Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1910 — Page 2

TIE»EQUITY DMII. f. t.BIBCOCI. ediiohippobiubh. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June S. 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 Is* due 8 Pages. ▲dverstislng rates made known on application. . SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1910.

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Deeatur. 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 of Appellate 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.

DISTRICT TICKET.

For Member Congress, Tenth District JOHN B. PETTERSON, of Crown Point.

COUNTY TICKET.

S Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor A. BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. Treasurer Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor Assessor BERT VANERCAR, Kankakee Tp. Coroner _jR. 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.

CAN’T DECEIVE THEM.

Logansport Pharos says: — The republican press bureau in this. state is trying to convince the people that the election of a democratic house would ■ prove prejudicial to the interests of the veterans of the Civil War. The war veterans cannot be deceived. They are better informed than those who furnish misinformation. They know that the dollar-a-day pension bill was smothered in the house committee on pensions. They know ■ that the efforts of Congressman Barnhart Cline, Rauch and Cullop of this state to bill out of the committee, were unavailing They know that the bill would ■have secured the solid democrat fc vote and would have passed (had it been reported from the Committee. It would be wiser for the republican press bureau €b tell the truth rather than to seek to obscure the record.

THE TARIFF COMMISSION IDEA.

One of the most remarkable phenomena of our recent political history is the swift and sudden growth in popularity of the tariff commission idea. Jonah’s

gourd is simply “not in it.” Men who once blasphemed the commission are now among its most ardent supporters. Not long ago the Hon. James E. W atson, of this state, insisted that he was the legitimate patentee. Though, his claims to priority can, we think,.,be successfully disputed, we can see no reason why any one should be much concerned to make a fight. There would never have been even such a tariff board as we have, had it not, been tor the pressure of the insurgents for a real commission. The board was a concession to insurgent sentiment, designed to placate those who were opposed to the Payne bill. Even after the board was created Senator Hale insisted that it was in no sense a commission, and said that, under the law, the President would have no right to use it to get information concerning the cost of production abroad.

But we have our commission —-i-such as it is—and. every one is happy. When the sundry civil bill was before the house —the bill creating the commission, and apropriating 5250,000 for it —Mr. Clark, of Missouri, said that the first section of the bill should be entitled “a motion to, postpone the verdict of the people on the Payne-Aldrich-Smoot tariff bill to a more convenient season —more convenient to the staildpat leaders.” Certainly no season for considering it could be more inconvenient than the present. And if the commission scheme shall serve to prevent -such consideration it will be used for that purpose. The favor with which it fs meeting from such men as Mr. Watson indicates that there is a function that it can perform. Is the function the one suggested by Mr. Clark? The commission or board, it should be remembered, is not an agent of congress, but of the President. It is not required to report to congress. It makes its report to the President, who may or may not give its findings to congress or to the public as he sees fit. There are many who think that the facts should go to congress in the first instance, as any tariff bill that is passed must' be passed by congress.

But we have our tariff "cortimission.’’ And the law creating it is hailed as a triumph of statesmanship by representatives of that very element which strove so valiantly to kill it when it was before congress. Even the Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, that prince of tariff reformers, s is now convinced that the commission is a delight and a joy. Men who once denounced it as a vital confession that the tariff bill, which was the result of months of labor, is seriously defective, are now welcoming the commission as a sort of lifeboat, which is to carrv them safely through the breakers. When Cannon approves. what more can any one ask? Any one disposed to make merry over our politics could 'have rare fun over this sudden reversal of form. What is there in the tariff commission idea, which was not in it a year ago last March? It has no excellence now that it did not have then. It had no defectthen which it does not have now. ft is the same law. the same commission. Are we to conclude that certain gentlemen who then opposed it bitterly" now see in U the only bridge—to change the figure—across a yawning chasm which has just npw become prcceptible to them? Is the scheme to rally, not in defense of the tariff law. but in defense of the commsision, as a postponetnent of “the verdict of the people on the Payne-Aldric'h-Smoot tariff bill to a more convenient season?"

