Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1908 — Page 2

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NATIONAL TICKET.

FW 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. .1. MILLER of Rensselaer. Commissioner, Ist Dist. 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 Aesessor. Jordan —WM. WORTLEY, Trustee; FRANK NESSIUS, Assessor. f —— ——7 Newton—E. P. LANE, Trustee; JOSEPH THOMAS, Assessor. Barkley — THOMAS M. CALLAHAN, Trustee; JOHN NORMAN, Assesser. Wheatfl eld —-S. D. CLARK, Trustee; HENRY MISOH, Assessor.

BARGAINS IN PASTURE LAND.

280 acres level pasture land, lies along large ditch, mostly open laud In bluo gtoss, on main road, % mile to school, % mile to gravel road leading to court house. Will take half in good town property, merchandise, or other land. Price S3O. G. F. MEYERS.

$70,000,000 WAS GRAFTED

'Representative Lloyd Shows How the Congress Gave Railroads That Sum Improperly. Representative James T. Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee, on March 10, 1908, exposed the flagrant theft of the people’s money through the unfair weighing of mails when official tests were made to determine what compensation the railroads should receive. He said: “Mr. Chairman, in delivering my ad* dress a few days since on postal conditions, in discussing the interpretation of the law as to the "weighing of the mail, I failed to sta'e the law on the subject, and I wish to do so now: “ ‘The average weight to be ascertained, in every case, by the actual weighing of the mails for such a number of successive working days, not less than thirty, at such times after June 30,- 1873, and not less frequently than once in every four years.’ “Later the time was changed to ninety days. Otherwise the law hits not been changed to this date. “Until March 2, 1907, the department required the mail to lie weighed for ninety days. Sunday was not considered, so that the weighing covered a period of one hundred and five days Instead of ninety successive days. In other words, working days were con strued to mean week days. Postmaster General Cortelyou changed this Interpretation which had been accepted as correct for over thirty years and Issued the following order as his construction of the law: “‘That when the weight of mail is taken on railroad routes, the whole number of days the mails are weighed shall be Used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight per day.’ “This required In effect, that, instead of dividing the number of working or week days in the weighing period, the devisor should be the number of days on which mail Was actually carried during the period. If it was weighed one hundred and five, days, the divisor to Obtain the daily weight was one hundred and five. If the mail was not carried on Sunday, the divisor would Ik* ninety. This, a* you can readily see, would give less compensation for carrying the full week than for six days, for the accumulated man would be practically Ihe same whether carried in six days or in seven.

“Tlie present postmaster general, seeing this predicament, issued another order of construction, known as ‘order 412,’ which is as follows: “ ‘That when the weight of mail is taken on railroad routes the whole number of flays includ'd in tlie weighing period shall.lie used as a divisor for obtaining the average weight per day.’ “If tlie construction up to last year was right, then there has been with held from the railroads this year over $1,700,000 that is theirs under tlie law. If tlie present construction is tlie proper one, the railroads have received over $70,000,000 since 1880 that belongs to tin* people; so that whichever view is sustained money has been wrongfully, withheld through tlie postoffice department.”

“WHERE DID YOU GET IT?"

“Uncle .Joe” Invites Deis-ind That He Show Where He Got His Wealth. Speaker Cannon Intimated that Mr. Bryan had become a millionaire. Tlie speaker was speaking in his home town. Danville, ill. The following day Mr. Bryan, speaking also in Mr. Cannon's home district, opened his ledger to the gaze of the American people and showed that lie is worth 'approximately $150,000. Having thus accepted Speaker Cannon's challenge to " ’fess up.” Mr. Bryan demanded in return that Speaker Cannon “snitch on himself:” that is, that Mr. Cannon also “’fess up.” and relate just how he got his wealth. It is a perfectly proper tiling, too; for some people have been worried that Mr. Bryan lias succeeded by his grout industry in upbuilding a competency for his old age. Salary. Lectures and Rooks. “It was from what 1 saved friun my congressional salary, and gained from j lectures and books ami tlie profits of ‘The Commoner’ that I got what money and property I have,” Mr. Mr. Cannon now tell tlie people how he amassed his wealth? He has been hampered more or less by official I duties during his term of service in the congress, yet in spite of that obstacle. he is commonly presumed to possess considerable of this world’s goods.” Now “Uncle Joe's" Turn. None will deny that it is now Uncle Joe's turn to take the people into his confidence. Down in Danville, it is true that Mr. Cannon and his brother ns bankers are thought each to liav amassed much more than $1,000,000. Certainly, his credit in the financial world rests on tlie general belief that approximately that sum represents his earthly possessions. If that lie true, Jt is to be hoped that the speaker will give details as . to how he got it. If it be untrue, then let him tell exactly how much he is worth, and of what his wealth consists, and follow Mr. Bryan’s exainph in taking the people into his cons deuce. Mr. Cannon cannot gracefuUy refuse to do this. For he himself invited the demand now made on him.

