Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — Page 2

THE JBSPER &OOHIT DEMOCRBT. . f.’E.BABCOGK.EDHORAKDPOBLISBER OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter Jfine 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. , Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1910.

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Decatur. Auditor Of State . WM. H. O’BRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VOLLMER, Vincennes. Attorney-General THOMAS M. HONAN, Seymour. Clerk of the Supreme Court J. FRED FRANCE, Huntington. Superintendent of Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY, Indianapolis. State Geologist EDWARD BARRETT, Plainfield. State Statistician THOMAS W. BROLLEY, North Vernon Judge of Supreme Court, Second District DOUGLAS MORRIS, Rushville. Judge of Supreme Court, \ Third District ■ CHARLES E. COX, Indianapolis. Judges o,f Appellate Cogft, Northern District JOSEPH G. IBACH, Hammond. ANDREW A. ADAMS, ..Columbia City M. B. LAIRY, Logansport. Judges of Appelate Court, Southern District EDWARD W. FELT, Greenfield. M. B. HOTTEL, Salem.

COUNTY TICKET.

f Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor «■ - ’ A, BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. ■ Treasurer Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor . . r Assessor. BERT VANERCAR, Kankakee Tp. Coroner DR. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District C. F. STACKHOUSE# Marion Tp. County Councilmen—lst District. GEO. O. STEMBEL, Wheatfield Tp, 2d District A. O. MOORE, Barkley Tp. 3d District L. STRONG, Marion Tp. 4th District GEORGE FOX, Carpenter Tp. At Large GEO BESSE, Carpenter Tp. JOSEPH NAGLE, Marion Tp. J. F. SPRIGGS, Walker Tp..

“It must be remembered that the power of pardon and parole lies iiT the hands of the Governor, where it is placed by the Constitution.’’ said 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.”—From Gov. Marshall’s statement regarding his parole of Bader, as published in the Indianapolis News. All of which is true, in a sense, but the governor should also remember that he is but the servant of the public and owes his position to the suffrages of the people: He is not their master, but their hired man, as he was wont to put it during the last campaign, a fact which he seems to forget when making the above remarks concerning his action in paroling Mr. Bader, the convicted' bridge grafter.

B— S— FROM RENSSELAER

No Such Opinion Prevails Here as Expressed In Following Dispatch. A dispatch from Rensselaer, published in Friday’s Indianapolis Star, conveys an entirely wrong impression of the feeling in Jasper county over the parole of C. L. Bader, and, if digested carefully) is about the thinnest of the many their “arguments” that have eminated .from fbe same source since Wallace Marshall made his charges of fraud in bridge contracts here last June. The Rensselaer correspondents for the Star are too well known here to require naming

by us, and the dispatch which we copy in full, bears such prominent ear-marks of the writers that there is no necessity to mentidn who wrote it. Here is the dispatch, headlines and all: BADER FREEDOM PLEASES Citizens Commend Action-: —Sanction Parole Granted Convicted Btidge Builder, Saying Nothing is Lost' Through Violations. Rensselaer,' Ind.,. May 5.-—(Spe-cial) —With few exceptions, the people of Jasper County believe that' the action of Governor Marshall in staying the sentence passed upon Clinton L. Bader, the convicted Winamac bridge ihan, was proper, since it carried with it no efforts' to defeat the ends of justice, but simply granted him liberty pending an appeal to the higher court. The evidence in the trial yest no doubt that he was guilty, but the general opinion here is that his fault was in taking bridge contracts at less than cost and then shaving the specifications for his* profit. While the public condemns this means, it believes that every bridge erected by the Bader Company in this county is worth all that was paid for it. It is thought that there would have been nothing gained in sending Bader to the penitentiary. He is said to have every dollar he possesses tied up in his business and he has a wife and five children to support. Bader has been regarded as an exemplary citizen. It is said that there have been efforts on the part of other bridge men to force the Bader company out of this territory and there are many taxpayers who think that Bader has actually saved Jasper county a considerable amount of money. The grand jury is now in session and should it find any evidence -to justify the suggestion that Bader and the county commissioners were in collusion clemency and sympathy that has been extended Bader would be withdrawn. No evidence to this effect was brought out at the trial, however.

