Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — Page 2

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FOR PRESIDENT. WOODROW WILSON

FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. THOMAS R. MARSHALL

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

For Governor 1 SAMUEL M. RALSTON, of Lebanon 1 For Lieutenant Governor ' WILLIAM P. O’NEILL, of Mishawaka For Secretary of State LEW G. ELLINGHAM, of Decatur For Auditor of State WILLIAM H. O’BRIEN, of Lawrenceburg For Treasurer of State WILLIAM H. VOLLMER, of Vincennes For Attorney General THOMAS M. HONAN, of Seymour For Supt. of Public Instruction CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE, of Indianapolis For State Statisticialn THOMAS W. BOLLEY, of North Vernon For Reporter Supreme and Appellate Court PHILIP ZOERCHER, of Tell City For Judge of Supreme Co-urt First District JOHN W. SPENCER, of Evansville For Judge of Supreme Court * Fourth District RICHARD K. ERWIN, of Fort Wayne ' For Judge of Appellate, Court, Southern Division JOSEPH H. SHEA, of Seymour. DISTRICT TICKET. For Joint-Senator, Jasper, Newton, Starke and White Counties PATRICK HAYS of Burnettsville. For Joint-Representative, and White Counties, CHESTER A. McCORMICK of North Judson. COUNTY TICKET. —ll l . ■ I For Treasurer EDWARD P. LANE, of Newton Township For Recorder ■ STEPHEN D, CLARK, of Wheatfield Township For Sheriff 1

* WILLIAM I. HOOVER, • • of Marion Township • * For Surveyor • * DEVERE YEOMAN, • of Marion Township • * For Coroner • • DR. A. P. RAINIER, • of Remington • * For Commissioner 2d District • • CHARLES F. STACKHOUSE, • of Marion Township • * For Commissioner 3d District ♦ • ALBERT H. DICKINSON, • of Carpenter Township. • ••••♦••• • • • • * '•

Announcement. Editor Democrat: Please announce my name as a candidate for the diemocratic nomination, for congress, subject to the decision of the Ten Oh district convention, to be held in Fafayette, Ind., Thursday, Sept. 5,1912. MICHAEL DUFFEY. Call For Congressional Convention. fthq Democrats of the Tenth Congressional . district, and all who desire to cooperate with them, are Invited to meet in the delegate convention, at Jackson club rooms, in the city of Lafayette, Thursday, September 5, 1»12. for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress The convention w’ill be composed of 104 delegates—necessary to a choice, 53 apportioned among the several counties as follows: 1 Benton g Jasper 8. Lake. 3o. Newton Porter .... .9 Tippecanoe, 26. Warren Wlhite 12. CHARLES J. MURPHY. ' District Chairman.

Delegates to Congressional Convention. i Foillowing are the names of tihe ; delegates from Jasper county to the Congressional Convention which ! meets in Lafayette on Thursday, I Sept. 5, and to the Judicial con- . vemtion which meets in Rensselaer 'next Thursday, Sept. 3: CONG. DELEGATES Simon Fendig, Wheatfield. J. B Erwin, Demiotte t Joseph Nagel, Rensselaer Arthur Tuteur, Rensselaer. O. K. Rainier, Rensselaer. 'Frank Alter, Rensselaer. Charles E. Sage, Jordan Township ' W. D. Bringle, Jordan Township. To Friends of The Democrat. Instruct your attorneys to bring' all legal notices in which you are interested or have the paying for, to The \ Democrat, and thereby save money and do us a favor that will be greatly appreciated. All notices of appointment—administrator, executor or guardian—survey, sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc., the clients themselves control, and attorneys will taxe tb the paper you desire for publication, if you mention the matter to them;, otherwise they will take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish. 100 printed envelopes for 50 cents at this office. Leave or telephon your order here.

S. N. RALSTON RIDDLES WATSON

Masterful Discussion of State Issues at Anderson, Ind. EXPOSES THE FALLACIES And Falsehoods of Opposition—Analyses the Financial Condition of State Under Republican and Democratic Management. The following Is, in part, the speech delivered by Samuel M. Ralston, Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana, at the opening of the campaign in Anderson on the night of August 29: ' ' ■ Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: When the date and place for this meeting were fixed it was not known by me or by those who had the arrangements in hand that Col. Durbin of Andefson, would be one of my distinguished opponents in the gubernatorial contest. The Colonel and his friends will, therefore, understand that no particular significance attaches, so far as he is personally concerned, to my making the opening speech of the Democratic campaign in his home city. I have had the honor

SAMUEL M. RALSTON, Democratic Nominee for Governor.

