Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — Page 4

jim conin mi. F. F. MUM. HIIOI HI HBUSIH SATURDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1908.

Andrew Carnegie, the several hundred steel mllllonlare, came out Wednesday in an interview and “showed” why Taft should be elected, and yesterday’s Chicago Inter-Ocean, the “only republican newspaper in Chicago,” says: “Rockefeller comes out strong for Taft. Standard Oil magnate says Taft is the man." The moral contained in this is to plain to need pointing out.

See here, Mr. Voter, if you have wad the papers for the past dozen years you know that James E. Watson, the republican candidate for governor, is a portege of old Joe Cannon, who has stood in the way •f every real reform measure that has been Introduced in Congress for a long time. He was called the “whip” of the House. That is, he was used to round up recalcitrant republican congressmen who balked at any part of old Joe’s program. He voted for the ship-sub-sidy steal, a measure Intended to take of millions of dollars out of the pockets of the people and create more trust millionaires, a measure that nine-tenths es the republicans of the whole country were against, and his whole record in congress has been against the people and in favor of the special interests. What have you to expect from the administration of such a man if you elect him governor next Tuesday? Consider this and then vote as your better judgment tells you you should, for honest “Tom” Marshall.

HOUSE CLEANING THAT CLEANS, IS NEEDED.

The Rensselaer Republican quotes from The Democrat of last February a brief sentence regarding the "excellent administration of county affairs we are now having.” The Democrat said then and repeats now a fact which is generally known to everyone in the county, that we have the best and cleanest lot of county officials we have ever had, in our acquaintance, at least. But, this does not by any means signify that It is’now perfect. The old regime was so infernally rotten that It could not well have become worse, and thanks to The Democrat and the aroused people of the county whicn its exposures brought to some realization of the real conditions, in a measure there has been

an Improvement. Just what lies back of all this, fiowever, just what an examination of the public records would reveal, the public is in ignorance of so long as It continues the same old partyj 'Officials in power. If things be ever; so rotten the honest official of that party who succeeds a less honest one will not dare give it up, for it ’'would hurt the party.” The improvements which we have witnessed in the personnel of the county officers, too, has not been brought about through any efforts of the republican machine but in spite of it. And the old machine manager, Abe Halleck is still in control, the present republican county ehairman being a subserveent tool of Halleck’s, and Halleck himself, after twelve years of feeding at the public crib, is today a greater power as county attorney—to which be elected himself when he saw that he could no longer he elected county commissioner—than he even was before. When his hold on the public teat is loosened real reform will indeed have started in, and not until then. Next Tuesday the taxpayers of Jasper county will have an opportunity to break this hold. Will they do It?

HANLY, THE DEMAGOGUE.

The Indianapolis News, which has stood by Gov. Hanly when I practically every other republican , newspaper in the state had deserted him in disgust, has at last reached the point where it, too, has seen through the flimsy sham of the chief executive of this great state who is using all the machinery of the state ofliceß in his frantic endeavors to prevent an “opening up of the books.’* Listen to this from the editorial columns of Wednesday evening’s News: In one of his speeches Governor k' Hanly spoke of “tearing the mask from the face of this pretender who te going about in his endeavor

to deceive the people and whom it is my purpose to expose.” The “pretenddr” is Thomas R. Marshall, the Democratic candidate for Governor and a clean and honest man. There is no excuse for such language as the Governor uses concerning him and certainly no reason why the Governor should be so sensitive about Mr. Marshall’s law practice. Possibly even the firm of which the Governor used to be a member took some cases which would now seem objectionable to the Governor. We think that It would be well for the people to ask themselves why it is that the present executive is so extraordinarily zealous in his advocacy of Mr. Watson’s election. It may be that they will conclude, if they read the speech of Mr. Holtzman printed in the News of yesterday, that the Governor would prefer to have the Deaf and Dumb School business inquired into by an administration friendly to himself. In his desire to “tear the mask from the face” of Mr. Marshall, the Governor should not forget that his administration is quite as much on trial as Mr. Marshall is. This is a point which the people would do well to keep in mind.

The speech of Mr. Holtzman, to which the News refers, had to deal with the new Deaf and Dumb School building, which is now in course of construction and Mr. Ijjoltzman showed that there had been some peculiar tiansactions in this matter, and an investigation of the hints of graft and extravagance by the opposite party might show Gov. Hanly up in a bad light. No wonder he wants to keep these things from the people by elecing the man of whom he is alleged to have written personal letters before the nomination of Watson, saying: “Whatever you do, don’t support Watson for governor; the saloon keepers of Indianapolis and the brewers of the state are working tooth and nail to secure Watson’s nomination.” Why this change of front now? Is the Governor afraid to have the opposite party look over the official records of his administration ? The Governor’s present attitude has a suspicious look.

