Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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INDIANA’S OPPORTUNITY.

Illinois had her Boutell, who served eastern tariff barons on the ways and means committee that devised the Aldrich-Taft tariff. The services of Boutell to the trusts were rebuked by repudiation at the hands of his party in his own district. In Edgar Dean Crumpacker, congressman for the Tenth district, Indiana has her Boutell, and her opportunity to punish him for betraying the people he had sworn to represent faithfully in congress. Crumpacker, like Boutell, was a member of the odious committee that framed the Aldrich-Payne tariff. Lik Boutell, his voice and his vote were always at the service of tariff barons and always against the people. The voters of the Tenth district are incensed at Crumpacker’s cold-blooded betrayal of them, and determined to punish him. Fortunately, Mr. Peterson, - ’ democratic candidate opposing him, is a man of high standing, sober, thoroughly respected in the district, and : of proved integrity and ability as a public official. The Tenth Indiana will do herself credit, and follow up ! the good work of the Ninth : Illinois, if she consigns Crumpacker, the Boutell of : Indiana, to the political lim- 1 bo which every public offi- ' cial who betrays the people : deserves. Chicago Daily ! Journal, Nov. 2.

ELEVATOR IS DESTROYED

Lafayette, Ind., Nov. I.—The Shadeland grain elevator, the largest in this county, burned to the ground to-night, with a loss of $15,000. Five thousand bushels of grain were destroyed. The Schnaible Grain company owned the elevator.

EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS

Soon to Begin .at the Christian Church. The serivces of T. J. Legg, the state evangelist of the Christian church, has been secured to conduct a series of meetings to begin Sunday, Nov. 13. Rev. Legg has held many very successful meetings throughout the state. He belongs to the conservative class of evangelists and has good faith in the winning power of the Gospel of Christ. He will be assisted by a singer.

BLODGETT’S OPINION.

AV. H. Blodgett, staff correspondent of the Indianapolis News, who some time ago wrote * up the congressional situation in this district and said Crumpacker would have a walkaway as usual because of the big republican majority in the district, has again canvassed the situation an 1 writes his paper from Lake county that if the steel trust does not run the Hunyaks into the r' 1 to vote the republican ticket in such droves as they did two years ago, Crumpacker will lose Lake county and be defeated. It is onlv the Hunyak vote that can save him, says Blodgett.

KHUN CANCELS DATES.

Illness of Democratic Speaker Disappoints People Here. Illness has caused Rev. Khun to cancel all his remaining dates for this campaign, and Rensselaer was one of those dates. Rev. Khun was billed to speak here Thursday night, but about ten o’clock Thursday morning Chairman Littlefield received a dispatch from the chairman of the democratic speakers’ * bureau at Indianapolis stating that Rev. Khun had been compelled to cancel all his dates, and as all the other available speakers were placed he would be unable to send anyone here in his stead. It was quite a disappointment to the committee and the community in general, as many wanted to hear the eloquent preacher politician and he would have been greeted by a large audience. Come to The Democrat office for the best Sale Bill pi inting in Jasper county. -T— - .... ' . I r,

THE TWICE-A-WEEK

BUT HOW WILL YOU GET IT BACK?

Republican’s “Deathbed Repentance" Holds Out No Hope RECOVERY OF GRAFT MONEY Can Only Be Brought About By Election of Democratic County Commissioners and the Elimination of Abe Halleck as County Attorney. The Republican now has the nerve, just on the eve of the election, when' its “anything to be saved,” to claim credit for first having urged the recovery of the money Jasper county has been swindled out of on bridge contracts,- as shown by the report of Supt. Smith of Purdue University, who was employed by Prosecutor Longwell to. make an investigation..of quite a number erected by the Winamac Bridge Co., but the readers of that paper know how strongly it has (not) urged or even intimated such a thing. But, suppose that it had urged it, as it now proclaims, what has been done along that line? It has been known for more than six months that the taxpayers were swindled out of over S4OO on the Milroy tp., bridge alone and an aggregate of many hundreds more on other bridges erected by this same company. Has the county attorney or the commissioners made any attempt to recover this money or to make the contractors- come to time in the way of rebuilding their work according to the plans and specifications and their contract?