of his friendship in rather a formal way for many years, during which time I have watched his career with marked interest, and I have not failed to discover that in both business and political affairs he has outstripped the achievements of most men—his success signal. I recognize him, 4herefore\ as I do my other distinguished oppongnts for the great office of governor of n‘Cy state, as foes worthy the steel of any man. Indeed, if this contest had to be determined by strength of intellect, force of character and laurels won in the commercial and political world, I could with perfect propriety be asked to give up my position on the ticket of my partv. Happily for me and for men like me, no such a test is applied in this country to the citizen who is ambitious to serve his countrymen in an official capacity. Fitness to hold office is determined by the principles and policies for which the candidate stands, his grasp of the problems affecting the people and the rectitude of his purposes. With such a standard by which to be measured, I dare to ask the people of Indiana to choose me for their chief executive. Capacity of People to Rule. I am an optimist. I have faith in the capacity of the American people for self-government. Their silence in the presence of wrongdoing dops not necessarily indicate inability on their part to discover they have been wronged. What at times seems to be ignorance or indifference on their part is but patience in bearing their burdens. They are slow to wrath, but swift and terrible in vengeance when they decide to administer punishment for the betrayal of public confidence. Unless all signs are misleading the people have determined to transfer their national government from the party in power to a party of their own choosing next November, and the change will not be made without a just cause. All the Democrats, all the Prohibitionists, all the Socialists and fully one-half of those heretofore constituting the party in power, agree there should be a change iri the administrative policy of the government. ( n , Abuse of Taxing Power. What is the source of the people’s grievance against the Republican party? The (juery is not difficult to answer. This is a government of delegated powers and the Republican party in the administration of the government has perverted those powers’to the building of fortunes for favorite individuals and combinations to the injury of society. This it has done chiefly through the power to tax—a sweeping power. Upon its wise exercise the maintenance of the government depends. Through its abuse the property of the citizen may in effect be confiscated and transferred without consideration to another. In the language of Chief Justice Marshall, “the power to tax is the power to destroy:” The abusive exercise of this power appears most prominently in the working of our tariff system. AU agree that this system, which is a

system of indirect taxation, affords the most convenient method for the government to derive the revenue necessary to defray its expenses. But the Democratic party insists that in operating this system no more than money should be taken from the/people than is necessary to defray the expenses of the government economically administered, while the Republican party maintains that in levying a tariff a w’age for the laborer and a profit for the manufacturer should be included, in addition to its revenue feature. In other words the difference between the two parties is the difference between a tariff for revenue and a tariff for protection. The one through this system seeks to get money from the private citizen into the public treasury for public purposes, cheerfully acquiescing in any incidental advantage, if any, thereby afforded the laborer and the manufacturer. The other through this system, under' l 'the guise of the general welfare, seeks to get money from the private citizen beyond the needs of the government so as to enhance the profits of some other private citizen or corporate combination of private citizens engaged in a private enterprise. “This,’’ declared Justice Miller, “is none the less robbery because done under the form of law, and is called taxation.”

The Paramount Issue. It is apparent that in the national contest this year the tariff will be the paramount issue in connection with its. brood of evils. Let us consider briefly then the position of the Democratic party on this question as set forth in the Baltimore platform. And just here let me digress long enough to observe that no greater convention ever assembled on American soil than the Baltimore convention, It was composed of masterful men. They were big of brain, of heart and of stature, and the first among them was he whom Indiana always delights to honor and whose name is revered the world around, wherever the home and the republican form of government are held sacred—the .first citizen of the republic, William Jennings Bryan. Power Limited to Raising Revenue. That convention made bold to declare the doctrine to which our party has held for more than a century that the federal government has no constitutional authority to levy a tariff for any purpose except that of revenue. It charged the Republican party with being the cause of the unequal distribution of wealth, and with imposing unjust burdens upon the farmer qnd laborer through its policy of tariff favoritism. The people have long borne the oppression visited upon them by a high tariff, but this does not indicate it has the sanction of the constitution. When the constitutional phase of a tariff ik considered the question is: Can the, government through its power to tax take the property of one citizen and bestow it upon another citizen without consideration therefor? That this may be the working effect of a tariff law’ can not be challenged by the high protective advocate. If such a law may not thus operate it is hard to conceive the drafting of a tariff act that would work to the advantage of one citizen and to the disadvantage of another. Republicans must either admit this conclusion or confess they have for years been making meaningless, if not deceptive, declarations on the subject in their state and national platforms. So long ago as 1868 the national platform of the Republican party declared that “It is dueto the labor of the nation that taxation should be equalized and reduced as rapidly as the national faith will permit.” This has been in effect the quadrennial promise of that party from that date to the present. If a high tariff does not work to labor’s disadvantage, on what ground can it be said that “it is due to labor • • • that taxation should be equalized?"

