Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — Page 1

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Take 200 Mile Auto Tirp Sunday.

Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal and three children, Mrs. Elizabeth Alter and Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner took a delightful automobile trip Sunday in Mrs. Alter's big Franklin touring car going from Rensselaer to Monticello, thence to Delphi and Kokomo, where they stopped for dinner. Returning they came via Lafayette, the entire mileage traveled as shown by the speedometer being 198-8-10 miles. The engine was not stopped from the time they left here until they reacfehd Kokomo, a distance of 100 „ miles the route they took. It was a beautiful day and the country was at its best, making the trip a most enjoyable one. They saw no corn on the trip that looked any better than here. Oats and grass, and wheat, of course, was better in that locality than here.

From Windy Kansas.

A. M. Clark, writing from Gardner, Kan., in renewing his subscription for The Democrat, says: “We are in fine shape and doing the best we can. I have a fine crop this year, corn plowed over three times and part of it four times. I have 50 acres wheat that is fine: 65 acres oats; 20 acres meadow fescue or English Dlue grass that will make 20* bushels per acre or better. Last year I got §5 per bushel for the seed and a bushel is only 22 lbs. I only look for about half that in price now, but at that it is some “mon.” I have 135 acres of harvest besides 20 acres clover hay. Have a new 8-foot binder and if it is good weather I will soon walk through it. “This is a fine country and everybody is feeling good except the g. o. p. I have done all this work with 4 horses or 2 mules and 2 horses, but they are good otoes. “Everything is high Horses from $175 to $275; cows $65 to $110; mules S2OO to $325; hogs $7.50; corn 90c; oats 60c; butter 25c; eggs 16c. We are milking five cows and taking the cream to the creamery, get 29c for butter fat. “You may fix this up and publish if -you like or read it yourself, and throw it in the waste basket, but send me The Democrat for one more year, as I have a’v.ays noticed that when I was living r he first of the year I was living the last of it. Yours for success,

WILL ASK PAROLE OF BADER.

Twin Daughters of Bridge Grafter Circulating Petition to Governor. A dispatch from Winamac in Saturday evening’s Indianapolis News states that the twin daughters of C. L. Bader, the Winamac bridge grafter convicted in the Jasper circuit court at the February term. 1910, and given an indeterminate, sentence of two to fourteen years in the state prison, are circulating a petition for the parole of their father and that same will be presented by them in person to Gp.-er-nor Marshall this week. The dispatch states that the petition is being signed by many. It will be remembered that immediately after Bader’s conviction Gov. Marshall granted a parole pending an appeal-, to the supreme court, and that the higher court affirmed about a year later the conviction and he was then taken to prison. He has therefore served but little more than a year of the minimum sentence. The girls were here to secure signatures to the petition, which, among other things, stated that Mr. Bader was unfairly dealt with, in the trial. Judge Hanley declined to sign the petition, as did the jurors here who heard the case, so far as we have been able to learn. They were here Friday afternoon and again Sunday. There are six other indictments pending on the criminal docket of Jasper county against'' Bader for graft in other bridges as shown by an expert examination of the bridges by Prof. Smith of Purdue, and The Democrat understands that these will not be dismissed until the minimupr sentence has been served. What Governor Marshall will do in the matter of recommending the parole remains to be seen.

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NEAR RAGE RIOT IN RENSSELAER