PEOPLE GIVE MONEY

New Orleans Editor Receives $7,000 for the Democratic Fund. ROBERT EWING TELLS ABORT IT Encouraging Reports Come from Many States. fit - .«=■ Oregon for Bryan—Wisconsin in Line —Minnesotans Enthuse— Even Ohio Will Defeat Taft, ' Says Ed. Mahon. Chicago, 111., Sept,—Special—lf publishers of Democratic papers throughout the country are as successful as Mr. Bobt. Ewing of the New Orleans Stales in raising funds for the Democratic* national campaign, Chairman Moses C. Wet more of the finance committee will not want for money to meet legitimate campaign expenses. Mr. Ewing, who lias boon here attending the meeting of the Democratic national committee, has collected a popular subscription fund of approximately $7,000. This has been accomplished within the past three or four weeks. Mr. Ewing predicts that the States' fund will grow and that it will final ly be as much os $20,000. “Our people are taking a lively interest in this work of raising a popular fund for the election of Bryan and Kern,” said Mr. Ewing today. “They realize fully the importance of getting a sufficiently large fund to run the campaign, and they know that this money must come from the people. The trusts and the special interests will save the Republican party the necessity of going out and raising money by small subscriptions. That is the reason this unprecedented collection of a campaign fund for the election of presidential candidates has been comparatively easy. Every parish in the state is swelling the fund. Already Democrats are regarding the contribution of funds for the election of Bryan and Kern as a patriotic duty. Fully five hundred registrars and judges of election in Louisiana, who earn $3.00 a day for their services one day in each campaign year, have contributed their earnings to the Democratic national campaign fund. That shows tlie extent of the personal sac | rifices being made by Democrats in j this presidential contest.” The Democratic national committee is not overlooking opportunities in Pacific coast states and a very vigorous cnnpnign is to lie conducted in those western states. The rcqtogts Chairman Mack lias received Yrom California, Oregon and Washington are convincing that Democrats have a fine chance to cany all of those states. The national 1-011111111100 will work in harmony with the state committees. Speaking of political conditions in the west. National Committeeman Mil ler. of Oregon, said today: “Bryan and Kern oil! carry Oregon this year, though 1 notice in the morning papers that United States Senator Jonathan Bourne says that Democrats haven’t a chance in the west. The best answer I can make to this statement is to cite Senator Bourne ns an authority against himself. Prior to the Republican national convention, (lie senator was proclaiming from one end of the country to tin* other that the nomination of Judge Taft would result in Ids defeat in the nation and a loss of Oregon to the Republican party. Mr. Bourne was for the renominatibn of President Roosevelt, but I think at the time he correctly diagnosed the situation in Oregon, when he declared that Taft could not carry tlie state against Bryan. , •‘Conditions are highly favorable to the Democracy in Pacific const states." continued Mr. Miller, “and I believe Mr. Bryan will grt relatively a larger per cent of tlie Republican vote in those states than in any others of like population in tlie country. The Denver platform is the best ever put forwaid by a party, and it appeals with particular force to Pacific coast i>coplo.” Representative Janies W. Murphy, of tlie Tided Wisconsin Congress! nal district, was a caller at Democratic headquarters today. He thinks Democrats have a fine chance to carry Wisconsin this year. He told Chairman Mack as much and went over with hire. tin* political situation in (lie state, “There is a wonderful change in public opinion towards Mr. Bryan this year." said Congressman Murphy. “This is particularly noticeable in cities where Bryan and Kern clubs are being organized. In Milwaukee one night last week, a Democratic club was sitarled with an enrollment of 2SO members. This was in a precinct Micro tin* total Democratic vote four years ago was only 30. This shows the drift towards Democracy in Wisconsin. and I hear like reports from all the states of the west.” J Chairman Moses C. Wetmore of the finance * committee stated today that I.SOO papers had joined in the movement to raise a iiopiilar subscription fund with which to run the Democratic campaign. He says, in his opinion, every Democratic paper in the United States will Join in this movement. Senator Thos. F. Brady, of New York, famous as an orator in the Tam many organization, was another caller at Democratic headquarters where he spent some time with Chairman Mack. Senator Grady has been on a two months' trip through the

