Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1910 — Page 4

Candidates of the People

JOSEPH IBACH, for Appellate Judge. Northern District.

Joseph Ibaeh. of Hammond, is one of the best known and most highly reflected attorneys of Indiana. Years pf practice In the profession of law hare equipped him for the position to trhich he now aspires He is eminently of a judicial turn of mind and Is regarded as the ‘’man for the place" »f Democrats and Republicans alike In northern Indiana. The educator and the business man are combined in Charles A. Greatcouse He has succeeded in both lines and has pledged himself to follow out the policies of Robert J. Alev if he is elected to the office now held by Prof. Aley The Indianapolis Star. Repubjean, has indorsed Mr. Greathouse as i capable and efficient man. For the office of geologist, the Democrats of Indiana offer Eld ward Bgrett of Plainfield, who was on the state ;icket two years ago. Mr Barrett oseesses peculiar qualifications for the office and would render the best of service to the people of the state. He is a member of the board of trustees for the Eastern Hospital for the insane..

MORE ABOUT MR. FELL’S SHORTAGE.

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!>u; ikan official > '*i |a-pcr county wh • . ere found short in their acc> un:~ In the held examiners of the 'tate accounting boards. The Republican has all along had n : ing but denunciation for this n •n-partisati accounting law. and its- reasons tor denouncing it is because it has feared from" the first a probing into the offices of jasper county. That its fears were well based# is shown from the fact that the examiners have found the following shortages in the accounts of republican officials here: Fred Karch. trustee Walker tp..s 781.89 Mcses Leopold, ex-treasurer City of Rensselaer (iand the republican county chairman) 76.71 Paulsen. ex-treasurer of Wheatheld school board ... 67.30 S. L. Luce, ex-trustee Keener tp 725.00 A. A. Full, ex-trustee Carpenter *!»-. 1.423.00 Total 3.075.10 Xot a democratic official in the lot found short, and. previously stated, the democrats have had eight of the thirteen township trustees and two school boards a part of the time during the period covered by the examination. So. it appears, there is “reason in the madness” of the Republican. A part of this money has been paid back, but Mr. Luce ( who is a brother-in-law of Abe Halleck and was the subcontractor on that Burk bridge extension a few years ago > has moved out of the state and it is a question whether his bondsmen can be held for it or not. Mr. Fell, the Republican says, in effect, will only pay the amount found against him at the end of a lawsuit. Mr. Karen paid back the amount found against him, as have the others, which were due to, errors. But that they were errors doesn’t change the fact that they would likely never have been discovered but * for this accounting law which the Republican so fiercely assails. Now, as to Mr. Fell, no one knew, so far as we can learn, except himself, his advisory board and the trustee of the Parker lank, how much money he had in the bank at the time of the failure. It was stated that he had but little. The writer asked

In nominating 'a state ticket, the Indiana Democracy endeavored to Choose men %yho woulcf give the people of the statb real service. The men who were thus chcsen are in every sense the candidates of the people—and for the people.

EDWARD BARRETT, for Geologist.

CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE, for Supt. Public Instruction.

im personally about the matter, '.ut got an evasive reply. The h .ok- were turned over to his -ticces- >r and the people of Carpenter tp.. almost to a man sup- * *>ed ‘vhatever sum he had lost had been made good. W e thought so and everyone else thought the >ame. Some few months ago the Indianapolis papers published that the examiners had founcf trustee Charles V. May of Carpenter tp., —the present trust ee---$1,425 short in his accounts. This article was copied by both The Democrat and Republican. We were very much surprised over the alleged finding and made inquiry of both the county auditor and county superintendent forinformation. but each stated that l cy were 3lso astonished by the publication as they understood Mr. May hail a “clean-bill" from the examiners. Mr. May called us up by phone after our publication of the article and stated that it must be a mistake, as he had a “clean bill" and would bring it over the next time ke came to Rensselaer, which would be in a few days, and show it to us. He said nothing about its being ex-trustee Fell who was meant, and apparently did not know that it was he. \\ e then called up—the same day we talked with Mr. May—the ; office of the state board of accounts at Indianapolis by longdistance phone and was told that the shortage was charged against the ex-trustee and not against Mr. May, and that the reporters of the Indianapolis papers who had come in and taken the amount of the shortage from the records had by mistake taken it as against the present trustee in , stead of Mr. Fell. A copv of , the official report of the examin ers was mailed us that night (which we still have) and a full ; and complete correction of the j charges as against Mr. May was | published next day in The Democrat. with extracts from the rejport. showing that the charge of ; shortage was against Mr Fell. jThis was done-without any personal * feeling whatever against Mr. Fell and without comment as to the justice or injustice of the claim. This publication in The Demo'crat was the first intimation that t:e people of Carpenter township or Jasper county had that

all the loss of township funds in the Parker bank had- not been made good. It had been currently reported that Mr. Fell had mongaged his farm and paid every penny of the loss, and outside of the advisory board of that township who knew the facts, everyone believed this was the case Neither then nor at any’ time since has Mr. Fell ever mentioned the matter in any way to us or tell us what he had lost in the Parker bank, although he usually called on us for a friendly chat whenever he was in town, and has done so many times since this, for we have been acquainted for a number of vears.