GOVERNOR HANLY’S LETTERS.

Gov. J. Frank Hanly, who was so active in sending out letters opposing the nomination of Jim Watson for governor, because “the saloonkeepers and brewers were ■ working for Watson,” is once more 'engaged in this letter-writing pastime. Now he is urging the temperance people to support Watson because, he now alleges, the saloon men and brewers are opposing him! Many of these letters have been received here and in other parts of the county, and we presume all over the state. One of these, sent to a gentleman at Lee, Ind., was mailed us Thursday moring, together with the reply he made to the governor, and several more were shown us by republicans here who had received them but who nevertheless will not vote for Watson. We regret that we have not the space to give the governor’s letter as well as that of the reply of the Lee gentleman, for it is a gem. We can only give the reply, and here it is:

Lee, Ind., Oct. 27, 1908. Hon. J. Frank Hanley, Dear Sir: Receiving a letter from so distinguished a personage as the governor of so great a state as Indiana, comes as a great surprise and especially so at this time, as it comes so near the election and embaces so many things that it scarcely would give a man that was not thoroughly posted time to investigate and act on a knowledge gained by personal effort. However. I never act on suggestions in such matters simply because some great man has made them, and if I was not already informed 1 would take time to inform myself before I voted. But 1 am thoroughly informed on the saloon problem and also as to what the republican party has done for the cause of temperance and prohibition and why they have done it, it being simply legislation to safeguard that party against the agitation of the temperance people.

But the saloon system which has been so great a cause of suffering | and degradation to the people of i the United States was the work of the republican party, a high licensed system to help to raise money to pay off the national debt, supposed to have been caused by the war of the rebellion In the 60’s; claimed to have been made and bonded in accordance with article 1, Sec 8. of the Constitution of the United States, but Instead was a bonded system by which the rich have been made richer and the poor poorer. A system that gives the wealth produced by labor to capital, while the wealth producers themselves have but a meager existence. Capital control of labor was the object of the bonded debt and it has well answered its purpose. Governor, you have caught me napping. You have not written so as to give me time to make plain

and give you all the many schemes made and laws enacted by your party that has brought on the Impoverished condition of the maasev How congress at one time apl proprlated the people’s money to publish literature to send abroad to induce foreign labor to come to this country. That the banking system based upon bonds enable capital to create a panic at will, etc., etc. While the saloon system has been no small factor in enabling the republicans to perpetuate their aboinnable system of corruption until the agitation of the prohibitionists and temperance people have driven them to the few temperance measures they have taken. Governor, your effort is weak, but weakness and blindness must surely be to those now in power during such conditions as now prevail to make possible the fulfillment of the prophecy of St. James. See ch. 5, 1-7. Respectfully yours,

L. E. NOLAND.

PREACHERS NOT ALL DANCING.

That there are some preachers In Indiana who are not dancing to the Republican-Anti-Saloon-League music is becoming more and more apparent as they see through the flimsy political scheme that the League is trying to work. The People’s Column of the Indianapolis News has contained several letters of late from preachers who have had their eyes opened, and we copy one of them from an Indianapolis preacher and one from the Christian minister of Brook, that none of our readers may be that none of our readers may be misled by this adjunct of the republican machine. The letters follow: Preacher Opposes Anti-Saloon League. To the Editor of The News: Sir:—The Anti-Saloon League has sent a letter to the preachers of the State asking them to preach next Sunday in favor of the election of Watson and the Republican ticket because of their passage of the ket because of their passage of the county local option law. My reply to Messrs. Shumaker, Minton, Barney et al., is that I can not conscientiously preach for Watson for the following reasons: 1. When I preach a sermon I take a text of Scripture on whifih to base my remarks. County option as well as township option, means granting the privilege of continuing saloons. I can not find any Scripture warrant for the continuance of a single saloon in Indiana or the United States. I can find many Scriptures against consenting to such a thing; so, if I preach on the subject at all, I must urge the people to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness—not even in twelve counties of the State, nor one county.

2. I can not urge my people to support the Republican party in the State in its temperance program, since, under that program for thirteen years—from the enactment or the Nicholson law—the saloons of Indiana have increased nearly 2,000 in number. And since, furthermore, it was the Republican Senate that defeated the proposed prohibition amendment in the late session of the Legislature, and did it on the flimsiest excuse of a quibble over a technicality. 3. I can not advise my people to follow the lead of the Anti-Sa-loon League, when I saw with my own eyes their State superintendent and chief attorney pointing out to the leaders of t|ie Republican Senate the quibble o? a technicality whereby they might defeat the prohibition amendment for which the people of the State are anxious. CHAS. M. FILLMORE. P. S.—My text for that Sunday will be: “Come ye out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord.” * * *

.Anti-Saloon League and Churches. To the Editor of The News: Sir:—-In Saturday’s issue of The News was an article, “Plan for the Church to Unite for Temperance.” In it a Mr. Charles R. Mabee, of Detroit, Mich., says that “the AntiSaloon League is an Irresponsible organization, without moral or legal standing." This we know to be the fact, and we also know that it has no authority from the churches over the country, with the possible exception of the tacit sanction of a very few of them.