yretft. He thinks Mr. Bryan win be elected president. He says Mr. Bryan has great strength among the western people who admire and believe in him. In every place that I visited, said Senator Grady, I heard Republicans say they would vote for Bryan in preference to Taft. Of course. New York Is going Democratic this year, and conditions favor a Democratic victory.” John A. Ilartigan, Insurance Commissioner of Minnesota, who called at Democratic headquarters, is very enthusiastic over Democratic prospects In that state. “Johnson will be elected governor.” he said, "and we will make a great fight all along the line for JJie Democratic ticket. There is no factionalism in our party. There are no Johnson men and there are no Bryan men. All Democrats are Bryan and Johnson Democrats and are working with enthusiasm and vigor for the state and national tickets. We are going to win tills year.” “Many people express surprise when the statement is made that Taft will fail to carry his own state this year, but It is my confident opinion that Ohio will give its electoral vote to Bryan and Kern.’ 1 ’ Tills statement came from Ed. Mahon, a prominent business man in Columbus, Ohio, who called at Democratic headquarters to arrange for the distribution of literature in the Ohio contest “We want all the literature we can get" said Mr. Mahon, “for the people are iu a very receptive mood this year. It is surprising to Democrats to find so many Republicans in Mr. Taft’s own state who are for Bryan and Kern. I never knew the Democratic party to be in as good shape as it is iu Ohio today. We are not only going to elect a Democratic governor, bnt we are going to beat Mr. Taft right in his own bailiwick.”

“UNCLE JOE" AND THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT CONGRESS.

CONCERNING “UNCLE JOE"

Last week one of the ablest and best liked Republican members of congcess, J. Adam Bede, of the Eighth Minnesota district, was defeated for renomination by members of his own party because lie declared himself unflinchingly in favor of the re-election as speaker of .loe Cannon. This seems to be a fair indication of Republican sentiment concerning the czar of the lower house of congress. Collier's Weekly, which so far as it has any policy, is certainly friendly to the Republican party, denounces Cannon unreservedly. and last week printed a communication In which it was said that If Taft and Sherman were elected the long arm of the speaker would reach from the house end of the capitol to the senate and make the pnppel Slier Ulan do fhr bidding of the autocrat In the speaker’s chair. President Roosevelt, In 1801, said of Cannon: “We cannot escape from the fact that It was no credit to the Republican party of the honse that Mr. Cannon of Illinois should be one of Its leaders." Cannon then was temporarily out of office, the only time he has been out of office in thirtyfive years. Among all the prominent Republicans there Is none upon whom the country looks with so much hesitancy and doubt. His face is always set against any measure for the good of the people, his power is Invariably exerted for those measures that are demanded by the great interests. Whether as a result of this attitude or not, the faot remains that after thirty-five years of offleeholding, with only a moderate salary most of the time, “Uncle Joe” has grown rleh, his wealth Increasing as his power increased. lie is 4 emphatically an issue In this campaign—-not merely an Issue between the Democratic and Republican parties, but between the decent and patriotic element and the corrupt [element which he has so long dominated.

Farm and Garden

CAREFUL FRUIT GROWING. jThs French Obtain Better Result! Then the Americans. “In this country,” says a French visitor, “you just put things in tlie ground land let them grow more or less hap* hazard, ns far as I can see. You have a soil so fertile that I suppose you can

PEACH TREE TRAINED ON WALL.

