 1,673.00 Per diem Coroner and office expenses 321.00 Expense County Poor Asylum and Farm...., ..... 3,150.00 Supplies Township A55e550r5................ 230.70 Per diem Township Assessors and Deputies.... Total 855,388.55 JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS. The State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1908. Rudolph J. Scnwab vs. Duluth-Indiana Oil & Asphalt Company, a corporation, - ■ ----- Complaint No. 7346. Now comes the plaintiff, by Judson J, Hunt, one of his attorneys, and flies his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendants James McGee, W. H. Dean. L. M. Jeger. 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. Kel • ly. Vice President, and F. C. Clifford. Secretary of said American Lubricating Oil Company. the Duluth-Indiana Oil 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 Oil 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. 1908, 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, the 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. Judson J. Hunt, Atty, for Plff.
Notice of Ditch Petition. Notice is given to the following named persons, to-wit: Austin C. Hor. ne, W. W. Bowton, Samuel S. Fehr, William King, Isaac Hess, William Barnett, Lydia Watt, Henry Armold, Eugene S. Steele, James E. Watt, Samuel Mead. John Roupp and Mary Roupp, .Abner Stephens, William Barnett, Adolph Martin. Union Civil Township of Benton County’, Indiana, Dora B. Clymer, Anna E. Fox. Charles J. Fox. Wesley J. Fell, Emma Goss. Richard Garvey, Joseph L. Horine. George H. Hart, William King, Willis Kirkpatrick and Carrie W. Kirkpatrick, Mathew Moran, Rachel Milligan, Martha J. Perkins. Peter A. Rowland, James F. Ross. Kate M. Smith. George Turner, Charles Tebo, William B. Watterman, George Welsh. William L. Watson, Lucy Wickersham. Carpenter Civil Township of Jasper County. Indiana, by Alson A. Fell. Trustee, and Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St.. Louis Railroad Company, that Willis Kirkpatrick and others have filed their petition for a large main tile drain with the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court on August 17. 1908. asking for the construction of said tile drain on the following described route, to-wit: Commencing at a point 30 feet west and 80 rods north of the southwest corner of the southwest % of section 5. township 26 north, range 7 west in Union Townshin, Benton County, Indiana. and from thence in a general northeasterly direction to near the southwest corner of the east % northeast *4 of section r» and from thence north to a point near the southwest corner of the southeast % of section 29. township 27 north, range 7 west in Jasper County, Indiana, and from thence in a general northwesterly direction across said section 29 to near the northwest comer thereof and from thence southwesterly across section 30 In said township and range, following the line Of a public ditch known as the Hunter Ditch a sufficient distance to give a good and sufficient outlet. That said petition is set for docketing (tinder the Act in force April 10th. 1907.) on Friday, September 18. 1908. ~ Witness my hand and seal of the Jasper Circuit Court, this 17th day of August, 1908. [SEAL] C. C. WARNER, Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court. Foltz & Spitler, Attorneys. Aug. 22-29. ; L • —— The Democrat carries an exceptionally large stock of bond and typewriter paper and can furnish printed letter heads, envelopes or blank paper In almost any weight or qiality oU stock promptly and at very Ion? price®. ■ ~r Read The Democrat fqr news.
Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE, in Effect June 14, 1903. x- t . «°R TH BOUND. « MaU (daily) 10:53 a.m. Mall (daily).. 2:01p.m. No.39—Milk accomm. (daily) 5:40 p.m. k? u ‘ sv *£ e „ Ex - (daily) 11:05 p. m. No. 31—Fast Mail 4:49 a.m. NORTH BOUND. No. 4—Mail (daily) 4:80 a m No.4o—Milk accomm. (daily) 7:81 a. m No.32—Fast Mall (daily)..... No. and Ex- (daily).. 3:26p.m. *No.3o—Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mall 6:36 p. m. No.3B—Cin. to Chi. (Sun.only) 2:57 p. rm •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 nt Monon, and take passengers for Loweu Hammond and ChicagoNo. 33 makes direct connection at Monon- for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED. G. P. A., McDOEL, Pres.’and Gen l Mgr.. CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr. Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent, Rensselaer.
COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees. Townihlm Washington Cook Hanging Grove W. CoppessGillam Grand Davisson... Barklev Charles F. Stackhouse ..Marion Charles E. Sage Jordan W. B. Yeoman . .. . Newton George L. Parks.....VMflro? Henry Feldman .Keener Charles Stalbaum Kankakee aSS« a a - Harvey Davisson'.... .Union F rn r St w^u22 n ’ Co - SupL...Rensselaer English Rensselaer i a ™ es n H B » Gre K n . Remington Geo. O. Stembel...; Wheatfield Truant Officer..C. M. Sands, Rensselaer
-re JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge... Charles W. Hanley Attorney... ~ .R. O. Graves Terms of Court.—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. CITY pFFICERS. J. H. S. Ellis - Partw Atmrneyr: Geo T wiH? rS? j-j H - u’ffiUi. 3rd ward 4 *fii At large. .C. G. Spitler,' Jay W. Williams BOUNTY OFFICERS. John O'Connor ...ijrt ti. fSS Commissioners. Ist District John Pettet 3?d Dtl’trt}. 0 / ’ Frederick Waymire 3r r<«2* B V^ c « t •••••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 Shide school--5°“ ,e . on th® east side, on the third a®* each ® 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, 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 Union Township. The undersignedr-trustee of Union township, attends to official business at his residence on Friday of teach week Persons having business with me wlli P’eajw govern themselves accordingly PostoffiM Rensselaer? Indiana, HARVEY DAVISSON, Trustee. Subscribe for The Democrat.