Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1910 — Page 2

THE Jin COUNTY DEWI. F. LMMBnOHIDMIim. { OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephone* Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates mado known on application. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1910.

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Deeatur. Auditor of State W. H. O’BRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VCLLMER, 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 11 Judge of Supreme Court, Second District DOUGLAS MORRIS, Rushville. Judge of Supreme Court, Third District CHARLES E. COX, Indianapolis. Judges of Appellate Court, 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 Dlatrlct JOHN B. PETERSON, of Crown Point. For Joint Reprenentative, Jasper and White Counties. WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Monticello. COUNTY TICKET. Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor A. BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. Treasurer CAREY L. CARR, Newton Tp. Sheriff ' WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor DEVERE YEOMAN, Marion Tp. Assessor CHAS. U. GARRIOTT. Union 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. Q. 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. Congressman Crumpacker now has the interests of the old soldiers very much at hSart. but why did he not lend his assistance to that worthy cause when tee Indiana delegation went before the pension committee and asked them to report favorably on a dollar a day amendment? Congressman Barnhart says that Crumpacker refused to go before the committee on this errand. If he refused to stand by the old boy’s once, do you think the change of heart is real or just to get their votes? You can be your own judge.—Brook Reporter (Rep.)

SENATOR B EVERIDGE AND DOLLAR A DAY PENSIONS.

That there may be no question as to the" truth of the statement in Saturday’s Democrat by Major Robbins of Indianapolis, regarding Senator Beveridge’s treatment of a committee of old soldiers who called upon him in behalf of the proposed dollar a day pension legislation, we clip from a recent issue of the Indianapolis News’ “Voice of the

People’’ column the following letter front Mr. Robbins: To the Editor of The News: / Sir—l am unable to see why any veteran of the civil war should support Senator Beveridge for re-elec-tion. The more J think of the treatment Newton M. Taylor and I received at his hands last winter the less cause I see for supporting him. N. M. Taylor came to me at my desk in the circuit court and said I had been designated to go with him to present to Senator Beveridge a petition containing more than four thousand naim-s of ex-Union soldiers of Indiana, asking the national congress to enact a pension law providing for not less than sl. a day for all Union veterans of the civil war. I asked Mr. Taylor .when he desired me to go. He said he had an appointment with tfie-'kehator at 11:30 a. ni., next day, and asked me to join him at his office, which I did, and we reached the senator’s rooms at 11:30 sharp and waited until T o’clock p. m„ before being admitted (so many politicians ahead of us); then we were called into his presence. Mr. Taylor introduced me to him (as I had never met him before). and at once presented the petition, telling him the purpose of our visit. The senator said: “Gentlemen, if ypu hope to succeed with this .matter you must secure the influence of the President of the United States, the" Vice-President, the Speaker of the house and the committee on pensions.” Just then his telephone bell rang (and I shall always believe he caused it to ring); he asked us to step into the hall a momentwhile he answered the telephone call, and we stepped out and are still out. 1 waited a half hour, Mr. Taylor and I walking up and down the hall; then I returned to my duty at the court. And next morning I asked Mr. Taylor about the outcome of our call. He said: “You know as much about it as I do, for I remained a while after you left , without, being recalled, and then I, too. left.’’ And while we were waiting other persons from the reception room were being called into his private office. Now, comrades, you four thousand who signed the petition herein referred to, are you going, to aid Senator Beveridge to succeed himself after this insult, not alone to the committee who interested themselves' in your behalf, but to yourselves as well? He never uttered one word as to his willingness to aid in enacting this one-dollar-a-day pension law, but now he tells the palsied comrades: “I have pledged myself, and I will keep my pledge ” I have no confidence in his promises. If- you have, shut your eyes to your interests and vote for representatives who will support Beveridge and take the consequences as in the pa t. and instead of living and enjoying yourselves with: your famili'S go and die in some soldiers’ home or poorhouse. The senator said in his speech at Rochester, Ind., that it is infamous to play politics with the old soldiers, and there has never been a line of pension legislation enacted by a democratic congress, and there never will be because the majority of such a congress will be made up of southern men. and they will not vote tor pensions for veterans. Now, senator, all we ask of you is to take these bills out of the pigeonholes and put it up to the non you -peak of. Put yourself on record and let others take the responsibility. W. W ROBBINS. Indianapolis, October 7.