The Democratic Record. The Democratic party is worthy the confidence of the American people. It is the friend of labor and the champion of a liberal pension policy. It has led the fight for the right of trial by jury in cases of indirect contempt. It insists that injunctions shall not issue in industrial cases if they would not issue in cases where no industrial question is involved. It holds that labor organizations for the purpose of improving labor conditions should not be held as illegal combinations. It believes there should be a department of labor, represented separately in tire president’s cabinet. It has led the fight for the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people and for an income tax. It proposes the only practical method for dealing with private monopoly and its record of constructive statesmanship in the sixty-second congress embraces so many of remedial legislation for the people that the want of time forbids my commenting upon them. Let it not be forgotten, therefore, that in that congress Democracy labored. to put food in the mouth of hunger, raiment on the limbs of nakedness and red blood in the veins of the nation’s childhood. State Affairs Discussed. Passing from national to state affairs, we find that the record of the Democratic party is likewise creditable, notwithstanding criticisms to the contrary. In the Republican keynote speech, to which I have already referred, many charges were made of mismanagement of the finances of the state by the present administration. These charges were not well founded and were based upon figures grossly misleading. I have not the time naw to discuss them all, but in due time the erroris they contain will be satisfactorily pointed out to the people. I shall Iconfine myself at this time to indicating the glaring inaccuracies in a few of the charges made by Mr Watson. Many references were made by him to the appropriations of 1910 and 1911 as Democratic. He was well aware that the upper branch of the legislature, making those appro-

prlations, was Republican and that it was not until 1911 that the Democrats secured control of both branches of the legislature. The speaker was also aware that the Republicans were in,control of the state board of finan e until December, 1910. If, indeed there were any excessive appropriations of the people’s money for the fiscal years of 1909, 1910 and 1911, our Republican friends cannot be heard to complain inasmuch as they had an equal hand in making such appropriations. In fact, a Republican senate in 1909 increased the appropriation bill fall,ooo after it had passed the Democratic house, and that, too, in the face of the report in detail by the Republican auditor of state of the estimated revenues of the state being several hundred thousand dollars below this amount, thus creating a deficiency, which they knew was sure to occur before the end of the fiscal year of 1911. For sixteen years the Republican party had been in full control of the state finances and had conducted the affairs of the state apparently upon the theory that the state could expend annually more than the amount of its income without creating a deficiency! Hanly Predicted Financial Embarrassment.

In his inaugural message to the legislature on January Bth, 1905, Governor Hanley said, “Revenues for the present year have been anticipated to the extent of $529,659.03,” and he said further, “This condition of the finances will become an actual embarrassment to the treasury before the end of the current year.” So we have it directly from Gov. Hanley that at the conclusion of Col. Durbin’s administration the finances of the state wpre in an unsatisfactory condition. In May, 1908, in the closing year of Governor Hanley’s administration, the state was begging advance payments from the counties, in order to meet its current obligations. In that month, when the Republicans were in full control, the Indianapolis News said, with reference to a demand by the state upon Marion county, for SIOO,OOO and threatened legal proceedings to get it: “The state is sorely in need of money and this is the reason drastic efforts are to be made to collect the SIOO,OOO. It is declared that the state will not have enough to take care of this month’s pay roll unless the advance payment is made. It is contended, also, that if Marion county refuses to make the advance payment, other counties may do the same, and the, condition of the state treasury, until June Ist, when the next semi-annual settlement is to be made, will be extremely bad.’’ Seeking advance payments from the counties is not then a new scheme inaugurated by the present administration, as Mr. Watson would have you believe. Advance payments have been called for every year since 1853, except the years 1858 and 1859. I assert that money going to the state through county treasurers may be legally demanded at any time after a county treasurer has collected it from the people. The expenditures for the Republican fiscal year 1908 exceeded the income of the state $506,778.30. The last Republican administration, therefore, left as a legacy to the present administration an admitted deficit of $506,778.30, exclusive of outstanding Colisseum bonds, amounting with interest to $103,000, for the payment of which no provision had been made and which were due November 1,1910. This burden of $609,778.30 was assumed by the present administration. Yet, notwithstanding that handicap and the attempt of the Republican senate of 1909 to further embarrass the administration by Increasing the appropriation bill of 1909, $511,000, Democratic officials set to work to overcome that deficit and in 1911 the Democratic administration, controlling both branches of the legislature, reduced the 1909 appropriation bill $710,000. Mr. Watson says that the deficit for the year 1911 was $51,185.02. In this he is in error. The actual deficit for 1911 amounted to $45,495.63. In addition to reducing the deficit of $506,. 778.30 for 1908 to $45,495.63 for 1911, the Democratic party has paid $103,000 Colisseum bonds and Interest, which were inherited from and should have been provided for by the Republicans: $150,000 of the state bonds, thus reducing the bonded indebtedness of the state $250,000 and has provided for the future so that at the expiration of the fiscal year of 1913 the finances of the state will be on a satisfactory basis. The Democratic party is, therefore, abundantly willing to stand upon its record for economical administration of the state’s affairs. Watson In Error Again. There is 1 one specific indictment, however, made by the Republican key-note orator that I cannot bring myself to pass without comment thereon. Mr. Watson said that the Democrats “borrowed of sacred common school fund 4n 1911, $9,987, which sum, must, of course, be replaced by those who borrowed it.” That statement is not in accord with the facts. The amount so “borrowed of sacred common school fund,” as Watson charges, was never a part of the school fund/ of Indiana. This money was held in the state treasury to the account of “sale state lands.” A Republican legislature in 1907 passed two bills. Senate Bills 17 apd 18, which were approved by a Republican governor On February 25th and 13th, 1907, respectively. Senate Bill 17 declared moneys held in the state treasury constituting five different funds, to-wit: “Common school fund balance,” “old sinking fund,” “surplus revenue fund,” “school lands” and “sales swamp lands,” to be a part of the common school fund of the state; but the $9,987 to which Mr. Watson referred constitute no part of any one of these funds. And the Republican legislature, by the passage of Senate Bill 18, expressly recognized that the money held to the account of the fund designated “sale state lands" did not belong to the common school fund, but to the general funds of the state and. so declared. It cannot truthfully be said that

