Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — Page 6

BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE

' CHAPTER VII. «rpUE boss is turned down!" I Tills startling news flew I lightning' fast to every quarter A of the organization and In its wake spread a trail of incredulous amaze. livery memlier, from alderman to “heeler,” knew why Horrlgan had made Itennett mayor. That the latter should turn against his benefactor seemed not only black ingratitude, but something akin to imthnity, for Jt apparently spelled political suicide for the young man. While neither of the disputants had repeated the details of the quarrel, yet those details with many another were already passing from mouth to mouth In the mysterious fashion whereby the closest kept secrets are divulged and enlarged on. In the financial world, too, the veto came as a bombshell. Borough Street railway stock fell with • thud that shook more than one colossal fortune. Bennett—central point of the whole upheaval—was the calmest man of all who were involved. He had chosen his course, and he was following It with a dogged quiet far more dangerous than any loud mouthed bins ter. He had laid out a campaign, and that campaign he rigidly followed. His first step was to send for Perry Wainwrlght early In the morning following the clash with Horrlgan and, under strict pledge of secrecy, to explain the whole complicated affair to that very bewildered young man. “You’re all right, Alwyn! You’re all Jhe goods!" crowed Perry In genuine idmiratlon. “But why didn’t you backbeel Horrignn and throw him downstairs?” “I think I did,” said Bennett dryly. *T think I’m still doing it. That’s why 1 aent for you today.” “Want me to lick him for you?” asked Perry In delight. “He’s a bit over my weight, but 1 wouldn’t mind pasting”—

“No,” Interrupted Bennett, amused At the lad's vehemence. “I want you to play the melodramatic brother and protect your sister.” “Say,” snorted Perry, all the lightness gone out of his manner and his froung frame stiffening ominously, ‘d’you mean to say the cur is framing ;up any game on Dallas? I” “Sit down,” ordered Alwyn, “and try jto use what little human intelligence you may have. I’ve got to have your 'help, and what use arc you when all (you can think of is getting thrashed by Somebody? Sit down now and listen o me.”

Perry meekly obeyed the new note of command in Ills friend’s voice, and (Bennett resumed: ' “Your uncle has tried to hamper me toy putting all your fortune and Dallas’ into Borough Street railway stock. •The news of my veto will reach the {exchange almost at once. That will 'cause a slump in Borough stock. If jHorrlgan fails to carry the bill through over my head—and he will fail if 1 can possibly block him—that will mean the jpractical collapse of the stock. It will mean that you and Dallas will be almost penniless.” I “Well,” suggested Perry cheerfully, ’Then you can marry Dallas, and little jbrother Perry can come and live with you. Don’t worry, old chap. I” "Shut up, you young idiot, and sit down and listen! Here's a check; also a note of introduction to my broker. He’s a close mouthed fellow, and he'll kesp the secret. 1 want you to hell Borough stock short to the amount of”-

“To speculate? Gee! I never thought”— "I don’t believe lu speculation as a rule, but this time it’s the only way out. Sell short. Then if the bill is defeated you and Gladys will still be as well off as you are now, even after .paying me back this sum I've advanced. If the bill is passed over my head, the stock will boom, and you’ll both be (richer than ever. Understand the idea? 1 think I’ve arranged it so you and •he won’t lose a dollar In either case.” j “Alwyn,” cried Perry, the full idea kt last penetrating his youthful brain, pyou’re the whitest ever. The”— j “Hold on! I do tills on one condition.” “Oh!”

! "On condition you promise solemnly !that neither Dallas nor any one else shall know my share In It” “But”t “Promise!” < “Oh, well, all right, then. But Dallas ouaht to”— “No, she oughtn’t Now clear out jl’as busy. Don’t waste any time going fee.my broker. I’m holdlQg back.the

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THE MAN OF THE HOUR

['official announcement of the veto as I long as I can. But”— i “I’m on. So long, old chap. Ente< Perry the Lamb into Bear and Bullvllle! Let Horrlgan & Co. Indulge in a timely tremble!” Scarce bad Perry departed on his mission when Phelan was announced. “Your honor,” he shouted as he first icaught a glimpse of Bennett “You’re all aces! Nothin’ to It Friend Horrigan’s hi tin’ holes In the cellin’. He’s —oh, you needn’t look so mum. I’m wise. I haven’t spent ten years and close on a million bucks In scrapin’ together a private secret service system

