Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — Page 1

Jasper County Democrat.

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democratic speaking. Hon. S. M. Ralston “will speak at Remington, Monday. October* 21, 1912, at 4 p. m. ißßsi ’ IRC SAMUEL M. RALSTON, Democratic Nominee for Governor. Will speak in Rensselaer Monday, Oct. 21, at 1:30 p. m., and in Remington, same afternoon at 4 pm.

E. P. Honan Will Take Stump for Democrats.

At the request of the democratic state speakers’ bureau, E. P. Honan of this city, will take the stump for the democrats for the belance of the campaign, after Monday next. He will be under the direction of the speakers’ bureau, but will probably speak altogether in this section of the state. Mr. Honan is a good speaker and they are already aftet him to speak in I>aporte county.

Newton County Boy Killed By Automobile.

A 7-year-old son of Eime-* Keil of Beaver City, was killed Wednesday afternoon by being run over ty an automobile driven by George Brewer of Morocco, who with is wife and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wolf were out pleasure riding in Mr. Breer’s car. Details of the accident are not at hand at this> writing. The boy' a son of a farmer residing near Beaver City, is said to have lived about fifteen minutes after the accident

Some Recent Land Sales.

Charles Weiss of Newton township recently purchased the 148 acre farm of Dr. S. H. Moore In Union tp. Grant Davisson of Barkley tp., has also recently bought the Snips 80 acres in Barkley tp., 201 th of his home farm. James Barker, of Pawpaw 111., has bought the C. D. Norman five acre place north of town, now occupied by J. K. Smith. All the above sales were made through Harvey Davisson’s agency. Mr. Davisson has also sold the 240 acres in Union tp., belonging to John Russ of Philadelphia, to Thomas Devis, whose land it adjoins.

Cupid Busy In Newton County.

Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Miss Lillian Hatch of this place and Dr. R. H. Holly of Wolcott. The date of the wedding is set for Nov. 6.' A marriiage license was issued on Oct. 10 to Charles R. Meyer of Brook and Miss Mabel Flagg of Ade, and they were married by Rev. C. Wharton. Licenses were granted yesterday to Raymond J. Sims and Miss Edna Richert of Goodland and to James Brownfield and Miss Betsy Newell of Lake Villiage. The former were married by Rev. West, and the latter by Squire Heilman—Kentland Enterprise.

Returned From Red Mens’ Pow-wow Of Bearer City.

Frank Morrow returned Thursday evening from attending the Great Council of' Indiana Red Men at Indianapolis, as a delegate from the local council. There were nearly I,loo' delegates in attendance. Among the prominent Red Men present was the Great Incoeheona of the United States, of Connecticut, and the Great Senior Sagamore of Illinois and the Great Keeper of Records of Illinois. The council decided to build an eight story Red Men’s home on their lot in Indianapolis. Mr. Morrow will give a report of the proceedings at the meeting of the local court nere Monday night.

Coming Marriage Announced. The announcement of the coming

' marriage of Miss Agnes Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas of Newton township, to Mr. Estle Myers, of Chicago Heights, 111., was made in St. Augustine’s church Sunday. | The groom is a son of Mr. and ; Mrs. illiam Myers of Parr, but has ■ for the past year been employed in ■ the L nited Staets express office at . Chicago Heights, where he has an •. excellent position. The young couple will be married October 31 in the chapel of St. Cyril’s college, Chicago, by Rev. Hiliary Doswald, president of the - college, and a friend of the bride. Both are popular young people and The Democrat joins their many friends in extending hearty advance congratulations.

DR. PARKISON DIVORCED

Former Jasper County Couple Disunited By Decree of Court. Dr. W. B. Parkison of Brook, a son of Township Trustee Parkison of Marion tp., was granted a divorce from his wife, Stella Parkison. in the Newton circuit court this week. Mrs. Parkison is given SI,OOO alimony and the custody of their only child, a daughter of about ten years. The grounds for the divorce were not given in the newspaper report from which this item is taken, but they are understood to have been quite sensational.

Neither; the Brook or the Kentland papers mentioned the filing of the action, but rumors have been rife i“ Rensselaer for several months that the couple were having trouble and that suit for divorce had been filed. '

Mrs. Parkison’s maiden name was Stella Parker and she resided in Hanging Grove tp., at the time of her marriage, about fifteen years ago to Dr. Wallace Parkison. Friends of the couple here are sorry to learn of their domestic troubles.

