Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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INDIANA ALMOST REDEEMED

Taft’s Plurality Too Small to Boast Much About.

DEMOCRAT GAINS

ON STATE AND DISTRICT TICKETS—DEMOCRATS GET MOST THE STATE OFFICES, ELECT 11 CONGRESSMEN, WILL HAVE A MAJORITY IN THE LEGISLATURE AND THE SELECTION OF ONE IT. S. SENATOR. Great Goias Are Made Also In County and Township Offices All Over the State, and the Democracy of Indiana Is In Better Shape Than for J Many Years. While the result of the election of Tuesday so far as the national ticket is concerned is to be deplored, the democrats of Indiana have made gains that they may well feel jubilant over, and if all other counties had made as much gain as Jasper the electoral vote of this state would have gone to Bryan and As it is the republican plurality will be very small compared I With some 93,000 four years ago. Thomas R. Marshall’s plurality fpr governor will be about 15,000, and while the republicans are claiming the election of Goodwine, Sims, Blllheimer, Hadly and Myers, for . Lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, auditor and judges, respectively, by small pluralities, the democrats think that the entire state ticket was elected. The official returns are not as yet in from all the counties, but the republicans concede that lhe democrats elect 11 of the 13 congressmen, a gain of eight, Mid that the next legislature will atand 69 republicans to 81 demovats on joint ballot, insuring a democratic successor to. James A. Nemenway, for U- S. Senator, and if they hold the advantage they bow have in the next election they will also replace Senator Beveridge with a democrat. We are now assured a guarantee bank deposit law, a corrupt practice act, compelling the publication of contributions to campaigns before election, and a thorough cleaning of the State House of the barnacles that have taken, up their residence there since 1896. John C. Blllheimer will be made to disgorge, the books will be opened and an- administration that will be a «redit to the great state of Indiana will be inaugurated the day Thomas R. Marshall takes his seat as governor.

CORRECTED VOTE OF JASPER COUNTY.

In the hurry of getting up the' figures of the vote of this county j for Wednesday’s Democrat there were errors in the vote for Watson, as published, in, practically every precinct, caused 'by copying “Ihe wrong column of figures. The vote as published was correct otherwise, except, as stated, Keener and Wheatfield townships did not report in time to publish in that table. The correct offieiafi vote of all twenty precincts appear today, together with the totals and pluralities received by each candidate, except the prohibition candidates, which was about the same all through as that cast for president, which is giVen. Wednesday morning it was thought Halleck had carried this county by 110, but on getting in the other two townships and comparing the figures carefully it was found that he had carried it by •nly 5 votes, running 457 behind the head of the ticket. In White, the republicans carried the county by >7, but Senator Law carried the county by I vote. In Newton Halleck had a majority of 70. Compared with fotfr years ago the democrats made substantial gains all along the line in Jasper county. Then the republican plurality on the national ticket was 795, er 333 more than this year, and the total vote polled in the county was about 200 more than in 1904. The prohibition vote in 1904 was 151, but this- yearH was only 70, a falling off of more than one-half. Hanlr for governor in 1904 re-

celved 783 plurality, against 327 thia year for Watson, who run 135’ behind the state ticket. Crumpacker’s plurality of 518 four years ago was cut to 255, or more than half in two. The highest plurality on the county ticket four years ago was 576 for Price for Surveyor,* and this year Allman for treasurer lead the ticket with a plurality of only 453. z The democrats elect township trustees in Jasper-county in five townships, as stated Wednesday— Newton, Jordan,Gillam, Union and Wheatfield—and seven assessors, we understand —Jordan, Newton, Hanging Grove, Milroy Union, Wheatfield and Walker. The assessor vote was a tie in Barkley, and in casting lots Charles Reed, republican, won out. The plurality for Abraham Halleck in the four counties composing this senatorial district is 111— 5 in Jasper, 79 in Newton, 28 In Starke—White county giving Law a plurality of 1.

RESULTS IN ADJOINING COUNTIES.