. Mr. Mabee further states that "of the >5,000,000 collected by the AntiSaloon League, from the churches, about $3,000,000 was paid to its officers in salaries. This is no surprise to most of us who have had experience with this self-created ana self-styled “Anti-Saloon League of Churches ’’ Neither would it surprise us much if Mr. Mabee were to tell us where the other $2,000,000 had gone. The money collected and contributed by churches should be regarded sacred and should be sacredly expended for the purposes for which it was given. This can be done only, so far as temperance work is concerned, by each church working through its own temperance board. These boards (or committees) are created by the church, under the control of the church, and are responsible to it For myself I have long since ceased to hpve any sympathy or fellowship with the Anti-Saloon League. And now, since the betrayal of the people’s interests and

sacrifice of their rights, in “the withdrawal of their support” from the proposed amendment to the constitution, the Anti-Saloon League can certainly with ill-grace expect the chArches to continue their support to it. Wherever I go my pulpit will not be available for the use of the Anti-Saloon League representatives. No one deplores more than I do the dissipation of power and energy resulting from divided forces. But the only way to unite the temperance forces and conserve their energies is for the churches to support, loyally, each denomination its own temperance board, and through these the general tempefance committee. To this policy I have committed myself and will strictly adhere. A. WALTER GEHRES, Christian Minister. Brook, Ind., October 21, 1908.

Vote for Honest “Tom” Marshall for governor.

THE PANAMA STEAL.

On the theory that it was to be paid to common people of France who had put their small savings in the stock of the French Panama Canal Company, there was taken from the United States treasury and put in the bank of J. PidTpont Morgan the great sum of forty million dollars. It is now declared that only three and one-half millions went to France, the balance going into the pockets of American speculators who had the favor of the Roosevelt administration. The account stands: Paid out of the U. S. Treasury 140,000,000 Paid to the French stockholders 3,500,000 To be accounted f0r..|36,500,000 The men whose names have been used in connection with this transaction are J. Pierpont Morgan, William Nelson Cromwell, Charles P. Taft (brother of W. H. Taft), Douglas Robinson (brother-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt), George R. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican National Committee. Who got the money?

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE “FIXERS.”

Thert Is already evidence that the money which the trusts have contributed to the Republican party in this campaign is to be used corruptly wherever possible. Not being able by legitimate means to stop the stream of votes that is flowing to the Democratic party, it seems to be the intention to get them by crooked counting. According to affidavits that have been ■/ made, Republican "slick workers” down in Sullivan county have tried to "fix" election boards. The scheme was to bribe Democratic committeemen, if possible, to put men on the election beards who would, when it came to counting votes, connive at the switching of votes to the Republican candidates. The affidavits state that the Republican “slick workers" offered to pay 1200 in one precinct “when the goods were delivered,” and they connect several Republican politicians with the alleged attempted 'purchase of the election boards. The exposure of the projected rascality in. Sullivan county ought to be sufficient to put Democrats on their guard all over the state. Bryan and Kern and Marshall only need an honest count to sweep the state by an overwhelming majority. If the votes are gotten to the polls and are looked after by reliable poll-book holders and challengers, and are then counted by square election boards, it is conceded by all expert political prophets that the Republican national and state tickets will be submerged by the avalanche that is on its way.

SOLDIER BRYAN VB. OFFICEHOLDER TAFT I ■’ ' ■ , William J. Bryan, as the col- 1 onel of a regiment of volun- 1 teers, served throughout the Spanish war. William H. Taft stayed at home and drew a big salary as a federal officeholder. Drawing salaries as an officeholder—always by appointment—has been the lifelong occupation of William H. Taft.