ColoredFamilyMovinglnto White Neighborhood Causes Trouble THREE ARRESTS ARE MADE j And W. F. Smith and C. W. j Rhoades Are Fined On Pleas of Guilty to Assault and Rattery on the “New Colored Citizen."—W. J. Wright Acquitted. Rensselaer came near having a race riot Monday morning when W. F. Smith, the stone road contractor, and Clency Wood, a colored man employed at Kanne Bros, livery barn, got in a mix-up in front .of Warner Bros, store on Washi ington street. Bystanders interi sered and separated the combatants before any very serious damage rej suited to either, and the aftermath came up in Squire Irwin's court, J when warrants were sworn out by the colored man for the arrest of : his antagonist and two others whom it was alleged had also put in a few licks in Smith's behalf. The trouble originated over the colored man having moved into the | small tenant house of James T. Randle on the side street in the rear of the residence on the west side of River street occupied by Smith. The colored man's goods were hauled over from Fowler Saturday night, and the first intimation the residents of that neighborhood had that a colored family was to move into that part of town came Sunday morning when the loaded wagon was seen in front of the house, the goods not having yet been unloaded. Then W. F. Smith and W. J. Wright, who are also tenants of Mr. Randle, got busy and went and saw Mr. Randle about his renting the house to a colored family. They objected to having a colored family for near neighbors, and so informed Mr. Randle, He told them, so we understand, that he had rented the house to Kanne Bros, for their man, and while the keys to the house had been turned over, no rent had as yet been paid, and mat he would not let them have the house if they objected, and would tell the man that he could not move in; that they could also tell him so. (Mr. Randle also telephoned to the Kanne barn to this effect, it is said.)

Smith and Wright then went and saw the Kanne Bros, and asked one of them to break their objections to the colored man. This Kanne did not care to do, and told them to him themselves which they did, and he promised, so Smith and Wright sav, that he would not move in the house if they objected to it. i Along Sunday afternoon, however, accompanied by Free Wood, the barber. Wood went to the house and the goods were unloaded from the wagon and put in the house, the latter having decided to stand pat and occupy the premises.

Monday morning the colored man drove the wagon up town, and stopped by the curb in front of Warner Bros, hardware store. Smith came along on the sidewalk and spoke to him about his moving into the house, and Wood told him he was going to stay. This angered Smith and a few loud words that wouldn’t look well in print followed, while Wood got down off the wagon and Smith made for him. Several blows weer struck and soon both were down and clinched in the doorway of the store, where they were trying to beat' each other up as best they could, but they were pulled apart after a bi£"and C. W. Rhoades Jed Smith away. Smith was Weeding some and Wood was, bruised up some. Wood after a few moments, accompanied Marshal Mustard to Squire -Irwin’s office where warrants were sworn out against Smith, C. W. Rhoades the barber, and W. J. Wright, charging assault and battery. Smith and Rhoades plead guilty and were fined $1 each and costs, $4.80 in all in eacn

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RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1912.

case, but Wright, who said he had not touched Wood at all, and so proved by a preponderance of the evidence, stood trial and was acquitted. Rhoades admitted that he had 'rushed in and struck Wood a couple of times, but said he didn't know why he did it; he was excited and thought Smith was getting the worst of it. Smith then filed an affidavit against Wood for assault and battery, but later dismissed the case. Wood, who is a cousin of Free Mood, the cot > barber, is a native of Good;3t:d where his father, Xed Wood, still lives. He lived Goodland for several years, but the past year has been living in Fowler, we understand. He has a wife and three children, we are told, and his advent to Rensselaer swells the colored population to three families. The other two families live in the east part of town, and had Wood located there — which he no doubt would had he been able to secure a house—there would have been no trouble. Now considerable bad blood has been engendered and, as it is understood that he proposes to stay in the property he rented, more trouble may result, although it is hoped not. It has been the custom for the tenants in the house occupied by Wood to get water from the Smith premises, there being no water piped to the former house.an d the avowed intention ot Wood to carry water from Smith's is the principal cause of the difficulty. After the trial was oyer Wood declared he should get water from the Smith hydrant, as he had been directed by Mr. Randle, and Smith declared that be should not; that he was in control of the premises—-no reservation of water right having been made by Mr. Randle, it is said — and if Wood persists in this determinate nmore blood may be spilled. ■i Rensselaer, until the past few years, has never encouraged colored people to locate here, but the encouragement that has been given them in certain quarters recently has, of course, induced other in coming. The two families already here are well behaved and there can be no objections to them except a prejudice against having aj colored family for neighbors. The! newcomers are also said to be; well behaved and good citizens except for this prejudice.

STOKES JACKSON DEAD.

