Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1910 — Country Correspondence [ARTICLE]

Country Correspondence

BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

REMINGTON. Jasper Gay was a hub goer Monday. D. O’Reilly was in Chicago last week' to see the ball games. Frank Fisher is in a serious condition from paralysis of the stomach. W. W. E. Feck was quite sick several days last week from stomach trouble. / . G. B. Fox and James H. Gilbert have each bought new Ford touring cars. C. H. Peck attended a shooting tournament in Indianapolis last week. Mr. and Mrs.; Austin of Logansport are visiting the family of C. G. Hand. George Yeoman went to North Dakota last week on a land prospecting trip. Mrs. J. H. Gilbert and Mrs. C. A. Balcolm were Monticello visitors last Thursday. George Bes<=e went to North Dakota last Tuesday to investigate- a land deal. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tribby of Indianapolis visited here last week with Mrs. William Tribby. Mrs. Warnock has gone to Council Bluffs, lowa, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fred Bishop. Mr. and Mrs. George Hebert of Vincennes have moved here and will occupy a farm west of town. Perry Griffith, who has been spending the summer in Oklahoma, returned home a few days ago. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Biddle of Waynetown are visiting the former’s brother, J. H. Biddle and wife. Mrs, J. L. Brown and Mrs. A. P. Burton of Rensselaer visited Wednesday with C. B. Johnson and family. Mrs. James Glass and son Ben Of Milford. 111., were here last week looking after their farm north q£ town. The Methodist ladies will hold a bazar and market tomorrow, Oct. 27, |n the Sharkey and Bowman millinery store. e "T The Presbyterian ladies will hold a dollar social at the home of Mr. | and Mrs. William Townsend next Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dluzak and daughter Evelyn went to Wabash county last week to visit their bon and daughter there. Fred W. Currens, formerly of Goodland and former husband of Pearl Mann Currens of this place, died a few days ago in New Mexico, accordihg to word received here. Dr. Rose M. Remmek, optical specialist, of Rensselaer, will be at the Griffith House Friday, Oct. 28, from 1 till 5 p. m. Thorough examination of the eyes, and glasses fitted when necessary. Morocco Courier: Elsie Hall of Remington who has been visiting for the past week at the home of F. L. Wildrick returned home Tuesday accompanied by Mrs. Wildrick who will visit a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hall. Don’t forget that Mr. A. Beasley of Remington is the democratic candidate for county auditor, and ff elected, he will be your auditor as well as mine. There is no better man. republican or democrat, in the county and he should receive a rousing big vote from Carpenter township. McCOYSBURG. Wm. Large of Illinois is here on a business trip. Misses Mary and Myrtle Peregrine were- in Rensselaer .-hopping Saturday. R. L. Bussell and family spent Sunday with C. A. Armstrong and wife. R. V. Johns and Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy were in Rensselaer Sunday evening. R. V. Johns, C. W. Bussell, John and George Herr were up on Gifford’s marsh Sunday on business. Frank Fisher will start to building his new house east of here Monday or Tuesday of this week. Cecil Rishling and wife visited with his father and family near Remington Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. J. R. Phillips went to Monticello Friday to spend a few days with Mr. Phillips' mother, _ who is sick. Institute was held here Saturday, all teachers and trustees and the count/ efliperintendent. were in attendance. ' Mr. and Mrs. Geo, McCoy’s daughter, Ella. of. Indianapolis is visiting with them and other relatives here this week. Anna Zable of Lee. who has been helping Mr. McCoy clean house the past few days, returned home Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Robinson spent Sunday evening with Ed Peregrine and. family and attended league at Lee that evening. Clare Peregrine was the successful bidder on the Wm. Large ditch which was sold for 6.70 per yard Saturday. Work will begin at once. Mrs- Arthur Meadow and children and Robert Meadow of Monon visited at D. V. John’s Sunday, returning home on the milk train in the evening. Ed Peregrine has rented a farm 3% miles north of Mitchell, S. Dak., for the coming season and will have a sale about the first of February and will iSave for that place about the middle of that month. i - Sam Robinson of Morocco spent a • few days here last week visiting 1 friends and relatives., Sam is a rural route carrier and put in his vocation visiting with old friends and relatives at several different town,s.

