Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — Page 5

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of .Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 50c; Oats, 36c. Another hard frost came Wednesday night. Theodore George was in Chicago Wednesday. Ed Oliver of Newland was, in Delphi on business Thursday. Bruce White was a business visitor in Chicago Wednesday. J. F. Irwin went to Wolcott Thursday on a short business trip. * ? May 3, to Mr. and Mrs. Dan-, iel S. Chupp, of west of Surrey, a daughter. Cleve Eger was in Indianapolis and Lafayette on business Wednesday. O. K. Ritchey returned Thursday from a few days business trip to Chicago. George Scott and C. G. Spitler were in Marion and Monticello on business Thursday. Mrs. Mark Hemphill left Thursday for Colorado Springs, Colo., to make a visit. Mrs. F. A. Ross and mother, Mrs. M. E. Thompson, spent Wednesday in Chicago. Mrs. Edward Ferger of Ind ianapolis spent Wednesday here with G. F.- Myers and family. Mrs..-Milt Roth and‘son went to Evansville, 111., Thursday "to visit her sister. Mrs. C. O. Smith William Bowers writes to change the- address of his Democrat from Tamo, Ark., to Pekin, in/ . = - John B. Ellis of Delphi came Wednesday to visit his children, Mr?. A. 11. Hopkins and J. H. S. Ellis and families. Mrs. Dick Hartman of Monon returned home' Thursday after a few days visit here with her sister-in-law, Airs., John Richards. Patrick Hallagan was in town Thursday, for the first-time since returning, frofn Florida. He seems to be getting along nicely now. ' , Mrs. Mary A. .Lane o.f Chicago, ■ returned. home Wednesday after a few days visit with her brother, Al Peters and family of south of town. Ar—Mrs. George Hershman returned to her home at Crown Point Wednesday after a ten days visit with her uncle, Smith Newell and wife of Barkley tp. Born; near Lisbon, No. Dak., April 21, to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Charles, a daughter.' , Mrs. Charles is a daughter of Joseph Nesius of southeast of Rensselaer. - ' James Fisher and G. F. Deschand went to Hammond Wednesday to look for carpenter work. They are thinking some of going to Colorado if they do not get work in Hammond. Our shoe department, the largest and most complete in this city, contains' all the very latest styles in all leathers. We can fit your feet and’please you and sell you the best , shoes made at the very lowest prices.— Rowles & Parker. o ■

Vern Crisler made a business trip to Bluffton Thursday. F. P. Morton of Goodland was over on business: yesterday. I . . -A George W. Goff made a business trip to Chicago Wednesday. Mrs. Lillie Shaw went to Delphi yesterday to visit relatives. Dan Coleman went to Monticello on tile ditch business yesterday. * / X' Mrs. Er E. Powell went to Crawfordsville yesterday to vi'st relatives. . Miss Bessie. Moody went to Chicago yesterday to make a short visit. George Sterhbel was down from Wheatfield on business Thursday. Vern Nowels and Landy Magee spent yesterday at Cedar Lake, fishing. Use “A & K Best” Flour and be happy. $1.50 a sack at the Home Grocery. George Kepner of Kendallville came yesterday to spend a few days with relatives. Miss Belle Laßue went to Greencastle yesterday to visit DePauw University friends. jspround was broken yesterday for the foundation for the Milroy [monument in Milroy Park. i Use the souvernir envelopes ■ on sale at The Democrat office ' when writing to your friends or business acquaintances. Miss Ethel Davis of Logan•port returned home Thursday after a few days visit here with Misses Ethel and Opal Sharp. yThe ’. three-year-old daughter oP-W. P; Michael, caught her finger in a corn feeder a few days ago and had the end of it badly mashed. > Sd.'he frosts of Tuesday and \ Wednesday nights did considerable damage to strawberries. Cherries, apples, etc., had been fixed previously. Several of our citizens report having got tip in light attire at 2:30 to 3 :00 the past few mornings and got a fine view of the noted .Halley’s Comet. Miss Lillian Stevens of Morocco, who ha’d been visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas. Summers of south of town the. past few days, returned home yesterday. W. F. Enslen of Marion, came Tuesday to be with his mother Mrs? J. T. Randle, who has been seriously ill the past few days. He returned home Thursday, reporting her somewhat improved. Persons having borrowed our wire stretchers will please return them if not in use. If they are still in tjse let us know about when they will be ’returned.— Eger Bros. . Hundreds of men, women and children are regularly wearing our shoes year in and year out. Why? because we sell the best shoes made and make a specialty of fitting' the feet. — Rowles & Parker. Mrs. Mary Lowe returned home Tuesday from Elmwood, Neb>, where she went to be with her uncle, N. P. Lefler. & Mr. Lefler died, though, before She arrived. He was a brother of the late Mrs. W. W. Bussel.