Former Democratic State Chairman Died at His Home In Greenfield Saturday. Greenfield, Ind., June 22. —Uriah Stokes Jackson, age sixty-six. ser-geant-at-arms of the national house of representatives, for four years; chairman of the Democratic state; central committee and for more' than two decades a force in. the politics of Hancock county and the Sixth congressional district, died at, his home here this afternoon. Mr. Jackson’s health began to fail while he was chairman of the ; state committee. He was kept at i home several days at different times with attacks of rheumatism, but this was attributed *o exposure aud, overwork incident to the duties of his office. Mr. Jackson recently purchased a home at the national capital, not, i however, with the intention of making that city has home, but as an investment, for in a letter to Harry Strickland of this city, recently, he said he wished it understood his home was in Greenficid. Ind. Mr. Jackson was attacked with sciatic rheumatism and heart affection several weeks ago and begin to long for home. “Hoosier atmosphere,” he said—and he summoned his son, Oiner Jackson, from this city. His physicians refused to sanction the long trip, but he said, “I’m going home if I live only twenty minutes after I reach there.” ' , Accompanied by his son, Mrsj Jackson, a nurse and a messenger from the seargeant-at-arms office Mr: Jackson arrived here May l and was taken to his home in north State street. His condition did not improve, and except for the temporary relief afforded by medicines, his suffering was intense, pneumonia finally developing. Advertise your wants in The Democrat’s want ad columns and get results. Remember, everybody reads The Democrat. ,

DEMOCRATS OPEN FIRST SESSION OF CONVENTION

Big National Meet Called to Order by Chairman Mack in City of Baltimore. PARKER FIGHT STURTS Question of Who Shall Be Temporary Gavel Wielder of Body a Mooted One. PROGRESSIVES MAY CONTROL ' y r Colonel Bryan Takes Leading Part In Affairs of Big Meeting—His Personality Said to Dominate the Surrounding and Cries of “Bryan for President” Are Frequently Heard — Auditorium Is Crowded to Its Utmost Limitations When National Chairman Norman E. Mack Pounded the Gavel Calling the HistoryMaking Body to Order. Baltimore. June 25.—Democratic presidential nomination battles, famous in the history of the country and the party, were recalled by the line-up of candidates whose supporters met today in Baltimore to fight for the nomination to the presidency on the Democratic ticket. I The immense auditorium was packed ! from floor to roof when National Chairman Norman E. Mack pounded the gavel calling the convention to order. • Seated on the platform and among the state delegations were men famous in the history of the party, men who have been in the forefront of its battles for years and whose names are known all over the land. It may be that this convention will be the means of /naking others famous as has been done in the past. The call for the convention was then read by Secretary Urey Woodson. This was followed by an opening prater and invocation by Cardinal Gibbons, who spoke fervently and with deep feeling. Chairman Mack announced the selection of Judge Alton B. Parker as the national committee’s choice for temporary chairman of the convention, and the fight was on. Fight on Parker. Colonel Bryan immediately took the floor in opposition to Judge Parker. The Nebraskan discussed Mr. Parker’s fitness for the position of temporary chairman, and pointed out that if he did not know whose agent he was, he lacks the intelligence necessary for a presiding officer, and if he does know, he did not deserve the support of any Democrat who had a right to call himself a delegate. Parker Men in Caucus. Supporters of Judge Parker held a caucus at the Belvidere hotel and perfected plans for forcing his selection as temporary chairman. Some of the more prominent who attended this conference were Norman E. Mack, Urey Woodson of Kentucky, Roger C. Sullivan of Illinois, Col. J. M. Guffey of Pennsylvania and E. L. Jones of Maine. "Judge Parker is an eminent Democrat,” said Mr. Jones, “and I am going to support him for that reason. He Is good enough for me.” Kern Is Reticent. Senator John W. Kern of Indiana arrived at the convention hall at 10:30 o’clock. He had been generally accredited with being the selection of William J. Bryan as the opposition candidate for temporary chairman. He said: "I have not been advised that I will

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Suicide at Brook.