(dispense with much that is necessary ,in our old country. But, all the siyue, I ithiuk the fruit might be benefited if • you did some of the things that every French grower does. France is tlie country of detail, you know, and we think it pays in fruit growing just as it does in cooking. “The fruits we pet and pamiier most are the peach and the grape. The majority of peaches grown iu this country would seeip to a Frenchman to be distinctly of tile second order—that is. In the language of his fruit culture, a peach ‘de plein vent,' or one grown on trees in an orchard. Between peaches i grown thus, ‘open to. the wind,’ and those trained 011 trellises against walls .the French make a sharp distinction. “The trellis, or ‘espalier,’ peaches are the only ones that appear on a •carefully regulated table and are universally cultivated. They always eom'mand a much higher price than the tree peach, and at Montreuil the fruit ;has been brought to such perfection that they habitually sell for from 40 to 80 cents apiece. “Even more elalKirate is the procedure with fine table grapes. Hothouse grapes are not highly in favor among French epicures, for they are held, to lack the ric-h flavor of the fruit grown In the open. At the, same time grapes are so much in dehnand as a table delicacy tiiat it Is desirable that their season should be prolonged as far as possible into the winter. The difficulty of this situation has been met by a system which, complicated as it Is, is quite generally in use.

“The grapes are grown on trellises exposed to tin* sun and six or seven yards apart, like the peaches. When the clusters, are ripe they are put with the stein and leaves in a sort of glass box or bottle, which is placed in a

DWARF PEACH TREE.

dark room. If the producer is growing 'for the market the bunches are looked at every day, for the slightest speck of Imperfection will keep him from disposing of his stock to the best houses. “The same care in lesser degree runs through all the French grower does. In certain places, but only In a few. the apricot is-treated wittralt thc carc shown to the peach. It is less profitable to grow, for it does not keep well except by an expensive process of coating It with wax. The trees, however, are kept very carefully pruned, and the production of each is limited. “Growers can at once retard fruit and dwarf trees to such an extent that It is possible to purchase during the Winter fruit actually growing on little trees small enough to be served, pot and all, on the table. Peaches thus grown (one on a tree only) cost about S2O a piece, other things 1n proportion, and the fruit is sold usually not to French people, but to visitors with more money than discretion, who think It smart to Imitate what they consider the luxury of our gay capital. “All this care of detail may seem absurd to you (who have a country so large and so lavishly productive as America. Still, I think it is an open question whether even here, where ‘time is money’ so much more than It la In Europe, the expenditure of care and thought on aome neglected details might not lead to the financial profit of some growers." *

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COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. cgffi. Charles E. Sage... Marion w. b. Yeoma n „:;::: Henry Feldman Keener Charles Stalbaum :'."kankakle SSSS? a A - f^ nnan -.Wheameld Harvey Davisson'. I*. CaTt tffijsZ E rn c St eS”' Co ’ Su Pt.•.Rensselaer James Win Rensselaer Geo. o. stember.: Truant Officer..C. M. Sands,''Renssetai? o, , T J JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge .Charles W Hnnlev Prosecuting Attorney .R. o Graves Terms of Court.—Second Monday s February. April September and November. Four week terms. CITY OFFICERS. Treasurer' Charles Morlan Attorney^:: :::;; :Geo Mos A 8 FiVJ fW eer ’ • ’ ••••••■« A L. V GamwS , „ , Councilmen. & *V *BSB g i.TI« a .c: dv ai,i«K COUNTY OFFICERS. oif/inv Charles C. Warner Sheriff John O’Connor Treasurer' J ’ J^atherman &ery:::::::::;::::: ” J j D w Surveyor Myrt B. Price CoronerJennlnfirs Wright C™krv PU 4 lIC Sch °o l! »-*Erne«t R. Lamfon S ZIS %. J Commissioners. Ist District John Pettet ird ntSKlr* Frederick Waymire 3id District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ court—First Monday of each month. y 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. Newton Township. unde J? ,B: ? ed ' trustee of Newton township, attends to official business at plf~ res ldence on Thursday of each week. Persons having business with me wli) gove is themselves accordingly. pw°sm f dd ™. ss . Ren sselaer, Indiana. Phone 26-A, Mt. Ayr iSxch&n&e. W. B. YEOMAN, Trustee. Unlop 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. Bostpfflre Rensselaer. Indiana. : HARVEY DAVISSON, Trust's. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. No. 8336. Notice Is hereby given that on Monday, October 5 th, 1908, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county, Indiana, will until 12 o’clock noon,, receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge 50x16, in Keener Township, across the Otis Ditch, between sections 7 and 18, In 31-7. Said* bridge to be built according to plans and specifications on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The board reserves the right to reject ady and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. '/' ~ N Yes, The Democrat has a* few of those Wall Charts left, and the price remains at 35 cents additional when sold with a year’s subscription to The Democrat, 45 cents If to be! mailed.