Have you heard anything of the kind Mr. [Taxpayer?, Has not the county attorney, who draws S4OO per year to look after your interests been one of the attorneys against you, trying with all his might and main to keep the reported facts from being brought out? Instead of assisting Prosecutor Longwell in trying to learn the truth has he not been lined up against the prosecutor all along? You know that he has, Mr. Taxpayer. You know that if you as an individual had found out that you were being swindled right along by a company whom you had dealt with*—you know that you would not give the swindling concern a chance to “do” you again.

Yoy also know that you would seek to make the swindlers make good the amount they had stolen from you. Have your “hired men,” the county commissioners and county attorney did this? What are you going to do about it? Do you think for a moment that if the -republican candidates for commissioner are elected that there will be any change in county attorney? Do you think if they are elected that the two old members can be depended on to bring these bridge graft swindlers to time or that they will make any effort to recover the amount you as taxpayers have been robbed of? Do you think this? It is an insult to your intelligence to ask you such a question. You know that the only hope of bringing about the reforms that your better judgment tells you should be brought about in Jasper county is by the election of William Hershman and Charlie Stackhouse instead of John Pettet and Robert Drake. Then act on your better judgment next Tuesday and give them a county auditor who will aid them in every honorable way in his power to give you a good, clean, honest and business like administraton —»vote for Hershman, Stackhouse and Beasley.

“Corn is King, has been the cry for years. The revision of this cry is, “The Barnyard Shoe is King." Every farmer and laborer who has worn them concedes this. Yoy will concede it after you have worn your first pair. Sold ahd waranted at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store.

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1910.

ELECTION RETURN.

The Democrat next Wed* nesday will be issued one day later than usual, in order to give a report of the county and general election, and will not reach some of the rural routes until Thursday. We shall endeavor to give as complete a report as it is possible to secure Wednesday morning.

SPINNEY CASE CONTINUED

The issues in the Spinney county treasurer case in Newton county were made up Tuesday and the case goes over until the January term, *

NOTICE TO CONTESTANTS.

Owing to lack of space in this issue the names of the candidates entered in The Democrat’s popularity contest and a write-up of the contest are omitted. The election will be over Tuesday and the contest will then be pushed right through to the end. You can nominate more candidates on the blank elsewhere and also vote the coupon on the front page of this issue. These coupons are good until Saturday, Nov. 12.

BOYS DOING PENANCE.

Sam Duvall, Howard Clark and Don Wright were “convicted” of the charge of “stacking the books” in several of the high schdol rooms a few nights ago, and sentenced by the school board to stay at home every night after 6 o’clock until Dec. 23 as a consequence, rather than expel them altogether. Don has settled the matter satisfactorily to himeslf at least by quitting school, but the other boys are doipg penance.

MRS. JOE ELLIS DEAD.

Mrs. Joseph Ellis, formerly Mrs. Wm. Grayson, died at her home in the north ..part of town at about 2 a. m., yesterday morning of dropsy, of which she had suffered the past few months. She was about 50 years of age and was married to Mr. Ellis last spring. The funeral was held at 9 a. m., to-day from the house, Rev. Harper conducting the sei* vices. Interment was made in the Brown cemetery near Pleasant Grove.

NICK KRULL PROSPERING.

Former Rensselaer Baker Making Good at Kentland. Nicholas Krull is getting material on the ground for the erection of a brick building on the lot east of the Arcade Hotel, which will be occupied by the McConnaughay barber shop. In the spring he will join on with another room, giving him two rooms east 18x42 feet. This is a good location for a pretty little building, and will obliterate another spot that has long been given over to weeds and tin cans. Mr. McConnaughay was obliged to give up his present location to make room for the new National Bank.—Kentland Enterprise.

CHRISTIAN CHURCH SERVICES.

The subject of the Sunday morning sermon is “The B rthplace of a Great Revival.” The evening subject “God’s Greatest Blessing.” Special numbers will be given by the choir. All are welcome.

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

' ' /••• The subject of the sermon for next Sunday morning will be, “Comparative Values.”. At the evening service, which will begin at 7 p. m., the pastor will discuss “The Duty of a Christian on Election Day.” Everyone welcome.

WHO WAS MEANT BY “WHO?”

“Bader may be as innocent, sq far as his intention goes, as he claimed to be and as he convinced many after the trial that he was, but his ignorance of what his company was doing is inexcusable. Now, if he is innocent the question will be asked, “Who is the guilty one?” Is it the engineer, Charles Kelly, or whq is it?—Rensselaer'Republican, March 10, 1910.