The divorce case of Clyde Ulrey of Brook, vs. Linnie-W. Ulrey—formerly Miss Linnie Lewis of Rensselaer—was heard in the Newton court this week and taken under advisement by Judge Hanley. Mrs. Ulrey made no contest.

The six cases against A. E. Kirk, also of Rensselaer, for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor at Parr some two years ago, also pending in the same court, were dismissed. The case of the state vs. W. P. Michaels of Jordan tp., taken to Newton county on change of venue from this county, is set for trial on Tuesday, October 29.

High School Notes.

The six weeks’ examinations ’•* being held this week.

Mary Knouff, a member of the Sophomore class, has left school. Some new music has been received by the orchestra and they have arranged to practice each Tuesday evening. The Lincoln and Webster Literary societies have been re-organized and have elected , new officers for the year. The Sophomores held their annual class party at the home of Luella Robinson, Friday evening before vacation. The first football game of the season will be played here Nov.- 19 between the Wabash and Rensselaer teams. Vena Hayworth has entered the Sophomore class. She has been a student of the high school at Elwood, Nebraska. At the assembly of the high school students Wednesday morning several enthusiastic speeches were given by members of the football team.

RALSTON AT RENSSELAER Democratic nominee for Governor, will speak in Rensselaer Monday, October 21,1912 In the Afternoon. Come out and hear Mr. Ralston on the issues of the campaign from a Democratic Standpoint

THE TWICE=A-WEEK

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 1912

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Interesting Paragraphs from the Various Departments I , OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County ! Offices. I I , - , New suits filed: No. 7923. William E. Marion vs. Marion Barlow; suit in conversion, plaintiff alleging that defendant took and carried away five tons of hay belonging to plaintiff. —o— . . j C. E. Newton of the Monticello Journal was over Wednesday afternoon filing the petition cf John O. Bowers, B. M. Candidate for congress. Not having been in the field before the Prigressives must get their ticket on the ballot by petition. Two hundred names were necessary ion the congressional ticket, and 25 names for the county ticket. Today is the last day for filing nominations.

—o— The state ballot this year will contain six tickets and there will be 26 names on each ticket except the socialist labor ticket, which only has the names of the two electors-at-large and a state ticket, omitting the 13 district electors and the reporter for the supreme court and one judge for the appellate court. Our own county ballot will contain five tickets, democrat, republican, prohibition, socialist and progressive. The prohibition ticket only has one name, that of William P. Harkrider of Fowler, candidate ‘for Congress. The socialist candidate for congress—the only nomination filed—is Alfred J. Marke of Indiana Harbor. In the 1910 election the prohibitionists only cast 42 votes in Jasper county and the socialists 4 votes. In order to get on the ballot without petition it is necessary for the party to have cast one per cent of the total vote of the state, district or county, as the case may be, at the last previous election, and while the socialists cast but four votes in Jasper county in 1910, they cast several hundred in the district.

ELECTION COMMISSIONERS.

E* P. Honan and J. H. 8. Ellis Will Act With County Clerk. E. P. Honan and J. H. S. Ellis will act with Clerk Perkins as the board of election commissioners this year. Their duties consist of making up the ballot from the nominations filed, having the ballotsf printed and canvassing the vote after the election. They will meet in the circuit court room on the evening of November 5 and remain in continuous session until the returns are all in from the twenty precincts of the and the blanks to the state board are filled out and sent in. Election inspectors should bear in mind that they cannot go home and go to bed under the present law and bring the returns in whenever they please. As soon as the vote is counted and the returns signed up by the board it is the duty of the inspector to start immediately for the county seat with the returns. (See page 85, Sec. 104,1 Election Law of Indiana.)

FOOT CUT OFF BY SAW.

Glen Baker of Barkley Tp., Meets' With Bad Accident Thursday. Glen Baker, aged 2S years, a spa of John N. Baker of Barkley tp.. was crippled for ii'c Thursday mornI ing while working at the sawmill being run by B. D. McColly in Bark- ; ley. He was running a log in the j saw when his right foot became j caught in some manner and it was ■ carried against the saw and terribly ' lacerated. 1 ' He was brought to town imme- . diafely and at first the doctors . thought it would be necessary to amputate the foot at the ankle, but an effort is being made to save the member by amputating only the frontj part of the foot, including all the ; toes, but he will be crippled for I life. He stood the operation well and doctors think he will get along *ll right. i A brother of the young man, James R. Baker, was killed only two weeks ' ago near Pontiac, 111., from being r : electrocuted by a live wire on an . electric railroad on which he, was em- , ployed.

