Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1908 — A TIGHT SQUEESE [ARTICLE]

A TIGHT SQUEESE

But Opposition Was Defeated In the House FIFTY-ONE TO FORTY-NINE THE VOTE To Indefinitely Postpone the Local Option Measure-—Final Vote Comes Up Friday. Indianapolis, Sept. 25.—8 y a vote that could not have been tighter with ovt being n tie the senate county local option bill was saved from death in the house. The vote was 51 to 49 against indefinite postponement A minority report by the committee on public morals, favoring indefinite postponment, brought the test of strength, and it was a test that left the contestants gasping for breath. Two Democratic votes saved the bill —the votes of Pierson, of Owen county, and Sicks, of Boone county. Four Republicans were among the forty nine members who voted to end summarily the career of the bill. They are: Condon, of Grant county; Scbroeder and Gels®, of Vandcrburg. and Johnson, of Vigo and Vermilion.

Boosters All Around ’Em. Seldom has a fight like that on this bill been seen In the bouse of representatives. Every member of the house was in his seat during the strogwhile surrounding them were massed the hundreds of friends of the bill and some of its enemies. The friends included about every Republican politician of state prominence, at the top Of the list being Representative Watson himself, candidate for governor. The yote of Johnson to postpone the bill bad been preceded by a thirtymtnvte session between himself and the candidate for governor, In which Watson Is said to have used every effort possible to win Johnson over. Not Confident of Victory. The Republican advocates of the county local option 1 bill KM believed that tbe defeat of an effort to postpone would mean the certain passage of the bill when the time came. Now. however, they are not so confident. The option bill will be handed down by Speaker Branch for second reading today, at which time amendments to it may be offered. It has been rumored that the enemies of the bill will seek to emasculate it, but opinion prevails that both sides will wait for final action, which will come tomorrow. Then the enemies will seek to defeat it outright. The bill is safe in the senate, ANOTHER FIREBALL STORY Darkness Suddenly Turns to Intense Light from a Ball of Fire Near Columbns. Columbus. Ind., Sept. 25.—Since the announcement was made that some aort of stray heavenly body chased Mr. and Mrs. Will Gaddis, east of this city, many persona in this community have come forward with stories of meteors ami shooting stars. At the home of Henry Johnson, west of this city, members of the family were sitting on the porch and some of them had remarked on the darkness of the night Suddenly there was an intense light and a hall of fire was seen coming toward the house. The people who were on the porch scattered In all direictions. and the ball of fir* broke into smaller balls, one ball rolling under tbe porch. Tbe terrified people waited for an explosion, but none came, and no trace of the fire was found. A correspondent to a local paper from Pikes Peak. Brown county, tells of a meteor seen In that nelgliliorbood that made a bright light. This story says that the meteor broke Into four smaller meteors and they finally exploded.

This Was Kxaspcratfng. Princeton. Ind.. Sept. 25.—Without a drop of water having fallen a gorgeous rain how was seen in the sky as the sun came out through the clouds, whicL was taken to mean that tbe rain would stop before it started. This city and vicinity hafe been without rain for A twent.v-three days, except a few drops Monday evening. Through the country the dust is almost unbearable and hundreds of wells have gone dry. September Snake Story. Owensville, Ind., Sept. 25.—When Dr. Strickland, of this city, went to get some ice out of an old grain sack he found three long snakes curled op near the chunk. The qpakes in this section have been on the march for several days. They are searching for moist places and the reptiles which Dr. Btriekland discovered had evidently (bond the ice much to their liking. Lack of Water Is Costly. New Albany, Ind., Sept. 25.—Lack of water to fight fire resulted In a loss of more than $30,000.at Salem, the seat

of Washington county, thirty-five mile* north of this city. The loosens are the Monon railway, freight and passenger stations and elevator, SIO,OOO, and the Stout Furniture company, $20,000. Make* a Peculiar Bet. Morocco, Ind.. Sept. 28.—Philip Potts, near this city, commonly known as the “watermelon king ot Newton county," has sold his melons at 10 cents each if Marshal is defeated for governor, but if he is elected, Potts Is to get 50 cents each.

CANNON TALKS ON LABOR Formally Opena the Republican Campaign in the Hooaier State. Indianapolis, Sept, 25. Speaker Cannon, of the house of representativte, formally opened the Republican national campaign in Indiana here in an address on “Labor” before a great crowd that filled Tomlinson hall to overflowing. Cannon began with a Scriptural quotation: “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life,” was the fiat of the Almighty. I shall talk to you as one who labors to others who labor, and take counsel with you what Is best to do as we labor and rule, because it rests upon all of us to rule. The Ignorant man, the prejudiced man, is not a good ruler, but the wise man, the man of experience, when he comes to deposit his ballot, divesting himself of prejudice and conscientiously performing that sovereign act, Is a good citizen.” The speaker then recited the history of labor and Republican policies, saying that our labor had made us the greatest producing nation on earth and that “Our labor through all this period, with rare exceptions, the most noted one continuing between three and four years, from 1893 to 1897, has received upon railways, in the mines, the factory and on the farm $2 where similar labor elsewhere In the world received SL” He then discussed the tariff in its relations to wages from a Republican itandpolnt.

NOW WILL. YOU BE GOOD? ■( Very Latest Development of the Mat' ter in Ke. Haskell. Guthrie, Okla.. Sept. 25.—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Otmeron, in a 2.000 word letter to President Roosevelt, declares tbe charges made against Governor Haskell of using tbe state educational system for personal ends is a bare falsehood. and that the president finding he could not prove his charges against Haskell on his o>wn record, descends to the dirt and filth of a ward politician to wilfully and malignantly slan der tht educational system of Oklahoma. The president continues Cameron. is, a flagrant falsifier, a want politician and a “four-flusher.”

Garfield Contradicts Haskell. Washington. Sept. 25. Referring to the statement of Governor Haskeli, of Oklahoma, to the effect tl st Secretary Hitchcock while at the head of the interior department had granud rigiits of way in the then Indtan Territory to the Standard Oil company with which he as governor could not interfere after the admission es Oklahoma into the Cniou, Secretary Gmiield says these rights could not possibly stand against the state laws. Haskell Off to Chicago. Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 25.—Governor Charles N. Haskell, treasurer of ’the Democratic national committee, has left here for Chicago. He goes to coafer with the national committee and Bryan with reference to the charges against the governor by Roosevelt and' Hearst.