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IlttOlWM. [Undpr ibis head notices wjl be published tor 1-cent-a-word for the firat n l ß^r^ or ‘ H-cent per word for each additlona* insertion. To save book-keen-ing cash should be sent with notice. Na notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the above rate will be published twe or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent in The Democrat s care, postage will be charged for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] FOR SALE For Sale — Good bicycle, cost S3O new last year; price sls. Can be seen at THE DEMOCRAT OFFICE.’ For Sale— —Four extra good Shropshire rams.—THOMAS E. REED Remington, Ind., R-3, Phone 79-j’ For Sale— New Cable Pianos at bargain prices and on easy terms Come and examine the pionas at my home.—HARVEY DAVISSON. tor Sale—B-room house 1 % blocks from court house, 2 lots 50x150 feet., lots of fruit, excellent well of water. Price $1,600, small pat ment down, balance like paying rent. Address Box 493, or phone For Sale—l 6 town lots in Kersey, one with house, barn, small fruit, etc. Also have 15 acres of land adjoining town of Kersey for SSOO. Will sell all together or separately.—W. A, STEVENSON, Kersey, Ind. s is For Sale— Gpod large well built two story house, all in good repair, good well and cistern, fine shade and fruit trees, grape arbor. Located three blocks from Court House, on paved stree, cement walks and drains all in. For particulars write or call on CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Real Estate Dealers, Rensselaer, Indiana. For Sale— A nice 60 acre farm, 1 mile from Surrey, 6 miles from Rensselaer; 6-room house, cellar, a good barn and other outbuildings. Selected fruits; 40 acres well tiled. Fine grove of timber; 2 miles from butter and pickle factory, on R. R. Thia is a bargain at $4,000, half cash, balance in five annual payments. —C. L. PARKS, R R No. 3, Rensselaer, Ind.

Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this' county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property ’o sell or trade give me a chance anc" I will give you a square deaI.—JGHN O’CONNOR. Ex-sheriff Jasper county, Kniman, Ind. For Sale—My 400 acre farm, 4 Smiles East of Barnesville, about 20 miles from Fargo. Good improvements, consisting of six-room twohouse, two barns (one of which is new) wind pump, one-half mile from R. F. D. and telephone line. Price $55 per acre. Would take in well improved 80 acre farm on deal. For further particulars write A. F. Patzschke, Barnesville, Minn., R 2. Get a Good Home— Where you have enough land for garden, fruit, poultry, and place to keep a horse and cow. We have a fine 10 acre tract with good house and barn, good well, all fenced and located within the corporate limits of' the City of Rensselaer for sale at a reasonable price. For particulars write or call on CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Rensselaer, Indiana. FOR RENT. For Rent— Furnished room suitable for students attending school —MRS. CLAUDE KRUZAN. For Rent— -The third floor hall in The Democrat building, 25x76 including two ante-rooms at rear. Fine light room suitable for lodge purposes or for light manufacturing, such as shirt, overall or sunbonnet factory. Will lease for term of years.—F. E. BABCOCK. WANTED Wanted— To trade manure from stable of four horses for oat straw. —W. J. WRIGHT. Cream Wanted— The Rensselaer Creamery is paying 26 cents for butterfat this week. i Wanted— Plain sewing and washings. Have to take care of 4 small children; live in E. Rhoads’ old building on Front street.—MßS. B. MARLIN. v Wanted— Some hustler to press near 40 0 tons marsh hay out of winrows, or will lease a large Spencer press for the above work. Call or write quick.—F. 'W. FISHER, miles southwest, Tefft, Ind.

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