Monon Brakeman Killed.

Harry Kellog of Monon, a Monon freight brakeman, was caught in a ■ cut of cars while his train was i switching at Monticello Thursday evening and one leg crushed and he I wes injured internally. The injured man was placed in i the caboose arid a. hurried run was made with only the engine and caboose to Lafayette, via Monon, but the injured brakeman died while they were a short distance south of Chalmers.

The young man was 22 years of age. The accident was caused from a draw-bar pulling out and letting a cut of cars run down on Kellogg.

All Next Week at the Ellis Theatre.

Cash Tomlinson and his own company gave an excellent presentation of “The Game of Life” as their opening bill at the Alcazar last night. The plky is on that requires acting of the best class to be effective, but the company left no room for criticism ] and every person in the audience left the theater more than pleased, and declared the production to be the best seen in this city for several seasons. , Cash Tomlinson, one of the best men in stock, needs no introduction to an Indiana audience. He has been seen heretofore with the best stock companies appearing in the state, and has never failed, to be a great attraction in any city. This season he has his own company and is to be congratulated on the excellent talent that he has secured.

Mr. Tomlinson has no equal as a stock character man. He has a style of his own, which wins his audience 'from the very first. His voice, as well as his general manner, is that of an actor rarely seen in repertoire. His impersonation of “Tim Mayo,” the successful Western gambling house keeper, yet an honest and “good as gold” man, willing to sacrifice money, ambition and honor for the good of his daughter, was most pleasing, v Miss Eodia Sitzer, the little leading lady of the company, is a new one to the Newcastle audiences, However, she is one of the best actresses ever seen on the local stage and is just such a star as should be in a company surrounding Mr. Tomlinson. Her presentation of Tim Mayo’s daughter could not be bettered, and won the hearty approval of the audience. Miss Maud Renal do and Miss Kathleen' Hall are also excellent characters and deserve special mention. Guy L. Baech made a genuine western sport and threw all the vim possible into his part, Lawrence Finch made an excellent secretary and detective, and Carl Fleming was a good crooked politician. Tonight the company will present the “Wolfe,” which will be seen for the first time in stock. The plaiy is a very strong one that has been presented all over the country by special Companies for several seasons with great success. The Cash Tomlinson players are well fitted to their parts and will without a doubt give a fine presentation of the wellknown play. —The Daily Courier, Newcastle, Ind. At the Ellis opera house all next week.:—Adv.

Attention K. of P’s.

All members of K. of P. Lodge No. 82 are. expected to attend lodge Tuesday evening, October 22. We are going to eat and smoke. Ale sure and come.—W. A. DAVENPORT. C. C.

Progressive Party News. ** [Advertisment] r

THOUGHTS ON THE COLONEL. By George Ade Here are a few random observations concerning the new Progressive party and its candidate for President. It 1 were picking out a roommate I might prefer Mr. Taft to the Colonel, because with Mr. Taft I would have a better chance of putting up the curtains and arranging the pictures to suit myself. In selecting a President to go up to Washington, representing my interests and coping with the shaggy wolves of practical pol i tics, 1 pre fer the col ohel.

The new party has been singing at all of its meetings. Possibly you can remember when the crowd sang at a Republican rally. If I tried to sing in the Barnes choir this year, 1 believe 1 w-ould choke.

Up at Chicago in June they told us, very plainly “We are going to drive him out of the party.” They got theij- wish and yet they don’t seem happy.

A good many persons, especially those who wear overshoes in the summer time, object to the Colonel because he is scrappy and assertive. If the Colonel didn’t happen to be just what he is, the sextons who make a business of embalming reformers would have la !, l him away twenty years ago. They have been trying to get something on him ever since he bobbed up as Police Commissioner in NewYork City. About all that they have proved to date Is that when he gets very mad he is not polite. The deluge which swept away the Republican Congress and undermined the Republican Senate and littered the landscape with defunct standpatters, gathered itself while the Colonel was in Africa, beyond the reach of the mall or the telegraph. If he went back to Africa tomorrow and remained for ten years, the voters at home would continue to repudiate the politicians who broke their promises. Yet they say it is a “one man movement.”