I The Democrat and Indianapolis News, each a full year, $3.75 - —— .A- ' . Try The Democrat and National Monthly a year for only $2.00, sent to any address in The United States. '.g <2 Miss Zelma Rayher returned hpnie Tuesday from a few days visit with her aunt, Mrs. SamueT Walter, at Frankfort. Mrs. Chas. Kasson of Hammond returned home yesterday after a few days visit here' with her daughter, Mrs. Orlan Grant. ’’SBlisses Mary Goetz and Katie Shields, who have been teaching in the Brook schools, return home today, the schools having closed for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Slyvester Gray and the latter’s aunt, Miss Frost of Carmichael, Pa., arrived home Thursday. Miss-Frost will make her home here with Mrs. Gray. To-morrow (Sunday) is “Mother’s Day” and will be observed in an appropriate manner in many sections of the country by G. A. R. Posts, lodges, churches, etc. A white carnation is the emblem of the day. Charles Utterburg, an employe on the J. W. Stockton farm, went to Chicago yesterday to accompany his cousin, Isaac Liaga here. The latter will probably take a. position on the James Walter farm. Jacob Keller, an old and prominent citizen of North Judson, died in his room in a Chicago hotel Monday night. He had gone to the city on business and was found dead ’in his bed Tuesday afternoon. His age was 62 years. / x Dan .Coleman is wearing one jeye draped in mourning because of a little difficulty with Cleve Eger, which started in Eigles-' bach’s meat market Thursday and grew out of an account which Dan is alleged to have owed the Eger store. If you aren’t one of those that have already called on us for your new spring oxfords, we want you to come in and let us fit you. Our specialty—good shoes at reasonable prices. The kind that fit the feet.— Rowles & Parker. « E. W. Kolb and family, formerly of Chicago, left li£re Wednesday for Rochester, N. Y., where he has a as signal engineer on the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg R. R. They had been herb visiting his sister, Mrs. Frank Foltz, for a few days. ' Mrs. Wesley Downing, a former resident of Jasper county, known to some of our older readers, died at Little River, Kan., April 23, aged 75 years. Tffe family moved to Kansas in 1878. Mr. Downing died in 1895, since which time Mrs. Downing had lived with her children, of whom she leaves four, two sons and two daughters. Lee Stark, a young farm hand of Earl Park, aged 19, went to Indianapolis last Sunday on an excursion over, the Big hour. Returning at 11 p. m., he started down the railroad track‘to Press Thornburg’s, where he was employed. It is thought he sat down on the track and fell asleep and a fast train came along and run over him. Tlis remains were found scattered along the track next morning. ; . '

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GOVERNOR'S DEFENSE

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nouriced that he would be compelled to grant Bader a new trial, and that he went so, ( far as to notify parties at Winamac to come over and sign Bader’s bond.- I am not pretending to speak as to the guilt or. innocence of the man, but if a judge says he is going to give a man a new trial and then' fails, I do say that no injustice has b&gn done the public by the granting of a parole which provides that in case of appeal to the supreme court the .punishment shall begin with the denial. If it should turn put that this man was innocent instead of guilty, as you now believe him to be, do you not think it would be a little bit harsh to compel him to stay in the penitentiary while appeal for a new trial was pending? ‘•I always regret "to run counter to the opinion of the people of any community, but I am willing to abide by critlcsm when I know that the just punishment of a man will not be avoided by my conduct and that I am merely giving him full opportunity to establish his innocence./ . .' “Understand, I am not complaining of the critlcsm, because I think the people have just as much right criticise a court and assume that a has made a mistake as I have to critise a court and assume that a judge should have granted a new trial when he did not do so.”