TWENTY THINGS THAT CRUMPACKER DID.

1. Voted for Joe Camion for Speaker of the House. 2. Voted against revising the rules governing the House. 3. Voted with Aldrich to put additional profits in the pockets of the rubber trust. 4. N oted for an increase of duty on structural steel, adding to the extortion of the steel trust. 5. Voted to retain the old duties of the woolen schedule, adding to the cost of clothing of every man. woman and child in the district. 6. Voted with Payne. Hale and Aldrich and not with Beveridge. LaFollctte and Bristow. 7. Voted in the interest of trusts and .corporations and not in the interest of the people. 8. N oted to increase the cotton schedule and thus further oppress the poor who must wear cheap clothing. 9. N oted to appropriate $12.000 to buy automobiles for Joe Cannon and Jim Sherman. 10. N oted to retain a 7% cent differential on refined sugar and admits it put millions into the pockets of the sugar trust. 11. N oted to retain a duty of $1.25- a thousand on common lumber, adding to the cost of building a home, and admits that lumber ought to be on the free list. i12. Refused to go to the pension committee with a delegation of Indiana congressmen and ask for a dollar day pension. 13. Helped to swell' the expenses of the billion dollar con 7 gresses many times.

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14. Had his convention indorse the Payne-Aldr’ch tar’ff bill which he had helped frame. 15. Turned down old soldiers U,.>. -appoint pol’tical henchmen of his own liking. 16. Voted to reduce tariff on wines of the rich and to increase the tariff on the stockings of the poor. 17. N oted with Aldrich and Payne to strip the tariff'commission of all power and left it h.elp--lesstoi nv es tiga te. 18. Tailed and refused' at all times to raise his voice against the iniquities of the tariff bill, and in fact he helped arrange those schedules. , s 19. Made a speech in the i louse in defense of the tariff bill when even the members of his own party ill the district were denouncing it. 20. Has been employed in eases for the Standard Oil trust while drawing a salary for and pretending to guard the people’s interests at a fat salary of $7,500 per year.

TEDDY AND COST OF LIVING.

The total value of all the gold produced by all the mines of the United States from 1792 to 1908 inclusive was 53.063.787.000. The appropriation bills signed by . Theodore Roosevelt ..during his second term as President aggregated 53.522,982.816.87. All the gold that the United States produced in 117 vears fell sh< >rt by5459.8C0.000 of fraying the cost of four years of Roose L veltism. - Does Mr. Roosevelt think that this unparalleled extravagance has no relation to the increased cost of living.—New York World. 1 ,

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If you believe that Governor Marshall has made a good governor and that he means what he says, the decision is easy. Governor Marshall says the Democratic state candidates, if elected, will do as well as he has done.

W. H. O'BRIEN, for Auditor of State.

W. H. O’Brien is one of the big business men of Lawrenceburg. He was elected mayor of the city five times | and his largest majority came with ! his last election. You can judge for yourself whether he was a good mayor and whether he is the kind of man who would make a good auditor of state. For years he published the Lawrenceburg Register. He is president of the People’s State Bank. As judge of the Hancock Circuit Court, where he served six years, Judge E. W. Felt established a reputation for fairness and impartiality, and for keeping his calendar clear. He believes in dispatching business promptly and avoiding wherever possible, the “law’s delay.” Judge Felt has practiced law since 1887. Douglas Morris of Rushville has had a long and honorable career in the practice of law. For twenty-five years he has been actively engaged in this profession, excepting six years when he served as judge of the cir- ! cuit courts of Rush and Decatur, and Rush and Shelby counties.