Later, in conversation with Mr. May, he stated that he supposed this 51.425 was the amount Mr. Fell lost in the hank, and as tb;had been made good to Fell—illegal}- though it was —by the advisor V board, he thought with us that the dividends paid by the hank belonged to the township arid not to Mr. Fell. But he also stated that it was reported that ‘Fell had filed no claim against the bank—and we have since so heard from several different parties —and he (May) ltad had no notice of any dividends and knew nothing whatever about any. The whole thing seemed to have been kept very secret, and would have never been made generally known except for the examining board. Some time after this, in reply to one of the Republican’s attacks on the accounting law and the writer, to e* mentioned the alleged shortages found in the county and the statement of the Republican that Mr. Fell would only pay his shortage back at the end of a lawsuit. We stated that if the advisory board had made Mr. I'ell’s* loss good to him that the latter was in duty bound to turn the 20 per cent dividends thus far paid over to the township, but Mr. May had told us that he had never received a penny. \\ e also stated that if it was the law .—which it was—that officials who lost money in the McCoy bank, should make the good—and they did make it good, one democrat mortgaging Iris farm—it it was right for them to pay, it was also right for Mr. Fell to make good. On this proposition there can be no argument. The Republican says now that some 83.000 \vas lost in the bank and that the advisory board "relieved” Mr. Fell of about onehalt this amount and agreed that he should have all the dividends paid by the hank, amounting »«.- far to 20 per cent, ft also* says there was nothing to conceal in the matter. Then why was it concealed? For this is the first time the public has ever been enlightened as to the amount the trustee had in the bank or that he was receiving the dividends. Up to the time the field examiners' report was made public the |>eople of -Carpenter tp.. and the entire county supposed the loss had been made good by the trustee. When this report came out they supposed that 51.425 was the full amount he had in the bank and that the advisory hoard had tried to make this good to the trustee, although it had no power whatever to do so. The advisory boards cannot make laws of their own-in defiance of the state laws. The Republican says that Mr. Fell ought to be relieved because the last legislature relieved certain democratic officers in Jackson county in a similar case. We don’t know whether the officers relieved were democrats or republicans, and it doesn’t matter. But in those cases Jhe officers. it seems, had paid in the amount of the loss "sustained by the bank failure and the people of the respective townships and county presented signed petitions to the legislature asking for their relief, and the legislature ordered their successors to pav back to them the losses sustained. Mr. Fell can, perhaps, even yet be re-embursed for any loss he has sustained, but the township advisory + board has no power to reimburse him: this cari only be done by the legislature. There is a right way and a wrong wav to do certain things, and the wrong way seems to have been used and a lawsuit must result for the township to recover. One of the greatest mistakes that was made was the trying to keep the matter of the amount lost and the illegal action of the advisory board from the taxpayers of the township interested. They had a right to know what had been done all the way along. If they have been deceived in this matter perhaps they have in others.

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GANDERBONES FORECAST

FOR NOVEMBER. i Copyright 1910 by C. H. RiethJ JFST A MINUJE—NOVEMBER. Mr. Taft, who rules the nation. Offers this, his proclamation: Whereas, Providence continues Blessing us from day tp day, And the boon of Independence Hae, we take it, come to stay; ’ • And whereas,-Indulgent Nature Lavishes upon us still Bounty in excess of what the Weather and the bugs can kill; And whereas. The Old Republic Couldn’t be improved upon. Notwithstanding everybody ' Gets to run it off and on; Therefore, I, as delegated > Now and for a short time hence President, decree that turkey Shall go ,up to 20 cent-?. That's about all there is to it. Once the country raised its own, and the White House proclamation was not greeted with a gr» an. Father simply grabbed the hatchet, mother got the water hot. father read the proclamation to the turkeys in the 10t,..,a1l the young and female turkeys promptly fainted from the shock, anil after due farewells the gobbler laid his head upon the block. No one telephoned the butchdr. asking what a turkey cost. No one in his deep resentment wished the Pilgrims had been lost. No one. while the feast proceeded. knew the torment of the rack figuring upon his napkin what me day had set him back. Everybody was provided, as the founders pre-supposed. No one can be very thankful, if the truth should be disclosed, paying what we pay for turkey, and. for all of Heaven’s gifts, feeling that the day was founded for the Armours and Swifts,