In Benton county,* Shipman for auditor, Gillespie for recorder, Shackleton for sheriff and Whicker for surveyor were elected on the democratic tjcket, and four of the eleven township trustees are dempcrats. Newton county was carried by Taft by 435, Watson, 232, Crumpacker 179. Schuh for treasurer and Sawyer for sheriff, both democrats, were elected by 10 and 86, respectively. Purkey, democrat; was defeated for re-election as auditor by IM. ; Five township trustees are democrats and five republicans. . Official returns from White county show that the republicans elected their entire county ticket except auditor and one commissioner, and get 3 of the township trustees. PMrpch, - democrat,, carried the county by 3 for Congress, and Brown, republican, for representative carried it by 71. Whtson for governor run 47 behind the state ticket. Wesley Taylor of Monon, candidate for representative on the democratic ticket two years ago,' was elected prosecutor by a plurall-, ty of 233, and the Carrfcll-White circuit now has both a democratic judge and prosecutor. Pulaski county was carried by Eryan by 260, Marshall by 300. and the entire democratic county ticket and 10 of the 12 township trustees elected. . Judge Nye has been defeated for re-election in the Pulaski-Starke circuit by 282, F. J. Vurpellat,’ democrat carrying Pulaski, Judge Nye’s home county, by 336. B. D. L. Glazebrook, a cousin of Lee and Ike Glazebrook of Rensselaer, was elected prosecutor' by 38 over his republican opponent. Watson carried Lake county, the grat booze center, by 2,517, and Crumpacker carried it by 3,036. The republicans elected their entire county ticket.

NO APOLOGIES ARE NECESSARY HERE.

The military editor of the syndicate sheet comes out in a longwinded article apologizing for its bitter campaign against democrats, and : supinely begging for their support. 1 This was to be expected of such people. After abusing democrats to the extent of its weak ability, it is but proper from its standpoint to now take back all it has said and hyprocritically ask them to help keep the fire hot .under their political kettle. The Democrat has no such apologies to offer. What it has said in this campaign it honestly believed, and still believes. It has not printed stuff it knew to be false simply for political effect. This paper has had the support of republican business men in the past for business reasons and not for its political stand, and it expects to have /such support in the future. Our money is spent with those who spend money with us, be they democrat or republican. We have also had the support of hundreds of republicans other than those engaged in business pursuits, because they knew /The Democrat would tell them the truth and because they were disgusted with the machine methods of their own party and their wilful waste of public funds. - The •mocrat believes that the results of the election in Jasper county bears out our* contentions, in that the majorities have been very materially reduced. While the result in this senatorial district with j its usual 2,500 republican plurality, is too obvious to be commented up.on. i The Democrat, in the campaign just ended, did not feel that it

THE TWICE - A - WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1908.,

WE’LL CROW A BIT FOR INDIANA “ANNYHOW”

was necessary to attack personally the real owner of the Republican, I. M. Washburn, nor any employe of that office simply because h6~WaIT an employe tlfere, though; we might possibly have said somethings that would not have set well. But such methods are despicable, and no one with a thimbleful of brains would resort to them. The Democrat aims to so conduct its. new and editorial columns tat all times that it does not have to apologize to anyone, a policy that other would-be newspapers would do well to follow. This paper does not bid for the support of business then of the opposite party by groveling in the dust at their feet and whinning that “it didn’t mean it,” but does ask their support on that broader ground, that the dollar of a democrat is just as good as the dollar ot a republican; that their advertising placed in this paper reaches more of the purchasing public than any other paper in the county, and therefore they get value received for the money they spend with us. The military editor’s attempt to arraign republican business men against The Democrat but emphasizes the general opinion of the public as |o his assinine propensities, and will fall on barren ground. *

ANOTHER INSANE MAN.

Arthur Goff, son of Frank Goff of Fair Oaks, aged about 31 year?, was examined Thursday before a lunacy board consisting of S. C. Irwin, J. P., and Drs. Gwin ana Washburn and declared insane. He is subject to epileptic fits, but his friends attribute his - present condition to the fact that he and some of his friends got hold of some alleged home-made whiskey before th* 4th of July, 1904, which came near killing the entire outfit, and it is claimed that from that time he has been failing in health and mind. Lately he had taken up with the holiness religion and this has had a tendency to make matters worse. He is now in poor health and is getting into a worse condition physically all the time. He has been very demonstrative in his religious mania, praying and talking incessantly, stating at times that he wanted to die. For fear he might commit some rash act it was thought better to detain him until be can be placed in the asylum. The application has been made and as soon as a place can be obtained for him at Lon gel iff he will be taken there. He will remain in jail at present.