THE COURT HOUSE

items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court meets in regular session Monday. —o— New suits filedr No. 7666. Albert Duggins vs. Mary Potts, et al;' suit on note. Demand $l5O, Sheriff Shirer, accompanied by Marshal Mustard and Harry Wiltshire, took “Shorty.” Adams to jLongcliff Wednesday. They had him shackled and experienced no particular trouble with him, PMarriage licenses issued: Nov. j, Homer E. Turner, of Wheatfield, aged 19, occupation barber, to (Merle May,Myers, daughter of 1 John V. Myers, also of Wheatfield, aged 21, occupation housekeeper. Father of groom, W. M. Turner, files written con cent to issuance of license.

Owing to the election Tuesday and the fact that most or all the township trustees are inspectors and will be busy Monday getting the polls in readiness, the county board of education will not hold its regular monthly meeting until Wednesday, Nov. 9, instead of oMnday, as heretofore. ■ O*— The county commissioners held a special session and appointed election inspectors in plsfce of the trustees in Barkley, Kankakee, Walker and Newton, who were qualified. Charles Reed was appointed in Barkley, West; Wm. DeArmond in Kankakee; Wm. Middlecamp in Walker and Sidney Holmes in Newton. —o—• R gardlng the allowances ma te to fie count) surveyor on ac- Hint of the recent “imprcven it” to the Burk’s b'idge, in v ich a duplication of charges f- measuring the bridge had apparently been made, as mentioned in Wednesday’s Democrat, Mr. Osborne tells us that one of these $4 charges was for “help and team” and the other $4 —in another bill—-was for his own services. The claims were filed in two separate bills, and the allowances made from different funds, he says, hence their being filed separately. There was no mistake made nor no duplication of the bills. We make the correction cheerfully, as we have no desire whatever to misrepresent facts. The bridge lies four miles north of Rensselaer, and the $4 for help and team, Mr. Osborne says he paid out himself and was re-imbursed by the county. He did not state who it was that he paid this money to or how long it took to measure the bridge.

The various election inspectors for the 20 election precincts in Jasper county will come in today for the ballots and supplies for their respective precincts. In making returns to the election commissioners, who under the present law canvass the vote, it is the duty of the inspectors to start at once for the' county seat as soon as the count of their respective precinct is completed and the returns filled out, with the returns of their precinct. The election commissioners or canvassers, will be in continuous session at the court house from six o’clock Tuesday night until the returns are all in and canvassed, which, will mean an all night’s session. This board in our county is composed of the clerk of the circuit court, C. C. Warner, J. H. S. Ellis ,and F. E. Babcock, the two latter appointed by the republican and democratic county chairmen, respectively. Under the present election law no ballots are destroyed, either the mutilated, disputed, voted or unvoted ones. The inspector should seal up in the proper envelopes furnished for that purpose, all ballots on the closing of the count by his board and bring them in with his returns and turn over to the county clerk. Township ballots and township returns are certified to the township trustee, and should not be brought in with the state and county reurns.

PLAN TO DAM KANKAKEE.

Governor Marshall Will Seek Injunction to Prevent Building Structure That Will Back Water. I he state of Indiana having in 1889, embarked on a conservation project and carried it to a successful end, will now appeal to the courts to conserve the conservation. A corporation seeking water power is prepar ing to construct a dam across the Kankakee river, at Momence, 111., and Governor Marshall will attempt in the federal courts to have an injunction issue to pre vent the construction of the dam. The proposed dam, it is said, will cause water to back up in the Kankakee and overflow thousands of acres of land which the state years ago reclaimed from swampy wastes and which is now under cultivation.

James Bingham, attorney-gen-eral, in an opinion rendered to the Governor, held that the state would have recourse against the corporation proposing to make the - improvements, on the grounds that the state still has title to many acres of land that would be affected by the proposed dam, and on the further grounds that the backing up of the water, as represented to be a natural result of the dam, would result in the destruction of much property belonging, to citizens of the state. In the opinion of the attorney-general, the state could support a bill for an injunction from the United States courts.

Governor Marshall asked for the opinion on "receipt of a letter from an Illinois farmer, living near Momence, whose lands, it was represented, would be affected by the proposed improvements. The land owner’s question to the Governor was whether the state could bring suit, or whether it would be necessary for some individual citizen to act.