November gets its name from the Latin Novem (nine), and it was originally the ninth month ,■ of the year. This brought Thanksgiving around two months earlier than we have it now, and it became very unpopular. The insurgents. who constituted a majoritv in the agricultural districts, were bitterly opposed to it. They made two contentions: First, that voung turkeys were not old .enough to market; second, that crops had not progressed to the point where it was possible' to make out whether there was anything to be thankful for or not. In 713 B. C. the storm broke. The insurgents carried Gaul, Britannia and 17 other doubtful states, and the Forum immediately assembled and made November the eleventh month of the year.

The festive colt will sniff the air and don his heavy underhair, and the frenzied candidate will jump and hop around upon the stump. He’ll point with pride and view with fear, and suck and, blow the atmosphere, and then, together with his cult, await with prayer the result. Does reason haply hold its sway, or is it madness for a day will tell the people what to think and put the country on the blink? One cannot tell, but must abide the count that sees him justified in courage, confidence or doubt, according as it may turn out. One thing alone is sure, it seems, and that is this: no one esteems a patriot in politics. We only trust him while he sticks to war. with all its thrill and throb. The moment that he wants a job somewhat conspicuous for pay. by Jove!, we don’t know what to say. But whether we do ill or well, election day alone cannot tell, or whether love for us and fear did any good, will then appear. We have to judge men as we may, and where the candidates all say about the same thing in the end, one scarcely knows who is a friend.

At any rate the snow r will fly, and the wild duck spin across the sky - with both eyes focused on "the ground, and his tail-piece going round and round. The eager hunter will deploy and supplement the liye decoy,and the pneumococcus, while he toots, will perforate his rubber boots. A little shooting now and then is relished by a lot of men. They like to gallivant about and let the farmers run them out. It does them good to feel, by jing, that Morgan donT oun everything, and also tried to climb the

fence, together with his dog and gun, he, too, to-ould also get the run. 1

November will be unusual this year for the reason that there will be no full moon. This is because there will be a total eclipse of the moon on the night of the 16th. when it would otherwise be full. This eclipse will be visible fn the United States and in Wall street, and it will send bacori down a couple of points.

The breath of Winter will distil upon the outer windowsill, and the chilling calf will hump his back and burrow deeper in the stack. The hired man. with wintry spurts will put on both his undershirts, and the plutocrat who sells us coats will pry our bodies from our souls.

Then let us all embrace the chance and be as merry as we may, for whether we desist or dance, the fiddler is for all to pay. The gentle autumntime will pass, the countryman will kill his hogs, the cotton-tail will weave the grass around the obfuscated dogs, the honking goose will ride the heights with that weird hollering of his, and the wolf will sit around o’ nights and tell the moon how thin he 4s.^ O woe is us that’could enjoy the autumntime for aye and aye, and what with growing soul employ its witchery from day to day. The phosphorescence in the sky, the quail soft-piping on the hill, the blackbirds ever bobbing by, and the wind soft-sighing where it will. But happiness can never last, as Antony could apprehend, and holding Clco to him fast, destroyed himself before the end. The summer cometh after spring, and winter,- merciless withal, as .truly must succeed the sweet and gentle blandishments of fall.

At any rate, upon a day Deciphered in the almanacs, December, desolate and gray. Will come to whistle, through the cracks. Let wonderful WASHWAX do your family washing; saves rubbing and saves the clothes; makes them clean, sweet and snowy white. WASHWAX is a new s</->ntifie compound that washes in hot or cold water without the use of soap. It is entirely harmless and different from anything you have ever used. Send ten cents stamps today for regular size by mail. You will be glad you have tried it. Agents wanted to introduce WASHWAX everywhere. / Address Washwax Co.. St. Louis, mo. ; , .

WHAT THE “IMPROVEMENT COST. A Barkley township reader asks The Democrat to publish the total expense qf the recent “improvement” to the Burk’s bridge, and the report of the engineer on its completion. We have not had time to go back through the records and secure the little bills, such as advertising twice, the surveyor’s bill for plans and specifications —if he filed such, and we presume he did —etc., neither can we give the amount the repairs have cost To date since the “improvement” was made, which is probably about S2OO.