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PASSING OF THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE.

The result of the election in Indiana is a stinging defeat to Governor Hanly, the Anti-Saloon League adjunct of the republican state machine and the ministers of the gospel who lent themselves to the political game to defeat Honest ‘‘l’onT Marshall for the governorship. W. H. Blodgett, in the Indianapolis News, well says that when the Anti-Saloon League entered partisan politics it weakened its influence. The activity of the Anti-Saloon League was resented, and right here in Rensselaer the offensive methods of the pastor of the Methodist church, who is one of the most 1 uncompromising republican partisans that has ever occupied the pulpit of that church, whose pernicious activity in the Watson cause during the entire campaign, distributed literature all day Tuesday about the polls and elsewhere in the city of this so-called “Anti” league, evten going so far that he possibly violated the law’ which prohibits electioneering within fifty feet of the polls, and advised and instructing his hearers (so we are told) in his Sunday morning sermon to vote for Watson for governor, has been deplored and w’lll be resented in a way that will cripple his church as an influence for good for years to come. Politics- and religion do not mix very well, and it is to be regretted, that the ministers, notably the Methodist ministers of Indiana, have seen fit to use their influence and their pulpits in an effort to promulgate the cause of any political party. They have done their churches and the temperance cause incalcupable harm by listening to the sophistries of Hanly and the Anti-Saloon League, although many of these ministers were willing victims of this confidence game. Many prominent temperance democrats in Newton and White counties tell us that there is so much resentment over the action of the Anti-Saloon League that if elections are held therein (heir counties are sure to go “wet,” and that is the general opinion here regarding Jasper county. As to Mr. Marshall, whom Hanly and his allies so bitterly opposed, Mr. Blodgett says in Wednesday’s Indianapolis News: The Anti-Saloon League knew, or could have known, that Mr. Mar- ! shall is a temperance man in his public life; that he stands high in ithe esteem of his neighbors as an i honest, conscientious, upright citizen, a man whose word will be taken anywhere in Indiana on any subject. The Anti-Saloon League knew, or could have known, that Mr. Marshall conducted his campaign entirely free from brewery and saloon interests. He paid his own expenses and would not accept a dollar from any one; would not permit the State 'committee to pay his traveling ex- , pensea or give him a penny. He I borrowed the money from a bank • on.his personal note and would not accept free transportation even on

a hack line. When Albert Lieber and Crawford Fairbanks and a number of brewery representatives of liquor interests held meetings and sent for Mr. Marshall he declined to attend their meetings and replied that he had no business with them. The Anti-Saloon League did magnificient Work in getting the local option law passed. Then it was within its province. Then it was performing the duty for which it was organized, and there was no one that would say it nay. It had the support of the majority of the people of Indiana, the pulpit and a very large part of the press. There was not a Christian organization in Indiana but that stood behind it. When the county option law was written in the books the work of the Anti-Saloon League was done, except that it was expected to see the law was obeyed. But the republican politicians at once threw the temperance issue into party politics and the leaders of the AntiSaloon League went Into party politics with the Republicans, and right then and there its influence for good began to wane. “The leaders of the Anti-Saloon League knew as well as Governor Hanly knew and as well as Mr. Watson knew’ that county local option was not an issue in the election of yesterday. That question was settled until the counties, by special elections, were called on to vote for or against the saloon. The cry went up from Hanly, under the auspices of the Anti-Saloon League, and from "Watson, indorsed by the Anti-Saloon League, that the purpose of Mr. Marshall would be to have the county local option law repealed But the people would not stand to be hoodwinked by Hanly and fooled by Watson or cajoled by the Anti-Saloon League Into voting the Republican ticket on the pretended temperance issue.

CIRCUIT COURT CONVENES MONDAY.

