Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — Page 2

TIE JISPER COUNTY DEMOCRRT t. t.BIBGOBK. EDITOR HDPIIBIISIH. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OP JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made known on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8. 1908. at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 25, 1912.

FOR PRESIDENT. WOODROW WILSON

FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. THOMAS R. MARSHALL DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For Governor SAMUEL M. RALSTON, of Lebanon For Lieutenant Governor WILLIAM P. O’NEILL, of Mishawaka For Secretary of State LEW G. ELLIXGHAM, 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 Statisticiain THOMAS W. BOLLEY, of North Vernon For Reporter Supreme and Appellate Court PHILIP ZOERCHER, of Tell City For Judge of Supreme Court First District JOHN W. SPENCER, of Evansville For Judge of Supreme Court Fourth District RICHARD K. ERWIN, of Fort Wayne For Judge of Appellate Cpurt, Southern Division JOSEPH H. SHEA, 1 of Seymour. DISTRICT TICKET. I For Member of Congress, Tenth Indiana District <• JOHN B. PETERSON of Crown Point For Joint-Senator, Jasper, Newton, Starke and White Counties CHESTER A. McCORMICK of North Judson. For Joint-Representative, Jasand White Counties, PATRICK HAYS of Burnettsville. For Prosecuting Attorney, 30th Judicial Circuit, ARTHUR TUTEUR of Rensselaer. COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer EDWARD P. LANE, of Newton Township For Recorder STEPHEN D. CLARK, of Wheatfield Township Cor Siheriff 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.

Barn at State Prison Is Burned.

Michigan City, Ind., September 23. —The state prison barn was destroyed by fire this morning. The loss includes a quantity of hay and grain and an automobile owned by the warden. Five horses were rescued. Two smaller barns owned by the state were saved by the city fire department. It is supposed that the fire started in the new hay from spontaneous combustion. The loss is about $5,000 with_s2,soo insurance. The barn was outside the prison walls.

CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Haw Always Bought *P>**are of

OPEN LETTER TO COL DURBIN

Asked to Explain Hanly’s Charge That Durbin Left a $500,000 Deficit—Other Leading Questions. o Dear Mr. Durbin:— Your keynote speech has Just been read by our statistician, and I find so many omissions, so many slide-for-lifes, so many half-truths, that I am impelled to write you for information. You mi.ke the boast that your administration was a great financial success. In this connection the public would like some additional light on the charge made against your management of state ahairs by that other distinguished Republican, Governor Hanly, who said in his inaugural address: V

“The estimated expenses for the state government for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31. IWb. including specific appropriations now available and the estimated cost of the present session of the general assembly, are $4*13,000 in excess of tlie estimated revenues, accruing to the state within such fiscal year. This condition of the finances will become an actual embarrassment to the treasury before the end of the current year. It can be met only by borrowing money outright or by anticipating the revenues for the next fiscal year. ‘lt is due to two causes. First, to the large appropriations made by the last general assembly; second, to a substantial invasion of the general fund for the purpose of making payments on the state debt. The sum of $140,379.45 has been taken out of the general fund during the last two fiscal years, $416,703.25 in three years and $521,091.59 in four years and applied to the payment of the state's indebtedness not yet due, at a time, too, when the general fund was already overdrawn and when the revenues accruing to such a fund, were being anticipated far in advance.

“Bonds were bought in the market with money from the general fund in the face of the fact that there was sure to be a heavy deficit in that fund at the close of each fiscal year. Debt paying is commendable, but the present embarrassment could have been saved by conserving the general fund to the payment of the debt, especially so as such fund would have been ample to meet the entire bonded foreign debt long before it would have become due. The revenues for the present year have been anticipated to the extent of $529,649.” To the average mind, Mr. Durbin, a deficiency such as you left is not consistent with a good business policy, and the methods you pursued are too much like robbing Peter to pay Paul. You also boast. Mr. Durbin, of your big payment on the state debt in 1902. Have you so soon forgotten how you did it, or do you merely expect the taxpayers to forget? Don’t you remember that over $600,000 was turned over to Indiana by the National Government on the war claim and that that money was part of your payment of the state debt? *

Of course, Mr. Durbin, you don’t expect an intelligent people to give you credit for the $600,000 with which you had no more to do than the man in the moon.