There was paid the contractor $1,785, and W. Frank Osborne drew pay for Sept. 8, 10, 17, 20, 28, five days at $4 per day at the Sept, term of commissioner’s court. He also drew at same term for services Aug. 4, in (claim No. 722) for team and helping measure the bridge $4, (and $5 for same service on WaL ter’s bridge). He again drew $8 at same term (claim No. 723) for the identical same service and on same two bridges for the same dates. 'The duplication of these two bills is evidently a mistake of Mr. Osborne’s and the commissioners in allowing the $8 twice, but a county order was drawn in each case, warrant Nos. 854 and 855 in his favor. It would seem, therefore, that an overpayment of $8 was made. Regarding the report of the engineer. at page 214 of Road Record No. 7 we found the following: “Comes now the auditor and presents report’ of W. Osborne, engineer, which reads as follows: Rensselaer. Ind, October 3, 1910. ‘To the Honorable Board of CommisJasper county, Indiana. “This is to certify that B. D. McColly has completed the repair of the Burk's bridge according to the plans and specifications and I recommend that the same bet accepted. “W FRANK OSBORNE: S. J. C.” “And the Board now ejraminaa and approves said report, and the work Is accepted and the contractor ! ordered paid.”

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For Sale—My property north of railroad: will seL cheap—MßS. Me- , CLINTOCK HARTMAN. For Sale-s—A good wood base burner. Enquire at Democrat office. Lost —Black, half length coat between the Wm. Wortley farm and Rensselaer, about two weeks ago. Finder please leave at Democrat office. Found —A package containing new dress goods. Owner can have same by calling at The Democrat office and paying 25 cents for this ad. For Sale—An iron wheel truck wagon.—ALBERT DUGGTXS, Pohne 514-E. For Sale or Rent—New Modern dwelling and five acres of ground, Ti? blocks from court house.—MßS. A. GAXGLOFF. * For Sale—A Twentieth Century soft coal burner, good as new.- — GEO. O. PUMPHREY. For Sale—The Erhardt Wuerthner farm in Newton tp. For particulars apply to J. M- SAUSER, on the John Goetz farm. nlO

For Sale—Two O. I. C. male pigs, large enough for service, good ones —W, F. MICHAELS, R-R-3, Remington. ’Phone 527-D For Sale —Two good mare colts, one out of Sage horse, the other put of J. K. Davis horse: also two coming 2-year-old colts, geldings, both draft colts.— James A. Keister. Remington, R 3; Phone 27-H. For Sale—loo acres of fine pasture land, cheap, 5 miles southeast of Rensselaer, well fenced and good well upon it. —JOSEPH A. LITERS, Rensselaer, Phone 529-D. -w-™ Farm For Sale —SO acres, on pike road, free mail route, telephone line, at head of dredge ditch and M mile to school; 70' acres in cultivation, remainder pasture. There is a good five-room house, good barn, chicken house, milk house, good well and bearing orchard. This is a nice home and can he bought for 345. Terms $1,200 down and remainder long time.—G. F. Meyers. Wanted—To rent an eight or ten room house within four or five blocks of the court house, with lights, bath, etc. Will lease for a term of years. Possession wanted any time before March 1, 1911. Enquire at The Democrat office. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loams at 5 per cent Interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts For Sale—2s or 30 S. C. Rhode Island Red cockerels at $1 each if taken by Nov. 15, and $1.50 each 2 after that date—MßS. JOHN JAY, Goodland, Ind. Money—Some loan companies are refusing to make farm loans at the present time. My company is still loaning at 5 per cent. If you are going to need a loan make application at once, as money is scarce.— JOHN A. DUNLAP. I. O. O. F. Building.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that th*» undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Conrt of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of James M. Spriggs, late of Jasper Connty, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. AUSTIN O. MOOPE-, Administrator. October 24, 1910. Dunlap & Parkison, Attys. CUT A BEE TREE. Eli.AVood and wife spent two days with Harvey Wood near Rensselaer last week and while there a tree was felled on the latter’s place for the purpose of se“ curing the honey. It proved to be a capital find as the hollow in the tree contained a sold pack of fine honey for a distance of nine feet. The bees were smoked out in order to enable the attacking party to secure the booty without being stung. About 140 pounds of honey were taken tree and Mr. Wood brought a bucketful home with him. In the early day. before the forests had been invaded, the cutting of bee trees wqs a common occurence and the pioneer in this way had his table supplied with honey. •* But Mr.. Harvey Wood makes a specialty of bee culture and has honey for the market, so that the bee tree incident of last week, was more to show his brother Eli a good time than to get tfhe supply of sweet. —Monon News. Read The Democrat for news.