The November term of the Jasper Circuit Court will convene Monday. Following are the names of the jurors drawn for the term: GRAND JURY Everett Brown. .. . Barkley Samuel A. Dutcher. ... L. . .Keener John Reed Marion Geo. Anderson Gillam W. A. Shook Barkley C. C. RandleHanging Grove PETIT JURY Geo. K. Iliff. Jordan John I. Gwin. Union Thomas Abring . Keener H. W. Jackson..... Marion C. W. Beaver..... . Milroy Geo. Bond Barkley Oscar E. Hauter. . Marion Frank B. Ham Rensselaer Chas. C. Cain Marion Wm. N. Barkley Barkley John C. Beckham Jordan Elias Arnold Barkley J. W. Coen Marion Chas. Maxwell . Marion J. W. Marick Newton Ralph J. Donnelly Rensselaer The petit jury is called for the third Monday of the term; grand jury not called.

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol.

The November term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday. —o— The Benton Kelly road case from Newton tp., has been reversed in the supreme court. Commissioner Denham and J. J. Porter were over from Remington Wednesday on business. No sooner than the final count was made known in the joiht-sen-atorial race, and the figures announced, than the clock in the court house tower became paralyzed and stopped stone still. Even it could not think of getting a 93 majority in a normally 2,500 district. —o---With the completion of the 35 miles of stone streets and roads in Rensselaer and Marion township, together with the several miles of stone streets that bad previously been constructed, Rensselaer becomes one of the best macadam streeted cities in Indiana. And every road leading into town is also macadamized. While this has cost a whole lot of money and has come at a time when the people were already burdened with heavy taxes, The Democrat believes it an improvement that will never be regretted. Good streets and highways are among the very best investments a town or a county can make, and do more toward the upbuilding of a community than most any othar thing. With the almost 35 mile* of stone roads and stone streets being constructed in Carpenter tp., and the town of Remington and improvements here, this section is making strides in the direction of better roads that promises to extend over otber sections of the county until every principal highway is Im? proved. But such improvement* should be made gradually, so as not to become burdensome on the people. The county commissioners rnnt Monday and allowed most of the claims that had been filed, then adjourned until after election. Wednesday they re-conveped and finished up the work of the term. Following is a report of the procedings of the term: There was allowed 3400 on the Gillam, gravel road contract, $4,675 on the Marion-Rensselaer stone roads, $2,057.76 on the CarpenterRemington stone roads. M. Dougan, petition for highway in Walker and Wheatfield towushiptt; viewers report favorable and road established 50 feet wide. Louis Welsh, petition,for vacation of highway in Jordan tp.: report favorable and vacation ordered. Thomas Redgate ditch; assessments confirmed and Mr. Redgate appointed supt. Geo. A. Williams allowed attorney fee at $lO. Thos. Davis, et al. ditch; cause sent back from supreme court and cause set for' trial second, day Dec. term. The following sums of interest on county funds for October were reported: First Nat. Bk.. Rensselaer... $69.10 First Nat. Bk., Remington... 49.27 State Bank, Rensselaer...... 59.15 Jasper S. & T. Co., Rensselaer 58.49 Bank of Wheatfield. 14.14 Total. . .$250.15

Notice the crowds at the big sale now on at the CHICAGO', BARGAIN STORE. For Sale:—An unmounted horsepower, complete with tumbling rods, at a bargain if taken at once, at C. A. Roberts’. Three games of Box Ball for 3t> cents will save a doctor bill of $5. We are showing the best values in clothing ever offered in town. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. Now is the time to buy a barrel of fancy New York apples. Kings, Spies, Baldwins, Greenings, Seek-No-Farther, etc. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE.

Turkeys for Thanksgiving

From November Ifi to 15 is the time to sell turkeys for Thanksgiving market. I will guarantee 13 cents a pound for young goblers weighing from 12 pounds up, and for old and young bens weighing 9 pounds and up, with the raise of the market if you contract them at once. Otherwise 1 will pay the market price at the time of delivery. Ducks are worth S cents and gee Se. 6 cents a pound, subject t 9 market changes. Chickens always sell better after the holiday* and I advise you to hold them to that time for best prices. B. F. FENDIG.

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