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BRYAN TAKES UP BATTLE OF KERN

Great Commoner Enters State * Urging Election of Entire Ticket of Indiana Democrats. ■ ■ t REPLIES TO COL. ROOSEVELT I . Ridicules Tariff Commission and Warns Against. New Nationalism in State-Wide Speeches. (By Guernsey Van Ripen.) Indianapolis-— Declaring that John W. Kern had fought years ago, and still stands for the same principles of reform that Senator Beveridge has just discovered, William Jennings Bryan came into Indiana and started a tour us the state at Auburn in support of Mr. Kern and the Democratic state ticket. ' ' r /lr. Bryan indorsed Mr. Kern for the United States Senate to succeed Albert J. Beveridge without equivocation, took a few shots at the “new nationalism” of Theodore Roosevelt and ridiculed the tariff commission idea as a subterfuge and an open ad-, mission that the Republican party is incompetent to handle the tariff question intelligently through its majority In Congress. This, he said, is the very reason why a Democratic Congress should be elected—a Congress that will revise the tariff with the information that is already at hand. Col. Roosevelt’s tariff predicament i was referred to caustically. “When Roosevelt comes to Indiana and tells the people that unless they elect Beveridge, who voted against the . Payne-Aldrich bill, they will be doing J themselves great wrong, and goes in- ; to Massachusetts and tells the people that unless they elect Lodge, who fought for the Payne-Aldrich bill, the country will be ruined, then he stands on a kind of platform that is certainly a study to me and a kind that I nev- : er heard of before,” said Col. Bryan. “And then I am puzzled over that mat- ; ter of ‘Sunny Jim’ Sherman. Here ' was a man who was endorsed for Vice-President by Roosevelt, but who 13 unfit to be chairman of the New York Republican convention. This ! confuses me. I have been in politics for a long time, but I can not under- , stand it at all and when I am in a fight, I say what I mean at the time, i I don’t go hundreds of miles away to speak my mind. t Merely Follows Kern. “Mr. Beveridge does not stand for any Important reform that Mr. Kern has not stood for longer and fought harder for than Mr. Beveridge so I can’t understand why any Democrat ’ should be expected to vote for a Republican member of the legislature.” Col. Bryan had no sympathy for the tariff commission idea. “To admit that a tariff commission is necessary to remedy tariff injustice Is to admit that Republican tariffs have been full of injustice,” he said. “We Democrats agree as to the last. We think, however, we have sufficient brains in the party to make an equitable tariff adjustment without such a questionable delegation of power as is contained in the tariff commission proposition.” Referring to Roosevelt’s opposition to publicity in the matter of campaign funds during the Taft campaign, and his recent declaration in favor of the same thing, Col. Bryan said: “He certainly is on both sides of the question now. He has a foot on either side of the fence, but we are glad to see him progressive along this line, even if he is a little slow in talking about purifying politics. That’s the way to go about it. Well, John •W. Kern was fighting for just that kind of a thing before Senator Beveridge or any other leader of his party had consented to consider the demand as possessing any importance at Ossawatomie.” Scores New Nationalism. Mr. Bryan then scored the “new nationalism,” in which it was proposed to handle everything from Washington. He pointed out that the people of -the middle West were now enjoying a 2Cent rail rate, secured by legislation of the several states. He asked how long would it take to get a 2-cent rate from Congress’ with Such men as Chauncey Depew in th 6 Senate, chafging Senator Depew with receiving a I salary of |50,000 a year from the New York Central. ’ t ' “I don’t know how much of this ‘new nationalism’ Beveridge indorses,” 'said Mr. Bryan, “but if he is as enthusiastic over Teddy as Teddy is over him, there is little likelihood of the new doctrine suffering at Mr., Beveridge’s handM.” • Col. Bryan spoke of Roosevelt’s present denunciations of the interfei* ence of corporations in politics. He fllaitl: ■’ “Our Kansas City platform denounced the same interference in 1900 and if you will take our declaration and Roosevelt's at Ossawatomie ten years later and shake them in a big bag you would have difficulty In discovering which was which. “John Kern was fighting against this corporate influence a decade before Mr. Roosevelt entered the arena.” Should Join Democrats. "Mr. Roosevelt,” he continued, “says he is going to drive the crooks

out of his party* I think Mr. Beveridge will secretly admit that some of' them have managed to get into the Senate. Why doesn’t he join with Democracy in speaking out for a direct; vote for senators? That will certain-1 ,ly be a step in aid of Mr. Roosevelt’s' efforts to drive the crooks out of politics.” I Col. Bryan's audiences were large and enthusiastic at every stop on his six-day trip. He has thousands of friends and admirers in Indiana and they turned out to hear him. Col. Bryan’s strong indorsement of Mr. Kern for. the United States Senate met with the hearty approval of his audiences and his faith in the success of the entire Democratic ticket was reflected in the faces of his hearers.