jfor nothin’. ‘You’ve signed the bill?’ hqueals Horrlgan. ‘No, you big stiff!’ says you, Tve vetoed it Now go chase yourself before I knock you from under your hat!’ says you. Them was the very words, so I’m told.” “I congratulate you on your secret service men,” laughed Bennett “They Seem to have a wonderful faculty for Quoting one’s remarks literally, but”— 1 “But did I come here to ladle out hot to you?' supplemented Phelan. |“No, I didn’t I come to tip you off to a meetln’ that’s held last night at iWalnwright’s house—him an’ Horrijgan an’ Gibbs an’ some others, JncloodSn’ Hen Williams, who’s Horrigan’s mouthpiece an’ handy man In the board jof aldermen. Didn’t happen, to hear of that meetln’, did you?” “No. I am unfortunate in having no secret service corps." > “Never mind,” returned Phelan, on whom the satire of the reply was quite lost “Yjou can get the benefit of mine. Now, ot this meetln’ they did a lot of Jabberin’ an’ they cussed you up hill an’ down dale. Says Horrlgan, ‘lf that cub’ ” , “Thanks,” interposed Alwyn, "but I don’t care to hear what was said about fme. 1”- ♦ “All right, then, but there’s something you do want to hear. They got busy at last an’ framed up a new wordin’ for the Borough bill that’ll maybe throw dust in your eyes if you ain’t put on to it in advance. They’ve cut out the subway paragraph an’ the express business clause, an’ they allow transfers at all cross lines. That’s the way they’ll put the bill up to the aldermen next time. A nice, harmless lookin’ document It’ll be, an* perhaps the board ’ll swaller It if”“But do the alterations in the bill also eliminate the ‘perpetual franchise’ clause?" “Ah. there’s the point! They don’t All the other things you kicked against have been wiped out, but the ‘perpetual franchise’ clause stands.” “And the 12.000,000 cash offer stands, too,” added Bennett. “I still fall to see why I should present Mr. Walnwright’s company with a franchise for which another man is willing to pay the city $2,000,000, and 1 shall fight the bill to the very end.” "Good boy. your honor! An’ Jimmy Phelan's with you. We’ll make Horrlgan look like”—

“He ne<*<>s fourteen votes to carry the bill past my veto. He has his thirteen aldermen, under Williams’ lead. But only those thirteen voted for the bill In its original state. Unless Ilorrignn and Williams can find a fourteenth alderman to”— “Unless one of the men who voted against it before can be brought to vote for U next time Horrigan loses.” answered Ptiblan. “He’ll make It his business to buy a fourteenth man. an’ I'll make it my business to find out who he tries to get an’ to help your honor keep that same fourteenth man straight That’s how it adds up so far. Well. I'll be joggin’. I’ll keep you posted. an' between us we’ll make Horrigan give a livin’ picture imitation of a man without a scalp before we’re through with him.” Little of Phelan’s exultation was reflected in the new mayor's face as the alderman bustled out His duty lay clear before him. and-that duty he would follow. But he alone realized the cost, He had so counted on the

Perry Wainwright.

Promised talk with Dallas Wainwrigbt the preceding evening. On the hopes of that Interview be had staked his all. In it he was to have received the half pledged reward for his months of toll and achievement Yet In view of his present relations toward Wainwrlght he could not, of course, visit the financier’s home. The doors of the house that contained the woman he loved had been barred to him. And Dallas—what must she have thought of his failure to call? (To be continued.)

REPUBLICANS AND MONEY.

Collier’s Weekly has a significant editorial In Its issue of August 23, entitled, “The Republicans and Money.” It is given herewith; “The election and subsequent death of Mr Taft would mean the occupancy of the White House by an official fat-fryer who has during several years past approached, with deferential hat in hand, the president or treasurer of most of the large corporations In the country. It was In the course of this official function that Sherman was profanely turned down by Mr. .Harriman, with bitter depun elation of the Republican party and reeking messages for the head of that party, that the party and the head of it had not been grateful for the $250,000 which Mr Harriamn collected and which Mr. Harriman collected and gave in 1904. Penrose, as one of the executive committee of nine which is to do the actual work of the Republican campaign, is in error of taste and judgment but not a great deal worse. With T. Coleman Du Pont of Delaware, however, the ease differs. Among the combinations now being prosecuted by the Federal Government is that aggregation of companies known as the Powder Trust Mr. Du Pont Is president of the fifty million dollar Du Pont Powder Company, president of the ten million dollar International Powder Company, director of the International Smokeless Powder Company, and vice-president of the holding company, the Delaware Securities Company, which owns a majority of the stock of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company. Suppose that Mr. Taft, being successful, should be approached by Mr. Du Pont thus: ‘I am one of the ten men, including Chairman Hitchcock, who have put you over the plate. I don’t want to be reminding you continually of the obligation; there is one small piece of patronage I should like, and I shan't speak to you about patronage again during your administration. There is a deserving young friend of mine whom I should like to have appointed to the position lately held by Mr. Purdy, In charge of that bureau of the Department of Justice which is seeking to break up my company, deprive me of some of my property, and declare me a violator of the law.’ Something analogous would have been the presence of Harry Thaw two years ago on a committee of ten to collect funds and promote the election of Jerome as district attorney. A minority plank, calling for a statute providing for publicity of campaign expenditures, was thrown out of the committee on resolutions by a vote of 52 to 1, and was rejected on the floor of the convention by a vote of 880 to 94 —Nebraska and Idaho and parts of Wisconsin and Indiana favoring It. The amount of Bourbonisra still left In the Republican party is far too large.” “The People do rule,” says Sherman, the candidate of 'the trusts for Vice-President. The truth is that a bill introduced for the protection of the rights of the people cannot even be voted on in the house where Cannon and Sherman rule the roost.