The general assembly, in 1899, appropriated $40,000, which was used in removing a ledge of limestone in the Kankakee near Momence, with the result that the river was opened and thousands of acres of land in Indiana and Illinois drained and subsequently made tillable. Much of the land on this side of the line was owned by the state, by natural swamp land rights, and was sold to citizens. Some of the land is now in litigation in the Starke county court to establish the right of the state’s, ownership against the claims of persons who are now occupying "it without proper land patent. —Indianapolis News.

ARE DISSATISFIED

But Gary Will Not Protest Against Government Census. , Gary, Ind., Nov. 2.—While no protest will be made against the city’s census figures, which have been placed at 16,802, the citizen’s are dissatisfied with the returns, as they merely represent the city’s population up to April 1, seven months ago. Gary has grown considerably 1 since then and has now approximately nineteen thousand people. The figures of the census, said Mayor Knotts, is the city’s population tip to April 1. If they could be given up to Noyemebr 1 a large increase would be shown. One advantage that the census gives is that Gary, under the Indiana laws, will advance from the fifth to the /ourth class It may now have a controller, a municipal judge and police com-m-'ssioners. -

We can save you money on your suit or overcoat. Let us show you and we’ll leave the decision w ith you.— Rowles & Parker.

The Democrat's Free Trip to New York City Contest . Twenty-five Votes If voted before Saturday, Noy. 12, this coupon, when cut out neatly and deposited in the ballot box at The Democrat office, will count for 25 votes for the young lady whose name appears below: • Miss [or Mrs.] - - Address < i —x District No. , ———-———-

SUCH RARE CONSISTENCY.

..“The county commissioners of Jasper county cannot escape censure (in Winamac Bridge Co. steals). They should not have accepted bridges that were not right and while they may offer as an excuse that they believed from what examination they made that they were right, they cannot satisfy taxpayers with this sort of an excuse. They are the agents of the taxpayers and have failed to perform their duty in protecting the interests of their clientele.”—Rensselaer Republican, March 10, 1910. , “The commissioners did not inspect the work (the Burk bridge). They are not obliged to do so and have been advised to accept the report of experts instead of acting on their own judgment. Mr. Waymire states that he acted on the report of the engineer and also that if the contract was violated the engineer was to blame.”—Rensselaer Republican, Oct. 21, 1910.

COLLEGEVILLE ITEMS.

On Wednesday the students enjoyed their monthly visit to the city. Rev. Felician Wachendorfer, C. PP. S. and Rev. Alban S. Scheidler, C. PP. S., have been added to the academic department of the college faculty. Both are graduates of St. Joseph’s, receiving their A. B. in the class ’OS. The following visitors were entertained during the week: Thos. Keating, Miss Hazel Keating, Indianapolis; Gilbert La Mair, G. St. Julian, Chicago; D. E. Kelly, Valparaiso; M. J. Walz, Defiance, Ohio; Nick Lauer, Ottoville, O. At the C. L. S. meeting last Sunday the principal business before the house was the arrangement for the Thanksgiving Day celebration. They are endeavoring to make this one of the memorable days of the year. Mr. E. P. Honan attended and delivered the first of his parliamentary law lectures.

The last of the large paintings has now arrived from v Europe, and Mr. L. Biegel will soon place it on the wall thus completing the mural parts of the chapel. Another old college landmark, the old ice house, has disappeared. The entire plot will be ready for sodding next spring, and soon the back lawn will be as dainty and attractive in appearance as the front. j? Our Athletic Director has been busy working out a new game, a combination of polo, basket and indoor base ball. It has not yet received a trial, but from the reading of the contemplated rules the game should be interesting and exciting with the rough and' dangerous features of polo eliminated. ’ -

Hon. E. D. Crumpacker’s talk to the students was the most enthusiastically applauded speech of the many that have been g.ven at the college by the campaign speakers. His theme was Integtity and Energy. Our congressman is an earnest speaker, and those who had listened to him at the opera house maintamed that hi his civic talks the Judge is even better than in his political argumentations.

Of course they all know that it is the only car in town that can do four miles per hour ori “high,” well within the speed limit if you will ask the marshal. A Splitdorf Magneto does the trick along with an ideal engine. An old feature with us that the ether fellows cars are copying. Notice them. — The Maxwell.

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