The Randle ditch - is to be sold Nov. 5, and we hope it will be sold to parties that will go to work at once and get the ditch completed by spring as the farmers are great’y in need of this ditch should we have a wet spring, i

MT.. AYR. (From the Pilot.) Rev. Moshier and family arrived Friday. , Mr. and Mrs. John Baker are entertaining their daughter from Goodland this week. Mr. and Mrs: George Corbin entertained his father and brothdr from Kentland, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Nay spent Sunday at Sidney, 111., with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Blankenbaker. William Biown has been apj dinted administrator of the estat > of Philip Brown, deceased. Edwin Harris and family drove to Medaryville Sunday, in their Mitchell and spent. the day. Uncle George Schanlaub drove to Rensselaer Saturday, after lumber to finish a kitchen on Oscar’s house. Wade Makeever has returned from Michigan wher-- he weal Some time ago to escape the ravages of bay fever. Charles Snow has moved his family to this port from Foresman and occupies the south end of the opera building. County Superintendent Schanlaub put in a section of last week visiting the different school.- in the tow nship. Saturday he attended and eonducted the towship institute a* this place.. Died, Saturday morning, Mr. Philip Brown. He has been in declining health for several months and after suffering untold pain at times, the g’-im reaper cut him off from earthly cares and pain. The bids for the construction of the Odd Fellows building were, opened and rejected. the contractor.- having oversized the boys jackpot some ?800. The lowest bid was $3,535. Thus endeth the first chapter, thereby putting an enstoppage to the construction until spring, if not for all time. ■ ■ The M. W. of A. Camp expect to initiate the members about November 4th. They have already secured 23 new applications and expect to make the class 30. The Morocco team of Foresters will be present to confer the degrees and a big time is expected. Notice of exact date will be given later. All are pleased at the outcome of the present campaign for members which will raise the number up close to the 100 scratch.

ROOSEVELT ON LODGE. Last night Mr. Roosevelt made his long promised plea in behalf of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. The audience was told that it would be “a calamity to the nation”’ if Lodge should fail of election. Last week Mr. Roosevelt urged the people of Indiana to elect Mr. Beveridge to the senate. Now lie advocates the election of a man not only who voted tor the Payne tariff but who also worked hand-in-glove with Senator Aldrich to frame up the bill and get it through. No matter what a republican thinks of the Payne tariff—-the most impiece of legislation during the Taft administraton—he ought to be elected. Such is the Roosevelt theory. We conclude from his speech that there is no difference between the standpattrs and the insurgents that amounts to anything. They are.all agreed on "the principle.” but ■ I’ffer only as to its application. Well, we wonder what the fuss has all been about. It has been supposed in this part of the country that the great issue on which the insurgents were .making their light was the Payne bill. It wa< his vote against that that Senator Beveridge was called on to defend and justify. We believe that at least 75 per cent, of the Republicans of Indiana' sustain ■ him in that vote. When he cast jit he. as we thought, separted ■ himself by a wide interval from I Senator Lodge, who voted for it Bur Mr. Roosevelt brings them close togethei. and is quite unable to detect any . considerable difference between them. Lodge i is a progressive and Beveridge a j progressive, and they tire all pro ‘gressives together. We now ' quote from this greaot straddling ,speech:

On the Republican side there is no difference a? to the principle to be observed. In every state the Republicans are a unit in adherence to the principle, expressed in the Republican platform that there shall be an equalization of the cost of production here and abroad. The difference has merely been as to | the- way of achieving the common purpose, and more and more we are coming into complete harmony as to’ the method to be adopted. But principles are no good tinI less they are applied. So the > question ,qf application is vital. Many men. accept the principles embodied in the Ten Commandments,; and yet bring up in the penitentiary for a faulty appli-

cation of them. Under Roosevelt’s rule it would be easy for Aldrich himself to prove that he is a progressive. He accepted: and to-day accepts “the principle expressed in the Republican platform that there shall be an equalization of the cost of production here and abroad.” There is not a Republican in the nation, not even Mr. Cannon, who does not recognize the binding force of that doctrine. The charge against Lodge is, not that he did not accept that principle, but that he acted in wanton violation of it. He worked and voted for a bill that the insurgents insist, and that every one knows, was not constructed with that principle. If Lodge is a progressive, so are Aldrich and Smoot and Cannon progressives. The Massachusetts senator has always worked with the little senate organization which has been so subservient to the interests always been, as in the tariff fight, one of the chief lieutenants of Aldrich. And yet Theodore Roosevelt, fresh from his advocacy of the election of Senator Beveridge, now tells us that Lodge ought to be re-elect-ed.'. The interest presents itself in another- form. It is not simply a question of carrying out the Republican principle of tariff making, but of keeping faith with the people. The, insurgents', one and all. ha’ve contended that the Payne tariff is repudiation of the pledge made by the party in its platform of two years ago. Mr. Beveridge voted against the bill for that reason. Lodge voted for it. we supposed, because he! believed that it was a redemption of the party pledge. Here, then, is another fundamental difference between the two men. Did the party keep faith with the people or was it false-to them ? If Senator Beveridge kept faith then Senator Lodge did not. There can be no more important political question than this. For we all admit that a party which betrays the people ought to be punished. Did the party carryout its promise? Beveridge says no. and Lodge says yes. Yet Mr. Roosevelt insists that they shall both be elected! If Mr. Roosevelt is right .the insurgent movement amounts to nothing at all. If he is right the battle between the two wings of the party is merely a sham fight. But in truth he is absurdly wrong. The insurgent movement is a protest against the control of our politics and legislation by those interests which have always been looked after by the little senatorial group with which Senator Lodge has always been identified..-It is a protest against the Payne tariff as a shameless violation of the partypledge and of the principle laid down in the party platform. The issue is not one of mere abstract principle, but one of political action. The Payne bill is the issue. In his great speech in the senate the late Senator Dolliver put the case thus : How long does the senate of the United States propose that these great interests, affecting every man, woman and child in the nation, shall be managed with brutal tyranny without debate and without a knowledge and without explanation by the very people that are engaged in monopolizing the great industries of the world, that propose to impose intolerable burdens upon the market place of the country? So far as T am concerned. I am through with it. I intend to fight it. but I intend ’o fight it as a Republican and as an American citizen. I intend to fight it without fear—l do not care what may be my political fate. I have had a burdensome and toilsome experience in public life, now thes z » twenty-five years. I am beginning to feel the presure of that burden. I do not propose that the remaining years of my life, whether they be in public affaire or in my private business shall be given up to a dull consent to the success of all these conspiracies, which do not hesitate before our very eyes to use the lawmaking power of the United States to multiply their own wealth, and to fill the market places with witnesses of their avarice and of their greed.

Mr. Lodge gave his “dull consent” to the work of the conspirators. and x oted to permit the lawmaking power to be used byprivate interests for their own enrichment. And Mr. Roosevelt, professing to be a progressive, urges his election. In doing that he takes himself definitely out of the progressive ranks—if he ever was in them—and lines himself up with. Aldrich, Cannon.' Smoot and Lodge, who stood like a stone wall for the enormities of the present tariff against which Dolliver. Beveridge, Bristow. LaTollette and the others fought to a finish. And. today Roosevelt" is to speak for Bass in New. Hampshire,, who is a real progressive. Mr. Roosevelt is hot only facing two ways, but everyway.—lndianapolis News, i