On two petitions which came to the Governor’s oilice for th.e release of Bader, pending decision on his appeal, one from Pulaski county and one from Jasper county, there were eighty-nine: names, sixty from the former and twenty-nine from the latter. On the former were the names of Francis J. Verpillat, judge of the Forty-fourth judicial circuit; B. D. L. Glazebrook, prosecuting attorney for the district; H. L. Rogers, county superintendent of schools; M. H. Ingram, editor of the Demo-crat-Journal; W. M 3. Huddleston, president First National Bank, Winamac; W. F. Kahler, chairman Pulaski county Republican committee, and Carl W. Riddick, editor of the Winamac Republican and former secretary- of the Republican state committee. On the petition from Jasper county appeared the names of N. Littlefield, chairman of the Jasper county Democratic committee; G. H. Healey, editor of the Remington Republican; J. M. Wasson, president of the First National Bank of Remington, and Abraham Halleck, state senator from Jasper, White, Newton and Starke counties. Mr. Littlefield, however, withdrew his name froifi ' the petition by the following telegram, sent on March 14; “Misinformed. Please withdraw my name from parole petition of C. L. Bader.” On the same cfay F. E. Babcock, editor of the of Remington, sent the Governor the following telegram: “Court investigated thoroughly in question of Bader’s guilt. Inadvisable to interfere with verdict. If in doubt, wire, telephone or write Edward Honan.” No record of any word from Mr. Honan was found among the Bader papers. Neither was there any papers in the case, as filed, to show the source of the Governor’s information that the court- had said it would grant Bader a new .trial and that it had sent word to Winamac for friends of Bader to come over and sign his bond. Bader’s defense was chiefly in the hands of the law firm of Hathaway, Horner & Thompson, of Winamac. Mrt Hathaway,- it appears, took the lead in obtaining the petitions for the release of Bader. A long letter from James W. McEwan, the veteran editor of the Democratic Sentinel, was received askings for Bader’s release. ' Governor .Marshair says the representation ‘that the judge of the Jasper county court had said he would grant Bader a new trial and that he had sent word to Bader’s friends in Winamac to get ready to sign his bond was made by M. M. Hathaway, Bader’s attorney. The Governor .-aid he • had known Mr. HathaAVav for a great many years apd had absolute confidence in his integrity, and that on Mr. Hathaway’s word, he had proceeded with his action in the case. . “It must be remembered that the power of pardon and parole lies in the hands of the Governor, where it is placed by the Constitution.” sgid the Governor. “To the people is given the right to criticise when the Governor does not exercise this right to please them. But as for the Governor's right, it is his, not a town meeting affair, or an affair which calls for an election before the executive can act. I believe now, as I believed then, that I did the right thing when I paroled Bader. His aged father was ill, members of his- family were ill, and I was led to believe by one of my most trusted friends that the trial court had promised him a new trial. Under those circumstances I paroled Bader, and, under like circumstances, I would parole him again. I placed in the parole such conditions as would insure punishment if guilty, and gave him a chance to prove his innocence. If he goes to prison by a finding of the higher court, he will not have gained in freedopi part of the time that he has been sentenced to serve.

‘•I repeat what I t aid concerning appeals -to . .the supreme court in criminal cases, where thfec accused should) be givpn opportunity to give bond pending appeal, the sentence, if the lower court is confirmed, shall begin from the time of the confirmation. I said when I vetoed Senator Stotsenburg’s hill in the late session of the legislature, that’t ’was a measure bf justice if properly drawn. ’lndiana is far behind her sister states in that respect.” -. . • /. “It is reported that you had an understanding with one or more editors of the interested in the case 1 that if you were to parole Bader the newspapers were hot to ’roast’ you for it,” whs said to the Governor, “No such understanding existed. The only time the newspapers were mentioned in the matter was when I told Mr. Hathaway, when he spoke to me of petitions', that the petition, to be effective, should contain the names of the editors of the newspapers interested, and as I remember the petitions,"the editors signed them.” One newspaper, the Remington Democrat, scored the Governor heavily for the release, but subsequently took back what it had said and published an article setting forth the facts in the.case. The«artlcle was based on a letter from Mark Thlstlwaite, secretary to the Governor, similar to that written to Dr. Besser by the Governor. The Stotsenburg bill, to which the Governor referred, was introduced In the senate in the late session by Senator Evan Stotsenburg, of New Albany. As passed by both houses, it provided that the prison term of a convicted person should be held as counted from the time the lower court imposed sentence, even though the convicted person were released under bond pending a ruling on an appeal to the higher court.