We do not know. But one thing we think we do know, and that that the people are dissatisfied With the Payne law, that they earnestly desire relief from the present burden of taxation, and of tax-raised prices. They are not interested in the conjHiission, but in lower taxes. They know that the wool, cotton, steel and sugar schedules are atrocious. Will they be IflHed info satisfaction or indifference by the Siren song of the standpatters in glorification of the- tariff commission? Is their capacity for being fooled and hoodwinked unexhausted? It is a little strange to enact a tariff law supposed to be the sum of all wisdom—for was it not the work of such “experts” as Aldrich, Smoot, Lodge, Cannon, Payne and Littauer? —and at the same time to provide ' a scheme for improving the unimprovable and reforming the unreforrpable. But it is evident that the standpatters are going to get

a good deal of comfort and consolation out of the despised commission. for it is clear that they regard it as the best sort of politics. Is it anything more than that?- —Indianapolis News. ? Congressman "yA. Crumpacker ’used to pose as the great and good friend of one, Teddy Roosevelt. In these . days of Insurgency when the , aforesaid Teddy went whooping by after having driven Chum Sunny Jim Sherman under the bed with a fence paling, the silence of the sage of Valparaiso sounds as loud as the falling of a thousand bricks. Never again can the sage applaud ysuch boisterous punishment for Stand Patters.

A friend was in the office chatting over things in general, when we questioned him on the outlook for the election of John B. Peterson to congress this fall, and discovered that there was at least one well-informed and intelligent democrat who 'had ft ”ed to sense the conflict, and did not know that for the first time singe the 10th district has been organized that there is more than a hope of electing a man of the people to congress. One the one hand we have Mr. Peterson, alert, active, congenial and in touch with the people. On the other hand Crumpacker has never been so thoroughly out of touch. A standpatter of the Aldrich. Hale and Cannon type, his attitude is so hostile to. the progressive republicans that he has threatened retaliation if a progressive speaker is sent into his' district. His dependence on the omnipotent power of ’his good friends, the trusts, has ma le him arrogant in district appointments. and as a speaker, he freezes his audiences instantly, seems almost unbelievable that every democrat and progressive republican in the district is not busy spreading tiie news that "this is the year we make .a change.” Possibly the Democrat has been a little derlict in the matter itself, but from now on we» hope to keep in' the lead, and that there will not be a man in the county who is not alive to the fact that the democratic candidate for congress is a good man and a live wire.

LAW FULL OF GRAFT.

Foss Says People Will Not Accept President Taft’s Opinion. Boston. August 30.—"1 am certain that President Taft will find out in November, when the votes are counted, that the people do no consider the Payne-Aldrich ariff bill a fulfillmnt of the republican party platform pledges,” said Congressman Eugene N. Foss today. Foss, who is expected to be the democratic candidate for Governor of Massachuesetts. was discussing President Taft’s letter in which he delaw." continued Foss., "is veryfar- from a fulfilment of pledges made in t.e campaign. The people do not care whether the bill i- a good or bad one as a revenue producer. They know that it G full of graft and injustice, aiid that is what counts with them.''

Mrs. Jacob Wilmer;. Lincoln. 111., found her way back to perfect health. She writes: ’ri suffered with kidney trouble and backache and my apetite was very poor at rimes. A few week’s* ago I got Foley Kidney Pills and gave them a fair trial. They gave me great relief, so continued till now I am again in perfect health.” A. F. Long.

FARM BARGAINS.

Five, ten and twenty acre, tracts half-mile from court house. Prices right. 85 acres, all cultivated; joins large ditch, well located, good buildings, Price SSO. 100 acres, all cultivated, black soil with clay subsoil, on large ditch; near station. Price SSO. 133 acres, six-room house, large barn, good well, all black soil with clay subsoil, near station, at $45. 160 acres, good black corn land with clay subsoil, good house and barn, well located. Price SSO. 90 acres, good 6-room house, large barn, good well, double cribs, all tillabler on large ditch, has some tile, and a bargain at S4O. Terms, sl,Vuv down. AU the above farms are bargains and can be sold on favorable terms. I can show these farms from this place any time. Also have a number of farms for exchange. G-. F. MEYERS.

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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has qualified as executor of the last will and testament of Sarah A. Hemphill, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to solvent. EDWARD P. HONAN, August 30. 1910. Executor. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has qualified as executor of the last will and testament of Joseph Stripmeyer, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to solvent. EDWARD P. HONAN, A gust 30, 1910. Executor.

NOTICE OF ADMISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate’ of Rachael E. Knox, late of Jas'per County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. * .■? ' THE TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK, of Rensselaer, Administrator. August 23, 1910.

NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Frederick J. Stocksick, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1910. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Frederick J. Stocksick, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday the 19th day of September, 1910, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Henry Grow, 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 7 notified to ap pear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. HENRY GROW, Administrator. Judson J. Hunt, Attorney for estate.

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NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Joel Randolph Spriggs, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, to September Term, 1910. Notice is hereby given to the cred-, itors, heirs and legatees of Joel Randolph Spriggs, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the twelfth day of September, 1910, being the day fixed and

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endorsed on the final settlement account of Joel F. Spriggs, 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. JOEL F. SPRIGGS, Administrator. Frank Foltz, Attorney for Estate.