It seems, too, that you try to take an unfair advantage in comparing the cost of maintaining the state benevolent institutions when you were Governor with the cost today. Do you expect the people to overlook the fact that there are manv hundreds more inmates in the state institutions to be fed and clothed now than 12 years ago? Do you expect them to overlook the fact that we have state institutions now that were not in existence when you were Governor?

Qo you expect them to overlook the fact that material costs more now; that food and clothing cost more now, than when you were Governor? You ought to know, Mr. Durbin, that there isn t a man in the state whose household expenses are not from 50 to 100 per cent, higher now than then be-

: cause of the tariff you stand for and the tariff-made trusts and monopolies you defend. It seems, too, Mr. Durbin, that you ha\e found it well to utterly ignore the happenings of the four fears of rule by your party that intervened between your term and that of Governor Marshall—four years of extravagance and waste, that resulted in as bad a financial condition when the DemO- ; crats took charge as you left for your ' Republican successor. | As a matter of fact, politics aside,

don’t you know that the Democrats have made a magnificent financial showing, considering the fact that for 16 years yous party kept running the state into deficit after deficit. You know that the $103,000 on the Coliseum bonds should have been paid while the Republicans still retained control of the Finance Board but that no payment was made until the Democrats took charge when it was paid. You know that the Democrats have paid $150,000 on the state debt three years before it fell due and saved the tax payers $5,000 in interest. You know that the Democrats are preparing •to make another payment of $135,000 on the state debt within the next three or four months: You know that the Democrats have been forced to meet the expenses of maintaining the Southern Hospital for

Getting the Votes ■ ■ . ’ - f /"TETTING the votes is the way to win at an election; and going after them is the way to get them. One of the best ways to get votes is to deserve them, and the man who deserves them, and goes after them right, usually gets them. We want your clothes vote 7 V v-.''VU.'AV;- U- v 7' V 7/. " ... • : 7 7 /- v . . ' 7 ’ \ When you’re ready to vote your money for fall clothes, just remember one thing—we deserve it Our candidates for your approval are the makes we carry for your approval. t" HART SCHAFFER & MARX and CLOTHCRAFT for men; EDER= HEIMER, STEIN & CO. for the boys’ clothes; it will do you more good to vote for these clothes than anybody else; the clothes will be elected by a big majority anyway; you gain by voting for them. ■-7; ' 4 ■ This advertisment is our way of “goingafter” your vote; we can’t very well go around and make speeches about it. But our platform is “Service;” and the clothes are the best made. See our new blues and grays; our new blacks and white mixtures; see the new models for young men in the Varsity line; the smartest lot of stuff ever produced. Suits $12.50 and up. Overcoats the best shown for the price asked. >• v .» ' * THE Q. E. MURRAY CO. This store is the home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes

he Insane= s and the Tuberculosis Hospital at Rockville for the first time—aud have done it. And you know that with all this, the Democrats have reduced the total tax levy from 17 to 15 and a half cents, a reduction to the taxpayers of $300,000 every year. ‘ • You know it because you are a business man and your own tax receipts show it. doesn’t it, Mr. Durbin? Your« for truth, * CURIOUS CITIZEN.

MARYLANDERS VISIT PRISON.

“Old Line State” Committee Gathers Data From Penal Institutions. Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 22—The State Prison was visited yesterday by Eugene O. Dunne, R. C. Stewart and G. L. Jones, a committee from Baltimore, Md., accompanied by Joseph P. Buyers of Trenton, X. -j., secretary of the National Prison congress, and at one time connected with the Indiana reformatory. The committee is looking into prison management and methods at institutions regarded as models of their kind, and expects to apply its findings to the Maryland prison.