The reference made above to the “Remihgton Democrat” and “Remington Republican” we suppose- means The Jasper County Democrat and Rensselaer Republican, and for the former’s part in this bridge graft expossure it is not side-stepping nor apologizing to anyone, not even Governor Marshall, for whom it ..has always had a high regard, and felt in this matter that he would be, making so great a mistake by interfering that we sent the telegram mentioned in the News article, after going to Mr. Honan and securing his consent to allow us to refer the governor to him for further information, as Governor Marshall was personally acquainted with Mr. Ho-, nan and could, if he desired to, secure information right here where the offense was committed. There was no need for his going wrong in the matter matter had lie cared to make a little investigation. This telegram was all the correspondence we had with the governor on our part, but we (lid receive two letters from him which bear on the case. Neither required any reply and none was made. The Democrat docs not aim to criticise anyone unjustly, nor does it think it has done so in this;case. It sjaid immediately after Governor. Marshall stepped in and halted the law’s .course that it thought he was not treating tl;c court, the jury or the prosecutor right in so doing'; that lie had evidently been misinformed as to the facts,or he would not have done so. and it has never ‘‘re-nigged” on that proposition, ami is. of the same' opinion still. Our remarks concerning this case .were made after hearing ]) ra ctica 11 y eve ry won 1 L. thee vi - deuce, the court’s instrirctions in the case and the verdict of the jury. But all the-articles pub-, fished by other papers were written by men who heard not one whit of the evidence and who were not in the court room at any time, during the trial, a fact all the court attaches know to/be true. ’ ' According to Blodgett’s article he, too, thinks it was a great mistake for the Governor to interfere in this case. -He had the right and power to do so, of course, but there are many people hereabouts who question the wisdom of his. action. If M’r. Hathaway represented to Governor Marshall that the court had promised to grant Bader a new trial he represented something that is unknown here, and this is the first time we have ever heard of anything of the kind. There was apparently not the slightest grounds for granting a new trial.* Mr. Hathaway was not here at any time during the trial or after, so far as we can learp, until the day sentence was passed, and if he had any information that the court had promised a new trial he must have got it second-hand.- jTdge Hanley did intimate that if the investiga-

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tion of other bridges that he had personally caused to be made showed that the Milroy bridge was the only bridge short, that he would suspend sentence, but so far as 'l'hc Democrat can learn there is no grounds for the statement that he promised anyone that he would grant a new trial. Now, as regards Mr. Littlefield’s signature to the petition for parole, he states that he signed it in a private capacity, just “N. Littlefield,” while the News says as on file in the secretary of state’s office it shows “N. Littlefield, chairman of the Jasper County Democratic committee.” If Mr; Littlefield is correct in this, who took the liberty to add th 6 title after his signature? . > Ihe more this bridge graft matter is probed into- the worse it looks.

TOWNSHIP GRADUATES.

Following is a list of the graduates by .townships, from the rural schools of the county to date. Keener and Gillam townships have another examination yet and more may get through: BARKLEY TOWNSHIP, Minnie Waymire Kenneth Groom Goldie Akers Joe Moore Nellie Byerly., Mars Ott Jennie Jefferies Lucile Byerly May Shook Paul Norman Dicle Freeman Frances Davisson CARPENTER TOWNSHIP. Florence Hudson Susan Thurston Leila Lllves Ezra Zehr Lenh Knockel Jesse Fulks Russel Taylor Karah Fulks Lillian Hamilton. GILLAM TOWNSHIP. Lillian Manning Harold Pullins Ernest Rockwell Cleopha Dunn Jessie Rayburn Eugene Ballard HANGING GROVE TOWNSHIP. Elmer (lodshall James S. Jordan Edward Rose. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. Grace Gain Harold Fidler Iva Blake Laban Wilcox Arthur Gilbert KANKAKEE 'I’OWNS 111 P. Gerald Maloney Elmer Davis Irene Stalbaum Mayme DeArmond KEENER TOWNSHIP. Harold Spencer Josie Curt in Ernest. Coberly (/harles Spriggs Zola Stroup Herman Koster William Cheever. . MARION TOWNSHIP. Mark Hoyos Isabel Martin Neva Harriott Mary Gowland Ernest Garriott Myrtle Amsler Everet Eldridge* 0, Victqt Hoover James Hoyos Fred' Putts. Albert Greenlee Marie Miller Clinton Saidla. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. Victoria Marsh Ruth Marsh , Bessie Paulus UNION TOWNSHIP Ross Wood Ralph Lakin Willie Price Flossie .Gundy Mabie Fay lor —Gladys Harrington Gladys Halleck Clara Switzer Edna Price Amy Bringle Manuel Williams. WALKER TOWNSHIP. Lawrence Davis Hugh Davisson Arthur Davis Hanna Ott Mary Fenzel Agnes Fritz Mamie Jungiles William Braddock Gladys, Hoile Bertha Hershman Maggie Peer Obal Hershman Irene Jungles Hazel Meyers Richard Barker Mabie Nelson Ella Hines Nellie O’Connor Paul Hershman WHEATFIELD. Vernon Stroup Rosa Klein Lila Delehanty Lee Morehouse Pearl Clark Clarence Holladay WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIP. Mary Stembel Della Turner Claude Biggs Flossie Darner Oscar Stembel Minnie Clark x * Carl Dan ford Oscar Turner Roland Myers Florence DemarahLottie Miller Lillie Langdon ’ „ . Hulda Jensen.