TELLS OF COST OF LIVING.

John W. Kern Shows “Mary” Paying. Tribute to Q. O. P. Trusts. I■ , ■ John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, is now devoting himself in his speeches to a discussion of the high cost of living—a condition which has grown up under and been fostered by the Republican party, aided by Theodore Roosevelt and Senator Beveridge. <- Mr. Kern is still making good use of Senator Beveridge’s unfortunate slip about “Mary of the Vine-Clad Cottage,” and he uses Mary as the central figure in showing that the people pay tribute to trusts and combinations almost every time they turn around. Said Mr. Kern: ‘‘ ‘Marys of the vine-clad cottages,’ are confronted every day with an economic question which will not down, and that is the high cost of living. It is a fact known and felt by all wage earners and salary earners, that the wages of the man who wins bread for ‘Mary of the vine-clad cottage’ and Mary’s children are np longer sufficient to maintain Mary and the children in the comfortable style to which they have been accustomed. « i “Under the operation of the tax on . woolen goods fixed by the woolen, schedule of the Dtngley tariff bill, which Senator Beveridge supported for ten years, and which is continued' in force by the Payne-Aldrich tariff! bill, the woolen trust has been enabled, according to Senator Beveridge’s confession, to increase the price and reduce the weight of the people’s ! clothing, and thereby add materially l to the cost of living, for every time ' Mary makes a purchase of clothing ; for her children, of blankets for their i beds, sue must dip a little deeper ' into her husband’s wages than if | this Infamous tariff tax were not levJ led for the benefit of the trust. Trusts Always Benefit. "And so of nearly everything that I Mary is compelled to buy for the comj fort and healia of her and ' the maintenance of her humble home. When she buys a dollar s worth of sugar, a part of her husband’s earn- ; ings go to the sugar trust. When she ; buys hominy, a little money is ab- ’ sorbed by the hominy trust. With a j purchase of salt, she must pay out of I her husband’s wages a little tribute ■ to the salt trust, and a very large ! part of the earnings of the patient toiler who is her helpmate is absorbed annually by the meat trust, and goes to swell the dividends on the watered stock of the great meat packing establishments. When she buys a set of tumblers or other needed glassware her little stock of money is eaten into by the glass trust, and with every purchase of crockery she makes her husband pay tribute to the pottery : trust. , Roosevelt’s Pet Trust. “But the greatest absorber; of thei people’s earnings in America is the 1 Roosevelt favorite, the great United States Steel Corporation, which draws heavily on the wages of Mary’s husband every time she buys a tin pan, or a fruit can, or a tin cup, or any other article of household necessity into the composition of which tin or 1 steel or iron enter in any form. .And Mary’s husband, if he buys a tocl to work with, must make a contribution 'to this gigantic monopoly, and whldh goes to swell the fortunes of the multimillionaires who are behind it. “And if the poor man buys lumber ‘for a henhouse he must pay something; to the lumber trust, and if he find* it necessary to use paint for any purposes, lead and oil trusts intercept part of his earnings. And So on. and on, and on, the drug trust and chemical trust levying tribute when slck,ness comes, the coffin trust when death Invades the household, and the marble trust- when a tombstone is bonght to mark the resting place of the dead. Grew Under Beveridge. “Of the hundreds of trusts now preying on the earnings of the peo- ’ pie, and holding out their greedy hands.for tribute on the occasion of almost every purchase made for household use, nine-tenths have been organized in violation of law, since the passage of the Dingley tariff bill, which raised the tax rate so high as to exclude foreign competition, and made possible this wholesale stifling of domestic competition. Nine-tenths of these lawless and law defying combinations have been organized since Senator Beveridge entered the senate. ’ ‘‘lnstead of demanding that the criminals who thus banded themselves together to rob the people be prosecuted as common criminals, and put in stripes for their gross outrages upon the public, he has contented himself with pointing out how beneficent were their operations, and how greatly they contributed to the development of the country.”