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If thousands of Indiana farmers fail to qualify to vote on election day. The farmer who fails to register plays into tne hands of this vicious monopoly. And remember this: If you registered in May and have moved into another precinct since, and did not register at the September registration, you must register in October, and if you registered in September and have since removed to another precinct, you must register in October. The mere fact that you have removed from place in a precinct to another, which Is in the same precinct, does not make it necessary for you to register again. And remember this— REGISTER OR YOU CAN’T VOTE IN NOVEMBER,

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FOR SALE For Sale—l6-foot store counter— F. E. BABCOCK. For Sale—Several Hundred 1% inch pine fence pickets, in good condition.—F. E. BABCOCK. For Sale—A new ensilage cutter, and a Johnson corn binder.—'MAßlON I. ADAMS & SON. Phone 533-L. For Sale—Some wood and some iron pulleys.-—F. E. BABCOCK. 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.

, For Sale—B-room house 1 % blocks from court house, 2 lots 50x150 feet., lots of fruit, excellent well of water. Price $1,600, small pajment down, balance like paying rent. Address Box 493, or phone 499. t s

For Sale —Good 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 paiticulars write or call on CHAS. J. DEAN & SON, Real Estate Dealers, Rensselaer, Indiana. , Farms For Sale—l have a numbei of farms for sale in different- part? of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote nay time to the business Therefore if you have any farms or town property *o sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR. Ex-sherift Jasper county, Knlman Ind. - —j 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.

Seed Whea^—Red Turkey hard winter seed wheat for sale, recleaned at $1.25 per bushel.—MAßlON I. ADAMS, Phone 533-L. 529.

Farm for Sale—B 0 acres, good as new 6-room house, fair outbuildings, 300 rods of tile, well fenced, on R. F. D., 2% miles from McCoysburg, 8 miles from Rensselaer, Good black soil and -fine corn and oats land. For particulars call on or write to J. H. HOLSER, McCoysburg, Ind., R-l. S-30.

For Sale Cheap:—A farm of 160 acres, well improved, all tiled, good 6-room house, new barn and corn cribs, all in cultivation except 26 acres in pasture, good orchard; near Sharon, Milroy tp., 7 miles southeast of Rensselaer.—Enquire of C. J. DEAN, Rensselaer, or T. D. Conaghan, Pekin, 111. t s

Fine Indiana Farm for Sale—Ow ing to the fact that I have located permanently in the west, I am desirous of selling my fine 160 acre farm in Blackford county, Indiana, upon favorable terms. The land i 3 located six miles from Hartford City, is first-class, well drained, black land, and has a large-- house, good outbuildings, splendid well and a fine orchard. This is a first-class farm, and is a bargain for anyone looking for a home or desiring a ; profitable investment. Write direct to the owner G. W. PROTEXTOP, Sibley, lowa. i FOR RENT. ■'! -■; ’ ■;* »' , 1 , j For Rent—The third floor hall in The Democrat building, 25x75 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 Cream Wanted.—We will pay 2 cents in trade above Elgin prices for butterfat until further notice | and sell our merchandise as cheap as you can buy it anywhere else. —'

G. L. THORNTON, Surrey, Indiana S-18-ts. MISCELLANEOUS. Storage—l have rooms for light storage on second floor of The Democrat building.—HAßVEY DAVISSON. Lost—Sept 10 some place between cement mill, nort part of town and James Walter’s residence in Rensselaer, two ladies’ shoes, one nearly new, the other an older one. Finder please leave at The Democrat office. Lost—Between Rensselaer and Pleasant Grove, box containing a blue serge dress. Finder please leave at Democrat office and recieve reward.—MßS. LON WATSON. FINANCIAL Farm Loans- Money to loan mi farm property In any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. I Pnt hn Without Delay If HI lI U Without Commission I VIUI H 0 Without Charges for lIAU 'll Making or Recording ml 111 I Instrumerus - IllUllLl W. H. PARKINSON.

Glasses flitted by DR. A. G. CATT Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office over Long’s Drug Store. Phone No. 232.

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