A good many of the old regulars' in Washington used to believe that a really honest man wore a white necktie and would give two tens for a five. They hate the with a seething hatred because he is a foxy politician, whereas, in order to preserve the traditions of the lobby, he should proven his honesty by engaging Murray Crane as a guide. The Colonel’s good ship was hardly beyond Sandy Hook when a little company of sure-thing operatives 'might have been seen bearing down .on the White House. They shook hands with the new Superintendent and told him they knew his brother, and then they said they would show him how the game was really played. A few moments later they were putting cards up their sleeves, holding them in their lap and passing them under the table. One player leaned ponderously on the table and tried to pla<y fair with the hand they had dealt him. His horrified friends looked in at the window and exclaimed, “Well, what do you know aboqt that? After we have been warning him for three years to beware of the whole outfit!” ’ The Progressive party has had the courage to declare promptly and without faltering, for certain inevitable changes in our scheme of government, all founded on common sense and fair play. You will seldom meet in the North an old man ready to admit that he favored slavery fifty years ago. Eyen the free silver hosts have strange.y vanished from the earth. Twenty years from now you will, have some difficulty in spotting the man who raved against the Progressive platform in 1912.

A good many people who admire Mr. Wilson as a scholar and orator and high-toned gentleman, sincerely believe that he will play hob if he ever succeeds in giving us a tariff i for revenue only. It is true that several persons who formerly had office have enlisted as members of the Progressive Party. All sorts of people try to attach themselves to a winning cause. But the movement is not dominated by professional officeholders, and, come to think of it, we haven’t in our ranks nearly as many ex-holders of office as the Republican machine organization will have this time next year. They say the Colonel wants to be king. Nonsense. - Why should he

POLITIC.! L SPEAK I NG. Tuesday. Oct. 22—West Vernon. Wednesday, Oct. 23—Parr Thursday. October 24—-Gl iodate. Friday. October 25—Nev land and Blake school. Saturday. October 26—Fair Oaks. .

Dear Editor:—As there is a misunderstanding as to toy being a candidate for commissioner for the 2nd district, to a number of the people, 1 wish to state that I was perhaps the fault in part I did not state to the Progressive committee that I would not accept the nomination, but 1 did say that I did not want it. I had an opportunity to accept the nomination ‘‘or the same office on the Republican ticket, previous to this, which I objected to, as I did not want any office. I rejected both times. If 1 wanted to come out for an office I would be proud to come out on the Progressive ticket as I think it is the best platform of any party in existenece, with leaders that call not be excelled. I am Progressive from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet. ELIAS ARNOLD.

want to be king when his followers already regard him as an Ace. It is better to be a half block ahead of the parade than two ipiies in the rear. The Wall Street conception of a' perfectly good President is one who will never make a move for fear of upsetting a stack of chips. The members of the new party may be traitors and ingrates, but out here in the Middle West they a*.e so serene In their Infamy that some of them are still regarded as patriotic Democrats or Republicans. Every non-producer wearing an extra chin or two and sitting in a padded chair, waiting for the turn of a ticker to give him something for nothing is against the Colonel and regards him as "dangerous.” A few days ago the voters at one of our Indiana colleges had a secret ballot for President and Governor. The so-called Republican ticket named at Chicago in June received fifty votes in a total of six hundred and thirteen, or a little over eight per cent. The remaining votes were almost equally divided between Wilson and Roosevelt. Beveridge, for Governor, received 369 votes. The Democratic candidate received 98 votes, and the Republican candidate 52 votes. The iyoung men who read and think and who look to the future instead of brooding over the misunderstandings of the past are overwhelmingly in favor of the Progressive policies and Progressive candidates.

A good many old-line Republicans sincerely believe that every man who refrains from voting the ticket forced through by the bosses is indirectly voting against Abraham Lincoln and Oliver P. Morton. We have looked over the list of those who worked the old machine in June and we cannot find one wlfb helped to preserve the Union or anything else except his private interests. Thousands of ex-Republicans decline to vote for Barnes and Penrose and Guggenheim because they believe an indorsement of these persons would be a national calamity. We are now being shown a bewildering confusion of figures to prove that Taft was really the choice of a majority of the Republican voters during the third week of June, 1912. The explainers are perspiring freely. It will take many a sheet of paper and many a lead pencil to convince the unbiased spectator on the side-lines that the Colonel had no, claim on any of those delegates. After» the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was passed and the Winona speech was made, it became a moral cinch that Mr. Taft could not be re-elected in 1912. This fact was emphasized at the Congressional elections of 1910. Wherever the voters had a fair chance at primaries last Spring it became evident that the weakness of Mr. Taft was almost spectacular. All the straw votes and newspaper polls and non-partisan canvasses up to this moment prove that the temper of the voters has not changed. When we get up on the morning after the election and survey the blasted remnants of what was once the Republi- ( Continued On Eighth Page.)

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