It Is bad enough that under the dictation of the speaker and his Committee on Rules, labor bills are strangled and not permitted to come to a vote. But. worse than that, If postible, is the fact that the Speaker picks committees bo that bills that he does not like cannot even get a hearing. but are strangled In committees by direction of the Speaker. The people are up in arms all over the country, and Anti-Cannonism Is growing in popularity.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Samuel S. Galbraith, late of Jasper county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. CHARLES F. GALBRAITH, Sept 5-12-19 Administrator. Don’t forget that V. G. Collins at the brick livery barn handles farm implements of all kinds. Gire

PREDATORY INTERESTS MANAGING TAFT’S CAMPAIGN.

A voter wrote to the Indianapolis News and asked for light upon the following matters: “Will you please give me your wellinformed assistance in solving the following problem, so that I may be enabled to give Mr. Taft’s candidacy just consideration: “Are Harriman, Rockefeller and the rest of the formidable army of predatory wealth now supporting Mr. Taft—whose chief reliance for election is his pledge to enforce the Roosevelt policies—because they fear Mr. Bryan more? “Or are they supporting Mr. Taft because they have been convinced that they have no reason to fear him —despite his ‘logical successorshlp’ to and pledged enforcement of the Roosevelt policies?” Answering the above inquiries the News —which, up to' this campaign, has supported every Republican candidate for president since Grant — made this clear statement:

“We have no way of getting at the precise motives of the Wall street gentlemen. The assertion was frequently made that they were induced to come to the support of Mr. Taft before the convention under threat that if they did not the president would again take the nomination. That they are vigorously supporting him now. though hostile to the Roosevelt policies for which he is supposed to stand, is unquestioned; indeed, when one notes Mr. Hitchcock’s committee, with Cromwell and DuPont and Cornelius Bliss and Boies Penrose its leading spirits, one can hardly escape the conclusion that they are not only supporting Mr. Taft but are controlling his campaign. It is hard to believe that they would be quite so active unless they felt confident either (1) that Mr. Taft would not carry out the ‘Roosevelt policies,’ which they detest: or (2) that he would be easier on them than Mr. Bryan.”

ONLY A PARTY AFFAIR.

The people will make no objection to a special session if it is called to consider the state’s affairs, and not the affairs of the Republican party.—Rockville Tribune. In his statement setting forth the reasons for calling the special session. Governor Hanly- mentioned four things, viz., (1) the correction of a blunder in the appropriation law passed by the Republican majority at the regular session; (2) additional authority to deal with the so-called “night riders”; (3) the passage of a county local option law; (4) the repeal of the Vincennes claim law. Not one of these things created an emergency requiring a special session unless it w-as the one relating to the appropriations. And as to the trouble caused by the blunder in the appropriation law, Governor Hanly admitted in a speech at Attica that he could have got plenty of money to run the state’s affairs until the next legislature met in January at no cost except in the way of interest. The real reason for calling the extra session was the quarrel of the Republican factions over the county local option proposal —a party affair and not a Btate affair at all —and it will probablycost the taxpayers SIOO,OOO.

IT WON’T WORK.