ANOTHER CAMPAIGN LIE NAILED First Presbyterian Church. Rev. A. B. Sutherland, Minister. ( Columbia City, Indiana, October 26, 1908. TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA: Within the last few days I have received from a large number of persons living In various parts of the state, letters, addressed to me as the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Columbia City, making inquiries as to the truth of charges seriously reflecting on the sobriety and general moral character of the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic Candidate for Governor. Upon my own inititiative and without the suggestion or knowledge of Mr. Marshall, and wholly in the interest of fairness and decency, I take the liberty of addressing the people of this Commonwealth, in answer to these many inquiries. Mr. Marshall is not only not a drunkard, Ijut on the contrary is a total abstainer; a practical, consistent temperance man, yet not a hypocrit nor a fanatic. His influence and support are foremost in every moral and philanthropic movement in this city. No breath of scandal of any kind rests upon him here, but he is loved and admired by all right living, right thinking moral people irrespective of seet or party. ' Mrs. Marshall has always accompanied her husband on his business trips since their marriage, and she is but continuing the custon now, Having no children, it is a matter of congeniality flor them to travel together; besides she is a great support to him with her sympathy and Intelligent interest in this arduous campaign. Language cannot fitly portray my Indignation that partisan dfe pravity should not even spare her name. I can speak with authority concernlhg his home and chuiph lite, for I gm his pastor, and he is a faithful parishioner and church offleer. His home life is ideal as all who have shared its generous hospitality will bear abundant witness. As a churchman, Mr. Marshall is most conscientious, never missing a service or shirking a duty when at home. He has been a member of my church for many years; also a trustee, bible class tdacher, officer in the Brotherhood and a generous contributor to every line of church work, yet withal liberal minded and generous to other faiths. Mr. Marshall is an alumnus and trustee of Wabash College, a 33rd degree 'Mason, an eminent lawyer, a sterling Christian gentleman of exemplary conduct and unblemished character. This letter is not a partisan expression, for I have always bee* a republican, but is a just tribute to the worth of the man that I know and who is my friend. “ Very Sincerely, ALEXANDER D. SUTHERLAND, Minister First Presbyterian Church.

“FOLLOW THE WISE FEW RATHER THAN THE FOOLISH MANY” A very small percentage of humanity know the need to care for real teeth until some friend o r other source suggests advice that is accepted and acted upon. It only requires a little effort to be one of these few, and you will have a possession that many would give a fortune to own. The first step to follow these few is a careful examination of your teeth. What should be done and what should not be done, is a matter of importance that a dentist with long experience can best decide. What my patients tell their neighbors, brings people to my office to ask for an examination. You will be glad to know what I will tell you about your teeth. DR. HORTON

WATSON, HANLY AND THEIR GAME OF “DOUBLE CROSS”

James E. Watson's supporters appear to be getting their wires crossed. Governor Hanly is telling the audiences he addresses that the election of Watson and a Republican legislature will mean state-wide prohibition, which he declares he favors, within three years. That is what Hanly said at Spiceland on Wednesday evening and is what he has said at other places. But another supporter of Mr. Watson is Thatcher A. Parker, chairman of the Republican county committee at Terre Haute. Mr. Watson spoke in that city on the evening of October 14. His friend Parker was anxious for the saloonkeepers to hear him and sent to them-a letter asking them to attend his meeting. In this letter he told the saloon men that many things had been said about Watson that were not'true, that the Republican candidate for governor was “not a fanatic” and that he was “a man that you can tie to.” He further told the saloon men that he wanted them to see and hear Watson and that if they did so they would “think toward Jim Watson as I do.” Friend Parker further said in this letter “I'want you to help elect him and I am sure you will never regret it.” From all this it would seem that the “double cross” game is being worked by Watson’s supporters for all it will stand. Hanly and men like him are promising the temperance folk “statewide prohibition” if Watson is elected, and “within three years,” while on the other hand men like Parker, Republican county chairman at Terre Haute, are assuring saloonkeepers that they can “tie to” Watson and that if they will only help to elect him they “will never regret it.” Mr. Watson himself has made many speeches of different sound and meaning at different places. It is difficult to reconcile Hanly’s promise'of “state-wide prohibition within three years” with the Parker statement that saloonkeepers “will never regret ft” if they help elect Watson.

UNFIT FOR OFFICE

The office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction during the administration of Fassett A. Cotton, the superintendent, and Lawrence McTur-

nan, his deputy and present Republican candidate for the office, has been made an adjunct of the Republican party and has used, with Cotton's consent and active assistance, by the discredited Republican State machine. Not only has Cotton attempted to get the teachers In the schools to work for the Republican party, but his deputy, McTurnan, has sent broadcast among the teachers a silly charge that the election of Thos. R. Marshall “would seriously cripple the school system of Indiana.” Surely this man McTurnan is wholly unfit for the place he seeks.

Vote for William Darroch for congress.

Notice to Heirs, Creditors and Legatees. In the matter of the estate of John G. Heil, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, November term, 1908. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees- of John G. Heil, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday the 30th day of November, 1908, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Everett Finney, executor of said decedent, and show cause if -any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. EVERETT FINNEY. Executor. Foltz & Spitler, Attys, for Estate. Oct. 31, Nov. 3, 7.

Notice to Heirs, Creditors and Legatees. In the matter of the estate of Elizabeth Heil, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, November term, 1908. ~ Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Elizabeth Hell,- deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday the 30th day of November, 1908, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Everett Finney, .administrator of said decedent, and. show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. EVERETT FINNfcY. Administrator. Folts & Spitler, Attys, for Estate. Oct. 31, Nqv. 3, 7.