Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1910 — THE JUDGE SMOKED OUT. [ARTICLE]

THE JUDGE SMOKED OUT.

Crumpacker admits He has been j Attorney for Corporations ! While Senring as Congressman. i he t rumpacker meeting here Wednesday was fairly well attended and front a republican standpoint Mr. Crumpacker made I a very good speech, but he slopped over considerably. For example. he devoted most of his time to a defense of and apology for the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and his vote thereon. The law was not perfect, he said, but in the main it was a very good tariff law in his judgment; the only way to secure a perfect law was to return him sell and Beveridge to the national congress and for them to act on the recommendations of the tariff commission, the hope of recreant congressmen of being returned by the people they have betrayed. (That tariff commission idea was a happy thought and after fourteen years in congress the Judge with other standpatters seized upon it as a drowning man grabs at a Straw. •The average per cent, of the Payne-Aldrich law, he said, was less than the Dingley bill or its predecsor the McKinley bill, and I}4 per cent, lower than the democratic Wilson bill, which he said *e\ery republican, speaker had denounced as an iniquitous tariff for revenue only law. And then he went ahead and denounced the Wilson bill and pictured the terrible things that were brought about by reason of that low tariff law. If his theory is correct, that high tariff makes prosperity, and the Payne-Aldrich law is IjS per cent lower on an average than the Wilson law, what will become of everybody if this low tariff Payne-A Ulrich law is allowed to stand? On this proposition alone the Judge spoiled his whole tariff arugment. The Judge took up a part of the corporation lawyer questions asked of him by The Democrat, omitting the last two, in one of which he was asked if he himself had not since his return to congress tried a case, occupying several weeks, as attorneys for the Western Rawhide Co., a big corporation, and this he ignored altogether, not caring evidently to deny and disliking to admit the truth. He made an altogether different talk about corporate »n lawyers, however, than he : has made elsewhere in this district. Where he has continuously attacked his opponent. John B. Teterson- as a corporation lawyer. He admitted that he himself was attorney for the ■ Standard Oil Co., in the case referred to, and for the Columbian Athletic Club, but said he never was attorney for the bucketshop concern of L. A. Kinsey and Co. He had made an argument in the C. S. Supreipe court against the Chicago Beard of Trade which he termed the biggest bucketshop of them all. In the two former cases he attempted to justify his actipn by saying that Mr. Pierson was later called in as counsel in the cases also. 4 y But Mr. Peterson, bear in mind, was not a member of congress.

Could not get any gravel. Miss Hannah Gulp went to Rensselaer Monday to stay at sheriff Shirer’s to take Care of his 'Wife’s mother, who is in’ very poor health. Chas. Halleck has several men .at work digging up and packing nursery stock for delivery this week. He surely has a fine lot to dispose of. Mrs. Mike Sheiri and a neighbor with their children came up from Lafayette Saturday and visited at Ike Right’s.until Sunday evening. Uncle Nate Keen of Wheattield was in these parts last week visiting his nephew. Xa?e Keen. jr. He looks well and hearty ‘or an old man: One would judge by the large number of dead sol iiers ’ lying in the back yard of the pickie plant that there had been several heavy battles fought lately. It is reported that ’irs. Dodge will close up her house and go about StreatOr, 111., in a few days to visit her sonand daughters for a couple of months. Thomas .Johnson, who has beerliving in Brtke Mail's house in the south part of town, bo-ighi the Lacrosse property in the northwest part of town aUd moved into same last week. James Nolan of Zion City was here •'last week and purchased what is known 3s the Granny Reed property o Tom Maliati and-is moving dawn this week. The writer joins in welctiming them into our midst. We have been informed that the announcement far the nuptials of Miss Iva Williams oldest daughter of Ms. and Mrs. James Williams of the Lawler ranch, and Mr. Talbot, o> the same ranch, will take place the latter part of November. Clarence Goff, whe has been out in Wisconsin, and Fred McKay, who has been out ip Montana since early spring, returned to Fair Oaks a few days ago. Miss Mattie McKay came home from Kirklin Saturday evening where she has been working for some time. Logan Wood and daughter Oeie of Parr were in Fair Oaks Tuesday in their auto and Miss Oeie went ta turn the machine around she backed into a ditch. With the assistance of shovels, bridge plank and a few lookers on they were extracted from the ditch and went on their way homeward. / Some of onr local nimrods, no doubt, have been breeding some trouble for themselves oat along the road between here and Mr. Eggleston’s farm. They have busied them •elves by shooting the glass insulat- '• 1 r

ors off of the latter’s telephone poles just to be a little smart. If he can find out who the parties are they will be apt to find out what it costs to do such devilment.