Now “the . people here endorse, the parole since it carries with it no effort to defeat the ends of justice, simply granting liberty pending appeal, and the evidence left no doubt of guilt.” If guilty why the appeal, unless to defeat the ends of justice? Is a contractor who takes contracts for less than he can do the work for any right to “shave down the specifications for his profit?” He intends to rob the taxpayers just the same as any other man who gets pay for something that he agreed to do but did not do, Can it be said that a bridge that has been scaled down 35 to 40 per cent is “worth all that was paid for it.” Is a bridge of this kind worth anything at all, as a matter of fact, and is it not a menace to the public who are compelled to use it? Is it not liable to collapse some time when a load that would easily be carried by the properly built bridge might go through the one “scaled down for the contractor’s- profit,” perhaps carrying death and bodily injury with it? On this particular Milroy tp., bridge, we are told by reliable people of that vicinity, that last fall a threshing gang drove across.it with their engine and separator hitched together, the same as they always did over - other steel bridges. When in about the center of the 70 foot span the bridge swagged so that those in charge, of the threshing outfit became greatly frightened for fear the structure would go down with them before they . could get across, and they de- , dared they would not undertake to. cross it again with the separa- ; tor ditched to the engine for any ' amount of money. On their return over the bridge they run the , engine across and then pulled the separator dyer separately. Is such a bridge as that “worth every dollar it cost?

A few years ago a si/all steel bridge, almost new, in the southwest corner of Jordan tp., went down with a traction, engine, and the parties in charge of. the engine narrowly escaped with their lives.. One, if we remember correctly, was quite badly injured. This bridge was erected by a company that has since abandoned the Jasper county field for (reasons, we. are told, not compli-. mentary to our county. No doubt it was “shaved down” too—for we do not believe the Winamac company is the only bridge company which has operated here that is guilty,of this crime—and if it had been built according to contraci it would no doubt have stood the test of carrying an ordinary traction engine. We sometimes read of a railroad bridge collapsing and killing many people. Perhaps in some cases these weak bridges were “shaved down” and caused the loss of life in additiojp to the great money damage. Can it be said that such \ bridges' were

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FOREIGN CHEAP LABOR.

Protaction Uses It to Supplant American Higher Priced Latopr. The cry of “Protect the American workman against the foreigner!” has helped the protectionist party to get many votes. A more deceitful or absurd party cry was never invented. Our protected industries employ mostly foreigners—right froth the ship in many cases—so that it is the foreigner who gets the protection such as it is. The workmen who have replaced the organized labor which was driven from the Carnegie mills at the time of the Homestead riots many years ago are" not Americans, but Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Roumanians, Croatians, Bohemians and other European races, who are. content with inferior wages and an inferior standard of comfort. The workpeople who fill the factories of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are largely foreign born, and they are there because they undersell American labor. According to the census of 1900, Massachusetts had 846,000 foreign born people, Rhode Island 134,000, New Jersey 431,000, New York 1,900,000 and Pennsylvania 985,000. The foreign born population of these states and their children comprise a majority of the whole population, except in the case of Pennsylvania. These foreigners work for a dollar a day in. the mills and-factories, and the native American element seeks more lucrative employment The foreign pauper laborer is here. He comes with protection.

THE FLOWING TIDE.

Republicans Show Their Opinion of the Tariff by Voting the Democratic Ticket. That the trend of popular sentiment is strongly against the tariff is evident, from the result of the three congressional elections which have .. taken place since the new law was passed. The Payne-Aldrich bill became a law on Aug. 5, 1909. On Feb. 1, 1910, an election was held for the Sixth Missouri district A Democrat was elected to replace another Democrat by an increased plurality. * ■ On March 22, 1910, an election waj held for the Fourteenth Massachusetts district A Republican plurality of 14,250 in 1908 was converted into a Democratic plurality of 5,Q50. On April 19, 1910, an Section was held for the Thirty-second New York district. A Republican plurality of 10,167 in 1908 was converted into a Democratic plurality 0f'5,900.

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For Sale—One team of mules 6 years old and sound, weight, about 1300 lbs. each; 1 small driving mare; 1 2-year-old colt; 1 Weber wagon with triple bed, almost new. This property can be seen on the farm in Newton tp., now occupied by Emil Johnson.—-M. R. HALSTEAD, Earl Park, Ind. Earl Park, Ind. For Sale—Good tomato plants, the best 'variety I could get; now ready to set out; sweet potato plants later.—J. H. COX. For sale—As I have bought a larger separator, I wish to dispose of my ’ Russell 33x50 separtator, equipped with a Parson’s self-feeder, Peoria weigher and Russell windstacker, belts in good shape—GLEN BAKER, Rensselaer, Ind., R-l. Phone 512-B. Notice of Letting Contract for County Farm Supplies. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will on Monday, June 6th, 1910, receive sealed: bids up to 12 o’clock noon, for furnishing groceries and meat for County Poor Asylum. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as provided by law. The the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners. of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, ’ Auditor Jasper County. The Democrat an& -Indianapolis News, each a full year, $3.75 . e - , <• ■■ ■ v wtiPwßww/ Cnny r/y A - Cw. L -5 tjjle „ MAYHEW’S White Wyandottes Those Chickens that won 25 Ribbons this season at four ShOWS.', , . . Eggs For Sale at $1 and $2 per 15 ARTHUR MAYHEW] R. 3. JI Rensselaer, Ind.