This Thursday morning, Ralph Boner was found dead on the south end of the depot platform, a 32-cailbre Colts revolver by his side and the contents of a chamber in his forehead, • He was stiff and had evidently laid there from early in the night, as numbers of people had heard two shots fired about ten o’clock but no investigation was made and he was Upt found until morning, when some boys who had been fishing discovered his body. It apparently was a case of suicide. Boner was a man about 25 years of age and unmarried and made his home with his mother. He was a good worker with no bad . habits and no cause Is known for the rash act. CorOner Wickersham was called over from Goodiand and is holding an inquest as we go to press.

WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

TAFT AND SHERMAN CHOSEN BY REPUBLICAN CONVENTION

Greatest Battle in History of American Politics Results in c Victory for President-Wins on First Ballot with 561 Votes-Roosevelt Men Refuse to Vote.

For President. WILLIAM H. TAFT. For Vice-President. JAMES S. SHERMAN. Chicago, June 24. —These are the standard-bearers selected by the Republican national, convention to lead the presidential campaign of 1912. After five days and nights of the bitterest fighting in the history of American politics, in which the greatest masters of political strategy in the ranks of the party were pitted against each other and every trick and maneuver known to the game were resorted to in an endeavor to wrest a victory from their opponents, it all ended in the choice of the men who led the party in the last national campaign and who are now occupying the highest offices in the land as the choice of a majority of the American people, to go before the public as candidates for a second term. Taft's Name Presented. President Taft’s name was presented to the convention by Harding of Ohio, and the nomination was seconded by John Wanamaker of Philadelphia and Nicholas Murray Butler of New York. LaFollette was the only other candidate presented to the convention, Colonel Roosevel. early in the afternoon expressing the desire that his name be not presented in the convention, and asking his friends to refrain from voting in the convention. The convention sat in comparative quiet through the nominating speeches. The vigorous efforts of enthusiasts to start demonstrations for their favorites met with only moderate success. The galleries were shouted out and the delegates were tired and wanted to get home. The result was foregone. Cheering Is Btarted. When the roll call started with Alabama and it threw Rs strength to Taft a burst of cheering started. It was settled that the Taft forces would stand firm, just as they had stood from the time they selected Senator Root as temporary chairman through the bitter days of the convention under the assaults of the Roosevelt forces. The Taft forces had all their old strength and a few band wagon climbers made it even larger. Pandemonium broke loose when the result was announced. The galleries rocked back and forth as if they would swell over and engulf the delegates on the floor. The band went through the motions of playing, but HO one could he • it Finally it subsided and the thousands started to crowd out of the building. The calling c’ the roll was filled vtth exciting Incidents. Vice-President Next. Aftr the tumult that followed the Bhotuttion of Taft had worn Itself ML-flwnPgß, Jjloot JBLOogaogfl

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nomirifltions Tor vice-president were in order. J. v. Olcott of New York was recognized and In a short speech presented the name of James 8. Sherman to suoceed himself. The nomination was seoonded by representatives from several states. Roles Penrose' name was next presented by a delegate from Pennsylvania, but received no second, nor did Penrose receive any votes. Other candidates presented to the convention in brief speeches were Senator Borah, C. E. Merriam, Gil lette, Senator Beveridge and Governor Hadley. Sherman Is Winner. The roll call was rushed through with the greatest expedition, Sherman winning on the first ballot. The vote: Sherman ...... 597 Borah 21 Merriam 2ft Gillette .......y.yyi 1 Beveridge .. 2 Hadley 14 Absent 71 Not voting .352 Thus ended a convention that will go down in history as the most remarkable in history. lr The weary delegates, lexhausted with long hours of strain and excitement, thankful that at last It was all over, broke Into

James S. Sherman.

wild cheers and the convention wound up amid scenes of great excitement and confusion. Quelled by Police. Roosevelt delegates rioted for nearly a half hour In the Republican national convention as the temporary organization controlled by the Taft machine was made' the permanent organlzaton. Their riotous demonstrations, quelled by the police, but served to delay the prepared action of the

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