Mr. B. F. Watson, an Indianapolis lawyer and legal author, has written to the Phalanx, the Prohibition organ, to the effect that there cannot be a county unit and a township unit at the same time. He therefore declares that the enactment of a local option law for the county would necessarily destroy the township unit for remonstrance, and that if a county should vote wet it would be wet all over Commenting on this statement the Columbia City Post says: ‘‘All of which is clearly apparent to the man of average intelligence. If a vote is to be taken by counties and the county goes wet, it is wet, thoroughly wet, without a dry corner in it. Two-thirds of the townships of Allen county a fie dry because the people want them so. Should a county election be called and the county go wet. which it would on account of the city of Fort Wayne, the people of these dry townships would lose all they have gained by the remonstrance law. It is foolish to say that when a county speaks as a unit, a part of the county may then speak otherwise." Surely it must be apparent by now that the Democratic plan is the only real temperance proposal before the people.

The Republican party opposes the guaranteeing of bank deposits— But— It favors guaranteeing a “reasonable profit” to the trusts. Just read the Republican national platform and you will see that this statement is true. The “reasonable profit" made by the Steel trust in 1907 was $160,000,000 and it was net.

WORST THE WORLD HAS WITNESSED

And It Came Under the High Protective Tariff and Republican Control In Every Branch of the Federal GovernJ ment. In a public addrest£ Mr. Shaw, recently Secretary of the Treasury under Mr. Roosevelt, said: “The stringency of 1907 is generally conceded to have been the severest the world has ever witnessed.” How consoling It Is to read in the republican platform this glowing sentence: “A Republican tariff has always been followed by business prosperity.” • • • Mr. Aldrich, In his speech on the Aldrich Currency bill in the Senate of the United States only last winter, said: “Mr. President, financial crisis from which the country has Just emerged, which culminated in a serious panic in October, was the most acute and destructive in Its immediate consequences of any that has occurred In the history of the country. Nothing but the heroic measures taken by the representatives of the great business and financial institutions of the country acting in co-operation with the Secretary of the Treasury, prevented a total collapse, of private credit and a disastrous destruction of all values. The country was saved by the narrowest possible margin from an overwhelming catastrophe, whose blighting effect would have been felt in every household.” • • • On Februray 11, 1908, ift. Shaw, in a speech he made in Michigan, said: “Over 300,000 freight cars are standing on the tracks, 30,000 locomotives white leaded and out of commission, one-fourth of the population of several large cities idle, and for the first time under a Republican administration, free soup houses in every industrial center; the price of farm produce naturally and materially depreciated, furnish an object lesson which ought to produce a measure of sobermindedness on the part of the American people.”

From the public press is taken the following news item coming from Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 8, 1908; “The cry of the unemployed daily grows more distressed in Pittsburg. There are 15,000 men idle, and the spectre of the dreaded soup houses again makes its appearance. The first soup house will be opened by the Salvation Army Monday morning, and unless there is a radical and prompt change for the better, more places of this kind will be in demand before many days have elapsed. The situation is not really alarming, but it is bad enough. Soup houses have been the dread of the business men and civic leaders, and every effort has been made to avoid them,”

Here is the following news item from Chicago, dated Feb. 11, 1908: “Chicago, Feb. 11, 1908. Never in the history of the ‘Chicago Relief and Aid Society’ has there been such a demand for assistance as at the present time, is the claim of Superintendent Kingsly, who is in charge of the distribution of funds by the business men’s relief committee, which has just raised between $25,000 and $30,000 for needy families. Never in the history of the society have we had so many appeals based entirely on the lack of employment.”

Not long ago Mr. Dalzell, who writes the tariff tax, recently as dictated by the men who put up the money to pay the expenses of republican campaigns, told us: “We do not read our tariff lessons out of books. We read them by the blazing light of open furance doors, amid the noise of industrial activities and In the sweat our brows that we coin into wealth, and God help the man or party that would put out these fires, still the music of that noise, and send the workmen home to a foodless and hungry household. “It was under republican rule that this mnsic was stilled, that the fires were put out. and that soup houses had to provide for the foodless and hungry.” No longer can any Republican ever fool the people by claiming that “a republican tariff has always been followed by business prosperity.” The time has come —the hour has ■truck —for a change. Thousands of Republicans take their positions and will vote for Bryan In November.

Revision.

It is an old-time Republican cry that “the tariff will be revised by its friends." Representative McCall of Massachusetts, a Republican, hit the nail on the head when in referring to this cry he said: .‘‘lf the tariff cannot be revised when two-thirds of the membership of both houses Is Republican, when is revision to come?” Revision, through the Republican party, is to come whenever the beneficiaries of a high protective tariff are willing to surrender the enormous advantages they possess; and this surrender will be made whenever human selfishness i? destroyed.

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